i took a big package of gum and candy to berlin. i mailed it to him in the berlin mail.ouldn't mail it to berlin, but you got to say you could mail it in the mail. his dad and mom were killed during the bombing of berlin and he lived with an uncle and he wanted to be an american citizen. and i had barracks bags with kids who wanted to write kids and send for pen pals and state department. put his in the state department bag, and he was adopted by a family in palm, pennsylvania. he needed shoes and we took some shoes to berlin and imprinted the size and gave it to him. became good friends. never met him. never met him. i had a little girl who wrote. she says, "i'm mercedes, and you're causing us a terrible problem." and of course that got my attention right away. it said, "we live right on the approach just before you land." (child's voice) "we live near the airfield at tempelhof, "and our chickens think your airplanes are chicken hawks, "and they become frightened when you fly over to land. "they run in the shelter "and some molt "with no more eggs from them. "when you s

kennedy visited berlin. speaking to the people of this city, and the world at the city hall, but since then two other presidents have come, each in his turn to berlin, and today i myself make my second visit to your city. we come to berlin, we american presidents, because it is our duty to speak in this place of freedom. but i must confess, we're drawn here by other things as well, by the feeling of history in this city. more than 500 years older than our own nation. by the beauty of the people, but mostly by your courage and determination. perhaps the composer paul lenke understood something about american presidents. you see, like so many presidents before me, i come here today because wherever i go, whatever i do, [ speaking german ] our gathering today is being broadcast throughout western europe and north america. i understand that it is being seen and heard as well in the east. to those listening throughout eastern europe, i extend my warmest greetings and the good will of the american people. to those

let them come to berlin!applause ] there are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. let them come to berlin! [ cheers and applause ] and there are even a few who say that it's true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress. [ speaking german ] let them come to berlin. [ cheers and applause ] freedom has many difficulties, and democracy is not perfect. but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in to prevent them from leaving us. [ cheers and applause ] while the wall is the most obvious and vivid demonstration of the failures of the communist system for all the world to see, we take no satisfaction in it, for it is, as your mayor has said, an offense not only against history, but an offense against humanity, separating families, dividing husbands and wives and brothers and sisters, and dividing a people who wish to be joined together. freedom is indivisible. and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. all free men, wherever they live, are

. >> the berlin wall had separated east and west since august 13, 1961. as the wall came down on november 9, 1989 senate minority leader bob dole republican from kansas, and senate majority leader george mitchell, democrat from maine took to the senate floor to voice their thoughts. >> according to news reports, the east german government just announced the opening of its borders to all of its citizens to include the right to free passage of the berlin wall. it appears that the berlin wall and all it represents are crumbling, even as the communist state which built it crumbles too. with breadth of speed, the people of east germany sought to take their up destiny into their own hands. by the hundreds of thousands shall they have taken to the streets, asking only two things, freedom and opportunity. by the tens of thousands, they have fled their homeland seeking only two things, freedom and opportunity. decades of communist rule lie in shambles. the government resides one day the communist politburo the next and now we have today's dramatic announcement. th

so east berlin is down here, west berlin is up here. you come through the buildings here, the car lanes are over here, and this is the final guard post and the final bridge. and the man in charge that night, the senior stasi officer on duty that night is this man, harold yeager. harold yeager is the man who opens the berlin wall. harold yeager is an unlikely candidate for that title. he is a complete loyalist. he's been working there for 25 years. he had an additional three years of service before that. he actually with helped to build the wall. i pulled his entire service record that still survives from the former stasi, and he had in all of those years of service one minor demerit and a rath of awards. -- a raft of awards. he said he believed the wall was tragic but necessary because if we had not, there would have been world war more, so it was -- world war iii. so this was a man who was very committed to his job. this was not a man who was secretly trying to bring down the regime. but in the course of that night, he finally, the cou

and we must extract it. >> berlin, of course, is divided at the end of world war ii but berlin is 110 inside of the east german zone. khrushchev is threatening to force the integration and take over west berlin and kennedy says to him, berlin is part of our western commitment and world war ii. don't challenge us there. >> after two days, the talks end. >> kennedy did not do well. he allowed himself to be caught in an ideological argument with khrushchev. he'd been warned against it. he did it anyways and khrushchev bullied him and pushed him around. >> khrushchev has made the first move in the chess game. and the president knows it. as he leaves, he says, it's going to be a cold winter. >> kennedy thought there might be a basis for dealing with the soviets. instead he gets the berlin crisis. >> in july, 1,000 east germans escaped into west berlin every day. now in august, they're coming out at the rate of 2,500 a day. as a result of khrushchev's threats and demands. east germany is being bled of its best-trained people. >> i went to berlin to cover the bureau and the nbc news desk in

