dramatic our question contrasted with what she called trump facts talking about had the need for sustainability in climate change and how centralized is the lead for multilateralism and the need time and time again to play by the rules to be fair and humane with each other and going back to this idea of freedom that east germany is one for each other by courageously standing up 30 years ago. she talked a lot about freedom but also about the responsibilities that one has which come with freedom and it seemed to me that a lot of for remarks were directed at eastern germans and the discontent she eluded to that is how this will be this will be read i'm sure there will be. part of the message was quite simply don't mow do your own bit freedom means taking your parts means committing to the democratic process and not simply moaning about some

who are the bonus she didn't actually say they are the voters or they are no but many people will read it's a common accusation and one that has been humiliating difficult and traumatic for many people in eastern germany to have the finger pointed at them and saying they are a great fall on grateful for all to go on their way in the last 30 years in terms of financial transactions transfers and. she says there is a clear relationship between the citizen of the state based on freedom and that people should take responsibility and play their own individual unlocked mode against the state against the elite but she also did talk about the burden of division and the burden that's placed on people especially who lived within an authoritarian regime communist eastern germany where she has grew up and how they needed to embrace the change which is taking place these things she says insists. i

needed time and yeah i love we need to understand that was the most post of the speech was particularly personal in a slightly sort of indirect way but there was one very post moment when she talked about the culture shock that came in the way of east germans from the from the night to 30 years ago when the berlin wall actually began to crumble there was that it was actually toned down they can't leave their biographies on a hawk at the door she said she said to germans east germans her from have had to leave their comfort zone of how to leave their houses their homelands and so many people have gone west look for work especially young women most creative people talented people in eastern german society have gone west and that has been a real brain drain for instance german society and pisa let's just take a listen to the music coming out of kill as many months it's vienna is the case in there and this continue our conversation short.

if you're just doing this you're watching a special edition of the doubt it is coming to life from berlin be bringing you pictures coming from the day of the german reunification ceremonies that are taking place in the northern german city off key we just heard german chancellor angela merkel addressed delegates they were some 700 people have been. to watch the simon

is with me is our senior political correspondent peter craven now peter we were talking about how she spent a large part of her address talking about some of the discontent. with dissing in former eastern and germany and she talked about that people grew up in a state in an authoritarian system where the state took care of everything and be play used to blaming the state when things go wrong but we're now living in democratic times and we must take responsibilities as individuals for living in a democratic system but she has self grew up in eastern germany how important do you think is a message to eastern germans who might be discontented or feel that they are 2nd class citizens in the country as. one herself. to be honest i think a very significant proportion of these germans listening to this speech will be looking the other way will not be properly listing the law they'll be to be thinking this is angle america she's never committed herself to east germany or

german biography fully she's never committed committed herself to the problems and the dramatic biographical traumatic difficulties that many germans have suffered from i think one could say she's never actually this is from the point of view of it's germans never put that card on the table and said they are an important constituency for me she has studied a quiet way but not in it in in an explicit way and many people in eastern germany are aggrieved about that i think it's fair to say but hasn't she never played the east german car but in this address today a large part of the speech was really about both sides needing to understand each other and she said that you know when there was a change of a political system you can change you know the politics overnight but you can't change a mindset overnight you talked a great deal about the need for dialogue for communication and learning from each

other. indeed i thought it was very interesting she's i mean she did say that an awful lot has been achieved but the american message on all new unity and reunification in recent weeks and months has been very much has been achieved but i know for a lot more needs to be done and and she talked about how the should she referred to the 2 mindsets these german mindset in the west german mindset i think she said one thing that was extremely interesting she said we can disagree that's ok that's not true germany is a big country there's north and south there's east and west the people in the northern germans in the southern germans don't see eye to eye on very many things they they hardly there you know they have to live in the same country. and she was she said she said we do. however i have to agree on the rules for society the rules are all according to which political debate takes place and they have to be accepting liberal rules rules of acceptance about differences essential it was

quite intellectual in that extent and she was very firm about the rules that underpin democracy she said this is absolutely no place for hatred no place for intolerance targeting minorities getting people who don't agree with and and the fact that in within a democratic system they are challenges but they are also a lot of opportunities that she made a very clear point about people must accept the rules which underpin a democratic system. problematic is the extent to which i mean she said she said much has been achieved people are happier i thought i was very interesting but then she referred to the figure that we talked about earlier the nearly 60 percent of people in germany in eastern germany who say they feel like 2nd class citizens and then there was this remarkable figure only 20 percent of young people say it's a success story i thought this was very very interesting and these are people these are concerns that need to be addressed in the political process it's not just

