africa. stories about people different shaping their nation. and their continent of africa on the move the stories about motivational change makers taking their destinies into their new. d.w. t.v. series food for god. d.w. dot com or call. hello everyone welcome to the program and said what i hope is going to be a wonderful weekend for you all let's get this show on the road with a look at today's hot topics. mythical land how to be

a man made on the greek island of coffee. novelist's the know what i submission showcases on china from the world over. magical visits to the original sets about right on the shelves. now all we care we've been featuring european theme parks on the show yesterday it was disney and one of my favorite disney movies is the little mermaid i'm sure you've all had at the story well it seems i was not alone in dreaming of being a man made when i was little because on the northwest and greek island of corfu you can now take lessons in how to be a mate for real yes you can press on a synthetic tail go out into the sea and be at one with the water just like ariel in the movie. there have been

sightings humans with scaly tails and often gaudy colors frolicking in the mediterranean sea would that be mermaids coming back to be with us paula as these creatures are just mere mortals wearing funny gear. here on the greek island of course who they're attending classes on out to channel your inner mermaid their costume is made up of a professional mano fan and our mermaid tails ski and in just a few minutes any old human can be transformed into a mythical creature of the sea the fins are usually used for long distance or deep sea diving. sophia mishel upolu also practices what she calls aquatic therapy and that sometimes involves mermaid ing this evening our ever she's not working but just having fun with her friends mermaid ing in the classic way of doing our mating and it's become a big trend worldwide having the opportunity to mermaid in clear open water like we

have in cor for. it's our natural state is you know mermaids live in the scene they don't live in pools so it's the difference between being in an enclosed creek sure you know a creature that lives in its natural habitat it's about getting used to the sea we be friending the animals and not feeling alien to it and actually seeing the sea as a natural environment. the crystal clear water off core foods coast is the perfect medium for a mermaid ing romp. needs to be a mermaid means to be one with you it's a wonderful experience to be able to swim and still be submerged by the water there . it's study hall to describe the failing hoping i'm

a man swimming with the mourner of fame instead of two three separate. you have to change everything your side of swimming swimming on top of the water is a lot harder but as soon as you swim on the water it becomes a different thing altogether and because you suddenly feel like a fish it's for everybody glitter on our glitter. there's a mermaid inside us so. the ancient greeks dreamed up the figure of the mermaid back then they were called sirens and played a role in homer's odyssey they were dangerous luring sailors to their deaths with their enchanting songs but they shouldn't be confused with organs a different kind of monster as he had said they were the daughters of a sea guide a number of nineteenth century romantic artists who took quite a fancy to the scaly said dr since. the

little mermaid sitting on a rock in copenhagen may be the most famous of them all she stars in hans christian andersen fable of the same name it was in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine disney created the animated musical aerial to immortalize their mermaid tale. the motif is all over the place nowadays on merchandise clothes knickknacks. meanwhile back on course for sophia michelle up and also teaches underwater posing since mermaids and merman always want to look their best. she also holds classes for children. and even teenagers love it. it's legitimizing magic it's saying magic can happen. while at the same

time learning how to swim. and be healthy and fit and being in joy. it's a great combination. for some kids mermaid in can help them overcome a fear of water. and for anybody it can be a new way to experience his or her body. but there is more to it than that it's the mystery in our magic surrounding mermaids even when they have people think that memories don't exist bill but he knows maybe one day one of them will come up from the depths of the ocean as they. were that to come to pass it would probably be during the hours of dusk. maybe you can spot them here if you really try. we can that dream come back to reality now that let's move on to our express round

up to find out what's happening in the lifestyle news today. the nominees for this year's emmy awards were announced on thursday in los angeles among the nominees for best drama series is the hit british t.v. series the crown and british actress claire thought is queen elizabeth the second in the category of best actress. other european nominees included academy award winner penelope cruz as the mattel of s.r.t. . antonio banderas as public because so. and benedict cumberbatch as the drug addicted playboy patrick melrose in the mini series of the same name. the emmy awards so many will take place on september seventeenth in l.a. . a sculpture titled thrown by japanese artist kohei now what went on show in the louvre pyramid in paris on first day of the work was created is

specially for the world famous museum it's one of the highlights of the tribute to japanese art and culture to be celebrated by france's museums concert halls and theaters until march twenty ninth team as part of the japanese m twenty eight team the occasion is the one hundred sixtieth anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. on friday the borders can still involve opened an exhibition titled the playground project to trace the development of playgrounds from the nineteenth centuries and just real revolution to the present with such concepts as the play scape and the adventure playground design is the main emphasis of the exhibition included a place coaches from the late one nine hundred sixty s. by german designers going to bed sick the exhibition has been touring european city since twenty six and will remain involved until october the twenty eighth. the final of the football world cup in russia is fast approaching there are sixty

games behind us now and. in france of the two sayings through to the finals those playing with third place are also both european teams which everyone here at year max is very happy about but before the weekend a sport kicks off let's take a look back at the highlights and disappointments of the twenty first world cup championship. russia's run into the quarterfinals was its biggest football success story in decades sending the country into football fever the games were strong emotions in russian fans. including biting guests. two thousand and eighteen was russia's fairytale yeah sure and i are lost in the quarterfinals but it won fans hearts and us as well that gets them five goals.

