this is the doubling years one from germany celebrates reunification their chance for michael says the process has been a success but there is still more to do. also being aware of the fact that many east germans have said they feel like 2nd class and the chancellor is herself from east to germany so could she do more to bridge the divide also on the program a knife wielding police employee kills for inside power since historic police headquarters before being shot dead by police we'll bring you an update from the french capital. there's

a large police there to use more force against protesters after a teenage demonstrator was shot in the chest over the weekend pro-democracy activists fear a violent crackdown on their movement could be in the offing. i'm phil gal welcome to the program. germany is marking the anniversary of the country's reunification 29 years ago east and west germany became one basin after decades of hostile division during the cold war this is official commemoration ceremonies took place in the northern city of kiel but german chancellor angela merkel hailed the country's progress in 3 unification but said more must still be done to bridge the divide between east and west. sound lines evoking the shifting counters of germany's history as a country marked its 29th birthday in the north and city of q chancellor i go

america herself a product of the former east germany highlighted the successes of rain if you cation but she acknowledged that there was still work to do. and you know in advance if you are in the 29 years that have gone by since for unification an incredible amount has been achieved overall in both western and eastern germany people are now more contented with their lives than is any other time since reunification but we also know that that is not the whole truth surveys show that 29 years since reunification the majority of people from eastern germany feel they are 2nd class citizens drawing upon her own experience and going to america spoke of the mixed feelings of east germans i think country disappeared. from your view on the beat and feel myself into many others the fall of the berlin wall in 1989 and german reunification in 1991 moments of happiness of confidence and of openness

but others were intimidated by this new openness for them the east german system was a form of support. chance in america also used the occasion to pay tribute to victims of the communist regime. we can or there's so much that i also want to remember the victims of the dictatorship those who lost their lives trying to flee those who were persecuted imprisoned they shouldn't be forgotten even on a day full of joy like today. focusing on them talked of order to avoid the need. to german chancellor acknowledged that a gap still remains that is raising a border between 2 states wasn't enough to overcome differences in the tubes and values really got less than half of east germans are happy with democracy here in germany which means that aside from what happened all of us politicians and civil society like how to understand that and also by german unity it wasn't just

a positive experience for many east germans. in the port city of of. at their set abrasion for germany but also in occasion to look at how differences that still exist between east and west can be mended. let's take a closer look at. the speech with the political correspondent if i knew. what to do with it but i found very interesting that anger america and in something that's quite unusual for her drew so much upon her own person personal experience in that speech she saved out upon ramification it was a cultural shock for her and saying that she was actually in there are in emotions from like fear felt by many east germans and it's something that in the past has been reproached trying to america several times that she didn't refer to her bringing in east germany that she didn't make any mention of life in it and germany

and that's something that she actually really put to light today shows so emphasized the victims of. many she said that should be remembered today even if it's a day of joy and yet like i said it's unusual for her to draw so. much attention to our own personal experience of the whole event and nearly 30 years after the fall of the berlin wall it was interesting that the chancellor to be significant difference is that still persist between east and west brush you could touch on them and why they have remained yet so does differences are quite blatant if you look at the economy situation of the former east and regions of germany economy to east like the former east germany still lags behind if you look at the docs for example the 30 biggest german companies not of them have their headquarters in east central amman and that's quite telling also d.m. unemployment rate in those eastern german states is still. higher than in any other

states in germany and like anglo-american say they're in a cation that wasn't seen as something positive for everyone i see so that there is a sense in the east that when the country was put put together again of century the east was plundered them earlier history was as right as i said it's the theme of this year's unity is a is courage connects was. how did the chances speech connect with let's cover a story it was quite interesting when she called us a puppet issuance for maybe having failed to understand the differences of mentalities between the east and away as she said it is quite easy actually to to raise a border but it's not that easy to actually be a shift mentality as you kind of do it out overnight then she calls if a politician is to actually take that into account that there is a different mentality through the 20 east and a ways that can be mended just as easy as a border can be raised so that's something she emphasized so she praised the courage of people who tried to leave east germany and those are the 2 notions of

