does iran truly want peace. the country's opponents have their doubts isolate. iran from congress. the power of august attacks on g.w. . i ever want to welcome to this special week of euro max we're taking to the road to visit europe's most beautiful cities here's a look at what's coming up. incomplete why barcelona's unfinished side gratify media is a tourist magnet. incomparable what makes the french class sunk so special.

and unexpected a unique way to see the hunger in capital budapest. all this week we're taking a closer look at europe's major tourist destinations including certain cities with interesting elements which make them stand out from the rest now to kick off the show we begin here at home in berlin with the infamous berlin wall now built in one thousand nine hundred sixty one this concrete barrier was both a physical and ideological symbol of the cold war between east and west it stood for over twenty eight years before it fell in november of one thousand nine hundred nine today the wall or rather the few bits that are left of it has become a tourist magnet installation artists yog to guard a c.z. and his digital panorama of the barrier gives visit visitors an actual feeling of what a divided berlin felt like back then. only

a few sections of the berlin wall remain the longest is the famous east side gallery. these dividing pieces are a reminder of the border that once divided by. paving stones marked the course the berlin wall once took across the city this chapter in history is still of particular interest to tourists. i think they could beat milan considering how historic it was like a really love he says of the world i think it should stand out. there needs to be. more appreciation of its historical significance. that's exactly what the three hundred sixty degree the wall hopes to achieve opens in twenty twelve visit is a transported back to the divided city to get a taste of life back there. they're surrounded by nine hundred eighty has been on a gray november day looking up from west to east there that. was music and various sound bites from the time help visitors feel how it was back then

. come. i still have goosebumps it's so hot you could never imagine it i mean you see the pictures on t.v. that this puts you right there in the middle of it i have to say i found it really fascinating stuff by as from saddam's fans for c.n.n. and it was really impressive in the room even gives you a sense of the historical background on. artist you had to go to c.c. took three and a half years to complete the image. of the we're standing five meters away from the wall looking over it towards the east we see people living there like they live anywhere else without being aware or at least consciously registering that they live right next to the bone and wall. trays life under the shadow of the wall. creating the right at me. there was more

important to him than being rigidly factual. he himself is a witness of the era. for years he lived in the section of the day that features in this kind of obama. almost everything here is from my own experience i didn't have to do any research it's all from memory. yet of course since he was born in vienna but grew up in for me is germany. in one nine hundred seventy s. he was deported to west berlin and lived near the border. the concrete wall was a part of his everyday life. he rebuilt his world from back then on a computer with drawings and countless photos he took using extras as subjects. parting out the sets heights creating the look of the time wasn't easy at all.

finding accessories to bring the euro back to life everything from the dilapidated buildings to the old chewing gum machines inside you have to be consistent. i returned with a visit to tallow was built a house that had a remix screen which is fifteen meters high and sixty meters wide. twenty fabric strips were printed and stapled together. both the logistical and financial demands were extremely high. def will be much the scale of this is problematic everything is enormous and costs a lot of money and as a solo artist you don't think it would be possible for bob but. his three hundred sixty degree panorama of the wall is a tribute to the psystar of her era the images reflect the banality of everyday life even under such bleak circumstances. the right of any and all people will leave here and say i stood next to the bell and war but the memory will be even stronger than the real thing. maybe they'll also reflect on how they did just have

something like that happen to them or they'll go home and think i already do have to adjust to my life in my job my private life and so on i think it opens up a lot of questions but maybe some answers to. the penner emma is sure to bring back memories to those who experienced it abided by and to give others a good idea of what it was like. moving on now to barcelona a popular tourist destination on the east coast of spain now the architect and artist antonio de left his mark all over the city and one of the most famous of his constructions is the unfinished roman catholic sagrada from me the church now it's anticipated completion to it is two thousand and twenty six he said in ten or a of galaxies deaf but if you go by the pace of construction so far it's anybody's guess if that goal will be achieved however what is standing now is just as

fascinating here's a closer look. at the basilica of the holy family gratify media is one of barcelona's best known landmarks. work has been in progress on the church designed by catalan architect antoni go deep for over one hundred thirty years. journey for only use the seventh architect to oversee the project since cody. he's been leading the work since two thousand and twelve and has been a member of the project team since one nine hundred ninety. you could say that i started here when that architect background jordi born a commission to me. so there were four of us background on it. because i thought it was you know. more than fifty i was working on the site. of the most that's when. when it's finished last about if i mean you will both like this. it will have eight

hundred spiers and three facades. oversaw his life's work for more than four decades until he was run over by a tram and killed in one nine hundred twenty six after his death architects from around the globe continue the project the foundation raised the funds the work is financed exclusively from donations and entrance fees neither the spanish government nor the catholic church provides money for the price. nevertheless each year around twenty five million euros is raised to finish out his creation. moment it will be but few of them give up a few of those up and know that i'm going to the start of this our daughter from you completely unconventional at. the studio pitch earch in parks is. part of the first part wasn't the foundation of the interior name. if you have seen stared he and his workers put up the facade of the holy birth as

