East germany into west germany. Almostppened was until 1989, the news for the east germans was tightened more and more. Wethe 1950s and 1960s could send clothing and packages to east germany for the people because they did not have very much. Eventually we had to send new clothing. I sent american dollars when i came to this country in carbon paper to east germany so the woman could buy some groceries. I experience the hungarian revolution. That berlin or east germany would become free. I have a person in east germany that i called and he was very drunk because he never thought the wall would come down. I never thought it did. I cried and cried and cried. I had visited east germany in 1959 with [speaking german]. E traveled to various cities the people that housed us, that gave us meals, they were so thrilled, and i dont know how they afforded food in 1959. To feed us. And the best menus restaurants you could go to. For me, germany was united. , but born in east russia. O me, germany u
Effo rts efforts to shore up a damaged dam in derbyshire continue as police urge those who remain in their homes within the evacuation zone to leave immediately. Those who remain in that zone are putting their lives at risk. They are also putting the lives of the responders, primarily the police, at risk. Because we have to keep going in and speaking to them and asking them to leave. Tomorrows heathrow strike is suspended to allow for further talks between the union and airport management. Tuesdays strike action could still go ahead and transforming tourism in Northern Ireland and the best of the uk. The travel show in half an hour, here on bbc news. Good evening. Two Mass Shootings just hours apart have killed 29 people in a weekend of violence in the United States. One, in el paso, texas close to the Mexican Border is being treated as a possible hate crime against the citys majority hispanic community. Hours later, a gunman killed nine people in dayton, ohio, before being shot dead a
Among the daily temperature was almost 17 , which is well above the previous record in 2019, abnormal heat waves were observed in the southwest and the United States in mexico , and also in several countries in europe and asia in many countries, south america and most of antarctica the air temperature was much higher than average, they were beaten. The temperature chords of the surface of the world ocean and icebergs at the same time, the area of antarctic sea ice turned out to be 15 below average. Which is the lowest figure for july since the start of satellite observations, it is expected that in the coming months the warming will increase, but we periodically keep such information that the scientist is somehow struggling with this , they are trying in every possible way to prevent Global Warming hmm and again, such information is with that does not fight we get such information. It seems to me that each of our viewers now needs to think about what exactly he can do in order to
Uncertain terms. At 10 00. Two hours of big opinion, big debate and big entertainment. So much to get through. But first, the News Headlines and Aaron Armstrong. Thanks mark. Armstrong. Thanks mark. Im Aaron Armstrong in the gb newsroom. The chancellor has indicated wednesdays budget is unlikely to include tax cuts. Jeremy hunt says his spending plan will be prudent and responsible. The chancellor says the economic headroom set out by financial forecasts has gone against the government recently , against the government recently, with the office for budget responsibility calculating hes got £2 billion less to spend than previously thought. Speaking to gb news earlier , speaking to gb news earlier, jeremy hunt said his budget will deliver value deliver better value for taxpayers. Taxpayers. It is wrong to say that we should be putting more money into the public sector, fewer Civil Servants to be more productive, correct. Productive, correct. You want fewer people to do more. More. I wev
And this is the other side of the place under the sun. According to published data, july already had the hottest threeweek period on record, three of the hottest days on record and the highest Ocean Temperatures all the time for this time of year the consequences are clear and tragic families flee from the fire workers die in the scorching heat for large parts of north America Asia Africa and europe this brutal summer is happening exactly as predicted and repeated warning only surprises the speed of change sunburned in spain plus 45 on the surface of the soil up to 60 in italy plus 40 outside the city limits turned into Asphalt Concrete hell extreme heat recorded in other places around the world. Cooney and up north americas time records with a plus sign and in the death valley of the state of california on the eve there recorded more than 54 heat. I dont even know what 50 is. Its hard to explain, its like the wind , its on fire thats all i can say, unusually high temperatures are reco