enough saying we need to listen to each other. the economic success so on and so it is not enough it's still it's about talking to people about listening to people and i think the major concern is that that's not actually happening in many instances in germany no we called the far right creating their own trumpy and world with trump in fact here in germany and the far right in the emergence that there emergence as a strong force in german politics has often been compared with the emergence of donald trump and briggs that story in the u.k. and the far right of course is the main opposition in the german parliament and they're particularly strong in former east german states of if i felt a thing about democracy really of course we're not we're not. drug runners are maybe around 25 percent in recent polls and it's in germany and somewhere around 101214 percent in polls before in western germany before we carry on a conversation you know let's just take a listen to an excel want german chancellor angela merkel had to say just

a short while ago and you know i'm sponsor in the 29 years that have gone by since reunification an incredible amount has been achieved overall in both western and eastern germany people are now more content with their lives than at any other time since we unification but we also know that this is not the whole truth surveys show that 29 years after reunification the majority of people from eastern germany feel like 2nd class citizens. so that was german chancellor unlamented took a short while ago and reinforcing what he was saying only a pita about the divisions that still remain between eastern and western germany almost 30 years after reunification what kind of message do you think people will take away from comments like what we just heard well i think what she's describing is the eastern german biography i think you know that there was the 1st of all

there was the 2nd world war there were the nazis there was the 2nd world war then there was the communist regime the communist regime was to was taken down by the peaceful revolution in a sense she sees it eastern germany was then completely replaced by western german ways of doing things for an awful lot of people she referred to this especially young women creative young women are crazy people in general fled is it worse of the west looking for work or eastern germany lost as many as 2000000 creative people and people are extremely resentful about the fact that their lives in maryland suddenly people in eastern germany 506070 year old people are looking back on their lives they're not given much credit for what they have achieved or hoping to achieve their sons and daughters have gone to live in the west and their grandchildren are growing up in the west. it's a formula for disillusionment is the good disgruntlement some great anger in some parts of eastern germany there are 100 men to 80 women you know i don't know if a lot of these people are the people who make up the core of the voters for the

have to pay for their expenses for germany and you know the reification of germany came 11 months after the fall of the berlin wall and that was the war which divided and communist east germany from a democratic west germany let's take a look at those kind of historic developments which took place codman culminating with the fall of the berlin wall on the 9th of november before we continue our conversation. may 989 the iron curtain. was starting to fray hungary wanted to pull down borders people in east germany just wanted to leave many fled to west german embassies in eastern european countries hoping to continue on from that to the west. despite the warnings of east germany's leadership more and more people left the country or took to the streets in october 190-913-0000 people demonstrated against the east german regime. a month

later it was half a 1000000. i. 10 on the 9th of november 1909 the unimaginable happened the berlin wall fell the i'm keratin was history germans were overjoyed. chancellor helmut kohl took advantage of the euphoria he convinced france britain and finally soviet leader mikhail gorbachev that a united germany would be at the service of europe. in record speed german unity was a great both nationally and internationally the 5 states of the former g.d.r. joined west germany on october 3rd 1990 called finally attained his goal a unified germany.

i. say here in us so vividly remember the euphoria you imagine this arms around her voice was an incredible that it was difficult not to be moved to but you see as we were hearing from chancellor merkel the process of unity is still has a long way to go there but there's still a generation of eastern germans and western germans who were born in reunited germany how do you think your work marcher older. and how do you think they feel on this day of germany and if acacia and. for them it's a little bit difficult to grasp i have to say i think what they would say is that this is the very positive message that a lot of people especially in a city like berlin which is very much a city where people live very close to each other collide with each other they would say that in very many instances you can't tell them is german from the west germany cantera west german for many german but among the younger generation the people you're talking about being born my kids for example you know they all listen

to hip hop they all watch you tube will watch a blender sleeker all this kind of thing so there's apparently no difference but there is quite a lot of evidence for all that some in the west young to the younger generation the 20 to 2530 year olds some of them having taken on board the prejudices of their parents and grandparents towards people from the east at the same time people in these young people in these having taken on board some of the the grievances the anger the aggression of their parents and grandparents. that is true and somehow i think it's sometimes difficult for them to come to comprehend just how fast time the division was and that burden was really the front of the cold war and therefore in many ways the day of german reunification is a day to celebrate and that is what you've been watching our special coverage coming to you on the day of a german reunification with me was a piece of craven our senior political editor thank you very much for your pleasure

