this week a loving 1000 scientists are predicting untold suffering from climate change unless we change the way we live and the way we think at the same time he was president had started the one year process of taking the u.s. out of the paris climate agreement now watch the calendar here the withdrawal ins in november 2021 day after the us presidential election tonight the fight against climate change and both on the ballot and for those $11000.00 scientists the decision could not be clear. gulf and berlin this is the day. for withdrawal of the united states from the horrible costly one

sided heris climate accord we regret. to withdraw from the agreement. we believe that climate change is a common challenge faced by all of mankind. and ask them how they're doing in paris with the. easy going it alone is not a good decision for anyone and is not possible for everyone and it's the root of future conflict. we hope that the us can take on more responsibility and make more constructive contributions to the process of multilateral cooperation instead of adding negativity. also coming up this week 30 years ago the berlin wall began crumbling exposing east germany's vast web of lies betrayal. made possible by the secret police. 70. on april 30th 1900 observations of residents

must undertake and this demon has someone looked into my life and i had no idea about it this is made me feel very uncomfortable. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with a dire warning from scientists about climate change a warning based on evidence versus a campaign promise from u.s. president trump a promise based on a calculation of how best to keep the president's base this week the trump administration gave notice to the united nations that the u.s. is exiting the paris climate agreement the world's richest economy and biggest polluter has become the only nation to read neg on the only international plan designed to stop global warming the paris agreement is not binding it does not require a country to spend taxpayer money and yet that is how the us president has always

described the united states will withdraw from the paris climate a court but begin negotiations to re enter either the paris accord or in really entirely new transaction when terms that are fair to the united states its businesses its workers its people its taxpayers so we're getting out. well america's exit will become final in november of next year 1 day after the us presidential election timing is very relevant here this weekend's the us started its withdrawal of love in the 1000 scientists declared a climate emergency predicting untold suffering unless we change our pursuit of limitless wells and growth with no wind the world always watches the u.s.

presidential election closely because of its global impact but the events of this week give even more weight to a white sion day next november. well a republican strategist and former adviser to u.s. president has gone on trial in washington accused of obstructing justice roger stone was investigated as part of the special counsel probe into russian meddling in the 2016 american elections case coincides with the impeachment inquiry against president trump that is taking place in the u.s. house of representatives. like few other political operatives in u.s. history. revels in attention whether it's good or bad. oh. no. 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 for him to get this permanent reminder his ties with donald trump also going 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 it 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 stone was charged on several counts. the central question did still want to pull off the

trump campaign that the wiki leaks website was about to publish hacked e-mails supplied by russian spies as possible coordinated campaign to think trump democratic rival hillary clinton i will not give you these charges and i will defeat them or i was at least this was a politically motivated investigation of 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 . this week germany is celebrating 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall on nov 9th 1909 east germany's communist regime lifted travel restrictions on its citizens allowing them to cross into the

west for some it meant finally being able to escape the long arm of these germany's secret police the stasi and the stasi consisted of visual and not so official associates who spied on hundreds of thousands of citizens many had no idea that the stanzi had collected information about the mental years later when their secret police files were made public that brings us to the story of 2 women that the stasi was able what the stars he was able to do to their lives as had all kinds of impacts then and even today. there was a little fall under the limousine visit the building where they used to live. when the 2 secretaries lived here in the younger years spies from the stars he used his secret police monitor them through the kitchen window. but then the tree was

smaller. i was even dizzy to see people from the stars you standing there 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 the 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 1900 observations of residence 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 saban left the plant alone she walked in the direction of the summer he touched us a subway station a. month had 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 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 a situation with that. 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 well 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. through the system here. this it is.

