and china the most behind the glamorous facades of fashion houses luxury behind them are starts november 5th on d w. this is d w news live from berlin marking the fall of the wall here in berlin celebrations have begun to commemorate 30 years since the wall came down paving the way for all of the german reunification to get the details from our correspondent at alexanderplatz also coming up. a human rights watchdog accuses u.s. backed special forces in afghanistan committing war crimes and other atrocities

during their operations is calling for the units to be disbanded st. i'm told me a lot of well welcome to the program. germany has started a week of celebrations to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall which happened on the 9th of november 1989 a few days earlier hundreds of thousands of east germans had gathered at butlins famous alexanderplatz from unprecedented demonstration calling for freedom and expression of democracy here's more. history flashing before their eyes sisto since returned to berlin cyclonic alexandre plots to mark the moment that would help change the city and the country forever nov 4th 1989 more than half a 1000000 protesters descended on the square and what would become the largest

demonstration in the history of east germany led by some of its most prominent intellectuals they rose up to demand more freedoms from the oppressive regime. it's as if someone has pushed open the window i offered 2 years of intellectual economic and political stagnation shelf they can only years reeking of apathy. is of double speak and bureaucratic despotism but still cut up is. the communist regime had rapidly and publicly lost all support but even then no one predicted the just 5 days later their berlin wall would fall. this week the spirit of the peaceful revolution once more lighting up the city like this giant wave of colorful streamers said brandenburg gate carrying messages of hope for the future written by germans.

over the coming days the city will celebrate the anniversary with more than $200.00 events exhibitions and art words culminating with the ceremony at the berlin wall memorial on saturday. all this week we'll be bringing you special coverage and reports of the events which led to the fall of the bun in wall 30 years ago right here. now with a year to go to the us elections it's still unclear which way the country will vote president donald trump is under the weight of an impeachment inquiry while his opponents the democrats are still divided over which candidate to pick richland richland county in wisconsin could give a clearer picture since 1980 the county has always voted for the winning presidential candidate the correspondent all of a senate traveled to this swing district to have a feel of the mood there feeding time for dairy farmer market stalls and his calves

like most people in richmond 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 kind of we tend know more than most people 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 give give give give give me even though you voted for trump in the last election mark stoltz cares about key democratic issues like health care and climate change he also wants an end to the president's trade more farmers like him particularly hard he says. so that that's hurt we don't have a good place to ship malchen way products and cheese and you know right now on the markets got a lot of milk and cheese on it and americans are drinking less milk wisconsin lost

over $600.00 dairy farms in the last year. richland center with its 5000 citizens is the largest town in richland county a bellwether for the presidential election since 1980 the majority here has always voted for the winning candidate. richland county is traditionally a republican county. do we always vote that way you know i wouldn't vote for e. i don't like him i think i think if he keep his mouth shut they 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 their their own selves expressing their beliefs but most of those people declined and they don't want to explain why not i suspect they don't want their name in the paper dairy farmer marks told says the decisive factor for him will be who the democratic contender is if they candidate is to progress if he might stick with donald trump even if that means more suffering for him and the farmers of richland county. now let's dig deeper into this with our washington correspondent pablo foley elyas . the president is ever tweeting has he put off voters. dont think so and in fact signs are that there could actually in fact be a surge in voter turnout in 2020 in fact it could even be the highest in decades

and the last time around the percentage of voters who took part in the 2016 election was less than 60 percent president presidency has really divided the nation and that's led to a belief amongst political analysts voters in fact will be out in force to make sure their candidate whether that be president trump for the republicans and whoever the democrats choose that winds down election now there or are also other indicators such as the number of people claiming to be keeping an eye on the campaign for 2020 that's up also the number of small donations to candidates also oak and also viewership figures of cable network networks that's also increasing so the figures basically as well for the midterms also were the highest in over 100 years so it looks like all the indicators are pointing to one thing which is in fact that voters are going to come out in greater numbers 2016 you mentioned the

