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oh boy. they say there's nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate more on that tasty treat later on in the show. everyone is welcome to another edition of your own max with me your host meghan lee here's a look at what we've got coming up on today's program. we'll see how one artist uses the fish in her expressive works. and we were racing alongside one of europe's faxes buna cyclists and she breaks records.

but we start off the show with folk songs which are making an unusual comeback now have you ever heard of sea shanties these folk ballads were sung by sailors of during their work at sea now you're probably familiar with this one. from oh what shall we do with a drunken sailor or one young scotsman decided to revive these centuries old tunes during lockdown in the coronavirus pandemic and what the again as a way to pass time for nathan evans has turned into a runaway success and has even landed him a record deal. see there. was a simple rhythm and a centuries old melody has changed nathan evans live forever.

well a man is a sea shanty evans' rendition of this maritime work song has the scotsman spot at the top of europe's pop charts. i mean it's like a dream come true. i'm just. that's because until recently nathan evans was a postman in the town of airdrie new glasgow in his free time he'd uploaded videos of himself performing pop or folk songs to tick talk at his followers request he started covering sea shanties like leave her johnny. in the moment. pining. for the sea late last year evans landed a surprise hit when his version of the new zealand wailing song soon made. went viral i thought oh i. have

a good. next song. that i expect. a song that would bend the charts and all. this song made a big splash and soon the internet was flooded with people singing well men during the corona pandemic the shanty clearly touched a nerve as it tells of the loneliness said see one of those. special. everyone is stockholm. everybody just. friends. and everybody. you can play and. show. yes just i thank you everybody involved and.

have been putting a smile on people's faces since the 15th century. would be out at sea for months on end. chosen to lead the singing in response songs would sing the man and the rest of the crew saying the response. in the digital age the internet community has taken the place of abode using tick tocks function virtual sailors courses have sprung up all across the globe. even prominent musicians like us violinist lindsay stirling and british guitarist brian may have gotten swept up in this. i was speechless when. seen all these people. just think. it's.

with a recording contract in his pocket nathan evans quit delivering mail to concentrate on his musical career he's currently working on his 1st album and eventually hopes to go. around. it. i would i would do the opposite and take that as an experience and take it with me and i don't know my job but still wish i didn't i'd still be playing it also and it makes no difference to me it's to nathan evidence has cost of his safety net and his seizing his chance he's now $1.00 step closer to his dream of being able to live from his music one minute then it is done.

and sticking it with a maritime theme this next piece is all about the surreal fashion created by the artist veneer on. this headband is just one example of her conceptual art but others involve actual fish and as you'll see soon she incorporates them into her masks and costumes to express or even hide her inner feelings now we met up with the artist in moscow to find out more. can raw fish be a fashion accessory. that's how russian armenian artist veneer of her sorrows us stages for a model at a photo shoot in moscow. the fashion designers unusual combinations have garnered her international acclaim. i have the materials

and. i can combine the paper with. ways of creation because. i want to write the diary but for me making a mask. to her masks are works of art and a means of self-expression. the new yorker's sorrow that has been working on her mask series since 2009 she's already made around 100 fanciful face coverings ever since she finished her degree in fashion design in moscow masks have played an important role in her creations by mask i cover my. real face and it gives me a well protection maybe and a feeling of safety and the kind of her future for me because i want to show my real emotions. on the face mark my face but i show my emotions through the textures the technique and the materials. the new yorker saw over

designs costumes and props for theatre productions like this one in the russian city of perm in 2020. 3 years before she worked on the fish project at moscow's gorky park. and in 2018 she contributed to the moscow staging of book land. time and again the designer mixes materials that don't seem to go together. her current series fish and flowers is no exception because sorrow is inspired by fairy tales and surrealism fish are recurring symbols in her work ones that are meant to cause people to stop and reflect. this dress with and always thought beautiful because it's combined with flowers and the white paper

it's very beautiful but it is kind of ok but. alive and wards of the dead and. it's kind of a. while and. because sorrow is on her way to nikolai gogol house a museum in the russian capital she was invited to take part in a group exhibition here entitled the islands each participant was given a room and free reign to show off their creativity. the new yorker's star of this installation features paper flowers printed with images of neat here too she makes a connection between pretty plants and dead animals. paper is one of her favorite materials to work with. to trust me in paper.

