hundred german must reads we look at a mystery set in the heady days following the full of the berlin wall. we begin in hamburg where the opening night of the verde opera in a book oh began with its director two thousand kilometers away and the house arrest in moscow could well sort of granny coffin is a harsh critic of the government so unable to travel he's relied on friends to carry out his vision for the production and his updated take on verdi's classic puts the plight of refugees in europe into the mix. a modern rendition a very nice classic nobuko set in the un security council teaming with six intreat and spots. the slave chorus laments their lost home but in this update the original hebrew slaves have been replaced by actual refugees from syria and afghanistan. director kyocera brenna cough is not able to take the final curtain he's under house arrest in moscow and can only send a video message. great opening thank you so much for all these extraordinary moment in my. live. carol sir brenda cuff is considered a punk among russian directors he's received international accolades but

tens of thousands took to the streets the fall of the berlin wall followed and communist east germany was history. the city of lights took its future into its own hands extensive renovation work huge building projects and large investments followed. thirty years after the peaceful revolution lights it has become a pretty exciting city everything seems possible here so it's just the right time for a trip into the city's past and present. we visit one of the creative hot spots of light that. we take a walk through possible with your. and we sure wave your video with holiday greetings from japan. st nicholas church is the symbol of the peaceful revolution of the one nine hundred eighty nine. a church that has always been closer to the people than to those who were in power it dates back to the twelfth century and was donated by citizens. in one nine hundred eighty s. this church was the only place where the people of life could speak openly about the conditions in east germany. open for everybody that's the motto of st nicholas church starting in one thousand nine hundred two people were

is novel the shadow boxing woman is about a young woman living in berlin when the wall comes down after she survives a rape her whole world changes she finds a martial arts teacher who transforms her into a fighting machine. the woman's name is hell now because she's a total bad ass because heather is the german word for bright her neighbors neighbor's dog meaning dark when they don't know who goes missing and heather decides to do something about it i'm going to break into dog because flat after years of hard training with the way opening the walk should be no problem calling the police is out of the question it's not as if i were really cold why doesn't just teach students punches and kicks but also the thirty six chinese survival strategy one has taught me how to wait calling it a feeling for the right moment his mission to find her neighbor takes her down a twisted path to the stranger who attacked her now if it sounds like a crime story don't expect a classic whodunit in. the shadow boxing woman brings together past and present as well as to berlin's east and west that are just get

fell, and what president bush refused to do was dance on the berlin wall. the wall. it was important at that time to ensure that there was a good relationship with gorbachev, in particular, so the cold war which was simmering down ended with a whimper and not a bang. >> mark updedrove, good to see you, thank you so much. >> thanks, ana. >> a new episode of the cnn original series "the bush years: family, duty, power" airs tonight at 10:00 right here on cnn. we'll be right back. there are healthy snacks, there are tasty snacks, and then there are kind bars. made with ingredients you know and love. like whole nuts, real fruit and a drizzle of dark chocolate. do your tastebuds and your body a favour. do the kind thing. and back pain made it hard to sleep and get up on time. do your tastebuds and your body a favour. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid, plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. i'm back. aleve pm for a better am. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ cancer treatment centers of america. appointments available now. ♪ ahhh, ha. ♪ ♪ ♪ oh y

third saying he was asked to restore his own painting at the east side gallery a remnant of the berlin wall that's now a designated historic monument he created a completely new work instead destroying the original and causing quite a scandal jim avignon has been making the art world bright for almost thirty years he's lost none of his spirit of adventure and still has that streak. and you know george will not thanks very much you've been called the fastest painter in the world do you consider that a compliment. i think i like being the first spent in the world in fact it was me it was my myself we invented that phrase at a time when speed had nothing to do in art and i had a feeling i want to become a cartoon character not so i thought what could be the most absurd and the facet pains and i thought it was a venture by the press now where do you get the ideas from your i mean you're very prolific the paintings of full of political statements sometimes societal whatever it is i mean is your head buzzing constant well i think you can collect ideas just like food from the tree you have to just

they divided the sky came out two years after the berlin wall was built so both saw the division of germany and as a tragedy she openly criticized east germany's totalitarian structures still in total the book as an endorsement for the communist east because the voice was east germany's most respected author both at home and in the west they divided the sky was a bestseller on both sides of the wall and it's also the first book ever written about german division. well there aren't many photographers who managed to shoe. what we would call an iconic picture one that's not only widely published but also get branded into our collective memories some of them surely knew the moment they click the shutter that a picture had historical significance whether they were accidental shots or possibly carefully arranged well now a new exhibition in berlin called double take explores the question of just how truthful is photography. famous photos that tell stories and which themselves have made history there are significant and midges shown repeatedly becoming lodged deep in our collective memory joe i ca

in berlin wall come to washington will and the preferential trade status of india and turkey as president ramps up his battle against what he views as unfair foreign trade practices the so-called generalized system of preferences program grants and favorable treatment of imports from both countries for a range of goods such as automotive parts tires and appliance trade representative this office said that india had failed to show washington that it would allow require market access and instead erected trade barriers is more. when no reined remove the last visited do.

