east and western germany and the fall of the iron curtain nearly three decades ago but the recent national election here has put the far right alternative for germany party in the blunder start for the very first time and triggered talk of a return to those old east west divisions meanwhile europe wants united by the tearing down of the iron curtain is again putting up walls and fences a question on quadriga this week after the election divided germany divided europe and to discuss that question i'm joined here in the studio by wojciech she moans ski who is with the polish service of d w he believes it is a mixture of socio economic and cultural factors that pushes people towards far right populist parties both in eastern germany and in eastern europe also with us is judy dempsey senior fellow with the carnegie your of think tank also a blogger and author judy says there are all kinds of divisions through europe and they're becoming deeper and more complex but compared to spain britain and poland germany still seems to have a city still seems to be even of stability and a warm welcome to t

sure if we really have this iron curtain between eastern.nd >> closing thoughts? >> europe has always been south, east,h, west, all lifestyles, everything. this is a new kind of division. democracy. not about >> one sentence? talk aboutwe should more about the differences than we used to. discussion, not just have it always on october 3. >> okay. we're gonna have to leave it there. divided germany, divided europe. we've given you plenty of food for thought. come back to quadriga next week. bye-bye! [applause] >> well, i want to welcome you. i want to acknowledge the awe-inspiring environment that we're sharing this evening. the religious overtones might make you think youou were in one of the two party convenentions-- [audience laughter] but i hope in a few minutes to make you clclearly aware thhat, other than the environment, not that much that i share with either of them. so let me begin by promising you two things: first, to provide to you a different way of understanding what's happening

sure if we really have this iron curtain between eastern.nd >> closing thoughts? >> europe has always been south, east,h, west, all lifestyles, everything. this is a new kind of division. democracy. not about >> one sentence? talk aboutwe should more about the differences than we used to. discussion, not just have it always on october 3. >> okay. we're gonna have to leave it there. divided germany, divided europe. we've given you plenty of food for thought. come back to quadriga next week. bye-bye! ♪ in a anchor: todayay on "global 3000," we head to cambodia, where extreme poverty often leaves kids with no where to go but the streets. but a special initiative offers hope. in mozambique, wildlifife pars were devevastated by civil war d poaching. a modern noah's ark-like project as is now changing that. but first, we head to colombia, to a village that seems almost cursed by a gene mutation that causes earlyly-onset dementia. there's a name for a cognitive decline that affects more than 47 million people worldwide.

sure if we really have this iron curtain between eastern.nd >> closing thoughts? >> europe has always been south, east,h, west, all lifestyles, everything. this is a new kind of division. democracy. not about >> one sentence? talk aboutwe should more about the differences than we used to. discussion, not just have it always on october 3. >> okay. we're gonna have to leave it there. divided germany, divided europe. we've given you plenty of food for thought. come back to quadriga next week. bye-bye! damien: hello, and welcome to "fokus on europe." this week i am in berlin. i am damien mcguinness. the parliament is about to vote in the building behind me. right now, angela merkel's party is set to win. but her challenger, martin schultz, is not giving up the fight so easily. his supporters are doing all they can to persuade undecided voters to choose a new, left-wing government. historically, unna is a mining town and a social democrat stronghold. there e is a keen sense of

germany's goal is to replace the entire length of the former iron curtain with a green belt that's to serve as an ecological treasure trove from. the vendor valley any about sword on and off the areas also known as has switzerland. the former border with these germany also ran along these higher elevations the museum illustrates how the border was protected. from one thousand nine hundred fifty two he'd sealed off the communist east from the democratic west with a fence and a mind of death grip kept barren with pesticides for better visibility on the eastern side a large area along the border remained largely untouched and unused for almost forty is a five hundred metre wide strip of the barrier as well as an additional five kilometer exclusion zone all heavily guarded put decades to death strip was a haven for plants and animals. it gave and danger species such as when chance a chance to survive as a ground nesting bird it needs open spaces with purges such as storks from where it can look for food. wrap plant species were able to survive on the unused land as well examples include o

unity day which commemorates the coming together of east and west germany and the full of the iron curtain nearly three decades ago but the recent national election here has put the far right alternative for germany party in the bundestag for the very first time and triggered talk of a return to those old east west divisions meanwhile europe once united by the tearing down of the iron curtain is again putting up walls and fences a question on quadriga this week after the election divided germany divided europe and to discuss that question i'm joined here in the studio by wojciech shimon ski who is with the polish service of the w. he believes it is a mixture of socio economic and cultural factors that pushes people towards far right populist parties both in eastern germany and in eastern europe also with us is judy dempsey senior fellow with the carnegie europe think tank also a blogger and author judy says there are all kinds of divisions through your. and they're becoming deeper and more complex but compared to spain britain and poland germany still seems to have still seems to be even o

