the theater was included in the unesco intangible cultural heritage list in 2016. luckily we have long serving papa tears who can pass on the knowledge and techniques they have acquired over the years to younger people. going on these need to learn the basics when to go and also oyster but it's very important. and i think that's the point of being on the unesco cultural heritage list so that skills are passed down that the giving the at. the theatre remains as popular as ever and people come from all over the world to learn how to operate the marionettes. i was. on the field quite specific in our control bar consists of a t.v. and a triangle right under the t is a triangle for the head and then there are wires. the proper tears not only operate the small performers but actually make and repair them as well as the costumes in the theaters workshop. the fidelio rehearsal is actually taking place in a different theater because when the true cause on tour to take about 5 tons of equipment with them so they need a bigger space to practice and. a president can he said he

and older at the fact that unesco as well has protected at the sides of it.nd i'm one this is a cult colin i kao of a- former deputy assistant to president obama on national security visor. he said i find it hard to believe the pentagon would provide trump. targeting options include raining cultural sites in other words. it's quite simply probable. bluster from donald trump that hasn't been checked. out by any and any hard policy at people. at the head of the unesco. based here in paris director general mess with iran's ambos. center i had to unesco at what room reminding and in in this particular document here at the set. of at the fox the provisions of the nineteen fifty four convention for the protection of cultural property and in the event of armed conflict another. document the nineteen seventy two convention i. concerning the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage woods are two legal instruments have been signed both by the united states and- iran. james many images of iran's cultural sites have been trending online. that's right the has

spire cathedral the city's main landmark 1000 years old and unesco world heritage site. christianity has sent great monuments in the city but judaism has also left its mark here in the middle ages was one of the most important jewish settlements in central europe along with mines and warms the 3 cities were even called jerusalem on the rhine. spire warms and minds are considered the cradle of european judaism jewish life has shaped these 3 cities for more than 900 years and i want to know what remains of it so today's show is not just the city trip but also a journey through jewish history. in our p. mail we also jet over the ski slopes in. we take a tour of the port city of haifa in israel. and take a closer look at mine. in the old town. in these 2 streets in new gaza and plan that comes from gaza a jewish reserve venture area was created 1000 years ago because jews were only allowed to settle here the houses were built particularly narrow and high in order to offer as much space as possible. the speed of museum is also located here in the you wouldn't have the jewish

as your mother did on the going into the un's coachella agency unesco is helping the afghan government preserve the caves and ancient landmarks but the problem is requires money and a change in attitudes for a country riven by conflicts that's easier said than done. let's get you briefed now on some of the other stories making the news today government protesters in beirut i've gathered outside the lebanese parliament they're angry at the political elite as an unprecedented economic crisis deepens in the country the peaceful demonstration follows 2 nights of violent clashes during which some 100 people were arrested protesters have accused security personnel of using excessive force. egypt ethiopia and sudan say they have reached a preliminary agreement on how to fill a $5000000000.00 hydroelectric dam on the nile river is set to bring electricity to $100000000.00 ethiopians fears that filling the dam would negatively affect water levels downstream have sparked tensions in the region. officials on paraguay's capital socio nd have declared a health emergency after a deadly outbreak of d

iran has 22 cultural sites on unesco's world heritage list. says it's an outstanding example of iranian and islamic architecture. the ancient ruins of persepolis are more than 2,000 years old, and a major attraction forforeign tourists. earlier the head of unesco reminded the us that both tehran and washington are signatories to a 1972 convention obliging states not to undertake "any deliberate measures which might damage directly or indirectly the cultural and natural heritage" of other states. evidently that document from 1972 is not influencing donald trump a great deal at the moment. iran's foreign minister javad zarif says... earlier, we heard from the former us ambassador to yemen on this story. here she is again on trump's threat. there are clear rules, norms that any decent society, any decent government does not go after cultural sites. and to do that would be escalatory in a manner that we haven't seen. destroying cultural sites is what isis does, that's what the taliban does. that's what the nazis did. and to even threaten that is o

removal of artifacts the titanic sank in 1912 of the east coast of canada and its wreckage became a unesco protected site 100 years later. i'm is a professor of history and anthropology at shawnee state university in the united states he says the wreck has been robbed because it's such a famous. the titanic however because of the extreme interest the let's say how famous it is any. coverage from it obviously have a huge amount of value and the wreck had been you know if you will visited and i would quite comfortably use the word pillaged if you will. or a grave or all because it is essentially an underwater grave for over 1500 people and this has caused you know a lot of concern for a lot of people so. you know in order to prevent further authorized axes by private or even you know businesses entities etc from continuing to access the site this now places century for the 1st time some sort of lead straight or regulation that permits only. the united states and great britain at least in this case to provide access or licenses and it reinforces what came out of the 2001 can vent unesco conve

