i've been there and i get so from this where are we now in east or west berlin. i'm here. in the west. in the east yes the there with you 7 do you know what the brandenburg gate stands for no i just got here just my 1st time here actually did not know. it's a symbol of germany's reunification because so. exactly oh a very good. one of the obligatory sights in berlin connected with its division and the fall of the wall is obviously checkpoint charlie it can hardly be missed with all the tourists and probably around. these large format photos summarize the most important points about the former border crossing where east and west faced off told to toe under high tension. i continue on our quest for traces of germany's division along the berlin wall its fall in 1989 was the 1st big step toward reunification. an impressive relic is the longest section of the berlin wall still standing the east side gallery. a few weeks after the fall of the wall $118.00 artists from $21.00 countries gathered to paint this section the pictures are expressions of a new era dawning and hint at th

i saw one side of the street belong to east berlin and the other side to west berlin and. you had everything that made up the cold war in general was condensed here. thank you so much my pleasure and thank you. i press on toward the city center following the reversibility here what's now the government quarter the river marked the border between east and west until 1989. but it was guarded just as closely as elsewhere as these white crosses on the banks testify many escape attempts here and that in death. the brandenburg gate stands as a symbol of germany's reunification until the fall of the wall it symbolized the very opposite it was a part of the death strip right by the berlin wall. do you know what this gate represents. no not really. do you know where the berlin wall was. most here that's what it's my guess that it was here around here 7 do you know where the wall ran. back there behind the gates there's a line on the ground. i've been there like it so where are we now in east or west berlin. i'm here. in the west. in the east it's the it's more than there with you 7

berlin. then, an assortment of other east german and west german stamps and coins and knickknacks of the era. up top, there are original berlin east and west german signs, saying this is the border, you cannot go past this, and to let people know it was a dangerous area or the no man's zone in between the border of east and west germany. here we have an original border marker that would separate east and west germany. it would give people walking in the area an idea they're getting close to the border and to not cross the border. down here on the floor, one of our signs from east berlin, west berlin, saying no photographs were allowed for the united states military liaison mission. the missions were allowed to be in the foreign countries. but they would always do a cat and mouse game and chase them out before they get get some pictures. we will start to get into some civil defense. the cold war museum, about 2000-ish, we salvaged some from the civil defense headquarters for washington, d.c. the headquarters was located in lorton, virginia, 20 miles outside of the washington, d.c. area. in the

normally have him consult with counterparts and notify but he gave permission on the spot for the west berlinolice to help out with the crush of people. the wall came down and not long later, the embassy was unified. this unique position of u.s. minister to berlin was no longer needed. we have in the collection a wonderful flag, the position of u.s. minister is a rarity. this flag was presented to harry gilmore at the end of his tenure as u.s. minister to berlin. america saved the best for last with harry gilmore. as you can see on the image, it is an interesting flag. the great seal is in the middle. it is on a white field with blue stars surrounding the seal. a u.s. ambassador's flag has the seal in the middle on a blue field with white stars. for further comparison, the secretary of state's flag. great seal, blue field, but four stars. one in each corner. it is a wonderful representation of this unique time in u.s. history. i think we will bring out a few more artifacts. >> the last segment we talked about embassies being the site of refuge, but sometimes embassies are often the site of po

today i write a long before my border between east and west berlin on this bike following the line of the berlin wall i would like to see what remains of the history of the division of europe germany and berlin so i'm starting here in moa park going to the brandenburg gate and then all the way to the east side gallery let's go. my 1st stop on the berlin wall trail is the memorial site on ben i watched last and . it's the 1st stop for anybody wanting to learn more about the city's division rust colored poles and sections of the wall mark the location of the former border . here a section of the wall has been reconstructed as it was during the division. the viewing platform provides the best view of the border fortifications true dimensions this is hell that you peered up to 989 the main inner walls with the death strip in between. last year over a 1000000 people visited the berlin wall memorial on bear and i watched the last of it includes this documentation center. historian hung up but i got showed me around the permanent exhibition. display historical objects here that are important

