The cold war ended in moscow in 1990 bringing a new era of peace to europe a divided germany was free to reunite the treaty that paved the way for german unity was signed here in moscow 30 years ago it was a historic victory for democracy and the deep rifts in europe were on the road to recovery. The lotus we are still aware of was that this was the most important signature of my life book. It wasnt an illusion it was a political project to keep. It we did a lot of things a lot different then when we won the cold war against. Soviet ambassador vaslav terra coffin was here in moscow 30 years ago when the victorious powers of the 2nd world war determined the fate of germany moscow looks back on this treaty with far more criticism than the west. You know the most by me and this i think listen see is speeches and champagne lift or rather try to send annoying off to taste in new when you think about all of the problems that arose during the many negotiations about whats to finally do with g
Than trying to get from one place to another and of the only one traffic is a growing concern in many large cities across the globe small technologies can help us solve this calles how exactly thats all a topic on shift today. Out to many still use cars as their main mode of transportation aside from air pollution and the Climate Crisis this also has a huge drawback more and more traffic jobs in paris for example drive us to stock bumper to bumper about 165 hours a year mall and you thats nearly a solid week in your car honking at strangers but probably not for long in the autonomy passengers can use the drive to do something much more productive i for one wouldnt mind brushing up on my friends. But for this data there are still a lot of things left to work out and the biggest challenge developers still face is humans. Driverless cars use their versions of sense of stick control themselves autonomous like. But so far these cars have merely recognize a pedestrian those objects of motion
Day and night. I think its the combination that makes him so popular the standing man is also something balanced and calm about it and a clear design which clears and other traffic like that. 30 years after reunification the im to mention is celebrated as an east german success story. The traffic light men were 1st introduced in east berlin in 1900. Traffic psychologist carl piccolo wanted to design a pedestrian signal that caught peoples attention. Difficult to appeal to children and older people when using abstract pictograms. So i simply tried to translate their clarity into personified symbols. Lifelike and likable in the 1st designs the figure even had fingers on a mouse and karl big losses wife helped when it came to the half. Of the op the mention became recognizable symbols which in the 1980 s. Were used to teach children about road safety on east german t. V. And a friend who can help. After reunification in 1900. Step by step the west german pictograms gradually began to repl
Tear gas at migrants demanding more permanent housing off the island. Fire destroyed the overcrowded morea refugee camp earlier this week the greek army has begun building a replacement facility but most of the migrants say they just want to leave. Iran has executed a young wrestling champion in defiance of a Global Campaign calling for his sentence to be revoked of car he was convicted of killing a Security Guard during antigovernment demonstrations the 27 year old maintains he was tortured into confessing demonstrators gathered outside a rain embassies worldwide in protest. This is news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at the news or visit our website thats w dot com. What if planes could fly without leaving a Carbon Footprint synthetic fuel could hold the key. Adapting to summer heat waves how a different method of building in the city could help cool things down. And do the electric cars live up to the clean image of that and more coming up. Well come to you tomorrow
Former british Prime Minister gordon brown warns that the west will be to blame its a w h os efforts to help contain the bars in the developing world to fail. As some European Countries gradually lift their lockdowns will germany follow suit transvaal going back when the nations 16 regional leaders are due to hold a Video Conference decide what to do next. Hello im terry martin good to have you with Us Donald Trump has instructed his administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization says the w. H. O. Failed in its early response to the coronavirus us president who has himself come under fire for his handling of the pandemic said the w. H. O. Should have done a better job of investigating initial reports in china u. S. Secretarygeneral responded by saying that was not the time to support for. He said its work was absolutely critical to the global effort to combat. The w. H. O. Failed in its basic duty to save lives those were the words of president trumps United States fre