Starts production of its 1st fully electric mass market vehicle and gets high level support from german chancellor merkel the promise to expand he caught infrastructure nationwide. Im told me a lot of well welcome to the program. Germany has started a week of celebrations to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall which happened on the 9th of november 1989 a few days earlier hundreds of thousands of east germans had gathered at berlin famous alexanderplatz from unprecedented demonstration calling for freedom of expression and democracy has more. History flashing before their eyes sisto thousands returned to berlin cyclonic of the sun the plots to mark the moment that would help change the city and the country forever nov 4th 1989 more than half a 1000000 protesters descended on the square and what would become the largest demonstration in the history of east germany led by some of its most prominent intellectuals they rose up to demand more freedoms from the oppressive regime. And its as if someone has pushed open the window. Into years of intellectual economic and political stagnation shelf they can only years reeking of apathy. Is a double speak and bureaucratic despotism but the coffee shop is. The communist regime had rapidly and publicly lost all support but even then no one predicted that just 5 days later the berlin wall would fall. This week the spirit of the peaceful revolution once more lighting up the city like this giant wave of colorful streamers said Brandenburg Gate carrying messages of hope for the future written by germans. Over the coming days the city will celebrate the anniversary with more than 200. 00 events exhibitions and art words culminating with the ceremony at the berlin wall memorial on saturday. And all this week well be bringing you special coverage and reports of the events which led to the fall of the bell in wall 30 years ago right here on d w. Now with a year to go to the us elections its still unclear which way the country will vote President Donald Trump is under the weight of an impeachment inquiry while his opponents the democrats a still divided over which candidate to pick Richland County in wisconsin could give a clearer picture since 1980 the county has always voted for the winning president ial candidate the correspondent all of a salad traveled to the swing district to have a feel of the mood there feeding time for dairy farmer mark stoltz and his calves like most people in Richland County stoltz voted for President Trump in 2016 but twice for barack obama in the elections before this time he says the political mood is anything but clear we kind of we tend know more than most people i dont i we dont talk a whole lot about it but it can get very testy very quickly even within our family ive got to give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give me even though you voted for trump in the last election mark stoltz cares about key democratic issues Like Health Care and Climate Change he also wants an end to the president s trade more farmers like him and particularly hard he says. So that thats hurt we dont have a good place to ship malchen way products and cheese and you know its all right on the markets got a lot of milk and cheese on it and americans are drinking less milk wisconsin lost over 600. 00 dairy farms in the last year. Richland center with its 5000 citizens is the largest town in Richland County a bellwether for the president ial election since 1980 the majority here has always voted for the winning candidate. Richland county is traditionally a republican county. Do we always vote that way you know i wouldnt vote for a i dont like him i think i think if he keep his mouth shut they offer twitter he would be fine i think its with all the impeachment so its going to be very noisy and interesting for the next year but if i was betting today i would bet hell get elected again. At the local newspaper editor dawn key 1st says left and right wing supporters in the county are fighting for the publics attention she is often criticized for printing opinion letters that are too critical of President Trump. I suggest to those persons they ought to write letters their their own selves expressing their beliefs but most of those people declined and they dont want to explain why not i suspect they dont want their name in the paper dairy farmer marks told says the decisive factor for him will be who the democratic contender is if the candidate is too progressive he might stick with donald trump even if that means more suffering for him and the farmers of Richland County. Now lets dig deeper into this with our washington correspondent pablo ellis probably the president is ever tweeting has he put off voters. Dont think so and in fact signs are that there could actually in fact be a surge in voter turnout in 2020 in fact it could even be the highest in decades and the last time around the percentage of voters who took part in the 2016 election was less than 60 percent that president presidency has really divided the nation and thats led to a belief amongst political analysts voters in fact will be out in force to make sure their candidate whether that be president trying for the republicans and whoever the democrats choose that winds down election now there or are also other indicators such as the number of people claiming to be keeping an eye on the campaign for 2020. Also the number of small donations to candidates also woke and also viewership figures of Cable Network networks thats also increasing so the figures basically as well for the midterms also were the highest in over 100 years so it looks like all the indicators are pointing to one thing which is in fact that voters are going to come out in greater numbers 2016 you mentioned the democrats and the choice of candidate whats that race looking like and who is it looking like that will run for the democrats. Well its a very tight race indeed now there are we can just with the 3 main