this is news life from china begins to mark the 70th anniversary of communist rule the government in beijing is going out of its way to make sure nobody runs on its parade also on the program. that 6 championships in qatar opened this weekend to empty seats and problems caused by the intense heat. and remembering events leading up to german reunification 30 years ago a special trite recreates the judge undertaken by thousands of east german refugees to say sold a new life in st. welcome

to the program celebrations are taking place in china to mark the 17th on a version of communist party roll the main event will be a massive military parade in tiananmen square on tuesday the beijing faces celebrations could be overshadowed by pro-democracy protests and unrest in hong kong. on the eve of the anniversary a ceremony to honor the birth of the communist state and the heroes of the civil war chinese president xi jinping paid his respects to the fallen. in the evening he attended a theatrical celebration that recalled china's rise from despair to the world's 2nd largest economy. october 1st 1949 mozy dong

declared the founding of the people's republic of china and transformed the country his great leap forward aimed to industrialize the country but instead left it devastated famine was widespread and tens of millions of people die those cultural revolution followed opponents were sent to camps were executed in his attempt to purge china of counter-revolutionaries. after decades of isolation beijing took steps to open the country and its market up to the world. today china's on the podium with the world's leading nations. but rep and growth has come at a cost cities are choked by pollution and society is strictly controlled. hong kong saw a summer of demonstrations and sometimes violent protests against beijing's growing influence in the semi autonomous territories. on monday pro-democracy activists

formed a human chain along hong kong's harbor a warm up for more protests planned for tuesday. it's gorgeous but let is put into is in beijing that explain the significance of the plan celebrations. the communist party has built its legitimacy what he sees as its legitimacy on nationalism during the past 30 years as obviously communist ideology does not really match the situation on the ground in china so these parades these nationalist displays of power are extremely important to the communist party and of course there will be little mention off there you cannot make problems the trade dispute but also internal economic problems and of course hong kong protests have been censored carefully during the whole sum up at the specially in the prostate these. tears of a bullet or

a patient than to some of the other stories making news around the world austria's conservative people's party led by former chancellor sabbaton quotes as one sundays general election social democrats are finished 2nd followed by the far right freedom party 1000000 great age of these parties could give him enough seats in parliament to form a coalition government. place one person has been killed in after 5 percent of the crowded migrant camp on the greek island of the last boss of the place sparked riots amongst residents who accuse authours his of being too slow to respond reports of a 2nd fatality have not been confirmed. saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salamat has denied ordering the killing of jana sham how i come out a harsh a last year despite this the kingdom's de facto ruler says he takes responsibility for the murder according to a great investigative crown prince's criminal responsibility has already been proven beyond doubt a saudi agent killed mr khashoggi inside the saudi consulate in istanbul

a year ago. flooding in northern india has killed at least a 100 people in the last 3 days pradesh and bihar states have been particularly badly hit heavy monsoon rains brought down trees power lines and forecasters expect the weather to ease off this week. sports in the world of classic championships continue in qatar today with contrivances making more headlines and sporting achievements of movie if this helps why welcome so this was supposed to be a showpiece this is 1st of all the world's biggest sporting event so what's gone wrong well sadly quite a lot is going wrong in doha at the moment there are 2 problems in particular that are getting people talking now the 1st one is the number of fans actually watching these events live in the arenas you basically have and the stadiums for even the biggest events at the championships i far and the other one is also actually quite harmful for the athletes of course it's the high temperatures that they have in

qatar at this time of year and of course for a lot of the year we've actually say nothing has been taken ill with the exhaustion from from taking part in this and of course the timing of this is bad as well we've got less than a year to go before the olympic games a lot of people going to be watching these events trying to get an idea of who i keep an eye out for at the tokyo 2020 and of course what they're seeing is these major problems overshadowing the events themselves now to show what this actually means for the athletes themselves we've prepared this report so let's take a look at that right now. i the women's 100 meters is always a crowd magnet you think the world athletics championships in doha would be no different to me because shelly and freezer prize is the fastest woman on the planet that few fans came out to see her victory and. take a look at the thousands of empty seats behind her put attendance is just one

