i am the rattling noise of sewing machines has become the soundtrack of our us is childhood she works twelve hours a day monday to friday in this clothing workshop in istanbul the women here a sewing underwear and iris has to make sure they never run out of fabric. she earns about fifty cents an hour. as the house and i have a rule that of course i'd rather go to school but it's just not possible we have to pay a lot of rent and food the water bill everything is expensive that's why i need to work and help my family. out us is eleven years old and not the only child in this workshop. has been working here for two years like others he is from syria. from the moscow's is thirteen he is the oldest among the kids the youngest here is only six years old. the turkish owner lets us film but only

because we promised we would not show him in our report child labor is illegal in turkey the owner knows this but says the families would be much worse off without the work. these children might be safe from the war and terror all back home in syria but what they really need now is education and the chance to build a future despite efforts by the turkish government to get refugee children off the streets and into public schools many here remain out of the classroom. many other children us and out by their parents to beg on the streets they can be seen everywhere in east i'm bored. up to one million syrian refugees live in the city about one third of them are children no one knows exactly how many of them are working instead of going to school. and us has finished

work for today she takes me home with her to meet her family. she has two little sisters her mother is pregnant and had to stop working they don't receive any financial support from the turkish state her father found a job but even with the money. they can still only barely make ends meet. we have to send her to work we don't have any other choice every morning she cries and tells me i want to go to score it's heartbreaking i know she is too young to work and many people would not offer her job because she's still a child but i know the owner of that clothing workshop and he said he wants to help us. in syria i was the only one working.

and it was enough to support my family. even my parents. but here it's different rent the kids expenses i just can't do it all on my own. i meet. one of the stumbles district may as he admits the child labor is a problem in turkey one that has grown with the arrival of the syrian refugees. visit the project. our options are limited. do we try to get these children into our schools give them books and pens and school bags of course we do . but we don't always reach all of them. it's often the case that more help is needed and we are able to give. these the talk. that's why others are trying to help in our houses neighborhood syrian

teachers are giving classes even on weekends for children who otherwise wouldn't be able to attend school turkish arabic or math the basics at least. for paris these are precious moments when the sewing machine stop rattling and she can be a child again if only for a few hours thank you. i mean it's horrible that we have to report something like this in twenty seventy here the big table with me is my colleague joe your hand if ordered there in that story what's your impression that when you and your back you know in germany you think about those children. are they able to cope with you know being part of what is a lost generation. the kids i'm mad with were incredibly strong and dutiful you know they were talking about how much is already and our electricity and water bill

things that you use only children usually it's adults who need to solve these issues but these kids they carry a huge responsibility on their tiny shoulders because they are really convinced that they have to help the fosses the families because otherwise they couldn't make ends meet and many of them actually went to school back in syria but then the war happened they had to leave they had to settle in a totally new place and then once a child starts working basically it's childhood ends for certain period and or for forever maybe and then and then they're lucky if they do get a chance to go to school and what it what are those chances in turkey for these syrian children are they going to the turkish schools is that what's happening to them were less let's at least the goal of the sex government they want to get every single syrian refugee child that's the big promise into public schools by the end of a twenty twenty. but so far only sixty percent of those kids are really having access

to education that means forty percent don't have any access and this is higher than you know it's three hundred thousand to four hundred thousand children we're talking about and. and of course there are a lot of obstacles the language these kids know arabic or kurdish and most of the cases but they need to know turkish in order to follow what's happening at school they need teachers they need teachers who are specialized in working with traumatized kids and where those teachers come from did you get a chance to ask me is turkey in crackdown post-coup crackdown turkey or are there even teachers to do this so we try to film in a public turkish school but we didn't get any any chance to do that we were denied access or you tell why. we took our lives with probably also due to the current tensions between germany and turkey but on the other handle so they it's in general difficult to get access to turkish public schools so he's arsed but the kids are

