And thank you for the introduction I'm David a man are you listening to the 5th floor where we look at the world through the windows of the many language services that make up the b.b.c. World Service coming up mudslinging and singing at arise festival in never the 1st How do you right the wrongs of the past particularly when it happened centuries ago it's a question that comes up in a documentary by b.b.c. Africa's Audrey Brown give back the land tells the story of a white Vineyard on a in South Africa's Western Cape who wants to hand back the land his ancestors stole but this turns out to be easier said than done the owner is called Mark Soames The farm manager is Nico Hansen Audrey explains the relationship the relationship between the 2 men is quite interesting to me because Very talk about each other and I very rarely have the 2 of them actually meeting but the 2 of them seem to be at the heart of the story for me because the protagonist Mark deciding that he needed to settle the debts as he calls it of his ancestors by sharing in the land that his ancestors that stolen from South Africans generations ago what you have to remember is that this fuss was built by slaves in the 16th eighties census they were already to settlers here to European hunters hunting in a river for the Pottermore and elephants. Of which of course there are none left this valley which is not called from Shook French Quarter. Elephants quarter so sad and everything about some epic is just excruciating painful Nicko is all of that area and all of that land and from the story that he tells Mark approached him because he was the person who seemed to be the most direct with him and seemed to understand clearly what it was. That needed to be done in trying to a re set this relationship between black and white South Africans told him I don't trust white people at all I said who they are the you thing Mark solved you coming from abroad I mean did you listen to this farm and I'm indigenous to this land and who do you think you people coming and you just buy a farm to get people off I'm sick and tired of it you said you want to listen to me and Alvey understand the people there you have to take advice from me how I want to change things you know so I was in condition that we're living in look like or 6 I want to change that we have outside loos I want to change that we don't have proper electricity I want to change that and you listen quite early on in the documentary market stablish is his position that a wrong was done the land was taken he's inherited the farm he wants to give it back and then he tells you Well I want to give it back but I can't give it back what's going on. He says I can give it back. Who wants to give back a beautiful piece of real estate I mean you should see those farms those beautiful blue grey mountains surrounding these gorgeous vineyards and greenery and crystal clear skies he's honest you know he says I really don't want to give it back and I have to acknowledge that and then he says Ok fine so what am I going to do next which is quite an interesting perception of yourself to have to overturn because one of the main problems that South Africans have about talking to each other about the issues of privilege and inequality between black and white and brown South Africans is the inability and refusal to acknowledge on the part of white South Africans that they were privileged to the violent disadvantage of every other South African but almost recognizes this acknowledges it so what does he do instead what he does then is that he says Ok since I can't give my farm back human or a business partner and friend they will put their farms up for a mortgage and they'll buy another farm so that the farm workers will own that farm I hear in the documentary a retired worker ques now he's talking about when Mark came 17 years ago 1st and he tries to do is improve the living standards in the working standards of his workers you get the impression in the documentary that they just don't believe they say come on this white man can be for real white people don't make conditions better for us workers there must be some catch and actually some of them treat him like a fool right well he says that they think that he's a fool that he's going to fail they take advantage of him and that's interesting is that because he starts thinking they're taking advantage of me these people would know how to run a farm and then he says oh my gosh I'm beginning to sound like a white South African farmer and I love because I think that you know like what is it then about Mark that makes him different or unique I was very intrigued by that and that is sort of the question that I. I kept asking him and I say have jokingly that I sort of have to get over my sense of self loathing that I'm doing a documentary about land and dispossession and the protagonist is a white the grand owner of the good what the good white men Yeah and I really had to swallow my outrage at myself for doing that but I was intrigued and I still haven't really got to the bottom of why didn't I ask him and I say jokingly in the 1st interview that I do with him but I'm not really joking I say I'm going to make it my life's work to find out why you are so different to other South Africans because it's not just that aspect that I find different it's also it's just a genuine introspection because he actually seems to psychoanalyze himself and he writes like an A-List he is yes I say so he says that that's the reason why psychoanalysis forces you to face up to truth and then move from there and he feels that that's the reason why South Africa is sort