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5 years

Slightly awkward start to what the German press call Theresa May’s ‘begging tour’ Angela Merkel normally waits on red carpet to greet guests on arrival ....not today...

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German police say they believe Madeleine McCann was murdered by a German citizen who was living on the Algarve at the time of her disappearance. He's in prison for an unrelated offence. They're appealing for information from holiday makers who were there in April and May 2007

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Germans waiting to give toys to refugee children...heartwarming http://t.co/dcCASsAW7E

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2 years

Saying goodbye to Moscow after three months with very mixed feelings. I’ll miss my wonderful, brave and talented colleagues who battle on in very challenging circumstances ⁦ @BBCSteveR ⁩ ⁦ @dj_olen ⁩ ⁦ @LizaVereykina ⁩ ⁦ @BBCWillVernon ⁩ ⁦ @AntonChicherov ��

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My brilliant Dad A teacher whose enthusiasm for chemistry endeared him to generations of children A much loved friend whose eccentricities & passions sometimes bemused but always entertained And a husband & father whose love sustained & inspired We’re heartbroken to lose you

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4 years

Bring your tractor to work day. Thousands of farmers blockading Berlin city centre in protest at environmental policies which they argue are unfair

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2 years

The independent Novaya Gazeta refuses to publish reports on the ‘special military operation’ under those constraints. So today it’s published 2 blank pages instead

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@jennyhillBBC

2 years

Home and a little time off…

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@jennyhillBBC

5 years

And just in case you were in any doubt as to German position, the Bundestag has just agreed to oppose renegotiation of Brexit deal. Majority of MPs voted in favour of a motion which states ‘it would be an illusion to hope that a rejection of the deal could lead to renegotiations’

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4 years

Angela Merkel at Auschwitz. The German Chancellor said she felt deep shame at horrors perpetrated by Germans here. Today’s values must be defended because of rising anti semitism, racism, intolerance

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3 years

The extraordinary story of Sophie Scholl. Today would have been the one hundredth birthday of the student who defied Hitler

Sophie Scholl: Student who resisted Hitler and inspires Germany

Germany marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sophie Scholl, who was killed defying the Nazis.

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1 year

King Charles due to arrive shortly at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Band moving into place ahead of welcome with full military honours

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8 years

Boris Johnson claims German business institute ( BDI ) said there'll still be access to single market. BDI just told us that's untrue

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8 years

'Well done Little Britain.' German press this morning...

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2 years

You know when you get so excited by something that you, um, forget about all the logistics….

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7 years

Merkel - 'in Germany the rule is to show your face. The full face veil is not appropriate & should be banned where legally possible '

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6 years

Crowd gathering ahead of AfD / Pegida march...

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1 year

Anyone else in Germany just jump out of their skin?! 😱

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@jennyhillBBC

5 years

‘Five people tortured me for eight hours....they are not humans, they are animals’ - the Syrian torture survivors fighting to bring their captors to justice in Europe

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@jennyhillBBC

5 years

German Chamber of commerce says extension to article 50 a bad idea. ‘Better a horrible ending than unending horror’ says Volker Treier of DIHK

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@jennyhillBBC

2 years

Signing off for a Christmas break. Hope you have a wonderful - and healthy - festive season wherever you are. Frohe Weihnachten!

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@jennyhillBBC

3 years

THREAD: I still have the shivers. Just had a filling replaced by a German dentist, aided by a very sweet young assistant. I was the last patient of the day so the three of us - a woman from Berlin, a woman from Britain and, it turns out, a woman from Iraq - sat chatting for a bit

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@jennyhillBBC

3 years

More bad news from Berlin's new airport. Passengers told not to drink from taps in terminal after bacteria which can cause vomiting / diarrhoea were found in the water. Comes just days after CEO says, without financial aid, the airport will run out of money early next year

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jenny hill

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4 years

There’s no bounce in German infection rates. Assume he’s talking about the reproduction rate which rose to 1.0 on Monday - now back down to 0.75 Based on data collected last week. German experts are v concerned about second wave tho no sign yet.

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Dominic Raab citing a bounce in infection rates in Germany after they lifted restrictions as reasons to be very concerned about a second peak

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2 years

It’s been a long busy day in Moscow reporting on Russia’s Victory Day events. But Jersey has been on my mind too. For islanders May 9 is Liberation Day - the commemoration of the end of Nazi occupation in 1945. Happy Liberation Day, fellow Jersey beans!

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@jennyhillBBC

3 years

Germany awards Biontech founders and vaccine developers Özlem Türeci & Ugur Sahin the country’s highest honour - the Grand Cross of Merit

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@jennyhillBBC

2 years

One of the best parts of this job is travelling the length and breadth of this gorgeous country!

