Each week we talk about arts and culture but today were going to talk about facts and figures and about the question where the germany has the best of all cultural landscapes first lets fly it from south to north. Germany has more than five thousand museums one of them is the pina could take demo down in munich. Germany is the land of opera with six thousand eight hundred performances every year. And dressed and is its most famous opera house. The country smallest theater is in the town of now on board with just eighty seats there are one hundred forty two public theaters all together in germany. One of the worlds most important art exhibitions is held in castle every five years documentary. About ten new art shows open to the public every day in germany berlin has more artists than anywhere else in germany one in every hundred people is an artist here. The new cultural highlight is the ebb philharmonia in hamburg with record numbers of visitors and sold out concerts germany fund one h
Each week we talk about arts and culture but today were going to talk about facts and figures and about the question where the germany has the best of all cultural landscapes first lets fly from south to north. Germany has more than five thousand museums one of them is the pina could take demo down in munich. Germany is the land of opera with six thousand eight hundred performances every year. And dressed and is its most famous opera house. The country smallest theater is in the town of now on board with just eighty seats there are one hundred forty two public theaters altogether in germany. One of the worlds most important art exhibitions is held in castle every five years documentary. About ten new art shows open to the public every day in germany berlin has more artists than anywhere else in germany one in every hundred people is an artist here. The new cultural highlight is the ed philharmonia in hamburg with record numbers of visitors and sold out concerts germany fund one hundred
Also coming up twitter suspend the account of a far right german lawmaker over an anti muslim tweet the reprimand comes as germany begins enforcing tougher laws concerning hate speech on social media. And it could be make or break for german chancellor Angela Merkel we look at what is in store for her and twenty eight team as she tries to form a new government. Plus saudi arabia prepares for a year of major changes as it introduces reforms among them women will finally be able to get behind the wheel but does lifting the ban on driving go too far enough. And Legal Marijuana hits the shelves in california Recreational Users can now buy the drug without fear of arrest in americas most populous state. Of meddling in the country. And from our i am joined now by mehdi most any and editor at t w is Farsi Language Department welcome to you there are fears of a greater crackdown there in iran president Hassan Rouhani has apparently promised to deal with those who break the law who could be tar
A week of protests around the country irans Supreme Leader accuses enemies of the nation of meddling in its affairs also coming up. With just over a month to go until the Winter Olympics south korea offers to hold talks with the north to discuss letting pyongyangs athletes participate in the games. And germanys new hate speech law is put to the test as Twitter Suspends the account of a far right lawmaker over her anti muslim tweet. Plus saudi arabia prepares for a year of changes as it introduces major reforms among them women will finally be permitted to get behind the wheel but does lifting the ban on driving go far enough. And welcome to the program we start in iran. Antigovernment protests are sweeping the country at least twenty one people have been killed and hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested the countrys Supreme Leader has blamed foreign meddling as Security Forces struggle to contain the boldest challenge to irans clerical leadership in almost a decade but after six
Him as bizarre as bizarre as that was, that wasnt the salient issue for me, personally. My problem is that he came in, shouted at everybody, and refused to take questions. That was a fundamental violation of the purpose of that room. Its not about questions, its about answers. I have heard sean and a lot of different venues and i think he was very subdued and contrite today, but i have seen a diminishment of that room over the last three months. That the Obama Administration sought to cool it down after robert gibbs was the press secretary, who would make news from the podium with great regularity. I dont think president obama appreciated that. I think that what we have seen is a series of missteps. I think it is entirely appropriate and unbiased to say that the level of information and the quality of information we received during these briefings, is, i believe, not up to the standard of what we believe ought to be in the Briefing Room. I would put this out for mr. Spicer and his staf