you know what use crime fighters are back with africa's most successful radio drama series continues through not only because those are available online and of course you can share and disco song w. africa's facebook and other social media platforms. to mean you know. you. right now you could say 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 city's on the move we'll show you what's new about town. we'll have a look at how berlin is presenting and so on line at the time of coping. and will go far far away to south africa's kruger national park. there's a. new underground star intended for

a lead subway system was recently expanded and while that may not seem like a note worthy of bet 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 could go he's an architect and has been offering tourism for a lens most iconic buildings for 25 years. with what do you think of the it is about how 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 us that it. 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 directs the entire burden of the station onto a narrow footing between the tracks. 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. yeah it looks very tidy. great view. this is all very well placed exit if you're a tourist making your 1st stop in 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 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 do it got his inspiration from the scenery of a production of mozart's the magic flute. the fund is toxic stop was completed early on and has already been used as a setting for movies and opera. was on the. particular

detail that. 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. because here we see the sky lights from above. the others those are the columns of . extension of the you 5 to 10 years 500000000 euros and added 2.2 kilometers and fun fact it's the 1st line to reach

the station. the new line also takes us to another recent addition to berlin city center the humboldt for a museum that connects culture of art and. its facade 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 for a 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 the by. message to the younger generation that we didn't know anything better to do. the 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 status and had established uses. i think that was pretty on called for actually. to the palace. for there was a huge debate over what to do with the site before construction began what with you as an architect and upper lehner. 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 i would have liked to see an experiment to last for the future here that's what the pharmacy 1st to be but i don't think that started any favors. after 8 years of construction works the humble forum 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 and visitors will be allowed into berlin. and while many others have reopened there doris the situation continues to be unpredictable. so only berlin's museums r.v. . allowed to reopen always that hearing to strict covert protocols of course one of them is the famous natural history museum of the city let's take

a look. in 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 leaders this bracket was czarist 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 reform of course we're going to some people come here again boats were only allowed to open or under certain conditions that we have to time slots per day when 250 people can come in to one of the morning and one in the afternoon and in fact 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 up an extensive online portfolio how's that going for them as a quote that are already active on social media or from the coronavirus spread some things i learned was was added with

a lot of jurors on instagram and you talk to trying to bring in for example the generation sears if they're going to be 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. cost extra tonight if you could just miss museums from the tour. involved in business as a football club. which you just lead one to 12 for. the guys it's me you're not. going to. washington. how do you measure the impact of what you're doing that's in a. very popular. just generally had over 1000000 views on the digital formals so i think you could call that

a success we have the figures from the social media challenge on who are here. instagram for instance one 3rd are in berlin with another 3rd and the rest of germany and the other 3rd are world wide and so we're producing in 2 languages. for let's natural history museum is 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 ational the music business is no exception the sector is among the hardest hit during the crisis with concerts here in germany can fluently relegated to online platforms here is a look at one where loans music seem still has to offer these days even if it's only 01. the berlin often are more needy 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 feat. in hands 3 major opera houses the undisputed 1st among them is the berlin state opera wanted in london boulevard which began as the royal opera into 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 you state designed

. to look. in spite of the coronavirus the house has also been holding primaries already planned then cut to the minimum in the form of online productions. the. new am the program trends are in point of fact the premier's we held on t.v. and online during the time of corona and o. own corona program as well had bigger audiences than otherwise 5 from one outside number one should be pliable the online performances we chalked up an average of $10000.00 viewers per day and now for our broadcasts of lohengrin and you know far from that we sense that they met with lots of energy and for fun and they enjoyed a wide distribution cough in the stick and if you consider that we've got 1377 say

2000 and then these numbers the upper is reaching now a very encouraging and. i am. the in addition to oprah the concerts by the house august are the shots capella balun are also going online though because of the pandemic with repertoire for small ensemble. 'd 'd the digital program office starts on today in london is excitable free of charge but generally for 30 days only. music lovers the world over would do best to catch the shows as they can.

by lim's 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 strain. and there will be a stream of in its united we stream was conceived on march 18th 20 twentieth's by the berlin club commission. and 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 closer to heaven. on united way stream ravers can experience deejays in empty shot of clubs and are often rather unusual places around town as here in berlin city the tower or in the natural history museum. now the platform has moved beyond

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 berlin after it's 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 komen 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 it's i'm going to france 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 you know is on the on the cab why did you decide to build the out around the city's history. 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 whole year 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 but since we're well prepared to there are hygiene concepts there's talk of the ticketing there are times lots and someone once 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 that's the museum today it's still a construction site the original building dates back to the 1960 s. it was designed by german american architectural legend nice funda who after 6 years of renovation the emblematic building opened in august covered allowing of course but i did and you know what does the lawyer not to mean to berlin and to berliners it was

a 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 galleries alternate sunan gallery for the art of the 19th century and this one for the art of the 20th century designed by nice fans. yes but they are like busily renovating now what can visitors look forward to after the renovation and it's not. renovated the building very strictly as nice find 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 shuffle. the thought and i'm sure me so would have left it at that time really

structural it must have been a huge undertaking to get a building like this in shape for the next 100 to 200 years. what were the biggest challenges you have it's actually a much larger building than you'd think at 1st because from here un you 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 the tufted that's what's the most special part of the new knowing that you know. i just want to mention about it is that we actually took me found or very seriously take 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 water runoff but means didn't want that he wanted this truly

horizontal surface and to achieve it wasn't all that simple. we did it anyway exactly the way he planned it. knowing 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. port elizabeth i've been testing the walls ever since i was born. so walden less is more parts of the fields garden i had 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 is a martial. so it's one of the largest groups around here and those eagles actually when they fully grown they can pick up a baby impala they specializes in morning time visits you can see the terriers sort of banging on the other side of the tree there's a dispiriting wall. every

time i drive in these roads it's a new day every day i mean look at this vastness just open. just be. offered you be not happy. because. there's a magic magic coming. while come to. train on the bridge this is where we're from what made. this special night it's amazing because they utilizing what's been 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 and 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 it's 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 it's an every day you estimate about profit 800 cars driving through the park every day i mean with the long. single vehicle driving literally the animals would actually win haven't seen literally big elephant downs 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 price over the. birdlet a metropolis between paralysis and relentlessness being stuck in this limbo as something extraordinary even for a city as used to transformation and disruption as per let. how describe the current 5 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

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