clee does berlin have to offer there is even a lot to discover. we've got some tips for your bucket list. corner. smart person. and some great cultural memorials to boot. double trouble free go. right now you could say you berlin is in between in a state of flux actually like much of germany and in fact the world the lockdown

continues as the pandemic spirals further out of control contact restrictions anxiety and no real end in sight the public and large sectors of the economy are feeling the strain and travelling remains strongly discouraged traveling is far from easy at the moment and i personally am still very hesitant about taking trips so i'm staying here in berlin and my hometown and despite all the restrictions on public life the city keeps evolving rapidly so there is even now a lot to discover plus. even under lockdown the cities on the move will show you what's new about town. well have a look at how berlin is presenting and so on line and the time of covert. and

will go far far away to south africa's kruger national park. there's a new underground star in town for a limp subway system was recently expanded and while that may not seem like a note worthy of vets the result is pretty stunning. the new extended hue 5 connects a number of popular sites in the city center and many will become one in its own right. to learn more i'm meeting told must clear he's an architect and has been offering tourism for a lens most iconic buildings for 25 years. i want to you think of they're going to see that house station well i think it's gorgeous it's a functional straightforward station built with fine materials but still attractive

in this black and white a steadicam. you know if these columns are in fact inspired by the vaulted cellars of the building that preceded the red town hall it's actually a kind of architectural archetype vaults supports and loads in pillars that direct the entire burden of the station onto a narrow 14 between the tracks. and what's also noteworthy is having all the furnishings integrated into it so they coordinated with one another the waste baskets the benches the information panels and so on it's all been redesigned here so it follows the same design concept. design yeah it looks very tidy. great view. this is a very well placed exit if you're a tourist making your 1st stop and berlin city center.

when you say a ride on the new 5 is worth it simply to appreciate the design so. yes definitely i believe these are the most beautiful and up to date subway stations to be built in modern times all the designs were chosen in competitions which means the best of the best got the chance to make their ideas a reality that's always the result of a competition even if it means a bit more effort but for berlin city center it's well worth it. all to the stop at berlin's famous museum island is still under construction but its most spectacular feature can already be made out as ceiling full of stars. architect max jeweler got his inspiration from the scenery of a production of mozart's the magic flute.

the funds tax stop was completed early on and has already been used as a setting for movies and opera. was on the. particular detail that sets this station apart is one of the architects like capitals here you have. up above you can walk across the gloss disks but of course it's also combined with auto official light that falls downward from these columns. then you have these spotlights in assuming that remind you of it's got something cosmic even supernatural about it i think you perceive subconsciously. you see the sky lights from above this is the other side to those of the columns of

. the extension of the you 5 to 10 years cost 500000000 euros and added 2.2 kilometers and fun fact it's the 1st line to reach berlin central station. the new line also takes us to another recent addition to the city center the humboldt for a museum that connects culture of art and. its façade is a partial reconstruction of the former berlin palace seat of the pression which was destroyed in the allied bombing of world war 2 it's been a very controversial project from the get go. if i am going to see this building as berlin's new center how do you feel about it . as an architect and i believe i can speak for many of my fellows i don't see it as the best solution to bring an imperial palace back to life. and i wonder if

it's since the by. message to the younger generation that we didn't know anything better to do than to be the imperial age and spend so much on a building in the center of the capital city that was supposed to take us into the future as well. the humbled form is intended to be a very future oriented facility but to choose a backdrop that conjures up over 100 years of the past i have to come out and say it makes me wonder. and the decision to tear down an example of east german architecture that. represented a country for nearly 40 years and had already achieved cult status and had established uses. i think that was pretty uncalled for actually. i can't really warm to the palace. for there was a huge debate over what to do with the site before construction began what you as

an architect and upper lehner have wanted. i would have liked to see the palace of the republic made over into a really good center pompidou like in paris where a modern building in the middle of the old town has become a major attraction for me i would like to see an experiment to last with the future here that's what the home boat pharmacy posed to be but i don't think that's done it any favors. after 8 years of construction works the humble form was inaugurated in 2020 but because of the pandemic it remains closed to the public for the time being it can only be visited virtually. nobody knows just yet when visitors will be allowed into berlin's newest museum and while many others have reopened their doors the situation continues to be unpredictable.

