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french pop sensation craze aims to challenge a cliché. a third of it is upon us it's a day a celebration a day that marks the unification of the former east and west germany the brandenburg gate used to be right on the ballet more and it's become the most symbolic landmark of this historic moment to mark the occasion this year there is a three day event happening with thousands of people expect to division the area bought in actual fact the gate as we know it is now at b.c. . the brandenburg gate hidden behind a photo that shows the moment the palin wall fell at large to a height of twenty five meters french street artist jr created the installation for the celebration of the twenty eighth day of german unity the ninth of november one

thousand nine hundred nine was the day that east german citizens were surprised to suddenly be allowed to travel to the west the photo was one of the few taken from the east german side at the time. and this is one of the most moving moments in my life and you can still bring me to tears thinking about it really it was fantastic yes that's my fat my father was here that night when the wall fell and crossed to the other side. and it's a wonderful story in our family and. it just bothers me that so many decades later you still hear eastern east germany. we have one germany with central northern southern western and also eastern parts of the country but people still always say east germany but. the art exhibition at the brandenburg gate is normal for jr larger than life photos on building facades of french artists' trademark.

he's even covered up the pyramid at the louvre in paris. for the event organizer in berlin he was the perfect fit. to play does projects around the world that confront us with our present situation or political climate he's someone who always has exciting ideas given his major installation of the louvre or now in new york or two years ago at the rio olympics were of course through the berlin has brought in someone like him or human for but. next year is the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall but the feelings from that moment in history are still moving the germans hearts and minds. as you just had reunification as a very. prominent moment in many germans lives there was a huge mix of emotions that day from joy to anxiety excitement to release and this week we're asking you what your most prominent moment in life was maybe something of similar political stars or maybe a wedding new baby

a big trip or your team winning the world copy been do send us photos of yourselves on that occasion and in doing so your name will be entered into the prize draw this week to when i watch the links elijah pictures is on the website listed just like thank you in advance for sharing with us now just south of the brandenburg gate there was an unusually wide stretch of the death strip off to the berlin wall was built the area became very barren at the time but now twenty years after it was reopened the location known as potsdamer platz is a billion hotspot. three office towers more or less extravagant development and clever constructions that's the face of pasta or plots today. traces of the past especially for lin's to vision have become rare. but lines of paving stones mark where the wall once stood and single sections of

law have been set up it's a way of making history come alive for locals and tourists. so we were here my wife and i were here and we're making seventy wire and now it was very very different of course we went to a lot of the places where we could see over the wall we could see that there is not somebody knocking here in hot summer pots so it's very interesting to come back forty seven years later to see. all the developments and more even if you ask me in a way to struggle that people have to go through to how freedom to have peace of mind the house and the i don't know maybe it could be more. strongly the idea of bringing back what what happened here because if you don't look at the wall you see like a completely different picture and maybe it's that's the. potsdamer platz was already posting with life back in the one nine hundred twenty s. . until its destruction in the second world war it was europe's busiest

intersection when the berlin wall went up in one nine hundred sixty one potsdamer platz became part of the border zone a closely guarded death strip some three hundred meters wide and nine hundred eighty nine just two days after the first parts of the wall fell sections came down here to people poured through the now open border. the complete reconstruction of hot summer fights began in one thousand nine hundred four and it quickly became europe's biggest construction site six years and four billion euros later the times are complex and the sony center forms a new city within. the city. photographer roland horne was born in hanover but he's lived in berlin since the one nine hundred eighty s. back then he kept a close eye on the developments. here i live just two hundred meters away and i found it really exciting this waste land and how individual segments developed what would become of them even then i wondered what should i do with

potsdamer platz. soon roland horne found his answer he document the installation of the roof on sun center. a building complex designed by german american architects. who completed in the year two thousand it's still one of berlin's most spectacular structures that attracted international attention when the area roof over the plaza that spans more than one hundred meters was installed. roland martin captured on film. we also don't want to be a challenge was to climb along with them i didn't climb much but i had my harness so i could hang on with one hand and use a medium format film camera my life like six thousand and eight a very good camera that's no longer made. but taking photos with one hand using a very heavy camera it wasn't so easy to put in

a few. foreign had just showed up without a photo permit back then you could get away with things like that. you lot of on damage there are people were very nice and it was great to work with them they were happy someone was paying attention to what they were doing and they posed a bit for the camera that was fun. at some point before men just let me be they so i was intensively studying and appreciating their work they let me do my thing you know i certainly accept it too as they got something out of it would offer when you have an on going to appear at your partner. the four. corners photos were published in structure in light is acclaimed coffee table book it shows people and their surroundings still the major theme of his work today. the sony center is still retains its original name even though it's changed owners

