this is d.w. news live from berlin tonight an anniversary to remember no mistake so well china begins marking the 70th anniversary of communist rule and the government in beijing is going out of its way to make sure nothing remains on its perri also coming up tonight greece announces plans to send thousands of migrants back to turkey a day after a deadly fire at an overcrowded camp on the island of less folks we'll get the latest from athens plus turkey accused of sending refugees back to syria against

their will we meet a mother desperate to find her missing son and it was 30 years ago when the door to german reunification began to open a small special train recreates the journey undertaken by thousands of east german refugees as they sold a new line in free. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us celebrations are taking place in china to mark the 70th anniversary of communist party rule the main event will be a massive military parade in tiananmen square on tuesday but beijing is worried there are fears that the celebrations could be overshadowed by pro-democracy protests and by the 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 7 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 died most 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 of 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. or corresponded monday as berlinger is in beijing earlier we spoke with him about the significance of these planned 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 rates

these nationalist displays of power. extremely important to the communist party and of course there will be little mention off the economic problems that trade dispute but also internal economic problems and of course the hong kong protests have been censored carefully cheering the whole sum up at the specially in the cost state yes it was monday as burger there in beijing here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salmond has denied ordering the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi last year and an excuse me despite this the kingdom's defector ruler says that he takes responsibility for the murder according to a u.n. investigator the crown prince's criminal responsibility has been proven beyond doubt so the agents kill the show inside the saudi consulate in istanbul a year ago austria's conservative people's party led by former chancellor sebastian

cordes has won sunday's general election the social democrats finished 2nd followed by the far right freedom party and the surging greens each of those parties could give courts enough seats in parliament to form a coalition government 8 members of an alleged neo nazi terror cell have gone on trial in the eastern german city of dresden the minarik used of planning attacks against immigrants political opponents and journalists the trial is due to last until april of next year. greece says it will take measures to ease crowding in migrant camps on its own islands these include fast tracking judgements on asylum applications and sending back thousands of migrants to turkey over the coming year and it comes after at least one person died in a fire at an overcrowded migrant camp on the island of less books the blaze sparked riots among residents who were accused authorities of being too slow to respond.

they left their homes in war torn syria for this the infamous maurya camp on the island of lesbos. sunday's fire has drawn attention to the desperate conditions here an estimated 12000 people in a camp built to hold a quarter as many. the fire broke out and spread through containers used to house residents many were upset because they thought the firefighters took too long to arrive there were scuffles between migrants and firefighters and police fired tear gas. migrant arrivals in greece from turkey have surged reaching their highest levels since 2016 when the european union signed a deal with ankara to stem the flow. greece is ill prepared to handle them it's just emerging from enormous financial difficulties and its resources are stretched . we are going through a national crisis it is essential that all of us pull together as we greeks have

done in the past to handle this. athens says it plans to accelerate efforts to move people from the islands to the mainland but with winter fast approaching time is running out. oh i'm joined now by journalist in the greek capital athens where she's been following this story for us that's a good evening to you you know you've been covering the story especially about these camps now from day one what is your personal impression of what we're seeing there on the ground. well i can tell you for a start that you know more. is just a hellish situation i've been there as you said from day one repeatedly reported from there and it's should you describe as to any western civilized way to host such a facility that is simply exacerbating the whole refugee crisis it is

a completely unsanitary situation there are human droppings all over the grounds the smell of urine just permeates the air there there are grown men who wrote to young children women i've been speaking to who say that they're forced to wear diapers it nice because they're so scared of going to the public bathrooms because they fear getting raped and assaulted but the biggest problem of course is the fact that this facility was built to host just around 2500 max 3000 people and now we're seeing a record scene and 1000 so even if it was a state of the art facility this whole overcrowded condition and the continued inflows of migrants and refugees from turkey is just making it unbearable and hello amid these conditions unbelievable today we heard from athens that several urgent measures are going to be undertaken that includes sending back thousands of migrants to turkey is that going to improve the situation. ideally it

