but the glockenspiel sounds early bavaria. has fifty one thousand residents a quarter of them students. in the summer lots of tourists add to those numbers but in the winter the streets are quiet. the many cafes and taverns are typical of the old town. cafe seimone for instance offers a large selection of cakes and handmade filled chocolates. this is the this is the old passant chocolate speciality old possum gold caps in it's a truffle filling with. said it's special because the history of the gold caps is closely linked to pass out for strict is. shaped like the gold colored caps wealthy women used to wear the gold cap chocolates are very popular as a sweet souvenir. possibles town hall is one of the most beautiful buildings in the old town and a great hole to opportunity on the tell of it are markers showing flood levels over the past centuries here's a look back at some of the recent floods in the city. personnel has had to deal with flooding throughout its history. the residents are used to it . if you move to paso and ha

varian forest is a low mountain range one hundred kilometers in length on the border between bavariaand the czech republic. the national park is in the south of the forest. here it's allowed to grow as nature intended without human intervention. there are daily guided tours through the national park. but if anyone doesn't understand my original lower the very end dialects please let me know this is all in. the parks credo is to let nature being nature and bring it closer to people like in the viewing shelters. that you can observe animals like links that vanished long ago but have now been reintroduced. wolves live here as well and even elk. the fear of many really really lucky enough to see a lynx right up close and. it was fantastic to be able to watch them without disturbing the net that were. outside the national park the very end foresters park . for winter sports as the mountain range gets lots of snow in the winter at nearly fifteen hundred meters great bear mountain is the king of the forest again you'll find the region's largest ski area. here's a good lot of them back to it

in bavaria whether they get the interior ministry reports are saying at the moment that the ministry the interior ministry could be expanded to include the source of the area which means the holy land and we know that the conservative group in the very of the conservative party in the varia they tend to have even stronger even harsher positions on issues like immigration on topics like refugees etc so if they get the interior ministry and that means that angle america really has made a lot of concessions and that is something definitely to watch you mention that the political landscape has changed and some of the frustration of the voters feel that maybe the political parties haven't kept up how has germany changed and in particular in the past four months as these parties have been wrangling with each other. germany is still in a in a phase of change i think people are beginning to a knowledge that things can't go on the way they've always been germany is still of course a stable country we have do have an acting government so things are working ok but some people are accusing the g

states in terms of population all of them the five of them have as much population the same size of bavaria. so that the five important but they certainly do not form. germany. so european. activities and trade feel now you mentioned the sanctions one of the purposes of sanctions is that to change the behavior most of the german sanctions originate in russia's perceived behavior in crimea americal believes the borders should not be changed and perhaps i think it on some level even vladimir putin who will agree with her on that but the i'm sure you understand that for russia in crimea it was not only a matter of principle it was a matter of strategic security the expansion of nato the possibility of losing the the base in the black sea and those when you deal with strategic security it's very difficult to uphold principles even if you agree with that do you think russia could have played any other way alternatively do you think that russia is likely to . repeat what has happened in crimea this is a very difficult question that i would have to say your vote because it reaches far beyond the i

and mount you square the square where i'm heading i'm getting closer to the outgoing leader fun in bavaria our check in special i'm in the bay area on my way to the street that i'm going to check out some of the train journeys highest mountain and of course and and of course when i'm here i'll do a hike of the barrier for his. next. one might say. like science fiction is actually up berlin stand up face a number of. organs from the treaty printer. the enterprising biochemists hope to revolutionize transplants with this technology. and of course they intend to turn it into a lucrative business. made in germany sixty minutes long t.w. . learned something simple online on your mobile and free to suffer from d w z learning course nikos fish german made easy. quadriga. international talk show. the opinions. arguments analysis. for journalists discuss the topic of the week. quadriga on t.w. . but very in winter wonderland and a very warm welcome to this special edition of check in. there's no business like snow business as lucas state guy tries his luck on a snow bike in the us. talked about wat

