Its a brutal crackdown as the battle of the bridges in baghdad continues and scientists declare a Climate Emergency as the u. S. Begins leaving the paris climate agreement is an agreement that france and china say must be irreversible. I bring golf its good to have you with us that november week when everything changed the german capital is marking 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall on the night of november 9th 1989 east germanys communist regime reopened the border on that night the announcement meant that citizens could safely cross to the west for the 1st time in 3 decades it turned the hated and Deadly Border into just a wall this week as well as remembering the people who died trying to cross berlin is also celebrating the freedom that followed for everyone. And our very own David Leavitts he is out in about in berlin among the festivities this week good evening to you david i can tell behind you you must be adds the east side gallery tonight. Thats right and its been turn
Declare a climate of urgency as the u. S. Begins leaving the paris climate agreement and agreement that france and china say must be irreversible. Im burnt off its good to have you with us so that november week when everything changed the german capital was marking 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall on the night of nov 9th 1989 east germanys communist regime reopened the border the announcement allowed citizens to safely cross to the west for the 1st time in 30 years it turned the he did and did leave border into just a wall of this week as well as remembering the people who died trying to cross the city is also celebrating the freedoms that followed. And our very own David Leavitts he is out and about in berlin among the festivities this week good evening to you david i can tell behind you you must be adds the east side gallery tonight. Thats right and its been turned into a kind of a screening show this is not just a new movie its a movie about the history of the berlin wall
By east german Border Guards either from the towers around me or from patrol boats on the river behind me and now behind me you can see these lit up blue posts these are mark the border itself which of this part of the city was directly in the river and 10 people died just here trying to cross from communist east berlin into the west in total over a 1000 people died trying to escape east germany and so its really no wonder that in 1909 when the border opened people came down to the wall with. Picks with hammers and they wanted to just get rid of the wall and the only reason that this stretch of the wall survived is down to the efforts of a group of artists. The east time gallery was started in february 990. 00. Were invited to paint and original potion of the wool but then the initiative was designed to help east german autists he would suddenly been left without an income but in those exciting days of the full mccomas state opening up came from the life of the world. When berlin was d
Division overunity in 2019 when did we forget those lessons of 1989 im bringing off in berlin this is the day. That much of a think of when you really an eyewitness to such an event and its something very moving by it and it makes you realize that everything can be changed. Enough and not always everything that was set in stone just folds this is something that keeps happening in the history of humanity in the past year. That everything that came after it could not contest to this day. Also coming up of protesters in iraq are demanding a functioning government that works for everyone instead of a system that cheats as many as possible the response so far has been brutal and at the United Nations see they use life bullets weak human beings protesting into minding our rights look at what they did to my leg and my hand they started shooting live ammunition at us. Once who our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the bridges that w
Make you realize that everything can be changed. And im not i was everything that was set in stone just folds and this is something that keeps happening in the history of humanity because of the fear. That everything that came after it could not contact to this day. Also coming up of protesters in iraq are demanding a functioning government that works for everyone instead of a system that cheats as many as possible the response so far has been brutal and at the United Nations see they use life bullets we human beings protesting into minding our rights look at what they did to my leg and my hand they started shooting live ammunition at us. Once who our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world. Welcome we begin the day with the bridges that were supposed to replace the walls when the berlin wall crumbled 30 years ago the peaceful revolution that followed gave much of the world a reason to hope for a different future the reunification of germany the expansion of t