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this is the news live from berlin and fading hope for survivors as the indonesian navy says it has recovered items at sea believed to be from its last submarine the navy's chief says they are now considering it a sunken vessel will have the latest and india's hospitals collapse under the weight of a colossal 2nd wave of corona virus infections the capital delhi is counting one covert related death every 5 minutes as people struggle to find help fighting the illness.
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i'm michael thanks for joining us navy officials in indonesia say they have found items from the submarine that went missing last wednesday crushing the hopes of the crew survival the submarine had been classified as missing but indonesia's navy says now it is officially declaring it a sunken vessel the subs oxygen supplies believed to have run out early saturday several countries sent warships and aircraft to help with the search rescue crews believe they have located the submarine deep underwater. for more on this i'm now joined by deed. in jakarta the navy held a press conference earlier do they believe there are any survivors. tressa hold that no one can guarantee if there is any survivors still alive or not and in that
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press conference about an hour ago during military commander general there has also express his deep concern regarding this incident and his statement indicating that there is little hope for the crew members still alive or not that's why next each of us that has also said they will keep carrying out their rescue operation until the safe was found whatever there is are mean. did they give any indication of what might have happened to the vessel well in that same press conference the nephew chief of staff admiral you don't mind going to has said that . knowing that there are some parts of the submarine were found it's not related to an explosion but more related to a crack happening with that submarine so it's related to
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a crack not an explosion that's one thing but they are currently investigating investigating whether the submarine is having some kind of electrical failure but it's still a step speculation the nephew chief of staff has also said that the previous information about the oxygen supply which has been said 72 hours. it's lasted 7 to 2 hours only if the submarine has let out but again if the submarine has a good electrical electric electrical condition he said that the oxygen supply will lasted until 5 days so it certainly gives hope for this rescue operation came to find a survivor or a sense possible for her journey of briefly the story no doubt has captured the nation how are people reacting to this latest development yet since the
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submarine were 1st reported missing a couple days ago and wetness they are people are expressing their concerns just about an hour ago i checked on twitter there are more. more over 500000 tweets expressing their condolences about the latest development about this incident because it's indicating that there's no hope for the rescue operation team will find the survivors a life which belief has sunk and their body waters which believe also has death warmed in 800 meters so it's become a national headlines in our country and people are sending their prayers and also condolences and also expressing their thoughts into it are so they are also given support for the search operation team not only from military but also from the police and also give an appreciation for the foreign countries that offers help for
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the military top so help them to rescue this ship as soon as possible to diffuse peer dhoni purva in jakarta many thanks thank you. hospitals in india are launching desperate appeals for help as the health system crumbles corona virus infection rates continue to break global records the government has given top priority to the transport of life saving oxygen but hospitals are so overwhelmed that many people can't even get inside the situation is particularly dire in the capital delhi where oxygen supplies are running out fast. fighting for breath these patients outside of 1000 hospital in delhi are among the fortunate ones. the clinic is overwhelmed and lacks free beds but at least it still has oxygen to administer to the most gravely
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ill among a steady flow of new arrivals. position right now here is really very worst critical and all the full control. just off is really cooperative but due to the old girl being also the hope meanwhile on the walking casualty it is different they're deploying to equal treatment to all the patients and that's why it is a hike into division 3 and. these scenes are no exception across the country hospitals are full and turning stricken patients away many are critically low on oxygen supplies as india 2nd wave sets global records for new delhi infections social media are flooded with stories of people desperately trying to secure oxygen for loved ones. or know that they were that. could not afford. to speed up deliveries indian railways has launched an oxygen express service ferrying supplies directly from production plants like
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a beacon of hope the 1st train arrives in maharashtra one of the hardest hit states where more than 62000 people have lost their lives to the virus carried out inside clinics grieving families play medical stuff while outside crematoriums and cemeteries struggle to accommodate bodies. this graveyard expects to run out of space in a matter of days. there is a limit on them as almost of i think the 2nd wave is more dangerous and deadly because this time it's not even sparingly on one it's a little we're going into. at the delhi hospital a group of men heaved their brother out of a rickshaw they tried to get him admitted earlier but were sent home now they learned it's too late to save him. the father of 5 is dead on arrival since he wasn't admitted to the hospital or taken to its morgue his death is unlikely to