of constantly working and reworking the fight and acrimonious discussion around privilege and dispossession because people don't want to face up to the fact that the fact is that it was a violent dispossession and this is a dispossession going back over 300 years because one point in the story he suspends activities at the farm and doesn't archeological dig that was the thing that I found the most intriguing not just this internal introspection and excavation but also externally in order to validate the claims of the people who were there and this truly did give them a sense of real possession just tell us a little about some of the things he unearths when they do this take well stories and names because the digs don't just come with the shards you know the artifacts the actual physical artifact that go back thousands and thousands of years you read this beautiful tools and so on but they also find in the census documents in the papers they find the stories of the people who lived on those farms. And for me that was actually thrilling and it's kind of moved me tremendously I stayed in the museum for ages after that just drinking in the names of the people there you know because part of that story was also my story my family my paternal grandparents you know came from that area my father was born in Palm Beach is not far away from this film and my grandmother you know and my grandfather were born there as well so I was completely moved and just I was actually thrilled because it's not history that is taught in South Africa you went to another museum in the region this was the one time in the documentary that I felt you sounded quite angry why for that reason this particular museum it's called the you going no museum and that museum only tells the story of white people who came and dispossessed violently the people they found there but the story of this position is not told it's told in that passive way you know the land was settled you know the you're going to those grew grapes and they worked really hard and through their enterprise and through their hard work this area prospered nothing nothing about the near genocide of the Korean the sun people with their nothing about the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of people from all over what was then the Dutch in the British Empire nothing of that whatever pictures. The pictures of. I mean I think that's really what made me angry seeing a 12 minute long presentation of the story of the human nose and only one image of a black person that sort of crouched down and looking up in admiration no admiration at you know this group of white you can use that come Was it your personal connection then to this area both the paternal grandparents came from this area you mentioned Polya you know was it that personal connection that brought you to this story no. I was interested in doing the story about land and South Africa's genuine struggle to get to terms with how you're going to get over this inequality so for me it really was a story but the personal connection. I don't even know why it escaped me for so long because even as I was going about doing all of this hearing my grandmother's accent in the you know the tone of her voice and the accent goes very specific this area how people speak you're hearing her tone and accent in the people you were interviewing and the people that I was meeting you know and I would go into a shop will whatever but it was when I was sitting at the language monument Afrikaans language monument and I suddenly looked around and I said but this is Paul and Paul means Pearl and the word comes from this Sheeny granite outcrops this is something my granny told me and I was like actually this is where my people come from and then I started reflecting on this it was like my granny said that she was born and she lived on this particular street better struck between the mountain road so I went to mountain road in my granny had said that her church and her school was there but I couldn't find them and I called and I said where with and she said well you know if you walk up and split and then they said they went there and I suddenly got really sad because I thought there's nothing left of her and the people that had come before because that area now is an area where. For the longest time white South Africans were built because it was a very beautiful part of town and part of the way in which South Africa developed over time during Apartheid and during colonialism was this separation of people so all of that is very visible in this area and I sort of that came home to me fairly very strongly and also I must tell you this not far from this area is also the jail where Nelson Mandela spent the last few years of incarceration in your path so there was this kind of confluence of South Africa's history both personal for me and the broader political history that suddenly came alive as I sat there already Brown talking about the making of the documentary give back the land if you want to know what the farmer Maxim's decided to do to redress the injustices of the past do listen in as this Tuesday on the b.b.c. World Service give back the land here on the 5th floor this week Nepalese have been celebrating repining the rice planting festival now Rice is the staple of a huge part of its economy and culturally also a mainstay of family life even for young professionals working in and around the urban ised capital Katmandu Martina Basso reports for the scene Epperly and for the past week she's been delicately balancing her work with jobs to be done at the family's paddy fields in back the border back the power is