so east berlin is down here, west berlin is up here. you come through the buildings here, the car lanes are over here, and this is the final guard post and the final bridge. and the man in charge that night, the senior stasi officer on duty that night is this man, harold yeager. harold yeager is the man who opens the berlin wall. harold yeager is an unlikely candidate for that title. he is a complete loyalist. he's been working there for 25 years. he had an additional three years of service before that. he actually with helped to build the wall. i pulled his entire service record that still survives from the former stasi, and he had in all of those years of service one minor demerit and a rath of awards. -- a raft of awards. he said he believed the wall was tragic but necessary because if we had not, there would have been world war more, so it was -- world war iii. so this was a man who was very committed to his job. this was not a man who was secretly trying to bring down the regime. but in the course of that night, he finally, the cou

both parts of berlin. >> mr. ambassador, isn't it possible that as you say, because you have two states that are really divided also militarily between the nato and the warsaw pacts, isn't it possible that president bush and gorbachev will be really deciding the future of whether there will be reunified germany? >> you see, i respect very much the americans and other superpowers, but even small states have a right to live and decide their destiny. i think it is not a matter to be discussed by gorbachev and by bush. it's a matter to be discussed and decided on the basis of the right to self-determination pie the people of the german democratic republic and those concerned. in this case, the federal republic of germany. but again, i think that this is a question which does not meet the real objective conditions as existing now in central europe, in europe and in the world. and we have to be very realistic and -- to assess very soberly the situation because you should not allow this events to get out of control by i

>> he did not make a sexy. >> i think berlin's hit list does not have much to do with its mayor -- berlin's hipness does not have much to do with its mayor. >> if living in a hip berlin means living in a city that is a little shabby, i'm all for a new mayor. >> what's next for berlin will be partly up to his successor who is less charismatic, but perhaps, that is hitting for a city that after reinventing itself is slowly reaching adulthood. >> to another major european metropolis now -- madrid. its zoo is getting ready for christmas with one of the spanish capital's more unusual holiday traditions. >> get this -- divers at the zoo aquarium have set up an underwater nativity scene under the watchful eye of tank inhabitants, including a bull shark. staff say that the festive display, which has been a tradition for nearly 20 years, helps break up the monotony of the fishes' everyday life. >> that's one of the most interesting nativity scenes i've ever seen. a lot easier than caroling underwater as well. that's all we have time for. thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks for watching dw. i wa

as events unfolded in berlin, he was criticized for not appearing to share in the jubilation. later, his closest aides, together with historians, described a president determined not to provoke a backlash by soviet hardliners. >> well, we just want to make a brief statement here. i have just been briefed by the secretary of state and national security adviser on the later news coming out of germany. and of course, i welcome the decision by the east german leadership to open the borders to those wishing to immigrate or travel. and this,s if the's implemented fully, certainly conforms with the helsinki accords. helsinki final acts that were signed and if the gdr goes forward now, and this wall built in '61 will have very little relevance and it clearly is a good development in terms of human rights and i must say that after discussing this here with the secretary of state and national security adviser, i'm very pleased with the -- with this development. >> [ inaudible ]. >> well, we have such a close relationship with the bed republic that if we were -- chancellor kohl asks us t

berlin and hamburg are focusing on sustainability. berlin already has an olympic-sized stadium.cities want to keep costs low by integrating new construction into existing infrastructure. >> the most important thing we have to take into consideration in hamburg and berlin is that we are going to have to build additional infrastructure for the games. the estimated cost for each city will be around 2 billion euros. >> berlin and hamburg's plans allies with the reform plans of the international olympic committee. the ioc wants to give host countries more say in how to run the games. the ioc president will present planned reforms next week. a german bid to host the games could stir up more interest in olympic sporting events. not a day too soon. germans are winning fewer medals every year. >> that is all for us for now. thanks for watching. ♪ >>> this week on moyers & company, chevron tried to buy the election. >> as soon as you enter the borders of the town, you see that it's a battleground. you see billboards everywhere. you see signs on every corner and you can tell that someone i

