the calm after the rebels ramped up attacks on saudi arabia yemen has been forced over by its saudi backed government and the iran aligned since 2014. pope francis has concluded a 3 day trip to iraq to holding mass for some 10000 people in elbel earlier the pope visited mosul a city heavily just droid during the war against the so-called islamic state the pope denounced religious violence and urged iraq's doing lng christian community to stay and rebuild. this is the news from berlin you can follow us on instagram and twitter at t w news websites d w dot com. find out why cliff divers don't go in head 1st that's coming up later on in the show. everyone is welcome to a special edition of your own max with a focus on the ocean i'm your host meghan lee is that look at what we've got in store for you today. how a freediver explores the deep blue sea. ant a dutch form a shop that brings the case to the ocean to the table. how long can you hold your breath. well on average most people only manage one or 2 minutes but with the right training you can increase that quite a bit the current record is over 24 minutes held by a free diver now they explore the oceans without using oxygen tanks and fun but it did didn't start free diving until she was 37 years old but she's still among the world's best while we met up with her to find out more. fun but ish at the deep blue sea isn't in chanted world where she feels absolutely free. she's a freedom i thought that means she dives without oxygen tanks and she's one of the world's best. what's unique about free diving is that you're completely on your own to go of that it's just you against nature and yourself. on things that maybe even in the ultimate sense in the final consequence elects a consequence. free divers have to master a special breathing technique which allows them to dive deep on a single breath. and are caught up on their your body realizes no you're under water. you can't breathe so you have to conserve oxygen if you're going to survive the 1st your pulse drops your heart rate slows down have and your metabolism slows radically and less energy is used when you're in everything is geared towards saving oxygen and keeping you alive as long as possible or only able to help them before diving and a concentrates on storing up as much oxygen in her lungs as possible at. some freezer i was pushed themselves beyond their limit and risk physical harm freediving is an extreme sport and not to be taken lightly. locals music was our greatest risk is losing consciousness when you hold your breath you can always lose consciousness and then if you're in the water and that happens and nobody is there to pull you out. you drown. so we keep an eye on each other. anna was already an experienced diver when she took a course in free diving in 2007 within just 6 months but she'd set 3 german records the same year she brought home grown from the world championships in egypt and. back home in berlin she trains 3 or 4 times a week many free divers take up yogurt and various meditation techniques but ana prefers cross fit a grueling full body training program that pushes her to her limits. on up north although i'm a free diver so i've only got one breath and i need muscle condition that can work without using a lot of oxygen before and i'm making very good progress with cross at home and of course so good for. their approach to life is to take the beaten path she briefly traded her neoprene diving suit for a laptop. in may 2019 and i published her 1st book it's an athlete's biography but also much more besides. i'm actually quite the opposite of a freediver and i have one line that is too small of the living and i'm not an especially good swimmer i've got so many things that should stop me but i'm still quite a success at it. i've been one of the world's best for over 10 years now that's a story that should encourage everyone to approach life with an open mind and to watch it back in cyprus now she has to concentrate. on making sure that is the best discipline for me is free diving with them. i think i dived 81 meters deep with one in 2013 who i'd like to try again and see if i can make it down just one more meter that would be really really great. with the she succeeds or not i'm a fun but it sure has found her own happiness in the ocean depths. most people prefer to go to the beach for sunshine blue skies and a pleasant temperatures but others love the turbulence see after a storm when the tide is wild for the british or french or for rachel tell about it can't get stormy enough and thanks to her photos even those at home can enjoy the drama of the ocean. when the sea churns and whales when the tides come in and gales with the water that's when british way photographer rachel tal afar springs into action. i'm just going to watch the waves stressed i'm a shill. on the beaches of england south east coast she takes spectacular photos of the sea as if she were out in the midst of it. but she says out there she get seasick. a lot of people often say to me oh you must been in a boat you look as if you're after sea and that is the look i want to get you and i remember how it feels to be right houses say with no land in sight and just waves around here and i think that's what i'm trying to illustrate in a lot of my photographs but from the shore. photographing waves means dealing with a constantly changing subject. that if you could ever see that if you get one really big way the next to me to be after it at this beach and many beaches will force a big big. say there are people who see the 1st before i take a picture and then they're looking at the camera there's 2 more coming. rachael tonopah true international attention with her photo series sirens she took the pictures during especially intense storms involving winds up to 150 kilometers per hour and waves as high as 15 meters it was the 8th of february try to 60 which restore and i spent the day here exactly where we are now and it was 6 hours of actually exhausting actually pretty and photographer a. she gave every wave she photographed for the series a name taken from mythology. decide in making the giant waves seem like reaching dawn or demons. if you freeze the sea at a really fast shutter speed a 1000th of a 2nd or thereabouts there are amazing shapes and this is an example this one is called loki the norse trickster god looks like it how can a good laugh. if she's out during a real storm she lies right on the sand to achieve greater stability then she can use her telephoto zoom lens to capture waves of 200 meters away. you have to adopt really uncomfortable poses like