part of our culture editor scott roxboro is with us to tell us more about those hi scott so for those of us who don't know him tell us more about of the director sulayman yeah he's a really big deal in the theater world he is quite a born of the father and a british mother and he was educated in london and started a theater company there and then also in kuwait his productions of brown by the well shakespeare company by peter brooks troupe in paris and in new york and in japan and he's best known for combining sort of bridging the arab and western world he writes both in arabic and english his productions are often multi-lingual and he's done things like i know he did shakespeare's richard the third set in the modern day middle east for example of very interesting director this production though or which had its world premiere in munich on friday it may be his most ambitious work yet. it's a credibly complicated story i don't know if i could sum it up quickly but it starts thousands of years ago in a mythical. city of war which was a legend has it an open and peaceful and tolerant soc

culture editor scott roxboro thanks for joining us so why don't you take us back to the beginning when did this project begin to rebuild the center of building you know all came about just after unifications we're talking the early one nine hundred ninety s. and the german government at the time which was then planning to move it the capital the jews of germany which was a boy and westerners to move it to berlin and they had in the city really in the center of the city what used to be the old center before the second world war potsdamer platz but it was completely destroyed it was essentially rubble so that the shoot hold the center of the city and they wanted to rebuild it but the idea wasn't then to just restore it to how it looked before the war but to create a sort of a new city within the city that would represent some of the sort of symbol symbolized what what germany could be what this new reunify germany could be and so this is what they came up with let's take a look. three skyscrapers modest in size and you know and eye catching cutting edge architecture at the twenty first c

little bit more about potsdamer platz they can yes on the web site always d w dot com slash culture scott roxboro thank you so much. and before we go now just a quick reminder of the top stories that we have been following for you indonesia has raised the death toll from last week's earthquake to more than twelve hundred survivors meanwhile have begun looting shops for food after not eating for several days as people in many towns have criticised the government's response to the sastre slow. and with that you're up to date now on g.w. news my name is tara kelley coming to you from berlin this hour we have to take a short break but when we come back my colleague enough money will have the latest headlines thank you so much for watching don't forget the wrong social media where the conversation continues you can follow us on twitter facebook and instagram have a great day. cigarette filters the silent children's. each day cigarette bounce a kid listening thrown away can you sing the ground and water for years to come. resurgence and environmentalist are demanding a stop to this cigarette bombs pois

formula of the system always works and it definitely does in this case as well with lady gaga scott roxboro a star is born he says watch it you might get emotional but it's going to be with it's definitely definitely around the world today and this weekend if you don't like this movie if it doesn't move you i don't know what i can do for you i just can't well i have to come back to you on that one but thank you for taking time to be with us this evening and. football now in croatia cup team and real madrid midfielder luke ahmad rich has been cleared of perjury charges in his home country was recently named as the best football player in the world by fever and had been accused of giving false testimony at the trial of a former dynamos that group executive croatian criminal court rejected the accusation against although its ruling can be appealed the world cup finalists may still face charges later on in the trial. on tuesday want to israel madrid lost in the champions league and there was another night of big clashes on wednesday got more and beat monaco three nil while shaka grabbed a lead

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