we begin with a beautiful story from afghanistan a country which as we're always hearing on the news is still struggling with the legacy of decades of war on terror a documentary called afghanistan is an unusual road movie about the search for the perfect wave in this war torn country after doing a movie grew up here in germany where he fell in love with surfing this incredibly positive guy now plans a project in which afghan children will learn to swim a maybe eventually get interested in finding the perfect way. seraphim this surfing is to surrender to the moment. kind of get down. to not think about what cause or what will come right for just experiencing.

fuel magic being at one with nature after do namu loves the sport so much that he came up with a more dangerous idea to serve afghanistan. afghanistan a mountainous landlocked country this is where effort to namu and his surfing mates hope to drive the way to this is beautiful. it's an incredible journey ocean's surface has brought along 2 river wave surfers the plan to put afghanistan on the surfing map. there are many reasons why we made this trip to afghanistan but one of them is definitely all the joy the support i experienced when i took part in the world cup. but at once i wanted to bring to afghanistan. but it's not afghanistan.

fled at the age of 5 with his family to germany he studied law and worked as an expert in constitutional law but his passion is surfing the 32 year old trains in berlin with the surf skate board his aim to qualify for the 2020 olympics representing the country of his birth to afghanistan. and the afghanistan that i know is a beautiful afghanistan incredible unique landscapes and a hospitality that is 2nd to none. a mystic a spirituality that is ever present and with our trip we wanted to show this afghanistan. these are show that afghanistan is much more than war terror and suffering. and light the surface travel to the pangea valley one of the few regions that were not captured by the taliban appear in front of locals who have never seen

a surfboard before they plunge into the raging river. there were so many people around us children cheering us on rejoicing with us and giving us advice telling us where to go where we should try to serve so in the end it was just a euphoric experience the people were really celebrating what we were doing. and so thing as a passion it's with moments like these that the film also to live is something that we don't see in the news when it comes to afghanistan it shows a closeness to the people who live their lives despite poor and terror the search spirited as a moment of happiness so. i'm gonna miss what the afghans are sports enthusiasts sports crazy because during the time of the taliban 1996 to 2001 it was forbidden to do sports that's why there's a kind of counter reaction on all corners everywhere you can see people doing sport because the sport also provides the opportunity in

a way to forget about every day life i mean i guess. the attempts to conquer the waves becomes a spectacle again and again the surface fail but their efforts combined with the passion of the locals is rewarded the river specialist proved what had to be proved you can see in afghanistan. what amazing god the annual london design festival is an opportunity for designers to show off large format installations in various spaces in the british capital. this year there's a real interest in socio political topics like sustainability climate change a marine pollution in the wake of increasing worries about how we are not looking after our planet and indeed ourselves designers are coming up with inventive solutions. the insulation please be seated is the new is

worth of british design a pool called sage specially created for the london design festival. please the seed is about how can we create a different kind of. different moment you know and so it's a contrast in terms of kind of materials you know like this is steel and glass and structural and heights and verticality this is more softer materials the undulating installation fills the space completely without blocking it a place to relax for the people who work and wander in the area cuts it is being developing innovative design ideas in his studio since 2004 has created a number of large format installations providing an oasis of calm for people like this one in the atrium of an office block. is called a living staircase because it's a spiral of green and wood and everyone who moves in gets

a plant that they plant on the staircase and we've created almost like a garden where people can kind of look after the plants be around nature. this newest project please be seated is made of recycled materials the complex wood construction took 6 months to make erecting the new design for the festival took 5 days. another festival highlight to see things created by sam jacob the couponing a visitors to the victoria and albert museum ways a few times and is a visualization of the effect of plastic on the oceans. runs from 1900 the origins of commercial plastic production to 2050 which is a day that the macarthur foundation have predicted that if we carry on in the way that we've been haven been behaving as a society and that 50 percent of the oceans will be will be wasted. one solution is

offered by japanese architect can go he's installation is constructed out of bamboo and cotton and extremely robust building material the combination of regenerative and recycled will materials brings together innovative design and sustainability bringing large scale works that incorporate new thinking into public space is one of the top priorities for a festival director. way using these bigger scale installations in public places to have an impact the issue in london is there's too much going on and we kind of spoiled the cult of culturally and creatively and we're trying to fly the flag for design and tell a story and it's racial really help us do that. unfortunately cool cooksey just please be seated is only a temporary away since in the parceling scene when the festival is over it we packed up and taken to a new high and. the biggest beer festival in the world gets

underway in munich this weekend the october 1st actually always starts here in september and meanwhile there are fast replicas all over the world which begin well whenever it suits the various countries they're in and guess who has the biggest outside of germany china of course indeed it takes over a huge area of the port city of qingdao. for. a beer festival the very end through through what a chinese touched. the port an industrial city qingdao celebrates a tolbert fest every year several 1000000 guests come to this reproduction of the original grounds in munich and may look more or less authentic but it sounds quite different. i think it should oh beer festival is

the world's largest october fest knockoff. called to give me more to tell you john otherwise. this is the 10th time for it sends out working the chinese a tobar fast start it's the highlight of the year in your hometown. that it changed out their festival have a lot to me as a local i see the october fest here as our greatest pride actually it's the pride of all china it's not. like here's your beer that. 2017 sends our realize the dream of hers and went to the of tobar fest the new nick she still talks about the customs and traditions. but one thing impressed her above all else on that it was a little what surprised me most of all was the strong servers who can carry so much beer at once i saw one with 8 stein's at one time. beer is every bit

a part of ching does october fest every guest drinks a number just one these are almost as much as patrons of munich but you won't find any german brass music. loud speakers blare chinese pop you sick on lots of techno. the food is also adopted the chinese tastes the proper scones across a little bit sweeter and the grilled chicken has been replaced by octopus on a spit. over 1400 fridays of beer from all over the world are offered at the festival but the favorite by far is the local qingdao beer didn't but he's a piece of german chinese history. i been 897 the germans occupied the chinese city and developed it into a trading base 6 years after the germania brewery opened the germans themselves may

have not been popular in china but their beer certainly was still brewed according to the old purity law under the name change out. the beer that the coup or do resemble munich's october fest the lighting visitors from you with the original if you would i like the germans the atmosphere and spirit in germany are great and of course world famous german beer too i thought. that this is what i like most here is the beer on tap from jingo it tastes exactly like good it makes me feel like i'm in germany even though i'm inching down to what. the chinese celebrate direct fest in summer this year a total of $7200000.00 guests came departing reaches fever pitch in the evening the busiest time projectile coming of a 2 star. james o. works into the wee hours of the morning. even with its differences there's one thing the revelers at munich's and china's of tobar fest have in common they all

party like there's no tomorrow. serving enough gotta stop designed in the toba fest in china what more could you want many more stories on the website that d.w. dot com slash culture about so often i thank you for watching and for myself and all the crew here about it bob. the 1st. small circle in super big changes.

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