this is d.w. news live from berlin a nation commemorates the of people that changed the world order germany is marking 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall a week of celebrations underway here in the capital we'll take you to the church where prayers and plans for a peaceful revolution shared the same space also coming up tonight a flamboyant former trumpet advisor is self-proclaimed dirty tricks goes on trial charged with obstructing justice watchers stone was investigated in the probe into

washington meddling in the 26000 u.s. election and in search of her husband what it means if you're married to a human rights activist who disappeared in china. i'm brink off it's good to have you with us we start right here in berlin across the german capital festivities are underway marking a 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall on that historic night november 9th 1989 the unthinkable happened and you're looking at it right there east germany's communist regime opened the border the announcement of welded citizens to safely cross to the west for the 1st time in 3 decades now in all those years crossing without permission was often fate. hundreds of people were killed trying to escape

the country but with the berlin wall down friends and family could finally reunite without fear paving the way for the 2 germany's to do the same not long thereafter . all right for more on the celebrations this week let's go now to my colleague david leavitt's he is out in a balance in berlin this evening in front of a very well known church here in berlin david what's going on. hey brant yeah i'm in front of the good salmon in church in what was 30 years ago communist east berlin and as you can see behind me there are some quite impressive projections of that time of these days leading up to the fall of the berlin wall which at that time no one was actually expecting that's what this whole week is about it's about commemorating the peaceful route to revolution now 30 years ago today there

was a concert in this church they did so many church of beethoven's 3rd symphony this and at the end of that the conductor stood up and he said the wall has got to go there was huge applause and people took to the streets in an impromptu march which not that long ago would have been very very dangerous that was 4 days before the berlin wall fell of course they didn't know that it was going to fall but already there was this momentum this impetus and that concert 30 years ago wasn't the 1st event at this church in terms of opposition to the church was a place for people to meet from the opposition it was one of the few safe places where people could talk politics. and really speak their mind now in the weeks and months leading up to the fall of the berlin wall this whole plaza behind me was filled with candles people came together here for candlelight vigils for pro-democracy demonstrators who were being imprisoned and that started off pretty

small at 1st there were only about 50 people but after a few days there were thousands of people people who weren't necessarily even christians weren't church members weren't even people who consider themselves political so this church is where a major groundswell of support for this peaceful protest movement took place and let's take a look back at those events from 30 years ago. in october 989 think of sam. many church in what was then east berlin became the center of the revolution communist east germany was celebrating its 40th anniversary and there was still rousing applause for the country's leaders but at the same time the streets were slowly filling up with protestors. on. east german police and members of the country's notorious intelligence service brutally beat the demonstrators. on this night thousands some of them wounded fled

into the safety of the church there were fears that the church would be storm. but the police didn't intervene a new wind was blowing from the east under mikhail gorbachev moscow was no longer willing to back the use of force against demonstrators the protest movement based in the guest them in the church was allowed to continue with candles courage and nonviolent protests these demonstrators paved the way for the peaceful revolution and the fall of the wall. and you know they've had a lot of people may be surprised to know that it was a church churches in communist east germany where people actually found safe zones if you will where they could actually talk about changing the system a peaceful revolution and not have to be worried about the secret police for example arresting them

a truly historic place what went on there today to mark 30 years of the berlin wall fall. well brant what went on and what is going to continue to go on through the night hours are these fantastic projections really bring in images and also sound bites of people who were there who helped make this happen who helped pave the way for the wallets of and also. a very certain someone by the name of patti smith is giving a concert inside the church she's here from the united states her whole created career has been built on the notion of freedom and people are here trying to get tickets a lot of them i saw a sign earlier saying if it was possible for the berlin wall to fall it must be possible to get tickets patti smith concert do you have a ticket david. i want to be talking to you bret so now.

that they get eggs yours are david leavitt's at the jet 70 church in what used to be east berlin i wish david thank you very much. well tens of thousands of workers from other communist countries including cuba mozambique and vietnam well they were sent to east germany to provide skilled labor when the to germany's united many decided to stay here some were deported but others married germans and most were eventually allowed to remain however it was not always easy to be accepted here. quanto to always dreamed of owning her own restaurant in 1976 the then 19 year old came to former east germany from vietnam. nor. my wide flower dress represented germany because it was given to me by german aid workers. so when i got the job training offer i immediately said yes i had no

idea what i was getting myself into. it was the. release. she liked life in east germany vietnamese people were considered to be very industrious but after her job training hard and true to have to return to a vietnam that had been destroyed by war. then in 1987 she was offered the opportunity to return to east germany in a small town as a contract worker but the attitude towards foreigners had changed him of envy i was becoming. as or. whenever we went shopping the cashiers look down at us as though we had just walked out of the jungle.

