East and west berlin and heralding the beginning of the end of the cold war security is high with major celebrations being held today across the country in the thousands have been taking part in new roosevelts including exhibitions on the walls. With a quick look at the holes for. The berlin wall a symbol of the cold war and division a mine that separated the city families friends and changed berlin for the remainder of the 20th century 40 kilometers long at slice of the city and was erected on the night of august 13th 1961 1st it was just a barbed wire and concrete france with 12 checkpoints but it swiftly grew into the fortified version most know it today the checkpoints were reduced to 3 and crossing became all but impossible. Imagine this a concrete wall 3. 6 meters high and 1. 2 meters wide a smooth still nerve running along the top to prevent anyone climbing over watchtowers every 200 meters by 962 a 2nd wall was built around why. 100 meters in the east berlin territory this buff
What did you think when you saw the millions of dollars in kickback money . It was amazing. I mean, this is a huge amount of money. If you werent following the money, how do you know that the lowincome housing tax credit is working . Narrator tonight, frontline and npr take a hard look at poverty, politics and profit. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional support is provided by ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide at fordfoundation. Org. The park foundation. Dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The john and Helen Glessner family trust. Supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. A
What did you think when you saw the millions of dollars in kickback money . It was amazing. I mean, this is a huge amount of money. If you werent following the money, how do you know that the lowincome housing tax credit is working . Narrator tonight, frontline and npr take a hard look at poverty, politics and profit. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional support is provided by ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide at fordfoundation. Org. The park foundation. Dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The john and Helen Glessner family trust. Supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. A
A search and rescue mission is underway for a missing passenger plane. The air asia flight which is a malaysiabased Budget Airline took off from indonesia and was due to lands in singapore more than seven hours ago. Gerald tan has the latest. Reporter asat the airport pima pima wait of news of their loved one 162 passenger and crew were aboard the flight to singapore. The plane and air bus through 20 lost communications with air Traffic Control 42 minutes after take off. Translator i hope for a miracle and may god save them all. I should have been with them but i canceled two weeks ago as i had something to do. I have two friends on board with five family members. Reporter indonesias Disaster Management authorities quickly set up a Crisis Center at the airport to relay any updates of any developments. Translator we are winding our search radius. The indonesian military, National Search and rescue as well as singapore search and rescue have started to move so have our navigation ships w
Begansmoroccos gold is threaten is the future of the product. Ray search and rescue mission is underway for a missing passenger plane the air asia plane which is a malaysiabased Budget Airline took off from indonesia and was due to land in singapore more than seven hours ago. Gerald tan has the latest. Reporter at the airport Crisis Center in indonesian, a people anxiously await news of their loved ones. 162 passengers and crew were on board air asia flight qz8501 to singapore. The plane and air butt 320 lost communications with air Traffic Control 42 minutes after taking off. Translator we have informed the coastal guards and all ships in the area to be on stand by and to relay information of any signs of the missing plane. We will provide updates of any developments on an hourly basis. Reporter at singapores airport, those waiting for the flight to be to arrive are being given the same scant information. The plane lost contact as it flew over the java sea. The area was cloudy. Air as