inventors entrepreneurs and high tech professionals talk about their visions successes and day to day business to present. its. history you know everyone. seems to know how to fish. digital africa starts december twelfth on w. i want to welcome to another exciting edition of your i'm actually me your host meghan lee we're revisiting the past in more ways than one here's a look at what's coming up. christmas cake with dresdner strawman is one of

germany's most popular adventure specialties. the passion a french photographer and his dreamy images of a man in keyboard instruments. are so german that plan artists and christoph leave came sweeping out of crowds. we kick off today show with a visit to one of the oldest and most traditional christmas markets in germany this treason marked in dresden now you may know it for its world famous christmas cake or stalin made with lots of butter raisins and rum well dressings christmas market dates back to fourteen thirty four over the last five hundred years or so it's grown and it's transformed somewhat but it's back in there and he has remained the same and that has a lot to do with its trademark cake which is always a part of the markets opening ceremony we take a closer look and now in the. next installment of our series

a christmas treat. the mood is very christmassy interesting sporadic old town center germany's oldest christmas market the streets of marked is held on the main markets where more than two hundred fifty vendors offer a wide variety of with. most of them so handmade crops like these wouldn't figures from the only downton's or locally blown glass but the star of the market is pushed all in the east to reason cake with dried fruit cake even has its own representative dish column h. in the shop window. is precisely the good fairy the way it's been there's no money this dongle. which you like to charge them to. their wishes and it's like this and for me addressed in crystal is perfect when it's free she i remember second more east it shouldn't be too dry that's the secret baking it for the right length of time. and she should know because eighteen year old lena clip was chosen to

represent the shape of an bakers and their product for a year. she's an apprentice at her father's bakery in radha boyle near dresden is currently one of around one hundred thirty bakeries licensed to bake the cake according to the original recipe. her father heiko is keen to pass on the tradition . of gedney in dressed in style than it's made of milk and flour eastern sugar butter salt not make a. covered citrus an orange peel sweet and bitter almonds and raisins soaked in run . some ingredients are not allowed margarine artificial preservatives and aromas. the dough has to be needed well and then baked for around an hour side so it's a whole a stall and has a long tradition. in baking something called the streets of christmas in

dresden since about thirteen hundred. but back then it didn't contain butter the only plower and milk and it was more like a food for basking it can't be compared with today's stolen. these days stalinist packed with calories after it has been in the oven the street is coated with lots of melted butter. then sugar resided and then icing sugar then the stollen has to rest for four to six weeks to allow the flavor to develop. that afternoon trip to takes part in the street bakers parade in the old town. that's where the precisely two thousand eight hundred millimeter launched dahlan is presented then to highlight dresden mayor dirk hilbert ceremonially cut the cake to officially open the christmas market the idea is that as many visitors as

possible should get a piece of stalin. would really fascinates me about stalin is that many ingredients are as exotic as they can be. and they blend together to form a cake just so many different ingredients which might make you think how do they go together but they complement one another just wonderfully. and it's clearly going down well with the visitors from near and far less going it's very tasty and very sweet and i know all of this here is also very nice. but i think house of christmas for us in the region it's really important because it's a part of our identity and tradition. and i think of christmas you always realize just how important tradition is. fifty fifty one. but eating all the most and something that the market was originally there for in the fifteenth century. frederick the second prince of saxony permitted

a meat market before christmas so people could shop for their seasonal roast the streets a mock developed from that. today to the market is packed with traditions for example towering in the center of the market is the world's biggest christmas pyramid the fifty metre high wooden decoration was hand turned in the all mountains . and at the entrance there is the biggest walk in christmas candle arch even we've come to appreciate the eye for detail of the houses it's very nicely decorated sold over one that i love i love this sort of a spear yes that's here you can still get handmade crafts and the beautiful old town is lovely at the top so it's something different and special. tradition handicrafts an epicurean delights the streets all mocked has got something for everyone. and staying on the subject berlin is shedding

some light on the christmas season as well more on that story at the top of today's express. europe's longest continuous strand of christmas lights was switched on on wednesday evening along berlin's famous car first and on boulevard it consists of ten million l.e.d. lights strong around five hundred seventy trees and runs for about four point five kilometers the lights begin outside the upscale cot of a department store and more shine on until january fourth. i could even maria countess died forty one years ago but now she's back in the limelight arsen paris as a hologram accompanied by an orchestra the greek american soprano appears as a three d. image projected onto the stage. is taken from several original recordings of her arias.