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be counted in the city's swiftly rising official toll. let's go straight to delhi now where do w.'s delhi bureau chief and richard is standing by i'm richard we've been looking at some extraordinary images what is the situation like in delhi today michael the situation is as grim as we saw of course one daily headlines dr gaddy as a city on its knees and that really sums up the situation in the capital and hospitals around the city are sending out a suicide mission is saying that they're running out of oxygen in fact one private hospital last 25 patients overnight simply because he ran out of oxygen there's a great sense of desperation anguish but it was a sense of anger as to why the government was underpinned with such an eventuality that they would run out of oxygen in this critical time in the band jenny. we just saw in that report the 1st rains delivering oxygen is there hope conditions might
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improve soon. well apart from oxygen coming on my release there's also coming by specially for. the simplest of oxygen the oxygen corridos being created so that tankers oxygen china because can simply make their way to the destinations where there was needed also as forcefully as i used to be used to bring cylinders to the places that need it most but of course it's also a question of distribution india has a friend with structure states are competing for can be changed about who should get the oxygen 1st and the other states which are not luge might the ruling of the j.p. saying that they're not getting enough oxygen but of course the prime minister says that the distribution of oxygen will be fair and equitable what other measures are being taken to stem the tide of infections and rita might be the most important thing is to bring down the rate of infections which simply surging beyond control at the moment to moment things that is delhi is under curfew many cities around
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india including mumbai have locked on the scription so the 1st things to stop people to people contact then you will have schools that's initially setting a lot of store by vaccinations that people or people above the age of 18 from the 1st at me to be allowed to get vaccinated that's again to stem the flow and to cut down the rate of transmission and finally of course they're looking at ways to that people should have appropriate behavior those are some of the measures they're taking as an urgent level right now. delhi bureau chief thank you so much. let's highlight some other stories making headlines around the world the head of mere military who has been holding crisis talks with regional leaders in indonesia it's the 1st time gentlemen only long has traveled abroad since the army seized power in february in a new president says the regime must restore democracy and release all political
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prisoners. prosecutors in france have opened a terrorism investigation after police work or were stabbed to death at a police station near paris 3 people thought to be connected to the attack or have been detained french president said the country would never give in to what he called islamist terrorism. all travel between new zealand and the australian state of western australia has been put on hold after outbreak in perth a travel bubble between the 2 countries had opened just under a week ago perth entered a 3 day snap lockdown on friday after recently returned traveler tested positive for the virus. a new 4 strong crew has joined the international space station the astronauts were the 1st to be carried into orbit by a recycled capsule it one must space x. craft docked with the i.s.o.'s above the indian ocean musk hopes reusable vehicles
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will eventually carry people to the moon ever docked and to mars station once again we've enjoyed some sports news now and in german football the match day 31 kicked off with berg who have little to play for this season hosting cologne who are fighting to avoid relegation the visitors determination showed in the 1st half as they stormed 2 or 3 nil lead. smashed home the 3rd goal but pulled one back early in the 2nd half and then gave cologne a scare as ruben fargus made it $32.00 just after the hour but the visitors held on to claim 3. points in their bid for survival. a bundesliga record that stood for nearly 50 years could soon be beaten by in munich striker robert levin doff ski is back after an injury and will be part of the squad when they face mines later saturday he's on the brink of breaking german legend
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record of 40 goals in a single bundesliga season. probably randolph's these numbers don't lie. his goal number 33. 34. and let me introduce you to 35. he's on course to break german legend get my last record off 40 goals in a single season record that has stood for get this 49 yes. i don't think about this because you know i don't want to make thoughts. on my head . but his numbers are mind. 5 races for a half weeks including against his former team. and if we mention that he averages a goal at 3 hours. at this rate he will end the season on $46.00 goals.
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and he's needed fewer games to reach the 35 goal moch. getting the last record could soon be history. i'm less this stopping live on goal scheme. by the way there's been more fallout from the european super league fiasco hundreds of fans of arsenal football club held a protest outside the team's emirates stadium in london calling for the owner to be ousted fans held signs depicting stand cranky as they chanted for his removal the club was one of 12 teams to sign up to the super league or drop out following a furious backlash from fans. watching d.w. news from berlin the battle to build the biggest cathedral of the gothic period
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that's the subject of the latest episode in our documentary series stop film that's coming up next so stay tuned for that there's more news and headlines at the top of the hour as always in the meantime don't forget there's always news and information on our website to follow us on twitter and social as well michael okupe for me in the whole team here in berlin thanks for watching. us. as we take on the. stories that matter to. get to sleep in front of. the fire may.