for me, when the berlin wall fell when the soviet union , when this iron curtain fell, it was something that i just did not consider what happen in my lifetime. go over, to be able to to see if first hand, and see that it was not necessarily the evil empire that we were told it was, that these were just amazing people, as a matter of fact, my connection began with working with russian photographers. to be some of the most amazing photographers that i have ever met. reporter: that is what you call inter-photo, a thing you and several people -- mr. perkins: what happened is -- it was in washington dc. there was an exhibition called changing realities, which was the best of soviet photography. the curator who was someone i knew, invited 10 russian photographers to america. that was when i first started talking to russian photographers and admiring their work. it was very different. it was much more artistic than journalism you saw in america. there was something about it i really liked. when i moved -- when i started covering russia, i made contact with a lot of these photographers. went i

for some many years, and i think now to most of the kids today who do not remember the iron curtain, the soviet union for so long was the enemy. to be honest with you, i never really ever imagined that the cold war would ever stop. it just seemed like a permanent part of our life. that would never end. for me, when the berlin wall fell, when the soviet union fell, when this iron curtain fell, it was something that i just did not consider what happen in my lifetime. and then, to be able to go over there to see if first hand, and see that it was not necessarily the evil empire that we were told it was, that these were just amazing people, as a matter of fact, my connection began with working with russian photographers. who turned out to be some of the most amazing photographers that i have ever met. reporter: that is what you call inter-photo, a thing you and several people -- mr. perkins: what happened is -- it was in washington dc. there was an exhibition called changing realities, which was the best of soviet photography. the curator who was someone i knew, invited 10 russian photog

the communist east and the democratic west were unified again after decades of separation by the iron curtain the rich west inherited an economy in tatters some two trillion euros were transferred by west german taxpayers since then to prop up the east then chancellor helmut kohl also known as the father of german unification promised that very soon a flowering landscapes would appear in the east and that nobody would be worse off well that's not the case to this day differences between east and west remain and they're quite steep just take a look at disposable income here with an average capita income per capita income of one thousand euros the lowest earning regions are still mostly located in the former east germany which you can see here in dark red areas with a per capita income of twenty one thousand euro's tend to be those bordering the former east that's due to the limited investment in these areas during the cold war and in contrast to germany's wealthiest regions are all in the former west that's how members of the rhineland bavaria but in virgin bag they have an average per capita

during the iron curtain foreigners in russia were a rarity very scarce of course times have changed but global events global problems do still exist do still need solving and that's the deal proceeded to young people will have at this festival as well to take part in discussion groups in forums to exchange ideas to talk about salient issues of the day from global warming to security issues to health and the environment as well so time for fun and entertainment but also a bit of a serious backdrop to the festival as well and it all began of course in moscow yesterday with a parade on red square which was a bit dampened by the rain we've been a bit lucky with the weather here in salt she was about twenty degrees and sunny so far that all finished with a fireworks display and we're here with the opening ceremony now of course many of the volunteers here are called silver volunteers their people hope perhaps a bit older than the eighteen to thirty five age group and some of those people actually attended those festivals back many decades ago in moscow we spoke to some of them and they relie

only the iron curtain separated the two countries life years seemed very foreign and hooker was a keen observer. and others there's no you 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 at 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. hope they went to new york as a correspondent for the german magazine stand and he stayed during that era he had a brief and powerful encounter with boxing legend mohammed ali that one day and 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 we'll get out but have get was quick enough to get this shot now an iconic portrait over the course of three decades he shot six separate series of photographs on mohammed ali he covered the highs and lows of the boxers profes

man into their own valley worked hard for nature conservation in the border area long before the iron curtain came down trained pastry chef vollard from brown eyes who lives in nearby ash vega it's only a few kilometers from his home to the goober to the hill range between north hassen and the ice followed in. the soils here. that's evident in the white cliffs and rock formations in the vero valley. world from bone ice recognized its value as a natural habitat years ago. when i come up here hundreds of times a year to check all the spots a pair of peregrine's is nesting here. these are the descendants of the birds we spent fifteen years reintroducing into the wild from one thousand nine hundred seventy eight. you know that these farm bred birds only needed to breed once in the wild to produce a new stock of wild peregrine's. or. peregrine falcons find ideal nesting conditions in these cliffs. when voter from phone has started introducing these birds into the wild it looked like it was the last chance to save this fulton species from extinction. to trial without a guarantee of success in the s

