land land above the be. cut the but. this is d w news law either from a hong kong protestors dies of his injuries after 40 become a building case the 1st student death since the start of the anti-government campaign pro-democracy activists vowed to escalate their protests also coming up u.s. secretary of state's mike on player calls on democracies to work together on this thing but then on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the new he talks of the need to save hard won freedoms. and as part of our coverage of the fall of the ballot bowl we take

a look at one of the darkest chapters in eastern germany history children forcibly removed from parents considered disloyal to the regime to reveal one found these personal stories every unification. and firefighters in australia are battling what authorities are calling an unprecedented number of bushfires called in 90 places are raging in the east of the country. i had a home free thanks for joining me police in hong kong say that they will fully investigate the death of a university student who reportedly fell from a building during clashes between police and protesters demonstrators have made a memorial and have been holding a vigil near the site where the student was found the events leading up to the instant are unclear but it is believed that this student fell from a multistory car park off to police fired tear gas during

a protest last weekend the student was taken to the hospital later died. and protests leader joshua wong has responded to the death of the student here's what he had to say. good morning together and we urge hall of people wear black issue to get our today and tomorrow we show our side darkie and unity and now is the high point of government is that of the in the band as investigation on the clash with getting no s.c. for truth and justice and which is really in saying and on reasonable well how the government allowed the police attempted murder hold on people well for more we can bring in our correspondent putting a who is in hong kong mathias what else is known about the circumstances around the students death. this is pretty much what we know he fell from this parking garage where i am now behind me people are laying down

flowers at the spot where he fell. we cannot see them because they are blocked by the other journalists now people are leaving messages here. he fell from there and outside of this building there were clashes between the police and protesters teargas was fired this night that there were rumors that he was fleeing from the tear gas there were also rumors that police was inside this garage chasing him inside and the subsea can he succeed can you tell but we have seen no evidence for what really happened how he fell what happened in the last last seconds before he fell down the security cameras have not caught that moment so we are still really. waiting for more hope hoping that we will get a response one day from now it remains very unclear how he felt and amongst all of that lack of clarity the protesters all blame the police for the death of the

student the police say that they will fully investigate the death but will that be enough to soothe the anger of the protesters do you think. we have just to hear. heard joshua long saying that an independent investigation knee is needed now this is one of the demands of the protesters the police have already adjusted their version of what happened that night of when the police was inside and when it was outside of. this parking garage after being confronted with footage that proved over live version wrong this is of course not contributing to confidence in the police's investigation and this is a diet the heart of the problem i don't think whatever the police finds out will appease the protests here so on the other side and i suppose the question is whether the death of this student protester will actually give fresh impetus then to the protest as. well at least it has fueled

emotions again and we will see what is going to happen this week and further comment more asian and protest events have been announced this is of course a very emotional moment to have been rumors about death before they have been suicides before but this is the 1st time somebody to be died actually on the site of an actual confrontation between protesters and the police so this is felt as the 1st confirmed martyr of this protest movement and this of course will fuel people signed up for the how this will play out in the end what the protesters are going to do is maybe not clear yet now that it is definitely not something that will bring an end to the protests and reporting on it all for us is mathias putting us in hong kong with his thank you. as have a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world an earthquake

in northwestern iran has killed at least 6 people and injured more than 300 others a magnitude 5.9 quake struck friday in iran's east in azerbaijan call that more than 60 office. ruffles the mountainous region of the school and china's president sebastian been yet a has announced measures to increase security and toughen sanctions vandalism following 3 weeks of protests that have left at least 20 people dead the measures include about on protesters wearing hoods to mosque that identities intensified aerial surveillance and strengthened conducing teligent. firefighters in germany have rescued around 35 people after an explosion in the form of potash might the miners were trapped some 700 meters on the ground near the eastern city of hama they were able to find shelter in a safety area that 2 of them all reported to have been injured. well u.s. secretary of state my pompei of has criticized russia and china for

authoritarianism he says that russia invades its neighbors and lays its political opponents also said that the chinese communist party uses tactics to suppress its own people that a horribly familiar to form us east germany where he made the remarks on a visit to germany to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the bali mill pompei or stressed the need for allied democracies to work together to deter threats to their own people. are 2 democracies the united states and germany possess the abundant political and economic capital and the power that can only be garnered by free societies we have a duty each of us to use all we have to defend what was so hard won. in $7076.00 in 1945 and in 1989 and we have to do it together there together because it's not easy and doing it alone is impossible.

