and there's more from us at the top of the hour up next is world story student news best reports from the past week and don't forget you can always get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site let's do you have to be dot com thanks for joining us i think that. soon after the fall of the berlin wall november night w. . i was here when i arrived here i slept with 6 people in a room for the 9th in america it was hard i was fit. i even got white hair.

but generally language. this hits me and they go but you need to in truck loads of say you want to do their story. it's her fighting and reliable information for margaret. this week well story. questions about house and iconic but in dom's old white baby in caps our living nightmare for my kids but we begin in prague in 1909 true thousands of east german soldiers refuge in the west german embassy that they were finally allowed to travel to the west it was the beginning of the end of east germany. a

journey back in time. 30 years ago hill much sand was traveling in a train just like this one. and 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. in september 1989 east germans were poor and 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 arrivals came in over the fence every day. for them. 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.

was i can't share promised that everyone in the embassy would be allowed to go to the west i was there and heard him. while you are standing right here. but. it's all coming about is it all. just a few weeks later almost citizens of east germany gained their freedom cry on november 9th 1989 the berlin wall came down. thousands of refugees are holed up in camps for my goods in libya. we report from neighboring niger which is taken in 3000 of them. i've.

these images were recorded by refugees in different camps in libya they show appalling conditions human rights activists say the images are credible we came into direct contact with 2 refugees by a messaging services they have been interred in a libyan migrant camp for 2 years they talk to us by a voice message we change their voices for their own protection. we have been tortured with scared we're suffering and dying from various diseases. we were kidnapped we became victims of violence where starving people have died our lives are disgusting so we appeal for our voiceless voice to be heard. we are innocent refugees living in a land of hell. oh our. initial we speak to refugees who went through this hell.

one of them is 18 years old we call her a mina she was kidnapped while fleeing from somalia and taken to a hidden building in the libyan desert many others die on the journey across the sahara i mean ask kidnappers demanded $8000.00 for her release they tortured emunah to increase the pressure her parents were forced to listen to it on the phone. the whole with the chance of they changed me up hung me up and tortured me with electric shocks. they tortured men with electric shocks to their genitals and women and with shocks through their press pts until they cried and screamed loudly . they did it so they would get the money faster than how to stand as a causal floor. of the torch a systematic many other refugees describe similar methods. about 1600 refugees live in this camp salt of the sahara they were all rescued from

libya. we managed to meet someone who profits from the refugees suffering he calls himself of the lizzie's occupation migrants model for $500.00 he brings migrants across the sahara to libya but if they can't pay the driver sell them to torture chambers adela's use understands why they do that. one was at the border they say i spent money on you what am i supposed to do i want my money back and i want profit on top of that that was when i started torturing people. we often hear refugees say that they're not put off by stories like this smugglers other only hope and they're prepared to pay any price even if it means risking their lives. should go after the terror attacks on september 11th 2001 the u.s.

military began their offensive against the taliban in afghanistan the operation continues to this day one u.s. soldier who has returned home reports. under fire. and returning fire. tracking down the enemy that was sergeant brandon no burns life for 15 months his unit's deployment was the subject of the acclaimed 2010 documentary restrepo o'byrne returned to civilian life 11 years ago but sometimes he still finds it difficult to leave the war behind him. i loved running and that before the military i loved running inside the military but now every time i ran outside the military every time i would get started get winded i would get really start having panic attacks like a hose going on and then oh yeah of course like you think about if you're in your

ass afghanistan you're walking up a mountain or winded and you can't get out of the way you can't you know physically get to the next like cover and concealment spot that would be a problem when. you burn was 22 when he was sent to fight the taliban his mission he believed was to make afghanistan and the world a safer place but on the ground the reality was different. you can't defeat an ideology with violence you kill someone and they have family and now they have a. now you've created 2 more terrorists in stead of the one right and that's you know ad infinitum right like that you can't keep can do that forever that that's what you know fighting this kind of wars after returning home from the conflict o'byrne battled for several years to overcome psychological problems and alcoholism with his life back on track he's now studying to become a high school english teacher and lives in

a quiet neighborhood in wilmington north carolina he thinks the u.s. government should withdraw troops from afghanistan as quickly as possible. we haven't figured it out in 18 years what to do with the taliban. and make them more peaceful or or defeat them now they're more possession of more land territory now so we haven't figured it out. we were lost. o'byrne continues to work to leave his experiences of the war behind him in the meantime america debates whether it can do the same. this or to seize the 30th anniversary of fall of the wall and there are still places in bedding where you can find evidence of the city's colorful past clinician's bought house saddam's hole that survived 2 world wars and the division

of japanese. couples have danced through berlin history under this roof here in clear him spohn house swing night is just as popular now as it was 100 years ago. berlin might have lost some of its charm but you can rediscover it right here. party now politically there might be dripping off the walls but we've been coming here for 10 years now it's a berlin tradition i mean suppose you want to read the bits of this article as it were one big family over the years you get to know each other everyone comes here and we love it sure ziggy marquardt has been coming here regularly for 6 decades he lives in the west half of the city in the ball houses in the east even after the wall went up in 1961 he continued visiting the club despite border controls. that will sit in the back of then you have to cross the border at speeds of you've got a day pass and in the evening at midnight you have to be back again. today the dance

club in the middle of berlin also boasts a restaurant and is popular with locals and tourists alike the. author madeon keizo research the history of clear his ball house for years and interviewed many eyewitnesses who danced here when the d.d.r. still existed and berlin was divided into east and west. might come to see what comes before today you can't even imagine that they built a wall through the middle of the city but this is a place where. asked and west germany met up and became close because music and dance and alcohol all that brings people together. in her book mommy and keys are tells the story. in 1913 clotted miller open the ball house together with her husband to entertain berliners from all walks of life clear hints survive 2 world wars and the division

of germany and hardly changed. but in january things may change a new owner plans on renovating ziggy marquardt hopes that things will continue as usual afterwards. we just want to stay here and keep dancing to swing music like we used to like in grandma's time so to speak. claire hymns paul house takes its visitors back in time to a bygone berlin dance still unites people here as it always has a clear hynds. arts

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