they were so tall you could see a long way into east berlin and his favorite being michelle is nearby. i'm. on and has played the accordion since his teens 1920 songs his favorites. it's been i thought the real berlin or if you want to put it that way i'm really happy that young people are also enjoying this music. and some of the 1920 s. lyrics remain very timely. some even know them and can sing along. that's why i'm doing what i can to keep this culture alive and traditional berlin pubs must never disappear either but he. says he will do everything to keep clearing out historic underground signs he recently discovered this well from the 1863 it used to belong to a brewery and still contains water. starts berlin is brimming with 20th century history from the weimar republic the nazi period the post-war era the wall and then reunification we've experienced it all religion is great for learning about german history. and not just about them but under the surface things to eat mcdonald's and he's taking. this city tour on all forms. gumby hardly even. knew how to be cuddling. is a hobby

german bid for victory and moved steadily to a meeting with their demrant russian ally in the east. berlincity of naziism, fell. early in january, franklin roosevelt was inaugurated as president of the united states, his fourth term. the ceremony took place on the white house porch. almost immediately the president went to the altar, confered with joseph stalin and churchill on final steps to crush the axis and establish peace. it was the originalal meeting of the big theo. franklin roosevelt looked tired and old. in april, a great man was dead. the loss of franklin roosevelt was deeply felt by people all-around the world. ♪ >> in the cabinet room of the white house, harry s. truman was sworn in as president. on the each of victory and its disturbing aftermath, his was the duty of carrying on with he leaders of america's allies . 25 days later on may the 7th in a little school house in france came the unconditional urnedser of germany. the nazi chief of staff signed the document formally ending all german resistance as drawn by the representatives of russia, britain, france and the united

organisers of this gathering had been given permission to distribute newspapers in front of the old east berline decided they'd crossed the line by turning the event into a protest. translation: during coronavirus times, and according to the containment regulations, we are required to prevent such gatherings. we have 180 police officers on duty here around the square, ready to react to violations and to uphold the regulations. all chant: ich will mein leben zuruck! the protest was organised by left—wing activists, but some of those taking part appeared to be supporters of the right. others took inspiration from an anti—nazi protest movement during the second world war, the white rose. wir sind heute hier... translation: we are here today, enjoying the nice weather and thinking about setting an example with the white rose for the protection of constitutional rights, freedom and, above all, freedom of speech. it's very important, as it has unfortunately started to regress in the last few weeks. with the crowd refusing to disperse, the police moved in. dozens were arrested. earlier this month, ger

the own usually quiet east berlin home open does any good club in your here local football fans are doing their best to help their community during the coronavirus crisis. we set up the giving fans so that the homeless or families who maybe just don't have that much money can come and collect things like sanitarium products that you can tell we wanted to create a platform where people can come and take what they need because a lot of other facilities are closed at the moment and wish to take trust. giving friends was just the start of the supporters efforts they also collecting handmade face mosques to donate to caregivers and essential workers after they heard the mosques were in short supply. you know so much as i was that's lucky we got together and decided to try and combine our strengths there are a lot of us who are sitting at home at the moment but we hope that those people can do some sewing with their families keep their children entertained and see it as a little family project and wake up in the city as well as keeping kids busy the funds are helping to secure the supply of ess

the own usually quiet east berlin home open is a good club when you're here local football fans are doing their best to help their community during the coronavirus crisis and. we set up the giving fans so that the homeless or families who maybe just don't have that much money can come and collect things like sanitarium products not a good time we wanted to create a platform where people can come and take what they need because a lot of other facilities are closed at the moment and wish to take trust not giving friends was just the start of the supporters efforts they also collecting handmade face masks to donate to caregivers and essential workers after they heard the mosques were in short supply. i think i'm young you know so much as i was that's lucky we got together and decided to try and combine our strengths there are a lot of us who are sitting at home at the moment but we hope that those people can do some sewing with their families keep their children entertained and see it as a little family project. as well as keeping kids busy the funds are helping to secure the supply of essen

this is the deadly news live from berlin east under lockdown churches around the world celebrate a holy day with no congregation in front of francis calls for global solidarity fighting the coronavirus pandemic and for ceasefire in all conflicts it's official square normally packed with tens of thousands of worshippers stance deserve also on the program. british prime minister boris johnson leaves haast hospital after spending 3 days in intensive care with coded 19 inch office says he wanted to pretend to put them in.

