initially experts in the east and west based their projections on east germany having assets of one trillion marks which soon proved to be very wide of the mark. 8000 state owned companies employing 4000000 people faced an uncertain future. you've been a bunch of blooming landscapes was the key phrase that motivated everyone back then people thought everything would get better fast we made big demands on people and they did suffer and we didn't have the time to properly look at their personal histories it was really tough in some cases they'd clearly suffered great hardship and must have hated us and me of course i represented what was happening and many hated me got along. the overhaul of industry in eastern germany was accompanied by austerity measures on an enormous scale countless companies went under millions of people lost their jobs. they were verb or asians were felt across society. people felt powerless and vulnerable. they all see the disparaging term an aussie or whiny east german emerged to them alongside it was the best of se the arrogant west germans who do the toy guns was at

with the fact that many east germans have said they feel like. the chancellor is herself from east germany so could she have to bridge the divide . to british prime minister. is the last chance to get a deal it's now being debated by the way. welcome to the program paris mourns the words of the city's mayor. after police employee with a knife killed 4 police officers of the main police headquarters the public prosecutor has identified the victims as 3 man and woman started in an office and continued in other parts of the building before the assailant was fatally shot by a police officer french president emanuel prime minister and interior minister now . straight to pakistan where we join john the stack katherine filled out welcome katherine bring us up today. yes what we know in the last few minutes from any prosecution is that this civilian employee on the paris police is the man who they say is responsible for this he's 46 years old and he went to the paris police at that head courses and it's a 2003 at this stage they say they do not know what

but for east germans the thing stayed the same and that is it at least it soon became clear in the east germany's economy was in bad shape and would require fundamental structural reforms. like this you don't know what's going to happen next and that's frustrating is your job just going to disappear or not. the growing uncertainty did nothing to promote any sense of unity . it's a bit to me and we were hoping for a bit more than this but we never would have expected that it would get this bad we have to pay 5 times more for goods from west germany with our income that's a bit much we're human beings too just like those in the west. in july germany's monetary union went into effect 3 months later on october the 3rd 9090 it was followed by their formal political reunification. germany was now one country again but the german people were still a long way from true unity and the politicians seem to sorely lack the necessary tact to bring east and west closer together with insisted that they could have introduced some of the positive aspects of east german society into this new united countr

and left germany torn between east and west. in 1988 tensions escalated in an attempt to pressure the western allies the soviet union blocked off all access to west berlin in response several western countries led by the us started supplying the city by air this created a new sense of unity between west berliners and the united states the famous reason bombers brought supplies to west berlin until the blockade ended in may 1949. then 2 german states emerged on may 23rd the federal republic was established but the comrade i don't know and it's chance for. you know on october the 7th the german democratic republic came into being with them beat cancer president. doesn't mind it but everyone is basically just meat men because. i did want to start and at 1st both states claim to speak for all of germany because east germany backed by stalin claimed to be the state that would unify the country. but the federal republic believed it had disappear a system of governance kit and doubleness oblique. today and the unification would have si

which people from eastern germany feel they are 2nd class citizens the chancellor is herself from east germany some. also on the program. and the government protests in the iraq threat to spiral out of control the 1st day of clashes claims more lives the government imposes curfews and an internet blackout. i don't start as you call kong allows police to use more force against protesters after teenage demonstrators were shot in the chest over the weekend pro-democracy activists fear of the crackdown could be in the offing. i'm phil welcome to the program. a germany is marking the anniversary of the country's re-unification 29 years ago east and west became one country after decades of hostile division during the cold war this is official commemoration ceremonies took place in the northern city of kill german chancellor angela merkel hailed the country's progress since reunification but said more must be done to bridge the divide between east and west. sound lines evoking the shifting counters of germany's history as a country marked its 29th birthday in the north and city of cute chance

the former eastern regions of germany economy to east like the former east germany still lags behind if you look at the docks for example the 30 biggest german companies not of them have their headquarters in east central amman and that's quite telling unemployment rate in those instant german states is still. higher than in any other states in germany and like angle americans say they're in if it wasn't seen as something positive for everyone i see so that there is a sense in the east that when the country was put together again essentially the east was plundered them earlier in st louis as a right as i said the theme of this year's unity is a courage connects was. how did the chancellor speech connect with the let's cover a story it was quite interesting when she called us petitions for maybe having failed to understand the differences of mentalities between the east and away as she said is quite easy actually to to raise a border but it's not that easy to activate a shift mentality as you kind of do that overnight then she calls a full politicians to actually take that into accoun

