he sleeps in the pantheon of the great tennis so he's one for the ages. but. come on turner for the. starts december twenty second t.w. . everyone welcome to a new week of euro max with me your host megan leigh we are winding up the year two thousand and eighteen but there are still lots of things to pack in here's a look at what's coming up. a review of the year a look back at memorable moments of two thousand and eighteen. christmas dinner

top chef shows us how to make each course in just five minutes. best of pubs and how this city just outside berlin is gearing up for christmas. there are only about three weeks left in two thousand and eighteen and is always the year has seemed to fly by but there were lots of no worthy events which took place both good and bad that gave us pause for thought well from the need to debate at the oscars and the biggest wedding of the year to fifteen years of euro max and germany's shock departure from the world cup we took we take a look back now at some of the entertaining and cultural events that shaped the first half of two thousand and eighteen. twenty eighteen was a great team as a royal watchers. to you brought with it plenty of other moving and surprising events parkas went viral. but twenty thousand results.

when the me to debate went. in. this year's golden globe. many stars came dressed in black to show their support for the me too movement which seeks to end sexual harassment and empower women. the golden globe for best foreign language film. in the faith. the song a song made him world famous fifty years ago today singer and actor andriano is a legend in italy in january he turned eighty. his eightieth birthday in january in the one nine hundred seventy s. he turned the art world on its head with his upside down paintings now he's one of germany's most successful artists. highness prince has been tricks of the also her eightieth birthday in january the former queen abdicated in twenty

thirteen. her son zander and his wife max are now responsible for attending official engagements like the opening ceremonies . as a european capital of culture the dutch city shared the honor with the maltese capital . and this is how. it's year as a european capital of culture theatrical group. is world famous for its spectacular shows. thousands of the nations and visitors alike elaborate masks and costumes it must be carnival time the carnival of venice traditionally opens with a historical water parade. in february folks in the job. at. every. different people slip into the role of the prince the peasant and the major

highlights of poland's convo is that rose monday. by contrast the carnival of basel starts in the dark of night what's known as the mortgage time a parade with lanterns. takes off for residents of basel three most beautiful day. nieces convolve is famous for its flowers some five tons of them and distributed amongst the crowd during the battle of flowers. i also in february the german capital came down with film fever i the stars came out for the sixty eight international film festival. director tom take us out as jury president.

march began on a fashionable presentation of its fall winter collection karl lagerfeld transformed the paris into a forest and queen elizabeth the second have a front row seat at london fashion week for the first time afterward she presented richard quinn with a british design award. traditionally the cademy awards are handed out in march this year gary oldman picked up the best actor oscar for his turn as winston churchill and darkest hour. in april in berlin gangster rappers kool aid to and from reed bank caused a scandal at the echo music awards they want to go even though their lyrics have been criticised as anti semitic after other artists handed back their awards in protest of germany's music industry association scrapped the. echo's for good.

and in london on the twenty third of april prince william and his wife catherine welcomed their third child prince doing his. little brother for prince george and princess sharda louis is fifth in mind to the british throne. make i'll talk to a musical star. figure a vision song contest the world's biggest music show was held in lisbon portugal called one hundred eighteen million spectators judeans as a matter of hours a lie from israel before winning some talk. let's go i'm out and lots of protesting women took to the red carpet at this year's cannes film festival they were taking a stand for equality in the film industry it was a political statement that couldn't be overlooked. it sounds like something

straight out of the movies fairytale prince falls in love with an american actress but i made the nine hundred britain's prince harry married meghan markle in the royal wedding of the year. make a mark is now a member of the british royal family and as many americans have european roots euro max trying to find out where michael's forefathers might have come from the. i'm standing in the heart of lambert's lock the place where meghan muggles ancestors might once have lived for the. numbers lock is a sleepy little village in alsace france but things are bound to get a lot more lively should duchess meghan stop by one day. in june seventeen thousand people dressed in white gathered in paris for a special pic the d.n.a. on blood. the dinner in white concept began in the french capital in one thousand

nine hundred eight and is caught on worldwide. with a ceremony attended by german chancellor angela merkel celebrated the sixty fifth anniversary of its founding in june. director general peter lim board displease the today g w is a modern and diversified media outlet over three thousand employees from sixty mation to produce content for t.v. radio and internet and a total of thirty languages. the same month celebrated its fifteenth year on air illusionist peter vallance performed feats of magic in the studio assisted by host michael klim. also in june germany's national football team had barely settled into their accommodation in russia before they were back home again for the first time ever germany was eliminated in the group stage of the world cup fans couldn't believe it was the squad had gone into the tournament as defending champions. it was the tourist attraction in the british capital in london. with its rows of