. >> i'm nick spice center berlin, now more than ever the go-to place for young classical musicians. >> we were talking to a young lady saying she just wanted her voice to get out there. >> by the thousands, they're sending their government a message. >> ahead of 'em is a humanitarian crisis where tens of thousands of people are without food, water, shelter. >> a special one hour look at global attacks on free press. monday 9:00 eastern. on al jazeera america. >> hello again a reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera. syrian state television say the assad government is willing to take part in talks with opposition in moscow next month. there has-non-stop to silence that erupted four years ago. >>> peshmerga recaptures parts of sinjar from isil. and there have been more airstrikes in the area. >>> forecasts of more severe weather. officials say 180,000 people have been displaced in malaysia and neighboring thailand. >>> ukraine's president petro poroshenko has sean the hands of soldiers who have been released by senior separatist. >> in a military airfield ukrainian president we

berlin was a divided city, east and west in the cold war.out spending the other on concert halls and orchestras. ♪ ♪ >> when germany was unified in 19 nineties the city was unified as well and all of a sudden there was basically two or sometimes even three, if you look at the opera houses of everything. >> reporter: this women's company promotes the careers of young artists who come to berlin, she says it's the ideal place for them to grow as musicians. >> you have to study, -- you have the study higher education, academies of orchestras and the possibility to still find comparatively cheap space to live if you compare to london, for example paris or new york. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: rachel is hoping for a breakthrough at auditions here. for opera singers and classical musicians, the german capital is like what was said of new york if you make it here, you can probably make it anywhere. nick spicer, al jazerra berlin. >>> and a quick reminder, too that you can always keep up-to-date with all the latest news and analysis, features on our website tha

from berlin. >> good to have you with us. here are the headlines this hour. release storm a cafe in sydney, ending a 16 hour hostage drama. three people are reported dead. we will go live for details in sydney. >> more trouble for berlin's new airport. the chief of the building project announced he is stepping down next year. >> on the trail of an islamist militia in some all you, our reporters speak with one former jihadist on why he call it quits speed -- called it quits. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] there is relief after a 16 hour hostage drama. >> heavily armed police stormed a downtown chocolate cafe. there was an eruption of gunfire and flash grenades were used. at least three people died, including the hostage taker. , he was not unknown to her authorities. he was an iranian refugee and self acclaimed muslim cleric who was free on bail. charged in connection with the murder of his ex-wife. >> we will go live to sydney in a moment. we will begin

nick spicer, al jazeera, berlin. >> lovely. stay with us on al jazeera.ore news straight ahead. >> syria agrees to negotiations about restarting peace talks in moscow. the fighting rages on. hello, watching al jazeera live from london. also coming up, tens of thousands displaced and dozens dead as the worst flooding in more than 40 years sweeps across southeast asia. >>> new yorkers pack the streets for the funeral of a policeman killed by a gn

. >> i am nick speicer in berlin. now, more than ever, the go-to place for young classical musicians. ♪sflooush. >> police officers from around the u.s. today gathered at a church in the queens section of new york city. they were there to pay their respects to a fallen comerad, ny police officer rafael ramos. it's been a week since he and his partner were shot dead inside their patrol car while in brooklyn. investigators described it as an assassination, who wanted to avenge the deaths of eric brown and michael garner. they stood to show support for each other. al jazeera courtney keely was there and joins us now with the story. it's so majestic when you see these funerals for police officers. >> reporter: the security proceed cautions that were taken were intense with the rounding blocks cordoned off, sharp-shooterstationed on roof tops and secret service sweeping the area in the church thousands filled the streets. mostly police officers in mourning. >> our father, who art in heaven, that will... >> the lord's praye

in berlin, we have an office.o place a tech headquarters in europe, berlin seemed the best place. >> what is difference between the talent here in the talent in the states? >> we are primarily a sales office. berlin, there are a lot of berlinthat are moving to . there are a lot of startups there. the cost of living being less in berlin. >> i am just curious. am curious about the relative advantages. we need engineers. where we going to find them? >> we have an office here now. we were able to find tech talent here when we post a job. this is a global job posting. if we found people here we would hire them here. >> everybody needs to learn to code? >> i think it should be like a second language. in middle school and high school when they start to learn a second language, coding should be one of those languages. >> how far away are we from understanding that? europe is in a deep recession. unemployment is at levels in certain countries for people 25.r the age of when you look at the opportunity in europe, if people

