measures are being taken. what is the latest research so. information and context. the coronavirus an update to the code special monday to friday on w. these pretty seals might look adorable but they can be quite dangerous we will show you where you can observe germany's biggest predator in the wild. i want to welcome to a new edition of your own max with me your host meghan lee here's a look at what else we have in store for you today. see why is this artist is

making a wax sculpture of u.s. president joe biden and find out the secrets behind the licious german great. book 1st read your god show with the charismatic multitalented de town meyer the swiss singer of the electro pop joe yellow has been entertaining fans for more than 40 years he may be best known for his hit single oh yeah from the 1980 s. but why has other passions besides music which involve beef wine and chocolate we met up with him in zurich to hear more about his calling mary perceives. dieter meyer the singer from yellow isn't just passionate about music. he also

loves special here in this way. as well as in germany and argentina operates a number of bars and restaurants. there mainly serve wines beef and nuts he's produced himself. from the farm to the plate from the vineyard to the. people on. an organic farm in argentina located a 5 hour drive south of osiris it covers several 1000 hectares of land. in the grassland of the palm he breeds hereford and angus cattle meyer enjoys mixing with the gauchos on horseback as well he spends around 2 months a year here. argentina and its fertile vegetation never fail to impress him.

there are a few countries and. you can find areas where they were. a revelation every time i come here to the countryside and see how things are prospering. but this is how people know dever meyer best. as singer of the celebrated electro pop duo. myers been in the music business for over 4 decades yet he never expected to become a successful artist. i was originally a. long pull on that was. so to speak. i would never have become a musician or a singer. in august 2020 yellows latest album point was a. released and stormed the european charts the duo creates songs and this studio

in zurich. long been before i always find choruses sound as being incredibly inspiring and it goes like this. it's on an endless loop for me i listen to it 20 or 30 times and then start to see if it was it without there being any content to it you know it's just dog noises. and suddenly a sense must come together there's something i can hang onto him face tell him that draws me into the song 9. 1. 1. but his musical success is clearly not enough for peter meyer the pop star is also have been or he always has a glass of wine with dinner. in

argentina as well as in the north of the spanish island of a beef meyer cross his own line here he produces among other wines a red convey a blend of cabernet sauvignon vadra and shiraz you can be here only be 10 elegant i'm up on the hill where we have these fall with wonderfully cool nights and warm but as. well the impression these wines might there is actually closer to the border of the board or $2.00 to $1.00. back to zurich where the enterprising singer has also become a chocolate here his approach to producing chocolate is as innovative as his music using a patented process called cold extraction allows cocoa beans to be processed without roasting them 1st so they retain their natural aroma. is there no one else and make chocolate the way we can with this cold extraction methods obviously not captures 100 percent of the aroma from the co. and then need much less sugar because we've

been able to remove the potential that. wine nuts meat and chocolate when it comes to food and beverages meyer's entrepreneurial spirit knows no bounds. for can't imagine not working anymore it's my life's blood this is mine should i be so lucky to still be aiming to realize some ideas when i'm 95 or 100 years it's the most wonderful thing there is. both in the music world and the colin area arts teacher meyer has already made his mark. moving on to another celebrity and a very important one at that joe biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the united states now most of us will never get to meet him in person but it will

be possible to get up close to his likeness in wax british artist jethro crabb is creating a figure that will eventually make its way to a museum in the u.s. state of south dakota we met up with him to see how the waxy biden is taking shape . ranking. studio sorry hills area or southeast. new u.s. president. to wax figure in the presence of former british prime minister winston churchill whose likeness is also in the world. this beginning stage is really about sort of investigating. the form of his head and practicing sculpting some of the shapes so nothing to do with features or data at this stage the figure was commissioned by the national presidential wax museum in the us state of south dakota jethro probably been working on the clay model for

a full week but it will take another 3 or 4 months before it becomes a finished watch were. crap studied sculpture can began his career at madame tussaud. for the legendary london watch museum he fashioned life like sculptures of many famous people. such as former beatle paul mccartney actress fran bing bing and composer lute big van beethoven. or interests me about. the paper i scoped is that everyone is completely individual and capturing what it is about someone that makes them look that way it can be almost a meditative experience you know just getting lost in and the forms and the sculpting and then you forget about her is that you're actually working.

