i've arranged to meet you feel to be a berliner with turkish roots she's been representing the social democrats on the porn star since two thousand and thirteen so she knows her way around first she shows me the debating chamber the heart of the problem and really german democracy as a whole. we debate vote and pass laws here. and that's where you work yes that's right where is the how does it feel to stand up there at the podium. it's nerve racking i can imagine especially the first time. with a thought well over time you get used to it the nervousness doesn't fade but that is all right but i've been a member of parliament for four years and it's truly special to have a chance to speak in this hallowed hall. and i come from an immigrant family and

along to what they call the guest worker generation. on the phone and it's really something significant for me and my parents as well and that i got a good education and today i'm representing people in germany as a member of parliament. to mention. the. walking the halls of the goodness talk is like taking a journey through time this graffiti was scrawled on the walls by soviet soldiers after they won the battle for the right stock in one thousand nine hundred forty five british architect norman foster integrated them into his clan when the building was reconstructed and he left the bullet holes. with. the. now corner and the delicate lobby this painting represents the reichstag fire in nine hundred thirty three the nazis used the event as a pretext to persecute their political opponents and the books of names commemorate

the hundred twenty members of parliament who were murdered in the aftermath. the next stop is the prayer room a place of quiet and reflection for the m.p.'s regardless of their faith. there's a lot more going on up on the roof of the building the glass dome is the biggest attraction for visitors to the rice talk. from the top we had all the way to the bottom and the basement we come across five thousand boxes with four thousand nine hundred ninety nine names on them a full plate and at the most there's a box for every democratically elected representative in the years between one thousand nine hundred. one nine hundred ninety nine. cross and the phone.

on the side is there anything in them no. these boxes are all shaped the saying to stand for the equality of all elected representatives independently of their function and nothing you feel from so on the years of naziism are symbolized by a black box there's no name on that one can see. tunnels leading from the right start building to parliamentary office buildings nearby. and now we've emerged from this tunnel into another very futuristic looking building. and on top of the home yes this is the power luba house a friend with the representatives offices and the committee rooms are here on the

right and left when i'm not on biden. so lots of heated debates behind these walls that one right on. my committee the finance committee meets in this room every wednesday from nine fifteen till about noon or one o'clock both parts of. the pa luba house on the western bank of the reverse three just across is the money at the new u.s. house some members of the pundits talk up their offices over there. when the city was divided in this area of the river served at the border between east and west berlin across this remember people who lost their lives trying to escape from the east. i'm standing in front of the chair. up there on the seventh floor that's where

angola merkel works and unfortunately i can't get in but on her official website you can take a look at her office. wow look at that view you can see that your garden the big inner city park and all the way to the right start. right next to the chancellery and i'm going to hop on that . nicknamed the chancellor train this will get me to the grand boulevard on today linton in no time and that's good because i have a very important appointment to keep. i'm of course going to take the v.i.p. entrance i mean i have a photo session with the chancellor herself. ok ok it might not be all that exclusive after all at madame tussaud everyone can take

a picture with aguilar markel or with morocco obama. or other celebrities a bit stiff but pretty close to the originals and you think. now i'm going to treat myself to a little break that got missed the perfect place for that it's right in the center of the city just behind the right stuff and the brandenburg gate. and oasis of peace and quiet for berlin or is and tourists longing to rest their legs. here in the park you can rent a rowboat chill out in a beer garden. or just sit back and watch the boats go by.

at dusk it's time to walk back over to the government district here i'm going to check out something i've been looking forward to all day. just behind the rice talk of a row of steps along the banks of the sprayer river offer a perfect view onto the muddy elisabet ludo's house and summer a big round window becomes a movie screen that presents milestones of german history from the end of the german empire to the fall of the berlin wall in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine this sound and light show is a wonderful way to end my day in berlin is fascinating government district. northwest of berlin is hamburg. located on the elba river the former hence the arctic city is famous for its port nowadays you can spend the night on this former fishing boat. were.

after a restful sleep in the floating hotel. is ready for his tour of hamburg. welcome to my hamburg summer tour always pretty close to the water from the concert hall through the entertainment district to the beach and if you're going to. but first a tour off a former fishing boat built in one thousand nine hundred forty seven. shows me his ship. this is the belly of the ship here's where they kept the fish cool on ice. would have us the only leave the harbor sometimes or is it permanently mortier . oh no it's fully functional we can set out right now for spain for instance or wherever you want it is ok maybe another time today i want to check out hamburg.