news live from berlin east under lockdown churches around the world celebrate the holy day with no congregation in front pope francis calls for global solidarity in fighting the coronavirus pandemic and to cease fires in all conflicts simply to square normally packed with tens of thousands of worshipers stands deserted. and how one business woman in belgium is defining economic downturn with some tasty seasonal treats she says or does for these easter bunnies with a difference in absolutely popping out the door. and anthony how would welcome the pope has broken with centuries of tradition and live streamed his easter sunday mass for the 1st time as the world's 1300000000 catholics celebrate the holiday on the coronavirus lockdown he spoke to a small audience in some pages basilica instead of the hundreds of thousands who normally gather in the square that francis devoted his traditional message to what he called this year's easter of solitude and called for global solidarity let's take a listen. in the light of the present circumstances may international sanctions be relaxed. since these make i

disturbances to reveal a long forgotten structure a shadow of the past. 1700 kilometers further east in berlin work is underway on a different type of digital archaeology in game developer thomas bremen studio for virtual reality. it looks like a game but it isn't. the game designers are working with berlin archaeologist caracol maya hit technology makes ancient history their cooperation has yielded some surprising discoveries for example the hittites had not unusual leading to. these are here for this one from left to right this one from right to left this one from left to right this again from right to left then back again yeah like in wavy lines that's awesome is it will be seen in that archaeologists are anchored in past centuries and that applies to their methodology to. the actually the rapid development of computer technology in general but also a virtue archaeology is still something we need to get our heads around you know man come on and when i tell people i'm working with a game designer they just shut down because gaming technology sounds so frivolous but in fact this work is just

they see instead of the news line from berlin and east under lockdown churches around the world celebrate the holy day with no congregation in rome pope francis breaks with centuries of tradition to live stream the easter sunday mass at st peter's square normally packed with tens of thousands of worshippers stands deserted and also on the program to stay at home over the easter weekend that's what germany's president told his country in a red televised address frank coltish don meyer said this crisis demands solidarity and the best of society. i'm a decorator is welcome to the program pope francis has been saying a live streamed east a mass as the world's 1300000000 catholics celebrate the holiday under lockdown francis has been speaking and sent pages basilica to a small audience a star in the end is the end of holy week rather one of the most important dates of the christian calendar but this year also says have been held in private as the coronavirus restrictions kate most of the faithful at home during the holidays good for them. and it's cross now to martin gak database of religious

berlin. is my big east today president traumas to suspend the u.s. funding to the world health organization if he gets his way he's accusing the u.n. agency of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic and supporting what he calls china's disinform ation troubles who accuses the w.h.o. of mistakes which led to many deaths the united states accounts for more than a 5th of the w h o's budget. struck in my administration to halt. funding of the world health organization while a review is conducted to assess the world. health organization's role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the corona virus us president donald trump has announced that he is cutting u.s. funding to the world health organization accusing the organization of conspiring with the government of china to suppress important information related to the corona virus pandemic in the middle of january it parroted in publicly endorse the idea that there was not human to human transmission happening despite reports and clear evidence to the contrary that delays the w.h.o. experience

for 4 weeks now from the western german city of corpulence on the rhine to the capital berlin and then north east of the country. the farmers even are on the greatest thing and this was a trip of 750 kilometers this is just one was to come up against your limits when you think you'll never make it then you get a 2nd wind and then you do it because this is not my call to being. he started out doing the collecting on his own he'd make an arrangement of the garbage from the rivers photograph it and put it on display it's the photo designers way of making the invisible waste plain for all to see. troops on 40 of them on. i took a photograph that shows a kayaker from above paddling on garbage this is the average amount of garbage from one kilometer of river in germany and not in asia and we have to work to reduce that because germany has a lot of kilometers of rivers. in total around 7300 kilometers and stefan horse has only travelled a fraction of them so far. alongside exhibitions he also organizes regular cleanup events 7 cities are taking part in this one like oberhausen on a tributary of the rhin

demonstrate we saw this on saturday there was a small demonstration here in the heart of berlin a group called east on owns held a demo in the center there were no yelling grown cassettes which means basic law germans constitution now this is a an audit makes of people that was both freedom rights activists as well as some conspiracy theorists they were all us to keep a good distance from each other to trying to buy social distancing laws but they were nevertheless breaking the these contacts about laws and that's why the police put an end to these demonstrations other demonstrations have also been held for causes such as taking refugees off the islands in greece and bringing them to a safer place they have also been shut down so some might say these kind of demonstrations are irresponsible but others would say that we need to find a way to be able to voice our opinion safely even during these really extraordinary time i mean edition of the people's i guess patience is wearing thin because it's interesting the 1st graph you showed there there's not a majority for extending or for reducing so you kn

