this is news coming to you live from berlin and assassination in europe did matter of the polish city of dies after being attacked at the charity fund raising event we'll go live to go down to find out why he was targeted. also coming up with britain's prime minister to resign me makes a last ditch court for support for have bricks and dean. back the deal to morrow. can stall on wednesday sale and we risk and face the risk of leaving without

a deal or the evil of that option even at all but despite warnings the deal is unpopular and looks likely to be voted down in parliament tomorrow. and totals in thailand as the military government looks set to postpone the election again just a month before it was due. to blast the eco tourism that environmentalists fear killed biodiversity block in singapore is taking a heavy toll on the already pregnant wildlife of their. own of a warm welcome to you i'm. we start in poland with some breaking news the mayor of the city of gadhafi has died after being stuck at a fund. event sunday night. was

a leading figure in poland's opposition movement he was taken to hospital in a critical condition after a man attacked him on stage a double rich has reported you succumb to his injuries just a short while ago we who live to get done for the very latest but first this report on the circumstances of sunday's fatal attack. moments before the attack the mare of good done praising the fundraising effort for children in need as a demo of it looked out at thousands of people. lunged at him with a knife. the attacker then remained on stage shouting that he blamed them as form a party for wrongfully imprisoning him. before he was tackled to the ground. he was holding

a knife in his right hand and yelled that he'd spent five years in jail because of the mayor's old party. he said his name that he'd been in prison in was tortured we don't know how he managed to get on the stage. police have arrested the suspect who they said was a twenty seven year old with a wreck order violent crime. in our priority is finding out where the pair pre-treat are could get so close to the mayor we knew he used to pass that said press on it. a time of it was rushed to hospital in a critical condition with wounds to the heart and abdomen and underwent hours of surgery. and has been left in shock by the attack on this popular politician. and joining me now live from don's is a journalist a marching band he works at the independent police radio station said marty we just

talked a few hours ago and you told us the spot but i don't know which was in a critical condition we're not getting reports he's not survived what are you hearing he has we. just received this information about half an hour ago when the chief of the hospital were. moved from the place of event he told to do not least. of all of them of it didn't survive the attack. she was at first operated for a five an hour five hours and then. we were waiting to see if he says state will be getting better about to eventually. finished with the very sad information for all the people of danske that our mayor is that now there must be a huge shock also especially among his supporters who tell us more about who was rich and why was he so important for the police opposition so important that made

him a target of this attack. yes part of the movie. since twenty years so mayor for a very long time but lately she has become one of the informal leaders of the pro-democratic opposition in poland to a huge became famous for example about the fight to award were second to music where she was defending at the creator of the music home from being replaced by other directors plays by the ruling party of all injustice but she was also very determined to defend him polish course defendants and of course she was. present at almost every demonstration in front of the courts to defend course to defend the highest court of foment and she also organized the thirtieth anniversary

of the. constitutional court right before it was taken by the. law and justice party she was also saying a lot about. defending prevalence of defending don't all tools good because they are also. a person there are also some persons who are attacked by their right side of the political discussion poland and logic public opinion polling has been polarized since the conservative nationalist annoying just despotic came to power in two thousand and fifteen what impact will this killing have on the country do you think. right now the impact is very promising because all the politics from all sides are in grief and they are finking right now about performing and march together in here in christ with president and all of the politics from all parties so probably this will take place to morrow and all of the states rents

are going all the tweets from the politico for the point x. who are not agreeing with the other which are very promising because they all say it was a barbaric think and to allow them of which will remain in their their hats in their memories and right now everything is. very current ensuring fallen but we will see what will happen next. it's a mystery i think that is right for me i think and this out of grief everyone is pulling together but as you said one has to wait and see how this develops thank you very much for joining us on that breaking story from gadahn sc. turning now to britain and british prime the cities are made there has said this marks the start of a crucial week in the history of the united kingdom tourism is searched to spend

