much of it. from africa. to exceptional stories and discussion. is easy to our website to debbie to tom smart because joining us on facebook. there in a warm welcome from our studios in berlin and heading into the weekend here's just a quick overview of today's top stories. cashing in on the u.s. first lady's slovenian room. london lights up to the moon yet the festival returns to be dazzled the british capital. and head over heels

celebrating the uk side down part of bjorn basel on the eve of his eightieth. oh we are nearly one year into donald trump's presidency and it's been a tumultuous one not least for millennia from the first lady at his side who was catapulted into an unrelenting limelight as a result of the slovenian born x. model was a huge source of pride in her native country at the time of inauguration and despite the fact that her ties to her country today are minimal many people there still hope the connection may bear some fruit. whether she's visiting a paris hospital the great wall of china. or a beijing zoo. on a state visit to france or in the role of white house gardener. along here trump has her very own style she's

a household name in her native slovenia though she hasn't returned to the country in fifteen years everyone has an opinion about the u.s. first lady the reason they're one of the best. beauty. in the world in politics that's a shame i don't see her performing as many administrative tasks as for example michelle obama obama was i think she refers to reno. mainly because breast is good press she is pretty as is expected of a first lady and what would be better about. a long year trump is already a style icon for some and her ubiquitous sky high heels have even ignited heated topic debate. where this felt slipped out of the white house it was designed by slovenia's. for a shoe factory in milan you trump's hometown second it's a. zero for the to cool down back when donald trump was campaigning

i wanted to design a high heeled pump but the capitana shoe factory didn't have the technology to produce that type of shoe. so i opted for the opposite a comfortable flipper made from natural materials from. the company sent a complementary pair in milan a shoe size to the white house. we didn't expect that she would. answers back or and i think just we wanted. to send the brasen because we are proud of her that he is from our city we actually grow up to gather slovenian tom points of also profited from milan has moved to the white house the magazine susie was founded in the spring of twenty sixteen but the us election campaign was really taking off. and as it was aboard the bus the real story is one of us live in me and cinderella who made it into the white house and is living the american dream. part of the part of the world but

there you go from being a nobody to suddenly being the most famous woman in the world. that is had a positive effect but all of the for the flu because some people have low self-esteem. but it's great for. stories about the money our circulation boosters even if no one has a direct line to the first lady sources are old school friends and their memories are millennia as well the social media and people from your ass fashion see one piece of fan salami named first lady and many other regional products it's part of the first lady brand based in mrs trump's hometown. the products have yet to sell my car cakes. what makes this so special is a original recipe. good climate. there

will not only improve your looks. but also boost your performance at work was. one of tourist attractions and is the town's hilltop castle officials say since melanie is rise to international fame visitor numbers have risen by thirty percent the council café serves up red wine with the first. the label bottle can be purchased in the gift shop for no less than twenty seven euros or ninety cents is it worth which. you can find flavor yes. it's really very good. in the council there's a painting by a local artist on perspiring that offers a hopeful vision of bilateral times. slovenians

are still waiting for millennia trying to return to her homeland are some of us living and president invited her trumps to the country for a visit according to media sources they accepted the invitation no official it's princess. and we will of course keep an eye on that story when the time comes oh now it's time for a little bit of light to fend off those nasty winter blues and one way to brighten things up is quite literally to light up the world so things like cities buildings and monuments in new and exciting ways and some of the final episode of our series we're in london where for four nights in a row the new never festival puts a shine on the british capital. london is radiant for four days the british capital is being bathed in colorful lights international artists are using the squares streets and buildings as the canvas for fifty eight light installations at gloomy and on the they're showing how to turn light into art.

off how to use the buildings next year or two years the lights and combination of the buildings is amazing i think that's what i love about london everywhere it's just a bite from the norm you know it doesn't happen so good about it close to votes and that so many people out to come and say this. is my special. launch costs of downtown london have been blocked to traffic to provide an expected two million visitors with unfettered access to the monumental productions like here at piccadilly circus. and the royal college of art. the square at kings cross railway station looks like it's under water. and the statues of westminster abbey with retraced contours are colored and projected on to the church with. helen marriage is the artistic director of live

near london she's been organizing art in public spaces since two thousand and five . i think technology has changed i think people's appetite has changed i think in a world where now everything we see is mediated through a screen you know a telephone or a tablet or a computer the something rather wonderful about inviting people to come out for real in the cold and dark and stand together and see things that are really tangible. but size isn't everything many small installation to service much attention like the umbrella project associations. says a local residents are performing their own choreographies in various places across town two french artists have turned one of numbers famous red telephone booths into an aquarium. djoko comparable house for me in those flying through the streets of chinatown as

