too many just speaking with us earlier today, you're watching the news. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news . i hope you enjoyed is that the, the, and he tackled to the special hot spots in germany 0 dw, extremely worth a bit. the of the meek home is the longest river in south east asia, the it boast rich by diversity

and breathtaking wilderness. the river originated send that to pension plan to induce over 4300 kilometers long. the, the space of the river is ever changing at points, it flows slowly through tropical landscapes and others. it plunges through steep. gorgeous, meet home is the long sign of south east asia. it's a transport route for millions of people bringing work and food to many countries. it flows from china threw me on my louse thailand, to cambodia and vietnam to the south china sea. it's one of the longest rivers in the wells. the we're on a journey through northern allows us to explore the landscapes and experience the

laid back laotian way of life. the time in a small village on the meek, on river lives 50 year old sucka. twice a day. he takes his whole fishing boat out onto the river of a 1200 different species of fish live in the me call, making it one of the most species rich imminent walters on the us. so i've been fishing here for over 20 years now. i moved to the village as a young man to live with my wife. i learned how to fish from the old man in the village. how long fishing is, know my main source of income loss. i also work as a teacher at the elementary school in the village. it's like an item publishing is what i like to do the most. so i lost the rif awesome. i can always add a little extra. yeah. so, but just have to keep till quite a recently,

soccer has needed. lots of patients. a big catch is read these days, but he's still in high spirits. thought well i don't it's the most efficient and unfortunately this is no time comment because of dams signed mining and climate change. fish populations have been declining in the me call the for as you can see, where i'm going to move to i. it's been more difficult to catch fish lazy because the river and the weather. i've changed a lot how you can come by the fish somehow seem to move different even they used to come over here. i don't understand what's happened with that hope i knew how like the how they didn't put well, but now i'm gonna keep them in

a big cycle. it has another fishing net that he put out this morning. he attached the net to plastic bottles, so it doesn't sink and he can easily find it again. the fishing was that it's such a gray feeling when you catch a big fish feeling of my home. the carlisle thing out of the night. it was a night or anything. and if it doesn't mean the money own from selling the fish of the market is important to me to pay even if it's not much. so to me it was, it was the, there's nothing begun this natalia to bod. he's called a few small fish, which will be enough to feed his family tonight. the

shy 12345. they've all prepared this fish come to me and my family will bring them an ethan with sticky rice and so hancock. and we'll have some rice whiskey as well, that goes perfectly with the fish. and then like i like i kind of keep this soccer lives with his wife not far from the river. like the majority of lotions he lives in the countryside and is self sufficient. so that the country's population is under 15 years old. sucka also has to don't is the

land blah blah, hit 1st, the slice to finish my time and they have and then put them on skews and verify from the the fish has been left to dry a little in the sun before he fries it in the oil, it's a traditional, inexpensive loud dish. fresh from them he called the house is located in the heart of southeast asia, a relatively small country about hoff this size upfront is compared to its most developed neighbors, thailand and vietnam. now is more rustic unless touristy. it's

a country state in ancient tradition and known for its relaxed, meditative way of life. in the mountains is north atlanta lines, the tranquil city of lou on prevent many coolant, the most beautiful city in asia, the new and preventing use the former seat at the royal family and now a eunice go wild heritage science. the city has a population of about $70000.00, that historical town is known for its unique tom and architecture. the, as the evening falls from 9 small k to blow wine providing stuff to life. and it's not any popular with the locals. the, there's

a huge variety of food on all that. it's a piece but this census, the for the equivalent to $0.50. joyce, the laotian, soups and needs teen phenomena leaves me most. the most popular thing we sell is it's seaweed from the me call. i've been working here for 10 years now in the 2nd generation. my parents also so the puddle and the storm neva, the light pond has also been working at the night market for many years. a parcel water buffalo meetings like a pork with garlic or copper line. sometimes it's eaten with sesame. we fried

a water buffalo with bamboo and serve it with sticky rice. the meat taste, sweet and salty. during the pandemic bin, i pound had to get creative. that was an easy during the corona virus pandemic. i tried selling online instead of luckily i was able to sell a lot on facebook during that time. so it worked out quite well. a little further on co not make soups, to order from a selection of vegetables, mushrooms, sausage, and toughest. i've only been selling here for 5 weeks. well, i also sell online from home to the loan, but i wanted to test the market to see if it would work here to 36 year old kona is now the market every night from 5 to 11 pm. she's happy so far