for them kilometers away from Katmandu it is inhabited by the attorney a group called Know Us and the new Are people their main a capacious in is a Greek cancer so in every culture also rice plantation is a kind of must as it been a must for you yes of course because we eat rice in the morning in the afternoon also and in the night also tell us about this festival the rice festival I've seen pictures of people throwing themselves into a muddy fields is that part of the 1st 2 years in. Of course is a part of the festival because when people go for an ice plantation they do not care about their the clean as they good to feel to plan the rise and rise plantation happens in the paddy field it's in the mud and what is there to entertain in the paddock frail It's the mud itself so just to make the work fun people crack jokes the throw the mud at each other they sing songs what kind of songs to they sing gives a taste of the melody line so you're asking me to sing a song yes I am actually I confess. I can't sing it actually I heard it many years ago but I found a small piece I'll sing that for you that would be lovely it's in and you are the language it's my own mother tongue. Bone tired that beat Santa Demi Well my dear bird turn boom turn that beats and Jimmy woman there but what do you. Know Pete don't so Peter. Won't dear bombards see you know. He turns to Pete. Than that's really and how does the song interpret what are those lines say the line saying we have a piece of land and the one who came to help us is a short woman a short woman yeah short woman and she is short so it's a lot like a desk that's got a certain rhythm to it yeah yeah and the ocean what she can still keep her head above the monsoon waters as well because depending season is in the monsoon when the when the rains Yeah that's leaving Right right but tell us a little more educate me about rice cultivation because you're from a family of pharmacists under sickly from a family family I guess I started planting rice when I was a very small child I guess 3 or 4 years I helped my parents plant rice before the month soon so the siege of the rice we make a separate bed and we need to cover it because we have to protect all those seeds from the very very clever birds like peas in sparrows and all so we have to cover that bit with either Haiti or tried grasses and even we use the character was not the structured can across but takes. The plastic bags so that once the air blows the plastic bags these sound but different textures what kind of sound is that again. If the sound in the plastic bags that's kind of sounds a scare the birds Ok so the seeds then germinate in seedlings and then when the monsoons come you then plant them in the paddy fields Yes And is this something that kind of like every member of the family or farming community is expected to take part in Yes you to yes of course so how do you do that and report on. At the same time it's reporting becomes secondary especially when the rest plantation is going on because my family expect to Friday days plantation 1st not just me my brother is an ingenious my sister is a nurse so even they also take leave and be all good to field for the rise Blandish And I think there's some advice in there as well isn't there for visitors you know don't let your car break down and don't get sick during the rice planting festival actually this day is also observed as the your good and didn't rise to the heat Judah your good Judah is bitten Rice all of a new plan people enjoy your good and beat and rise because this is months and so people may get weighed by rain any time so it is believed that having your good and bitten Rice increase immune system and to take it to the beach and rice is of course we did we did we had in the office as well so much in the in between doing your community and family duties in the planting season and reporting it also for b.b.c. In about it did you get to have some fun yourself those kind of see any pictures of you throwing yourself in the mud yeah of course we usually do it on the last day like I have a piece of land and I finished planting rise in the particular land then my sister as my mother my father my brother and they throw much at each other many parents too much on me I also did the same on them and they don't mind I don't mind and they also do the same met in their. B.b.c. Nepali speaking to me from Katmandu You're listening to the 5th floor getting to know the journalists who bring the news to the B.B.C.'s international audiences so let's meet our Hugh Allen toast of b.b.c. Turkish She's been reporting on an issue that's been very topical lately that's urban regeneration. And displacement comes from Istanbul and used to work in the neighborhood it's right in the center of the city and has the kind of history and architect take care that sets it apart it was declared regeneration area 10 years ago but the residents are still resisting plans to relocate them. Right next to Taksim Square it's very close to least a large street where tourists flocked all the time Tyler Bush it is more like a combination of streets but there are very narrow very historical old houses some of them have this Ottoman touch not only the architecture about the small houses and the lives people share with each other and it's very very unique and television has always been known as a place of harmony many in what sense how many in many sense it is a place welcoming many people who aren't feeling themselves like outsiders what kind of people live there mostly people who have migrated to the area in the 1990 s. Kurdish and many and Gypsies Romanise also Greek