the next thirty six hours doing what she can to secure support for a controversial briggs the deal which looks headed for defeat in parliament tomorrow a short while ago she addressed employees at a factory in the english town of stork she accused some lawmakers of being prepared to use what she court every device possible to thwart their exit she said the u.k. and we end up not leaving the e.u. a tall m.p.'s bush down a deal. but while no deal remains a serious risk having observed events at westminster over the last seven days it's now my judgment that the more likely outcome is a paralysis in parliament that risks there being no bret's it that makes it even more important that m.p.'s consider very carefully how they will vote tomorrow night that is the british prime minister to resign me joining me now from london is our correspondent big mass she's outside the u.k. houses of parliament negativism in playing this card of it's my way or the highway

back my deal or risk not drags it does real strategy work do you think. well that's the big question it's a peculiar strategy on one hand she appeals to parliament to actually work together with us on the other hand she also draws pretty much battle lines between her and parliament when she says there is a risk that parliament will try and frustrate breck's it so emotions are clearly running high we have a lot of protesters here in westminster i believe you can hear and sees them from here there are leave protesters who are fearing that there might not be a president or others that really want to stop breck's it altogether so this is mirrored also in the house of parliament so tourism is trying to well basically get habeas to back up but it's proving very very difficult and because you've been talking to some of the people behind you how concerned are live supporters the

dregs it could flip out of their grasp but the bailiff minute. it's really interesting because we've really seen the last weeks in particular that the live campaign has really felt the need to really get into action they've hired a boss that's going around here in westminster and also we've seen vigils now not only from the pro-u. supporters but also from those who actually fear that they might lose pretz it altogether i've spoken to some and let's listen to what they've had to say. they outside parliament every day trying to sway politicians but they are no longer alone another camp has started its own protest action tensions are clearly running high in westminster we've had these straw european protesters here for months now it's a new phenomenon just a few meters down the road with people who are actually protesting for breaks it.

they're not as numerous as the pro europeans but they're equally determined. these pricks at campaigners are afraid that politicians might decide on a soft breaks it keeping too many ties to the e.u. they want to cut loose completely we can definitely survive in a deal almost every economic model says the g.d.p. will go down do you think it's a prize worth paying yeah with the british people i think we can do it and persons a strong country i think we can definitely survive. punishment usually wrong you know they're not always right they always say things which are not right and maybe this time they're wrong as well. yeah around the corner others are encouraging motorists to show their support. but. they are convinced even if mays agreement doesn't get approved there will be some form of cooperation between london and the e.u.

. we don't have to have a deal to sell things to germany i will say i have an audi car it's very old but i have an audi car i will still buy out the cars you don't you don't need a dealer told you can imagine the heads of say he spends b.m.w. volkswagen and audi excepting britain sunny putting one hundred percent tariff on their cars that turn around the chancellor and say no we want a deal to mark same to the french wine producers or italian wine producers it's not since there will be a trade deal no matter what that's the firm belief of the sleeve campaign us but what's most important to them britain needs to get out and fast than anything else in monster trail. so many strong views on both sides as we heard in your report a big get that terrorism to me in a speech earlier today talked about a letter she got from elitists what did that letter contain.

well in the latter the e.u. leaders said again what they have more or less said before they said it was a clarification and they said that they. want to have the northern irish question only in place since the so-called backstop which is a resolution if there cannot be found a very quick free trade deal that is the question of what happens to northern ireland and they say they want to have the so-called backstop in place only as long as necessary to reason why has acknowledged and has reached that well it might not go as far as many m.p.'s in the house of parliament were hoping for so it's basically something that they have already said before but they've put it in the latter now in order to try and really say well vote with series amaze deal and everything else will fall into place the e.u. is backing tourism a steal so in a sense they're trying to kind of both to her position ahead of tomorrow's crunch vote but she's expected not to win that vote if that happens is that the end of the

