i had one boy from east germany and another from west germany. in my home. ,e lived in a little village was veryest german boy spoiled. the east german boy, however, the minute he got up from the .piano she would take no money, we paid her and coffee and sugar, which after after the war, and the germans were so rightful to the americans for freeing them. and my dad's people, his wife survived the nazi death camps. she saw all of her family murdered. she survived, she and her little sister were experiments for the nazis. and of course, when i was teaching, one of my neighbors was a pow. he was very grateful to the americans. he said, they treated us like royalty. they gave us everything, and here we were, prisoners. and he said, i am sure we did not treat your people the right way. so the wall is a symbol, just like we have a wall today, wrongs wall, and it is so , >> test. >> test. >>> test. >> test. and i wastal in 1944, taken across the border because the russians were moving in and the germans were evacuating the hospital, so they put me on the

east germany doesn't exist today. the wall doesn't exist today. i remember very well when the berlin wall fell. but i know that increasingly visitors to the museum don't remember the berlin wall, don't remember east berlin, don't remember the cold war. and so here at the museum, we have this exhibit on cold war berlin, which to many of our visitors will be learning about something that they really don't know anything about at all. and i think it's important for us to remember that period of history. to remember the time when the physical barrier divided people from the same country into two different societies, and to remember the differences between those societies. east germany is an example of a surveillance state. we often talk about that balance between security and freedom. and east germany's an example where the emphasis was certainly on security over freedom. and we think it's important for people to remember what a state like that was like, what it might have felt like, and all the artifacts in here are giving people a taste of what it mig

i want briefly to say i experienced east germany from west germany as we fled from east germany into west germany. what happened was until almost the 1989, the news for the east germans was tightened more and more. in the 1950's and 1960's we could send clothing and packages to east germany for the people because they did not have very much. eventually we had to send new clothing. i sent american dollars when i came to this country in carbon paper to east germany so the woman could buy some groceries. i experience the hungarian revolution. i never thought that berlin or east germany would become free. i have a person in east germany that i called and he was very drunk because he never thought the wall would come down. i never thought it did. i cried and cried and cried. i had visited east germany in 1959 with we traveled to various cities. the people that housed us, that gave us meals, they were so thrilled, and i don't know how they afforded food in 1959. to feed us. but, they had menus and the best restaurants you could go to. for me, germany was united. i was born in east russia, b

'd in 19792000 such workers were sent to east germany. they were sent there to solve the labor shortage and at the same time receive valuable training but when their contracts were up they had to return to mozambique. their children are not the only things they left behind in east germany. many are still waiting for half their wages and their pension rights to. at the weekly demos they demand justice many found it difficult to reintegrate into mozambique society . they started as our society they told us socialism is over now we have capitalism you have to go look for work yourself now but if you had a job and stayed in germany then they threw you out on the benefit of our revolution rosicrucianism the team is fate is shared by others an estimated 2000 children are similarly trying to find their roots with the help of the organization ray and control family yaar she has put together a list of 30 names from germany. or. i go a lot out hello paula. and i'm a fight in my eyes my name is fontina i come from germany she is not she was born in

but also completely surrounding west berlin, again cutting it off from the rest of east germany,. we have a couple of pieces of the actual berlin wall over here that i like to show we ship them over, i think about the graffiti and the color in the lines are on the walls. these are completely plane, that's because they're on the east side, where people are not allowed to graffiti on the wall. in fact that would've been encouraged some pretty severe penalties. one reason why did you not want people drawing on the wall. was because having the wall be completely plane, actually made it easier, for people, for the guards to regarding the border, it made them more visible against light gray or white backgrounds. seeing them without graffiti actually should remind us of the reason why the wall was put up. the key people in, for the berlin wall was built, several million, up to 3 million people, actually across the border, from east to west. after the berlin wall was put, up people didn't stop trying to get out of these germany. about 100,000 people tried to get out. but have that number,

