this is day to be news live from berlin and germany marks 38 since the day that helped end the dictatorship. country to memorize protests seen as a turning point in toppling always germany's communist government germany's president tells demonstrators courage in changing the course of history also coming out. fresh doubts of much about reaching

a deal on brics it crucial october deadlines looming for prime minister boris johnson as a stalemate with a new latest seems to take shape. and the winners of this year's nobel prize in chemistry are announced their war goes to a team of 3 scientists credited with developing a little lithium ion batteries their application in devices like cell phones and laptops has revolutionized daily life. i'm a backer it has welcome to the program germany is marking the 30th anniversary of peaceful protest saying as pivotal in toppling the dictatorship in the former east germany german president francophones this time i have given a speech commemoration of the events that happened in the city of lives on this day in 1909. 15 thousands of people who. noche turned this into following the threat of

a government crackdown it was a decisive moment in a chain of events that led to the collapse of east german communism and the eventual full of the berlin wall. president said germans today should be inspired by the courage of those who risked so much in the pursuit of freedom not to. after 30 years i would like us to have a self-assured view of our own country and i wish that we would see not just the long chain of brakes crises and then positions in the years and decades behind us in sumatra ones in. but instead that we would see the people who shouldered massive burdens and managed investment in the process of unity but also in what followed. and joining me in the studio to dissect all of this is dating political analyst simon young and our political correspondent kate brady is in line to also standing by at simon i'll start with you what the essence of my speech today i think the

president was talking about learning the lessons from 30 years ago he talked about germany today as a strong but uncertain country and he mentioned the sort of growing gap that many see between east and west between the city and the country between the rich and poor but he said i want to paint a different picture and in particular based on stories from light sake in 1909 and in that year when east germany the regime came to an end and he said you know it was inspiring how people overcame all buttery persecution of violence by the state and he said these developments deserve to be seen in the best traditions of german history which is a troubled history as we all know and he talked about you know politicians today learning from some of the best traditions as he saw them over east germany such as the important role of women in the economy the excellent childcare medical care

that many people enjoyed in east germany said these are the kind of things that people today could really benefit from so drawing that line through history and trying to strike a positive tone when cattle tend to you this must be an emotional day for many people way you are what's the mood like that. recently is an emotional day the 9th of october in lights it every year but of course this year being the 30th anniversary has a particular poignancy only one month before that 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall too and of course this is always an emotional day but also one of celebration to celebrate that courage that drove those tens of thousands of people out into the streets of lights 30 years ago calling for democracy and for freedom but this day in light sickly specially is also seen as a day of reflection ready to take stock of democracy today 30 years on since those demonstrations and to assess really what role citizens can place

a day in making sure that germany continues to be a successful democracy and that was very much the message that i heard as well from a g.d.r. opposition activists i spoke to earlier this week we can take a listen to what else they had to say and their recollections of the 9th of october 1909 in this report. on october 9th 1909 kathleen hutton how it was in a stasi prison in lights 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 that 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 tings have been held at leipsic said nicholas church on september 4th catherine hutton how an unfilled bana 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 is something that has started in my city and it's not as g.d.r.

media tells its 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 guns like the plaza bus and. it was clear throughout life what was at stake was vance for a post at our own town full of soldiers and police on a call. on the roofs in downtown life in the hospitals blood reserves were being stocked up on who was and by who can say have a bomb. 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 flew to get in the heart of 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 someone might at that because i think the group always stay with me that i have been growing up in a dictatorship for that. i will always value the freedom my how but i would like people remember got the more christian. is a living being so we have to be part of it. and there's no one else doing it for us i would really like people to remember that. well simon as we had in the report does help us they know from history a month after those protests there was the full of the war on nov 9th that wasn't so now i'm prior to the fall do you think the east german regime underestimated the magnitude of people's discontent in the end they did but they were aware that

discontent was growing many people were fed up with a broken economy in east germany and with crumbling cities and with pollution to the environment and throughout the whole summer of that year there have been waves of people increasingly trying to get out and cross to the west particularly through the ealy open border of hungary so there was a real sense that things were breaking down and i think the regime seeing these demonstrations that were growing was increasingly scared they prepared their own troops to come in and crush the demonstration but what really happened on that day in 1989 was that no one on the ground was willing to give the order to shoot against their own citizens and that meant that the demonstration we are the people it went ahead and of course that gave others the courage to stand up as well and