latin american fans know how to get the party started whether they're from peru argentina or mexico they always outnumber the opposing team's fans. brazilians bought more than seventy thousand tickets. and these argentinian fans stayed even after their team lost the passionate latin americans get five bowls. germans have less cause for celebration the reigning world champions didn't even make it past the group stage of the tournament but they came to the last embarrassing and devastating for fans their poor performance gets only one bowl. of their moment of truth came soon after the world cup ended for messi and

cristiano ronaldo on the same day both in the first knockout round it shows one star player just isn't enough for a team to win this will probably be their last world cup the two football legends get just one. meanwhile france's young hero nineteen year old killian. pe has been showing football's big stars the moral high ground while messi and ronaldo have been wrapped up in tax scandals heat and i did this entire world cup salary to a nonprofit organization the young talent was a big as for. whether neatly parted paths and colorful bleached footballers don't step onto the pitch without carefully styled hair anymore. neymar from brazil even had to head dresses who changed his look for every game we feel less is more i need two goals for the

vang football. style he won the prize folks best looking at his last song from iceland. his instagram account went from having only a few thousand followers before his first game to an incredible one point three million. americans are especially in or of the icelandic man's beauty he was given sexy brick and five from us. this is the official welcome twenty eighteen song. you haven't heard this night ahead wait even though will smith wrapped in it. and. not enough to make you remember the song the boring chuen which no russia

connection gets one disappointed. we will remember that the fans and that cost you. around one and a half million people came to russia and almost everyone of all ages dressed up. their fight. and outfits brought so much life to the stadiums they're the real stars of the tournament for us we give fans are neck colorful costumes and amazing face paint top school. and well sport love as might be celebrating this weekend art lovers are celebrating too that's because this year marks the twentieth anniversary of the north art exhibition this summer event takes place in the small town of booneville story of nick kiel writeoff in the north of germany that's not enough though it's not

actually known as well in germany as it is internationally and over two hundred artists from fifty countries are excited to be displaying that works there until october. each year the nord art exhibition brings together art from around the world set against the backdrop of an historic buy and foundry exhibition takes visitors on an artistic journey across the globe. i want to sculptor your has participated in no doubt since. his works have been displayed here for twenty years and now for the first time he is the recipient of a north arts prize. if you ask your new. father i travel around the world and of seeing great appreciation for my work normally it's like there's a prophet as they say has you know won a in his own country and that's why i was so delighted to have received such an on

a year here so i mean surely a home treated. no doubt has held on ten heads of open land and twenty two thousand square metres and a former council for foundry. it's a place where diverse cultures come together to celebrate that similarities and their differences this year over two hundred artists from fifty different countries are represented what significance does north and have for the international art scene. and he'll become it's well known in china and australia as well as switzerland italy and england and i believe north art has established its worldwide significance perhaps even more so outside of germany it's learnt. that almost sounds like nord art and it's artists deserve more recognition inside germany. this year features a retrospective of works by sculptor young who died in two thousand and seventeen

the chair to an artist was a professor at the motives year's academy of art in the northern german city of kiel and your play card was one of the students what works just click out himself exhibit. b. so here as i rarely. those smaller works of life often only display larger works here displayed for bronzes here in the last three years or so. the fia if they will build a modern asli and with a natural material with a completely natural surface it's essentially material from the stone age and it holds up better than stainless steel it's a beautiful material and i really like it. not out of the country focus this year is on the czech republic and isp of aliens moto is on the borders of limitless ness and the future one thing about the future of no doubt is clear it will continue to display in training from all over the world. and on your max here we always aim to bring you

a range of lifestyle news from around europe including some wonderful recipes for you to try if you're looking for a sweet treat over the weekend that we have a recipe coming up now that you might find hard to resist it's a traditional strudel from slovenia and it's probably the most decadent strudel i've ever seen but it is very often enjoyed as one of the country's national debt crises. anya's capital look beyond. the banks of the look young needs a river aligned with restaurants and cafes. the cafe restaurant concentrates on regional speciality is from slipping years northeast. among them is the traditional deep i need some white cheese pastry familiar throughout the balkans. this version includes cooking apples chef your

