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clash between those who believe in the arranged marriage those who want to marry for love. but that's taking families and society to the core. my father will be angry sometimes and i think that. starts july heat d.w. . everyone along to another exciting edition of the show i'm your host make him lee from a star in the pop world to a long distance train ride we are covering lots of ground on today's show here's a look at what's coming up. sounds of success over our solaire is making
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a splash on the european pop scene. a sentimental journey discovering trans-siberian in style. and handyman patrick can is a sport stacking the world champion. we sort of to show with the largest art event this year in the u.k. the great exhibition of the north now over the next eighty days the northern english cities of newcastle and gateshead will host exhibitions and live performances highlights include a special eighty meter water sculpture while we checked out some of the attractions that await visitors. damien hirst's shop preserved in full mile high and john lennon's last piano objects associated with two artists who
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stand for the north of england in the city of newcastle and its neighboring town of gateshead the art of culture from the region is being celebrated in the great exhibition of the north it's a culmination of art show concept and street festival. the idea is to hold an eighty day celebration really showcasing the very best of northern design and innovation to actually show the world the contribution that nor the north and northerners has made in terms of some fantastic work yes in the past but more important was going on today and into the future. connected by seven bridges across the river time in newcastle and gateshead also share a common history as an industrial location this was the birthplace of stevenson's rockets the world's fastest steam locomotive in eighteen twenty nine another british icon connected with newcastle is charles l. gray the former prime minister also gave his name to. one more of the region's
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famous songs his pop star sting. indie band the maximo park also hails from newcastle they composed this song which acts as the soundtrack for a water sculpture specially for the festival. ah ha. ha now i think it's fantastic for newcastle i really really do what we to me get the that side of that. the towers being dead and now with electric and the people want to you know it's our chance to show the new couple up to the to the world i think the north east identity especially kind of gets a bit of a reputation for larry ness and maybe a little bit wild but i. security scene about music around here that i think maybe doesn't get praised as much as. the great exhibition of the north is also a festival that invites visitors to take an active top ten professional dances
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dispersed around the city help get people up and moving and not the main station folks can get in the band. chris sharkey has formed a group specifically for the occasion many members have never performed before some don't even plan instruments. the. locals also become part of the art it's a good idea of getting together a bunch of people around the idea i know over the course of the quite a short period of time building something completely new that has spirit and the way people in the area you know also something that's gone like this it's intrinsically walled in. another way to experience art in the city is to embark on a sound journey called iams participants pick up headphones and listen to music while walking along the banks of the time census recognize their location.
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and the music reflects their surroundings martin green composed and perform the piece. if you want to hear this piece of music you have to put all of them had bones and you have to walk past all the ports is the only way you can boss a day a record so that makes it different it makes it a kind of live experience. altogether some eighty exhibitions and installations spread around the region trying to convey an idea of what the north of england is like and most a freer chunk of. the northeast it is a large area it's a very. this area and what we're trying to capture through the exhibition is actually some of those questions what does it mean to be an old way just the old style as. you know the meaning of. we're not here to answer that question we
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also question and see how people respond to it. to formulate your own response just follow the festival slogan and get nor the full the end of the song. and staying on the fence act of our british graffiti artist banksy seems to be making his mark on the french capital several works attributed to him keep popping up in unexpected places more on that at the top of today's express. a piece of graffiti just covered in paris on monday is thought to be the work of the serious british street artist banksy it depicts a white hooded figure at the emergency exit of the product line that in two thousand and fifteen became a target in a series of terrorist attacks in paris. it's not yet been confirmed as a banksy but experts say it's likely the work is one of six pieces that emerged in
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paris over the weekend and have been attributed to the artist. actress diane kruger filmmaker. composer. could soon be helping to the song to windsor let it all stop the three germans are among nine hundred twenty eight people invited to join the academy of motion picture arts and sciences this year in a move to improve diversity on the voting power the new invitees come from fifty nine countries and their own call for the women including british actress stacy ridley and harry potter creators j.k. wrote. clean the planet is the theme of the twentieth porto carte. world festival cartoonists from all over the world creatively highlight the negative human impact on nature and the environment. this year the festival's top
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prize goes to croatian caricaturist. for his drawing of fisherman cleaning their catch in a washing machine because of the polluted sea water the festival runs until july twenty first. singer solaire has established himself in the pop scene in recent years and can now compete with such greats like a real. fun state now with his summer hit sofia so lehrer stormed the charts in several european countries his current single last into also has the potential to reach the charts while we met up with him at his recording studio here in berlin to hear about his successful career so far. on the go. busking is something i can no longer do in switzerland spain or italy without being recognised but he can in berlin from now. on though be than old