course that that's shone through our speech emmanuel rushes thank you so much thank you. paris mourns the words of the city's mayor valley go after police employee with a knife killed 4 colleagues not the maid please. quarters the public prosecutor has identified the victims or 3 police officers under an administration persistent assignment to talk to the office and continued in other parts of the building before being frankly shot by a police officer friends present emanuel the prime minister and interior minister all want to see. who's got the latest from russia catherine field in paris welcome catherine what more can you tell us. yes we know that the assailant was aged 14 as he's been working in the i.t. department and the police television station as police headquarters you've been working their asses 2003 now according to the french interior minister he was

a model of believe there was nothing in his behavior simply not in the last couple of weeks they gave any cause for alarm for his security is what we do know it was at around 1 o'clock paris time he was in his office with another employee and he stabbed that person he then ran to another part of the building steps someone else and then on the staircase dead and not the person we're not sure which police officer was that was killed at which point he then went into the courtyard of the parents' police headquarters and was there where he was approached by other police officers told him to drop his weapon he didn't and he was shot dead we do know that his apartment which isn't in a suburb of to the northeast of paris is now being searched through by police and the wife has been brought in by police and they questioning her to try and find out more as to the most of this attack on the motive or of course paris having been the

same of multiple attacks over the last few years people must be worried that this is another terror attack what are authorities saying. yes that was the immediate news that winds around the whole of paris you could feel it so that's when i was in that area people thought oh no not again but he's particularly public prosecutor is saying that they are not treating this as a terror attack treating it as a homicide and so the time being that's the only. course of action they taking they all of those looking into whether or not this was some sort of what dispute or personal dispute between employees but certainly that idea that possibly plunged back into a terrorist type situation again really did have everyone on. this idea of a work of dispute going out of hand this is quite interesting given that the police in paris went on strike just yesterday over the stressful working conditions. yes

indeed and it does seem to be some concern among the french government officials that there is more to this than the we know the state french president of money kroll the prime minister and the interior minister went to paris police headquarters shortly after the attack to talk to officials there to talk to stop there they have being of course informed for the last couple of months just how serious the situation it is with paris police the police say they have been working overtime since last year since last also when the yellow vest protest started they say they had that right throughout the winter and the spring and summer they had of course all the events that need all the police to be on jews here we had the 14th so july national day we have had the g. 7 done of beer it's we've had all these events police say that they're just being worked and worked to the bone and they're just so tired and i as you rightly said they were out on the streets just yesterday protesting saying that the government

has to start listening to them because since the start of this year more than 50 police officers have taken their own lives and many of those yet police unions are saying a caused by the stress of the job at the moment for a field in paris thank you thank you. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world to britain's prime minister has presented his new present proposals to parliament or as johnson told lawmakers that he's read worked deal could prevent a hot border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland and britain leaves the e.u. but ireland's a prime minister to key in lawmakers say the poses don't go far enough certainly welcome in the sense that we know. u.s. congressional investigators in washington d.c. are investigating the former special envoy for ukraine about president trump's dealings with that country's president. resigned last week after a whistleblower raised questions about a phone call between the 2 leaders about complaints triggered an impeachment

inquiry against president try to. rescue teams in the south korean port city of tucson trying to locate 4 people feared buried under a landslide typhoon meet-up at least 6 people are known to have died and others are missing after the storm hit southern parts of the country on wednesday night. at least 20 people have been killed and hundreds injured in violent anti-government protests across iraq security forces that used ammunition and tear gas to disperse the crowds were angry about corruption and the lack of basic necessities a curfew has been imposed in several cities. now processed videos like those you've just been seeing a mostly unavailable inside the country because of a widespread internet shutdown which has forced most iraqis offline a reporter called nasr has the details welcome what can you tell us well this is