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. >>> welcome back to a second look. 27 years ago this month the berlin fall fell.f a momentum political shift. on the tenth anniversary of when the wall fell, randy shandobil filed this report. >> reporter: as music played outside the gate tonight, as fire works exploded over berlin the rush of emotions came back. >> reporter: germans crying and laughing tonight just like they did 10 years ago. that night it was a party the whole world watched, berlinners defiantly danced on top of the wall, kissed, hugged and wielded hammers what had been the symbol of the iron curtain, the symbol of the cold war itself came down that night piece by piece. it had been there for 28 years, first the barbed wire fence, eventually a concrete wall. a barrier separating the soviet controlled east berlin from the west which was controlled by the americans, british and french. over the years hundreds of germans died trying to cross from one side to the other, many killed by armed guards. >> mr. gorbechov tear down that wall. >> reporter: but those words were considered so -- that the pres

as i said, i was in berlin with kissinger and baker. kissinger said when communism ended we could have aechted what would happen in the satellite states and even at privl of somebody like putin. we didn't see what was going to happen in the middle east. what we have in the middle east is not just asymmetrical warfare to deal with. we had highly trained extraordinarily motivated radical islamic forces that are moving easily too easily in my judgment across that part of the world. they all came out of artificial states, the states that were designed after world war i. the tribal culture is what defines them. it's faith-based in most instances and it goes very deep and it's been there for a long time. when you're there with them and not just with the militia but with the people in the streets of the various cities, that's the first thing that they refer to. and the one place that they close up on, you can be talking to a shiite and talking to a sunni and they'll have have extraordinarily stark differences about you then you talk to them ab

. >> i'm nick spicer in berlin. at a place for young classical musicians. >>> we begin out of asia where passenger jet has disappeared. air asia left indonesia airport at 5:20am local time en route to singapore. it lost contact with a ground control 42 minutes after takeoff. we have this report. >> reporter: at the airport in surabaya, people await news of their loved ones. 162 passengers and crew were on board air asia flight qz 8571. it lost communications with traffic control. >> translation: i hope for a miracle. may god save them all. i should have been with them. i cancelled. i had something to do. i have two friends and five family members. >> reporter: indonesia's disaster management authority set up a crisis center at the airport to relay developments. >> we are widening our search rescue. we have informed sea and coast cards to be on standby and relay. >> those waiting for the same information, the plane lost contact as it flew over the java sea. the pilot requested a changed course due to weather. but it

>> hello and welcome to "world news" coming to you live from dw in berlin. >> it's good to have you with us. these are our top stories. russian opposition leader, alexey navalny , is arrested on the way to an opt -- an unauthorized protest in moscow. >> indonesian officials say debris embodies have been found from the missing air asia plane. we will talk live to an aviation expert about what might have happened. >> in our end of your series examining the big stories of 2014 from our own correspondence, we look at turkey -- how much is democracy under threat there? >> welcome to the program. the anti-kremlin politician, alexey navalny , has been detailed by police after he violated house arrest to join the protests in moscow. the demonstration was over a guilty verdict against him and his brother in a controversial fraud case. >> two dozen other people were also detained as hundreds gathered in central moscow where the opposition leader called on russians to take to the streets against vladimir putin. >> we will find out more live from the russian capital, but first we have this report. >

back in berlin, a former lawmaker was eager to defend himself. some things are legal and others are not legal. in hindsight, i certainly make mistakes. and i admit it was certainly wrong to order those steps, but it was legal. only a court can determine whether he committed a crime by downloading the images. his trial is due to begin in february. regardless of the outcome, his political career is over. this is my last major appearance in berlin. the politician no longer exists. the other major political casualty in the case resigned as a cabinet minister over charges he tipped off leadership at the federal criminal police had information. he concedes he was wrong, but says it was by his own party leaders. now committee will determine exactly how the confidential information reached sebastian. in the past, it cost the grand coalition some headache. is it still likely to create some major political repercussions? sebastian levels harsh accusations against the former head of the federal bureau of investigation all keeping the spd chief's out of the

