everybody seems a very safe place safe for you to say. this is the interview news live from berlin germany's president condemns far right activists who attempt to storm germany's parliament hundreds marched on the price tag building here in berlin during a protest against the coronavirus restrictions fun for the standby of calls down action intolerable attack on the heart of german democracy also coming up protesters keep up the pressure on president of example of the shrinkwrap 3 weeks

after the disputed election he claimed to win now he says he'll head to russia to see president put in its health. and god help us thanks for joining us germany's president has condemned the far right activists who tried to storm the german parliament building the group some waving german imperial flags managed to reach the entrance of that i started building before police force them back from further standby said the display of the flags was and in toward intolerable attack on the heart of german democracy. it happened along side a demonstration that drew nearly 40000 people to protest germany's coronavirus was struction hundreds of whom were arrested for breaching social distancing rules.

for 2 hours they waited flouting social distancing rules seated on the pavement. and then before it began the demonstration was over. through the course of the morning thousands had packed into the boulevards from the landmark brandenburg gate into the city center their reasons for coming differed. more clearly the peace if we work together thanks everyone for coming being here i'm here because as a teacher i'm suffering tremendously under the restrictions it's unbearable to see the children forced to wear a mask suffering in school. missing divide the truth is that they are using the coronavirus and the vaccination that threatens to be made mandatory to enslave us. in the restrictions are disproportionate to the level of threat posed by the virus . police said protracted talks with the organizers failed and ordered a halt to the rally. because demonstrators many of whom doubt the pandemics

severity were ignoring court ordered safety requirements like maintaining social distancing and wearing masks in there are currently used i know how it was impossible to enforce the regulations police try to get people to wear a nose and mouth cover and even handed out masks to those willing to wear one but that wasn't sufficient to ensure adequate compliance. i never had that in. police estimates put attendance of 38000 most people touting themselves as independent thinkers but there were also right wing extremist groups and a dozen lawmakers from the far right party making little apparent effort to keep separate from right wing radicals. and i can i just don't see myself from small fringe groups by not taking part if i share the beliefs of the vast majority of people here. but experts say the infiltration of such protests by extremist groups poses a real threat so you feel. it's perfectly all of germany's right wing populist and

far right extremist groups called on supporters to attend and that is the problem undermining the entire demonstration. case in point violence unleashed by members of the far right groups and a movement that rejects the legitimacy of the german government of comics who were pelted with stones and bottles of this we currently have 7 injured officers who were and have detained around $200.00 protesters outside on the 1st day that showed the complex nature and explosive potential of opposition to coronavirus regulations in germany. from all that story political correspondent i'm on a. student has been following these protests the pictures are quite incredible that the demonstrators sort of breaching the rights of trying to breach that i start how significant is this well you say to the pictures are striking it's quite shocking for germany for the german population witnessing that the german president you

quoted him by those time i said it was an attack on democracy rios i had a reaction from in terror minister jose of who sayed that device that building is the seat of all parliament and a symbolic center of a free democracy it is intolerable that's rioters and extremists abuse it for their own purposes so questran rose from the entire i mean is that he continues on and i thank the pennies for preventing that so quickly and decisively this state must show 0 tolerance and take action against such people now yesterday 3000 police officers were deployed in bed and there were also coming from other german regions and it took them quite some time to manage to handle those protestants those those rioters in front of the parliament and if it is spokesperson even say to. police officers is simply couldn't be everywhere at the same time foreign affairs minister also condemned. does actions he say everyone has the right to disagree about

current virus measures and to demonstrate but no one and he stressed that in capital letters on his twitter account should be marching behind right wing extremists putting police of his says in danger and exposing others to risk of infection imperial war flags in front of the parliament shameful he was referring to the number of imperial of the german imperio flags that we so indicts protest that's worrying because these are riots and these right wing extremists taking parts in that in those protests well they come out of time where there's an increase in foreign violence here in germany talking about these far right extremists critics of the demo have said all those people are just far right extremists and a conspiracy theorist but 38000 though it is that number significant enough to dismiss that it's not that simple you cannot say it at all protestors were a right wing extremists they were the most visible because they were using a slogan such as we are the people of years in the us for which is something they

took back from the protests against germany a regime we also saw some people using russian fly's pro tram flags etc but a majority of people taking pot without pro to those protests were worried about the impact of the current virus restrictions in their everyday life they were. that it might infringe upon their their fundamental rights however by marching along a right wing extremist these didn't do them any favor by not just thank you. to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today the u.s. has accused russia of a dangerous intercept of a b. $52.00 bomber flying over the black sea the defense department said 2 russian fighter jets crossed the almost pass just 30 meters ahead of it is said the plane was on a routine mission over international waters when the incident occurred. coast guard