say something has to change in the system of course and kate multan t.v. is history making event $73.00 decades old are they still relevant to people there and lives this today. they are certainly still rather than not only people here in leipsic but across germany and there is certainly still a sources of fresh ration among life because the people here in life they go north to meet people in the east they see this as a day a pivotal day in german history which changed the course of of of german reunification and in the long run helps to make that possible but often this day the 9th of october goes forgotten in many parts of germany particularly in western germany many people remembering more the fall of the wall a 9th of november and also the fischel day of german reunification a 3rd of october so it is important for people here in that light say because many of them were there on the night of on the 9th of october 1989 and also many younger

generations also still appreciate the importance of this day of course it was their parents their grandparents that helped to shape not only the city but also to help reshape germany and also europe there's a lot happening in life fish today what else is going on. so after the ceremony finishes behind me where the german president is at the moment there will be another event taking place later this afternoon at the nickel like after the st nicholas church just a few 100 meters away from here and it's in front of that church that those initial process started on the 4th of september 1989 which we saw in the report synfuel moments ago and those demonstrations grew weaker and weaker there were many prayer meetings held there which turned into political meetings and those demonstrations they spread the news of those spread by word of mouth and that's what then spread

out onto the street here. where instead now and thousands of people are expected to turn out tonight. as we've seen in previous years too and they'll also be what's called the lift the light festival here west and 25000 candles are going to be lit on this square to style out the words leipsic 89 and then people here tonight in life they will have the opportunity to trace the footsteps all of that demonstration of the peaceful marches on the 9th of october 1900 and walk around the ring of light the main road that encircles downs homelife sick no be able to retrace those steps of almost 4 kilometers which is demonstrators marched on 30 is ago today some very moving events ahead very. political correspondent for us in life fish and simon young political analyst here for us in the studio thanks very much for the analysis. tending to some other news now thousands of indigenous

people have converged on ecuador's capital quito to join anti-government protests clashes with security forces led the president to move his administration out of the capital and declare a curfew around state buildings some demonstrators stormed the congress building ecuador has same 6 days of nationwide protests following cuts to fuel subsidies and other austerity measures the. these are tactics that have toppled governments in ecuador before thousands of anti austerity demonstrators flooded the capital quito they're angry over a government decision to end fuel subsidies to reduce the country's deficit leading to soarin 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 symbol of the plot is to be doing a lot of protest as blockaded roads and briefly 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 moreno has accused has left his predecessor rafael korea of trying to destabilize ecuador. the sacking of the vandalism the violence shows that there is a political intention organized to destabilize the government embrace the constituted order to break democratic order it will be in the book at the call. to have been hundreds of arrests while the turmoil is taking a toll on an already vulnerable economy. and that more and has appealed to the united nations for help in calming the situ. rationed a bit to ease the worst unrest any is the number some of the other stories making

news around the world turkey says it's ready to launch an offensive against syrian kurds following u.s. president donald trump's decision to pull troops out of northern syria president trump now faces accusations that he's abandoned kurdish forces who were killed u.s. allies in the fight against the so-called islamic state. german police continue to hunt for clues as to why a man hijacked a truck in the west in germantown of limburg crushing into several cars 9 people suffered minor injuries in the incident including the truck driver the suspect from syria has been charged with attempted murder in the case. as growing deadlock on rex it with top officials saying britain's latest proposals on a possible deal satisfactory earlier a source close to boris johnson also told british media the chancellor merkel called a deal quote overwhelmingly unlikely the u.k.

is currently slated to leave the european union on october the 31st. $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 need music coming from london the british government no longer believes an agreement can be reached and that coming from downing street that blaming chancellor angela merkel e.u. 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 phone call between bars johnson and angola machall the chancellor reportedly said an agreement was overwhelmingly unlikely if northern ireland does not remain in the e.u. customs union but did she really say that no comment from chancellor merkel she kept

quiet on the subject later to at a meeting in berlin with david the president of the parliament cicely travel to london on tuesday afternoon to meet with boris johnson it didn't seem to produce very much progress. there are 2 alternatives to a deal at this juncture extension or no deal. after so thoroughly his departure bars johnson told parliament he still wants a deal giving the impression that the 2 sides are living in different breaks that you know passes. for more i'm joined by correspondent barbara vessel who joins me from brussels. is there any hope in brussels that a deal can be reached before the october deadline. it seems throughout this day the hope is fading quickly because it is going from bad to worse so this is not the time to put money on the brecht's a deal definitely because today even more voices emerged saying how difficult it is