this lying on a shingle for a long time getting as low down as possible makes the razor bigger because the horizon goes down and the wave stands up above the horizon and so really makes all the difference in the world. rachel tyler bartz black and white photos have won her many awards but she doesn't always dispense with color. i just thought it was so simple it was just about light catching that wave in that moment i didn't want the distraction of color color for this one because the green in that way if i just thought it was so lovely and i didn't find this wave scary it was more beautiful and that's probably because it's actually moving across the frame so it's not threatening me in any way. the photographer has always loved to seize mysterious and an earthly qualities but she also senses that now it poses an entirely new kind of menace i spent a lifetime looking at the sea i look at this coast and i'm not a scientist but it. failed to mate at the end of a severe storms on this case has grown which from a fighter graphic perspective is quite exciting thought is obviously also has other ramifications more worrying. that when the sea becomes smooth and tranquil and and time its time for rachel tang the party to head home again. seaweed on the beach is seen as a nuisance by most people especially if you're on vacation but for dutch chef edwin vega it serves as colon area gold in fact he collects it for his main dishes now seaweed in asian cuisine has long been commonplace now it's also popular in european kitchens thanks to its nutritional value and its diversity and once you see how uses it for his were made creations well you might become inspired to. taste of the sea fleet adorned with algae mussels edwin vink is cuisine is based on local maritime ingredients. a life without the sea a lot. of the project is one picks by thinking. today think and his friend yarn cranston visiting the north sea coast in the netherlands. drink is the only person in this region holds an official permit to harvest the algae. because sometimes everything immediately. this is japanese. berry we see we will dry it i want is the right even more intense it's even more. basting like like c c s i so this is really this is not my favorite but this is really great they're great if we figure puts his creative skills to good use that his restaurant the crumb of the guy located right near the shore so what we started is with all the different kinds of seaweed . this is the rolls royce between august this is. when you make like something like oil or something from les there's like white. we don't use ruffles in the kitchen but this is my preferred. food the think it prepares is cooked with salt water from the sea filtered and boiled of course to kill off any bacteria. you see what happens if there's. water reduced the salt in the water it's on the potato and then you have this salty potato. so simple. the menu features mostly fish and shellfish and think you use a c.v.s. visitor ships would use vegetables. much easier is the sea the sea water so people come here to taste the sea to experience the sea when you walk around here you smell the sea they want to have this on your plate. muscles are a favorite item on the menu because we've spent 20 different varieties the pending season. wilful thing about it is they all have their own taste one of them a sweet one of them has been a bit sour so i would have all those different kinds of taste that we have that is bringing another extra dimension on the shelf. or like on the shelf see weights but you have to taste them all before you know what which one are the best and then you have to test them out so if the called them you have to make them you have to make over they have to eat at the raw if you want so it was a long time. thinking has finally developed the sweet consultant desserts. roasts wacken seaweed and combines it with baked chocolate mousse red bean paste and. this is remind you of the wrong north sea coast this is. just one guy coming up on george smith's japanese and for this. very important that people come in here one day leave the table have to be fit you have to be tired and we try to do to make it as clear as possible and that's healthy as possible so we don't use sure what our dishes also like japanese you know issue where we are sonic we have our own bees in the. so i would try to make our kitchen as light as possible and as healthy as possible because it's very important. think it has made a name for himself as a chef who prepares fresh nor seen greedy and served in innovative combinations. professional cliff diver i know has been hearing herself off rugged ledges for almost 15 years well sometimes from a height of up to 20 meters and through these daring feeds she's become one of europe's most successful cliff divers we met up with her in switzerland on the edge of a cliff no less. 3 seconds that's all she's got then on a platter hits the water at a speed of about 85 kilometers an hour. cliff diving its cliff diving gives me this great sense of freedom up there i'm on my own a sort of untouchable me and when i take off and i'm in the advantage that is a moment of weightlessness that's what freedom feels like to me that's good enough i hate. one of europe's most popular cliff diving locations is near the swiss village of puncture brother. telling off his vital since cliff divers cannot afford to slip they hit the water at such high speeds that the water surface can act like concrete that's why they only into the water feature 1st. hitting the surface at a bad angle after a 20 meter drop is like being in a fairly serious traffic accident resulting in broken bones sprains and dislocated joints but this mainly happens to novice divers injury rates for professionals are fairly low. the. fears essential it helps us stay focused and avoid becoming reckless. a few is generally a good thing for us and we need to prepare ourselves mentally before the dive and then visum a jump in our minds. for them in the end i also do breathing exercises so that were really centered when we go but one thing i would ask. cliff diving is an adrenaline rush on a batter practices yoga during training and at competitions to stay calm and focused. and her partner chris columbus. is also a professional cliff diver together they have 2 children to keep fitness and family life in balance they often train together but being a parent and an extreme athlete is not always easy. so i'm was more worried about myself like when i'm performing also like when she's . i'm worried about her because you know before if you're single you're responsible if