a symbol of the afterlife sort of struck. by the photo. critics often point to the overloaded symbolism of the exterior. anyone who goes inside is surprised by how like the modern gothic style church seems. go d. was an intuitive architect his ideas often developed as he worked and he didn't leave behind blueprints for his successors. most will if you will. it would be our goal is to finish the project according to antoni gaudi these ideas as much as possible that's why we've got to study the few documents that he left behind in great detail to make his vision into reality just a few lucky. funny here is the most important site in barcelona and an important economic factor. more than three million tourists come to the catalan city each year to see the church it's

a pretty spectacular piece of aa and is evocative and we're just tossing through for the day say we have to come and see it while we were there we had to come and see what it was all about and if i think the cigar on a familia is a must for everyone who comes to spain especially if you're in barcelona i just because it's a landmark i think a lot of people come to barcelona just to see the cigarette of familia. views among the locals about the project differ the crowds of tourists who come to see the church have changed the neighborhood souvenir shops and kiosks have forced out businesses from around the church and there's another thing that worries the residents back when the building started the construction site was in the middle of the field now the surrounding area is completely built up and some of the buildings will have to be torn down to implement cody's original plans for the promenade in front of the main facade. you didn't do

this almost if you are going to feel good with the building it is so well known that of course people will have differing opinions about it. just to finish church with it's a team spires will be a fantastic overall i can assure you just by virtue of its different visual axes to be. the target date for finishing the project is twenty twenty six just in time for the one hundredth anniversary of county state but even in its unfinished state the church is already one of the best known buildings in europe. here's a fun fact for you apparently about twenty billion croissants are eaten around the globe each year but the best ones crispy and flaky on the outside and buttery and tender on the inside are only found in france so what is the secret to a really good cross song well in addition to tons of real butter

a lot of love and painstaking kneading work is involved now we met up with a prize winning baker to learn about this surprisingly sophisticated process. every wala the best car saw in paris maybe the whole world. it comes from one hundred pounds from our two k.'s award winning bakeries in alluded to him in the heart of the french capital. on if it was we want to show that our professional wants to be involved in the making of good course sauce. with my team and our back between eight hundred and nine hundred cars on sunday. he fought for his side to focus on a lot of fun i really love these course so they taste great because they make them the traditional way. of education for quality scraped so i come here not just for the car sauce but the bread to the car songs are so popular that they're usually sold out by lunch time. but what's the secret to making world

class car songs he said the ingredients. flour sugar and salt. add some powdered milk to sounds easy so far. then he adds some yeast. and mortar maybe perhaps the king. of all that of all your is really cold water that keeps the dull cool so the yeast doesn't start to rise. in just a few minutes based machine needs the ingredients into a uniform consistency. then the dough is divided formed into large bowls and then left to rest. now the bakers packed the dirt into the proper shape. and refrigerated for two hours.

then it's time to add premium quality batter. then a dose flattened until it's just a centimeter thick case how. it's supposed to look after once. covers the slab a bouncer completely with it. and then flatten it out again. this process gives the console its distinctive flaky texture the repeated rolling unfolding of video is known as nominating. well at the minute and now we finished the final stage at this point the pastry yes that is flakiest and composed of around thirty six different layers on this week probably. smarter mccants the triangle the job i have.

now i have to cool again. he takes at least one full day to make our songs the bakers roll the triangles into the proper shape. i think the moment it looks like a small eiffel tower. the individual layers of dough roll to perfection are now ready for the album. might spread and washed out special glass. because songs are baked at two hundred degree celsius for amount twenty minutes. marchmont says he's pounding the finished product but i want us this is an excellent course all you can see each individual layer even on the inside. and the butter has stayed on the inside

to. add on top of all that the head looks great and. operated from commodity. and one of the best. souls in order to see them all took eight years to. wow right now from the city of love and the best croissants to a place best known for its healing waters budapest hungary and capital situated on the danube river budapest is made up of the old city's buddha and pettish which are sprawled on either side of the river so it makes sense to see some of the city from the water and we did just that in a very unexpected way. trip on the danube with a difference not by boat but on a floating bus it's not unusual way to explore budapest. the trip starts off in the city center. the amphibious bus takes around

ninety minutes to complete its route at first the tour doesn't see much different from others in the city but this one has a surprise in store. this is this is a unique tour and because sometimes you're on land and other times you're out on the river. today. our first impression of budapest draws us down to the water. the banks of the danube here are part of a unesco world heritage site. but first the bus rolls past some of the city's principal historic monuments and sites like st stephen's basilica where alongside hungary and royalty and saints you'll find the final resting place of soccer legend fed ends push gosh. then it's back to the bus which now heads for the water even though that's what they paid for the passengers are a little nervous. to the audience the danube is pretty rough today i'm

a little anxious about whether the bus can deal with it hope we don't capsize. the high point of the trip is the splash down. the aisle to the dramatic strains of thus spake zarathustra the bus descends a long ramp into the water i'm past injuries heave a collective sigh of relief it really does float. along it's only a bull's eye on the bottom on land to drive just like a normal bus with six wheels on an engine out on the water it's like driving a giant jets. he just a little slower. out on the river new vistas open up. margaret island is a popular destination for daytrippers. it

