remaining rebel held area that's despite a ceasefire that was supposed to come into force on sunday activists say 19 people were killed at a market there's been a 2nd night of violence on lebanon streets over the government's economic policies security forces fired tear gas at protesters in the commercial heart of the capital dozens were injured banks have been restricting access to accounts and blocking transfers abroad and frustration is growing over the lack of action from the government and the scientists have confirmed the last decade was the warmest on record 3 major research agencies say 2019 was the 3rd hottest year of the 2015 and 16 warning that extreme weather will become more common with the current level of greenhouse gas emissions reduced well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera of the people in power station that's what it's like now.

al-jazeera. and. the form of the berlin wall just over 30 years ago came amid sweeping changes that would end the cold war and see the downfall of corrupt a solitary and regimes across the city. its 3 decades on the pro-democracy optimism of those days has turned south sent a phobia and nationalism on the rise political corruption is not going away in the 2nd of 2 special reports we've been to belgariad romania and poland lost by the lessons of history haven't.

peace in europe 30 years after the end of the cold war. there sat with rising ultra nationalists and and struggling to find answers to hatred and corruption. the euphoria that swept the continent 30 years ago in the wake of the fall of the burden war seems like a distant dream. within 2 months communist dictatorships from the baltic to the black sea where i stood there and curtin was gone and europe appeared to be on the brink of a brighter future. but these hopes were dashed perhaps nowhere more so than bulgaria

a country which despite the propaganda enjoyed one of the most repressive communist dictatorships. when the red army marched into bulgaria in the dying throes of world war 2 it began a reign of terror that lasted 46 years some will be to tears up but everything up a whole mess it's better to put aside the best then or says that is the measures and i said that he said here. everyone was targeted intellectuals peasants and iris to cry at. one of the 1st victims of communism was king simeon the 2nd he was sent to the throne aged 6 after the mysterious death of his father boris the 3rd he was reportedly poisoned on hitter's orders for refusing to send bulgarian jews to nazi death camps. the thing that struck me was that all of my father's a.d.c.

addressed me as your majesty which of course he only used for my father and that's where i suddenly realize that my father was no more but that's a. tiny detail but of course afterwards i was a. pose to be the king and act like a grown up in spite of my age. the read on me killed simians uncle the regent and exiled the boy king and his mother it would be whole a century before he could return it was in the moment i said foot physically on it was when the plane touched down on the runway where i had tremendous sort of emotion in my wife realized that because it was actually 50 years later that suddenly i was landing in bulgaria it was a land unrecognizable to the king he later served briefly as prime minister a command economy and transformed the country almost everything of value had been

taken from the people and put in the hands of the state. and we know the full horrors of the regime were coming to light. this is better than a. a concentration camp that operated well into the 1980 s. . built on an island in the middle of the time there was no chance of escape for the thousands of political prisoners he was sent. for unless the. continent like it is sort of bogus that is so to let this get that. one man who survived this ordeal is petco. in his eighty's one of the. well i took the you know. who.

knew nothing and i don't with my own truth and then you come when i'm going to come up there. and you will be one of the. 2 2 2 2 2 2 only guy who can talk to the men had compelled. the kind of the. bell is part of this dirty and bloody net to our off $86.00 concentration camp in bulgaria. to tell the people who have been there and most of them found their their. 2 program in the food to leave in the heart of the back a bed no lives out the best in mobile that flooded me as i read it is bulgaria's leading novelist his childhood bulgaria's transition from communism to democracy a period of lost opportunities in 1990 there was name meaningful change of

government he ses the communist party simply changed its name to the socialist party voters in the believe it used to go i was the minister put it up though and they all conall fits a brawl hall to a macau though drew got a you know the child i'm them your name not surprisingly the economy collapsed and almost one in 3 bulgarians left the country. gels name one into 19 again that night will go to any that there is equal to morgan days you could do with me 70 horses professor of the most the us from 10 a post and. when i went to one technical thing from o'reilly the population hemorrhaged leaving be elderly behind. today there are 1500 deserted villages throughout bulgaria. we met stephon the last

inhabitant he cannot longer afford electricity. he took us to one of the many deserted hines's. steffen believes the situation is saved but things were actually better under the communists got upon the but the barrier. that. many of bulgaria's rural villages have become caged communities we've got a major problem which is shall we say in their make and that's of the past 20 or so years we are decreasing there's a lot of villages which are empty this is sad phenomena. those let's build by the country's lastic take a total shake of. is emblematic of the problem. the