most of you realize that some of you do not, berlin, west berlin, it was 100 miles inside east germany, a small enclave of freedom and democracy and there is no way of the russians decided to occupy west berlin, no way we could fight them with conventional weapons so the plan again was to unleash everything. there were discussions and these have been declassified. they weren't when i wrote my first book, some of them on tape, some of them transcript, discussing this and the idea was okay, what if they do this? they came up with four phases, the russians come into west berlin, phase i was let's send out a patrol. phase 2, let's send out a battalion. phase 3 was we will do some intimidation, flies and airplanes over places, bottlenecks and memberships, do economic sanctions, have the united nations passed a resolution condemning this and then phase 4 was nuclear, there were three divisions, for a, we should off one nuclear weapon is a demonstration of our resolve and they will back off. 4 be was we use tactical nuclear weapons, we blowup a whole battalion of their troops with nuclear wea

a business day doubly news live from berlin more us states push ahead with plans to east lock down missions despite warnings they have moving too fast pressure to lift restrictions is high so as to get the economy moving again but scientists fear it could lead to a new surge of infection also coming up. spinal else children to go outside and play.

since the berlin conference has sent tons of equipment to have they have they they have an airbase in the east of libya they used to bomb the west of libya nobody thought about. the europeans are our. talk and they convened the berlin conference once they saw the current and the russians are in there is the only reason and no they are initiating this i really. mission in the mediterranean to help have and help in monarchies and try to stop the turks that's what the whole thing is about and until we see any bones and not hypocritical position from the europeans i think. the libyans and the navy will continue and we will not listen to anything that the europeans are going to say because they have nothing to offer they have they are broken out of. this united and they are not. they have no position in the conflict now clear how how heavily involved in the conflict this is the u.a.e. why has it not subject to the same criticism turkey and russia for being so. no i mean we we've all known that they usually is directly involved in the labor conflict it's nothing new they started helping. build up hi

berlin, iowa became lincoln, iowa. east germantown pennsylvania became pershing. indiana became pershing, named after the general. the frankfurter became the hotdog. ferocity in the air at the very highest level. for example, this is the former secretary of state of the secretary of war, senator from new york. special he was a emissary of president wilson. he told an audience in new york in the summer of 1917 that "pro german tracers" -- pro german traders" were threatening the war effort. he said there are men walking about the city tonight who ought to be taken out and shot for treason. newspapers published in this city every day, the editors of which deserve conviction and execution for treason. with his hatred of the media, he would be right at home in the trump administration. people like him were as appears as they were about the war because there was considerable resistance to it. this is another thing that gets left out of our history books. there was a group called the women's pieced party that agitated against the war, both before and after the united st

i'm chris caldwell in berlin is good to have you with us now the longer the shutdown is in place the more pressing becomes the question when constrict social distancing measures be east here in germany public officials are yet to decide on an official strategy so let's get an expert's view to be escort is a professor of public health and it in the ology at berlin's charlotte a hospital welcome to our program to be yes let's talk about the weather 1st here there have been some including the u.s. president saying that rising temperatures are bad for the virus are they. well if you look at areas reporting factionalism if you see this bird that the virus that there's really no differences between regions of war and reaching the colder so i think the virus is really not affected by temperature it is true that you are in the cold weather season to skin in certain insect you throw this more susceptible for getting in it's actually that may be a factor of it don't think that it is really affected by scent so springtime meaning it's not necessarily a bad time for corona. it's not about time for the buyers it's time for for us and enjoying the sun roof and so fully getting som

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good things, i covered the independence of ukraine, the berlin unification, mandela coming out of prison in south africa, peace in the middle east it was all good news. >> did you ever go to greenland or no? >> no. i put in a bid for it. [laughter] >> so, okay, you so you did that for a while, you're a foreign policy expert, what did you do next? >> i should say i had the best interview of my life in russia, there was a coup against regime and stood up in tank in russian parliament building and ran into 90-year old woman, first husband had been killed in civil war, second husband and boys were killed in battle and her third husband was sent away and disappeared, she was sent away with her people and ended her life hanging out sandwiches in front of russian parliament building, she had personally experienced event of soviet history and it was one of those burning moments that you see history right in front of you. >> what happened next? >> i came home and i saw that american culture had changed. i grew up -- i went to high school in place in pennsylvania and when i left people wore green pants and buck ties and when i came back i