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going i don't know if i learn though. this is. a moment i can keep to myself it's as if nothing had ever happened and i'm still just me. what has happened is this song for example. in twenty six team sofia one of our oscillator twelve platinum disks and cemented his breakthrough. he's been living in berlin since twenty fifteen right now his brother is visiting. going to a german father and a spanish mother he had always been. captivated by his grandmother's piano he started playing when he was ten. when his family moved from barcelona to tokyo that also had a huge impact on his music. in
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japan i think i was able to overcome my fear of singing competition because karaoke is so commonplace that account on in europe sixteen year olds might go to clubs there they go and sing karaoke for five of us from one of coca. from karaoke to international stardom the twenty seven year old also gathers inspiration on his frequent travels. but in mexico i was in mexico many flew on the kind of wherever i go i'm a big fan of bringing back an instrument something local in colombia i bought a cool easier kind of flute i've always liked visiting places and bringing home instruments i've never seen before and it's going to be like i just can't. get his songs he also talks about himself. or at the waist is the first single
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off his second upcoming album. god when the. lyrics relate however or just can't do the one thing you'd expect of any self respecting spaniard to dance. that we this is the why can't we talk about insecurities because so many people have so many insecurity as it was we need a reality check here and i thought it was good to joke about myself and say hey everybody i called move my head i can tell everybody expects me to because i make spanish music by with my what i call. in the video dance is just fine but it took a lot of practice. became another hit in various countries around europe but alberto solaire hasn't let it go
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to his head you. will gather in photos of him president who you spent time with make some difference it's easy to get into unfamiliar situations where you wouldn't even realize you're acting weird then you need somebody else to say that wasn't cool that's not like you or why did you do. that simple you know. this is fun i have to feel like i won the. larry king. play for us on berlin streets more often. in our series this week all aboard we're exploring europe by train and today our journey takes us on part of the trans siberian route from yucca tandberg to moscow for those who like to combine culture with current events the route it takes passengers to the locations where some of the world cup soccer matches are currently being played so there is yet another reason to hop on board well the sars
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gold is a throwback to the soviet era but even after all these years a ride on it is still quite an adventure. katherine book is russia's fourth largest city it's near the birthplace of former president boris yeltsin and where the imperial romanov family was murdered in one thousand nine hundred eighteen the passengers aboard the sars gold train celebrate their arrival in europe to katherine book lies right on the border between europe and asia. over ten days and nights they've traveled all the way from beijing through the mongolian manchurian grassland and the city of tour past lake baikal and the siberian cities of your quotes and no verse of beers until they arrive here in your country book. they're not big the compartments are certainly plush a leftover from the soviet era when only high ranking party officials were allowed
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to travel on it. now patron and axel from hamburg get to enjoy this modest luxury they've already seen a lot on their journey and are happy to call the train home for now but a path to. get. out of even though i'm. told. to get a train doesn't for a five star luxury in your should expect a journey like that it's comfortable enough. time after two days you're used to it and you sleep well you joke about how when you're headed down the hallway to the restaurant car the whole train sways but it's funny. there are many different nationalities aboard the train. and this is my first. travel. i read the trance iberian fascinates people the world over with
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perhaps one exception. we travel through russia most of the route but there are. aren't a lot of russians here the trend siberian railway has a different meaning for them it's called siberia's lifeline more in the sense that it's simply a form of transportation he was it isn't. the trans iberian train links moscow to vladivostok in russia's far east it was constructed in the late one nine hundred century to transport wood or and other resources from industrially underdeveloped siberia in the west it was built bit by bit and completed in one thousand nine hundred sixteen. the roots stretches over many different time zones often to a guy ditmar a but has to remind passengers to adjust their watches and clocks to get over. the surface it will be passing through two time zones tonight so please remember to turn back your clocks by two hours. british come back traveling west on the
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trans-siberian train gains passengers five hours that doesn't sound like much but jet lag is inevitable. but there's certainly lots of time to enjoy the journey but why travel all this distance by train when flying would be much faster. you miss so much when you're on a plane and you don't get to interact with the culture quite as mightest the train seems that way where you can view it as close to the culture as possible as opposed to the people at one in either place you and phil see is where life is possible. this is the capital of the autonomy republic of tatarstan for centuries muslims christians and jews tartars and russians have lived here peacefully side by side as the city's impressive architecture shows. in the afternoon young students from cousins music school give a surprise concert for the passengers. the trains three restaurants serve