Istanbul it's most importantly transgender communities most of them work as sex workers we know that it is a problem already and this is one of the reasons that the government wanted to change the area transform the area they're seeing the title of area as a place welcoming the crime because he's saying prostitution is illegal and exactly but then you also say that it's a community of many different types of people too you know and they live in harmony when you look in the streets you see that the old man who owns the shop who's very conservative doesn't mind anymore that a transgender just goes by because they know each other they talk to each other their friends their neighbors their family you know tensions you know tensions How do you know this I have joint Tyler wishes community center it's. Is mostly focusing on the children living in the area what were you teaching I was teaching math and when I came to the class those children like think of 20 children very loud. They're like monsters I knew my ready for this so you were teaching but also learning at the same time yes I mean in ways I was I was learning from them because they were very open very keen to share with you everything you say that everybody lives in harmony you know conservatives with their g.b.t. But when you hear of attacks on account of people's sexuality or gender in tell us here where these attacks are coming from they're not coming from within the community then using know people around the neighborhoods find their houses and they come like a mass of people think of a mass of people who are angry at them for some reason they find their houses and we see the videos pictures of those transgender people who are beaten so when something like that happens do the police take action. And not always Tyler Bush is seen as a place of crime already like I told you the open transformation is focused on this to make this place a more do nice to stick area and in the urban transformation what happens to the people what happens to the community if they have to move to other places because their houses are demolished but some of them refused to leave the government reportedly pushed them out of the area by some tactics such as not collecting the garbage for instance and it is not for say for instance for children to stay in that area why because the houses are half demolished right now which is not safe and so it's almost like a process of running down a community in order to drive people out and gentrify it of course recently on this program we were talking about the demolition of traditional communities in cities like Beijing it was described as a city losing its soul by destroying all these old communities is that how you feel about delegates here is it that unique in Istanbul it is unique for many reasons because how many could have left the area especially when the Syrian people came to this area of course stylish it had to welcome them sometimes there were crisis still sometimes there were tensions but it was always like lighter than it can be in some other areas that's why Tyler Bush easy is a fait accompli is the demolition and regeneration the end of the story not yet because people are still reacting to this transformation process resisting they are resisting they are still there that is how they resist that's a cue out until a show of b.b.c. Turkish You're listening to the 5th floor plenty more to come don't go away. This is the b.b.c. World Service and here's what's coming up in the next part of our series The Truth about cancer and they take that is it in baby baby radially stage parts of Africa have the highest rates of cancer of the cervix in the world those changes didn't prevent this woman from progressing into a tropical craft yet it's a cancer that is now detected and treated with great success in the West the sciences the clear knowledge is that what you need to do is to transmit this interaction and on and visits Tanzania to find out how simple screening procedures can change women's lives as cells become abnormal you turn white and it's as simple as that just with a nigger this time with the truth about cancer we know what to do with demonstrative it can then be just lining the skin up at b.b.c. World Service dot com. Coming up intimate pictures of a president's daughter breast feeding creates a stir in Kurdistan many young people said well done yes how beautiful and then there was a huge part of the same user saying call shameful This is not Muslim girls should behave this is the president's daughter is it the example that she's setting up for us issues of breastfeeding in public spaces on the 5th floor after the news. B.b.c. News with Jonathan Izod the German parliament has voted to legalize same sex marriage it was only added to the parliamentary Shenzhou at the last minute after the chancellor Angela Merkel changed her position to allow a free vote on the subject 3 former executives working for the Japanese power company Tepco have pleaded not guilty in the 1st criminal trial relating to the Fukushima nuclear disaster 6 years ago one of the accused the former Tepco chairman so he said cancer matter said the earthquake and tsunami waves that severely damaged the nuclear plant were impossible to predict the u.n. Human Rights Commission says that letters are being sent to families in the Iraqi city of Mosul threatening them with forcible expulsion over alleged links with the Islamic state group the commission called on the Iraqi government to prevent collective punishment the French politician and Holocaust survivor Simone Vai has died at the age of $89.00 she was born into a Jewish family