from the state of bavaria sounded more upbeat then earlier in the day listen it's good for. everyone has to get out of the trenches digging in our heels won't work anymore the moment of truth is upon us. but the wait goes on in the meantime the coalition partners in waiting are hashing out their differences over health care reform and labor laws hopes are high that this will be the last night of suspense and that a new grand coalition government is within sight or one of the many reporters waiting outside the c.d.u. headquarters here in berlin is our chief political correspondent with the crane good evening melinda it's almost time to say good morning it is so late on this tuesday into wednesday is there any movement behind you can we expect a deal before sunrise. there is movement behind me but not quite of the sort that you me and in fact a lot of the reporters who have been waiting here are packing up now and so are a number of the politicians the negotiations are going on in two different rounds there's a kind of an advance team of fifteen people that do the initial work

from the state of bavaria sounded more upbeat than earlier in the day elizabeth before. everyone has to get out of the trenches digging in our heels won't work anymore the moment of truth is upon us. but the wait goes on in the meantime the coalition partners in waiting are hashing out their differences over health care reform and labor laws hopes are high that this will be the last night of suspense and that a new grand coalition government is within sight and one of those reporters waiting outside the c.d.u. headquarters here in berlin is our chief political correspondent more with a grain good evening to you melinda so what are you hearing we are quickly approaching the well the midnight hour. i think that midnight hour maybe stretched into the early morning or even slightly later morning hours we're seeing a lot of coming and going here for the past hour or so at c.d.u. headquarters and those who were going told us that they will be coming back they are essentially now on call and we've heard from some of those who are arriving that in fact headway is being made ther

many many years have on good health minister his pose for a cus you the conservative sister party in bavaria it's leader hall c.e.o. for taking over the interior ministry so this one signal there's one signal that i'm going to merkel is opening up also to critics who have a base to have support within the c.d.u. party and the person who fired by you and spawn at the same time she rewards allies like peter meyer the current interim finance minister before that her chief of staff for their loyalty so that's the message coming out of this that merkel may be looking more ass transition phase also herself with those discussions that we saw over recent months and particular those last weeks over how much clout she still has within her own party. definitely some very difficult decisions that she's had to take why it would she give and spoken critique of her refugee policy a job in her cabinet what's the reasoning behind that. womack of herself it appears is also looking beyond her own tenure in power there's no doubt about her most likely seeing her last time being the german chancellor that if the

a win in bavaria would put the eagles up to seven. and humber were desperate to bring a seven match when the streak to an end when they hosted hung over at the pool in this league is only ever present saw it earn a relegation battle the first. frankfurt's away form this season has been impressive only champions by an have a better record the eagles have won their last three away games and another victory would catapult them into second spot in the table but their rivals on sunday out burger are unbeaten in five matches on home turf and the fact they've never lost against frankfurt in the bundesliga in front of their own fans a win for them would have them within a whisker of a european spot a juicy encounter was expected. headed to this class with top score sent out injured finding an adequate replacement could prove hard to come by kevin dunn so missing this. but they broke the deadlock from the next chance again from a set piece. minutes frankfurt's defense leaving the south korean with fox you must space. the home side would dictat

bavaria up front about it. >> i don't have to tell you, it is hot. not only unseasonably hot, is getting hotter. let's bring indian to break it down for us. i'm staying hydrated. >> it's not summertime hot but doesn't feel like february. widespread 60s across the area and 70s look to be a good bed on wednesday. >> how unseasonable is this? literally there is no a few days ago. there are winter hazards and snow coming down and now we are sweating. >> i noticed the snow this weekend. it certainly feels odd and wild weather we've been having. we will threaten the record high at new york central park. the record high 70 degrees set in the great depression 80 some years ago. >> how long will it continue? this is when he gets sick and don't trust properly all the sudden will be freezing by the weekend. >> you start to wonder if the groundhog know something we don't with the two weeks until spring, there's a thing so go downhill. will become slightly cooler. i don't see an arctic blast on the horizon the salon before we bring out the t-shirts and shorts. >>

