breastfeeding is often frowned upon and adults will formula abound with profit is more important than my babies will be how do i know how to make the right decision . starting to seminar on d w. i t twenty i don't think. because of. the famous potato. greetings from the german capital once again and welcome to our latest edition all

fired up and ready to go with the following top stories. impressive imagery an icelandic photographer captures the beauty of erupting volcano. manhole motifs a berlin based artist finds her inspiration in the streets. a typical architecture we visit the island of cyprus to look at an unusual home. well natural catastrophes are the kind of thing that most of us try to avoid at least on most days like for instance a volcano erupting burning hate and flowing lava are not the sort of things that make me want to hang around but in iceland we met a guy who sees things very differently indeed son is a photographer who specialized in volcanoes and it's a passion that has been driving him around the globe for thirty years.

multum lava fiery destruction and breathtaking beauty at the same time these photos capture the moment one of ok no we were up they were taken by icelandic photographer ragnar cigarettes. okro thankful to not upset it's not their new rush but then it's over for old pushes you to name it create creativity you have to be ready create if you have to be on your toes. he loves it when of all kaino comes to life he gets his closest possible whether with his s.u.v. or a small plane. i've been very close i've been you know if it's away from growing . it's going very slowly. it's a safe distance. of course i think very scared i have to run really fast. mostly because i'm scared not because things are happening but you know you're on

fire and i need to. ragnar first rose to fame through his photos of iceland's most famous volcano b i if you outlaw your cut the ash it produced when it erupted in two thousand and ten grounded flights across europe ragnar took ten thousand photos of the volcano wakey wakey wakey thinks for things to happen to see europe's in its south because it's working out rita and the clouds on the one thousand and got the ox and everything everywhere if you can see the fire. you just stay there and for us and for time. for more than thirty years now ragnar sigurdsson has been photographing landscapes and nature motifs all over the far north from greenland and norway to the north pole.

but few places have as many natural wonders as his native iceland known as the land of fire and ice its one hundred thirty volcanoes and hot geysers of shape iceland's national identity. it's not the kind of there's i think the whole nation is like that we all love their actions. i was strong it's not. i mean sometimes it can be many dangerous can be life threatening but we have been blasts the past decades we. when you have hot kind of. what you call towards the russians. a photo shoot at a crater landscape near reykjavik it was created by a volcanic eruption thousands of years ago. capturing images of the volcanic rock under different light conditions fascinates ragnar sigurdsson. he's

always aiming to try out new technologies and techniques. using a drone he experiments with unusual perspectives he says he's always on the hunt for the next killer shot. and there's always another day another light another situation another perspective. another way to do it or which. you know or it's never done. rudner secrets and remains true to his favorite subject the next volcanic eruption and icelanders sure to come possibly with just a few minutes notice. certainly some high adrenaline work amazing what we get up to just to make sure we get the best pictures and that of course brings us right back around to our express where as for usual we've got plenty of those lined up.

the real reason a scale i recently made a stop in berlin the show boasts a festive vibe and seasonal sounds. it's currently touring germany and will later move on to several central european countries. the show's star british soprano sarah brightman is supported by other great musical acts like german british band grigori and we decided to call it the royal christmas got back to royal bath and and it's about christmas and it's a got to celebrate true things. dutch magician hans clarke has a brand new show he's considered the world's quickest illusionist standards one numerous awards his latest magical extravaganza kicks off in late december and will tour through germany and austria. feature actress pamela anderson will function as clocks assistant in fifteen shows parks house of mystery show is mysteriously

creepy for. more typical children's christmas presents in the late nineteenth century to exhibitions in the northern german town of provide answers to this timely question bush well offspring tended to enjoy better quality toys while working class kids often received homemade gifts fashion from wood or metal scraps. dressed up in new clothes the exhibitions in the same dance museum in the heaven by the museum of industrial history runs through february fourth. pretty hard to believe but two thousand and seventeen is already drawing to a close and every year at this time we like to look back on the biggest stories the most spectacular events and the remarkable people that made news over the past months well typically there's enough action to fill an entire week of programming but we have boiled it down to the essentials and we'll do it in two and so here is

part one of our review of a year that here in germany marked the five hundredth anniversary of the reformation. twenty seventeen was about the year of martin luther for germany but there were many other key events and moving moments the terrorist attacks in manchester and barcelona sent shock waves across europe but there were happy occasions too. in germany the year began with the official opening of the money in hamburg the concert hall took nearly ten years to build. with a colossal price tag of seven hundred eighty nine million euro but the final result is stunning. the opening of the museum barberini in potsdam was a highlight most of the artworks belong to hussle a former software manager and one of germany's richest men in. buying are putting

art in your home or even a safe is no good at all if no one can look at not even mean what he said about so he funded the building of a museum to house his collection. in february the berlin international film festival once again drew plenty of star power. richard gere attended the premiere of his film the dinner while there he met with german chancellor i'm going to matter and appeared almost starstruck himself this is not the the iron lady it's very much a human being that i was incredibly impressed with. the carnival season saw the annual explosion of color in venice thousands of locals and visitors john masks and costumes for the occasion. in germany's carnival strongholds a very different costume was all the rage of the first. u.s.

