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from spiraling costs. our immediate priority is to protect europe's consumers, especially the most vulnerable. second, we have to make our branches, system better prepared and more resilient. so that we don't have to face a similar situation in the future. natural gas prices have soared in europe in recent weeks, partly driven by a certain demand, as countries emerge from loc downs, natural gas accounts for a quarter of the european union's energy needs. the majority of that is imported into the block from countries including how jerry, a norway and qatar, but mainly russia. some say that the kremlin is fueling the price rise by failing to boost gas supplies in order to pressure the you to prove the controversial north stream to pipeline. at an energy conference in moscow though, present vitamin putin said russia was ready to increase supply. it says enough bush,

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ah ah, it took over 400 years for the french to build and maintain their vast empire. but the whole structure came tumbling down in the space of a quarter of a century. france swam against the tide of history and tried to keep hold of its colonies by whatever means possible. but by the mid 20th century, that position was no longer sustainable. this is the story of the collapse of one of the biggest thing pies the world has

ever seen of the blood. and tears sheds then ends now and of the lasting impacted switch. and it's violent and still have on the world today. ah, on the 6th of may 1931. the international colonial exhibition opened in paris. it was a huge celebration of the french empire, which had never before seen so vast, so prosperous and so powerful. lou,

a city within a city, had been built in the blood vans, san on the eastern edge of paris, including a complete replica of the uncalled wart temple in cambodia. the largest religious monument in the wild ah, visitors could tour the whole world in a single day, and the show was a huge success with 33000000 tickets sold in 6 months. the overriding narrative was obey civilizing european nation, bringing invention and progress wherever it 2030 i'm off

all france considered itself the center of the world. it's greatness and strength that the heart of the 40 or more territories under its control, the message was clear. format popped off is not the quantity gentlemen often i did it myself with on for you. it did. when y'all are all over the home for the french of the time, this was all completely normal in a group that you pick on from who knew a morning or more ago. i don't see, not ideally, he said, certainly that they're not on the part of us. they were difficult and got when she was getting used. remember rowing or be all gone. but by the 1930s, the tide of history was beginning to turn from the car to ponti sherry and from

tongue came to algiers. rebellion was in the air. a new generation of leaders was finding its voice. alas, al fussy in morocco, happy boggy bar indonesia and miss sally hygiene algeria with questioning the colonial order and in africa and the caribbean. leo posted off and gov in synagogue, an emissary. martinique denounced the colonial wishy and in indo china, a young communist called ho, she mean was emerging as the leader of national liberation movement. people in the colonies simply wanted their dignity. across the empire,

the colonizers were firmly in charge of injustice and inequality had few means of redress. regimes were authoritarian, and among the millions, living under colonial rule, only a few elected officials had the right to vote. and the widespread use of force labor underpins the whole system. ah, a powerful symbol of this exploitation of labor was the construction of the congo ocean railway opened in 1934. i tuned on her colonial also double g enough sought aunt minnie wanted to deposit for the dog. yeah,

bill me there are, you know, less and you call will do you like to motivate lemay? they know, sell mom on off all going i'm, he's not gonna have the quote on may so see, you know, i mean you are, as you saw, the population was indian luck. rigate went or young, but progress was built on the blood and sweat of local people and the new railway cost. 20000 african lies from exhaustion or disease. to skip you, sophia grammar, gladish, all jasa m off her government on the machine a pass to the south. get her know that he goes for years for domain. it is super year. we're good about a good day. good tomorrow we're going to rudy. this will be you see. so neither is actually, robert said, did not be a color yellow as they passed in that way he saw the subjects of the empire calculated their own value in kind local bell to contest it

clear that a shell is to be on bondage. tell her, eager to forget, we shall pull the day. it is fatal to his will be early, then gen davis, but as yet under tallapoosa lippy boy lebell pondered there. is it the poor vandal to look on? all is penelope me lippert as andalum. what you politically, in all comradeship wickersham, that you won't mind. i'm yukiko. ah, barbara called kit has his wiley beer gone? pleasure. i've had that lady mackey biscuits mourner early. could all show hostile, see little i swallow community do, don't actually have, i keep, isn't using the teach kilometer, depending under has why. the marquee of it early is and going to fall off our as either macro as well. hm. produce in work to shake or yeah. he seemed much like al

dude said he this kind of injustice was behind the new demands of colonial workers. but the voices were soon drowned out by the sound of more ah. on the 1st of september, 1939. the world exploded from my york city book to algiers, to saigon. the soldiers of the empire were called on to modernize for fries only lucille, this id, jane did one time colony young not real real up by 3 men. a see saw new york all say an image and why by phoebe thought this, you gave us the let a ball. he's got the all the left even is on

