communist east germany offered asylum to many who were persecuted by the dictator. marie antonia was one of them. when they arrived in east germany, she and her daughter stayed at the albert einstein house near berlin. now, after nearly 40 years, she is revisiting her first german home. she came to east germany with the expectations, hoping to find the political system she had lost in chile. she is still grateful she was given asylum. >> i came to east germany as an immigrant. they brought us to the town. we got german lessons. they found jobs for us. kindergarten. >> these photos take her back to her time as a research assistant at a berlin university. at t the 1980s, she try to get a job back in chile, but couldn't. >> i said to myself, i cannot go back to a country that has no jobs. how would i live? that was the reason why i decided not to go back. >> maria antonia finds it sad that her country is still so divided today, as well as learning piano, she studies so she can help others who come to germany seeking asylum. >> thanks for watching. goodbye. captioned by

my mother's family had fled east germany.he told those relatives, go on and stand up for what you think is right. if you go on like this, in 10 years, the wall might fall down. it did not even last 10 months, and it still happened. i think this just shows you that sometimes history is moving in giant leaps. you cannot predict this area -- this. the situation of divided germany -- when you look at the historical context, there's a lot of similarities to taiwan. but there are also a lot of differences. it is useful for taiwanese to look at the way this is handled, but not take it as a 100% blueprint from germany. >> we need to take another break. we will be right back. >> we will continue our conversation with klaus bardenhagen. what were some of the reasons for you to select the topics that were included in this book? >> this time i wanted to take more the subject of why taiwan matters, not so much the daily life and everyday experiences. for example, i started by writing a historical part about taiwan from the time when the a

hold as doctorate in chemistry was beaten up for his skin color years ago and much of the former east germany racism runs higher than elsewhere. that's not stopping him from meeting voters here. quite the opposite. >> they have not identified the potential of immigrants using their experiences from different back ground and they could enrich the political process. >> nationwide only 4% of candidates running for parliament are of immigrant background. 20% of the population is from immigrant stock. the proportion of minority representation here is far below that in france and great britain for example. part of the problem is a german law allowing many to give up citisenship of their original country in order to vote and many don't want to do that. another problem, germans with old traditional roots here see immigrants. it is one of the few turkish germans mps says. >> they have difficulties with the names and i think it will take time to have a more normal situation, that people don't ask do you speak german? are you able to understand everything that's going on there? it is not normal. >> he's

supporters there's skepticism, they feel they have shown enough solidarity in rebuilding the old east germanyand much still needs to be done there. shining new industries like this rolls-royce and others are taking root, but others have benefitted for the greeks. it all may explain a new thing in german politics, a anti-euro party. who have just enough support to win them seats in parliament. >> the euro is a political decision, not any other decision. we are hoping that this message will be mainstream. >> this is merkel's main challenge. steinbrook. nobody expects steinbrook to win, but he could force his way in to government as part of the grand coalition. that would leave her still in office but greatly weakened and less able to make the tough the decisions needed to sort out the euro zone. it will be a coalition result t two main parts of right and left may join each other in government. the great fear in southern europe is that of the end of it all berlin's policy of austerity without end is not going to change. >> always a budget deal is reached a government shut down will be approachin

ornette homburg in 1954, she was brought up in east germany. her father or a communist minister and her mother, a teacher. this past remains a taboo topic. >> she got involved with the ruling party at the official organization at a very young age. she was a member of the pioneers youth group at school and then a member of the -- was a propaganda secretary for the academy of sciences, even when she was already a physicist. she was very involved with the regime. >> her radical change of the fall of the wall, she left behind her laboratory for a political career on the right. under her first husband's name merkel she became a spokesperson of the gdr first chemically debt -- democratically elected government. she got home at kohl's attention -- environment minister in 1994. >> she called -- cut off ties with two fathers. in the 1990s she was in the kohl government, facing her father. this was the first break. the second break is when she cut ties with kohl. it was all about power. >> 10 years later, the sheep betrayed her mentor and took her head a

