s line from beilin it's a final day of campaigns for an election that could change germany's political landscape chancellor angela merkel has been on the last minute push for votes she has a strong lead in the polls if you are expecting a hard stopping finish but with a main challenger martin shields a distant second all eyes are on which party will come instead also coming up. with their vote who know the end this is their work not only my parents' work but also my grandparents thank god we're at least alive for solving the guessing three days up to mexico's massive earthquake remote communities a still waiting for help visited one village that's digging itself out of the rubble. and around says it's launched a new ballistic missile that can carry multiple warheads over two thousand kilometers it's a sign of defiance against the u.s. . i'm a money it's good to have you with us german chancellor. and her main challenger martin shuls were out on their final day of campaigning before germans go to the polls on sunday and while america has a comfortable lead in the polls she's not taking

beilin is sean bell and is a piece of home for me well it may well be the only city in germany where i would live it's the first city i came to back that. i got to know the berliners i know them very well. that part of my life i'm sure i wouldn't get along with a variant as well as i do with a ballin. bill you know. sayit son of poor has been living in germany nearly forty years now he's even got both nationalities but he wearily thinks about returning to his native homeland. and lose about the dream about him to tell you. john it's a question. now whilst we like to explore different coaches here on your marks we do love any chance to revel in german traditions where the first one at the moment that is very easy to millions of people of flocked to munich for the annual festival and those wanting a bit of fun away from the bit tense a trying out the bog and it actually has been there for more than eighty years and it's very popular whilst in reality it is just a helter skelter song at the farm lies just as much in the house and in the. the toboggan it's a longstanding favorites at the

beilin is your world culture not germany culture the it's a multicultural here. they were coming here patrons from many different countries and of many tourists as well as lots of germans who live in the neighborhood. in question all of. the empanada as are so popular that the managers have now opened a small empanada snack bar in the eastern part of berlin. well over about i want to make a home but us are various but ok will. one throw a joke. making me hungry well don't forget that you can find all of the yummy recipes from our fifty kitchens one city series on our website so be sure to have a look when was the last time you passed a musician playing on the sidewalk if you stop and drop a corner to into their battered hatch or instrument case it's a special talent when musicians can make the masses stop and linger and so in our series this week the berlin town musicians were featuring talents just like this and the linnaeus armadillo has more than just interesting sounds to offer. been my name is the lone e s armadillo and i play street music on my own kind of

different building fronts the facades were based on thousands of photographs of pre world war two beilin the series is based on a novel by phone. that novel gave us the framework that allowed us to tell our story. detective stories does a hell of a lot of research and gives you a real feeling for the times. side of the production team also watch documentaries and original material from this period to help to make the series as realistic as possible that we don't burn in not only tells the story of the city but also of the berlin society i did time when for example of the role of women was changing rapidly many started wearing short skirts and lipstick and took a no holds barred approach to life much like the youngster not prefer name shall not have played by live lisa freeze. and for. us i think that the women of today can identify with this era things were changing fast and society was on the move in a way that affected women. as they started to drive cars for example about allison and i'm feeling even though the series is set roughly ninety years ago there are interesting parallels bet