for hartmut, it is an important day too.ys celebrated august 27th 1966 — more than my own birthday. that was liberation, my escape from the regime. my disdain for that regime has neverfaded. lives lost, freedoms won. a country redefined. and 30 years on, a people still trying to make sense of it. let's go to berlin now where german chancellor angela merkel is among the crowds. she is due to speak live in a few minutes' time. a number of international leaders have been welcome to berlin as germany celebrates the anniversary of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the world that —— that separated and west. we will try and bring you some of what chancellor angela merkel saysin of what chancellor angela merkel says in the next few minutes. india's supreme court has ruled in favour of a hindu claim to a bitterly disputed religious site in the town of ayodhya. the decision clears the way for a hindu temple to be built there. this was the place where the key hindu deity lord ram was believed to have been born. it's controversial bec

for hartmut it is an important day two. he will be thinking of another date. but of his escape.his escape. translationzlj be thinking of another date. but of his escape. translation: i have a lwa ys his escape. translation: i have always celebrated august 27, 1966, more than my own birthday. that was liberation. my escape from the regime. my disdain for that regime has never faded. lives lost, freedoms one. a country redefined, and 30 years on, a people still trying to make sense of it. here in the uk, a woman has died after being swept away by floodwater following the torrential rain which has hit parts of the north of england and the midlands. her body was found in the river derwent in derbyshire. this report from our correspondent danny savage. as floodwaters rose rapidly across the east midlands, derbyshire and yorkshire, a woman died after being swept away in rowsley, near matlock. she went missing in the early hours near here, and her body was recovered from the river derwent in darley dale this morning. in doncaster, the main river through the town burst its banks and ove

for hartmut, it is an important day too.ms won. a country redefined. and 30 years on, a people still trying to make sense of it. you know, the ninth of november is a really special day for this country but this time around, 30 years on, there is a sense that something is rather different and that is to do first of all with the fact that there are still inequalities between there are still inequalities between the east and the west. angela merkel herself admit that there are those differences. they do provoke a lot of discontent. wages are lower in the east, generally speaking, and fewer opportunities and the far right is really managed to put down roots in the old east and it is something that increasingly there are demands for people like angela merkel to address. but i think this anniversary too is prompting some soul—searching on perhaps a wider scale too and that is because arguably, the values, the alliances upon which the west has relied for the past 30 years are, in some ways, no longer really guaranteed. there are co