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west berlin was surrounded by the wall and there were just three roads leading to west berlin and theforces be such a hot house for art, music and free expression? >> was berlin was always very international. we had people who were flying in from all walks of life, artists from all genres were here and we were surrounded by east. the wall was a solid resistance and you need a strong enemy to build a stronger muscles and people who were living here had to improvise a lot. >> anthony: what is seen by many as a golden period, the weimar area was in fact music and culture and art in between two really awful events followed by the war time followed by long period berlin was in ruins. when were the good times? >> i have a very complex answer to that and that is the best times are now. we have all the freedoms we want. you know? i think the best times are now. and our techno wizardry calculates your car's value and gives you a real offer in seconds we'll come to you pay you on the spot then pick up your car that's it at carvana when a cold comes on strong, knock it out with vicks dayquil sev

when that day finally comes as it will, the people of west berlin can take solace, satisfaction in theat they were in the pipeline for almost two decades. all all, all three men. wherever they may live, a citizen to berlin. and therefore, as a free man, i take pride in the ich bin ein berliner. and thanks for joining us on c. span's american history tv special series speeches that define the presidency. next week, lyndon johnson on the great society and immigration and richard nixon on the silent majority and his 1974 resignation speech. as a reminder, all of the speeches in the series are available to listen and watch online at c-span dot org slash so

after the fall of berlin wall was a symbol of pre unification. also between the east and west. a i'm walking here at the east side gallery. it's the largest open air gallery in the whole world. it's a 1.3 kilometer long part of the former berlin wall. today it has been done on very color for me into a nice, beautiful gallery by the various artists around the world. it's a symbol of reconciliation and freedom. many visitors leave berlin without itself in front of the east that gallery. so if you come to berlin, don't miss out one of the most popular and don't pieces of art. is this for the 50 painting, the socialist fraternal kiss of the little horn echo and raising up below it says in german, my god, help me to survive this deadly love. there were many famous crossing points between the east and west berlin. one of the most famous ones was this checkpoint chatted. there is also museum here called the volume museum. if you want to know more about the cold war history, you can check me in the museum. the choice to go in was the german history museum. it's an amazing, it shows more

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and as i left east berlin went back to west berlin . they put these to west berlin.ese the border guards put these big mirrors under the car to make sure no one was leaving east berlin because it was illegal for people to leave of the soviet bloc. eastern europe, those sorts of totalitarian countries . i don't think it countries. i don't think it should be macron's business, any states business, to try and prevent people leaving their countries. to me, that smacks of totalitarianism, does it? isn't it just basic border controls because you can't have just a one way border control? so yeah, i'm going to control my border, but only on an inward direction. surely if you believe in border controls, it's a two way thing. i do believe in border control and that's why i think the money that sunak agreed to that rishi sunak agreed to give to should actually to france should actually be spent own border spent on boosting our own border defences, boosting our own royal navy and our own coastguard to stop the small boats crossing the channel and entering our territorial waters.

the wing island, but such a geopolitical one, it’s probably hong kong, it’s probably taiwan, it’s west berline islands of some other world that are connected with the metropolis, never on this topic they didn’t say, but it’s undoubtedly just taiwan , most likely, so what else is interesting, after all, but what happens in the novel? what does crimea have ? gloomy tones, let's say not at all the way it is depicted. e in the star ticket, but let the baltics be there, but still it is part of the soviet union at that time and not even like a stocked bachkatare and still an amazing tenderness for the soviet country. and yes, this is a great book. simply amazing in its tenderness, the book, but here it seems to me, after all, there is more some kind of anger, more poison , uh, more some kind of rejection, more some kind of irritability. so i remember alexander abramovich kabakov just in your book suggests that this book is about the fragility of democracy and the efforts of totalitarianism. and why why does he do this, because the aksenok really did not like the left-wing intelligentsia. and if you

