passion for track starts november 6th on. this is live from berlin to take off at last here in the german capital as the new airport finally opens 9 years later in 3 times over budget a relief for the planners but the pandemic has grounded most flights an environmentalist were hoping it would never get off the ground. dozens dead as a powerful earthquake rocks turkey and greece hundreds more injured as buildings

collapse in the turkish city of ismy rescuers pulled more than 100 people from the rubble others still trapped. and goodbye mr bond double 07 star sean connery dies at the age of 90 widely seen as the best james bond of all connery played the secret agent in no less than 6 blockbusters film experts said his legacy. greetings on michael berlin's new airport has finally opened 9 years late planning errors and construction chaos led to its launch being postponed 6 times an easy jet flight which only came from the old airport on the other side of the city was the 1st to touch down with a lift tons of flights from munich. following close behind the construction of

berlin brandenburg willy brandt airport started in 2006 with its opening a ritually plan for 2011 the new airport has been dogged not only by delays but also by protesters many of whom are concerned about climate change. and early morning vigil outside the terminal building. inside a sit in these environmental activists want to bring the airport to a standstill on air painting day. was coming session to be happening during a climate crisis opening huge at port at traffic needs to be drastically reduced. the opening has been massively scaled back due to coronavirus related restrictions but the people behind it and brandenburg at port are used to a change in plans the airport was supposed to open its doors 9 years ago but one construction fault after another kept them closed meanwhile the debts kept racking up. its example isn't the only massive

construction project in germany to have a troubled history. but now we're looking ahead for them due to the pandemic and lines weren't be offering many routes at the start the airport's operators expect there'll be around $5000.00 passengers on opening weekend and when button's previous main airport closes a week from now they expect a bell in brandenburg on the old china felt terminal next door to sever around 24000 passengers a day. a reported peter real adult joins me now in the studio peter the surfboard was due to open in 2011 but has been long overdue in the long long over budget but so long i'm going to butcher this metaphor because there's really no. accurate way to put it in words you know the what we're seeing here the whole project there's been a proverbial plane crash in slow motion it's a combination of poor planning and have execution really

a case study in what happens when politics and bureaucracy get in the way of common sense it was dreamed up in 9090 shortly after the fall of the wall busy it took 7 years to settle on a spot to built it which was the last place that experts recommend just on the location just on location then the official groundbreaking didn't happen for another decade 2006 because lawsuits infighting between the various parties. finally agreed in 2000 on the opening for winter 2011 that's really when the trouble began i'm going to go through a list real quick so you can keep up because there's just so much so a year before the airport supposed to open its doors one of the main project contractors goes bust then it's pushed back to 2012 that's pushed back after inspectors you know months before supposed to open reports some 120000 if defects ranging from fire safety issues automatic doors that didn't open lights

that didn't turn on others that didn't turn off 170 kilometers of wire that strangers we wired that obese pushed back to 2013 we see you know even more of the facts it's just it's impossible to keep up 2013 becomes 2017 becomes 2018 becomes 21000 until finally we're now looking at 2020 you know there's been allegations of corruption of construction workers dealing you know from the site we've seen 4 different manders the whole thing is gone 3 times over budget you know it's basically a litany of horrors is what you're describing here in the 40 seconds that we have left why has this become such a big story not only here in. anybody around the world one really because this was supposed to stand for everything that germany and especially berlin aspired to become after the fall of the wall right so a big global player modern you know really find the face of everything that people

associate with germany engineering efficiency punctuality and it even got to the point that a german satire site the postilion. you know proposed a new grammatical tents the future 3 to describe this is something that happens in the future that's never going to happen and that's what we're looking at is still in a national global embarrassment for the moment and now it's happening very little fanfare i think that tells you everything you need to know if you are really dull and this headache of a story 2 aspirin and call me in the morning people the death toll from an earthquake off the coast of turkey is rising as rescuers rushed to find survivors in the rubble at least 27 people are now confirmed dead and 800 others injured the magnitude 7 quake struck in the aegean sea between the greek island of some of those and the turkish coast much of the damage is in the turkish coastal city of izmir where several buildings were brought to the ground. it's

a race against time rescue workers in izmir are trying to find survivors in the rubble of a collapsed building suddenly cheers from the crowd. someone was found. but others were unable to escape. like. i thought the ground had shattered you can't think in that moment all you can try to do is get out everything was collapsing around us our building stayed intact but we were really panicked and managed to get out at the last minute to take care of. this is a family home on the 15th floor of an apartment building in izmir when the earthquake hit.

