then he and berlin became greater berlin in one nine hundred twenty and amalgamation of towns and dozens of villages and estates. swansea's groups spitzer was the result was a city with almost four million inhabitants and a few other lend was booming and all branches of business set up shop in the city industry banks and factories the berlin had once been germany's industrial capital has a. ninety percent of berliners lived in the tenement blocks that had been hastily thrown around in the decades before the first world war the tiny yard separating the blocks of each building were really only subject to one stipulation that they were big enough for fire engines to turn around for the average family rent cost them one third of their income most apartments only had heating in one room down and mold on internal walls were common place among the few bricks in the settlement blocks had little to no air and sunlight. and they had a series of backyards some of which were and simply darkness is what we would call a decent apartment today was then. luxury. steve one can see apartments were very sm

the great pleasure for privilege a few years back of being able to interview miss rampling here in berlin but have to mean i didn't love the woman since i was a child at first sorrowed screed i've always had a thing for older women but i'm not sure that's a subject we really want to discuss in detail i mean i think i think we should draw a lot of swiftly the yes yes rose droids we were the first of those droids were close to to call slick's last as a director. how do you rate this festival as a whole. yeah you know it's interesting because has been has been doing this vessel for eighteen years and he really put his stamp on the festival he really chose a certain type of cinema a certain type of movie particularly political films and films of so really strong social realism that's been sort of the stamp that he's put on the staten island a lot of times it's been very impressive the berlin has become much more political and much more direct and socially aware but there's also a negative to that and the negative is that a lot of the films in berlin tend to be very overtly political and this

and even i mean netflix has the series berlin station which is a modern day story. cia in germany modern terrorism is are the plot lines but it's still set here in berlin so it looks like if you want to do a spy story of some kind this is definitely a good place to start to do have lost its appeal they'll have to stop cleaning it up so if. you're thinking about thank you for bringing us that story about the in conspicuous ones as it will be called in english thanks very much scott roxboro well for our series baking bread my colleague. is leading and needing us around the e.u. in twenty eight loaves or rather this time in rolls because this week's project is a bomb and where i'm from it's the perfect base for a basic sandwich or even a hamburger but at home it has a decidedly monarchical flair. in today's episode both breaking ground will be taking things to new heights in fact we're approaching the summer not the summit in brussels though today's recipe comes from the alps and was named in honor of emperor from seals at the forest of austria presenting. the kaiser r

i love coming to berlin to show my films. because i can stand on these ten yards of red carpet and say what i really think and feel. and talk about things i'm passionate about. so what will you do when all the hustle and bustle is over and the last festival guest has left. i'm going to the mountains in bavaria and i'm going to do it three weeks fast. then i'll be hampton. not just my stomach but my mind too and i can start a new life and i'm looking forward to that. that's why for me to go anywhere you go to the cinema. certainly have more time to go to the cinema now than i did in the last eighteen years that's for sure i think it's going to be enjoyable to see going to the movies it's not the end for me it's just the end of the berlin island but it's not the end of my life. not if it means. minus leaves we wish you all the best for the future many thanks for talking to us thank you. he's kept up to date on the guitar. but he's contributed more to the growth and to the weirdness of the english language than roberto benigni c

who's sitting for her again at this year's berlin. isn't enough to quote it up really really down a bit yes like that yes another well. isn't it as i think is a great actor and it's really fun working with him and he's got a great phrase fantastic eyes i say that as a photographer. but does she have to get nervous dealing with famous people who. can play i'm going to photograph charlotte rampling in a moment so yes some kind of nervous there's a lot of pressure but when i have my camera in my hand and then it goes away with my camera in hand i do things i never do otherwise and then i'm not nervous. and in the end she's got yet another impressive portrait for her portfolio. scott is with us down on the red carpet so you be mingling with the stars scott where did they go to socialize during the festival. you know what might surprise you but the top stars are actually really creatures of habit so here in berlin they always do the same things they all have breakfast at the avalon a luxury hotel here if they want to go for a drink they al

