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them what i am. what i am and. i like this. welcome to news from culture and we're marking the 100th anniversary of a very typically job an institution also coming up. 2 d.w. colleagues have been traveling around europe by train and they'll be here to tell us about their escapades. and in our series on island hopping we visit jersey just off the coast of france.

the srabon gotten so here in germany a small plots of garden colonies that city dwellers love to have to grow vegetables flowers or just to sit in and relish the simple joys of nature at the weekend this is typically german as is the fact that these hobby gardeners of this year celebrating the 100th anniversary of the rules and regulations of such gardens really rachel stewart is an expert on all things quintessentially german. well piece of your slice of the city. welcome to the. owner of a gemini on the outskirts of town that the long rail lines you'll find god in colonies plots of land divvied up and rented out to green. garden. there are several names for the allotment in germany suffered enough for $370.00

square metres of manicured lawns neat flower beds and decoration is welcomed including of course the king of german kitsch the garden gnome. in the 19th century city populations blue and green spaces dwindled only versions of allotments gave poor families some outdoor space and the opportunity to grow their own food this self-sufficiency proved beisel during the 2 world wars in communist east germany leaders originally view these individual god noises with suspicion but they soon softened to the concept once they realized that hobby this could help make up the shortfall in a fresh. today it's not about necessity and more about lifestyle. said dr. compu dozens of flights. for teaching but i got. on there are about a 1000000 allotment gardens in germany the capital building but it's the most but

if in fact it's nothing one up you'll have to join the queue behind the 12000 other nature levels on the local waiting lists and in many cities the need for more housing is putting a lot more gardens under threat of course in germany gardening rights come with government responsibilities and gentleman the rule book ok that's a bit of an exaggeration but the federal law on allotments is impressively detailed and on top of each client got an association has its own set of rules for example. which. results. from. the time she got mentality literally a lot mentality is used to describe the attitude of someone who has meticulously for their own metaphorical god and is quick to pass judgement on someone over the phone. in fact seems a lot like god knows i've got a bit of a reputation. and i was

a little i. ok this is coming up a lot of pieces is kind of a mixture between square very particular and narrow minded basically you don't want to be as that's for sure but you can claim that. you're. going to just going to argue. stereotypes things are changing many associations are loosening the rules to attract younger members and the somewhat cooler sounding urban gardening trend come along to boost gardening street cred when gardening time goes for different. types of mushroom launches a number of them balm to wash were flung. open got on they want to. come on i've also. understood my love for fish and gotten on mr howard this morning and shared responsibility fit better into a modern work settle down it costs

a lot less to take. this more relaxed approach to gardening is proving popular with all sorts of non-typical gardeners and carry on jamie's tradition. that was made the germans not a time to meet the europeans because we sent 2 young colleagues here d.w. on the trip of a lifetime julius out early and the ease of phone records and took an interesting trip around europe by train from here they went to the czech republic in greece will be to italy from the netherlands and documented it all on instagram and facebook is. 20 to be a family country and once again we're taking you on a train trip through europe i'm the game and i'm julia and together will be the year of pop summer this season is going well also discovery channel.

that was 3 weeks ago and now they're back here with me in the studio they've survived. 3 weeks so judy what was the most challenging thing about it well one thing that worried me was trying to get along with luisa for 3 weeks but i think he knows pretty well and that's one thing that we found quite difficult was arriving in paris and it being 42 degrees celsius so it was the hottest temperature ever recorded in the city and we had to find creative ways the try to survive the heat so we basically ended up staying in the hotel until we got cooler and then visited the sites in the evening now louise i've been to most countries in europe i've been to a city behind never be diverted so i don't know you went to bed it's so how was venice that's a difficult question of course it's a wonderful city there's so so much to see so much history but we were also quite surprised of how many tourists we actually encountered we found out that actually

informing yourselves well before going there and also going by night when most of the tourists have gone as good to oh ok so it was very busy you talked before about you said about hidden gems and i believe slovenia was a hit jim why was that yeah it was it was surprising to us how beautiful the country is and we had also play. the trip so that we visited a lot of cities but slovenia was an opportunity to get into nature so we went hiking on the mountains near moneyball and that was a great way to come away for fresh then having experienced gorgeous european nature and you go away from the crime yes. now yeah unfortunately you had to work was this posting on instagram and facebook and into the interacting with followers on your trip what was that like well we didn't expect actually that it would be such a positive experience we thought we would have critiques but actually most of it was really positive we had people wishing us good journey saying hello every

morning commenting on the photos and even someone at the end said that she had tears in her eyes when she learned that we were at the end of our trip and is that is it still going on this process or have you finished everything we're still responding to a few messages that we get but from tomorrow we are off on new adventures yet really. what was prague like probably was great i had already been to easy i had already been but it was a great way to re-experience the city and we took a free walking tour which is something we would really recommend to discover new cities or maybe learn new things about somewhere you've already been and the last part of your trip i saw a picture of it i'm still fishing for plastic yet it is about all so what else. for this is new for everyone but i got married to an answer them right for one day for that's part of

a tour initiative that's called on tourist amsterdam and the principle is you meet locals and you spend the day together doing things that are good for the city and so we went in for a honeymoon yeah. now you're divorced i'm divorced over time but then every divorce now one of the great things about traveling is you meet local people. what was the impression of your fellow europeans oh we met a lot of young europeans and what we found was a lot of people enthusiastic about europe open to people from other parts of the continent and really happy to be able to share common values common interests and just get to know each other better and. finally introduced me very popular in my day it's also popular slow travel would you do it again yes or not yes absolutely yeah yeah well it's been great having you here thanks for popping in and have a rest now and. if you want to see bora all the

