room. booking travel now. this is news coming to you live from hong kong student who fell during a protest. this marks the 1st student death during the anti-government campaign and sets the stage for more protests also coming up. hits back at france's him after he says the transatlantic alliance is experiencing brain death she says he's

reacting and using drastic language. spain's socialist prime minister gets ready to face off against his political opponents in what will be a tight general election on sunday among the most controversial issues are catalan separatism and the paul rights plan for women. doesn't buy into this false feminism which is so one sided we are the real feminists even though we're right wing we are pro-life and defend family values. and as part of our coverage of the 40th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall we look at one of the darkest chapters in german history children forcibly removed from parents considered disloyal to the regime we hear one family's personal story of reunification.

hello i'm terry martin welcome to the program a hong kong university student who reportedly fell from a building during clashes between police and protesters has done hong kong university students have held a memorial gathering for the dead coley the events leading up to the incident are still unclear but it's believed the student fell from a car park after police fired tear gas during a protest last weekend he had been in a coma since being found. well for more let's cross over to our correspondent mateus berlinger he's standing by force in hong kong mathias what is known about the circumstances that led to the student's death. what we know is that he found from a parking deck at that moment there were heavy clashes between police and protesters around that area and some of the protesters seem to have fled into that

parking deck police is accused of firing tear gas into that parking deck although the. details circumstances of the death on not clear there's no camera footage available from the moment he fell why he fell why he was so close to the edge of this parking deck down have a numerous rumors around here and now i am at the university where used to study the hong kong university of science and technology you can hear the people shouting behind me they were holding come the memory event here. now leaving the area that we have going to probably see them around today again this house of course and got the students along ok so the students are angry tell us more about the general reaction to the news of the students' death i mean the details aren't. here but people already have opinions about what happened.

yes but what is clear that he died during a protest and he would be the 1st person to die in direct consequence off of protests that have been other deaths and also rumors of test $103.00 not been confirmed to have been suicides but this would be the 1st case where somebody would have died directly linked to a protest although we do not know exactly what led to his death and that is of course going to ignite the protests further we have the impression that the protests might be slowing down a little bit also with district elections coming up in 2 weeks but this is clearly something that will get people to the streets we have seen other flash mobs this afternoon the news is is quite recent from this morning that he died and they already several events being called upon for today the movement the protest movement now causes 1st march. but it is thank you very much for brains up today

did all these materials bellinger there in hong kong. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today in iraq 10 and he government protesters have been killed in baghdad and the port city of basra security forces have used live rounds and tear gas in the latest disturbances they began in october over government corruption and a lack of jobs. chile's president sebastian pinera has announced new measures to restore order amid the country's worst rioting in 3 decades the measures include tougher penalties for vandalism intensified aerial surveillance and strengthened police intelligence unrest in the capital santiago in recent weeks has left 20 people dead and caused extensive damage. billionaire michael bloomberg is considering entering the 2020 presidential race in the u.s.

warning that the current field of candidates is ill equipped to defeat donald trump the former new york mayor has not formally announced his bit but he's expected to run in the democratic primary in the state of alabama france's president emmanuel mccall has taken other european leaders by surprise by criticizing nato in an interview with the economist magazine mccall said the alliance was experiencing brain death he's claimed that the alliance is being undermined by a lack of coordination and by the unpredictability of u.s. president donald trump but chancellor angela merkel and the head of nato. have rejected the remarks. part of the berlin wall is displayed outside nato headquarters right now in stoltenberg is meant to be celebrating the anniversary of the victory over communism but instead he's declaring that his alliance isn't dead . nato is strong. united states north america and europe we

do want to get that done got done for decades. one of nato's most important members has spoiled the party in a historic week for the alliance emanuel macos at least a is calling into question some of nato's founding values in an interview with the economist magazine nicole said the mutual defense pact was in danger of breaking down. what we are currently experiencing is the brain death of nato he said adding you have no coordination whatsoever a strategic decision making between the united states and its nato allies. it's the events of last month in syria that have my call worried 1st the alliances largest member the united states announced a troop pullout without consulting its allies then another alliance member turkey marched into the syrian northeast despite the vehement objections of berlin and

