so you just have to pump up the ball you. are going to. pop export the music magazine on w. . there on a warm welcome from our studios in berlin and heading into the weekend here's just a quick overview of today's top stories. marketing malani are cashing in on the u.s. first ladies slovenian group. london lights out yet festival returns to be dazzled the british capital. and head over heels celebrating me

upside down arch of basel on the eve of his eighteenth. well we are nearly one year into donald trump's presidency and it's been a tumultuous one not least for millennia trump 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. malani a trump as her very own star 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. it could have been the world in politics that they say 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 it is good press she is pretty as is expected of a first lady and what would be better about. trump is already a style icon for some and her ubiquitous sky high heels have even ignited heated public debate which is where this felt slipped out of the white house it was designed by slovenia's by a sham of a shoe factory and the money trumps hometown. zero. 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 for but. the company sent a complementary pack in milan issue signs to the white house. we didn't expect that she would. answer us back or anything just we wanted. to send the brasen because we are proud of her that piece from our city we actually grow up to gather. points of also profited from his move to the white house the magazine susie was founded in the spring of twenty sixteen when the us election campaign was really taking off. and as it was aboard the bus the real story is one of us live in the end cinderella who made it into the white house and is living the american dream. part of the battle

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 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 of millennia as well as social media and people from the u.s. fashion see one piece of facts first lady and many other regional products or it's part of the first lady brand based in mrs trump's hometown. the products have yet to sell like hotcakes. what makes this so special is a original recipe and dog good climate. it

will not only improve your looks. but also boost your performance at work. one of tourist attractions and is the town's hilltop the official say since melanie is rise to international fame visitor numbers have risen by thirty percent the council cafe serves up red wine with the for. the label apostle can be purchased in the gift shop for no less than twenty seven euros or ninety cents is it worth it. bouquet and fine flavor there is yes. it's really very good. counsel there's a painting by a local artist on display that offers a hopeful vision of bilateral times. slovenians are still waiting for millennia trying to return to her homeland are

some of the slovenian 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 on 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 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 night installations academia and on them they're showing how to turn light into art.

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 latin that everywhere is just a bite from the norm you know it doesn't have one side about it close to votes and that so many people out to come and say this. that's my special. down time london have been flocked to traffic to provide an expected two million visitors with unfettered access to the monumental projections like here piccadilly circus. and the royal college of on. the square at kings cross railway station looks like it's underwater. 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 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. a local residents are performing their own choreographies in various places across town two french artists have turned one of london's famous red telephone booths into an aquarium. britain has for me in those flying through the streets of chinatown as

a symbol of centuries of chinese immigration. bad and mike that has confidence but they they don't recognize birthdays they don't if they go where they need to go at the time that anything go and just have to see the parallels with human migration. physics has should not only look on and they're encouraged to take part here they produce lights and play music i see so in 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 and they're free and fair and then when you come along it looks like. any stand in the middle of that era and tie all this just engulfed

by vibrations. when you're actually flying on it you can feel that actual sounds in your ears a kind of hurts because it's quite loud but it's. amazing. 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 out in people if it is it is a quality between people because. when you come together here there's no language being spoken all kinds of people will come together or 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. that's the bit of light on that. dark winter evenings that the british capital in the night and.

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 pam africa for a typical nigerian dish. voted million mean so much to me but it's a great city on the friendly people with 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 other very different parts of africa. making a same goes a long nigeria is a big country in africa and well known. but we wanted to present at other sites and cultures of africa kenya dishes from kenya and east and our goal is not only to

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

retrain. after that franco young they opened a caesarean business and then a little while later his own restaurant pan african. this in this decision it seemed they would have a lot to do with identity as to africana as an african i serve my kind of that's already a hundred percent identity. device for example we were hiring the meat and an italian applied for a job by but i said not in a kitchen he can work here in the front but not in the kitchen because the kitchen the food for that's my identity. i be cushioned this is mine 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 innovative tarion variation.

ground melon seeds called a goosey length a 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. finishes thickened with c. much making it easier to eat because in nigeria people traditionally eat with their hands. as a side dish frank and young bay serves food from a paste made from jackets. given small. 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 more because the source is

so delicious and i don't want to stop the rest in mere by design as the it's. all a she missed him is awful. frank lives with his family in the southern neighborhood of. the district's oldest buildings can be found on the square his shop plots until nine hundred twelve michael was named fixed. in the eighteenth century it was also known as the human village because so many refugees from the humean live there. today the structures here have listed building status. the form of the community human. the cemetery is located right across the street from frank's restaurant pan-african. down much meant for hard hit mach three four or five years ago my wife said i should open up something you know i could i said know what suddenly come was just pulling my corn is what's really

