this is coming to you live from. 13 years since the day a dictatorship. on the peaceful protests seen as a turning point in toppling the communist government we bring you special coverage today commemorations. protests forced. to move out of the capital some demonstrators stormed the country's. thousands rally against price hikes on fuel. reaching

a deal on prime minister boris johnson's talks with germany's chancellor and prime minister with both reportedly voicing skepticism about. a crucial. football player. his retirement from the game. with. the world cup. hello i'm terry thanks for joining us today germany is marking the 30th anniversary of peaceful protests seen as a pivotal point toppling the dictatorship in former east germany tens of 1000.

thousands turned out for peaceful marches on october 9th 1989 in light say it was a decisive moment in a chain of events that led to the collapse of east german communism and the fall of the berlin wall kate brady met with 2 of the activists who took part in the protest movement. on october 9th 1909 catherine hatton hala was in a stars you prison in light sick in east germany she was just 20 years old on this day you could feel that the guards were already nervous and you could hear sounds later in the day close to the evening and what relate to crude few but maybe what we have heard. where the sound of 70000 people walking. among the crowd marching for freedom and democracy was that 18 year old opposition activist catalan model of.

german reunification just didn't cross my mind at the time my motivation was things can't go on like this a spring czar this country has no future we have no freedom of expression no free elections i wanted to reform the country i wanted democracy in the g.d.r. in. the months premie things had been held at leipsic said nicholas church on september 4th catherine hutton how a un felt abana it called for an open country with free people the protest was captured on film by western media. it was important to us that our own people in our country could see it and they could see oh wow there's something that has started in my city and it's not as g.d.r. media tells us like they are criminals and they want to destroy our country know

their girls they could be my friend they could be my daughter she was imprisoned soon after for riotous assembly but by october 9th knowledge of the growing protests had spread gotten flights of plod back and. it was clear throughout life what was at stake. vance for postage our own town full of soldiers and police on call. on the roofs and downtown life in the hospitals blood reserves were being stocked up i think i was and been put. in but the protesters marched peacefully around the city of lights like in the following weeks the demonstrations continue to grow and within a month the berlin wall had fallen and i were in the hot it just gives you goosebumps it was unbelievable to see that so many people had overcome their fear mustered up their courage and decided to join these demonstrations and i think that's asked of us again today to engage in advocating for democracy and to nurture

it together. so that. right authentic i think the group always stay with me but i have been growing up in a dictatorship for that. i will always the freedom i have but i would like people remember that. democracy is a is a living being so we have to be part of it. and that there is no one outstanding it for us i would really like people to remember that. our political analyst simon young is with us in the studio simon there were many demonstrations in many cities in east germany 30 years ago why is the demonstration in leipsic considered have been so important i think mainly because of the numbers involved there have been demonstrations in other places of course before this and they have

been some organized opposition in east germany for many years. on the night of 989 you had 70000 people who dared to come out on the streets shouting we are the people facing up to the security forces also a couple of courageous journalists managed to film those wobbly pictures of it that we saw in that report and they were shown on west german t.v. the next day so this was something that the east german regime couldn't ignore or sort of keep quiet how much courage did it take to demonstrate publicly against the east german regime back then i think it took plenty of courage people talk about the real sense of fear that they had that something might happen you know lots of extra police soldiers have been brought in all men in uniform had been seen

you know being brought in on the motorways in the days before because it was known that this demonstration was going to happen another thing is that just a few months previously the communist regime in china had a crushed the rip. they are in beijing the so-called chen immense square massacre and indeed the east german company's government has sent messages of support to the chinese communists so there really was a real fear that something similar could happen in east germany among the many groups of participated in these demonstrations christian religious groups were very prominent tell us more about their role in those demonstrations if you will both the protestant and catholic churches would tolerate seeds in east germany and they use their position to an extent to support dissidents and usually in a sort of non-confrontational quiet way for instance by holding

a piece of prayers and so on in fact peace present been held in the nicholai case of the st nicholas church in light sake which would be a main focus today. since 1902 so this is this this it's something that had been brewing at the same time the the sort of structured nature of the churches of course allowed surveillance by the security services and indeed on the 9th of october 1909 the church was full of agents that it was quite difficult for real dissidents actually to get in there son and thank you so much sharp little analyst simon young. and german president quite time i will be speaking at a ceremony later today to honor the monday demonstrations will be bringing you special coverage of that speech in just a couple of hours now well thousands of indigenous people have converged on ecuador's capital quito to join anti-government protests clashes with security

forces led the president there to move his administration out of the capital and declare a curfew around state buildings some demonstrators stormed the congress building ecuador has seen 6 days of nationwide protest following cuts to fuel subsidies and other austerity measures. these a tactic that have toppled governments in ecuador before thousands of anti austerity demonstrators flooded the capital key time angry over a government decision to end fuel subsidies to reduce the country's deficit leading to sowing petrol prices. this country is rich in natural resources what's happened is that it has been impoverished due to the chain of corrupt governments which have stolen for this life and the next the point is to be there you know to. protest this blockaded roads and brief the storms the ecuadorian congress building before being driven out by police and soldiers firing tear gas.

