the but. this is. a spotlight on the past germany begins a week of celebrations to mark the form of the berlin wall 3 decades ago. taking place across the capital and we speak to people whose lives were changed by the events of 30 years including 2 women spied on by the. police. violence flares again housings of people in the streets of the capital santiago to

. economic inequality. and. may be able to detect. the researchers on the project. festivities have started here in germany to mock the forward of the button wall to go on nov 9th 1989 east germany's communist regime lifted traveler district sions on citizens leaving them free to travel to the west for the 1st time in any 30 yes all of this week events are taking place across the capital to mock the moment that changed history. history flashed before their eyes as thousands returned to prelims

iconic alexanderplatz to mark their moment that would help change the city and the country forever. we want to make it possible to relive what happened back then and also the developments since then the road hasn't always been smooth over the last 30 years but we succeeded at something we can live together without a wall in peace and freedom in feeding on fire on november 4th 1909 more than half a 1000000 protesters descended on the square staging 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 freedom. as is. this is if someone has pushed open the window. after years of intellectual economic and political stock a nation. trough the. years reeking of apathy 4 years of double speak and bureaucratic despotism. but still cut short is.

the communist regime had rapidly and publicly lost all support but even then no one predicted that just 5 days later the berlin wall would fall. this week the spirit of the peaceful revolution once more lights up the city like this giant wave of colorful streamers at the 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 works culminating with the ceremony at the berlin wall memorial on saturday. joining me now in the studio political correspondent simon young welcome simon are we heading to wasn't an anniversary which changed the course of history as we heard tell us more about how a germany is commemorating these events of 30 s.

ago if we use the word festivities and i think this really will be a week of celebrations especially here in berlin there are you know parties of course on projects speeches discussion panels all sorts of events around this and of course the t.v. networks have been full of all those familiar. shots particularly when those crossing points were opened between east and west in the streets of berlin pretty much became a he street policy and i think the authorities are being to rekindle some of that atmosphere. is own remembering the victims of division of course as well but it it all climax in a huge goal of performance at the brandenburg gate on the 9th of november of course the day of the actual full of the world as we call it absolutely and the getting some of the euphoria that people felt at that time but the reason a fixation had losers and winners specially in eastern germany and some people

embrace the opportunities others said it was quite hot so tell us what this anniversary means for them well i think a lot of people will find it hard to join in the celebrations you know there's no doubting that germany today will democrats the place than communist. germany ever was but 98940 changes for many people for many people in the east it meant the end of the country that they'd grown up in where they understood the system where they knew how to get on and suddenly they found themselves struggling to come to terms with the capitalist system in some cases you had west germans and other foreigners turning up and telling people how to live their lives and making big decisions about for instance the future of businesses and of course not everybody thrived in it and indeed in line with that there's a survey out just this week saying that around harf of eastern germans believe that they're less free now to express their opinions than they would in

communist east germany and that's along with the impression that many east germans have or eastern germans i should say you know they're somehow 2nd class citizens they get paid less their pensions a lower it means you know not everybody looks back with fondness to 989 although i should also say that very very few people want to return to the g.d.r. in the bad old days and that comment about freedom of speech is quite remarkable given that one of the most dreaded aspects of eastern germany was the stasi police the secret police so what was it like for citizens off east in germany living with that yeah i mean this the stasi the secret police in east germany was something like a state within a states and it was there to sort of protect communism and keep the whole thing going but what it involved was a huge apparatus all of professional agents but also unofficial

collaborates is in 1989 there were around 300000 people working for the stars in one way or another that's over 2 percent of the population and they were collecting information and in some cases spying on people within their own families of course a lot of people will locked up somewhat tortured and that was a grim system and of course no one wants to return to that so many of these political correspondent thank you very much. and as we heard from simon the east german secret police the stasi spied on thousands of citizens many had no idea what information the stasi had gathered about them until years later when the stasi files for meat available we caught up with 2 women whose lives were changed by the stasi but who still feel the effects today. fall under long as aber visit the building where they used to live.

when the 2 secretaries lived here in their younger years spies from the stars he used germany's secret police monitored them through the kitchen window. but then the tree was smaller i was even visited you see people from the stars he's standing there you know as for me i just recently read about it. we never would have thought of such a thing. no i don't think so either. they read about it in their stars he files a couple of 100 pages of intercepted letters private mail and official correspondence and most of all reports from spies including the layout of your learners aber and zuko all files flat. at 7 am on april 30th 1900 observations of residents was undertaken for this kitchen

light was on and the window was half open and about 15 minutes later the light was turned off and left the flat alone she walked in the direction of the summer he touched us a subway station. someone looked into my life and i had no idea about it this is made me feel very uncomfortable for years i didn't want to have anything to do with it i didn't even want to read the file on the news so this is what's there. but i have to live with it. in my experience you always get through life better if you can live with the situation with. it. they wanted to leave east germany they had applied for exit reasons it was here that they were subjected to hours of interrogation they never wanted to set foot in this place again. let's just go and you have to go back to the place of horror. but i have a really bad bottle a feeling really bad i could just cry then do it. now. to

