political heavyweights set to come where you are and of course our very own political correspondent thomas perry thanks a lot thomas. well meanwhile frank german president and by this time i has invited the heads of states from poland the czech republic hungary and slovakia to berlin for those celebrations in the taishan his official recognition of the role that these countries played in bringing down the berlin wall paving the way to democracy poland became the 1st country in the warsaw pact to tolerate an independent trade union solid on the ocean or solidarity in english this led to the 1st semi free elections in june of 1989. during the same month activists held a protest picnic in hungary officials allowed them to cut its border fence to austria. thousands of east german holidaymakers seized the opportunity to and to the west in the summer of 1909 more and more is german refugees escape the country via hungry and the former czechoslovakia then in september 1989 the west german foreign minister hans de to address the thousands of refugees who had been stranded in prague. from the balcony of

political heavyweights set to come where you are and of course our very own political correspondent thomas perry thanks a lot thomas. well the 9th of november is also the date of the night of broken glass and 938 nazis attacked jewish people property the start of systematic persecution of jews that led to the horrors of the holocaust. you know ups it was thought it was only in there give on the notes about 55696 names read aloud by members of the jewish community in berlin names of berlin victims of the holocaust a service to commemorate the night of broken glass took place under visible police protection with recent anti-semitic attacks fresh in people's memory. and to make this movement anti semitism is on the rise this could it be that we need to find new ways of remembering this most perhaps we must take new paths to fight anti semitism and to make this most. right most of the office suggested that if every german student visited israel once it might prevent programs from happening in the future in the night from november 9th to november 10th 1938 nazis set thousands of jewish synagogues sho

perry is planning to step down from his cabinet post at the end of the year. let's talk about these developments with thomas gift. he lectures on political science at university college london. thomas, good to see you. thanks for being with us. >> good morning, natalie. >> good morning to you. trump's communication chief said of the one-person war room that he's established that he is the war room. is that a good thing, to let mr. trump be in charge of the white house fight against impeachment? >> i think this is typical trump bravado. this is a war room of one. trump has, from the very beginning, said that he really likes to communicate directly with the american people. so his weapon really here is his twitter account. he's talked about the possibility of having a fireside chat where he would read the transcript of his phone call with the ukrainian president aloud to the american people. he basically thinks that by circumventing the media and going directly to the american people he's more likely to make a compelling case. >> a fireside chat sounds so calm and soothing. he wants to own his own story. as y