she stayed in berlin for us that's. i think she won an honorary gold which she accepted with characteristic self deprecation thank you the fans and i think husbands and the boyfriends of my audience who sometimes have to be dragged it to my movies. it's overwhelming because i've never been even on a jury so to be the boss of a jury is another whole layer of responsibility. how did you cope with all the stress and commotion of the film festival. well i didn't get sick much and i have a good sense of humor me two more we have had a great deal of fun don't forget that in spite of all the heavy issues that we see on the screen i can only handle them with some humor. combined with me to more you've got to have some fun too gotten. past muffin coarsely mr caustic you've watched an extraordinary number of movies you're a food and drink on a sewer and you have introduced to cullen every section of the bar now. you make music and you enjoy bringing music films to the barely knowledge is mr cost like a happy person. if you haven'

is still affecting generations in berlin. and in our series. takes his skills to new heights with the. old. so that was looking good but we're starting with some exciting news on the festival front and i'm joined by my colleague scott ross for our film expert scott can has just announced a new jury president for this coming may so tell us about yeah i was on. to the four time oscar winning director of one of everything of babel birdman the revenant there haven't been a phenomenal phenomenal director and i think it's a huge coup for canon i think this is in my opinion the best director working today and it's kind of nice as well because it's sort of a homecoming for a new veto because his very first film amourous paris premiered in cannes one thousand years ago ok so he's got a long history there and judging by the last few years at the oscars there's a real mexican wave that you could almost call it sweeping world cinema is this a plot even possibly to get don't hold trump's ire up yeah it's funny because it's true last six years it's been five

it's time for berlin sixty nine film festival. we give you the lowdown on all the stars movies and gossip. twenty nineteen every day on the death. of the sixty nine international dylan film festival with the love of star studded opening as always. and this as always festival director diesel cars like in his trademark ass red skull he's been greasing the stones and spreading good cheer for eighteen years now that's longer than chance that i'm going to love has been in college and really nobody does it better oh my. god but this year is different diesel cars like is dolling else it's his last year in the driving seat the end of an era and era in which the billion dollar has changed massively this year the celebrities are here not only to pose for the cameras and of course what some films but to say goodbye. oh oh. oh oh oh thank. god save me i'm so. good. thank you heartfelt tribute to the host with the most but now it's time to get down to business. the sixty ninth berlin international film festival is now. this is their life after

for all that in march i'm sorry kelly in berlin thank you so much for joining us have a great day. and for. language courses. any time anywhere. that's callous not the chaos following the first world war going to the old rules redundant. the strong people now have this absolutely insatiable lust for life because they've survived the war and the one bought. up by shockingly criminal behavior became really changed. and so they must've been really smart safe cracker's they had the entire berlin crime squad pulling their hair out of. the medical examiner has concluded that the various body parts belong to twenty three different women not. just one which is what i now call profiling was essentially being practiced back then by inspected to not. tillicum is a lot of detectives were celebrities some even had newspaper columns and wrote books. in the mid one nine hundred twenty s. a lot of berliners began looking to the future with renewed optimism thanks to a range of modern means of transportation people have become more mobile which made life and work in the booming metropolis much easi

news live from berlin millions of people on the move across the aisle. african continent refugees are topping the agenda as african union leaders meet and. our correspondent visited an ethiopian refugee camp and asked what the future holds for people here. more violence in paris says yellow vest protesters clashed with police one that loses part of his hand but the movement's leaders value they'll keep my.

berlin welcomed an apparent thaw in the trade dispute between the u.s. and china has lifted the mood across asia with optimistic comments from both sides after talks in beijing last week and another round scheduled this week stock markets across the region have risen on hopes of a timely end to the long running trade disputes the effect was felt across the region but china itself enjoyed the biggest benefit. they've been taking place at the highest level but even president she's involvement wasn't enough to finalize trade talks between the u.s. and china on friday however u.s. treasury secretary steve menuhin and trade representative robert like tai's his trip to beijing ended with a sense of real optimism with unanimity around the table that progress on key issues was made a good feeling on wall street on friday translated to the asian markets on monday.