in italy has evacuated 49 migrants from a rescue vessel sponsored by british street artist banksy the operation came after the crew used twitter to appeal for help saying at least one of the over 200 migrants on board was dead and several others injured. people have taken to the streets of the pollution capital minutes once again to demand president alexander lukashenko stepped down the demonstrations began 3 weeks ago after he claimed an overwhelming reelection victory in a poll that observers cold neither free nor fair canal says he will soon meet with russian president vladimir putin who has offered to send in security forces to quell the protests. from minsk i am joined by correspondent nick connelly nick seen more we've seen more and more arrests in recent days what's the atmosphere like there and minsk. well it's def definitely calm where i am

here on independence square the place that had being the site of protests day off today indeed since that rigged election on august the 9th and police have cordoned this all off people in police and secure system right gear in uniforms and in civilian clothing but if you look behind me on the square there is about an estimated several 100000 people on the independence haven't you cut off from the square by those police cordons you can just hear their screams the cries the chants from their shame to the police it's really not clear where this is going this standoff is continuing and the increasingly while the threats from the government against protesters to arrest people taking part in so-called unsanctioned protests or position versus here are unsanctioned don't seem to be working and today again many people turning out here on the streets for months. nic the protests happening in minsk though. that's true they've been protests all across the country in towns big and small this is not a capitol specific protest i went to

a town called solly which is a crucial industrial town produces lots of potassium this is a product that's exported around the world and it brings in crucial revenues to the government let's have a listen to how people are feeling over there. this was a series of mines with the city in between a place that provides much of the world with fertilizers and alexander lukashenko is government with a significant chunk of its revenues any unrest here and so he goes let alone a strike would be devastating for the regime both financially and symbolically. such as. we have lived with one man in charge of everything for 26 years after this year's election we saw appalling violence against ordinary people. this regime is in human and has already committed crimes against humanity it needs to go as a signature because of his spent all his working life in these mines and now he's trying

to bring them to a standstill with a full scale strike so far the results have been so only a few dozen miners have joined in the others he says just too scared and not without good reason all the strikers is set to lose their jobs and most likely the company. we try to ask the workers clocking off and their shifts where they make a video no one is willing to talk companies given strict instructions to keep quiet . it's early evening the queue snakes once across the city square a queue to sign a petition to recall local deputies something almost no one believes will actually happen but a chance for people to make themselves heard. that is it was a. political cause i don't agree with our president's politics i've had enough of seeing his face it's been 26 years you've just heard i'm not allowed. to bring the election and now he won't go to new particulars with me was the people

who are empowered right now are you i want to work for ordinary people and that will show i do not want the politicians to just serve one person i knew she didn't know much about it but that bitch was good at it the better to slowly step by step we need to take the system apart doc and yes yes i am a student. you know if it were that our universities position is clear if it captured one of these protests or if you're charged even if someone just recognizes you had one of these protests to throw you out immediately. just it. would filming him waiting in line to sign a petition be enough to get him in trouble with his university would should we stop filming no he told us he'd had enough of being afraid to phrase you hear time and time again in the streets of belarus right now. this weekend's demonstrations will show whether alexander lukashenko as ever while the threat still hold their power after a quarter of a century in office. so that's the mood there in solid gold provincial town

about 2 hours out of minsk people not going out on strike in large numbers but coming out not for a night to stand up for their right to fair elections as they aren't today. if we're looking at the pictures of where you are standing it looks increasingly like a standoff doesn't look at refusing protesters not showing any sign of being intimidated where is this heading. no one has the answer to that is the what makes it so interesting also so scary to be a protest on the streets today there is no roadmap for this this is a country that basically had no politics no competitive politics for a quarter of a century now suddenly people in tens and hundreds of thousands coming out in the streets and challenging a system that had controlled every last detail of their lives their work lives in political and social life and that really on the government deciding the agenda that has now been broken where this goes now is totally unclear refusing any kind

of dialogue seemingly seeing that as a sign of weakness on the other hand protesters not scared by increasing numbers of arrests increasing pressure financial pressure and legal pressure against people who have been calling out the regime. reporting there thank you nick. if you want to know about the benefits of wearing a mask during the coronavirus pandemic in mexico you can take it from the professionals professional mexican wrestlers well famous for their colorful monsters the which i leave it av been distributing the surgical masks in mexico city it's part of a program to raise awareness about the need to protect against over 90 mexico is one of the world's worst hit nations it was a welcome brush with the public for the rest of us too because most have been out of work because of restriction restrictions on sporting events.