this day they feel humiliated by the tone used in the interrogations. this is here. this is. so is a greeting it was like can see right away that your slant not only is out of the you better watch out don't even cross the street the wrong way we are everywhere just huge threats. that was more than 30 years ago on the anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall the stasi documentation authority made the files accessible fallen ilona zabel speak publicly about what happened there explain to young germans why they risked their lives to leave east germany. i wanted out i didn't want anyone to tell me who has the right to decide where i live even if it were social or whatever but we didn't want that and at that age you're

also brave enough to do it as much as most does he even somehow never getting out or only to a couple of countries that it was decided i could go to i never agreed to that i had said before that i wasn't happy with that moment and then i thought you know i just want out of here i want freedom which meant if i had but at some stage it all petered out both women withdrew their exit visa applications. to pastor and that allowed her to travel alone as a but had a baby and was allowed to go to the west after all. and all of this will bring you a special coverage and report on the events that led to the fall of the berlin wall 30 years ago including stories of what it meant for individuals as. let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the world iran's president hassan rouhani says his country is to take another step towards violating the 2015 nuclear deal that limits its nuclear program technicians would begin

injecting gas at centrifuges that enrich uranium iran started backing away from the deal after the u.s. withdrew and imposed sanctions. chinese president xi jinping has met hong kong scarry lamb in what's being seen as a vote of confidence in the territories in battles leda the 2 met during a creed event in shanghai lamb has been struggling to deal with months of protests against beijing's growing influence in hong kong. like the u.s. has formally notified the united nations that it is pulling out of the paris climate agreement president dump and that trump announced the move 2 years ago but monday was the 1st day the process could actually start the u.s. is the only country to quit the deal. the european court of justice has ruled that poland broke a new law by luring the retirement age of judges critics say the poor undermines

the independence of the judiciary. rule of law and justice party brought in the law retirement age 2 years ago as part of a package of reforms off the judicial system it makes about a 3rd of judges take on early pension opponents say the ruling party can then exercise influence over the courts by appointing replacements for the retired judges. now brussels bureau chief max for fun is following the story and joins me now mark fill us more about this ruling how did the e.u. use highest score justify its decision. you just mentioned one part of that i'm reading lowering the age of retirement of the judges of the lower court but it's not just the fact that they lowered the retirement age they lowered it differently for men and women so the new retirement age for women is 60 years and the new

retirement age for men is 65 years on the court so the european court of justice in this case that use highest court ruled that this is not conform to e.u. law because it treats men and women differently that's one part of the ruling the 2nd part of the ruling is that only the justice minister has the power to extend the period of active duty of those judges if he wishes so and if the judges wishes so is that so that puts part of the judicial system into the hands of the government in warsaw and that undermines the independence of the court system in poland and so they ruled that infringement as well and why i think you said concerned about the changes too and is making to that school system you know the reasons like your gender equality it's more like a superficial reason of course is a very important topic but the transcending topic for all these different infringement cases because there are a couple of them against poland and on top of that there is an article 7 case which

could even lead to the stripping of the voting rights of poland so the transcending issue of all that is protecting the rule of law in poland and the european commission feels that this is not being the case and that's why they're bringing all these cases forward now that the ruling has been passed what consequence is bill and likely to face next. now in case of this infringement procedure right here the european court of justice will tell poland you need to change something if they don't change anything then the commission come can come again bring it again to the european court of justice and then there might be fine so it's not you know it's it doesn't really sting in this case but as i mentioned there's a there's another procedure the article 7 procedure often called the nuclear option because in the end there might be a stripping of the voting rights for poland in the european union that would sting but the problem is it's up to the member states to decide that they need a 4th 5th majority and at the moment to look like they're going to do that because as you know for many decisions in the e.u.

you need unanimity and that means you don't want to rattle the cage too much especially with all the problems that the e.u. is facing at the moment next you'll find these just as you know chief thank you very much and that is that and. turning now to chile where tens of thousands of people have again taken to the streets of the capital santiago to demand better social services and an end to inequality the demonstrations began last month after the government announced a hike in subway fare as the government accuses the protest is of damaging the economy the critics say too few chileans are benefiting from the country's 1st that it is. sirens tear gas and water cannon tensions once again fled into violent clashes between police and protesters in santiago. the demonstrations have entered the 3rd week of the metro fares