the current government is pushing to get bindiya recognized as the unesco world heritage site. these days just a few people like salome visit the loosely. he's planning to write about the libya in his blog when you look at it you realize that. little has been done to develop the police us to make tories feel confortable when they come in year and i really doubt that if that was really happening because our tories were not one to recommend another person to come here the next time because the police really does not look hospitable for 4 tories so i think that it's really important for the government to put feet on the ground and to see how they can develop it it can really being a substantial income more an italian americans have treated a sister route to travel route. rescissions see what and 10 percent of all africans who left the continent went through bia. at least 200 chiefs involved in the transatlantic slave trade here. is a descendant of deuce who once lived in the sleeve in which he walks or part time as a tall guy every body have to contribute but he decides to see. al

of the will which is go big bad unfortunately there's a hitch the unesco protected 19th century clock tower is currently undergoing an extensive restoration and each giant clock has been silent to protect the hearing of construction workers. chime on new year's eve but having it would allegedly cost $60000.00 euros party leader nigel farage is apoplectic. they're really making this as devout want to call it 5000000 and they're really trying to make this as difficult as possible there is going to be a party prime minister boris johnson is equally determined to make it happen or at least we think he has said well we're working up a plan so that people can bugger bob for being there. because there's there are some people who want to. i'm quite worked out well a crowd funding campaign raised some 300000 euros in just a few days but johnson soon wrote back on the plan the british government would not be allowed to use public donations to cover the costs and it also dawned on him that to celebrate bricks a day in such a grandiose fashion would hardly be in keeping with his pledge to unite t

seychelles is the smallest country in africa half of that area has protected status including to unesco world heritage sites officials say preserving the environment now will make sure that the tourism industry stays strong. for us to do. people feel very much. like you or you. feel. you know the place is average to achieve balance doesn't mean to or isn't in the seychelles is going to come screeching to a stop any time soon officials know that the industry accounts for over a quarter of jobs on the islands the government says a survey on tourism and sustainability is set to begin soon as a move to electric mobility is a huge challenge for the car industry on the one hand the decline of diesel engines could mean job cuts with fewer hands needed for assembly but on the other new technologies also mean new opportunities. automotive supplier bosch has one of its biggest facilities in bamberg in southern germany 7000 employees assemble traditional combustion engine parts making things like nozzles for diesel fuel injection but the future is said to look more like this fuel cells a standalon

seychelles is the smallest country in africa half of that area has protected status including to unesco world heritage sites officials say preserving the environment now it will make sure that the tourism industry stays strong. it does not destroy. what we did for us to do was to. trust those that are in the people feel very large you know. who or you. feel. the places efforts to achieve balance doesn't mean 2 or ism in the seychelles is going to come screeching to a stop any time soon officials know that the industry accounts for over a quarter of jobs on the islands the government says a survey on tourism and sustainability is set to begin soon. businesses need to adapt urgently to the growing threat from climate change according to a consulting firm mckinsey millions of lives and trillions of euros in economic activity will be at risk if greenhouse gas emissions keep rising by 2050 ocean warming is expected to reduce fish catches by almost 10 percent i could affect the livelihoods of up to 800000000 people i can see adds that global supply chains are also at risk because they often d

the un's cultural agency unesco is helping the afghan government preserve the caves and ancient landmarks but solving problems requires money and a change in attitudes for a country riven by conflicts that's easier said than done. rows upon rows of incense with the lunar new year around the corner it's the busiest time of the year for makers of the fragrance fix one of the world's biggest producers of incense is in china for province. it takes a back breaking work to make millions of prayers and it's crunch time at this open air factory. lunar new year is just days away locals say that this corner of china produces much of the world's incense for the holiday. i'm drawing incense sticks here trying golden incense but we make all kinds of different varieties. workers follow a choreography of up to 18 steps to coat thin bamboo sticks and aromatic herbs and spices there's no escape from the color dust that sticks to the skin and clogs the air a secret recipe that's proved a thriving business to the hong family for decades. mightily producing incense used for paying respects to boredom and the

is no longer part of the of the unesco if the president trump withdrew it in 2018 i mean it does does that matter. i don't think so and i think there is a much broader. x. standing global understand world understanding that targeting cultural heritage cultural sites heritage religious or otherwise is basically outside the. mish basic human norms in fact the united nations and 948 but evaded by the horrors of the whole goals. issue the declaration of human rights and i want to go 27 specifically asserts that culture is a basic human right and therefore protection of cultural assets cultural buildings monuments sites etc is part of that and this is been repeated in numerous really resolutions and remember in a sense a revolution there is allusion to 1009 in fareed 2015 to each you know the us voted for. it which physically actually deals with talk of combating terrorism also condemned the destruction of cultural sites by isis and a lot structure so i doubt that the us would want to be included in that group it just it's just not going to have a really good story to professor many thanks

soon became a place of pilgrimage today it's rococo church is a unesco world heritage site. you have plans to visit the algo it's best to fly to munich and rent a car not only will you be able to get from one place to the next you will be treated to speak tackler nature at every turn. before i started be a full length part of my journey we're going to hop on over to the other side of the elves to italy our of europe with llamas that we were stolen from ukraine sent us a video from her trip to venice the visit to the city of water was a mother's day gift from her son and as she told us it left her in awe. it's either arrived at my next stop nestled here i'm going to rent the equipment i need for my next and deaf or an introduction to the biathlon. so. my instructor for the day is to flick. ok ok let's go and you're probably a bit faster than me yes he's a traditional way and i'll scale kiddo so i guess i'll see you in half an hour sounds good oh. that's. right. the biathlon is extremely popular in germany or at least lots of people like to watch the competitions on t.v. . wel

