this is did over the years lie from god and president trump denounces his former lawyer michael cohen admits lying to congress about the drug development in moscow the president fast but the crowd is just trying to get a lighter punishment will have a ringside seat in washington also on the program. president trump comes to a meeting with a russian president vladimir putin over the crimea crisis german chancellor angela

merkel all calls for calm and ukraine's president urges nato to intervene but the alliance rejects his call. i'm in the next sixty minutes said german prosecutors are right the nation's biggest blunder investigators want to know whether staff and doj are back to help some criminals loan the money by funneling it into offshore tax havens. and of course in the for the prince finds three police officers guilty of murdering a teenager the first officers to be convicted in president deter war on drugs was sent to jail for fourteen years. secret spandex and staging part of a on i seventy five years old and still going strong we take a look at the enduring appeal of this kid's skating spectacular. i'm phil gal welcome to the program. u.s.

president donald rumsfeld a lawyer michael cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to congress about a trump real estate deal in russia was to cohen told a court in new york that he had made false statements to the u.s. intelligence committee about a plan to build a trump tower in moscow michael cohen has already pleaded guilty to other charges and this cooperating with special prosecutor robert ball is investigation into possible russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election. list. which. doesn't trump meanwhile has denied working on the plan and says mr cohen is lying to get a lighter sentence it was convicted of various things unrelated that he was given a fairly long jail. and he's a weak person. by being weak i'd like other people that you watch he's a weak person. what he's trying to do is get a reduced set so he's lying about

a project that everybody knew about i mean we were very open with. in fact despite well mr trump says michael cohen hasn't yet been sentenced that's not due to happen until the twelfth of december let's get more now from g.w. correspondent marsh waited in washington welcome maya so how does this latest revelation affect the investigation. well it's definitely a revolution in that it now looks like michael cohen who again we should emphasize was one of president trump's inner circle people one of the people who is closest to the president is now cooperating with proper moeller with this investigation into these alleged ties into this alleged election meddling and we should point out here we don't really know how much robert muller knows right now there were rumors circulating at the beginning of the month that some new indictments might be handed down and that hasn't really happened yet we do also know that the trump white house

was rather concerned early last week about something that michael robert mueller might have a his sleeve before the white house actually submitted answers written answers to a series of questions that mahler had given to the president and what's interesting here is the timing because they did just submit these answers to the special counsel and now just today michael cohen comes out with this guilty plea it looks like perhaps robert mueller was trying to verify a certain stories that were being told about the timing of certain allegations timing of certain connections to russia these that these alleged real estate deals with russia the hans of the beast the story of tell us more about that. but again this comes out to a question of timing so the heart of this story is that michael cohen the

president's former lawyer had been saying yes there had been dealings there had been conversations about building a trump tower in moscow but those plans fizzled out or fell through somehow in january of two thousand and sixteen well before the presidential campaign got underway and even before then candidate from was a what was actually the nominee for president in the republican party and we now know because of this guilty plea that those conversations actually went well into the summer as late as june of two thousand and sixteen stay with us for my welcome back to in just a moment speaking shortly after speaking to reporters and departing for the g. twenty summit in argentina a president trump said that he would be counseling his meeting with the russian president vladimir putin but the trump made the announcement on twitter blaming the russia seizure of ukrainian vessels near russia occupied crimea is the tweet a based on the five of the ships and scientists have not been returned to ukraine i

have decided it would be best for all parties concerned to council my previously shadowed meeting in argentina with president vladimir putin i look forward to a meaningful summits again as soon as the situation is resolved the kremlin for its part says it has not paid in full of any consolation. so this was posted shortly after air force a woman had taken off for the g twenty summit in argentina let's go back to my shway to washington mio what what has the white house the white house said anything else about this sudden change of mind. we haven't heard any direct statement from the white house itself bill but what we do know is that president trunk faced a lot of criticism not just from the usual suspects is the trackers but from within the republican party after the health think a summit with vladimir putin there was a lot of concern about his posture towards president putin being too conciliatory