venice and it's true with its italian that flair and narrow lanes it's one of the prettiest cities in bavaria it has many striking churches and monasteries there are about fifty in all the bishopric of paso once extended as far as hungry. st stephen's cathedral is in the middle of the old town the fact that it's one of germany's largest parag churches becomes specially evident once you're inside. everything here testifies to the wealth and power of possibles prince bishops. the cathedral organ is famous with its seventeen thousand nine hundred seventy four pipes it's the largest of its kind in the world. the town hall is also designed in italian style but the definitely the variance. on the. over the past centuries it's hard to imagine. now i mean. from the ongoing are just association he'll be giving me a tour of a narrow street parallel to the danube it's where many artists have their studios. is very popular with specially in the summer and. all the houses here date from the middle ages and our list of buildings. and. special of vegas's. but we are. a bit of color tourist walk through here

alan: look, the so-called bavaria, he said we can't accept 200,000 migrants a year. that's not trivial. that's 10 times more than mr. macron and 20 times more than theresa may or anyone else wants to accept. and they don't want the afd, right-wing more of europe. this will lead to greater polarization. what i see happening is that the latest in four years time, you are going to see the christian the post-merkel christian democrats, we will be back to left versus right. which will, by the way, be a great thing because they don't have to do anything. they are just doing what they achieved in 2017, 2018. melinda: our title grand coalition government wanted. this might not be the government germany wanted, but could it be the government germany needs? charlotte: yes. we need a stable government and chancellor. melinda: thanks to all of you for being with us and for you for tuning in. michelle: a very warm welcome from a chilly germany on this weeks' edition of "fokus on europe." i'm michelle henery. the metoo movement was a hashtag that went ral on social mia last ocber,

venice it is true with its italian a flair and a narrow lanes it's one of the prettiest cities in bavaria. it has many striking churches and monasteries there are about fifty in all. the bishopric of ca so once extended as far as hungary. st stephen's cathedral is in the middle of the old town the fact that it's one of germany's largest baroque churches becomes a specially evident once you're inside. everything here testifies to the wealth and power of possibles prince bishops. the cathedral organ is famous with its seventeen thousand nine hundred seventy four pipes it's the largest of its kind in the world. the town hall is also designed in italian. but the glockenspiel sounds early bavarian. has fifty one thousand residents a quarter of them students. in the summer lots of tourists add to those numbers but in the winter the streets are quiet. the many cafes and taverns are typical of the old town. cafe seimone for instance offers a large selection of cakes and handmade filled chocolates. this is the this is the old passant chocolate speciality old pos home gold caps and it's a truffle f

duty out in spain and in several three star restaurants and now he runs a school for master parts in bavaria at best his sweet creations are a feast for all the senses and he tells us why perfectionism and passion don't always go hand in hand. these cakes are tiny works of art. their own created by food design or much ts me to my. shop to improve the coverage of the civil i got a job that isn't actually needed in this world nobody needs chocolate all praying is ok chief so the question is how do i get customers to come to me for my luxury products when i think by staring emotions. it would sort of us lose it. mathias mr meyer is head of a bavarian pettis or reschooling he teaches professionals and hobby chefs the art of making exquisite treats anyone can learn the tricks of the trade but much he says it's not about being passionate about making. it look like shock of passion might have a cook who will improvise with a pinch of this or a pinch of that but that doesn't help with the participation if i must follow the recipe to the latter especially with things like the clothes the cream could

states in terms of population all of them the five of them have as much population the same size of bavaria. so that the five important but they certainly do not form. germany. from more so european. activities and the trade field now you mentioned the sanctions one of the purposes of sanctions is that to change the behavior most of the german sanctions originate in russia is perceived behavior in crimea americal believes the borders should not be changed and perhaps i think on some level even vladimir putin will agree with her on that but the i'm sure you understand that for russia in crimea it was not only a matter of principle it was a matter of strategic security the expansion of nato the possibility of losing the the base in the black sea and those when you deal with strategic security it's very difficult to uphold principles even if you agree with that do you think russia could have played any other way alternatively do you think that russia is likely to . repeat what has happened in crimea. this is a very difficult question that i would have to say you're volatile because it reaches