going to school not all of them but so many of them of course some are going to school and there are some positive examples as well but i think as long as there are examples like this and this is not a single case you know find those kids everywhere in the area where we were filming they were at least we were passing at least six of those sewing workshops and every time there were children working so you see it is amazing it's turkey doing enough to combat child labor well from my opinion no if you are a state and you ban child labor it's illegal in turkey if you employ a girl or boy under the age of fifteen you're committing a crime so if this is the law the state has to enable it to enforce it right but of course the argument we would always hear from authorities or governors or mayors is that turkey has taken in so many refugees more than three million yeah it's

a huge huge challenge and they sometimes also don't know how to deal with it but child labor friend is a huge structural problem in turkey since decades it's not only a problem for syrian children many people in turkey still think it's not a problem if children are working and it's an immigrant story and i'm glad to that that your breathe the story to your audience because it's one that we can not report too much to one thank you very much thanks. parliament on monday started debating a bill that could soon legalize gay marriage across the country one lawmaker took the opportunity to provide proof to his particularly. this debate has been a soundtrack to our relationship. we both know this issue isn't the reason we got involved in politics give us tax reform any day. but in my first speech i defined our bond by the ring that sits on both of our left hands that diaby

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well it's already an age old tradition in north america where people love to brighten up their homes for the christmas season with all manner of lights and sparkling or even very humorous decorations well meanwhile here in germany the custom has also caught on in homes all across the countryside are now lighting up with garlands of light but one house in particular in college in lower saxony gets brighter every single year it's the biggest christmas light extravaganza in the country and we visited roll folks to see how and why he doesn't. why. it's not just tiny tots whose eyes are all aglow when big and small gather on the first weekend of the advent season to watch the lights go on. five hundred thirty thousand of them in germany's biggest christmas light display on a private house and that's

a record. was written of it you're just overwhelmed by all the lights as it could no way i could do that i have problems just getting one string of lights up it's fantastic you have the swag i never imagined it like this yeah it was like this made it's just perfect not some christmas market but in a deal like little display perfect for children i think you know. the man who attracts christmas lovers to column lower saxony every year is well fucked the pensioner loves his hobby. well i always just jump for joy when it all comes together i it's that week of happiness especially when it gives people joy and they go oh well i think that's the best part of it the worst thing that can happen is if it starts raining. and then i flip the switch on the remote no go because you know and then of course the people all all go. luckily that

rarely happens months of work have gone into the extraordinary christmas display. close wife now mean supports his passion for christmas lights. she is in charge of the decorations in the house she decides how it gets done their work and . if well you know this passion gives him a lots of energy and happiness. well for designs every aspect of his christmas night extravaganza himself it all started in one thousand nine hundred nine when the couple visited their son in the united states houses all around were covered with lights. and whole never seen anything like it every house was more beautiful than the last at the front yards had moving reindeer and santa claus is on them and we said let's do this at all just for us. every year it got to be

a little more but she never thought it could take on these dimensions. the yuletide spectacle now involves a massive amount of effort and expense to have it ready in time the seventy year old retiree has to begin stringing the four point three kilometers of cords in the summer. with this winter predicted to be a wet one he's had a special high voltage line put in. the movie by the blow dried at least once a week the food cooked food. all the creations have to be in working order by the day of the premiere. learn from little disasters for instance i always used to toss the nets over the rhododendrons and then i couldn't get some of them down in the spring without tearing up. so he set up a series of twisted wire arches. the. well there is someone manageable you can arly

even move. and it's going that he doesn't have any other hobby he's put his heart in as i say and i let him know. that some people never had a childhood so they have to make up for it some time. this year old his especially proud of his new electric train. new york yeah there is a bit of child in me. he estimates that he spent around one hundred fifty thousand euros on the decorations so far the folks have to pay some three thousand euros just for the extra electricity they use in december a little private christmas market helps to pay for it all the need you need those these ya know is and it's i hope this year we'll see even more shining faces that's the whole point of doing this does is in that. i had to get the. they have up to five hundred spectators every week and his wife sells mulled wine and

