- Title: Hundreds of thousands celebrate New Year's Eve in Berlin
- Date: 1st January 2020
- Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (German) REVELLER FROM GERMANY'S ALTMUEHLTAL REGION, HANNI, SAYING: "What should change? Nothing! Everything should change the way it is. It's beautiful. (pauses) I have no good intentions!" (SOUNDBITE) (English) REVELLER FROM SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, JEMMA, SAYING: "We're in Europe for New Year's and we chose Berlin so like we're in Europe for the holidays and we chose Berlin for New Year's and it's turned out to better than anything we thought." REVELLERS DANCING (SOUNDBITE) (English) REVELLER FROM GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, JONATHAN, SAYING: "Fantastic!" (SOUNDBITE) (English) REVELLER FROM LONDON, ENGLAND, ANNA, SAYING: "Amazing!" (SOUNDBITE) (English) REVELLER FROM GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, JONATHAN, SAYING: "Brilliant!" (SOUNDBITE) (English) REVELLER FROM LONDON, ENGLAND, ANNA, SAYING: "The best New Year's celebration. Best New Year's ever." (SOUNDBITE) (English) REVELLER FROM GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, JONATHAN, SAYING: "The best we've been to, the best we've ever been to." (SOUNDBITE) (English) REVELLER FROM LONDON, ENGLAND, ANNA, SAYING: "Amazing people, fireworks, amazing." (SOUNDBITE) (English) REVELLER FROM GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, JONATHAN, SAYING: "Love it! Love it!" CROWD IN PARTY ZONE REVELLERS DANCING (SOUNDBITE) (German) 11-YEAR-OLD REVELLER FROM BERLIN, SHAYNA, SAYING: "I wish for my little sister who is suffering from epilepsy to get well again." REVELLERS DANCING AND SCREAMING VARIOUS OF FIREWORKS GOING OFF NEAR TV TOWER COUPLE CHEERING AND TOASTING FIREWORKS OVER BRANDENBURG GATE
- Embargoed: 15th January 2020 00:53
- Keywords: berlin brandenburg gate fireworks new year's eve party vox pops
- Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
- City: BERLIN, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Topics: Human Interest / Brights / Odd News,Society/Social Issues
- Reuters ID: LVA003BUCBM13
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Hundreds of thousands of people celebrated New Year's Eve in Berlin where some 6,000 fireworks lit up the sky above the iconic Brandenburg Gate at Germany's largest such bash, according to the organisers.
Berlin police tweeted shortly after 9 p.m. (2000 GMT) that access to the 1.5 km (0.9 miles) party zone stretching from Brandenburg Gate towards Grosser Stern square had been closed because "it's FULL."
"If you are not inside yet, unfortunately you stay out," the tweet read, almost three hours before midnight.
Revellers' bags were checked for banned fireworks, glass bottles, alcoholic beverages and "arms of all types," according to the organisers.
The occasion marked the 25th time that Berlin had hosted Germany's largest outdoor New Year's Eve party.
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