and how near impossible it is the dutch finance minister to go hawks are for instance he just said the meeting here in brussels we should have the softest breaks that possible it's a tragedy for all of us but it takes 2 to tango indicating that the british side is not willing to tango and the german u. official from the commission there he said that you couldn't time limit the solution for northern ireland pouring cold water on some of the attempts behind the scenes to sort of still come to some sort of compromise so it is not going well at all no tangoing for virus virus johnson the view a prime minister there so the issue seems to remain the sticky issue is the u.k. border with the republic of ireland why is that proving to be so difficult to result. that was the most difficult issue of talks from the very beginning

because northern ireland and the republic of ireland which will remain a member of the european union have a common economic sphere they sort of do their economics together there is an open border that is not even visible if you cross from one village to the next so if you put a border up there everybody says it cannot be done it's against the good friday agreement that brought peace to the era area and all governments have said that is not doable we cannot ever do it because violence might flare up again so boris johnson offered to keep northern ireland the british side with in the right european rules for the single market with production for production of foodstuffs of hygiene and other industrial goods that is one part of it the other part to keep them in the customs union which organ which sort of. guarantees the border traffic between the 2

sides being as friction is being a sort of more or less like within one country he doesn't want to budge on that and so there is no movement in this and it is squaring the circle everybody has said so from the very beginning on and london sort of says now we are at the end of what we are willing to do and can do and so it seems a compromise is not possible at this point in time not possible but if they was to be a compromise on what to brussels want to see from london what would get them over the line. what would get them over the line is if a london moved with regard to the customs union if they said ok we'll leave that northern island more or less with in the territory of the customs union so the trucks and people with their goods in these sheep from one to farmer to the next and so on can just cross the border like they used to there will be no problems was the key which would under different circumstances offer great possibilities for smuggling and that would get it over the line but london is adamant that they can

do it. absolutely not moving under no circumstances ever so the 2 sides seem to be digging themselves in and it looks really very bad for the summit next week yes quite a stalemate barbara vessel in brussels thanks very much for that analysis now on to one of sciences most prestigious prizes the royal swedish academy of sciences has awarded the nobel prize for chemistry to a team of 3 scientists john b. goode and m. stanley witting and a cure your shino developed lithium ion batteries the committee says the batteries are lightweight and can be used in devices from mobile phones to laptops and electronic vehicles. well joining me now to dissect all of that for the unscientific of us like me is derrick williams from our science stick desk derek tell us

a bit more about these batteries well batteries are a fairly simple idea they've been they've been around in one form or another since the 1900 centuries you have a positive everybody knows time to more or less how they work you have a positive pole and you have a negative pole and you connect those 2 with the bridge and electrons flow from the positive pole to the negative pole voila you have electricity now the thing about lithium what special about lithium is that it's a particular material that is both able to give up an electron very easily and it's happy to accept one back and so it's kind of the perfect material to use in a battery bed where you want to charge and recharge over and over again it can flip back from one state to the other fairly easily however it's also highly reactive element and so basically what this work did was it made it safe to be used in things like cell phones that sounds very useful how useful are they in our everyday lives i mean the wireless 21st century is built really on the lithium ion battery

they're used in everything from cell phones to laptops to you know the new wave of electric cars that are coming so it's it's absolutely essential it's a cornerstone technology for where moving forward in the future in our efforts to get away from fossil fuel based energy as well well tell us a bit more about the environmental impact of these lithium batteries well there are it's a relatively abundant element and so most of it is found in the or much of it is found in the salt flats of south america so the immediate impact of mining it or of acquiring it is is not really evident to a lot of people however the mining industry does have a terrible track work record when it comes to sort of leaving behind toxic waste and in poisoning the environment however all of those. things have to be balanced against the idea that the lithium ion battery is what's going to enable was in the future to move to a fossil free energy supply and because the problem with the fossil free energy