operatives are the same founder and then he promoted her for a variety of reasons she was from east germanythey needed a balance between west germany in this new united germany. she is a woman so he gave her a cabinet post in the first unification cabinet basically that was her spring board. >> rose: you said this is a relationship forged in crises. >> we mean the european debt crises which dominated her second term which started for four years now. and i think the point of that is that she along with the rest of europe faced unprecedented situation that really put created europe, as we know it, into jeopardy. >> rose: but most people i know and we've done a lot of programs about the subject of what's happening to the euro zone believe that she favors austerity and believes that germany will be called on to rescue, and it has time after time. but she does not want to do it until she's pushed to at the last moment. but that's her modus operandi. >> the internal workings of that are she's also very deliberative and she likes to weigh her options and i think we explain a bit and she says this

in much of the former east germany racism runs higher than elsewhere.stopping him from meeting the voters. quite the opposite. >> cultural openness in our society is in its infant state we are a developing country in this regard regard, polight tics identify the potential of immigrants and the experiences of their background that could really enrich the political process. >> reporter: nationwide only around 4% of the candidates running for parliament are of immigrant background but around 20% of the population is of immigrant stock. so the proportion of minority representation in is far below that in the parliament of france or great britain, for example. part of the problem is a german law which requires immigrants to give up the citizenship of their countries of origin in order to become jeff plan and vote and many don't want do that. another part of the problem is the way germans with old traditional family roots here see immigrants. since one of the very few turkish german m.p.s. >> still they have difficulties with the name, and i think it will tak

on this stage of our tour of germany affidavit vote we are in the capital of part of the former east germanylace where many voters are tempted by political extremes. they call themselves the left. more than two decades after german reunification the anti-capitalists, anti-nato party is reaching out to the next generation of voters. it's at home here. while it now accepts democracy, it grew out of the communist party that ran the east jermaine dictatorship. this party voter is out of a job, like around 13% of the population in the region and out of unemployment benefits. she blames the big parties in berlin that she says don't care about the little people. >> the welfare state no longer exists. and it hasn't for a long time. it doesn't feel like we live in a democracy. that we have anyway of changing things. or that the people are being listened to. >> reporter: around one in five voters cast a ballot for the left party in the last regional elections here. but there is another option for people who aren't satisfied with the political system, and that's the national democratic party or npd. ev

speaker, either we are wrong or east germany was right. and i sincerely doubt the latter is accurate. i ye yield back -- i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, since obamacare was first passed, we've known that it was would cause premiums to rise and increase the cost of health insurance for millions of americans. one issue that has not been talked about enough is the serious threat to the access of quality care for patients, especially in the rural parts of the country, as i represent. this is a very serious issue in my district and one of the main reasons that i support defunding this bill. as we get closer to the october 1 release date of the individual health insurance plans under obamacare, the threat of reduced access is uickly becoming the reality. one of the largest health insurers of georgia is reducing 30% of contracts with doctors in the state. for my constituents in rural georgia, we

every person in the country and more and turn them into informants as was done by the stasi in east germany are you pessimistic about tomorrow i have to say that i think i'm an optimist we have a chance and we have a chance to. bring back the n.s.a. and to restore constitutional government something that gives we encourage mint is the fact that a majority of democrats in the house recently went against their own house leadership as did many republicans in attempting to rein in the n.s.a. the unconstitutional powers they've been having that they almost succeeded and i think they're going to keep at it so that's the most hopeful thing i've seen lately dan your true american hero always good talking with you thank you very much for the chancellor and thanks to both of my guests former congressman ron paul and daniel ellsberg that's all for this week's politicking with larry king and you can find me don't forget on twitter at kings things see you next time. i know c.n.n. the m.s.m. b.c. and fox news have taken some knots lately but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the

i think what is interesting is when you compare leipzig, you compare east germany to west germany, even if you wanted to have something like in stuttgart, these strong tissues of regional edge partners and small and medium-sized enterprises that are very successful, family-owned, stable, not cranking out profits just for the sake of it. the problem is or the challenge is, if you think, i want that, what is the medicine that gets you that and you look at eastern germany. there are virtually no examples. it is too early yet. even in germany itself, they did not manage to replicate the model, the successful model to eastern germany. it takes more time but it also says that if you are somewhere else in europe and you say, i want that, you cannot just with two or three or four policies and more government money and more flexibility, it will not create this overnight. >> the german model is quite complex and france is trying to copy things and take some parts out of it and saying we need a different type of training. it is not only that. there is the mentality, they discussed wages for a long

