it's this up in front of cheering crowds on closely by bangkok which burst into coming up at the stroke of midnight. in tokyo shoe boy a district there were no fireworks but plenty of people crammed into the city's most famous rock crossing when told a nice save more than a 100000 just. 2 go up today to a mall on the website of course to talk more of the top of the top of a defect the phone. call of the adventures of the famous naturalist and explorer. 2 celebration clicks on the front it's 250th birthday we're embarking on a voyage of discovery. expedition voyage on t.w.

. looking forward to whatever design this car deserves a place in paradise. lost to the south joe. papp love. me i'm going to do it. with all my truck still going at a 6000000 kilometers i spend more time caring for him and then my family acted up on me.

i love my only one 1st car here because it's a good car for the people only hear it on for a poor country boy like me. that. mercedes khans them every day classics chorus from the latter part of the last century in germany they're now collector's items but in north africa and latin america many are still in use as were courses helping people earn a wage. this is the mother church every year hundreds of thousands of car fans make the pilgrimage to stuttgart and the control center of mercedes.

more than 130 years of automotive history are on display in the resale he spends museum. among the 160 vehicles on display are legends like the 300 s.l. . prototypes that never went into production. and silver arrows that made motor racing history. the museum also boasts regular road going models from yesteryear restored to tip top condition and available for sale assuming you're ready to spend the price of a new car on a 40 year old model the stroke 8 is the germans called the new generation w one 114115 was launched in 1968. the egyptians called it can see it a piglet of all things because that's what they thought it looked like. tare class

is a taxi driver he drives a mercedes $200.00. cairo on the nile the biggest city in africa on the longest river in the world. tariq is a very special taxi driver his clothes are stylish as his car. his 59 his mercedes only 25 years younger. he's been driving a cab for almost his entire working life. tariq is not keen on new cars he calls them plastic cars that i sift. you know in addition to have a very crazy you know sometimes they like. it i feel as. if you're

having to see i have a very good stuff did anybody catch me. is that libby is not happy but me knowing the full might. just throw what. i like to see with his right. leg starting more people here. was in don't be able and. the ability to love is like this particular. and to beautiful one is like watch and sometimes be able to tell it like look the sudden shift that's got to be in the same exist. is going to. sharm el sheikh and st catharines monastery for half a day's drive from cairo and like the pyramids the popular tourist destinations. but the city itself is a juggernaut it has $20000000.00 inhabitants but hardly any so. or tramlines

public transport is minimal if you don't want to go by foot here you need a car or taxi. cab. there are over 50000 cabs in cairo. but drivers like tariq are now a rare breed because the state subsidizes new taxes that have catalytic converters . egypt is fighting pollution a huge problem especially in cairo. the aim is to banish dirty older models. tariq has to keep his 200 running because there's no chance he could register and another old mercedes as a taxi. for him a worrying prospect. of leaving. it plus the. news. of. the bugs agenda every few months for months i like to

change that. to assist. with that is that it just would be. 8 years but from time to time torak does still have to take his mercedes to the garage. after all it has about half a 1000000 kilometers on the clock. the trunk lid is jammed a minor problem and one that's quickly fixed was torics 200 is one of the last in cairo but in the nile delta he says there's a city full of old mercedes models 50 years after the new generation series came out. it was. designed mats dispensed around the front to. so i'm afraid the.

carbons and thousands more that. you're starting to fork out your fork. them from going to test me for long in the boxes. maybe under that none let's run through would include. the berms and the fish grams and yes mother. that's a dispenser on the fence which i know. so perfect your. in

the mercedes museum there's an entire area dedicated to the stroke 8 and its successors they're called every day heroes the bread and butter cars that once guaranteed mercedes sales. along with the mass produced cars there are a few very special models in the exhibition. such as this italian stroke model repurposed as a hearse for some passengers final journey. the successor model was known internally as the w 123. mercedes produced $2700000.00 units almost half of them were exported from germany to $173.00 countries at 1st customers would have to wait up to 3 years for delivery it was replaced by the w 124 this. portuguese diesel powered taxi has driven

