welcome to the what is he going to do don't we're going to talk about a. group that's going to. go. to the us. this is the news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes the world is reflecting on 3 decades off that 3 united germany the african journalists traveled along the border that separated the 2 germany's get their impressions. destroyed families in booking a fossil are still waiting to receive the bodies of their witnesses who were killed in an attack on a bus transporting mind goods. and the ethiopian jews who say they want to return to their holy land but israel doesn't recognize them.

hello i'm christine want to welcome to deja vu news africa it's good to have you along it's been 30 years since the wall off the island fell marking a turning point in european history and germany as we know it today used to be 2 separate countries communist east germany often referred to as the g.d.r. and capitalist west germany now east backed germany was already east germany was backed by the soviets was behind the iron curtain and a sealed border separated the 2 germany's while the war in berlin became a symbol for the separation and the date off its fall on the 9th of november 1989 is commemorated and read unified germany not to commemorate the 30th anniversary off this event a team off africa journalists traveled along the former border here on their

patients. well you have to imagine 30 years ago there was like the burden war was in berlin we had this bulletin board here right on our border to what was best germany and we were here in far all we have to cut off not only from the west but also from the east. i believe most people are happy with the current situation that germany is now you voted and the people in the former g.d.r. can now live from friday leave. it's an awesome gift but also members of tarts. this is how many germans feel 30 years after the fall of the bell in wall but our treaty which started in mother ita and ended up in blockade they showed us that the form of the wall has also some negative impacts but 1st let's put things into perspective as wide germans are generally celebrating this day imagine you have

a family of 5 people and your own living in one village and overnight the government decides to chant this in the middle of the of the image your father and uncles end up leaving on the other side of the wall and you in some siblings on the other side soldiers who are mining the wall are also monitoring every move you're taking in everything you say tanks are also patrolling your village now and then and to see your family you need a special permission which usually was not granted to cross it we found a permission if you would risk being aggressed it or being shot. and that was for more than 30 years when we visited the museum in a village with 47 population and was divided during the g.d. my colleague. had a hard time to take this all in. order breakers. are similar to the ones we have in our lives they are from russia.

so. bring some memory you know. the password. i was going to. present in the. psychology of the war so many years so what kind of feeling do you get when you see them. read. this news. is good it was also here where we were reminded how difficult it can be for some germans to shake off growing up in an hour thore tarion state where they were closely watched before giving us an interview i strayed insisted on seeing our i.d.'s something she say's shows the continuing differences between the 2 germans as attrition emerging to the arrow between the former g.d.r. and the former federal republic of germany there are very deep and very substantial

differences reasons missa go on to schriever this has to do on one hand that germany has always been a sovereign state and that the mentalities of the people from the east and west have always been different for she ran. the fall of the wall today for some also mentally losing their jobs and their livelihood be sure the road to a town in that to remediate state was among those towns affected this mining that was closed down in 1903 against a backdrop of protests and hunger strikes will batman bell was among those who protested he and his colleagues were laid off and where only paid a small compensation he and many people living here a disappointed liberal things this is why many people in this town would not vote for angle america's christian democratic party city who today rather the socialist left party all the far right alternative for germany ice tea party they are still

very up through a real indication has changed very little and voters are now reacting because for many years the c.d.u. government has not implemented what it has promised the migration of voters from the c.d.u. to the f.d.a. is very unfortunate. after the fall of the wall hundreds of thousands of people moved away from the towns like to look for jobs elsewhere this time and many places is trying a new into ghost towns but now this trend has slowly. germans moved back to the former east germany. now became a fossil has begun 3 days off national mourning for the $38.00 people who were killed in an attack on a convoy transporting has destroyed families are still waiting for release of the bodies of the deceased the deadly ambush is among the deadliest attacks in the past 5 yes. this bus was carrying local workers from the canadian gold mining company

similar for when it came and they are attacked it was part of a convoy being is courted by the military it's reported that an explosive device truck sold the as be called before again men opened fire actually search its people were killed dozens are feared missing now relatives of those killed want answers from the government there waiting to bury their loved ones. i haven't seen my husband for 2 days and i came here today to see his body and take the body and leave but i don't care what the minister says saying here it won't bring back the dead. some of the wounded are being treated in this hospital in the capital what i. came to visit his presser. he told me that the bullet hit his leg and he hit the floor but. then others came

