this is d.w. news live from baghdad a flamboyant advisor goes on trial on charges of obstructing justice roger stone was investigated in the probe into russian meddling in the 2016 u.s. election the self-proclaimed dirty tricks to claims the case against him is politically motivated. and bringing back bad memories 30 years after the fall of the berlin wall we hear the stories of 2 friends who were spied on by each chairman secret police.

i had in the home free glad you could join me a republican strategist and former advisor to u.s. president donald trump has gone on trial in washington accused of obstructing justice rajah stone was investigated as part of the special counsel probe into russian meddling in the 2016 u.s. election the case coincides with the impeachment inquiry against president trump and the house of representatives. like few other political operatives in u.s. history roger revels in attention whether it's good or bad. i only. told her. it's not. a veteran republican strategist whose career goes back more than 40 years. rajah

stone counts former u.s. presidents ronald reagan and richard nixon among his clients his affinity for nixon apparently strong enough for him to get this permanent reminder his ties with donald trump also go back decades in the eighty's stone turned trump the entrepreneur into a major donor for reagan's campaign and saw in him a potential contender for the white house. i have great affection for trump and the trump family i have wanted him to run for president says right here but while dirty tricks and prince of darkness are among the kind of names his critics used to describe him stowe now faces a new one convicted felon indicted by special counsel robert muller who was investigating russian interference in the 2016 campaign stowe was charged on several counts. oh the central question did stone tip off the trump campaign that the wiki leaks website was about to publish hacked e-mails

supplied by russian spies as part of a coordinated campaign to sink trump's democratic rival hillary clinton i will plead not guilty to charges i will defeat them. i believe this is a politically motivated investigation of the ruling class is found guilty of political provocateurs could now face jail the style this high profile trial is set to test roger stone's long held theory that any publicist is good publicity. well for more let's bring in correspondent all of us out it in washington all of the walk us through the main charges against roger stone in more detail. well hello this is a comeback of the findings of the mahler investigation to some extent that led to criminal charges against several trump advisers and campaign aides and now roger stone of course being one of them and the central question of this trial is of

roger stone exploited these in famous e-mails hacked from hillary clinton for a political gain of the trump complain in the 2016 election and roger stone testified before congress of all this in the allegation made against him is that he lied of all the trump campaigns for to obtain these e-mails and now he's sued for 5 columns of making false statements of congress one count of witness tampering he allegedly tried to persuade. another witness. to falsely testify before congress and there's also one count of obstruction of justice all right will soon as we know has pleaded not guilty but of course that's for the jury to decide if they find him guilty what sentence could he face right so still is just the 2nd one to plead not guilty by the way those indicted by mahler he calls it a politically motivated investigation as we've heard in the report so that's the

typical trump rhetoric here if he's found guilty on all charges he could face up to 50 years in prison earlier this year the former campaign manager of the trump campaign polenta ford faced similar charges but he pleaded guilty in contrast was convicted only to 7 and a half years in jail so it'll be interesting to follow and see how this turns out for roger stone now. i guess a flash of public drama he's described himself as a dirty trick or in the past any signs of that flamboyance in his testimony so far . all right he's a very colorful figure there was one story where roger stone defense team wanted to play a clip of a movie the godfather part 2 of course that led to a back and forth tussling with the prosecutors stone essentially wants to make the case that in a text message she sent to a witness he made reference to

a character off that film so trying to defend himself by showing film clips which of course is quite unusual in the end he was not allowed to show the film clip only to hand the transcript to the grand jury another story is that he was banned from posting anything on social media while his case is pending because he didn't comply with a court order to not post of all that case and the russian investigation earlier so you can see is very contest of color fully discredits the court also has been close friends with president trying for about 40 years and that all certainly sheds a certain light on the president as well all right on a sonnet in washington thank you on the phone. and now some of the other stories making news around the world yemen's internationally recognized government has signed a power sharing deal with a southern separatist group the 7 transitional council has been battling for control of the city they didn't fight fighting the government against the country's

10 p. rebels now the deal names change and months of infighting in the south. and least 4 people were killed when security forces opened fire on anti-government protesters in iraq's southern province of bastra this comes a day after 5 people were dead in protests in the country's capital baghdad as they call fists weeping political change. fire fighters in lagos nigeria are battling a fire at a huge market shopkeepers have been throwing goods from upper floors and trying to battle the flames while fire engines struggle to reach the scene. now to turkey. and a highly controversial dam a project is nearing completion. has been built on the tigris river and it's flooding a huge area now thousands of people have been forced to resettle because of it dozens of towns and villages will simply disappear now among them is the town of has on key if one of the walls all just oldest human settlements. people have lived

in haasan cave for thousands of years now the ancient town is being demolished building by building. concrete platforms have been set under the centuries old mosque soon the entire structure will be moved to higher ground before the entire area is flooded the tickers river has been rising for weeks several restaurants on the river's edge have already closed some 90 kilometers downstream dam has stopped the rivers flow to form a huge manmade lake that will submerge an area that humans settled millennia ago thousands of people will lose land and homes in the once bustling street where tourists used to shop merchants are now loading up their wares history of. course it hurts to leave such a store place if only they've been able to save house and cave we want to. get.

a few kilometers to the north a new city is taking shape there haasan mostly kurdish inhabitants can purchase subsidized housing ankara is also preparing a site for historic structures in the hope that tourists will still come to new haasan cave when it stands on the edge of the new lake but the residents of haasan caves are skeptical that anyone will come to their town when its ancient attractions like deep below water. well across the german capital festivities are underway marking 30 years since the fall of the ballet in wallin on that historic night the night of november 1990 on thinkable happened he's germany has called me is regime open the border the announcement allowed assistance to safely cross to the west for the 1st time in 3 decades hundreds of people were killed trying to escape with the berlin wall down friends and family could finally reunite without fear paving the way for the 2 germans to do the same not long after.

and one of the most fearful aspects of life in communist east germany was the secret police the stars the its functionaries spied on hundreds of thousands of citizens many had no idea what information the stasi had gathered about them until he is later when their files were opened. under luna's ybor 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 busy do you see people from the stars he's standing there you know with a as for me i just recently read about it. we never would have thought of such a thing oh no i don't think so either. though 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 loan as aber and zuko all files flat. at 7 am on april 30th 980 observations of residence was undertaken for this kitchen light was on and the window was half open and about 15 minutes later the life was turned off and see about left the flat alone she walked in the direction of the summer he touched us a subway station and. 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. 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 her. 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 interrogation. to know who is sitting here. in the service. 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 with. that was more than 30 years ago on the

anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall the stasi documentation or thorazine made the files accessible so killfile him alone is able to speak publicly about what happened there explain to young germans why they risked their lives to leave east germany. i wanted out and 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 doesn't even know i'm 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 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 or former pastor and that allowed her to travel alone as a but had

a baby and was allowed to go to the west after all. well this weekend but he will be bringing you special coverage on reports on me for the ballon will 30 years ago the biggest party is taking place on saturday at the landmark brandenburg gate in the center of the german capital will be joining the celebrations and brokaw stink of life throughout the day. well the rugby world cup winning springboks of south africa were welcomed by a sea of supporters at 0 or tom. johannesburg on tuesday thousands filled the airport to greet south africa returning home after they defeated england. to talk to win the world cup on a saturday in japan the springboks had its malls as that country meant celebrated their return. don't forget you can always get the news on the go just download from google play over me apps or not i'll give you access to the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for breaking you can also use the

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