the man agreed believing he was doing the right things for east germany later after the fall of the berlin wall he hoped that the friends he spied on would forgive his monster but he couldn't bring himself to show real remorse. as to. ah so. you could know much as on the cool little concrete the might it take so i might have done wrong to him to buy this korea. three students here. in the early one nine hundred eighty s. the stasi ended their activity with him the spy became the spied upon documentary footage of going to munch shows his striking resemblance to the film's lead actor alexander share the two men even have a similar singing voice. but. cut to. a the social must i think it's very special to have an actor with such as a trilogy but who doesn't know where the role like could constitute. rather he dives very deeply into the in a life of the current time fleeced it was all right thanks to that performance reasons film is a complex contribution to our understanding of german history both before and after unification francis it exposes the total absurdity of the east german system of

good omen in body the contradictions of communist east germany steam shovel operator who became one of the country's most famous folk singers goodman was both rebel and true believer a working class hero and a supporter of the social state i'll hold me in the east going to man is almost unknown among western germans but a new film from eastern german director andreas delays and is looking to change that. it's going to judge. david young son that's one facet of god can do you condemn on the singer songwriter who's lyrics meant a lot to people in east germany he found the words to describe what his fans felt. cool the. one body. has another. meaning it seems. and this was another fasten them on the excavator operator he often went to his shifts at a surface mine on just a few hours sleep having performed the night before a committed communist he also knew that much needed improving in east germany for the country to fulfill even a fraction of what karl marx had recalled for his writings and that. often brought him into conflict with the party leadership. has the man of. the law is a. lit

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like silvio lucky here in east germany he built mopeds and taught hooked on german football. you know frankly. it's made me really know my make enough. pieces in the pen and. through this basket she lose sons live in germany but he doesn't have much contact to them he can't afford a telephone let alone a flight. there's just no money here a football field in mozambique is a world away from a luxury training pitch and i think the people wouldn't mind a little help sometimes. you know. despite all these hundreds of. times that you have to. have some. sort of. the lights ignited has lived in mozambique for almost thirty years he's excited about the success of his club his former city means more to him than just home because the mighty mighty go back to the horse because it's oh i don't want to be what's the most already zero or. my door. to stop in but finally. the peaceful monday demonstrations in leipzig helped bring about the fall of the berlin wall and the reunification of germany east germans were now free to travel anywhere in the world poland hope back took advantage and

like here in east germany he don't smoke pads and got hooked on german football. you know the friendly heat but when you bring in the muslim main game that. he's personally been able. to dispense good she lose some of those live in germany but he doesn't have much contact to them he can't afford a telephone let alone a flight. there's just no money here a football field in mozambique is a world away from a luxury training pitch and i think the people wouldn't mind a little help sometimes. you know. and sometimes over. time that they have you know you don't have someone walking down the stall in dispute. the lancet native has lived in mozambique for almost thirty years he's excited about the success of his club his former city means more to him than just home big brother marty marty go back to the horse because it's so hard on what's the most organising of or. it might all. to stop them but for me. so there's nothing for the peaceful monday demonstrations and lots of help to bring about the fall of the berlin wall and the reunification of germany east germans were

like sherlock here in east germany he built pads and taught hooked on german football. we're on the front lines. but when you bring in the muslim mean the. peace in the pan and. go through this festive shielding sons live in germany but he doesn't have much contact to them he can't afford a telephone let alone a flight. there's just no money here a football field in mozambique is a world away from a luxury training pitch and i think the people wouldn't mind a little help sometimes. was upbeat enough was felt all good that despite all these hundreds of don't throw you off guard bush good will cause the incident and then there's no time that's variable to go off of course you have some walking that's the whole thing because here comes over to the lights of native has lived in mozambique for almost thirty years he's excited about the success of his club his former city means more to him than just home because i want to see my we go back to the horse because it's so hot off with the what's the what's already zero or. committed or from my door it's sort of talking about timi

