Up to now, as you know, the thousands, tens of thousands of going west have had to pass through other communist throughc nations, most czech. Czechoslovakia. Have theht now they right to go directly through west germany. Our correspondent has been following the events. You isnt. T more do it is truly astonishing in a series of events that happened days, last few hours. Literally within the last five minutes on television here in in therlin and also east, the germans, east and mr. Shabosque say there are no more borders, that germans may cross to the west over whatever existing border frontiers there are and eliminates the route through czechoslovakia. We have been following the hundreds of thousands of east germans leaving via that route. Necessary. Longer what i think we have is a berlin is a symbol, but the frontiers themselves are now open and he says in the next few weeks there will be some provisional time to prepare the legislation to make it all constitutional but weve seen the
Dubya bush and mr. Card under george w. Bush. They compare the leadership styles of father and son. That is what is coming up here on American History tv. We interrupt this program for an nbc news special report. Good afternoon. We have a late and truly a sensational report coming in from east germany. In a News Conference which ended just a few minutes ago in east berlin, government officials have announced communist east germany have announced their border open with west germany. East german citizens now have the right to cross directly from east germany into west germany. Up to now, the thousands, tens of thousands of east germans going west have had to pass through other communist nations, most of them passing through czechoslovakia. But as of right now according to the official statement just concluded, they have the right to go directly to west germany. Nbc correspondent Dennis Murphy is in berlin right now and has been following the events. What more do you know about this start
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Be a president ial election lol. Broadcasting live direct studious the month that it is rtm sean thomas with our weekly recap. Now ukrainian writers are storming of the Justice Ministry in kiev right now and local Administration Buildings have been the target of protesters elsewhere in the country. All this after the opposition turned it down to the president s offer to change the constitution and make one of their leaders Prime Minister will be hearing more from our keys and peter oliver in a little bit. But right now. One radical gang of protesters in kiev allegedly had these weapons in their Possession Police seized assault rifles pistols and hundreds of rounds of ammunition from the group. Authorities claim of the gang the supplied arms to other writers as well. And there were attacks on Security Forces during the week. One Police Officer was wounded and two others taken hostage reportedly tortured and then later. He was recording it and found my arms and legs with mosque the tape