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a woman whoed to owned an apartment building in east berlin. and so -- and he was, you know, the head of the reconstruction. for like a year, he was like eastner of a building in germany and he thought, okay, this is my time. now everythihing will be good. becausee, it wasn't, things are not as easy, you know. so -- and his life kind of broke down. guess he still, you know, is working on that and looking at refugees. you know, when we e talk sometimes, they would come up a but lookke, you know, what they get. look what -- you know, how much they get. so he's jealous, yeah, he is. >> that word resentment men. >> resentment. yes. >> jealousy. >> jealousy, yeah. >> it's interesting you bring up this, because if you look at germany, 50's, 60's, i'm shopng about cashiers, assistants, they're not earning a ton of money. and in conversation with them, very tolerant're towards the refugees. it helps them in the supermarkrt and everything. sometimes they say, well, they're getting more than me. you have toto be very careful wh combining those on a much

i was going around east berlin. late in the afternoon i was going to be at a news conference bureau ofhead of the information would be resigning. -- residing. droning on.s someone handed him a piece of paper. thatsaid they had decided the residents can return. minute are you saying they can go if they have a visa or not? he got up and walked off the stage. [laughter] there were a lot of east german and they were all stunned by what they had just heard. upstairs -- i ran upstairs and i found the woman who made me andpointment for asked him to read that again. that means they can come and go. i said to you have any second thoughts about this? we grabbed the tape and ran downstairs. i had a group of my newspaper colleagues. the wall was coming down tonight. it had been broadcast in east germany. we got on the phone in those days and said we are going to go live from berlin and we have a satellite. i worked feverishly to make sure everything was there. i got the 25 minutes before we were to go on the air. the top of the

berlin into czechoslovakia. the guy overthrown running east germany all of these years.was chaos and he said what are you go there for two days? the first day, i got into east berlin and it was kind of quiet chaos and then the next day, i went back and i said i don't know if we're going to need the satellite, but we ought to keep it. the leader was out of favor by then, and i am going around east berlin, doing the stories and i was going to be at a news conference where the head of the bureau of information would be and he wasso we went kind of throwing -- droning on, the bureaucratic way and somebody handed him a piece of paper and he said the bureau has decided that the residents can leave and return through any exit in the wall. he said are you saying they can go, what are they have are a visa -- whether they have a visa or not? and they said yeah and he got up and walked off the stage. everybody in that room, there were a lot of germans in that room. they were all stunned by what they had just heard. i had a interview arranged with him and i ran upstairs. throwingr m

thousand and twelve his berlin wall picture has shown people looking across the border from west to east berlin on a gray november day in the early one nine hundred eighty s. . no visitors can immerse themselves in the world of the reformation in britain there. the rotunda will remain open for another four years meanwhile yet to go it's easy is already working on new panoramas. the reformation anniversary is also drawing many tourists to the town of eisenach now this is located some two hundred fifty kilometers south west of it in bourke and it was here at the viper castle that martin luther sought refuge for a year in fifteen twenty one after he was excommunicated from the catholic church he was considered an outlaw and sought protection in the castle well the town's greatest claim to fame maybe martin luther is exile here but during former communist times it was a hub for automobile production a guided tour that's visitors in on the town's main attractions. everyone who visits eisenach wants to see rock book castle. for many germans it's much more than eleven the century council. is both a la

who owned an apartment building in east berlin and so and he was the head of the reconstruction and for like a year you've also like a an owner of a building in the east german germany and he thought ok this is this is my time now everything will be good of course it was because things are not as easy you know. and his life kind of broke down and i guess you still you know working on that and looking at the refugees you know when we talked from times they would come up to remark like you know but look what they get look what you know how much help they get and so he's jealous yeah he is that word resentment again resentment. jealousy is well it's interesting you bring up this because if you look at west german west berlin women particularly saying the fifty's or sixty's and talk about. shop assistants cashiers they got a ton of money and in conversation with them sometimes very tolerant towards the refugees it helps them in the supermarket is everything but sometimes they say well they're getting more than me and you have to be very careful with the combining those that are on a much lo

and his wife and journalist spent four very intense years in communist east berlin. only the iron curtain separated the two countries life years seemed very foreign and hooker was a keen observer. and others there's no it was the very quickly realised i was a westerner and could do things others couldn't. it was very rare for a police officer to step in front of my lens like this even if chanukah was across the street and i want to go off that list as that is not. in the mid one nine hundred seventy s. hooker went to new york as a correspondent for the german magazines down and he stayed during that era and he had a brief and powerful encounter with boxing legend mohammed ali that's why we dropped by the gym where he was training he saw us during the break between two strikes of the gong and came towards us that he put out his hand in greeting and did this the gong sounded and he was gone it took all of two seconds. ok he would say i think would get out but hoped it was quick enough to get this shot now an iconic portrait over the course of three decades he shot six