. >> i am nick speicer in berlin.e than over the go-to place for young classical musicians. ♪ >>> hello, again. all of the sports now with sana. >> thank you very much. chelsea's striker fernando torres will join a. c. milan on a permanent deal next month. he is currently on loan to the blues. they have reached an agreement that sees him remain at the san sero. he has spent season in italy having fallen out of favor at stanford bridge since his nearly $80 million transfer from liverpool in january, 2011. he had been linked with the return to boyhood club athletico pad drilled. >>> nil wernoker has been sacked after he was let go by crystal palace, 66-year-old took over only four months ago but has been under increasing pressure with his side slipping further be and furtherdown the ability to. the announcement was made following crystal's 3-1 defeat on boxing day. assistant keith milan will fill the role as manager. >> japan head coach aguierre has protested innocence over allegations of matching fixing in spain. two w

and that was johnson and berliner's doing to bring him to fruition.og, a bullterrier, maybe a little fox terrier mixed in. and his owner, mark berot was an artist and did scenic landscapes. his older brother francis painted. he was so touched with nipper listening with a puzzled look on his face at some of the music being played in his brother's house. so he decided to paint nipper with his cocked ear, the image that we all know so well today. and sure enough, the gramophone company purchased the painting and patented it. and that's when per lynner, a little later on, brought it to the united states and made that patent over here on the trademark painting. and it became a great success in england and in the united states at that time period. and about the same time was when the johnson and berliner collaborated on getting, making the improvements for their machine. the "his master's voice" painting even though it started out as being one company image with the victor talking machine company and before that, the gramophone company in england and americ

in berlin we've all heard about the war party.'ll tell you a little bit more about the chancellor. the kaiser was volatile. everyone knew this. he was kind of a wild card. but he was not seen as a war monger not by those who knew him the best. in fact, recently, during the second balkan war the kaiser had taken a position against austria-hungary and even said and i quote that a war with slavdom, that is a war to say a war on behalf of you against the slavs would leave us quite cold. he in fact took serbia's position in the major question of the balkan wars whether serbia would have access. he said anything else would be nonsense. he did not take a pro-austrian line. he was, however, probably alone among europe's royal houses in actually liking franz ferdinand. he was not a very popular man but the kaiser actually was quite fond of him. they had recently visited, talked about all kinds of affairs of state and now the kaiser was angry. his blood was up. that was the first trick for the austrians. there was no mystery there was a war

>> from the heart of europe, this is dw in berlin. >> a pleasure to have you on. the headlines at this hour. president cutin in science and new military doctrine as designating nato as russia's main foreign threat. >> remembering the victims of the devastating 2004 tsunami. >> as ebola ravages west africa, victims are being ostracized from their societies including little children. the worst confrontation between russia and the west since the cold war deepened with russian president vladimir putin signing a new military doctrine identifying nato expansion as the key threat to his country's decision. >> ukraine dropped its nine status, raising the possibility of a joining the alliance. >> outraged by that, president putin called nato a frontier of expansion. >> the talks broke down, it is not kept the two sides from swapping prisoners. >> the press waited in vain as negotiators left minsk empty-handed. talks scheduled for friday were called off indefinitely. this as kiev and pro-russian rebels exchanged 372 war prisoners. the ongoing crisis continues to strain rela

the berlin air raid -- and not just the actions he took. there was a conversation i had long afterwards when mika, when he was president of the union union, he had been retired. i asked him, what were you people people thinking when you did the berlin air lift? you had just launched 20 million people in the war. what were you thinking about when you did the berlin air lift? he said, the number of people said that to stalin and he either disregarded or dismissed him and he said three things. the americans will never fight a nuclear war over berlin. alleged. secondly, if the americans attack along the autobahn, you're ordered to resist. you don't have to come to me. if the americans mobilize along the whole front, come to me. so -- so -- i don't -- i mean, they were to move in the early '50s of offering perhaps neutral tea to germany and unification if it had kept neutrality. but that was not -- that was a move of removing america from the continent. it was not an anti-cold war -- an aspect of the cold war. >> i want to ask you about somethin

>> live from dw in berlin, this is the world news. >> thanks for being with us. u.n. kleiman talks resume in lima. it is the last step to a climate deal in paris. >> going green all the way. a farewell to fossil fuels. the new council takes office and lays down the hard line with russia. we will go to brussels for more. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ >> the united nations has kicked off a 12-day climate conference in peru. staff and countries are working. >> they want to pave the way for a major binding deal in paris. the biggest emitters of carbon are still a way a ways from a number of details. >> a number of problems are being attributed to climate change. >> in northern peru, the school children are learning what to do in emergency situations, like floods and landslides. the mountains nearby tower to over 6000 meters and have hundreds of glaciers. in the last decades, the ice and snow have been melting. scientists are closely studying the effects of climat

