in a series of mass protests set off a chain of events that ultimately led to the opening of the front tier and the end of call in his and in central and eastern europe during that time dissidents and activists in east and west germany helped smuggle thousands of people across or under the inner german border our reporter christina caught up with one of. the best thing about jail heart says was being let out of his cell once a day to walk around inside a large wire cage as a young man he was held for months in a detention center van by the east german ministry of state security for trying to flee the country and for aiding others in their attempts to escape. and so they didn't abuse us physically they called it a corrosion it was a method they used to try and grind to stan through hyper control isolation this information on the cusp of the worst 11 months of my life here after

a while if you start too long to be sentenced. mr never accepted life under the east german regime and tried to flee for the 1st time by train when he was just 18 he was arrested and put behind bars. when building began on the berlin wall on the 1st of august 1961 he knew he had to escape he saw how brutally the regime was cracking down on dissenters. as a young person at some point you have to ask yourself how long am i going to play this raid have how long can i take it or do i want to cooperate with them to find myself a little nation who is a long as you're still studying you have to get all of this crap that in every essay there had to be a commitment to socialism and if you needed good marks you just wrote that rubbish down. a short time later richter attempted to escape again he swam across a border river on the edge of berlin and made it to freedom he was in the water for 4 hours before he finally managed to get through

a barbed wire fence and onto the shore on the western side on the eastern side he would have been shot. at the cauldron is off the food supply had a guardian angel that lied or knew there were alarms at the bridge he was in the twilight i saw a thin piece of wire stretched from bridge post a bridge post if i had touched it he would have gone off and they would have immediately fired shots. at the force of. dozens of people died in this way along the berlin wall it's still not clear just how many the regime ruthlessly punished anyone who tried to flee. nevertheless mr continued to help more than 30 people escape by smuggling them into west germany in the trunk of his car he was caught again and spent 5 years in prison before being bought out by the western governments he now gives tours in his former prison often for schoolchildren he thinks young people should learn that east germany was a tele tarion

a state. secret. mentioned if you can see that young people are aware and interested that's why i do this it's good to see you out of a sense of conviction by kman you will always be like that before. that stealing is how tartlet reached your overcome the brutality of the stasi the east german secret police now he's able to tell the story as one of those who paid a price for wanting freedom. of choice. is force there isn't any murray has played his 1st singles match after having career saving surgery in january but he has since decided he will not compete in the u.s. singles open later this month the former world number one based france is in cincinnati losing in straight sets 6464 murray had been asked to make a decision on accepting a wild card for the u.s. open prior to that match the brits and says he will he still in his play doubles

and mixed doubles at the grand slam in new york which starts on the 26th the. well today is international left hander's day to day is designed to raise awareness of the difficulties left handed people face in a right handed world but for athletes like tennis star rafael nadal playing left handed may be an advantage the doll is one of the greatest tennis players of all time a lot of his dominance put down to the fact that he's a left hander but this is the twist in the donald's case he does everything else with this writes him from signing autographs to brushing his teeth it's on play left handed as a child. well as the howard from the every sport say lefty himself is here to talk about left handers good to see i think so tell us do left handed athletes really have an advantage statistically yes research is went looking for the 1st of whatever i has told us sports fans for many years that lefties seem to be.

overrepresented in sport generally speaking but also at the very top level and you can reel off some of the greatest names of all time the legends whether by bruce monica seles wang great ski from moscow he never had a lover in tennis nadal mcenroe the list goes on and on and on in terms of the research and person all started to point towards tennis by school baseball in particular just the one off 10 percent of the population a left hand has been in baseball it's 30 percent of both sides program and so it's very very prevalent and it's pretty profitable so statistically left handers do we know why lefties have an advantage so luckily someone did look into this for us a study published in the among the biology letters on the royal society website pointed to tennis and by spall the common how would he bring that they'd sports and that the secret here is that the lefties the forcing the right hand is to make a quick decision on the time pressure of this thing something different in the

brain has to tell them as quickly as possible to deal with that play a shot do what you can in a short amount of time so it's a it's a timeshare jule thing it's a different angle and it's really showing them something unfamiliar and forcing them to make a quick decision and that's where they've got the advantage in baseball and. special training them for a left handed players in these sports where they might excel just keep it cool and let the magic happens very little time to some of the opposite ends of the world that's up to the broth and is trying as to how to deal with a left hand before roger federer applied rafa nadal he had to search out a left handed tennis upon a just so he can familiarize himself really quickly with the different look it's really important i can get in the vantage even of the greats like federer i have to deal with it so tennis and baseball very important i suppose doesn't make much difference though in soccer. to use your hands and i think our food over sports thanks so much. you're watching the news from berlin and business is next one of

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