it's the same point to social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption we can afford to stay silent when it comes to the fans of humans and see the microphones who have inside for their trust in us. my name is john paris and i work at the colony. everybody welcome back to your a max of the next half hour we'll whisk you through a whirlwind of european culture and lifestyle is what's coming up. fast

and furious speed riding is an extreme winter sports. under the skin contact tuesday and the bowls throughout the ages. and guess who the five statues of european celebrities that don't quite look the part. let's get off to a flying start with a dead evel sport called speed riding it's a unique activity that combines elements of kite surfing paragliding and steam i know it sounds quite difficult and dangerous but all i'm asking you to do is watch it because it looks quite stunning luckily one of its biggest proponents likes to create films of the spectacular speed riding adventures we caught up with the case in hawes a champion snowboarder who has spent over ten years developing his favorite adrenaline pumping activity. speed riding in the swiss alps gliding

over hill and dale with a special parachute and skiing down pristine slopes at more than one hundred kilometers an hour this is speed riding a combination of paragliding and skiing for swiss extreme athlete and multiple world champion overly cation holds it's the perfect sport if you go the feeling you get speed riding is incredible because of the combination you can ski off a cliff and suddenly you're in the air flying and below you can see the next slope so you swoop in and your back to skiing on this than to see them see fall. all you need is a pair of skis and an eight to ten square metre waiting to go off piste. to courts help steer the wing into the air and back onto the snow. but when he has been doing this for ten years three or four times a week. for

misses that i'd want to wheels most to me is that it lets me reinterpret free riding on muta rights i can tackle new mountains and be the first to make descents which wouldn't be possible otherwise the. only catch that holds was born to ski from an athletic family he grew up in the swiss alps now he's active in ten different types of sports including skydiving parachuting and skateboarding. he's been skiing since he was just three. he discovered snowboarding at the end of the one nine hundred eighty s. and went on to win fourteen world cup titles in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight he was the first snowboarder ever to win an olympic bronze medal in giant slalom at the winter games in nagano in two thousand and two thousand and one he won both world championships back to back it was free riding skiing or snowboarding on. off piste that brought him to speed writing in two thousand and six he was one

of its first pioneers. snowboarders as a snowboarder free riding on open terrain was always a big thing for me when i went to my final olympic competition in two thousand and six i wanted to concentrate on free riding from then on the writing courses but then i saw the first images of speed riding and i knew this is my saying this is my . in two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight only cashed in holds made a movie about speed writing his film play gravity shows the first speed writing dissents down the three swiss peaks mench and since then willie has also specialized in producing sports movies. when mr hu i'm not very good at not doing things if i see something i'd like to do i need to try it. speed writing is expensive but he highly recommends not scrimping

on equipment all told a good parachute costs about three thousand euros and high quality material is the only way to ensure a safe descent he says today he and his friend want to try out a new route they start about two thousand seven hundred meters up in the bernese out first they study the terrain and determine the route good preparation is vital . to get speed or obviously speed riding is dangerous if you have a quick wing it small so you can build up lots of speed but it's handling is sensitive if you manage it properly there's no problem but you really need to know yourself and your own limitations you need to know the weather conditions the mountain it then it's fire and tennis is absolute ok sounds simple enough but it's far from being a sport for the masses experts gauge there are only about six hundred speed riders worldwide.

to be driving at speed riding has really developed in the last ten years there was a little boom and lots of people got excited and joined but the noticed if you don't keep it up regularly it gets dangerous and so they lost interest today you have a core group of people who speed ride like make and do it really frequently writing so with the make it feel thought. it was a question holtz wants to continue developing the sport is landing in the shekel bear valley marks the discovery of yet another speed riding trail. now a quick roundup of what's happening around europe in our express today's topics take us across the continent from russia all the way to britain where we start off with the royal news. this week britain's princess charlotte started attending nursery school to mark the occasion kensington palace published two official photos on twitter they show the

two year old daughter of prince william and his wife catherine on her way to wilcox nursery school. the duchess of cambridge a talented amateur photographer is said to have taken both pictures herself. base here train is celebrating the two hundredth birthday of karl marx the philosopher economist and social critic was born in germany is oldest city on may the fifteen eighteen eighteen lived down for many years now a doppelganger guides visitors to important sites. including knox's birthplace and childhood home the puerto negro city gets. also erect a structure of mach's that was a gift from china. in early may and exhibition will pay tribute to his life

and work. in cure offs in northwestern russia norwegian musicians have performed a concert with instruments made of ice percussionist terry a song said organize the event he's been experimenting with ice instruments for more than two decades and has already recorded seven albums with them. each instrument is handmade on side using frozen water from the local like the musician says this gives the instruments a sound that's particularly. clear and distinct. we stay on the topic of ice now but the edible kind i'm talking of course about ice

cream for today's installment of our series ice cold we travel to italy the country that gave us gelato this particularly flavor some version of the frozen treat is as italian as pizza and spaghetti and in the city of belonging there's even a seat of higher education dedicated to the craft of making ice cream italian style the kind of p. johnny gelato university let's get a taste of this artistic delicacy which is enjoyed year round in italy. some ice cream parlor even in winter. temperatures.

