that all changed on november 9th 1989 penfold heard that the border to west berlin was open at the bornholm my bridge he and his wife were among the thousands of east berlin those who flocked there to cross over . on the other side west berliners came to welcome the. architect christiane coonan was among them 30 years later the 2 men still remember that fateful night when we met and i asked if you'd like to come to the coup 1st shopping. out of east germany and into the west if only just for one night thousands of revelers flock to west berlin. it was an experience that changed lives and bound strangers from both sides of the world for ever. telling these stories still stirs something can make words fail me or suddenly tears come to my eyes that's how emotional it was. culture itself can be a concept an object a custom or even a trend but in each of these cases you need someone to make it happen and in the cultural marketplace to set those trends well the annual culture invest congress brings european cultural providers promoters and investors together and it's highlight is the cultural bra

are cleaning up their act today, our middle east business correspondent sameer hashmi spoke to gordon penfold, who's the executive general manager of fiji airways. tell us one of the features of this aircraft where we are standing right now. what makes it more sustainable? well, the aircraft is more fuel—efficient. it's the fuel efficiency first of the engines themselves, which are extremely lean royals rice units. the second is the fundamental construction of the aeroplane. the aeroplane is essentially a carbon fibre structure, which gives you huge weight advantage for the strength required. that's taken through all the materials, you know, within the cabin. the seeds themselves have got carbon fibre content within them. how important is this from an airline point of view to have an aircraft like that? it is important for two or three reasons. the first is the consciousness about the environment and the consciousness about, you know, the effects of global warming, about, you know, the effects of globalwarming, particularly about, you know, the effects of global warming, particularly with a

saw the vast amount of water that was coming into the village, first on trundle lane, and then onto penfold lane and sower lane. so what we did was go home after having tea, lift all the furniture up, which was obviously brand—new furniture we had only moved in literally a year ago blast week, we lifted of the furniture onto coffee tables. so at the moment when we left, they were just safe, at this moment in time, i think they have gone as well. it is actually creeping to the third step on the staircase as well. have you had any help as of yet from anybody? the emergency services came and rescued in lifeboats at 2am, 3am this morning, an elderly lady and some disabled villagers. at the moment, we left the village at 11:15am this morning, a farmer picked up in his axa and that was the only way out of the village. bearing in mind thatjubilee bridge is actually closed off and stainford bridge is actually closed off and water is now coming over the hill as well. so basically fishla ke is an island at the moment. and you say you weren't offered sandbags or enough warning, but realistically i g