too friendly and that may have been something that arose this time or evolving around this decision to cancel this meeting but thank you so much mark schneider in washington. german chancellor angela merkel says the russian president is entirely to blame for the crisis in ukraine and his call for a diplomatic solution and this came after ukrainian president petro poroshenko calls on nato countries to intervene to ensure the free passage of ships in the hours off see the alliance says it's already has a strong patrol presence in the region of russia denies care of such accusations that it is blocking vessels from entering or leaving ukrainian ports tensions between russia and ukraine have risen since sunday's naval clash off the coast of russia occupied crimea russian ships fired on and seized three ukrainian naval vessels and captured the crew president poroshenko has urged his military to be

ready for a possible invasion and has imposed martial law in border regions is also a threat to impose restrictions on russian citizens in his country. has correspondents on both sides of the see only show it is in the russian city of tehran near the cursed straits and they called early is in the ukrainian port of mariupol started a little earlier by asking nick where nato refused the president to polish up those requests for assistance left his country. well it never seemed very likely that we'd see nato ships following present person goes call in to c.n.n. as of what they did say today was that nato's presence in the black sea was a really significant obviously turkey romania and bulgaria three natures states that border the black sea and that they would be continuing to hold their normal maneuvers there i think this is more about internal politics present poroshenko talking to his internal audience and saying that you know he has

a good connection to the west essentially this is looking much more like it's going to go in a political direction we heard today from germany from angela merkel who called on both sides to sort of step away from the brink and it seems even though moscow had initially refused the offer of mediation from germany a lot of this communication is now going through germany interesting enough when present person tried to call the kremlin on the weekend when this all broke this news of the ships detained the kremlin didn't take his cool and he had to cool angela merkel to get any kind of communication going with moscow i'm going to show him that you know that in russia next to the strait of cash people are saying. well phil i am on i am in the first city which is just at the foot of the current strait bridge the crimean bridge. and it's been a bit of a mix on the one hand people are afraid they say of this escalating they say we

would be the first people to be affected were right on the sea but it doesn't seem that people are panicking as yet they seem to think that this conflict will be resolved diplomatically that there won't be a war and they say they very much trust the politicians to resolve to resolve things their kind of sick of the ukraine crisis and they want the politicians to resolve things let's talk about some posters resulting things you know. what states are you create of both mentioned germany as a possible i mean you say in this crisis the german chancellor believes that talking. about some. despite the current situation we also ukraine to be small arms because we can on your results this in talks with one another because there is no military solution to all of these conflicts and this needs to be said clearly. when it is president likely to be open to the charms of

the suggestions. well it does seem that president putin will be more open to the role of the mediator than to talking to push and go as nic mentioned before the kremlin didn't take the call that place or actually as they said there simply wasn't a call when it comes to america it seems that she would be a better mediator first of all putin has worked with her for many years and also it seems to me that this whole conflict to russia now is more about its international image it's bracing for new sanctions which are being discussed and i don't think that putin is kind of trying to play to the internal domestic audience as he was with the added station of crimea which kind of gave a huge jump in ratings after it happened in two thousand and fourteen i think now people are kind of sick of this conflict as i said before the conflict in ukraine

and i think that by by escalating this conflict or by pushing this conflict even further russia and putin have very little to gain i think they will be looking to international media as mediators and could be a very good candidate. in ukraine's border regions. briefly if you will we still don't really know to the full extent of how it's actually how it's going to be interpreted here in america where i am now things have already been pretty strict for the last two years we are directly within about fifteen kilometers of the front line in some regions of ukraine we've heard about restrictions on freedom of assembly demonstrations effectively banned there are new rules restricting basically making it impossible for foreigners to enter crimea legally from ukraine but this still has a whole month to go and seems right now that even the ukrainian government doesn't really know what powers that they potentially now have they're actually going to