pushing all the way across into germany berlin about 18 degrees single figures there for still call it 7 degrees celsius basin places a shabby rain over towards the east as well wanted to show was there to turkey for much of southern europe there it is looking fine and again something of a change here and it looks good in spite and portugal for the most part one of 2 showers across northern parts of spybot temperatures in madrid there on the riser getting up to 20 celsius on thursday could touch 23 by the time we come to a friday for madrid war weather piling into the central part so central areas of france seeing some rather wet weather some snow over the high ground for a time that wet weather will continue to drive its way for the race was potent saying some of the cloud and right in the tad cool there into where vienna by the time we come to friday back into the map lots of warm sunshine for all this weekend . as the world fights the corona pandemic and we're learning more about this every day it's a new adventure and join our global community it's up to us on how we come together to fight i'm sorry your questions can i just ask you think this is

berlin. the pope at the vatican. those are alexander ii and st. petersburg. alexander ii in st. petersburg. then he goes to the far eastand the crowds are immense. like 250,000 people at a time would turn out. the emperor of japan would never actually touch people. when he saw grant, he stepped over and shook hands with grant which was unheard of. grant actually pioneers a certain post-presidential role that would be followed by other presidents. he arbitrated a dispute over offshore islands between japan and china. so he comes back with really this sort of great reputation, very much enhanced. he's become a statesman on the world stage. it's amazing. colleen: after trying to get the nomination again in 1880, not winning it. he decides to move to new york city and try his hand in the investment world. how does that? how does -- how does that turn out? ron: again with money, disastrously. [laughter] he formed a partnership with a young man named ferdinand ward was 21 years old. they created a partnership called grant and ward. it was only time grant allowed his name to be used in a business. grants name attracted a lot

the berlin startup fair meant has been brewing computer commercially for 3 years to ferment the tea was what's known as a scoby. scoby is an acronym that stands for symbiotic culture of bacteria and east and it's not a fungus although it looks like one it's actually a symbiosis of yeast and bacteria protein. the bacteria and yeast feed on the teen sugar and they convert or ferment the ingredients. or was 1st mentioned in chinese medicine 2500 years ago. the basic recipe is very simple a mixture of green and black tea gives the best results but you can use other teas like hibiscus or herbal tea there are plenty of options. leave the tea to brew for 8 minutes and add a suitable sugar. and listen in for you just need to use a sugar that contains glucose because that's what the bacteria need. sugar replacements like stevia. the glass container needs to be food safe or the organic acids could attack the material next as the culture leave it for 14 days or longer out of sunlight at between 20 and 30 degrees celsius the longer you leave it the more sour and fizzy your computer will be. another fermented drink is water. the family drinks it every day it's even quicker to brew and offers a fiz

east here in germany public officials are yet to decide on an official strategy so. let's get an expert's view to be escort is a professor of public health and if immunology at berlin's shanty hospital welcome to our program to b s let's talk about the weather 1st here there have been some including the u.s. president saying that rising temperatures are bad for the virus are they well if you look at the areas reporting factionalism if you see dispersal of the virus there's really no differences between regions that are warmer and reaching for the colder so i think the virus is really not affected but temperature it is true that you're into cold weather season that the skin inside and those insect use that oh it's more susceptible 'd for getting in it's actually that may be a factor but it don't think that it is really affected by temperature so springtime meaning it's not necessarily a bad time for corona. it's not a bad time for the buyers it's a good time for for us and that's going to some him so clearly getting some fresh air certainly the sunshine helps. it's a good time for all of us it's and spring right now but sort of iras i don't think that makes much of a

withdrew from east to the europe peacefully they were dismantling their own bias towards the end of the cold war years of isolation and separation from the west were at and then the berlin wall fell to jubilation in the west. boris yeltsin russia's 1st elected leader transformed the country from the one party is for the system to multi-party democracy. so what went wrong. way the west treated russia would play a powerful role in the course the country would follow my good friend alexander bono expert at the carnegie moscow center has been considering these issues for a long time. so i ask you so you. or i'm glad by the mother of all men not the one in on that i joined the russian. stock and come behind you of walsh that of option more than you bitch. and dollars at last you see. this one nurse says. anything near city or similar simply things that doesn't your mom. dr sandy. says jungle started. just to prove bush nor the wish that i mean what cheer at the even though. sources james much company grow you know. what my a time machine that i shipped already and. will only a. little more when you're in the cross hall thing and that we're going to get right on the only we s