those occupations become zones of influence and control in east germany and north korea. along with the political a psychological effort economic aid and trade agreements help to spread this influence to africa and the middle east. -- wherever possible. when it is needed force is used. the expulsion from the mainland of the chinese national -- complete with artillery, tanks, infantry and -- casualty and refugees. -- an important technique of communist conquest. chuckles of ocular in 1948 is an established democracy in eastern europe. conservative elements reside in --, communist deputies pounded --. police brutality in putting down riots in charge and the communist takeover the police. >>on february 25 informed that the alternative is civil war and aware of unmistakable threat of invasion from the soviet union president -- excepts the communist --. the country's greatest hero will not go along and he remains in a foreign office. two weeks later his dead body is discovered. whether he was murdered or killed himself it is not known to this day. >>three months later a consti

by organizing special police and paramilitary units the soviets were illegally rearming east germany. in the world consult of the united nations with war weary were endeavoring to establish a lasting peace. but these were the days of stallinist extension so by repeated refusals to cooperate except on their own terms the soviet delegates sabotaged any progress towards real stability. on the 23rd of june, 1948, west berlin introduced monetary reform without which economic recovery would have been impossible. new noted for old. the currency was revalued. for the russians, their disagreement gave them the excuse for action. west berlin they could not touch. but they could and did interfere with the lifelines on which west berlin depended. the roads, the railways, the canals. these were west berlin's vital arteries. so stop the trains. close the roads. bar the canals, and cut the power. west berlin was 100 miles deep in the soviet zone of germany. this was to be the way to force the western allies to quit berlin. thus, 2 million people were isolated. to be faced with the prospect of hunger

so, until there was a change of front on the part of the east, it would seem that germany and berlin would remain divided but evidence that the status quo did not suit everybody in the east was the continuing flood of refugees passing through to west berlin. in november 1958, soviet pressure comes on again. there's a crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with the east germans. paris, may 1960, mousses the u2 incident to break up the summit conference which was meant to bring the berlin and german questions nearer to a solution. he drops his threat but does not change his tune. berlin he alleges is the capital of a sovereign east germany and the allies must be made to quit berlin. the force is there. men and armor. june the 4th, 1961, he repeats his threat to sign a separate peace treaty with east germany which he claims, wrongly, will end all western rights in berlin and so on. move after move until -- on the 13th of august, 1961, a wall of east german police stands at the brandon berg gate. but soon they give voice to the ind indigati ind indigati indigation. after a

like to here in east germany he built mopeds and got hooked on german football. frankly. because my new friend when i was making the. peace in the pan and on through his first year she was some slave in germany but he doesn't have much contact to them he can't afford a telephone let alone a flight. there's just no money here a football field in mozambique is a world away from a luxury training pitch and i think the people wouldn't mind a little help sometimes. it was upbeat enough troops fought on despite all these hundreds of going to be off guard bush should wish to win the presidency and in need and there's no time that's very kind of feed off of hope that some of often does the death toll in this field guns or to the lancet native has lifted most for almost thirty years he's excited about the success of his club his former city means more to him than just home because the monthly might be go back to the hospice itself but often with the what's the most organising of or. few meetings or family it might offer. to stop him but try me. there's nothing for the peaceful mon

. >> one of our producers from primetime live went into east germany posing as a tourist. our producer took a home video camera, went to leipzig and found an incredible scene there. >> in east germany you see a series of demonstrations for change and the question becomes, are these demonstrations going to be repressed and wiped out? what is gorbachev going to do? >> this was the show of mikhail gorbachev's show and tell day. guests of east german leader erich honecker in a military parade through the heart of east berlin. he preached reform and he offered a gorbachev proverb. those being late, he said, will be punished by life itself. >> gorbachev felt like he could put a happy face on socialism, that he could modify it. but the freedom genie got out of the bottle, and he couldn't put it back in. >> overseas, time has finally run out for erich honecker, the 77-year-old leader of east germany. he resigned today. the official reason given was poor health, but growing political unrest made today's change inevitable. >> the people have their government on the run. today, in th

and is it a correct perception that these frustrations are more pronounced in east germany?m these frustrations are more pronounced in east germany? it is, roughly speaking, correct. the east of germany is a region in which the far righta of germany is a region in which the far right a ft party, that you mention, get a lot more voters —— afd. around 20% from the state of saxony voted afd. the general amount is claire i also have the east of germany also has cities like leipzig that are considered much more liberal and accepting, so that also exists but generally speaking i would say this perception is roughly accurate. clearly the people in chairman it's feel that immigration brings a risk —— in chemnitz brings a risk of increased crime, is there evidence that immigrants are more likely to commit crimes than other people in germany? not at all, generally speaking the crime rates in germany have not been affected by the wave of immigration in the last few years, namely the one from syria, iraq and afghanistan. quite the opposite, in fa ct, afghanistan. quite the oppos