so let me take you to berlin ali's red carpet and our reporter on the n.s.a. high on weed and director hunts phantom oland is important not to promote the liam neeson thriller called pursuit but another film out stealing horses tell us about that one. well that's right if if he wanted to get away from the controversy this film could be a big distraction it is a vast epic film about a father and son relationship it's about human fragility it's everything you could want in a norwegian film lots of snow lots of silence the heavy voice of the narrator taking you through the whole film it stars astelin scars court who is a friend. and and very well known the norwegian actor and it's he plays an old man who goes out into the countryside seeking solitude trying to get away from the memories of his past but of course with human fragility it's one becomes conscious of the fact that one cannot escape memories of childhood. german director fathi hakim is returning to the early no with a new film what did you think about the golden globe. well without giving away too much

crews turned up all of a sudden the whole world flew to berlin. story about a young turkish german woman who enters into a marriage of convenience to have peace have parents. compelling film shows how her generation is told so desperately sequence and identity. well i'm really happy but i know one person i was even. happier than i am and that's funny i can. tell them i'm. nervous that. we didn't expect that it was so hard to even get the film into the festival for three. months then we were at the last entry. of the spectacle and now we're one this award it's incredible we're taking the golden bear with us back to heaven that. you know we still show a lot of german films today what's interesting is that if you look at the statistics they used german films or the actors in the german films have won a lot of similar barriers they were awarded by an header national jury and that means that german films are competitive internationally that was a crucial moment for the berlin wall that they all kept coming to. us the. as a tradition of course there's a

now to the event that movie fans in berlin look forward to every year the berlin film festival or berlin allah begins today and unprecedented lineup of female directors are mung those vying for the top prize the golden bear the jury will be chaired by french star julie have been notion and fans have already been lining up for the hottest tickets. defense i want to make the building on is such a unique event it attracts the largest audience of any film festival in the world and anyone can get tickets here as long as they get in line enough. to read every single synopsis of every movie and made my choices but. i wasn't prepared for how difficult it is to get tickets for the. puzzle you have to fit the movies the timing but you have to fit quick because there's a lot of ticket offices and they fly very quick nearly four hundred movies will be presented and one thing is for sure it's going to be a women's. french osco winner juliette binoche will beat the jury british actress charla dram doing receive the honorary bear for her lifetime achievement and seven off the seventeen movies running f

they must have been really smart safe cracker's they had the entire berlin crime squad pulling their hair out of. the medical examiners concluded that the various body parts belong to twenty three different women not. just one which is what i now call profiling was essentially being practiced back then by inspect again not. a lot of detectives were celebrities some even had newspaper columns and wrote books. in the mid one nine hundred twenty s. a lot of berliners began looking to the future with renewed optimism. thanks to a range of modern means of transportation people have become more mobile iowa which made life and work in the booming metropolis much easier. the esp on train network and started running in one nine hundred twenty four thousands of commuters now flocked into downtown berlin every morning and also enabled city dwellers to visit their relatives in the suburbs as twenty one year old girl in a basket was planning to do one day you'll have pesky little haskell was a pleasant young lady from a nice family. her parents run a popular butcher's shop where she sometimes hel

this is good news live from berlin germany feeling the heat over a plan to gas pipelines from russia the u.s. and france pressure berlin to halt construction on the north stream to project a new gas link under the baltic sea from russia now washington says the pipeline could undermine security for western europe. also coming up vital food and medicine are ripe for venezuelans from the united states but president nicolas maduro says it's not crossing the border while growing protests ways will boil teams of troops in force in just barricades and jordan wants more women like her out on the streets she will look at what's driving the demand for more working women in the conservative. and the temple tower and passion opens this year's for length film festival the stars turn out in force for a lone scherfig says the kindness of strangers it was the first showing of the year at the berlin wall up which features and unprecedented line up of female directors . i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program here in germany plans for a pipeline supplying russian gas have been thrown into doubt the us

