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slate. and i'm just going to go to ground news to tell you from the bottom of this person it's device and it's about topics that affect us all clinicians climate change and the turn. all of the shutout. hello and welcome to sun culture an extraordinary story about surfing in of all places afghanistan that's coming up also. imitations of the world famous october fest 3 found in all sorts of countries but none quite on the scale of the one in china. and we take
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a look at the best and brightest of british design on show at the london design festival. 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 unsung 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. just surfing is to surrender to the moment. kind of get done. last
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fall to not think about what was or what will come right for just experiencing. magic being at one with nature after dinner loves the sport so much that he came up with the notations idea to serve afghanistan. afghanistan a mountainous landlocked country this is where effort to namu and his surfing mates hope to ride the way to this is beautiful. but. it's an incredible journey ocean's surface has brought along to 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. and at
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that the ones i wanted to bring to afghanistan but it's not afghanistan when. i moved 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 a safe skate board his aim to qualify for the 2020 lympics representing the country of his birth afghanistan. one of 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. on light to
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surface travel to the pangea valley one of the few regions that were not captured by the taliban appear in front of locals who had never seen a surfboard before they climbed 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. 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 war and terror the search spirit as a moment of happiness so. i'm gonna support the afghans a sports enthusiast sports crazy because during the time of the taliban 1996 to
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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 that in the us and. the attempts to conquer the waves becomes a spectacle again and again the surface fail but there are 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 their large form art 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
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after our planet and indeed ourselves designers are coming up with inventive solutions. the insulation please be seated is the news worth of british design a pool called sage specially created for the london design festival. season sees 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 can wander in the area cox it has been 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.
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it's called the living staircase because it's a spiral of green and wood and everyone who moves in gets a plant that they prods 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 the rection the new design for the festival took 5 days. another festival highlight is seethings created by sam jacob the couponing of visitors to the victoria and albert museum weighs a few tonnes and is a visualization of the effect of plastic on the oceans. it runs from 1900 the origins of commercial plastic production to 2050 which is a day that macarthur foundation have predicted that if we carry on in the way that
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we've been haven been behaving as a society under 50 percent of the oceans will be will be wasted. one solution is offered by japanese architect can go kumar he's installation is constructed out of bamboo and cotton and extremely robust building material the combination of regenerative and recycled 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 been evidence 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're kind of spoiled culture 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 paul cox who just please be seated is only a temporary away says in the parceling scene when the festival is over it we packed
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up and taken to a new hire him. the biggest beer festival in the world gets underway in munich this weekend the october fest that she always starts here in september and meanwhile there are fast replicas all over the world which begin well whenever it suits the barrios 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. the beer festival the very in through through with the chinese touch the ports an industrial city qingdao celebrates a told her fest every year several 1000000 guests come to this reproduction of the bridgeville grounds in munich and may look more or less authentic but it sounds
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quite different. to shoot down beer festival is the world's largest october fest knockoff. to give me more to see john otherwise. this is the 10th time for it sends out working the chinese a tobar fest starts the highlight of the year your hometown. like the teams out there festival has a lot to me as a local i see the october sest here as our greatest pride actually it's the pride of all china it's not. like the dow here's your beer that. 2017 cents our realize the dreamers and wednesday of tobar fest the new york she still talks about the costumes and traditions. but one thing impressed her above all else on the to the well what surprised me most of all was the strong servers
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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 visa almost as much as patrons in munich but you won't find any german brass music. blood speakers blare chinese pop music on lots of techno. the food is also adopted the chinese tastes the prophets comes across a little bit sweeter and the grilled chicken has been replaced by octopus on a spit. over $1400.00 fridays of beer from all over the world are offered at the festival but the favorite by far is the local qingdao beer that embodies a piece of german chinese history. been 897 the germans
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occupied the chinese city and developed it into a trading base 6 years after the germania brewery opens the germans themselves may have not been popular in china but their beer certainly was still brew the cording to the old purity laws under the name change out. the beer in the decor do resemble munich's october fest the lighting visitors from what 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. for that is what i like most here is the beer on tap from jingo it tastes exactly like kurdish it makes me feel like i'm in germany even though i mentioned the what. the chinese celebrate there a tobar fest in summer this year a total of $7200000.00 guests came the parting reaches fever pitch on the eve of the busiest time for james out coming up a taste of. james o.
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works until the wee hours of the morning. even with its differences there's one. i think the revenue is up munich's and china's october 1st have in common they all party like there's no tomorrow. so again designed in the toba 1st in china what more could you walk many more stories on the website at v.w. dot com. but that's all for now thanks for watching and for myself and all the crew here about it. what keeps us from saying what makes us see. my name is dr carson the i talk to medical experts. and they discuss what you can do to in your head. stay choose and let's all
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