became a story about lucy. and those two go. when paul came over the series from cameroon to berlin and starts oct fourth on t.w. . welcomes us are from berlin a city that is celebrating german reunification this week well tell 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 apart from the cracks. again so long as we meet a blind surfer i tore francis you know. out of the ordinary

french pop sensation chris thanks to chomsky shades. 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 more and it's become the most symbolic landmark of this historic moment to mark the occasion this year there's a three day event happening with thousands of people expect to do business the area bought in actual fact the gate as we know it is nowhere to be seen. the brandenburg gate hidden behind a photo that shows the moment the palin war fell in 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 is one of the few taken from the east german side at the time. that. 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 president's wife 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 most of. 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. we does projects around the world that confront us with our present situation or political climate but 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 we're of course thrilled that berlin has brought in someone like him 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 few. 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 win your i max watch the links l.a. to 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 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 we're making certainly wire here and now it was very very different of course we went to. the places where we can see over the wall we can see that there is not somebody knocking here in parts some are far too it's very interesting to come back forty seven years later to see. all the developments on the way home you feel as if i mean it's trial the that people have the good truth to how. to have peace of mind the house that they would say 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 that simple. 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 two people portugal 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 dimer complex and the sony center forms a new city with. in the city. we're talking for 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 wasteland and how individual segments developed what would become of them even then i wondered what should i do with potsdamer

platz. muffin if you can pop them up let's. assume roland horn found his answer he document the installation of the roof on sun center. a building complex designed by german american architect. to be completed in the year two thousand it's still one of berlin's most spectacular structures that attracted international attention when the every 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 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 raw lifelike 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 live 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 men 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 would offer when you have an on going to peer. up. give us the phone. photos were published in structure and light his acclaimed coffee table book it shows people and their surroundings still the major theme of his work today. but the sony center is 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. the sony center's 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 a chain of big city hall. east german policeman conrad schumann leaping to freedom . singer nina. arthur is going to

address. temporary berliner david bowie's. 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 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. so the balloon all struggle. in january

one nine hundred sixty five richer and a friend climbed up above the tracks of 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 with no two for buy you for poor we climbed up a power line and i jumped onto the train as it launched actually was crazy and in my case when wrong. i fell off the train again after about two hundred meters so a lot this goes around 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 gun you down 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 city. it covers an area of

just fifteen hundred square meters and has about six thousand friends didn't. hear visitors can experience berlin's checkered history custom design or healy's govern fashion the outfits for all the figures in the scale of one to twenty four. is located on computers and so starts off with three so i create that's why i take usually panick gaze and has passed sculpted props sajid jewelry she's after that's it's three d. princes and they are hand painted and every single one of them is quite over. a team of about thirty people in london model builders painters carpenters worked for more than a year and a half on the many of. city. grew to love some of these figures. i left the eighteenth century i left it down because that we haven't even up to that would do more than just see what people were wearing in the eighty's and how

the fashions changed 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 time now to find out what else is being going on around europe and our expressed round up of the day. stella mccartney envision self-confident women sporting jumpsuits next spring and some of the british designer presented her new collection of paris fashion week on monday at the pentagon the opera house. mccartney remains true to the credo of sustainable

fashion. creations in a suit made from recycled nylon as well as handbags question from imitation that. the first comprehensive retrospective of the works of peter bright gold the older is now in short vienna squints distortions museum. 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 windsurfer world cup in the north sea off the german island of zips. 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 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 or a sport that you wanted to try out sometimes our dreams are not always so easy to reach especially if a physical condition. is standing in the way but spain's i tore francis sina 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 you can do anything if you want. for a surfer riding the waves is nothing out of the ordinary but i told francis cena is

anything but ordinary the spaniard is a something instructor and trains young people even though he can't see them all the way. at age fourteen francis a man lost the sight in his right eye due to a hereditary condition that 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 though this is that little guy was just talking to you i was the hero. and i thought friends are saying i still compete him self and twenty sixteen he represented spain at the world adaptive surfing championships and won the gold medal we. were showered 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 will know even if i don't know a party. 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 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 for. him i don't know if i'm a boy from the mountainous basque country. and when i was little i was forbidden from surf. or will said it was too dangerous but i absolutely want to do it

with me from iraq almost all of my in my family helps me in my first attempt and surfing on. the go sure later we even had our own workshop on the beach for surfboards a year ago so you know you don't know if you know me for me to know. i talk from sustain it 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 baby

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 eloise lit says 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. needing to go on with life was told i had a very frustrating relationship. with whom i had the impression that my partner couldn't deal with my strengths. to fix the moment i'm not a little girl anymore looking to fit into society's expectations engine. that class was hitting home.

louise wait to see you 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 view that's when i found it 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 jackson and german choreographer pina bausch as chris and use that he says he has reinvented herself yet again washing up with women 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 louise i mean come on with my kid 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 this that with. this french singer it's 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 it's 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 there are some abstract. five popular breeds of dogs that you probably didn't know had european places of origin. here flame burgers look like the lions is no coincidence they were named after the southern german town barrack whose crest 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. even has a monument dedicated to it in its medieval city of origin. peter. 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 by monks in the hospice of the great st bernard pass in the swiss alps our number for saint bernards 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 exhibits and the risk to credit care. after all it originated at the court of the grand duke of sex. 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 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 what 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 their right. they have been around for hundreds of years mission 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 dell nation in what's now croatia on the adriatic coast. over the centuries dalmatians were quite fashionable. after all black and white never goes out of style. and that is all we have five on the site says i but we will have more lifestyle coach available for you on all facebook page so do join us that is joining into the show and we'll see you again tomorrow on our one. next time on early. albanian chef. is one of the stars of european call me crazy or now in home city of toronto he's trying to revive interest in the traditional cuisine of albania. but even the slow food philosophy from rheims the flour bread

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