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you know you're just like. best friends. and we did lot of things together he was the leader i was a follower. it was very nice. up on. the war. the 1st victims of the war forgotten my history at the end of the 2nd world war 20000 children were stranded in the ruins of europe in the euphoria of liberation their fate became a footnote some of them found refuge in an old monastery near munich which became a center for homeless children in early summer 945. they had been snatched from their parents in the concentration camps or deported

from their homeland to serve the nazi regime now a new life is to begin for them far away from the chaos of the post-war world. and i don't remember. being together with lesley in the camps but but i do remember that much that was. their lives were coming through started out by train and then lives were close enough so that they would shoot at the local motor of the train move. and surgery started marching. and that that that was that. funny enough i was sort of was my end that much anymore and. some of

the focus must come from a different group too much joined us if you if you felt you were shot right or wary so it was important to keep going and keep people up so. he was beat me my brother and i kind of have to stay up if you can that's the shot you know by the way so this is a very my life in my ways. and on days and days and days they marched us. you know all of a sudden i'm looking sort of ahead of intervention i can still see what happened i see tanks never saw a tank of my life i was so tense coming for gathered that i can and then they so

dead says on the way guys that i'm away and he tapped in so quick this is the 10th. and they let the soldier says ok i did 10 because there was shooting going on that day a place to get behind the tent and then forget the day it was 23rd maybe from 945 to maybe the day and then hiding in the one of those folks or was the moment. the guy comes up to me like john says to me i do. that's it isn't it says now a shallow muslim jew. in need this of course. i was at a loss. hundreds of thousands of prisoners on

a road in bavaria. and i was just one of them for a 1st few days were babies by the u.s. army they were giving us full they're going goes and they're charkha it and after 3 days is starved you had to go and look for 4 years of. children from the camps wandered all over europe without family without a goal it was a daily struggle for survival between the field hospitals and the allies and wherever they could find a roof over their heads. to

get this officially though i was a forced labor at b.m.w. and munich and vatican cold as i did. for taking that. for non jewish children who came from the eastern european countries alone or were taken to germany with their families for forced labor deliberation was also the beginning of a new odyssey. are bad guys the americans are all of bavaria we were placed in different camps. some wanted to go back home others thought about emigrating there were more and more of us nobody really knew what was going to happen to us we were still children. everybody knew there must be a chore to the forming of our own. nobody no harm and the choice of the right kind

of shorter than. later fischer was determined to help these children who were left to their own devices she grew up as a child of a jewish family in czechoslovakia and upgraded to britain in 1989 her parents were murdered in the trip link a concentration camp. at the end of the war she volunteered with. it over $12008.00 workers from almost every nation. greater fisher was part of team $182.00. that's 6 feet for 8 people from different nationalities there put into these.

to go to germany. and look for company children then started to look for the facilities too often the children sent to. the american army of event the americans or does it for us cluster isn't a store. in the store is a catalyst cloister completely unsuitable for the purpose we brought into 4 core children center does it have the beds it has the service side it starts the children centered there. the church. has really cleaned up the plays. and so on july 11th 1905 the 1st international children's center for displaced

persons opened a place where young holocaust survivors and children of eastern european forced laborers could live together in a safe haven for lost children. and how could a child not feel lost among the flood of refugees the war had unleashed. in 1985 at least 11000000 displaced persons were distributed to around 700 camps in germany austria and italy. in does doff near done how was specifically intended for children. words came. as a dirty word to me i said i'm not interested in any camp un medics came there and and said here try this cheered as camp if you don't like it here leave this risk of us we were accommodated in the doctor's museum in munich

together with adults if you. then miss fisher came and said you children can stay here. if you said there was a drinking and everything possible that we weren't supposed to see. so i guess she took us to in the store of you does that of only. transport we had was the american army. if you want to go on a base it was in america truck so. you got. to win this war and. not just there was also. a lot of. polish other slavic people. down churching. yeah there's you know i thought you know. she's from the

site if she killed any but we had been assigned to a large farm or. a mother worked in the fields of the lifeboat no eve. mother died in 1945 i think in february. so we were brought to interest off. then mrs fisher deceived us. she greeted all the children who arrived there. so she is done with them to go. the whole time i was just trying to hold on to my sister spirit so she would be too far away. but the blue cloud story. it was a monastery so there were on swings and big staircases that lead to the upper floor . i still remember very well how it at code when we ran down that.

new polling. 2 months after it opened $192.00 children from 13 countries from babies to teenagers already live in dust off. the center's most urgent task was to reawaken their lost trust in humanity. brain stem. out the 1st thing. to give to force to give the closing which was to focus the children would. take blood from god. so we had somebody stand by does the roman say you don't have to take bread you will get bread ever you wanted. but i saw some of those

youngsters now 3040 years later so you still take that. piece of the pillow in order to make sure that there will be a next release. a member of the having. to thank the soup. the may create from the soup. this market for tomorrow morning. some stole. they grabbed hold plates of food and hid them under the tables of us though top of the tables in the monastery were huge at least 15 meters lot. and then we enjoyed it later under the table for the dead time us for going to south it really saying i want to do that best of my life is eaten sleep of the just eat in sleeve that's all of them today we had very high stead that's they had to eat this foxes for you had to dive over and. devote it. to the table

and all this one called a person with the children but you know that you are very hungry you don't always take the trouble to take a life and the fork and spoon. you just take your head in. the it says that and some of those. long was saying he had for us in. 3 enclosures i was very close before i thought i was reading once before or through one before without having it wash not even bid our ship them so we could choose a dress or trousers everything was stacked on shelves and each child could choose what to wear. we had to be very innovative quits is closing.