not americans but a lot of west berliners, and people who had escaped the east and ended up in west berlin, were being abducted and taken back and some not heard from again. so you have this situation. you have this problem and you have berlin, and then we add a couple of interesting characters to the story. bill harvey being the first one that comes to mind. he was the pretty legendary chief of the berlin base now much of the 1950s. he was actually the boss for my dad and really anybody else with the agency who was there those years. and a pretty controversial figure. not beloved, i would say, but enormously effective, particularly in the field of counterintelligence. he was a former fbi g-man. completely opposite from the image of the cia in those days, these eastern establishment, prep school type background. bill harvey was a guy from indiana, he was a pretty large fellow. had this thyroid problem, buys bulging out. he loved packing weapons over every inch of his body, six or seven were not unusual and that didn't count what was in his briefcase, and he would sit at his desk, fiddling

normally protocol would call for him to consult and notify but he gave permission on the spot for the west berlin police the wall came down. so this unique position of u.s. minter to berlin was no longer needed. we have a wonderful flag, a it's as you can see in the impackage an interesting flag because it has the great seal in the middle. there are hite field four stars. it's a wonderful repation of this unique time in u.s. history. sometimes they're often the site of physical unrest. >> this little piece here up front is a segment of the dewalk >> in 19689 in the thick of the conflict with vietnam, the north vietnamese lost the offensive. they never made it inside the embassy and finally were driven out by helicopter reinforcements coming in but the american diplomats were very brave. kept up the line of communication and never left their post. so the gentleman who retrieved that had an interesting narrative noticed they were ripping up the sidewalk. that is near where that hole was blown into the embassy ompound. he went down to the mail room and got this piece of brown mailing paper, tacked i

and of course it is the 1st east meets west berlin blunders league darby in just an incredible occasion for german football and i think actually no matter what happens to anyone in the 2nd half of the season that all lives long in the memory of all of their fans it's i mean they've made memories enough so far and you know we've seen stickers start being spread around calling on you on the capital city champion. so you know they're going to be perfectly happy with that whatever happened in the rest of the season but i don't want to dampen the mood there's only 5 points between them and the team they lost against today doesn't offer in the relegation playoff spots the cubs on the 5 survival right yeah of course definitely and look like i mentioned all of those highlights that they've had so far in the season they've been at home so really one thing that they do need to work on the 2nd half of the season is their away form but if they can stay as strong as they have been at home and pick up a few extra points on the road then i think they're going to be living in the table at the moment le

they decided they would have a meeting and have new rules allowing east germans to go to west berlin to see what it's like. so it's late at night on the night of november 9. there is kind of a harried official coming out. he has a piece of paper. he reads it and says soon people will be able to travel to the west without a visa. and italian journalist is there, and this is being televised, the italian journalist says can you tell us when? in the flat voice, the guy says immediately. so east germans hear this and literally thousands of people left their homes, they saw this on television, some of them in their pajamas, that come with their families and they walked to the wall. the border guards are there. they say open the wall, at the border guard doesn't know what to do because he only has instructions about what to do if people are trying to escape, tissue people. but these people -- to shoot people. peaceful.le are very so he called his superior and the superior says, i don't know what to tell you. they keep calling and they keep calling. in the end, the guard himself made the dec

person has been killed 25 others were injured in the blast which happened about 250 kilometers west of berlin just before 9 am local time a couple. hours ago now rescue teams say the number of victims is likely to rise a search operation is under way right now the building's been evacuated as you can imagine you can see the blacks out windows there in the. in the stories above where that explosion took place there's no word yet from any of the authorities on what may have caused that explosion the building's been evacuated as were nearby schools we'll keep you posted as soon as we have more. but we're more of a headline news now and the security situation in israel in west africa is deteriorating further the militants there have killed at least $71.00 soldiers in one of the deadliest attacks on the country's military needs and i still terror group says it was behind the attack that also left 12 others injured it took place ahead of a now postponed meeting between french president emanuel mccraw 5 west african leaders over security in the region france insists that its nato allies should take