i'm storming the start of east germany secret police were feared and hated today marks 30 years since citizens of the former communist regime forced their way to start their headquarters in east berlin and prevented the destruction of millions of files in the last months of the eastern dictator. i'm sure a welcome to the program we start with breaking news from. russia where the prime minister dmitri medvedev has resigned apparently to make way for president putin's proposed changes to the constitution president putin has reportedly asked the cabinet to continue to work until he appoints a new government resignation of follows president putin's on your state of the nation address used the speech to propose a series of constitutional reforms including granting parliament the right to choose the country's prime minister a proposal is seen as part of his office to come faster a new position for himself after his term in office and in 2024. years straight to moscow to join t.w. correspondent really should have been welcomed by a movie more here. well the timing of this move was rather une

osma director was one man he managed to escape east germany and become a west german citizen. incredibly he returned to east berlin and smuggled people out to the g.d. in the boot of his car if. you must know the mike the microphone the stick the pipe . he was risking his life without my limbs in your game if you thought that was affordable to. a lot you also heard. how much it was eventually caught and sentenced to 15 years but at least he survived to tell the tale many didn't. so why did so many people feel it was worth taking the risk. while west germany mated ahead to become the industrial power survey europe. under policy leader erich honecker the dictatorship of the g.d. or became world leaders in something altogether more sinister mass surveillance. east germany's state security the story where the most insidious secret police in history. this is the stars he archive files were kept on everyone a colossal database to control the population in 989990 when we started our work there was a total of around 111 kilometers of file for photographs thousands of audio and video fi

and that storming the stasi east germany's secret police were feared and hated today marks 30 years since citizens of the former communist regime forced their way into the headquarters in east berlin and prevented the destruction of millions of files in the waning months of the country known as the d.d.r. . i'm bring coffin's good to have you with us we begin tonight with what u.s. president trump is calling a major victory. in his economic policies with china after 18 months of economic conflict the united states and china have entered a trade truce or at least the 1st part of that truce president trump and china's chief trade negotiator today signed phase one of a new trade agreement just a short time ago at a ceremony at the white house it's aimed at lowering tensions in a trade war that has slowed growth around the world ahead of the signing trump held this deal as historic. today we take a momentous step one that has never been taken before with china toward a future of fair and reciprocal trade as we see in phase one of the historic trade deal between the united states and china. to

and storming the shop today marks 30 years since citizens of former east germany forced their way to the headquarters of the secret police of preventing the destruction of millions of files in the final months of the communist dictatorship. i'm serious oh my god it's good to have you with us russian prime minister dmitri medvedev and his government has resigned to make way for constitutional reforms the president vladimir putin proposed today the program had reportedly asked medvedev sky. and to continue working until he appoints a new government the prime minister's resignation came after putin's annual state of the nation address he used the speech to put forward a series of constitutional changes that would shift power from the presidency to parliament observers say these proposals are part of putin's efforts to shape a new role for himself when his presidential term ends in 2024 and that this is what president putin said about the resignation. of the. i want to thank you for everything you've done in this phase of our cooperation i want to express my gratitude about the results o

under storming the stasi east germany's secret police were feared and tainted to date knox 30 years since civil rights activists forced their way into stars the headquarters in east berlin and prevented the destruction of millions by the communist state collapsed. i'm phil gal welcome to the program. china poses an existential threat to international human rights this assessment is contained in the latest daniel report from human rights watch u.s. based group condemns what it calls china's domestic repression and its attempts to censor critics abroad they urge the international community to challenge beijing's actions or face what they describe as a dystopian future the head of human rights watch was due to release the report in hong kong but was denied entry so qantas wroth held a press conference in new york instead the chinese government is trying with increasing ferocity to use its economic and diplomatic clout to silence critical voices abroad and to undermine global institutions that protect human rights china's obviously long censored critics at home the government is now trying to

