both. together you've come to knock somebody but the right to our correspondent he is incidentally is done well and you have our political force your studio we want you to do so why from berlin. to talk about the perspective closer to w. a good. welcome to the show from berlin a city that is celebrating german reunification this week we'll talk more about that during the shows that kick things off with a look at what's coming up. a symbol of change we look back on the historic moments of part democratic. against all odds we meet a blind eye toward conquest you know. out of the ordinary

french pop sensation craze aims to challenge. the third of october 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 mall and it's become the most symbolic landmark of this historic moment tomorrow 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 nowhere to be safe. the brandenburg gate hidden behind a photo that shows the moment the palin war felt 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 presidents my father 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 was. 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 that he's someone who always has exciting ideas given his major installation at the louvre or now in new york or two years ago at the rio olympics were of course thrilled that berlin has brought in someone like him or human forbid in the. 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 stance or maybe a wedding new baby

a big trip or your team winning the world copy been do you 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 link to our later pictures is on the website listed just below 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 after 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 developments and clever constructions that's the face of potsdamer platz today. traces of the past especially for lynch division have become rare. but lines of paving stones marked where the wall once stood and single sections of wall

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 they're making seventy wire here now it was very very different of course we went to. places we could see over the wall we could see that there is not something not going here in part summer parts so it's very interesting to come back forty seven years later to see. all the developments and more if you ask me i mean it's trial the that people have to go through to how freedom to have peace of mind the house the bit i don't know maybe it could be more . strongly the idea of bringing back a lot of what happened here because if you don't look at the wall you see like a completely different picture and maybe it's a that's a. potsdamer platz was already pulsating 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 democrats became part of the border zone a closely guarded death strip some three hundred meters wide in one nine hundred eighty nine just two days after the first parts of the wall fell and 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. this is. for target for roland horn was born in hannover but has lived in berlin since the one nine hundred eighty s. back then he kept a close eye on the developments. i live just two hundred meters away and i found it really exciting as well slander 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 sunday center. a building complex designed by german american architect. completed in the year two thousand it's still one of berlin's most spectacular structures that attracted international attention with the area a roof over the plaza that spans more than one hundred meters was installed. roland martin captured even 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 role i flex 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 and on my there 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 and then just let me be they so i was intensively studying and appreciating their work they let me do my thing you know only accepted it too as they got something out of it but also when you have an on going to peer you are popping up. the one. florence photos were published in structure in light his acclaimed coffee table book it shows people and their surroundings still the major theme of his work today. the sony center still retains its original name even though it's changed owners

several times since. just like other parts of potsdamer platz. the square remains a big draw especially for tourists who flock here day and night. to sony centers 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 eras a multiple events that shaped at berlin with many of the costumes and stories on display being true to life and coming from berlin has themselves. i john f. kennedy it sure big city hall. east german policeman conrad schumann leaping to freedom. singer nina. arthur is

going to address. 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 had lesser known figures like karl-heinz reached or 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 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. in january one nine hundred sixty five richard and a friend climbed up above the tracks at the british press a train station it was absolutely off limits to mr mix 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 when wrong when i fell off the train again after about two hundred meters or so. both ran to this point here over this fencing and down here. i jumped total adrenaline but it'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 rest me and then i was in jail. many stories like that one can be found in little big city. it covers an area of just

fifteen hundred square meters and has about six thousand residents. here visitors can experience berlinski checkered history custom designer keeley scudder in fashion the outfits for all the figures in a scale of one to twenty four. is going created on a computer that's always starts off with three so i create that's appropriate right age usually when it goes and has passed scope to props added jewelry shoes and after that it's three d. princes and then they are hand painted every single one of them is white and over by. 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. governed grew to love some of these figures. i love the eighteenth century i love the dancing because that really happened to me even up to that would go 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's 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 you have in our 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 the credo of

sustainable fashion. creations including a suit made from recycled nylon as well as handbags fashioned from imitation that. the first comprehensive retrospective of the works of peterborough nickleby elder 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 mist 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 the 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 as a kid 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 stuff with gold medals and a surfing club to his name this man has proven he can do anything if you want.

for a surfer riding the waves is nothing out of the ordinary but i told frances saying it is anything but ordinary spanish it is a something instructor and trains young people even though he can't see them or the waves at age fourteen francis and i lost the sight in his right eye view to how ready to recondition that a surfing accident left him completely blind yet despite these blows of freight 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 you know this is that little guy was just nothing i'm just here. and i thought francis amos still competes himself in twenty sixteen he represented spain at the world adaptive surfing championships and won the gold medal. which i would have 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 at the paris surfing world championships and others in. his daily life his guide dog helps him get around and his daughter visits him regularly. in the city and while training he has to rely on other sufferers they help him find where and when to catch the best way. i talk francis and 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 if i move away from the mountainous basque country school. and when i was little i was forbidden from surf. then the law 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 attempts at surfing. but the go short later we even had our own workshop on the beach for surf boards you have got so you know you are enough you know to me for me to know. i told princess in a 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. just see. it doesn't matter she sings dispelling all the cliches eloise which is 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 papa she calls it and doing away with stereotypes. leavings gone with the toughest job i had a very frustrating relationship and that if i had the impression that my partner couldn't deal with my strengths that you could fix the moment i'm not a little girl anymore looking to fit into society's expectations engine. the class was hitting home.

louise lee to see you still with long hair here became famous as christine in the queen's in two thousand and fourteen her first album show the main 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 kiss 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. 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 talks about this is that 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 his he has reinvented herself yet again emotional because when that first woman i feel i'm more me when i'm christine or chris i can never really be me when i introduced myself as louise i mean come on it will cost a cent but it's when i'm on stage that i'm most genuine there i can be afraid of vulnerable or strong i can be anything we see it for us 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 they were some abstract. type popular breeds of dogs that you probably didn't know had european places of origin. if living beggars look like the lions is no coincidence they were named after the southern german town of lindbergh whose christe features a lion according to legend the town's mayor heinrich who was also a dog breeder one of the pooch that would mimic the lion on the crest of the limburger was born. he's number five in our ranking of dog breeds named after european places. and. it 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. dog's biggest fan following seems to be in the united states. artists like them to some say their via mars most famous native sons and daughters even more famous than the poet 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 one once a 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. pups are born with a plain white coat but start developing spots from the age of ten days or so

they're said to of originated in what's now croatia on the adriatic coast. over the centuries dalmatians were quite. actionable. after all black and white never goes out of style. me and that is all we have five zero on the site says i but we will have more lifestyle coach available for you on all facebook page so do you join us that thanks gene ing into the show i will see you again tomorrow if i can after one. next time on. albanian chef laid out cola is one of the stars of european gourmet crazy are. now in the cone city of toronto is trying to revive interest in the traditional cuisine of albania. given the slow food philosophy. crying's the

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