in southeast France and was deported as a teenager to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz as French minister of health she led a successful campaign to legalize abortion the South African President Jacob Zuma has opened a conference of the governing African National Congress as arguments continue to rage among party membership about his future some veterans of the anti-apartheid movement are boycotting the meeting and calling for Mr Zuma is resignation the German parliament has approved a law that obliges social media sites to delete illegal content within 24 hours or face fines of up to $50000000.00 euros The new law is tech giants such as Facebook and Google to swiftly remove posts containing hate speech and criminal content a prominent us t.v. Presenter who was subjected to a social media attack by President Trump has said that concerns about what she calls the president's unmoored behavior went far beyond the personal writing of The Washington Post Mika Brzezinski said she and her co presenter Joe Scarborough share the doubts of America's leaders and allies about whether Mr Trump is fit to be president b.b.c. News. I know that I'm going out again the flow going and I said that I had but definitely am i not about God but God's got me the b.b.c. World Service. And thank you b.b.c. And the nation one of the many language services that make up the b.b.c. World Service I'm David you're on the 5th floor the place and the program where you get to know better the journalists behind these services in this half a venue with no visitors why the animals of the brain as I resume remain in their enclosures but 1st what connects Demi Moore Serena Williams Beyonce and the youngest daughter of Kyrgyzstan president well they've all drawn huge amounts of attention imposing their pregnancies in new Dornier new photographs for giver though it's a little different coming from a conservative central Asian and predominantly Muslim nation and being the daughter of a president but that hasn't deterred her from making more photos statements the latest shows her breastfeeding her newborn son in bikini style underwear Kineret cousin a bed of b.b.c. Curtis has the story I think it's funny I posted her picture just sitting in breastfeeding her child they would be no problem whatsoever it would have been natural and it wouldn't occur to Christian that but the thing is she posted an extremely arty beautiful picture over mother in a bikini just feeding her child I think that suddenly struck everybody's attention how come you know breastfeeding is such a natural thing and suddenly to make such a show of it number one number 2 it's not just an ordinary girl with this she wants to sink of this souls that she isn't ordinary independent more girl but actually she is depressed and Stuart what kind of reaction did she get then it sparked a lot of controversial reaction many young people. Well done yes how beautiful model no modern model not and then there was a huge part of the same user saying Col shameful what then insult What about that with traditions all this is not colored Muslim girls should behave this is the Presidents don't is it the example that she's setting up for us it's not the only controversial pictures he's put up is it on Instagram because when she was pregnant she did a kind of a Demi Moore or a on say didn't she she she just put up a picture of her showing off her bumpier that force something possibly that sparked also those big controversy because being pregnant into additional cultures is it's something sacred it's very intimate and yes you would see and lots of pregnant women on the streets but would you often see a pregnant woman sitting on the beach for example or actually posting that picture like Beyonce for their traditional society well go marry your interview or face to face Of course last week for the very 1st time in biscuit and those outside so what are your impressions of it I would definitely call her to some extent that a bow but trouble not because she just wants to rebel everything as she put it to me she wants to share this her understanding of freedom. From prejudice from conventions that some call prevent people from being themselves for example if she is breastfeeding in her became you would should stood up more controversy if she's breastfeeding in her clothes what would be the difference there and she explains it to me it's because women a looked up as and sexual object and that's why such things coarse and stood up that much controversy on that I had she says who is going to think about the babies and she business somebody on the bus when the child was very hungry crying but the mother was young and to side to fit in public and she felt compelled that the child is suffering and the mother come to just because she is on there all those conventional prejudice upbringing so her response has been quite feisty isn't it she's standing her ground. She did until the moment when she suddenly removed those pictures from Kabul and obviously asked her a little Yeah why did you remove them you seem to be quite comfortable is it your parents actually forced you to take them down well to some extent yes because not off their reputation they didn't fear for their reputation of some kind of damage to their public image it was mostly they concerned about being because they saw it might be under attack that there would be more insults towards me so being concerned about me they asked me to remove those pictures it's also something else going on here that she is the daughter of the president she feels that she's in some kind of Crystal Palace and she wants to break