decided to isolate western berlin and cut its supply routes which crossed the soviet zone in germany -- trains, barges, and road traffic were stopped. the alternative was for the west to leave berlin ignominiously, or stay and allow the people in the british, french, and american sectors to starve. the only way in, the sky above. was it conceivable that so large a city be supplied by air? the west were responsible for almost 2.5 million people. and to supply a city of this size would mean mounting the biggest airlift of all time, bigger even than anything achieved during the war. the three allied governments of the west decided to try. by so doing, they were taking a calculated risk, for if anyone plane had been fired on, we would almost certainly had been at war again. from bases in england, france, and the american side of germany, the first planes began to arrive. stalin remained confident. he assumed that within a matter of weeks, and certainly, when winter came, the west would abandon the attempt. his optimism was not unfounded. snow and fog made flying increasingly dangerous. 36 allied planes were lost. shortage of fuel brought berlin factories to a standstil

. >> the iron curtain between east germany and west berlin has come tumbling down. >> good evening, it'sand i both agree on the desirability of freer and more extensive personal contact between the peoples of the soviet union and the united states. >> we began to realize that the best way to get a message to a foreign leader was to have the president go in the rose garden and make a statement. because everybody was watching cnn. >> cnn was a breakthrough. it changed the whole world. >> it changed quickly. the network news business. that business that we weren't the only ones. and it was hard. you know, it's hard to be on the top little perch and have to come down off it. >> a special segment tonight, the network news. the first in a two-part series on the profound changes taking place in television news. changes being brought about by business, competition, and technology. >> there are a variety of reasons why people who worked at the broadcast networks were freaked out in 1980s. one of them was cnn and the rise of cable. another was being taken over by foreign entities in corporate amer

the time we got to air at 6:30 it was a choscha >> nbc nightly news with tom brokaw, tonight from west berlina path on the satellite to get on the air. so that night i game on the air and we owned the story. no cbs, no abc, it was a worldwide exclusive. what you're watching live on television is a historic moment, a moment that will live forever. you're seeing the destruction of the berlin wall. >> we just threw out the script. i had written this whole broadcast and i said to our producer, stay with me, i'm going to have to ad-lib everything here. i'm going to have to call on all my experience about what's been going on in the earn part stern not just germany but how this is the final moment. now people will be able to move through freely. i couldn't hear myself think. i kept thinking right before we went on the air i used the old ought nauts, cleaned it up up, don't strew this upcrew this up it's a big deal. as we were standing there someone said oh moore my g, my e take down the wall. there was a man with a hammer and chisel beginning to hammer at the wall. >> the wall as physically come do

spreading this music around the globe initially playing famous techno clubs here in berlin people are told dyke of west became internationally famous this trend continues today with german d.j.'s still much in demand one of them is mark rhomboid who is now getting well known for his crossover projects mixing classical music with techno beats. he's a key player on the techno scene label head and d.j. . says moving he's been a slow floating d.j. for the past 20 years but he still has a sense of wonder about. touring for such a long time already. on the stand and it seemed as a big pleasure and privilege. all over the world when you see that people are closing and dancing and with them so it's a warning for doing. the right d.j. makes his home in that back in western germany. resembles a museum for the devices that might use it history he's a fan of analog technology. and it over there also have their roles of course and this is something which makes it special exciting and to where we say we should have something that is sort of. likes to experiment not only in the studio at the planetarium with his inte

still existed and berlin was divided into east and west. mike comes in so what comes before she they can't even imagine that they built a wall through the middle of the city but this is a place where east and west germany met up and became close because music and dance and alcohol all that brings people together. in her book mommy and keys are tells the story. in 1013 club who are open to buy a house together with her husband to entertain berliners from all walks of life clear since survive 2 world wars and the division of germany and hardly changed. clare hume's ball house takes its visitors back in time to a bygone berlin dance still unites people here as it always has a clear hints. taxi driver men's human goma from durban has always enjoyed singing arias on the road a passenger recorded him and put the video online it went viral and now the south african cabbie is us star. lindsay was just 27 years old the top of south africa already knows he shot to fame when a passenger films him singing opera in his taxi and the video went viral oh.