should it improve the situation but again that remains to be seen that was the original plan that we that the e.u. sat down at with turkey and agreed upon in 2016 we've seen nothing and none of this really happened so it remains also to be seen from the athens government hasn't really said how these mass deportations are going to take place whether it's going to concern syrians alone whether it you know and where they will they will be sent back will be to turkey or will it be migrants being sent back to africa so you know it remains to be seen whether this is a you know it sounds like a good plan and it definitely shows that the government is hands on but it remains to be seen what will happen when did you get the impression that the european union and including germany that they're doing a nuff to support countries so jazz greece and turkey where

a lot of migrants are being held. well it could be doing more and that's the argument which the new government here is is putting forward and in fact there will be interior ministers coming in from france and germany to meet with the government this week here along with the migration commissioner. from brussels. greece is simply saying in the new prime minister here to the existence of techies are saying that you know greece cannot go this alone and that there has to be this burden and this refugee crisis has to be shared by more member states and by the european it entirely so but it remains to be seen whether he will be able in other allies will be able to convince some neighboring states which have refused to take on that burden to get them to do so. journalism because i thought that in athens.

thank you. what turkey's president richard pryor better one hopes that a safe zone in northeastern syria that's being negotiated with the united states will do 2 things give turkey somewhere that return the syrian refugees that it's housing and it wants to create a militarized buffer zone between kurdish militants and turkey's southern border area one has previously said that the zone should be established by the end of september but in washington have been unable to agree on the zones sizes and air to one he has threatened to act on his own syrian refugees in turkey say that some of their numbers of already been deported to areas including northern syria which they say are far from safe he w. correspondent yulia han has been speaking with one mother who says her son was sent back against his will. mohamed has been gone for almost 2 months.

when often a show thinks about what happened to her son she feels helpless lost. in early august mohammed was writing a friend's motorbike in istanbul the bike was and registered to mohammed was stopped by police and then sent to a detention center. that iraq i don't see as an enormous amount about 12 days later i got a call from a hammett afore he said they've taken me to syria to live that was his last phone call i haven't heard from him since i didn't read about him and that it . might have rhymes are not broken when we fled from syria he was still a small child. and now they have sent him back to that place that removed could not and i don't know where he is still.

istanbul's fattish district is an area where many syrians live many here of heard that the turkish authorities have been deporting refugees in recent months and most of them are afraid that they could be next. when they started sending people back i was so scared i didn't leave my house with. the imam today or live when there are more restrictions on us now people are being deported back to syria we can't escape turkey for europe anymore because it's too dangerous. started to. go down with it and we syrians used to feel welcome here in rio we learn it's changed. now we feel like unwanted migrants again. turkey has taken in more refugees from syria than any other country more than 3600000 people in the space of

a few years hundreds of thousands live here in istanbul they've set up stores of breast strongs they've tried to build new life while turkish society initially responded with from our couple resilience hospitality is now rapidly wearing fit. took both iraq if more of them come i don't want to live in this neighborhood and in this country anymore. it's maybe. i get along very well with most of the syrians here there are some bad people but you get that everywhere you go and i guess we want them to leave as soon as possible we don't want them here any more. turkish president. has recognized this change in public sentiment in the past few weeks he has made repeated promises that millions of syrians will return home to a so-called safe zone that he wants to establish in the north east of syria. but

the government insists deportations are not taking place and that syrians who are returning are doing so voluntarily. the mare chester gillis disagrees the lawyer is trying to help get off the racial son back from syria mohammed and his family have valid turkish documents and protection status checkers has filed an appeal with turkey's constitutional court. sending a person to a war zone as a serious human rights violation of the mohammed is not an isolated case result from this is happening to many syrians many have been deported in recent months. alone the last is a lawyer says that many deported syrians attempt to return to turkey making a 2nd escape from their war torn country illegally and often at

a high cost of paying a lot of money to smugness and as dangerous as that might sound. i know how meds mother ofa is clinging to any hope that she might see her son again in safety. or he's looking for a new partner a day after his people's party won the country's snap general election with 37 percent of the vote austria's conservative leader sebastian cortes is ready to build a coalition government he is not expected to seek another partnership with the far right freedom party voters punish that party after a corruption scandal that led to the government's collapse back in may many are speculating about the deal with the greens who made strong gains yesterday. after the post-election parties it's time for some tricky negotiations to begin sebastien curt's is now you looking for coalition partners the greens may be

