one year ahead of the actual date and nowhere more than in bonn germany the composers hometown. director of the anniversary society and the b 2 b. house we have a funding for more than 40000000 euros to celebrate peter from germany germany why . i think it gives them. shows that we look at it as a festival of national importance. has long been the world's most often performed classical composer and never more than no. is widespread in egypt in africa too. there are gaps that need to be filled in because only little of this composer's music is familiar to most people. people in germany to open their houses to to private space often relates to concerts and events to celebrate but it's often in their living rooms or in their kitchens and it's a big birthday bash. and it brings back to all comes from the house concerts the chamber music was written not for the concert halls but for the private homes on the big beethoven weekend a special exhibition opens at the buddhist the national art gallery in bonn including historic instruments. peering into a hall one can look back into betoken

met. 4 weeks later the singers have come to bonn germany's former capital for the annual beethoven fest. it celebrates the city's famous son the composer and pianist live it from beethoven. how'd you like to live near i mean it's so peaceful it's nice i like it so much. that. i guess the 1st thing they do after getting up is singing. i've never seen them warm up or prepare they just ready to go. we find that really inspiring it gives us the confidence to really go for it it's only. like eastern med also that i like to think of it as. roses among the thorns because we're. and we haven't already serious but hearing the sweet voice and talk it's always so beautiful. on. t.v. their voice is a so deep and velvety but they can sing high tune. they're very colorful and have an incredible versatility bands in a good suspect they're able to sing classical material but also jazz and soul jessica she saw. how that comes together really nice and they can all the very flexible. to some jazz and all those things so it really mixes very well with what we're doing it's been quite a fun process. there a

cop 23 in bonn germany 2 years ago this is that the u.n. i think you know you and simon summit in bonn 2 years ago i sat on a panel with a few german think tank is from talking about environed him energy and climate policy and they were buried about radical climate policies increasing electricity prices and possibly leading to more votes being pushed to the right wing a tea party a friend of mine from the philippines was also on the podium and said you know you're worried about rising electricity prices we are experiencing rising sea levels you're worried about some more votes going to a proto fascist i think we have a fascist president now that's basically the kind of global relations for me to think this in and we need to think here in europe do we want to continue living this high wealth high speed high production lifestyle. knowing that that destroys that makes the planet progressively less livable and actually negatively impacts the lives of the most poorest and most modern likes out of the way it's over it's a lovely speech except tha

tried to bring the country more and more towards the west on a visit to bonn he signed an agreement on police cooperation with germany. with what was not going to yes there was no it is not as if it was. thank you this move led to a clash with the president whose rule became increasingly authoritarian the opposition rallied and military officers joined forces with them with the aim of ousting location co. all around me here very. dear friends. lack ravens are circling above our land. all joy that's why the national congress came together yesterday to protect the constitution against the dictatorship. back then our witness your ego of ski was 18 years old during his military service he joined a special unit and was soon integrated into a newly founded intervention force called saba where he spent 5 years finally receiving a promotion he keeps copies of important documents in the refugee home where he's staying and tells us that the originals are in a safe place. this is my membership card for the special units veterans association the. people who have served in the fighting units of the ministry of internal affairs ge

germany's best known composer. in honor of his 250th birthday. and a new exhibition in bonn brings us closer to the man. we had to zurich where a new exhibition of art from the democratic republic of congo looks at that country's traditions both past and present. and in our series 100 german must. not i don't younes extraordinary memoir an exclusive love in which she tries to unravel the history behind her and parents. but we start with the superstar of german composers beethoven will be in the spotlight in 2020 as we celebrate his 250th birthday and that means that his music will of course be everywhere concerts and new recordings abound and in his hometown of bon the bluntest quince tyler is getting a jump on things with a new exhibition that correlates his musical works with key events in his life. germany has never celebrated a composer before 250th anniversary of.

germany's best known composer big fun. in honor of his 250th birthday and a new exhibition in bonn brings us closer to the man and his. we had to zurich new exhibition of art from the democratic republic of congo looks at that country's traditions both past and present. and in our series 100 german. guns extraordinary memoir an exclusive love in which she tries to ravel the history behind her grandparents. but we start with the superstar of german composers beethoven will be in the spotlight in 2020 as we celebrate his 250th birthday and that means that his music will of course be everywhere with concerts and new recordings abound and in his hometown of bon the buddhist is getting a jump on things with a new exhibition that correlates his musical works with key events in his life. germany has never celebrated. for. 50 years.

celebrations for his 255th and not just here in germany but literally all around the world and monday night saw a festive gala performance at the opera house in bonn that set the tone for what's to come. the beethoven orchestra bon under conductor katan kicked off the celebrations honoring bombs most famous son the composer was born in the western german city and $769.00 among the guests at the gala was current band president ontopic who was involved in organizing the anniversary events what does beethoven mean to him personally be it of means just great music and all thought you meant the patient solidarity and freedom and also unity of russian state premier of north rhine-westphalia beethoven clearly represents the worldliness of the rhineland region isn't this a very multicultural area we live in and his music and the music it's not a drama music it's a european it's a vote music school you along with plenty of beethoven the gala future the new music inspired by him with lyrics by british writer called griffiths reflecting on the composer significance today here there sung by soprano is eva ends. its. roots. other performers included jazz piani

in the rhineland city of bonn, workers put finishing touches on a new parliament. the government for the new federal republic of germany. to block german reunification, the russians had created an east german state. the west would create a western one. the new administration included many veteran fighters for german freedom. for those of them who had suffered for their beliefs in nazi concentration camps to be members of the first democratic government in their country for over 20 years was reward indeed. here was the beginning of a new germany. a realization of facts, the fact that several million industrious people, deprived for so long of democratic processes, could not continue without a government of their own choice. taking the oath, the chancellor of the new federal state. >> [speaking in foreign language] >> then, in 1953, joseph stalin died. the shock throughout the communist world was profound. the workers were numbed and not a little troubled. perhaps he had been there so long that the world could never be the same without him. and this was to prove truer than most of them imagined. now in moscow, there was

this week kicks off a year of celebrations of germany's best known composer a new take around beethoven on of his $250.00 s. but today a new exhibition in bonn brings us closer to the man and his music. i'm headed home free glad you could join me here as a plane make a boeing is suspending production of it 737 max line a starting in january the best selling aircraft was grounded last march following 2 fatal crashes in just 5 months boeing has not delivered any new 737 since then while it worked on the course of those crashes now the production freeze by one of the largest u.s. exports is what impact supplies an airline airline has around the world as well as the u.s. economy. there are 400 brand new 737 max aircraft parked in boeing's holding area they've been grounded since april this year some are even parked in the employee parking lot the production stop slated for this coming january is a drastic measure and it's bad for boeing's 12000 employees i think holding production as a pretty major downside that disrupts the whole supply chain that puts labor and terrible spot causes. a real loss of the economies of scale that this airplane has