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Homes and at least 3 people have died in the blazes. Plus even what alice calls it a coup when it is embattled president says anti democratic groups are trying to depose him as Police Change sides and join in the protests. And supporting house about enough maki full of deeds berlin wall with a home game against light sake you bought a stinging offense to the pitch. Now as. Im 103 clad you could join me germany has been marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall events took place across the capital with the main celebration at the Brandenburg Gate german chancellor Angela Merkel and other european leaders took part in a special ceremony to remember those who died on the east germanys shoot to kill orders against anyone trying to flee to the west that evening began with an iconic conductor leading an iconic concerto in front of an iconic backdrop. Thousands gathered here to celebrate as they did 30 years ago on the state when berlins Brandenburg Gate became an unforgetta
our correspondent kate beatty let me start with you john it was a wide ranging speech the president touched on many aspects historical as well as contemporary but what 1st of 4 do you make of the tone of what he said. when i would pick others in particular 2 points in the speech which receive particular poor applause also from the audience. the 1st one was when he talked about the events of dresden these appalling events of the destruction just being instrumental ised being misused by people for their own political agenda that was a very cynically very ill to swipe at the far right in germany the far right also makes up the main opposition party in germany at the d. and only this week we had a senior member of that party. refute the number of of deaths in the dresden bombing now this is a question of the number of people who died which has been settled by a commission of historians they decided beyond reasonable doubt after 6 years of examining all the evidence that it was no
Germany is on to world cup semi finals after beating france 10 in a dazzling display of strategy and teamwork. A mats hummels header sent germany into a fourth consecutive world cup semifinals. German fans are thrilled. Their side has not won the world cup since 19 on his it but either on tuesday they will play either colombia or brazil. He connected perfectly with the free kick to score his second goal. 10 both had chances to score. At the other end in the dying seconds, a narrow victory for germany, everyone thought this would be a tight game, but germany looked comfortable. Scoring put them in position. If that atmosphere tonight, they will find a way to pass germany. Thanks so much. German fans are looks like a big party. There is a huge party. In rio it was 26 during the game. 33 during the now. Before i saw people being carried out. Are you still staying for the rest of the night . People started going out as soon as the game was over people celebrating the game, waiting to see w
Usled Coalition Forces are keeping up their air strikes against Islamic State targets around the embattled syrian town of kobani. Kurdish fighters in kobani are trying to hold off a complete takeover of the town by the Islamic State with u. S. Forces saying airstrikes alone may not keep it from falling into iss hands. There are tanks on the border, but turkey says it will not send in Ground Troops on its own. Kurdish forces are holding on, but reports say the Islamic State now controls the eastern third of the city. Video shows is has weapons it claims it captured from the kurds. Just north of kobani, turkish army tanks watch from the position they occupy 10 days ago. But turkey has no winter ash no intention of intervening turkey has no intention of intervening. It is not realistic to expect turkey to conduct a ground operation on its own. We are holding talks. Once there is a common decision, turkey will not shy away from its part. But it wants coordinate action to target Syrian Gove