considering that you had the berlin wall and. for 50 years basically it was an island in east germany and then you know we're unified and you know they're part of the e.u. and. you know kind of a bigger you know political entity i want to see this building because it's very great it's amazing it's. it's big it's someone goes it's server beautiful and this is the story of not only germany it's history for a world and so i want to be a part of this history and i want to see this. the government corridor between the right stock and the ship play has definitely become a significant and lively part of the capital there's plenty of space and lots to do . if you're like me and you can't get enough of german history check this out if you come to the government quarter and summer you're in for a treat on a big open air screen it's only taken on a journey through time. when the sun goes down the steps of the high stuck building become cinema stalls. i don't see. the big circular window in the parliamentary office building opposite the mate

lead the 1st love parade here through west berlin's main shopping district a few months before the berlin wall came down. everyone was scattered around the 20 people who were there 1st we didn't have any event management we just did it we just flipped on the generators didn't. west berlin in the late 1980 s. . and danielle they put shelter where the dream couple of a new subculture they lived in acid house a new electronic sound which dr much of played in a club called the turbine. at the time affordable electronic instruments drum machines and bass synthesizers were changing how music was made and how it sounded like machine causing it but it's only those 2 machines basically started a revolution it was like you can record music at home in your bedroom on a cassette or whatever who cares but you could do it. as well as a side. of techno all and techno made everyone equal that was unlike before when there was always the big rock star out there it's. that's why techno was so important to me politically and that's what made it so incredibly attractive i think song got. to love her rave became th

people coming together it changed the whole idea of for lives suddenly it wasn't the city of the berlin wall of the city the 3rd reich it was a joyful happy city was just it to my uncles on one side it's on the solution a. prisoner opened in 1901 detroit deejays like jeff mills and baxter came to berlin hoping to turn the city into. international capital of electronic dance music. fans still reminisce about spend lots is legendary open air party in the so-called has or guard berlin became a hedonistic flavor of this good week when we partied through the night anyone can plainly jam to the baltic sea do or see the ship where their time once stood is now a shopping mall on the trees or has been converted into office space but club is moved to another less pricy part of the city the freedom of 1990 s. berlin has been driven out by the centuries of corporate capitalism. speaking of underground playgrounds will leave you with some impressions from the italian capital rome where the tunnels under the ancient baths of how that have been restored and open to the pub like the built between 201-221-22

now in the fall of the berlin wall came. down the collapse of the soviet union. russia is the superpower we don't want to have that status it's not our a separation to become a great power. people often. see as a country that tries to impose its own will to other countries and other regions we do want to go back to that state we didn't want to be the soviet. when it's impose its will to its neighbors including countries of eastern europe their way of life political system. this is counterproductive this is costly and it's not promising it was going to help the u.s. in the longer term you cannot force people to leave according to your own values but that negative experience of the soviet union is ignored by some of our partners in the west they repeat the same kind of mistakes. when you. say. they believe their parties themselves when they pursue their policy in the imperialist way. i. just want to thank you mr peterson sentenced for taking over this is not my area 3 cases of. of russian serviceman killed final russia. it's just been reported. so there was. a huge

the cold war is still at full speed, the berlin wall was built, permission to wrap the reichstag wasag. for more than two decades the artist christo and his wifejeanne—claude decades the artist christo and his wife jeanne—claude wanted to decades the artist christo and his wifejeanne—claude wanted to work with the building up of them symbolise the cold war. you know, i was born in bulgaria in 1935, highly soviet communist country. and they escaped to the west, alone, speaking only russian and bulgarian. coming from a communist country tried to do something involving the east—west relations. it has been bombed and set on fire, seymour and revolution, but never before has the reichstag been wrapped in silver fabric —— seen wall. we never can believe what is the project until we see the real. christo himself is paying for the project, help essentially by sales of his sketches and other work. the reichstag cost us $12 million in 1995. probably today it is about $25 million or $20 million. this project, we need to build an entire structure of engineers, lawyers, services. very much like w

us today we take a look at china in the spring of 1989 it was still the time of the cold war the berlin wall would only fall later that year and in may the soviet union leader mikhail gorbachev was visiting communist leaders in beijing that is the reason why we have so much video and photographic evidence of the student protests on tiananmen square that ended in a military crackdown on june 4th because foreign media had been allowed into communist china to cover the scene as soviet summit they stayed for what looked like the beginning of a revolution. it has been 30 years since the crushing of that student movement 30 years since we 1st saw this iconic image estimates of the number killed range from a few 100 to more than 2000. mathias ballinger walks us through the events leading up to that historic crisis he speaks to a father and son the father a high powered official at the time and the son a protester. who was a book publisher in hong kong there was in 1989 i was a 4th year student in university. so i wasn't very interested in society. that year he was living in beijing. were to sit dow

this is the job you business i'm going as in berlin wall come a day before the g. 20 summit kicks off in japan there's significant movement in the trade conflict between the u.s. and china according to the south china morning post and politico the 2 sides have agreed on a so-called tentative truce delaying a fresh round of u.s. tariffs that would have extended levies on nearly all chinese products coming to the u.s. according to the reports that was a condition the chinese side is set before agreeing to a meeting between president xi jinping and donald trump now scheduled for saturday on the sidelines of the g. 20 meeting chinese president xi jinping arrived in osaka in the rain on thursday morning but the forecast for trade talks with the u.s. has apparently gotten a little sunnier amid reports of the tentative truce on the tarney topic of additional tariffs. optimism has been building among world leaders that a deal is within reach between the superpowers when their leaders meet in japan for a bit to not work much of it in regard to the u.s. china trade expect the united states and

