A breakthrough during breaks it talks in brussels the comments followed a 2 day use summit on Foreign Relations during which the bloc agreed to impose sanctions on 40 leading officials in belarus. Amenia says it is ready to discuss a cease fire in the separatist region all of. Which is seen heavy fighting between armenian and as a forces a 1000000 military official said that as a vision carried out strikes on the regions capital steffen karat on friday doesnt have been killed in the recent flare up in fighting. This is news from berlin you can follow us on twitter and instagram at d w news or visit our website at state dot com. Welcome to m culture where we conclude our series on the 990 s. A groundbreaking decade here in germany was reunited also coming up today with. A brand new movie about legendary german filmmaker ryan of an offense that hits cinemas this weekend. But 1st its 30 years since germany was reunited and we conclude our series on the 990. 00 s. A defining decade which changed society so much after the fall of the wall after the initial jubilation of reunification the freedom came with it for 30000000 east germans how did the aussies and vesey is themselves reunite weve dug deep in the extensive d. W. Archive to find out more. About german reunification altered the lives of millions of east germans for ever freedom to travel western culture western goods they suddenly had access to it all because of that great and for the joy all the happiness of everyone there was a huge amount of energy that was released. In a polyclinic was 9 years old when the berlin wall fell and lived in the east outside of berlin along with the joy she felt she also had a lot of questions. You know i was pretty confused when it all happened not because i didnt want it or i didnt even really understand it at 1st but because i saw confused people all around me everyone had to get used to the new situation including the children and suddenly everything familiar was gone including a political system that was restrictive but also provided for almost everything disillusionment soon set in these German Economy collapsed unemployment rose and entire regions became desolate young people in particular grew frustrated. Because we were going to shock just. As much of this because it was really hard for my generation to find its way what direction to go in hot we had to learn everything about how things work in the west end of you. There were a lot of expectations and we couldnt fulfill them right away not because we didnt want to but because we were scared this guy had a flu and got him on his voyages on a bomb went off and started. But the end of east germany also made a lot of things possible in apollo the clink dreamed of becoming a singer she found a producer and in 1995 recorded her 1st song. Only. In 1907 she launched her Television Career as a reporter at the edge of the show polish blind date she brought together young people with opposing viewpoints garnish. The smile my you its funny but a legal immigrants like take the federal money the feeling is because we have. Enough 1st moved to berlin then to hamburg many of her east german contemporaries also left their hometowns and moved to mostly western germany not an easy step as 2 examples from our archives demonstrate. A car mechanic from saxony on hard found work near stock each friday he drove back to his old home in his brand new mercedes. In the g. D. R. Wed need to go dancing and wed all sit in the same table and we all understood each other and its harder to make friends here and im lonely at times. For the marketing expert from southern germany moved to dresden for a management position and was surprised by her east german colleagues. To boncelles they werent used to things like flexibility productivity and motivation to promptness. But gradually these Close Encounters of an east west kind help to overcome prejudices and resulted in friendships. Down for romantic relationships. I cant imagine that a millionaire could be happier than we are. In a polar klink was also able to take advantage of opportunities provided by german reunification some 3 decades later she presents her album sound check in a brewery turned Cultural Center and a chic neighborhood. This used to be east germany now its hard to imagine it was once all in disrepair this is the idea of an its simply part of the history that has shaped this country and we have to keep talking about it and we should keep celebrating it as part of our history because this country was divided and now that thats over im happy to meet lovely people no matter where theyre from. We need to mention. The. Former east former west for even a polish klink thats irrelevant her life has been improved by reunification and for her the east west divide is firmly in the past but inside. This man is a cat that. Is with me now. All is happy isnt she but the majority of east germans well the german governments most recent reports on the progress of reunification indicated that 57 percent of. Germans still feel they are 2nd class citizens much of this has to do with resentment due to a continuing wage divide despite beast in germany having made Major Economic progress on the other hand over happiness is the Pew Research Center survey shows that the proportion of eastern germans with the top happiness in writing increased from 15 percent in 1991 to 59 percent in the most recent survey ok now on the cultural from some former east germans have done very well internationally yes. First and foremost ramstein of course whose members all grew up in communist east germany she know that 3 members were in a band in east berlin and in the eightys they reformed recruits in the ninetys as ramstein and went on to conquer the world with provocative songs and incendiary live metal circus act the success even more extraordinary because they broke into the u. S. Charts with songs in german yeah and what about in the art world im thinking of neo riot in the lights named after lights yeah like 6 there was a richard and they refer to artists from the formation german town in the times of communism but shortly thereafter after 1909 the new Leipsic School took off this was people who studied in leipsic under the old east german masters and worked in styles that depended on the social realism of communism they shot to fame in particular as you said neo route from spain things have sold for in excess of 1000000. 