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this stunts especially note. for many in germany football is about so much more than just the result less discerning funs can watch subtleties classico from their living rooms. you know watching the news up some culture is up next on more headlines at the top of the hour i'm rebecca racist in that end thanks. where i come from we have to fly for a free press and was born and raised in a new town with the painter chic with just one t.v. shadow and a few newspapers one official information as a journey i have worked on the streets of many cantrips and their problems are all in the same 14 social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press. work on the floor to stay silent when it comes
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to the fans of the humans and see the microphones who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is paris and i'm part. away from all those loud headlines out there a very quiet and of an era is happening here in berlin as the city's iconic take to the airport closes for good yes it is ugly so why are people so sad to see this cold war remnant go we'll tell you in a moment and paintings by children who were torn from their aboriginal families artworks by australia's stolen generation. were the 1st coronavirus cases are growing up that many artists. and performers are doing
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their best not to throw in the towel this year's jazz fest berlin is a perfect example a fully digital festival with performances not just in berlin but new york as well . improvise ation is the essence of jazz but particularly important at this year's jazz fest. which kicked off the 57th edition. being played and streamed live but there are no audience is no applause the performances take place with strict hygiene regulations in force is. what is happening is an amazing we really. believe. in
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a way it makes sense. to experiment and improvise their way out of. the festival organizers wait in various now a global audience can take part in conversations with musicians concerts and multimedia jazz projects. it's very very sad that this could only take place without audience but still the digital connection is a chance because we are now have events in 8 cities over the 4 days. and for 2 days there will be a virtual bridge to new york vibraphone virtual. and other acts like sex often it's the key ship benjamin where lifestream the sets the roulette crop of brooklyn and enter into a virtual dialogue with bands like. miles from berlin.
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it's not just live concerts there are multimedia projects like this video which will have its premiere online in the festival the film with shades of david lynch was produced by the kim collective joined the 1st corner lockdown in an empty palin hotel. the u.s. election is of course also ever present over the 4 day festival musicians like drama jim black concerned about the situation in the u.s. after you're here for a while it's going to be tough times for america i'm sad to say that but i don't see it going any other way black lives matter protests the way that people are treated the economic injustice in america that's not going away it's just in suspension during this strange election show. artist moore
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mother has summed up her feelings about the mood in america in a poem pandemic one sing me i knew lullaby. shifting pictures instagram graveyard of memory. at least we can still make news. wow you may have heard of berlin's fancy new airport the one that took 9 extra years and billions of extra euros to open well plenty of berliners don't even want it why because they love the city's other airport to go and its main terminal where passengers only take a few steps from curbside to check in to boarding take isn't just efficient it's also an icon of the cold war era but this weekend it's finally set to close for good airports architects want to say goodbye. meinhardt for air con and floats in
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mark have come to say goodbye to their airport berlin table before it closes down for good they wanted to take a walk down memory lane. your hero out of the puzzle piece floorboards wikia they were useful but an acoustic disaster because of their luggage carts 6 wheels came later the carts were allowed so we scrapped the original floorboards and replaced them with the cheapest materials. they designed every single detail in this terminal from the building shape to the interior styling and even the indoor and outdoor signs take all airport wasn't just a run of the mill project for these famous german architects it was their 1st big commission after getting their college degree in 1966 their design won the competition for the new airport in the divided city of berlin. at that point in time teagle was just an airfield it was originally a takeoff and landing runway used for air lift planes bringing goods to the
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landlocked city of west berlin after the 2nd world war then it was repurposed in 1974 the new airport opened a verified over 2000 people. entrance ticket was a pair of glasses like the he's a little late so the opening ceremony took place. that the west berlin mayor trial should. call should he or she got these glasses as a key table became the prototype of the short distance airport optimizing the space between arrival and departure gates it was popular with berliners and tourists the airport was the point of arrival for prominent guests it was the stage where emotional moments took place like the return of the german soccer world champions in 2014 but the airport became out of touch with modern needs it was old fashioned and too small for a booming capital city after german reunification it was necessary to build
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a new airport and close down take her. yes this is up now it's time to say goodbye not without a touch of melancholy because this building documents a time when our job was all about people's needs much time when customer was king. to do. i call it boy as a whole right here for more melissa this strikes me as a kind of weird moment for this city this is this moment that's decades in the making when one airport closes another one opens hardly anyone's flying a little fanfare yet the be the new airport really opened with the wind the bare airport boss said this was nothing to celebrate after this year's long delay the
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engineer said that they were a shining so it just seems like somebody just opened the door one way one day one day a week ago and just let people know the main architect of the new airport is actually the same one we just saw of the old airport to. my heart from dark on one of his big things that he hates airport shopping yeah yeah that's was that was one of the great things about the intake is that it wasn't about shopping it wasn't about entering into this huge moral filled with juicy free goods it wasn't about restaurants it wasn't about any of that stuff it was about flying flying flying one of the extraordinary things that you mentioned early on was the short distance between getting dropped off in a taxi and actually getting into the plane it really was just a few may to get off and then you just where the planes it was just just behind the woman behind you know just behind the counter with who was sitting was where the plane once that actually my understanding of it is that he didn't want shopping in the near airport he made
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a plan with very little shopping and they tried to cram it in at the last minute and that led to all these other problems. that led to some of the delays that we saw a lot of people do have a lot of affection for take airport because backs of the cold war yeah because because west berlin was an island inside east germany and to avoid these transit roads the only way to avoid these transit roads was to fly in and out of order so a lot of these west berlin is really hold that close to their hearts i mean those also i mean it was also very badly in wasn't it was very gritty and it was really right yeah it was a beautiful to look at from the ground i don't think but i think once you go into the plug into a plane and you were flying in or you were flying out it really was impressive you got to see all these lovely the use of these hexagon forms i wasn't sure if it was sort of or it was an acquired taste but one that i think we all cancer appreciate after we landed there a few different times anything planned for the farewell not that much planned for
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the failed well the building 5 department going to say goodbye with the ceremonial water oche. moment there are people sort of still watching appliances watching planes going in and ask and there's not really that much plans of space is going to be used as an open question for of the 5000 people 5000 departments and space for more than 10000 right so certainly got big plans and so we can you know we can certainly use those apartments well it's a very quiet goodbye to a place with a lot of history melissa thanks for coming on the show. now for decades and australia government agencies indigenous australian children from their families to reeducate them into white culture a new exhibition in australia now features the artworks of some of those children known as the stolen generations just let you know this report does contain images of aboriginal people who have passed away which can be upsetting to aboriginal
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australians viewers. children's impressions of their surroundings the past were created by young aboriginal children who were part of the stolen generation the boys. from the families and detained at the counter looked native settlement joy 1940. dog back show is a survivor of the. boys with. the works toward the world after the english woman came across them in 1949. ended up in new york and sat for storage for almost 50 years they were discovered again by chance in 2005 and 2 curtin university in country the
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university has now launched a campaign to create a callup center for truth telling to help the wider community in healing and reconciliation. with truth and justice and that's what we need. really. tony hanson to shed light on the true stories of the stolen generations. fabled paris bookshop shakespeare and company has put out a call for help amid france's new lockdown the owner says she's afraid for her store survival and she's asking people to order books through her shops website rather than from big online platforms this week top french authors and publishers
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