out of that but at the same time still have the privileges I asked her about that I said you want to be an independent girl walking on the streets with some of these sneaking out that quick shot of you and posting it elsewhere you tried to go shopping by yourself and you tried to be an ordinary girl but hang on you're not an ordinary girl with the you want to be or not you are the president's daughter and see and meet it that it's like a stick these 2 ends on the one hand yes she's independent she wants to prove that she's what she used these obvious out her parents but the other side of the stick is just says that up thousands of eyes on me but they didn't choose that what do you think going out or is he being brave or is she being foolish I think she's very sincere and brave and the combination of the 2 May show her as slightly foolish but when I was talking to her I was actually misread right she's quite thin then we met to figure she's very real threat very educated person she's a vegetarian in that traditionally meat eating. Society and she's concerned about well being off the lens of the of the climate the earth but that's not for show off she's not the kind of in Mew heap of just quite true beliefs but your beliefs in a sense that she tries to be an example for other girls to be free old prejudices. And the president and 1st lady any idea what they really feel about this I asked how your parents reacted to those post of your pictures and she said that they were very protective of her. I just guessed that behind the scenes they were quite you know heated discussions about this but she very carefully put this well I had to listen to them because they wanted to protect me from insults from remarks and it wasn't that told about their fear off democratic their only beautician or that the flower country it was purely to secure to safeguard their child. Has a member of b.b.c. Guest talking about the president's daughter this is the 5th floor last year Buenos Aires it was closed to the public following years of protests there were accusations of cruelty and that captivity was degrading to animals in this 19th century zoo and one point the plan was to move 2 and a half 1000 animals to nature reserves in Argentina and convert the $44.00 acre site into an Eco Park by the year on the lines of rhinos and elephants are still there why might have been a Gagliardi reports from Argentina for b.b.c. Mundo and she knows the zoo Well this show was created and built by the end of then 1000 century it was the period called candidacy and there are 10000 additional aeration of the ages a whole bunch of intellectuals some politicians who had thought of when outsiders in Argentina as a great country so at that time the area where this who is located was the outskirts of the Seal team and they had a huge park disheartening and this area which became this thought that it was meant to have a very few animals they were planning Gardens is quite a big green area even bigger down Hyde Park around this time zoos were being open to the public for the 1st time in European cities. You know entertainment for the urban masses was that the context in which the well is there is 0 was growing absolutely basically people were going there to enjoy a bit of green and to see some an e-mail as far as an exotic thing so at that time the area where this who is located was the outskirts of the city team but due to their. Yellow Fever the city moved uptown which is the area of the school which is quite crazy because nowadays you have an amount in the middle of a very noisy and honkin city when you used to visit it what it looked like the area around a zoo by the time I was born and I was a ta and it was already I polluted. Area. You have 3 years hundreds of buses cars they are underground So imagine that literally under disco they had to pass him by. I need not a very modern do because he was building several decades ago so you do sometimes feel the movement on the surface and also. On one side of the school you have very expensive Polish building for people with from high society looking literally over to school and he says monstrous So they are quite near and there was the story of the monkey who climbed through the trees to the terrace of a guy in there. His whisky was going down every night and he was like Ok I haven't blanks in my memory because I don't remember drinking my always so fast you realize there was that 90 mile and if you found a monkey in the fridge strain to grab some food and basically call this saying that have you know a little monkey in my house I was drinking my always cooked and eaten my football and that's not just maybe if we had I don't know not all that happened you know because it was super cool imagine to have a big flood of 200 meters with a view over the parks and this is who won the animals from your own Actually I used to live quite New know that area and this to him when I was known for having exotic things I do remember Indian 1000 when their uncle Don arrived actually having that huge. That really looked or moved let's say more than looked at as a human but was in captivity through bars that along with time 20 years later to solve some 14 if I remember properly was declare as to nonhuman person by a tribe in early in the seating meaning on the always and only Mike has the right to be free so they decided and had to move it into a Brazilian sanctuary were there and were done it was a female done Sandra would be feeling at home that's quite amazing Ok non-human human beings so that was that kind of early pointer then to what happened last year the with his. Being shut down