this is news live from berlin poland marks 80 years since the 2nd world war began. commemorations take place in the town of unity to mark the moment hitler's forces carried out a bombing raid that left more than a 1000 people dead and launched history's deadliest conflict also coming up. after a night of clashes with police in hong kong protesters plan to block access to the airport as pro-democracy demonstrations continue for a 13th consecutive weekend. i'm michael o'connor thanks for joining us on september 1st 1939 germany invaded poland the date is regarded as the beginning of the 2nd world war in the early hours of the morning a german warship opened fire on the polish garrison on the vesta plot the peninsula in what was then the free city of dunn sick at about the same time bombs rained down on the small polish town a view in killing 1200 civilians it was the german 1st air raid on poland and the 1st of many war crimes to come ceremonies have been taking place in viola marking the moment 80 years ago when history's deadliest conflict began. 4 35 am indeed. tho

this is deja news live from berlin poland marks 18 years since the 2nd world war began representatives from dozens of countries joined ceremonies in warsaw germans president bush di my overcalls the cold war as a german crime that his nation will never forget also coming up after a night of clashes with police in hong kong protesters blocked access to the airports as pro-democracy demonstrations enter their 4th month. i'm calling assman welcome to the program leaders from across the world have joined ceremonies in poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of world war 2 both the german chancellor angela merkel and german president frank valter steinmeyer were intended it was on september 1st 1939 that german troops invaded neighboring poland the beginning of history's bloodiest conflict poland suffered some of the worst horrors of the war nearly 6000000 polish citizens were killed including some 3000000 polish jews speaking at the ceremony polish president unjaded aside 80 years on there are still lessons to be learned from the 2nd world war. the lesson around the city as the le

this is d w news live from berlin poland marks 80 years since the 2nd world war began representatives from dozens of countries joined ceremonies in warsaw and german president. calls the war as a german crime and his nation will never forget also coming up voters go to the polls in eastern germany where the a.f.p. could become the 1st far right party to win a state level election in decades plus in the bundesliga barring munich going off to a bad start against minds of the champions league convert to scrap the when we have all the highlights coming up. i'm calling aspen welcome to the program dozens of leaders from across the world have joined ceremonies in poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of world war 2 polish president unjaded us said there were still lessons to be learned from that war and his german counterpart from call to steinmeyer described it as a german crime that his nation will never forget. 80 years after the war began the heads of state of poland and germany shake hands. together they remember the crimes that began on september 1st 1939 you may be brought

news live from berlin poland marks 80 years since the 2nd world war began representatives from dozens of countries joined ceremonies and warsaw and german president. calls the war as a german crime that this nation will never forget also coming up voters go to the polls in eastern germany where the a.f.p. could.

eastern poland to warsaw berlin and leipsic. then we had to prague and some villages in bohemia and then on to vote have passed from the border crossings and. our journey ends just short of the black sea in bucharest we begin and the old downs shipyard. the fall of the wall began 500 kilometers from berlin and don's and this hangar built before the 1st world war to store torpedoes . money just isn't shy. this in conspicuous building really doesn't look like a place that made world history here in the summer of 1980 after an 18 day long strike is where solidarity was born i'm. like. solidarity poland's 1st independent trade union began here at what was then called lenin shipyard a busy operation even today solidarity still has its european headquarters right in the middle of the yard. this is where we meet let through is as big nations has ever even the former shipyard workers t.-shirt is a statement aimed at the current polish government constitution it says. led solidarity went on to win the nobel peace prize and became the 1st

this is your business report i'm stephen bears in berlin good to have you with us the u.s. and poland have agreed to cooperate to develop 5 g. technology polish prime minister matteo more events and u.s. vice president and what mike pence signed the deal in warsaw with pence a it would quote ensure the security of digital infrastructure and washington has been warning its allies not to use while way equipment calling it a security threat. meanwhile huawei sets present its latest smartphone the may 30 on september 19th in munich and unlike its other phones this one comes without google's android operating system and without apps like you tube or google maps that after washington banned google from making its technology available to huawei investors will be closely watching just how well the chinese tech giant can sell without a name brand operating system. and for more on this let's go to our financial correspondent only bods in frankfurt this must put huawei at quite a disadvantage actually to not have google's operating system what do you think yes i think that's a big there's advant