space age structure was once a shaped piece headquarters for the politburo. it's not a derelict the authorities cannot afford either to maintain or to demolish it. does not say remains frozen in time a surreal reminder of a communist legacy that still talks bulgarian. over the border in remain here an equally dog story is still a merging a nondescript complex on the outskirts of the capital bucharest as is the archive of the security remain use feared secret police during communism demeanor and a cache has been sifting through the files since they were opened to the public in 2005 the condition for remaining is entry into the e.u. . this place to put it matter for italy. is valuable for

munster. the most sinister library you can imagine it's a naval library actually. there nowadays it's a documentary file with the letters written from the prison on the bed sheets one of the ladders is addressed to the united nations we ask the united nations organization to defend the human rights fear are there or are there we are masters of the romanian nation and he thought which is not according to the line of the party. it means our imprisonment isolation andar. one of communisms most infamous dictators nicholai ceausescu turned rumania into europe's closest equivalent to north korea. coming to power in 1965

church s.q. developed his own personality cult. the cheering crowds masked as a regime characterized by arbitrary detention execution without trial and most nutrition while the dictator and his wife lived the high life. churches queues prisons like this one a july of now lie empty but estimates of the number of people jailed for political reasons run into the millions. let me show you all some other things this time it's from beyond off a this this are all recruited month papers for pupils they recruited youngsters will be coming for months in schools this is corrupting take young generation off a country and destroying it's in our so it's in our. you

know bone structure. the end when it came was swift and brutal for the church eskies an uprising in timisoara 500 kilometers to the east was spreading towards the capital and when the dictator addressed the people and revolution square the writing was already on the wall. ceausescu and his wife can be heard off camera ordering the people to be clients. with the tried out of control the ceausescu's fled only to be captured and taken to a military barracks in triggered at least an hour from the capital where a young omi captain found himself face to face with the form a tyrant about. or show of the start of this type of being right now. for his him broke windows but even without effort of.

course the protests sort of got out without the up most remarkable. young. to burn out of the thought of the trial was broadcast to the nation. that such s q's were taken to this spot and summarily executed the pictures were broadcast immediately you can still see the bullet holes. i only ask you a former communist minister who had been dreams to succeed the dictator seized power claiming to be a democrat. he alleged that terrorists were threatening the country and unleashed the full force of their own me in the resulting chaos a that 800 people lost their lives in peace and you can self has honest one. and the one that did not in 300 south but on that new theme how about the rest of

his cronies one of the also poor. boffing still iliescu would serve 3 terms as president of roumania during which time none of his former communist colleagues were brought to justice his party the social democrats has enjoyed a near monopoly on power romania was a country that decided to hide dirt on the the carpet and hope that if we don't disclose the inconvenient tools. those realities are going to go away with the former communists in power the wealth of the country was plundered the economy collapsed and widespread poverty pushed millions to the bread line it wasn't until remain you joined the e.u. that things began to change under pressure from brussels the national country corruption directorate was funded chief prosecutor. began to indict high ranking

politicians. controversially she relied heavily on wiretapping and covertly filming. her. cos course this was remain useful minister of agriculture films taking a bribe almost 1400 individuals were convicted including 5 ministers 18 judges 11 state prosecutors and 24 mans before 2012 we never had me in this county convict for corruption. frankly magine the shock of the political class. livy you drag my until recently the leader of the social democrats who was banned from becoming prime minister because of a previous conviction tried to portray convey she's war on corruption as an attack on human rights and drafted new legislation which would effectively notify all

court cases against him and his fellow politicians. access graphics at the chance to enjoy that evidence that muddy become rich tell its god it was. there push it but does fundamentality she take out of what disappointingly i just up was it for dragnet it was a question of survival the appeal courts were about to hear a number of cases against him should the crimes no longer be illegal he was off the hook. when last year he finally succeeded in firing convention it looks like he had won but kept her she remained defiant but if you didn't. know if you saw her there as those still fringe at a drag name is apparent victory was too much for the people almost 30 years on from the toppling of ceausescu revolution square was once again occupied 580-0000

protesters. all day most days in the last year as you know when i was. for the rule of law and for justice. the riots police were instructed to break up the peaceful protests they started to fire with a really small grenades fired but they they did not shoot them in the air they fired through us and they took up part of my leg dory nearly died from his injury hundreds were hospitalized the future of roumania hung in the balance indeed it was a cliffhanger because if you modify the criminal legislation then everything is gone and this is what they try to do but under pressure from the people the law makers failed so push through the legislation and truck man is behind bars serving a 3 year prison term. even iliescu once seen as the hero of the revolution is

facing charges of crimes against humanity for staging or to in order to seize power he denies any wrongdoing we didn't have a revolution he $89.00 it was just the call that we thought that it was a revolution but behind people's back somewhere explore my genitals of the remain a secret police they just try to get rid of and they take power they transform from the social democrats and they said now everything is ok we have the more crazy but in fact it was just you know it was a fake democracy. but i stayed corruption brings thousands of young protesters onto the streets of bucharest it's a completely different story in per capita warsaw. this is independence day it started as a small event with just a few 100 people but over the years in groups and in the last years it had about

