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ah. ah, endless deserts and deep gorges. along the old silk road, we travel by train through a mysterious country whose back histone ah, the former soviet republic is a country offering both 1001 nights and communists style prefabricated homes a country with strong women twins in uniform and some very special camel driving techniques, a journey from the deepest caves in the world to the mains of the r l. c.

ah . tosh. kent capital of the presidential republic of his biggest, on founded only in 1991 in 1966. it was the victim of a devastating earthquake. it was rebuilt in the modern soviet style. now, massive transport roots,

chris crossed the cc. the main train station is located in the city center. waiting on platform one is this so cold silk road express. engine driver ask mo who j u dash f checks everything once again so that the train can leave on time at a t. m. my scholar, so rustling in the halls of love, even as a child i dreamed of becoming a trained driver because my father was one that he drove old soviet machines that the working conditions were really tough. back then over today. everything is much better and more comfortable. oh yeah. also we get him on a salary after the

rail road is still a lifeline for his pakistan and it's 33000000 inhabitants. it takes about 20 hours to go from touch kins, across the country to the east, to the former shores of the arrow, see the road network, his poor in his back. his stone and flying is expensive because of this, most people just take the train was biggest on is located in the heart of central asia between afghanistan and kazakhstan. al journey takes us from the capital tosh. kent towards summer comes along that he saw mountains and further to bu her up and across the desert to the almost dried up our i'll see water is the greatest treasure of this dry country. in the

1970s, several dams were built on the slopes of the t, n sion mountains which still fulfilled tashkent. water needs to day but there's not just water in these mountains. hidden deep within them is a secret that the soviet union, guarded the decades. in the 1940s uranium was discovered here. for the mine is a top secret city, was bills out of the ground. to day, it looks like a ghost town. ah ah, a one of the last inhabitants of yanine, but is merit in your cave. who was one of the 1st people born here 67 years ago?

every morning he makes his rounds first's don't the day care what he said seemly at another. was it a sales nor a message for me? i was only one month old when my parents brought me to this daycare in 1954 currently at now nobody has left field phyllis, but serious goes a user. when the soviet union collapsed, the mine was closed for all that was normal walk and almost every one that is a busy witness, the year will arrive, but it never lazara with things a lonely and younger. but the former music school, like the whole city, was built by vulgar germans it feels like a faded european memory in the middle of asia. a

male or both of which a year with ish called a 3 gordon the for to be on when i was a child. i took piano lessons here, but there were to leave after 3 years. the teacher told my parents, i shouldn't come anymore because i had no chance of becoming a musician. you can watch. i mean, i was incredibly happy with this statement. yeah. will be finished up as a more savage 5 years ago merits got married for the 2nd time to his childhood sweetheart larissa. she said, what are we having? stay in the blue cheese soup? will it taste good? of course you know it will you pony? i can't remember there's new life in young about again. the olympic boxing team is training here in the pleasant mountain. an larissa and merit have befriended young,

so he about and perhaps adopted her obese. yeah, venom wise vote for fishes from nuts to val gordon. a i started boxing in 2017 and i've been on the national team since 2019 half of the month. i am at home. and the other 2 weeks. i train. yeah. bought a lot of mischief. ah. and the training is hard for the olympic team. while boxes in other countries prepare for the competition in high take, jim's the coach he knows breakfast on, has more rustic methods in mind. was there is through it, albert tortured that she saw a book. originally,

we only trained men here, but for 6 years we've been preparing girls for competitions as well. develop the 2 of us on this and the regimen is strict. get up at 5 o'clock, then an insurance run off to break this training in the whole followed by stone, lifting at the river job. i want to succeed in, i hope to take part in the olympic games some day and when a girl of metal ah, the training in your body is exhausting. so it's nice to have a surrogate family like the one so he by has oh, he greetings my big stuff on his diet. well, those and god, i know he to nice bone of seat. okay, is snuff creature. i am very off time sake,

