the world famous filmmaker bendis describes himself as a director and a photographer who took thousands of polaroids while making his classic film such as paris texas and the american friend now the director has shed a selection off his pictures in an exhibition here in the german capital. the inventor's was in his late twenty's a young filmmaker when he discovered his love for polaroid photography and his love for america the land of unlimited opportunities the city of new york in the heady seventy's would become his haven is. what i had a bit of money for the first time i lived at the chelsea hotel. but then i ran out . and i ended up living at this hotel. only junkies live there i couldn't leave anything in my room especially my camera because that would just disappear the exhibition at seal berlin features polaroids then has got his first camera in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine in the lead up to the road movie alice in the cities which featured a photographer as the main character and polaroids have been inventors life ever since when he's not shooting films he takes photos o

don't children would benefit from b r excels extra space with the third row of seats down the loading bendy zone where all meter long. sometimes it's the little things in life. like this little four seater it was designed to mobilize the masses literally. it may not be a sports car or a luxury cruiser but it has plenty of appealing features sometimes it's the little things that make a superstar. lynching pin cento or five hundred has certainly come a long way but now it's no longer cheap in germany it starts and close to thirteen pounds in europe's. the engine has shifted from the rear to the front. when it was first launched the trunk which came with a fabric fold back roof now that costs extra good news though is that the car now has a lot more power the entry level version has a fifty one kilowatt engine and a top speed of one hundred sixty kilometers an hour the original chink which i don't couldn't even make it up to one hundred. we're testing the five hundred mirror that costs not quite twenty thousand euros in germany. we've chosen the version with the smallest engine a sixty nine ho

they want to put a waitress in jail for giving my kid a bendy straw with a soda.ridiculous and it tells you the priorities of people in california right now. dare i say i think it's the last straw for many people. >> shannon: i'm going to stop you. let me read you something from commentary magazine.com. the combination of technocratic arrogance insularity and condescension would be irksome enough power social engineers are not done inconveniencing you. instead of disposable plastic straws america's americans aree asked to switch to paper straws. >> larry can look into a future of biodegradable straws that don't fall apart. this is not the only issue in california. santa barbara is not in san francisco. >> san francisco just voted for this. >> i know but santa barbara is saying we're going to give you jail time. it's not going to happen. the environment is a huge issue in california. you have to look at the things we've done not only with the ocean but also with our air quality. if you look at pictures of smog, there's been a vast improvement. we can multitask. i k

but it's very bendy. that's all the sport for now. home secretary that doctors should have greater freedom to prescribe medicines derived from cannabis. the advisory council on the misuse of drugs has recommended that cannabis medicines should be re—scheduled because there is evidence of some benefit for certain conditions. the review was prompted by parent—power — a small group of mothers who fought for the right to bring cannabis oil into the uk to help control their children's epilepsy seizures, some of whom have now got special licences to receive cannabis medicines. we heard earlier about five—year—old ethan mason. he has a rare terminal genetic disorder which can cause him to have up to 200 seizures a day. his mum tracey rossiter currently uses a legal form of cannabis oil and says it's helped reduce his symptoms. now she s asking the home office to grant ethan a licence so that he can be given cannabis oil with a higher dosage of the compound thc, which is currently illegal over 0.2% in the uk. at the moment, where we are, etha