it took a long time and became more expensive than expected but it seems to have paid off the filo money concert hall has won many fans since its opening in two thousand and seventeen that makes it quite difficult to get concert tickets but a visit to the observation deck the plaza is free a great new balcony three hundred sixty degrees of pure hamburg. from where i'm from both from russia or why are you up here at the other people money. because it's a landmark in hamburg and it's a place you have to visit if you're in hamburg and london combo is all this is a good as i heard it's very difficult to get tickets that means you just get in

line and hope for the best there was a similar to that was exactly at six pm well go to the box office and hope we get tickets so you know any tricks to get tickets just luck that's all that's all i'll give it a try i seem to be like he knows about it but until then good luck. son paulie is still one of the most famous districts of hamburg famous and notorious here you will find pubs and grand theatres a red light district and culture and all of it not far from the elder. son poll even has a small museum where you can find out what has shaped the district. because pollie was originally a border region between the danish city off and the hands eric city of hamburg residents here knew how to use this kind of free space dance halls and cheap entertainment have been a part of some polish since the seventeenth century. it

was always an image of prostitution and crime evolved over the years i think if you bring it up about how does that state exempt poly is in my constant flux i'd say the red light district image which now plays a role in many tourists perceptions as well as in marketing strategy. is very much influenced by the one nine hundred seventy s. and the one nine hundred eighty s. and i think i got. it and lots of cliches emerge then. go and change hairdos and such. on survivor to nobody so with these cliches they try to attract tourists by saying we have a red light district we have gangsters that might be interesting to some people. think i think show we at the sonic only museum and don't think of ourselves in that we try to present everything in the development of the district and enable visitors to understand how certain myths were formed wish them to make some or just myths

and some are cliches. you can also take a dip in hamburg's river after years of pollution the water quality of the open today is clean enough to swim in bathing in the elbow has a long tradition is specially during the nineteenth century. join a list and author has already written two books about it like many locals she's a fan of the river. the victim what moves you to swim in the elba every day that's mean. foskett internist every day was like you know it's a great pleasure it's just wonderful for my now the elderlies at my doorstep i can go in where i want to i can do what i want to ever almost everything. and it's a sensuous experience the water in the flowing and streaming rising and falling water i enjoyed immensely. would join others always whether you're in the open

there are certainly other people to do you think this is a new trend. the custom of swimming in the al the return of the decades since german reunification many sewage treatment plants have been built in eastern germany and the wood has become much cleaner and feels almost for twenty or thirty years it was really dirty. i think the idea of having nature at your doorstep on the outskirts of a city with a population of millions and being able to use it should be revived. and then more and more people will see how lovely it is america should. have the beaches in hamburg have lots of visitors and at weekends in the summer and during school holidays there are many tourists and most know that the water ebbs and flows and avoid lying too close to the edge when the water is rising because it makes so now awful often of us are. of course i have to try this now my first

swim in the obit just briefing on such a beautiful summer day. there's hardly a better place to end the day on bell but then this place to compel the bar. it's famous in hamburg. a wonderful view. with the elbow that's impossible the river is hamburger lifeline so on the one hand

it's a useful traffic route and on the other it's in a way tranquility so no wonder the elbow fascinates so many people including myself . our final destination today is braman which is also the smallest of germany's sixteen states. britain is famous the world over thanks to a grimm's fairy tale which features a donkey a dog a cat and a rooster. nicole clearly decided to spend the day in the northern german hanseatic city. those are the tell musicians of bremen beloved characters from the grimm fairy tale of the same name stopping by on to the city to see them has become a must and touching the four legs is supposed to be good luck i want to find out

about the fairy tale let's see if some locals can help me. can do you know the story of the bremen town musicians. i cried for. bremen with me and you could become a town musician. they were animals that were treated badly so they left home from souls i felt. they settled down in a house where they were robbers and frightened the robbers away. they stayed in this robbers in the woods us that's because they found a life without hardship when in liberty and. it flows. so the frame in town musicians never made it into braman at least not in the fairy tale but they're statue has stood in front of the city hall since nineteen fifty three.