cross the road worlds apart. starting november 11th on d w. this is the news live from berlin germany marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall we're at the santa celebrations landmark brandenburg gate a giant installation carries the hopes and dreams of $30000.00 people worldwide written on colored repose. but now i've been on all sides of data but much of dhaka germany's history the night of broken glass nationwide by eve of attacks on jewish

people and property and not in 38 that marked the start of widescale nazi persecution of jewish people. a math anyhow and welcome to the program the german capital is revving up to mark 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall celebrations and commemorations have got underway at the brandenburg gate once the symbol of germany's division into east and west. political correspondent simon young has been taking a look at preparations for saturday's festivities at the brandenburg gate is the centerpiece of these celebrations marking 30 years since the fall. all of the

berlin wall the brandenburg gate that stood back then in 1989 in the death zone between east and west where nobody could cross and this is of course a commemoration of history and the sadness is that go with that but also of hope for the future above or maybe you can see these colorful cloud of freedom as it's called 30000 strips of paper with people's hopes for the future written on them and they've suspended them here in this colorful art installation one of the many creative ideas that to berlin is have come up with to celebrate this anniversary and tonight despite the rain there is still plenty of tourists in berlin as you've come down here to the brandenburg gate to have a look at what's going on to share their stories with each other and to sort of enjoy this atmosphere of street party event we're seeing you can see the brandenburg gate behind me and in front of it the stage where on saturday evening

evening the night of november will be the big garlow show with all christers in d.j.'s the v.i.p.'s will of course all be here but many berlin is i'm sure will be here they're wanting to join in this celebration of how the world and berlin in particular have changed in the last 30 years. simon young there meanwhile german president frank felt the steinmeier has involved invited rather the heads of state of poland the czech republic hungry and slovakia to berlin for the celebrations the invitation is official recognition of the role these countries played in bringing down the berlin wall. paving the way to democracy poland became the 1st country in the warsaw pact to tolerate an independent trade union solid on the also on a diety in english this led to the 1st semi free elections in june of 1989.

during the same month activists held a protest picnic in hungary officials allowed them to cut its border fence to austria. thousands of east german holidaymakers seized the opportunity to enter the west in the summer of 1909 more and more east german refugees escaped the country via hungry and the former czechoslovakia then in september 1989 the west german foreign minister. addressed the thousands of refugees who had been stranded in prague. from the balcony of the west german embassy he announced that these east german citizens were allowed to enter the west freely. ossified was these were all milestones on the road to reunification and the beginning of the end of east germany on november the night is a fateful day in german history as we heard it marks the fall of the berlin wall

but also the date of the night of broken glass and not in 38 nazis attacked jewish people and property the start of the systematic persecution of jews that led to the horrors of the holocaust oh poor call enough the ups the it was nearly no good on the note 55696 names read aloud by members of the jewish community in berlin names of berlin victims of the holocaust a service to commemorate the night of broken glass took place under visible police protection with recent anti-semitic attacks fresh in people's memory. under the myth this movement anti semitism is on the rise could it be that we need to find new ways of remembering this most perhaps we must take new paths to fight anti semitism. this most. most the office suggested that if every german

student visited israel once it might prevent programs from happening in the future in the night from november 9th to november 10th 1938 nazis set thousands of jewish synagogues shops and residences on fire across germany and austria hundreds of jews were killed or imprisoned berlin's mayor also sounded a warning about the present. invention again and again people are attacks when they come out of a synagogue where a jewish skullcap speak hebrew. each of these incidents is one too many there intolerable and yet they keep happening. $6000000.00 jews were killed in the holocaust reading all the names of the berlin victims alone took a total of 7 hours. from a brazilian president louis c. that the silver has left to a jubilant welcome from supporters is now planning and national tour judge freed