there's nothing more for white sheet of paper. paper also plays an important role in her latest photo shoot. i never thought it was quiet. and that makes me. again i'm always looking for perfection. stages a real dream where. that unmask her passion for the absurd. who doesn't like a nice creamy bar of chocolate well the swiss are masters when it comes to making it so what better place to head than switzerland for a lesson in our food series food secrets we explore what goes into european

specialties that everyone knows and enjoys so for a glimpse into the secrets behind milk chocolate we met up with experts in the kitchen and in the field. whenever i go on vacation i always bring chocolate along always. without cocoa there's no chocolate no way around it. that i think so magician only swiss chocolate is a kind of milk chocolate and we produce a dark milk chocolate which contains 56 percent cocoa how.

i'm laura. i'm a co-founder of the chocolate factory and we produce chocolate by hand to show. you how thing in the end the main ingredients for chocolate include 1st of all sugar so then we add cocoa butter which is the fat crust from the cocoa beans from the board. next is the milk powder so if we're making a milk chocolate it's just us me put. you cocoa beans are the most important ingredient for making good swiss chocolate. go regionally cocoa came from south america and then i came to central america and eventually to africa . my name is christian values i'm originally from colombia where i run a cocoa plantations i chose cocoa because i've always wanted to do something that connects my 2 countries of origin of switzerland and colombia in the.

nature of the cocoa tree grows up to 5 metres tall grow on the trunk and not on branches like normal food still pretty thin. well i wanted to take the cocoa apart and cut it open and you'll find the beings inside the fruit that you place these fruits in wooden boxes and cover them with banana leaves and i mean this introduces you stand back in syria which initiate fermentation and then 48 hours later you turn them over this process takes 5 to 6 days in all and you have to keep turning the fruit to different intervals and depending on when you turn them you can bring out certain flavors make your. brain again. to ask the 1st thing we do is window that to remove the skins. i don't have to when you when no them you kill the skins off and you end up with cocoa and pieces of the beans and this is where

a recipe starts except you think of how to. mix 2 and we lay the cocoa out on these baking sheet and then we roast them in the other and each recipe requires a different kind of roast and. the. fish are made ha fresh milk has more and more chocolate don't go together well kind of so we can't work with fresh milk need we always have to use milk powder for about. i think it did here i have the roasted nips mapes and this is a stone grinder that i made on sure do such prime minister that this one has to granite stones and they in the kettle turn the people on it which causes friction and now i'll pour in the cocoa and absent nice and slow c 9. but this time for the sugar. joint comes along by me my poor that and gradually as well.

when it's created a paste i can add in the melted cocoa butter cow both of these. they made on the grinder works as a conscious at the same time you. shannon price just to show consciousness means storing the cocoa paste to mix air and to its roots in that which reduces the acidity me tell you know that's what gives our chocolate this will very fine a sweet taste that using bombs fine and using fishman. to move the shaking table gets out of all the air bubbles still trapped on the chocolate we don't want to be bubbles in the chocolate bars.

and i think we can make a lot of people happy with our chocolate and that's why this is my dream job. and yummy and if you would like to see more reports about mouthwatering specialty is from all over europe and make sure to check out our you tube channel d.w. food. galaxies. stories. to see as a look to smell amazing the best chefs with their best tips from need dishes to begin diets and all the recipe secrets while playing some on wall europe's diversity is a smorgasbord filled my list want to. subscribe and enjoy deep w. food. biking through town or on trails is tricky enough on 2 wheels especially when you pick up speed so

you can imagine how hard it might be when and navigating on only one wheel now the producers of the show went to a lot of trouble to bring in a unicycle into the studio and this is where i could probably demonstrate for you but instead of breaking my neck i will leave it up to a young german woman who is breaking records on her unicycle. thank you new so i. can can make up to 40 kilometers an hour. you know the combination of speed balance and the high risk is what fascinates me the most i. just gave riding high in the saddle. can keep so concentration. on the road and the little good presents an obstacle.