but my will to achieve something in boxing is simply great as, as, as new. i've now watching 3 of them. it's so nice to have you because we miss our own chunky che budget that merits sons like so many others. you have long since left younger, but ah, the silk road express has left the mountains behind and is now moving through increasingly sparse vegetation. with the construction of the railroad began here more than a 100 years ago. and soviet times the railway network was the highest priority, and there's still is a lot of construction going on at vocal as on thousands of years ago. caravans

travelled along the banks of the czar of shun river to the east and west. it's the lifeline of probably the most legendary city in central asia. some a kind the center of the city reg is don square. today, a populous font for photos. and in the 15th century, the site of the most prestigious university in the islamic world was pakistan, is considered a police state. and recently, even has special police, the tourists twins fatima and so forth, were actually english teachers before they joined the police. there beat the register to wear a uniform. it was a dream from our childhood and how the opening new department to refill is

apartment. we were the 1st time to work here. so i thought it's me and i to why my sister's with me with patrolling isn't that easy for the 2 of them? because the tourists want one thing above old. a photo with the twins in uniform the fearful as fair sheila, teenagers wanted to take a picture. and mostly girls, they wanted to be a like fullest man like this place was a hub for mathematics and astronomy in the 15th century. sure is india is a magical place for 600 years the necropolis has been hanging on the hills over the

summer con mazin of do gonna cause the faithful to prayer. the launch tomb lies within the twins precinct selling it because we walk in this a place historical place and when we have a nice a relationship, i say a relationship, then i walk. oh, well the easy ah, if sound travel, so have finance. eliza is theresa when they work together ah, during soviet times the 11 mausoleums were left to decay. but recently they've undergone extensive restoration.

let all the new storm estoppel give stan allan and the old owl in the past life was a devout muslim was very difficult. there were only a few masks in which one could pray. there was hardly any possibility to train as a museum monopoly. today, there are 2000 masks in spec, you stand up, and new ones are still being built in the curious rosalyn, a gallery in those raised every muslim can, once again, freely and openly practiced their beliefs. and i was all love that if the us that a fond of the machine of do gun e is also responsible for the care of the tombs. the most important place in the complex, the tomb of us who is said to have brought islam to summer. i can't shut

off this. am what other chunky woo, my jamal. good will joy for me. it is always a deep feeling of gratitude than i am given the honor of serving here in law to us . asa, this is a holy place because our boss who lives here was the prophets cousins along. i'm like another a bus to all that. the phones with its evening in summer canned. the police twins fatima and zapora have been invited to their grandmother's house for a small family celebration. ah, no mother was calling about a change in her medicine. i am so proud of my 2 granddaughters. when i was young, it was unthinkable for a woman to wear uniforms. i think of the twins each have one daughter that are divorced and live independently. our parents gave us

a really nice life because they hadn't said to lie on their own life. and now we tried to be to show our valuable on what children ah, me to the east of some kind mountains rise abruptly from the landscape. here once stood the magnificent palace of t more who conquered all of central asia in the 14th century. the he saw mountains of the western most foothills of the himalayas. here over millions of years, the deepest caves in the world were formed. speedily ologist bloody me,

a dulcie and puzzled bear are on their way to uncover a great secret. but then i can see it more than way. you're the fisher. i know it's and what we want to go to the, to more in cave, to investigate legend has it that he more hid there with his entire army. we want to find out if this was actually possible for it's a lot. but the route is long and difficult. ah . after 18 hours on bumpy roads in an old terrain vehicle, they can continue only by foot. i saw a 100 so and then when shall fall? the trigger was very long and we're tired, didn't. we won't make it to the cave to day. we'll set up camp here and on

a sunday, besides, i get this and to morrow morning. it all begins heading down into these canyon. ah, vladimir and pavel have been working together for 8 years now and i've explored many cade's. right? the fellow brought by somebody to show you the goblet of narrows elizabeth's a beach by gift. this is the simplest and cheapest food. there is if the classic student food here in the mountains, it's very convenient because it's so easy to prepare to get through to my doctor here in the mountains, there's hardly any infrastructure. the 2 men are on their own. they must be careful, especially in the evening after all bears and leopard still live here

at 6 in the morning, the march to the t more cave begins. all of us. our thoughts just moved us, bruce from civil docket. plant. we have to go down here and then along the river through the gorge, and then back up again with us. the cave must be behind there somewhere. down the steep cliffs. we go into the canyon called the color, cher hon. the lion fortress.