above him and there were more and more shots. because the others were on top of him and he was underneath god protected him. pretty easy. he got 2 bullets in the legs and in his toes as well so we really live in fear this is really a disaster for us. it was among the deadliest attacks in book you know facile in nearly 5 years the government says jihadists are responsible you know sort of the country has been engulfed in violence and roughly half a 1000000 people have been dissed. at least president vowed that security forces will hunt down what he calls terrorists 0 order i have ordered the recruitment of volunteers for the defense of the country in the areas under threat only a concerted mobilization of the sons and daughters of the nation regardless of

region ethnicity political opinion or religion can defeat these murderers. this week france an announced a joint military operation with the boer cannot be army at the border with mali and the share in areas that the hut bed of jihad a t.v. for now military efforts are failing to stem the unrest as the security situation deteriorates across this hot hill region. thousands of jewish ethiopians are living in limbo while waiting to emigrate to israel their chances of leaving ethiopia and joining relatives who have already made them complicated by religious fact that israel doesn't recognize them as true . these ethiopian children play with the torah a part of the hebrew bible they are some of the g.o.p.'s last remaining jews about

4000 jewish. who call themselves better israel let's hear gunter a small city in the north. the school teaches children about their jewish faith but also prepares them for a possible move to. brewing affair learn about their religion it'll help create and integrate within the society there and support one another. well members want israel to give them a visit to emigrate but some of gondor have been waiting more than 20 years as enough yes after i moved from the countryside to gondor 12 years ago now he's one of the synagogues religious leaders he explains the origins of judaism in ethiopia we came to ethiopia because god dispersed the bay to israel into the 4 cardinal directions so we came down from egypt we came here following the shores of the blue nile others went to america germany and many other countries

under israeli law duz are allowed to move to the country but the israeli government doesn't view the better israel of gondor as jewish under strict religious that's because the government says they are descendants of ethiopian jews who were forcibly converted to christianity in the distant past. many of them actually converted or their parents converted to christianity for various reasons and now they are in the wish to return to be part of the jewish people they are not considered as jews so that already live as jews but of officially they're not yet converted so the jews. have a sense this is discrimination. some say we're not jewish and there are no more jews here they say we're lying we're just pretending so we can go there they think will make the religion impure but the only one to know the truth is the god that created us. many of the community has so

many living in israel the israeli government has been gradually allowing its europeans remaining jews to emigrate understandably reunification. but it's not clear when people will be allowed to go using some family split for more than a decade you know that being alone is very difficult my husband was raised by his mother together with his 6 brothers but now 5 live in israel so he was very sad when they got separated. but i'm not going to. work in as i can to move to gunderson who starred with her husband and children after someone burns down their crops her life is tough but she's grateful her daughter can attend the town's hebrew school. so i don't know how i manage with knowledge about her religion she will marry someone who has the same faith and follow the religious practices. i hope she will one day live with her family and her people i really hope that for my children and i love the elderly. despite the struggle and wait hope is higher on

those jews that one day they will be allowed to leave they just don't more work. and at the canal complete every need samak as always with actual story like the one you've just seen on ethiopian jews on our website or facebook page don't forget that we'd love to hear from you 26 times by. the way discover the bound. to host world the 45 w. . is calculable. there it goes in synch with. their rivalry. 3 princes. dream of the world.

there are 4 power and boundless ambition to middle east into a great crisis. by concerns of the cold starts november 27th on t.w. . welcome to ours and culture as we celebrate a momentous event in german history nov 9th marks 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall in 1909 a day that changed world history marking the beginning of the end of the cold war and allowing east and west germany eventually to reunite. all this week we've been featuring stories from those heady days in november 1909

and today we'll remember the political blunder that started it all and speak to an east german artist of his experience of that night and. europe's top prize for cultural initiatives and the managers to make them happen. well outside germany few people even know his name but good to schabowski is one of those improbable men of destiny a man who made cold war history without even realizing it the former political member is credited with accidentally sparking the fall of the berlin wall by announcing in error that new rules allowing east germans to travel were effective immediately and the notes he consulted out.