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2 years

Good morning from the beautiful Bavarian alps where world leaders are meeting for the G7 summit which will be dominated by the war in Ukraine and its consequences for food and energy supply as countries deal with cost of living crisis. Coverage on @BBCBreakfast @BBCWorld

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@jennyhillBBC

1 year

Crowds starting to gather at Brandenburg Gate ahead of the King’s visit

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@jennyhillBBC

7 years

Boos and hisses from female delegates as Ivanka mentions her father

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jenny hill

@jennyhillBBC

5 years

Agreed. The interpretation runs completely counter to Merkel’s approach and style.

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There is so much of this that reads wrong: "Merkel showed the EU has adopted a new position", "no problem", "must stay in full alignment forever". This is pure Johnson blame game. Waiting for readout from Merkel's office...

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@jennyhillBBC

3 years

Just a small tree this year... And now for some time off. Wishing you - despite the circumstances - a happy and peaceful Christmas. Frohe Weihnachten!

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@jennyhillBBC

2 years

Germany stops Nordstream 2 approval process

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@jennyhillBBC

3 years

And here she is, in Berlin, training as a dental assistant, smiling when the boss corrects her grammar and happily talking about her plans for the weekend like any other young woman excited by the life ahead.

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@jennyhillBBC

5 years

‘I’ll fight for an orderly Brexit until the last hour of 29th of March’ says Angela Merkel. Tellingly she wouldn’t now be drawn on whether she’d support extension ( short or otherwise) to A50. Instead says her position will depend on what Theresa May tells EU27 on Thurs

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@jennyhillBBC

5 years

The Cologne carnival is normally a place of celebration. But #Brexit is in the air - and it's no joke for some Germans

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@jennyhillBBC

2 years

⁦Very grateful for the skill and insight of ⁦ @LizaVereykina ⁩ as we keep the updates coming ⁦ @BBCWorld ⁩ ⁦ @BBCNews ⁩

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@jennyhillBBC

4 years

Merkel announces a ban on private travel - Germans now not allowed to go on holiday in or out of the country

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9 years

Germans at Munich railway station applauding refugees arrive - great atmosphere. http://t.co/oW8Gfc36q8

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@jennyhillBBC

2 years

Radio station Echo Moscow is shutting down its editor announces. The authorities took it off air on Tuesday night and blocked access to its websites. It was one of the outlets here which described Putin's 'special military operation' as the invasion or war that it is

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@jennyhillBBC

6 years

Peter Madsen’s home made submarine. Prosecutors allege he tortured and killed journalist Kim Wall on board. Horrifying case.

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@jennyhillBBC

3 years

These are the worst floods in post war German history. Nearly sixty people now reported dead. The people we’ve met here today are so utterly devastated. Most dazed with the shock of it all

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@jennyhillBBC

2 years

Spotted in Berlin - can’t help thinking this guy is going to have a great day 😁

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@jennyhillBBC

2 years

Good morning from Berlin! Emerging from Covid to the most beautiful Autumn sunshine 😍

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‘In this Russia, there is only really one voice. And it belongs to Vladimir Putin’ Some thoughts on what Russians see, hear and read about the war in Ukraine

Ukraine war: Russians fed twisted picture and one voice - that of Putin

Officials and Russian media have started pinning the murders of civilians on Kyiv in ominous rhetoric.

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@jennyhillBBC

5 years

German govt tells BBC ‘content of a telephone conversation between the Chancellor & the PM has been wrongly reported by the Sun. The Chancellor made no assurances beyond what European Council agreed in Dec & what was laid out in the letter by Jean Claude Juncker & Donald Tusk’

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@jennyhillBBC

3 years

I still get really excited when driving past / under Leipzig airport and this happens! ✈️

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2 years

This is one of the few places in Berlin showing the match. Reflects what many have told us is a lack of support for women’s football in Germany. So many hoping that will change.

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@jennyhillBBC

3 years

A German virologist warns 100,000 people could die if nothing to done to halt a fourth wave. Record daily case numbers (nearly 40,000) recorded again today & 236 dead. Our report from Saxony which has the lowest vaccine take up in the country - & the highest rate of infection

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@jennyhillBBC

2 years

Excitement building here in Berlin waiting for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇩🇪 These fans are in no doubt about who’s going to win! 😁 Correspondent feeling a bit conflicted 😉

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@jennyhillBBC

5 years

Conversation with random German stranger in a lift this evening. Him: You have an accent - are you American? Me: I’m British. Him: dissolves into laughter. Me: What’s so - oh....

