Culture heres whats coming up. Lifes a circus training for a career under the big top and from. Back to baroque Historical Performance of a personal opera. And out of the woods galleries to gave up a lucrative job. Lets start off with this weeks your mack series home for christmas where we explore the roots of christmas traditions and off final episode were tracking down a mysterious figure whos known by many names santa claus father christmas saint nick where does the jolie man in the red suit really come from. Were traveling way up north to the finnish province of lapland where range is rome the regions capital has its very own santa claus village and a man who claims to be the real deal. Well the locals call him. We set off for the Arctic Circle to find out is that you santa claus. Deep in the magical snowy landscapes of finnish lapland near the glistening city of rovaniemi is the place this santa calls. Visitors from all over the world make the pilgrimage to santa claus village up
Increase government debt. Which polish president on trade has signed two laws that complete a radical overhaul of the countrys Justice System in unst as decision hours after the e. U. Launched an unprecedented process that could strip poland of its Voting Rights in the block over the reforms brussels says they threaten the rule of law. Britains deputy Prime Minister damian green has resigned hes been under fire after a Cabinet Office and missed a geisha and found he had lied to the public and m. P. s over viewing pornography at work its a fresh blow to Prime Minister trees amazed embattled government. The European Unions top court has ruled that the right Healing Service should be regulated like a taxi company the ruling by the looks and berg based European Court of justice stems from a complaint by a person alone a Taxi Drivers Association the drivers wanted to prevent goober from setting up in the spanish city and said drivers should have licenses. The motion is adopted without objec
A beautiful city on the top of the river in the northern german state shes the choice of the five. And i chose this distillation for a very specific reason. Music is known as a Christmas Town and thats why im here at christmas time i really hope to get into the christmas the mood and of course get to know the city as well. Ill definitely make my way to the heights gate its the best known landmark and symbol of the city. Will also check out a few museums like the buddha. And well enjoy a christmas video sent in by two viewers from cousin in russia. There are a number. Christmas markets in new big this one is in the north of the old town. How about a kiss. Is ive never seen this before a Christmas Market with maritime flare. All this reminds us that the sailors and fishermen used to live in this area because not only located on the river but also close to the baltic sea its only about twenty kilometers away from here and this is st the mariners church. This stately church is a memorial s
App of the year. And digital input overload. But first Block Chain Technology for refugee some fifty thousand people live in this camp in jordan the u. N. Provides aid to these victims of war and persecution and bottlenecks its turned to a futuristic system. Iris scan instead of pin number chain instead of bank account theres also no need for a bank card the customers iris is compared with a priest stored scanned their purchased total is automatically deducted from sums they receive as aid. The Uns World Food Program gives Syrian Refugees around twenty five euros a month so that cash is not stored in a bank its on block chain a digital shared record of transactions maintained by a network of computers on the internet. And his team are in charge of coordinating and accounting the block. Technology was launched from his office in munich it made aid work more transparent and cost effective. To the fruity how every refugee has a virtual bank account and instead of having that account at a
Mediated talks by the Russian Orthodox church. With but that in an explosion has ripped through a supermarket in the russian city of St Petersburg Authorities Say ten people were hospitalized but the explosive device was traced to a storage locker room no one has claimed responsibility for the blast which occurred northwest of the city center before and yes that would be through the. Middle of a chord in me and maher has reminded to reuters journalists in custody for a second fourteen day period authorities are probing allegations that to to breach the countrys official secrets act the journalist reporting on the crisis in the country where a military crackdown has seen more than six hundred thousand will hinge on muslims fimian march. Aid workers in syria have begun evacuations from the besieged rebel bastion of Eastern Ghouta emergency medical cases were among the first to leave according to the un there are still more than three hundred fifty thousand civilians in one of the last re