candidates former Vice PresidentJoe Biden Elizabeth Warren and then senator from massachusetts and then Bernie Sanders who at has also ag got a very strong and loyal base now paul polls are indicating that biden in fact that will win the race but also a significant percentage of democrats have said in polling thats being carried out that theyve actually changed their mind and their preference for the candidate so its really all up in the air now the key for democrats is that their candidate. Donald trump so also we need to note that in fact its one year to go and a lot can change in one year with regards to who democrats are going to choose as their candidates that was d. W. Correspondent pablo fully in washington d. C. Now to some of the other stories making news around the world. A grenade blast has killed one and injured dozens in indiana administered kashmir is the bloodiest incident since india stripped the region of its special status in august several Indian Paramilitary police were among the injured. Police in the chilean capital santiago have used tear gas and water cannon against protesters rallying over Education Health services and growing economic inequality mondays demonstration marks the beginning of a 3rd week of mass protests. Police in vietnam say theyve arrested 8 more suspects in connection with the deaths of 39. 00 vietnamese citizens found in a refrigerated truck in southeast england last month but suspects are accused of people smuggling overseas British Police have charged 2 men with months over the deaths. Turkey says it has captured the sister of dead Islamic State leader abu bakar bag but daddy. Was caught in a raid near as a turkish controlled syrian town near the border a brother had blown himself up last month during an American Special forces raid on his compound. In iraq at least 5 people have been killed in the capital baghdad after Security Forces opened fire on antigovernment Protesters Thousands of iraqis have been taking part in the countrys largest protest wave in decades fueled by anger over corruption high unemployment and Poor Public Services earlier in the day funerals were held for 2 protesters killed in quetta over the weekend. The mass funeral soon became a raging protests. That we love and so we will sacrifice for you they chanted on the streets of kabul of this man die theyre going to avenge train men who died of the weekend during clashes with progovernment militia in the she got only see the. Then the shaded but the son is a hero he was carrying only theories nothing else but the brazen militias attacked us and killed us and they set us up. And in the capital baghdad they rallied to remember those victims to demonstrate is surging out of their protest camp on top 3 square and towards the heavily guarded bridges leading into the government district the paper bracing for further violence theyve seen so much of it in recent wakes you hear what happened yesterday and young man went up to the bridge and a sound one to 10 and they had his entire had to a separate aisle people mocked at how much i know about peaceful protest in addition to the motus and soon sickeningly familiar scenes were playing out in baghdad. Security forces deploying Water Cannons and tear gas. And then once more firing live rounds into the crowd there i to push demonstrators back away from government ministries in the citys fortified green zone might know that the leader i think its what theyre using a pip see in bandages i would like to thank the volunteers who are getting us protective vests helmets and gloves we just need to keep protesting a bit. And it seems demonstrators are determined to stay on this. Straits no matter whether the government responds to them with a carrot or clenched fist. Heavy clashes continued into the night in baghdad more blood spilt in a country the same little pace for decades. Germany wants to shift gears and have more low emission cars on the roads politicians and executives of the countrys Auto Industry have agreed to increase the existing subsidies for electric vehicles this comes as europes top common factor a volkswagen begins production of the i d 3 its 1st electric vehicle for the mass market both the government on the call makers are under pressure to do more to bring germany closer to achieving its climate goals. Here comes the car volkswagen has spent 3 years getting ready for mass production. The id 3 is the companys 1st purely electric model one of the worlds top auto makers is now spending 30000000000 euros to get electric cars into the mainstream the number 1050 ladies and gentleman we stand before a systemic change to electric mobility it is no longer a question of whether electric mobility will become a reality but a question of how fast and which regions of the world 1st. Thats a direct challenge to german chancellor Angela Merkel her government is struggling to create enough charging stations to accommodate the 330000 id threes that v. W. Plans to produce every year the medical insists the government in berlin is doing its part given the government will be taking extraordinary measures we will invest 3500000000 euros over the next few years to expand Public Infrastructure for charging stations. If anything called soma. Volkswagen has spent 1200000000 euros converting its plant in to electric Vehicle Production now it falls on the government to make charging the cars as easy as filling a gas tank so that people will finally start buying them. Dont forget you can always get news on the go just download our app from google play or from the app store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the d. W. App to send us photos and videos. This is the live from berlin coming up an investigative documentary looks behind the shiny facade of Luxury Fashion thats doc film up next. Welcome to the book is the game here. We have plenty to talk about in. This coverage. 3 more. Asshole we have. Lets have a look at some of them. So you dont want to. Go. To w i