Former US president gets hero’s welcome as he reunites with Angela Merkel and urges crowd to fight those who divide us’Barack Obama received a hero’s welcome when he reunited with Angela Merkel for the first time since leaving office,calling on the audience to engage in democracy and telling the tens of thousands in Berlin: “We can’t shroud behind a wall.” Speaking in front of the Brandenburg Gate, which was once slit off by the Berlin Wall, and the former US president was greeted with cries of Barack,Barack” as he urged the 70000-strong crowd to “push back against those trends that would violate human rights or suppress democracy or restrict individual freedoms” and to “fight against those who divide us”. Related: Trump debuts in Europe as Obama returns to stir nostalgia for the old days Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com