and fresh soups. ascending well, the, the monkey just bouncing late into the night. if you stay up late enough, there's something completely different to see come early morning the, the long pro by religion determines the rhythm, the city at 4 am amongst begin the morning proud. the concert more than men, the monks and the temple chunk every day to honor the dates of the buddha. like

a tron thing is a form of meditation for the mind and body of items and teachers. the monks to become better. people try to get into line the delay and go on there. why? how many parents won't last summer to try and become monkeys? what made up the many old them in the whole someone's for experience divided among the who civic come, how soon would it be? based off to the pratt, somebody and hundreds of other monks walked silently to the old town to the arms, giving center many gold tack. but an ancient buddhist ritual. as

a buddhist monk working for money is so they didn't. so the monks receive food donations from devout bodies every morning. for them it's an honor to night. it increases the chance of a better reincarnation. traditionally old monks was baffled in the summer when it sometimes reaches over 40 degrees celsius during the day are allowed to wear sandals. america to when we come here every day to give them some food except one we're so didn't know what a man the country's traditional spirituality is becoming increasing. the entwined with tourism and to the ritual of the monks has at times become a tourist spectacle. hello, everyone, once a selfie with them on the

recently we've had some problems with the tourists because they don't behave respectfully in the to it's sometimes get to know why they take lots of photos. and that's the last with the flash one month, which really disturbs the home ceremony. what type of deal? what's going up? the donations they received during the alms giving include rice skews pumpkin soup sausages, lamb stained violets and stained fish in phenomenally months remain silent. even during breakfast, a particular challenge for the children, the boys can join the mountain, stray at the age of 10. many families from the region enter that children into the monastery so they can learn from the months and the song about couldn't come aboard for i've gotten 6 uh, phone man,

you got some children wants in education, but the families come to forward. the school feeling comes on here. i think at the time of what we teach, subjects like english and math. this is a great opportunity for young people to put those older people who have no family feel lonely. coming to us to find peace more clear and i see with 15, but the by the time i did as i know by while the young monks go off to school. so i'm that takes care of public relations. digitize ation even has a place at the buddhist monastery these days. the monk regularly live streams is brands and meditations on his facebook page. if some people don't come here with the saw, the pick you all load is interesting. i want to participate this and i want to be to happy lives and, and then did he can come this look the picture. so if we have to use multiple by 4,

that's why there's no cell phone band in the temple of flow on prevent the, there are more than 7000000 people in laos who belong to lots of different ethnic groups. the government divides the inhabitants into 3 regional groups. the highlands allow sions who lives in the mountains to help people to move on the mountain slopes. the lowlands allow sions to make up the knowledge is chance of the population. almost 2 thirds of all nations live from agriculture. many from rice conservation to staple food and lotion cuisine. but

that's still the only reason. fama den tang grows rice. the 23 year old also gives rise sweatshops for taurus to prepare the ground for rice conservation, then must take out the muddy soil and he's helped by susan the water buffalo, rice farmers have been doing this for 100. so if you. ready some farmer who stained some place very 5 a they have no money to buy the machine thing or track the they they used to own buffalo because normally one family that if i'm barely though for the family to eat, so they don't need the machine. the price is one of the world's most important and food crumbs and tours. so keen to learn about 80. a den welcomes gases from all over the world today from new zealand, single poll from germany,

and the see the from last. how this last crop. so we want to plan the seat today. any one you ready? mm hm. normally i was born in the assembly of the family. so when i was young, i followed my parents to to feel this. and then they just learned by looking or see how they do scan started working on the som at age 14. he also went to school here, but completed his high school diploma in the city. now he's back on the farm, growing rice and showing taurus surround aerobic if you germany and they see the route very long road run the math and it bit it grow very easily. yeah, you can see for additional rice conservation involves a lot of manual labor. when the rice ponds,

