Years ago well ceremonies are taking place at locations across the city throughout the day it was exactly 30 years ago on the night of november 989 that east germanys communist regime surprised the world by lifting all travel restrictions on east german citizens the move allowed ordinary people to cross freely to the west for the 1st time since the wall was built in 1961 it enabled friends and family to reunite after being separated for decades and it paved the way fluent german reunification just a year later. Well the w. Will be covering events throughout the day taking us through this mornings activities r. T. W. Thomas aspira the berlin wall memorial here in the capital and in the studio im joined by john beric great to see you both thomas id like to start with you then because tell us what is in store where you are. We are right here as you said in the wall memorial in the center of. The wall divided this city you can probably see part of the memorial behind me on a such this was
A new deal with turkey according to Russian News Agency a convoy has crossed the Euphrates River and is heading to the border town of bani under this deal agreed to by president s are won and why p. G. Fighters have 150 hours to withdraw at least 30 kilometers deeper into syrian territory trust rapid reports. With only hours left of the u. S. Brokered cease fire in syria russia stepped in. President putin offered help to remove and disarm kurdish fighters at the turkish Syrian Border together with Syrian Border troops but its delayed we share turkeys concern about the growing threats of terrorism and the growth of ethnic tensions in the region the stenches and the separatists moved in recent times where in our opinion artificially created by outsiders. Kurdish fighters have until tuesday evening local time to clear turkeys 30 kilometer deep socalled safe zone along the syria turkey border Russian Military police will then start joint patrols with Turkish Forces along almost the entire
Supplies without aid most most of the aid services by International Aid agencies are still suspended because it is still too volatile too insecure to carry out aid services that have kind of zone we are talking about some of the chamber how does you know that situation board for president ever once plans to repatriate millions of the 3600000 Syrian Refugees in turkey thats one of the reasons for this operation can that be done in a way that respects International Humanitarian law with the situation being what it is now. No it cant the repressed relation of the return of refugees 1st of all has to be voluntary has to be in their places of origin many of the Syrian Refugees living in turkey have nothing to do with northeast syria theyre not from there you are going to displace them to an area they do not belong to so that the worth would be against International Law and also forcing them they have to it has to be a voluntary on them form decision that the refugees decide whether to retur
From other countrys militaries. Its about two hours and 20 minutes. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. All right. Well, good morning. And, maam, im honored to be able to moderate you this morning, so as she just mentioned, were going to be talking about secretary james new book. Ive read it, ive listened to it. Its absolutely amazing. I will tell you today, thats what were going to talk about. So, maam, first and foremost, just to kind of break the ice, what inspired you to tell your story. Well, throughout my life, and as you heard, be i have been at this business of our National Security for actually closer to 40 years. Time goes by since that bio was written. Ive been always a civilian and i have worked in congress. Ive been in the pentagon for several tours and ive been in private industry. Always working on defense issues. As i was making my way up and trying to figure out my career next moves through the ups and downs of life, i would always look up to the people above me and
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