paris they're worried it threatens european security. but does all this add up to a threat or just a blip in nato history nato in germany insisted today in berlin that the alliance is still alive and well even if we do have a problem even if we do disagree from the german perspective that nato is very much in our interest it's our security alliance that's been. for its part berlin has been signaling an increase commitment to the alliance visiting training soldiers defense minister and a good outcome said she's in favor of making nato is 2 percent spending target mandatory she at least is optimistic about nato even as other alliance members question its future. let's bring in our political correspondent told us. so they too is having a bit of a crisis it seems tell us with the french leader talking of brain death is germany in any position to help put the alliance back on course. i would say germany is an

political capacity to play a leading role in nato germany has defended to nato many many times in fact german leaders have called nato indispensable and we just saw there what i'm going to merkel have to say about nato so politically certainly germany is one of nato's main defend as another question terry would be whether germany could play a leading role militarily especially given the problems that the german military is facing problems that we've also reported here at length so you have to see this as a 2 side process on the 100 politically germany contraire leading role militarily that is another question altogether now the german defense minister is talking about germany shouldering more global responsibility when it comes to security but we're not hearing much from chancellor merkel herself how much support is there in germany tomas' for beefing know the military. it is a difficult question here in germany i would say most politicians do view

positively the fact that germany could play a leading role internationally could play a bigger role internationally but the question is how whereas some politicians say they could be by beefing of defense spending for example by having that big a military presence there are those in particular in the social democratic front to say that that could be done differently for example by playing a larger role within the united nations by playing a larger role when it comes to conflict prevention and dick lomas see so yes i would say many do think that germany as a big power in europe could play a bigger role internationally but iraq may have differences as to how that can be done. or told us as you know the u.s. secretary of state like pompei was in germany taking part in events this week marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall let's take a look. it was in some ways a deeply personal visit hewas secretary of state my pump you use the 1st day of his stay in germany to return to his former military base he was stationed here is

a soldier in the eighty's one of these 2 teams back then patrolling the border that separated east and west germany together with the foreign minister. this was also no cajun to ease the recent tensions in the u.s. german relations. it was a bit of a walk out of every way for me. every. every structure. you could say i saw. you could say i saw a piece of history that i was a tiny little part of back in the late eighty's i think it's indicative of the incredible chord relationship between our 2 countries michael mass expressed gratitude for american support of the german reunification process. because. we have committed so you with great solidarity and gratitude we owe our freedom to you as well as our unity. company or also wanted to show

solidarity with jews living in germany in the eastern city of hull or together with mosque he visited the site of recent anti semitic attack in the you not see gunmen had shot the 2 people last month after he was unable to enter a synagogue and carry out a mass shooting with thank you for coming here with me today thank you for being here to the honor to those individuals who were killed here to the people who want to simply become your worship in their own faith in the way that they did. in berlin my computer will meet german chancellor angela merkel to discuss current issues in foreign policy. and there are quite some issues between the u.s. and germany at the moment economically and politically told us can this symbolic visit by the u.s. secretary of state do anything to patch up what is currently a very strained relationship on the fact that mr pompei o has a personal history here in germany could certainly help improve things but you

mentioned terry the key word of this visit namely the fact that it was symbolic it was precisely there to try and show that role that the u.s. played in german reunification and the fact that german and u.s. ties are very strong indeed despite the fact that there are very big problems indeed and i would say that those problems are still very much on everyone's minds and here whether we're talking about nato whether we're talking about the environment whether we're talking about north stream where we're talking about iran whether we're talking about syria there's a long list of topics where germany and the u.s. differ but the goal of mr pompei was visit was to try and show that despite those differences germany and the u.s. do have common values and common goals overall despite the differences. today home pay or we'll meet german chancellor angela merkel and defense minister concow them bow in berlin how do you expect that play out. well it will probably play out much