the little slowly berlin's museums are being allowed to reopen always at hearing to street covert protocols of course one of them is the famous natural history museum of the city. and order to get any you need to book that timeslot online the museum is most famous for its dinosaur collection. towering above visitors and over 13 metres this crack use are as is the world's largest standing dinosaur skeleton i'm here to see. the museum social media manager how are people responding to the museum reopening before and of course we're glad to see people come here again boats were only allowed to open under certain conditions because time slots per day when 250 people could come in one of the morning and one of the afternoon turns in front of the tickets for the 1st 2 weeks were booked out to no time at all yeah dozens and the start of the pandemic you build of an extensive

online portfolio how's that going then as a that's. are already active on social media from the coronavirus spread some things on what was added with a lot of jurors on instagram and you 2 talk trying to bring in for example of the generation suitors and we offered we're going to. give users various perspectives on the exhibition and then the research collections we also add to podcasts beats and bones. podcast and shoot in one of 8 interview couldst notes museums for the tool called. student visit as a football like. ridiculous lead montanus 12 for. the i 6 when you're not. getting into. the fashion i'm. going to that now do you measure the impact of what you're doing

about to. let the just your you had over 1000000 views on the digital form so i think you call that a success we have the figures from the social media challenge. where. instagram for instance one 3rd to irving berlin with the new the 3rd and the rest of germany and the other 3rd by a world wide and so we're producing in 2 languages. makes. for a let's natural history museum as one of the biggest of its kind in germany their collection encompasses 30000000 specimens since we were there the museum has had to close again because of the worsening pandemic situation. what has fast tracked global digitise ation on the music business is no exception the sector is among the hardest hit during the crisis with concerts here in germany completely relegated to on line platforms here is a low look at one lens music theme still has to offer these days even if it's only

01. the berlin are full armani the city's premier concert venue is for the present closed. even so the berlin philharmonic one of the world's premier orchestras is holding concerts they can be hard on what's known as the digital concert hall an online platform. the digital concert hall was actually founded over 10 years ago concert recordings as well as documentaries and portraits of musicians can all be retrieved from the vast archive for a fee. palin has 3 major opera houses the undisputed 1st among them is the battle in state opera on to den linden boulevard which began as the royal opera and to the pandemic is

keeping the stage dark the house had been reopened in 2017 after 7 years of renovations primarily to make optimal use of state of the arctic used to design. in spite of the coronavirus the house has also been holding crimea's already planned though come to the minimum in the form of online productions. i am. now controls are you point of fact the premiers we held on t.v. and online during the time of corona and our own corona program as well had bigger audiences that otherwise 5 from corner number $100.00 plus were the online performances which offered up an average of $10000.00 viewers per day and now for

our broadcasts of lohengrin and genova and from that we sent. that they met with lots of energy and they enjoyed a wide distribution cuff in the stick and if you consider that we've got 1377 seats and then these numbers the upper is reaching now a very encouraging and. does able to get. in addition to opera the concerts by the house orchestra the shops capella balun are also going online though because of the pandemic with repertoire for small ensemble. 'd the digital programme of the starts out on today in london is it sensible free of charge but generally for 30 days only. music lovers the world over would do

best to catch the shows as they can. collins club scene is of course world famous it's been languishing for over a year now the clubs and d.j.'s have meanwhile banded together to form an online network called united we stream. and there will be a stream stuff in its united we stream was conceived on march 18th 2020 by the berlin club commission. in the we claim club culture network is a fund raising and streaming initiative to help berlin's clubs through the crisis. in billionaire copes in their concerts i hear from. ninety's we stream rivers can experience deejays in empty shot of clubs and are often rather unusual places around town as here in berlin music t.v.

tower in a natural history museum. now the platform has moved beyond palin to become a worldwide active network. as things stand now the best way to experience berlin as a tourist can also be found online be about perl an app is one among many possibilities. the about berlin app may not be a lockdown baby but. it really does do the trick if you're yearning for some berlin and your life initially it was developed as a guide for history based walking tours of the city well now it can be excellently reappropriated as a teaser of what tourists can expect once the city reopens in store so that.

the about during the coleman crisis the about berlin app has taken on a somewhat different role normally it would be aimed at people wanting to take a self guided walking tour how has this app function of volved during the crisis itself and. regionally of course it was an app for our guests it's in 2 languages english and german for our international guests and now we've discovered that berlin is who have to stay in town are getting interested in it and getting to know their own city a little better and for that it's ideally suited to is on the phone why did you decide to build the out around the city's history. to give you some from what our guests have told us we know that he street is a strong motivator for them to come here and so we've conceived it a bit differently as a story when you think of history you probably think of dates but we didn't do that

if we took a completely different approach we thought ok we'll experience history through stories tend the halls here not just hoping for recovery for berlin's tourism sector you're actively planning for it but how can you when everything is still up in the air. basically it's not all that hard to plan since where well there are hygiene concepts there's touch of the ticketing there are times lots and so on what's a little harder is finding out when we can start to run we're all chomping at the bit but don't know when we can start over is going to be going over. another highly anticipated. the moment is the reopening of the noir. museum today it's still a construction site the original building dates back to the 1960 s. it was designed by a german american architectural legend nice funda who after 6 years of renovations the emblematic building open in august covered allowing of course last but i did