sausages while both checks the lights to make sure they're all working and he keeps coming up with new ideas that come as long as my wife joins in i just can't stop. their leg and we'll keep doing this as long as we're able we really enjoy it yeah it's not just to make me happy but above all the people who come here on a pretty boy. the couple have been married for forty two years now for seventeen of them they've been lighting up the holiday season. i may they keep shining for many years to come but we continue now with a look at the other lifestyle highlights from berlin and beyond. that the drones champions league finals last weekend in berlin the world's top professionals showed off their flying finesse the pilots steered their aircraft by remote control using virtual reality headset the drones reached speeds of up to one

hundred forty kilometers an hour as they raced through an obstacle course in a former railway station there was a hundred thousand euros in prize money up for grabs this year's top drone pilots were a british team. and the s. and motor show is underway it's europe's most important trade fair for tuning motor sports and vintage cars more than. five hundred exhibitors are displaying their latest products in s. and for example the rinse speed away says the soap driving prototype from switzerland even has a miniature garden onboard. spectacular is the jet powered school bus. blastoff for education. for chill b f one fifty raptor is making its german debut. and if that's not enough there's lots of vintage cars and live performances the s.

and motor show runs until december tenth. friends of ice cold water have opened up the winter season in the polish city of kona they started out with some warm up exercises in christmas costumes but once they'd worked up a sweat they plunged into four degrees celcius cold water. if you hesitate to imitate them for the sudden drop in temperature is actually good for you because it stimulates the immune system model. a once upon a time the highlight of british christine was the sunday roast with homemade yorkshire pudding something that mothers and grandmothers of course always did best and these days while the interest in home cooking in britain has never been higher people people are also more eager than ever to try things that they might not cook on their own which is why the concept of the we find food network has really taken

off. outside it's an and conspicuous tourist tolleson lymington english inside it's a restaurant serving exotics cuisine a minor revolution in gastronomy eating out and in calf dutton's welcoming eleven guests she made her hobby her profession for a year or so she's been cooking for people mostly strangers in her own home trying to keep things as informed as possible and so hopefully people come in and feel quite quickly and sort of home away from home. and then they can just relax and chat with the other people who are here and enjoy the food. for the equivalent of about thirty euros patrons can reserve a place at dutton's table online she's a member of we find food a site that connects cooks with diners looking to discover some new food and meet new people my past my mission is there wherever i am in the world to find a way for i host to feed me that's my pastime they said and we've found sucked in

the. darkness quite professional by now even if occasionally slightly stressed is spicy crab cakes. it's like a combination of eating at home but not having to have so i mean i mean people the chef is also the waiter right next up is the main course chicken curry cut the ice is broken the guests are very happy. and we can share a good food and good banter absolutely delicious thoroughly enjoy them and not know some of the people. by the time the pineapple mango foam appears some of the guests have become friends phone numbers are exchanged strangers know more the chef is satisfied and glad she quit her office job this is a social network that connects through the stomach the recipe for success good food and good company.

well anyone who's got real money to burn these days is well advised to invest in art as the art market sees prices for artworks going simply through the roof just last month later nodded eventually salvator monday went for a record breaking four hundred and fifty million dollars that's nearly three hundred million euros and the market for contemporary art is also booming cashing in on all of this is the lead auction house in cologne where this very past weekend three works by get hot the world's most expensive living artist just went under the hammer. and that's why in the us about six hundred thirty two from get out of the. front ones it was. for one of. the atmosphere is crackling at