it took the reunification of east and west to right so many wrongs in east germany citizens couldn'tjust sue the state the party had declared that it was above the law. did that make east germany and unjust state that's what the term unjust state isn't quite precise east germany wasn't just a state in the sense of being constitutional there was no independent judiciary there was no equality before the law so to that extent it had no constitutional foundation. of course or at least germany had laws that it applied in its rulings by the s.c. d.'s dominant role was stipulated by the constitution which undermined any freedoms laid down and. the federal republic in west germany was a constitutional state with basic rules that apply to all citizens this also included article 3 of the basically all persons shall be equal before the law and paragraph 2 specifies men and women shall have equal rights. the main force behind democracy in this country is article 3 the promise of equality and this promise of equality is based on the idea that men and women have equal rights . that was driving pri

german couldn't she have done more if she had made east germans in east germany maybe her or champion as a politician i don't think she wanted to do that i think from the time she was elected she wanted to be the chancer of all germans and i think that was heavy on her mind that she shouldn't be pigeonholed you can she was she was always being measured as that is she being too much of an aussie is that right i mean maybe some people in east germany felt that that wasn't enough but my sense is that that was her goal i mean she was given an opportunity to do something that very few leaders have ever had the opportunity to do and that's just so 2 parts of a country together and even though she'd been chancers in 2005 she was already involved in the early part of the years and she served in coles cabinet so she saw that unfolding over. any right at the beginning and i would give her credit for sustaining the dialogue and whether or not she was you know talking about big pictures and you know the vision thing and so forth i don't think that matters too much i think that this was a time whe

and one highly respected middle east expert here how do you see western highly respected middle east expert here how how do you see western media coverage of what's happening in the middle east with these protests here do they have to be a coverage of what's happening in the middle east with these protests here do they have do they have the right optic go ahead. you know i think they have the right optic go ahead. you know i think the western media has gone through a real education over the last western media has gone through a real education over the last 15 years trying to figure out the middle east and they really bought into 15 years trying to figure out the middle east and they really bought into. they bought into george bush's original argument that. they bought into george bush's original argument that that america could scrape off these governments and that america could scrape off these governments and create democracy in the middle east i think today americans are much more create democracy in the middle east i think today americans are much more a bit more sophisticated an

will and will withdraw from the middle east sense that the u.s. will and will withdraw from the middle. east of course they'll be the. grahams out there and they'll be that of course they'll be the. grahams out there and they'll be the tom cotton's and people like that they want to keep the united states in the middle east but i think the writing is on the wall tom cotton's and people like that they want to keep the united states in the middle east but i think the writing is on the wall here that itself is creating instability because so much dependency here that itself is creating instability because so much dependency the u.s. has created among many of the elites in the middle east that and they're going to have to study the u.s. has created among many of the elites in the middle east that and they're going to have to start thinking twice and they have social movements that see that are thinking twice and they have social movements that see. disenfranchised rising up and they are you going to have elites not being able to disenfranchised rising

east and west have to talk to one another north and south rich and poor. this house is meant to serve as an example for that. is an open invitation to visit us here and engage in conversation with the. political. will the monday demonstrations began in 1989 nobody could know this was the beginning of the end of the east german regime. filming the events was dangerous. current scheuer leads the way to a place where 2 activists fill in the legally. is that from your take this reform church is the exact spot where the 1st foot each of our monday demonstration was shot. lord. the filament tyria was done secretly 100 to a western journalist. so this journalist smuggled this little real from east to west in his underwear and he succeeded. in that is you know. there were fears that the secret police. for starters he would discover everything. its headquarters were called the round corner. today it's a museum and a memorial. it provides a chilling insight into how the stars he operated an old listening device used to eavesdrop on town hall style and machine for op

they all left east germany that way. after several tense weeks in the west german embassy in prague. in september 1989 east germans were poor and into the embassy the building was quickly overwhelmed. many ended up camping out in the embassy grounds it was cold. sanders spent 3 weeks here with his wife and 2 children new arrivals came in over the fence every day. for them. then the fateful moment on the 30th of september west german foreign minister hans dietrich genscher arrived speaking to the refugees from the balcony his announcement that they could leave was drowned out by cheers. was i can't show promise that everyone in the embassy would be allowed to go to the west stand was that and heard him. while you are standing right here. but. it's all coming about his widow. just a few weeks later only citizens of east germany gained their freedom on november 9th 1989 the berlin wall came down. thousands of refugees are holed up in camps for my kids in libya. we report from neighboring niger which is taken in 3000 of them

of the middle east where people can retreat to and find some of the middle east where people can retreat to and find some kind of comfort some kind of a sort of leaven teen playground on one hand it's a playground but on the other hand it said it's a refuge for all kinds of thinking and kind of comfort some kind of a sort of leaven teen playground on one hand it's a playground but on the other hand it said it's a refuge for all kinds of thinking middle easterners who can't find a place in their own countries so it would be terrible easterners who can't find a place in their own country so it would be terrible if that if it collapses if it if it runs into bankruptcy which it could do it well if that if it collapses if it if it runs into bankruptcy which it could do at any moment and it's hard to see how they're going to how the lebanese are going in any moment and it's hard to see how they're going to how the lebanese are going to really sort out their economic problems because when we look at the arab spring more to really sort out their economic problems because when we look at the arab