videos are on facebook at d w culture now we continue our journey around europe in our series on island hopping not so easy to get to by train this one jersey is just off the coast of france but much to the chagrin of the french part of the british isles also its microclimate is special which makes the flora and fauna quite unique . on the largest of the channel islands the pace of life is allegedly overlooking the harbor of gori is mont or guy castle a jersey landmark. another historic spot is vincent estate samurai mana. one of the most diverse herb gardens in europe. some parts of the manor house are open to the public. along with the estate vincent all but inherited the title of sin you're

a feudal the island is officially ruled by any of the but the 2nd not in her capacity as queen of the united kingdom but as head of the duchy of normandy jersey is actually independent of which in a complicated situation historically has been your enjoyed some unusual hereditary privilege aids. i used to have the right to shoot rabbits. regions. my wife if she. had a child had the right to be taken to church for a touching ceremony. on a horse to be provided by the priest all these things are very obscure but the rights and privileges that were attached to the mother the island is lush and green thanks to frequent rain but the climate is mild an ideal combination for passionate gardeners like judith to have a. good night's chaos is how she describes her garden which is open to visitors.

are trying to make the garden very natural and so that we're very much thinking about them the environment that we live in and how it fits into the poly and also trying to case are ready for the be on the different. but on the different. the garden is not very dodgy it contains $2500.00 different plants including numerous rare species judith cafes garden is indeed an award winning attraction it's a popular place for many of them even take a few gardening tips back home with them. i have to say if you've never been there jersey is a very special place everything sort of large slows down and jazz is for you no

moral no websites that. i'm lol all the girls journey as well as i said all web videos are on facebook culture that's it for now thanks for watching thanks to the crew here in berlin and thank you for joining us and join us again if you can at the same time tomorrow.

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the answer from germany no we will not be a part of a u.s. led naval mission to protect shipping in the strait of hormuz an act of defiance that reveals more weakness than stream america's reliance on germany is suddenly not what it used to be neither is europe's reliance on itself last week a european led naval mission was floated for consideration tonight that idea has apparently been sunk to break off in berlin this is the day. the german governments will not participate in the naval mission that was proposed by the united states so the. cool thing to tell you right now we are examining this proposal in close cooperation with france and great britain and for the guard do you believe the strategy of maximum pressure israel. to together with france and

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germany today said no no to a request by the u.s. to take part in a naval mission to protect shipping in the strait of hormuz now this is a slap in the face for the trump administration but it comes as no surprise because germany has said repeatedly that there would be no new tensions with iran if the u.s. had not withdrawn from that iran nuclear deal germany's act of defiance is also a clear one a firm no to a naval mission led by the u.s. well what about a naval mission led by europe last week the u.k. proposed just that but its new prime minister and government apparently consider a naval mission off the coast of iran without u.s. military muscle to be a nonstarter and idea that germany apparently best not share apparently tonight we simply don't know 1st here is what the german foreign minister said earlier today.

trying to get definition we do not want to join the united states atrocity of maximum pressure we do not want any further escalation and 2nd is needed we must recognize that there are incidents that need to be dealt with the british government will say again later today how it intends to deal with this we have agreed that germany france and great britain will coordination very very closely on this issue but time is this by d.m. teams so there you have the german foreign minister clear about that no to a u.s. led naval mission and not so clear about what germany france and the u.k. could possibly do together or today germany's new defense minister left the door open we don't know exactly to what take a listen. gather with france and great britain and germany has done everything in the past and the present to achieve a diplomatic and complete solution in iran. in the i'm called and.

like other international partners we now have a 1st rough proposal so to speak from the united states about the possible mission . and we're currently examining these requirements in close consultation with great britain and france and we're doing this in particular against the background of our political and diplomatic objectives. in this are how to make sense of all of this this is a transatlantic story and that is how we are covering it tonight. political correspondent kate brady she joins me tonight from here in berlin and across the pond helen humphrey joins me from washington d.c. to both of you welcome let me start with you berlin says no to washington has there been any reaction from the trumpet district. not as of yet brant and i wouldn't expect there to be any swift reaction for the simple

reason that it's the idea of not dignifying that know from the slap in the face with a swift response just you know writing it off as small fry because i think at the end of the day there is now the sense here in washington that the united states will go ahead with it this naval mission where the burden is on board or whether berlin is not on board as we are now say seeing i think the problem for the german government may likely have been in terms of the wording the devil is in the detail i think for and that request from the united states because the united states called on berlin to secure shipping in the strait of hormuz but they also called on them to combat iranian aggression were of course then germany to give into that i'm essentially they would have been condemning iran's actions at the same time you know engaging in something which is labeled as putting them on a collision course then with techron at a time of course when germany has such

a differing view and it stance towards iran desperately trying to nudge the iranians back into the parameters of that carefully negotiated to 2015 nuclear deal at the end of the day though i think whether this u.s. mission is patrolling all of the high seas or perhaps even something more perhaps a move of politic i think it's fair to say that we will see washington now proceed and go forward rather swiftly and killed or what about germany you know this does look like a slap in the face delivered by germany to the united states. it certainly could be seen that way particularly given that german defense rely so heavily on the us but at the same time this really isn't a surprise if you look even at the wider picture here out of outside of this particularly situation that we find ourselves in right now germany is always very reluctant to partake in any kind of combat military operation any kind of

involvement there at all and has been that way for many decades and for some time now it's very it's be much more of a helping hand than an active participant so there's absolutely no appetite here in germany to really get involved in a very robust hams on role particularly in a u.s. led mission and berlin simply doesn't want to see its forces led by the u.s. particularly in in this very fragile and very what could be explosive situation right.