it's time for berlin sixty nine film festival. we give you the lowdown on all the stars news and gossip. the lovely twenty nine team every day on the death. of. the sixty nine international berlin film festival with the love of style started opening as always. and this as always festival director dieter caustic in his trademark dress and red skull he's been greasing the stones and spreading good cheer for eighteen years now that's number then chance that i'm going up has been empowered and really nobody does it better oh my. god this shit is different diesel cars like it's ballin allan's it's his last year in the driving seat the end of an era an era in which the banal the has changed massively this year the celebrities are here not only to pose for the cameras and of course watch the films but to say goodbye. oh oh oh. oh oh thank you. can sit next to me and say. the least to. be. gathering here dear you are the reason. thank god bill tribute to the host with the most but no time to get down to business. here we do the sixty nint

on the curtain has lifted on the berlin international film festival also known as the berlin allah big names in german and international cinema were out for the gala opening this year's festival almost achieves gender parity with seven out of the seventeen films in competition directed by women the opening film was the kindness of strangers a tale of homelessness and uncertainty in contemporary america. and nights to remember full moon fans with the red carpet as the place to be for the stars. the center of all the attention french also go window and hats off to this year's jury should it be no. danish director and owner staff which brought an international cost to the red carpet celebrating the work premier off a movie that kind of strange this. little one is chef ace finn focuses on several characters who crossed paths in a restaurant in new york. with. their values and they were anyone since for years now. all the characters have suffered life shattering experience us. clara is escaping from an abusive cost spent mark just left kristen. the movie tells their story as they try to reb

allegations of censorship at the berlin film festival chinese director john you know pulls his film and in a d.-w. exclusive i way way says his work was blocked from selection are they being targeted by beijing censors. and a year after hosting the winter olympics chang is practically a ghost town what happens to all the empty venues in the games on. i'm melissa chan thank you for joining the program it's good to have you with us saudi arabia has pledged to invest twenty billion dollars in cash hungry pakistan it's a boost for islam a body which faces a mounting debt crisis and tensions with neighboring india and it's a p.r. boon for saudi arabia as well after international criticism over the killing of u.s. based saudi journalist jamal khashoggi last year. pakistan needs money and saudi arabia needs friends to that end saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon began his trip to asia on sunday night touching down to a red carpet welcome from pakistan's prime minister imran khan. the saudi royal review the military before moving on to cannes residents to confirm the final details of seven

because of the berlin airlift, their efforts were thwarted and was berlin -- west berlin remained free. this was all about the berlin airlift, the candy bomber. d.l. halverson. he is about 97 years old now. we have been on different panels together. he is the patriarch, for lack of a better term, in germany. he endeared himself to the children of berlin after the berlin airlift. he would make these type of parachutes and put candy bars and they would float down to the kids below. he was known as uncle wiggly because the german kids he would come in and he would wiggle his wings as he was approaching and the kids would know that that's the plane that had the candy. in 1948, there was no chocolate in germany. it was war-torn and ravished. it was right after world war ii, supplies are hard to get. he would drop gum and hershey's chocolate and other candy out of the plane to the kids that were watching the planes land. over here we have information on cuba, the cuban missile crisis. the bay of pigs and what took place there. julio decastro, one of our museum supporters, was being trained a

it's time for berlin the sixty nine film festival. to give you the lowdown on all the stars movies and gossip. the late twenty nine thousand every day on either. the sixty nine international for linfield festival with the love of style started opening as always. and is as always festival directed diesel cars like in his trademark hats and red skull he's been greasing the stones and spreading good cheer for eighteen years now that's number than chance that on the map has been empowered and really nobody does it that said oh my. god but this shit is different diesel conflict is dolling out it's his last year in the driving seat the end of an era and era in which the banal has changed massively this year the celebrities are here not only to pose for the cameras and of course what some films but to say goodbye. oh oh oh. thank you. dancin next to me and so. was lisa bloom. the media beneath. the other reason here dear you are the reason. thank you all tribute to the host with the most but no time to get down to business . the sixty ninth