a state of emergency has been in place since last week when the indigenous led protests erupted eventually forcing the besieged government to flee to the port city of quiet. was president lenin mourinho has accused has left his predecessor rafael correia of trying to destabilize ecuador. the sacking the vandalism the violence shows that there is a political intention organize to destabilize the government and break the constituted order to break democratic order in order in the book at the. there have been hundreds of arrests while the turmoil is taking a toll on an already vulnerable economy. and then under mourinho has appealed to the united nations for help in calming the situation a bit to ease the worst unrest in years. now some of the other stories

making headlines around the world today the white house has announced it will not cooperate with the congressional impeachment inquiry of us president donald trump releasing an 8 page letter addressed to the leaders of the democratic party the trump administration has also blocked gordon sunderland the us ambassador to the european union from testifying at impeachment hearings the probe is examining a whistleblower complaint trial sought political favors from ukraine's. turkey says it's ready to launch an offensive against syrian kurds following u.s. president all troops decision to call troops out of northern syria president trust now faces accusations that he has abandoned kurdish forces who are key u.s. allies in the fight against the so-called islamic state. and farmers and friends have been blocking highways with their tractors to protest the government's tiger cultural policy they're angry about recent trade agreements and there are a growing trend of quote agra bashing which unions say disregards their profession

. british prime minister boris johnson has held fresh talks on bragg sit with george transfer i'm going to medical and irish prime minister barak cuts said the big gaps remain between the u.k. and e.u. positions all brags that raising more doubts about reaching a divorce deal by the u.k. it's october 31st deadline to leave the european union earlier a source close to told british media that chancellor merkel called bragg's deal quote overwhelmingly unlikely now that leak has prompted e.u. council president altos to warn mr johnson that brags it should not be called a blame game and some critics question whether merkel in fact used those words. $22.00 days until break that time is running out and now it's too late to reach a deal with the e.u. at least that's the latest news music coming from london the british government no

longer believes an agreement can be reached and that coming from downing street that blaming chance and i'm going to machall council president is outraged boris johnson what's at stake is not winning some stupid blame game at stake is the future of europe and the u.k. as well as the security interests of our people you don't want to deal you don't want an extension you don't want to revoke. that follows a fine call between bars johnson and. the chancellor reportedly said an agreement was overwhelmingly unlikely if north an island does not remain in the e.u. customs union but did she say that no comment from tansen americal she kept quiet on the subject to 2 at a meeting in badland with david. the president of the e.u. parliament. but the british government is making a big deal out of the phone call essentially saying if this is the new e.u. position then in principle an agreement would be impossible. that would make

johnson's rush to present new proposals a waste of time but remained unconvinced that they would do away with the need for border controls between northern ireland and e.u. member states ireland and in that case brussels couldn't do without the so-called backstop and a customs union with no then highland society travel to london on cheese day afternoon to meet with boris johnson it didn't seem to produce very much. there are 2 alternatives to a deal at this juncture extension or no deal after. johnson told parliament he still wants a deal giving the impression that the 2 sides are living in different facets. prosecutors here in germany have filed charges against a man who hijacked a truck and crashed it into a line of cars injuring several people he's now been charged with attempted murder

but his exact motive has still up in established 9 people suffered minor injuries in the incident including the truck driver the crash occurred in the western town of limbaugh on monday police quickly detain the driver and identified him as a syrian national who's been resident in germany since 2015. this is the truck that rammed into several cars in the western german city of lemberg on monday police believe the person at the wheel pulled the truck's original driver out of his cab there was a media speculation that the case might be connected to terrorism but federal officials have dismissed that possibility for now. my latest information says that at the moment there is no grounds to say there's a terrorist background to this event. that is the status at the moment when. the truck's driver was

a 32 year old syrian national the man arrived in germany in 2015 and was apparently known to police for assault and drug charges. have detained the person behind the wheel of the truck at the moment we are investigating the reason for the collision and of course everything else necessary to determine what happened here just. as police searched 2 apartments they collected possible evidence including mobile phones and u.s.b. sticks the investigation is ongoing and prosecutors say they can't yet give any information on a possible motive. reporter dana rego of is in limbo where that incident took place and she joins us now from there did they tell us more about the charges that have been filed against the driver of the truck. well terry we know that he has been charged not only with aggravated assault and

attempted homicide but also dangerous traffic interference since this entire incident was done with a stolen truck that he rammed into several other cars right where this intersection that is right behind me so this is what prosecutors are going to seek for at this stage what do those charges tell us if anything about the driver's motive. well unfortunately not much we know the police are still in investigating all possible directions they're not entirely ruling out a terrorist motive however based on what investigators have so far we know that the suspect had seemed to have no previous links to extremist or islamist groups so they have ruled that connection out but nevertheless especially after seizing some he was speech sticks and mobile phones from several flats here in the state of hesse and they are expected police are expected to release more new information