so one month old that move to the fields where they have more space to grow and help to prevent weeds, the tories help to retain them the see only 3 thing. good. so if you put the whole hand, it'd be close. so you have to put only 3 finger, stick it to the amount that is. yeah. just to make sure you arises, standing nicely. to grow, right? the traditional way. you have to put your back into it the this, the quite lucky this, the under the waterfall. they can go rise all year around. but normally for a local farmer, they do only 2 times a year, each

a single race. and as you hold it is it takes 4 to 5 months for the rise pounds. the rankin harvesting the stage is also hard work. the tiny rice cranes all hayton at the top of the stokes and need to be removed from the panels. traditional farmers thrash their rice by hand. they look different and conduce upside down. put it forward, the bunch. grab it around it's not easy as the tourists quickly find out the, you know, week for a family of 4 or 5 people about 20 to 30 kilograms. if you want to cope sticker,

right? that's one bag of rice per week. the allow sions use it to make that sticky right. before you called it, you will have to sell your rice in the water 1st. so you have to soak, you just have a rice, you put it to the normal water, clean and threatened to water out put new water in and leave the rise there for one day or one night. so that is maximum, but minimum is 2 hours. the grains of sticky rice glue together and separate again when they come into contact with a song. but tough job for, for a bone of right. uh the. ready the to me come with

a storms, 800 kilometers of the border between thailand and louse. and there are physical differences between the 2 sides. while on the ty site, there are lots of mountain buildings. on the laotian side, there is more traditional villages surrounded by nature. there are also a few tourist about sailing on the me called the kalonde is the captain of a small crew ship. the 72 year old is often on the river for many weeks. but all the people don't mind calling this my life. my been working on the me calling since i was 17 years old and you get a name and i was just a bridge where i work hung up then i for to and rice. so i don't have to leave the bridge during the journey close to like on the bad and i've been and this is my

buddhist train, the guards me and blesses me with good fortune. when i travel i don't hold on one of them. and this is where i sleep for of a sleep here equal to captains mechanic data making, tronics engineer. i mean, they go sometimes on board. no. and the deck sounds like the energies doing a cargo, but with the transported goods i use. my father showed me every rock and every wrap it to watch. i mean, that's why i'm an expert to data like top down anybody else? juan still has to take tons with another captain. there are parts of the river. he doesn't know that well. there they go. how would it be here? they would learn the route from lying on her back to the mtm for my father. and i bought the alaska. if you want to seal here, you'd have to study the route for 5 to 10 years. so you can try, but it takes time, but i don't have it. i like the there's this don't time today for the tourist to

both the me count some for this go on must kathy moore, his ship on the on page charles klein also now this difficult maneuver from his father. the chef. the noise is responsible for the catering of the $28.00 tourists on board. the 33 year old wants to use the trip a show to go shopping at the market. for the thinking to me, give me sit tight. i've been working on the ship for 17. yes, i'm wonderful. i'm now the head shift of a 3 member kitchen team i've had with a lot of i thought on that you have a lot video. okay. the, the noise off and on the boat for several weeks. he really sees these little doors at the end. but it's a sacrifice he's learned to live with. being

a chef was his dream job. since he was 10 years old. of being 5, i always likes to cook being guy, especially talking fixtures, like i told i don't mind whole a daily noise menu features a traditional laotian soup. and for this he needs lots of fresh vegetables, plus some salad and fruit. everything is fresh and local. even the contains on the grill, which li noise enjoys was a mid day snack. the currency here is loud kemp. 10 euros is the equivalent of over 180000 kemp. you can know if i'm paying dollars all the time. bob, $10.00 as well. as i said before, they're hired and we'll take some beam. we're going to ask,

can i get 3 bundles for 10000 but no, but i'll give you 2 for 10000 comes up. do you still have them in dependable that? yes, i have some back here, especially harvested yesterday. okay. then i'll take some more thoughtful coolant 10000 altogether. okay, fine. let me, let me go. good. good. so let's go to the same time sounds. it's kind of, you have to handle with the sentence in the house, you always have to handle. it's just part of shopping. otherwise you'll have to pay and you won't get a good price. it goes to close to the little public dollar hold up in the l. now he's just missing one final, very special ingredient of a his suit, the class the,

