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And on our series planet berlin how a man born in turkey or wound up running one of the german capital s premier jazz clubs. but 1st off the venice biennale is often called the olympics of the art world it s where people go to see the best of the best from around the globe also the weirdest we re. this year s top prize goes to the lithuanian pavilion for this installation called the sun and the sea it s about climate change but the piano is also expanding inside well beyond europe more than ever before non-western artists are telling their own story. and to w. scott roxburgh is here to tell us more about that scott welcome to the show so for its 120 year history of the venice biennale it has basically been a celebration of western art it s not been very diverse how are they going to ....
Well joining us now to talk about all this is fan johann she s standing for germany s opposition free democrats in the european parliamentary elections that are about to get under way thank you very much for being with us here in the news 1st off. this initiative that we saw in our report just there it invokes the german constitution. which of blige is the constitution article 14 obliging property owners to serve the public good and saying that they have certain obligations do you think the backers of the initiative it of this initiative have a point there. well i think we need to look at the underlying issue the issue is that more people want to live in the big cities and the housing market is not meeting that s a month there for the rent prices are rising this is a simple market procedure and in fact our constitution with article 44 sees that owning property must serve the public good as well but was the discussion of ....
Signatures is the 1st step towards a referendum. on the respect he talks with major german media everyone wants to meet him he stresses that what s driving him is a strong sense of justice he says he can t stand by when older people who have lived somewhere for 40 years forced to leave their homes. you can do without an apartment you can do without a car use a bike or take a train but everyone needs an apartment we have to enforce this social human right all the voices. well joining us now to talk about all this is fan johann she s standing for germany s opposition free democrats in the european parliamentary elections that are about to get under way thank you very much for being with us here in the 1st off. this initiative that we saw in our report just there it invokes the german ....