road for tourism which he had to step down. that's a good question and many people are asking themselves that question there is speculation that if she loses by a large majority if a lot of her own m.p.'s are turning against her that it might be difficult for her to stay in power but then again she has proved to be extremely resilient and has really even opponents are admiring her for that quality she's determined to get breaks a tree the other scenario could be that she's going again to brussels and try to get yet another clarification or maybe even extract something was out of brussels and then put the deal becta m.p.'s if that happens or not if the labor opposition will table a vote of no confidence that's going to be the really really interesting questions here in westminster the next days absolutely the next days are going to be interesting biggest mass here in the midst of all the action the breadth of action

in london thank you very much. chief political and it to michelle a question i spoke with one of the frontrunners to take over as the head of the european commission about tourism is brics a deal. would the new deal in opening of the negotiations even be possible while the deal is on the table to negotiate this for more than two years now it was a compromise from twenty eight countries and three institutions on the surprise levels on the european level that's on the table i don't see a lot of room of maneuver for any further discussions on this having the problem in mind because we are not talking about legal points we're talking about fundamental decisions for example certainty for the citizens for the british citizens who are living in the european union and for the europeans who are living in great britain or to avoid a hard to avoid a hard border in the northern ireland question everybody knows how difficult. the

history of say region is and was and that's why we have to avoid this it's about concrete political actions which we want to solve that this breaks that deal on the table that it's best deal possible on the table and that's why we have to vote in favor. so that was a month very well one of the frontrunners are take over the european commission he was talking to. now that we now bring you up to date with some of the stories making news around the world more than two hundred and fifty soldiers and firefighters have been deployed to dig out the austrian ski resort town of. the operation comes as alpine region struggle to cope with a record snow for emergency workers say the mission is dangerous while the avalanche risk remains high. an eighteen year old german man who was detained by egyptian police of a suspected terrorist wings last month has been deported he was reported missing

for several weeks before the parties arrested him in the southern city of luxor the foreign ministry in berlin confirmed the man returned to germany on sunday night. in the iranian military cargo plane has crashed in the country's capital to head on the iranian army says fifteen out of the sixteen people on board were killed and a flight engineer survived and has been taken to hospital an aviation spokesman said the plane on route from kyrgyzstan overshot the runway and hit toward giving landing. that. enough of a business is five pleasure to welcome ben and a prickly topic among the one consists of undiplomatic the language of drama american diplomatic straining transatlantic. and really heated about this topic and we're talking about north stream to washington's ambassador to berlin has issued a stark warning to german companies over the controversial pipeline its supply

russian gas to germany while bypassing eastern european countries which are good now reportedly brought to several companies involved in the construction of those trying to reminding them of u.s. sanctions on the russian energy sector could have also criticised the project on social media the us has long opposed nordstrom claiming it undermines european security. threat of sanctions has the media listening closely but what about all the companies that are already deeply involved in this huge european project like it's full rather than old stream one the new pipeline will supply europe directly with gas from russia around a third of it has been built and it's forecast to be up and running by the end of the year russian gas corp gas problem is a key contributor along with several europe. companies at least two german firms received the ambassadors later when to seoul which is owned by b. a is safe and unit an offshoot of german german energy company eon also involved

a french n.-g. and dutch british company royal dutch shell as well as austria is o. m. v. and the biggest news is that none of these companies has responded to the threat the us is not an important market for you know for example but the same can't be said for the parent company of been this whole be if the chemicals firm employs over eighteen thousand people in north america and pulls in fifteen billion euros annually the company refuses to comment on the letter. so a lot at stake let's go over to frankfurt now where daniel corp our financial correspondent is standing by for us daniel what's the likelihood of sanctions occurring. very difficult to say a ban we have to remember the u.s. ambassador to germany is known to be a man with very strong rhetoric and also he is known to be a close body of the u.s.