i was in the seventies and refused. artists of the highest class of west berlin in a word, legislatorsre, as they say. tonight we will talk about the fate of the beauty queens who have conquered the whole world. dear friends without you, well, beauty in our country was unthinkable , the concept of style, the concept, well, really some kind of otherworldly life that we looked up to. i know that many here mother's friends and mothers all looked at these magazines and cut out different photos. they made themselves clothes the way you wore them, therefore i am in great trepidation today. here i welcome you, and i am very pleased to talk about an amazing house, which, unfortunately, is a myth today and probably. few of the modern uh, well, and modern youth can imagine what for us for all this address on the kuznetsk bridge meant, and i remember that even when i was a student. and when i happened to, uh, pass by there, go towards the subway this house was some time. he was surrounded by some kind of mystery. something miraculous happened there, that it was absolutely beautiful there. models

in west berlin they took to the streets. of the us air force base rammstein. uh, well, chancellor kohl flew over this sea of ​​people in a helicopter. uh, saw it so gigantic protest, but it didn't affect uh what happened, then in the fall and pershings and tomahawks. they were placed in germany. the chief of our european bureau, mikhail antonov, was in direct communication; berlin olaf schol, by the way, personally participated in all the protests. let's go back to propose to him in one hand in the other ring, and then it entered. what is the future for this woman? i will see you all from my hate. now everything depends on you. if now everything is right here to change, everything will be fine for me there ascend. okay, a couple from the future premier on the russia channel on march 8 at 23:00 will offer a solution transfer your pension to a vtb card and get 2,000 rubles. go to vtb and everything will work out. when neobutin hurts somewhere here, it acts selectively on pain, spasm and violation of the neobutin stool, when it

force by infantry armored elements of the united states ninth army, a phase of what berliners called the greatest of west front offensive. the battle scarred german town of linick is cleaned up. and here your neck still more german soldiers dead and alive. help swell the enemy's casualty. now far past 1 million on the western front. and amid shambles of silence and emptiness the german people are learning what warfare means and. supreme commander eisenhower are with the ninth army's commanding general, inspects positions near and forces lined up for the smash across the rhine to dusseldorf and beyond. as a security, civilians are assembled for questioning. but they are few compared to the mounting toll of captured german soldiers. at the american troops approach the rhine they freed thousands of russian and polish prisoners forced into labor battalions by the nazis now and and captivity and new allied friend. this concentration camp guarded by electrified wire deep trenches and many posts gives mute testimony to the horror that once reigned her

nato marched to our borders from 1550 km, if you take it in a straight line from west berlin to the black there is the nato border between us. no need, where is romania , bulgaria and the former countries of the warsaw pact. i invite everyone to look at the map, how the world has changed over the years estonia lithuania latvia poland czech republic bulgaria romania is countries that are actually located along the perimeter of our western northwestern and southern southwestern borders, where it is now present, and now also finland finland about which you also spoke today, which is also becoming a member of nato and this new wonderful world based on american rules. and so, when we talk about what prompted russia to take these, well, frankly, not simple decisions related to the start of a special military operation in ukraine , in addition to all the circumstances that relate to donbass to that terrible eighth anniversary that killed a huge number of people there who refused to submit to this bandera violence, in addition to this, of course, it was we who raised the glove. they raised the gl

the political pressure of countries from the west on germany has received a result berlin intends to increase military assistance to kiev this year the amount will more than double exceed 5 billion 400 million, spiegel writes euro in the coming years, the german ministry of defense plans to spend an additional almost 9 billion euros for the same purposes. continued supplies of weapons , promised by the government in germany, 18 leopard tanks arrived in ukraine . social media consumes too much electricity. writes finational times gel director of the company said because of the hostilities in ukraine, the demand for artillery shells. increased 15 times to meet the european defense industry needs to invest in new factories. 2 billion euros, however. the napoleonic plans of the norwegian gunsmiths endanger the storage of the cat videos. a petition appeared on zelensky's website demanding a ban on the use of projectiles with combined uranium, which london plans to transfer to kiev, the author points to the danger of environmental pollution. for many years. the destruction of agricultural