a symbol of centuries of chinese immigration. and mike that has consonants but they they don't recognize birthdays they don't and they go where they need to go at the time that anything goes and just a visit of parallels with human migration. this is has should not only look on and they're encouraged to take part here they produce lights and play music by seesawing together. it's a similar story in the. this installation consists of one hundred million cubes that produce different sounds which in turn sets off the plane flights i like i make a sign you come along you can air a free and fair and then when you come along it looks like. any stand in the middle

of their entire well this just engulfed by vibrations. when you're actually flying on it you can feel that actual sounds in your ears it kind of hurts because it's quite loud but it's there mazes. and it is amazing michael davis designed the machine he wants to help spectators get over their inhibitions about making music and encourage them to just try playing. one really important thing that it brings on people it is is it is equality between people because. when you come together here there's no language being spoken all kinds of people will come together you know young people old people people with no common ground whatsoever and yet music gives people that common ground and i think that's why it's so valuable. the student of light on the. dark winter

evenings the british capital in light and come. all this week we wanted to know what brings light into your lives and we give out a big fax first of all to all of those who took the time to send us pictures like these ones here that you can see beside me great shots of all the good things in life from natural scenes to people's families and of course their beloved pets and the winning picture this time around was sent to us. from bogota in colombia and the light of her life is this little ballerina here under the tree and that is her daughter so martha is also the winner of our euro max wrist watch so congratulations to her and thanks to all of you for playing along. all right now to our series fifty kitchens one city which proves that berlin's ever growing

immigrant population has really upped the quality of the local color mary scene and this time we meet frank and younger of nigeria in his restaurant pal africa for a typical nigerian dish. voted million mean so much to me but it's a great city and the friendly people fantastic people on. board. and a passionate cook in his restaurant pan africa and young bay has been living out his color narry dream since twenty twelve. he calls his concept across africa because he says dishes not only from his home country nigeria but also from others very different parts of africa. need same goes a long nigeria is a big country in africa and well known. but we want to present at other sites and cultures of africa kenya dishes from kenya and beast and our goal is not only to

call for africans or christians we also get muslim guests to hilo because our meat is hollow in the muslim and of course we also have begun vegetarian customers and cater to them all. that. assembling a mix that's also the concept frank applied to the interior he drew inspiration from different regions of africa. one role for instance is covered with textiles and patterns typical of ghana nigeria egypt and other countries. frank was born in ben says he nigeria in one nine hundred seventy six. twenty three years later he moved to the ukrainian capital to study business management. in two thousand and one he joined his brother in berlin. he took the opportunity to

retrain. after that friend and young they opened a caesarean business and then a little while later his own restaurant pan african. there isn't a superstition it seemed they would have a lot to do with identity as to africana as an african i serve my kind of film that's already one hundred percent identity. device for example we were hiring and an italian applied for a job why but i said model the kitchen so he can work here in the front but not in the kitchen because the kitchen the food that's my identity. he smiled i don't. see is a traditional west african still you and the national dish of nigeria. it can be made with various kinds of meat with fish or individual tarion variation .

ground men and seeds called it goosie let the dish it's named and give it a slightly nutty flavor that. they can be bought in african grocery stores all substituted with pumpkin seeds. to do so as thickened with the see much making it easier to eat because in nigeria people traditionally eat with their hands. as a citation friend and youngest serves food for a paste made from jams. goosey i always remember how when i was small my mother gave me the nickname the mayor wants to call it that means i'm not fully yet i want no because the source is

so delicious and i don't want to stop the rest in the year. is so. awful. that. frank lives with his family in the southern neighborhood of. the district's oldest buildings can be found on the square his shop clocks until nine hundred twelve nocturne was named fixed. in the eighteenth century it was also known as a human village because so many refugees from the me and lived there. today the structures here have listed building status. the form of the human commune. the cemetery is located right across the street from frank's restaurant pan-african. down much metro hot. mach three four or five years ago my wife said i should open up something you know i could i said no but suddenly i was just telling me

what's really wonderful in noida is that when you go out on the street you hear french and on the other side of the street or someone speaking spanish or english british spelling is really colorful and i like it that way bill in its. own research point also. as a teenager frank and young days used to his parents and seven siblings he has a knack of looking up scrumptious meals from just a few ingredients and since then has enjoyed hunting his kind of merry scales. today i prefer. one journalist to shut me. goosey soup which i hope you will like eat have a nice neat. and if that's made you hungry then don't forget that you can find all of our fifty's keep fifty kitchens recipes online at www dot com slash fifty kitchens a petite. already the idea back in the one nine hundred seventy s.

