major power in the middle east. europeans influence continues to grow politically economically and above all militarily. does iran truly want peace. with the countries of homes of their towns to isolate. iran from theocracy your original record stores august fifth on d w. i the welcome to another edition of your a max here's what we've got coming up for you today. dream destination discovering a european lifestyle on the caribbean something. lost from the promised sweden's

pag enslin thanks rob said evergreens on tour. and who's perfect photographing models with skill blemishes in color. first off we pack our bags and travel far away from the continent and this week series island dreams we're showcasing europe's most interesting islands and today takes us to the caribbean more specifically to the lesser antilles nowhere in the world britain france and the netherlands closer to the overseas territory of angua and the french dutch island of semi or sint mathen so let's take a closer look at this island hopping experience with a twist. the plane touches down in dutch territory but seven thousand kilometers from amsterdam

. this is sin to martin in the lesser antilles islands a sun worshippers paradox. since martin is part of the netherlands vacationers here can look forward to sun sand and duty free shopping. and they can pay an entry in geezers in peak season up to ten cruise ships a day dock at the island just beyond the deep water for travellers can get a taste of amsterdam the cheese the city. i always grew up with split of cheese on my sandwich with some jam for relational sweet assaulter good combination. hot sauce so that's where we also offer that sort of people taste a lot of people still want to come in. and they also knew it's hot sauce or cheese but why not try and they like it. shop sells fifty different types of

cheese. she grew up here and loves the diversity of cultural influences in the caribbean. this is not. the majority of st martin's population are descended from african slaves and dutch colonialists added to the mix are the french who've been sharing the island's ninety square kilometers with the dutch since sixteen forty. came here for salt because they needed salt for their herring industry so it was very important on preservation of foods and we were a goldmine of salt and the french also needed their own stores of salt so we have a salt pond on the front side of salt on a dutch side. they bought split even half in the side until it purposefully. from the dutch side to the french side the border is barely visible even from the air

the somewhat larger french side is called some nocturnal and unlike margin a real part of the european union. leaders. arrived eleven years ago she and her husband had originally set out to see the world on their sailboat but once they stopped off in some lockdown they knew they'd found a new home. and all our flour comes from france to our butter to my husband makes everything by hand with no artificial coloring but our baked goods are made only according to traditional recipe. i've been was to. the customers here are every bit as demanding as in paris the baker says and they pay in euro's. ministration here is french but how can i put it we have something caribbean in us to. just see.

the joy. this is the culture of the entity that's a blend of the caribbean and europe. that's a blend that elsewhere in the lesser antilles includes the british too just a twenty minute boat ride away is a population nearly fifteen thousand it's deserted beach is an excellent snorkelling make it a hot take on month travellers to this corner of europe in the caribbean. i never thought i'd walk we've all got. fired in on grid at the legal tender is the east caribbean dollar bearing a portrait of the queen today the former colony is a british overseas territory representatives of the crown take care of foreign financial and domestic security policies. there's a lot of cricket and there's

a lot of football on the island. there's a lot of. traditional british good morning good afternoon old fashion respect ladies wearing hats to church on a sunday a lot of that still exists. as does british food if fresh lobster doesn't tickle your palate traditional british roast beef and yorkshire pudding are available right on the beach. there. are clear links came to the island with their parents over thirty years ago. the way that we serve our food is almost like you eating at grandma's house the beef came out it's just we want you to be following this right from my beating up play a. british beef dutch beer and parisian style. under the caribbean sun.

so plenty of people from europe and around the world call those islands that home but we'd like to know what you'd take with you if you were cost away to an uninhabited desert island all alone with no multicultural crowd to keep you company sends a picture of yourself with you a luxury item that would brighten up your stay whether that's a person or an object just upload it to slash lifestyle where you can also find yesterday's installment of our series now we return to the european mainland and take to the skies in our euro max express. from around the world are in italy for this year's teano international balloon challenge cup. competing in total with one thousand bottles of local wine

up for grabs this is the fourth edition of the balloon challenge cup. lost in fifteen days it ends on the fifth. parents is testing cooling in public streets and squares are designed to give pedestrians some relief from the continuing heat wave the benches are connected to an underground system of pipes that convey water from the river sand buildings are also benefiting from the cooling system for the past few weeks many parts of europe have been sweltering under temperatures of thirty degrees celsius or more. forecasters expect more hot weather in the days to come. from producer are to a blown out turns one hundred years old on wednesday he was arguably the most influential figure in west germany as post-war sumo history founded in one nine