democrats and their choice of candidate what's that reese looking like and who is it looking like that will run for the democrats. well it's a very tight race indeed there are when we can just whittle it down to the 3 main candidates former vice president joe biden elizabeth warren then senator from massachusetts and then bernie sanders who has also ag got a very strong and loyal base now paul polls are indicating that biden in fact will win the race but also a significant percentage of democrats have said in polling that's being carried out that they've actually changed their minds and their preference for the candidate so it's really all up in the air and the key for 'd democrats is that their candidate beat donald trump so also we need to note that in fact it's one year to go and a lot can change in one year with regards to who democrats are going to choose as their candidates. ok. in washington thank you

now to some of the other stories making news around the world vietnamese police say they've arrested 8 more suspects in connection with the deaths of 8 vietnamese citizens found in a refrigerated truck in southeast england last month the suspects are accused of organizing people smuggling overseas british police have charged 2 men with months lot of over the deaths greek police have found $41.00 refugees alive in a refrigerated truck in the north of the country police trying to stop the truck on the highway near the city of zante for routine check officials say most of the people inside were from afghanistan and was unharmed as the refrigeration system was not turned on the driver was arrested. in iraq at least 5 people have been killed in the capital baghdad after security forces opened fire on anti-government protesters thousands of iraqis have been taking part in the

country's largest protest wave in decades fueled by anger over corruption high unemployment and paul public services the united nations is calling tonight for deescalation and talks between the government and demonstrators. the mass funeral soon became a raging protests. that we love and so we will sacrifice for you they chanted on the streets of kabul of this man die they're going to avenge train men who died of the way can during clashes with pro-government militia and the shiite only see the . in the shade but our son is a hero he was carrying only theoretically flood nothing else but the brazen militias attacked us and killed us. and in the capital baghdad they rallied to remember those victims to demonstrate is surging out of their protest camp on top 3 square and towards the heavily guarded bridges leading into the government district the paper bracing for further violence they've seen so much

of it in recent wakes you know what happened yesterday a young man went up to the bridge and it sounded one to 10 and they had his entire had to a separate aisle people mocked at from i know about peaceful protest in addition the motus and soon sickeningly familiar scenes were playing out in baghdad. security forces deploying water cannons and tear gas. and then went small firing live rounds into the crowd there i'm to push demonstrators back away from government ministries in the cities fortified green zone might know that legal i think it's what they're using a pip see in advantages would like to thank the volunteers who are getting as protective vests helmets and gloves as we just need to keep protesting. and it seems demonstrators that deter. and just stay on the straight no matter whether the government responds to them with a carrot or a clenched fist. heavy clashes continued into the night in baghdad more blood spilt

in a country that the same little pace for decades. clashes have broken out in chile's capital santiago after tens of thousands of people marched in anti-government protests police have used tear gas and water cannon against protesters rallying over education health services and growing economic inequality monday's demonstration marks the beginning of a 3rd week of public protests. and joining us now from the chilean capital santiago is correspondent john bottle it john to further add to the troubles in chile and earthquake has just struck the country while people were demonstrating in the streets how are things there now. you know i was actually the sun was up 45 minutes ago and i didn't feed it which is a strange thing to think of 6.3 on the route this go it was quite strong actually i

mean people here are so resilient to that kind of thing i've just seen a few videos of how people reacted and. people weren't really fazed by doing this on the course of the country there's been there's been some losses of kind of cope with seeing things but sure exactly the extent of the damages so. the process is no if not the and then he way i think that the government is reluctant to heed any kind of cool for a new constitution which is what the what the whole movement is boiling down to you know very slowly you know the demonstrations as you say are continuing authorities are using water cannon to disperse the crowds to give us more detail on on the protest movement as a whole. yes it's been interesting to see evolve the government has tried very much to focus on the on the. quiet. and quite kind of unobtrusive sort of propaganda videos of the president going visiting the the injured policemen they

said have been about 500 injured policeman the human rights institute here says there's about 4000 civilians that have been injured more than 20 now been killed someone follows inducing supermarkets and other buildings around santiago and indeed across the country many of been shot by the police and military largely dissipating the curfew and the curfew is now only last week we're into the 3rd week now and like i say the movement's really kind of boiling down to this to this movement for a new constitution which i think it's going to be difficult because that's something that's going to happen over a very long period it's own sake at least you know a good year to get things sorted yeah that's the situation as it stands at the moment ok thank you very much for that john that's john bought land in santiago. don't forget you can always get news on the go just download our app from google play all from the out store that will give you access to all the latest news from

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