president if these sanctions are really going to happen while investors have some doubts about it but according to a growing now the u.s. congress is already working behind closed doors on a possible draft if this would be really the case that companies would be very affected that are also doing business with the united states you are already a name to a few of them so we're not just talking about companies here and germany but companies as you said in france italy and switzerland they could be also really affected by this now it's not the first time the u.s. ambassador has tried intervening how trade is reacting to this. yeah exactly the us ambassador likes to give these kind of interviews we have to remember already he was sharing same ideas when we were talking about iran he said that if companies continue to do business with you ron they would be also facing

possible sanctions as well as a result many companies for example also outside of germany like airbus for example they pulled out off iran also companies here in germany really took his words and also pulled out by iran by this time but i can tell you that you have politicians and also investors they don't appreciate this at all we also got a statement from the german foreign minister today he said that he also does not like these comments and that this pipeline project is very crucial for the european energy market and you know first in frankfurt thank you very much. follow all in all it's a global day for global stocks the chinese growth story has investors worried a shock drop in exports and fears of a global economic slowdown and china's trade surplus with the u.s. has widened it's a major source of anger for president donald trump. once upon

a time china's economic performance wasn't global news those days are well and truly gone whether it's consumers losing their appetite for i phones or turning away from luxury brands what happens in china now happens to the world. there are two reasons the country's latest trade figures are having an impact on the markets the first is that they offer an insight into the overall pace of economic growth and the second is that they reveal the state of trade ties with the united states. in the month of december chinese exports unexpectedly dropped by four point four percent compared to the year before analysts are interpret this as a delayed impact of the billions of dollars worth of tariffs the united states imposed last year but imports were also down by well over seven per cent. taken together these figures are fueling concerns that chinese growth could slow down even further this year there are domestic causes for this like falling car sales

and a sluggish housing market. but without naming the u.s. directly beijing made it clear where it believes the greatest risk lies. in twenty nineteen the biggest worry for china's foreign trade is still the complex and grim xterm the environment. uncertain and unstable factors are still numerous protectionism and you know lateral ism from certain countries are rearing their heads the growth of the global economy may slow some international trade and investment may drag. last week u.s. and chinese officials met with the aim of resolving their trade dispute concessions were made but a deal wasn't struck if that remains the case washington will impose a further set of tariffs on china in march after all despite december surprise drop in exports china's trade surplus with the u.s.

still has a record high in twenty eight. well i'm joined by jared from a social media desk and he has some explosively news from the was of social media or even exciting one now in the new year the queen of instagram kylie jenner has been dethroned after a year on reigning in the popular platform the reality t.v. star has lost her social media crown to an unexpected unexpected. justin joins me now jared this is eggs ordinary news tell me more every now and then i get to sit opposite you and we get to talk about something that makes no sense at all and today the fourteenth of january twenty ninth teen is one of those days now until today this picture that carly jenna posted a year ago broke all instagram records it was when she announced that she'd given

birth to a baby daughter since it was posted a year ago this photo as we can see got eighteen million likes which is extraordinary huge amount of likes. records are meant to be broken not this rise like i said none of this makes any sense but something has cracked instagram today and i'm happy to bring a prop today it's one of these it's an egg a plain old chicken egg like this one a picture of an egg was posted to instagram around ten days ago by an account cold world record we can see years with the explicit purpose of trying to smash these eighteen million like raechel we don't know who the owner of the account is and there's no other purpose other than to get the most like image now how many likes you reckon this photo of a chicken egg and research no idea millions i just checked my phone before coming on air twenty eight point five million likes for that photo of the chicken egg

which is about a third of the entire population of germany or more than the entire population of. where i'm from australia and would you believe we're in you a few weeks into the new year and it's not the only record that's been broken a japanese billionaire businessman took the record for the most retreated tweet it's been shared over five million times and it might be because he offered cash to break that record to selected people he took the record from an american teenager who asked people to tweet a parsed requesting from wendy's a restaurant chain he wanted a lifetime supply of chicken nuggets the good sort of time to be alive what came first the chicken nugget or the whole of the egg everyone talking about all of this what does this all mean it's a good question like how did this get so popular one explanation i read is that internet users like a bit of chaos they like a gag you know there's an appetite for people online to post weed and stupid things