the cave has 2 entrances. the explorers decide to take the smaller one. if you shoot that one over, inside the cave it will be very cold. so we need to dress warmly, which we will try to explore as much of the cave as possible, i think, to see if the survival of many people have as possible the toll. most importantly, of course, is water without drinking water. no one could have survived to hold it with as much as to lose him. of this is rita delivery even though it's really hot outside, inside the temperature drops quickly into the single digits of my business correctly. that picture of my paycheck looks like left of his here.

take a look at this. i don't think so. let's go no longer the. all right, that's got no more daylight reaches this part of the cave. the explorers find themselves in total darkness. with gusts of it, i said if we have to descend deeper now, we suspect there's water down there. if the stories are true, there must have been some kind of lake here and timor's time all about it. and if it exists, we'll find it. my younger daughter, simo, ruled an enormous empire in the 14th century from present a india to turkey. he is victorious campaigns is said to have begun from this cave to look for though it above there's a small waterfall note there. yes,

the water is collecting down there. great news for the drinking water for tea. more good. but was water alone enough to cape hundreds of soldiers and maybe even their horses alive? when that's the cost? if i love more than i because to liberty, there is definitely old food. how old it is, however, is difficult to say. trespass modern places. after 5 hours in the cave, they stopped their way back. i lost lynn and i found a small reservoir. so there is water here, dogs am appointed a storm. however, the way into the cave is difficult. it's hard to say if it could have been done with horses. in any case they could have been shouted fellow kanisha. ah, still, there's not enough evidence to say whether timor was here. it still remains a mystery. look up,

they'll come back to explore tea more in cave further. ah, from here it's less than a 100 kilometers to afghanistan. the silk road express is now heading west again. every one has their own way to pass the time. of course food is also important on such a long trip and it's served at their seats, like everywhere in the country. the national dish peel off is on the menu, rice with carrots and mate cooked on a cold stove. off down law, the sun and the stove pushed the temperature in here up to 60 degrees celsius. it's

really hard to cook and such heat was big cuisine is full of mate here. mutton goes with everything we're fairly fractured over the guests, mainly want to eat peel off or meat skews and god willing i'll have enough to satisfy them all. piled up with the train is now entering the next famous city who horror the oasis of blue horror is said to have been inhabited as early as 500 b. c. it was once famously rich, and one of the most important stops on the silk road. bu hara lies some 2800 kilometers northeast of jerusalem. yet it's

home to one of the oldest jew communities in the world. daniel, nuts itself, son of the old rabbi, is a watchmaker. here in bo hora. he's rented one square meter from a small travel agency to carry out his business where photonics image so much sara work that we've been watchmakers for generations . my grandfather, my father, my brother's me and also my son. when my grandfather lived here, the jewish community was huge. so my so thank god, but as time went by, it became smaller and smaller than me. then when a woman shawls home in the shop every day, it's 6 o'clock shop. the 53 year old closes his stool and heads home

the 1st jews from this ancient community, a said to have settled here after the babylonian captivity around $500.00 b. c. even 100 years ago, the jewish community contained more than 25000 members. to day daniel and his wife you glove and about 150 others make up the lost jews in the city. well, how was your day? how was yours with quite good? natasha with the she only meet him with the sheer nation as it same way the our future like that of our children lies in israel. b. o kind of life. would that be alone? without our children? we have to go with a and our grandchildren. ok. even though it will be very sad to leave this

wonderful house behind look man though i still ah asked to her father in law, the old rabbi died. the 49 year old and her husband took care of the synagogue just across the street. to day community members are preparing a memorial service for the dead. i go to any of my link in my it's equally we want to remember my mother in law today. her name was anovia, maria, and she died in the usa at the age of 19 and was buried back like every year we held this memorial day here. in her anatomy ramey who died, a community member has agreed to read and it will all be streamed live for relatives in the u. s. he is the has on the can tool and has no training of luca. every one around these table wants to leave the country in the next few