in the saying as his previous visit in may when some of the key details were obviously discussed some of the key issues with germany and the us defied but at the same time i do expect that once again both and that i'm a misstep and pay a will try and show where the u.s. and germany see eye to eye and also where there is room for improvement always thank you very much political correspondent tony sparrow. spain is holding a repeat general election on sunday the 4th election in 4 years and in the last round of voting in april this year the socialist party of prime minister pedro sanchez won the largest share of the vote but fell short of majority in parliament such as then failed to form a government with other left wing parties he called snap elections try to increase his share of the vote and his chances to form a government but it's far from certain that the strategy will pay off. mcgann. is fighting to defend his future he's campaigning for the socialist party p.s.l.e.

it's leading the polls but likely to fall short of an outright majority. either stands for the aspirations of us young people who want a world with more social justice. with fighting for better working conditions against climate change and we support feminism. the 30 year old has been an activist for 8 years he fears that these elections could be more crucial than previous polls. show men. are sent to right p.p.r. to take us and come 1st the likely team up with the far right vox which is predicted to come in the 3rd. and that's really scary as they would put in place inhumane policies against women p.t. people and migrants. we need to convince as many people

as possible to vote for us. but that won't be easy especially since a supreme court verdict on catalan separatist leaders lead to violent backlash by independent supporters it looks like voters are set to punish the socialists conciliatory approach and to reward the tough stance of the far right vox party that's especially peeling to many young people. i don't know if there are more 40 years ago we handed over catalonia to the enemies of the nation who are now controlling its education system police and media. we need to send in all our available police to suffocate this revolt take back control and suspend autonomy status. but. we feel it will. things vox is just what spain needs not only in catalonia. we finally have

a party that speaks its mind without fear and ignores the rules of political correctness. we young people can finally see out loud again that we love our country. doesn't bow to this false feminism which is so one sided that we are the real feminists even though we're right wing we are pro-life and defend family values. the 24 year old is still hoping right wing parties will get the upper hand in these elections meanwhile miguel is optimistic that the socialists can still boost their share of the vait he's banking on the roughly one 3rd of focus who haven't yet made up their mind and if that isn't enough a different approach might be needed. politicians will need to take their share of responsibility if we aren't able to form a coalition the other party should give their tactical support to the front runner so that the party can work as a minority government. that might indeed be an acceptable compromise for many

spaniards because the one thing that voters seem to agree on is that the political deadlock in spain finally needs to end. and it obviously said lewis who filed that report joins us from madrid so it's the last day of campaigning in the spanish election the country is just waking up there at this hour what can we expect. well the parties will be holding their closing rallies later today either here in the capital madrid or in barcelona the socialist party and the market liberal than those because catalonia was of the very important issue in these in this election campaign now the parties will be trying to convince convince the 3rd of voters who haven't still haven't made up their mind but also those who might actually at this very moment think that they could stay at home and not go to the polls because many people are fed up with yet another election in just

a few months and some analysts things that some analysts think that abstention could reach record highs really. mention catalonia independence is a major issue in this election but it's not the only one spain has a lot of problems what else is on voters' minds. the spanish for quite a bit of a lot of things 1st of all the economy which is slowing down with high unemployment actually the 2nd highest in europe there's also gender equality that the parties have been talking about all these issues have really not dominated the election campaign it was catalonia that most parties were talking about that has actually that issue the issue of catalonian independence has divided the country even know so it's difficult to see how the parties will now come together after yet another election coming yet another election to maintain which they were talking a lot about your home will come together and form a coalition government. how likely is it that this election will solve the