top gets one and then i do have a handlebar but it's mostly so i can lean into the wind and not for support on bicycles you can hold on to the handlebars the unicycle doesn't have anything to stabilize you say you have to find your center and learn to build speed and confidence without using your hands. it takes years of practice to learn to ride with this kind of speed and skill even as a little girl. magically drawn to the unicycle and began taking part in competitions. hasn't always been well appreciated on the contrary. as a kid i got in trouble for tipping my chair up on one leg and nursery school rocking back and forth while. they told my parents they suspected i had a movement disorder. my father was sure that wasn't true and he got me into sports that was the best decision he could have made and i'm very grateful to him for it.

now what aged 20 she's collected medals and prizes the world over at the 2018 world unicycling championships in south korea she churned out 5 world champion titles in various disciplines. finally in 2020 she broke the world record for the longest distance covered in one. over 33 kilometers on her unicycle she even beat the men's record. in fear in many of the physically demanding sports that's just unthinkable that was another huge step forward and it's really special to me. yana 10 in baghdad was born in the french border region fry book now she lives in berlin and hopes to study lol she set up a little workshop in her room in the apartment she shares she owns 15 unicycles to various purposes one even has started tires for off roading. as

often as she can she takes off to go riding cross-country another discipline that yana 10 a bag and holds a world champion title fool. and the only one she's at the injured herself doing. there's been more than back of a mountain biker hit my unicycle from behind in a mud hole and my leg got caught in between his crank and my shin bone. i finished the race and won but afterwards i had to go to the medic. was pretty swollen up but that's the worst that's happened to me outdoors so far. in comparison the ride home through both means rush hour traffic is like a walk in the pocket a unicycle in town maybe an unusual sight but it's quite legal and it helps keep the bag in in shape for the challenges yet to come back to my one hour world record leave some room for improvement i'd say there's also a 24 hour world record in

a cycle writing i'd like to go for that one too you can sit on the cycle for a long time you just need to practise. bag and decide she's practiced enough for one day and treats to a gentle stroll into the sunset. in this digital age we would expect that most anna mae. are done on the computer but some artist prefer methods that stand the test of time such as stop motion animation this technique of filming characters in movement has been around for a couple of decades and it is a popular way of entertaining the masses well i caught up with one stop motion director in paris who showed me more. this is american actor leonardo dicaprio in a way you've never seen him before in stop motion animation action. this

is the work of french director victor who makes animation films and ads in his paris studio. i really like stop motion animation because it's something very times you go to you can you can touch it you really feel what you are doing i mean with your hands. and though so i cannot draw and i cannot choose subjects we do wanted to make stop motion and i think this is the best way to make it a mission. victor's been creating stop motion animation for 13 years he taught himself how to do it after stunning film in the czech capital prague that mission any mention is a very long process you put the puppets in the position you make little movements you take a picture you make it as a movement you take a picture and so try to redo original movie you have in.

this 5 2nd clip took 2 hours to make. his animations cover a wide range of schemes including this film featuring a 3 d. superhero. other clips are simple loops made for fun for instagram. this animation highlights actor tom cruise's stunts from his movie mission impossible. and victor's bear often makes other popular appearances on social media. but it isn't just for fun the artist. and his money with animated ads for big international companies. 3 years ago i decided to. put all my work on instagram and to publish.

the mated loops every weeks. it meets a lot of success it was very unexpected but now i have more than 300000 followers. and i get a lot of commission directly via instagram. picture tries to find a sense of humor in his every day surroundings this is where he gathers ideas the challenge lies in bringing the ideas back to the studio and turning them into mini works of art the finished product isn't always what he expects when it's done i'm very happy to look at it frame by frame because while i was in the meeting i was focused on what i was doing so sometimes i didn't notice i did so move was a move and after this time i keep surprising myself. and victor continues

to surprise his fans as well with his unique and unusual classic form of animated photography. and with that we come to the end of the show but don't forget to log on to our website for this week's draw as always from me and the rest of the crew here in berlin thanks for tuning in. if. the car.