the now i should have everything for tonight's it shouldn't be in the account. i'm quite happy with the price is i have well, yeah, and do i need the mushrooms are quite expensive really to yours for a 100 crimes evening. that's quite a lot. so i'm 600. it's just a short ride on allows taxi back to the ship. where he starts preparing the evening meals the law, the kitchen team basically gets on with the cooking campaign juan, so it's relaxed at the wheel. he knows he's roots inside out. he doesn't need

a navigation system. but at some point, he may need to use satellite technology because the river is changing rapidly. the water levels punctuate more because of the dams in china and thailand, which has a huge impact. villages have to be relocated. there are a few a nutrients and the water and fish a dying they've run into some difficulties today. the water level is quite low and dangerous. signed banks are forming in the river. one has to concentrate again. well yeah, no, i'm not scared. i know my sham well, and i knew it would be too high that he there on the last trip, juan mocked particularly shadow response with stakes, which now flow to in the river like boys the counting aust. so team member to check the depths of the going to just in case one

hasn't run a ground on assigned to banking over 50 years and only a few captains on the me come can claim that the eventually that out of danger at the me come sun has plenty of water on the hook key. again, the while it's calm again and the bridge down in the kitchen, it's full steam ahead. the team is busy cooking. this is the by the most important ingredients, official austin, spices. it gets halting the crime to county the mind sees it. sometimes it gets up to 40 degrees down there. so i looked up,

the fully put so i have to cook for over 28 people who at home and half of the last leroy wouldn't trade his jump on the ship with anyone on land . my, my favorite place to work is on the ship. people. yeah, and you see son much great nature, small villages and all the people in the bank see one of the a lot. yeah. it's very special. i wouldn't want to give it tom. good, perfect, good, really delicious, about really good laotian food. so i'd have just have to be careful with what you need. so the allow sions i put in 10 or 15 with on from the tourists, may be one in the way of giving you the once the food is in south jonathan given to the guests. the shaft can soon coordinator day

the evening, my philosophy because i love cooking very much. it's after a day like today i most have pretty time in the guests enjoyed the soup. even if it is a bit spicy. it's unusual today. ringback the someone who also knows about good taste is 67 year old. some child. she makes our own whiskey from rice, but she's feeling worried about the future of our business. the news slave is good for us here in the village. we have everything we need here. the food we eat is a gift from nature. but we have big problems because of the dams that are being built

here by the investors that keep buying up our field. and our villagers don't have bills to grow rice, which i also need for my wispy in some children's village. 5 families alone may have from this child of rice whiskey governing method . the whiskey recipe is a family tradition. that's very old. having some trouble doesn't like alcohol himself, but there are plenty of people who do lots of locals by and drink the spin rate. it's cheap and doesn't require many ingredients. name and co sign your dickie rice and use powder and name and then it's mixed well together so that i came from at the

left in the barrels for a week. then some chum taste the liquid and sometimes and so little want to a week later that the mental liquid is boiled. so until the boiling phase is always exciting, that's what determines the alcohol level. we need some chum measures the temperature 70 degrees below the out the boat, right. let's do some shopping. produces of of 500 liters a month. she then sells the bottles to trade is on the market model. cost is 30000 k, but about one euro 60 but the profits on to enough to do everything she'd like in the living room. and i would like to repair my house and help the poor people in

the village so they can send their children to school along the meek, home river. many people live in poverty, and many houses are in poor condition. the laos is a full country, and the corona virus crisis has compounded the struggles of allow economy even further. but with the easing of the time demick in china is new silk road lotions, hope the economic situation will improve slowly things of picking up again, at least in the villages, people benefit from the free natural building material that surrounds them. some people like calling me even built that house is completely by themselves from bamboo. uh like uh, today we have to repair

a wall in our house because the old one broken it rained in. oh, nice for our daughter. photo that happens all the time. hopeful get it done today, looked into my apartment from when i didn't even have here. this is the old well and all these holes are where the mice eaten to it. the mice are a big problem. tony, let me go. i'll pull up a 28 year old call me inherited the house from his parents. he now lives here with his brother, his wife and dad. daughter called me as a pharma and gross cassava, the edible root of a tropical tree. they have to renew the bamboo bowls roughly every 10 years, which called me now knows how to do very well. and what

