Washington meddling in the 26000 u. S. Election and in search of her husband what it means if youre married to a human rights activist who disappeared in china. Im brink off its good to have you with us we start right here in berlin across the german capital festivities are underway marking a 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall on that historic night november 9th 1989 the unthinkable happened and youre looking at it right there east germanys communist regime opened the border the announcement of welded citizens to safely cross to the west for the 1st time in 3 decades now in all those years crossing without permission was often fate. Hundreds of people were killed trying to escape the country but with the berlin wall down friends and family could finally reunite without fear paving the way for the 2 germanys to do the same not long thereafter. All right for more on the celebrations this week lets go now to my colleague David Leavitts he is out in a balance in berlin this evening
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Well people have been stopping by they gets a mini church to watch a series of projections that are being projected on to the church behind me these tell the story of the week leading up to the fall of the berlin wall and that is why people are coming here because this church played a huge role in the peaceful revolution in the path toward that peaceful revolution people at this church would come and meet Opposition Forces were i should say. Oppositionists came here to meet and 30 years ago to the evening there was a concert here of beethovens 3rd symphony where the conductor stood up after the symphony and said the wall has got to go and that is when people took to the streets in an impromptu demonstration now 30 years later tonight theres a concert by the punk rock joy and patti smith whos come here from the United States a person whos built her career on fighting for freedom and she is giving a concert here to commemorate that concert that happened 30 years ago so tell us just a lit
Married to a human rights activist who disappeared in china. Im told me a lot of both thanks for joining us. The german capital is marking 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall on the 9th of november 1989 east germanys communist regime opened the border that separated it from the west of germany the announcement allowed its citizens to cross safely to the west for the 1st time in 3 decades until then crossing you without permission often meant a daring run for it and was often fatal hundreds of people were killed trying to escape the country but after the berlin wall fell friends and families were finally able to reunite without fear paving the way for the 2 geminis to do the same in less than a year and one of the central spots to change was a berlin church. 30 years ago a wind of change was blowing through east germany in just 4 more days the berlin wall would fall although no one knew that yet and this church in what was communist east berlin figured similarly Church Helped pav