was named after a fourteenth century hungary in princes her father kingvale of the fourth centuries daughter to a dominican convent on the island in gratitude for divine help during the war. margaret died there at the age of twenty eight. pm to be as bus cruises past the historic centers of the past and buddha district on opposite banks of the river . on the border side is hungary's largest building buddha castle. on the question side the country's parliament two hundred sixty eight meters long. modeled after westminster palace in london it was completed in one thousand know for. another institution dating back to the era when hungary was part of a powerful empire coffeehouses similar to those common in austria in the nineteenth century they could be found on practically every corner. some of the most historic

houses are still in use today like bowl in the center of historic pitched it opened in eight hundred fifty eight. in budapest we have and we had in the past and amazing africa. unfortunate thing during the colonies make it stick raised a little bit by. still really in la i can laughter good coffee how was it from every race they put could see next to each other and talking about life. then is back to the river for centuries the danube divided the two central parts of the city the first bridge connecting them was only completed in eighteen forty nine . to get them to fast. i believe the chain bridge was the first permanent bridge between pest and buddha deadbeats but the danube still plays the lead role in the development of honduras capital that we're now. told that. the floating bus slowly makes its way back to the ramp where it will return to dry land this unique

journey through the hungary and capital is one the passengers will remember for a long time to come. and finally gin also known as mother's ruin is as popular as ever in london where it has quite a history will back in the mid eighteenth century it was being consumed in such copious amounts that the government imposed a tax on it hoping to curb consumption well fast forward a couple of hundred years later in gin pubs are still very popular in the british capital and now the spirit is commanding a hefty price in some corners thanks to a new boutique culture. there's a new attraction amid the hustle and bustle of portobello road in west london is notting hill neighborhood it's the distillery a hot spot for the capital's favorite spirit g.m. . but you can do more than just drink yeah.

the house was opened by london's portobello road gin distillery. we want it to be a home for the brotherhood see we're also hope for jimmy london really so we've got a you're everything you could over it of this story of using to browse of specialized. especially gin shop as well for the if you were to stay right there distillery counter as well so yes your your would stop shop for all things jeered in the bar on the ground floor the hard stuff is stored in old wooden casks. while stands on the first floor the gin tonic a restaurant serves gin and tonic with more than one hundred sixty kinds of gin on offer from all over the world and these projects are literally on the. you know

especially as you read words of the killer spanish style so it's only copper serves the thinking is that you see a particular journey with a particular tarik of a particular garnish where all the flavors work together so we want to a wide array of regions fought for the spot in deference to spain's rather surprising first for the gin and tonic cocktail gin tanika also serves times in spain gin and tonic is usually in a company meant to a meal. who's probably quite big trends right now in terms of either cooking with gin or pairing specific dishes seafood dishes work really well so even when jane cured salmon i was really well and i think edgy. as an ingredient that's really well things like venice and the distillery isn't just a place to drink gin but to experience it in the cellar is a little museum the dutch prince william of orange first brought juniper spirits to

the british isles in the seventeenth century its popularity spread rapidly in the eighteenth century severe penalties were imposed to keep an epidemic of gin drinking within socially acceptable bounds. today's gin bears little resemblance to the cheap hooch of those days past visitors to the distilleries gin institute find out along with juniper up to one hundred fifty different flavorings and active ingredients may be added. here small groups can even brew their very own jean variety. even our workshops are often fully booked. it's quite hard to see because you get completely different experiences actually different levels on which she wants. the cat interacts with both the distillery on the team so if you really want to dance on really immersive experience you can get control of the pop in for a drink you have a shortage of food and just hang out with some friends there's a huge dog

a huge range of experiences all under one roof and all centered around it. can for guests who've had their fill of gin or the distillery has a boutique hotel on the top floor comfortable and yet close enough to reach for the next jam at their convenience. and with that we were up another edition of euro max i hope you are inspired by some of the destinations which we covered be sure to tune in tomorrow as our special continues that out in nature well for me and the rest of the crew here at the interview as always thanks for joining us and we're seeing again tomorrow. next time. special the way of st james in spain. from around the world. calendar a holiday in switzerland with a local project. done tourist summer local mafia stoniest biggest national park

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sarno just couldn't get this song out of his head. the colleges began searching for the source of these captivating sounds. and found them deep in the rain forest in central africa and the letter bullock was a valuable lesson with the only one thing they. did by their culture that he stayed. only a promise to his son made son only the jungle and return to the concrete and glass jungle but. the result reverse culture shock. the crews we. saw from the forest starts august not. w. .

this is deja vu news coming to you live from bali and a massive disaster with hundreds missing. under construction collapses and heavy rains caused billions of cubic metres of australia's water from the area authorities say seven people have been killed since i left home this really good line for the region and. also coming up at least sixty people have been killed by region fauna spreading the rapidly near athens the government has declared a state of imagine.