by the beginning of the new century anyone acted recently Fenosa started saying Ok this is mud we have a huge bunch of the new moms some of them are dying because when I've seen someone for me over 32 degrees and a polar bear our needs cold but it's very hard to keep Paula temperatures in an area when your real environment is over 30 to 35 degrees so all these people started saying Ok this is totally Mart So basically the government said Ok we should do something and changing this saw into a more modern Eco Park with fewer new models instead of seen as. Strange creatures let's say it's a year since the announcement of the closure but the animals are still there why they government has said it has been more difficult and complex to move the animals than things thought some of the animals are very old which means basically that they want to be able to and that again and what about large mammals like elephants all hippos giraffes. Well it's very expensive to move dogs and to find a proper place where to take them so again it is said that the real reason they're not doing it is not because of their well being of the animals but because of their lack of badgered to do it properly by the way what will happen to the one I caused because I was told you had a little altercation with one of them the llamas you were. The law is a typical And a month from. Now where Mom tines and I was very much. I mean and I mean like that with the speed at you know when you were trying to feed. I was totally off and even angry I would say without anyone saying like why did anybody has been I mean quite like trying to eat lamb also people got from Argentina but why not call you special relative of the llama I guess they will try to take them back to the and this is not going to be either I would say because they might speak spitting immediately. Exactly Macarena b.b.c. Mundo thank you you're on the 5th floor now to the world while the web. Of unusual stories this week. Well hello till date. We begin on the tarmac of a Shanghai airport where a commercial jet was waiting to take to the skies early in the week all was going to plan until and this passenger about to board the plane decided to do a little good luck which. Now a bit of superstition is understandable flying can be a scary business but unfortunately this passenger made it even scarier you see because so many involved throwing Cohens straight into the plane's engine. The flight was immediately. Grounded and all the passengers were delayed for hours bad luck indeed it could have been a lot worse though my lucky horseshoe would have done much more damage. Next we're off to Finland a beautiful country of pine and further forests and thousands of gorgeous Lakes but unfortunately for some the grass is always greener on the other side. A group of 4 British men were in the east of the country in a speed navigating competition and had apparently done rather well until the pub just across the border in nearby Russia got the better of them. Now as Russia and Finland had always got on both countries take this border rather seriously and have installed a lot of heavy electronics he learns. So after necking several beers during their 15 minute visit are in tears when mixed by Finnish police on their return they're now faced with a stiff fine but they're being allowed back to the u.k. Next time they fancy a cross border bar crawl Let's hope they get a visa. Now to end not the body of the Arctic Circle this time Canada's Yukon region with its long dark winters the inhabitants of Dawson City a sometimes forced to make their own fun. And occasionally This involves mixing cocktails. The drinking hole has a special and highly prized ingredient open mom of 2 who originally lost to frostbite apparently 100000 visitors have downed what's known as the sour Kto car to. Well just donnish with this grisly appendage. But the tour has now gone missing and a thief is suspected. Would start off not looking for a replacement So my advice for anyone passing through to avoid falling asleep at the bar. Was 50 heroin on the 5th floor accept no imitations it's 10 to the hour and time for witness Rebecca can be takes us back to $992.00 when Disney opened its 1st theme park in mainland Europe in 2013 she spoke to Euro Disney 1st chief executive and found that the Paris venture was plagued with issues from the outset such as the. It's the spring of $9092.00 and the Magic Kingdom has come to Europe as a manhunt. That the Iraqi. Police officer shot. At last the flamboyant opening ceremony and fireworks after years of turbulent relations between America and Disney and the Paris or Thorazine the French describing Disney as arrogant Disney regarding the French as impossible the man given the job of forcing the fairy tale into reality was Bob Fitz Patrick president of the California Institute for the arts but persuaded out of the cozy American cultural elite by the desperate Disney management. Of old had a reputation as a man who could get the job done and most importantly he was a fluent French speaker what intrigued me was the opportunity to do it less badly than somebody who didn't care about France and didn't care about Europe and other cultures and I also thought that the idea of popular entertainment really well done was going to be a really interesting. Well and Bob was right it certainly was going to be a challenge and he'd any of the been to a fame part once before in his life northern fronts had been picked to maximize accessibility but it wasn't sunny Florida as he soon realized when he visited the site I came back to be dressed in a business suit and properly polished shoes