concern heat and high humidity are also big problems the women's marathon on saturday had to start at midnight daytime high temperatures are 38 degrees celsius still the heat on the streets of doha was unbearable 28 of the 68 runners to finish may. me to try to get medical attention and. it was the slowest marathon winning time ever at the world championships. the men's 50 kilometer walk had similar issues with france as world record holder johan denise having to drop out. of trouble talking short of breath my legs are finished my feel my head starting to spin and what it did. to those competing inside the stadium things on disband organizers are trying to do everything to keep the athletes cool air conditioned stadiums are also planned for the 2022 football world cup despite objections from

environmentalists. the air conditioning works similar to your air conditioning so you pull air from outside your path through a cold media and then after that the air will lose its heat and then go directly to where people are. the only difference between this and i car that i would read it is a little bit bigger but at the same time we don't call the whole car this big stadium to be recalled. but even the promise of an air conditioned stadium has not attracted because crowds. if the doha $36.00 is a test of what's to come the next football world cup in qatar is likely to be equally controversial. a more controlled this is as well germany's women's 100 meter sprint has been complaining about these new cameras installed in the starting blocks east block cabs what's going on or basically the thing about these

cameras is they sit there in the box as you'd imagine from the names i wear the spring to start the races where they prepare for the races and warm up before the rices get underway and think of course of the kind of clothes that sprinters wear very high you know and you've got these cameras pointing straight up and it has this very uncomfortable kind of lightness to perhaps an op camera or something my. but we can see his you know looking camp who was one of the athletes who complained about these cameras now shouldn't it's a c.l.o. thing that we saw that she asked the question was a woman involved in developing these cameras i don't think these kind of shots are what it was supposed to be for these kind of shows that show the emotion and the expressions before the race gets on the wife. has now said that's the only way that these cameras will be used to be switched off until the athletes getting ready to go i mean something that clearly was supposed to bring viewers closer to the events and really get them involved in the events but it wasn't fought for and probably you know we heard in the report that qatar is also staging the football world cup

in 2022. what we've seen here this this doesn't bode well for them and it is not looking good is it but i do have to say there are some differences between the world championships that we've got now and the world cup so firstly the world cup naturally just draws a lot more international fans than the athletics world championship does that we can expect to see pretty much full stadiums and the other thing is of course the world cup is going to take place in december when temperatures are law than they are right now in qatar so that will make a difference but clearly there are a lot of big problems for guitar and organizers and faith are to solve in the next 3 years of the mooted of loose book thank you for 30 years ago thousands of east germans fleeing communism made their way to the channel to evacuate the capital prague heading for the west german embassy there the hope was to use the embassy as a staging point to get to freedom in west germany they gamble paid off and on the 30th of september 989 they packed on to trains heading west through the through

east germany and europe in the western german town the hoff 30 years later some of them have been retracing their steps. a journey back in time. 30 years ago hill much sand was traveling in a train just like this one. it's like. it's like reliving it all over again. back then sunder was one of thousands of refugees fleeing east germany they travelled in special trains from prague to the west but to get there they had to pass through east german territory where they feared they'd be arrested.

in order to keep memories of those journeys alive some of the people who made those trips then doing it again. they all left east germany that way. after several tense weeks in the west german embassy in prague. it was in september 1989 east germans were poor ng into the embassy. the building was quickly overwhelmed. many ended up camping out in the embassy grounds it was cold. santa spent 3 weeks here with his wife and 2 children new arrivals came in over the fence every day. who opened. it never stopped raining the cut down board so he didn't have to walk through the

mud the people is down to show in tents wherever they could find a space where you can match with the tents were all crowded up against one another with. their strength at it and say the then the fateful moment on the 30th of september west german foreign minister hans dietrich genscher arrived speaking to the refugees from the balcony his announcement that they could leave was drowned out by cheers i. was i was. i was i can't ship promised that everyone in the embassy would be allowed to go to the west i sang that was that and heard him i was now you're standing right here.

but. it's all coming about his widow i that same night sandra and his family left the embassy and boarded the train to west germany. i keep our divorce or it was a very emotional journey of a shifty very difficult ordeal it would show for us. it was a train to freedom. just a few weeks later the citizens of east germany gained their freedom on november 9th 1989 to berlin wall came down. as a reminder of our top story this hour a chinese president paying has paid his respects to millions of people who died in the civil war that led to the communist party taking. the commemoration comes to china from paris to celebrate 70 years since the founding of the people's republic

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