. >> anthony: it's berlin. >> else: and in berlin, we say, "berlin is not germany," you know? i remember the first time i was in berlin when i was 14 years old, and i remember exactly coming here and having this almost physical feeling of freedom. like, i was a goth girl at that time, like i started to only wear black and listened to dark music. and when i came to berlin, i was like, yes, here i can be who i want to be. and it almost felt a little bit magical. >> anthony: do you think that people who came here from other countries, back in weimar era and now, people are looking for a dark side, do you think? >> brendan: certainly, the people are looking for things that they couldn't do at home. >> le pustra: exactly. >> brendan: they're looking for -- >> le pustra: they still come here for the forbidden. >> brendan: -- things that, you know -- and you can tell the people who've come and gone crazy. >> le pustra: it's captured people's imaginations, so people come here in search of that divine decadence. and it is here. it definitely is. >> anthony: during the weimar years and

five major museums are crowded on to berlin is museum island in the river. which houses the collection of classical antiquity. the other to. casing nineteenth century art. the newest museum which cuts the cost of egyptian. among its collection. the palpable museum currently undergoing renovation with its famous pergamon altar . and the border museum which boasts an impressive collection of sculptures. every year more than two million people visit this unesco world heritage site. i really like so many museums being in such close proximity to each other here and . it was the only twice so for. us for more germany there are a lot of transferees from conference so it will be very interesting to me. new museum was heavily damaged in world war two and stood in ruins for many decades in two thousand and three british architect david chipperfield of his team began major restoration work on it at first not everyone appreciated his plan to combine historical and modern elements but now his work is celebrated as an impressive architectural achievement. chipperfield in

ok first we know berlin is a base for you i'm. i can't help but ask you how is your german terrible you know well which after so many years. where they want to hear speaks english as well you're trying to speak trying to use it in the shop and there were just replies to you in english especially right here in the summer this is running as a bubble from the front and it isn't absolutely is ok let's talk about your career path how you chose architecture i mean for you was there are your ricoh moment a defining moment or did architecture choose you. you know i grew up in a farm in the country and i grew up on the phone and i think my first. passion was to be with animals and to be a vet or something like that but. my father also bought some buildings and renovated them and i worked on those with him. so i don't know i sort of became interested in in architecture and i i wasn't great at school but i had a really good teacher really you know one of those teachers that you know we all dream of that you know it's. inspired you inspires y

do you think gentrification is going to change berlin a lot. i think bolin will retain its identity there's no law that says we have a right to live in beautiful old apartments with stucco on the ceiling for a mere six euros a square meter it's not a fundamental right. there's a fundamental right to housing yes to housing but who says it has to be cheap and in the heart of the city in future of fordable housing might be on the outskirts rather than downtown. considers the bottom i'll tell us about the building how did you find it. and nobody was interested in it it's an old office building and was riddled with asbestos so we approached the local off artie's and proposed turning it into apartments. for. the purchase price was twenty one million euro. company is investing a further fifty million on transforming at ripping out the old offices installing a new facade and building all those luxury interiors and the building will have a generous for hay and a dorm and of course the lower stories will sell for five thousand euros a square metre higher

to berlin and invested lots of money they said i was not. i invested counter cyclical eat and have been proved right by twenty twelve at the latest it became clear that berlin was set to boom boom boom grip isn't it have you doubled in size and way more than doubled since the financial crisis of how much bigger are you ten times as big. going or has investments in several cities across germany he says he has a staff of five hundred and builds about fifteen hundred apartments a year two thirds are to rent one third he sells. he also part this direct office building in berlin the local authority said a condition some of the apartments in the building will have to be rent controlled housing for low income people the owner says the terms are excessive capital do you have any obligations to society yes capitalists have obligations my company never invest in property where people are already living for we only buy and the corresponding conflicts. but is it really so simple more and more luxury housing is going up across berlin more and more ordina

