this is d.w. news lawyer from bali and west festivities are kicking off the mark there's a years since before all the. clues based on installation on foot in front of the brandenburg games all correspondent joins us with all the details also coming up india's top court slams the government is failing to tackle evolution as toxic small gidley capital which is record levels residents say is unfair of those schools are closed and hoffa this is news calls back into. town with just

a year to go before the next presidential election in the u.s. d.w. visits a town in world wisconsin considered a bellwether of the political mood so the locals there predicted. the. time out of the whole fray glad you could join me germany celebrating the 30th anniversary of the full all the war which happened on the 9th of november 1989 today kicks off a week of celebrations with $200.00 events exhibitions and walks like here at the brandenburg gate now this 150 meter long installation is made up of $100000.00 colorful streamers with messages personal them and floated like a giant wave right in the center of it. and just 2 kilometers away alexanderplatz but in many had mono will be officially launching the festival week and that is

where our chief political correspondent melinda crane is standing by for us melinda what is happening today. well the mayor will inaugurate to this commemoration of the fall of the berlin wall it's being billed as you said as a festival celebration but in fact as you can probably discern it's a little bit more understated than that behind me is a stage where there will be performances also as soon as it is fully dark there will be projections of historic events on the buildings all around me and this commemoration is being called 7 days 7 places which is basically in recognition of the fact that although most of us think of the moment of the peaceful revolution here in germany that ended the division of the country as the

9th of november when the berlin wall actually fell in fact the revolution was a sequence of events over a period of weeks or even months and one of the absolute milestones of that sequence occurred right here 30 years ago when a massive demonstration took place the largest in east german history you have to imagine a sea of humanity gathered around this world clock behind me and emanating out all across this historic square let's take a look back to find out more. in november 989 the exodus of people leaving east germany reached a peak those who decided to stay demanded more freedom more than half a 1000000 staged a mass protest on east berlin alexanderplatz the largest demonstration in the history of east germany this is. how it's as if someone has pushed open the window. of the years of intellectual economic and political stagnation.

shelf the nation early years reeking of apathy 2 years of double speak and bureaucratic despotism. cut of it. the communist regime had subtly and publicly lost all support but even then no one predicted that just 5 days later the berlin wall would fall so milestone moment as you point out that melinda just tell us a bit more about the importance all that demonstration 30 years ago where you're standing now. the demonstration was organized by artists by actors by members of church groups academics students members of civil society a very diverse group some of them very very prominent others largely unknown and they actually went to the unusual step of applying for a permit to demonstrate here that was the 1st time that it occurred in east german

history the 1st time it was also authorized nonetheless when they gathered here that morning 30 years ago they could not know 1st of all how many people would attend and whether in fact a protest would be met with violent repression by the authorities because in fact there had been police violence at protests a month before in leipzig and elsewhere and also the then new head of the east german government was known to have spoken with understanding about the chinese harsh chinese violent repression of the uprising on tiananmen square earlier that year nonetheless there was no violence in fact those who spoke on the stage here at alexanderplatz were able to air their demands for more freedom democratic freedoms for justice for transparency peaceably in the presence of communist party officials and in fact the whole thing was televised which had an enormous impact throughout

east germany televised although in fact that wasn't officially authorized by the state now amongst those who spoke were not only these members of the opposition who had organized the demonstration but also a member of the politburo of the state and one of the organizers said that when she saw his hands shaking as he read from his paper she knew that the days of the regime were numbered and of course she was right and thinking about those people who were that mean 30 years ago in the grand scheme of things isn't so what do they feel about what has happened since then. well i think the short answer that many would give is it's complicated many people would say in from east germany would say their lives have changed for the better since unification and yet those i speak with also say they are painfully aware of the ongoing divisions divisions

between east and west between people from the former g.d.r. and people from the former federal republic but also larger divisions about the meaning of the events here 30 years ago about the aftermath of those events about the way that unification transpired and what that meant for east german sense of identity and belonging divisions that run through families that run through a circles of friends and many of those i speak with say you know the fact is history takes a long time to play out and many of our feelings are ambivalent and that's why perhaps the commemorations here are going to include a lot of discussions that pay tribute to that sense of ambivalence when our chief political correspondent melinda crane putting it all into perspective for us thank you so much. and all this week we'll be bringing you special coverage on reports of the events which led to the full day 30 years ago that's right here on the doubly

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a pollution isn't as an issue you know if evolution was slowly due to the regular traffic then this would be a solution right now it cannot be a solution because more today's private transport has a way smaller shared in the whole by the time there's growing frustration at the government's failure to address the issue one group of protesters accuse the government of scapegoating farmers who live outside the city instead of taking meaningful steps in the city. the us presidential election is a year away and doubleton could be heading for a tough race and average of all the opinion polls put stump's approval rating just above 41 percent but more seriously for him almost 55 percent of americans disapprove all think that he's do it now a key question of course is he will face in the 2020 election most polls predict

that if it is this man the former vice president joe biden will lose many polls suggest that the progressive democratic candidate elizabeth warren could also have a slight edge a trump well richland county in wisconsin has long proven to be a reliable indicator of the outcome since 980 the country has always voted for the winning candidate he'd already correspondent on the side it went there to gauge the mideast. feeding time for dairy farmer mark stalls and his calves like most people in richland county stoltz voted for president trump in 2016 but twice for barack obama in the elections before this time he says the political mood is anything but clear we time to we tend to like trump more than most people saw i don't i we don't talk a whole lot about it but it can get very testy very quickly even within our family i've got to give give give give give give give give give give give give give give

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offer twitter he would be fine i think it's with all the impeachment so it's going to be very noisy and interesting for the next year but if i was betting today i would bet he'll get elected again. at the local newspaper editor dawn key 1st says left and right wing supporters in the county are fighting for the public's attention she is often criticized for printing opinion letters that are too critical of president trump. i suggest to those persons they ought to write letters they're their own selves expressing their beliefs but most of those people decline and they don't explain why not i suspect they don't want their name in the paper dairy farmer march told says the decisive factor for him will be who the democratic contender is if the candidate is too progressive he might stick with donald trump even if that means more suffering for him and the farmers of richland

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