the leftist politician after the supreme court ruled that defendants who are killing convictions could be released the law was jailed on corruption charges last year he denies any wrongdoing. now to some of the other stories making news around the world. in hong kong anti-government protesters the morning a 22 year old student who 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 found in a convoy. in india more than 5000 troops have been sent to a disputed religious site in british ahead of a ruling from the supreme court on who controls the land at a 16th century mosque claimed by both muslims and hindus as a holy place. hundreds of people have attended a rally in the u.s. city of atlanta to protest a visit by president trump demonstrators denounced the president's policies and

branded him a racist trump was in atlanta to launch a coalition that to woo african-american voters to his reelection campaign. is. unprecedented number of bushfires are threatening a large areas in the states of new south wales and queensland more than 90 blazes a burning out of control in drought hit areas some so intense that they've created their own with the systems including by. like a scene from hell fire fighters a new south wales pushed through a tunnel of flames. emergency services are calling the conditions difficult and dangerous. they say the size and speed of the fires has prevented them from responding by road or even by helicopter to many calls for help. with numerous blazes burning out of control they've issued a record number of emergency warnings. we've never seen this many falls

concurrently mergence the warning alert level. on the north coast of the state fires have burned right down to the beach at times firefighters have had no choice but to tell stranded residents that it was too late to evacuate advising them instead to find immediate shelter. local radio interrupted normal programming to broadcast instructions on how to try to survive a blaze if trapped at home or in a vehicle. by you know or worse where we can get really. bushrangers. but they're only going to run into it with birds yet guys are rionda as we should be room. authorities say some of the blazes are so intense they're creating their own weather conditions fire clouds that can produce lightning without rain have envelope entire towns this is one of the worst bushfire seasons australia has experienced and it's still only spring amid

a prolonged drought residents say they dread to think of what's to come in the summer months. in the news hundreds of mourners have attended funerals for victims of a suspected cartel attack in a township founded by breakaway mormons in mexico and women and 3 children were killed it's not clear whether they were targeted or ambushed by accident. in chile tens of thousands of demonstrators joined anti-government protests in the capital santiago police fire border cannons and tear gas on the crowd people have taken to the streets in the country for the last 22 days to protest against inequality. police in the u.k. of release details of the $39.00 vietnamese people found dead in a refrigerated truck near london last month 2 of the victims of the apparent human smuggling ring with 15 years old the majority of them came from the same problems

in vietnam. spain is heading into elections on sunday with the outcome looking hard to predict polls suggest the vote will do little to break a longstanding stalemate between the parties it's the 2nd time already this year that vote isn't making the choice and spine is suffering from election fatigue. the spanish are being asked to head to the polls again to choose a government it's the 4th time in 4 years the country has held elections and now many have mixed feelings about the political process. where fed up with editing but of course we have to vote what we vote on that's another problem that we must vote still we have the feeling that everything will remain the same because there are no credible political leaders good night leadership for you to control. yes it's important very important in facts things are so

tangled up and have to be reset since the politicians haven't been able to do it we must do it for. the country's caretaker prime minister pedro sanchez leader of the socialist party made his final appeal to the public on friday he urged spaniards to give his government another chance but in. facing instability and deadlock you have to bet on a strong government facing a far right government you need to bet on a progressive government and facing extremists you have to bet on a moderate government but neither the center left socialist party nor its main rival the conservative people's party led by pablo comes out 0 is expected to win a majority and neither party has ruled out the possibility of forming a centrist grand coalition. the far right vox party expects to make big gains. the populists have been riding high in the run up to the election capitalizing on widespread discontent with the government's handling of the capital

and independence movement. after she thought the president of catalonia as government is a criminal and a coup leader and we are not going to allow things to continue like this if the spanish people put their faith in us your lives or dies you go via. many saw the last election as being focused on the. me but it seems this election could turn out to be largely about catalonia news and that is all the news for now on now don't forget you can join us right through the day on sublet for our special coverage of the anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall i'll leave you now with pictures of that historic not exactly 30 years ago but now match me how i watch. the flame of the flame.

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