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a lot of fish but also meat potatoes and vegetables yet most fear is very laid back . i know it's great you don't have to worry about a thing everything runs smoothly it's so well organized yet. i think it will take many beautiful memories with us and we've met some great people it was worth it if you or. the last leg of the journey is across central russia after covering some eight thousand kilometers the train reaches its final destination here passengers get to take in the sights of the russian capital moscow. the end you will meeting of the goes the world heritage committee has opened and back again and in addition to natural heritage and cultural sites there's also a distinction for intangible cultural heritage now for our high five we've put together a few german traditions that have made that list so here are. five
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german traditions you probably didn't know belong to our cultural heritage. hundreds of them creators walked through the forest and little red riding-hood seen counter with the big bad wolf german fairy tales are known the world over before the brothers grimm began writing them down in the nineteenth century were cast on by word of mouth or fifth place goes to fairy tales telling them is still a popular pastime in germany they're said to foster the imagination and not just in children. they help bring new life into the world and witness little miracles every day with three years important it's not only in germany of course but here it became part of our cultural heritage and twenty sixteen we give it fourth place this priceless knowledge has been passed
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on from one generation to the next in special schools making sure healthy babies will continue to come into the world. ok battle of words each contestant has just a few minutes to make an impression with their texts before the audience votes although poetry slams originated in the united states they're very popular in germany as well and we give them third place on our list of any teachable german cultural heritage. after all poets and singers have engaged in verbal dunes here since the middle ages. the british aren't the only europeans with the tea culture in northern germany the east friesian are equally fond of the brew our second place goes to east friesian tea culture the tea is always made with proper tea leaves then poor over
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a piece of rock candy. finally cream is poured into the tea to form a cloud. east region tea culture. germans have loved this card game for more than two hundred years you need three players thirty two cards and a thick skin because scott is taken extremely seriously and has very strict rules is said to have originated between eighteen ten and eighteen twenty in the town of . nowadays it's part of german pub culture and our number one in the high five. the man in our next report is a record holder when it comes to placing objects on top of each other patrick can is a master stacker with a razor sharp concentration and priss and he's perfected the skill of stacking
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cubes or cups at lightning speed you can regularly take part in such tournaments and there's also develop some new tricks. let's see how he does it. his hands are his capital. dexterity and precision are his biggest strengths. when patrick can get his hands on something your eyes can barely keep up with him. and he might just a minute show when i touch something or encounter something new no matter what percent of i'm really ambitious and have to try it out. and then i have to be the best that he will. one of his favorite disciplines is solving rubik's cubes with fifty four squares in six colors the rubik's cube has countless possible configurations but kiran can solve the puzzle in just thirteen seconds even blindfolded he can do it in two and
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a half minutes. in twenty seventeen he broke the world record for underwater speed cubing solving six rubik's cubes in just two minutes. i do it are building up the rubik's cube led by lead with the first the lower left . in the middle left and then the board for you every step there's a sequence of the moves which you can memorize or look up on the internet you can learn to do this within an hour i think about. as if winning a speed cubing world record weren't enough karen is also a four time world champion in sports stacking stacking cork these cup stackers won thirty four medals at this year's world championship to be a top sports stocker requires good coordination and speed. was the you just can't stop training yours want to top your own time fight. the training improves concentration if you hollin is germany's fastest female speed stacker and one of
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the world's best she says the sport has also improved her performance in school. i finally said i see a sports stacking helps me concentrate better grades in german math improve greatly sometimes. the time when. they make it look easy but it's extremely tiring i think this whole stacking is exhausting both mentally and physically mentally because you have to concentrate on one thing for minutes or hours that's tarring and you really work up a sweat karen is an expert at knowing how things stack up he stacks dice as well as cups he says dice stacking is no magic trick it's a question of physics. for him to get these dice into the cups and swing them up here you need to create a centrifuge go force myself with the cockade have nangle i move over the dice when
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i do it with the second third and fourth dice they fall in the tower then i just have to put it down well and i've got a tile and i twisted. patrick cameron keeps developing new tricks and that's hard work here he balances a stack of sixteen dice separated by three playing cards though when he tries to flick the cards away thanks fall apart. but practice makes perfect. i can do that or that we've come to the end of the show before we go i want to let you in on this week's draw for an exclusive goodie bag of euro max souvenirs now euro max is turning fifteen and for this occasion we would like to know how you watch the program on t.v. or on your mobile device just go to our website and let us know and by doing so you
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qualify to win that bag of euro max goodies so now we're out of time for me and the rest of the crew here as always thanks for tuning in to see them tomorrow. but. next time on your own max. saunas iceland's first professional some. of the country's fierce waves of old comic island is a hawk to surface today with no emphasis on the hall and we all saw him come fairly feel his feet in these icy waters but that doesn't deter suffering in iceland next time on your own box.
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