he's coming up at the top of the hour next piece i reporter with a story on 30 years since the end of the stasi now i'm anthony howard from all the same here in berlin thanks watch. what secrets lie behind swap. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. w world heritage 368 get me up now. i'm not going to think again i guess sometimes i am but i stand up and whip it up and. takes me into the german

culture looking at the stereotypes aquatics players think the future of the country that i know a long time. needed to take his grandmother day out to me it's all that. i might show joins me from the gentle sunday w. . post. this week gun world stories. families fight for their lives in venezuela. a police officer criticizes his own ranks you know i'm gone. but we begin in germany 30 years ago citizens stormed the headquarters of the hated secret police in east berlin a contemporary witness reports. he was. they're both going

temp lean a former east german civil rights campaigner 30 years ago he and other demonstrators pushed their way into east germany stars he had corridors it's still the resting place of thousands of files on citizens who were spied on. yes i said so you know what we want this peaceful disarmament our actual takeover of the whole thing will happen a lot faster there's no place you know was open the gate the storming of norman and street was a key moment after stasi buildings and other cities had already been occupied in the preceding months several 1000 people now poured into the berlin headquarters. the staff the workers tried to destroy files up until the very last minute but the activists were able to rescue most of those files.

but the fight to save the files was far from one that took a hunger strike extreme effort on our part to convince west german elites politicians and those who wanted to keep a lid on this for various reasons. after all nobody knew exactly how sensitive the information that east germany state security had collected was in the end the files were made accessible to the public full temp lien applied to see his own. it was certainly a unique experience i was part of the 1st group that got to see their files in 1930 . 9 u.s. an opposition figure it was highly unlikely that a very comprehensive file a whited me it was very thora but there was also one from the 1st half of the 1970s that was classified as a puppet try to follow. for 2 years templin himself was an unofficial styles the

informant he ultimately quit and got involved with civil rights groups later he was arrested and kicked out of east germany after the fall of the berlin wall he returned and took part in the negotiations to dissolve the stasi but he's still struggling to cope with what happened to this day the stasi files will be transferred to the national archives from 2021 as long as they remain easily accessible to ordinary people temp lein has no problem with that. millions have fled venezuela there due to the country's economic crisis those who have remained are facing hard times and many families are fighting to survive. the hotter and has 7 children live in a slum on venezuela's caribbean coached the children do not go to school now that

cannot afford to pay the bus fare to get them there she has barely enough money to survive. my husband went to peru because of the crisis. where you know that he wanted to help us from there is that. honestly if he hadn't left we would have starved here. that know me simply would have starved. that atlanta one of them a look at the industrial city of mary kay reveals why locals are starving the factories here as everywhere in venezuela i read a standstill only 2000 of the original 12000 still operate venezuela produces hardly anything itself anymore including food the giant cattle farms are empty. then as well as our own products have been replaced with food imports highly subsidized by the state. the system worked well as long as petroleum prices were high but as soon as they fell they were food shortages so simply had more money

printed to keep the system going the resulting hyperinflation was the final blow to venezuela's economy lives with the consequences every day that children really get enough to wait for you to listen to. me for food but they have to stand when i tell them that i have nothing to give them a little sometimes they cry it's not easy when your child begs you for food. you can't give them anything. it's very very difficult. a highly damaging system of state terra keeps the regime in power the collective paramilitary gangs on by the government intimidate the people through arbitrary rule and tara the president has also made the military compliant. bull durham installed military people in all key industry positions they have no

idea how to run an oil industry the goal muslim unhandled will be the. petroleum production has broken down because of this mismanagement it is now at the same level as it was in 1945 american chinese and russian political and security interests clash directly in venezuela without russia's help them to do rogue regime would have already collapsed. venezuela is just one piece in a global game of poker the losers in this game a people like maliki hotta and her neighbors if you will if things feel beautiful to me if i had the chance i take my children and leave me just like that me too and they are good to me if they could millions more people would flee venezuela just to survive. for months street protests of rock tom cross and the brutal police response has

received every criticism the hong kong police officer told b w the criticism is largely justified. when david chan joined to hong kong police force a few years ago he never thought that he would see scenes like these david chan is not his real name. they say was last november when protesters and police clashed for hours on a university campus. police had come monday a massive attack. and david says it's not only the physical threats to the fact i'm around. so i've been working long hours they've been blamed fingers pointed at them it's very exhausting both physically and mentally. this is what he's talking about criticising and often could sing at the police many offices are on edge they've

been accused of indiscriminate arrests beating up subdued protesters and threatening to shoot tear gas into apartments. videos of police brutality circulating online. bystanders who get into arguments with her says risk getting pepper sprayed a clear violation of the rules that's david you know. i'm just frustrated because some offices really just like the protesters and honestly they really want to beat them up but i think this isn't the right mentality we should be impartial as police offices we shouldn't take sides he says he's currently doing as much as 100 hours of overtime every month while he isn't serving at the frontline as he often has to be at the side of demonstrations david is hiding his identity feel being bullied by protesters online and he worries about professional repercussions.

as a member of the hong kong police force i shouldn't be criticizing it in public but as a citizen of hong kong i have to say the senior officers have basically messed it up . officials deny the police have done anything wrong the police has been in the focus of the demonstrators since june when they 1st violently broke up a protest. since then public anger has steadily grow especially among the young david says most of his friends have turned their back on him in the past 6 months. he says several of his colleagues have quit their jobs but while he's at odds with the current tactics he has no intention to leave. i should be staying in the police force and try to maintain the right mentality and to uphold the values of the police. it's

a tough challenge for david stuck between loyalty and dollars. to the norwegian arlen specter and in the arctic circle is the back of beyond the frigid climate isn't ideal for plants but a man from sunny florida did the impossible and started growing fresh produce there . this is not a u.f.o. it's a greenhouse inside it drops to minus 20 degrees celsius during the dark polar night only when the polar day begins will benjamin vidmar see things growing here we have some days you know over the during the midnight sun there's sun in theory 24 hours a day so it just moves around in the sky and it can get like $2530.00 degrees and here i really like to do some root vegetables carrots potatoes would be nice. finally a bit of sunlight and darkness prevails for months in winter it's minus $25.00

degrees celsius the tundra here is permanently frozen there are more polar bears and fall apart than people of all places benjamin did mark gross food here the world's northernmost settlement. this one i think looks good to a minister or 3. for the 4th one is on the table so it's an experiment together with his colleague benjamin works in what they call their lab the seeds only sprout when the climate is nearly tropical they've planted basil parsley cross lettuce cucumbers and chili peppers. at 1st good market just wanted to be able to eat fresh vegetables that's how he came up with the idea by 3 o'clock in the afternoon it's pitch black again benjamin has gotten used to this although he's from florida this former ship's cook got stranded on the icy archipelago 10 years

ago. benjamin's gardening business is booming his stock is in high demand and his capacity is limited sabar is about a 1000 kilometers from norway's north cape ordinarily all foods must be flown in which is expensive and not ecologically sound. because the last half. of. the us and lives for it. that's why benjamin vidmar wants to prove that things can be done differently. benjamin fit mark thinks a circular economy can work and he wants to prove it right here in style bard.

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