end up using an economy in ukraine emily show it in russia thank you both take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world china's government says hold of the work of the medical team with claims to have created the world's first gene edited paper is the country's science and technology vice minister described the actions of the team as illegal and unacceptable chinese science is to hegemony quaint sparked outrage with his claims that he had altered the d.n.a. of twin babies. tens of thousands of farmers from across india have rallied in the capital delhi calling on the government to take immediate steps to solve an ongoing agricultural crisis and to ease their financial burdens many farms are struggling with debt and cycles of drought and failed harvests. thousands of colombian students through a march through the streets of baghdad on thursday demand the government increases funding for higher education students and teachers in the country's universities have been on strike since the eleventh of october accusing the rightwing government

of undermining their institutions. a german prosecutors of raided the offices of the country's biggest land back as part of an investigation into money laundering inquiry is based on revelations made in the twenty sixteen data only known as the panama papers which suggested that bank stuff it helps criminals funnel money into offshore tax havens. police vans surrounding the headquarters of germany's biggest lender if deutsche is image wasn't already in tatters it certainly is now. the banks accused of helping clients hide money and crime the suspicions are based on revelations contained in a session of leaked documents known as the panama paper is. different after. the suspicion of rose in the summer is august two thousand and fourteen re not after the federal criminal police office evaluation from the

parliament paper is the so-called off shore leak. buddies are also this evaluation that the suspicion is a bunch of bunk was helping clients such up so called offshore companies in tax havens. for dollars from their money is said to have flow to deutsche bank with the banks reporting any suspicion of money laundering and so i started talking. these are the kinds of allegations that is true could bring down an already embattled bank deutscher was quick to present its view of the events. uganda and i live there live on for we believe we've provided all relevant information to the authorities regarding the panama paper case of course will now cooperate closely with the public prosecutor's office in front for us it's also in our interest that the suspicious facts are quickly in entirely clear dog. attention will now turn to george's boss christiane thieving he's only been in the top job

since april but he's been at the bank for decades he ready faces the challenge of reversing years of losses now is up to him to address accusations that hasn't only been mismanaged but involved in far shady or potentially criminal business. let's get more from the helena humphrey from d.w. business so welcome however how much trouble. as far as allegations go fail it doesn't really get much more serious than this in terms of banking violations dohrn raids this morning in frankfurt all pertaining to the allegations that stuff of bank were involved in the setting up of a separate entity in the british virgin islands a known tax haven. well how's the cache of the assets of around nine hundred clients that shoot off three hundred million euros and or should i say forgotten

potentially and funds through criminal activity so we're talking about allegations they're wrapped up with organized crime certainly recriminations that no bank or company wants on their hands while ok so this is not the first time the door to a bank has been accused of financial misbehavior no it's not the first time deutsche bank essentially can't seem to shake off the problems that it's had the us federal reserve has it on its list of troubled banks the international monetary fund has called it the most dangerous bank in the world two years ago it was fined fourteen billion dollars in the united states for the missing it. misselling of. mortgage backed securities bad mortgage backed securities i should say and the fine that it could potentially face now could run into the medians staff who were found guilty could go to prison the share prices are already plunged the reputational damage could be huge this week despite all that it's still here it's still germany biggest lender its demise has been predicted before so this just looks like another

beginning of the end for that let's put it this way often banks to bad practice they're involved in bad practice they are find they pay the fines and then they carry all notes that business model they've been doing that for decades the difference is this time around what you bank is coming off the back of three years of losses it cannot make up the money fast enough and this cumulative effect is why it could be the critical moment for deutsche bank and that's something that the new c.e.o. christine saving will have to deal with ok and i have a hope for you though i suspect we will talk about this again. as your business update starting with the news that one of germany's biggest companies is planning the massive cuts. at the. chemicals joined by or says it's planning to slash some twelve thousand jobs around the world as a part of a massive savings and restructuring drive and says