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for east berlin 1976. you're never going to solve the level of problems we need. if we think the federal government can own the data top down. i want to see data disrupt your sub sectors. we need to figure out a way to create data pulls. not just data pushes. it's going to be too slow. >> senator, one of the quotes i read by you. >> that was supposed to get applause. >> i'm teasing. >> senator, one of the quotes i read. it wasn't until i started to learn spanish that i understood english. i think that's what travels about. tell us about that. >> i think the quotes at tributed to lots of people. one of them is louis who said a fish can't explain to you what water is like. he's never not been in water. fundamentally there are good reasons to learn foreign language. but the most basic reason is that you don't understand grammar and syntax and voe cab in your own language until you can get out and look back on it. even you never learn use your spanish or your french or german. or mandarin or latin. knowing another language changes you. you now see the choices that eng

our kgb asset in west germany travels to east berlin for a three day conference. he disappears. and in 1986, february, our kgb asset in moscow is arrested. une or july, as best as we can tell, our g.r.u. asset in moscow is arrested. july 7, 1986, our long retired g.r.u. asset is arrested in moscow, one day after his 65th birthday. he is the highest ranking soviet intelligence officer this government has ever run. nd unfortunately, into 1987, our kgb asset in moscow, long etired, is arrested. so here we are, it is the end of 1985, and obviously something is seriously wrong. two possible explanations. we either have a human penetration of cia, or our communications have been compromised. in other words they are reading our traffic. what do we do? ur first action was taken in response to a new volunteer. in january of 1986, a soviet intelligence officer volunteered to cia. now, our goal was simple. we got to try to keep this one alive. we have no idea whether it is a traitor or technical penetration, so we have to guard gainst each possibility. with respect to the traitor side of t

it was berlin, which was a divided city, and he wanted the eastern part of berlin to be recognized as part of east germany. berlin, to him, was what he something in my throat, and the way to get rid of it to him was too frightened the president of the united states into a deal that would get us out of west berlin. it did not work. when he realized that, he was not an idiot. keep old back. he host: did not want a nuclear war. our guest is marvin kalb. our phone lines are (202)-748-8001 to republicans. (202)-748-8000 for democrats. a personal question, how many red ties do you own? guest: [laughter] about 10. host: between you and your brother, this famous red ties. from connecticut, good morning. caller: thanks for taking my call. i am a little bit computers about four and if -- i am a little bit confused about foreign affairs. it is better to have a foreign policy with russia, in particular. is a rex tillerson, he good guy, but the state department does not seem to like him because he seems to maybe but he is nother building a whole team. where do you think we should go with their foreign policy?

joining us from cairo on skype is timothy kaldis nonresident fellow institute for middle east politics from berlin ahmad badawi senior researcher for the center for middle eastern and north african politics at the free university of berlin of mit is also the author of the political economy of egypt and a c.c. and in london in black visiting senior fellow at the middle east center at the london school of economics a very warm welcome to all three of you let me start off with you timothy kaldis a staggering loss for the egyptian security services what do you hearing about today's events and how it unfolded or not there's a lot of conflicting reports. some people saying fourteen killed some but some think thirty something over fifty. there's also a lot of confusion about who is responsible no official claim of responsibility and the state's response so far is to say a number of security officers were killed but not to specify that number. a parliamentarian who's close to the government stuff about three claims that as many as one hundred. militants ambushed the security forces that would be a quite r

east german authorities ordered construction of the berlin wall in august one thousand nine hundred sixty one many never gave up their hope for freedom at least one hundred forty people died or were killed trying to flee east germany. following reforms across the soviet bloc east germans began arriving in the west through hungry and czechoslovakia in the summer of one thousand nine hundred nine pressure grew on the communist east german government as massive demonstrations increased. then at a press conference on november nineteenth history changed with a single sentence the bad guys not citizens will be allowed to travel abroad without special documents instrument spokesman said and when a journalist asked when this would start. as he ad libbed to my knowledge right now immediately people crossed the border on light line and the division between east and west germany began to dissolve official reunification followed on october third the following year one thousand nine hundred. yet nearly three decades later many differences between east and west remain. most of germany's largest firms a