and people get behind it even though they know it's it's kind of nonsense is this news that's another question we've been asking ourselves we think if twenty eight million people lack something it deserves at least a mention but you know we need to take everything with a pinch of salt and we all need a bit of comic relief even if it's an extraordinary story like this from a social media desk highly entertaining thank you very much for the story and some eggs for us when you're watching the debate is coming up ahead we take you to a plum dave an ancient garion city where all the ducks christians catholics and jews are mean eons roma and turks co-exist in harmony dave is also this is a european capital of culture and should we be here to tell us more about that and don't forget can all of his good deed have been used on the go just download the app from google play or from the apple store that'll give you access to all the

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regs it's a tall order but the deal is unpopular and looks like you to be voted down in parliament tomorrow. turning now to thailand it's been nearly five years since the country's army took control of thailand following a political crisis military leaders have been promising a return to civilian rule ever since but now they're poised to push back the date for elections yet again just one month before the due to take place that has brought people out onto the streets of bangkok d.j. obvious boston hartig was there to hear their demands. they've had enough enough. terri rulers enough of seeing their rights curtailed enough of promised elections being pushed back time and time again. now because protesters in the heart of bangkok say they won't back down until the government makes good on its promise of people have their say we're living with the parliament

that has no opposition opposition by the last five years without any you know good governance are. no opposition working in the parliament so the busy election is a very important part thailand not only to go back to democracy but also to phone the country back again after five years. and to get their rights as citizens back in the past five years the military government has used its powers to stop critics from speaking out. until recently protests like this one were prohibited by the strict assembly a lot of that's military dictatorship put in place now that law has been lifted but in spite of that demonstrators are still telling me that they're being harassed by the authorities that if i can. get what. is right on this and. not that he's. right i.

can't. let this put me in a coffee shop on the field in the business and if but these tactics aren't keeping activists away they're afraid the government could play for time until the election deadline set by thailand's constitution expires then there would be no telling when tide's would get to vote again. and the obvious boston hospital now joins me live from bangkok tell us a little bit why these elections are being postponed again and what for some different about the protests we just saw in your report. so the official reason for these elections being pushed back again is that if they take place on february twenty fourth as originally promised the end of last year and then they would collide with the coronation ceremonies for thailand's for

thailand's new king which was supposed to take place in may now i think it's too early to tell how strong these demonstrations or how powerful these demonstrations will really be i think the resolve of these protesters will be tested in the coming weeks as we're waiting for thailand's government to announce the new election date and the protesters are saying that if that doesn't happen this week. they'll be out again in the streets next saturday in a demonstration that will be bigger than the one that we saw in the report now we're going to have to wait and see if that really happens if these if these demonstrations really become stronger then one critical factor will be how will the military react to these protests because the army chief already said in response to yesterday's protest the one that we saw in the report that the protesters were out to sow chaos and that they're not interested in the stability of the country now i have to say that wasn't my impression at all when i was there at that protest

everything was very quiet and peaceful and the protesters are following the orders of the police so we'll have to wait and see what happens in the course of the next few weeks and presenting the still just of public opinion in thailand keeping in mind the country was deeply polarized over the previous government of. who was embroiled in a corruption scandal. i think it's really hard to tell because there are no credible opinion polls here in thailand i think what what can be said is that in the beginning after the military coup back in two thousand and fourteen there was a part of the population that was happy that the political turmoil in the lead up to that was put to an end by the military government and by the repression of course but i think that sentiment to sort of shifted in the course of the past five years as the military government has postponed elections time and time again there