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@jennyhillBBC

5 years

Early start for your BBC team at the wall for 30th anniversary coverage

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@jennyhillBBC

6 years

Peter Madsen staring calmly at the table in front of him as judge tells him that she doesn’t believe Kim Wall died in an accident

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@jennyhillBBC

4 years

Sobering update from the Robert Koch Institute this morning. The reproduction rate is 0.9 ( the figure fluctuates but keeping it below 1 is considered crucial and it was at 0.7 when govt decided to ease restrictions ). Death rate has risen to 3.2%

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@jennyhillBBC

4 years

German Health minister hints at possible financial reward for healthcare workers. ‘Applause is nice’ says Jens Spahn ‘but financial security and reward are even better. We are working on this’

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@jennyhillBBC

2 years

Surely one of the loveliest festive shop windows in Berlin ( what you can’t see from my terrible photo is how merrily the little train tootles around the tree 🌲😍) A little cheer in a miserable winter.

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@jennyhillBBC

4 years

Angela Merkel re Navalny: there are v serious questions which only the Russian govt can and must answer. ‘Someone tried to silence him and in the name of the whole German government I condemn that in the strongest terms.’

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3 years

I'd say good morning but...Germany's third wave has begun says government's health adviser. 14,000+ new infections in 24 hrs. Vaccination programme still slow. Could be mid April before GPs allowed to administer jabs. Tough 3 or 4 months still ahead says Merkel.

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@jennyhillBBC

3 years

What a gorgeous autumn morning for such a significant day

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1 year

Demonstrators placed a burnt out Russian tank in front of the Russian Embassy in Berlin, its gun pointing at the front door. Thousands of people expected here later to show solidarity for Ukraine. The atmosphere is sombre, people standing quietly staring at the tank.

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@jennyhillBBC

2 years

Kremlin rhetoric contradictory & confusing in recent days. First President Putin says open to negotiations with Ukraine. Then describes its leaders as drug dealers & terrorists and urges Ukrainian soldiers to stage coup

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@jennyhillBBC

4 years

A 93 yr old former SS concentration camp guard has been found guilty of facilitating the murders of more than 5000 people. Bruno Dey worked at Stutthof in what was then occupied Poland. He was 17 at the time so tried in a youth court which handed down a 2 yr suspended sentence

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3 years

Things are looking up in Berlin -Germany’s Corona risk level downgraded -Test requirement for shops and outdoor drinking / dining to be lifted ( no more sticks up the nose ) - culture / fitness facilities to reopen And the sun’s shining ( also my petunias are flourishing 😍)

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@jennyhillBBC

9 years

Police in Munich tell us 8000 asylum seekers arrived since yesterday morning

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2 years

Filming on the banks of the River Rhine on what was expected to be the hottest day of the year so far. Currently 37C in Duisburg ⁦ @AliFaisalZaidi ⁩

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@jennyhillBBC

8 years

Rescuers listening for signs of life in the rubble...

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@jennyhillBBC

2 years

Good morning from the river bed of the Rhine. Water levels here are so low that it’s already impassable for some vessels and level is forecast to drop further in the coming days. Team setting up for live broadcasts on ⁦ @BBCBreakfast ⁩ ⁦ @BBCWorld ⁩

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@jennyhillBBC

4 years

The main square in Brussels lit up in red, white and blue to mark Britain’s imminent departure from the UK

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@jennyhillBBC

4 years

Sobering words from Angela Merkel. 'We must understand that we have to live with the virus as long as there is no treatment and no vaccine' Germany's strategy has slowed infection rate and prevented health facilities from being overrun. But she calls this a 'fragile success'

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2 years

I'm asked a lot about the scale of popular Russian opposition to the war. It's difficult to quantify. But street protests have continued - independent monitoring group OVDInfo says 300 arrested yesterday for participating in demos. And online anti war petition has 1m+ signatures

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@jennyhillBBC

9 years

Police preparing for arrival of train from budapest / Vienna at Munich station http://t.co/OPZCdJj1Tq

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Today is 7th anniversary of assassination of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov. The politician - who had vociferously opposed war in eastern Ukraine - was shot dead near Kremlin in 2015

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1 year

Team Berlin reporting on Day 2 of the Royal Tour. Last night’s state banquet reportedly a v jolly affair. King Charles spoke German, cracked jokes & was given a photo of himself as a boy accompanied by his father on his first visit to 🇩🇪 On the menu - carp, soup, baked plums

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@jennyhillBBC

8 years

We've felt several aftershocks today - unnerving for our team but a real danger to the rescue workers in partially collapsed buildings

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@jennyhillBBC

7 years

We mourn for the dead and hope to help the many injured - Merkel's spokesman

Steffen Seibert

@RegSprecherStS

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#Breitscheidplatz - Wir trauern um die Toten und hoffen, dass den vielen Verletzten geholfen werden kann. (2)

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3 years

Team Berlin discovering the delights of a German service station lunch... @AliFaisalZaidi

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@jennyhillBBC

17 days

Lovely start to the day seeing these on the way to work. Aren’t they gorgeous?! Happy Friday!