1900000 kilometers not that you'd know it. the w 124 has long been a collector's favorite. in the southern german town of putting the w 124 club holds its final minutes of the year in late summer a chance for members from the streetcar region to meet their colleagues from various the club has just under a 1000 members throughout germany and those who have just 1124 are in the minority

in the world of course there was always a bit of snobbery involved when it comes to driving cars from a time when emissions were hardly an issue. that. we have to prove a convertible it was a dance 6 cylinders 8 cylinders 4 cylinder diesel the whole range. i just enjoy driving and i've always loved cars line on t.v. for me this is a wolf in sheep's clothing there isn't alls and people wouldn't look twice if it said 200 diesel on the bag. but then you hit the gas pedal hard more cars because they got smoked. so. their card doesn't give much away never mind the bobble head or the missing name badge their numbers a 4.2 leader v 8279 horsepower top speed 250

kilometers per hour. at 30 year olds rocket. but the $124.00 also has its weaknesses says a russian is an issue with our device anyone looking at these cars to avoid one with visible russia because there will be an endless money pit. rust isn't an issue with these cars here nor is jealousy. have you sometimes suffered from your husband's will be lived. not as such he's always been a petrol head in france i bet it's also his job. i also like to drive fast or at least i used to there was hobbies than this escape your motherhood he said this is. his own 1120 four's they sold one recently it basically packed it in on all fronts

after half a 1000000 kilometers their phone was ringing off the hook. so they were all people from lebanon and jordan who take apart these cars and take them back home because importing complete vehicles into these countries is no longer possible to import foreign complete foxworth avoiding diesel indonesia since these cars are still on the road they're not they need the parts and here in germany there aren't many left so when a car is sold for parts it's the man does he. just because it. is always on the lookout for spare parts larby was born in morocco and has been living in stuttgart for 40 years he drives a 986 w 124 wagon. you can still get new parts for my car and you can also get parts on e bay or from a scrap yard the cars not so well that you can't get spare parts anymore. as

he sometimes comes up with the goods as easy usually sells whole cars used models in the low cost segments that are easy to repair many of them end up here into roughly through other countries but exporting to larby is native morocco is becoming difficult. they must not be older than 5 years and this car is very old no chance of it entering morocco. many countries have similar import restrictions environmental factors are increasingly important but used car dealers are resourceful. a trader might show up let's say from egypt 20 plus vehicles takes them apart puts them in a shipping container transport them to egypt then puts them together again and sells them as normal cars. or they welded well yes yes. that's one solution what is imported is not a whole used car but 2 halves considered spare parts larby is planning

a trip to casablanca in his native morocco by car 3000 kilometers as the crow flies from start cart. one last check before the trip as the neighbors look on. marvie as a trained car mechanic and worked for decades in a mercedes contract still ranch house he knows the 124 inside out here just how old is it now i don't race 31. even so the cars are flawless that you can come with me in morocco there's enough space that's going. to be offered cars as a bit too much of a surprise for paper base neighbor. it's the plague if you bought it so i'll show you some pictures of morocco. just to look at the whole car park is just w $123.00 taxis but they're really sturdy that's just. why this is because of and

that is casablanca downtown or you see only 123 several where no matter where you look. the payback should imo morocco just gets more beautiful every time i go there. it's my home after all you know i love. casablanca and industrial and commercial metropolis on the atlantic home to 4000000 people and morocco's largest city. and its largest hometown. he grew up in the damp sometimes neighborhood. he comes to visit once a year sometimes he comes alone sometimes with his wife and 2 sons marvie

retired a few weeks ago in the future he plans to come to morocco not just for a few days but for a few months each year for. the . local black people want to rocco is still my home but since my roots are here that's where germany is my 2nd home to where i earn my living. so both morocco and germany have become my home and i cannot live without either of them to the. credit city. so is this. that's why every year he

drives from one country to the other and back again with this mercedes which looks perfectly at home in morocco whereas in germany it almost seems like a relic from times past. metsi to spin for decision even for the going to. be you know you meet the bear to discuss a wife and the theme is that when the. her is it hard to feel no use to feel by the books and if you. want to not need to feel a need some of it and it was originally permissible. now some believe that your thought should snuff a little bit of an automobile both for the number of issues. on their lives each we feel is