you're so but you know ever think what you do there are a whole formally. that really now that i have a family i had last time to train and prepare for competition and. that's why i decided to slow down a little and do easy a jump. still even in 2017 i achieved better results than ever before. as a child and i did gymnastics springboard diving and later platform diving but that all changed when damon she was on vacation. as exhibit in batman i was 17 i was on vacation in jamaica and there were these locals typing off the cliff by rick's cafe is it's quickstep day and there was a platform for tourists to jump from and so i did that platforms don't have a shadow and a local said you have that all your professional lady to come over and dive with us and that was my cliff diving debut. here in front of brahma on a batter's cliff diving career took off in 2005 for many years she was the only woman in the sport and had to compete against men no provisions had ever been made for female contenders with good demand there are plenty of a high level competition that's what many more opportunities to train and die and. it's especially great for us women and it was always my dream even when i just started out that that eventually the real competitions to take part in it even would end. her dream has come true but on about is not the finished yet and faced with a challenge she's always ready to take the plunge. about 20 years ago bad advice from munich who was looking for an outdoor sport that suited him but he had no luck so he decided to create one for himself he called it c tracking and he combined his love for the ocean travel and adventure in a unique way will see truckers rely on their own physical endurance while exploring the coast we joined him at one of his workshops in croatia. she trackers get to enjoy a deserted beach is breathtaking pace and stunning underwater landscapes. they explore gorgeous coastline it's like diving hiking and swimming. with me it's me personally the ocean is a sheer bengal a sixpence. it's a space you can never conquer and it's this intangibility the draws me out there again and again. that's absolute freedom. absolute if. they aren't hard it is a sea trekking pioneer 20 years ago he was the 1st to swim from one tiny island to the next these days he offers workshops where he teaches others about the sport today he's on the croatian island of trash giving a sea trekking course with free diver nick and i learned most participants are familiar with water sports which helps. the y. in the uk so the. workshops like these highlight different aspects of sea trekking. you know the such as planning your routes the equipment needed and of course the way you move underwater. i did think. that it's not a lot like swimming in open waters or free diving. with sea trekking your movements are result of the expanse of the sea. one of the most important pieces of kit is a kind of waterproof backpack it was developed by bernhardt himself see truckers use it to transport everything they need drinking water clothing food a sleeping mat and sneaking back. in with the future or taking. about 10 liters of drinking water. though i'll have to rearrange it in my packs so it won't get in my way when i'm swimming later on that's why i start off at once everything is packed the backpack is inflated now it has a streamlined shape and can be pulled behind the seat trekkers without much effort . this 3 day workshop only features a short trip to a nearby bay further down the coast all participants sleep out in the open. and we're not really all that nervous i just hope i won't be cold because we'll probably be going for 3 hours. but if i don't mind the weather because we'll be in the water or diving most of the time i hope. the weather and the underwater currents are important factors to consider sea truckers sometimes swim several kilometers per day and occasionally put in free diving stops. you can go see trekking pretty much anywhere. of course we had to wild coastal regions because there's such an incredible gift and experience of nature. the lonely islands where no one else ever goes. you spend the night in the jungle and the next day you dive right back good to the coral reefs. the workshop participants swim about 2 kilometers to a bait that can only be reached by water. during a sudden rain shower they set up their camp and make a fire. if they can you see trekking is all about being in nature though giving something back it's such a gift to be able to carry it through. unfortunately the next day the weather has worsened and swimming back through the. the waves he's hard work. live once they've made it everyone's really happy. hearted guy this was a great tour even though the sea was a bit rough i have to say this was a great trip from our home from the gulf we learned a lot they showed us a lot of things since i often find some of the sea checking is an exceptional way of getting around i definitely do it again with a different kind of woman. and after this nature trip most participants are also happy to return to civilization. and with that we wrap up this special edition of euro max now don't forget to follow us on facebook or go to our own website to see the reports again as always thanks for tuning in o.c. gets their. meaning. heartbeats for animal funds always go on she's provided a home to more than $800.00 creatures. but her dedication actually goes much further and it always has for her entire life. believes it was a jungle born again and inspirational on a. global 3000. totally. different on the islands of. here women are in charge. of the archipelago as a victory a local system for centuries. of society do it. differently. what do they do with their power. the queens of rango. inside the summit w. international women's day. they are making women visible around the world their voices protest especially now because the sentiment is exacerbating inequality kamui so chasing women who are fighting for themselves determine life and demanding change. africa will be developed when a guy is given the rights and justice led the boys. the women who fight i am the man not just on international women. on g.w. no. welcome to global 3000. women have been campaigning for their rights for more than 170 years but it wasn't until the 20th century that things started to change when for example the right to vote was introduced in several european countries. but we're still a long way from true equality even today many countries have laws and regulations in place which discriminate against women and there are 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