president donald trump was by far the most popular carnival figure this here. on the telly we were hoping to be president because we already made the wigs and it worked out some glue donald trump was omnipresent during the rose monday carnival processions to. in march the world's most prestigious architecture award the pritzker prize surprisingly went to a small agency named. this. three architects from catalonia were recognized for their environmental use of material. jewfish. british singer songwriter ed sheeran released a new album in march after taking a year off from showbusiness on the day of its release divide it was streamed nearly fifty seven million times on spotify

a new record. music of a very different kind was celebrated in the austrian capital the vienna philharmonic orchestra markets one hundred and seventy fifth birthday as one of the world's leading on song. april saw a global first in berlin a gallery for street art open for just two months before the entire buildings demolished over one hundred fifty artists let with inside a disused bank the five story building had already been condemned so the exhibition ended on demolition day. ladies and gentlemen let's make a rock record right everybody their veteran british rock band deep purple released a new album in a row for nearly fifty years they've been known as pioneers of rock with their catchy guitar riffs.

another music highlight. it by show. the ukrainian capital kiev hosted the euro vision song contest the world's largest music competition a t.v. audience of over one hundred eighty million tuned in salvador so brawl from portugal was this year's winner. the come film festival brought the usual glitz and glamour this year's poem dog went to swedish director ruben a stunned for his satirical drama of the square. germany's diane kruger won best. first for her role in fact in the fate she plays a woman who loses her husband and son in the bombing. run and shot. he starred in more james bond films than anyone else at the end of may british actor roger moore died at the age of eighty nine.

not away from you at the start of june ariana grande day return to the stage just two weeks after the terrorist attack in manchester that killed twenty two people at one of her concerts one love magister benefit concert featured stars like robbie williams miley cyrus and coldplay it was an opportunity for the music world and members of the public to take a clear stand against terrorism. and. in june the dandy horse marked its two hundredth anniversary a german invention considered the four runner to today's bicycle it's an invention that certainly changed a lot over the past two centuries. back to the present and some weeks ago i was walking down a street in vancouver canada my home country a beautiful city by any standard when the sun shone onto the sidewalk and lit up

a manhole cover and it was decorated with killer whales in the style of the west coast first nations artists you can check it out on facebook in fact and i thought how wonderful that i happened to look down at that moment and see it literally art right there on the pavement while berlin by the way also has artful and interesting manhole covers and that gave one local artist an even brighter idea. real street style fashion and the front of rough is a textile designer who calls herself a pirate printer she transfers patterns from manhole covers on to t. shirts and talks. pirate printing refers to copying something of the that i but for me it's more about the fact that these images are often overlooked and that we need to rediscover them somehow. noir and day these depict famous berlin landmarks the city's waterworks company had five hundred

such manhole covers laid in two thousand and six the markets one hundred fiftieth birthday she has permission to use the. the waterworks company just saw them as manhole covers and possibly overlooked their potential and the fact that you can do so much more with them so yeah they're happy about it. ink is biodegradable and it's machine washable ruff makes around thirty prints a day and each one is a little different. here you can see the structure from the roller then the teacher also makes an impression because it's always applied differently not by machine but by hand also get creases and little white spots. and. t. shirts started forty nine year old bags at twenty and the fronts rob finds new

motifs across europe. past the end lisbon parents. scour the ground to find their images we look for details that have to do with the city something that has budapest on it or a w. w actually stands for water. she sells the pieces in her online shop many of her customers are tourists who watch europe work. i wondered what she was doing it's got the sights of berlin on it it's wonderful. it's also nice when they say they've gained a new appreciation for things that they've seen a nice manhole cover somewhere else or they want to make a print in the village they're from. software. these women will never look at a manhole cover the same way again. maybe you can keep an eye out for