after all nobody knew exactly how sensitive the information that east germany state security had collected was in the end the files were made accessible to the public through temp lien applied to see his own. it was certainly a unique experience i was part of the 1st group that got to see their files in 1900 . u.s. an opposition figure it was highly unlikely that a very comprehensive file a whited me it was very thorough but there was also one from the 1st half of the 1970s that was classified as a puppet try to follow. for 2 years templin himself was an unofficial stasi informant he ultimately quit and got involved with civil rights groups later he was arrested and kicked out of east germany after the fall of the berlin wall he returned and took part in the negotiations to dissolve the stasi but he's still struggling to cope with what happened to this day. if you look at this in the long hill a lot of people say yeah well it was so long ago. if we think about the nazi era and i'm not saying that the same just comparing that to it took decades to process the monstrous things that happened

and storming the stasi today marks 30 years since citizens of the former east germany forced their way into the headquarters of the secret police and prevented the destruction of millions of files in the final months of the communist dictatorship. i'm assuming so much down there it's good to have you with us russian prime minister dmitri medvedev and his government have resigned to make way for a constitutional reforms that president vladimir putin proposed today now put in has reportedly asked mr get a cabinet to continue working until he appoints a new government the prime minister's resignation came as a surprise after putin's annual state of the nation address wouldn't use the ok zhen to put forward a series of constitutional changes that would shift power from the presidency to parliament analysts say these proposals are part of putin's efforts to shape a new role for himself when his presidential. term ends in 2024 now this is what dmitri medvedev had to say. as he did we use the government of the russian federation should provide the president of our country with the opportunity

'd in 19792000 such workers were sent to east germany. they were sent there to solve the labor shortage and at the same time receive valuable training but when their contracts were up they had to return to mozambique. their children are not the only things they left behind in east germany. many are still waiting for half their wages and their pension rights to. at the weekly demos they demand justice many found it difficult to reintegrate into mozambique society . just out of those outfits early they told us socialism is over now we have capitalism you have to go look for work yourself now but if you had a job and stayed in germany then they threw you out on the desert of our revolution rosicrucianism the team is fate is shared by others an estimated 2000 children are similarly trying to find their roots with the help of the organization re and control family she has put together a list of 30 names from germany. or. i saw a lot of hello paula. and i'm a fight in my eyes my name is fontina i come from germany she is not she was born in bra

storm english east germany secret police with fear and take it today marks 30 years to. force their way into shock i'd want to explain and provide to the destruction of the millions of files to come in the state. i'm phil gal welcome to the program. china poses an existential threat to international human rights that's assessment is contained in the latest a new report from human rights watch the u.s. based group condemns what it calls china's domestic repression and its attempts to censor critics abroad they urge the international community to challenge beijing's actions or face what they describe as a dystopian future had a few writers to watch was due to release a report in hong kong but was denied entry so can a throw off held his press conference in new york instead the chinese government is trying with increasing ferocity to use its economic and diplomatic clout to silence critical voices abroad and to undermine global institutions that protect human rights china's obviously long censored critics at home the government is now trying to extend that censorship to the

storming the stasi east germany secret police were feared and hated today not just 36 bytes activists forced their way into the stasi headquarters a nice balance prevented the destruction of millions of files as the common mistakes come 1st. but. i'm for gail welcome to the program. the race to decide which democrat will challenge donald trump for the u.s. presidency is heating up full of vice president joe biden and senators bernie sanders and elizabeth warren are amongst the top 6 candidates who took part of the t.v. debate on tuesday night it was the last debate before the democratic primary season begins in iowa in 3 weeks and polls suggest the race will be tight. a last chance for 6 remaining candidates to make their case before the democratic primaries begin and the candidates use their chance to attack president trump on his foreign policy decisions and right now what i fear very much is we have a president who is lying again and could drag us into a war that is even worse than the war in iraq trump offered his own counter programming at a rally in milwaukee in battleground sta

east german civil rights campaigner 30 years ago he and other demonstrators pushed their way into east germany stars the headquarters it's still the resting place of thousands of files on citizens who were spied on so if this is all yes i said so you know what we want this peaceful disarmament our actual takeover of the whole thing will happen a lot faster there's no place you know. was open the gate the storming of no man in street was a key moment after the buildings and other cities had already been occupied in the proceeding months several 1000 people now poured into the berlin headquarters. stassi workers tried to destroy files up until the very last minute but the activists were able to rescue most of those files. from the border come from all of them. but the fight to save the files was far from one that took a hunger strike extreme effort on our part to convince west german elites politicians and those who wanted to keep a lid on this for various reasons. after all nobody knew exactly how sensitive the information that east germany state security had collected was in the end the files