this auction of contemporary art venerable lead parents auctioneers among the objects going under the hammer are several works by german painter gary hart and i stop. there's nothing more exciting in the life of an auctioneer than the day of the auction itself it always brings surprises or who will bid on what how why will they go. killian j. fun zelda nick has been one of the directors of germany's largest auction house since twenty twelve his work begins long before the auction itself it takes months to prepare an auction one of the most important aspects is staying in touch with collectors potential buyers and art sellers option house has been in business since one thousand nine hundred five it's the oldest family run option firm in the world . some paintings we've optioned off two or three times already say in one thousand nine hundred seventy five and twenty seventeen the trust that we've built up over generations is naturally something you can't buy with money. no answer dollars and

telephone front of annoyance which dogs were not for dogs. we're not thousands and the board any more than one hundred five thousand. i'm more than. a buyer paid one hundred five thousand euros for a book of illustrations by gary hart of my stuff it's one of the german artists earliest works now eighty five years old has been experimenting with various genres of painting since the one nine hundred sixty s. even minor works by him fetch six figure sum playstyle is the star of the art market among all living artists his works command the highest prices the online database arsenate says that all told us works have earned more than eight hundred million euros in auction in two thousand and fifteen his abstract image sold for more than forty million alone. your heart of a star is a fascinating artist it's no accident that his work sets new price records and is

unbelievably popular among collectors. was a title and for fun. but six hundred thirty three then was begin with six on the front dollar. collectors can also bid for works that led parents auctions online the auctions are live streamed and bidding is in real time the art market is going digital roughly twelve percent of its business in two thousand and sixteen was on the internet that's more than three billion euros an increase of fifteen percent from the previous year collectors like from berlin appreciate the advantages of digitalisation the forty five year old himself founded an art collectors platform called independent collectors to make private collections more accessible. and the collecting has a lot to do with discovery so for collectors it's fantastic that it's now so easy to get up to date information. and at the same time it's tough to keep track of all

the influences and. russians and information. the challenge today is to find your away and keep a balance. let pass is also trying to unite art collectors from all over the world in an online community one task is to convince collectors to bid on where they may never have seen in real life. videos in which experts introduce works of art. i think there are situations in which serious collectors can buy art works they've never seen before. but mostly you should stick to only art by artists whose work as a whole you know well. then so despite at least as popularity no online collectors bid today on his landscape the painting goes to a better who is present in the auction hall. so good for seven

hundred fifty thousand. thank you. ouch well for your remarks extra tour we're now fulfilling a wish from one of our viewers in costa rica anymore lena wrote in to us from san jose that she wanted to visit some of switzerland because her country is interesting they refer to as the switzerland of central america well not far from lake constance so in the north east of switzerland is the city of. and during the advent season they like to let out all of the stops there and from the old town that sparkles with garlands of lights the winter certainly looks a lot less tree. in winter st gallen is a wonderland. the medieval abbey of st paul complex has been a unesco world heritage site since one thousand nine hundred three. it includes an opposing baroque cathedral. in the years six twelve irish monk.

founded a hermitage on the site to modernise a gallery. other time people believe that the heart of their lives on earth or the more beautiful heaven would be. also believed this. is the stage here a place with an altitude of seven hundred meters because when he first arrived he stumbled and saw it as a sign from god he was collecting wood to make a fire when a brown bear approached him sam call spoke to him and said in the name of god go and fetch me more wood for my fire and he did. the reformation arrived in st gallen and fifteen twenty seven. conflict between catholics and protestants was rife a ten meter high wall was erected to separate the abbey from the time. they had begun to show all the crowded the town into two it was half catholic half

protestant it stood there until eighteen twenty which is when the town became a center of the textiles industry famous for embroidery then the wall. taken down among the. textiles brought affluence to st gallon by nineteen town the region was the world's leading exporter of embroidered goods today fashion brands from chanel to do your and armani still use a gallon lace the local textiles museum documents the history of the industry. i think alan is proud of its heritage of the abbey library is one of the oldest monastic libraries in the world that houses over two thousand manuscripts dating back to the eighth through the fifteenth century xv including the world's oldest music manuscript which dates back to the ninth century. economy so no other library in europe has been preserved in such entirety. it's gems include very early fragments of the latin bible. a manuscript of the