the latest information we have is coming from the internet traffic monitoring group called net block so we know that facebook twitter instagram all available right now crypted chat apps like whatsapp and signal have also been blocked and you know as you mentioned that means it's just very difficult for people there for. rocky's to post videos of the protests of the way they're being cracked down upon even just to post updates about what's taking place and many are just completely in the dark when it comes to reliable information about the protests as well that's because assets today about. the country has been completely cut off from the internet altogether that includes the capital baghdad as well just no internet access iraqis though living outside the country they're currently trying to draw attention to the situation to the internet shut down by actually reaching out to us we've seen many messages on our social media accounts like this one says commenting on an article about the situation you see someone here saying hey they blocked the energy

internet all around iraq they want to block our voices from the world they stole a ride please do not be silent for now though it does look like this band not stopping people at least from taking to the streets i'm shutting down the incidents during violent insurrection seems now it's a big part of the playbook of what we might call repressive regimes what is the iraqi government say they haven't said anything so we have no comment on that i mean it's not the 1st time that iraq itself as done this there was an internet shutdown last summer during widespread protests in the country in fact earlier this year the government shut down the internet saying that they wanted to prevent students from cheating on their final exams but as you mentioned this is just the latest in a bigger trend countries like zimbabwe like cameroon really all across the continent of africa in particular we're seeing governments doing this shutting down the internet especially during times of protest there are ways around it presumably there are and you know there was a really simple service offered by twitter where you could post

a tweet with an s.m.s. text message that's all it required didn't need any internet access at all unfortunately that service was suspended last month after it was exploited during a hack of twitter's c.e.o. very few people in germany or in countries with strong internet access views that feature really needed but really. it was crucial i mean this was a life find of people in countries like iraq where at the drop of a dime the internet could just be cut off where you could still send an s.m.s. you could still get the word out about what's going on the future though of that service is unclear this is the last that we heard of this s.m.s. to tweet service this is coming from twitter last month they say we've now turned this feature back on but only for a few locations that depend on s.m.s. to tweet it remains turned off for the rest of the world i reached out to twitter today they refused to give us any more information than that tweet so we don't know if this is available in iraq but it is crucial and it would help people there to get the word out just to post a tweet with a text message or coalesce with thank you.

turn to hong kong now where all forces of loosened the rules of engagement for police allowing them to use force when dealing with anti-government protests that have rocked the city for months as escalated over recent days after a protester was shot by police in the chest officials are also reported to be considering a curfew and a ban on face masks that has protesters worried. scenes like this have become common on hong kong streets every weekend and even some weekdays protesters face off against police many of the demonstrators wear masks and some are warning of dire consequences if a ban on face masks is put into effect. if this regime really wants to suppress the voice of the people like this it will only make the deficiency in our society more serious i think our people won't be afraid they'll continue to hit the streets and use more drastic methods to fight.

such masks are commonly available many people buy them at pharmacies they're one of the few defenses against the widespread use of facial recognition software by the chinese government authorities say that's part of the problem. this law is the best way to help police officers to prevent those violent acts it's challenging for the police officers to collect evidence if the protesters wear masks but there's little agreement on whether the move would actually help the authorities. the help this man shows will deter st paul this and also to crowds greater powers for the police to detain protesters as some of the skeptics already expressed their concern at this late hour they think you know by sight phone call and more importantly this thing that whether this will intimidate radical protestors. with no sign of a swift resolution both sides are digging in the situation is likely to escalate.

but german interior minister horse very hoffa is visiting turkey today alongside his french counterpart on the e.u. migration commission they want to discuss the refugee situation in the country turkey has sheltered many refugees fleeing the 8 year civil war in syria around 3600000 refugees are living that now so it is present tragic time one has asked for more support to deal with the migrants who have become less welcome in the country 3 years ago turkey agreed to stronger controls to stop migrants and refugees reaching europe through turkey and return for 6000000000 euros but recently the number of refugees has begun to rise again. so he's really fled syria for bolin in 2015 in almost half a decade his life has changed dramatically and the country here arrived in with it . beginning with merkel's famous open door policy we've done so much we can do

this the landmark e.u. turkey deal to prevent refugees entering the e.u. via turkey more controls more transfer centers the rise of anti migrant sentiment and now the latest plan to accept more migrants rescued from the mediterranean but is germany ready for more asylum seekers. 30 year old for hate works with the association start with a friend creating bonds between germans and migrants he says the country is ready but refugees still face all the obstacles that cite i wasn't instance from vice be of feel since 2015 for example many things have become more difficult. decisions have been made which prevent integration like the tightening off rules on family reunification i share from.