is a growing part of the type population. who want to return to a more democratic system of sorts and i think that's especially true for the country's northeast where backing the support for previous prime minister thaksin shinawatra the sister who was ousted by the coup in two thousand and fourteen remains traditionally strong amrita and recently boston was testing the recall just on this comment. because the military has a long kind of tradition of benign intervention in thai politics. i think critics would tell you that. given the fact that this government has enjoyed almost unlimited power over the almost past five years. they haven't really managed to bring the country forward in the way they had promised critics will say that they focus mainly on holding on holding onto power and that critical reform projects like education reform for example haven't been tackled or take for example

the country's daunting social injustice where one percent of the population holds two percent of the country's wealth and those are going to be critical issues should it come to these elections anytime soon i read a riot in boston hartig in bangkok a real pleasure to talk to you. we seen asia and turned to singapore which is best known for its high rise buildings in high density living but it's still home to some patches of rain forest and wildlife but now that jungle is under threat from developers they hope a new eco tourism whomp will attract millions of visitors but environmentalist say the project is killing biodiversity. it's the ultimate irony for singapore's conservation movement here in the man die district wild rain forest is being cleared to make way for a new nature park and construction work is taking a toll on already threatened wildlife we have lost the wall ball with with all the

it's all over the highway we've lost two pangolin we've lost but. activists say the developers have failed to protect animals on the busy road they oppose the project for being too big and too destructive. when finished the new monday park will link up to singapore through with the goal of forming a major eco tourism hub it will include a bird park tree top walks and a four hundred room hotel resort it's supposed to be a world class showcase for wildlife but opponents say it comes at the cost of natural habitats basically i think you are getting your priorities wrong if you are replacing natural heritage with captive breeding and talking about the value of education in the future for younger generation because you can look at all the animals in a cage is when you built it upon the bones and the bodies of all the animals you killed in the habitats of kid the developer says it already treats thousands of

animals in road accidents and it doesn't want to add to the list of casualties it c.e.o. insists that construction work is being carried out sensitively. equally we do wonder some of development as this rocks of you know it does displace animals from our location it does change our past in the behavior so we've been working with the nature community really from the word go to to work out what we should do to actually protect animals and keep them off the roads as the debate rages construction work is forging ahead with a new eco hub for completion in two thousand and twenty three. now have been fizzling and business and he's going to drive us off to the detroit motor show. and show amrita same procedure as every year the show in detroit is one of the oldest of its kind but falling sales and u.s. tariffs putting

a damper on this is automotive spectacle some of the big players are giving it a miss this time. detroit's auto show hasn't lost all its glamour but it's certainly not the event it once was the x.t. six premium luxury model. g.m. chose to unveil its new cadillac s.u.v. but many other luxury car makers including b.m.w. and mercedes are giving the event a miss this year. this says the global car market contract uncertainty grows over the threat of u.s. tariffs. going to transition in the industry we've had a great run of strong car sales over the last decade or so we're probably going to have a dip in the next couple of years at the same time the auto companies are have to focus on today's business to generate profits so they can finance a future that's going to be very different. speaking of the future one major carmaker that is making an appearance in detroit this year is fox it's expected to

announce new alliance with us also giant for it at a time of heightened transatlantic tension that bond could be politically as well as economically strategic. jordan is one of the driest countries on earth in some parts more deliveries only come once a week and the surface isn't even reliable but new technology promises to help bring a steady supply to the remotest of areas. abdul rahim waters whose families olive trees every day but they only get water from the mains on wednesdays so that is when they're always busy stocking up everybody here has a tank on the roof or a cistern in the garden it often doesn't rain here for weeks. the village of god is fifty kilometers from the capital amman water from the mains just once a week is standard across jordan when there are problems at the water works it

sometimes doesn't show up at all even on wednesdays. water has to be pumped here from lower lying regions hundreds of kilometers away that takes lots of equipment and energy and it's expensive the country's aging water supply system eats up around fifteen percent of the electricity used in jordan and a lot of the water it transports is lost due to leaks. is an engineer who works here on improving water resource management he's employed by germany's g i.z. development agency. pumps use a lot of electricity and high is installing new ones that use a third less. for the communities. use the savings.

