The intense. Remembering events leading up to german reunification of 30 years ago the special train recreates the journey undertaken by thousands of east german refugees as they felt sort of a new life in france. Im still gail welcome to the program celebrations are taking place in china to mark the 70th anniversary of communist party rule the main event will be a massive military parade in Tiananmen Square on tuesday but beijing fears the celebrations could be overshadowed by prodemocracy protests and unrest in hong kong. On the eve of the anniversary a ceremony to honor the creation of the communist state and the heroes of the civil war chinese president xi jinping paid his respects to the fallen. In the evening he attended a theatrical celebration that recalled chinas rise from a nation in despair to the worlds 2nd largest economy. October 1st 1949 mows a donkey cleared the founding of the peoples republic of china and transformed the country. His great leap forward into industrialised the country but instead left it devastated famine was widespread and tens of millions died maos cultural revolution followed opponents were sent to camps or executed in his attempt to purge china of counterrevolutionaries. After decades of isolation beijing took steps to open the country and its market up to the world. Today china is on the podium of world leading nations but rapid growth has come at a cost. Cities are choked by pollution and society is strictly controlled. Behind the spectacle authorities are hoping the prodemocracy movement in hong kong doesnt mar the landmark occasion for the worlds longest surviving communist state. Well despite those hopes prodemocracy activists in the chinese territory are mobilizing to press their demands on monday activists in hong kong for a human chain to show their unity and planning more events for tomorrow police in the territory have warned protesters about how good the protests have the potential for violence it territory has seen months of demonstrations triggered by a proposed law that would have allowed hong kong to extradite people to mainland china. That would take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world german comment the votes foghat. Has its 1st day in court today in a case brought by nearly half a 1000000 of its customers they say the v. W. Deceived them and calls them home when he was told Cheating Software in its vehicles to beat diesel emissions test several votes for parking and executives have already been charged in connection with this county. 8 members of an alleged near nazi terror cell have gone on trial in the east german city of dresden the men are accused of plotting attacks against immigrants and political opponents of journalists the trial is due to last until april of next year. At least one person has been killed in a fire as an overcrowded migrant camp on the great on and of lesbos place sparked riots amongst residents who accuse authours is of being too slow to respond reports of a 2nd fatality have not been confirmed. The World Leaders have joined thousands of mourners to pay their respects to frances late former president Jacques Chirac as part of a national day of mourning for president emmanuel macro on that tributes in a military ceremony in the morning ahead of Memorial Service the sun so peace in paris a lot of men putin and bill clinton were amongst the attendees. Saudi arabias crown Prince Mohammed bin salah not asked denied ordering the killing of germans shown on for the last year despite this the kingdoms defacto ruler says he takes responsibility for the murder according to a u. S. Investigation of the crown prince is criminal responsibility has already been proven beyond doubt saudi agents killed mr hersh o. G. Inside the saudi consulate in istanbul a year ago. To austria where the conservative leaders the bastard cortes is on the hunt for Coalition Partners the day after his Peoples Party won the countrys now general election with 37 percent of the vote is not expected to seek another partnership with the far right Freedom Party who support plummeted after the Corruption Scandal that led to the governments collapse in may many are speculating that a deal with the greens made strong gains on sunday. After the postelection parties its time for some tricky negotiations to begin sebastien curts is now you looking for Coalition Partners the greens may be a viable option for him there are we entering parliament after a surge in support and cant change the face of austrian politics but would they want to. Of course we greens are ready to talk but we can only come to the negotiating table if theres a shift when it comes to our key areas we now have the responsibility to put austria at the forefront in climate protection putting an employee. If the greens joined a governing coalition it would be a 1st just a National Level but with so many other parties also in the frame voters have mixed feelings about the overall results. And its a cause out there honestly its great exactly what i was hoping for and im not curious about coalitions and what the Coalition Talks will bring. Them well see whether the greens really want to implement a green policy or whether theyre just meddling communists. I dont think lecture us plants the environment is a currency and in my opinion and im not the only person to think that politics has nothing much to say now adays only the economy matters being groomed Sebastian Kurtz wants to put the challenges facing the economy front and center in Coalition Talks the negotiations are expected to last several weeks. If not months. In sport the world athletics championships in khatab has been dominated by empty seats in the stands and athletes complaints about the heat organizers say theyve done all they can to mitigate the effects of the high temperatures and to get in more spectators but it doesnt bode well for the football world cup in qatar in 2022. I. The womens 100 meters is always a crowd magnet you think the world athletics championships in doha would be no different to me because shelly and fraser price is the fastest woman on the planet that few fans came out to see her victory and. Take a look at the thousands of empty seats behind her put attendance is just one concern heat and high humidity are also big problems the womens marathon on saturday had to start at midnight to avoid daytime high temperatures of 38 degrees celsius still the heat on the streets of doha was unbearable 28 of the 68 runners failed to finish many the try of medical attention and. It was the slowest marathon winning time ever at the world championships. The mens 50 kilometer walk had similar issues with france as world record holder johan denise having to drop out. Of much trouble talking about short of breath my legs are finished my through my head starting to spin so well that you dont know. Who those competing inside the stadium things arent as bad organizers are trying to do everything to keep the athletes cool air conditioned stadiums are also planned for the 2022 football world cup despite objections from environmentalists. The works similar to your conditioning. From outside your pass through. And then after that the air will lose its heat and then go directly to where people are. The only difference between this and a car that i would read it is a little bit bigger but at the same time we dont call the whole car this big stadium to be because. Even the promise of an air conditioned stadium has not attracted bigger crowds. If the doha 36. 00 is a test of whats to come then the next football world cup in qatar is likely to be equally controversial. 30 years ago thousands of east germans fleeing communism made their way to the checkers the vacuum capital prague heading for the west German Embassy the hope was to use the embassy as a staging point to get to freedom in west germany their gamble paid off and on the 30th of september 989. 00 they packed on to trains heading west through each germany ending up in the western german town of hoff 30 years later some of them have been retracing their steps. And journey back in time. 30 years ago how much sun there was travelling in a train just like this one. Its like. Reliving it all over again. Back then sunder was one of thousands of refugees fleeing east germany they travelled in special trains from prague to the west but to get there they had to pass through east german territory where they fear to be arrested. In order to keep memories of those journeys alive some of the people who made those trips then doing it again. They all left east germany that way. After several tense weeks in the west German Embassy in prague. It was in september 1989 east germans were poor ng into the embassy the building was quickly overwhelmed. Many ended up camping out in the Embassy Grounds it was cold. Sanders spent 3 weeks here with his wife and 2 children new arrivals came in over the fence every day. For them. It never stopped raining the cut down board so he didnt have to walk through the mud the. Tents wherever they could find a space where you can match was the tents were all crowded up against one another. Then the fateful moment on the 30th of september question and foreign minister Hans Dietrich genscher arrived speaking to the refugees from the balcony his announcement that they could leave was drowned out by cheers. Oh. Oh. Oh oh oh. I cant share promised that everyone in the embassy would be allowed to go to the west sanger was there and heard him. Standing right here. But. Its all coming about is it over. That same night santa and his family left the embassy and boarded the trying to west germany. He thought the warsaw it was a very emotional journey a shift is very difficult. They say it would show for us it was a train to freedom. Just a few weeks later all new citizens of east germany gained their freedom on november 9th 1989 the berlin wall came down. His rib top story a chinese president is usually paying has paid his respects to millions of people who died in the civil war that led to the communist party taking power the commemoration comes as the country pastor celebrates 70 years since the founding of the people should. 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