a good model. to have folks getting. back in casablanca the w 124 like the one larby drives is considered almost a new car here not least due to the price. the cityscape is dominated by the preceeding 123. its nickname in morocco is the white shark. they're mostly used as call taxi which are generally booked for longer trips. they work according to the principle of shared taxi. driver starts when the car is full. most call taxi are mercedes 240 diesels. yes you did that this was. modern competitors are catching up vans made by rhinos no prized romanian brand dacha are picking up the pace here. but the passengers swear

by mercedes and the mercedes taxi driver says wait here for customers to moroccan style relaxing with a glass of coffee or a look at. that document who may is 59 years old and has been a taxi driver for almost half his life as he drives daily from casablanca to el gato his native village about an hour away he travels 4 to 500 kilometers every day on his taxi seats up to 6 passengers 4 in the back 2 in the front of the building locksmith also drives a diesel the fuel is cheaper than gasoline in america and ahmed white shark uses around 8 leaders per 100 kilometers that's hardly any worse than a new car. those of. us who do what you i looked at some new colors but i didn't like them. compared to

mercedes or liability is downright ridiculous. that in the mercedes you can drive even 2 or 3000 kilometers without worrying about whether you'll break down in the desert or somewhere. of that. you'll always get where you're going. all of your adult. hard to believe if you take a closer look at other myths car it is after all 36 years old. mom it does not know how many kilometers it's clicked the a doll matter is broken. up leading. to the good. life like your dream of. if we see him on the lookout for spare parts.

replacement spit on matter perhaps larby article can help his parts warehouse has nearly everything especially for the 240 diesel the most common model here but every year it gets harder to find used parts 10 years from now larby says there won't be anymore. he can still get a lot of parts from europe from cars that have been in accidents or were scrapped every 3 to 4 months he receives a delivery by ship the last one came a month ago and has almost been completely sold on. unfortunately this white mudguard which i could use comes from the wrong car the successor model. and then there's a problem with ahmed's 123 it's leaking water but it's not a cracked hose it's something much worse the thermostat housing is corroded the surface all eaten away what's needed is

a new part but that cost several $100.00 drams or he can try the garage across the street. what follows is an introduction to moroccan improvise ation involving advanced aluminum welding the welding wire comes from an old alternator housing and it's all done freehand. after a few minutes the corroded hose connectors are welded. to the ground off the excess material. thank you. now they only need to put together a seal and the thermostat housing can be reinstalled. the entire repair takes half an hour and cost around $6.00 euros. comments mercedes is good to go.

in morocco a lot of people live with all the receipts and make a living off them but if the all forwards have their way that won't be the case for much longer by other countries peraino is fighting air pollution the state pays taxes drivers half of the purchase price if they buy a new car even so most cannot afford to replace their vehicles and cannot get a bank loan for us meant a new car is out of the question. will be the last one to get rid of the car repairs the truth no way am i treating it right. that's because the car provides his income and his family's. off med can afford an apartment in one of the better neighborhoods of casablanca he lives here with his wife and daughter and his mother in law and her nephew. his son lives in new york where he too works as

a taxi driver but it's not easy pays the equivalent of 2 months earnings just for the job training for his daughter ayesha she wants to become a flight attendant a job where you have to know people are met says nothing happens in morocco without the right connections. she. life is expensive and difficult for taxi drivers. nothing is provided for you here health care or unemployment pensions. these are all things that we have to cover ourselves. already told very little. morocco is a country in transition agriculture phosphate mining and tourism are the pillars of the economy as is illegal hasheesh farming. morocco is

a monarchy the king is as popular as he is powerful he holds sway over the economy. even so unemployment is high one quarter of the population cannot read or write. security and stability take precedence over freedom of expression and the right to demonstrate. document could have been a government employee for life as a police man but after 2 years he decided it was not his true calling. that. i saw too much inequality but no democracy too many things i didn't like. to

focus that's why i turned to the profession but it's fascinated me since i was a boy driving a taxi. simple as that. doing his dream job for 25 years now always in the same car this is this same for me this old mercedes is my faithful companion the one who is if i really admire you i would like to stay with her till the end of it there's. the good to be a mosque one of the iconic landmarks of morocco. the red city morale. close pearl of the south more than a 1000 years old and one of the 4 royal cities mark ash. the city is surrounded by a wall 19 kilometers long it once offered protection against bandits who threaten

