this is home most of churches it's worse than here's the closely skyscrapers or 3. contests of the cathedrals starts here through 12 b.t.w. . this is d w news in these are our top stories jordan's government says it has uncovered a plot to destabilize the kingdom involving the former crown prince ministers maintain homes have been hussein and others worked with foreign powers to undermine security in the country as many as 20 high level officials have been arrested denies being part of a conspiracy accusing the kingdom's rulers of nepotism and corruption. the u.s. state of florida is facing a potential catastrophic flood officials fear

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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 and zaire duty 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 shaking trip 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 the is presenting itself on line and the time of coping. and will go far far away to south africa's kruger national park. there's a new underground star in town for a little subway system was recently expanded and while that may not seem like a noteworthy of bends 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 eating till musk luca he's an architect and has been offering tourism for a lens most iconic buildings for 25 years. and

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 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 and pillars that directs the entire burden of the station onto a number of footing between the tracks. what's also noteworthy is having all the furnishings integrated into it so they coordinated with one another the wastebaskets the benches the information panels and so on it's all been redesigned here so it follows the same design concept. designed 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 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 jewelry got his inspiration from the scenery of a production of mozart's the magic flute. the bundestag 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 called lights capitals here you have. up above you can walk across the glass discs but of course it's also combined with auto official light that falls downward from these columns ready. then you have these spotlights in assuming that remind you of it's got something cosmic even supernatural about it that i think you perceive subconsciously.

because here we see the sky lights from above. the others those are the columns of . the 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 berlin central station. the new line also takes us to another recent addition to berlin city center the home for a museum that connects culture 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 you define legacy this building as ever lands 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 than to copy 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 as the humbled farm is intended to be a very future oriented facility but to choose a backdrop that conjures up over 100 years of a deplorable past i have to come out and say it that makes me wonder. if life and the decision to head down an example of east german architecture that after all 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. so i can't really warm to the palace. for it's got there was a huge debate over what to do with the site before construction began what with you as an architect and the berliner half want it and. 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 started 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 let's take a look. and order to get any you need to book that timeslot online the museum is most famous for its dinosaur collection. towering above visitors at over 13 metres this crack used doris 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 one of course we're glad to see people come here again. we're only

allowed to open under certain conditions that we have 2 time slots per day when 250 people can come in one of the morning and one of the afternoon and in fact the tickets for the 1st 2 weeks are 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 added with a lot of turds on instagram and you to talk to trying to bring in for example the generation sears it and he offered a guided tour is on you tube that gives users various perspectives on the exhibitions and on the research collections we also added to podcasts beats and bones zeus's. decent podcast intrude in the event listeners museums for the talk of. the mall didn't visit as

a football club. with us lead watching the 12th last. devices me or not. and so i just. want to listen. for some. kind of how do you measure the impact of what you're doing that's a. very popular at the just sure you had over 1000000 views on a digital form so i think you could call that a success we have the figures from the social media challenge this. year. instagram for instance one 3rd to earn berlin with another 3rd around the rest of germany and the other 3rd by a world wide and so we're producing in 2 languages our price. for a length natural history museum is one of the biggest of a kind in germany their collection and compass is 30000000 specimens since we were there the museum has had to close the gap because of the worsening pandemic

situation. kohut has fast track global digitize a show the music business is no exception the sector is among the hardest hit during the crisis with concerts here in germany come fluently relegated to our line platforms here's a look at one for a women's music scene still has to offer these days even if it's only as there are those and once. the berlin are full armani suit is 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 heard 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. burnham's 3 major opera houses done disputed 1st among them is the berlin state opera on 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 used to design. in spite of the coronavirus the house has also been holding premiers already planned though come to the minimum in the form of online productions. i am. the program trans are you going to. back to the premiers we held on

t.v. and online during the time of corona and o. own corona program as well had bigger audiences than otherwise from one that's got number one actually plan for the on line performances we chalked up an average of $10000.00 viewers per day and now for our broadcasts of lohengrin and general in front we sense that they met with lots of energy and they enjoyed a wide distribution kafka in the specter and if you consider that we've got 1377 seats and then these numbers the upper is reaching now a very encouraging kind of movie doesn't want to get into. the in addition to opera the concerts by the house the shops capella palin are also going online though because of the pandemic with repertoire for small on song.