the book. this is due to abuse coming to you live from berlin germany celebrates the day of german reunification chancellor angela merkel recognizes true unity still has a way to go to 9 years of the tournament reunification it also means being aware of the fact that many eastern germans have said they feel like 2nd class citizens. originally from east germany has self good magical have done more to bridge the divide also on the program. failing to put an end to scenes like these hong kong

loses rules governing the use of force by police and made than face mask to get an update from our correspondent on pro-democracy protests in hong kong. and british prime minister boris johnson tells politicians mildred's the plan is a last chance to get a deal it's now under debate because. i don't work and i'm with that shima today is german reunification day 29 years ago east and west germany way reunited after decades of hostile division during the cold war the official commemoration said but is a set of place in the northern port city of keen german president front but a steinmeyer and a transplanted american took part along with some. 700 invited guests the motto of

this year's unity if estell it is is through our rich connex speaking at the commemoration event chancellor angela merkel cautioned that more work was still needed to achieve equal conditions between the east and the west. and you know in advance of them in the 29 years that have gone by since reunification an incredible amount been achieved overall in both western and eastern germany people are now more content with their lives than at any other time since reunification but we also know that this is not the whole truth and surveys show that 29 years after reunification the majority of people from eastern germany feel like 2nd class citizens in florence like at this analysis i'm joined now by a senior political correspondent and my colleague peter gave craven welcome peter nice to have you here in. the child's life as we heard acknowledged that the

shortcomings of german unification with the focus very much on the people from eastern germany how do you think they respond to her comments it was interesting i found it was very much or there was a lot of praise from the chancellor to begin with in this address for the peaceful revolution back in 90. 9 to lead to the fall of the berlin wall of the years in advance of that she talked to his german dissidents about the courage that shone about what the courage of ordinary eastern germans had shown by going out on the streets or leaving the country risking everything including their lives to leave the country but then she seemed to imply that people were taking too little responsibility they were blaming the states they were blaming the league for their woes and their troubles in recent years she said there was she said really that there was too much motive now she didn't say who was doing them loading but she was there she was pylon saying but it was clearly by implication too many instruments of moaning and not taking responsibility not showing the courage that they once did and i'm not sure how well that will go down among eastern german folks as i saw

this last she did talk about divisions between former east germany and west germany that she's been chancellor she's into a 4th she herself is from eastern germany do you think she could have done more to bridge this divide. other. are not sort of my opinion is very important but an awful lot of people here in germany do think that this is after all her 4th term in office she's been done with the dominant force in german politics for so very long and a lot of people are saying look it's happened on her watch that so many instant germans have become disillusioned 57 percent saying they feel like 2nd class citizens she ought to have done more especially as an east german and somehow and for some reason we've never really worked out quite why she has shied away from taking that role of designating the people of eastern germany as her constituency or at least as an important constituency for. peter craven thank you very much for those insights into address chancellor merkel acknowledged that

not everything had gone smoothly since reunification and that goes both for the east and the west as we hear in our next report martina in amman is the matter of dresden she's a local politician who's had to give up her job. the move was triggered by this video from a supermarket in arms doff that made headlines around the country 3 years ago. a patient from the local clinic a mentally ill refugee from iraq was dragged from a shop by 3 men and then tied to a tree with cable ties these self-appointed law enforcers talked about having civil courage but the man publicly criticized them. because i saw excessive violence in this video and i don't think it was civil courage it was vigilante behavior so it's just it's that's when the threats came thick and fast and mostly on the internet

she collapsed with burnout syndrome and has been on sick leave since the beginning of the year. does not. the psychologist says that this process caused something in me akin to trauma. that falls on. germany's president. took an interest in her case and invited her to his official residence in berlin he hoped to persuade her to continue but the massively found it impossible to hold office even though 75 percent of on store voted for her didn't even buy have the distinct impression that the vast majority of people support democracy what i want is for the majority to be louder and more visible a lot of. social exclusion disenchantment with politics protest votes or problems found in other parts of the country too like bookmarks the crisis in the coal and steel industries here has made it to social hotspot marked by growing

poverty immigration high unemployment and a split society. this is the shooting range in maslow where klinger has won the top marksman award several times his world is shrinking the club is losing members the range is a place of retreat for him. basically proud to be from here but things are becoming more and more threatening for us. if you have a part of town today where you hardly have any germans left no offense to foreigners but with different cultures coming together german culture and traditions are increasingly being branded gated out of this part of the city. much damage from the uncertainty generated by the repercussions of label change and people see that the international order with which they grew up and which meant peace for them is no longer being respected by everyone. from the 1st pick to.