to take merchants goods for their lives but it was a perilous time which explains the name of the city. does it it's made up of 2 arabic words more kush you go fast or if you the area around america it was very dangerous and the caravans had to pass through it quickly you put the old city ramparts in the towers provided security for the caravans not one of the couple as did the ins catering caravans not once because they all had big gates and more kush go fast but to the name america shushan that is what i couldn't stop. talking lexie are known as the city like the back of his hand not least the souk the bizarre and marc cash with its 10000 traders hakim is a tourist guide he speaks english german and french the 2nd official language in morocco the biggest contingent of tourists here come from france followed by spain

and germany practically everything on offer here is aimed at visitors from abroad but hakim says 99 percent of the products in the souk are produced in morocco and many right here in the us are. traditional handicrafts instead of cheap copies from abroad this benefits local producers and ensures traditional techniques of work. arnold last. talking the tourist guide is 45 years old that happens to have

a doctorate in science he studied into sold or if but instead of researching he shows tourist to city. business and bus you want that's what it's always been a passion of mine and i like to show my country to people because i have seen that many people from europe like germany do not have the right image of our of out the rich they can do buttons with us and. that's why he also offers tours of parts of the old town where tourists rarely venture the mark of the moroccans just around the corner from the shiny facades of the modern tower blocks. hakim's main message is that morocco is a liberal country including in religious matters he calls it islam lite. fundamentalist islam he says is not very popular here. all this bakery

does is take the customers mix they don't themselves the baker just pushes it into the oven. mara cash is hot even in october temperatures reach 35 degrees celsius so almost no one has their own oven. i. but prosperous tourists sometimes encounter the poverty here. a friend of hakeem new haleigh sells paper tissues she is 14 years old although school is compulsory in morocco she has never attended because she has to help support her family. her dream job. to the doctor. mara cash a city of contrasts in the manifold ways. this was on the news

a start to what's special about this city is that the modern and the ancient lived side by side of the one in desert you can see traditional wife and modern life together that live until you might find a really old door from the 14th or 15th century and next to it is an i phone 7 or 8 i phone zubin or the i phone. it's a similar scenario with taxi alongside old. one horsepower versus $150.00 you also have mercedes models of all ages alongside their modern rivals. and as everywhere rule number one is 1st come 1st served usually. give the most but i think there are always disputes here but after that everything's

fine again emissions. because people intervened and they helped the others to reconcile the next day is a new page. in mara cash taxes have to wait outside the old town due to the narrow streets and alleyways and the city's most famous square gym a elf not a good nest the world heritage site is in any case off limits. it's where you'll find the jugglers snake charmers musicians artists fortune tellers the sellers of miracle cures and street traders. one meaning of. is assembly of the dead as it was once the venue of executions. in april 20th levon the square saw a new tragic loss of life when a terrorist attack killed 17 people. today the tourists are back enjoying the squares flare especially after sundown.

at 5 o'clock in the morning mohammad wipes the last grains of dust from his 124 the most common taxi model and mark ash. he then sets off south for seti fatma in the atlas mountains. i. know how it's diesel powered car has more than a 1000000 kilometers on the clock it's only a little younger than its driver leave the valley is an insider's tip among tourists and a popular destination for the locals less than an hour from our cash. there's

a great appreciation for water in areas north africa the restaurants and bars along the way offer a special feature getting your feet wet. i but life in the mountains is tough with farming very limited many people here look for work in mark hash others get left behind especially unmarried women. this is painstaking manual work 1st the nuts are peeled then the hard shell is cracked and finally the omen shaped kernels are ground up this is how our gun is created the oil so beloved of the global cosmetics and food industry and its production provides many women with a small income. a number of cooperatives have been founded in the already cavalli they employ widows divorced women and single mothers the argonauts only grow in the

south of morocco in the audio region but the oil is extracted here from 30 kilograms of nuts the women can produce one liter of oil the full there is upset that the 1st reason to do it by hand is that it preserves tradition. in morocco you do everything with your hands. the 2nd reason is to maintain the quality because when you do it with machines that oil will not be good for very long. alone. it's sold locally either as cooking oil in which case the nuts are 1st roasted to remove bitterness or as a cosmetic oil. moroccan swear by it because it makes the skin so soft. and mohamed brings the customers here in his taxi. said the fat man lives in the valley at the foot of the high atlas it's 1500 residents are berbers who