this is the building that one true used to work in a former clothes factory she quickly realized that people like her were only there to make up for the lack of skilled workers in east germany they were encouraged to not have contact with east germans in 1909 the wall fell germans were overjoyed but it was a precarious time for contract workers. it's been 5 and i was so worried i didn't know what was going to happen i thought it was all over. and. over the following years the government tried to put the form of contract workers. was allowed to stay because she was married to a german but she ran into opposition including her doctor he had been in charge of the contract workers in her small town. he asked me what are you still doing here i answered i live here he replied but we don't

mode you anymore there is no east germany anymore and. hatred of foreigners peaks in 1992 with aggressive gang violence right wing radicals such apartment buildings on fire and burned cars that belongs to vietnamese workers we haven't just been miles. we saw the attacks on t.v. my husband cried. and i told him these are hard times for us i might have to leave the country. still one to show a state today she feels more at home here but racism has again been on the rise in germany. of course i hope that the people i like will remain in the majority so that we won't be in danger. i truly hope that will be the case

it is up to all of us to open ourselves up to foreigners and not be scared of them because people from other countries are the salt in the soup of society. yeah. germany has become her home country to still has her vietnamese passport just in case. well all this week d w will bring you special coverage and reports on the fall of the berlin wall 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 broadcasting live throughout the day we hope you join it's alright to the united states now a republican strategist and former advisor to the u.s. president. has gone on trial in washington these accused of obstructing justice roger still was investigated as part of the special counsel probe into russian

meddling in the 2016 american election the case coincides with the impeachment inquiry against president truong which is taking place in the u.s. house of representatives. like few other political operatives in u.s. history roger revels in attention whether it's good or bad. side. a veteran republican strategist whose career goes back more than 40 years roger stone counts former u.s. presidents ronald reagan and richard nixon among his clients his affinity for nixon apparently strong enough to 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 since writing 88 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 stone was charged on several counts. oh the central question did 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 sync trump's democratic rival hillary clinton i will plead not guilty to these charges i will defeat them before i was relieved this is a politically motivated investigation the ruling class is found guilty of political

provocateurs could now face jail in the style he's highly profiled trial is set to test roger stone's long held theory that any publicist is good publicity. we will see or hear some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world yemen's internationally recognized government has signed a power sharing deal with the southern separatist group the southern transitional council have been battling for control of the city of aden and spite the fighting with the government against the country's who the rebels the deal lanes to end months of infighting in the south of the country at least 4 people were killed when security forces opened fire on anti-government protesters in iraq's southern province of basra and this comes a day after 5 people were reported dead in protests in the country's capital baghdad as they called for sweeping political change firefighters in law goes

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 engine struggle to reach the city. israel's supreme court today have held a government order that requires a rights activist to be expelled from the country about activists is accused of supporting a boycott of the country over its treatment of the palestinian. it's the court ratified the government's refusal to renew omar schuck here's a work visa and gave him 20 days to leave the country chuck here is the israel director of human rights watch the n.g.o.s says the deportation order is an attempt to silence criticism of the occupation of palestinian territory. while speaking to the w. news omar sheikh here said that the court's ruling is part of a disturbing trend of crackdowns on human rights advocacy in israel it is

undeniably changed and i would say the last 5 to 10 years i mean a decision like this would not have been conceivable i think 1520 years ago while the supreme court has often rubber stamped government policies when it comes to settlements and human rights abuses in the west bank for it to sign off on this government's crackdown on human rights advocacy really is a dangerous sort of escalation what we've seen in recent years is denial of entry to prominent international rights advocates un representatives amnesty israel palestine groups that have been tarnished just last week a palestinian staff member amnesty international has issued a travel ban as a punitive measure given their work it's quite clear that the israeli government is hell bent on shutting down independent human rights reporting but it ultimately is going to fail we're going to continue to do the same work covering the same issues

and the exact same way whether i'm here or not and we're going to fight to the very last minute not only for me to stay in these next 20 days but to safeguard what remains of the limited space for human rights advocacy and basic criticism. that was here speaking with us from israel where is you when shame that is a question that his wife is desperate to find the answer to the human rights lawyer was detained almost 2 years ago by chinese authorities and those chinese authorities they've said very little sense now use wife is on a quest to locate her husband and challenge his detention despite the hurdles involved here's the story she is on a mission crisscrossing china on trains. as in the hope of confronting a system shrouded in secrecy i think i still don't know where my husband is or his situation. in pursuit of justice and for 680 days her husband you

when sharing a human rights lawyer has been behind bars where exactly and for how long only those in power know that. i feel helpless very disappointed and feeling like there's nothing i can do i also feel disappointed as they don't do things according to the law. but if they see these things in my heart i will never give up i will continue. here. for months she's been making the long trip to shoot you city detention center where she believes her husband is being held. inside she clings to hope and a bag of warm clothes for the long winter ahead and the end there is no confirmation you is even here. you know what. the un shang i know

