after the fall of the berlin wall the night. this is the w.'s life from ballet the u.s. secretary of state mike papantonio says now time must grow and change will risk becoming obsolete visiting germany for celebrations marking the 30th anniversary of the form of the world and wall he met with chance and i'm going to map and welcome to plan to increase the german defense spending. time just part of our special coverage of anniversary celebrations will take each about my style icon

a complot and not mark brandenburg gate once the borders open the people must backfill climbed all those brass and i can't let it become just a wall of images of german citizens smashing down french around the world this week around the country is again the focus of attention we'll take you there not also on the program of hong kong pro-democracy protests and dies of his injuries after falling from the building it's the 1st student death since the start of time to government the anti-government counting activists say they will escalate to protests. i'm forgot welcome to the program u.s. secretary of state mike pompei was on a visit to germany 30 found a 1st of the fall of the boat in war his latest stop is but then for a meeting with chance of i'm going to machall the. joint news conference he and the

chancellor stressed the importance of addressing conflicts around the world and the special relationship between the 2 countries. has a book with a great friend of the united states germany defeated to be an enormously helpful order for us. as minister statement about increasing germany's contribution time we think that's powerful because we think that relationship with nato matters and we need everyone working together to make sure that it remains a potent force for good in the fight to stay in i'm all for calm for once today we have other tasks before us and again we are addressing them as partners and friends we have to face up to these tasks in the world given their conflict god knows we'll be talking among other things about the conflict in afghanistan and the conflict between ukraine and russia we'll be talking about the future of syria about peace in libya these are some of the issues on our agenda today but let me assure you and we intend to continue to play an active part in helping solve these conflicts let's

get more from the doublings chief political editor mikhail are not welcome because when one of we heard of that discussion so far. well they're holding talks as we speak and we heard from the german chancellor there the long laundry list to go through but against the backdrop of nobody less than the french president in monarch or having questioned in nato having basically called it a brain dead and it was very interesting that secretary of state pompei o mentioned germany's defense minister i mean could it have been bella who also wants to eventually succeed angle americal as german chancellor so clearly he like the sound of that very firm commitment to the 2 percent spending target but also what she marked out this week a much more involved role potentially also of the german military which so far is a no go for this current government and particularly german chancellor angela

merkel so very interesting that there was almost a 3rd person in the room there which is the german defense minister one person who wasn't in the room was the u.s. president should be read anything into the fire the secretary of state is here in germany for these celebrations rather than president. well having spoken to people here in i think everybody is reluctant to read too much into anything that the u.s. president does or doesn't do but clearly here we saw that the reception is somewhat different if a president meets the german chancellor this usually a proper press conference and they meet in the proper press room here it was more kind of in the situation clearly here in germany he would have been welcome but there's plenty of references to pasta presidents as we heard in angela merkel statement but also a statue of ronald reagan who once called on michelle gold watch off to tear down

this wall is being unveiled almost as we speak on the roof of the u.s. embassy just a stone's throw away from brandenburg gate so relations between germany the u.s. have been i see now how has this visit done anything to patch it up. well they are very tricky particularly when it comes to trade also when it comes to the outlook on china where the german chancellor still wants to leave the door open to huawei the chinese communications giant the u.s. simply rules out as a potential partner in the future so there's a lot of issues on the table but also between the lines at the same time we saw a very bouncy secretary of state's pompei over here being on memory lane and also. really good chemistry here with berlin.

political editor. thank you. continued special coverage of the 30 found a version of before of the bergen war we're going to take a look at possibly above its most iconic location the brandenburg gate on the 9th of november 1989 thousands of germans gathered on the western side of the wall in front of the gates euphoric crowds clambered on top of the barrier began tearing it down any way they could many saw the gate as a symbol of triumph against the cold war which had divided the people for decades. let's go to political correspondent simon young who is that. why is this spot so charged with significance. here phil as you say the brandenburg gate has a real claim to be probably germany's most iconic location and i'm standing here at

plants that's on the eastern side of the former a division between east and west and the brandenburg gate is a monument for germany it was built by the prussians it was misused as a backdrop for not see marches and it was closed by the east germans and for those reasons also because it's appears on a lot of the german euro coins people will know it and i think it's known around the world in this square attracts tourists at any time of year but of course particularly now with the 30th anniversary celebrations of the full of the berlin wall there's plenty of people here preparations are going on for the events that are happening this weekend and of course this is also a site where many embassies are located the french ones just over there he can see the u.s. embassy and of course we've had mike pompei o in berlin today but in previous times it's been the likes of john f.

