program forupt this an nbc news special report. here is guerra godley. good afternoon. we have a late and truly sensational report coming in from east germany in a news conference which ended just a few minutes ago in east berlin. government officials announced east germany s border open with west germany. the official statement says east german citizens have the right across from east germany into west germany. up to now, of the thousands, tens of thousands of east germans going west have had to pass through other communist nations, most of them passing through czechoslovakia. now they have the right to go directly to west germany. dennis murphy is in berlin right now and has been following the events. what more do you know about this startling decision? truly astonishing in a series of events that have happened the last few days and hours. in the last five minutes on television here in west berlin and the east, the germans east and west, speaking for the that is no long
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, as you know, the thousands, tens of thousands of east germans going west have had to pass through other communist east bloc 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. the news conference on television. dennis, what more do you know about this startling decision? dennis: it is truly astonishing. in a series of events that have happened the last few days and hours. literally in the last five minutes on television here in west berlin and also in the east, the german
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 isn t.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 we
500-pound bombs. the campaign of terrorism against the innocent show all of the warning signs of genocide. to prevent a potential act of genocide. the world needs to join us in a condemnation of isis action. the united states of america cannot turn a blind eye. good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching. we start with breaking news, president obama has authorized targeted military air strikes in iraq. they unfolded today. the united states military conducted several targets in iraq today. earlier this morning two f-18s dropped guided bombs on is is military operations. a drone struck a terrorist mortar position. at 11:20 a.m. eastern, four f hifr 18s bombed a convoy of seven vehicles and aircraft made two passes, dropped a total of eight laser guided bombs all of the targets were neutralized. where does this end? what does it mean? the air strikes targeted radical islamic forces trying to take over the kurdish city of erbil. the united states has diploma
secretary of state rex tillerson last thursday saying it was up to the syrian people to decide what to do about their dictator bashar al assad. exactly one week later on thursday april 6th, the trump administration executed as sharp a u-turn in foreign policy as we have seen in modern history. in particular when it comes to the u.s. posture toward syria and it s now six-year long civil war, which by some estimates killed 500,000 people. one week after essentially rex tillerson said it s not our problem trump ordered an attack, his owen citizens rebelling against the rule, horrific images splashed across american media. how much of this u-turn was a change of heart by donald trump or how much of a u-turn was this change of heart by donald trump? well, trump has been clear about opposing any u.s. intervention in syria since at least 2013 when he posted tweets like these posted at then president barack obama. what i am saying is stay out of syria. in all caps, again, to our very