sheets are closed prefers the h. the red variety you have often the people we create the whole apple with the peeling the curtain change the vitamins. concert cheese poppy seeds and finally grumble not salt water essential ingredients in the filling the basis is shawcross pastry and strudel that both can be bought in sheets ready made. dumbell of each of the cursor shape the poppy seed filling on to the pastry and strudel dark and spread it even marked with it but only on half of it as we have to repeat the step. then we go on our cream sauce and it's made of sour cream and eggs if the foundation is to dry then we have to use more. but as the planning maslow now we spoon melted butter over it. and now comes the next layer of short crossed and religion that got the stuff then it's time for the cottage cheese dressing. that has to be spread evenly as well with some cream sauce goes on top that comes

the next layer of pastry and already now it's time for the almost filling with another sugar more sour cream sauces drizzled over that. and finally the great apple is spread on top of the next lap of pastry and. will be our book on the once again drizzle mandation with the south korean source and. model for thirty repeat all the layers in the same order and of you know alternating with poppy thanks a lot of cheese wal-mart and outlets. so the thing is topped off with some cream sauce. and now of course now the given eats and goes on the because. you can eat the fake it for an hour and a half and a hundred sixty two hundred ninety degree celsius. slovenian has a fruity juicy flavor and it's rich enough to almost service

a full meal the traditional desired from the pragmatic your region in slovenia's northeastern tip has spread throughout the republic and beyond. what i need now is the magic to bring that right here in the studio maybe harry potter get help what if that's where we're off to now the harry potter experience is base just outside of london and allows visitors to amass themselves in the story you can walk around whole walks creep through the forbidden forest if you dare and even try out a magic want one of other studios produced eight harry potter films in toto and although the last one was eight years ago now tickets for the experience are still high on demand. if. there's some hocus pocus going on at hogwarts muggles are writing broomsticks. even

non-magical beings can enter the world of the harry potter films on the making of harry potter tour at warner brothers studios near london. here you can encounter the spiders from harry potter and the chamber of secrets and in the forbidden forest exhibit visitors remove harry's frightening experience. it's pretty spectacular out of the spotlight to get a chance to speak like that so far as that part of the site's exciting i like to sweet feel like i'm in a bar at this it's really impressive i mean the scale of it is when you're inside it's a little creepy but in a good way that. once the films were completed the forbidden forest was put in storage but now visitors can experience the set for themselves with its huge trees

and electronically controlled animals they can even control the weather conditions just like the filmmakers didn't. tour guides explain how the forest was recreated in the studio and how the special effects work. with the challenge was to be able to create a real life forest something that looks photo realistic in the confines of us sound studio i guess so we had all the original crew from the set so we. was a poll has a construction manager and i was up to them to be able to get all the same techniques all the same materials that i would use for filming as well yes such as you know the trays to be able to get real loads of real trays make it look as realistic as it would look in a world far step. visitors get to discover hogwarts just the way harry potter did when he first arrived at the school and. doors to the great hall opened. as many as five thousand people come to the warner brothers studios for the harry potter experience each day. so we get absolutely

every kind of his new commission we get you know everyone from the biggest hard part of fans in the wilds so you know maybe more casual hard part of fans who i guess big fans of cinema and big fans of films and they want to know i guess how stuff was created and all the behind the scenes secrets so it's really interesting to talk to a very big variety of people was to kind of what they are interested in i guess to do with films. the hunger to express stands ready to depart on platform nine and three quarters. is then a love potion brewing the studio tour leads visitors down diagram alley the wizarding shopping street. all the way to number four privet drive where harry lived with the durst lease the tour makers had a wealth of materials at their disposal. to every set every prop ever costing you say is from old light hearted potter films the main reason being that as the

films went along with put a lot of stuff in archives just in case we would need it later so i guess one of us felt that we'll be able to make a really cool exhibit from these facts i guess. but not everything is just for show visitors are allowed to touch things and try stuff out to one of the highlights is getting a lesson in how to wave a magic wand. it's an inch in to new experience and not just for kids. it's so i don't shocking and really stick to and i i feel that time. inside you cited the movie harry potter is close to my heart. now it's embarrassing less than both of us being here it's nearly the theme of the films were part of my childhood terry i do. up with theories so the time was right to come here and i just had to do it as well as an odds must have. been years after the films were made fans are still thrilled to get

a look behind the scenes and although it is still strictly off limits to hogwarts students fans can take a walk through the forbidden forest if they dare. and the whole experience and there is an adventure thing pollock's this week but the competition is still running for another two weeks yes you can send us a picture of yourself or your favorite emmys park in your name will be entered into a prize draw to win our year imax what she can see all of the details on the link to submit your paycheck is on our website any issues you may have had any of this week napping kid up so do you send them and best of luck to you all and i'll see you next time on your macs for now though from all of the team here in the studio. next time on zero max the whole night show. the greek national drink is made.

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