calloused studies writes plays and directs in berlin stuttgart cologne dresden challenging stereotypes and defying expectations in his work he takes a keen critical look at german culture and society and because he regularly receives hate mails and death threats sometimes his premieres take place under police protection he keeps fighting for precisely this reason. because the craft is no driving forces the fact that what surrounds me is wrong that. i'm still up against strong and tired of mists. i stop working no i leave room for them. but since i see myself as a soldier in a battle you know i don't come from. a battle with the right wing extremist threat

that still growing in germany your undoubted colors for him identity and home are questions with no clear answers. and i will return and settle i will mix like a parasite in a society that i didn't. i will be a hero if people want to see me that as a hero a role model if necessary and for a cautionary tale if i must. my feeling of homeland is at its strongest what i'm sitting on a plane or a high speed train when i'm moving. in of course there's an internal story images my own roots there are so beautiful landscapes in the east the skies of mecklenburg to ring in forest all of that is homeland but it's also tied up with the bitter

struggles i experienced in east germany there's no 2 ways about it. we had a community that in the scope of us frequently asked to participate in discussions and especially now in celebration of the 30th anniversary of german reunification. we've become experts trivializing east germany or interestingly this 3 younger generations do it complet lee although they have no experience of dictatorship. that's really intriguing. how in the west the $68.00 generation demanded an open discussion about the holocaust victims and that the victims be rehabilitated. one obvious question for me is why today's young generations have clearly over identified with their parents and don't see east german history as a history of dictatorship that. was born addressed to grew

up again the daughter of the communist party member father was officially the head of a socialist youth club but worked undercover as a starting agent holding 8 different identities it was also a man who brutally chastised his children. run away at the age of 14 becoming one of the country's top female sprinters like many of her fellow athletes she was secretive subjected to doping only later did she find out just how heavily . she studied german and you know fled to cheating our. in 1989 and continue to study the west. after receiving teaching assignments she became a professor and writer focusing on the issue of committed terms with the east german past. i think this idea of german unity a lot with all the happiness and pride that it was a peaceful revolution it clearly made us a magic in the east and the west that things would be

a little easier. life there would it be and i find it specially right now it would be good for east germans to to recognize what a tough journey it's been getting rid of the dictatorship also an internal one within our collective social science we underestimated the heavy traumatic toll of such a long dictatorship. that we haven't even got to the stories of the victims yet in the opposition in her book which translates as contested someone who was published in 2019 interweaves contemporary history with that of her own family analyzing the reasons for xenophobia with anger at the state of originates in eastern germany on average the right wing populist party has twice as many voters in the east as in the west of the world in the east wanted to get rid of their dictatorship wanted to be free wanted to be

a united country along with other germans. up the route now there are many who feel left behind humiliated we could even say colonized but on the contrary we are in another new phase now we in the east have to decriminalize ourselves. what emerges from that can be pretty potent. for any the fall of the berlin wall and $989.00 was a joyous experience that has to do with her own history of course but she hopes that $89.00 will be part of the positive narrative of people during both west of the east and we don't have to become artificially homogenous but we need to find our way out of a negative mindset so i saying recently why shouldn't east germans win the nobel peace prize yes they ought to receive this external monitor and if they historic achievement so that they can finally appreciate it internally in the.

in search of europe in a new exhibition 22 photographers with the last kreutzer agency look at the continent from 22 angles exploring questions about identity about past and future the results are highly political and very private. in a borderless europe what exactly does home mean. in a schoenberg went to the river order on the german polish border to find out. after the 1st time i thought about the construct of the borders in this way. the landscape there looks no different from that on the brandenburg side exult completely familiar to have a pulp or. a landscape steeped in tragic history in melancholy.

the people who live here were forcibly. after the 2nd and originally came from a completely different part of the country. for decades it was incredibly difficult for them to become attached to the region to feel at home there because they were always afraid of being displaced again. you can see that a bit when you drive through the region some of the villages are a little. portraits of young people from a german polish community project that expresses a deep yearning for roots. i think the idea of home plays an important role in poland they are much more attached to home. and of course it's true that nationalism is on the rise. and that it's fueled by fears of a global is a shared before. and the loss of national identity.