spreading this music around the globe initially playing famous techno clubs here in berlin people are pulled from. dyken west became internationally famous this trend continues today with german d.j.'s still much in demand one of them is mark rum boy who is now getting well known for his crossover projects mixing classical music with techno beats. he's a key player on the techno scene producer label head and d.j. . face said scott mass is moving he's been in close touch in d.j. for the past 20 years but he still has a sense of wonder about $100.00. touring for such a long time already i was too bored on the stand and it seemed as if the big pleasure and privilege that i can play all over the world when you see that people are closing their eyes and dancing and they are with them so it's a wonderful feeling. the great d.j. makes his home in a mention that back in western germany. resembles a museum for the devices that made music history he's a fan of analog technology. and over there also have us of course and this is something which. it's exciting and where we say the machines have something like a sword. l

west should respond. taiwan's representative in berlin is pleased to have such support the way she sees me as an ally who knows what freedom means. when someone from germany gets involved someone who experienced the g.d.r. and says taiwan should be recognized i say we would be satisfied if taiwan were recognised as a democracy and establish democracy and a beacon of freedom. and. the german foreign ministry wrote to clients back to say that the government backs the one china policy and so will not offer taiwan diplomatic recognition at 1st the parliamentary petition committee wanted to prevent a public hearing but eventually relented the petition has received over 50000 signatures. i apparently have supporters among the members of the committee who see the issue the way i do i 1st turned to the greens but i've since heard that many christian democrats back taiwan to we have prevailed against the objections of the foreign ministry. germany's position is becoming increasingly problematic in light of the human rights abuses in china and the situation in hong kong still quite spec doesn't think government po

west should respond. taiwan's representative in berlin is pleased to have such support the way she sees me as an ally who knows what freedom means. when someone from germany gets involved someone who experienced the g.d.r. and says taiwan should be recognized i say we would be satisfied if taiwan were recognised as a democracy and establish democracy. and that beacon of freedom. and launched into india freiheit. the german foreign ministry wrote to clients back to say that the government backs the one china policy and so will not offer taiwan diplomatic recognition at 1st the parliamentary petition committee wanted to prevent a public hearing but eventually relented the petition has received over 50000 signatures. well the thing is almost gone but the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either at the w. news or you can follow me and bring t.v. don't forget use the hash tag the day we'll see you tomorrow. save the planet not mine john couey quarter david johnson says it's strange we have to do something. the climate crisis is threatening our very existence. many germans would agree but

this is you know we news life for berlin where it all began christmas says comes about lamb thousands of pilgrims that flock to the west bank city the place christians revere as the birthplace of jesus also coming up a special delivery north korea promises to send a christmas gift to the united states although warning has american and south korean officials on high alert that it could be a potential missile test well meanwhile china south korea and japan hold a special summit to foods cooperation over pyongyang's nuclear program and no midnight mass at all to down in paris for the 1st time in over 2 centuries christmas services will not be held at a landmark is needed because of renovation work to repair the damage from this year's devastating fire. where the ark thank you so much for your company everyone as christians around the world ready for christmas thousands of pilgrims and tourists are celebrating in bethlehem visitors are congregating in a manger square in the center of the west bank town where christians believe jesus was born an annual midnight mass is held in the church of the nativities where catholic pri

berlin checkpoint charlie. a former border crossing between east and west but few details have been concerned the police say that they believe the shooting was likely related to an attempted robbery nearby. and we're joined now by a minute eilish as he was at the scene emmanuel what is happening there now. well as you can see behind me if it is tight you see you close down on the moment as many police fan as still at the scene just behind me where you can see a couple of them there about half a dozen their desires so numbered and submission reports i had say that no one i had been injured and i know i understand says i was at the scene there reason one and now the police have been has tweeted that the situation was under control but as you can see here the situation there is that the operation is still underway we see a lot of around me who are wondering what is happening do we know anything about the perpetrator at this stage. police say apparently that he's one individual who had a fire shots fired shots that's a restaurant that's a shop which is just behind a checkpoint charlie has so 6 far no detail as to re