lived in the atlas before the region's arab ization in the middle ages. for mohamed this is literally the end of the road the inhabitants cannot afford a taxi any way they walk or take many buses then to models made by mercedes. if you want to go further up into the mountains as a tourist you have to look for a driver with an s.u.v. in this case it's a land rover looking back down on seti fatma in the fertile river valley. the atlas is the highest mountain range in north africa. it's an inhospitable area the highest peaks are in excess of 4000 meters the 1st snow already falls in october. and there are only a few villages in these parts but people keep sheep and goats. on some of the steep

slopes they've created terraces for farming whoever can leave here does so to look for a job in the city. perhaps as a taxi driver. we're now back in egypt driving along the nile delta. tariq the taxi driver from cairo is on the way to that small city full of old mercedes coos. looking was it does feel good. because it's it so people here believe. that god knows how you. judge a guy. his looks they might stay in. the market square

in fact who says also the main stop for the share taxis some are over 50 years old in addition to that stroke age the w 110 known as the fin tail is omnipresent. and it was 1st built in 1961 the rare long wheelbase mercedes models are especially popular with 3 rows of seats for 7 passengers. or in this case 11. despite appearances everything is organized precisely here and runs according to a strict set of rules and it's the coordinators job to ensure this. the system here is that every car going to be higher take 6 passengers the fare is

5 pounds of $25.00 euro cents. it's simple never gets there 1st those who register 1st that's pretty handy ali has had a fin tail for 27 years twice a day he drives to 80 kilometers away the taxi is his only source of income but he's not doing badly county has 2 houses 2 wives and 5 children 2 of whom are currently at college. in this city everyone loves the most eighty's cars because most eighty's is a german product but under tough car. mercedes are great the shops he is strong and it can withstand a lot of. the cars developers were convinced of this almost 60 years ago he. gave this he. hated bush learned.

kilometer. 0. 00. that would make them you know later. finished. finished in an automobile and. it isn't the place to. get so i love it when they see. and problem with the school kind of. i. fers roots right found a group your post made. to this link. and i'm leaving the object. and wish that this when they get forensics don't you know me. they had the in months in good family can see through it in childhood so i'm going

to. tariq the taxi driver from cairo has problems with his engine it could be due to the poor quality fuel in egypt there's a tight network of repair workshops in fact coos but of course they specialize in mercedes. repairs are made in tiny workshops mechanics make spare parts with self-made templates original spare parts are too expensive so you have to improvise . somehow they always manage to keep the veterans alive cuckoo swell probably remain a mercedes city for a good few years. and secure the livelihood of countless taxi drivers and mechanics but eventually the almost indestructible stroke tails will have to be retired. perhaps they will then be replaced by the successor models the 123124. but

someday it will all come to an end new cars have too many electronic parts for the inventive repair artists here some of these work forces might then make the return journey to germany as sought after collector's items. play. a. game over us of the european dream. it's meant to be a community of freedom without borders. but on the continent discontents is on the wrong side. going to laura was away at the next level of.

cuts made in germany 90 minutes w. . this is the news live from berlin the countdown is on to the stop of the new decay bilin is about to welcome the 20 twentieth's with a fireworks display at the brandenburg gate we'll go there live in just a moment some russians of course have already taken place from oakland to at.

a math and how it will come to the show i believe is about to bring in the new year so let's take you live to the count down at the brandenburg gate tens of thousands have been waiting here there's a live pictures from the brain a big guy with. interest the mixing so welcome in the new year and the new decade we have a list of been waiting here for the fall display in 10 seconds or on the countdown some of them old by the gates to this area have been shot since i. already to not to prevent overcrowding and this is the moment. that we have welcomed in a new you happy new year thoughts and welcome to a new day. tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of people come to this place every year after a 1.5 kilometer stretch of the avenue that runs through the brandenburg gate has been blocked off for the party hundreds of thousands of. they've already witnessed some entertainment.