where the improbable. the creation of our solar system which is a bit like winning the lottery. what if earth were unique start september 18th on g.w. . this is news and these are our top stories u.s. president donald trump has announced that bahrain is the latest arab nation to normalize relations with israel the breakthrough is part of the u.s. push to fully integrate the jewish state in the middle east last month the united arab emirates also recognized israel under u.s. brokered deal. the u.s. is remembering the 2001 september 11th terror attacks commemorations have been scaled down because of the coronavirus democratic presidential candidate joe biden

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reopening the theaters and opera houses of europe is a challenging task in times of corona we'll check in with moscow's famous boys choice feodor and have a look at these stories. a new museum in amsterdam explores how human experience is all 3rd by new media and technologies with experimental multisensory installation. and 2 italian photographers publish an ode to the beauty and diversity of the humble chicken. for all it's proof once again that reopening measures must proceed very carefully indeed just days after moscow's legendary boys choice theater reopened in grand style with a production of giuseppe verdi as don carlos starring among others russian austrian diva and on a tear it was unfortunately abruptly canceled when one of the soloists tested

positive for the coronavirus so much for that but the company's ballet went ahead with its season premier. they're back on stage after forced break of almost 5 months this is this love love chart of 1st performance since the corona locked. together with the cats arena christened over. 40 dancers from moscow's legendary bolshoi russia's number one theatre and ballet. the 2 soloists are overwhelmed to be back on stage. and i suppose. it's the for us it's a huge thrill to get out of our apartments again and just be creative if you. just let it out which we have a jam packed schedule of performances so all the dancers even the carter ballet are

rehearsing several pieces a day. for the one act ballet for characters in search of a plot the bolshoi decided to forgo the opulence set this in an effort to have a few people as possible involved in the production. with over 1000000 people infected russia currently ranks 4th in the world for covert 1000 cases. the danger of contagion is ever present. theater staff know it could be months before a vaccine is made available and shalom with. the on the one hand we're overjoyed that we can kick off this season i just agreed. but we're also very concerned. because the virus is still an issues and we have to deal with the situation but stayed with the. dots here about that. for example the engagements of

4 choreographers who came in from abroad for the opening piece with borders between russia and the e.u. still closed getting to moscow wasn't easy was it is it i'm not sure what exactly happened but one day they called us and said come and then suddenly here we were. all 4 segments of 4 characters in search of a plot deal with the corona lockdown especially with ideas surrounding longing and closeness but also physical proximity which has taken on a whole new meaning for the dancers cheering the pandemic. at its doors we artists belong on stage we've missed it even just thinking about stepping out onto the stage gives me goosebumps. it's a choice just means we're alive so we're living again. the bolshoi theatre is daring to live again despite the harsh reality of the pentagon.

all of the amsterdam now and while the city is museums were closed during knock down a privately funded start up museum devoted to new media was busy preparing to open its doors as soon as regulations allowed for the next museum is meant to fill a gap in the cultural landscape with multisensory immersive installations by international new media artists but also by scientists and technologists and its inaugural show shifting proximities well run for about the next year full. powerful effects multimedia and interactive. amsterdam's new next museum is devoted entirely to digital art. the museum is founder of a postilion developed the concept to her a few years ago she found the ideal location for a project in the north of amsterdam

a former television studio. the marketing expert was able to win over a number of investors and make her dream a reality. i think we are totally obsessed with the future and with technology. like with everything that's new in technology it's evolving so rapidly that what we want to do is take. a shared take artistic science and mold them together music and really give you the experience of the future and also about topics of the future that you continuum installation by environmental artists tie spear staker visualize the subterranean communication between 2 trees 6 the simulation reacts to c o 2 output vibrations and temperature changes caused by the festers. you do it is a field that's emerging not only because of the navels people draw on the stuff. and other data streams a lot easier so did you are just just our new generation of. the

