Of peaceful protest same as pivotal in toppling the dictatorship in the form a stalemate on this day in 1989 some 70000 people turned out for marches in the city of lifes ish it was a decisive moment in a chain of events that led to the collapse of east german communism and the fall of the bone and more people held candles and pace fully demanded more freedom and democracy despite the threat of a heavy government crackdown the demonstrations my motto was the people. Well lymans from now german president frank volta on my is due to give a speech commemorating those events lets cross now to leipzig where ceremonies are already underway kate brady is standing by there for us i believe can we hear you kate. Ok 2. I have been listening to good stuff manas symphony number one that to mark the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the protests that really began the end of east germanys political regime and to tell us a bit more ive got simon young data correspondent with me in the studio s
Mr. Clinton thank you, thank you. Want to thank all of you. I tried to entertain Justice Ginsburg for a few moments before we came over here, telling herr stories of my adventures and misadventures in american politics, back when we viewed each other as threedimensional human beings and not cartoons. [applause] as is fairly had notwn now, i actually met Justice Ginsburg until that memorable sunday evening in 1993 when she came to see me the white house. I had already interviewed two other people and it immediately leaked to the press. I had a lot of young aides who work hard and were good people but if a reporter called them, they were more afraid to say i dont know than anything else, so i got a big kick out of it. I sneaked who is now one of the most famous people in the world into the white house and nobody knew. [laughter] had beenon i president for less than a year, and i already had a Supreme Court appointment to make. I wanted to do a good job. Judge ginsburg was one of three pe
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A drone attack could you repost from yemen have claimed responsibility the saudis say the fires are now under control and that oil exports are continuing to. Follow the book. And my schwager thanks for joining us. A further moccasin protest in hong kong has been disrupted by counterdemonstrators waving chinese flags the sit in at a Shopping Mall turned violent when probation activists confronted the demonstrators hong kong is in its 4th month prodemocracy demonstrations they initially started to oppose a controversial extradition bill but a sense widened to demand free elections in the semi autonomous chinese territory. Umbrellas used as symbols of passive resistance in the democracy protests of 2014 a turning into weapons here i was. 5 hours before these scenes occurred some 200. 00 probation protesters gathered at a mall in the cow loon district to show their support for the chinese government. But the situation escalated when prodemocracy protesters showed up. This woman is shouting
So i mean listening there to Martin Griffiths the u. N. Special envoy to yemen appealing for more calm especially in this situation with aid and also reporting as he sees it some progress having been made in implementing the stop home agreement lets bring in our diplomatic editor james bass hes live for us at the United Nations james what do you make of that. Well martin gryphus addressing the u. N. Security council at a regularly planned meeting on yemen the monthly meeting on yemen to update them on the situation in that country but clearly a meeting that has been overtaken by recent events the attack on Saudi Oil Installations and that was the subject of the very start of his address to the Security Council he described this as a terrifying moment that made regional conflict more likely he said that in conjunction with an attack on a prison at the beginning of the month that killed more than 100. 00 people and the tension in the south in aden and the separatist attendances there mad