to paint his portrait upside down made people look twice when they saw a work by basel it's today he's one of germany's leading contemporary artists and the second most expensive after his colleague got hot on january the twenty third he'll be celebrating his eightieth birthday a date the swiss for lesser known by allowed near basil took as its cue for a retrospective. the world isn't upside down but georg proselytizers world there's the german artist who grew up in east germany started inverting his paintings in one nine hundred sixty nine his retrospective at basil's performed by our teachers many of these images. has continued working with top side down imagery till the present day. eternity because others have the discovered i love the idea and i can hardly believe i invented it because i had this idea when i was totally

a moment with my peers or my competitors or to the gimmick. but i think it's a great way to paint pictures that are unlike anything done in the past from your loss or unlike what others do for. over the course of a career that spanned six decades proselyte says was i made a number of mostly monumental sculptures to be d.m. group one of his most famous is on view in the garden or found out soon by a. pal to mark prosecutors eightieth birthday the retrospective features some paintings and ten sculptures on loan from around. european and u.s. asked collection. oscillates co-curator the exhibition. that when. i was quite anxious beforehand i didn't know if all the artworks would live up to the expectations of this fantastic space in this fantastic museum with all these visitors movies and. i had a really bad and possibly

a guilty conscience. but now that the works are on the walls i have to say who bravo to give them was use our. wobble. at eighty gale bassinets is among germany's oldest living artists is clearly enjoying the bounce surrounding his upcoming birthday despite his commercial success he's maintained his ability for reinvention. everybody likes a show off everyone likes get to go close for it but of course subsides quickly and art is discarded swiftly if it is conformist and. gail bassinets was born hans-georg counting one thousand nine hundred thirty eight in the village of deutsche boss and it's which inspired his. own by a and showing some of his early works like break night down the drain from nine hundred sixty three which sparked

a scandal when it was first exhibited in west berlin the artist was taken to court and accused of showing pornography. is nine hundred sixty serious the heroes addresses the bombing right on his childhood village during world water. in one nine hundred sixty nine he began painting his subjects' upside down this has since become his trademark and it catapulted him to wealth by fact. martinez fonda curated the show together with vacillates he dismisses rumors that bastard secretly paints his works right side up and simply presents them upside down. it's been basel it's painted its motifs upside down from the very beginning and that is to prove that if you flip a reproduction of these paintings around you'll notice that its composition falls

apart if the picture only works upside down the built. in often called. oscillates his latest works painted upside down of course are also on his black he now focuses on the physical decline and the theme of finality he spends two hours a day working in his studio. good to do for water bar so course the smoke works out become so lost that i can't paint on the wall even the smallest drops trickle down i work on the ground on all fours and call her to call for. help oscillates added eighteen years of age the painter is asked passionate about his art is ever and he still got plenty of fresh ideas. paris is famous for its many cemeteries the best known of which is the cemetery where personalities such as doors lead singer jim morrison french schultz and yeah

it and the irish playwright oscar wilde found their final resting places along with . the last cemetery it's a tourist attraction in its own right but there's one more worth mentioning it has just outside of paris is the world's oldest place to lay your pooch to rest. very often. they have perished but they're still cherished loyal animal companions . eighteen years of joy sums up the life of this dog. to another the owners have chiseled we miss you on its gravestone at. livonia chose a plain plaque with dates for muggle him she lost in september. what so bad i mean it helps me to come here it helps me to work through a little. amount on just the lashes so. this animal was one of the first to find its last resting place here in as nest of say the pet cemetery northwest of paris

proudly calls itself the oldest in the world. its history goes back to one thousand nine hundred nine. then as now grieving animal owners are you know i said in they wish to remain close to their deceased companions. to cram all this out particular trait or social status that sets us apart showed pleasure old and young alike have their pets buried the graveside preserves their connection with their pet. some grapes are men and women others droll. each tells a story there's some celebrities here too like the german shepherd rin tin tin a film hero in the one nine hundred twenty s. controversial french also michel beck commemorated his dog. in twenty twelve robbers planted the grave of tipsy was buried with

a diamond studded color sometimes did not for catch makes only as resort to unusual measures. and in motion is a more play on dog owner who came to us with his architect and precise plans for a gravesite he wanted us to create what i do through. dog. for a living. well that does bring us to the end of this edition so we wish you all the best for a restful weekend chips the sun a smile on your feet. next time you're an actual highlight sedition a pair of ulster and free riders looking for the ultimate challenge. calendaring delights of one of germany's first vegetarian restaurants remission armstrong. and italy's mckayla day looking back at more than four decades of design success. and more next time on joram next highlights.

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