still existed and berlin was divided into east and west. my country so what comes before today you can't even imagine that they built a wall through the middle of the city but this is a place where east and west germany met up and became close because music and dance and alcohol. all that brings people together. in her book mommy in keizer tells the story. in 1913 the brewer opened the ball house together with her husband to entertain berliners from all walks of life clear hints survive 2 world wars and the division of germany and hardly changed. but the neighborhood surrounding the club has changed today it's an expensive residential and shopping area back then when berlin was divided ordinary people lived here it's far money to be a normal street with a lot of small shops with houses built in different times but recently things have changed a lot and quickly now a lot of yuppies have moved here the old shops have closed there are a lot of art galleries but luckily a location like clear hume's paul house still fits in nicely about what see

middle east. be of course they'll be the the grahams out there and they'll be the tom cotton's and p. the the grahams out there and they'll be the tom cotton's and people like that they want to keep the united states in the middle east but i think the writing is on the wall here people like that they want to keep the united states in the middle east but i think the writing is on the wall here that itself is creating instability because so much dependency the u.s. has created that itself is. hating instability because so much dependency the u.s. has created among many elites in the middle east and they're going to have to start thinking twice among many elites in the middle east and they're going to have to start thinking twice and they have social movements that see. this in and they have social movements that see. disenfranchised rising up in the are you going to have elites not being able to be clients the same kind of clients that they have been for decades go ahead james well i pay franchised

do security in the middle east. i still remember this conversation that we had in the chinese embassy and algiers, and the funny thing is as you meet chinese diplomats and i don't know how many of you had this experience, but certainly with each decade of youth you're meeting people from a different country. so, like, the 50-year-old guy struck me as a chinese diplomat with a $3 polyester sweater and bad english, right? and you sort of got down and down and then there's a 20-something guy with a bright white shirt and yellow tie and he looked at me, sarcastic diplomats are not so common and he looked at me and said how about you do security and we do business which is what in many ways china would love to see. the u.s. can do the expensive stuff and the stuff that annoys people and china can do business. it works really well. the other thing china offers is they support governments and governments really like that. the perception is during the arab spring the u.s. started wavering and i don't know anybody who has be

today many people move from the west to the east lately even slightly more people move to the east or on land or than from the east to the west. that's so i don't want to that shows ladies and gentlemen. that does really get a fixation even 3 decades later is nothing. complicated in that they passed to words it is still ongoing and. is eastern germany is a special space with special experience is your concession or call certain rights and it is that these special experience it is that have led to a new east german confidence especially in young people and awareness that sees the differences not only. perceive them as a deficit and they are right these cultural biographic characteristics they are nothing that we have to leave behind quickly as possible in order to be part of it as maybe many east germans believed in the 1990 s. because it was on the contrary these characteristics make faceted country richer a country. that consists of many different regions and as you know there are other regions in this country that do not exactly suffer from a lack of confidence we need the experienc

east people, don't you understand, we are fighting wars in the middle east. we don't have time to think about china. china had an awful lot of time to think about the middle east. the first piece is new engagement. goalshas really -- their and their engagement. it is reluctant and defensive. china has gotten about half of its oil from the middle east, for almost two decades. they have lost sleep over it for almost two decades. they have tried to find ways to reduce their dependence because they think depending on the middle east for oil makes them vulnerable and the u.s. cutting off their access. they cannot figure out a way to reduce their dependence on middle eastern oil . their engagement in the region is a little bit defensive. they are not trying to supplant the united states in the region. this is not the russian experience. they don't see it as a zero-sum game. they are trying to supplement the u.s. in the region. win-win solutions, they talk about. they have really little appetite for military ties. they built to partly safeguard the red sea, but they

i should explain to your public that in fact to go you could go over to east berlin just east berlin yes but you have to get back by midnight he wanted to go anywhere else in the day you had to get special permission so you wrote this very well if i may say emotional song about michonne also spin that's a young girl from eagle in the woods was this someone you were in love with yourself that would help and you know. went to sweden and that special lady and then i wanted to stay so then he goes and i love so much but no matter how good she said you know you just paid for it you know condition that you don't have to stay overnight you know to you know go back you know but but. the nose of a sluggish economy does need mention of those with the. use against. good leader. goes gone moviedom if you know you get an owner now the most of the job was to love them so. that you could have on your own does this need would have to tell this was a run to the news you know to move. because the people in the eastern part of the country you're a real hero today i was the official enemy old state you