not only from east germany, but from all over europe. and this continues. and it does seem to me that this business is willingness to negotiate and this is a part that i hadn't really thought about before. the way the goal was able to exploit that to develop his relationship, which ended in his treaty in 1963. part of it was and they didn't say much. they were actually insistent upon their rights. and so the contrast between the americans and the french on one side and the british on the other and the british had no problem with showing their identity cards. not at all. but when he went through made a big issue out of it. so there are these ironies. >> kennedy was going to vienna and he said it is the best service you can do for the russians, as well as everyone else. and those were the last words that he heard and it may have influenced him a little bit. and it's nice that fancier because he can tell my editors about this book and i didn't want to do that because i wanted to focus on this period. i had wanted to write this for a long time. and i did not wr

while the meeting in east germany and later in west germany did not produce immediate results, it didlay the groundwork for the later basic treaty between the two germanys. ironically, the meeting reprice some of the basic dynamics between khrushchev and kennedy. they were dominion the de facto recognition of the gdr and preventing him with harsh ultimatums. like a kennedy at his first meeting had opted for a soft approach and hoped to begin with the points of basic agreement. what was the response of the soviet unity party? it was skeptical and fearful. because they did not want to change the status quo. they fully recognized that the changed relation would be come in fact lesson of the gdr's control over its citizens and that indeed is what happened over time. to my knowledge billy was the only key player from 1961 still alive in 1989 when the berlin wall fell. when interviewed he said with great and understand the emotion -- what belongs together will now grow together. he lived to see one of his fondest hopes realized. the jury is still out on how much the two halves have grown to

in east germany racism runs higher than elsewhere.t is not stopping him. >> translator: [ inaudible ] infant stage, we are a developing country in this regard. political parties haven't recognized the potential of immigrants. they could really enrich the political process. >> reporter: nationwide only about 4% of the candidates running for parliament are of immigrant background. the proportion of minority representation is far below that in the parliaments of france or great britain, for example. another part of the problem is the way germans with old traditional family roots here see immigrants as one of the very few turkish german mps. >> they have difficults with the name, and i think it will take some time to have a more normal situation that people don't ask like, does she speak german, or is she able to understand everything that is going on there? it is still no, ma'am normal. >> reporter: he is high up on the party chance and has a good chance of being elected. he said he doesn't want to be an curiosity, he just wants to be a

part of the former baseballer east germany, and a place where many voters are tempted by political extremes they call themselves delenke, the left. and more than two decades the anticapitalist, anti-nato party is reaching out to the next generation of voters. >> it's at home here, while it now accepts democracy, it grew out of the communist party that ran the east german dictatorship. this party voter is out of a job, like around 13% of the population in the region, and out of unemployment benefits. she blames the big parties that she says don't care about the little people. >> it doesn't feel like we live in a democracy, or that the people are being listened to. >> around one in five voters cast a ballot for the left party in the last regional elections here. that's the national democratic party, even though around one in 20 voters past a ballot for them last time around, they are a source of concern and even shame because of this countries past. >> his party just wants to help people in need, especially the poor. as long as they are german. >> we want the germany for germans. we aren't ag

in much of the former east germany, racism runs higher than elsewhere.ut it doesn't stop him from meeting voters. quite the opposite. >> reporter: the cultural openness in our society is in the infant stage. we're in a developing country in this regard. the political parties have managed to identify the potential of immigrants. they don't use their abilities and the experiences of their different cultural background. they could really enrich the political process. >> reporter: nationwide only about 4% of the candidates running for parliament are of immigrant background, but around 20% of the population is of immigrant stock. so the proportion of minority representation is far below that in the parliaments of france or great britain, for example. part of the problem is a german law that requires immigrants to give up the citizenship of their countries of origin to become german and vote, and many don't want to do that. another part of the problem is the way germans with old, traditional family roots here see immigrants as one of the few turkish german mps