a 10 months later, on the 14th of june 1940, the german army marched into paris. the ranks of colonial troops were shocked. france had been defeated. the white colonizer was not invincible. ah, marsha peyton's government in vichy collaborated with nazi germany, while charles de gaulle made his famous call of the 18th of june to fight on. but he stood alone to resist and to liberate france. he had only one option to rally the empire to his cause, starting with africa. in august 1940 felipe se boy. the 1st black governor of chad joined to go. soon, cameroon, the congo,

the bone and others joined him with this level of support. the goal could not prepare for the liberation of occupied france, support for the general and marshal guitar, respectively, split the empire into oh, so they might i shun luella today little so the bitter that said, um, i will go sancho luggage in the jo blended little girl as is it allow you, ma barlow, warner diddle for samar, a mute levels was filled up where if you are shar days, you know the glove exhaust, they saw mr. dog, me, nov salgado shot this, molly, go over the course of several months and battles. whole areas of the empire joined the goal is coun, brittany, on had to make promises,

like offering independence to syria and lebanon in return for their support. the gummies of morocco, the spa, he's of algeria, senegalese wife, or men and soldiers from syria and lebanon, joined the forces of the free french awe from the heels of monte casino to the force of the vote. the soldiers of the entire flew to the rescue of occupied so called savages to be civilized, had become liberated. they didn't have the right to vote, but they had the right to die for fun. but in 1944,

as the defeat of germany's turn dry began to look likely. nationalist demands once again shook the french colonial order. as the gold crisscross the empire, he heard that con reforms were needed to galvanize the troops and con there spirits. so on the 30th of january, 1944, he opened the brass of your conference in congo, promising to rebuild the empire on new, different foundations. why don't? oh no, there's no delays. dog e v. go up, dale, my god, i know ordered up by the, uh huh. no, no, my mom, all my get it. oh, wow. the wow. that are all to

a room full of colonial officials. the goal expressed a willingness to change what independence was not. on his agenda, francis greatness depended on its empire disappointment spread across the colonies. 7 months later, in june 1944 allied forces landed in normandy and then in august in the south of france. the war was not over yet, but the reality for the colonies was harsh and would lead to yet more bloodshed. victory in europe was on the horizon. so the french army had to be whitewashed, so that in the eyes of the world, it would look as though it was the people of france who were liberating themselves . so the government decided to demobilize several regiments of senegalese rifle,

men and other african troops to speed up their return to africa. they were promised that they'd be paid as soon as he arrived in the car. the rifleman duly said, said mister glen antoine shaw, and be a great deal. wholly nanny dear, you're singular. it debach a deca. he saw orientals and conklin up rapidly pool he yard clem. you'd better know. don't about mac, a content rapport seduce book fair, be you love them, will you, mo, get the and do a. i thought this didn't. she says, oh lou, come on under contract already up. la donna underwood shall above his arm. i tell him that the colonial authorities claim that their demand for pay amounted to

a mutiny and ordered french troops to fire on the west african soldiers. your tissue diesel cook can do monday low d syndrome and pilot one because not all my personal do select them. i want i particularly no, she's on a whole lot of a scuse. she, she knows and square by she think or beth equal. she could st. here. see patty d desantis? sure. visa, achy store, back on these in yacoma dog demanded all this, it's what is all beyond me in con danner concord person. oh good is all unders on his arm of barry take on any additional appraisal. what started as an actor free pression became a massacre. the french claim that $35.00 died, but war veterans and former prisoners of war say $300.00 african soldiers were killed. on the 30th of november,

1944 white troops had fired on their black brothers in arms. they are no contemporary records, only word of mouth accounts. french propaganda chose instead to film the joyful return to his village of a rifle. man, probably unaware of the tragedy in charlie. and i do so you're not gonna want a dad did you got those? and they're going to go with the not only feel missiles really badly minimal good do do nearly. and i do also know that band was on a friend or a man, the dollars more than a motor beat out on the mind. so now, like i say, that in many business, your not this unit with the tahoe, a massacre was kept a secret in france for nearly 50 years. yeah. ok, no memoir, decisive dealer said, tell him to paddle, meanwhile, is even more for sir. oh,