inaugural exhibition is called shifting proximities. it's really nice if you're in. the middle of the. set ritual of well meaning the sheer size of ships are so amazing although i'm not sure. it's a really neat experience and it goes beyond injectable to really it really touches you it is it touches me at. many points in a world where you can actually experience a. installations can't predict how the future will really look like. but visitors to i'm saddam's new museum could already immerse themselves in potential visions of a future. and melissa her. roy joins me to talk about this daring venture this is really fascinating melissa because it seems to me with this exhibition as a visitor that you're almost agreeing to be a bit of a guinea pig and you know with some of the installations here at least the next

museum office people more than just your average multisensory experience here visitors can be protectionists in a speculative experience which looks to the future it really stands on the edge of what we know and what we don't know and it asks you do you like what you see do you like where you are headed i mean in terms of where technique where technology is heading yes that's right i mean the exhibition space in general looks at the times we're living in and focuses on art that uses modern tools to explore these times one of the most interesting pieces in shifting proximities is a piece called biometric mira it was put together by siphon artist and body architect lucy mcrae together with action research in human computer interaction targeted kneels vow to realize your titles are in jobs like an algorithm analyzes you and basically tells you who you are your age your personality your agenda it

also spits out a more beautified version of you a more sane mean we should i think you can imagine what type of version it is the set up is deceptively warm and spongy there are questions on the side of the mirror and the whole thing is a very sort of tan and warm color it draws you in perhaps in the same way that technology draws us in bought the results of this type of technology of facial recognition can be also quite brutal this is it sounds incredibly intense it sounds almost invasive and in some ways perhaps a bit overwhelming yeah it is intense and there are rooms in between that sort of act as a sort of among other things this type of palate cleanser as they often visit is a break between the installations another installation on the thing is very interesting it explores the. relationship between people and the natural environment it's called habitat it's by mixed media artist hellene blanken and uses scans of organic artifacts to create

a game like medicines of environments the piece is responsive to the movement of visitors who can be seen reflected on the museum's floor with the environmental problems that we're facing habitat is not just a beautiful piece it's also a very loaded piece ok so the there definitely is the critical fight to the fix it's very very critical the exhibition pieces unpack today's issues and they do this by appealing to the experience of the visitors to a spirit by appealing to the emotions of the visitors so through their experience through actually going through this thing they become a part of the technology. yes so. so so with things like facial recognition and the environment we can understand the more readily by having the actual experience itself ok well let's hope that we can actually get to amsterdam physically to see this shifting proximities on at the next museum for about the next year thanks very much for bringing us that story and the whole roid

. oh most people start raising chickens in order to have fresh eggs and if you've ever been lucky enough to do this you'll know that they are indeed endlessly fascinating to watch and chickens can have quite a personality to italian photographers were also struck by the incredible variety of chickens and their new book is an ode to love between any 2 birds of a feather. proud self-assured and with elegant feathers. these words describe the ornamental chickens displayed in coffee table books by photographers matteo trying to leave and marino monte from milan they both openly admit they're fascinated with chickens and have even acquired a few of their own. their pets could just as easily struck the catwalk. it was love at 1st sight i never would have expected

a 40 chickens make very good motifs for their very photogenic and great and. they know right away what they're supposed to do but you don't have to explain it to them. they need hardly any make up from our experience in the advertising and fashion industries chickens are the best top models and the most natural. and they also seem to be the most patient they obediently follow whatever directions the photographers give them. for their latest project. posed to chickens each from one of a total 60 breeds as lovers chicken in love as the snappy though somewhat tongue in cheek title. the rooster may protect his hands but he doesn't have that great a reputation as a romantic lover. in the roosters the worst example and absolutely not

a role model when it comes to romance. oh fine doesn't do anything he doesn't produce anything the way and it dominates hundreds of hands we know definitely not politically correct any more about it works like it for. all biology being what it is we'll go now to physics and the celestial realm every year london's royal observatory selects the best photos of the universe for its annual astronomy photographer competition and will leave you with these impressions all of the heavens and all our best wishes until next time and be sure to stay safe .