and what does the law a nazi mean to berlin and to berliners it was the premier building for 20th century berlin built in 1968 when the wall was still up so it was the building for art in west berlin today in the reunified city we have several national gallery alternates you know gallery for the art of the 19th century and this one for the art of the 20th century designed by nis founder. yes but they are like busily renovating now what can visitors look forward to after the renovation it's not. renovated the building very strictly as nice found out or originally planted in 1968 we wanted to preserve as much of that as possible and so we'll be reopening with an exhibition that i think he would have liked very much namely of alexander calder an artist who made quite a few mobiles and large sculptures and would like this sculpture exhibition to

recall the great age of western modernism in which this building to was created shuffleboard the thetan that was sort of nice would have left it at that time he really structural it must have been a huge undertaking to get a building like this in shape for the next 100 to 200 years paid for what were the biggest challenges he led it's actually a much larger building than you'd think at 1st because from here you only see this villian but it has this vast underground level for the collection and they've really taken everything apart some 40000 individual components have been taken outside the city refurbished and brought back again they regarded the entire building as one big work of dr that that's what's the most special part of the new annoying that you know. that i didn't want to smash about it is that we actually took means found or very seriously even in the technical specifications so when you

stand here on the terrace you'll notice it has no incline every normal terrace has an incline to let the want to run off but nice didn't want that he wanted this truly horizontal surface and to achieve it wasn't all that simple but we did it anyway exactly the way he planned. all the while that it's impractical but it's very beautiful and elegant and. countless institutions around the world are anxiously awaiting the end of the pandemic so they can get back to business meanwhile the adam inhabiting south africa's kruger national park couldn't care less about this whole mess and this week's meet a local we catch up with a man who knows the place like the back of his hand bongo and the chief ranger of the park.

hi guys my name is bond and to join a ranger in the crew going to park ridge take you out on the safari come with me let's go. i'm from the eastern cape was born in canton and see which is. fulton is the good of contesting the waltz ever since i was born. so walden less is more parts of the fields guard i have already to work in the group of pockets so amazing because kruger is so big they don't versity all the want like it's so rich. that it is a martial. science one of the largest groups are wrong and those eagles actually

when they fully grown they can pick up a baby impala there specializes in morning time visits we can see the tears that are dangling on the other side of the tree off their lives that that is feeding on . every time i drive in these roads it's a new day every day i mean look at this vastness just open. it's just it's. good to be not happy. because. there's a magic magic number. one come to. train on the bridge this is where i work from with me.

this special it's amazing because they utilizing what's in there as part of the history so to have but actually train with accommodation i think to most places where you actually sit and look at the water but not the water flowing underneath so it's very very unique to have that sound of the heap of good. the whole the ecosystem is here actually wanting to sometimes you don't need to go in the game you can just sit outside and literally the wild will come to you which is fantastic this is a sign of hope because last year was a very tough year for the tourism industry and then most of their colleagues they've been laid off and through their work. no money in every day you estimate about profit 800 driving through the park every day i mean with the long. single vehicle driving literally the animals would

actually we haven't seen live should be big elephant dung on the road lions leaping everywhere because there's no one there it's like they're begging for the tourists to come back. so. i would suggest people they should come and explore kruger national park this is the best approach over the. years and relentlessness being stuck in this limbo is something extraordinary even for a city as used to transformation and disruption as berlin. houses scribe the current vibe in berlin nothing's really normal nowadays as it does feel like the city is awakening from a deep slumber slowly timidly and with a lot of skepticism regarding the future but who knows maybe we'll soon be able to travel safely again i certainly hope to see you next time somewhere in germany or

once more right here.

they mounted into a nameless mass their bodies mere tools the history of the slave trade is africa's history it describes how the for power and profit come in to an entire continent into chaos and violence between century and its rebellions the new frontiers of slavery the last part of our series slavery routes. in 15 minutes on t.w. . how does

a virus spread. why do we have it and when will all this. just 3 of the topics covered in the weekly radio program. if you like and more information on the chrono virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at d.f.w. dot com and slash science. says. i'm scared that if i work that hard and in the end is a me you're not allowed to stay here anymore we will send you back. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers we're alliance of. what's your story ready ready. i'm with i was a women especially of victims of violence. take part and send us your story we are

trying in all ways to understand this new culture. you are not a visitor another guest you want to become a citizen. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. i don't want it. you know i mean. what in. kosovo now there's cynical media. us all with only about a. vision of getting. it on what it. is you know i mean when you're not in the scene quite. a moment out it's. what i'm focused on in the studio but i'm with what i'm looking at you know i know what it's a time of. this you know i mean when you're minorities and you are getting in when you cry i don't want to. me nobody and unanimous. the show could

go it's as if yes it's a. question i. could not only say it but i thought going on with her today fun to. see it because as if to say i said. this is news and they threw out top stories a man has rammed a car into 2 police officers outside the u.s. capitol killing one and injuring the other he tackled also had launched a place with a knife before he was shot did authorities say the attack does not appear to be linked to terrorism. investigators have arrived at the site of taiwan's deadliest trying to.