is so far optimizing city that minimizes emissions separates waste and in the best case new song called sage. can these visions become reality they're urging cleaning out of. the city the living space of the future with room

for everyone. to treat because of. their. babies have super power. to be such as the sets in the. past 5 years set the course for future success. from their very fast day babies a constant. strong what makes a child smile. born. there was always a soft target in the lawsuit our security. efforts of climate change are in flux the forestation in the rain forest continue to dioxide emissions have risen again.

young people in the world are committed to climate protection i. will. change doesn't happen to. make up your. w. 4 minds. welcome to global 3000. this week we take out a crystal ball and check out the cities of the future just what will life be like in our world urban centers in 205100 years as we look at some of the fascinating

ideas already being developed and learn about new technologies and innovations as well as the work of some visionary architects. all of which raises a central question who will actually be able to afford to live in the city of the future according to the i.m.f. school lobel house price index over the past 20 years prices have risen and risen with a small dip just after the financial crisis. over the last 10 years the cost of many essentials in o.e.c.d. countries has gone down food for example pleasure banks have regimes closing. those mean while the state. constant transportation costs and health. but rents and mortgage repayments have become significantly higher. housing

is becoming increasingly on affordable for many and yet it's a basic human rights as laid out in article 11 of the un's covenant on social rights the state parties to the present government recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family including adequate food clothing and housing. we met an activist who never tires of reminding society of this. the world cities are drawing people like magnets. living in urban centers is often an affordable rising housing costs have become a flash point. the global real estate market has long since become disconnected from its function of providing people with places to live real estate is an investment

a commodity an object of speculation of profit. in germany alone 2000000 apartments of homes stand empty that just speculative investments. play lunny far says the system is flawed until recently the canadian was the un special rapporteur on adequate housing. she features in a recent documentary which shows her as she travels the world to get to the bottom of the housing crisis. she speaks with politicians investors tenants associations and with people experiencing displacement. and speculate how un mandate ended in april 2020. 5 is still pursuing the issue she no. her own organization from her home in ottawa. the right of adequate housing is the right to live somewhere with peace security and dignity and i actually

think it's probably the most pressing social issue facing cities for sure around the world. says adequate housing is a human right something politicians often don't realize and investors often ignore the home for everyone affordable of a decent size and location. in the film follow discusses with experts why this right is being disregarded more and more. you have human rights obligations and you can't let these investors and the financial system run amok on its own but i see in cells with bark and they deploy the law in ways that work that stuff is happening. we have arrived at a moment when there is a gaping hole. in our system. most

of our major international systems are that we don't take the individual so seriously. this is billions crowds back district lively cosmopolitan in the center of the city it's especially popular with young people it's also changing for instance number 83 runners tosser was recently bought by an investor. but none of the tenants know what his plans are. carlos martinez originally from the united states lives here with his wife and children. that 75. square meter flat has 2 rooms a kitchen and a bathroom. they pay less than $10.00 euros per square metre heat included that's not cheap for. the family is happy here. we know the people in the

neighborhood we've seen their children grow up and are now we have our own children and we. we just would like to stay here. will the new owner renovate the building raise the rents and put the individual apartments up for sale that's a common strategy the courtyard has become a meeting place everyone here is worried will they be forced to leave the neighborhood like so many others in berlin. the buildings previous owner who passed away in 2016 didn't want the building to be sold but his will was declared invalid due to formal irregularities the building eventual ended up on the open market. it was bought by henry coles or a norwegian investor and director of a network of companies didn't answer our requests for an interview.

rebecca bushnell has lived here for more than 30 years and has seen her neighborhood transformed. not very nice of course he'll raise the rents as much as he possibly can they always raise it to the maximum until it heads in a turbo capitalistic fashion. for me that means that sooner or later i'll be gentrified out of hair. the whole business model is based on the idea of taking square metres of living space and you have i mean this is how they're thinking square metres of living space and squeezing out every square metre as much profit as they can so that is the extractive industry of high finance that has moved into an area that happens to be in. act a human right and that's the rub. the residents of the apartment building in crisis back are ready to put up a fight they've named the activist group in memory of that former landlord.