will disclose why his career first took off after the fall of the berlin wall. a boy from the g.d.r. with big dreams goes on to become a globally recognized brand. becomes paul van dyke he can now look back on more than twenty five successful years in the business here it is on topic sports special. when to pull players festivals he's usually the headliner his name is synonymous with the transfer and his music in joints you know like playing. for new forms for music when you're on the electronic music just brings people together from completely different cultural backgrounds it doesn't matter which god you believe in which religion you follow or what your nationality is it's all just about people getting together and celebrating this music is. still flies around the globe more times a year than your average professional pilot music magazines have voted him the world's best d.j. time and time again as a young boy back in east germany he could never have dreamed of a life getting around in his own private plane but his passion for music has been with him from the

dyke moved to berlin and explores the city. he made on to name the many good companies that existed in east german our of course not economically compatible nothing worked like that so all of a sudden there were all these empty promises no one was prepared to take responsibility for and if you innovative people came along and i brought a few beer crates and started their turntables on them have you got some loudspeakers sold on their turns i'm going nuts on the berlin club scene got started in the cool scene of the unseen here in berlin is called club the one van dyke shapes the beginnings of the techno movement. looking back at this small subculture not basement somewhere and seeing how it turned into one of the biggest music scenes in the world but if you're pretty unbelievable could put a vegetable on the set. that some got some great memories of that time and i'm really glad i could be part of it all. the years playing two thousand and five he performed the song he isn't via which means we are us with singer paid to have sl

and nine hundred ninety nine the berlin wall fell and with it behind curtain. bush cautiously and calmly weathered the transition he worked hard to develop a good relationship with the leader of the soviet union mikhail gorbachev and campaigned heavily for the reunification of germany. bush is also the president who led the usa into its first. major military operation in the middle east as i report to you air attacks are underway against military targets in iraq bush launched operation desert storm against iraq's dictator saddam hussein after he had attacked kuwait. after the first gulf war president bush the prove our ratings went through the roof but that didn't last long many americans became unhappy with his domestic policies because of tough economic times he was forced to raise taxes it was a broken promise and the perfect ammunition for bill clinton bush next democratic opponent clinton won the one thousand nine hundred two presidential election and after his one term in the white house bush called it quits. he focused his efforts on humanitarian activit

berlin the swinging lascivious berlin the berlin as it sees itself crackling with energy. disappointment what's fascinating about him is his boundless energy i don't know where he gets it he's a bundle of energy he rehearses morning noon and night and when we've all run out of steam he'll say all right one more time and full power and you just want to do it again for him that's the sense of the country should be someone who really runs the show he's like a magnet that a try. details he'll scrutinize every photo in the program that's my impression anyway because he really lives for this opera house leave the fifty's it's halls i mean it's. very costly has taken some artistic risks like this extremely off the wall staging of the magic flute and come out on top. living here for five years and constantly has your picture of i mean what do you what do you hate the charm of is firstly this incredible collision of different elements of history both architectural and and spiritually i think it's good to just always maintains a work in progress feel to it and has a sort of charming

a twentieth century founding father and on his watch a wall fell in berlin chancellor kohl. said categorically that this historic initiative of german reunification could never ever have succeeded without the brilliant leadership of president bush. a diplomat of unmanned skill a commander in chief but for middle accomplishment and a gentleman who actually created to do these of his office with dignity and honor. also coming up tonight the war in yemen talks aimed at peace are about to begin today a reminder of what is really at stake seven million children in yemen today go hungry the bad if every single evening at this only when you talk to the children themselves the acute truly and this town how hard hitting the war and the crisis of each and every child. but we begin the day with the forty first president of the united states george h.w. bush today the u.s. europe and the world convened inside the national cathedral in washington d.c. to bid farewell to a war veteran a politician a diplomat and a statesman as the eulogies were delivered and the faces of other former pres

this is it when you use live from berlin could be the final battle against islamic states u.s. backed kurdish an arab forces are close to ousting the hottest from their last urban stronghold in syria but he threatened turkish intervention is putting victory in doubt also coming up keeping the planes flying with no one one hundred days to go before the u.k. is due to leave the european union that steps up its planning kicks britain crashes out with no breaks it deal we're live in brussels for reaction and remembering the dead berlin marks the second anniversary of the christmas market terror attack you saw with the vehicle left twelve people dead and dozens injured. on little rock it's good to have you with us everyone american backed forces are close to gaining control of the last syrian territory held by so-called islamic state syrian democratic forces the s.d.f. made up of kurdish an arab fighters have captured the town of hazing and are now in the process of clearing out islamist fighters as he lies in the valley of the euphrates river close to the border with iraq it's the