university. students come here from around the world. attention is being paid to small confections. and. the hottest cool thing. filled with ice cream called. the german students. are one of the.

elsewhere in the laboratory. has made strawberry ice cream the key is to use enough sugar and few additional ingredients to ensure the strawberry flavor take center stage. museum shows the history of ice cream. more than two thousand years ago water. took the technique to sicily. yes the first written documentation for she launches from florence from italy in the second half of the sixteenth century. but at the end of the eighteenth century a lot of the talons emigrated to other european countries spreading digital art or culture with them. they were used by the scots and sold the ice cream in all the major european cities. initially ice cream was served in find

glassware the practical cardboard cups and edible cones were products of the twentieth century in the one nine hundred seventy s. ice cream served like this was popular. and always in demand as ice cream on a stick but what seems simple is actually a challenge to make. to minus thirty five degrees celsius well the chocolate coating is heated to thirty five degrees that's the only way to get the layers to stick together. of course you have to keep some pipes around us do the job to go back up the surface temperature gauge the stakes are sure of the minus eighteen. to make ice cream cake. mixes cream with chocolate ice cream he spreads the filling in a form then adds rensburg sauce and leaves a sponge cake is placed on top and the whole thing goes in the freezer. italian

families often serve these cakes to celebrate birthdays and weddings so the decoration is very important. the their sufferings at the gelato university are varied and there's constant innovation vegetable flavors are all the rage these days. at the moment there's beet ice cream on offer it's fresh healthy and typical of new flavors where the focus is not on sweetness for example parmesan cheese sometimes even not from cocteau. tomato also it really varies from me to cheat to even fish anything really ends can be transformed into gelato so this is what makes the feel of the jalopy extremely interesting. gelato started off as a sweet summer treat now it's making its way on to the savory menus in both cuisine . not all paintings belong in

a frame some people prefer using their bodies as a canvas getting symbols text or drawings inked into their skin the grassy museum of ethnography and lights it is currently showcasing the world of tattoos looking at both the pasta and present there's even an interactive element to the exhibition but not to worry this doesn't mean you have to get yourself tattooed when you visit just that you can show off your own body art to add to the collection. there a way to stand out from the crowd and more than just ornamental skin becomes a surface which reflects people's dreams and designs to reveals who someone is or who they want to be credited to use my tattoos are me they're also my dream and i dream to the maldives since i wake up early and there they are the fans will. tune piercing is the name of an exhibition mounted by like seats across

a museum fast knowledge of its director is passionate about bringing the realities of modern life into the museum. in recent years and i don't sense that we're in the twenty first century everything's changed we're living in a different society we all travel there's mass migration we have so much information on the internet so museums also have to become livelier here sure we have historical collections but what actually moves people today i think enough knowledge the museum is something extremely relevant for us it's a motive and it's wholly different was our. one in five people in germany now sport a tattoo in recent years more women and older people have been getting them once frowned upon tattoos have become a status symbol. that's all it's me i think i'm even tattoos have really become elements of our identity and that's what's so exciting about them people are

traveling a lot and so the idea is spreading but most importantly i think that today tattoos are a very personal phenomenon see you show me here. is your persona he's. not even a century ago tattoos branded people as belonging to the lower class. they were seen as the preserve of criminals and site has. been. gradually athletes and celebrities started to get them and show off their new body art. peaceful transcriptions and pain do play a role but not so much in the process of getting a tattoo. to mrs ted to be and for me getting tattooed is a kind of therapy. bazaar not of a child to gets me through a specific time i threw a tough time through an experience while keeping a bit of it with me when it's a record of my history things that were there but are over now my personality

develops with every tattoo. as can conceive of my own show of art on my body they're going to like to show off anyway and it's a way to hold on to memories and like a kind of diary huggable me. people have been getting tattoos for centuries in polynesia tattooing ceremonies or sacred rituals for maori men being king is done by hand it's about pain and overcoming it even entering a trance like state tattoos as records of people's life history their family tree that fact. the technology has progressed still tattoo artists in germany operates in a legal gray area there's no officially recognised training. so getting a tattoo can still be a risky business as well as a painful and exciting one. just