00 and finally the the movies as well im thinking of bob stewart just outside thats right bubble spoke has become a popular destination for global Film Productions over the last 20 years. Steven spielbergs film bridge of spine is oscar winning production starring tom hanks is just one of numerous hollywood films made in germany with the studio as coproducer and the most ambitious German Television series of all time. Then made extensive use of studio metropolitan backlots. Canada as always thank you very much for those insights have a group where you can you. We turn to a new film about the legendary german film director ryan of an affine spend whose life was actually as exciting as his films he was incredibly prolific may have a 40 films to t. V. Series and 26 states of plays in under 2 decades the candle at both ends famously using the quote ill sleep when im dead which unfortunately happened to him from a lethal dose of drugs in 982. 00 and he was just 37 years old this new film aptly titled all fall to everybody comes i around europe. Thats this time not because they think in so forth their names by the way in the construction of a go by but i believe that if you. Use an. Easy quick cost at least. Thats how you feel as i got taj couple of times that too expensive t. T. s to. This is the 1st shot. So much that maybe even in the theater no one could expect gentle treatment from a kind of an office spend he was always ruthlessly provocative with the aim of stirring things up. And go out there i was. Brought all the time i was by far i think so fontes even though it is a fitting title for a film about the subversive often unpalatable fast and it shows the director as a nasty on set dictator was something that they kept i was told i was going where not the biopics director perhaps its. Saturating a bed not at all fueled by alcohol drugs and a robust ego fassbender himself often seemed like a monstrous stage character which is why where his films his protagonist against theater sets fast been the remain singular with no imitators or static successors. What remains is this great language faculty he had this great dramatic faculties at his film sound different from the people speak differently and. Father promised embodies fassbender almost as if he were his twin brother the twin hes a bit afraid of. What i wanted to keep him away not let him in at all but also also recalls fassbender as manic creativity a cinema obsessed director made more than 40 films in just 12 years. Hes often on the even mentioned one a couple suspenders personal dreams also collapsed he longed for love and intimacy yet found him intolerable he gathered his clan of collaborators around him like a surrogate family he needed them he loved them and yet hes humiliated them and is going to go there isnt. Words will speak. Is of a good as a bill that the fascist. With the film is a fearless depiction of a driven man deformed by his own Tremendous Energy he was eventually devoured by it dying at the age of 37. Captures the fascination fassbinder still exerts. A steady as she lead with minus. Alice. Finally the big music news this week was confirmation australian ac d. C. Getting back together with over 200000000. An album sold to date is a real ac d. C. Reunion with the return of singer Brian Johnson the basis williams and the drama filled rot is a taste of the new single shots in the. Fake hair and real story. Where i come from a lot of women. Have fake hair sometimes the hair style takes up to 2 a day. Its a lot of time that needs to be filled so people at the salon talk about whats happening in their lives. I became a journalist to be a storyteller and i always want to find those real authentic stories from everyday people who have something to share. With all the time i spent at the salon im no good quality hair when i see its and the good story when i hear it. My name is elizabeth stall and i work at steves out. As investigators try to find out what happened to Jamal Khashoggi saudi arabia confirms that the drone was terrible her show is jack of all because show she is loved ones some form of closure many foreign minister saying this was all a terrible mysterious accusing of jim all the ships in your frequent critic of the shot saudi regime inside of the saudi consulate saudi arabia for 3 weeks. Here killing of Jamal Khashoggi was a premeditated murder and their own october the 1st 28. 00 nothing seemed out of the ordinary in belgrade forest north of istanbul it was a monday the start of the workweek and the full weather drew few visitors. Just before sunset c. C. T. V. Cameras picked up a car belonging to the saudi consulate in istanbul as it passed through a security gate. It would later in the gym reports by turkish state. This it was carrying the consulates millet she attached a minute. On what turkish intelligence call the surveillance mission. According to some im losing the had returned from saudi arabia earlier that day with a plan to liquidate saudi journalist jim who showed. Maybe alabama where you. Are we. Can relieve you we have even more love to have a smaller one of our enemies around on june 21st 27. 