wonderful annoy him is that when you go out on the street you hear french and on the other side of the street someone speaking spanish or english british spelling is really colorful and i like it that way it's. risky point those who get it. as a teenager frank and young days used to his parents and seven siblings he has a knack for whipping up scrumptious meals from just a few ingredients and since then has enjoyed honing his kind of very skills. today at the. nigerian special needs. goosey soup which i hope you will like eat have a nice meal. 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 are 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 vassalage says while there's the german artist who grew up in east germany started inverting his paintings in one nine hundred sixty nine his retrospective was performed by our teachers many of these images and it's his continued working with upside down imagery till the present day. it's written in the course others have produced but it's going to be 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 to the gimmick. but i think it's a great way to pay people that are unlike anything done in the past from your loss or unlike what others do for the group. over the course of a career that spanned six decades proselyte says wilson made a number of mostly monumental sculptures to be d.m. groups one of his most famous is on view in the garden or found out strong bias. helps him out basil it's his eightieth birthday the retrospective features some eighty paintings and ten sculptures on loan from around. european and u.s. are collections. oscillates co-curator the exhibition. but i was quite anxious before hand 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 and. i had a really bad and possibly

a guilty conscience. but now that the works are on the walls i have to say bravo to augusta was you so are. what will. at eighty gayle bassinets is among germany's oldest living artists is clearly enjoying the bounce surrounding his upcoming birthday but despite his commercial success he's maintained his ability for reinvention. everybody likes a show off everyone likes getting applause for it but of course subsides quickly and is discarded swiftly if it is conformist. gale bassinets was born hans-georg counting one thousand nine hundred thirty eight in the village of joy which inspired his ideas. by a lie in 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 hero's addresses the bombing records on his childhood village during world war two. 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. martin trying to cure rates of a show together with proselyte he dismisses rumors that oscillates 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 on it and that it will prove that if you flip a reproduction of these paintings around you'll notice that its composition falls

apart the picture only works upside down the built. in the new are in often called. oscillates his latest work is painted upside down of course are also on display he now focuses on the physical decline and the theme of finality he spends two hours a day working in his studio. we had 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 consulate's at eighty years of age the painter is as passionate about his art as ever and he still got plenty of fresh ideas. paris is famous for its many cemeteries the best known of which is the battle of shares cemetery where personalities such as doors lead singer jim morrison french

shelf and yeah it and the irish playwright oscar wilde found their final resting places along with. cemeteries it's a tourist attraction in its own right but there's one more worth mentioning because just outside of paris is the world's oldest place to lay your pooch to rest. very old for that they have perished but they're still cherished loyal animal companions. clementine eighteen years of joy sums up the life of this dog. to another the owners have to salute we miss you on its gravestone i. live by atos a plane cactus dates with him she lost in september. what i mean it helps me to come here it helps me to work through it all. just flash. this animal was one of the first to find its last resting place here and as we have

said the pet cemetery northwest of paris proudly calls itself the oldest in the world. its history goes back to eighteen ninety nine. then as now grieving animal owners are united in a wish to remain close to their deceased companions. by joy to cram all this up particular trait or social status that sets the audience apart showed pleasure old and young alike have their pets buried to watch the gravesite preserves their connection with their pet. some graves are men and women others troll. 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 and was buried with

a diamond studded collar sometimes did not for catch makes only as resort to unusual measures. in motion as 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 snoop. dog. and cats aren't the any animal companions in tuned in as me of success and some great sights are conceived to accommodate several generations including space for living. about 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 as the. next time on duramax the highlights edition a pair of alston free riders looking for the ultimate challenge. calorie delight said one of germany's first vegetarian restaurants were commission

on stock. and italy's mckayla day looking back at more than four decades of design success. and more next time on your own max highlights. move. on.

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a bio diversity. defect that the parliament was in to do the definitive test in the last five months on we are happy and political ideas present on science from all over the world to traditional knowledge if this is a dream for live music to make it seem it will help ease pain of. the projects i live on the coasts because i feel it's my duty to protect the area and that's why i bring my students here and the a.n.c. love nature as an ancient fish in. the forest credit is based on the traditional lifestyle of the people as a way of preserving environment for future generations out of that as a. global ideas on facebook or twitter and deliver. such length. they make a commitment. they find solutions. in stronger.

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this is g w news live from berlin the u.s. government shuts down on the very day president trump was hoping to celebrate his first year in power with the u.s. senate failing to agree on a new spending plan the republicans and democrats have been claiming each other will be asking how the shutdown will affect trump the u.s. and the outside world. also on the program turkish troops have stepped up their shelling of the syrian town of upbringing in a campaign against the kurdish militia to control the region despite washington's appeals for restraint turkey.