that was known as the berlin blockade, the berlin airlift. the soviets about trying to keep the americans out, trying to take over west berlin, which was surrounded by east germany. but because of the berlin airlift, their efforts were thwarted. and as a result, west berlin remained free. and this is all about the berlin airlift. the candy bomber. gayle halverson, about 97 years old now. a friend of mine. we've been on different panels together. he's a patriarch, for lack of a better term, in germany. he endeared himself to the children of berlin after the berlin airlift. because he would make these type of parachutes, he would put candy bars, they would float down to the kids below. he was known as uncle wiggly wings to the german kids. because he would come in and he would wiggle his wings as he was approaching, and the kids would know that that's the plane that had the candy. and in 1948, there was no chocolate in germany. it was war-torn ravaged, right after world war ii. supplies were very hard to get. so he would drop wrigley spearmint

this is news live from berlin pope francis prepares the fellow. mass of the united arab emirates it is said to be the largest public show of christianity ever seen on the arabian peninsula earlier he calls on christian and muslim leaders to work together to reject war but his trip is not without controversy also coming up venezuelan opposition leader gets to step there dozens of european countries.

a movie with the beat that kept on at the world premiere in berlin joe. buckles who also will see god will be to whom a bit of what. i found when wild for hindi film stars round here saying and i'll be about. in the movie ranveer singh skerrick to more dreams of making it big as a rapper and he needs all the support he can get. it out with a dry we're not going to go down no credibility to you for that but. that's not what i want what i get i got i got another guy. with a big. boy tackles india's caste system and traditional gender roles as a progressive message from directors iraq time. i think being a female director not to do i want to put straw men on screen i also want the kind of man i want to know what i want screen so i like the tough the women so often that. so yeah and the gully boy cast bringing fresh life taking the film. done. so that looks very different and joining me now the hospital is my colleague scott rocks from scott so that the premiere of galley boy in berlin i mean bully would seem to require out of the. yeah you know very much so

despite france's reservations paris and berlin today reached a compromise that was quickly backed by the european parliament responsibility for enforcing the rules on such projects will fall to the first e.u. member state where a pipeline connects in this case that's germany. the u.s. china trade dispute brags that chaos and a weakening world economy all factors behind a rather gloomy global economic outlook but at least germany can look back on twenty eighteen with fondness new figures show it was a record year. meeting in germany is still selling well around the globe twenty eight thousand was another record year exports increased for the fifth time in a row but towards the end of the year exports started running out of steam a sign that the german economy is not immune to the global trade crisis last year germany exported a total of one point three trillion euros worth of goods an increase of three percent over the previous year and imports rose by five point seven percent to over one trillion euros. and since germany's imports have increased they helped to reduce germany's long s

news live from berlin allies heading in different directions germany's chancellor angela merkel calls for more multilateralism and warns that international political structures are falling apart but u.s. vice president by pence charts his allies for not supporting the u.s. on iran also coming up. it's prize giving day at the berlin film festival but this chinese film was pulled from the competition in an exclusive interview exiled artist i way way tells us it wasn't just because of the claim technical problems. thanks for joining us i'm mary and i haven't seen the two allies but heading in different directions that's how it looks after contrasting speeches by germany's chancellor angela merkel and the u.s. vice president mike pence at the munich security conference merkel made a plea for multilateralism for nations to work together for security but pence criticize the united states' closest allies accusing the europeans of undermining sanctions against iran here's what they said with merkel first. marcum pre-modern lateralus it may be complicated but it's better than staying home alon

many of the world's major opera houses were now open to her in paris tokyo and berlin. she would oversee the entire stage production managing to transform even the unwieldy medium of opera and give it her own signature. you said you often look for female protagonists in opera to medea was one of those how did you deal with her character. i think she's usually condemned as the barbaric child murderer. in the. production coincided with the case of a mother here in germany who was on trial for murdering her children what approach did you take for the piece medea. it's been this i've seen there's no bond think well i think she's a very interesting character but she's also very ambivalent i wanted to take time to think about her intensively without judging. by now just imagine at what point as a woman capable of killing her children what extreme pain or despair do you have to experience to reach that point as a. so way since high point of how. i found it very difficult to put myself in that position and direct the production. of course i had to imagine and be part of it whic