someone would argue she could have used her status as the first east germaman chancellor o champion eastermany. reporter: exactly and now when you look at those east german states, there is a steady economy growth in the east but you can still see those states lag behind compared to western states. if you look at the -- where you have the 30 big german companies, not one has its headquarters in the east. if you look at unemployment rates, it is higher in the east than in the west. when she says that reunification wasn't seen as positive for everyone, there is a -- brent: there has been de-urbanization in the east. the theme is courage connects. what was her message there? >> there was a message of remembrance. she talked about the victims of the coming as to regime. she said they should not be forgotten even if it is a day of joy and also she called out for politicians to face the fact that they haven't always been aware that even if the border had been erased from the map, the border in people's minds wasn't necessarily erased as well so she called for politicians to make more to acknow

of-- east of suez, sorry.ng moment for many of the countries in the gulf and they remember this very well and they are looking at what's happening today and they're seeing it through this lens. talk just a brief moment because there's a great irony in all of this. and the irony is that the american perceptions of our interest in the region have been actually by policy makers, by experts have been consistent for many decades. and the physical ramifications of that, the physical evidence of that in terms of our presence is to deal with those interests and has not changed. so it's very frustrating, just like it was frustrating in our british counterparts 50 years ago, to hear constant questions from the region about american withdrawal. look around, look at our military, look at our diplomacy. look at our economic impact and our intelligence resources. america is tremendously committed to the gulf. why do you keep saying this? and all of us who traveled around the world see this again and again. look at our inter

the red flag warning is in place for the north bay hills and the east bay hills and the east bay valleys and the north bay valleys until 5 pm on thursday. santa cruz mountains, this begins at 5 pm wednesday until 12 pm on thursday. here is the broadbrush of the wind speeds. the brighter colors indicates the stronger windspeeds moving into portions of the bay area. you may see those yellows and oranges showing up. look what happens as we take this into wednesday night. this is 11:00. numbers are going up and is still sticking around thursday morning. this is thursday morning at 4:00. that will be the time the most critical or extreme. of high fire danger and then we gradually scale back the windspeed as we head back into tomorrow afternoon, especially mid- to late afternoon. here are the current reports in the north bay right now for higher elevations. wind around 12-22. mount st. helena, 23 miles per hour . these are the gusts and these numbers will be going up later tonight and into tomorrow morning. we will talk more about this wind event and the red flag warning coming up . >>> back t

streets in october 190-913-0000 people demonstrated against the east german regime. a month later it was half a 1000000. i. 10 on the 9th of november 1909 the unimaginable happened the berlin wall fell the i'm keratin was history germans were overjoyed. chancellor helmut kohl took advantage of the euphoria he convinced france britain and finally soviet leader mikhail gorbachev that a united germany would be at the service of europe. in record speed german unity was a great both nationally and internationally the 5 states of the former g.d.r. joined west germany on october 3rd 1990 called finally attained his goal a unified germany. i. say here in us so vividly remember the euphoria you imagine this arms around her voice was an incredible that it was difficult not to be moved to but you see as we were hearing from chancellor merkel the process of unity is still has a long way to go there but there's still a generation of eastern germans and western germans who were born in reunited germany how do you think your work marcher older. and how do you think they feel on thi

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east bay m.u.d. said that will have a big impact on this 29 pumping stations because they all use power to keep the water flowing. it's taking action to reduce dependency on the water pumps and they want new customers to help out as well. >> what we are doing is asking people to conserve water. minimize water use. shut off outdoor irrigation. east bay m.u.d. requires power to move water through the system so we can operate it to get water to the people we serve. >> east bay m.u.d. said the main concern is making sure they have water if there is a fire in fire crews need to connect to hydrants . >>> many students are getting into off from school because of the plan power outages. the oakland unified school district was prepared to close as many as a dozen schools today however officials decided only skyline high school will be affected. the castro valley unified school district is closing jensen rantz, colin morris and canyon middle school. in the east bay uc berkeley and mills college are also cancel

the chancellor is herself from east germany tonight we ask could she be doing more to bridge the east west of all. it's good to have you with us we begin in washington another shocking call from the u.s. president donald trump today suggested that china should investigate former vice president joe biden and biden's son hunter hunter had a busy. this relationship with the chinese company trump floated the idea today as congressional investigators heard testimony from their 1st witness in the impeachment inquiry against kurt volker was questioned behind closed doors about his role in trump's attempt to prod ukraine's president into investigating the by volcker was trump's special envoy for ukraine until he resigned last week white after a whistleblower filed a complaint about the now famous phone call between trump and the ukrainian president will be as alinsky congressional democrats say trump's efforts constitute abuse of power which is an impeachable offense it's all right for more now let's take this story to washington my colleague is standing by good evening to you. so the 1st inq