00 seen Prince Mohammed bin so many was appointed crown prince of saudi arabia the journalist Jamal Khashoggi had long been close to the royal family with the rise of mohammed bin so many hed fallen out of favor banned from writing and tweeting he faced increasing repression and began to fear for his life he fled the kingdom that same month and though he remained supportive of the saudi monarchy and the crown prince his 2030 reform agenda he became a vocal critic of saudi repression and policies from his selfimposed exile in the United States. The pressure increased i believe him to 14 or to 15 when he was writing minister of information decided to publish the letter from writing and i think he saw that very well insulting remember back from weeding out the wiping out of the white. Because. Weve met the governor of the us but its the concept of the. Conspiracy with that worked. For i think 100 who said what is the reason. That i think is going to reducing vision 233 no he just has to do it right in the early 1918 stream and he showed he received a degree in business from Indiana State University he then began working as a journalist later serving those media exiles so to ambassador prince turki bin faisal in washington he said this so more. More while he was in istanbul to arrange a marriage one of his sons came to visit him. Length already he wanted to live in istanbul to be near his family. He had 4 children with his 1st wife his 2nd marriage also ended in divorce in may 2010 he married stuck to a large nazi for several months after left saudi arabia that marriage also ended amid rumors that the journalists had been put under official pressure to agree to the divorce and very happy he was worried he one time told me his 2 sons complained to him that they are held hostage because of him couldnt travel so they were both bankers their work requires them to travel and they could not leave the kingdom their passports were confiscated and they were blaming him and that really caused lots of guilt. He told me he felt guilty that hes causing the. Stress and suffering. In august 27th he tweeted for the 1st time from exile in the United States. I returned to writing and tweeting grateful to his highness the minister of information for his kind efforts gratitude and loyalty to the royal crown prince no free pen is broken and no tweeter is silence down to his reign. Coming from a man in selfimposed exile the tweet seemed confusing and raised questions about his relationship with his native country back in 2016 a saudi authorities had banned me from writing and tweeting he was informed by sound out the tiny an adviser to the crown prince in a telephone call which he showed later described in a television interview. I realised how degrading it would be if i agreed to such a thing if you will live any longer than official could prevent me from writing or tweeting over the phone every minute read. In september 2017 he started writing for the Washington Post. His column extended his readership and influence beyond the middle east. For the saudis i think this was the scariest thing the guy writes for a paper thats already all over the world that drop by this is americas in the u. S. Image mohamed bin someone painted himself in the west in america london and paris with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Public Relations that was destroyed by casualties one single article in the Washington Post as we speak today there are already intellectuals under notice jail no nobody will they have to speak and criticize the reform delight. Saudi intelligence was monitoring showed his writing and movements and were briefing the new crown prince to the throne. Im of the horn of the world everything i write i write as an honest advisor. To the saudis to try to tempt the journalist to return a source close to the said that the crown princes advisor sound our attorney contacted him twice by phone he said that mohammed bin solomon trusted implicitly and that the doors of the royal court would be open to him whenever he chose to return. The same source said that the saudi government maintained communication with his shogi and made him several offers including managing a saudi funded Media Network if he were to return. Nor. Was. I think his knowledge of the regime. When he spoke out. Continued his criticism of the crown prince in the Washington Post. To me put this before. Is working with. A foundation for democracy in the arab world. People. Think some form of conservation. Efforts included supporting the project electronic be nice with canadian based saudi activist Omar Abdel Aziz who was speaking to counter the saudi governments Online Harassment of critics of the regime. May in july 28th seen many activists notice that there was an attempt to attack them online specifically on social media. Was a key target so i studied how those electronic attacks worked. I wanted to put together a project that aimed to stop them. In the present to be idea to Jamal Khashoggi and he liked it as did other people like Tariq Omo Tyree from kuwait those of your heart we decided to establish a team that would counter those attacks later because shell be decided to support us and contributed 5000. 00 and i want his own pocket of you to help fund the project without a court the court of them going to sort of comes out of that i mean. In istanbul we spoke with a political scientist about another major project that showed he launched from the turkish city by over a number of media platforms we contacted several of the show peace assistance but they were reluctant to talk in detail because they didnt want to jeopardize the future of their project. Meanwhile back in the saudi capital of riyadh a small sound was formed to decide what to do about the shogi they weighed up different options. As new information became available they formulated a course of action. They decided to silence shogi for good. In september Jamal Khashoggi left the United States for what would be the last time he boarded Turkish Airlines flight t k 8 from washington arriving at istanbuls ataturk airport just before sunset on september 10th as. He planned to stay until the 17th of october to finalize his wedding arrangements. Theres. An r. R r r r r by. The turkish scholar t. J. I met jim markus shogi when she interviewed him at a conference in istanbul in may 28th scene. This was the 1st of several meetings that summer. Proposed and she accepted. The amount was