colorful barrels stuffed on top of one another installation artist christo created a twenty metre high pyramid in hyde park serpentine only. and we will take a look at the second half of a review of the year later on in the week will now is a good time to let you win on this week's drop we would like to know what your best moment of two thousand and eighteen was if you have a photo of it then send it in by doing so you qualify to win an exclusive watch just go to our website for all of the details we're going on now add to a brief look at other stories making headlines on the culture sting. on the second sunday in advent people dressed in santa suit hit the streets of spain's capital madrid for the curfew. more than some. one thousand people took

part even children who were dressed in costumes nobody expected great feats of athletic prowess the only requirements were a christmas themed costume and paying the interns fee the monies raised to go to support social services in the tree. on sunday the world's largest stand up paddling race was held on the river sent in paris eight hundred paddlers from five continents started in the bright lights of one hundred in the previous year it was the ninth year in the french capital for the north to topple as its calls to break through paris his historical center is over ten kilometers long. the bakers of dresden have served up a gargantuan stolen at the streets all marked the fruit cake weighed nearly four times it was put together from hundreds of pieces weighing eight kilos each and

made by more than sixty bakeries the stolen called in st so here is the main traditional pastry from dresden a giant stone an is served every year on the second advent sunday the very first one is said to have been ordered by the saxon king the strong in seventeen thirty this year one slice costs six year olds and the money raised goes to charity. fast food doesn't always have to be associated with make donalds or other junk food places german chef or robin pipes has proven that top cuisine can also be made quickly he prepares yummy christmas dishes in just five minutes and he shows us how to do it as well. as helpful so i have five minutes to make the perfect. most appetizers so let's get

started here we have pomegranates and red beat i'm going to put on some gloves otherwise i'll end up with red hands so that's the first thing i have to do with how long. this i'll start with the pomegranate skin everyone thinks d.c.d. a pomegranate is a thankless task that requires lots of work but there's a really simple way to do it and some just take a spoon. out the thing in half. then take a spin a tap on the back. it's a bit messy as you can see but the seeds just fall out without much effort or told that she was lucky i only had to make one dish so i'll stop here for now as i only have five minutes that's enough but i don't know it's not. so hard if the pomegranate doesn't take long now we have the right weeks and we're going to cut them to make our cut pacho. richness of the locker is the most

important thing in my kitchen that i want so you can clean things up quickly. saw the red paint is pretty cold you can buy them that way in the supermarket and that's not bad because it saves you from having to cook it yourself and as the name says read beets are read all the because i didn't from the so what i thought she just took a sharp knife cut the beat into thin slices put them on a nice plate and it's all arranged pretty fast. so. that's almost eight for the gloves which is clean up here. now what have we got here's a plum that mixes well with us and i dish hasn't got that christmas touch yet but it's coming first cut the plumbing half. at home you'll have a lot more time for this i don't cook this way in my kitchen either but the challenge is five minutes so plumb on top of the beats of the all the bits of.

one without cutting your fingers and then we have our pomegranate to make a marinated a dash of olive oil and then some white al samak vinegar the first thought was really cool of the rolls. and i had a pinch of salt on a touch of honey. oh goodness i haven't made a mess like this in a long time it makes it all together for me to have a tasty marinate very similar not a lot of. others in that over radish. the world. so for some to finish off we had a bit of smoked filet of trout ass comes from the heart region from a place called feck instead to be precise you can buy packaged in any supermarket and you mark up the coal for i just pick it up like this you can do the same at home start their own place it on top to make it

a bit christmassy add some cinnamon just write it over the top of. the sort of record left walnuts will not should go on top because i haven't got much time i'll just toss them in although walnuts flavor really unfolds when they're toasted in the frying pan is one of finest and had last year which marked them as i am at a time of we got left. it's not much reasonable fear chocolate chocolate works maybe doesn't sound like it does but trust me on the taste of chocolate goes amazingly well with red beans just great a little over the top stuff and i find all this is the last shot i have yet. but you can use many different kinds of herb so with this it's and my uro just suits the time we have in a side because you might not be able to find it in every supermarket but i think food's worth making an effort for sort of the image as a shift in despair so he might need to look off the beaten path of monies. there

are so many farmers and farm so many people who produce good food and ingredients that's really important to me and it should be important to everybody watching at home insulza the switch to something. where you've done in less than five michael. well i can make something in less than one minute and that is reservations at a restaurant. now to take a trip thanks to a viewer request from colombia jorge hum barito of ben. from bogota would like to know more about germany so we are going to head to punch them which is just a forty five minute drive southwest of berlin or pod is well known for the song susi council home and burial place of frederick the great by the christmas time the city is bathed in light and hosts a cozy christmas market we went there to find out more.