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poland but also today. so the president of the bonus track was in berlin also taking part in one of the celeb ration is come i'm waiting to begin the 2nd world war this is a symbol i think that is giving suit to poland but also with a utopian society showing we know it's out of the 2nd world war began in poland it began with the attack on the polish military but also on polish civilians and this is very important because this also shows we have to know that the 2nd world war was not only about the holocaust of all it invading other countries but it was also about the having a new kind of war that was also against civil society how would you say the trauma of the 2nd world war still weighs on polish society today a lot and this is i think maybe it's even getting more and more because actually it's only 30 years when we can speak freely and openly about what's happened during the 2nd world war both the nazi terror and of course the soviet terror and the men a lot of questions that come up and there are a lot of open still open books that the to be discussed and i see. also it's connected with the with the wit

been made for a site in downtown berlin right at the center of so it looks as though this could materialize disappoints the qualms that voyager has just been outlining. poland was hoping that some clear signal would come from berlin ahead of those ceremonies today ahead of the 80000 bursary that germany will be building this this monument just as we've seen with the holocaust monument in berlin it takes something truly years for germany for berlin to to have such a decision. but let's look at these pictures here that are currently taking place at the square in warsaw we're expecting the polish national anthem and the raising of the polish flag in flight. i think there is one thing that i would like to point out at this stage because we've been talking about the dark cloud that so that often hovers over drill ations between poles and germans and between poland and germany. but it has to be said many millions of it's not quite clear the actual number i don't think is can be defined but we're talking that 3000000 plus polish people people with polish roots live in live in germany and they're highly skilled highly trained to make a major contribution to jump. i

someone who was born here just after the war came to berlin ziva quite it's even really liberal of your opposite it goes from one extreme to the other poland which makes it quite inspiring because it's lived through well there is that other the rise of the far right yeah ok well you were supported swayed here in london very here in berlin and you're going to be supporting them again i believe so yeah every time they play ball and i've supported them in the over the last few tours so that's like 3 tours that they played they've asked me to support the single the singapore under 7 so it's very nice what do you like there were brother he's a really good yeah. yeah just a super nice guy and super inspiring guy as well and again quite international he also escaped from a small town so there's lots of parallels i think you know and similar themes similar influences i guess so i mean stuff like bowie and all these kind of bands from that era kind of sing about being outsiders you know so i think that's the same thing growing up. school and getting bullied and stuff and then you kind of find your own identity by moving away became ingin alien some

news live from berlin and welcome to our special coverage of the commemoration of the start of world war 2 when hitler's germany invaded its neighbor poland a ceremony is set to get underway shortly in the polish town to be a 180 years ago today or early hours of the 1st of september 939 to be a lunatic was bombed by the germans most truckstop 1200 civilians were killed and it was the start of the 2nd world war. or thank you for joining us 80 years ago today on the 1st of september 1939 germany invaded poland the date is regarded as the beginning of the 2nd world war in the early hours of the morning a german warship opened fire on the polish garrison in the vesta thought a district of what was then the free city of don sick at the same time bombs rained down on the small polish town of via the one killing 1200 civilians it was the german left office 1st air raid on poland and the 1st of many war crimes to come. in a few minutes from now a special ceremony will begin in via loon to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of world war 2 the polish president. will be joined by his german counterpart from my own as we wait for the ceremony to