supply with with wind turbines with solar energy is that the wind isn't always blowing the sun isn't always shining so you have to have a reservoir you have to have a tank that you can drain and tank up again over and over again you need to have. a resource like that and the lithium ion battery is turning into that product it's one of those things that's going to enable us to break the chains that we have with a fossil based economy and is it a surprise that this prize was awarded to these researchers at this time it wasn't actually at all and interesting factoid and this whole in this whole this this morning was that was that good enough john good enough as is 97 is he was born in 1902 so it was clear he's been for a you know this is been up there for at least a decade decade and a half that pete was clear that they needed to do to get it and. actually it was extremely worth it was everybody i think is happy that he did get this prize yeah

this year you know if they don't know how long he's going to be around for us to realistic thanks very much terry. well this week the nobel prizes are drawing the world's attention to major scientific advances while a new film about the 1st female nobel winner is also generating buzz that film radio active tells the story of marie curious life and work our reporter quote out with the movie's director science is changing. careers scientists rebel and feminist and a new film from mars also a topic in this extraordinary look at the 2 time nobel prize winner and pioneer of the science of radioactivity the world. so topping remembers her own mother holding the scientists up as a role model for any mother who was preparing her daughter not to make it would matter each and become a good wife and wanted a better thing for the gross you know that i could become independent and be someone then you know i company something this is the example she's one of the

example you would give to your challenged. tribe use portrait of curators warts and all for cheap mincer so against the nucular destruction her discoveries will unleash a response to peace and leave my liberal actress rosamund pike place curious headstrong bordering on america. everybody would say open castle with the one with him and with us is genius is ok but as it comes to women women they always have to be perfect they always have to be sweet and they have to be nice except i said to i don't know if any sweet woman makes out. the trap is on screen careers definitely not sweet radioactive is a portrait of a complex contradictory woman whose ideas transformed our world. we have some breaking news coming in reports a coming in of a shooting incident here in germany police in the eastern city of hama say an attacker open fire with an automatic weapon in a public area before fleeing the same at least 2 people are believed to have been

killed and several wounded german newspaper a builder is reporting that the incident took place in front of a synagogue place have appealed for locals to sake shelter or stay at home. i'm joined now by thomas sparrow a political correspondent for a bit of an update on this tell us what can you tell us well 1st we have to understand where is located which will hear the nation's 50 a rather big city in germany about 239000 people live the police in how they were quick to mention on social media that 2 people had been killed that's official information from the police in hollywood confirmed confirmed that there were multiple shots on the speaking of possible shooters in pub in plural so not one but various multiple possible shooters who fled in a car so they're now looking to see where these possible shooters might have been and they're also trying to understand and trying to identify what might have been the possible causes as of now and this is important to stress we don't know what

the possible motives might have been this is a developing situation here in germany and it's one situation that we're obviously following very closely we're trying to follow also what the police say about this because it is obviously through the information that police can provide that we will be able to have confirmed information police have also stressed that people should stay in their houses in in holly and as in previous cases something else that will probably say is asking people to avoid speculation and avoid simply jumping to conclusions because again this is a developing story and what we know so far is only that what police in holly have been saying 2 people dead multiple shots possible shooters fled in a car and they're looking for these possible shooters now. we don't want to speculate but the reports are coming out that this happened close to a synagogue is that confirmed no that is not confirmed that is something that has been mentioned in media outlets in particular in the build site in the bill

newspaper master collation newspaper here in germany it is a newspaper the normally has there's nobody well connected within security circles in germany and when these kinds of incidents happen they would normally comes out 1st but it is important to stress that this is not confirmed this is initial information that the newspaper has published and we'll be waiting for more information on this particular situation to understand whether this is confirmed or not as i said what we know so far from the police and holly is what i mentioned yes we have to stress that this is ongoing and we'll be bringing more information you'll be with us throughout the day thomas fire thanks very much. this is day to use and these are on top stories as growing deadlock on set off a fresh talks between prime minister boris johnson and the leaders of germany and island dublin says it will be difficult to reach a compromise with the u.k. ahead of the e.u. summit next week. the president of ecuador has moved his administration out of the capital quito imposed an overnight curfew on to protesters clashed with police then

stormed the congress building the demonstrators are opposing a cut in fuel subsidies and other austerity measures. as the chemistry has been awarded to a tame of 3 scientists who developed lithium ion batteries the batteries are lightweight and can be used in devices from mobile phones to electric vehicles is. also very variable it is a state of the news you can find out more on data dot com you can also follow us on twitter at data.