$200000.00 people which makes it the biggest far right gathering and they were and i think the. the growth. of this one event you know strengths and the social acceptance of the core nationalist ideology especially among among the younger people. poland is governed in name by journalist not kaczynski leader of the lauren justice party which won power in 2015. others took the office of prime minister and president but no one is in much doubt about who is in show much. kocinski swished the cemented his government's authority by purging national t.v. of independent journalists and pushing for state control of the judiciary. they get are usually the only other not limited other holdings for yet another plan are

selling all the large cards all players get some will not accept that you don't like even here you got some who don't are not there as a card. wrestlers the governments are sure recipe for their faster germany never had a more national or the government met with those words right and it didn't get rid of the rest of the world. it produces the grain that. street after. the holocaust museum in warsaw best testimony to horace committed to join the 2nd world war when 6000000 polish citizens perished many its death camps like i should. but in recent years fuse once thought consigned to history have returned. an effigy of acidic it was burned while the mob cheered in the city of rocks last shortly after the law and justice

party came to power 4 years ago. it's not an isolated case the most recent incident was in april 2019 when the time to approach. this is the kind of expression and advantage of a sentiment that we didn't see in this country for many many years however the rising tide of anti semitism was drawing international condemnation of other targets of populist rhetoric but find. in the run up to the general election in october 2019 kaczynski turned his file on the l g b t community yeah. yeah. and now each. one newspaper began offering l g b t freezing stickers swigged nick was one of several times that claim to be l g b t free ahead of the election if you think lehrer eligibility free zone as the

people that the pirates you can't stop won't stop being trying on 2 people and. someone decides to go on a people hunt. of course many ordinary poles are horrified at the rise in hate speech but in october 2019 things reached a new low a pride. march in the city of lupul and. the police caught a couple who brought. a bone. to the lodge and they were headed to detonate it and the police experts sat if it's happens it might have killed people. electro and so from a shipyard worker and poland's elder statesman awarded the nobel peace prize to steve and his country to democracy is an outraged. status from to recommend climate

here should there be shamefaced love. misanthropy of parts of france she has used the example canary none of thoughts of is that the machine you put nobody's move that you're involved. in the 1980 s. poland was the epicenter of the cold war the solidarity movement headed by lech that once organized strikes in the get done 6 shipyards which quickly spread across the country prompting the communist authorities to declare martial law. solidarity held its name and before the decade was out poland had democracy. but earlier this year another event brought to its foundations. of a time of age the city's mayor for 20 years was stabbed by a man a purse onto an openness day as a national charity event. the killer condemned the civic platform policy which opposes the current government as he murdered

a dime of it which. the dumb a bitch spoke up for minorities and condemned him a phobia like his close friend like fellow and he was true teenie attacked by the state controlled media. just over the 12 months that preceded their. you hear our news from the public to be more than $100.00 per and all of them in the negative but. with wide spread the vacation the dumb a bitch feared for his life in one extreme case and the far right national news drop or publishing of produced a symbolic death certificate which dave buster in a city but the police dropped the investigation just one or 2 weeks. before he was

killed in. the assassination coming 30 years after the 1st free elections in poland casts a shadow over the good danske where the struggle for freedom against communist rule had its 1st victory not only in poland but arguably in the whole of eastern europe is of our own job are going up it's here could guys elect someone i don't know democrats here on earth as the next 70 a populist i mean they're my god but. the reelection of gyrus kaczynski is lauren justice party just 2 weeks before the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall center a chill wind across the continent of europe. in several countries but once communism held sway not a populist nationalism dominates some of the rhetoric has changed but the authoritarianism that many once dreamed of the scaping keeps rearing its ugly head .

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change less than 2 kilometers away bulldozers are never the ground for a controversial new airport that's expected to shuttle millions of tourists to historic sites the airport should then be in the sacred following she cheryl has culture traditions for thailand but the big powers want it because it's the door much of which. kind of who is poor is divided down and i would be in favor of an airport if more people come and make business with us but only if it will preserve our environment and our ruins some farmers like it look east they believe their lives may change it will bring development to our community and country. a searching investigation into gun culture in the philippines. and the new ones that were put in place to control it and this country if you're not there right. so if your district the right of light of god orders you're not solving the problem of criminality of the kind of peace because these are not the people who work with you

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