this is d w news live from berlin christmas celebrations begin in bethlehem. thousands of people are in the west bank city to take part in christmas eve festivities also coming up . asian leaders meeting as north korea threatens a christmas surprise that might be a missile test china south korea and japan hold a special summit to boost cooperation over north korea's nuclear program. and no christmas mass had not spent on cathedral in paris for the 1st time in over 200 years there will be no christmas service in the landmark because of work being done to repair the massive fire damage. spicer thanks for being with us. thousands of christian pilgrims and tourists are gathering in the west bank city of bethlehem to mark christmas bethlehem is regarded by christians as the birthplace of jesus christ and each year a midnight mass is held in the church of the nativity senior officials from the catholic church will preside over the christmas eve festivities palestinian president mahmoud abbas is also expected to attend. and for more on that we are joined now by journalist sami so-called in jerusalem th

this is deja vu news live from berlin christmas celebrations begin in bethlehem more than 100000 people are in the west bank city to take part in christmas eve festivities also coming up. asian leaders meet as north korea threatens a christmas surprise that might be a missile test china south korea and japan hold a special summit to boost cooperation over north korea's nuclear program. and the moment a spanish t.v. reporter thought she had won a big prize in the el gordo lottery. not only a stooge aeroflot she had won hundreds of thousands of euros but it turned out the prize was not worth as much as she thought to have the full story for it. next by sir thanks for joining us. thousands of christian pilgrims and tourists are gathering in the west bank city of bethlehem to mark christmas bethlehem is regarded by christians as the birthplace of jesus and each year a midnight mass is held in the church of the nativity senior officials from the catholic church will provide over the christmas eve festivities palestinian president mahmoud abbas is also expected to attend. and for more on that we're joined no

when the berlin wall fell, everything changed. within a year, east and west germany had reunited.y had been here since defeating the nazis. now moscow agreed to withdraw its troops. this man was the commander at wunstorf. he is back from moscow, for an official event commemorating russia's withdrawal. the general tells me he was the last russian soldier to leave germany. it would take moscow four years to bring all its troops home. but to what kind of a country were they coming back? the soviet union had gone, russia was struggling. here in perm region, the returning soldiers were low priority. this man had been a tank commander in east germany. when he came home there were no facilities, no proper accommodation, it was almost as if he had been forgotten. you know, i think that in many ways, his story encapsulates what happened to his country after 1989. the soviet union, this giant superpower, suddenly found itself dumped on the sidelines of history. and, as a result, russia felt abandoned, it felt lost, and it felt humiliated. perhaps if the end of the cold war had brought insta

this is the wus live from berlin christmas celebrations begin in bethlehem more than 100000 people are in the west bank city to take part in festivities also coming up. asian leaders meet as north korea threatens a christmas surprise that might be a missile test china south korea and japan hold a special summit to boost cooperation over north korea's nuclear program. pay the money that i'm. presenting. to. rejoin visitors from around the world at one of germany's famous christmas markets . i'm nick spicer thanks for joining us thousands of christian pilgrims and tourists are gathering in bethlehem to mark christmas christians revere the west bank city as the birthplace of jesus every year a midnight mass is held in the church of the nativity where catholic priests will later preside over the christmas eve festivities palestinian president mahmoud abbas is also expected to attend. sunrise over bethlehem on christmas eve. early pilgrims can pay a tranquil visit to the church of the nativity before the west bank city takes on a full on christmas party mooned. the church is one of the oldest christian

induce a shot for example in the senate in the coal mining region south east of berlin i do know about the debate in the west german coal mining district which is just as dependent on coal as odds of poland up and i would say this within europe and within germany we actually have the ability financially structurally given our welfare state systems to actually help people who can no longer work in the job that they currently work and help them transition to another job now again i spoke to this filipino friend of mine whom i just mentioned and she actually said well in germany you people have a fairly decent welfare state not always the it's got a lot was of the decades of neoliberalism but still here in the global north we have much much better capabilities of selling with this kind of transition where you both are going to tell you where you put the money i want to i want you to just wait with the money because now the question is also a question of lifestyles do we really want to continue valuing primarily material consumption in life and actually except for 2 years of neo liberalism that have just made us