so is a greeting it was like can see right away that you are slow and can do not only that of you better watch out don't even cross the street the wrong way we are everywhere just huge threats nothing. that was more than 30 years ago on the university of the full of the berlin wall the stasi documentation authority made the accessible still kill file in illinois a bus speak publicly about what happened there explaining to young germans why they risked their lives to leave east germany. dubose 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 and it is 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's all petered out both women withdrew their exit visa applications i still come to pasta and that's allowed her to travel alone as a ba had a baby and was allowed to go to the west after all. why after the berlin wall fell in 1992 she ations known as the 2 plus 4 treaty talks resulted in the reunification of germany in just under a year of that historic change was part of an agreement between the 2 germany's eastern west plus the 4 former occupying powers following world war 2 the soviet union the us france and. robert zoellick led the u.s. team in those 2 cause for negotiations we spoke with him earlier today here in berlin. robert zoellick in 1989 most people said that the full of the bullying will

came as a complete surprise to see it not the exact opening of the wall which i think was an accidental occurrences historians have have now uncovered but in from the start of $89.00 when i was with secretary baker over at the state department the ground was shifting in part because of the changes that gorbachev and least in part because of the failures of the east german regime in part because of the courage of people in east germany in the demonstrations so you knew that you had to be able to respond to the changes and there were some steps that we started taking earlier in $89.00 with conventional forces and changes in nato to do that to be prepared to work with germany as a partner whatever came in that was fortunate you took part in the process of bringing the 2 german is together what was the united states main role in that well i think historians will agree the us was the strongest supporter of west germany in this and we were fortunate our publics were not anxious about german democracy in fact you know they there was

a sense among the american public that of course germans would want to unite and that allowed us to play a role with nato with the changes in dealing with the soviet union with the sort of c.f.c. process what i described is in a sense a moving circus of sort of different aspects that had to be changed on the international side to allow germany to unite from the perspective of today was german unification handled well was it too much take over and not enough. i really don't think there was an option and you know one also has to keep in mind germany and 40 years west germany had 4 years of international commitments if you'd started to create a new germany all of a sudden you would have had to redo all those so if you like breakfast. you would have liked that so i think there really wasn't an option of that and frankly i think one chance or coal over the lot of foresight sort of used the elections in i believe march of 90 to sort of have the choice of these german people that was the

key decider now what follow from that in some ways understandably the people of the eastern states you know had been under 40 years of communist control a lot of younger people entrepreneurial people moved to the west beforehand the industries were not really that productive so it was going to take at least a generation or transition but i frankly i'm always pleased when i meet people from east germany who have lived a totally different life now because of that experience they're often the younger ones so one has to help people perhaps my generation that had a harder time making the change but it's great to see the freedom that people now have and any lessons from german unification for all the world of today and tomorrow well there's a lot of lessons i mean one was at the same time we were trying to keep a 40 year promise to the german people we really also wanted to build a partnership for the future and we believe that the united germany would be the most influential country in what we knew would be an integrated europe and we

wanted to have germany is a good partner so i look with some concern at what i consider to be the drift away or even alienation between the 2 countries there's another big picture though that could be useful for the iran's of north korea's which is that when people try to just deal with the nuclear weapons and sanctions alone i think they missed the fact that a case like german unification required changes in the conventional forces that change the required and economic dimension of required human rights to mention the required. changes in sort of the short range nuclear forces the changes in c.s. c.e. so you had this multiple ring circus and i think frankly to deal with countries like iran and north korea you're going to need a. multi-dimensional approach robert zoellick thank you so much pleasure. and that was robert there speaking with g.w. so i mean young earlier today all this week t w will be bringing you special coverage and reports on the events which led to the

fall of the berlin wall 30 years ago. on one extreme ism and social 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 web freedom published by the u.s. watchdog freedom house my colleague is here now to talk about that report of the main 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 discourse and debate online an attempt to take into a new kind of and a 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 is kind of seen 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 take into a completely new direction basically they distort the views in the opinions of 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 populate. and you know we hear all the time about when we go online no 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 you know 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 information even if you don't have any things that actually hide erin as always thank you thank you. and the oil spill off the northeast coast of brazil could be one of the country's biggest environmental disasters oil has been washing up for months now with nearly $300.00

beaches hit but president gyre bills are not 0 has warned the worst is yet to come . it's one of the worst oil spills in brazil's history but one that's hard to fully assess from the air or by satellite brazilian authorities say it's impossible to tell how much oil is likely to come ashore and no one's sure who's responsible brazilian president says it's the fault of a greek flight oil tanker and he's asked interpol to investigate but also not removed environmental safeguards so they say stablish. executive order in april got rid of several 100 of those committees in all further ormont. and one of those committees was exactly the committee to deal with oil spills now brazil's

coastal ecosystems its beaches coral a marine life have been devastated. i didn't buy life won't 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 that this oil cannot be allowed to remain. so you need the cleanup effort is enormous including government authorities the military and thousands of volunteers because it has to be over $300.00 beaches along 2000 kilometers of coastline must be cleared of crude oil. yes disaster with this kind of oil that can't be detected by satellite has never happened before in brazil or in fact anywhere in the world. brazil now has multiple environmental disasters playing out at once fires in the amazon burst toxic mining down. and now this.

