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behind the scenes these are truths. exploitation corruption mafia style. a business worth billions but just how birth is the world of sports and reality. dirty starting june sixth t w. however want to welcome to another edition of euro max i'm your host meghan lee as always we have got a packed show in store for you so let's get right to it here's a look at what's coming up. far from home cuisines from sri lanka in the middle of berlin. fairytale island tending the exotic gardens on
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st michael's mount. and above the clouds learning to fly gyrocopter back. but we start of the show with a man who is considered an ambassador of the cello. like most of virtuous those he began playing at a very early age in his case at the age of four and a half and before long it was clear that he was a star talent and cap was so has a new album out and so we wanted to sit down and talk to him about it and how the cello has impacted his life. go to your cup you saw understands like few others how to get everything out of the cello this evening the french minister playing contemporary music by a chinese composer the philharmonie to poverty. i.
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his parents actually wanted him to play the violin. but that never came into question for him my parents gave me my first cello at four and a half. these first feeling was with the cello was. just magical from the beginning the first sound even if they're not nice you can feel the vibrations in all the body and this is very specific to the cello the cello is a kind of continuation of the body in a way. into the song is the star cellists current album in it he brings the versatility of his favorite entertainment to life.
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and the. distortion of this this new album it is on one hand. a collection of pieces that i love that i discovered many years ago some of them not so long ago some of the pieces are well known some others are not known and every piece for me reminds me specific souvenirs. a jury of music experts name the cello germany's instrument of the year twenty eighteen. it is the instrument of his life. those incredible they seized that's really like
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a. deep voice but but they also the cello can can go up and rise and sing the cello as also. became a very. dear to also instruments was not the case you know. one hundred years ago so i am very happy that. to share the cello as instrument of the. thirty six year old musician plays on a cello made by the seventeenth century venetian lute here mateo go from there who is famous for the high quality of his cellos the virtual so pardon me once played his instruments. very very special is from seven to no one. and it's it's also. you know when when when you touch the wood you can feel really the there he story of the chiller which is incredible it's like ours it's like it's like
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a painting so of course. the price of those instruments are very high and so but we we're lucky to be able to play on them. the prize winning cellist is. rarely at home in paris but he tries to spend as much time as he can with his two daughters and with his friends after all he's not just a music lover. i like good food i like good tease of course in france we're lucky to have fantastic cheese i love great wine also so i like to you know go to the cellar and choose a nice bottle of wine and you know mix it with was with great food and and organize dinner and yeah those those times i'm port and then i think it's important also for the music the music needs to breathe. and go to your cup you saw is himself a breath of fresh air for cello aficionados he is at one with his music as he
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graces the stages of the world with his prized cello. moving on now into a brief look at other stories making headlines on the culture thing. the sixteenth international architecture actually bishan or be in ali begins in bennett's on saturday this year's title is free space which the organizers say describes the generosity of spirit and a sense of humanity at the core of architecture sixty three countries are taking part with twenty eight hosting their own national pavilions on the b. and i grounds the others are scattered across the city the german for villian deals
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with the architectural consequences of the division of germany during the cold war . the french artist filippelli no one has mounted his. exhibition in germany. has. changed. exhibitions to. london zoo is currently home to an art installation comprising fifteen thousand plastic bottles base of waste aims to raise awareness of the growing threat of
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pollution from discarded plastic especially on the world's oceans the installation by artist nick wood shows the amount of bottles purchased every minute in britain alone. decided to support the huge sculptures due to the devastating effects of plastic waste on the animal world. orlando is a melting pot of cultures and some visitors to the city like it so much that they decided to stay and open restaurants here from indonesia and macedonian to thai you can get a taste of the world without having to leave the german capital and for our ongoing series fifty kitchens one city today we're going to try a popular curry dish from sri lanka. and some things i'm very german. germans place
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a lot of emphasis on. learn very quickly if you want to live here you have to learn about german qualities. decided to live into. many in one nine hundred seventy two when he came to britain as a tourist from sri lanka he was nineteen at the time a family friend adopted him which allowed him to stay permanently. studied to be a dental technician then in the early one nine hundred ninety s. he turned his hobby into a profession and opened his first restaurant in berlin it's quite spec district it was the first location in germany devoted to sri lankan cuisine. when i came to germany i started to cover myself when i invited friends over i cooked something nice like a whole some ball or a doll curry various things. and they all say
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wow you can really cook. why don't you open a restaurant in berlin. we'd all go to it would be. when you bitch about the starts of it and i actually did open his restaurant it was considered quite exotic few people here knew anything about sri lankan cuisine but then as a curious and many of them quickly became regular customers his idea of using organic products in the dishes was also well we see so well that he was able to open a second restaurant this country in nine hundred ninety seven. is a small island but a lot of coconuts grow there. so we use a lot of coconut milk in our dishes which makes them different. and when you spices differently too. we use a lot of smoked and roasted spices. that's something special.