time is said to be the place where happiness is at home protected by high mountains in the north and thick jungle in the south the country is the last kingdom in the himalayas the government's top priority is keeping its citizens happy that includes protecting pristine natural environments. the people who live according to their traditions. yet at the same time are connected to the outside world online. bhutan is located between 2 giants china and india nevertheless it's managed to chart its own course our journey begins far away from the capital in the remote

eastern part of the country or not much has changed in the last 100 years. 6 year old daughter is facing the biggest challenge in his life so far today he's going to leave his home and family. yeah that was. you can't do it.

it's the last morning doherty's mother is going to spend with him before he leaves for the monastery. of course i'm asked my son the belgian want to be in the way on his path to finding food or. i'll be sad for a few days. jungle do not get used to it and. a decision stand down. be a good boy and behave yourself at the monastery and study hard and eat 3 meals a day white our help after all this. i don't know what it's like in the monastery there are big buildings in the city

where. the money. it's time to go. george is journey to his new life as a monk begins. his parents and siblings won't see him for more than a year they may not even be able to speak to him before that. are. georgia he has never left his village before he's excited ahead of the 3 day trip and his 1st visit to the capital.

in the northern part of the country it's time to transplants the rice plants by plant the botany staple food is being moved from one paddy to another cracka and joking in a farmer grows a very special crop of flowers edible petals for salads risotto or salts mixes the business concept came from switzerland. virgin soils and pure air should guarantee talk level organic quality. we need the whole village to help us transfer all the seedlings from the greenhouse . my entire family helps to have your car when the corn flowers and marigolds we've

planted here start to bloom then will dry the flowers and send me to switzerland in which i brought this project to our village because it's fun for me to cooperate with young farmers to establish something that i never loved him along but it's really hard work so we don't know how these flowers will grow here that i'm with it and there's a lot at stake for me my children should be up to live from this to go on let's hear a little bit image looked at is out there with him and what the. turkeys villagers in the middle of who turns primeval forest bears leopards tigers and wild boar are constant threat to the farmers. who. just last year 14 cows was killed while grazing what if a tiger 5 years it leaves behind a toxin so the wind doesn't heal for a long time this winter here is more than a year old and when we would never kill a wild animal because that's a major sin in buddhism in uganda you know see we need to live with the wilderness and protect our animals and plants as best we can. the much ignored us

a bit more tonight it's took his father's turn on watch there's a tried and trusted old method that works best to get the wild animals off the rice paddies. the. chokey is expecting an important visitor and is making the national drink butter tea. first the chain then the butter and last the sound was that over the. daughter did you see that in the in the movie or that our flour project is 100 percent organic and a big opportunity for all of us in the village and if we used chemicals in our

fields that may be an advantage in the short term but over a longer period it will make a still our soils were dry ass and lose the nutrients. and do them no lucia illusion moving to organic is certainly good for our health but we're risking a crop failure that did not in how we will move to much of the set of everything we grow here will be worth more if the village is certified as organic we can get a bit of prizes for it. when you remember q we can use natural means to protect our plants but chucky's optimism is put to the task sooner than expected. why should such much in the financial moves of the plants the dying look this is why lance 18 the roots. every plant that's out and everything will be infested the look of the mill get rid of it.

but it's too late the red ants are already in the field. choky doesn't know what to do but giving up is out of the question. for you i'm going to talk to the local agricultural consultant in with us maybe he has a solution to work. and could you call our partners in switzerland to see if there are natural repellents there was a leg in the let me just talk a little quick are they going to be use of. us in the. more than half of all go to nice work the lands like turkey the country's goal is to maximize gross national happiness rather than just boost economic growth the

town is prioritizing the satisfaction of its people maintaining traditional culture and environmental protection every citizen is entitled to free education and medical care 70 percent of the times territory is covered with protected forests it's the only country in the world to find more c o 2 than it releases. the mountains are also sacred to the brittany's they're home to some of the world's tallest unconquered peaks this is the lie apps domain since ancient times these nomads have been hurting e.-x. more than $4500.00 metres above sea level near the tibetan border. at camp.