in the berlin wall come to washington will and the preferential trade status of india and turkey as president ramps up his battle against what he views as unfair foreign trade practices the so-called generalized system of preferences program grants and favorable treatment of imports from both countries for a range of goods such as automotive parts tires and appliance trade representative for his office said that india failed to show washington that it would allow require market access and instead erected trade barriers is more. when no random o.t. last visited donald trump the pair boasted of their truth friendship now those bonds could be tested as trump turns his anger over trade towards the south asian powerhouse. the us president has said he will end preferential treatment for imports from india the arrangement allows for duty free entry for up to six billion dollars worth of andean goods initially designed to give poor countries a leg up the u.s. says india hasn't lived up to its side of the bargain namely offering us access to it booming economy and retard. india's comments chief played

you have democrats comparing our border barrier to the berlin wall, the border of the totalitarian society meant to keep its people inside rather than people coming illegally from outside. whatraised the question, are you going to do with the barrier we have? someone you know a lot about, robert francis o'rourke, said in an interview, yeah, let's break down the bulldozers and knock down the border wall in el paso, texas. sen. cruz: i think there is a technical description from what is going on, which is the democrats have gone bat crap crazy. is a political science term of art. if you look at the medical dictionary, it is under b. it is in fact a psychosis. they are getting more and more extreme on every issue. think back to the state of the union. the state of the union was a display of just how reticle democrats have gotten -- radical democrats have gotten. they sat there embracing late-term abortion. some of us are old enough to remember bill clinton saying he wanted abortion safe, legal, and rare. at least he was emphasizing rare. now the democratic party is for late term abortion, or

you had democrats saying, comparing our border barrier to the berlin wall. the barrier of a totalitarian society meant to keep its people inside rather than people coming illegally from outside, and this raised the question to think barriers are immoral, what are you going to do with the barrier you have and someone you know a lot about, robert francis o'rourke actually answered this question in an interview, yes, let's break out the bulldozers and break down the walls we have in el paso texas. what do you think about this? >> look, i think there's a technical description of what he is going on, which is that the democrats have gone bat crap crazy. [applause] >> that's a political science term of art, right? >> if you look at the medical dictionary it's under "b", it is in fact a psychosis. look, they have -- they're getting more and more and more extreme on every issue. think back to the state of the union. the state of the union was a display of just how radical democrats have gotten, and they embraced, and they sat there embracing late term abortion. now,

guys novel the shadow boxing woman is about a young woman living in berlin when the wall comes down after she survives a rape her whole world changes she finds a martial arts teacher who transforms her into a fighting machine. the woman's name is hell not because she's a total bad ass because head is the german word for bright her neighbors neighbors don't get meaning dark when they don't who goes missing and hello decides to do something about it i'm going to break into don't cause flat after years of hard training with way opening the walk should be no problem calling the police exam question it's not as if i were recalled when doesn't just teach students punches and kicks but also the thirty six chinese survival strategy when has taught me how to wait calling it a feeling for the right moment those missions are find her neighbor takes her down a twisted path to the stranger who attacked her now if it sounds like a crime story don't expect a classic whodunit. the shadow boxing woman brings together past and present as well as two berlins east and west that are just getting to know each

of democracy, as you face off against the communists on the other side of the berlin wall.ers like gorbachev and deng xiaoping. and this would be the game. >> well, okay. >> nyet. >> ooh! >> seth: and then, you know, you would volley back and forth and then you would try to unlock reagan's special move, the gipper spike. >> ooh! >> tear down this wall. [ audience ohs ] >> seth: and then nancy would show up and you guys would just make out. [ cheers and applause ] it was a really fun game. this last jorbus game is really hard to find. it was inspired by the tom hanks movie, "forrest gump." it's called "forrest gump: the game." now, of course, in the movie "forrest gump," forrest experiences various defining moments in american history. in this game, forrest would be in classic moments in video game history. so you would find out that forrest was actually standing right behind mario when he crushed the first goomba. [ laughter ] ♪ >> my name is forrest. forrest gump. [ laughter ] >> seth: and he was actually the guy who dropped all those pellets on the ground that pac-man ate

stanford 1989. 1989 was a very auspicious year year thatat was the the berlin wall came down. i was trying to figure out what should have after business school. couldn't get excited about most of the job offers on campus and then one day i had this epiphany which was that if my grandfather was the biggest communist in america and the berlin wall has just come down, i'm going to try to become the capitalist in eastern europe. so i couldn't get as far as eastern europe because there was no capitalism going on yet so i moved to london and i had ateral jobs but i ended up solomon brothers, the famous investment bank, just at the the russian privatization program. and my very first assignment at to advise ahers was fishing fleet, the management of a fishing fleet located in mermanx, russia, on their privatization. mermanx, the head fleet takes me to see one of their ships and the ship that he showed to me on the like 400 feet long. it was on a number of different stories. the shipp story of they had the nets where they caught the fish and then they separated them out in the middle