east and west. in a recent survey it was confirmed that two thirds of germans actually think there's somewhat of an invisible berlinall in east and west, and that showed in the election results in the general election results we just had in germany. the far right newcomers to the german parliament, they had an overall national result of 12.6% nationally but in the east they scored much higher, a much higher percentage of the vote. in one german state they even became the strongest party, passing all the established parties. and that really showed that there is somewhat of a frustration in the east german population. a frustration, a mistrust, a willingness to vote for protest parties, that still shows the difference between east and west of to this point. host: did the president suggest what could be done to resolve that, to overcome these issues of distrust? guest: yeah, he made several suggestions. on the one hand he said germans need to be debate stronger, to strengthen democracy again. on a more concrete level, he mentioned the issue of migration, an issue which really has an polarizing german society. he was m

host: judy in pennsylvania, east berlin, democrat line. caller: hi. about the opioid issue. i have several friends, and one family member, will have lost young adults to prescription opioid overdoses. closest friends just came to me after losing her grandson in maryland -- he was one of three children at the funeral home that day in caskets. she just said, you save your money so you can help your grandson go to college. and when he is old enough to go to college, you find you are using that money to bury him. i just wanted to say that. host: ralph in washington, d.c., you are next. caller: hi. i have been trying to tell the media about this. for some reason, they do not want to cover it. about 30 years or 40's ago, when i was in germany, amsterdam legalized marijuana. amsterdam had a huge problem with heroin addiction. what they found was once late legalized marijuana, they took it out of the hands of people who want to sell you drugs on the illegal market. and the number of new heroin 1/10th felt t -- fell to of what it was before. we are starting to see that indication in

groundbreaking deal with gulf airline he had one of the leading carriers in the middle east became the largest shareholder of air berlin. it's a milestone in the history of air travel in aeronautic history. with the deal air berlin joined the one world airline alliance but business didn't improve despite cost saving measures and restructuring efforts in twenty fifteen air berlin posted a record loss of four hundred fifty million euros eight he had once again came to the rescue but to no avail air berlin began making headlines for all the wrong reasons canceled flights lost luggage customer confidence and satisfaction dwindled the airline went bust after negotiations that rivals considered unfair lufthansa acquired eighty one aircraft and routes from its former rival now many flights within germany will only be offered by one carrier and a lot of passengers fear their berlin's demise will soon lead to a big hike in ticket prices. for the amazon microsoft and google's parent company alphabet have in common one or three american companies just keep on growing turning and better results quarter after quarter beating analys

walls of mistrust and anger between east and west in a recent survey that was confirmed that two thirds of germans actually think that there is somewhat of an visible berlin wall between east and west and that showed in the election results in the general elections that we just had in germany the a if t. the far right newcomers to the german problem and they had a an overall national result of twelve point six percent nationally but in the east they score it much higher they got a much higher percentage of the vote and one german stayed they even became the strongest paci passing all the established parties and that really showed that there is somewhat of a frustration in the east german population a frustration a mistrust a willingness to vote for protest parties that still shows the difference between east and west up to this point and a show that did the president suggests how what could be done to resolve that to overcome these divisions and issues of distrust. yet he made several suggestions on the one hand he set the germans need to start debating much stronger and listening to each other much stronger to strengthen democracy again but on a more con

one of the leading carriers in the middle east became the largest shareholder of air berlin. and in two thousand and fifteen air berlin posted a record loss its main shareholder as he had once again came to the rescue but to no avail on august fifteenth of this year with a debt burden of almost two billion euros air berlin declared bankruptcy its rival germany's largest carrier acquired many of its roots within germany that prompted concerns over reduced competition and the possibility of increased prices for consumers. with air berlin no company has stepped up to compete against love plans or for these routes and easyjet but if you're in the process confident that there's been no agreement yes or no customers will face the option of flying loved ones or which can be very expensive or going by train or car instead. of. the demise of air berlin is not just a blow for customers thousands of the company's employees look set to lose their jobs. or let's take a look at some news in brief while it was a sad week for air berlin loved ones that had reason to celebrate after its third