the berlin speech is a good example. bret: peter robinson was assigned to draft reagan's remarks. >> i went over to west berlin as we called it in those days to do research. first stop is at the berlin wall, and over here is the german parliament building. standing there, if you close your eyes, you can hear the incoming shell fire from the battle of berlin. you can still feel the horrors of the second world war, and then you open your eyes and can you see the free world and turn and look at the communist world. >> in west berlin, where democracy rules, these pictures speak for themselves. the citizens, well clad, walk freely. east berlin too reveals itself to the camera, citizenry stealthy, streets empty, drab is the word it describes, it seems. >> it's color and gray, it's motion and nothing. bret: nervous west german officials appealed to the white house to pick another location. they worried reagan might provoke gorbachev. reagan's own state department worried too. >> i paid a visit on the ranking american diplomat i

this time she takes us to the berlin philharmonic. for the summer months before christmas and all through the house. if a creature was stirring except for to berlin few players are neutral instruments in an unusual orchestration. for a festive occasion. fifteen or d. w. . o. would germline done by an. adult a guy with data to sell that any is thinking about possibly buying di camillo completely exposed. each time we are on line we need behind traces which say a loss about our lives and i was saying t. to advertise it is is there any escape. to arlo today in thirty minutes john d. w. . every journey begins with the first step and every language with the first word published in the cook. rico is in germany to learn german why not come with him it's simple online on your mobile and free to settle for d w z learning course nikos speak german made easy. where is home. when your family is scattered across the globe. with kids is to. keep the book as a journey back to the roots should get a minimum of the. the shah's family from somalia move

develops amongst the plan to have a whole museum island and also drew up plans for berlin is brand new james e. morton gallery it's set to open its doors in the summer of twenty nineteen and will serve as the entrance building and visitor center for museum island to be for right now the five museums are like five friends sitting at one table. but with their backs to each other. james in the gallery will link spaces and museums with each other. the field also works on buildings near the items such as the gallery house. now on to museum full room on the opposite speck of the river. the british architect has certainly left his mark on dylan's historical city center . for many people roast goose is the traditional christmas meal here in germany and one place where you can enjoy it is at the hester berg estate in brandenburg just outside berlin now this is where six hundred geese roam free we visit the estates restaurant chef to find out how to make the perfect christmas roast goose dinner. it's free range peace were raised at school tested back in the states in eastern german state of bran

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i'm seeing bears in berlin thanks for joining us leaders have extended economic sanctions against russia for another six months citing the ongoing conflict with ukraine sanctions target russia's financial energy and defense sectors the ukraine russia conflict flared up again last month when russian forces seized three ukrainian vessels and twenty four crew members as they tried to pass through the catch straight from the black sea to the sea of oz off now some even members have called for new sanctions in response but the block has shied away so far. it's going to euro chief in brussels max hoffman for more on the e.u. council decision to roll over sanctions against russia max remind us again what these sanctions mean for russian and european businesses. the sanctions are believed to have contributed to the downturn of the russian economy pressure on the ruble forced russia to use part of his foreign exchange reserve it was sanctions basically that target the oil industry for equipment and also dual use good so goods that could be used for the arms industry and it seems to have had an ef

inflatable spaces to berlin based optics design portable roofs made of plastic. and fluffy delights have a yeah it's a sleek speciality from learning from. we start on the big stage with what many regard as the epitome of classical ballet swan lake when it was first rehearsed an eight hundred seventy six its original choreography felt the ballet was undone simple since then it has developed and found success all over the world but directed derek deane decided to make things a bit harder with the shanghai ballet company he brings forty eight instead of the usual sixteen songs onto the stage this sensational production is currently in berlin and we went by to see how the dancers afforded ruffling feathers on the crowded stage. first six then nine then twenty four in the end forty eight swann's downstairs a press call in berlin's border museum it's one lake on a scale never seen before staged by celebrated british choreographer derek dean. it is the biggest one late in the world i mean there hasn't been this one leg of this size in a proceeding and theatre and not e