you have absolute doubt that's all part of it before each session when you look for it in the feeling of the pain as people describe it and also to the sound the sound of his tattoo machine upset i like the feeling til it's unpleasant in many places and you think to yourself why you my doing this out it just wouldn't be the same if you didn't feel the needle penetrating your skin or. a tattoo is something. and at last it's forever and maybe that's what people are craving something constant and fast changing want. want to know more about european lifestyle and culture visit euro max on facebook. you'll find highlights from our programmes. three hundred sixty degree videos of the most beautiful places in europe and snapshots taken by our reporters take an exclusive look behind the scenes at how the program is produced and follow us on facebook life. we do love it when fans

visit our facebook page and give us their feedback visit d w euro max on facebook. politicians artists celebrities many of them have had their features immortalized with an honorary statue or bust but sometimes things don't go to plan and you end up with something that looks nothing like you what do you do i suppose you just smile and wave after all it's literally set in stone. five european celebrities whose statues don't really look like them. is that a businessman and aristocrat a modern interpretation of beethoven in his younger years well he is a musician and his unlikeness can be found at this never pool airport named after him john lennon number five in our ranking of great stars with bad statues although

the work was deemed brilliant by the former beatles widow yoko ono. british singer shirley bassey has an amazing voice she's performed the theme songs for three james bond films earning the respect of fans and musicians alike ah but huge statue was arrested in her honor at cannot from castle in wales but is this really an honor fourth in our listing of strange star statues the goldfinger singer is said to have a heart of gold but there's a hole where her heart should be. about five hundred kilograms this statue is definitely heavier than the original star was and he was no lightweight but that's not the only difference between them or could you tell that this statue is supposed to represent the talian actor and swimmer bud spencer unveiled in budapest in november twenty seventeen it's number three on our

ranking of star statues that bear little resemblance not all of bud spencer's many fans are fans of the sculpture. says she keeps her model doing yoga on occasion that doesn't exactly sound like iron discipline so it's unlikely that she ever managed to strike this incredible. our number two is a solid eighteen carat go. sculpture worth some two million euros but most herself never posed for the sculptor and experienced yoga instructor did. this is just one of several statues which honor portugal's biggest soccer star his team right now madrid recently unveiled a new bust of him at the club's own museum. but this is the most infamous ronaldo statue it's our top pick for it's well meant but unsuccessful attempt to depict the

famous footballer the work was unveiled at christiana a no no madeira international airport in march of two thousand and seventeen and has been parodied ever since because it bears no resemblance to rinaldo whatsoever . as the unveiling ronaldo put on a brave face well he is a pro after all. the iran in the show we talks tattoos luckily this next artist uses nonpermanent paints molly's glinka is a body pains that recently she switched to a preferred canvas from humans to horses of course that brings all sorts of challenges with it not least the fact that they don't always hold still but the artist has the patience and skill to create beautiful works of art we caught up with to find out just how she does it. a touch of white here a dab of blue there monies blanka is

a body painter and usually she paints human bodies. is not you need to apply a completely different technique because of their coat it's not like painting on human skin i always need to brush in the direction the hair grows. on the holes the challenge is creating the right proportions so you can actually tell what i fainted . there madhubala the on tuesday from a high note in northwestern germany applies the same paints. she does on humans meant a person can stay still for five to six hours but a horse won't you really need to hurry to finish in time off an hour later the finishing touches that's lucky as four year old mash iran's patience is at an end to. a sweetie come down or your stars will be all crooked after you're almost done for a quick snack distract and concert down then she's ready for the other side.

sycophants all commission there's horse painting she's the stable manager that's wonderful yeah i can picture a photo of her hanging in the tack room for the others to see because i'm proud of it there's also certainly room for it at home. he said the body paintings molly's playing has started off with now she takes part in competitions and is often contracted for promotions. i am a bonnie painter and i do paint people and since i've always been writing and have owned horses since i was a kid one day i just got the idea to paint horses. morphia. plain and simple in bronze all with a motif by found all. three hours later and the painting for you as a gift and still is finally ready and molly's is ecstatic. these pictures

to see it like this i need another photo. it's such a great image i know the pictures are just incredible and it's so much fun. she's enjoying every second of it because soon all of cheyennes bright colors will be brushed away. just before we go there as it sounds the new to start of the new year with a nice gift from us to take part in our survey. and you could win an exclusive you're a max wrist watch or you need to do is visit our web site d w dot com slash lifestyle and share your new year's resolutions for twenty eight c. so we have time for the day to do join us again tomorrow our for now the. next time you're on your own max each year a new snow day which is filled and finished last land it takes twenty million kilos

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children disappear. this is day eight of the news coming to you live from berlin make or break talks here in germany as a deadline looms for parties trying to form a new government less than forty eight hours remain for uncle america's conservatives to strike a deal with their hoped for partners the social democrats failure could trigger a new election is also coming up mudslides in southern california lead at least

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