hundred forty six his production company released a series of big screen here. he also made a special commitment to films dealing with the holocaust and the nazi era. our gallery is to be held in our to a bronze honor on september the eighth. some music and the return of an iconic by the late eighty's and early ninety's the swedish pop duo rock set scored international hits with songs like it must have been love one half of the double act singer songwriter perry will be taking their biggest hits back onto the stage this time without his longstanding partner the frantic son following a successful battle with cancer her doctors advised against a tool but just as music lives on. it must have been like the speech in the movie pretty well

a lot has happened since then. must have been. this whole some will be taking a rock set on toll certainly without seeing frederick's on fans won't be disappointed sense. i think they're going to have a blast if they like rocks at songs because it's going to be lots of upset songs and rock set to release sixty two singles in our career and lots of them were hits and we're going to play lots of hits we're also going to play a few of the other songs i think it's. it's got a magic i'm sure hope so anyway. i get to know about pop success story to hail from scandinavia. sweetens biggest exporters of hit songs off the album.

healthy bank balance and a string of. mean pair kind of forward a relaxed approach to work these things he doesn't feel any pressure to match old successes. you know i don't at all i think it's every time of your life you know there is a season to everything you know and i can't really it will be that doesn't mean that i might not have a hit record in the in the future i might have that but it is not going to sound like the look you know because i look belongs tonight. so i don't feel any pressure and i think also the music industry in itself has changed so much since since we had our heydays you know we were. we worked our asses off for eight years you know ninety and eighty eight to ninety ninety five that was the hey. hey days of upset and that's a very long time eight years is just as long as long as the beatles existed you

know if the atheist. wrong with my re frederick song and parrot gessler were not successful thirty years off of the turn of the millennium away from the jewel school choose to put troops home for the us in two thousand and two singham are really frederick's long was diagnosed with a brain tumor. has always paid me the brands besides rucksacks and pursued a solo career. and. his latest album is jew parades in september. started out. as a swedish album in swedish. and the idea for that album came. because mary told me that she had to stop working with rocks at like in february

two thousand and sixteen. which was sad of course but it was expected at the same time you know what she worked overtime so to speak the last years we were upset. so i decided early on that the next project i'm going to do should be something very different from rocks at. him amory frederick suntanned sixty she's doing well given the circumstances but not well enough to go back on stage so she'll be rooting for pat and his solo of parents is away from the spotlight. well all of us here max and her very best wishes now we move on to photography and an artist came to examine beauty standards high the planet from cologne chooses the models for pictures based on their uniqueness portraits show children teens and adults that have birthmarks or pigment disorders in hopes to encourage people from

hiding so-called cosmetic flaws the result is a captivating photo series so we met her and one of the models for a look behind the scenes. one last look in the mirror and félix dawna is good to go. the young man takes care of his appearance in his case a somewhat distinctive appearance he was born with a port wine stain today he's in hiding primary studio to have some new photos taken with his face as the primary focus. for the past five years how to progress has been taking photos of people with genetic idiosyncrasies as she calls not so far she's recruited thirty subjects for the project each of them with a conspicuous facial feature and no qualms about displaying it in public.

takes was one of her first models. hired out to mr. hyder approached me back then on the subway i was waiting for my train and she came over and asked if i'd like to do some photos. she told me she was doing a series and found my stain interesting if this does yes madison meant it was the first time somebody wanted to take photos of it the few. you do often get people asking about it. whether it's a parent or a bruise from a fistfight or. they go bag of using bell does or in fact it's just excess blood vessels which is a good professor and it doesn't really bother me that woods west around three in a thousand people are born with a port wine stain or fire mark the capillary malformation is in most cases physically harmless nevertheless many parents decide to have their child stain removed félix drawn on a still has here's mine it's one hundred stomachs off. my parents took the advice

of a pediatrician and started the process of having it removed when i was four also. on meds since when i was maybe ten or twelve i said we didn't need to carry on but . and i'd rather have the stain than the laser treatment yet some people have tattoos and in my case i have a natural one on my face that was the height of prominent uses an analog camera and so it often takes a few days for her to tell how the photos have turned out she only touches up a photo when the negative has a scratch or a speck of dust on it this series she hopes will show how much appearances can define the individual and how they're perceived. was what i wanted to explore and what i found interesting was how frequently that one distinctive feature on someone's face now draws all the attention. because my series the woman with the stain on her face has become