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sometimes not much is needed to change history. sometimes all it takes is one idea and a person who runs with it. the abbot of songs in the monastery near paris was such a person 9 centuries ago he boldly implemented new architectural concepts that were already in the air. abbots to share let in the light colored night. romanesque builders had occasionally experimented with such innovations but sushi or incorporated them into the rebuilding of his abbey church to create a total work of art. like glass pointed arches and rigged vaults. these were architectural elements already known in romanesque times but now they
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were finer and more transmission than ever before. let there be light that is the message that this church broadcasts it spurred the start of an era in which architects vied to build ever higher and more white filled cathedrals the gothic. the desire for more light in a church and tear is one thing making it technically possible is another for the thick walls to be replaced by thin windows the weight of the building had to be distributed outward on the columns and vaulted arches the structural shell became a skeleton. and glass was needed glass that could be melted and colored using a new technique that may have reached western europe from the middle east in the
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10th century. soon the stained glass fragments were joined with strips of lead to compose symphonies of color. in the summer of 1144 the abbey church of sound and he set off an architectural revolution across france . in the following century more than 20 major gone churches arose in the region around paris. it became a contest to build the highest and most beautiful churches. within
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a generation this development had gathered momentum still further afield stross books cathedral was changed over to the gothic style in the 1st half of the 13th century artistic influences from across europe came together in this case. it was only much later that this pride of the alsace became a nationalist bone of contention between france and germany. german or french was not an issue more than 700 years ago when evian from. master builder from bodman out did all previous interiors with this rose window. of course all this splendor was for the glory of god but these achievements also fired up the competition among architects and artists to create more masterpieces.
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the so-called angels' pillar. it's a depiction of judgment day the sculptures are palpable proof of the gothic artist's desire to make hard stone appears supple. is there a limit to what artists can achieve in this endeavor. hj. the new self-assurance of the gothic gazes down from the gallery. the master builder put himself in the artwork on the lookout from above for the latest architectural marvins. one marvel took place at the start of the construction the facade was envelop in a curtain of delicate stone work the famous harp string tracery with its mighty
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rose when 60 years later 2 tower levels were built a central story made the construction more imposing but more clunky its heaviness was relieved by a tower extending almost crazily toward heaven. the former stone masons lodge now a museum contains a collection of what made this building a champion of the gothic. the building plans of the ingenious architects. of course the smokestack here in the greatest jewel of this collection is the oldest plant of a strasbourg cathedral of park a main fire on parchment it's an initial design for the rebuilding of the west facade with hope the central portal and the large rose window was already in place . and here we also have tracery and gables of identified paths there's
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a fantastic architectural drawing cool but unfortunately a hotel owner who made it and i don't mean. the names of most of the 1st architects who worked on the cathedral are unknown today but they were the ones who optimized the gothic principle of skeletal construction it comprised elements such as the open timber roof truss to reduce the load of the roof. the flying buttresses that gave lateral support to the navy. and the revolvers that gave the isles their sense of lightness. and the ingenious wooden constructions that enabled the masonry of the rounded arches and domes but which devoured entire forest. behind all this decorative design is the gothic principle of thrust and
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counterbalance which the competition among the architects reduced to its essential so. they were driven by the idea of converting the fixed don't space into a shrine of glass. the sheer radicality of the way erivan from shine box on his ever finer web of stone marked a new high point in the contest of gothic architecture. old boy. we don't know how evan functioned buc really looked this sculpture made long after his time shows him with raised index finger. it's a finger that is less didactic than thoughtful ready to suddenly point out a tiny detail. was.
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after all building a gothic cathedral also involves attention to the smallest things how many hammer blows went into the 142 metre tall strasbourg at the draw. it must have been like a goldsmith's i tell you a crossed with a major construction site demanding not only the master builders love of detail but the ability to keep track of the overall structural engineering and. the way to slow the flow of the. foot in evans time the science of architectural construction was not yet developed experimentation was his constant companion. he drew on the experience his masons brought with them from building sites across
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europe and these ideas flowed into the great plaster or clay panels where the building plans were drawn. when evan began the rebuilding of the west work the west facing introns in $1277.00 the ground level of the building was already standing. over the next 40 years he was able to complete the next level which culminated in the breathtaking rose window. it was a symphony of light and illustration of god's love radiating to all sides a hint of paradise where earthly things dissolve in a mystical color spammer's. could
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this grandiose idea be taken still further some 80 kilometers up river from strasbourg in fribourg evan from realized and even bolder vision a very special church spire the translation of his rose window into 3 dimensions. evyn left a great legacy to the workers of the masons lodge the workshop of the 5 augments are a great legacy in need of great care. every year the stone masons have to climb up the tower to ensure that none of the crumbling stone fragments land on the market on minster square from a height of more than 100 meters. just .