he shapes a face from the 80s in east germany.s meeting the physicists who talked about music perhaps because talking politics was tricky in a dictator ship. a woman who enjoyed good company, drive and a curious mix of personal qualities. >> translator: i describe her as very calm and she was restrained and could be spontaneous. it was unusual mixture, reserved and fun loving. >> reporter: the political fun began with the fall of the berlin wall when she was plucked from obscurity by the chancelor and she was a minister and stunning people saying it was time for him to go and taking his job as chancellor. her popularity reached the peek in germany as the financial crisis hit bottom, as leaders turned to her for answers and she took a hard line on spending german taxpayer's money on euro zone payouts. >> translator: she reacted uncertainly at first but found a compromise that kept everyone happy and appeals to skeptics and pushed through bail outs in parliament against resistance and it appealed to the pro-europeans. >> reporter: h

the daughter from east germany, the physicist and the consummate chemist joining in the victory gig wasa customary under statement. the democratic headquarters has not experienced this since the two germ niece united. is the woman they call mom going to start -- no, she answered again and again. this message upset greeks and italians but made sense to germany. >> what germany stands accused of i have -- we want you to clean up your political economy and your addition function alsome so woe don't have to be under a brat. >> she needs to form a coalition and because her junior partners failed to get any seat in the parliament. >> we are open for talks. i already had a first conversation with the head of the social democrats who understandably casino to hold the first party convention on friday. >> and that could spell instability for germany's parliament and beyond. but then again the woman behind the hand gesture has emerged from the euro crises as one of the most powerful leaders in the world. >> the woman at the >> ifill: the woman at the center of a furor over the internal revenue ser

. >> stewart: like east and west germany so they have absorbed 350,000 people just in the homes this camp is just for the poorest of the poor who didn't have those hospitalities. >> well, jordan tried to avoid having camps and to its credit, like it never wanted to put people in camps. no one wants to be in a refugee camp, none of us would want to be in a refugee camp so for the first two, 300,000 people, it allowed people to come in and absorbed within the community but the communities could no longer absorb them because you have cities such as urban north of jordan, 200,000 more refugees arrived there. >> stewart: and these are workers and they want to -- people will hire them for lower and puts pressure on the economy. let me ask you, will you stick around and talk a little bit more about it? >> sure. >> stewart: i appreciate that. is there anything people can do can they donate? >> firstly, i also would like to say as i am in the states i would like to thank the u.s. people as well because they have been the biggest and most generous doe more to the humanitarian response and this

not only from east germany, but from all over europe. and this continues. and it does seem to me that this business is willingness to negotiate and this is a part that i hadn't really thought about before. the way the goal was able to exploit that to develop his relationship, which ended in his treaty in 1963. part of it was and they didn't say much. they were actually insistent upon their rights. and so the contrast between the americans and the french on one side and the british on the other and the british had no problem with showing their identity cards. not at all. but when he went through made a big issue out of it. so there are these ironies. >> kennedy was going to vienna and he said it is the best service you can do for the russians, as well as everyone else. and those were the last words that he heard and it may have influenced him a little bit. and it's nice that fancier because he can tell my editors about this book and i didn't want to do that because i wanted to focus on this period. i had wanted to write this for a long time. and i did not wr

a native of the former communist of east germa germany, her trais in physics. five years after the financial crisis germany is going strong with one of the world's lowest jobless rates. unlike grease an greece and spae unemployment is past 12%. >> people feel that she has done something wrong. >> the decision german voters could have this weekend could have an enormous effect on the economy. her track record is among her strongest selling points. >> i think we can say looking at hour neighbors in jump tha eurot germany has had a good run. >> peer steinbrÜck complained that the chancellor is not paid enough and recently appeared on the cover of the national magazine making an obscene gesture. >> in a parliamentary campaign we're no longer able to fit satire into humor, if we can't be easy going then i don't have any interest in that kind of campaign. >> several factors played into this resentment, and one is clearly the fact that there are memories in jesus of nazi germany, and there was reference to the nazi past. >> reporter: but merkel's handling of the crisi

oh, so germany is building a predominance of arms in europe! and now in the middle east, as well. what does that all mean to you? germany, once again, is merging economic policy with military policy. and we created a document after world war ii vowing that we'd never, ever let germany do that again! let them arm like that again! why did we establish that document? because they started world war i and they started world war ii and they have a history of starting a lot of wars because they've got hooked into a very evil system that leads them in the wrong direction. but still, god is using them for his own purpose to correct some evil people that should know better. but we have to realize what is happening here! and it's going to involve everybody on this earth, to one degree or another. so i mean, germany and the arabs just really have a common history, even going back to world war i when germany was tied with the muslim brotherhood of egypt, if you can believe that! i mean, they've had a long history together, and germany has a lot of friends in the middle east, and they are the mo

