this pillar shows where that sack otten once stood it was beethoven's favorite and a center for discussion about the enlightenment. this was before the french revolution and american independence. here there was a circle of musicians who were very involved in these political discussions and that sag often was their meeting place. at the front there was. it was run by a widow widow called who also had a very attractive daughter called bet that back then all the men in bonn were attracted to her like moths to a flame. beethoven to. 16 stops on the bass have into it and to round up on the 1st step and i say uttering the composer's livery is a neighbor of the last. of those people today there's almost no music that doesn't draw on beethoven that even includes rock music when you listen to someone like the great punk icon patti smith whenever she's and gone she always goes to the beethoven house because she says my music would be inconceivable without beethoven but so beethoven's really contemporary. back in vienna here be to have been celebrated his 1st great successes as a composer for exampl

putting business before human rights also coming up deadly explosions ripped through yemen's otten airport the likely talk of a plane carrying the country's newly formed unity government. and became the boil strikes out against police brutality in nairobi taking the legal fight from the courtroom to the boxing ring. imagining how broken to the program the european union has star struck a controversy over investment deal with china the e.u. has held the accord saying it will give european companies better access to chinese markets but the critics say those economic benefits come at the expense of human rights. for 7 years european union representatives have been haggling with china at the negotiating table the results were presented at a joint press conference. market access for both sides will be improved a level playing field means that chinese state owned enterprises will no longer be given preferential treatment through subsidies and for the 1st time china commits to following environmental climate social as well as occupational health and safety standards but when it comes to those sta

as a coming down again and in some parts of the country they're coming down even harder northern ottens as announce that as of the 26th of december it will be going into a pretty tough lockdown where all non-essential shops are going to be closing even essential ones like supermarkets that going to be closing every day at 8 pm for the 1st 3 and there are various other restrictions as well of going on for 6 weeks while this is already announced that it will be going to toughen up damages from the 28th of december scotland is considering similar things to now why is this all happening while the northern ireland deputy 1st minister said the health service would be completely crushed in january for he didn't act now if you're coming in but it's necessary we've never been in such a bad position basically if you look. cross the country at the moment there are 15000 people in hospital with coronavirus symptoms at the peak of the epidemic in the spring there were 18000 be full in the hospital so we're getting close to that and in some parts of the country that $18000.00 has already been there e