after all nobody knew exactly how sensitive the information that east germany state security had collected was in the end the files were made accessible to the public full temp lien applied to see his own. group that it was certainly a unique experience i was part of the 1st group that got to see their files in 1900 . 90 us in opposition figure it was highly unlikely that a very comprehensive filing whited me it was very thora but there was also one from the 1st half of the 1970s that was classified as a pup a try to file for 2 years templin himself was an unofficial stasi informant he ultimately quit and got involved with civil rights groups later he was arrested and kicked out of east germany. after the fall of the berlin wall he returned and took part in the negotiations to dissolve the stasi but he's still struggling to cope with what happened to this day the stasi files will be transferred to the national archives from 2021 as long as they remain easily accessible to ordinary people templin has no problem with that. millions have fled venezuela due to the country's economic crisis tho

and storming the stasi east germany's secret police were feared they were also hated today it's 30 years since angry citizens an activist forced their way into stasi headquarters in east berlin their courage prevented the destruction of millions of files as the communist state collapsed. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us china poses an existential threat to international human rights now that is the assessment of a new report released by human rights watch u.s. based group condemning what it calls china's domestic repression and its attempts to censor its critics abroad the group is calling on the international community to challenge beijing's actions or face what it describes as a quote dystopian future. well the head of human rights watch was due to release that report in hong kong but he was denied entry there he held a press conference instead in new york city here's what he had to say the chinese government is trying with increasing ferocity to use its economic and diplomatic clout to silence critical voices abroad and undermine global institutions that protect human rights

friendly as always we appreciate your analysis thank you thank you. 30 years ago today people in east germany stormed the headquarters of the country's secret police known as the stasi the berlin wall had fallen just 2 months earlier euphoria was being followed by a reality check or real fear fear that the stasi would destroy the millions of files kept on most citizens evidence of a nation's crimes against its own people were today german president. visited the former stasi headquarters here in berlin to mark the anniversary he praised the crowds who refused to let the stasi shred any race evidence and i'm sure now here at the big table by my colleagues i mean young police covering this for it's getting to do you so i mean the study was one of the biggest secret police forces in the world at the time how did it shape east german society well i think it was it was a massive part of east german society in in 1989 when these germany fell there were nearly 300000 people working for the stasi in one form or another and of course it was a system of that operate it it's a network of prisons they had

after all nobody knew exactly how sensitive the information that east germany state security had collected was in the end the files were made accessible to the public templin applied to see his own. it was certainly a unique experience i was part of the 1st group that got to see the files in 1930. 9 u.s. in opposition figure it was highly unlikely that a very comprehensive file a whited me it was very thorough but there was also one from the 1st half of the 1970s that was classified as a pup a try to follow. for 2 years template himself was an unofficial stasi informant he alternately quit and got involved with civil rights groups later he was arrested and kicked out of east germany. after the fall of the berlin wall he returned and took part in the negotiations to dissolve the study but he's still struggling to cope with what happened to this day. a lot of people say yeah well it was so long ago why bother. if we think about the nazi era and i'm not saying that the same just comparing that to it took decades to process the monstrous things that happened back then. you have a role the stas

horsemen director was one man he managed to escape east germany and become a west german citizen. incredibly he returned to east berlin and smuggled people out to the g.d. in the boot of his car and. there was no mike the microphone the stick the pipe. he was risking his life was not by me. for supper was affordable to. the lot we also heard. housemates was eventually caught and sentenced to 15 years police he survived to tell the tale many didn't. so why did so many people feel it was worth taking the risk. while west germany mated ahead to become the industrial power survey europe. under policy leader erich honecker the dictatorship of the g.d. or became world leaders in something altogether more sinister mass surveillance. east germany's state security the store see where the most insidious secret police in history. this is the stores he archive files were kept on everyone a colossal database to control the population in 989990 when we started our work there was a total of around 111 kilometers of file for us photographed thousands of audio and video files on a smaller left over