and for more i'm joined now by dion john tave she's a reporter for the associated press she joins us tonight from rio de janeiro don it's good to have you on the program do we know more about where this oil is coming from and do we know why why is interpol now getting involved and well thanks for having me so brazilian authorities investigated for 2 months and look into dozens of ships that had been navigating close to brazil coast around july and august and they did some testing from some poles like to the beach and now maybe always coming from an agenda but they still didn't know what happened and only a few days ago the brazilian police said they suspected that a greek cargo ex field and the ole on its way to singapore and but the ship owner as deny and so brazil authorities requested could ration from interpol to help with

the vista geisha into the ship and the crew and the company all right so this could be a criminal investigation as well as an investigation into an environmental disaster talk to me about the impact that this is having on the environment. so i think the impact is on the environment and but it's also a fisherman who depends on on. people restaurants hotels tourists. and people have been not doing this because they fear that the fish is contaminated and there has been some initial stanleys made by several universities here that have shown that most people would and fish was indeed contaminated and they have found oil in there they just and risk respiratory systems and so recruitment a growing through a very difficult time right now and we're talking about dozens of thousands of

patients and because you know it's about 2000 kilometers of custom line and the government has said they are going to help but stem might be insufficient because the fishermen are not properly registered and so it's creating like a real problem and and as you mentioned there's also the environment i think the coral reefs could be impacted and they have already started seeing small amounts that they might be more to come and so this is terrible for the fisherman and it is in the southern hemisphere summer is coming what does it mean for tourism we know that brazil's beaches they live from tourism. absolutely the northeast of brazil where this is happening is the beach this nation for christmas and new year's eve which as you said flows in brazil's summertime. this high season hasn't started yet so there hasn't been that and every significance

cancellations and holidays are bookings but the next couple of weeks are going to be. you know very telling we'll see what's going to happen but it's obviously a big threat and people are scared although as for you know today there are there hasn't been a significant impact yet on tourism but we'll see what happens over christmas and you and what about this this environmental disaster for the president mr also navajo he has come under fire for how he's handled this situation i mean how damaged is he said the problem that many people have said that the government's response was too slow that it was too excell too late experts and very mentalists and even people from within the government have been criticizing the government's response now we must remember that this is

a very. specific kind of all it's heavy oil crude oil and it's moving below the surface of the water so it's very difficult to track satellites film work planes monitoring don't work either so it's been very difficult 1st you know what their reaction it was going to do and also to know if. it's that that is the all the worst of the all is behind us and has it. young jonty reporter for the associated press joining us tonight from rio de janeiro with the latest on the mysterious oil spill there off the coast of brazil thank you very much. well the day is always done the conversation however continues online you'll find us on twitter either in the news or you can follow me aboard golf t.v. let us know what you think the forget to use the hash tag the day every member whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see that it was .

repeated new beginning to continue to force. west and east germany 30 years after the fall of the wall. how competitive are the 2 economic region what about salaries and of course the residents. what happens when everything

changes. made in germany. to france dear antonio here's a scene when your mother was born in 1969 the world was already 8 years old you know my grandchildren were born after the wall fell for an inning the financial. 3 generations one family on a journey through recent german history. the berlin wall our family and us in 45 minutes on d w. i'm not laughing at the germans because sometimes i am but most and nothing with a 10 minute think deep into the german culture. from take this drama down to

you because it's all that who care enough time rachel join me for me to get something done post every journey begins with the 1st step and every language with the 1st word published in the. rico is in germany to learn german why not come with him simple online on your mobile and free cell d w z learning course nikos free german mating see. the berlin wall came down 3 decades ago it happened suddenly for many people and triggered a lengthy process of social political and economic change parts of eastern germany

is still trying to reinvent themselves and hold on for those young people who are eager to move away upheaval when everything changes that's how focused.