the brandenburg gate not the famous one in berlin the small. town relatively. gets. a series of russian rulers shaped from the eighteenth century until one thousand nine hundred eighteen one of the most important european states. has been rebuilt so has the. best a great deal and preserving its heritage. you can recognize the influence of the various kings on today's potsdam. it was a seat of royal power till one nine hundred eighteen so the city had to be made beautiful. visual character the city has inherited from its history makes it very welcoming and attractive. of many people want to restore and preserve.

near the middle of. it dates back to the first known as the soldier came he was a big fan of the netherlands and hoped to profit from the country's know how. craftspeople and master builders to. today the quarter is the margin. in germany. i was born near the dutch border so i always used to think what's so special about this place. but the soldier king gave me the same feeling here two hundred fifty years later that he wanted to achieve back then of being at home it was the. christmas tradition is celebrated here. on one of the weekends sinterklaas comes to town. take the opportunity to show off their. version. closs makes his rounds. another institution in potsdam more french than

dutch is the country survey from d.c. thomas the holiday season is peak season for pastry chefs they make sweet cakes typical of the region and pretty leans a favorite is a bust of the famous prussian queen louisa all in chocolate. the figurines and letters of course the figures are closely tied into the history of pots and since louisa was a very positive figure customers like to give her likeness as a present to call for saying to the. potsdam is also a very modern city even if the old prussia lives on at every turn that includes the christmas market here visitors can enjoy tensile and holiday lights in one particular color. all courses flower will bloom pression blue is generally associated first with the uniforms of the old prussian army as me then. under the soldier king the colors of all the different uniforms were standardized with russian blue only for five hundred fifty they wish to place

a spell on what sounds so potsdam as christmas market is the only one in germany that uses all blue. ave to. originally the blue holiday lights were conceived as a marketing strategy for the city down they've become a tradition many stallholders have picked up on the blue motif. even the ice skating rink on the reason plots is bathed in blue. and what do the visitors here think. there but i think the bluish glow is very beautiful aesthetically it has something very gentle about it may give it i like it a lot there are lots of stars it blue is just my favorite color it's most guns on the something different. so i wouldn't do this at home but here it doesn't look bad at all it's like those. i like the classical look. the blue lights are

beautiful they give everything a very special atmosphere alongside the white lies you always see on the house's. christmas market is an indispensable part of today's constant and it's blue lights combine the modern and the traditional. next up an artist who uses darkness as his canvas and light as his brush how who who tommo from finland tricks of you or with his creations which are actually photographs with longer exposures and a moving source of light such as a flashlight as backgrounds include snow covered forests or abandoned houses we visited him in his studio in helsinki. when hano who plays with light the results are magically glowing flowers of the night blinking lamps turn into radiant creatures from another world.

who calls this art light painting their photos taken with a long exposure. to learn the technique about ten years ago from a friend. and that was look at me like a magical moment. like maybe a week or two after the deaths i just decided i'd have to go tried by myself i just bought my first the s.l.r. camera and then just start making you know my own experiments like almost every night. i'm like a weeks past some maybe months passed i was like really hooked on that. every like painting begins with a sketch on paper. what honey likes to design best are organic forms that look like

flowers or plants. later he transposes the lines and points into sequences of motion. people just ask the whole you how you just do it and i was just trying to explain that it's pretty simple stuff but you just have to focus on the moment you have to practice all the movements like before hans you are doing this like a choreography but you are good. in his studio in helsinki prepares his next photo shoot. to create pictures like this he needs to use long exposures depending on. the background between three and ten minutes he has to rehearse very precisely in a studio the sequence of movements that will go into the outdoor shot. no imitates the lines in his sketch using light. everything that i do or it's like really

happening on the picture it's not made with the photoshop or some kind of modeling software it's just like the real thing and that is something that is quite rare these days because like almost like every picture that you see on the internet it's you know it has some post-processing. to make is like meeting new needs almost absolute darkness start dark forests or abandoned buildings today he has sort of the cellar vault of an old fortress. he says like painting is like meditation he could lose himself in.

the reward comes in viewing the result as soon as he's done. came up quite nicely actually this wasn't some kind of widely by from that window or that old wall but actually there's an effect on the picture so i'm quite happy for. know who tom oh never gets the winter blues it's no wonder because the years darkest days are for the best conditions for his art. and with that it is time to say goodbye don't forget to keep up with the show on social media as always thanks for tuning in was the against. next time one year old man. was once the playground of the rich and famous two hundred years ago today the seaside resort is known for its pleasure beach amusement park photographer benito super tough captured life there for today and tonight for

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