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a gothic cathedral is essentially a mountain of sandstone and like every other rocky crag it is eaten away by erosion the more gothic it is the more delicate its details. but the more delicate the more vulnerable. cathedrals like the fribourg minster are never ending construction sites the most recent renovation of the tower an undertaking that lasted 12 years hasn't relieved the stone masons from regularly inspecting every centimeter of the structure. crumbling fragments are removed by hand. while larger damaged areas are secured with wire mesh until the next overhaul. which is certain to come. this 1st tracery spire
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a gothic marvel took around 300 years to build. and something distinguished it from the other places of worship the fly boatmen stone never belonged to the catholic church it was commissioned by an aristocratic family as a sign of its power and influence and soon after it belonged to the people of the city. the radiating chapels in the apps were funded as was common in the late gothic period by the sale of indulgences. these kinds of richly
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appointed family chapels sometimes reached a level of extravagance as families vied to outdo each other. or at. in the late gothic ceiling the rib vaulting was not only used in the traditional. to support the roof but additionally added as purely decorative diagonal ribs which grew together in wildly branching patterns. the i am. told the 5th the last duke of sailing in who had commissioned the rebuilding of the church 300 years earlier as a prestigious burial site had had very different ideas. he was a pious knight who still view to church as a center of royal or clerical power but his heirs ran out of money for the upkeep
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of the project. around 1300 the citizens of why borg took over the administration of the church they founded a minster factory an association which financed the building work its members were obliged to give it the shirt off their backs literally and they died they bequeath their best piece of clothing to fund the building work. now the church windows did not only feature stories of the bible but bore the symbols of the guilds that were the financial backers the smiths the tailors the shoemaker's the coopers and the bakers. and they celebrated a line of business that was making fibroid richer than ever silver mining. in the competition of the cathedrals the fribourg minster was in the lead with what was at the time the highest building. i am
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a community spirit was reflected in the humorous depiction of the birth of christ. down here in the manger the ox is trying to eat the infant jesus is diaper but joseph intervenes with his staff was. and today the floor of the minster has been paved with solid stone tiles but that was not always the case those who could afford it sought to be buried under the floor not only to be close to the saints but also to remain even in death a part of the citizens community is simple to hear. as late as the 17th century a visitor complained that in a minster one trips over hundreds of tombstone. i am. as a true citizens church it also provided practical services for the living it told time
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for example and the units of measure engraved on the outer wall let buyers at the market check that the prices of the goods were fair but the price of grain varied enormously in the year 1270 customers could get a plump loaf of bread in the great famine of $1317.00 they were lucky to get a scanty roll for the money. this fits and beyond that is to really crease and the 14th century was a time of serious crises above all the great plague that has strophes fits and you know not even but even earlier in the 1st half of the 14th century we see famine house floods failed harvests shortages cost him both india and still almost at the same time we see a new form a depiction of reality a pool of nature and being the i thought and just think of the grotesque gargoyles but also the whimsical architectural details in the today almost seem ironic in the
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in times of crisis many certainties are called into question in strasbourg to the balance of power was shifting the emerging middle class had already rebelled against the all powerful bishop. as a result not only judgment day and the saints adorn the entrance of the cathedral but also the statue of a controversial. politician count who'd off of hoppes book once excommunicated by the pope as an enemy of the church and later king of germany in the holy roman empire or to have sided with the citizens of strasbourg to rid the city of their unpopular bishop. from then on the minster architect was no longer accountable to the clergy but to freely elected city councillors. they would have to be convinced that the minster would be a pristine object symbolizing the might of their city.