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every dish that we make has its own typical taste. in sri lanka curry dish not the spice. his call robby curry uses not only the stem but also the leaves. there are hundreds of different ways to make curry using vegetables meat or fish curries are common in sri lankan cuisine. in this island country in southern asia people typically eat with their hands food is served luke warm or cold. traditional sri lankan dishes are usually spicy the spices used often have
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a medicinal effect. is one of the staple food stuffs it's served with every county. we have been in. we use these curry leaves. in every dish everyone. these curry leaves serve to detoxify the body. they have a very unusual taste they smell good and they're also very healthy you can buy them here in berlin but only in specialty stores. a lot of hard work went into making this city a country which means sunshine. richard starts with an hour she spent a year and a half renovating the former he tore down the walls and decorated the remaining ones together with an artist. the color yellow predominates symbolizing both the
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sun and curry. benches from old commuter trains. the restaurant is in princeton in the eastern part of the city it's an area that has undergone enormous changes since the fall of the wall in one thousand nine hundred nine. what was then a working class district has become a train the part of town. not only has the number of she cafe simply cheeks increased so have the reins. on compared to when i started here two decades ago. the difference is like night and day. back then the buildings were completely rundown and dilapidated. now they've all been modernized restored and spruced up never has changed completely these are the keys for the. future that's not to be done that
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she has spent more of his life in germany than in sri lanka the only thing he hasn't got used to is the german weather. i wrote about what a grand with a lot of the ground. there in a little has a dream job he's a gardener on the tidal island of st michael's mount in england now there you will find no noise and little stress in keeping with island life visitors can only walk there during low tide the island is located off of england's most southern coast and has long been an insider tip among holiday makers some three hundred thousand people visit their little castle and garden every year and we were among them. morning is always the most relaxing part of the day for derek little as he tends to
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his plants all alone he grew up on st michael's mount and has been assistant head gardener of the title and since two thousand. towering over the gardens is the priory church dating back to the twelfth century for over three hundred years it's been home to the same all been family were built up one of the most in chanting gardens in the country boasting in a ray of plants from around the world. thank you from the castles in the for the guns in the morning we just have a look around the gardens make sure there's no late still anything been left on the ground or even the gates open unlocked but yet today the weather's not so nice is nobody sunny here especially down here in cool but today we go along to see miss coming in and it's quite damp as you can see today which is you know lovely for the garden i've forgotten to do a bit of moisture has been a bit dry there's some of. the usual we get here.
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but nonetheless the plants are grateful for the mild summer rains as are its other inhabitants. the subtropical gardens off the coast of cornwall comprise between five and six hundred varieties of flowers bush's and shrubberies. just across the water on the mainland the days first visitors are waiting for the grounds to open or rather waiting for the tide to go out and free up the causeway. unless you can fly or you can pay for the boat service low tide is the only time you can get to and from the island. st michael's mount. was once a pilgrimage site and lives across the bay from the historic little town of penne zaentz. it's one of the region's most popular tourist attractions with around three
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hundred thousand visitors a year to the castle and gardens the micro climate here in the extreme southwest of england makes it possible to grow both domestic plants and thanks in part to some t.l.c. from the garden or varieties that are extremely exotic yes we do this one here we see everything in there chris the golly it's from self america is such a tree. normally gross about five metres six me just so this one's probably about forty or fifty years old you can see it's been grown in the wool. and specially elements we have here because the granite absorbs the heat and radiates heat out and leave name we've reflected launch off the sea which is of the gulf stream we call it a natural salt in the air and all these elements together just means that we can grow these usual plans when the gardens. a lot of visitors to the mountain come specifically to marvel at the floral extravaganza there and little devotes eight hours a day to his budding beauties each with its own individual needs
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a dream job in a dream location by the sea. she used to look down upon the gardens now and how special they are and i think the work in the gardens to me to live on the island is what is actually in your blood so you do really enjoy and this is you know you can get better office this if you like you know today we got a lovely clear day now that the rain stopped the sun's coming out you've got lovely views and the sea is a special place to work. and as the day comes to a close and visitors wade back to shore peace returns to st michael's mount and daring little has the gorgeous little gardener's paradise all to himself again. looks simply amazing now all this week we've been asking our viewers. when they like to give flowers now thirty seven percent of you said you get flowers as a thank you and thirty one percent said that you give flowers on birthday so thank
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you to all for taking part but as always there can always only be one winner of this week's draw and that is just plain there rico from new zealand so congratulations joslin you have one yourself and eggs gulu save your old max watch so enjoy. now with those people with dreams of flying they can fulfill them in northern germany by learning to fly a gyrocopter this is an open type of helicopter but apparently it is much easier to operate but one of the pilots will have to dig deep into their pockets because one hour of flying costs one hundred and seventy but after thirty hours of flight training gyrocopter pilots can take to the skies on their own. she made it john a markets and takes to the skies for the first time at the controls of a gyrocopter. this it was breathtaking beautiful to see live back from the air my always wanted to fly i think everyone has that desire to take to the skies.