a significant number of those cuts will be here in germany the move comes in the wake of buyer's sixty three billion euro takeover of u.s. rival months up though. buyer one of germany's oldest debts companies wants to make itself leaner and meaner by increasing efficiency productivity and profitability by instead of playing to concentrate resources on its core businesses of pharmaceuticals consumer health and crop science it's a setback since it bought u.s. crop sciences giant months and two in june this year for sixty three billion euros one of germany's biggest ever corporate takeovers but two months later a us court ruling ordered buyer to pay multi-million dollar damages to a cancer sufferer. the judge ruled that its newly acquired subsidiary should have warned users about the cancer risks from its roundup herbicide the company's shares have been under pressure since then losing thirty six percent since the beginning of the year so investors are still nervous and something like this makes them more

nervous it's a little bit of a surprise if you're a long time stock market observer often job cuts lead to higher prices because people think yeah those are necessary measures painful for everyone involved but necessary to increase profitability here they seem to be a reminder of how many risks and challenges buyer has there at least as cliff as that damage claims buyer will be cashing in on synergies with monsanto so it's crap science division will be among the hardest hit with forty one hundred job cuts the company said it expected to complete the job cutbacks by the end of twenty twenty one. and unprecedented court case kicked off in the west german city of dortmund earlier today it's subject is the devastating fire in a pakistani garment factory that killed almost two hundred sixty workers more than six years ago the trial ends to clarify whether discount fashion brand kick is liable for damages because most of the genes produced at the factory were earmarked

for the german company. so you know a cartoon has traveled seven thousand kilometers to germany in memory of her son over six years ago he was killed in a fire at a textile factory in pakistan that produces clothing for german discount chain kick . kick is responsible for the fire. i lost my son in that fire and now i have come here to get some justice for him and all the others who were killed in. the blaze at the factory occurred on the eleventh of september twenty twelve authorities believe it was caused by an arson attack carried out by a local gang almost two hundred sixty people died as a result of the lack of fire protection safeguards kick provided compensation to the victims' families that was supposed to exclude any future claims. this isn't about one hundred twenty thousand euros if you've already paid out six million in damages you wouldn't hesitate to pay another hundred twenty thousand but this isn't

about the amount it's unfortunately about the principle. cartoon and the other plaintiffs won a decision on kicks liability in the case because the company's headquarters are located near dortmund that's where they've registered the lawsuit the clothing company insists the statute of limitations has expired the court will issue a ruling at the beginning of january. for more on the story i'm joined by karen teryn she is a senior legal advisor at the european center of constitutional and human rights program caroline the court has postponed the verdict nevertheless is the fear of the kick management justify that a ruling in favor of the plaintiffs would create a president and more families of victims would seek compensation. well it was always clear that the families with father claim to be have older families that were involved they are part of the foundation that they started after the fire occurred it's the by the enterprise's factory fire affinities association and it's

dissociation that once that there is clarity about whether the payment of kick was fulfilling a legal obligation or if they're just objects of charity so that is what this case is about and it's about damages pain and suffering because the payment that kick has paid does far was for loss of income and for medical costs but it doesn't recognize the pain or suffering of those that lost their sons and daughters or those that were injured in the fire now you mentioned kid already made a payment of six million dollars in damages to the families of the victims could you put that into perspective a more for us it's the second time that this has occurred one such a tragedy occurred in supply chains to first time was after nirvana plaza collapse a building where multiple factories were and many companies from europe and united states were sourcing this is the second time and it sets in that sense

a standard below which companies cannot retreat it's now clear that if something like this happens in supply chains companies will have to ensure that the workers that were indirectly producing for them for their consumers will be compensated properly now pakistan remains a port hub for the garment factory what is change there since the fire. well unfortunately underground not that much since to try to jesus around the plaza and enterprises there has been movement in for example in europe different countries like the textile alliance in germany but none of that has really resulted into changes on the ground both in pakistan and advantaged it still is enormous threats or trade unionists trying to do their jobs that are killed that are detained and genius would be to most important persons to do the ongoing monitoring in factories