acknowledgement of their important jewish past the 3 sham cities are now seeking to be listed as a unescoworld heritage site makes spend years preparing their application which was the visit in january 2020. 5 left and i'm on my way to warms you only drive 40 minutes north along the rhine. the symbol of the city is like inspire and also in mines the huge imperial cathedral. it was built in the 12th century. not only known for its cathedral and its jewish past but also as the setting for the famous novel in legend. in one's numerous buildings are an incident of the german heroic saga which deals with hate love power and murder a dragon is also there. this statue shows the villain haagen from true. when you. have thrown the treasure into the wrong. well we'll leave worms for a moment because we've received another viewers video as you know you can send us your impressions and we show here on check this time the video is from luis. and he went skiing in the austrian alps so that's our weekly the mail. the to. cold. shoulder. special spots in. her. trunk. or in. back in the mornings at the hi

park south of seville is a unesco world heritage site and has stopped private the millions of markets and birds traveling between europe and africa but it's surrounded by agricultural activity that is sucking up dry demand for water poses a threat to this natural paradise and the illegal wells are exacerbating the problem is he. a central for biodiversity for the park's wetlands and fauna it's also essential for the local economy which we evolved around intensive farming. but the problem is in the last 30 years that farming has led to illegal extraction of water and that has a serious impact on the park's marshes and the lagoon. groundwater levels of. so the water balance in don't ya know. park has been altered. we are destroying it. has. been fighting to protect anjana national park for 16 years the agricultural engineer comes from the region and has made the campaign against illegal wells his life's mission he uses satellite imaging to locate. and agriculture. these are official government maps. legal agricultural areas. it is it's a map that's available to the general public. so wh

the venues shape this cultural landscape over generations and have now even received the unesco designationis has its price in their vineyards the grapes still have to be harvested by hand. the slopes are too steep for machines every square metre here requires 5 times as many working hours as down in the lowlands. each grape cluster must be cut by hand to get up all of the meat that alone will change basket must be carried up or down the slopes. in the low end so whatever machines harvest the grapes worlds collide the world's a perceptible. invalid of be attending the more convinced than ever that they must defend their identity. francesco drizzy and will accept no compromises where food and drinks are concerned tradition is tradition. we are who we are not. the charm or culture of the boys and the conservatives and don't want our wonderful hill to simply be globalized and commercialized like the lowlands. for see not being all that now. so francesco dristan is going to extremes to protect the special sparkling wine by not calling a perception any more in future it will only be known as vul

same spaces and begin to say why don't we do at least a pilot test which we did on the sugar bones unesco world heritage site in bangladesh looking at. fish processing camps that use child slaves and in that short pilot we discovered far you've known process in camps and cheers to latitude and longitude you really ought to do something about it. following the success of the pilot study they turned their attention to one of the biggest uses of slave labor in india according to anti-slavery international. and the reason we thought it with the book it's surely due to the number of. the number of people that work in the film for they tend to be working under forced labor so if we can actually. help more people than we could face if we focus on another type of flavor the activity. the slavery from space projects brings together earth observation scientists geographies social scientists engineers and computer specialists they watching 4000 miles from the raid unfolding at the brick kiln. it's estimated that up to 23000000 people are held in debt bondage in india and a 3rd of the children workin

and gazed over the swiss mountains and to college glacier the largest pleasure in the arts and the unesco world heritage site. to me building a railway line up here seems like a crazy idea back inside the building complex and there's a vis told me it was even more crazy back then he's been working here for 30 years and knows the young for your inside out including its history. he explained how dangerous the railways construction was 30 workers lost their lives diseased it seems surely you can see how tough all these manual labor was baghdad not yet in flow after every knock that quarter turn the drill and then a colleague would knock it again and that's how they knocked these drill holes about 80 centimeters deep into the rock then he met them and then fell then when it was deep enough that put dynamite inside. i didn't blow it up competition i mean. done with the. weather is unpredictable at the young for york and can change without warning the annual average temperature is at minus $7.00 degrees celsius. to prove his or her own position you feel a bit like a king with you really are abo

national park south of seville is a unesco world heritage site and a stopover for millions of miles a true birds traveling between europe and africa but it's surrounded by agricultural activity that is sucking at try. demand for water poses a threat to this natural paradise and the legal wells are exacerbating the problem he says he. is essential for biodiversity for the park's wetlands and fauna but it's also essential for the local economy which revolves around intensive farming. but the problem is in the last 30 years that farming has led to illegal extraction of water and that has a serious impact on the park's marshes and lagoon after the groundwater levels of 4 . so the water balance in doing on a national park has been altered. we're destroying it. for the new owner. he. has been fighting to protect anjana national park for 16 years the agricultural engineer comes from the region and has made the campaign against illegal wells his life's mission he uses satellite imaging to locate newly drilled for holes and illegal agriculture. as well as marshall fields these are oficial gove