berlin, he alleges is the capital of a sovereign east germany. and the allies must be made to quit berlin. here beyond communist germany the force is there. men and armor. june 4, 1961. to president kennedy he repeats his threat to sign a separate treaty. which he claims will and all western rights in berlin, and so on. move after move, until -- on august 13, 1961, a wall of east german police stand at the brandenburg gate. all communication between the eastern sector and those of the west have been cut as though by a knife. before it, west berliners stand , stunned. but soon they give voice to the indignation. [chanting crowd] to all objections, all approaches, the only answer, jets of water from eastern armored trucks. soviet attacks on rights of the western powers in berlin show that the wall was meant to be a step toward control of the whole city. toward forcing out the western powers. as the last escape routes were cut, one after the other, final scrambles to not be left behind in the prison. this was an exodus not confined merely to civilia

it was a cold night in east germany. and it would change the course of putin's life. the berlin wall had just fallen. all over east germany, angry crowds roam the streets, lashing out at symbols of communist rule. that night in dresden, they found a target. the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building, as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. inside, peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. >> he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. >> putin was a junior officer, but the boss was away. he was in charge. >> the berlin wall had come down, and he called for instructions. >> desperate for help, putin dialed kgb headquarters in moscow, over and over again. finally, one official told him, simply, moscow is silent. >> and i think it felt like a deep betrayal to him. >> vladimir putin was on his own. he went down into the bowels of the building and fired up the furnace. >> he finds himself in the basement, at a furnace, shoveling documents, as he hears demonstrations out on the street. >> the

watch production continue during the communist era in east germany today class who to oregon now is constantly developing new models and makes all its own parts. the watches sell for up to several hundred thousand euros one of the more unusual models is this watch for world travelers. main priority was to make it easy to read the two time zones can be read simultaneously and you can set the time zones by turning the crown here on the bottom right and then setting the i.r. to airport code of the country you're traveling to i see that as a bit of land in the theater. to watch museum in glass or to is a big draw for history buffs. the first watch factory was founded here in eight hundred forty five by ferdinand and. an astronomical clock which was coming. they did in one thousand nine hundred five is a unique specimen is because i'm too soon to be able to house and see who will tire him though there are more than seven thousand eight hundred parts all told behind the seventeen clock races in three to four of those. for it to be just three to five editions of this clock worldwide and in terms of p

ten percent so the dynamics between migration much higher in east germany then invest and so if the reaction of the society against immigration which a significant minority of the people here doesn't want to have there's an interesting observation when it has to do really with numbers i'd like to point out something that happened last week in eastern germany a t.v. news crew trying to cover a right so far right demonstration was detained by police for about an hour now this video that we're watching has been released and it shows a member of the far right group. confronting the journalist it turns out that man is an employee of the state criminal police department now there are demands for an investigation into this how serious is the danger in germany of the far right infiltrating the police. there is without any doubt significant percentage of police people who sympathize with. movement with the f.t.c. because they feel being left alone by politics because the number of policemen has been cut down significantly during the last years such that the birth load imposed on the signal p

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on the top but our all time favorite is a thriller set in former east germany it's a movie that peers deep into the paranoid security state and shows what happens when people are forced to live under constant government surveillance it's both touching and terrifying and it's our number one. bensusan by an argument surely is still to this canvas will smith and sugar frog may come. stasi officer good feest there is a master interior gator mercilessly coaxing information from his victims. he's a specialist in infiltrating the lives of others. his latest assignment is the survey alliance of a theatre director. but while observing the man day and night something happens to be slower. he hears wonderful poetry and music and slowly he begins to change. and so what happens that starts working against the system. but he's unable to prevent the inevitable tragedy of the lives of others one germany's third oscar as best foreign film and for us a keno it's the best german drama ever. six times. that according to the here are the ten best german dramas of all time we're going to post the whole lis