the fear of losing an identity that's true in 2019 across germany in the west as well as in the east. and the peter craven upper tical correspondent is still with me so peter that report raised some questions and one of them was about the fear of losing identity what does that mean well i think this is about identity politics moving center stage in politics not just in germany not just in eastern germany western germany but in the whole of europe and indeed in many many different parts of the world and the. speech today and kill was very much the young girl americal the liberal doctrine of the wrangle america has has brought into the german politics in the 1st free and now her 4th term in germany as german chancellor saying that we you know the laws based values based pluralism checks and balances appealing to people in the political process to yes have emotions get

involved be. you know be say what you want and what you need but play by the rules stay calm and play by the rules that is essentially the merkel doctrine and that is what she was talking about today in large measure so tell us looking ahead what was chancellor merkel's message on 40 of reaping the benefits of reunification. her message warns. a lot of people absurd yes joe germany units he has been achieved an awful lot of money more than 2 trillion euros has gone in just a new being invested in infrastructure projects of a nature an awful lot of eastern german towns look a lot more polished a niche that western german terms you've got the facades might be polished in minutes but the time has come 100 service with my photos very good common times to you know to look behind the facade and find out what people have got in their heads because there's a definite clash of mentalities east and west and it is perhaps becoming a little bit more toxic than lust talks about is the fear it's

a relief the question is still unfinished business is very much armors a very much physically wounded obvious political correspondent thank you very much for that analysis. some other stories making news around the violent rescue teams in south korea's 4th city of busan are trying to locate 4 people feared buried under a landslide after the typhoon in a town at least 6 people are known to have died and 7 others are missing after the intense storm hit southern parts of the country on bents tonight. the opera singer placido domingo has resigned as general director of the los angeles opera allegations of sexual misconduct the star 10 now also drew from future performances numerous women have accused a member of sexually housing them with 3 decades the single has denied the allegations. attempts to recapture that escape to say it's in northern

germany have come just saturday and the animal named bumba ran onto a motorway in the city of rostock and caused a collision after unsuccessful attempts to catch the zebra alive police say they were forced to shoot the animal dead. now to hong kong authorities are set to ban fierce mosque. in an attempt to anti-government protests that have rocked the city for months many demonstrators wear face masks to hide their identities and she themselves from tear gas following repeated clashes with demonstrators the city's police force is also put a curfew 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 a stable condition has been charged with driving and assaulting police the teenager could face up to 10 ias in prison.

for more on that and i'm joined by our correspondent phoebe kong she is in hong kong the 1st for tell us what's going on in hong kong today. well tension is not cooling down after the biggest protests on the chinese national past off august demonstrations continue on weekdays during which they are not weekends only and they're also expected spontaneous to simply stay happening later tonight a people or so oh racial. incidents happening today it's like oh and the so mob fascists are expected to go but meanwhile the hunger government is not backing down but instead fairly likely to take a hard not harder approach and harder line to suppress to which long and rest. in fact the 50 the homegrown fishes have ordered new measures including an emergency law to ban face masks to test does go down with

a demonstrator has. now put into various reports hong kong top leadership the 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 iowa anyone from wearing monster in specific public the families so in their point of view is this going to stop some of the rather cold. showing up on the streets and taking thousands and and additionally the government may also suggest to impose the new law and to extend them out the mom period of custody 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 creative power to the police

a police force. so actually emergency law is a celebration introduced by arguing to british colonial era almost a century ago and some leader expressed already expressed their concern to us whether this kind of law will validate the human rights law and also the missing constitution of our hong kong so i have also spoke to some of different life both houses 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 take balance and so and not just of new laws may not be hard for them to go on the streets phoebe kong in hong kong thank you very much on the situation there it seems to be very tense. and that interview with phoebe was recorded just a short while ago turning now to the u.k. where the british prime minister has presented new proposals for a break said deaves ahead of a crucial summit with the e.u. on 17 if brussels decides to support the plan the u.k.

can then leave the european union with an agreement at the end of this month boris johnson has faced fundamental to outline his plan for the 1st time this afternoon on the 2nd listen to what he had to say. this government's objective has always be to be with you these constructive and reasonable proposals show well 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 cruise. rather than break through. so that's prime minister abbas johnson talking just a short while ago and joining me now is brussels beer she's max hoffman and in london by a shot of pots welcome to you bush out of if we 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 of us 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 boris johnson's plan basically is to take northern ireland out of the customs union but leave it in a single market according to this 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 his 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 ball is in the e.u.'s court. and max in grasses 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 of the goshi 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 boys johnson this ride 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 probing the question really is also how serious is boris johnson about this is this just a coming flash and he wants a no deal bragg's it or does he really still want to deal as he always claims to

shock 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 has left the conservative party that are still against this deal and what boris johnson just did there in palm and 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 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 that 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 u. commission will talk to you varadkar the irish prime minister then the chief negotiator for the you're opinion 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 and brags it is scheduled starts now. max so fun in brussels and shannon fox in london thank you both very much. the u.s. president donald trump is the taxes political opponents during a white house photo session with the visiting president of finland he was specially scathing about house intelligence committee chair democrat adam schiff response of what trump had to say. he's a lowlife who should be forced to resign and frankly they should look at him for treason because he is making up the words of the president of the united states not only words but the meaning and it's a disgrace and should not be allowed to happen. to trump was referring to a statement in which shift paraphrased the gist of a phone call between trump and ukraine's president and ms democrats say trump abused his office congressional democrats have launched an impeachment inquiry over the president's and last abuses which trump has condemned as an attempt to subvert

