on today linton reopens its doors after a seven year renovation process was controversial and marked by cost overruns totally hundreds of millions of euros but experiencing the fine acoustics and sumptuous interior much to great the effort was well worth it. starts to den linden first opened its doors two hundred seventy five years ago it s already gone through several overhauls and now it s about to reopen again the race for the all important last minute touches is on. artistic director daniel barenboim has been waiting seven years for this moment for a long time even in the world of opera the barenboim that s secondary to the all important acoustic. well i was amazed because it all sounded so wonderful and for my ears really the acoustics are ideal.
military solution, all we have are diplomatic options, if those fail, deterrent options. none of which are easy, but they have worked in the past. david, slipping to a completely different subject. i want to talk about cuba w. we had a string of strange incidents that the state department refuses to confirm. apparently diplomats have had hearing problems. this has been reported by the a.p. and by others, hearing problems that may have been caused, they believe, by some sort of aggressive acoustic, some sort of device that created hearing loss and perhaps energy nant hearing loss, a number of diplomats lad to come back and therefore two cubans have been expelled from the facility here in walk. what is going on here? this was the big the grand opening two years ago, we thought this was a new relationship we saw, of course, what s happened under the trump
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kilometers, 50 miles away from the area where the chinese have detected this acoustic, this noise under the ocean. it was detengtd by chinese aircraft who say over a 20-minute period they saw little white objects and of course there are aircraft, australian aircraft now being diverted down there to check that out also, but also the chinese saying that it was pretty rough down there yesterday in terms of the sea levels and, of course, it is tough sometimes to detect and most of what they have seen so far has turn out not to have anything to do with the aircraft. ian williams, thank you so much. paul mccarthy we ll continue to follow the story.
ocean, and sometimes the acoustic equipment can rebound echo if you like, and all sorts of issues around that. peter, would you like to say anything more? just in term of the timing, i believe hms echo is approximately 14 hours from that position and as air chief just mentioned ocean shield it is itself investigating another acoustic detect she s made and once she s completed that activity, if it s decided to move her down and that proves to be not the beacon up there. it will be approximately 2 hours to recover her toed pinger equipment. so it will be over a day before ocean shield is there. we re talking a matter of days before both ships are positioned to be able to either verify or discount. that s correct. we re not talking hours.