22 year old say walking is returning from a long trip and he's bringing the essential for the coming weeks. here it's men's work to provide the firewood and food the women stay home to care for the yanks because we can't earn any money here we have to go to the bigger villages to work. solar panels are used to generate electricity fires are used for cooking. and i'm going to do corpus or power on this we want our son to get the education that we

never had and then he can get a good job in the city. of manila if he doesn't do well at school they'll have to stay here in them and work just as hard as we do unless you have an aboriginal one . yax living in the wild don't eat enough signs so the herders are provided for them 7. and it's a no no did we give our yak salts and to keep them stronger and increase their milk production there are fewer and fewer yaks because in the warmer climate if you do they become ill more quickly as you know you just besides they're not really making us any money and we earn a living these days mainly by transporting of rain with horses and gathering and selling rare or for mushrooms that only grow here in the little monkey moved up a new dog you will.

see one loves bollywood music is mobile phone doesn't have reception on the mountainside so before he sets off he always downloads the latest hits entertaining old and young alike. that's enough i need to pack. for the good of the. pain still known as the traditional handicrafts and can weave yak wall into fabric

to be sold. for one again 200 i didn't mean that i grew up with the yes and i like living here and my only problem is that i don't see enough of my husband to me to think of it most of the time my mother grandmother and i are on our own as an intern and my say one is often a wife weeks i can't even call him on the phone and even though he has just come home and is already going back out to search for mushrooms. i hope he finds a lot at least 91. 0. that's why i'm going. way up in the mountains. i want to come to. you're too brittle to come along.

save longs in for a long climb the treasured mushrooms only grow way up in the himalayas it will taken 2 days just to get there. was. unlike say why many young niece head for the city around 20 percent of the population now lives in the capital. the city is one of the fastest growing in southeast asia the internet and television arrived at pretty much the same time 20 years ago since then the town has been changing fast.

however police still direct the flow of traffic there are no traffic lights. georgie is making a stop in temple his father wants to buy him a warm jacket there for the monastery this. is really it will be very cold at the monastery there are no smaller sizes. ok we'll take it. in another part of the city doherty's future abbott lama non-gay is getting ready for the new start of the money asked ikey here he's on a big shopping expedition and you could put that with the rest of giving. his budget is tight even though the monastery receives public funding lama non-gays striking a hard bargain. how much is the spinach $25.00 for this. when

i was young the monks just stayed in the monasteries the people visited them and brought them food but it hasn't been that way for quite some time we've got to go shopping here every week the new year starts the day after tomorrow at my monastery around 80 monks are coming back from vacation and we're expecting a lot of new children it's the most hectic time of the year for me when he did that in like you know how much 60. you've got to eat less now otherwise it's too expensive what about this. number more nice tie that up and we'll meet at the bottom of the path can you see a monastery up there at the top it may snow soon. set off so the 1st load can be

put up the horses. on the pick up slow to queue and the 2nd one is leaving right away. they've almost finished now the purchases just have to survive being carried up the mountain on horses it's a 3 hour climb to the monastery. for the where the rest of the horses. here i told him and they should start loading the horses but nothing's happened he turned not listening to us so. i think it's time for lama non-gay to take charge. he has something else good.

ok did you tell him without me if you go through. the window now what. about the i pod you do now it's snowing hard up on the mountain there are monastery if we go up now with the horses the snow will soften the load these horses can't go up there anymore today and the other half aren't even here yet i don't know what i should do if i need to get up there today to prepare for the monk's arrival. underwood it's giving me a headache. on a head. so what i do know. lemon i'm gay hence up without the horses ok we're going see it tomorrow you get the horses are supposed to go up the next day weather permitting go arrive just in the nick of time.

