that you're asking how i was pretty about the celebrations took her to an unexpected place western perlin for the very 1st time the whole city was celebrating. and this was the story and we were welcomed here with great jubilation and joy and i celebrated my birthday early. i met friends who'd left east germany and who i thought i might never see again. friends and dissidents many of whom held vigils in churches in communist east germany a symbol of peaceful resistance. today a country house and how it sometimes leads prayers for political prisoners herself for people who are now in prisons as she was in 1909 today she's an artist exploring things like freedom and courage and she's working on a doctoral dissertation about water rights activists. all the things i've done in the meantime the places i've been projects and the work i've done i wouldn't have been able to do any of that. stuff on haiti if the wall hadn't fallen i might have received a long prison sentence and who knows how that would have changed me and luckily that's something i never have to find out. some gloop. and just so

where did the perlin wall go luckily this metal strip marks where it once stood but where can you see pieces of the wall itself we are asked some tourists if they found the wall no. i have it up there ok good yeah because i'm going to head up that way and. i don't know 900 brigade will know that's that's somewhere else i don't know. on both sides of the former border lynn has grown and grown together and the long time residents remember it whereas the wall just behind you behind me yes. there's nothing there. but that's tough luck but it was there a part of the wall still it's around at least a few meters worth original sections with missing ones marked by metal rods to form an iron curtain tore still want to touch the concrete that once divided not just but in but the eastern and western blocks like this man from california. actually expected to be more tall. yet it seems like it's extremely durable impressed said it still here the remains of the wall are a real tourist draw guided tours take place daily this area he was controlled by border troops in the end in 181-2001 them and wat

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kids who don't perlin the best marksman sebastian anderson on the swedish goalscorer talks about his club and his time so far in the bundesliga next. this is in the middle if he can pick up 6. players i. just released a new building said mr mention god but. all is well some big game of course a good team that's opponents. we know it's going to be a tough game but everything is possible on your shoulder before the home stadium. and i think we showed it there once again. but this is exactly. like some of the most of. the bugs. me i don't think too much or. just call them play and then the goals come and i. just enjoy to play because they go forwards and i enjoy to play here in this club will be. good supporters. i want to. see i see eye to. eye that are good team spirit and hard working team with no big stars there are many other teams in the top out of place in midweek up a good. team to get a thanks to all the best feeling. no question many things and a 1st time for the tribe into firstly you have so many feelings only good feelings . now but i. believe in your to speak english and y

another alliance member turkey marched into northern syria despite the fact he meant objections of perlin and paris they're worried it threatens european security. but does this all add up to a threat or just a blip in nato history nato and germany insisted in berlin that the alliance is still alive and well. even if we do have problems and even if we do disagree on the german perspective nato is very much in our interest it's our security alliance. for its part carlin has been signaling an increased commitment to the alliance visiting trainees soldiers defense minister and it played complicated said she's in favor of making nato has 2 percent spending mandatory she at least is optimistic about the western alliance even as other members questioned its future. let's bring in our political correspondent told us. so is having a bit of a crisis it seems told us with the french leader talking of brain death is germany in any position to help put the alliance back on course. i would say germany is enough political capacity to play a leading role in nato germany has defended to nato many many ti

typical is that lightness in that op to missing for her generation i think it's you know this is perlin you know i mean you can see and this is 3 every day i mean i don't know i cross every day from west to west berlin to east berlin and it's just really normal and for them as well i think they're really benefiting from a reunited germany and this this generation i mean they feel that there are still differences but also in bergen i think a lot of the things are complete it. you're not being about the younger generation benefiting from the from the economic developments of recent years but they're all you know there are many problems out there in this and there's great inequality absolutely yes i mean the stede of reunification perhaps was necessary in some senses if it was going to be done maybe it does have to be done that quickly but it was quite a brutal process was met with the toy and the privatizations of all these businesses and all those people made on employees was it 3000000 within just a couple of years i think i don't think the 5 percent of people lost their jobs in the in