and often. the new pumps have been flown in and just arrived they cost a quarter of a million euros and were paid for by the development agency. says they're a good investment and good for the environment. although jordan is shifting to renewables most of its electricity is still generated by fossil fuels which emit vast amounts of c o two into the atmosphere. will be in the range of eight hundred thousand. cubic you just want to from this one station. the price of the electricity that powers the waterworks is just jumped by forty percent so pressure is mounting to hike water prices too but with more efficient pumps power consumption will decline. and they should make their water

supply more reliable as well. market research group says sixty two percent of german businesses want the european central bank to brace interest rates in the near future some analysts say a hike may not even come this year those rates are still at a record low in the euro zone and companies already fear the next financial crisis but the round the corner they see breaks it a lack of solidarity and some country's financial policies as the biggest threats to the e.u. right now. and first class could get a little full on some cathay pacific flights a glitch in its booking system allow customers to get first class tickets from hong kong to portugal for about fifteen hundred dollars instead of the sixteen thousand usually charged the airline is looking into how the costly mistake happened this is it a lot of the tickets. than i wish that flight and rita thank you very

much ben. and we take you now to kyrgyzstan where a social shift is underway increasing numbers of men leaving their families to work in russia they only manage to visit home once or twice a year which means women are forced to take on more responsibilities as a result they're becoming more self-reliant and more self-confident. to back families farmyard. twelve year old helps with the housekeeping the album has to be heated flour for bread dough costs money which i can and stars husband sends he works thousands of kilometers away in russia her husband has lived with her eldest daughter in a cattle in book for eight years i care and some are also worked there for a time the fact that she has to take care of the family on her own in the village has made her more self-reliant. how can this be

good nothing about it is good if only everything were normal if we lived together. the children are already grown. how many years have they spent without their father . they only talk on the phone with him they miss him. every day she tries to see her husband on the internet often in vain. you know in connection with the connection is weak because they're surrounded by mountains. when she can get a video connection i can star shows her husband the children as well. her husband works as a caretaker in russia he earns much more than he can encourage a star like him many relatives and neighbors have moved to russia. they eat when

they're all together they make everything themselves bread vegetable hard part stewed fruit tea. without a father in this patriarchal islamic influence society move fifteen year old daughter back has to act as man of the house. you know when we still lived together with papa we went hunting in the mountains and worked in the fields we did everything together the initiative also though he had to say i care and sar go shopping when her eldest daughter visits her they shop together. in the village she meets her friends mansoor offer whose husband also works in russia like so many men from the surrounding villages today they go in shopping together. if you only keep her ways out rice for her asking how many kilos she needs. i've

had in sorrow and software leave the shop i karen's are remarks on how cold it is and says she's going home. was all for invites her to come over and drink a cup of tea with her and her family before she dies. his office husband went to work in russia six months ago she has six children. i need money we have to pay off the loan every quarter we have to pay thirteen thousand and so about two hundred euros right now everything's good in normal four of my children live in town and go to school there everything's fine with us we can't complain there's always. the next morning she travels to bask in the nearest town the trip takes more than two hours she wants to buy winter clothes for her baby at the bazaar. and. the bazaar is the only

place far and wide where people from the surrounding villages can buy fabric clothing and shoes that suit them. my husband and i used to come here in our car and buy food and other things now it's harder with the baby. in the end she finds what she was looking for and said. home again. every year the european union designates a couple of cities as the european capital of culture and this last week canceled the official opening of this. in bug area is to raise the profile of cities off the beaten path with a new re of cultural events throughout the year here's a look at. garion dresses. as i promised to really take on. today is here to get a small welcome got