jethro crop mainly works using photos of the people he's sculpting it's rare that he works with large models he focuses more on physical characteristics and personality traits. the amount of research that idea on a character depends. really are much their interest. but i don't think it's. strictly necessary to know everything about and. once he's completed his claim of his team helps with the next steps 1st they make a silicon moat strengthen the fiber glass for the heads a special wax mixture is poured into the silicon most. the hair is inserted strand by strand several layers of oil paint create an authentic skin tone like hear for us talk show host oprah winfrey. show after 8 years and went into

business for himself making caricature is of figures like french president emanuel mccrum entrepreneur must and members of the british royal family created for the satirical show spitting image. just. the way it was prescribed. talking about walking in the process of sculpting a realistic head and sculpting a caricature i had quite similar. the difference being in the degree there exaggerate the things that unite us we would receive sketches caricature sketches. but that was the freedom for us to add our own style that's really why i enjoy caricature as. jethro crowe things joe biden is characterized by his dazzling white teeth and eye symmetrical smile which gives his face

a slightly longer side appearance but is that enough for a good caricature of a router a caricature a sculpture of biden i'm warming his head as i work on a sort of. seeing the possibilities and. every winter between november and january something very special happens on the german island of heligoland the birth and breeding of gray seals during this time hundreds of young pups are born and raised on the wind protected dunes before they discover the water visitors are allowed to witness these incredible scenes from a distance on a special trail your own x. reporter hendrick belling went there for a firsthand look. heligoland is a nursery grounds for the gracie. i'm visiting the north sea archipelago but

hundreds of seal pups are born and raised every year. there are a few places where you can get as close to the grave as in your own heligoland and they're much cuter than i thought but also what more dangerous. after the 2 hour ferry ride i reached germany's only island in the high seas helgoland was once a hideout for pirates before becoming a popular tourist destination in the 19th century but i haven't come to visit the famous sandstone sea stake known as the long ana i'm headed for the bar to do you know the smaller aisle next to the main island in the winter there are fewer tourists but many more seals i'm here for them. sometimes there are so many animals that the ranger to power she must knock off the beach for a while this gives the seal some peace and quiet but mainly it's to protect the humans because while they may look cute these are germany's largest predators

living wild from this special path through the jones we can observe the seals and see where they've come from november to january is mating season and the time when mothers give birth. this is the reason it's so attractive is because it's protected from storm tides and that's very important when it comes to choosing a place to give birth to their young kid gray seal pups need to be on line for at least the 1st $3.00 to $4.00 weeks so that's what counts. on just saved. from up close i can observe how mother cycle very young after 2 or 3 weeks the cow leaves a pup on its own from then on it has to fend for itself. boise i live by they look much the same they're very different there are fearful pops and

ones that are always out for a final stage that are always unfriendly and ones that just peacefully observe everything so completely different characters. are tail. off to a few weeks the cops make their 1st attempts at swimming but only after they've moaned or shot their 1st for a coach the company widely new go doesn't offer them enough protection on the walked. over 650 pops were born here this winter more than ever before and just 2 weeks after giving birth the cows are ready to mate again. at this time the males are even more aggressive the bulls which way up to $300.00 kilos fight for the cows favor. i witness that right on the beach i feel safer by the rangers side they're good ones of those audience the larger one is certainly a young boy unfortunately he's trying to mate with

a very young female. and but they might look cute but they really aren't the this isn't us nish. now i know why we have to stay 30 meters away from them too they will bite your they bite design's who i'd say they could bite right through a leg like ours it was really. once that raised the young and made to begin to see its gradual leave helical and then there are only a few left until next winter. seeing so many grey suits in the wire that's really impressive especially the little babies they're really really cute but when you get so close to them you realize that they are really really dangerous predators and that's what i prefer to watch them from the safe distance. but to satisfy my urge to pet one i've borrowed this stuffed toy from my daughter definitely the

smarter alternative. besides beer germany is best known for its bread now there are thousands of different kinds of bread on offer here with many bakers who relish in it's tradition or for our series food secrets we find out what goes into making that stash a loaf of bread. we have over $300000.00 ridge the types of bridge in german the germans of bread crazy we simply love bread. who recently shouldn't see bread is just the base for cold cuts or chains cold cuts and cheese or just the supporting acts of bread is the star.

