those details david leavitt's. alter the belgian capital now for what's being described as a world of floral emotions brussels famous city hall is a unesco world heritage site and every 2 years in summer it gets an extravagant floral make over and this year more than 30 international floral artists have joined forces to decorate its historic rooms each setting their own accents from floor to ceiling. deep in concentration the tiniest account of a is making a few final tweaks she and her team have arranged thousands of flowers with a big opening just around the corner she wants everything to be perfect but she knows how important it is to stay calm. do not assume a gap i run around and check everything if something doesn't work i go over and say with details need to be changed i'm never stressed on big projects because i trust my team i'm on the. today is the big day for natalia. in just a few alice flower time will begin at brussels city hall the exhibition will see the gothic building transformed into a floral par

my colleague david leavitt's has more on this wonderful group of young musicians welcome david and the books have been a string orchestra is really much more than just a musical group it's actually something that is changing people's lives tell us a little bit more in detail you know with the orchestra itself of course is touring europe and playing all kinds of public events in south africa but they're really just the public face of a much broader program string program which is taught hundreds of kids from poor areas how to play the violin viola bass and cello and they do that at their school in bloemfontein they actually bus kids in from the townships around they actually go to these kids pick them up from home because otherwise many of them wouldn't make it into practice and then teachers from the program also go to schools as far as 300 kilometers away and now the families of these kids do have to pay tuition fees about $60.00 euros a year which is a lot of money for some of them and there's also a lot of money that comes from donations from here in europe now the concert that we s

on the african-american experience let's get more now on her life and legacy we are joined by david leavitt from our culture desk so i mean really a towering figure in modern american literature tell us a little bit more about her and a legacy that she's going to leave now well toni morrison's life and her works are an act of defiance and dignity in the face of racism and oppression and if we just look back to where she came from she she talked about the inspiration that she got from her grandfather from seeing him reading the bible when she was a child and that might not sound so spectacular but if you think about it for an african-american man at that time to even be able to read was to have overcome great oppression her grandfather couldn't go to school and so she she quickly realize that reading was a tool for rising out of oppression now her rise to literary stardom was both unlikely and meteoric she wrote her 1st novel when she was a 40 year old single mother and 1st the critics really damned her with faint praise as they really put her in a box that is this black female author one cr

colleague david leavitt's joins me now as mentioned this year's molnar runs and she was a force of nature and it's so inspiring just watching her and some of those old interviews you know what's so inspiring about her is that as an author and as a person she stood for dignity in the face of hardship and racism and oppression you know when she started writing when she published her 1st novel as a single mother at age 40 stories about black americans were not considered literature for everyone they were really put in a box but she made stories about black americans world literature and she showed a lot of people along the way both in america and around the western world that great literature does not have to be just about white people and we sold in the piece barack obama giving her the presidential medal of freedom and indeed we've just heard from obama on twitter he's just said toni morrison was a national treasure as good a storyteller a captivating in person as she was on the page a rise he was a beautiful meaningful challenge to our conscience and moral imagination what a gift to breat

the film the grand budapest hotel mole from david leavitt's. had a great time to. definitely do. my calender. the truth hurts that's why people lie. no one likes rejection but having someone string you along hurts even worse don't believe me read be aware of pity by step on spike we're at a palace in the austria-hungary an empire before world war one the main character on town is invited to a party here he dines and drinks and dances has a great time but at the end of the evening he realizes he's forgotten to ask the host daughter eat it to dance so he asks or even bigger folks she can't dance she's paralyzed long story short he feels so bad that he offers to marry her not because he loves her but because he wants to look like a nice guy but young woman's doctor gives him quite a lecture. getting yes that's all very well but there are 2 kinds of pity one the weak minded sentimental sort is really just the heart's impatience to rid itself as quickly as possible of the painful experience of being moved by another person suffering it is not a case of real sympathy of feeling with th

more on toni morrison and her pioneering work coming up in a half an hour with robin merrill and david leavitt's in arts and culture but 1st you're watching news still to come on the program in the ivory coast for u.s. and african countries are busy talking trade but it's clear that the 2 sides are coming at things from total 2 totally different directions. that's coming up in d w this is africa i'm sorry kelly and brother thanks for watching have a great day. robots are still in the development phase. it's going to happen when they. will humans and machines should be able to peacefully co-exist or are we on the verge of a robot colors. if we just bumble into this totally unprepared with our heads in the sand using to think about what to go wrong then let's face it it's probably going to be the biggest mistake in human history. artificial.

morris and then her pioneering work coming up in about a half an hour with robin merrill and david leavitt's in arts and culture but 1st some sports and in cycling a 24 year old german has become the 1st woman to win a 4000 kilometer bike race the transcontinental fiocco bigger beat out her more than 260 other riders most of them men the 10 day race started in bulgaria and did this morning in france with the runner up still hundreds of kilometers behind her it was cold winter's 1st ultra cycling event and she says she could have done better if she slept less than 4 hours a night. congratulations to her washington news still to come on the program and in the ivory coast the u.s. and african countries are busy talking trade but it's clear that the 2 sides are coming at things from 2 totally different directions. that story and more on g.w. business to africa from all of us here at the union's i'm sara kelley in berlin that you so much for joining us every day. earth the home for saving google india's tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas to protect the