an open europe an idealistic project that's lost much of a chain many countries of reinforcing borders and retreating into themselves the rise of nationalism is a topic that s been i who felt also tackles these and. i see this tendency which is very strong in europe right now but it was a very serious threat yet at 1st i feel very interesting very bigger to wonder if i myself feel any sense of nationalism or at least peterson and i began thinking about where i come from i mean for. born in norway explores what connects him to his origins he photographs the life of a fuse great uncle called beyond he will probably die in the same town he was born in a completely different life to i called his own he left the town when he was 2. seaters

going to have always drawn to it time and time again to me it's one of many homes. it's possible to have multiple homes. can you have multiple homes doesn't that go against the very idea how many roots can take root. which is contained in the idea of home and it's sometimes too much of their think of the ice. to load out totally overwhelmed before that's why i prefer to talk about being on time. pitches depict an ambivalent relationship confined. moments it against the vastness of the landscape . when i am always i realize that for me that is saying goodbye maybe even

disillusionment. negative but it's not meant to be. stripped away allusions when you see more clearly for me it's kind of a burden that you have to remount the size and idealized place of origin so for me feels very much like a liberation. moment an idea that's always shifting in our globalised era it's harder than ever to pin it down an idea charged with significance and sometimes. the problem is that focus so heavily on this idea of home have in fact can be something quite wonderful it can be custom dialects idiosyncracies and unique next. it's great that in europe we have this unity in diversity. i had a nephew. perhaps essentially home is about belonging and we all want to

belong and that since it's an idea the unites us. and. 30 years of unified germany 5 approaches to the concept of hug goodbye and our feet is in from $21.00.

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this is w. news live from berlin and donald trump personal physician makes sense now spent about the president's condition saying donald trump is doing very well the u.s. leader is being treated at a military hospital after testing positive for covert 19 also coming out to germany it celebrates a 30 years of reunification german president from halters time meyer speaks at the official ceremony calling the past 30 here is a triumph of democracy over oppression. issues

a warning against populism and extremism. i'm mary in evanston thanks for joining me u.s. president donald trump has tweeted for the 1st time since he was hospitalized with cove at 19 he said he was feeling well and thanked the staff at walter reed medical center his tweet came shortly after the doctor treating president trump gave an upbeat assessment of his patients progress white house physician dr sean connelly said trump's symptoms were improving but he also warned that the critical phase of a covert $1000.00 infection would come in a few days. as reported yesterday consultation with this group recommended we bring the president up to walter reed the precautionary measure

measure to provide state of the art monitoring and any care that he may need. just 72 hours into the diagnosis now the 1st week of coverage and in particular days of a time of the most critical in determining the likely course of this illness. at this time the team and i are extremely happy with the progress the president has made there is a he had a mild cough and some nasal congestion fatigue all of which are now resolving to prove it all right for more on all this when joined now by our correspondent in washington stefan hello to you stefan so trumps a physician there painting a rather rosy picture of trump's condition but his statement was rather thin on details what did you make of it. yes look right it was thin on details and guess what it actually had to hold there is a problem with the statement on 1st sight it looked very very good and everything is hunky dory the president is in good care and there is no problem and there

hopefully won't be any problem now he said 72 hours into the diagnosis that's a problem he's messing up dr sean carley is messing up the timeline it does not add up when was the president found covert 900 positive and how long was the negative was it 72 hours ago that means that the diagnosis he's been over 1000 positive was on wednesday on thursday still on thursday the president went to new jersey to a donor event and a full kraut no mess no social distancing only on thursday night into friday morning we learned that he is covert 19 positive so something is not right there and this statement i'm sorry leaves more questions still then it gives answers when stefan there are some more contradictions now that there are some other reports we're hearing saying that president trump's condition is actually concerning what

can you tell us about those reports. now you see this is the same this is white house communication and their effort to get information and it is a mess so we have this statement at this press conference from the doctors from the team of doctors take care of the president and then minutes later a source approaching the pool reporters those reporters who are on site at medical at the walter reed medical center because you cannot put hundreds of other reporters in this in those quarters there they are approached by a source who doesn't want to be named but who has intimate knowledge about where the president is in terms of his health is that right and he rings the alarm bells with a statement saying basically that the last 24 hours they were really really concerned that he is definitely not out of the woods and that's why he is at medical rule to read medical center and not as

a precautionary measure as the doctors just said bottom line is this white house has a trust problem and an information problem meaning it is not transparent nobody believes the white house and as reporters and press here everybody's disappointed about this lack of transparency in this situation to fund do stay with us for just a moment we 1st like to have a look at how news of president trump corona virus infection 1st emerged and what treatment he's been receiving and then we'll talk some more. the 1st glimpse of the u.s. president since he shocked the world with his covert 19 diagnosis. here donald trump is being transferred to hospital with officials insisting it's only a precautionary measure. the white house said he was fatigued but in good spirits and experiencing mild symptoms. before take off the president assured his supporters he was doing ok. i want to thank everybody for the tremendous report

i'm moving to walter reed hospital i think i'm doing very well. to make sure. the 1st lady is doing. so very much very appreciated. thank you. the white house had been on high alert after news that a top aide was diagnosed with the virus on thursday politics seen here in the brown coat often travels with president trump now the race is on to try sin test the people who might have come into contact with the president and the potential pool of people is huge several other people close to trump of now tested positive for corona virus and that number could grow even further. form a senior adviser to the president kellyanne conway seen here talking to u.s. attorney general bill barr was at an event at the white house rose garden a week ago she has since tested positive for the virus and so to republican senator

mike lee seen here shaking hands touching and hugging people at the same event. with an election to win trump has been on the road to addressing voters. but he hasn't always worn a face mask or followed social distancing god lines. outside of the vault of reed hospital trump supporters have been gathering to show their support for the president. with a month until the election trumps illness has thrown his campaign into uncharted territory. and if donald trump hopes to stay in office he's going to have to beat the coronavirus 1st. and still with us from washington d.c. is the w correspondent stefan the man so scheffer we saw in that report numerous people in trump's inner circle have now tested positive for covert 19 did his physician say anything about where the president and the others could possibly have been infected