kennedy and ronald reagan who of course are. reagan made that famous speech mr gorbachev tear down this wall back in 1907 so the memories of that time are bubbling up of course in these days and a lot of us have been looking at some pretty emotional footage of that time including one clip that i think we can look at we've dug out a woman who came down on the 9th of november wanting to cross from east to west and this is what happened to her when she was confronted by border guards at the berlin wall. guarding the brandenburg gate the highest duty for border guards until november 9th. i can't take it anymore. and i just wanted for once in my life to go through the brandenburg gate to take a look around and i just want some the other part of. i've never been over there

and i have no fake on no grandmother no uncles over there do you understand that. i wanted to go through and come back with my head high like love and yet it still but if you keep going like this will never get there why is that so hard to understand. that. the bush did. shoot or deal with her as a person the border guards at the brandenburg gate seem to be waiting for orders only gradually did it become clear that it was all over. powerful testimony that simon so how much longer did it take until germans could actually true. well indeed east germans were climbing on the wall and west berliners as well and were climbing on the wall just

on the other side of the branning gate from where i'm standing on the on the night of the night of november into the wee hours of the following day and father for the days after that and you remember those famous pictures of people coming with pick axes and hammers and claiming their little chunk of burlington will concrete for posterity but it was a few more weeks before an actual official crossing point was made here and it was finally possible for people to walk and cycle through one gentleman was telling me just earlier on that when he was able for the 1st time to use his bike again to get through here the brandenburg gate he was so jubilant and felt like a little boy once again. and tell us what's happening there tonight simon. what's annoyed is mainly preparations going on i think you can perhaps see through the gate there's the stage for a big goal our event that's happening tomorrow the 9th of november that of course

is actually the anniversary so tonight we've got a sound checks the light checks and they'll be more of the projections of images of the time that we've been seeing all this week around berlin as people gather they remember they tell each other the stories and i think they celebrate on the streets once more simon young there outside the brandenburg gate thank you so much. and one of the darkest activities of the former east german regime was forcing parents consider disloyal to give up their children for adoption hundreds of such cases have been documented you don't hear reporter anya call has been talking with one woman who spent decades searching for her daughter's. 'd when evers have been at subfields despair she takes a walk in the forest during the past 35 years she's felt this way off.

all 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 true dran away. and in the 1st moment i stood there paralyzed then i ran out the door after them and yelled where are you taking 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 happy. something that sap 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 i broke off contact just one year ago her younger daughter suddenly made contact so she had stopped 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 had a yesterday i thought my heart would burst 1st 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 know i was related i think i only realized that part nature on her perception it was fairly easy did you immediately recognize her oh yeah you

don't get your child's. i guess the skin. now 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 to have grandchildren and to make up for decades off last time. i was take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world firefighters in germany have rescued about 35 people after an explosion as a part of mine once were trapped a 700 meters underground near the eastern city of holland and they were able to shelter in a safety area but 2 of them 42 injured. an earthquake in northwestern iran has killed at least 6 people and injured more than 300 others the magnitude 5.9 events struck early on friday in iran's mountainous eastern azerbaijan province it was followed by more than 60 aftershocks. m c government protesters have been

killed in iraq's capital baghdad in the port city of basra security forces used live rounds and tear gas in the latest disturbances which began in october the government corruption and the lack of jobs. and a hong kong university students who reportedly fell from a building during clashes between police and protesters has died other students have held a memorial for him events leading up to the incidents are still unclear but it's believed that shouts fell from a car parking carriage after police fired tear gas during a protest last weekend protest leader joshua has responded to the death. we mourn together and we urge hall of people where blacks are sure to get her today and tomorrow to show our side darkie and unity and now is that high for the government to set up the in the band as investigation on a clash with making no secret truth and justice and which is really in saying

and and reasonable for how the government allowed the polish attempted murder holcombe people. astray to hong kong about what we're doing corresponded to a 1000000000 welcome material so what is the situation there now are we going to see another night of demonstrations because of this death. yes behind me you see this parking deck where the student fell from last week when we had clashes in this area here now there were long queues before queuing up. for the site where he felt a light laid on flowers light candles here you can still maybe see a few candles burning but most of these people have left now and those who are now here on the scene left the more radical protest as they have set up barricades you