a nice to see. what was going on there looked a wonderful but what was it so that was a procession of what's called kooky which are men and women who dress up in these incredibly elaborate costumes often made out of fur or even feathers traditionally they parade or dance through the towns and villages and scare away the evil spirits around new year but also directly before lent and the kookery itself is actually a divinity personifying fecundity so their visit means obviously it's going to bring good health and hopefully a good harvest and it's there are similar traditions all across the balkans so to look very colorful of a pretty and attractive but what makes loved it so special lots of things and well first of all it's of the first time ever that opal garion city has been named a european capital of culture and positive is said to be one of the oldest cities in the world it's earliest inhabitants are traced traceable back to over eight thousand years ago so it has some incredible ruins very obviously namely

a roman amphitheater it's bulgaria's second largest city after the capital sofia and historically it's always been very much a crossroads between western europe and the middle east so it's an incredible cultural melting pot and that is definitely what the organizers want to emphasize this year and it's interesting that you mentioned the color it is an incredibly colorful place and the opening show was called we are all colors all of a quick look at the. it was a spectacular outdoor show in the center of plastic the centerpiece was a thirty meter high and multimedia stage it featured more than fifteen hundred artists representing the country's many cultural facets and traditions from the thracians to the romans on ottomans to modern day park area it's plugged if vibrancy comes from these historical contrasts it's one of europe's oldest cities where orthodox and catholic christians jews armenians roma and turks live together

peacefully encouraging this unity is the main goal of the city's stand as european capital of culture which has taken the word together as its slogan. musicians such as vladimir village called see that as the real benefit of this year he says that during the preparations bulgarians grew closer not just in terms of culture but also on an interpersonal level. of service was not live has developed a very special spirit of innovation you can really feel that when you walk through the neighborhoods and look into people's faces ordered to pull to the. preparations for the year have included many construction projects with long neglected neighborhoods being given new life one such project has renovated the city's dilapidated old tobacco warehouses which will now host exhibitions and cultural events. more than five hundred events are planned for the coming year along with performances on small stages in the city's narrow streets there will be music

theater fine arts and photography all with a focus on the city's people and their ethnic diversity the organizers want every resident of plovdiv to feel that they are a part of this year as european capital of culture. is so very inclusive and i think lots being planned that we should all be putting thought develop tribalist for usa so i'd like to put it. it has also been included in a number of the places to see in twenty nine thousand travel lists from the new york times to the guardian so they're expecting about two million visitors this year part of the goal is also you know to revive those some of the rundown infrastructure in these lesser known cities. the old buildings and neighborhoods like we saw there in the report but it's interesting that the organizers and positive also wanted to put the accent on how culture can help to achieve social change that incredible ethnic diversity has been cause for some tensions in the past and they're definitely hoping that they can get some communities more

integrated namely the roma with some of the initiatives that they have planned for this year and there will also be events happening in sofia and around the region of and if we can particular that we should be watching berlin or perspective i'm right or there is something that's really neat and that's an exhibition called art liberty from the berlin wall to street art let's see if we can have some pictures here that is the only traveling collection of original fragments of the berlin wall it's currently on. is to mark the thirtieth anniversary of course of the fall of the berlin wall later this year in november so it includes a lot of work from a great international street artists from the berlin wall generation to the present day and that's a pretty exciting thing for people who've never been here or people. who are planning a trip to berlin they can get a taste. of bringing them. ok

now what about the other city which is being named european. very good point because this coming weekend obviously marks the beginning of the festivities in much so that is the very first southern italian city to become a european capital of culture and it's famous for its limestone or dwellings that date back to the prehistoric times and of course for its dramatic transformation in the last seventy years or so from a place of absolute desta. poverty to quite a hot tourist destination so stay tuned next week their motto is open future and we've got lots to tell next week about that look so lovely and sunny big change from the green you get a good change from the gray skies he's got outside here absolutely got him said from the desk a pleasure to talk to you thank you. you're watching need of news here's a reminder at the top story that they are following for you the mayor of the polish city of dunn scuzz died after being stabbed at a fund raising event on sunday night i don't know which was the leading figure in

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