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but the city councillors were not necessarily the arbiters of artistic taste instead of continuing to construct the 2 planned towers they decided on a central section to contain the bells it went up in just 5 years and transform the facade into a rectangular box such. imposing yes but also clunky and a distraction from evan's beautiful rose window soon cause grew loud to beautified this block with special towers but was it possible to find competent builders on short notice. the municipal archive in on holds a special piece of evidence that may answer that question. unaccustomed to but i am
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has spent 6 years studying the medieval account books of the all minster it's a treasure trove of information about the movements of builders at the time. if you don't it tells us where the stone masons came from here is how they front door last pay 15 shillings hands from being who also gets 15 shillings coms we have one from brandon burke near where i'm from the vin hausen from canton and in the course of this week 2 stone masons immigrate from style color had fun style and thomas who get 5 shillings is being hired. enchain arms. these are no purpose they were taken on for a week by all the workshops they would always have an opportunity to work for a week or at least until the next pay out in the next. hour by and around a quarter of the stonemasons were wondering journeyman and they'd stay at the
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building site for just a week or tail and then move on to the next building site in the next boss to live out of. the analysis of the account books the daily schedules and hiring contracts from the 15th century helps to decipher the network they're connected the gothic cathedral workshops by compiling the names of the artisans it is possible to reconstruct the workers movements and the phases of the construction one document in particular proves how closely connected these medieval church buildings specialists were. and at every stick. this is one of the most important building plans we have because it tells us a great deal about the masons lodges the middle ages on the one side we have the tower on the cathedral with the per middle tower with the many steps and and all the other side written in the same hand we have the plan for the tower of the oil minster and what that means that they knew precisely what was going on in other
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workshops where designs were being developed there might and they share this information the towns were competing for the most famous master builders but the architects communicated amongst themselves and shared their knowledge of the toast . the 2 sided plan is proof that gothic builders had several irons in the fire and worked simultaneously on different sites spurred on by the city's appetite for these prestigious projects. the builders in strasbourg had heard that the wealthy textile exploiting city of own risk. planning a church with a gigantic tower that was exactly what they wanted to aspire to turn the blocky front into a thing of beauty. a messenger was dispatched to on. the
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am there was only one contemporary depiction of the man known to history as an inspired master builder of towers a sculpture of the architect and singer eroded by time shows him gazing upward to where his spires grew up into the sky. the wish designed the towers in strasbourg and all but he was never to see them completed. a precious document in the central library shows the ambitious planning that went into the project in the up and coming city. it's a 15th century chronicle of the city written by a dominican monk named felix fabry.
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for police candid account of what happened in allman the late middle ages includes major events but also plenty of gossip. one event particularly fascinated him the laying of the cornerstone of the oem minster. the start of the construction work was quite unusual fabric wrote. the citizens build their church as he put it without the support of the clergy and nobility. it was a daring undertaking. not churchmen but city councilman climbed into the building pit to lay the foundation. what courage what optimism. premiums 1377 as the start of construction and praises the boldness of the oem
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citizens who had grown rich through the textile train. but fairly fabry did not know that it would take another 513 years for the building to shine in all its splendor. today the omen star is still the tallest church in the world. push for centuries this growing was neglected because soon after its completion in the 16th century ome became protestant and the lutheran preachers did not appreciate such soaring spaces for their somber sermons. martin luther visited on and called the minster gigantic but quite impractical gothic was out.
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and status symbols like the precious glass windows the best arar's a merchant family had placed in their chapel which against the tastes of the a conic lastic protestants as did presumably the gothic humor of this depiction of mary and st peter. peter was wearing spectacles. more when the travails of the master builder were commemorated by showing him kneeling under the weight of his work he. installs borg oldish and sing out was working in parallel on his 2nd tower project an exclusive 8 sided north tower with the help of novel cranes he wanted to raise
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the minister to 140 metres in height. in the 20 years until his death he was to achieve half of the 80 meters that were still planned. but his plan gave reality to a special construction it was one of the most ingenious designs of the entire gothic period. my. star architect did manage to complete his 4 slender towers containing stairways but when all rich died in 1419 his work stood like a hollow tooth luckily the gothic style was still all the rage until the mid 15th century and transport was determined to finish its prestige project so by
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1439 the highest church tower at the time reached a height of 142 meters. i am. my god when things are too perfect people sometimes lose interest in them and by the end of the 15th century the public had seen too much of the ever more finely carved stone. the pulpit in strasbourg made by master builder hans hammer can perhaps be seen as both the high point of and farewell to 300 years of gothic architecture. but what the builders created we inherit and inheriting is not always easy and heritance is also
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a mission. when in the 1000. and century these pillars began to sink under the weight of an singer's tower it was clear that a cathedral of this size is never finished. bush gosport cathedral museum the former masons lodge has a book of photos that document a nearly 20 year long battle to preserve the minster this is a family portrait with johan later celebrated as the savior of the minster. out a native of cologne and his team succeeded in an engineering feat without which. would probably not be standing today. the problem was the pillar and its foundation that was too weak.