without their families refugees and migrants here can't fully integrate. and they can't properly start a new life in the new country. can. start and i know it's late. and. can oust the architect of the 2060 migration deal between the e.u. and turkey so he's germany has the means to take in more refugees but says it's hard to predict if society will give the green light to policy in 2015 germy i think surprised itself with its willingness to mobilize all of society not just the government and welcome a huge number of people what would happen if there is another few 100000 people in turkey and pressing on to greece we don't know 1st the heat the past 4 years have been a learning process both for him and for germany. and that's

when i make it and germany has learnt that when migrants all refugees are given enough support when they arrive then they will quickly give a lot back from their hearts and become a part of this society. i am told the success of. on the other hand i think for example that some germans or some people here haven't properly observateur history and haven't learned from its mistakes. and feel. that means marginalization again hades and the election off a racist party again and that is not a good sign it's going session. let's get more from the w.'s chief of foreign policy editor i said i said welcome to the studio set and we'll start with horses they haul for his visit to turkey what does he want what's the purpose of this was

what he wants to prevent the situation of the migrants getting worse we just saw last sunday with the fire and mario refugee camp in greece how horrific we were actually reminded how horrific the situation of the refugees are so he wants to address this issue he's going to turkey and tomorrow he's traveling to greece and greece cannot solve this problem on its own facing a lot of refugees it's getting more and more people recently and e.u. and turkey turkey which controls one of the important migration routes has to be on board with the solution and of course these are the big topics that he wants to look at how can we prevent for more people coming to europe currently but another issue that he wants to look at maybe to find let's say emergency measures and that would be probably preparing the biggest refugee camps in greece for the upcoming winter ok so he wants to look at conditions both at the point of departure in

turkey and the point of arrival in greece we have seen the number of refugees arriving in the greek islands increase over recent months after falling initially when the e.u. in turkey did this deal what does this increase in numbers tell us well it tells us that the deal is not fully functioning as it is supposed to when the deal was struck in 2060 huge number of migrants were at a used doorsteps of course the deal stopped this huge flow from coming to europe but at the same time we see now according to the u.n. refugee agency is numbers in september just last month 10000 more than 10000 people actually came to greece by sea from turkey. so we see that the numbers are increasing of course this is concerning to europe this is concerning also for greece and there's also a blame game going on turkey is blaming e.u.

for not living up to its end of the agreement one of the most important things is of course the financial aid the 6000000000 euros turkey is saying well this is coming too slow it needs to be quicker e.u. is blaming turkey for not fully controlling the routes to to greece so and of course the slow asylum application process in greece is another issue so there is actually a lot that the leaders have to talk about to hopefully fix the deal but. thank you for explaining to us. well take a look at some sport now day 6 of the world championships and top 3 gold medals for of of the grabs a wednesday is around the action in da. colons hammer thrower pavol fight a 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. i drama in the 110 meter hurdles in lane 4 jamaica's omar macleod current olympic and world champion was well on course to grab his next title but then he blew it allowing american grant holloway to win in his world championship debut. tina 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 her personal medals tally is also great britain's entire medals hall. there's a reminder the top story outside adds. now not top story but a full colombian politician who were sentenced to 15 years in prison has made a brazen escape from custody i doubt i'm alone or has been escorted to the dentist

in downtown bogota by prison god i was left alone inside the office that's when she used her bedroom to slide down straight down to the street below. them away to a waiting mode to mike official who saw some searching for her made by the director of colombia's prison system has been fired. now here's a reminder of our top story germany's marking 29 years since east and west germany were being united after decades of cold war division of the official celebrations in kiel town so i'm going to go said one of the things needed to achieve equal conditions between east and west. coming up next indeed only news asia protecting their most endangered elephants why poachers are still hunting the gentle giants for their skin on for the tusks. and india's sanitation problems out in the open the prime minister narendra modi handles the success of his toilet building program

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