next that drive to the longest remaining section of the berlin wall now called the east side gallery the eastern side was painted by artists from all over the world in 1900. socials fraternal kiss is the most famous painting here from here it's just a stone's throw to the historic. and the straight river. i love live music so this evening i'm going to see david hands and friends at one of berlin's premier jazz clubs the band even invites me to sing along. we're going to we're going to test but. i'm not afraid but i don't think she should be here for. so many let's start with this. the start of the one. ok there we go. don't you worry. i might feel like diana ross but my singing skills leave much to be desired still i had a good time. i. think to my perfect weekend begins with a victory tour of sorts driving past bellevue castle i head towards the famous course for some time boulevard where the symbolic kaiser vilhelm memorial church is located i end up at berlin's oldest flea market where there are thousands of small treasures to be had. i find something i like but vendor. drives a h

she did begin but his personal story of a young woman growing up on the other side of the berlin wallhow every day which into the workforce, she would go to the laboratory where she was working and she could just see the wall and she knew on the other side of it was freedom. every day she saw this personal barrier in her own life, so she use that, as you say, and launch this other idea that walls in general, the walls we have now, the walls we're thinking about buildingng, are dangerous. ism anda plea for global mutual understanding across borders. she was quite the star of the day. amy: she did not mention trump by name? >> no, but there were moments of build references of people she seemed to be talking about trump also know, she did not. amy: adam cohen, thank you for being with us journalist and , lawyer. co-editor of thenationalbookreview.com. author of several books, most recently, "imbeciles: the supreme court, american eugenics, and the sterilization of carrie buck." we will link to your recent piece for the atlantic is titled "clarence thomas knows nothing of my work." adam c

and how does the club scene on to the streets after the fall of the berlin wall in 1989. when. it was all about borders and discovery. you were inspired by an idea and simply go for it when we read just the demo i thought we don't have to proclaim what we're against we need demonstrate. what we stand for. and that's pretty much what we did with the left. out with our music and make euphoria. the love for it came to be symbolic for berlin after reunification hundreds of marchers became ranks of hundreds of thousands until a 1000000 joined in on the huge party all outside and all for free and. the parade was in the perfect place of the perfect time it was a whole generation a scene that started small but then it went on to the street and showed it we are this is our music it's take a look we're demonstrating for what we like. a new way to deal with technology. we're not afraid of it we use it to make music. for. it. back in west berlin in the late eighty's dr martin and danielle and artist from the us were the dream couple of a new subculture. they loved acid house electronic sou

i was a second liet and graduated from west point when the berlin wall was being built and the cold war upon us. i was a lieutenant general in germany when the i dn curtain can in 1989. we then started to enlarge the alliance with the partnerships for peace. i think the values are enduring, and we have remember that free people, free choice, come together with a shared ideology abouthe future. i think that is what nato is all about. laura: general george joulwan, thank you for joining us. gen. joulwan: thank you. laura: in other news, americanng r&b si r kelly has appeared pleaded not guilty in a chicago court to the latest sexual alassault gations. 11 new charges were announced last week related to the abuor of a min the singer's lawyer says the charges are merely rehashing of old allegations. scientists in the eds. have capthe first images of cool gas orbiting the supermassive black holin the center of our galaxy. the supermassive black hole is called sagittarius a and sits f26,000 light yearsrom earth, right in the middle of the milky way. the u.s. vice president says he encouraged t

350,000 bulgarian turks who were expelled into turkey, just a few months before the fall of the berlin wallittle reported in the west... i really wanted to tell that story. because i'm not a historian and i'm not really interested in official history, i wanted to tell that story through individuals and i went in search of such people in turkey and in bulgaria, in the border zone. and how much of the horrors of that time linger? because you're coming to this in the time we live in now, communism has fallen, the border zone is a different kind of place, there is issues to do with borders, of immigration coming into europe, for example, but it's a very different political set up now. did you find that the horrors of that communist period are still resonating? the place is still haunted? absolutely. it is still haunted. the forests are haunted. the forests, in parts of the no man's land between greece and bulgaria, in particular, there are patches of forest where all the trees are initialled. through different historic eras. so you can see initials are scratched by people who were crossing the

were one or two stories where perhaps it was a little bit over—egged, i think i once said that the berlin wallng to be blown up, which did not turn out to be quite true. as an mp, he was again talent spotted, until, once again, it all went badly wrong. he had a post as shadow minister when it was revealed he was having an extramarital affair. he called the story "piffle", told party leader michael howard it wasn't true. but then a tabloid newspaper exposed him. boris, are you going to save your marriage? i am going to do whatever i can to save it... 0h oh god, i've been locked out. and a furious howard gave him his second sacking. as a result, he was forced to resign from the frontbench. well, i was sacked, let's be clear. let's not muck a... i said, sack me or sack me. and he sacked you. yeah! friends and enemies call him "irrepressible" for a reason. yeah, i like it, i like it! i declare boris johnson the next mayor of london. against the odds, he became tory mayor of labour london, twice, supported by david cameron, who saw him as a potential future threat. why is borisjohnson overwhelmingl

you really are they were headed there so again the speech was about walls so she grew up by the berlin wall was on bob change is always good. americans to tear down this wall of ignorance. and this is kind of what makes sort of this liberal here it is a sin it was are always bad and this kind of represent all historical notices for that which is a ridiculous cliche. yeah and it kind of reflects liberal thought this openness always reach out to liberalism itself is a cliche here but has to be balanced with some conservatives in which you know walls have a function as well you build up a distinctive community a family a large tribe if you want with your certain specific tradition something that binds also socially so you need this balance between walls and bridges so this for me this was this is just dance about this liberal hero all like it's all i can say is people like angle merkel build walls around us ok that's all the time we have here many thanks to my guests here in moscow athens and in france and thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time remember. what politic