a cool manhole covers near you and post them on facebook we would be delighted for your max to lux we're now visiting cyprus in the southeastern mediterranean where they usually have very mild winters and then of course threat swept through extremely hot summers so it's no wonder that. a little more thought to how to protect his village from the sun he wanted it to be modern open concept and bright but still protected and he came up with a really unconventional solution that just this year and him a nomination for the prestigious prize. great pipes stacked up in a field what could be mistaken for a construction site is actually part of a modern villa name to the ab house architect andreas with his family welcome to our house please come in. three hundred sixty concrete pipes normally used in road construction provide shade while letting in plenty of light to the interior decor

is simple and functional. the open plan kitchen and living area form the heart of the house the couple has been living in this one hundred ninety square metre home and passed on the west coast of cypress since two thousand and sixteen. you have the simplicity. that were raised by this lifestyle and i always believe that when you come home you must live clear yourself from the thought of the day from the thought of your drop from from the every day outdoor. the most important elements of a sliding glass walls most sides of the house can be opened up like this creating an extra one hundred fifty square metres of living space. for us this place is very important where connection between in and out is like in the summer period what you

eight months it's going to be a place where you at a day in a place where you have a place that you die in a place that you it's like the living room for you you move the living room from inside to outside. i'm going to show you now a special picture of the house. and i wanted to be able to use the space in a variety of ways so he designed these movable bookshelves. we wanted to create a different kind of space like we use for the whole house like in and out so the idea of like you can close the. space and it becomes a room. the water corridor on the northern side of the building is not just for show the babbling sound of water creates a relaxing environment. and

in the summer the water cools the air acting as a natural air conditioner for the bedroom. the concrete the outer walls of the homes to longest side. it's a wall with holes in it but it shields inhabitants from both curious onlookers and the sign. this trying to move that way around it. to create. or outright be for experience is a different life experiences. architecture is about they gave of life. cyprus's climate and dreams projects is a big house make for a winning combination. well this week in our series we're visiting the best of

german christmas markets and this time we're in dresden in the eastern state of saxony at the oldest christmas market in the country that's the streets unmarked that dates back to the early fifteenth century all the names derived from their signature treat the stolen which is the buttery christmas cake that's chock full of all men's raisins and candied fruit and while there are many versions of it most will agree the taste is the best that money can buy. sex in the state capital dresden attracts tourists from around the world in december most of them flock to the christmas market the streets are marked in the city's baroque old town some two and a half million visitors come each year. is the best advice christmas market in germany the rest of the race. much of what sold at the market is from the

region. most importantly the stolen streets and in dresden which lends the market its name. at the center is the world's largest christmas pyramid handmade in the or mountains and there's something else that makes the streets a mark special. but there's no status germany's oldest christmas market dates back hundreds of years. in fourteen thirty for the saxon prince a lecture is fritters the second and sigesmund allowed a meat market in the run up to christmas so people could buy a roast for their feasts that became the streets unmarked the market is officially opened each year with a ceremonial slicing of the streets and and to spread this sweet christmas treat as far and wide as possible throughout the world dresden even has its own ambassador the dresden stolen girl.

i may offer you or the little ones a piece of stone and one of my friends. with the big one that. you like. so saying the beneath them. is thing is this thing something which only. it sure is stolen has the longest history of all german christmas treats it was first mentioned in a document in fourteen seventy four. and original dresden was stolen contains lots of butter and a variety of dried fruit like candide lemon and orange peel those last two ingredients are the subject of an anecdote related by tino geary an expert stolen baker who's making us an authentic dresden stolen. with

a bit outside in east germany during the eighty s. there were supply shortages playing in this case the use of green tomatoes to substitute for candid lemon peel it wasn't bad but even they tasted like the real in this piece make it support. nowadays these kinds of substitution is are strictly prohibited. but the basic ingredients have been established for centuries. and the society for the protection of dresden children make sure those guidelines are followed. but each of the one hundred thirty bakers and confectioners in the association is free to decide how and in what amounts the basic ingredients are used. usually according to old family recipes. the stolen must be made by hand however and the shape is the same for all of them according to legend the stolen is meant to symbolize the swaddled baby jesus. the calorie rich specialty can of course be found everywhere at the streets of mart and

at one bakery visitors can even watch the master bakers do their thing. is no stillman at this time of year one of the city's top attractions enjoys. yummy stuff up. coming off of that we'd like to what know once again what kind of food or goodies get you into the christmas spirit maybe some special christmas cookies or a putting with brandy sauce to let us know whatever it is and send us a picture and with a little bit of luck you might be the lucky winner off our backs wristwatch which is up for grabs once again so on that note all the best and thanks for watching but some this might choose to feed us the.

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