they did much better than we expected in east germany. so they really have become number one protest vote. that's not enough to changer man politics as we saw with the pirate party because they used to be the protest vote and they're nowhere now after yesterday, but the alternative for germany is very disciplined. they've raised a new issue which is skepticism of the eurozone. now that they're very articulate, they're around now. there's a european parliament election coming up next year. i expect them to do very well. they've been legitimated by the result. they're going to change the debate. angela merkel and all of german politics and the center right, which angela merkel has shifted left, they need to look to the side. we've got to account for these voters who will otherwise keep going that way. >> talking about the impact as well in germany and an end on the eurozone. there are some headlines saying germany is angela merkel country. are we finally there? we just have one big maximum leader. >> well, i mean, in a sense we are. we're a

well france was interested a bit in some of germany's colonies and so they got bits of german colonies in africa and, of course, they got bits of the middle east but clemenceau's main interest was in protection against germany. you know he was deeply apprehensive of germany. he recognized it was stronger than france and so what he wanted was some form of protection. what some of his generals wanted and what some of his conservatives in his government wanted was actual territory. in fact, some of them even went so far as to talk about breaking germany up into its component parts. germany was a very new country. it had only really come into existence in 1871 and so some people in france said well, why not have a bavaria again and why not have a prussia again and why not have some smaller states? and, that was not -- i mean woodrow wilson and lloyd george wouldn't have gone for it. and, there was some talk of taking the east bank, i'm sorry the west bank of the rhine river, which was german territory but the rhine makes a wonderful natural barrier and so some people in france said why don't we take the west bank of the rhine, make it part of fran

the flash point was we berlin, e former german capital which was 100 miles inside communist east germanyut was still a free city protected by the western powers. in november 1958, kruschev delivered an ultimatum: the west had to be out of berlin in six months or else. this was a crisis, the greatest crisis yet of the cold war. in the united states there was a strong reaction in the press and congress and in much of the eisenhower administration. we need to prepare for war, it was said, to beef up our troop strength and get ready to defy the red army to show our resolve. meeting privately with his advisers and congressional leaders, president eisenhower said we aren't going to do that. indeed, he said, we are cutting our forces in germany by 50,000 men. his advisers and the congressmen were bewildered. cut our troop strength? won't that show weakness? ike was all alone on this, and as the story leaked out, he was hivly -- heavily criticized in the press. but he seemed utterly unfazed. eisenhower had a great capacity to take responsibility. you may have seen a famous photograph taken of ik

germany. it's not like it was going disappear from the map. the part of the map that could be carved up was the middle east. the reason that was, was because -- in a case of really awful decision making, the ottoman empire came in to the war on the side of germany, on the side of the central power, germany, u.s.a. -- austria, hungary. if nay -- they won, germany, they would economically and politically dominate the middle east. after the war, if britain and france won the war and russia, the triple -- they were going carve up the entire region. and as soon as the ottoman empire entered the war, the british foreign was a, -- office, say that started referring to it as "the great loot." that's what -- it's going to be just a looting that was going to happen after the war. i just want to briefly talk about what the ottoman empire was like. one -- and again, this goes to today. it existed for five centuries. it was nibbled away at. one of the -- probably the unique future of the ottoman empire and the key to its surviving. economically and politically and militarily it was always weak in comparison to any of the

this year's results show germany could still be a nation of worrywarts. the worries of people in the former east have fallen to the same level as those in the former west for the first time since the survey began. we are joined by our correspondent, terry martin. let's get into these angst numbers in a bit more detail. this survey is really just a bit of fun, but there is some interesting stuff. >> some of the figures are really knows a prize -- that germans are worried about the rising cost of living. everybody is worried about that. they are also particularly concerned this year about natural disasters. there's been quite a bit of flooding in germany in 2013. and they are also concerned about growing old, taking care of themselves when they get old. at a concern and reflected democratic -- demographic shift. what is interesting is what it tells us about how anxieties are shifting. we have one particular indicator that i want to mention, and that is -- are you concerned about your politicians being over challenged? there, we see a 10-percentage- point drop. we do not know why, but it is there.