i've been punched and the cinema 30 years old and a 4th generation mass to break up we place great value on tradition across much of it and it all revolves around the wood burning stove good wood was gorgeous for a good german bread you don't need much more than flour but here in this cups it's wheat and rye flour. then you have sold east water from the store of the shop sourdough whole together the finished product takes about 5 hours to make. this sort of part in a war in the field. far we're running up a beach and oakwood we let it reach about 262270 degrees celsius then we use the decreasing heat to buck 'd when the last loaf comes out the temperature

is around $210.00 degrees. but not in the book of life the salad ripens of the night while the bacon is slowly sourdough lends enormous flavor to the length of and also increases the shelf life . we always mix up fresh leavening so it can ripe and a new every day i may remember i'm taking one kilogram of rye flour and having 900 milliliter water and adding a piece of salad i let dissolve in the water then i mix it all together you can do this either by hand or with a machine that we cover the salad and let it sit arm temperature for 24 hours so it can develop completely within the next day it will be incorporated into the bread. and then also i doubt this daughter from the salad is from my great grandfather from 1928. also already baked

dostana that in a wood burning up to 65 percent wheat and 35 percent raw selecting the right flour is enormously important because. you don't have some advantages in our own country we can find the 3 major grains used for bread that spelt wheat and rye we grow all of them here so we don't need to import anything and can use the type of grains we have my mum is my name is bettina lewis and i'm the 2nd bread somalia in germany bread so my game means costs were we listen to the bradley savor the bread and that's how we create the perfect bread for the perfect meal. and i say we are one of the few countries that offer this qualification from apprentice to assistant to master a master needs to be able to create bradish and that's why we have so many new types.

no but come off there are so many things happening inside with me now from the office processes within the print and within the crust of the breath. from the bark on it breaks the crust carmelite says which results later in the crispness and also adds to the taste of the truck. a lot more. color is an important factor so here you see we have a wonderfully brown crust. ought to also and then the baker has to have an ear for the finished product out of if you take the loaf and turn it over and knock on the bottom you should hear this hollow sound and that's all signified that's how we know that bread is done. and finally here in berlin we haven't

had much snow with this winter but one place you will always find it is in a snow globe now they are one of the most popular souvenirs in the world but did you know that they were invented in vienna austria a surgical instrument mechanic named evi patsy came up with the idea by accident over 100 years ago or the parents the family still makes no clubs and can count some high profile celebrities as their customers. month i should shake a snow globe instead you have to turn it on its head and wait until the snow settles when you turn it back over and it's not us. adding patsy the 3rd knows all the secrets about snow gloves his grandfather avin patsy the 1st conducted his initial experiments in this workshop in vienna he was

a mechanic of surgical instruments and an inventor using a glass bowl filled with water he was actually planning to enhance operating room lighting. the windows for the hot more than 120 years ago my grandfather invented the snow globe pure charm something he happened to find some semolina in his mother's kitchen and he tossed some in the bowl of water and it soaked up the water and floated down to the bottom of the bowl very slowly that he thought it looks like it's snowing in this cloth bowls that's how the idea was born from the snow globe pretty quick his grandfather found a miniature version of the basilica in the riyadh sand an austrian pilgrimage site he painted a pedestal with shoe polish and glued on the church setting it in a glass globe in 1900 he applied for a patent on the world's 1st snow globe the flakes fluttered down gently thanks to the viennese formula. yes men my father was the 1st to produce the mixture of snow

that we used to the tree and that's my secret so far i'm the only one who knows exactly how it's done. every year the viennese manufacture produces around 200000 snow globes almost all individual parts are made locally the figures are made by hand a process in which liquid plastic is poured into metal forms and pressed into shape the patsy family has also been experimenting with 3 d. printing. the other day to recenter. the printer and the printer produces the figures layer by layer usually if you can with. a couple of penguins and i mean joe. as the 1st woman in family history daughters have been a patsy the 2nd has recently joined the business bringing it into the 4th generation she sees the future of the company positively customers value tradition

some wishbone went back to the source people want to know what they're consuming are the things they're buying come from you can trace the provenance of every snow globe that leaves this building this globe has a face and that's that's my family view this is manna from media. having patsies wife is a being a patsy the 1st paints dozens of snow globes a day many customers commission designs the family uses originality to survive against copy cat and low cost competitors proving they have a sense of humor even during the corona crisis. as it does this is the most celebrated snow globe 2020. are snow globe featuring a roll of toilet paper was the absolute best seller people lined up in the street to get one of these snow globes to recall one. directly next to the workshop is the family's own snow globe museum the d.n.e. snow globe is a top export 3 former u.s.

presidents have one on a shelf. like this snow globe for the obama family i think you gift given by a resident of vienna on a visit to the white house the company presently stocks more than 350 motifs. your mother and you're using them you've contributed perfect world and that's been my world for over 40 years. and cozy world where i always snows. and with that we were up another shout now don't forget to check out our website for this week's draw and a chance of becoming the proud owner of this backpack and other goodies you can also follow us on facebook as always thanks for tuning in and we'll see you again soon.

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