to ensure that factories are actually safe turn on terror and soon are legal adviser at the european center for constitutional and human rights thank you for your insight thank you as back to phil and a controversial court case in the philippines. a court in the philippines are sentenced three police officers to jail for the murder of a teenage boy the first officers to be convicted for their actions during president rodriguez deterred his war on drugs received sentences of up to forty years without parole human rights groups say the crackdown has led to thousands of extra judicial killings but the case of seventeen year old kid lloyd tells unprecedented public anger. two of the convicted police officers leaving court. minutes earlier they along with one other had been found guilty of murdering schoolboy last sun toss they claimed the seventeen year old was

a drug korea who'd fired at them while resisting arrest in twenty seventeen but this is c.t.v. footage showed the teenager being dragged by two offices just moments before he was shot in an alleyway in the philippines capital of manila. vicki ends family the guilty verdicts are a vindication. last illness airport i see i am very happy because this is the answer to prove that my son is innocent and has never been involved in drugs to everyone who helped us everyone whose names i can no longer list down thank you very much. when i was a loudmouth a new. key ends murder trigger to red protests filipinos took to the streets angry at the rising death toll. police say they've killed almost five thousand people allegedly involved in the narcotics trade since twenty sixteen

that was when the country's president rhodri go due to have today launched his war on drugs although he promised to pardon authorities involved in his crackdown even he refused to defend the police officers who killed key and. we are very happy for that this is just that third by judge also said not this proves that there is little plot truth and justice in the philippines. while the men will serve up to forty years in jail it's a life sentence for the teenager's parents all they can hope for is that these convictions will force the police to think before they kill. it watching news live from above and still to come while the boys post the dental delirium was watched by millions of people all over the world find out how he feels ten years after this video became a viral hit. holiday

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high tech professionals talk about their visions successes and day to day business the difference. in history in everyone. seems to matter to fish and the. digital africa starts december twelfth on to w. . watching did over the news live from brother and i'm phil campbell coming up in the next fifteen minutes no baby is iconic herero dress plays a starring role on the catwalk with a young designer taking the country's traditional attire to a whole new level. it may not look especially appealing but it commands a high price the abalone sees no hope but source after in asia targeted by potions

poachers in south africa i would six instance instructors. who saw things evolve with thousands of anti-government protesters of march to the capital harare closely watched by police it's the first rally since the deadly crackdown on election protests. in august protesters gathered in city center singing and waving placards denouncing sometimes and i got event was organized by the main opposition party and they say which claimed it was cheated a victory in july is election. journalist or columbus some of. those was at those protests and joins us from harare. welcome to wear d.w. so what happened on the streets today justice scalia members of the movement for democratic change. seeing and chanting slogans in full

rhythm most of them are not want to come to the temple saying you did not win the election you have failed to run the economy and now it's time for us to again find a way out of far these economic problems and so what is it that they want from the president. this kind of they want of the president to come to the table they discuss and also they have. to respect the human rights and also to make sure that the country's economy comes back on or do you might know that the recording is a well for the last almost twenty twenty years now just in the fist you know when that was to him and now when the president or most of them is in power but things haven't changed much as if things haven't changed even though the management has changed as well what does this mean for the country is this president is he likely to last. i think.

given that he has just been elected. it means he has because he has a fight. but in the even that people get on going on the streets he might consider maybe stepping down all grimly into a position i think the other thirty lies in the time line and how the course of the who become in the next few months two years in columbus in harare thank you take a look at abalone despite its unassuming appearance its soft white flesh is prized as a delicacy especially in china where a kilo can cost several thousand dollars an upmarket supermarkets and upmarket restaurants and the chinese have developed a taste for south african apollonie considered to be the among the best in the world but now environmentalist a warning that the poaching it to fabian asian market is driving south african stocks to the edge of extinction. in the cold

waters off cape town illegally diving for abalone has always been dangerous. poachers often dive alone without proper scuba training. now police are cracking down on poachers and divers also risk getting arrested or even shot. those living in poor coastal communities say they have no choice but to keep returning to the ocean. it's like a period when we were server. was a soup in a person or. worker do or must go words were right. there stickers are. unfortunately my life was a school course i was working to is going to go on good. abalones a prize delicacy in asia in hong kong the mosque can fetch as much as twelve thousand dollars per kilo but say environmentalist excessive poaching is

threatening to wipe out abalone. if you're not successful with preventing the parting then we. reach a point where you know both are going to. be depleted there again those people will be out of work so we really do need to find a way of creating. sustainable meaningful employment opportunities for those people who are currently engaged. but in shantytowns around keeps him. the family are almost rarer than the prized abalone shell and with south africa's economy in a slump poverty keeps spring the illegal abalone trade. one of the first memorable viral videos ever david after dentist features a seven year old boy still if i'm honest after visiting the dentist.