snow mountain spreads where i'm happy i'm getting closer to the algo it helps fund in bavaria our check in special the dairy out on my way to the streets that clearly have snuck out of st it surely is highest now and of course stand us up and of course when i'm here i'll do a hike of the bavarian forest. in sixty minutes. happy birthday in good shape turning ten this new age you came with this amazing fitness backpack and if you long for know what's inside isn't all well and good classic to turn a game most favorite holmgren's into. coughing and maybe it will get a chance to do so playful. good luck plays a role we have to do are we on the verge of a new world order. and who may defend europe. this year's munich security conference takes place at a time of great insecurity internationally top government officials played an important discussion has stood forward looking statements. will be there to cover all. security conference upon me don't let him play. one hour. for. the news hour for local heroes. the double. tuchis german journalist dennis you child has arrived back in berlin after

sixteen days of heavy rainfall culminated in a flash flood that tore through the town of simba in bavaria seven people lost their lives. eyewitnesses still have difficulty putting into words what they experienced. we looked on as the water rose within ten minutes and when it's needed you don't need to leave the building. we were in the first story above ground if you're too short. in no time at all the shallow stream swelled into a leaf film torrent of water up to five meters deep so how do clouds manage to hold such enormous quantities of water that's one of a range of questions being investigated by researchers at the live nets institute for tropospheric research in like the team have a state of the art cloud simulator at their disposal what sets this facility apart is not just its size but how it enables researches to artificially create a cloud. it's and observe their you know workings. so how do you go about country ring up your own clouds. on the set of all the possible there are two ingredients for is to need particulate matter what we call. those have always been in the atmosphere

their clothes for their questioning by special investigators revealed links to organized gangs in bavaria and across germany solve rates for break ins are low. but police hoped that this case would prove to be different. you avoid once we arrested the women who carried out this break and we wanted to find out who was behind it who's pulling the strings whether it's a major network that was the first step this want to extra troops. the police uncovered a clan of roughly five hundred members active across europe and based in croatia. police believe it could be behind thousands of break ins stretching over several years. mostly his youth when you can see here is just part of the wider class but that's the part we're focused on as you can see they're all related they're all members of the same family none from the outside nothing external at this kind in extent and. investigators have one woman in particular in their crosshairs. the circa v. the police refer to her as the princess. so gripped the correction capital home to the woman police believe is the most skilled burglar of them all. appa

from bavaria he's he's saying we can accept two hundred thousand migrants a year that's a million in five years that's not trivial let's ten times more than just a mark on twenty times more than than tourism a or anyone else wants except so no and they don't want the a.f.d. the right wing don't want more europe so this is going to lead to an even greater polarization what i see happening i have to say is that in the latest in four years time you're going to see the the christian democrats a postmark a christian democrats. tack to the right form a coalition with fifty and we will be back to two two two. left vs right which will by the way be a great thing for the s.p.d. because it enough to do anything or they have to do is stay where they are on say we're defending what we achieved in two thousand and seventeen eighteen very very. prediction show parts are titled grand coalition government wanted this may not be that good if the government germany wanted but could it give me alternatives be the government surely needs to get very very bad if there we need a stable government right no

from the state of bavaria sounded more upbeat then earlier in the day elizabeth before that everyone has to get out of the trenches digging in our heels won't work anymore the moment of truth is upon us. but the wait goes on in the meantime the coalition partners in waiting are hashing out their differences over health care reform and labor laws hopes are high that this will be the last night of suspense and that a new grand coalition government is within sight. ever want to get our one of our reporters our cheap political correspondent linda greene she is outside the c.d.u. headquarters here in berlin let's find out moment any movement behind you there can we expect a deal before midnight what are you hearing. there's been a lot of movement but perhaps the most intense movement is the cranking up of the rumor mill as it gets increasingly late the rumors seem to swirl faster and faster here so we are hearing among other things that they are very close to agreement we've been told by one minister in the government that the three leaders of the parties involved in the negotiations are

well elsewhere the christian social union angela merkel's sister party in bavaria their head horse often looks to be heading for the interior ministry it had been thought that mr z. hoffa would be retiring from politics but the sixty eight year old showing no sign of that as he heads into one of the main cabinet positions by the looks of it and i say by the looks of it because of this deal that's been hard fought now made out it could all fall apart it comes down to the membership of the social democrats four hundred sixty thousand members will be balloted to see if they want to go into this coalition that's a postal ballot it'll take a few weeks to collect all of the results and if that's a yes well we could see a new government headed by angela merkel in place here in germany by a step that would be six months after the general election if it's a no though well it's hard to see beyond the only other option being fresh elections here in germany long as elections ever peter all of there from berlin thank you very much plenty more still to come that will be backed up at the stop like thin