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ten percent so the dynamics between migration much higher in east germany then invest chimney and so if the reaction of the society against immigration which a significant minority of the people here doesn't want to have there's an interesting observation when it has to do really with numbers i'd like to point out something that happened last week in eastern germany eight t.v. news crew trying to cover a right so far right demonstration was detained by police for about an hour now this video that we're watching has been released and it shows a member of a far right group. confronting the journalist what it turns out that man is an employee of the state criminal police department now there are demands for an investigation into this how serious is the danger in germany of the far right infiltrating the police. there is without any doubt significant percentage of police people who sympathize with. movement with the a.f. t. because they feel being left alone by politics because the number of policemen has been cut down significantly during the last years such that the birth load imposed

but while the film is being shorts communist east germany erected the pearl in wall the cold war had taken a serious turn spelling tragedy for many the clash of ideologies was no longer a laughing matter. the right film at the wrong time and in the wrong place decades later it was rediscovered and became a cult hit. more than half a century after wilder another hollywood director and another cold water on my in berlin when i shot the scenes we've built a lot of the wall we've built you know probably a good three hundred yards to the wall. i look at the wall and i just said did this really happen and american lawyer is in the divided city to negotiate an agent swap with the soviet union and east german communists but then is a place of heightened political tensions the drama is based on a true story divided berlin had more than its fair share of spying is the clinical bridge was the gateway to the west the film perfectly captures the menacing atmosphere of the time. when the great. these stones marked the exact position of the hated by. in war that divided the city for almost thirty y

four days after a man was stabbed to death in east germany, far—right groups are continuing to call people out on to the streets of the city of chemnitz. we will report from south africa. there have been attacks on shops run by foreigners in south africa's soweto township leaving three dead and many fleeing their homes. they bring my shop, they will loop my stuff, i don't know where i'm going to start again. we are not animals. a ugandan opposition figure who emerged from government detention earlier this week on crutches, has tried to flee the country. as he got to the airport he was bundled into an ambulance. his lawyer tells us bobi wine was re—arrested at the airport. and we'll be hearing about the french actor gerard depardieu, who has denied an accusation that he raped a young actress. more far—right protests in the german city chemnitz. these pictures are from a few hours ago. less violence and agression that than we've seen earlier this week — but still a significant number on the streets. this story begins in the early hours of sunday morning when this german—cuban man was

germany that community we can't enter the zone they've been explosions. that means we need to fight the fires from the edges and try to extinguish them from the air. indefinitely because. the authorities say they've made progress but it could take several days to put the fires out. or they don't need correspondent melik ordered about is at the scene and sent us this report. on this second day of an unprecedented fire raging just fifty kilometers outside of berlin there finally has been some significant progress the fire seems to be largely under control there are still six hundred to six hundred fifty firefighters and army personnel out there working putting the fire out completely and they have not had an easy job they have been facing challenges incredibly dangerous ones amongst them ammunition in the forest ground this is the area where the battle for bilin were taking place during world war two so the soil here is really contaminated by ammunition they the firefighters have to make sure that they stay on save roads that they don't go out into the fore

germany with attitudes to foreigners, especially when they come from the middle east backgrounds, off the back of the influx of a lot of refugees in 2015. it highlights one of the key questions and issues, how to integrate people and also how to make sure that german citizens are treating them well, like there have been a few instances where foreigners have been attacked and assaulted, which of course is exactly what you do not want to see because this is in the end, just a single incident. and i guess it highlights a very important questions for angela merkel to deal with, how to integrate both the refugees and any other foreigners, but also then how to make sure that german society is possibly becoming more open and also does not overrea ct. more open and also does not overreact. which i guess is what this is highlighting. let's move on to the arab news now on its front page is looking at the un investigation into the actions on the part of the authorities in myanmar, the genocide, they are calling it. the headline is very strong, genocide, and she did nothing, a picture of aung san

the fifty seventh anniversary of the construction of the berlin wall communist east germany began to build the wall in the early morning on august thirteenth one thousand nine hundred sixty one for twenty eight years the wall divided berlin to prevent east germans from fleeing to the west today most of it has been removed but now a forgotten section has been discovered on a construction site in the heart of the city the twenty metre stretch was hidden behind bush. said to be listed as. well it's one thing to climb to the top of a mountain quite another to try to ascend in the fastest time possible but that was the aim of swiss extreme melton climber danny arnold when he scaled the north face of the girl. in the alps we leave you now with some stunning footage of his incredible. says.