but i would like that tomorrow is seen for what he teaches an extraordinary day for germany an important day for the battle against a pandemic of a century. in a soviet to german population the hugo polls reveals that 32 percent of respondents want to receive seen as soon as possible another 33 percent want to wait until they see how to vaccines affect other people with 19 percent of those asked and willing to take the job and 16 percent and decided so this is just finished at the core and i think it's a problem. we need it but it's important at the moment. i just wish and i don't know i'm thinking about it but it causes an allergic reaction and i have allergies and i have asthma i don't know partly because of course we have to i'm afraid of corona. one vaccine as some everybody tried before me i don't want to be the 1st to try. the chairman has ministry has promised

a very 1000000 doses of the vaccine will be delivered before the end of the year the vaccine raises hope for many but does crisis is far from over germany near the tasman daily death just before christmas but many where we don't face the family reunions could result in a catastrophic 3rd wave in early january. and for more on this let's talk with our chief political editor mikaela cousteau. the vaccine was developed in germany why is it only now reaching germans when some other countries have been injecting it for at least a week. yes that's because the europeans and germany also opted for a thorough campaign to look at this to have the european agency in charge give the green light for the whole of the you to be able to use it this slowed down the process it would have been fast at individual states have put that on a had put that on a fast track but they didn't because they also wanted to send

a european a united signal and that we will see as this gets rolled out the very same day across the european union but sure this also sparked a lot of debate a lot of criticism particularly in the public why does britain the u.s. get those vaccinations 1st when they had developed in germany and you were talking make it about europe sending a message will the distribution be fair between the richer countries like germany and some of the less rich countries well that's certainly what the european commission aims for it's seen as a symbolic get more than a symbolic gesture that the entire e.u. rolls it out at the very same time germany signed up for the 1st choice of this vaccine when it was still unclear whether it would actually work and now we will see over a 1000000 doses here in germany and in parallel across the european union rolled

out at the same time but this is a drop in the ocean if you look at the figures here in germany every state will receive opt 210000 doses and you need 2 of those so really it's the most vulnerable who will be reached 1st and among that group a very small fraction. and if you're living in germany now that seems to be 2 things happening at the same time you've got these vaccine roll outs which are offering hope but the same time we've had these hard lock downs across the region is there any sign of when life might actually return to some kind of normal flu. well i mean you mentioned in your intro that. tens of millions of vaccinations will be possible in the 1st half of 2021 and that's still very much the timeline that we are in that's also the message message that came across quite clearly from the german health ministry again spahn today that all those regulations in place

keeping distance and mass are still here to stay but that the vaccination will allow life to return to something like normal before the next so yes we are still in the midst of a pandemic we see neighboring go into its 3rd lockdown the is in its 2nd and we're still a far cry from soon those figures really improve significantly with this small cavite of the days over christmas here but we know that for school not all cases are being reported so all societies not to send europe are still in this for the long. ok so perhaps some light at the end of the tunnel but still a very long tunnel mikaela cousteau thank you so much for that let's take a look now at some of the other developments in the corona virus pandemic. south korea has recorded its 2nd highest daily number of infections since the disease broke out over 1100 new cases were reported the day after

a previous record was set russia has crossed the 3000000 threshold of code 19 cases the country has reported record numbers of cases and deaths nearly every week but a new lock down isn't in sight and hungry has started its coronavirus vaccination program just hours after the 1st shipments of the biotech far as are drug arrived in the country the government said its 1st priority laws with health care workers. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. in afghanistan 2 police officers were killed in an explosion in kabul when a bomb attached to their vehicle blew up officials said a civilian was injured in the attack a separate blast in the afghan capital left 2 more police wounded no one has claimed responsibility. the united nations says 3 peacekeepers from burundi have been killed and 2 wounded in attacks in the central african republic un backed troops have been battling with rebel militia groups ahead of elections on sunday

the situation is tense with the government calling in military support from russia and rwanda. and we turn to the united states now where police in nashville tennessee say they believe an explosion which rocked the downtown area was an intentional act at least 3 people were injured and there was widespread damage after a motor home exploded in the early hours of christmas morning police in nashville say investigators are looking into possible human remains found near the site of the blast. this aerial footage shows the extent of the damage from the explosion the force of the blast from the recreational vehicle smashed windows and sent debris flying. luckily the early hour of the day the streets of central nashville were largely empty when the explosion happened police had already arrived on the scene after receiving a phone call reporting gunshots in the area. has also responded they encountered an

r.v. that had a record senate a potential bomb with dead nate within 15 minutes of says upon hearing that decided to evacuate the buildings nearby one woman tells of a chilling automated message that spurred 10 narrow escape pickguard you know accounting on where their vehicle will work forward in this thing manner and we're in an courting in the well you know we started really gathering our thing back africa are in her carrier i got my current directory and then another apartment that was on her overlooking 2nd avenue and we were all very concerned about all this in the way my 5 year old saying in another apartment that was on the other side of building on the back side overlooking the river and we all wear down and got in the car and where investigators are now looking into the possible motive