years, mainly for economic reasons. for israel or the u. s. a 9 there. they can easily get a residence permits roseville. hello, quote. yes, yes. like even if i leave bo hara, i won't forget our traditions. i carry them deep in my heart and i will continue to live the life of a book. her jew everywhere. it is simply in me and i will pass on everything i know to my children and grandchildren. peter don't swaim ditch those with. it seems that the 2500 year old history of the book are a jews, is about to come to an end, a religion that was indigenous here for over 1000 years before islam came

by the early hours of the morning, the seal road express has reached the edge of the castle, come was becky starnes, great desert them into it. all the loss of allah get spell out of it. my father used to tell me how hard the work was, especially on long distance trips in the sun, shone so strongly on the metal roof of the locomotive that it became unbearably hot for the driver. give one out. today it looks completely different. the driver's cap is comfortable and we even have air conditioning. give us up to me. unfortunately, for those in the carriages, there is no air conditioning. every one tries to cool down in their own way. despite the heat, the most important thing in every ooh, big train, con remains the tea kettle for uh, people hot tea on a hot dice,

the most normal thing in the world. john i've already taken off my shirt because of the heat with a good working ventilation system. it would be more bearable here, but one will still applies. if you drink cold water, you sweat more. if you drink hot tea use what? bless, id. cuz ill cool means red sand. the enormous desert stretches from the curriculum desert in took menaced on through was pakistan to kazakhstan. originally the days it was populated only by no mats but was settled in soviet times. borders are unfamiliar to its inhabitants. so the l. e r o family. originally from classics, don,

has been living on, was big territory for decades. ah, the father columbine has decided that today should be a special day for his 13 year old daughter. ask or not cause a madeline at. and she saw the god willing, i want to teach my daughter how to milk hamilton. today. she has to be able to stand on one leg and found the bucket with the other. we have 6 hammer mares and then not rosie to mil picked the 11th. however bad im back alice and i'm looking forward to the milking and will give up my o. okay that mm. but before that the dishes have to be washed and that's the work of nausea and her youngest sister. in law can make this is ethan. i'm happy to help in the kitchen,

but now i enjoy working with the camels chisola that atlas but unfortunately, the camels, which are left to run free and there. oh, and the father can't see them anywhere. the eldest son, callum john, is supposed to search for them, but before that, a refreshing bowl of camel milk. then off to find papa's motorcycle. ah ah, today is also a good day for carl him, john. because normally his father wouldn't let him use the motorcycle

i kept up the desert, his pig, and there's no trace of the camels. but with god's help, i will find them along with camels have a good sense of direction and always find their way home. but when no one knows. luckily, cullum john has a good nose and discovers them grazing on some desert grass. sheila doll dick, i really found the. well, i can try some homes milligram of my sister will be so happy. so got out of them. everything would be fine. verola. ah, cullum,

joan has an unusual but effective driving technique. ah ah. every one is ready in waiting. the milking can finally start. ah, i am getting a game, but the 1st thing we need is a cough to drink from the mother. and the teat swell, and you can milk them. look how nicely the milk comes out. but oh, how many? ah, mother alisha has years of experience, but nas yucca is anxious. but now i'm scared. i hope to camels won't kick me. don't worry. you don't have to be afraid.

