Well, lets start this news hour in syria. Most of the focus in recent days has been with what to do with the countrys chemical weapons. A car bomb has exploded on the outskirts of the capital damascus killing at least 20 people. The blast hit a government building east of the city center. Amateur pictures of what is said to be the site of that explosion. Turkey has closed one of its border crossings with syria after fighters linked with al qaeda took control of a border town and they captured from the free syrian rebels. Both sides are are fighting to topple president al assad and his forces. Lets go to correspondent nassar hadid who is managed to get to the southern syrian why city of darra. There is fighting going on in darra. Nasser i dont know if you can here us there in darra. Is there fighting going on right now . Yeah, yeah, of course i hear you very well. Today is a little bit cool here in darra, we have just can, comparing to yesterday and day before yesterday its little bit c
A walk across the mud flats. And discover book area visit the southern german state which insufficient. For a first german holiday destination was staying right here in the capital berlin has so much to offer that as a tourist its hard to know where to start every district has its own particular flair and collection of quirky attractions so were going on a little round trip and start off in one of the citys liveliest areas quite spared which is teeming with autists. But lin has plenty to see. Including the cloyd. Hell stand sixty six meters above the city and lends its name to the surrounding district. Its extremely popular with artists you find digs additions in all sorts of places like kenya inside the former church of syntagma. The finnish gallery shows contemporary art here targeting the younger generation. As if yeah we currently have thirty eight artists on our books all of them making contemporary art many of them come from abroad but now live in berlin. These playful wooden scu
A warning that some people may find this a little offense. These are members of the band robin at the gallows we can see their dress was clearly concentration camp uniforms the bands guitarist even has on a star of david badge the kind the nazis forced to wear this is actually just one of the many scenes the full video also includes space explorers medieval knights and gangsters now obviously nobody is going to say this is in good taste but should we really be shocked isnt giving the band exactly what they wont like it or not we are giving them what they want and thats because their strategy has worked its gotten people talking it is stirring controversy because im stein know what theyre doing theyve built an entire career on provocation even their name is provocative its a reference to an air show disaster that left seventy people dead at the end of the one nine hundred eighty s. And theyd. Been using shocking imagery since the one nine hundred ninety s. That includes imagery of Sexua
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