germany where women's rights were very very strong but of course that was thirty years ago that the berlin wall fell so there has been change since then but it has been slow for example throughout many parts of germany it's hard for families to find a kindergarten place even to this day many schools are go only until lunch time and then release the children sending them home with the expectation that there will be a mother at home to provide a warm watch all of that is changing but it's changing very slowly this government has made some of those issues priorities but as i say there is still a lot of work to be done when the cry. for nothing q. let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world women took to the bikes in the spanish capital madrid to mark international women's day and many of them skipped work to protest against equality and gender. the parade ended a process to the headquarters of the conservative people's party which refused to take in women's day activities. emanuel macro has awarded frogs as a first to quote surprise to activists that dumas serves th

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i remember the fall of the berlin wall and watching 60 minutes and realizing i want to be a journalist. a review of my favorite album, stevie wonder, and it said culturally, politically, creatively, the songs live up to everything that was promised. on the way here i was listening to past time paradise, the song, which is glorifying the days long gone behind, spending our days in remembrance of praise. it is hard to listen to since 2016, because what was written in 1976 has become relevant, painfully. okay? there was something else -- it's okay. i wanted to emphasize i didn't hear anyone mention the music of the 70s because marvin gay and stevie wonder and others wrote songs -- marvin gay in 1971 on what's going on as in fight the power. public enemy 89. i mean we've been singing about the same struggle for a long time, and i'm wondering when the tide will return, when they understand that it really isn't a personal issue. it really is an issue that's national, that we can isolate, and if we listen to each other, we can work together. we don't have to disassociate or become tribal in a

a certain sort of acknowledgment ok now berlin says what they wanted we hope the berlin wall will alwayseep the small countries on board because the next real political fight will be about two things the next year budget and the single market and what is president mccrone trying to do is to increase standards and rules for single market. as another way of french protectionism when he started on postal workers but as germany's for its status quo country because single market is great for german economy and the elephant in the room is the eurozone the future of the eurozone which was not others by it by the way i like the way that she thought that the the whole a letter. or a pet because these are her first elections as a party leader don't uncle america's election anymore she is she will be tested by these elections i i like the fact that it was swift a little bit of provocative basically saying a message to present that if you ask something from germany to sacrifice future because as i can see the viewer can find them and your u.n. security council seat so essentially that two of the two

> astonishing news from east germany where the east german authorities have said in essence the berlin wall doesn't mean anything anymore. >> i was sitting in the oval office with the president and i turned the tv on and there were berliners hacking at the wall, coming through the wall. >> the united states and the soviet union have been locked in a cold war for over 40 years. and all at once, it seems to have disappeared. >> the world as we had known it all of our adult lives changed fundamentally as the wall came down. marlin fitswater, who is the press secretary comes into the office and says, mr. president, you need to give a statement. bush issushoos him away. i don't know what i would say at this moment. i'm still trying to process it. >> he knows it's an important moment of his presidency but also knows it's a crucial moment for gorbachev. >> george bush understood he and the world needed gorbachev. if you wanted the leader to stay in power and help create a soft landing for the cold war, you didn't want to humiliate him. george bush is desperately worried he is going to say the wron

which was that if my grandfather was the biggest communist in america and the berlin wall has just come down, i'm going to try to become the biggest capitalist in eastern europe. i couldn't get as far as eastern europe because it wasn't any capitalism going on yet, so i moved to london. i had several jobs but i ended up at solomon brothers, the famous investment bank, just at the beginning of the russian privatization program. and my very first assignment at solomon brothers was to advise a fishing fleet, the management of a fishing fleet located in murmansk, russia, on their privatization. so i go up to murmansk, the head of the fishing fleet takes me to see one of their ships and the ship that he showed to me on the docks was like 400 feet long. it was on a number of different stories. on the top story of the ship they had the nets where they caught the fish, and then day separated them out in the middle of the boat, and the fish would go all the way down to the bottom of the boat where they had the canning machines so it was effectively an ocean going factory. and it was very impress

during those years among other things, the berlin wall fell, the cold war ended, germany became unified, and the u.s. led an international coalition to win the gulf war. among all of those measures, -- among all of those major international events, th bush foreign-policy team function flawlessly, almost unlike any other policy team, so what was it about his leadership skills and his emotional intelligence that allowed him to have this great team that functioned like a well oiled machine? mr. baker: first of all, he knew foreign-policy. he understood it. he liked it. he had experience in it. he had been our ambassador to the united nations, and ambassador of china, director of the cia. he understood how the national security apparatus ought to work. he saw to it that it was going to work that way. the did that through leadership. first of all, he picked people for the jobs who had worked with each other in other iterations, and primarily in the ford administration. but in other capacities. so we did not have the backbiting and the fighting and backstabbing that has gone on with so many n