about this throughout the day but as of now they're investigating all possible directions how are the people of great acting to this because that is a rather alarming situation even though there's been no terrorist connection the man has been charged with attempted murder or attempted homicide so he clearly intended to hurt people that. yeah that's correct people my talked to yesterday were in extreme shock one eyewitness told me that you know she would expect this to happen in far largest cities in germany and out but not in a small town like a specially german measures this is a 35000 people town so they were in extreme shock another eyewitness who actually witnessed the accident said that he was also extremely shocked not not being certain whether or not this attempt this incident was deliberate or accidental nevertheless he was extremely surprised to find something like this to discover that such incident has happened in his small town so even the mayor here and the

interior minister there are all expressing condolences to the families and seem quite surprised by the fact that such incident took place specifically here thank you very much for bringing us up to be used in a regular in liverpool. you're watching t w news still to come one of germany's greatest ever football players announces his retirement from the game last inch by inch tiger is hanging up his boots after a long career including winning a world cup title. well afghanistan has been at war for 18 years with devastating consequences for the country's children an entire generation of 18 year olds has known nothing but war the numbers and the stories behind them are sobering in the past 3 years 12500 children were either killed or maimed in afghanistan's beilenson more than 3700000 of the

population roughly the population of berlin's 3700000 children are out of school these are statistics that bear themselves out every day on the streets of afghanistan. 13 year old tommy dono works as a shoeshine or instead of going to school 11 year old sabir sells dried fruits some couples streets there are just 2 of the afghan children who've been robbed of an education because of war 18 years ago the 911 terrorist attacks led to the u.s. invasion of afghanistan the beginning of a military campaign that's now the longest in u.s. history today every child who was born and grew up in the country has never experienced peace. peace is like a dream to us in afghanistan. peace comes to afghanistan we will be able to develop our economy through mining for example or business development.

i mean to me. which is full of. discrimination. which is full of. happiness happiness which came from education. which is people are not. blaming everything on each other for many afghan children the conflict has meant destruction fear and poverty and the u.n. says child casualties increased sharply in the year since 2015. that was when the taliban started stepping up its attacks seizing territory across the country the riyadh of jais insurgency coincided with afghan forces taking over combat choose he's from foreign troops the taliban's now the most powerful it's been since its regime was overthrown in 2001 children have also been hit hard by airstrikes by

u.s. and afghan government forces. this is still a very intense conflict and way too many civilians being killed and injured by all parties u.s. and taliban negotiations held talks during the past year raising hopes of an imminent peace deal until a serious of taliban attacks in september led to the u.s. a properly ending the negotiations the 2 sides could still reach a truce as afghanistan will struggle to overcome its internal divisions. leaving the children whose lives have been ruined by war facing an adult also blighted by conflict. now to hong kong where hundreds of anti government protesters have rallied at a court where a hearing is taking place for a pro-democracy activist is appealing prison term of 6 years handed down for

rioting in a 2016 incident is trials seen as another flashpoint a months long protest against beijing's influence over semi autonomous hong kong the rallies have often turned violent our correspondent in hong kong mathias berlinger is looked into why some businesses have become a target for demonstrators. protesters attack a china mobile in the past few days dozens of businesses in hong kong have been vandalized during clashes protest this talk of companies from the mainland such as the state owned telecom providers big chinese banks and other industries tied to the beijing government. but there are less obvious choices like this famous us coffee from. starbucks has been one of the top targets this one has been vandalized twice 1st they trashed the entrance then the next day the company

set up these wooden paulose to protect it and then the next day the protesters took down these panels and continue trashing this shop it's not the hardware i used to be there for so it's clear sighted and presto being at the solar time there's consequences did it is couple months which did in this century the citizens. in online groups protesters post messages explaining their choice of targets on kong starbucks branches are run by the local caterer maxime's the company drew the wrath of the protesters when the founders daughter hold a speech at the u.n. human rights council denouncing the protest it seems has distanced itself from her statement saying she holds no official position in the business but to know. the logic of conflict has reached on kong's businesses between the idea of the protestors and repercussions on the chinese market many of them are facing

a tough choice. for this starbucks branch the only thing to do now is to renovate and hope that they will be targeted a 3rd time. tears rolling of their reporting from hong kong now one of germany's greatest ever football players has retired from the game but. he has quit the sport after finishing the season with his club chicago fire tiger made his name and by in munich becoming a genuine star in the bonus league and for the national team. but. it's finally time to say good bye this was how bastian schweinsteiger ended his journey career in 2016 tears flowed as the fan favorite took to the pitch for demand shaft one last time now he's hanging up his boots for good. with this tweet he brought an end to one of the my successful careers in football history

trying to juggle one does league titles and 7 german cups along with one champions league title but the achievement fans around the globe will remember him for is the 2014 world cup triumph. and. dream about things like this as a kid so i'm proud of what i've achieved and yes. makes me happy yeah. the on the trophies trying to use he was 9 came across as a down to earth character more interested in football than the trappings of fame for that he was loved by the fans something only the true greats achieved. just reminder of the top story we're following for you here today on d w news germany is marking 30 years since peaceful protests seen as pivotal in topping former east germany's communist dictatorship tens of thousands turned out for peaceful marches tobar nights 989 in.

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