berlin correspondent, jenny hill, reports from warsaw. sudden, violent, the attacks came from air, land and sea. 80 years ago, nazi troops stormed in to occupy polanddliest conflict in human history. air raid siren. before dawn this morning, sirens to commemorate the first civilian casualties of the second world war. german bombers destroyed the town of weilun. speaking in polish, the german president said he was sorry. translation: i bow my head before the victims of the attack on weilun. i bow my head before the polish victims of germany‘s tyranny, and i ask for forgiveness. in warsaw, a chance to reflect on the horrors of conflict past, but among the leaders and heads of state, two notable absences. donald trump cancelled his attendance at short notice, and the russian leader, vladimir putin, wasn‘t invited. the leaders who came here today came to commemorate notjust war but europe‘s hard—won peace, yet they themselves are deeply divided over the very values on which post—war europe is built. there was a sense at times today that the unity those leaders are supposed to represent is in fact rather fragile. jenny hill, bbc news, warsaw. kevin hard

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the conflict. 0ur berlin correspondent, jenny hill, reports from warsaw: sudden and violent, the attacks came from air, land and sea. 80 years ago, nazi troops stormed into occupied polandin human history. before dawn this morning, sirens to commemorate the first civilian casualties of the second world war. german bombers destroyed the town of weilun. speaking in polish, the german president said he was sorry. translation: i bow my head before the victims of the attack on weilun. i bow my head before the polish victims of germany's tyranny, and i ask forgiveness. in warsaw, a chance to reflect on the horrors of conflict pass, but among the leaders and heads of state, two notable absences. donald trump cancelled his attendance at short notice, and the russian leader vladimir putin wasn't invited. the leaders who came here today came to commemorate notjust war but here at‘s hard—won peace, yet they themselves are deeply divided over the very values on which post—war europe is built. there was a sense at times today that the unity those leaders are supposed to represent is in fact rather fragile. jenny hill, bbc news, warsaw. helen patton is the granddaughter of the famous

berlin correspondent, jenny hill, reports from warsaw. sudden, violent, the attacks came from air, land and sea. 80 years ago, nazi troops stormed in to occupy polandraid siren. before dawn this morning, sirens to commemorate the first civilian casualties of the second world war. german bombers destroyed the town of weilun. speaking in polish, the german president said he was sorry. translation: i bow my head before the victims of the attack on wielun. i bow my head before the polish victims of germany's tyranny, and i ask for forgiveness. in warsaw, a chance to reflect on the horrors of conflict past, but among the leaders and heads of state, two notable absences. donald trump cancelled his attendance at short notice, and the russian leader, vladimir putin, wasn't invited. the leaders who came here today came to commemorate notjust war but europe's hard—won peace, yet they themselves are deeply divided over the very values on which post—war europe is built. there was a sense at times today that the unity those leaders are supposed to represent is in fact rather fragile. jenny hill, bbc news, warsaw. comedian and actor kevin hart has reportedly bee

poland. >> if the drought establishes itself as a normal weather pattern, then annual spectacles like these might become a thing of the past. helena: you're watching dw lose -- news come alive from berlinwill be back after a quick break to take you through the day. see you soon. [captioning performed by the nationalal captioning g institu, whwhich is respoponsible for i s caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] . a day of transportation chaos wrapping up here in paris a mass walk out my metro workers on friday and most train lineses were compmpletely closesed buses and trams also severely disrupted. so many commuters of filled the streets with bikes and scooters or ended up paying as much as four times the normal rate for any uber. right itt i is the fit test a against a planned retirement system overhaul it only tells us more

berlin commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the start of world war 2. world leaders including both the german chancellor and the german president are gathering in warsaw to remember the invasion of poland by nazi german troops on september 1st 1930 not watchin.