several times since. just like other parts of parts of our plots. the square remains a big draw especially for tourists who flock here day and night. the sunni center is transparent roof also remains an eye catcher after dark lighting up the berlin night with its ever changing colors. and if you want to get a better idea of how things used to be in the german capital then you can head to the minute to museum but the creative license the company a little big city reconstructed seven areas a multiple events that shaped berlin with many of the costumes and stories on display being true to life and coming from berlin has themselves. i john f. kennedy jr big city hall. east german policeman conrad schumann leaping to freedom . singer nina. arthur's winter

dress. temporary berliner david bowie. huge personalities in a tiny format a miniature world little big city berlin relates the history of germany's capital in seven epics. from its foundation in the middle ages. through industrialization and world war two to modern times the famous people depicted in the exhibition are not the only ones with personal stories to tell so have lesser known figures like karl-heinz rishta who tried to flee east germany when he was seventeen. the book plan of this little figure here is supposed to be me back in one thousand nine hundred sixty four when i severely injured myself trying to escape i broke both legs my right arm and some ribs that's why i'm part of this big city berlin exhibition. bits of you will you know all sterile.

in january one nine hundred sixty five richer and a friend climbed up above the tracks at the british press a train station it was absolutely off limits to east germans they were going to jump onto the moscow paris express which ran through east berlin to the west. by you for who are we climbed up a power line and i jumped onto the train as it. actually was crazy and in my case he went wrong where i fell off the train again after about two hundred meters so. both ran to this point here over this fencing and down here. i jumped turtle adrenaline but that's when you run for two hundred meters across a space where people can come. you don't stop to think one week later the security police were at my door to arrest me and then i was in jail. many stories like that one can be found in little big cities. it covers an area of just

fifteen hundred square meters and has about six thousand residents. here visitors can experience berlinski checkered history costume designer keeley skiver in fashion the outfits for all the figures in a scale of one to twenty four. is all created on computers i say we start off with three so i create that's played by tape usually when it goes and has passed sculpted props sajid jewelry shoes and after that it's three d. printing and then they are hand painted every single one of them says quite a lot of. a team of about thirty people in london model builders painters carpenters worked for more than a year and a half on the miniature city keeley's govern grew to love some of these figures. i love the eighteenth century i love it doesn't seem like it's that really happened to me even up to that would be more than just seeing what people are wearing in the

eighty's and how the fashions change between the west side and the east side is a really interesting. karl-heinz race there was released from prison after six months. in one thousand nine hundred eighty five he was allowed to leave east germany today age seventy two he's chosen to settle in the eastern part of the city again. he's a living part of berlin history. and the little big city can be found at the t.v. tower here in berlin talking now to find out what else is being going on around europe and how express round up of the day. stella mccartney envisions self-confident women sporting jumpsuits next spring and summer the british designer presented her new collection at paris fashion week on monday at the pentagon the opera house. mccartney remains true to her created love

sustainable fashion. creations in truth a suit made from recycled nylon as well as handbags fashioned from imitation that. the first comprehensive retrospective of the works of peterborough go be older is now in short vienna squints distortions machine and. just forty paintings by the dutch from the sounds painter survived. about thirty are now on display including the famous tower of babel paintings. the curators call the show a miracle many of the paintings are so fragile they've never been on display outside their home cities before. the first windsurfers in the world are facing off at the windsurf world cup in the north sea off the german island observed. with

a strong breeze blowing on monday these athletes enjoy ideal conditions for the free stuff competition to make the cut they need to impress with lightning fast turns high jumps and spectacular loops the largest windsurf event in the world continues through sunday. now the kit did you know what you wanted to do when you grow up or did you have a place in mind that you wanted to go a sport that you wanted to try out sometimes our dreams are not always so easy to reach especially if a physical condition. it is standing in the way but spain's i tore francis siena didn't let his visual impairment get in the way of his dream to surf with gold medals and the surfing club to his name this man has proven he can do anything if you want to. for

a surfer riding the waves is nothing out of the ordinary but i told francis cena is anything but ordinary a spaniard is a something instructor and trains young people even though he can't see them all the way. at age fourteen francis saying i lost the sight in his right eye due to how ready to recondition at a surfing accident left him completely blind yet despite these blows of fate he's never given up. i started out ok everyone says that it's not possible for a blind person to teach but there are many different kinds of instruction. and i try to make it possible. that the people i work with achieve great results so it's clear we're doing something right and though this is that little guy was talking real honest with you. and i thought francis saying that still compete him self in twenty sixteen he represented spain at the world adaptive surfing championships and won the gold medal we. wish i would have at the moment i mainly