. you know he stayed away from this because this is of course highly public and political it's it's problematic it's political and this man is a doctor he's trusted with the care of the president he's not going to go anywhere near or saying where this where the president was impacted or infected by covert 900 for him for his purpose and for what he's doing now it doesn't really matter what it was that's important for us that's important for the american public but it looks like it was this super spreader event at the rose garden in the white house they were not only sitting in the there were also a lot of handshaking and hugging and celebrating inside the white house as the president nominated and announce his pick for his supreme court seat berets want to say one more thing just now and that was referring to the statement of the doctor. a few national outlets here national media now reporting that

a source in the white house is telling now that the president actually received oxygen support supplemental oxygen on friday which would again right throw a wrench into what the doctors say it's what the doctors team of the president said about what how the circumstances where he was going to walter reed hospital so it doesn't seem to be out of the woods at all and it does not all seem to be as the white house is making us believe or those doctors teams was making his belief stephon cmon in washington d.c. many thanks indeed all right let's turn our attention now to some of the other stories making news around the world the sudanese transitional government has officially ended years of internal conflict by signing a peace agreement with several rebel groups the agreement was signed in neighboring south sudan the deal covers power sharing between the warring groups the return of refugees and land rights. italy's far right opposition leader matteo salvini has

gone on trial charged with you legally detaining migrants when he was interior minister minister last year more than $100.00 migrants remained on the ship as salvini waited for other e.u. states to agree to take them him he rejects the charges calling them politically motivated. torrential rains have triggered landslides and heavy flooding in the southern french alps at least 8 people are reported missing in neighboring italy one firefighter died in a rescue operation and 11 people are unaccounted for the storm caused power outages and why spread property damage. germany is marking 30 years of the country's reunification on this 3rd of october germany's national holiday earlier today become trees president from walter steinmeier gave the keynote speech at the official ceremony in the city of pottstown near berlin the event was significantly

scaled down due to the coronavirus pandemic. a landmark date celebrating 30 years since of divided germany became one again the film studios in potsdam just outside berlin provided the stage for the official ceremony a toned down event due to the coronavirus pandemic only 230 guests were present about one 5th of the audience originally planned plans for a big street party had to be abandoned. in his keynote speech german president. said the pandemic couldn't blunt's the country's pride in the achievement of reunification he paid tribute to the peaceful revolution in communist east germany that brought down the berlin wall in november 1989. 2020 the german federal republic is a country that has been molded by east germans and west germans well rooted family

and. it is a country that draws hope from the victory of the ideas of 989. many were the lessons learned from germany's the vision and reunification stein maya said including the country strong belief in international cooperation and approach now often being called into question around the world. we germans are committed to international cooperation even though it has become harder especially since it has become harder and. we want to stand up for a strong and fair international order together with our partners in europe ladies and gentlemen dear guests this too is a lesson then mission we've inherited from our history. a day of remembrance but also of celebration accompanied by performances appealing to the musical tastes of

all age groups including the almost 13000000 germans who are 30 years old or younger who never experienced a divided germany. a country now united but were economic and sometimes cultural differences still exist recent polls show 2 thirds of germans don't think the process of reunification is complete a task that will be up to younger generations to accomplish in the years to come. well berlin's most iconic landmark the brandenburg gate is the traditional scene of crowded festivities every year but it was a very different scene this time around due to code restrictions. on the sparrow sent us his impressions of this year's reunification day there's no doubt that the brandenburg gate where we're standing right now has a very powerful meaning it was a symbol of division during the cold war and it also became a symbol of reunification it was around here exactly 3 decades ago that thousands

of germans came together to celebrate reunification it is also here where every year germans come together to commemorate the truly historic moment but not because of the coronavirus pandemic most of the events right here were actually counseled nevertheless not far away from berlin at the official event german president. stressed how much germany has actually advanced in these last 3 decades a stable peaceful country at the heart of europe and yet at the same time how many differences still remain between east and west german reunification is not a process that has concluded it is an ongoing challenge for german authorities. to sports and been asleep a soccer now unlike say have put themselves on top of the league for now with an easy for a no win over the club at the very bottom. live to were already up

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