nibelungen a very famous piece as well as early german literature. as christmas approaches another attraction in st gallen is chocolate. milk this is milk chocolate with gingerbread spices and this year is quality chocolate with almond slivers and orange essence. the nearby countries are is also marking the festive season. our christmas gingerbread is filled with almond moose and decorated with christmas garnishing it comes in various sizes. take out and christmas lights are legendary a total of seven hundred of them are switched on ahead of the first advent. of. the stars show st gallon at its best. great mood lovely atmosphere perfect that's

this is what christmas is all about christmas in st gallon straight out of the story books. well that story continues because of course during the christmas season in germany there's also a wealth of christmas markets to visit here and you'd be hard done even to visit all of the best ones which usually have their own signature treats all the christmas market in in the furthermost western tip of germany is definitely a must being famous not only for its cathedral but also for a special kind of gingerbread that's known as a printer and you can only find the real thing in itself as the recipe is a carefully guarded secret and so it's first on our list of goodies in this week's . auctions christmas market lies in the heart of the historic old town around the

city home more than half the stalls so christmas decorations and gifts but there are also plenty of common area tractions like hearty savory food and mulled wine and punch also sweet gingerbread pastry and often specialty no print on as they're called here as a giant gingerbread man are the star attraction. didn't we have to try the spice flavored printer i know the normal ones from home but the ones with spices are really something special. stone mites darkness mulled wine and something tasty to eat a snickers for me the essence of a christmas market. this is what the market looks like during the day in the center city built on the foundations of charlemagne's palace. the cut off square and cathedral are situated south of city hall the unesco listed building is the city's most famous landmark. the noblest bakery operates one of the one hundred fifty

stalls it has been producing in gingerbread according to the original recipe to. eighteen fifty eight. now days they also come with knots omens chocolate fondue and icing or even in the shape of charlemagne. just as on hot and off the special thing about our kind of print one is that they have to be made with enough and city limits that has to do with rules which exist in germany linking the product to its geographical origin that means the designation of origin is or tactic really good on this. at the back of the stand your shorter is demonstrating how to make. their occupant and filled with mars a pan. the exact recipe is a carefully guarded secret but the brown dough includes flour and baking powder and three different kinds of sugar syrup icing sugar and rock sugar and spices of

course aniseed cloves coriander cinnamon and all spice also known as for mento each baker has his or her own special mixture next the dough has to be rolled out. but it's hard to set up in the traditional normal print came for a long time because they don't include any ingredients that can spoil like a big screen milk or butter. and then. after fourteen minutes in the oven the prints are ready and can be decorated with knots or covered with chocolate what is this called clinton. clinton ok it's nice i think it's got some knots in it and i thought it's a chocolate but it's a mix of a chocolate and something else it's nice we have to simulate different. it's like this one and it's also why and how the one in the cinema braver so we like it now my style it's like two christmas days. if the hustle and bustle of the

christmas market is too much for you you can visit often cathedral. the feeling that they find it really quaint here this cozy old town and they like the fact that there's no trashy stuff and none of the bustle of a christmas fair of so called. and that's what makes the trip to often during the advent season so popular with visitors they can experience a traditional christmas market and and historic city. while now that our taste buds are well primed we want to know which treats get you into the christmas spirit is it gingerbread or fruit cake or even a piping hot glass of mulled wine whatever it might be send us a picture of your favorite christmas treats and you can find details of how to do

that on our website and as a thanks for your feedback one lucky viewer will get our specially designed your max watch so be sure to get in on the action and with that it is time for us to sign off so all the best and until next time to respond to the. next time on your own. the amazon is calling in and over the famous rain forest are now worth three hundred sixty degree panoramas the largest of its kind in the world artist c.c. created this three thousand five hundred square meter illusion by combining thirty thousand photographs of virtual amazon rain forest next time on your own facts.

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