in berlin, we have all heard about the war party.out maltka and the chancell chancellor. i'll tell you more about him too. the kaiser was volatile. everyone knew this. he was kind of a wild card. but he was not seen as a warmongerer by those who knew him the best. but recently during the second balkan war, the kaiser had taken a position against off t austria-hungary and even said so, that a war would leave us quite l# z&d. he in fact took serbia's position in the major question of the balkan wars, whether rattic. he said anything else would be nonsense. he did notz7p take a pro austri line. he was, however, probably alone among royal houses liking franz ferdinand. he was not a popular man, but the kaiser was fond of him. but now the kaiser was angry. his blood was up. that was the first trick for the austrians. now with its most powerful opponent of the picture, the war party is gearing up. conrad wants a war right now. of course he has to reckon with the fact that austria-hungary is about to send its army on harvest leave, which is

>> so, the belief that the berlin wall came down because of ronald reagan? and the pope, we could say, but ronald reagan specifically? >> they were all players, and they all kept the pressure on. the enduring legacy of ronald reagan is he came in a real hawk about how to take down the soviet union with star wars and all that, and then was persuaded seeing what was going on over there by among others, nancy, by the way, and soviet analysts, that the system was crumbling from within, and it couldn't be sustained, and we could continue to put economic pressure on them and make them spend money on sdi, and that was what that was all about. and it was clear that they couldn't pull that off. now, gorbachev, who i admire, was a guy who didn't give up on communism. that was the one flaw, that's why he -- you know, he lost a lot of his inner circle because he wanted to keep the system in place that he knew they would have to change. you couldn't have both. but he was the best guy to be dealing with at that time, and we had never dealt with anybody like that before. s

is set in berlin and not in moscow. which was a pretty clear signal that they were willing to cut him loose, that they were not going to use their army to maintain the empire in force in central and eastern europe, particularly respect to the gdr. so i think those events at least led me to think that it was very possible that it was coming but we didn't -- as far as i was concerned -- have any concrete sense that it would happen when it did. >> i would say it really was one event in a series. when we came to office, there was a ferment in eastern europe. we looked at that ferment and said we want to make this different than the earlier ones, berlin in '53, hungary in '56, czechoslovakia. we want to encourage it but at a level underneath that that will cause the soviets to crack down as they had before. we didn't know what that level was. what we tried to do was encourage this -- the kind of freedom attitude without stirring up the soviet union. is the wall that vacationers going over through hungary, to germany, were al

. >> one start up outside berlin is using the technology to make models of human hearts. their products are far from an implant ready but they are helping surgeons in exciting new ways. >> it might look like a cookie 10 but this professor is carrying a patient's heart, or at least a scale model of her heart. the model is made of soft plastic and comes from a 3-d printer. the patient's heart was scarred by earlier operations, making further surgery complicated. the cardiologist ordered a model of the heart to be fully prepared. >> i was surprised how detailed and fine the resolution is in the 3-d printing. you can really visualize very well what you can expect to find with a catheter. >> data comes from computer scans which make several hundred sectional images. a computer can then display a three-dimensional image of the heart. in special cases, the hospital is ordered to order a model of the heart despite the cost. >> the added value is that it is quite patient specific. you can hold it in your hands and see the sides of the ventricles and try out the devices you want to

click from the heart of europe, this is the world news from dw in berlin. but thank you for joining us at this hour. after 10 days behind his law mistake -- behind islamic state lines, a journalist tells us it is the most brutal moment he has seen. click thousand also marketing counter demonstrations. >> and on wall street, the dow climbs to new highs, up above 18,000 the first time in its history. ♪ class we begin with testimony from a german author and journalist who said the terrorist group islamic state is even more ruvell -- more brutal than previously thought. click thanks to a -- >> thanks to a safety guarantee, 74-year-old juergen was allowed to spend 10 days in northern syria and iraq, including muscle --mosel. there he got a lot -- a look at life under the islamic state and spoke to the fighters about what motivates them to carry out acts of extreme brutality. >> he joins us now from munich. you are just back from 10 days in is controlled territory. the juicy anything that positively shocked you? -- did you see anything that positively shocked you

. >> november 9, 1989, the night the berlin well fell.elcome to our "euromaxx highlights," the biggest highlight being a very special anniversary for germany. it's been 25 years since the event that shook the world back in 1989, and for the occasion we decided to bring this program to the scene of the action. we're going to leave our studio behind and hit the streets of berlin to remember this historic event. here's what's coming up -- memorable moments. we look back at some of the most iconic images from the fall of 1989. border of lights. what 8,000 balloons have to do with the berlin wall. and turning point. how the end of east germany rocked people's worlds.

