rudy pahoyo remembering the iranian airliner tragedy. our next story takes us to the balkans.s old form of local entertainment, where captive, chained bears were forced to dance to music. following the ban, the retired and often traumatised bears needed a place to go and one man, dr amir khalil, came to their rescue. in 1998, it was clear from the announcement that the brown bear needed to be protected. for me, it was a huge challenge. in the heart of the bulgarian capital sofia's commercial and political centre, a tradition from mediaeval times. a 1a—month—old brown bear. she is muzzled and chained by rings through her nose and upper lip to her master. the dancing bear was a cultural problem in bulgaria. for hundreds of years, a tradition. the bear is trained, they take the bear cub and work them on a metal hotplate, very hot, like fire. they smear the sole of the leg of the bear with vaseline and then they start to play with small instruments and music and they put the bear up on the fire, on this hotplate and the bear starts to move his leg up and down because it's burning