on june 12th, 1987, standing 100 yards away from the concrete barrier dividing east and west germany, the berlinl believe it or not, though, when reagan gave that speech, it received very little media attention and few accolades. in fact, many when the reagan administration advised saying tear down this wall, calling it extreme and unpresidential it wasn't until two years later when the wall fell it became the famous phrase it is today. with republicans in particular praising the moment as a triumph of presidential rhetoric but let's not forget why the berlin wall was there in the first place. it's origins traced back to the years after world war ii, when the allies and the soviet union carved germany in half, with the soviets taking full control over the eastern side the wall was built to prevent east germans from fleeing, which millions were doing to escape the poverty they faced under soviet influence and to seek freedom and opportunity in the west but the wall was more than just a physical barrier, it was a symbol of the battle between communist totalitarianism and democracy. which divided n

west berlin had three airports. the american one, the front, the british was the british one.ho followed some almost converted to something a lot more lethal. a lot of planes crashed . the a lot of planes crashed. the germans actually call it the air bndge germans actually call it the air bridge and they've got a wonderful memorial which goes like that. and they call it maker drake in berlin . they have maker drake in berlin. they have nicknames for everything. i'm going to stop you mid—sentence because we got a problem with your microphone and we're going to some batteries. to get you some new batteries. while that, i'm going while we do that, i'm going to speak to olivia because we were just olivia on the just reflecting olivia on the various and we sort of do, i guess, sanctions that have been announced against ferrier, who is this mp , who travelled by is this mp, who travelled by train from parliament up to scotland , actually suffering scotland, actually suffering from covid 19, bringing from covid19, bringing parliament into disrepute and we reflect, of course she was a

they planned to write together with china and russia winning the united states and the west. lucy, i'm burnt off in berlin. this is the day. ah, woman, we had all the us to examine and reflect on its role in the ukraine issue that will climate, utah. so now china wants to play a constructive role here in this conflict. the ne auto press russia to pull which troops out of ukraine, ukrainian southern territory of china is not the creation of the ukraine crisis, nor is it a party to the crisis. i don't think you can reasonably look at china is impartial in any way. may fashion till us claims that china's position is not impartial. is it possible to continuously send weapons to the frontal field petaluma? they should earth urge president willing to seize bombing cities, hospitals and schools to stop the war, crimes in the atrocities. and in the morning, kate could have been late now also coming up, the french will have to work 2 more years before they can retire their anger. because of that aimed at their president. he hears them, but he's not changing his mind. mama, boss, i speak to you right now from do yo

berlin? sold for more than $3000000000.00? it's west bank. you b as a class, it's private credits with a deal supported by the country central bank and designed to have it 10 show banking crisis. also coming up, let me put in visits occupied mario paul graham, the in house police images up here in to show puts in the ukrainian city, which brushing force is captured in make. this comes up, our restaurant is issued against the russian leader, alleged war crimes committed unoccupied decree. meanwhile, moscow supposed to be teaching, but a statement suggest hours away. western leaders, who did you put the pressure on put things and the invasion chinese president has a piece plan, but it fall short of western expectations. ah, i am eddie micah junior. welcome to the program, switzerland's biggest bank u. b. s. has reached a deal to take over its embattled rival, credit suisse or 3 and a quarter $1000000000.00, or just about $3000000000.00 euros. a takeover comes i made fears that an ongoing bank in crisis called the stabilize the global financial

global geopolitical dividing lines deeper the front, their clear japan in the west, russia, in china. i'm broke off in berlin. this is the day. ah, do we continue to believe it's not in chinese best interest to do that to help mister prudent slaughter innocent ukrainians or so far it's been very. is it because it's taking place or more than a year? seems to rush an invasion in ukraine with russia are extremely isolated in the world, especially in the west. me courage, president shita press. president putin, directly on the need to respect the grange sovereignty and territorial integrity. when it comes to war, the child, you know, the thrush, he's waging against ukraine. china just wants to present itself as a rational player and the world. and china's neighbors will certainly be watching closely. also coming up better late than never japan's prime minister visits. keep the last of the g 7 leaders to do so. acacia there is a last r g 's have been dida to visit ukraine kit to meet with her president that ascii. so in that says he was a little too late to go in for a show this up so, so his sub board studio, gr