news live from berlin and systematic crimes on the rise in germany new statistics show that hate crimes against jews are at their highest level and injecting sparking alarm among the country's jewish community. also coming up spain's government in crisis as prime minister considers calling a snaffle election after parliament voted down his budget and the chinese film one second was in the running at the berlin film festival and then the withdrawn under mysterious circumstances i'll find out more from our correspondent on the red carpet. i'm sara kelly thank you so much for joining us the number of anti semitic crimes committed in germany has risen by almost ten percent over the past year the highest level in a decade figures released today are calling alarm in the jewish community violent attacks are up by more than sixty percent this is prompt and germany's central council of jews to call for a stronger action from police and politicians the signboards of a jewish restaurant smashed a pig headed marked with a star of david dumped by a door swastikas and stars of david dunn a wall. this

the exhibition women on view will run in berlin until the end of april. then tops work in their e magic it can get pretty loud but that doesn't really matter because the guests usually don't hear what is going on in the kitchen anyway when it comes to the dinner that we are going to have right now it's quite different because in this case all the cooking come together to form a column narey funny. chef taking a relaxed approach to his will. just. shut up. he's not distracted by the drama of the other three musicians. bands because in this show in the french city of long the chef is also making music . with his kitchen to see. iraq through some. i feel more like a chef on the stump but i'm also a musician actually i'm both. the creative force behind the musical denah concept is. x. oftenest smuggled on the data the project was inspired by her own life experience it was going to go i grew up going to restaurant it was owned by my grandparents i always found the restaurant noice fascinating so that's why i got involved with this project when i asked what i w

fashion the bauhaus inspired clothing of the berlin brands my. this sunday it's the ninety first academy awards and the pressure is not just on the nominees last year's oscar ceremony got the worst t.v. ratings in the prizes history and it's been drama ever since leaving this year's show without a host now the big hollywood studios are also on pins and needles because if the netflix film rohmer cleans up the prizes that could shake up the whole industry here's our look at this year's top contenders. on the red carpet is rolled out for the ninety first oscar award ceremony two films with ten nominations each face off against each other mexican director alfonso clone is perhaps in pole position with his autobiographical film roma he is also nominated as best director and accolade he already won back in twenty four to somewhat controversially roma is on netflix streaming platform production. but in how many categories will the favorite triumph this costume drama about british queen anne in the early eighteenth century defies convention continue livi

off to berlin roared the crowd. the generals appearance clinched the matter one card in the offices present joined the coup attempt. it was just now my never gone ask often. does you know i wouldn't offer others hitler and other fun also. general von law so an enemy of von secrets was supposed to become the defense minister in the new government. because all this is our chance they won't like he's lost on hitler he won't take orders from the loss of. his rival lost so was to be his boss. mr president that gentleman we have to act the coup must be suppressed. gentlemen i propose to give general funds aked extensive emergency powers. media. persona does not. now see it has everything he always wanted he has power. as he will ever give it up . he's a soldier to the bone. even tried to topple the government. and that's how people write. off times out of other spots on the one hand he's giving funds eked so much power was a risk on the other hand it put the ball in his court he could no longer avoid doing watch today's m

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news live from berlin the u.s. and iran trade verbal blows as the munich security conference draws to an end iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif condemns the was policy on iran accusing washington of ignoring his country's right to self-determination this after u.s. vice president mike pence demands a tougher stance on iran from europe also coming up the most senior catholic cleric to be defrocked in modern times the vatican expels a former ins u.s. cardinal from the priesthood over sexual crimes against adults and children his expulsion comes as the church prepares for a summit on the sex abuse cases. plus the golden bear goes to israel director not bottle of peter wins the top prize at the berlin international film festival for his drama centenarians about leaving once homeland will bring you all the berlin nala highlights. thanks for joining us i'm married to evanston. iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif has delivered a defiant speech at the munich security conference he condemned calls from wa