has grown into protests over income inequality and poor public services. clashes between police and protesters have left 20 people dead the government's response is i'm good for those demanding change. where protesting against the system in general above all against the problems in the neoliberal system here in chile we've reached a crisis and have noticed that the system cannot handle it anymore you know without my i actually was considered a latin american success story but economic growth has been accompanied by rising inequality and cooks in social spending. thousands took to the streets on monday to protest against the pension system they say is leaving people short changed. your word again this government wants to maintain the current pension system. for us this is insulting it's a provocation and that's why people are so angry. about this rally to highlight

student debt which is crippling the finances of university graduates. not being able to pay and having to do without things to save money and it's never ending in a source of distress. if you. why a sense of injustice the protests show no sign of abating. for decades scientists have been predicting we would soon win the war on cancer but progress is has been stubborn the slow and that's because a cancer diagnosis often comes too late when the tomorrow is already well advanced so to major conference on the topic in glasgow in scotland early detection is at the top of the agenda breast cancer is often diagnosed through my ma graphy but mammograms are often far from conclusive experts have hotly debated whether large scale screening with the high tech method is the best way to detect the disease and

it's early most treatable stages in the race to improve early prediction oncologists have been looking for biomarkers and blood that indicate the likelihood of developing a wide range of cancers before they break out earlier this year and then announcement criticized by some a team in germany presented a marketable blood test for breast cancer it's india india and it's about liquid biopsy was biopsied means we are determining a diagnosis via body fluids it may lead blood. boot we now have a blood test that enables us to find out whether there is an indication for an illicit he or the opposite i did he see that there's no indication of ilya's cell phone or a condom now in glasgow or new methods in the field or showcased that push the boundaries even further one of them as a blood test that might one day predict breast cancer up to 5 years before patients

begin to show clinical signs another serving 50000 patients looked at predicting possible risk in ovarian cancer and the earlier the diagnosis the better the chance patients can be healed. and for why i'm now joined by one of the authors of that study involving ovarian cancer got funston who's at cambridge university welcome dr hans to 9 simple terms can you explain to us the potential benefits of blood tests in diagnosing ovarian cancer yes it's a blood test of her potentially a very cheap quick defective way to detect cancer early in patients. the results of our study looked at the use of one blood test called c a one to 5 to detect very in concert or in women with symptoms of cum so such as losing abdominal pain and we find it was

a very useful test to help doctors identify the becomes a not group now until now screening for ovarian cancer hasn't been entirely accurate so do blood tests schauble promise screening is is a big challenge it's very difficult to use a simple blood test to pick up a compass or screening focuses on visions with new symptoms or researches through since something slightly different we've looked at women with nonspecific very big symptoms of possible of our incomes are such as losing and we've used the test in the patients and we find it's very useful so that does sound promising but based on your research how reliable are the tests in detecting cancer. so it varies on the type of tests used very very much. the test we studied which is is currently used in the u.k.

and some other countries. it picks up our arms percent all of our encounters it doesn't pick them all up no test is ever going to be part of the picks up around 80 percent of those concerts. and this was the in the hope for a long time that simple but effective blood tests would be available one day why is it taken so long. it takes a long time to bring a blood test from laboratory where it's 1st creates is new ideas are developed all the way through to using them in patient care the majority of new. biomarkers you see on the news and you see reports that will never make it to patients so there's a decades of research sometimes to shew that these tests were there and that we can use them in patients not causing harm that's a long process but it's really important a necessary process. right got funds to the cancer research at cambridge university

thank you very much for sharing your expertise with us thank you turning out to visit with oil spill off the northeast coast is one of the biggest environmental disasters ever to hit the country or it's been washing up for months now with nearly $300.00 beaches hit but president. has warned that the rust is yet to come visit blaine's a greek feature for the disaster but the ship's owners deny any involvement. or an environmental disaster brazil's rich coastal ecosystems including its beaches its coral and countless species are affected by the oil spill. i didn't invite life will be able to flourish and grow like it's always been able to and it affects the food chain it's a community of land and sea species here this is

a disaster this oil cannot be allowed to remain. the cleanup effort is enormous including government authorities the military and thousands of volunteers. it has to be to match the disaster scale. this disaster with this kind of oil it can't be detected by satellite has never happened before in brazil or in fact anywhere in the world where president jaya bell sonars government is blaming a greek shipping company for the spill asking interpol for help both sonora has released funds for the clean up and to help small businesses but experts say that his dismantling of government environment committees is also to blame. they say stablish. executive order. got reads. several 100 of them in all for their work. and

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but drew from the last deal last year and imposed sanctions on iran. police in the chilean capital santiago have used tear gas and water cannons against protesters rallying over education health services and economic inequality monday's demonstration marks the beginning of a 3rd week of mass protests. in germany has begun a week of events to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the bulletin board at alexanderplatz plants in eastern burley a light sure recall the huge pro-democracy demonstrations that took place 5 days before the war was opened. this is deja news from berlin for more you can follow us on twitter at the news all visit our website w dot com. and don't forget you can always get good news on the go

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