you better said hospice. john i is in certain manner. you must. i kinda choices from barrow quin usual g o c. com says everybody's sick is sick. i must say. gov could. could. amir could on the phone, says a sit it committed all the hospice crew. so pool of it could sit down and do all the barrel is all finished. the school over on little missouri like a school and then you do lose. you put it in nobody. diane moves up the scoff at best buy luca pester wonder who am one local to special and to diesel. ah, the 8th of may, 1945, a victory in europe. nazi germany surrendered and the rest of europe rejoice. france and its empire celebrated the end of 5 years of fierce fighting and the step

by step we conquest of home territory. it was epic into eunice brazza via the car. and algiers. people also took to the streets in celebration. ah, but perhaps deep down, they sense that this was a time to ask for their do that shed their bloods. now it was payback time. ah, in algeria, the french colonial authorities allowed public demonstrations on condition that no one fly the algerian flag but in the city of city, the parade would turn into a battle field. one that lives on in memory to day. sure,

no. read no and if she day of equally good. yes ma'am. under new additionally not dying, good food on that one. and you know now i stayed on kiona did not have new place. she buried to sit deep. that new socialist got on was edgy disgust. won't be. she blew up there. she'll quit the gate. the loss is elsie presley shaving la police, we she say can go and do these. i breeza ledford l e v r or mass. sure. room. she'll read if she les a beauty he day he wanted to garcia to between which rape in the melee, a french policeman had shot and killed a young man waving an algerian flag full of anger. the demonstrators attack settlers and killed them in the streets. soon they were over

a 100 dead this photograph of a victim with his hands cut off was widely distributed and spread panic among the colonial french. hatred had now been sown in algerian hans victory in europe was immediately forgotten. the colonial settlers organized themselves into local malicious, and the french army went into action. in the areas around cities, gilmer and keratin villages were raised to the grounds. the army didn't stop to question suspects. they let the cameras get the footage and the executions began. dollar you must, i can do under city. looks like out. thank you. have a can try me the,

the shingle humble is latonya mose. her. donna. beth asked you to it, kate, they should they do poll. i've actually had those awful refusal cowboys. oh, fun. bergosa da. capo sugar buffle and older hippa chocolate whip boy. so whichever bubble could my on to proceed is almost full as the doctor when i see him . so the balance due to combating level financial a clue quasi dirty mildred. and we'll see, see, cash was can compare my marketing so too fast quantity q. lemme lenore offered the best enjoy to trade in a manner doin to trick. so the one on p, m and l believe whole sequels to the listener. fears spread through the our population to show that order had been restored. the army reenacted scenes of surrender unloaded

rifles were given to villages, gathered, especially for the occasion. the official french figures were around $1500.00 dead. but according to some algerian sources, it was between 20 and 45000. the colonial authorities covered it up. a few days later, algerian soldiers, who had fought for france, began returning to their homeland. i'm glad you were on your fe, did you? what do they do? none of the all, yes, yet great. there was a knock on the back. if i go the look at it, while with all the reason i know from the missile low is all the that i go all to reveal dollars on the kill up. i'd again much a tooth la. miss oil showed year off. i mean, does she may daughter her?

let me offer he, his lawyer, her up as of our her but she feel like gosh, on the left off. the settings of she's a thing really death on figure bazzi beller. bella, because you know, by example, or do grandma, you know, n and clay are blue vendors that i sent him under ties on it and distribute in room love or law or not to hunt on you bali the hotel, 12 o bell magic her kapoor is in won't have any clothes off, i'd lay your sherry on the french side. you understood the gravity of what had just happened, the french general, hey monty, val told the colonial government that he could establish peace for 10 years. but the colonizers must reconcile the 2 communities. but france did nothing,

he said the consequences could be disastrous. not even deval realized how true his words would turn out to be we know what's happening in our region. we know how to get to play through that others and not a far, as i said, i'm going the way that you tell the story is what can make a difference compelling journalism we keeping our distance because it's actually quite dangerous. ambulances continue to arrive at the scene of the explosion inspire program making. i still don't feel like i actually know enough about what living under fascism was light, how much money did you make for your role in deliverance? i made fab al jazeera english proud recipient of the new york festivals broadcaster of the year award for the 5th year running. the world is warming, greenland ice sheet is melting,

which is changing everything from sea levels to the way people live. and now even exposing the remnants of a cold war pulse greenland the melting of the frozen north on al jazeera lou. i molly insight into your top stories on al jazeera. russia's president is denying his country's behind an energy shortage in europe saying moscow is standing by to help natural gas prices have skyrocketed on the use as people are going to need support as the wind to approaches. there are fee is that the u. k. might start