horsemen director was one man he managed to escape east germany and become a west german citizen. incredibly he returned to east berlin and smuggled people out to the g.d. in the boot of his car. as. you must know the mike the microphone the stick the pipe. he was risking his life was not by me. for stop it was affordable to. the lot we also heard. how much it was eventually caught and sentenced to 15 years police he survived to tell the tale many didn't. so why did so many people feel it was worth taking the risk. while west germany mated ahead to become the industrial power survey europe. under policy leader erich honecker the dictatorship of the g.d. or became world leaders in something altogether more sinister mass surveillance. east germany's state security the store see where the most insidious secret police in history. this is the stars he archive files were kept on everyone a colossal database to control the population in 989990 when we started our work there was a total of around 111 kilometers of file for us photographed thousands of audio and video files on a smaller lef

finally the biggest art heist in the history of communist east germany has a happy ending the thieves haven't coal but the 5 paintings including works by boy and fun dyke being returned to the museum it seems a family inherited the stolen paintings and off the much negotiation of return them without any money changing hands. tynecastle museum in the city of gore to east germany these photos show a police reconstruction of a crime in 19795 paintings by old masters worth millions was stolen from the collection they remained missing for 40 years and last summer a lawyer paid a visit to the man he represented a group of as who were interested in returning the artworks bust on them and they're going to get in public what was really extraordinary and unusual about the case was that ultimately we were able to bring about an involuntary return of the artwork on newsnight and we reached this deal without having to pay for that return taking lives from 40 but the paintings are now back where they belong how they came into the family's possession in the 1st place is now subject to a police inves

stein castle museum in the city of gold to east germany these photos show a police reconstruction of a crime in 19795 paintings by old masters worth millions was stolen from the collection they remained missing for 40 years then last summer a lawyer paid a visit to the man he represented a group of as he were interested in returning the art works. in their wonder going to get inside look what was really extraordinary and unusual about the case was that ultimately we were able to bring about an involuntary return the artwork on newsnight and we reached this deal without having to pay for that return making lies deposit but the paintings are now back where they belong how they came into the family's possession in the 1st place is now subject to a police investigation. this is the idea these exams sation all the vitamin or things are completely collection specifically the doctor's masters and while they are key to the collection. the works now need to be restored but for the next week they're on display in gaza. i wonder if they will ever find out exactly who was behind it and where the

your career generally thank you so much finally the biggest art heist in the history of communist east germany has a happy ending the seeds have been cold but the 5 paintings including works by boy eagle and dyke are being returned to the museum it seems a family inherited the stone of the paintings and off to much negotiation of return of them without any money changing hands. the schloss finch tynecastle museum in the city of go to east germany these photos show a police reconstruction of a crime in 1995 paintings by old masters worth millions was stolen from the collection they remained missing for 40 years then last summer a lawyer paid a visit to the man he represented a group of as he were interested in returning the artworks bust on them and wondered religion in public what was really extraordinary and unusual about the case was that ultimately we were able to bring about an involuntary return of the artwork on usenet and we reached this deal without having to pay for that return thinking last of was it but the paintings are now back where they belong how they came into the families pos

top of their world european countries are watching with concern as events unfold in the middle east germany has troops stationed in iraq as part of international if it's to combat the so-called islamic state then mission is restricted to education and training but that work has now stopped following the u. u.s. air strike on friday. iraqi soldiers learning the skills to rebuild their country the german military has now holton its training programs the situation too dangerous for instructors germany has around 400 soldiers stationed in iraq and jordan as part of its parliament approved auntie's let me state mission now lawmakers are starting to question the mandate. he had sluggo on the security situation and especially the political situation in iraq has now changed dramatically so i think it's irresponsible to simply cling to this mandate from the pasta so high. but others say training and assistance to iraqi soldiers is needed now more than ever conservatives in berlin say putting a permanent end to the mandate and pulling german troops out would send the wrong signal to baghdad. in iraq