electrified mainline between dresden and it seemed put moakley in the czech republic is called the elba valley railway. i. industrialisation and burgeoning tourism saw the amount of traffic increase so rapidly that an expansion of the railway station became essential. in 898 the bohemian railway station was renamed to dressed and hauptbahnhof or central station which remains to this day. the local railway service taking passengers to the border with the czech republic runs about every 15 minutes and connects dressed in with the saxon and bohemian switzerland regions. it's a popular railway route not just due to the charmingly diverse natural landscape by the river elbe. its frequent and fast connection to the sandstone mountains make it a truly convenient alternative to the car. the 1st stage of our journey took us from dresden to budge on down near the czech border with then switched to a railway that runs on non mainline tracks and connects to adjacent national parks saxon switzerland on the german side and bohemian switzerland on the czech side our final destination was to cina in th

this is also part of bohemia the railway line along the enchanting sandstone cliffs of the elba valley is among the busiest transit routes in europe and an increasing source of irritation for residents freight trains running through here on the route between eastern europe and the major ports of northern germany are particularly loud and have repeatedly prompted protests. and the a high speed rail length away from the album valley is set to relieve the noise pollution of the route passes through a 27 kilometer long tunnel through the ask of aga. the plans envisage increasing capacity for international freight traffic along the new line. furthermore the journey time for passenger trains between dresden and proc would be cut from the present 2 hours and 15 minutes to under one hour. but that would come at a price passengers would see much less of the stunning natural scenery of bohemian switzerland on the route. am. the belvedere vantage point is located in the village of lobs gusts around in the heart of the national park the small stone theater stage on the plateau was created in the 1

. >> look what they did to my boys idris elba.t james bond and now he's wearing a cat coat! >> trevor: michael kosta is in iraq now. michael, this feels reminiscent of the iraq war. going into iran feels like a similar move, bad leadership, no exit strategy. what do you think about a potential war with iran? >> trevor, it's a great idea, and let me tell you about america. americans have great ideas. like, for example, just now, my phone charger snapped off into this electrical outlet. you as a south african would probably just buy another phone charger but me as an american, i came up with a great idea. i'm going to get it out with these metal tweezers. >> trevor: michael, that sounds like a bad idea. >> don't tell me what's a bad idea. damn it! aaahhh! trevor, the war with iran couldn't be easier. ( laughter ) we go in, greeted as liberators and we all get free oil for life. ow! >> trevor: kosta, are you sure? the last time we got involved in that region it was one of the greatest mistakes in military history. >> we're a country

the ship is almost 400 meters long and 59 meters wide the elba river which flows through hamburg into the north sea isn't deep enough to handle such huge vessels. for example can carry more than 20000 containers. the port of hamburg has started dredging the riverbed much of the cargo that arrives here comes from the far east almost $9000000.00 containers are offloaded here every year and about a 3rd of them come from china. but hamburg is just a small part of a new chinese strategy that president xi jinping has been instrumental in pushing worldwide known as the belt and road or new silk road project it involves massive investment in infrastructure projects. beijing has already convinced more than 60 countries to take part in this initiative many of them like the idea of being part of an expanded global trade network expected to cost at least $1.00 trillion dollars it includes overland corridors pipelines and shipping lanes. part of the land network would extend from china through central asia and russia all the way to europe some european governments have expressed concern about the