housing demonstrations they march with tenants from other buildings facing the same situation. as a for drinking sports this process of displacement is really an anonymous one but it simply happens one building off to the next to schools hop on the street the tenants are squeezed out on the outside it's not visible at all unless people get organized. learning fun says much more public debate is needed as well as pressure on politicians and investors including legal action. will that work. can the real estate sector change its thinking and approach. i never think about. that it's not possible i think because what is stronger than human rights i believe in the strength of human

rights against all of the these are just human beings with greed so i'm on the winning side here that's for sure that that's for sure. of course no one knows exactly what the cities of the future will be like though one thing's to certain they'll be full the un says that by 2052 thirds of the global population will live in cities traffic streams of commutes his pollution some big solutions and needed the smart city model could be one of them such cities a digitally organized and highly efficient and there are already places offering a taste of this future kioto in japan and some dough in south korea. the south korean capital seoul is a teeming metropolis of 10000000 a finance hope and center for the arts there's plenty of tradition here but not

much scope for large scale urban development. that's taking place 40 kilometers to the west some dough international business district is being built from the ground up on 6th where kilometers of reclaimed land. it's been billed as the smart city of the 21st century and your body is pioneering work on the part of architects construction companies environmental and high tech firms and computer network experts. this model city is overseen and run by a giant computer system it's the brains of the city all public buildings and homes are equipped with digital sensors and controls that can be operated remotely and are monitored centrally. sensors relay rooms temperature and energy use it's all being tracked and can be adjusted

individual that residents can monitor and reduce their consumption unisa bill staff can optimize the use of resources. they see power consumption at every note and can match production to demand. the garbage disposal system is also extremely clever trash from apartment buildings and offices travels via chutes and pipes straight to processing plants. the system regulates who may discard what kind of garbage at what time. this smart city only functions thanks to the digital network and because it's monitoring isn't there also a risk of unwanted surveillance. of personal data could prove to be the most valuable product generated in a smart city because they are the basis for targeted information or advertising. in

kyoto japan u.s. technology group cisco is working on smart city solutions. managing the flows of tourists to landmarks across the beautiful old city. and energy saving streetlights that only get brighter when people are nearby for all this to work people's behavior and movements have to be captured with the help of surveillance cameras. but what if facial recognition software were added to the mix and if interactive information panels were to collect data to generate profiles of particular individuals smart city technology should make people's lives easier and better but we have to make sure it doesn't meet to total surveillance and control. technologies that one saying there's a side architecture today's housing policies are often about getting apartments built as quickly and cheaply as possible to get

a handle on the acute shortage of them that so many architects simply to naturalization they want sustainable buildings and a radical rethinking of priorities. new delhi skyline is a mixture of modern skyscrapers and energy intensive poorly designed constructions carbon emissions from buildings are often neglected in the climate debate but in india buildings alone and they construction are said to contribute up to 40 percent in energy related carbon emissions. architect has been designing sustainable functional buildings for over 20 years. he says they're more urgently needed than ever but there are still a lot of misconceptions about what green building design really means. the biggest myth is that people believe that a green home is one that a lot of green plants you put in a lot of plans. become supreme which is not so in the green building it's actually

green because it respects nature and it. kind of uses the replenishable sources resources and reduces the stated abuses consumption and we recycle a lot of materials. one of the world's designs in new delhi is famous for being india's 1st 5 star rated green residential building called green one it's been certified by the research and policy organization the energy and resources institute. large windows provide lots of natural light while double glazing a relatively new feature in india insulates the building keeping it cool in india's hot sun is. the building also generates renewable energy and harvests rainwater. it's able to capture 75 percent

of its water needs and also saves lots of electricity. it costs more to build this way but these features pay off over time. i think it is still worth it if you spend 10 percent more or 15 percent more and after 5 years it pays for itself and then after that it runs virtually free of cost and you are giving back to the future generations you're giving back to the environment we're now coming into the concept of you know 0 carbon exit or buildings which are going to you know give back more than they consume i think that's the name of the are right now. at the moment india has around $1400000.00 modern homes built with the green concept which amounts to less than 5 percent of all residential properties. the indian green building council hopes to take this number to 10 percent in the next 2 years and some states have begun providing more incentives to green certified construction.

however these figures do not.