is a good lawyer he was only practicing his rights and using his freedom of speech. this shouldn't happen to him and it's very unfair on my family. that if. she was there for flanked by use lawyers she heads next to the district court to demand information use case was heritier in secret please give short shrift to her desperate plight patience is running thin. and my body is extremely tired going from beijing to is very far often i leave beijing in the morning at 5 am and it's not even light at 5 sometimes it's raining sometimes it's snowing it's already been 2 years i'm extremely tired tired to the point where i get sick natives and. eventually they resolve to file a complaint about used treatment the little expectation that it will make a difference another day in

a café system seemingly designed to obfuscate and frustrate. at the story of one woman's search for her husband in china well here's a check now of some other stories that are making headlines at this hour at least 3 women and 6 children all u.s. citizens have been killed by drug cartel gunmen in northern mexico mexico's security minister says that it's likely the group was targeted accidentally at least 5 children have been taken to the hospital for treatment president hassan rouhani says iran will take another step towards violating the international agreement limiting its nuclear program technicians will begin injecting gas at centrifuges that enrich uranium iran started backing away from the deal after the u.s. withdrew and imposed sanctions on it last year. we're now to turkey and a highly controversial dam project which is nearing completion the elusive daily has

been built on the tigris river and it is resulting in a huge area being flooded and thousands of people have been forced to resettle dozens of talons and villages are about to disappear among them is the town you see right here of a sun key which is one of the world's oldest human settlements. people have lived in haasan k. for thousands of years now the ancient town is being demolished building by building. concrete platforms have been set into 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 the elusive 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. of course it hurts to leave such a story place if only they'd been able to save house and cave what we wanted but the states didn't and. 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 haas are skeptical that anyone will come to their town when its ancient attractions my deep below water. stream media spying both part of what is known as digital authoritarianism and

they're threatening democracy around the world that's the message from this year's report on global freedom published by the u.s. watchdog freedom house my colleague. talk about that report. takeaways from the report basically this year's report said that for the 4th year in the row freedom on the internet is on the decline worldwide basically the report pointed to 2 sources which you just kind of mentioned right there based on the one side we have online extremists basically extremist groups attempting to hijack a public display of discourse and debate online and attempt to take into a new kind of anti-democratic direction and on the other side you also have individual governments and also government agencies using the potential of social media to spy on their own citizens and how exactly are political extremists taking advantage of social media well i mean basically everyone has kind of seen it in the recent years i mean starting in 2016 there's been this onslaught of fake news of propaganda of distortions online especially when it comes to social media and

basically it allows these these radical groups to kind of hijack the public discourse and taken to a completely new direction basically they distort the views in the opinion. people online in an attempt to kind of make them think that the middle of the society is somewhere else and you know often we kind of point the finger and say this is an international problem it's coming from countries like russia like iran like china but what is actually interesting is the report indicated that a full 93 percent of internet users are targeted by these campaigns and they're not coming from abroad they're coming from internal actors within a country focusing on their own population and you know we hear all the time about when we go online the matter what we do our actions they are being recorded and talking about social media surveillance year it is big brother is it a serious threat or becoming one well it certainly is and i think most people especially here in europe are very conscious about the information that's that they're putting out online typically they seem to think that it's mostly corporations that are actually keeping track of them but the report indicated this

year that actually increasingly governments and individual government agencies are tracking people more and more basically they gain access to a lot of technology that was developed for the war on terror and the war against drugs and they're using that in a in a kind of an unregulated fashion targeting journalists targeting the demonstrators targeting activists and well you could say well i have nothing to hide so what's the problem but really this is having a chilling effect when it comes to the public discourse which is really kind of something that the entire internet is based on you never know what's going to be done with the makes it even if you don't have anything that actually hi erin as always thank you thank you. this is news and these are our top stories u.s. republican strategist roger stone has gone on trial on charges of obstructing justice stone was a longtime adviser to president donald trump and was the subject of the probe into russian meddling in the 2016 u.s. elections. yemen's internationally recognized government has signed

a power sharing deal with a southern separatist group the southern transitional council have been battling for control of the city of 8 and despite fighting with the government against the who the rebels the deal em's to end in fighting in the south of the country. at least 3 people were killed when security forces opened fire on anti-government protesters in iraq's southern province of basra over 200 people have lost their lives since the beginning of october in a wave of demonstrations in the country demanding big political reforms. germany has begun a week of events to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall at alexanderplatz in eastern berlin a light show recalled the huge pro-democracy demonstration that took place 5 days before the border was finally oh. this is it d w news from berlin for more you can always follow us on twitter at g.w. news or you can visit our website w dot com. you're watching the w.

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