country's political crisis that this election will yield a stable government. well the idea when the socialist interim prime minister if it was son just call it snap elections was to increase his share of the day it's now according to the polls that doesn't seem very likely anymore he's going to get the highest chad that he might even get less seats in parliament than before and he says i can form a minority government but other parties don't really seem to be in that small is that there will be even more potties entering the parliament with the smaller parties now getting in for the 1st time which makes makes things thinks more complicated especially as the spanish didn't seem very good at forming coalitions so it's far from clear that this election will actually solve the problem hand spain and have people form a stable government lisa thank you very much t

w is lisa lewis in madrid. well in other news in mexico the 1st funerals have been held for victims of a drug cartel ambush around 500 mourners attended the burial of a mother and her 2 sons while soldiers strong guard 9 american women and children died when the cars they were traveling in were sprayed with bullets in northern mexico on monday. a judge in new york has ordered u.s. president donald trump to pay $2000000.00 for misusing funds from his own charity the donald j. trump foundation money was channeled from the charity directly into trump's 2016 presidential campaign. now for more of our special coverage on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall now it's one of the darkest chapters of former east germany's history parents forced to give their children up for adoption because the regime said they were disloyal hundreds of such cases have been

documented to even today some of those affected by the policy are still searching for their relatives the w. reporter on your call met a woman whose. but decades looking for her daughters. 'd when evers i mean it's subfields despair she takes a walk in the forest during the past 35 years she's felt this way off. those years i always had it in the back of my mind i have 2 children and how are they and whenever i saw people taking a walk with older children or a mother with her pram or playing with her child all these things would trigger that feeling by me who. gave birth to 2 daughters in the former east germany in the 1980 s. but her joy was short lived if you use an earlier she had tried to flee east germany but was caught and convicted reason enough for the youth welfare office to

come to the house and take the children away. in the 1st moment i stood there paralyzed then i ran out the door after them and yelled where are you tell you my daughter give me back my child the officer turned around pointed a finger at me and said if you don't quiet down now i will call the police and you will have to go to jail. they have given me 3 years' probation so if i did anything i would go to prison i just stood there and asked myself whether i should protest or stay silent. and have to be released so. subnets happy initially gave up but after the burden wall came down she started gathering evidence in the 1990 s. she managed to connect with her older daughter but the years apart had created an

estrangement too big to bridge and they broke off contact just one year ago her younger daughter suddenly made contact so he had stopped was unable to cope. it's as it were not this i guess the 1st phone call i will never forget that i think of the neighbors heard everything but i didn't care. i vampire and then on we talked on the phone every day and it kept growing from there then after more than 30 years of separation mother and daughter finally met.

i have a history i thought my heart would burst. right before i couldn't handle the situation i was hugged and cuddles and i didn't know how to respond suddenly this person was standing there to what was related i think i only realized that part later on of the section of interstate. did you immediately recognize her oh yeah you don't get your child's mother guess this kid. now love you know it's up can take walks in the forest with the youngest daughter and she has plans she will finally be able to need her grandchildren and to make up for decades off lost time. and all this week t w is bringing you special coverage on reports on the events leading up to the fall of the berlin wall 30 years ago well also have live coverage of saturday's ceremonies and commemorations. for this is t

w news and here are our top stories in hong kong anti-government protesters have called for a citywide vigils after a 22 year old student died from his injuries it's believed he fell from a parking garage after police fired tear gas during clashes with demonstrators last weekend he had been in a coma since being found. german chancellor angela merkel has rejected french president maccollins claim that nato is experiencing quote brain death the chancellor along with nato secretary general un stroking back reaffirmed their commitment to the military alliance despite the recent controversial actions of member states turkey and the u.s. in syria. chile's president sebastian pinera has proposed plans to crackdown on ballance and looting amid the worst rioting in the country for 30 years the plans include tougher penalties for band intensified aerial

surveillance and strengthened police intelligence unrest in the capital santiago in recent weeks has left 20 people dead and caused extensive down. this is news from berlin for more follow us on twitter at g.w. news or visit our website at steve dot com. your business with monica jones is coming up next are there some interesting trade data coming out of china and don't get in get all the latest news information rather calk our website at t w dot com i'm terry marsh thanks be.

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