a is oh and visit the bamboo from the forest is free. how when they hit and i think you know there and just take as much as we need, allow hang up. i don't have to pay anything for it and i don't have to go to the city. i remember. so you gotta be saying that it is good, i can work with what's already growing around. i hang out the satellite, but we still have to process the band concert into stripling slides and right because otherwise it will band under the heat at the sun a crumbled. so have a lot of work to do to help the heck out of the the who is an important result was for many people across asia. it's a fast growing natural material that can be used not to any to build houses and furniture. many also use it as firewood, even as food call me and his wife

a building the new wall. once it's finished it will be water proof and relatively stone proof. yeah you, my leg was a lot and i prefer village life to city lights that might have given me a city. you need a lot of money to cover all the expenses and i in the village you don't need so much money factor black. um, it's like, i mean when you buy black luna and again. but you know you true? i'm hoping to save some money to buy a small truck. that's what i buy. it's no easy. what about but it would help us on the present. i had a truck, i could take microsoft at the city, so they are is a higher price and they will come in and everything will be good. and then 2 months or then quarter tone by kind of little neva helps calling me to install the new band. a few nails here and that in the house is fine and the roof out to

the food in the long glove with that i couldn't sleep before because of all the holes i need, but tonight i'll sleep. secondly, again, the, the 10 family also has their own house with a got a grow chinese ginger, also called fingerprint upon, is related to ginger, but the taste is inclined to spicy. the root is used as a spice and tie carry, added china as an additional pond to the zip codes of card. it's good for ikea, arms and legs, bad headaches and things. and i already goodman goodness, a few of the plans granting just behind the 10 families house. how do we pick them up with all the route? so the we also use the leaks ok. how many we cut the roots into slices and drive

them in the sun the the chinese ginger originally comes from the mountainous regions of china. but today it's growing across most of south east asia. once a year, the time the families sounds almost veteran tile hobbies to china because that's where they on the most money and they can live well from it. this also saves the time family the trip to the market in the capital, which lies if you kilometers about the south along the river. the v n t on is located directly on the bank. so to me, come river. it's a charming city with its many temples, possibly markets, and historic buildings. traditions are preserved alongside them old mountain way of

life. the fashion design of va income lives in the city. first, all sounds top quality was ensconced, closing and bags made of silk. or idea to combine the old with the new has been a great success. no, i used to, we have traditional patterns, but then i realized that everyone does that. so i wanted to design patterns that would be interesting for tourist lackland. now i make modern design that incorporate traditional allow patterns and motif backs that done for kids. a she designed the items on display here south. the income is one of the most successful business women in the capital have. this is a traditional allow pattern that lies pretty me at the top. it's traditional, but i've combined it with

a new modern style at the bottom. and the patterns on the soak still go to get the say, uh my customers liked the style and it sells well. okay, inside my organs, i know how many boom, nice to a need the va income sounds please? typo scott, for the equivalent of about 200 us on affordable to most laotian that have popular susan here with doris customers and my store comfortable all over the world . but most of the scarves i explored are to japan and america and the produced right in the backyard. a dozen women sit that at that lose. it takes one person about 2 weeks to make one of the expensive. so scotts, when i come from the ethnic group, red tide in northern loud in the past,

women were taught to prepare themselves to leave home and become good wives. they had to learn to weave and cook, since women to receive no schooling, finding a good husband always depended on how well they could bring them in some hole. in cork, in the va income takes good care of weavers and make sure they have everything they need. i've been working on this car for 6 days so far. i love working with va income is a member of the allow handicraft association. it's important to have that pool of female workers are supported under that work is paid valley fund via income expects good work in real time. she always overseas the production of the scouts herself.

what catherine up have to do. you have to do the quality control very carefully leading is not that easy for me to sell the star as well. every centimeter needs to be correct. the income has been recognized internationally for the quality of work. and she's always got new ideas in the pipeline. and i would like to open many more stores with young people who are creative and motivate the despite the setbacks of the pond and make laos has made good strides to comp, poverty and hunger over the last 20 years. the, it's also a country of great beauty, rich culture and serenity. the, there's an old long process that says the whys do know terry. and those who hurry

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