the will of the american voters. the white house is boosting itself defenses outside the security fence is being raced from 2 to 4 meters to keep out unwanted visitors and inside it's all hands on deck for the impeachment inquiry on wednesday the president continued to defend himself against accusations of misusing his position as well as having acted against the u.s. constitution trump alleges he's facing a coup and he says he was in the right to ask ukraine's president to investigate his political rival joe biden and his family i have a duty to report corruption and let me tell you something biden sure is corrupt and biden is corrupt and i'd rather run against by then almost any of those candidates and i think they're all week. but i think biden has never been a smart guy and he's less smart now than he ever was one of the main witnesses

called forward in the investigation into trump is u.s. secretary of state mike compay who's currently in italy on wednesday he admitted to having been present during trump's call to the ukrainian president but he boys frustration at subpoenas from congress. and we won't tolerate folks on capitol hill bowling intimidating state department employees that's unacceptable and it's not something that i'm going to permit to happen the political climate in washington is getting even hotter in congress democrats accused the secretary of state of keeping key witnesses from testifying any effort by the secretary by the president or anyone else to interfere with the congress's ability to call before it relevant witnesses will be considered as evidence of obstruction of the lawful functions of congress the battle of the questioning witnesses and turning over documents is only beginning lawyer john decker reports for the conservative fox news network and is an expert on impeachment he claims the facts known so don't prove any illegal

actions by the president but that a lot still remains unclear. if there were evidence for instance of a quid pro quo of a deal that the president made with the president of ukraine saying essentially if you investigate the bidens i will then release the $400000000.00 in aid that the united states has promised you that would be hard to defend for republicans even if you are the biggest supporter of the president the president's fortifications are holding so far with senate republicans continuing to support him it would take a 2 thirds majority there to remove him from office. now for some sports starting with football and don't want to secure their 1st champions league win of the season off. it beats love the slavia prague rush of hockey the score both goes as the germans labor to a 2 nil win another german outfit live signal loss 2 nil to french side leone with

memphis to apply on the scoresheet reeling champions a little full lead 3 nil against bush but the austrian side rolled back to equalise save the day for liverpool with the match winner. meanwhile 3 gold medals up for grabs at the world atlantics championships and qatar on wednesday here's a round up of day 6. colons hammer thrower pavel 5 sealed his 4th consecutive win at the world championships. but apparently his mojo only works at this competition at the olympics he's never even made it to the final round. drama in the 110 metre hurdles in lane 4 jamaica's omar macleod current olympic and world champion was well on force to grab his next title but then he blew it allowing american grant holloway to win in his world championship debut.

deena asher smith became the 1st british woman to win a sprint world title she dominated the 200 meters to win in 21.88 seconds the gold in the 200 meters came after winning silver in the $100.00 per personal medals tally is also great britain's entire medals hall. this is news and these are our top stories jimmy's marking 29 years since east and west germany were reunited after decades of cold war division at the official celebrations in kiev and chance on the american said move work was needed to achieve equal conditions between east and west. hong kong is said to ban face masks in an attempt to curb months of anti-government protests the city's police force has also called for

a coffee to restore order violence has escalated in recent days after a protest was shot by police. british prime minister boris johnson has presented new proposals for a break the deal ahead of a crucial summit with the e.u. on october the 17th he claims the plan could solve the irish border issue which has been a major sticking point in negotiations. u.s. president trampas attacks can democrats during a meeting with finland's president he called house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff quote lowlife who should be arrested for treason and shift is spearheading the impeachment probe against the president or shoes president. this is deja news from berlin had stood dot com for more news. up next conflict zone team sebastian interviews the czech foreign minister 2 last bed

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into the conflict zone with sebastian quick time running out cold brussels a moment to get a better feel to islam interview. before we go she ations file our guest this week here in prague is the czech for melissa tomas pressure check the house surprise. using me clear differences with the government to set up so why doesn't

he resign so. deal. or. welcome to the put is the game here for g.w. translates to talk about. this us all coverage. 3 more points. that's a little we have to look cool let's have a look at some of the other mess around the league is still shaking in their boots and it could breathe a sigh of relief so you don't want to miss to. just go. t.w. . where he's home. with your family scattered across the globe. sun the games to do to do to.

turn back to the roots can mean a lot of the. shards family from somalia lives around the world. one of them needed urgent assistance to. the family starts october on w. . little thing the. front office of his in the central europe you see massive demonstrations protests demonstrations up to the prime minister to decide whether he wants both the super size of them believed in the and upon them so far i'll do the story with time running out for brussels in london to get a breakfast deal for you with plumbing for people all the blame on britain if the negotiations fail my guest this week here in prague is the czech harmless but promised patrick that he has surprisingly clear differences with the government he saw of the wife of the resigned.