may notice that around me everything is dark they've set fire to electric disabused boxes stations so the street lighting is off here and now they are waiting for the police to arrive. for another round of clashes here in this area we have also reports from other areas in the city that clashes have been happening reportedly live rounds have also been fired it and materials what is known of the circumstances leading up to chance and luck staff. well we know that it happened in this garage down from one of the parking decks and. that's about what we know. there are rumors that he was fleeing from teargas hiding from teargas inside the parking deck there was so rumors that police were chasing him inside the police are denying this but these rumors are still on the

security cameras they have not captured the moment when he fell so we pretty much do not know what happened but people anyway do blame the police yet so given that well the police promise to fully investigate this satisfy protest. they have promised it as you say that they have already. altered their version of the events that timetable of the events after some footage by passers by dashboard car footage showed that their 1st version that they had not been inside before he fell was wrong so this did of course not contribute to more trust in the police and we've just heard what joshua alongside that is the opinion of many people here and it's one been one of the demands for a long time now people want an inventor independent investigation into what the

police has been doing that day and the weeks before and anything else will not satisfy the protesters they will continue going on the streets as we can see that people have no trust in the police they have lost all trust which is bulling in hong kong thank you. now to australia where all thoughts is there an unprecedented number of out of control bushfires is threatening large areas of the states of new south wales and queensland many of the more than 90 blazes are in drought hit areas some of the fires are so intense that they've created their own weather systems including lightning firefighters say the bushfires are being whipped up by strong winds. severe was scenes on the eastern coast of australia as bushfires turned a sky and 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. and nearing the end of the. fire crews are battling dozens of inferno is 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 we've never seen this many thought concurrently mergence the warning alert level we've got not any falls across new south walls 50 of them remind can time. satellite images show even scale of the bushfires from space cameras capture of a plea of smoke the fires have consumed thousands of hectares of farmland in 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 2 is caring for those koalas rescued from the fire zone many suffered burns climbing down from smouldering trees here they are being nursed back to health. they have a start in victims of fire experts believe the blazes in australia may have killed millions of animals. you're watching d.w. news live from birth and still to come a new production of a mozart opera being staged in broke but it's a show with a bit of a difference. first of chile's president sebastian pinera has announced extra powers for police to crack down on ongoing protests measures include about on protesters wearing hordes to mask their identities intensified aerial surveillance and strengthened police intelligence chile is a. experiencing the worst violence for decades with 20 deaths of protests. increasing

public transport fast and then broadened to include social and economic inequality . in chile. and spent a day of unpopular decisions for. thursday afternoon he announced a series of measures aimed at curbing looting and violent demonstrations in what he said was an attempt at restoring public order and safety that didn't go down well with protesters though they perceived it as a pat on the back for the police force a police force bear in mind that is being accused of cracking down violently on peaceful protesters and of committing human rights violations he also summoned the so-called security council a gathering of the country's highest ranking civil and military authorities in order to inform them about his new security agenda but even those who took part in

the meeting said it was a loss of time and a move in the wrong direction what made that move even more unpopular was the fact that the security council is a form established by the 980 constitution a constitution that dates back to times when chile lived under dictatorship and a constitution that chileans are desperately trying to get rid of so all in all not a good day for the president. though after arriving it's really the most desperate of circumstances a group of migrants is now taking pot. most of forms of taking to the stage at rome's opera house for a new production of mozart's masterpiece it will mindanao. bella godwin is getting ready to go one stage originally from 1000 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 i have all those rent to be an actor but sees avenue i tivo and the i believe this. back stage her coast mates are also getting ready. to put action is aiming to raise awareness of migration and they're either playing themselves also which is the story or the. story. it's a story about migrants about wars because about 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 scene is familiar but the setting is theatrical. for the choir of migrants taking part it's just one more sign of how far they've come.

this is d.w. news these are our top stories u.s. secretary of state by compare has stressed the importance of the nato military alliance after meeting with the german chancellor and going to battle it wrapping up a 2 day visit to germany tonight the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall . antigovernment protesters in hong kong and mourning the 22 year old student who died from his injuries and the events leading up to the incidents are still unclear but it's believed he fell from a parking carriage after police fired tear gas during clashes with demonstrators last weekend had been found in a car. brush fires in eastern australia have been burning out of control with firefighters warning the situation is unprecedented effected the area spans a 1000 kilometer stretch of coastal of coastal area and many residents have been urged to leave their homes. that earthquake in northwestern iran has killed

at least 5 people and injured more than 300 others according to state media a magnitude 5.9 that quake struck early on friday in the eastern azerbaijan the province more than 60 aftershocks hit the mountainous region on the tiles this is d.w. news from burden for more followers on twitter state a blue news or visit our website d w dot com. next up in india i'll have more for you on the top of a good. eco

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