again it's time for journey back into the past to the valleys of central baton were time seems to have stood still. for i don't know hey i'm a of the children over here in the loft no no yeah when they're up and making breakfast i hope they're making my rice and tea with milk was that ok about. now i'm 73 years old and still have to do all the work myself. it was the wrong i didn't finish and yeah i'll stop complaining but the kids found

good jobs in their city and we're still here to look after the farm the children are happy and we are so you know they had been the one not. to move villages in such a high spot that our cows don't produce enough milk but still we take care of them every day give them quality feed what we're going to grow much and we live from it but it's hard work. you know what i'm not one no not going to long. was long was where here we'll do it and when we're not around anymore hopefully our children will. then i hope so too after all these cows paid for their education. drive the cows over here. i'll take them out to pasture no. doubt we would all go to the young archers from our village challenge me to take

part in a tournament here on your festival you know i think i'll join in again this year if you would view as good you would love them to feel good and i'm worried at your age when you still compete in your eyes and really bad you could shoot someone with the arrows no worries i can still do it legally it is such a brag. war zone unemployment you know this is a very special feather from a bird in our forest when the young arches see this all they are going to say wow. we do not. know if i got to use a thread to attach it to but then i'll put on a metal tear by dipping the point in rub alaca i don't sing it with i know i know it is not a drug. war it's got to be as straight as can be. otherwise

the arrow won't hit the target. or start going through but everyone will laugh at me what's this old man doing here but i'll show them. ok i don't need to look good for the festival otherwise they'll say i'm too old. then that won't interest anyone that you are. it was. up to me tomorrow's the big archery tournaments. i heard you want to take part in all the. years i do that you've kidded around with me long enough on the wrong

i was already knowing on bones when you were still just drinking milk. to me i didn't know. what. winter is coming it's high time to harvest the rice. choky too is seeing the 1st fruit of her labor the farmers have to scupper that name tree oil is a natural tool for warding off the plague events. i have been spraying their fields with it regularly i totally mobile homes crushes there are no ads here anymore and

over there most of them are going to cut a lot of burst marigolds are starting to bloom the bill but we're worried because the organic farm inspector is coming from india today to see if it was metal the standards are going in a minute the need to. use the if they haven't used chemicals well i don't know if nina oil is really ok that it is the kind of illegal machine. this is choking the head of the farmers groups. and this is one chalk she's a part of the team. she didn't really want to see which seed to use when i was a plant you've got growing here and the different substances your treat the plants where it is who he wants to see records of your daily work and so push i was no no no no longer than the old who have to earth as you do there's any risk of contamination from the neighbors you understand that but yes of. all the.

inverse they take soil samples near the neighbor's property line then if you from the middle of the field. they mix the samples which are sent to india to be tested for pesticide contamination. then the moment of truth what about the neem oil. what you've used. your new formulation is acceptable but before using it it is good that there are good result 'd if you. see those ok you can do it. but it's a good story. there. you get good news for me i live with that if i'm really very

curious to see the soil test results that's how you book the day if the results are positive choky spahr will be the 1st e.u. certified organic farm in all of bhutan. on the roof of the world at more than 5000 meters above sea level same long as looking for a quarter seps mushrooms which are said to have healing properties. going to do is deny needed to take out a 3000 year old loan to keep us above water for the next half year. in that money's got to come back and now. i hope i find enough to do it with and i do you think

it's you. who want to it's only for you could find the fungal everywhere because a few people know of their healing properties now you've got to go up higher to find them. everyone here knows how much money you can get for them and even people who have long since moved to the city are coming back now because only people who live in the highlands are allowed to gather the mushrooms and one time it changes also contributing to them becoming more scarce. even. though it's a day i'm not going to find anything like it isn't on my side there's. great time the harvest a small the 3 caterpillar mushrooms are worth about 15 euros. i

found one of. if they're going with this is the legendary quarter subs medicinal mushroom beneath the soil the parasitic fungo infests a caterpillar caterpillar dies and the mushroom grows through on to the surface we harvest this strange mix of caterpillar and fungus so. good going to move though i'm going to learn for every thing which i don't i don't know i don't the baby does that as i'm in the outside of bhutan people use them as

medicine. especially to make men strong. it gives us a really good income and that's why there are still young people here near them would have to pay and that's a no vote and. there that's enough and some highlanders can now even afford to take a helicopter taxi to go shopping in the capital for them for it was a mile from the garden and. through and you. say wang will need to spend many more weeks searching in order to pay back that loan. little georgie and his father are beginning the last day of their journey they're starting the climb to lama non-gays monastery at an altitude of over 3000 metres. what could be more tell me when you get tired.