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I slipped through the fall of the berlin wall. And in the fall of the berlin wall didnt surprise me i dont know what happened 10 years before. Until i am sitting in this chair. There appear to be no repetition of 56. 00. You dont learn to make revolutions. I miss that class. Sentiment men yell at me i dont know how many people right now would be happy if the iron curtain were dismantled today like it was 30 years ago. That they lack a share of it and i can. The wall was not a purely german affair it was 7000 kilometers long and divided europe from the arctic to the black sea our journey starts on the baltic coast and leads by a good dance eastern poland to warsaw berlin and leipsic. Then we had to prague and some villages in bohemia and then on to budapest on the border crossings that show prague and wisco. Our journey ends just short of the black sea in bucharest we begin in the old downs shipyard in. The fall of the wall began 500 kilometers from berlin and get done in this hangar bu ....
Ambassador Riyad Mansour at the un in new york, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you on the programme. Ambassador, do you have any hope left that talks can achieve a stop or at least a suspension to the war in gaza . I still have hope. And thats what drives me to work harder with all of my colleagues, to succeed in putting an end to this war, to have a ceasefire, and to be able to send humanitarian assistance up to the needs of the people in the gaza strip and to prevent a forced Mass Transfer to egypt. I mean, nobody would doubt that, for the two million and more palestinians who live in gaza and of course the 100 or so hostages who are being held in the tunnels in gaza as well, every day is a day of extreme suffering. The problem is, if one looks at the talks and what is being said about the talks, there appears to be very little ....
it s such a pleasure to be back in hardtalk with you, stephen. well, it s a pleasure to have you on the show. let s begin with a very basic fact you are one of your own israeli government s fiercest critics. you have been for a long time. you ve certainly been an arch critic of the israeli military strategy in gaza. given all of that, i just wonder how you feel sitting in tel aviv watching the international court ofjustice consider the case of genocide filed against israel. i was watching it with a lot of sadness, depression and also a sense of shame, i must tell you. you know, my parents came here as refugees, really the ashes of the biggest genocide in history. and here, 80, 90 years later, israel is accused for genocide. i mean, i wish more israelis have at least watched the scenes, at least watch the scenes of gaza. they don t see gaza. i wish they would have seen more of the children on the grounds of the hospitals, the starvation, the destruction. but none of th ....
destruction, but none of this is presented here. so theyjust condemn anyone who dares to criticise israel. i don t know if weekly is a genocide. but it is a bloodbath, it is a terrible mass killing. do we care if it is legally a genocide or not. the israeli boron actor mind about pickling, their mind about labelling it as genocide. the? about pickling, their mind about labelling it as genocide. they mind, i cuess, labelling it as genocide. they mind, i guess. for labelling it as genocide. they mind, i guess, for reasons labelling it as genocide. they mind, i guess, for reasons which - labelling it as genocide. they mind, i guess, for reasons which are - labelling it as genocide. they mind, i guess, for reasons which are for. i guess, for reasons which are for anyone who knows some history are understandable. to quote your country s president, he calls the accusations atrocious. and preposterous. you yourself mentioned to me your own past, your own parents came from ....