a viable option for you. they're reentering parliament after a surge in support and kids change the face of austrian politics but would they want to be. a good indication. of course we greens are ready to talk but we can only come to the negotiating table if there's a shift when it comes to alki areas if we now have the responsibility to put austria at the forefront in climate protection putting an infomercial. if the greens joined a governing coalition it would be a 1st just a national level but with so many other parties also in the frame voters have mixed feelings about the overall results. and it's a close i think honestly it's great exactly what i was hoping for and i'm not curious about coalitions and what the coalition talks will bring order to is one of them playing in a little bit see we'll see with the greens really want to implement a green policy or with a just middling communists and. i don't think the tree house plants the environment

is a power is he and in my opinion and i'm not the only person to think that politics has nothing much to say nowadays only the economy matters being green sebastian kurtz wants to put the challenges facing the economy front and center in coalition talks the negotiations are expected to last several weeks if not months. are to the united states now for the 1st time more than half of americans say they approve of congress opening an impeachment inquiry into president donald trump that's according to the latest polls the president is stepping up his attacks as that pressure increases over his asking ukraine to help find political dirt on is rival joe biden he's issued a threat to those who revealed the contents of the phone call in a tweet trump wrote this i want to meet not only my user who presented 2nd and 3rd hand information but also the person who will legally gave this information which

was largely incorrect to the whistleblower was this person spying on the u.s. president big consequences. let's bring in our washington bureau chief always under phenomena she's on the story for us i mean it was a big week last week this week promises to be. donald trump mel wants to meet the whistleblower but doesn't defeat the purpose of protecting the identity of the whistleblower yes it does the right friend and we have to say that the fact that the president's trump continues to lash out at the whistleblower that he continues to threaten him and that he demands to that he's identity should be revealed was met with with a lot of criticism by the democrats and of course also by the whistleblowers lawyers they were eatery into that the whistleblower should be protected as it

should be under the law and they also sat there now they are concerned with lois personal safety because they think that president strums from marks. the whistle blower in danger. what's being done alexandra to keep this what will obviously be an important witness in the impeachment case what's being done to keep this person's. safety so there are conflicting reports so far one you asked network reported to us today that the whistleblower is under federal protection but their lawyers deny that this reports they have sense to let through just one of them to congress calling opponent members of congress to speak out in favor of the whistleblowers protection and they also sent a letter for today acting director of national intelligence asking quick questing

specific guidance what should be done in terms of security measures if the whistleblower is willing to meet or to talk to members of congress. there is another well known whistleblower from the united states i'm thinking of edward snowden he's living in exile in russia and he is considered by many to be a traitor what makes this whistleblower nell different it's actually very interesting because of this whistleblower now what he did was what edward snowden's critics said that he should have done so the whistleblower went through official channels he used a chain of command to file his complaint he didn't leak and i think to the press he didn't still and it documents but then again we have to have a look at what's happened in the last 2 weeks what's happening now that after the complaint was filed the cia at stack and the acting the acting director of

national intelligence they went to talk to the white house to those people who may be implicated in the complaints and that is very telling because it shows that the authorities still have too much power to decide the fate of whistleblower claims you know there's a very good board an important point that i think will probably come out more as these proceedings move forward alexander phenomenon the story for us in washington alexander thank you. 38 years ago thousands of east germans fleeing communism made their way to the czechoslovakia the capital prague heading for the west german embassy now they were hoping to use the embassy as a jumping point if you will to get to freedom in west germany where their gamble it paid off on the 30th of september 19th 89 they packed into trains heading west

through east germany that ended up in the western german town of whole. 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. and 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. sanders spent 3 weeks here with his wife and 2 children new rifles came in over the fence every day. for them.

it never stopped raining the cut down board so he didn't have to walk through the mud the. tents wherever they could find a space where the match was the tents were all crowded up against one another. and. 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. can't show promise that everyone in the embassy would be allowed to go to the west sanger was there and heard him. while you're standing right here.

but. it's all coming about is it all. that same night santa and his family left the embassy and boarded the train to west germany. he thought he was or it was a very emotional journey a 50 very difficult ordeal they say it would show for us it was a train to freedom. just a few weeks later only citizens of east germany gained their freedom on november 9th 1989 the pearl in wool came down. well over get you can always get the w. news on the go just download our app from google play or from the app store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the d

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