yeah. we've all been there so since it went viral nearly ten years ago the video has been viewed more than one hundred million times and also a kicked off at debates when is it ok for parents to post videos of their children on social media especially when posting those pictures this very lucrative. social media desk caught up with the family for facebook serious what happens next welcome call give us more of the background on the video. yeah i mean it turns out that video wasn't actually supposed to go viral at all that was david's first major surgery so his dad pulled out his camera videotaped it and uploaded to youtube so

his mother and his family could see it and from there i mean this video really took off it became the second most viewed video on you tube of two thousand and nine and really this family was rocketed to stardom you can see them here t.v. appearances in the u.s. on the today show you see saw a jimmy kimmel the comedian talking about that video as well but as you mention this video it also started a debate and his father really got a lot of criticism at the time not only for sharing this very private moment publicly but also because they made some money from the video as well so i asked the father david divorce sr about that criticism and here's what he told me for somebody to criticize me without having any perspective on the situation was just frustrating but i quickly learned that criticism and negativity creates more attention so more eyeballs more ad revenue and more

notoriety than just being nice about something yet terms of revenue actually the family made in the low six figures reportedly from licensing their video also from selling some t. shirts and they told me that money came in handy in two thousand and nine in the midst of that global recession and what about david jr the boy in the video how does the how does he feel about this ten years later. i mean a lot has changed in ten years right since two thousand and nine i mean really uploading videos or photos of your kids that's become pretty normal in fact it's become a multibillion dollar industry you see now these parent influencers they make their money by blogging posting photos and videos of their kids even while partnering with brands on social media and kids of course themselves are becoming you tube stars these days so i asked david himself does he think it's ok for kids to become viral stars at such a young age and this is what he said i think there's

a point where it gets exhausting trying too hard it's because it's totally different than with me i was viral it was an accident and people can get famous which is which is really cool and i like support that but i definitely think like you don't want to take over a person's life. david is now eighteen he's pretty much a normal teenager he's about to graduate from college he says he's still partly david after dentist he does kind of embrace that identity so for him it's not really a big deal if you want to see the full show just go to our facebook page search for d w news and the shows called what happened next called last month thank you so much. today we're celebrating seventy five years of sequins and satin. products scott rocks from coats and ask what am i talking about not my own obviously though i got

i look pretty good in sequins i have to say you do know we're talking about this here holiday on ice yeah the art form that said take incredibly talented athletes and artist dress them up like drag queens send them out on the frozen water for our entertainment it celebrates its diving anniversary this year credibly successful started way back in one thousand nine hundred forty three in of course united states of america and we have some footage i think from the early days of holiday on ice i'm interested only it was actually the idea was from an engineer every gilbert who came up with the idea i mean or to sell his new invention which was the portable ice rink but of course over the years this combination of sequins and skaters it somehow struck a chord is now become the most successful ice show in the world over three hundred twenty nine million tickets sold worldwide. now i know i know you're

a fan obviously who isn't nice so we've got a big treat for you we went behind the scenes for the new show seventieth anniversary show and if you're ready. yeah prepare for it it's show time. dress rehearsal for holiday on ice. the skaters are still getting used to the elaborate costumes and learning choreography this famous production is celebrating seventy five years on the ice. the new production is called show time guest skaters include the twenty eight team a limp dick gold medal winners. and bruno. i mean basically have. in their shows we have no rules so. they push more in another wave the done push so it's kind of.