behind the explosion i think people will do that was not an accident. and from that little take a little bit of time to get to the bottom of it and i do think it was clearly done when nobody was going to be a room it would be a different message if it was you know 5 pm on a friday. down time nashville was sealed off and the f.b.i. have appealed to the public for any relevant information. please tell us what you know. we need leads we need your help. president donald trump has been briefed on. it's a tradition that is celebrated all across the world over christmas and in private hundreds braved the discomfort of an icy swim in the river to ensure that tradition survived another year despite coronavirus restrictions the alfred demi moore elsewhere and was given a special exemption and its 74th year. 2 degrees outside

and i take chattering 6 degrees in the water despite icy conditions hundreds of canes swimmers dunk themselves in the vault of a river in prague city center from old timers to teenagers the brave participants celebrated the annual swimming events 74th year and while coronaviruses canceled many sporting activities this traditional mesa was given the green light. this competition has a long tradition and the fame of the competition is so great that the ministry of health decided it was an event worthy of special attention. participants had to present a negative code test in order to compete and abide by strict hygiene protocol but the turnout was still strong despite the added obstacles last year there were 433 participants and this year about 323 people registered to see the event is named in honor of swimming enthusiastic alfred nikko them he organized progs 1st ever

christmas cold water swim back in 1923 and his legacy is still convincing people to test their resilience to this day. and finally to australia where ecologists are recruiting members of the public for the biggest ever frog count to see how they are recovering from this year's devastating fires but they're not relying on sightings of the in fabian's rather on when they can be heard let's take a listen. it's the sign of a thriving ecosystem the ribbit of a frog with a wad pfizer ravaged australia earlier this year pushed to some species to the brink of extinction. the sheer scale of the destruction made it impossible for scientists to study the impact on their own so they developed a frog idea a smartphone app that allows users to be caught and upload frog cause.

we don't know the long term consequences of that's why we desperately need recordings from and more scientists getting in the field and looking at them but it's a little bit of hope 2020 i'll take that where i can thousands are answering the call taking their phones into the great outdoors to take part in the world's biggest frog counts for some recording of a single species and we can narrow it down quite quickly and so it's it's a common thing that we've heard a lot of in other instances you may have a chorus of. species on. the data is used to plot and track for frog population species by species. is hopeless findings will lead to a giant leap in our understanding of how frogs respond to fire and have a cover wood for smoke has cleared.

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it's packed with myths and desires. is it the work of a wasteful lunatic or the wondrous conception of a genius who has never understood is it a medieval castle or a modern construction. a console inseparable from the tragic fate of the varian king new flick the 2nd. paragraph. in $869.00 the 1st story the slate ingenious divine or absolute cheech it's a phenomenon or the loo that reaches around the world and yet it was built for one man alone beautifully to the 2nd or the fairy tale king as he is known to us today his legacy includes a castle and him if. people call me

a fool. will god call me that too when i finally received his summons. the man who built it never had the pleasure of living in his finished palace the king died before it was completed and the circumstances surrounding his death remain unclear to this day. his story has become judgement and his legacy lives on. our head the stories of noise and castle and the man who built it exotic the 2nd are so closely intertwined with each other as to make them almost unique story of a culture that can borrow how much. it all began here in when she found out he would fix father king maximillian the 2nd rebuilt a late medieval castle here turning it into a comfortable house the family often spent summers here. much to his

father's regret vade the 1st born son was holy i'm interested in politics. instead with his younger brother he preferred to explore the area around the alps scene shanty lakes as well as horn chunk down. in 1961 the varian puppy proof consummate the 1st documentary film about the life and fate of luke vick the 2nd. here in all here on the top floor of hole in shango castle is where the early childhood of luke big and his younger brother also unfolded on. the walls a decorated with scenes from mediæval legend says it's all very cozy very romantic

all much. good think grew up surrounded by fan maidens dragons and heroes. his relationship to his father was a distant bond intrigue filled he was traced with condescension and he found that his mother lacked a poetic sensibility. at the age of 18 a prince noted felt more was home in the world of legends than in the monday and real world. there hopping off from difference his father marks a 1000000 the 2nd died suddenly and march 18th 64th. when your vision was shocked by the fact that he was to ascend to the throne automatically and at once the shootout we know is that he left his father's death bed in floods of tears similar and he was even more shaken when a servant addressed him as yours. majesty immediately after his father passed away

. no one had prepared him for this sudden ascension to the throne. 3 days after the funeral he wrote in his diary just one group feeling he in time a penny each. cane. treated title from by a big the 2nd of a very a felt torn and unsure at 1st. you months he was someone who lacked stability in a man who was author lee unsuitable for his job asking truly the representative of the berrien state autos for a common guy that. at least he had been tortured how to handle money the records of princeling things pocket money can be found in the archives of the house of little spot. in july $862.00 he spent a total of 19 gildas in $48.00 crowns on the scene donations for the poor