and science for such a wonderful it was wonderful to share this event with you today as we look back on 25 and 90 s of german reunification. ok let's move on to other news and take you to hong kong where authorities are set to ban face masks in an attempt to cover the anti-government protests that have rocked the city for months many demonstrators very facemasks to hide their identities and shoot themselves from tear gas following repeated clashes with demonstrators the city's police force has also called for a cough you to restore order violence has escalated in recent days after a protester was shot in the chest by police the teenager who said to be in stable condition has been charged with driving in assorting he could face up to 10 yes in prison now for more on that list i'm joined by our correspondent phoebe kong she is in hong kong for the 1st 4 tell us what's going on in hong kong today.

well tension is not cooling down after the biggest protests on the chinese national stuff august demonstrations continue on weekdays during which days we can show me and there are also expected spontaneous assemblies happening later tonight people are so outraged to us the gunshot incidents happening today it's a go and so moch clash expected to go up but meanwhile the hunger government is not backing down but instead of very likely to take a hard not harder approach and harder line to suppress to which the rest. in fact the hong kong fishes have ordered new measures including an emergency law to ban face masks protest does go down with the demonstrators. go on into various reports hong kong top leave that chief executive kerry lamb is

going to chair a special meeting with a top advisor before tomorrow to discuss about their new law so. the government may suggest to impose a new law to ban oh * i anyone from wearing monster in specific public to families so in their point of view is this going to stop some of the rather cold. us showing up on the streets and taking balance and additionally the government may also suggest to impose a new law and to extend them out the mom period of custody with just 48 hours currently so this is going to grounds greater power to the police to detain suspects for a longer period of time so this gives great greater power to the police to police force so actually emergency law is a celebre collations introduced by arguing to british colonial era almost a century ago and some legal expressed already expressed their concern to us

whether this kind of law will validate the human rights law and also they mean this constitution of hong kong so i have also spoke to somebody from life posthaste says and they told me that actually this is not going to be an intimidation for them because they think they're already validating the law when they technology so and not just sets of new laws may not be hard for them to go on the streets phebe kong in hong kong thank you very much on the situation there it seems to be very tense. tonight the u.k. where the british prime minister has presented new proposals sort of breaks a deal ahead of a crucial summit with the e.u. on october the 17th is brussels decided to support the plan the u.k. can then leave the european union with an agreement at the end of this month just a short while ago boris johnson facepalm went to outline his plan for the 1st time let's take a listen to what he had to say. this government's objective has always be to be

with a deal and these constructive and reasonable proposals show our seriousness of purpose they do not deliver everything we would have wished they do represent a compromise but to remain a prisoner of existing positions is to become a cause of deadlock rather than break free. so that's a prime the johnson talking just a short while ago and joining me now is. and in london by did a shallot ponce welcome to you start with you we just heard from prime minister johnson who says he saw the biggest sticking point in this process the north island border question what is this plan. exactly let's just remind our viewers this proposal is supposed to replace the back of the backstop the most controversial issue in that withdrawal agreement with the european union that backstop an insurance policy to prevent

a hot border between northern ireland and ireland and doris johnson's plan basically is to take northern ireland out of the customs union but leave it in a single market according to its plan he says that there would be no immediate checks at the border and that the northern irish assembly would vote on the issue every 4 years so this is this plan and now he has some convincing to do and he will go as we are hearing to the european capitals to convince european leaders of this plan and he says now the the ball is in the e.u.'s court. and i'm max in brussels boris johnson says the initial indications from brussels are positive what have you been hearing. well maybe at the most some positive grumblings there is a lot of skepticism here in brussels outweighs the positive signals but what is true is that apparently e.u. officials are finding some ideas in this new bragg's

a plan by boris johnson that they like or at least think they can use as a foundation for for a deal but still some they go she ation need to take place actually a lot of negotiation so they don't see this is the take it or leave it situation like boris johnson described on wednesday but rather as something that needs to be discussed and apparently that's also the signal they're getting from the u.k. here that this is a basis for a discussion on the positive side i've also talked to some officials who say that nothing in there seems to be insurmountable at the moment but of course there's progress the question really is also how serious is boris johnson about this is this just a couple flash and he wants a no deal drags it or does he really still want to deal as he always claims to shot it if something comes off this deal does it john said have the votes and bottom and to get this show. well judging from the mood that we're seeing right now in