the quake struck deep in the ground beneath the aegean sea 2. the former he was followed by dozens of aftershocks with tremors felt as far away as athens and doug area builder. i was in my shop i was talking with someone who felt like we were on a road it started to shake while i was watching our building shake i saw this one collapse. a small scale tsunami flooded the streets in some districts sending debris inland and causing further damage. to. the greek island of samuel's also suffered casualties damage and flooding with the foreign leaders of both nations pledging to help one another.

seismologists have warned that potentially powerful aftershocks could be expected for several weeks to come. earlier i spoke with correspondent dorian jones and asked him why there are still so many buildings in turkey that are not quake proof . well that is a question many people in turkey are asking in fact a leading turkish seismologist speaking on turkey t.v. last night professor john said it is only the poll that buried in these buildings he says you never see the rich people being dragged out of the rubble of the of their homes and this is putting great focus on the structural integrity of turkish buildings now after the 999 earthquake in the provincial city of is made to close the stamboul in which 700000 people died strict building codes have been in force along with a program of strengthening buildings across the country but as the images of this

is me a earthquake on the lines there is still a lot of work to be done is take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. voters in ivory coast are casting their ballots to elect a new president incumbent leader. is running for a contested 3rd term which the opposition says is unconstitutional they've called for a boycott of the vote at least 20 people died in violence ahead of the election. tanzania's leading opposition parties have rejected the results of presidential elections after wednesday's vote handed incumbent. a 2nd term the electoral commission said he secured 84 percent of the both the opposition says the election was more with irregularities and are calling for mass protests. a 3rd man is now in custody in connection with thursday's knife attack in the french city

of nice 3 people were killed in the city's north basilica it's the 3rd suspected islamised attack in france in just 2 months. slovakia has begun its push to test most of its citizens for over the weekend officials aim to swab everyone over the age of 10 testing is free and voluntary but those stopped by police without a negative result certificate face a heavy fine. actor sean connery best known for playing double 07 in the james bond films has died at the age of 90. requests that. he shot to stardom in the very 1st bond film dr no in 1962 and went on to dominate the silver screen for 4 decades the veteran scot won many awards during his lengthy career including an oscar and 3 golden globes

connery's death was announced in a statement from his family. we're joined now by our d. w. film expert scott roxbury scott nice to see you a giant of cinema has left us how big a loss is this well i think percent about and i have to say for me personally it's a huge loss obviously sean connery was 99 years old perhaps can be surprising to lose a man of that age but he still powers over over center i mean particular of course with his role as as james bond that that figure that he created with dr nolan and 6 other one film. created the franchise of james bond still perhaps one of the greatest the most powerful franchises in cinema history but it also created a certain type of man sort of a combination of class macho masculinity and also humor which was

a huge part of sean connery's appeal and east on thousands of imitators since he started starred in dr no but no one's ever come close to. sean connery showed us scott i don't know about you but i believe that one of the great parlor games in the world the world over is debating who the best bond was and sean connery was always on the top the list at least where i was what made him so special. yeah i mean that probably game it's fun to play but obviously there's only one answer the 1st best and only true james bond is sean connery just so we got that clear but yeah he had a massive i mean please let's be honest that. had a massive influence as i said i mean you could argue now that his sort of the image masculine image that he created particular of the bond films but also with his other movies like like the touchable hunt for red october the various action films that he did you could argue that the masculine images become

a bit outdated i mean despite his charm and sexiness on screen all his character is male characters tend to be quite violent which can definitely criticize but you can never cannot deny the man's influence. his his idea of what it was to be a movie star still is very very present today and i think that's one of the greatest at least on screen like this is that image of double or 7 looms large of course but what else will he be remembered for. well you mentioned of course the joy that he's he was a scotsman and one things perhaps not as well known outside of scotland or great britain is that he was a huge proponent of scottish independence from the very start of the 1st minister of scotland sturgeon p. tribute to him saying that despite his great cheap it's on screen he was 1st and foremost a proud scotsman he always campaigned for scottish independence he said he would be back to scotland if it became independent from the u.k. and i think he would like to have been remembered as

a core working class boy who made good but knew where he came from edinburgh from scotland and was always fighting for the independence of scotland from the rest of the u.k. scot rockstar really appreciate you spending time with us on this take care. watching the news in berlin i'll be back with more headlines at the top of the hour for me and the rest of the team here thanks for watching we'll see you soon. nico because in germany to learn german i looked in the cool why not learn with him d w z learning course because fake.