challenge. and competition we push more into focus concentration. in shoals actually and we can do exactly what we want. the major stars are largely free to develop their own choreography for the parts they skate lots of props are being used in showtime to tell the full story of how holiday on ice conquered the world of course this is a show so it's not just about skating there's also acrobatics dancing and acting the skaters need to work on unusual conditions. for some of them it's their first experience performing in an i show so they don't know how to wear a show cost you they've never worn they've never skated without being able to see every aspect of the arena so there's a lot of things they have to get used to but we have six cast members here that barely speak english so it's translation and they copy of the watch.

the producers are pulling out all the stops for the anniversary show the sectors are in props and music have all been. to a new level. holiday on ice still has more than a few moods and the ability to and fro audiences with its special blend kitsch and spectacle. seventy five years of holiday on ice. is about to go up on that very special anniversary edition. all right now to be fair to other competing i shows there are we should tell our viewers our other i shows available there's disney on ice now champions on broadway on eyes all sort of imitators spawned by this incredibly successful franchise but it's still the only one origin all holiday on this news on ice is coming to so yes

i hope so i have also as a still working on not one of those things very glamorous and frivolous but these are serious athletes out there well yeah i mean if you look at some of the figs they were doing i can't do that it's a incredibly difficult challenging thing the vast majority of people who are in the show are either trained as professionals or olympic athletes or have that somehow in their background and what's interesting course by a whole day on ice is that a lot of times the olympic athletes transition and do the show after their professional career problems famously at least from germany is kind of the end of it the two time olympic gold medal winner she became a huge star for all the on ice performing after her competitive career was over and had some of the most successful of their shows interestingly gotten a bit who of course east germany was allowed in her first whole day on ice performance to. earn money hard currency in the u.s. while story meaning an east german citizen because

a minister made about it you with a letter of money they loved her to be presenting a a wonderful version of how great life was in the old g.d.r. so so that was quite successful. but i have to mention before we finish with this topic that our viewers probably don't know this but you know gail i have a direct connection to the sport of ice compared to vice dancing because. phil you were a competitive member in season two of. a hugely successful television series in the u.k. now we spent the whole day on the phone with i think i was in china and i'm. trying to get some footage of you unfortunately it seems all food has been destroyed for reasons of public street however we did find one photo oh found this photo so gail now this is you know you're aware of impressively tight blackout i have to say waving to your adoring fans in the so full of thing going to tell you exactly very

good professional competitor. now phil. your member this is two thousand and seven so while ago there were eleven competitors yes your number where you landed i was i was not the last. that's exactly correct you were not you were eleven felt what was important was i was not the first you know it only matters that you compete. we also talk up a few of your reviews from from from back in the day. like you have and like to i'd like to read a couple this one is from the lancaster telegraph. and it quotes natalia passed over your partner. be quite nice she says it's been very difficult for phil because he's so unusually tall and that makes it harder for him to coordinate his body. we also looked at a couple of the bloggers at the time there's one from haeckel heckler spray is his name he's not quite as nice he's a bit you know what you know what these inside movies are net internets

a bit meaner it says there are many things conspired against phil gale on dancing the ice first with his height feels over sixty tall that's a scientific fact that only dwarfs can i speak properly. second was the fact that phil couldn't ask gracefully if you held a gun to his head so i'm not sure i said that's how. it is my one question though after looking at this after hearing about your history two words come back to come out to no other than to read other than either of us on the cause mind you mind you for money is good you never know you never. will thank you very much for that scott you can go no. let's let's go to some sports. now the second leg of south america's top clubs football final will take place in madrid's but about a stadium on the ninth of december be coprime live at the doris match between better brighter side his rivals river plate and boca juniors was first first spode

on saturday after river fans pelted the boca team bus with missiles breaking windows and injuring players then police used tear gas to disperse the crowd with a gas got on to the bus and made the other book of players sick the game was rescheduled for sunday evening and that was supposed. to adrenaline junkies have become the first people ever to cliff dive at the remote to marble cathedral cave system in southern chile cliff diving world series champion a reality if land colleague jonathan pettit is turn to turn the remote not to wonder into a stunning stage set for that or to acrobatics. the general caribbean lake in chile in patagonia. of all the ways there must be to enjoy this magnificent mountain landscape one has never been done before.