a kind of synonym of the foam at the end it's about this woman with this stain and everything else is secondary and then there's the issue of how you deal with it when it's always visible. furnitures new photo will be set to a blue backdrop blue stands for serenity which is exactly what felix exudes in heider prime as photos. now we're back to the topic of music plenty of songs have been written about lovers and heartbreak but many are dedicated to a special place for instance over thirty thousand chews have been composed about new york which takes the on a as the most crooned about city in the world but of course european cities can claim a few serenades to. find european cities that you may feel did not know are featured in countless songs. many of the songs written in tribute to mainland

sight its beauty and glamour. but as well as being a fashion hub milan is also a center of music and home to two top soccer teams so plenty of reasons to sing its praises to god on a piece she needs. to do. with three thousand eight hundred fifty four songs it's number five on honest. germans either love but in all they hate it's. called. the bell in the say their city county beat but with six thousand two

hundred sixty seven songs berlin only ranks. rome the eternal city anyone who's been there long three times it has inspired many so. it's about its charm and its lifestyle blood all over elvis presley paid his own tribute song move on to. the telly and capital has racked up eleven thousand eight hundred fifty nine songs to date earning it their place in our rankings. but come. on next city has been

home to countless world famous bands and artists over the years it's little wonder then that there's some time spent lyrics about the place london born adele broke this tribute. down great. country born ed sheeran needed time for climate ties to the big city. and the in gus' means stranger. than. all. the british capital is featured in fourteen thousand eight hundred in five songs but that only makes it our runner up. not. melancholic and romantic it is pay off love to her

native paris as did jazz legend ella fitzgerald. love. number one with twenty thousand and seven songs is paris. the city of light is also the city of romance. one man even some the praises of a famous recent street. is a. cold as it is a. now bloggers have taken you tube by storm in the last few years with young creators using the platform to showcase their talents online but they're not all in their teens and twenty's folks who hails from the north german city of hamburg is a passionate chef and that eighty certainly well above the average age compared to

a contemporaries like any granny she has a round signature dishes as helps her out by holding the camera when she starts cooking in the kitchen including my absolute favorite going to. have. three minutes to go until monica folks begins her next you tube project. at the tender age of eighty. to make every mistake imaginable her son martin is helping out as assistant chef cameramen and director. yes. today we're making bubba good news an appetizer known as a maze and. in this case an eggplant puree from lebannon the preparation time is normally thirty minutes but today it'll probably take several hours from the looks pretty good.

that you have me and i was probably jabbering away and we had no sound time. that monica folks posted her first video online three months ago and the response has been overwhelming. contacted forms and there are comments such as i love you i want to marry you the way to a man's heart is through his stomach i've not had a single comment saying what's that old lady up to she can't cook that's something a dread. bowker was a smash hit her nine grandchildren also approved once they found out new month was this no that you knew until we suddenly blurted it out one day the whole family was shocked white martin of momo that's me it was a huge surprise and we were grinning from ear to ear. or and the on the tray good

comes from chicken breast with tomato congress ater liver pâté and apple crumble if you can conjure up any dish. is roman dialect ford jump into the mouth monica forks has been a passionate cook for decades every friday she invites strangers into our living room restaurant in hamburg she's always kept a recipe secret until now. so just with this fact i now present the award winning giants nissel dinner is served because. there are a couple of humdingers that i haven't been revealing people email me to ask when i'm doing such and such all in good time to come out. she shoots a new video every week. look at the difference. he doesn't michelle for you know when i'm worn out and have to carry my bones around in a bag and then i'll go back to writing and it's something i did for years with

a passion i did and you can do it lying down. on disk. but not yet with her cooking career far from over edition and there we got up and moved. an old classic a midget enemies dinner is served. well i have to take a closer look at that recipe online later you can also find plenty more your remarks online on our facebook and instagram pages d.w. your remarks that's all we have time for today but i'll see you tomorrow for another edition of your max featuring another paradise island a cleansing more european lifestyle and culture until then thanks for joining us by phone now. next time on your own minds. is a german computer scientist but he's become an internet sensation with his dance

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