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but before she could take the flying cabriolet out for a spin a new flight instructor band to show her the ropes even valve i'm very nervous i'm wondering what it will be like to fly a gyrocopter which is a process that. she first has to learn how to take the rotary plate has to reach two hundred revolutions a minute otherwise the gyrocopter will tilt. wheel for you hold down this but it's not ok just to hear you see the ribs on to here that's two hundred revolutions so i only have to press the button. and we'll be communicating minimum. the first to a dry run you on the markets and have to learn how to tilt the roto with the joystick. so thumbs up to release the rotor. click. on the signs up you do it both hands rolls that's right release chilled back.
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until forwards ease of of your life only pound on this movement you've got to remember the funky. the wrote a nice to be tilted for the wind to propel it forward you're not then release is the break and they're on. the spot in five perfect because it was a totally positive experience although it was too short of course i just forgot about everything else around me and enjoyed the moment i thought they were meant to last and. it costs one hundred seventy years an hour she'll have to have thirty
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letters before she can fly on her own she'd also have to pass a medical and the theory exams if all goes well she'll then get to the gyrocopter license. yet not. even expect too much of me he just said the most important thing is to stay calm and that's what we did and i felt safe the whole time with us you know. after forty five minutes yana who was studying medicine lands back safely on the ground. and i wasn't great i was it grows on you doesn't it it was wonderful ok if you have said that when i was up there i thought well there's enough doctors out there i'm going to be a pilot. and you can. didn't get much higher price than that for a first flying lesson. congratulations on your first flight.
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and this is going to need a doctor when she falls out of that thing all right moving on to expression is a painter and print maker auto dix now he was known for his harshly realistic and satirical depictions of german life during the one nine hundred twenty s. he captured the mood and the decadence of that time with a critical eye and now for the first time over three hundred of his works are on display in germany under one roof giving visitors a look back into another time. a building filled with works by auto dicks on four floors and in poor young for fans of expression and start but it's not just the sheer number and range of works that sets this exhibition apart. we have at least one work of art bell to dick's for each year from nine hundred twelve to nine hundred sixty nine i could see that so it's a truly comprehensive retrospective. if if you want
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a real introduction to autistics you have to come to chemists. was nuff cabinet. in two thousand and seven chemists came into possession of alfred gunson hauser's collection of german modernist art. now the dick's works in their collection have been joined by an additional sixty from the now deceased collector's inheritance they include sunday stroll painted in one thousand twenty two as well as works on paper which can rarely be shown in public and the tradition conveyed by the paperwork's cannot be put on permanent display they can only be exhibited under certain light conditions and for a limited time the staff so that means special exhibitions only. and here with four floors at our disposal we have the opportunity to show a large number of these paperworks and since i. lack sufficient men clearing out the entire museum gunson house or and putting the works by other artists into
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temporary storage three hundred times dix is both a tribute to the collections patron and to the departing director of chemists his art collection. is that of it's lovely for me to getting to put on such a marvelous exhibition of the almost twenty two years on the job. tomorrow or the plus we didn't have to get loans from any other collections because we already have everything in-house but the biggest ever auto dicks. exhibition is on in cam it's until early september. and with that we are out of time but join us tomorrow for our live show as always thanks for turning in big and soon. next time on your lacks the highlights of the week in full bloom using flowers as tasty colorful additions to meals with food service in denmark braved the cold for
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