berlin zoo's giant pandas the 1st for the animation great school choice breeding program. germany has been holding events to mark the start of the world war 280 years ago when the country invaded poland 94 year old cellist anita fish survived the concentration camps at auschwitz and back in belsen since then she spent years speaking to schoolchildren about her own experiences today she was awarded a prize for her efforts to prevent the rise of anti semitism. she is one of the last holocaust survivors alive today and his her last go office was departed to our streets concentration camp in 1943 by then the nazis had already murdered her parents there waiting to be put in the gas chambers it was a situation that what it was in you know very difficult to describe to people nowadays who live normal lives it was music that safed last couple 1st life a talented cello player she was chosen to play in the r. schmidt's women's soccer struck glasgow office has now been recognised for her relentless fight against anti-semitism with the german national price the award honors those who strengthen the bonds between chairman me and. the cut us off with me when i left germany after the catastrophe i

berlin wall came down in 1989. i am sure many of you in the room will remember the remarkable sequence of events when one communist government after another tumbled in poland, czechoslovakia, hungary. in a matter of weeks communism seemed to have imploded in the region. i had the privilege of teaching constitutional law. you can imagine what a remarkable opportunity it was to actually find myself sitting at the elbows of people, making constitutions for their respective nations. and these were very good lawyers and judges, and were experts in their fields, but they never had lived in a place where they had any choice. the constitution was the epitome of the symbol of the cold war. it was the soviet constitution. during this, in the 1990's, i was at a meeting in st. petersburg. i was working with judges and lawyers. it was that brief moment when we thought russia would become something like a liberal democracy. it seems like such a long time ago, doesn't it? it is hard to remember there was even a glimmer of hope. we were having these serious discussions. they had very good people. i said, i don't speak any russian. we were working through a translator. i j

poland. all of that before death and justice road across germany on horseback, and yes even on camel. the soviets used camels in 1945 to get to berlin. it road in massive t 34 soviet tank armies that germans could not even conceive of earlier in the war. my point in this place is that the war was won by the greatest generations of many nations that thought the axis powers together. the men and women who defeated hitler and fascism came from two dozen countries. they left home starting in 1939 to fight in foreign fields to free faraway peoples of whom they knew little. they came from farms and small towns in queensland, australia. they came from cities like auckland, new zealand, manitoba. from manchester and melbourne, from montreal and marseille. they came from the desert in south africa, from the niger delta, from the mountains of kashmir, and nepal and baluchistan. they came from grassroots villages in kenya, and senegal, they came from trinidad, rio de janeiro, then iowa, and maine. fighting men bound for europe climbed onto troop ships in halifax, in madras, melbourne. wasting from mumbai and vancouver. then, 22 months after it

saxony which borders poland and the czech republic put chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats in 1st place with the 82nd and voters in neighboring clattenburg which surrounds berlin with the social democrats and 1st and the a f t just behind germany's mainstream centrist parties took heavy losses but they did maintain their top positions in these elections for in fact and let's take a look now at some of the numbers that we have been looking at these are the latest projected results based on a partial count of the vote the results at this stage for bundaberg shows of the social democrats who currently govern a 26.5 percent so maintaining that top position losing votes however down more than a 5 percent from the previous day lections chancellor merkel's christian democrats that 15.5 percent that is a significant loss from that for them as well more than 7 percent the left party here at 10.4 percent the far right a.f.d. coming in the hero as these projections are these partial vote counts at 23.8 percent putting them in 2nd place creeping up a bit from the previous exit polls and the partial vote counts that we saw on the greens here coming in at 10.2 percent to up

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poland. this is news law from berlin thanks for joining us. dischord warming up behind me on just any run of the mill of blunders the good squad this is 6 boys in the top of the table the question everyone's lips on match day 6 and the both of us the pressure of being the good news league as best. as my looks i'm sure and rightfully so his team were up against a bit of fire recent weeks and could put the 1st chink in their alma. because they know by now we see in the wings and they could make the next move for the variance where in power born have local pride on their side. that's in plenty more to come on this action packed edition of the bundesliga here on d w i met mechanic line let's get started in life saying abi of had their best ever start to win this league a season there's been plenty to celebrate 4 wins a draw has been top of the table with 13 points on the board that means they're the team everyone wants to topple the.