it has ushered in the fall of the berlin wall, the end of communism and the dark days of the iron curtainsecuring the advance of freedom across europe and across the world. it has inspired 70 years of prosperity, raising living standards for hundreds of millions of people right across the globe. so don't try to tell me the free markets are no longer fit the purpose. that somehow they are holding people back. don't try to tell me that the innovations they have encouraged, the advances they have brought, the mobile phone, the internet, pioneering medical treatment, the ability to travel freely across the world, are worth nothing. the free market and the values of freedom, equality, rights, responsibilities and the rule of law that lie at its heart remain the greatest agent of collective human progress ever created. [applause] pm may: so, let us win in this argument for a new generation and defend free and open markets with all of our might, because there has rarely been a time when the choice of a futures for britain is so stark. the difference between the parties so clear. and it is the co

and one needs to mention that following the fall of the iron curtain and the dissemination of the communistbloc the opportunity came forward with it undertaking a president george bush father during his election he will lead to abolish that resolution. and in fact together with israel and my father was then president of the state of israel the resolution was abolished in 1991 1 of the only two resolutions to be abolished. an attribute of president bush's father who came in here here before to the un general assembly in the annual assembly any new speech he demanded that the united nations form abolish that resolution. and in my father's study there is a original resolution as it was told by him as well as that resolution whereby ambassador to the united states at that time thomas pickering was still with us in an active retired diplomatic right. this resolution is not for tearing up. now from the next generation the new challenge comes up there were a few years because of the oslo process and the peace process whereby those steps were put aside but anti-semitism combined with into his reali

. >> freedom and democracy are coming to parts of eastern europe and a rusty iron curtain is beginningn. (cheering and whistling) >> narrator: by the time putin returned to russia, the ussr was falling apart. even in front of the kgb headquarters, the statues were coming down. >> for many people, this was in a time of great excitement and enablement and experimentation with democracy, and vladimir putin missed this. >> narrator: the american president, george h.w. bush, declared it a triumph. >> this is a victory for democracy and freedom. it's a victory for the moral force of our values. >> narrator: but to putin, the end of the soviet union was a humiliation. >> the quote that he said once that really was so revealing, that the collapse of the soviet union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. that's how he saw it. >> narrator: in the new russia, putin had to reinvent himself. the former kgb officer became a political operative and a bureaucratic fixer. >> he's a master bureaucrat. russia has always been a bureaucratic autocracy. this is how, for example, stalin b

happen so we have every reason to be grateful in a unified germany and in a europe without an iron current curtain thank you. excellent excellent ideas ladies and gentlemen as a very for want to welcome to the official ceremony of the five hundredth anniversary of the reformation and one welcome to the festive highlight of the year and a very dignified ending to a year of commemoration is. a kind of public celebration of mutual understanding is something martin luther couldn't have imagined in his wildest dreams when on the thirty first of october fifteenth seventeen here and rittenberg he wanted to trigger a you know a day it's about his church with his ninety five theological theses it's hard to imagine if you could be a time travel guest of honor here what would surprise him or would it surprise someone the catholics and protestants joining. forces to put aside their differences and focus on the common ground was the word really. truly momentous resonance of his critique of the church and represented by so many honorary guests from abroad or the confrontation with cultural diversity of a plural

it has ushered in the fall of the berlin wall, the end of communism, the dark days of the iron curtain globe. do not try and tell me that free markets are no longer fit for purpose. that somehow they are holding people back. don't try and tell me that the innovations they have encouraged, the evans as they have encouraged, the evans as they have brought, the mobile phone, the internet, pioneering medical treatments, the ability to travel freely across the world are worth nothing. the free market and the values of freedom, equality, rights and responsibilities and the rule of law that lie at its heart remain the greatest agent of collective human progress ever created. applause so let us win this argument for a new generation. and defend free and open markets with all our might. because there has rarely been a time when the choice of futures for britain is so stark. the difference between the parties so clear. and it is the conservative party that has a vision of a open, global, self—confident britain while our authorities flirted with the foreign policy of neutrality and prepare for a

and russian economy is part of the globalized economy and this is not so we can't just have an iron curtain and go back behind the this curtain and believe that you can survive. this these are these are suited to motivation and of course having a normal country where you have a public space to people because the rise of a band i guess is quite difficult isn't it to gauge the level of support for me i mean there have been some analysts suggesting that perhaps his influence was was waning what do you think i think from the government perspective we really have to accept one fact that these protests are happening also because the government to a degree with the authorities are along this to happen this is a very good too to sort of measure the level of discontent social discontent amongst the public how many people are ready to come out on the. risking their jobs most of the time does jobs our government or public sector jobs which means there will be record questions from the tens as well so the the authorities also have to be cautious because they cannot afford to have a large number of peop