focusing on training young surfers. and even if it looks like that would be impossible it works slowly but surely but i'm preparing myself for the competitions again not the ones i used to take part in but the paris surfing world championships and others and even if i don't know that i. mean his daily life his guide dog helps him get around and his daughter visits him regularly. and while training he has to rely on other sufferers they help him find where and when to catch the best way. i can francis saying that is used to people doubting his abilities it's been that way since he was a child even his own family initially had reservations. as you know from the mountainous basque country. and when i was little i was forbidden from surf. or they will said it was too dangerous but i absolutely want to do it

with me from iraq almost all of my in my family helped me in my first attempt and surfing. the go shoot later we even had our own workshop on the beach for surfboards you know that i said you know you don't know if you know me for me to know. i talk from sustain that is a role model for many. not just because he's never let his physical limitations keep him from pursuing his dreams but also because he passes on his knowledge and skills to young people. people in the public eye also influence younger people as well of course and one singer who has a strong message with her second album is chris of christine and the queen she sings about being a strong woman in control of herself and her body and being content with who she is

and what she has to offer with a huge focus on female empowerment and equality in the wild at the moment this album couldn't have come at a better time. it doesn't matter she sings dispelling all the cliches louise misses he is taking the charts by storm not just in france but in the us too. now known as chris she's all about queer pop as she calls it and doing away with stereotypes. and even so on which was told i had a very frustrating relationship often that if i had the impression that my partner couldn't deal with my strengths. i'm not a little girl anymore looking to fit into society's expectations engine. the class was.

louise lee to see still with long hair here became famous as christine in the queen's in two thousand and fourteen her first album sure look i mean went to the charts in several countries before that she was an actress who struggled with her sense of self until she got snow dry queens in london they encouraged her to start making music which i want to consume in the queens of the room that's when i founded christine and the queens to liberate myself. to allow myself to be who i am and not be ashamed. to take control of my sexuality and my body and it worked for you. she refuses to be penned down the singer goes back and forth between man and woman and not just in terms of looks she calls herself pansexual last month i said i want to talk about what women want what women desire. we're not just the ones being desired.

her current single girlfriend is well on its way to becoming a hit the music video references michael jack. and german choreographer pina bausch has chris and use that he says he has reinvented herself yet again it wasn't pleasant for some women i feel i'm more me when i'm christine or chris i can never really be me when i introduced myself as a reason i mean come on you get the sense but it's when i'm on stage that i'm most genuine there i can be afraid vulnerable or strong i can be anything we see at fox this that with. this french singer is conquering the music world not with feminine charm but simply by being just the way she is. sometimes showing your true self is the hardest thing to do for us humans but maybe not for animals dogs for example are renowned for genuinely showing their emotion a mass best friend is the subject of a high five today yes can you say five breeds of dogs that have roots in europe

well here are some abstract. five popular breeds of dogs that you probably didn't know had european places of origin. if you lay in burgers look like the lions is no coincidence they were named after the southern german town of lindbergh whose crest features a lion according to legend the town's mayor heinrich se who was also a dog breeder one of the pooch that would mimic the lion on the crest to lindbergh or was born. he's number five in our ranking of dog breeds named after european places. and. even has a monument dedicated to it in its medieval city of origin. people love photographing saint bernards with kegs around their necks but the dogs never rescued anyone with them. what's certain is that the dogs were bred to help

in mountain rescue operations but monks in the hospice of the great st bernard pass in the swiss alps are number four. soon became popular all over the world. but it's been decades since they were last used in rescue operations they're simply too big and too heavy. are number three in this week's ranking is the weimar runner this one thousand century breed is known for its hunting skills. the dog exudes an aristocratic air. after all it originated at the court of the grand duke of sex weimar our office which was based in this is. the dog's biggest fan following seems to be in the united states. artists like them to some say their weimar's most famous native sons and daughters even more famous than the poet go to

who lived and died there. come in second place in the wrong hands and if they're not well trained they can be lethal according to legend they were first bred by the romans to protect cattle against wild animals and robbers. this way of southern germany later use them to herd livestock and pull meat laden carts to market the dogs were named after the town of what once the center of livestock trading now the dogs have a scary reputation. and yet they're often as meek as lambs. all these breeds are old but not a patch on the dell nation are number one in the ranking they have been around for hundreds of years and pups are born with a plain white coat but start developing spots from the age of ten days or so

they're said to have originated in what's now croatia on the adriatic coast. over the centuries dalmatians work. actionable. after all black and white never goes out of style. and that is all we have five zero on the site says i but we will have more lifestyle coach available for you on off facebook page so you do join us that thanks for joining in to the show and we'll see you again tomorrow for one of. the . next time we're going to. albanian chef slater cola is one of the stars of european call me crazy. now in home city of toronto is trying to revive interest in the traditional cuisine of albania. even the slow food

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