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@jennyhillBBC

6 years

Madsen had invited other women on to the submarine. Kim Wall - says judge - was a random victim.

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@jennyhillBBC

3 years

@matt_bevington Hi Matt. We’re preparing TV, radio and online pieces right now to be broadcast & published on Fri. I’d happily talk German politics all day but we have to cover other stories too. Re investment, the BBC is as far as I know the only UK broadcaster with a full time team in Berlin

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@jennyhillBBC

2 years

People very gracious in defeat here. Visibly disappointed of course. But ‘it was a good game’ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇩🇪

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jenny hill

@jennyhillBBC

3 years

More bad news from W Germany where more than 80 now confirmed dead. Overnight a reservoir overflowed, thousands evacuated downstream. Rescuers trying to reach people by boat in one village where houses collapsed overnight. Terrible times here - and many people still missing

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@jennyhillBBC

1 year

It hasn’t received much attention over the weekend so you may have missed this awful story - 18 people found dead ( suffocated according to police ) in the back of a lorry in Bulgaria. They’re thought to have been from Afghanistan, being smuggled to Serbia

Bulgarian police find 18 people dead in abandoned truck

Four people have been arrested in what is believed to be the deadliest incident involving migrants in Bulgaria.

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@jennyhillBBC

3 years

Good morning! I’m taking some time off so won’t be tweeting much in the next few weeks. Have a great October! 🍁🍂

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@jennyhillBBC

4 years

@sommervilletv @JohnReedwrites ‘We’re very tight for time tonight so I can only give you fifteen seconds for your live top. You’ll need to include a warning about flash photography in the piece’

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@jennyhillBBC

1 year

Good morning from Munich where Rishi Sunak will urge world leaders and senior diplomats to ‘double down’ on support for Ukraine. Might he also come closer to achieving a deal on post Brexit trade with N Ireland? Watch for his ‘key’ meeting with the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen

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@jennyhillBBC

4 years

Merkel rather moving today re the loneliness endured by people in care homes who can't have visitors. These people in their 80s & 90s she said built our country and wealth of today. They are as much Germany as their children and grandchildren.

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@jennyhillBBC

3 years

There goes the Glühwein....Germany to close shops, schools, hairdressers as it tightens Covid restrictions from Wed. Ban on alcohol consumption outdoors & firework sales. Gatherings 5 ppl max from 2 households. Plus 4 more relatives 24-26 Dec. No NYE parties

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@jennyhillBBC

1 year

When Vladimir Putin turned off the gas taps to Europe, Germany more than most feared a winter of blackouts. But gas stores are full & a new LNG terminal's been built in record time. Will that be enough? And what are the costs? Our piece from Wilhelmshaven Pics by @AliFaisalZaidi

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@jennyhillBBC

3 years

Happy Friday everyone!

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Good morning from Warsaw where President Biden is expected to describe the war in Ukraine as a battle between autocracy and democracy in a speech this afternoon

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@jennyhillBBC

3 years

I love that at least half of the people on the platform of Berlin’s newest ( and beautiful ) U-Bahn station were there - like me - just to have a look…

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4 years

First light - and birdsong - over Auschwitz this morning.

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1 year

@BBCJoannaG What a loss to the BBC. They’re mad to let you go. I’m sure great things await on the outside!

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@jennyhillBBC

2 years

This trial matters so much - in many ways. But most of all for the families who lost loved ones. This woman told me her son was detained and never came home. It was more than a year before she learnt he’d been tortured to death - at the hands of the Assad regime. #koblenztrial

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@jennyhillBBC

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'I did nearly drown once' I asked what happened, expecting a childhood accident. 'It was on the way to Germany' She came as a refugee five yrs ago, via the Med. 50 people on a boat made for 9. It overturned but she survived thanks to a life vest & the ship which rescued her

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@jennyhillBBC

4 years

Germany has added the whole of the United Kingdom to the list of countries it considers corona risk areas. As of midnight on Friday, anyone entering the country will be expected to quarantine for 14 days unless they test negative within 48 hours of travel or upon entry.

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@jennyhillBBC

1 year

Thousands of people gathering at a peace demo in Berlin. Most are demanding immediate negotiations & an end to weapon deliveries to Ukraine. ‘Weapons kill people’ says one man. Demographic here is striking - most are middle age plus.

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jenny hill

@jennyhillBBC

2 years

German politicians held a minute’s silence before today’s session in German Parliament. Bundestag President: ‘Germany is highly indebted to Queen Elizabeth II. We mourn a great Stateswoman. Elizabeth did a lot for the complete reconciliation of Germany and GB after the war.’

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Love this! #Hamsterkaeufe

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