chocolates and presents. the prince had to keep meticulous apparent support he spent introducing them to his father the style it's enough to lift it so you don't discount it was meant to help the crown prince learn how to live frugally of course and some and you can see that for example when he wanted to go to the theater he would have to pay for it himself and as he put it even if his father's lessons on was looted big considered to be excessive frugality had a big impact on and i think it agreed after his father's death upon his coronation a loss i want no more of this on necessary miserliness i was at i will figure it unfortunately he didn't understand that even a king's resources are not endless that's what i think it's beautiful. his majesty didn't learn much from his father's example. one of his 1st official acts was to invite the highly indebted composer he had wagner to munich and to finance him unconditionally. at. the end countered wagner's musical

dramas based on scenes that were very much inspired by the medieval very detailed world here i was and became an ardent fan of that music all because the from his own music i so the maestro as he respectfully called the composer became one of the 1st people to learn of the king somewhat unusual plan in the outdoor area. he wrote to wagner i discovered the pups and i intend to build a new castle above the old castle ruins in holland fungo by the pilot or in the true style of the castles bill shorten ancient german lines are charitable i. the 1st sketches share a fairly simple castle i. watched a noisy sun shine he commissioned a theatrical scene painter christiane young to do the initial design is at the

image quite naturally those designs were quite literally theatrical. in this part this. design fuses elements from medieval germany morris spain and the misty world a freak of this world's this is a hunted india it's also an in direct challenge to his father's cozy hole inch fungo castle within the built in the b. to maya static and with scenes from historical picture books on the walls of world of i wanted something grand something divorced from the real world and on a monumental scale in one with all of our form. and he was to achieve it. and i could take short dream come true was a man who commissioned it or to escape reality with constructive plan to see. the municipal archives in facade harbor a small treasure a photographic treasure. these

photos languished in a drawer for 150 years. now and these photos taken at the start of the construction process have never been seen before as far as i know is in this is the very 1st time that they're be shown. to see. they were part of the deceased the state and donated to the archive the photographer to look fiction radler born in force in an 830 he was the 1st person to document noise from stein castle this photo shows the remains of a medieval castle on the mountain ridge of disinfo to astronomy lescott as you can see the main reason bridge which was built in 866 i know exactly what a builder you work on the castle began in 869 so this photo must have been taken sometime between those years and of course that means that this is the oldest photo

by fiction in our collection of this it's. called create through my great grandfather actually worked on the noice bunch tynecastle building site so in 4 and my grandfather would sometimes taking his lunch at the council of the mark and i think it was because he thought he might catch a glimpse of the king their current about including the example we're curious about the king he was not exactly shy but he rarely made public appearances or and when you were up at the construction site you might expect to see him some time on the way out of poles. in the military and capital munich people were skeptical about the monarch zeal for building a council but not here in alva and. it was all those as in fact no one criticized the construction of noise punch line. ju-ju it's high altitude this region is not very fertile so people didn't live a life of affluence here and a giant construction like noisy bunch on bed approximately

a 3rd of the population in houston and the it. was even possible to run into the king. gets a movie to work i mean there are some stories like the one of him meeting a young cowherd who asked him the time. the boy had no clue who the stranger was then he said why do you need to know what time it is and the boy replied precociously well i have to take my cows for milking and i don't know when. he then told the boy the time and even asked for the name of the farm 2 days later a king's servant rode up on a horse and handed the boy of bob watch on a chain so he could see the time himself and know when he should take the cows in on can of is really the coolest and there are a whole lot of stories at this personal levels of painting

a very different picture of the king and how he's depicted in munich comes on this bill as this this is moving from the inside with all those years. there he was known as a spendthrift and the metric but here in southern bavaria his subjects admired him as a monarch with a personal touch. the photographer who ventured life made the most of the spectacular views in the area. almost $100.00 french a graphic plates a kept in the mean it's a poor archives the frisson. air is signed with his camera which was new technology at the time something that only had. just got going to win a castle was built as she went to founder it was a big heavy camera this was no smart for that he dragged everything up the mountain

and that's why we have now have photographic plates of photos. today the wafer thin photographic plates a delicacy and irreplaceable every building phase was documented carefully for 17 years that helps historians reconstruct the building process. first the ancient ruins and the mountaintop who moved from the site and you steam train was constantly at work. to do that's right living the 2nd was not just agreement he was a visionary too he had the will the imagination and of course the power and the resources to make this dream come true. the blueprint for

a mega sized project. was impatient and for studious and he wanted the building to progress as quickly as possible when anything didn't go the way he wanted he would be extremely displeased those responsible would fall into the greatest disgrace. for tom from the top of the tower to the cellar for everything was not big the seconds work at sea he dedicated himself to every detail and that if i was in a regular correspondence with the royal superintendent of construction and the architects he take he always inspect the plans personally so he could decide how to forsee if that what to change. in matters of government look i think mostly how to bow to his ministers and accept their advice. it was a kingdom in which he was. really just a figurehead with very little to say but when it came to his building projects he roots crane. concrete up so i don't think was

a difficult client or what he was constantly scrapping plans here and suddenly deciding the room should be different would go newly built walls might have to be torn down coos and. most people are surprised to learn that the council is built of bricks. and clad with rocks from igneous by quality. to fill is the mold cliff face and the walls are made up of the same materials it's a very sophisticated construction built from materials that come from the local area as it really organically blends in with its.