and it was a rainy miserable December day and I get out of the car in a dirt road and I'm looking at 5000 hectors big fields so we start walking through the beat fields by now I've got mud up to my kneecaps and I kept thinking oh my God we're going to build theme park in the weather's going to be like this dismal weather wasn't going to be the only chill Bob Fitzpatrick would experience a highly respected figure in the international scene joining Disney didn't go down well with his high brow friends especially the French ones he particularly remembers one prominent directors reaction the day I took the job I am a new called me and said he knew prompt you had me we can no longer be friends to news that you have betrayed us to that failure and show no build. You're going to create a cultural trend noble Was there any part of you that took that comment to heart and did question why you would taking on this job yes there were certainly moments like that all I can say is that if France was able to succeed in living through the invasion of the Germans the British in the previous century then surely their bible of the mouse has interests threaten that national agenda Thank you Keith thank you. All became some of the opposition in the French arts community by hiring opera specialists to choreograph some of the attractions but he was also viewed with says. Special at times from the other side of the arm to think about the problem is that it does me there were very few people that had lived abroad studied abroad or spoke a foreign language from the Disney point of view they were always concerned that I was going to be too French or too European from the Europeans point of view I was too American so I was sort of permanently stuck in the middle with each side wondering Michael Eisner was the c.e.o. Of Disney at the time and came to explore the Magic Kingdom but he drew the line at some of Bob's European inspired innovations I wanted to serve beer and wine which Disney never dies in the Magic Kingdom theme park in the United States in France particularly this a tradition of a glass of wine with a meal and I kept getting told no and finally I convinced Michael Eisner that we should go to Tivoli the theme park and then Mark and we flew up one night with Jane his wife and my wife Sylvie had a good meal in a restaurant and I kept saying Michael you have nothing to lose so as we're walking out he says Ok I'm still a little leery but you convinced me you can go ahead and sell beer and wine in our restaurants we walk outside and from a bar next door guy comes out drunk and throws up on the mantle Blahnik shoes Jane Eisener and Michael turns to me and he said we are no longer serving beer and wine in the theme park subject closed just because some guy barfed we don't have to change the policy but we did. So was. When the park finally opened Bob was faced with a novice sobering challenge Francis strict employment laws and one of the most unionized workforces in the world Disney describes its employees has come. Lost members they're required to pitch summarize the Disney Dream fresh clean polite and show for. You. Certainly in the United States serving somebody is not demeaning it is considered an honorable profession if you will the notion of service with a smile is not a French concept. Hundreds of workers walked out in the early years complaining of what they considered fair working conditions long I was strict dress codes and the fact that they were told to smile constantly. If. There were some that complained to which my answer was they complain on your own time not on company time I have 0 sympathy for that who spit. To complain to grumble to mumble is occasionally a tribute to the French is a national characteristic and I said Look you're actors this is not a play about the French Revolution or Joan of Arc This is an American play and if you want to be an American play then you have to play that role you don't welcome people with a scowl. From it's like much of Europe was in a recession in the early ninety's attendance figures were around Hoff what had been expected and that was another problem European tourists spend differently to their American cousins an American would go to the theme park and they will get snacks throughout the afternoon or the morning Europeans for the most part in my experience they don't eat a lot between meals Americans spend a lot on little gifts souvenirs Europeans at most would buy one thing and so the revenues in those 2 areas were noticeably less than had originally been predicted I read that actually Euro Disney was losing around a $1000000.00. Was a day at one point and I just wonder how did that feel for you let me tell you it's not an agreeable sensation either to live through or to contemplate but you have to understand the financial structure I was the c.e.o. Of Euro Disney but I was named and took my orders from the Walt Disney Company and so the ability to control certain expenditures wasn't as autonomous as it might be in a totally freestanding corporation. And then you knew where the only. Way in the world you Bob Fitzpatrick left Euro Disney about a year after he's opened the company continued to struggle coming close to bankruptcy before major reinvestment from Disney and the Saudi prince but the fortunes of the park improved it changed its name to Disneyland Paris and now boasts something of a fairy sale ending as one of France's most visited tourist attractions. Foreigners. Rebecca's be reporting bringing us to the top of the hour stay with us for the b.b.c. News today this is the b.b.c. 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