east and west across much of the continent. we have some rain warnings posted for the southern parts of norway. northern germany, northern italy and southern parts of spain today. flash out for flash floods. it looks like temperatures are going to be quite mild and relatively cool across the west. 19 -- excuse me, 16 degrees in london. 18 in both paris and berlin. but vienna going up to 29 degrees. warsaw it was 24 yesterday and go back to the teens on tuesday. here's your extended forecast. >>> and that is all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobiyashi in tokyo. thanks very much for joining us. >> ifill: on television and on capitol hill, president obama launches a wide-ranging campaign to win public and congressional support for his plan to strike syria. >> the president made his case. >> my intentions throughout this process has been to ensure that the blatant use of chemical weapons that we sought doesn't happen again. if, in fact, there's aay

the idea when we look to the east and her german neighbors, is that vocational education is certainly much more value in germanythan it is in france. here, the french president, francois hollande this monday, putting the accent -- he did not go so far as to talk about a literacy -- but he did put the accent on preventing kids from dropping out of school. >> dropouts. that is the problem in france. that is what is costing us the most. every time a child leaves the school system or is failing, we have to pick him back up. we find him waiting in line for a employment benefits. we find him in certain centers that deal with children in trouble. so, by preventing pupils from dropping out we are making an investment. >> what do you do to prevent dropouts now? what is the top measure you would enact? >> it is all about children going where they once to go, and where they can succeed. we have a real problem in france with that. we need to have more choice for the children who have the more difficulties. >> does that mean more of an accent on vocational education? >> of course, i think. but we need to be clear about it.

blasts of foreign russians far east as a nuclear sub bursts into flames takes a dozen teams of firefighters to battle the blaze. with less than a week until germany's general election the anti euro turning to for germany party looks set to secure a spot in the country's parliament and a merkel's ruling party could see their share of the hardest by the euro skeptic group of alternative from germany supporters are gathered in central berlin ahead of the vote. was that the right force. that germany's political new kids on the block but it does seem that alternative for germany will have a key role to play and shaping what the country does politically over the next few years though the most recent polls ahead of the elections next sunday suggest that alternative germany will be taking a good four percent it's expected they'll take far more from not when germans actually get in to the voting at the polling stations now five percent is what you need to take a seat in the bundestag and it seems alternatively germany will do just that a euro skeptic party they are anti euro and their party leader has been outlining exactly what he wants to do when just whe

east to central europe, north to great britain and south to the mediterranean world. most crucial of all, strasbourg sits on the rhine river between two of europe's strongest historical rivals-- france and germanystrasbourg really occupies a very special kind of position. of course, it's bounced back and forth a bit between german and french influence, and, in fact, 500 or 600 years ago, it was really falling within the influence of the german empire. and then as the french empire was expanding and in conflict with the german empire along the rhine, it came under french influence. the franco-prussian war in the 1870s, however, was partly driven by german efforts to expand to the west bank of the rhine-- that's where strasbourg sits. so it became formally a part of germany at that time. and then in the 20th century, it's fallen back under french control. those original cultural and linguistic ties with germany are still there, so you have a dialect that is a germanic dialect, but it's now, of course, formally a part of france. and this particular and special situation gives it a bifurcated identity, which is really sort of special for a city of its sort. narrator: as the capital of france's alsa

east london mosque despite being banned from the area this was followed by skirmishes with anti fascists protesters the leader of the a.d.l. was arrested as police attempted to contain the violence. by germany's federal election is creeping closer but politicians are managing to evade all could but pivotal questions over unemployment and the european debt crisis put all of our reports on how candidates are taking a more trivial drag by championing healthy eating and tackling the tardiness of local trains instead. the post as the flesh is being pressed but this german election campaign is hotly setting pulses racing maybe that's a whole idea make it as boring as possible so i know everybody kind of goes to sleep and doesn't worry about the real issues what we have being treated to is chancellor angela merkel talking about potato soup a main challenge pish time to reading fairy tales and the green policy suggesting compulsory vegetarian days where does it stop they going to start a couple to refrigerators at home and check to see what you got there as well i mean or are they going to shut down the burger kings and mcdonald's on tuesdays and so you have to serve aside from the greens apparent fo