the nineteen contests in concert will be touring north and south america. the indigo blue dying technique has been added to unesco's list of the intangible cultural heritage has been used for centuries in printing natural fabrics like linen only a few blue dying shops are left in europe this time around you know has recognized a mother's sixteen living traditions such as the also of making fume as practiced in the us southern france. next up we take a journey into places full of melancholy and untold stories frenchmen while manteo the scours abandoned buildings looking for pianos to photograph perhaps this

passion for the instruments stems from the fact that he himself is a pianist as well as for tague refer to the has spent about ten years visiting ruins across europe in search of old pianos tissues and the result of all his effort is a book called a requiem for piano. concert grand and upright piano forgotten then left to die a long slow death and once magnificent stately homes braving the elements and decay till the very last they bear witness to a bygone age. this is what photographer and pianist paul monti is out to capture with his camera. he finds his subjects in deserted buildings like this one not far from paris. to settle with us this chateau dates back to the nineteenth century recording to my

research its construction started in the eighteenth sixty's and was completed twenty years later it's an impressive shots on the set of. explorers hazardous and dilapidated buildings in search of photo subjects. i don't know this used to be long but you can get in there anyway as all references. on the t.v. inspects the abandon the state room by room fifty years ago it was still full of life. then the photographer finds the motif he was looking for. known so they could form one of the yellow but there's an integral part of my life

so it's important to me to come and photograph them and pay one last tribute by playing them and making them ring out one last time they'll cost us because i bought a good touches my heart of it to see this like to rescue them oldies but not to be too complicated nowadays though i did this at all the shows of all the. well everything of any value has been plundered over the years the heavy keyboard instruments have been left behind it would be too much trouble to transport them. he won't say where exactly the stately homes in his pictures are he tries to protect them as much as possible. he's recently published his work in of volume of photos titled requiem for piano. in his images. brings his two great loves together. and music. the piano is always in the foreground because it stands for a certain nobility crissy said that he was the centerpiece of the house and oddly

enough it still is but i think even as a ruined buildings with. like this one still retain something of the noble air you know that's what's important to me. commentary has been photographing abandoned pianos since two thousand and nine. he promised them all across europe in spain germany the czech republic and ukraine. he devotes a great deal of time to finding new locations which he usually spots in online satellite images. you can see here for example so there's a large building and i can actually see that it's a. big hole in the roof i can see another hole over here and the gardens are being kept up any more it's potentially abandoned. so i would go on comedy oh.

this is the studios gallery in paris is seventeenth on this mall is opening an exhibition of his photos until he has reached the point where he can live off his art he sells it all over the world. waiting for something. of the power. but there also an indication of what's to come. maybe they're just waiting to decompose and disappear. this is kind of wasting that has kept it in his touches me deeply. here he is planning trips to austria and portugal next year to track down more abandoned buildings and more pianos before they lose the battle against time. artist christopher lane for likes to get his hands dirty when he works mass because

he thinks with his hands not only that he likes to paint outside in the open no matter the weather he's a planner painter and we joined him outside to watch him in action. this is i love this it's part of me and my daughter really loves it too she refuses to be taken to school or a normal car and this is my studio and i think the christoffel name for it has even traveled the world and his band he has painted landscapes in many places from australia to iceland but he has never stopped painting his home city. just if it is they plan their paying to the french ten for an artist who works out come rain or shine. being a planet painted means working outdoors in the natural environment. where you could make a photo of the scene and then just work on it on the basis of fact with

a glass of wine and playing music in a cozy. but i don't do that. because i have to experience the whole scene with all my senses. it's important for me to see things properly and. all that goes into my painting. just of his studied at berlin's university of the arts he creates his paintings with his hands he doesn't use a brush. so when he sent one time i was painting near the sony center in winter and someone said i could do that but when he came back i'm half an hour later he could see what i was painting and he said that looks really good. we visit the artist in a storage and showroom christopher paints about three hundred canvases a year is enthusiasm for vincent van gogh and the impressionist began when he was

still a child but. i was eight when i started getting interested in art. and my parents supported me from an early age i started getting painting lessons when i was very young mountain reached today who sells his paintings to art museums and collectors worldwide. the oil paint that he uses by the bucketful costs four hundred euros for a pail like this. if i work really intensely for a week then i might use thirty to forty buckets. because. christopher records the changing face of berlin one series that he started back in two thousand and eight shows how the heart of the city is evolving with the balance as he palace is being reconstructed. a few weeks ago the artist that these works on display underground in a subway station which is being built close by. the big theme in all christopher lane fool's work the beauty and power of light the artist often

looks like an oil painting himself after completing a work. in one outfit picture. i could go to a concert in the film in this anymore. but that's a sacrifice well with making for this exceptional taste. clothes have always made the man so the saying goes but fashion in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight especially here in germany it was also used to make a political statement furry jackets flared trousers and hot pants were an expression of protest and of sexual liberation at the time the exhibition a fashion sixty eight and rusting and near does the door for in western germany shows how fashion changed in the late one nine hundred sixty s. and early seventy's one hundred fifty items of clothing and accessories are on

display and what stands out is that some of the trends are still around today. nineteen sixty eight it must have been heaven everyone seemed to be younger liberates he didn't think there was no spatial brown in songs but colors risk off ignored bright headlines were drawing using women donning many scots courting controversy so she it is a cause of so much vice might sometimes it goes to make. somebody wear anything you can see the bottom and men are meant to control themselves but. while young men sort of provoke the mainstream by growing the head. with an elevated my son went around looking like that why does he i don't mean you personally you know what i do to him to be cut his hair myself all. young men and women to the streets together to protest against oppression the abuse of paternalism in nine hundred sixty eight most demonstrators still look pretty small this was how things looked in the city.