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hi and welcome back to their is music today we're at the blue led sol in berlin i really like this whole because it has a fantastic acoustic and also the interior can be adapted to stupid needs of the music being played there today the whole the simply read. it was headed to the negative in that alongside a book that i love you do it is. all of my guest today is truly multi musical he's a fantastic violinist and also a fantastic music communicator and i admire him a lot but i can't pronounce his name can you please tell the viewers how exactly to pronounce or when i can it is the stuff. whose is still ok today was not a horn challenge it was a name challenge welcome it's so great to hear thanks so much we have something really fantastic planned apparently the color has changed in an absolute a massive way presumably from an. afternoon in which if any. of us here. then this. one as you address this question to the listener is. the red dress was designed by the south korean artist ahmed song who when we arrived with busy making sure everything was perfect. song so the five hundred fifty me

here in berlin, a big news years party is getting underway. this is a hugege challenenge foe authorities. >> the warm-up acts are already getting the crowd into the mood on a relatively mild years eve in berlin. numerous bands and djs will take to the stage. >> it is super. very good. >> that was nice, i enjoyed the performance, i don't really speak german but i could feel the passion behind the center. >> all sorts of people from all different countries, they are nice, really nice. beer? berlin beer? dangerous objects like pirates are banned within the parties on. police and firefighters are out in full force and are calling on the public to treat them with respect. they have increasingly been the target of attacks in recent years. >> we're hoping for a healthy start to the new year. i hope the people are happy we are here. we are the ones that ensure this party can happen. fireworks will light up the brandenburg gate at midnight. the party is sure to continue into the early morning. helena: the prime minister has been declared the winner of

phil: this is "dw news" by from berlin . it issues remain unresolved just hours before the cop24 conference is set to end . the praxis strategy -- brexit strategy continues to evolve, macron pays his respects to victims of the recent shooting. and imagine facing this in the ring. the mixed martial artist julia dorny. you him talks about climate change were to to end today. delegates from 196 countries are trying to agree for a rulebook which aims to keep global warning -- warming below two degrees celsius. a handful of countries, such as the u.s. and russia, will not commit to the agreement. some are calling for more drastic action, especialally the from small island nations.. >> you cannot cut a deal with science. you u cannot negototiate withh phphysics. scscience is sciencece. we w wld hope ththat countrieses wowould understand that. and thatat they would d fully bk this repor and define a rulebook that would implement the paris agreement. if we do not do o that, we wilil not sururvive. that wouldld not be an apppprope ar

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top chef tim roy showed us what he loves about berlin. and designer marcel vander showed us his amsterdam we visited violinist and conductor under real in moscow fashion designer live any of us jockey in rome and star architect david chipperfield in the german capital. thanks. in twenty eighteen several countries celebrated the centenary of their existence among them austria which has a rich culture that encompasses timeless classical music by i'm a day a small tot color and really highlights like wienerschnitzel and much much more not to mention it's gorgeous. countryside. in november lanphier turned one hundred as well it declared its independence in one thousand nine hundred eighteen numerous events like the song and dance festival were held throughout twenty eight hundred in honor of the anniversary. meanwhile regained its independence in november one thousand nine hundred eighteen so for there to nov twenty eighth was for the joyous celebrations. speaking of celebrations britain's prince charles marked his seventieth birthday in nove

it was a new supply from berlin more coming up at the top of the hour in the meantime you can get all the latest news information around the clock on our website at www dot com thanks for joining. us on the tube. of technology. the return of the market. the momentum of the morning world. meet your maison is your seen next on d w. weapons from the west are being used on the battlefield and yet. our exclusive report reveals how saudi arabia and the united arab emirates buy weapons in europe . and destroy them on the front violating international law because this is. the end user yemen and the global arms trade. clothes are in forty five minutes on. anxiously waiting. waiting for a lifeline to syria. morning where are you my aunt you answered. every call brings them closer together. but it hurts because they feel powerless to help. the continues to haunt those who fled from syria. the war on my phone our two part documentary starts december eighth on d w. look yummy to you are you horrified. personally i love a good steak and i love it rare but i don't want to know how the animal was sla