standing on one leg is not so easy. ah, but then somehow it all works. mm hm. the 1st bucket is fine, leaf, food. cit. the all. and again, most of the time we sell the milk at the market except that when we are invited some way, for example, to a wedding block. we also like to bring the milk is a wedding gift. i suck product valenzuela had a these camels to still have to be milked today wound oh i think i now understand how it all would cover something didn't get it. now i can

help my mother with the milking muscle can like to fit it in. and she still has 5 mol. camel's ahead of her today. ah, in the blistering heat, the train crosses the biggest river of was pakistan. the imo daria inside. every one is exhausted and the on board restaurant has already closed on that i think the after i've cleaned everything up now it's back to square one for the return trip. again, i'll prepare. fresh peel off beef steaks must yvonne naples. so the tall guests have something to eat. sometimes passengers have extra requests,

and i tried to fulfill those as well. for the 35 year old train driver, the shift is also slowly coming to an end. here when it gets, you know, i got married in 2012 and had a son, he's in the 3rd grade and loves everything about trains. he's constantly playing with his little diesel and steam locomotives lateral. when i come home, he always asks dad, where have you been? how was your trip out there? he's just interested in everything. if he becomes a trained driver, some day back would make me very proud. we'll say, wasn't popular. you know, the silk road express has almost reached its destination. new crews, the former gateway to the r l. c. a little further north once lay the world's 4th largest in land lake. starting in the 1960s its tributaries were cut off to

irrigate. lodge cotton fields to day it's coast is just a rock facing the desert. not far away, the foam, a port city of moines up. back in the 1980s. it was still located on a peninsula surrounded by water. most of the people he is survived by fishing today, their boats lie in the desert, sand near the foam, a harbour erosion of the sand is now the main problem in the region. a few years ago, a launch project was started with the aim to make the desert green shock re is studying environmental science in touch kent. and is one of the 1st to witness the project success. hello, you've vladimir. yes, that's me. led him is do you have leads a conservation effort here?

you do not. laura's go motor, but it really goes on. will you do? i'm going to take you to the bottom of the i'll see us before that we can see the plans for yourself because i've heard and read a lot about your program. now i'm very curious to see what it looks like. in the early 1916, the r l c was about the size of bavaria. everything that's now called our outcome o r l does. it was covered with water to the right of the path. the 1st results of the planting project are already visible. ah, the water will not return. the hope now is to bring the constant sandstorms under

control. with the salon, i can hardly imagine that 30 years ago this place was deep at the bottom of the lake. could a day people just walk around here? unimaginable good can sure crease, grandmother herself, comes from my neck. no, just remember that. now i'm 21 years old. and when i was born, the water, he had already disappeared. now, with the plans, we can at least stop the sand from a routing measured am quoted, you can always do something. that's why i'm so interested in ecology. the roots of the bushes reached deep into the earth and provide support to fall. where did the bushes come from and how do you plant them clock,

or famished of the home in shortly. so joe took all citizens all over the country to let you sleep and we're good. but when, when you so good, she'll go. yes. when you struck the record i as in distributed either by trotter or even from an aeroplane over the desert. i yeah, it's a palmer good. which room for a little to see middle only a tiny part of the or i'll see basin has been planted. it seems to be working, which gives the people here hope of top where you've heard it. let's go. i'll show you the best part about with the water of the arrow. i see a puddle compared to its former glory, but still impressive. leather

me as father is still a fisherman and he himself has a very special connection to the water. come on my going swimming. i water. yeah, yeah. yeah. no, no, not me. oh, garage grandma are all see it via him. is your son blood in it? that i every curtis with her whenever i am here, my heart tells me has to go into the water. but the most her somewhere my whole life is connected with this water hold him the sky. this earth. maria vajella physically i love being yet because nobody knows how long my loss remains of the sea will exist, storage from your verdict or despite

he's moving words, he can't persuade chetry to join him from the remains of the earl, see across dusty deserts, to the green highlands of the he saw mountains, was pakistan. a land of extremes with the drug mafia is running rampant on dynamics, and the residents of the ream region won't put up with it any more. 10000 hector's of peruvian virgin forest have been cleared to illegally grow cocoa . the deforestation is rising, while the government seems powerless. global 3030 minute

d. w. nico africa, they've planted over a 100 trees and just a few weeks. and on stopping any time soon, the south african activists are giving nature a voice by healing the environmental rules of deforestation. eco, africa, 90 minutes on d. w. o. in. hello guys. this is the 77 percent. the platform for africa with issues and share ideas.

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