for most people in fact nineteen sixty eight was like this buttoned up at the games too sexy a bit reserved subdued carlos' well. into the mid sixty's most people were seeking to look decent. more than ever changes in fashion were tied to social change during this era young women didn't want to dress like their mothers anymore let alone live like. the big french couture labels last influence fashion was polish likely to hail from paris in the late sixty's. instead people turned to the street for inspiration in particular they looked at

hip and happening london fashion was influenced by pop music and thought secondhand fines were combined with new pieces dress codes became obsolete but a new idea was established one which continues to this day now everyone wants to look beyond. this no bra bra was also imported from london it was light and airy the opposite of a stiff corset. protest and a belief in progress took center stage fashion turned ordinary women into space girls. visitors to the fashion sixty eight exhibition remember how things work. when you look good because there wasn't such a thing as a mini skirt that was too short for the office but you weren't allowed to wear trials as i worked in an office i mean he's good at that they don't have your backside it's the wife boots with high platform heels we're just like in. the hood

pinski hot pants really caused a stir of course on the street you got accused of being loose didn't go down well that's fine but only young people go that i was fine for so you know or two minutes on a. home i remember fighting to be allowed to wear trousers and i'm. i didn't like the other stuff but being allowed to wear trousers some and when to that was difficult to get accepted to says it's. sixty's women with self-realization and sexual equality but they were still the ones who did the washing up after the demonstrations were over. what remains from the spirit of nine hundred sixty eight created. colors and the awareness that fashion also influenced society. earlier this week in our intellects series we saw

a wooden table in france that was made out of old wood planks from it from an indonesian fishing boat will today our resident a d.i.y. and is going to teach us how to make one of those tables ourselves and if she goes too fast you can always find her videos on our youtube channel d w interior design . there is tension if you're looking for a new dining table but come find the right size yourself it's easier than you may think in just a few steps you have one table that you can decide yourself. head to your local how do you store to find some suitable materials for the table top i decided to use wooden planks to step was to table only did a few wooden slats. having to be kept down to size i pick out some screws of the right lengths. to make out these

are the materials you need six wooden planks each measuring one hundred thirty by fourteen by two centimeters or choose your own size. you also need five wooden slides to that measure one hundred twenty by seven by two centimeters two slides that's seventy centimeters long and one that is fifty four centimeters long. and forty two weeks i bought these on line. screws five millimeters in diameter sixteen short screws for the table lakes twenty four loved ones to screw on the wooden slides a battery power to screw driver hand and measuring tape a drill and three millimeter drill bits. of sand paper and a semi sponge. now it's time to get started to use science paper to sign any rocks for it's to make the front side smooth. now turn to the backside of your table top

this is where you're going to attach your good and slats position in such a way that later you'll be able to attach the wooden boards to the. now mark the places where the screws should go there should be four for each table leg. because the side slides with double as the table sick. screws would be added here one for each would implant. four screws go into each of the lengthwise slats on the one in the middle. now through some pilot holes feet and should you screw spring break open and you would soon crack that jeff of the pilot post should be about three quarters of the main focus groups. now attach both of the wooden pieces together using to cut most screw driver. and then screw in the table lake's. in new table it's ready to go with scandinavian style chairs now you can through

a dinner party you can plan to die mentions in advance but you only be able to decide if they're right when you get to still you may have to change your plans on site so bring pens and a tape i should just to be on the safe side. looks good and finally before we go we want to let you in on this week's draw since christmas is not far off we would like you to get into the season spirit and sing the song silent night for us if you'd like to say part then just go to our facebook page and share your version with us and by doing so you'll qualify to win a cd and a wooden christmas pyramid and with that it is time to say goodbye thanks for tuning in keep on shining and we'll see you again tomorrow. next time on your own he calls himself insane fifty while his murals are pretty

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the war continues to haunt those conflicts from syria. i'm trying to reach them but nobody any. since the war on my phone or to put chemistry storks december eighth on t.w. . u.s. president donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to congress about a trump real estate deal in russia cohen is cooperating with special prosecutor robert miller and his investigation into possible russian interference in the twenty six thousand presidential election trump called cohen weak and said he was trying to get

a lighter sentence. german chancellor angela merkel has blamed russian president vladimir putin for the recent naval confrontation between russia.