and mountain spreads where i'm heavy i'm getting closer to the outgoing house leader fun in bavaria our check in special there yes on my way to the states that a little sarcasm and straight. now to a cord and sell it of course when i'm here i'll do a hike in the bavarian forest. thirty minutes on. every journey begins with the first step and every language with the first word emerged in the book. rico is in germany to learn german why not learn a little simple online on your mobile and free themselves from d w z e learning course because fish german made easy. looking for artistry. edge of the seat. joy and jubilation. got it all the time to sleep gut. pick up. poor weather conditions have hampered rescue operations after a plane crash in iran a passenger jet went down near the southern city of after taking off from tehran nearly eight hundred kilometers away according to state television all sixty five people on board are believed dead. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says his country could take direct action against iran over border incidents in syria holding up what he says

fun in bavaria check in special area on my way to the pacific that clearly has some cows and a stroll. down the corridor. and of course when i'm here i'll do a hike in the bavarian for a. long. time . to. see. the scars on the move. the suffering for gone the former city. of so far just to have a future. we understand people who say they don't want to stay here. but i also admire people who want to stay here and who decided to create something new in peace time what needs to happen if tolerance and reconciliation are to stand a chance for darkness cities after a war starting march tenth. but very in winter wonderland and a very warm welcome to this special edition of check in. there's no business likes no business as looters stay guy tries his luck on a snow bike in the i'll go on. and off about one.

in two thousand and six thousand it's moved to bavaria that same year take them all down the lumix pictures interpreted king was. beyond me i've done via biota and very quickly we arranged a major exhibition with the rain expect it was our first big exhibition and during the preparation this oh so tranquil artist was in a complete panic. stock of. him from my he's famous and recognised but he was in a blind funk and how would the pictures go down too tough on me for to fall could people accept them i didn't accept here. in atlanta he still thinks his old pictures are great he realized that when he was repainting annoyed clobbered us as kind and i don't think that's a continuation or an extension of the themes but rather that the themes are simply part of our history now he's liberated from all the fanatic constraints and he's in a position simply to paint without constraints without threats without happiness on happiness or sentimentality or in its ring or the dollar in order to. own our own little blue piece reached a situation which can almost be described as olympian as in the log for he

. >> the plastic smiles on the face of this new police unit in bavaria protect the anonymity of the firsto be specifically trained to fight terror groups. >> what happened between '72 and '76 in germany and in other parts of the world is a complete revolution of the military and much more emphasis on counterterrorism. >> don't miss! don't miss! >> here's the situation in what's turning out to be the year's most spectacular hijack story. 101 hostages released today were flown to paris, but another 110 are still being held at the airport in uganda. about 85 of them israeli nationals. >> relatives of the israeli hostages held an emotional meeting with government representatives this morning. they didn't care that israel has a basic policy of not dealing with terrorists. they wanted action from their government. >> israel set the example for many countries. they told the terrorists point-blank, we are not going to negotiate with you. we do not recognize your legitimacy. >> if you're going to be hardline your response, how do you end the episode? do you just stand by while all the hostages are

to make the french happy, because the french wanted nuclear weapons and to tamp down, it is more bavaria than germany. this was a european centered approach which had unintended consequences with moscow because what moscow saw was this was a proliferation of nuclear weapons within nato. there, i agree. and unintended consequence. -- a unintended consequence. in the penpal letters, which set the stage for khrushchev's decision-making and risk-taking, they're talking about the details of berlin. i think berlin is important but historians disagree. if is part of the fun. >> a more narrow point. it sounds as if you are saying de gaulle's advice would apply to north korea. connected to that, i am wondering in retrospect, to what respect eisenhower came close in his dealings with khrushchev to taking de gaulle's advice compared to kennedy. to be sure, eisenhower did let himself be pressured into having the visit to the united states by khrushchev and the summit in paris in 1960. he was worried. i don't think eisenhower produce -- produced the same impression on khrushchev as the bay of pigs an