this is deja news live from berlin one day i remember a six part president welcoming a rheims for a ceremony to mock it's twenty fifth anniversary of the genocide that killed nearly a million people will get from our correspondent at the border also on the program . by towards cash the police andris border with north macedonia opposite poles rumah circulate that the so-called alternate routes to northern europe will reopen . and printed thousands take to the streets to demand more affordable housing

a growing population and a shortage of new construction are driving up brands and house prices. i'm christine want to welcome to the program commemorations are underway in one that twenty five years since the stop the genocide it's estimated more than eight hundred thousand people were killed in one of the doc hist and most brutal chapters in recent history ethnic extremists malted members of the minority tutsi from the neighbors killed neighbors husbands even killed wives the killings last had one hundred days with now president paul kagame me took control of the country the vixens of big remembered with a week off commemoration activities which began earlier today at the kigali convention center for more now this speaks to his villainy is to god

for us many it is remarkable that peace has held in a country where the spa's of the genocide all still so fresh now you've been traveling the country and talking to people what's made that possible. necessity strong will and a lot of really hard work we really are in a country where people have decided to live together peacefully side by side where communities shared by perpetrators as well as survivors and paul kagame has really made sure to get rid of the ethnic divisions in the country here for example you're not allowed to ask anyone but the hutu or tutsi he's also created a culture of remembering and there are memorials all across the country way you can see bones skulls the clothes of victims they're really a disturbing reminder but a necessary one for the crime of crimes that was committed here in the country.

disability it seems from what you say a system has been established to sort of keep the peace but can one say that this country is healed. the people of rwanda haven't really healed the wounds are still there and you can tell that the country is still traumatized i've been speaking to survivors who told me that they are still haunted by remembering how of their families were tortured killed raped in front of their very eyes i've also been talking to a lot of perpetrators who told me that they are haunted by nightmares themselves that they are still struggling to fathom what it was that brought them to kill their friends their relatives their neighbors they don't understand is what they have told me and then of course there is the young generation that has to grow up under the shadow of this genocide i've been speaking to young survivor who told me that he lost all of his family and it was incredibly hard for him to grow up

without parents and so it is for the sons and daughters of perpetrators who are in prison very young generation here really had to grow up without parents but they are also the ones who have decided that they will come together and they will live a life that makes sure that history is never repeat it right now as you've been speaking we've been looking at pictures of some of the delegates making their way to the convention center behind you for the commemoration events taking place today what can be expected from those actions yes that will cease fire. it will be a full day of a lot of events at this combination venue here in kigali where expecting a lot of haunting testimonies to be broadcast by survivors who will be speaking about their experiences during the genocide are also going to be listening to songs performed by local and international artists in honor of the victims and of course

there will also be some key remarks we will be listening to representatives of the african union drunk with yoko will be speaking on behalf of the e.u. and president co gummi himself will of course address branden's as well as the rest of the world we are expecting an emotional day and day where rondo girls to show unity were they will come together is this something that will also be experiencing on the walk to remember with thousands of london's come together they will make their way to my horror national stadium for a night vigil which will brighten up the entire stadium in honor of those who lost their lives in rwanda stockist ok that's melanie corrigible reporting from golly i think now to some of the other stories making news around the world israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu has one is to begin an exchange jewish settlements in occupied west bank if reelected the policy turnaround has been seen as a last minute bid to rally right wing supporters ahead of next week's election idea

is national or the statement odd viewed as illegal. in venezuela a rival political factions are taking to the streets as the power struggle intensifies between anti-government and loyalist faction opposition leader one urged his supporters to maintain pressure on president nicolas maduro and anger is mounting over the collapse of public services and repeated power outages across the country. it's to greece now way of protests between migrants and east of the border with north macedonia turned violent on saturday around two thousand migrants started demonstrating on the border three days ago demanding to be let across false reports online travel restrictions to try to northern europe had lifted. tango for a third day at the greek border with north macedonia rumors of an open border spread on social media and thousands of asylum seekers came with

god there was no no no no no not right the murder charge was right the families are often from syria arriving in greece in two thousand and fifteen fleeing a bloody civil war they want to reach say for countries like germany. with no country to be telling. greece's asylum system is overwhelmed the next available appointment self and years away those housed in camps want to escape them we decided there was a world that you mobile or you know opposite to the border one must do was that it was no problem that is the border that is that there is a bit that in fact up. there are more than seventy thousand refugees and migrants living across greece as a result of the mass influx of people since two thousand and fifteen many are living