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it was not only sinking but leaning to one side and threatening to collapse and crash through the name. developed a bold plan to envelop the pillar in reinforced concrete. this meter stick mental was to be based on a foundation ring cast out of pressure resistant reinforced concrete so the ground under the pillar had to be dug up and replaced by a concrete base. using hydraulic presses it would be possible to raise the pillar again the hydraulic press acting laterally would correct the twist to the left it was all a question of mathematics and engineering science at the start of the 20th century . here. look at these amazing photos from 922. of the incredible reinforcement. 7 meters of this
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giant pillar its sheath in a reinforced concrete corset that. this was the biggest restoration measure carried out on cathedral and it contributed significantly toward securing the cathedral tower and the entire building. they worked directly beneath the pillar under a weight of 10 and a half 1000 tons. and then came the moment when the concrete course it had to be removed again. sandstone is softer than reinforced concrete and very sensitive.
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in october 1926 the rescue of the minster was celebrated with a lot of fanfare. but you one count was not present as a german he had been expelled from what was now france. ok cathedral architects work is never done in oem underlays boom is in charge of a project to repair or replace damage stones there are $4500.00 of them marked in blue or yellow on the diagram. in the case of the own minister the stonemasons needed a century to carry out a thorough renovation and once that was over the next 100 years began and that is the way it's always been. here for nuffin 1st and that's why north east i found
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a book from 141-0021 person wrote i my once on a sunday the people were at the new in service when 2 stones fell down from the vaulted ceiling a minster started to think we were scared of would fall over. probably the problems are the same as today. stones don't fall from the ceiling nowadays. but to ensure that it stays that way even the tiniest cracks in the building have to be regularly monitored.
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under layers burn does that with this cannon like device. with a laser he pinpoints the often in excessively high cracks and with a telescope he can recognize whether and when the walls might break apart. it's ok i've got it. now it's sharp. this crack has in fact shrunk by 3 millimeters. you know there are hardly any changes compared to last year. we're looking at about a 10th so that's ok. that's a relief the table of measurements goes back to the 19th century a time at which investigations turned up quite different values. in the
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850 s. irreverent caricature has appeared poking fun at the half finished and dilapidated state of the building. the tower was not even 100 meters tall but it was dangerously shaky the well behaved passers by slink by in silence the police caution those who speak on a bully a sign warns talking loudly on minster square is forbidden. it seems the risk was so high that loud conversation or laughter could cause the beautiful gothic structure to tumble down. 170 year old photographs reveal the truly pitiful state of this super building which had hardly been worked on since luther's time. but now in the mid 1900 century it was time to rescue the minsters as in strasbourg buttresses in the original style were added to stabilize the shaky walls of the navy. and the
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east towers planned an end singer's time were finally erected. and at the entrance soon a super tower rose high one which might have pleased old rich and senior to nohant . a group photo with the capstone which seen up close is truly impressive. so a around 1900 the minster envisioned by the citizens of oem 500 years earlier was finally completed for the moment. it soon became clear that the world's new tallest church tower was so heavy that it
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destabilized the entire building. a rescue plan was needed. and it can be seen down here. at the end of a basement shaft. the heart of steel that holds it all together. and we are following all these 14 crops still pieces were derived from experiences in building mines to retrofit the tower still parts were heated to 380 degrees celsius and then these clamps were tightened and as a cold the steel was pulled together. and live and all 14 still parts exerted tensile force of
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a 1000 tons to hold the minster tower together and stabilize the entire building. discounts of. the architects 6 centuries ago building ever higher believe their cathedrals would last this long. their faith in god clearly led them to presume they would succeed. and they were right. daniel wagner and andre young are natives of own and their church is still the highest in the world. to celebrate that super tive they thought up a special trip they plan to fly a camera drone to capture the beauty of the minster in a single take. a shot so i'd say let's take it over ministers where you can slowly
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up the minster towards the flying buttresses soon and then through it as you know it i would yes and i go relatively 2223 meters through. and then go down through the buttresses and then emerge but with these buttresses we are around 20 to 25 meters would he and then here all the way up to 86 and then circle around as you mean up to the topic of you know yes once around the outside let's go super. eyes are all full have a good flight. place
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news a life of fading hope for survivors as the indonesian navy says it has recovered. believed to be from its last submarine the navy's chief says they are now considering it a sunken vessel we'll have the latest also coming up india's hospitals collapse under the weight of a colossal 2nd wave of corona virus infections.
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