parliament he's going to have a very very tough time on the positive side for him the northern irish to you p.c. and the hot line breaks the ts that have rejected the deal time and time again they seem to be on board with his plan but on the other hand we have course have the opposition labor upon rebels within his own party that have left the conservative party that are still against this deal and what boris johnson just did their impala meant he is using the threat of a no deal of leaving without a deal on october 31st against the european union but also against parliamentarians he knows they want to present that prevent that at all costs and he says if i come back from brussels with a deal you have to vote for it to then prevent a no deal scenario. and lots of what about dublin all the indications that it might support johnson's a backstop one tentative not as it stands i mean that's what that's what we're hearing a lot not only from the irish and you always have to keep in mind what the irish do

on the backs up question the rest of the european union will follow them because they are the ones who have the most to lose of the situation so that the focus though is as it stands it needs to be workable that's what we're hearing all the time and it's not workable the way it is and so what we're looking at now is a flurry of activity for example or the head of the new commission will talk to you varadkar the irish prime minister then the chief negotiator for the european union will brief the ambassadors of the e.u. 27 so all the you states except for the united kingdom and then you have meetings scheduled for the negotiation teams so it really starts now the final i know it's said this before reading but their final stretch of this at least until 31st of october when bragg's it is scheduled starts now. max so fun in brussels and shannon fox in london thank you both very much. if you've just

joined us let me recap our top story for you germany has been marking reunification day 29 years ago east and west germany were reunited after decades of hostile division during the cold war the official commemoration ceremonies this year have been taking place in the northern port city of keely in a keynote address a german chancellor angela merkel cautioned that more work is still leaders to achieve equal conditions between east and west germany. that we now bring you up to date at some of the stories making news at this hour in iraq at least 9 people have been killed and hundreds injured in violent anti-government protests across the country security forces used going to sion and tear gas to disperse the crowds demonstrators are angry about corruption and a lack of basic necessities. a curfew has been imposed on several cities until further notice. a world war 2 era aircraft has crashed

during an emergency landing in the u.s. state of connecticut killing 7 people on board the vintage b. 17 bomber slammed into a maintenance building at the bradley international airport after encountering mechanical problems during takeoff. the u.s. has received the green light to impose tariffs on 7 and a half $1000000000.00 worth of aircraft and other goods that following a world trade organization ruling now the taliban signed retaliation for e.u. subsidies for the plane maker. a come in court has ordered a fresh probe in the case of 2 reporters charged with espionage saying previous investigations were insufficient the to face up to 15 years in prison on charges of undermining cambodia security by passing information to radio free asia and outlet

funded by the us. now to a controversial decision here in berlin that's fueling a heated debate one of germany's most successful basketball teams bending has dumped its cheerleaders and the team's managing director says that cheerleading is no longer suited to hard times but the cheerleaders themselves are deeply disappointed and disagree. these cheerleaders have been practicing for months if not years to be able to do this they're passionate about what they do and many area try to train people i'm dressed to made them and they're actually ethic ability. in my opinion cheerleading requires all the things that a competitive sport demands discipline ambition and

a certain amount of routine you have to give it your all practice your routine and keep on exercising groups of. union palen started she living out of a 1000000001 of germany's most successful basketball teams. the team has now decided to drop that she dances during breaks in august games the key. that. we have come to the conclusion that young woman performing as an attractive break filler at sporting events no longer fits with our times. other big german sports teams such as the berlin volleyball team i keep being that she knows what's. women who have to say if they want to do it or not and in the end if they see it as sexism or not. i feel like alba made this move because they think it would be trendy right now. and possibly that will make them seem a lot more modern. about berlin's decision provoked

a huge outcry in germany even interior minister haas c.e.o. 1st he suggested adding may have to be more objects the bear just long ago does just that they're focusing more on the acrobatic part of cheerleading not the dance routines alba what did you see the album decision to drop that she does as a setback for the sport. i think it's a pity for the dancers because have to learn the choreography isn't performing at each game. for them it's a real punch in the face and. say we don't want you anymore you don't fit in with the modern age as. they are focused on the future and their training for the chairman championship at to 5 times a week they want to be 1st.

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