a life in status waiting to be officially given asylum or waiting to escape to there for more on this also fertile correspondent. who's monitoring the situation from. why is it that these people are still stuck in greece. well don't forget greece has seventy thousand at least seventy thousand migrants and refugees stranded here trapped here from two thousand and fifteen at the height of this refugee crisis with when more than a million mainly syrians fled through hoping to go into the heart of europe and as a result the authorities here have been completely inundated and processing these asylum requests it's actually have been a nightmare for them so as a result many of these refugees have been stuck here for years trying to get their asylum request simply hurt and fed frustrated and unhappy by the circumstances

here in many of these state camps they're trying to find other ways. to seep through into europe to find their loved ones and to meet up with their families and that's why this rumor just had such a knock on effect and illustrates how vulnerable the situation is here with the refugees and how limited in poor this reception system here is and how inundated and overwhelmed the authorities simply are here and able to process is this a sign of. a right and you talk about the greek authorities being overwhelmed how are they handling the situation. well for the time being at this particular site at this open field in northern greece india. where these riots to place authorities riot police is still gurgling that area they are staying put their own

the majority of these refugees have been bussed out taken to two camps across the country but there's still a group of some fifty to sixty people refugees there they consider them to troublemakers and that. why they're staying put in fear of potential flare ups don't forget the flare that we saw yesterday and these latest crashes was exactly at a time when these refugees were being put on buses to be taken to these camps to be moved out and that's when this flare out occurred car into the into very quickly what needs to be done to help people who are in limbo. well to start is again improving the conditions of this day will do quite a bit because many of them are just simply complaining over and over again about the appalling reception conditions very overcrowded conditions and very bad health

conditions prevailing in those facilities another thing also the the authorities can do is to increase the manpower on the ground to review these asylum cases and to potentially speed up these aside in the hearings in the third thing that can be done and the european level of course is as you increase the country's interest in resettlement some of them within europe are and that's. a reporting from athens thank you but then once had a reputation as one of the cheapest capitals in western europe investors buying up large numbers of apartments have pushed up or instance if you are higher returns now housing activists are pushing for the government to step in thousands of people demonstrated this weekend in support of a referendum that would expire creates the property of large scale and landlords and turn it into social housing stock. this petition is calling for

a referendum in berlin about the compulsory purchase by the city of the holdings of large commercial landlords ten such companies together in a quarter of a million apartments in the capital the biggest is. expropriation even with compensation would be a radical way to try to solve the problem of housing shortages and soaring rents. expropriating dodge of all and would be a great start we have to take back control. why expropriation what else with other means to deal with these criminals fail. and just buys up everything it wants property and profits it's not about providing homes on us was. born twenty thousand signatures are needed to trigger a referendum in berlin saturday saw a demonstration against high rents the drew tens of thousands the activists behind

the petition say their initiative has some high level support. there are political parties that back us the left party many greens and some social democrats as well as the berlin tenants association and labor unions but our strength lies in the people who live there are key partners even if the petition succeeds the referendum wouldn't be binding the city government wouldn't be compelled to act on it and it's not clear it could afford to act the doj of one company says it's not worried. the hour. we have well founded expert opinions that such expropriations are not permissible under the law. whatever the outcome the petition and demonstrations in berlin and other cities are focused public discourse on the problem which affects a large section of the population eighty six percent of berlin residents rent their

homes. we want to draw attention to what's going on in the city the crazy rents soared seventy percent over the past ten years people have their back to the wall and wages aren't keeping up something has to give. but what exactly has more people moved to berlin the demand for housing rises to while the supply hasn't kept up and soaring rents finding a solution one be easy. and find it's described as the world's biggest economic the den and why it's taught at those years ago in paris and now it's made its way to cuba take traced to the nines but as the name suggests there's only one choice of color and there's another tradition they don't know where to go until shortly before the event the venue is this to attend out to be the god in. the jarius national hotel in heaven many of those taking part of the united states as

a sign of improving ties between the two countries. and europe today i'll be back at the top of the hour with more news and hit by. he takes it personally the u.n. with the wonderful people winston really makes the game so special. federal troops are. more than football.