speaking of that spring in political correspondent thomas sperry who is he a thomas some consider a tree was there from the u.s. secretary of state might pump a bit can this symbolic visit do anything to patch up what is currently a very strained relationship between the u.s. and germany mike compels speech on the question or nasr session that followed off to what's clearly clearly reveal what the goal of his visit were on the one hand to try and show once again the historic ties between germany and the united states the fact that germany on the united states share common values the fact the united states played a very important role in german reunification at the same time especially in the question are non-sentient some of the key divisions between the united states and germany were again evident for example the shoe of trade which was also discussed in the question and answer session that was clearly evident once again so on the one hand you do have that idea that germany and the united states have longstanding

historic ties something that mr pompeo clearly reiterating about the same time it is impossible to hide the fact that germany and the united states are not having the best of relationships now on that there are series of issues which where they do not see eye to eye when in the next hours wholeness pohnpei will meet germany's chance and i'm going to michael in but in how do you expect that one to play out. there will probably be difficult topics to discuss ranging from syria to iran from trade to the environment all issues where the united states and germany as i say do not see eye to eye on the other hand i do expect that 2nd element to also be very prominent namely the fact that germany and i did state especially when we're looking at the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall when we're looking at german reunification the role that the united states played back then so although i do expect them to discuss some of the thorny issues between them i also expect them to discuss some of the issues that actually actually bind them together

where they actually do see eye to eye well pump a was a has a personal history with me let's take a listen to what he had to say about it one of millions of americans who have lived in germany since the founding of the federal republic back in the 1849. my tour my time on station here been towards the end of the cold war. but my fellow soldiers and i know that. we had no idea that it wasn't tracked close to the end. we did midnight emergency drills and exercises within sight of a militarized border. that's almost made it all journey into his german posse yesterday said that with the german foreign minister heikal mass how significant do you think that was. step on bail has a german history a person all history tied to this country could in fact prove important when it comes to trying to resolve some of those issues where the united states and germany

have problems and i also expect that that is the hope of german officials who have been particularly worried about u.s. foreign policy since donald trump became u.s. president who are worried about what they describe sometimes as an erratic foreign policy or it is an unpredictable foreign policy so the fact that mr pompeo has this personal connection to germany i think is seen here in berlin as a way where german politicians could at least try and make sure that that relationship does not to become any more difficult than it already is any more difficult than all those issues that i've discussed really german officials have stressed time and time again that they want to have a good relationship with the united states something else that mr pompeo clearly stated in his german visit so i do expect that personal history in a way to at least prove helpful when it comes to trying to find common goals between the united states and germany political correspondent tom aspira porting for us from lynn thank you very much thomas. and now

for more of our special coverage of the 30th anniversary of the food off the wall and there's no doubt that it brought about huge changes but what they all for the better as we report that depends on whether you are from eastern germany or from the west. 30 years ago on the night of november 9th the wall opened what happened that night changed many people's lives. how did your mom's feel today about the fall of the wall and the changes that ensued what consequences did the reunification have for you personally. people in the east and west agree that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages 56 percent of western germans say this while 60 percent of eastern germans see the good things it's been 3 decades since reunification for eastern germans nearly everything has changed for western germans

hardly anything to. the achievements of g.d.r. citizens are not appreciated enough over half the people who live in western germany say the life achievements of east german citizens aren't valued enough it's a different story in the east where more than 3 quarters of people believe that their life achievements are undervalued. the freedom to travel was a dream the people of east germany could only enjoy after the fall of the wall and even today they travel more often to the west than western germans travel to the east how often did you travel to the east to the west since 1989 the people of western germany rarely cross over into the former east in contrast eastern germans travel 4 times as often into the west. even though 30 years on there are still differences in culture and attitudes people from the east and

west still feel they are all simply germans. well one of the darkest chapters in the history of former east germany is parents being forced to give up that children for adoption because the regime considered them disloyal hundreds of such cases have been documented he's a reporter and you call that one woman who spent decades looking for her daughter. 'd when evers i mean it 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 i mean who. gave birth to 2 daughters in the former east

germany in the 1980 s. but her joy was short lived a few years earlier she had tried to flee east germany but was caught and convicted reason enough for the youth welfare office to come to her house and take the children away. and in the 1st moment i stood there paralyzed then i ran out the door after them and yelled where you take you my daughter you give me back my child the officer turned around pointed a finger at me and said if you don't quite down now i will call the police and you will have to go to jail. you. 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 have an attorney and have either leashed sas the request of the store he. said been attacked 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 if he were not to forget that 1st phone call i will never forget that i think all the neighbors heard everything but i didn't care. i vamp and then on we talked on the phone every day and it kept growing from there than after more than 30 years of separation mother and daughter finally met.