constantly make such accusations in the west that the west will stop supporting ukraine, we see now in washington and in ottawa and already even in berlinthat the west is determined that ukraine should win in this struggle and that ukraine needs to increase military aid and this is now the aid is constantly increasing we are now on the agenda when minister reznikova says that the first priority is modern air defense systems , the second is a large amount of ammunition, we see that training on the patriot systems in america is now being completed and in the near future patriots will already be of ukraine, plus additional other systems such as canada bought from the united states for ukraine, although there are no air defense systems, when we talk about ammunition, we see that all countries in the west are now increasing the production of ammunition several times in order to provide them to ukraine, we see supplies tanks, we see the supply of long-range artillery, and we are now talking about even planes, many target fighters, we know that already now in the united states there are several ukrainian pilots in america who are undergoing te

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britain an occupying power for part of berlin and a stretch of west germany after the second world warond world war. yes indeed. this is _ after the second world war. yes indeed. this is an historic relationship full of ups and downs. king charles is no stranger to germany. he has visited around a0 times over the course of his life. this is the first time he is arriving as monarch. we are told he might speak a little german while he is here. he is due to address members of the german parliament tomorrow and he will be holding a meeting with the german chancellor olaf scholz. but for now, as you said, he will be received by the head of the german state, president frank—walter steinmeier. his role is largely ceremonial, he doesn't have a great amount of power to wield as such but he represents germany as head of state so he will be there at the brandenburg gate to greet the new king of britain. don't forget of course that we have not yet had the coronation and that's why people see this as so significant. before he is even crowned, king charles makes his first state overseas visit to ger

was a parade of british soldiers and there was a big garrison , west there was a big garrison, west berlinncess went the to the where the royal ballet was performing. and i remember i was cutting the film at in germany . cutting the film at in germany. most of the picture editors were women , and they always wore women, and they always wore white gloves . and i had this white gloves. and i had this picture editor and she was at pictures diana. and this pictures of diana. and this 1987, remember , she said, oh, 1987, remember, she said, oh, she is beautiful, but she is so sad. she is so sad . and she sad. she is so sad. and she could see them . and she was could see them. and she was absolutely right that . the absolutely right that. the marriage was coming apart. but these are happier times and we move on. yeah, look, it's interesting reflecting on the history and you talking about that significant first visit of the queen and the war was problematic for the royal family. make no bones family. let's make no bones about of they about it because of course, they were related to a lot of germa

from the very start, berlin encouraged the white colonists to settle in south west africa and take away the best land from the local tribes. the germans were actively draining natural resources and using the local population as a cheap labor source. this was causing major protests and led to a rebellion in 19 o 4, the hero and nama tribes rebuild against german colonial rule. kaiser wilhelm, the 2nd was fully determined in order to suppress the rebellion with the utmost severity against the inhabitants of namibia. germany through is 15000 well equipped army, all around the country concentration camps were built. in humane medical experiments over citizens were conducted within the period of 4 years. the germans killed up to 60000 people, among which there were 80 percent of the hero tribe, and 50 percent of the nama tribe. the events in south west africa are called the 1st genocide of the 20th century, and not without reason are compared to the holocaust just 2 decades later after the massacre in nam may be a hitler's assault unit put on the same brown colonial uniform which pushed the

the supply of lethal supplies to the conflict zone and berlin's neutrality regarding the ukrainian conflict, the policy of fomenting war with the west. the diplomatic solution to the problem is more and more distant, as the participants of the anti-war rally, which took place in the austrian capital , the inhabitants of vienna also called for the lifting of sanctions. today, residents of donbass need any help. belarusians did not remain on the sidelines in the donetsk republican hospital, they delivered medicines and hygiene products. initiated by max republican, we do not abandon our own. this is not our first trip to the donbass in the liberated territory medicines are what the e fighters need. you can see you just brought a huge car with help. uh, now any help is very much needed, it comes from all over russia . we are very grateful that you, our brothers, have also joined. for this help, they brought us here , uh, quite a lot of medicines. as a doctor, i can't advise. so where exactly are they going? in which department, but i see that there are both children's diapers and adult diapers and a blanket and pillows - this is very n