had never been done before. the shores of south america's second largest freshwater lake are lined with features like the famous marble cathedral cave system that seem to make it ideal cliff diving territory but australian rianna if land and mexican jonathan parade is became the first to take the plunge when they put this breathtaking and unspoiled splendor to use as a backdrop for their extreme sports because humans are the glacial water around the caves at this isolated natural treasure is almost minutes and thanks to the play of light on the marble the cliff divers are sponsored by an energy drinks company. if land recently won her third cliff diving world series title for her and for parodies this was the final dive of the year. now to namibia where the herrera people appropriated to start

a dress introduced by german colonizers heavy les addresses were considered to more and the nineteenth century and forced on the local women and quickly made the style that these dresses are still probably worn by her women and now young design is taking the dresses to another level. embellished scott's bright colors and the iconic three point heart these are the trademarks of mark brightcove ari's work you know world of fashion where african patterns are becoming increasingly popular the twenty five year old namibian embraces the victorian heritage that once came from europe to namibia he tells us tells us more about where we came from who hoover really present it makes as being who we are individually. various fashion is in trend is modern hero dresses have traveled to catwalks across the continent and europe.

up ari this dress is however much more than just a fashion statement originally german missionaries ordered heroes to wear victorian dresses the anymore having people appropriated this dress code in their own way and added special features such as colorfully printed fabrics and the headgear resembling the hands of a cattle. this way the hero turned the humiliation into a triumph coverage continues this tradition with a modern twist is. different i always say especially when i get criticism regarding my designs i would say what makes the hair or dress be a hair or dress is basically the head get that is there cow otherwise one can play around with it every chart heavy fifty let's have it either way you want to be special shows regularly spark heated debates on whether his downs are too revealing and therefore an insult to the sensitive history of the hero many young people like

these models however enjoy the berries take on the dress made beautiful like wherever you go everybody would just be like oh you know beautiful on it you know i love fashion so when you go to a wedding you would want to wear the lay did it all that oh yes it's very beautiful that's why i love it covering grew up invent hook from a young age she was fascinated with the traditional. very made his first designs at the age of thirteen when his mother brought him a searing machine at sixteen he had his first major fashion show in berlin featuring the hero dressed. so. being among however is sometimes difficult especially at the beginning of his career some family members and friends mocked him for doing what they perceived as women's work not easy to get criticism and get people talking to. the new not you know you somewhere not you but then and now that i came to realize in my people the culture and government the

heroes they somehow appreciate what i have. one of his uncles refused to talk to come very for years but with success there was acceptance and today he is seen as a role model for many as. designer a body wants to reach above all the young generation he hopes that these designs can help young heroes to be proud of who they are and where they come from. roots so difficult to separate the change. after every fashion show you'll get command people criticizing and frankly you know punch you for what you have done on the grid but after all it's it's i know the change is not easy but after all the the change also makes the young people get to fall in love with the grinch and just carry wearing in love in

a traditional italian while the hero dress stands for tradition and identity it also shows that african izing fashion is not reserved for western designers who are increasingly making use of ethnic african patterns in semple of traditional european and african elements in coverings work is probably turning the tables. on fashion designer practive arya joins us from the bin capital vent hoke welcome to d.w. so what is it about this style that so feels to nimbin women. who think this is all right. then they're going to tell people newly released so much into question nowadays and we see starting from a very tender young age. where. you have this transition they embrace their faith in grace fashion and most importantly to lie in the libyan fashion strangely here i mean any sense reading

that these dresses of effectively gone from symbols of colonial colonial oppression to being born with pry this is a baby and fashion statement and it's a right. probably in the end had a. statement really. good talking to. the bright of our invention thank you i said show up today at the top of the. thanks for the feel. the me feel beautiful. feel i'm stealing . from the me. the most

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