i have yesterday i thought my heart would burst. 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 too i was related i think i only realized that part later on because the section the letters to his ear did you immediately recognize whoa yeah he don't understand your child's. but i guess that's good. now levin 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 last time. and all this week d. w. has been bringing you special coverage of reports on the events leading up to the fall

of the berlin wall 30 years ago and also have live coverage of saturday ceremonies and commemorations where you're watching news still to come a new production of a bridge start off or is being staged in the road but the sting is in the chorus or not they seem to be. spain is to hold another general election on sunday the folks in 4 years in the last round of voting in april the socialist party of prime minister pedro sanchez won the largest share of the vote fell short of a majority in parliament sanchez failed to form a government so in this weekend's election he's hoping to increase his shelf the vote but it's far from certain his strategy will pay off. me gail. 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. or 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 feels that these elections could be more crucial than previous polls because so many. the center right p.p. overtake 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 cattle and 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 pealing to many young people. now after the 40 years ago we handed over catalonia to the enemies of the nation who are now controlling into education system police and media. we need to send in all our available police to suffocate this revolt let it take back control and suspend autonomy status. but. who is philip at least. things box 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 own people can finally say out loud again that we love our country . doesn't buy into 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 but it's likely that neither the big center left nor the big center right party will be able to shift their votes enough in the last 2 days of campaigning to win an outright majority and that means they would again have to join forces with other parties however if there's one thing that spanish politicians just don't seem very good at it's forming a coalition meanwhile miguel is optimistic that the socialists can still boost their share of the vait he's banking on the roughly one 3rd of voters 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. what authorities in australia say an unprecedented number of out of control bushfires are threatening large areas of the state of new south wales and queensland more than 90 blazes are raging many of them in areas hit by drought in some areas these fires are so intense that they've created their own weather systems including lightning. well firefighters say the bushfires have been whipped up by strong gusts of wind. surreal scenes on the eastern coast of australia as bushfires turned

a sky an apocalyptic shade of orange for residents and wildlife is an early warning of approaching danger. many communities in the path of the fires have been ordered to evacuate in other areas people are taking no chances. here in 10 minutes. fire crews are battling dozens of infernos raging across queensland in new south wales the states are experiencing a long winning drought and it's feared the fires will continue to burn unless rain finally comes forth or just say of a hotter and faster than anything they've seen before. unfortunately we are in uncharted territory this afternoon and we've never seen this many followers concurrently the warning alert level we've got not he falls across new south walls 50 of them are mine and. satellite images show you the scale of the bush fires

from space cameras capture of a plumes of smoke the fires have consumed thousands of hectares of farmland and bush. one of the devastated areas is an important breeding ground for koalas it's estimated that $350.00 of the animals were burnt alive here as show to his caring for both koalas rescued from the fire zone many suffered burns climbing down from smouldering trees here they are being nursed back to health. very strong and victims of fire experts believe the blazes in australia may have killed millions of animals. while they came to italy in desperate circumstances and now a group of migrants are taking part in that most italian of all forms opera 30 migrants are taking to the stage at rome's opera house for a new production of a mozart last piece. when it's getting ready to go on stage originally

from $1000.00 a year she's been in italy for 4 years this production is the 1st step towards a long held ambition. it's really a great privilege because all my life out of all those rent to be an actor but see if i haven't achieved go on the i believe you know stepping stone. backstage her coast mates are also getting ready. to put action is aiming to raise awareness of migration and they're either playing themselves also just sort of the . story of the. it's a story about migrants about because everything i understand it i feel it it's a message that speaks to me and that's why i'm also taking part in this show because film with tivo. it's almost showtime.

the scenes from india but the setting is theatrical. for the core of migrants taking part it's just one more sign of how far they've come. and just reminded of the top story that we're following for you pro-democracy activists in hong kong according 4 of a jock or a student died of injuries sustained during an anti-government demonstration this week the student fell from a building after police fired tear gas to disperse a rowdy. they're watching the daily news coming up next evening news asia it is one of the holiest shrines of the sikh religion and soon pilgrims from india will be able to visit these afraid and without title. that i'm all coming up with a militant chant to get you can always get the latest news and information around the clock on our website at his dot com and helen hunt for a write in thanks for your company and see very soon.

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