today our in our political correspondent kate brady covering teresa mayes visit your to berlin today thank you very much kate. well let's talk more about the divorce still in the conundrum facing theresa may we have derek scally with us correspondent for the irish times newspaper here in berlin derek good morning to you thank you for joining us we've seen one of the biggest obstacles to the deal by both the e.u. and the u.k. on both sides has been the question of the border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland remind us what the backstop is and why this is been such a sticking point in the backs of is effectively and it's an insurance policy twenty years ago we had a peace agreement in the agreement was yes there is a sovereign border there but if we will keep it open we will keep it open for the thirty thousand people who commute back and forth to keep it open for the traders so that effectively we have one trading regime but of course of britain wants to leave the e.u. the free market and. this is going to cause. tremendous problem for traders for people who you're

is a crowded on to berlin is museum. which houses the collection of classical antiquity. the. nineteenth century on. which house the bust of. among its collection. currently undergoing renovation. and the board of museum which boasts an impressive collection of sculpture. every year more than two million people visit. really like so many museums being in such close proximity to each other here. from. its. new museum was heavily damaged. and stood in ruins for many decades in two thousand and three british architect david field of his team began restoration work on it. everyone appreciated his plan to combine historical and modern elements but no his work is celebrated as an impressive architectural. david chipperfield and started on this project in one thousand nine hundred nine his philosophy was to respect the ruin and not to cover up the marks left by history he wanted to restore and carefully preserve this historical building for a while sensitively complementing it with modern elements. of the fields architecture firm develops amongst the plan to have a whole museum islan

the man in the red scarf and black hat festival director dieter conflict brought the stars to berlin screen legend catching dinners hollywood stars george clooney and even the rolling stones braved the icy berlin winter. opening night is a dog to success of the festival this is i'm actually moment for me because like also saw the valley now the red carpet as a political platform the film selected tackled the issues of our times head off in twenty fifteen the golden bear went to dissident iranian director just. a year later to fire it see a documentary about europe's migration crisis the. conflicts legacy is an audience festival where cinema goers rub shoulders with the stars in february twenty nine thousand help present this final festival tantra flecked on the conflict. and here he is mr himself the flamboyant director of the berlin international film festival we are here in the german film you see in the exhibition between the films every. the picture tells the story you've attracted of course many international stars to the festival over the years for example think there's george

berlin's bikers have now become something of a christmas attraction. well stock markets are not yet in that christmas mode shares on key indexes around the world remain in retreat. shares on major exchanges scheduled to end the year down by more than ten percent in frankfurt the dax index of german blue chips was down by over half a percentage just a short while ago japanese stocks led asian losses on friday with the nikkei hitting a fresh fifteen months low shedding over one percent and the dow in new york and it says day two percent lower on concerns about the trade dispute between washington and beijing and rising interest rates well and all that's also weighing on oil the price of brant crude slipped to its lowest level in fifteen months yesterday all prices of course have been steadily dragging for weeks on sliding dropping more than twenty five dollars since the beginning of october when it was hovering at around eighty dollars ninety s. there's hope that supply cuts from opec will prop up prices driving interest rates and an overall how jittery

news live from berlin trouble on the horizon for the trade war truce between beijing and walked into the global chief financial officer of chinese telecoms giant holloway has been arrested in canada she now faces extradition to the u.s. for allegedly breaching sanctions on iran also coming up. peace talks between yemen's warring parties are due to get under way today in sweden delegations from the saudi backed government and the who the rebels come together for the first time in two years is an end to the world's worst humanitarian crisis inside. and it's on the macros last day as the leader of her conservative c.d.u. party will stay off the councilor but steps down as party chair after eighteen years at the helm the race to succeed or is on and it could mean a new direction for germany's conservatives. and a final farewell to a former american president to world leaders of hundreds of a funeral for george bush sr he should be buried in his home state of texas later today. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us canada has arrested one of the biggest names in china's business