what 8,000 balloons have to do with the berlin wall. and turning point.he end of east germany rocked people's worlds.

waiting game at this hostel for asylum seekers in berlin.the refugees who've made it here are sheltered and safe. but they don't know if they'll be allowed to stay in germany. shaikh tajuddin from pakistan has been waiting for 15 months to see if his request for asylum will be granted. everyone gathers in the kitchen. the one thing they have in common is they've all left their homelands, but for very different reasons. tajuddin comes from karachi where 2500 contract killings are carried out each year. one took place on his doorstep. >> and that's why i had to leave the country unfortunately. and it doesn't look like i can go back in the near future. >> it was an odyssey for these men just to get to germany. imad al-mustafa from syria first entered the eu through bulgaria. >> bulgaria was almost as bad as syria. but it's very different here in germany -- especially how they deal with children's rights. >> germany currently rejects close to 40 percent of asylum applications. and al-mustafa's could be one of them. that's because eu law states t

i had just gotten back from berlin and in germany, i was there with dr. kissinger and jim baker at the american academy. and we talked about this. it was not the kind of effort that should have been made to say, how else can we use nato. nato was our western alliance and remains that, but it has kind of come unraveled around the edges. it's not as unified as it once was. it was an incredibly important and potent force and facing the east and dealing with issues together, and not always perfectly, but it was the alliance. now it has a lot of parts to it, and they're often not greater than the sum of their parts, which they need to be. the other part of what we're watching here tonight is that it was so thrilling and hard to explain about how the dramatic people who had such a terrible 20th century, mostly self-induced wounds, then were divided. and you'd have people in the west who had cousins in the east. the people in the west had democracy, consumer goods, and hope. and when the wall came down, their cousins and the other fellow germans came through in

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what were you thinking about when you did the berlin airlift? he said, the number of people said that to stalin and he either disregarded or dismissed him and he said three things. the americans will never fight a nuclear war over berlin, allegedly. secondly, if the americans attack along the autobahn, you're ordered to resist. you don't have to come to me. if the americans mobilize along the whole front, come to me. so -- so -- i don't -- i mean, they were to move in the early '50s of offering perhaps neutrality to germany and unification if it had kept neutrality. but that was not -- that was a move of removing america from the continent. it was not an anti-cold war -- an aspect of the cold war. >> i want to ask you about something i mentioned before, which was the role of nuclear weapons. how central do you think nuclear weapons were to keeping the cold war cold? or put it another way, if nuclear weapons hadn't been invented or introduced, is it your sense that this great power competitions would have gone the way of most other great power co

berlin expects even more >> this year i have been truly encouraged by the fact that the great majority of us do not follow those who want to seal germany off from the rest of the world. >> gauck also spoke to those worried about the crises and conflicts around the world. his message was inspired by the biblical christmas story -- fear not. >> meanwhile, in britain, queen elizabeth focused her christmas day broadcast on a call for peace and unity. >> invoking the spirit of the world war i christmas truce between britain and germany 100 years ago, the monarch called for reconciliation throughout the world and in the u.k., which saw scotland almost break away from the union this year. she warned it will take time to heal those loans. the queen also praised the doctors and nurses on batting the ebola outbreak, saying she was deeply touched by their selflessness. >> we are going to take a very short break and when we come back, we bring you reaction to today's release of sony's comedy "the interview." >> why americans may start buying their cigars in cuba again. all that in 60 seconds. stay

he got good at that trade and able to meet a male berliner who just invented the flat disk machine and put all the patents out and couldn't make it work well. johnson was asked to create a motor that would be reliable. that's what he did with the spring motor concept. by 1901, the two men decided it was time to form a company and it was called the victor talking machine company. >> really on mr. johnson's machines were referred to as talking machines. these were the ones that had an external horn as you see here. they were metal with a grass tip and they were run by a spring motor which he invented. this particular machine was known as the victor special. it was facility between 1902 and 1905 and it was a deluxe model because of the happened carving and special effects on the cabinet itself. it would have cost them a very high price of nearly $50. they had a recording by a famous italian. this recording was known as el solo mio. this was 78 revolutions per minute which is why they refer to as a 78 record. in the early days, he only recorded single face records. in other words, he had o