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welcome to news asia glad you could join us a former senior general of the pakistan army is facing accusations that he used his influence to build a sprawling business empire spending 99 companies and 4 countries. amount of a joint china pakistan economic project and a special assistant to pakistan prime minister imran khan a news website in the country has alleged that as was promoted through the ranks in the army his family business is that comprised speeds of chains of brands to get expanded. general bargewell has denied the allegations against him and his family but did have. any has been following the story and he joins me now from moscow is it give us a sense of who general bods what is and how he's so influential. well the general budget has been an important member of pakistan's paul the structure for nearly 2

decades now he has served 4 different army chiefs starting with the president general musharraf in 2002 but it was really doing his job as the spokes person of the pakistani army when he was told into the spotlight he defined that job. to control the news channels buckstone the media he launched a multimedia operations promoting patriotic songs and films and really focused on social media to get young people to work fall on me and fight back on the social media. he was then promoted as a commander of baluchistan a very important boasting that's very the army is fighting a long running separatist insurgency where there are allegations of human rights violations and during his time a school commander of baluchistan he was accused of political engineering in the last elections in the run up to the last elections where he was going to fuck used

of threatening politicians to join a certain party so he's been an important member of august on the public elite. one of the main allegations that have been reported in this news story. so this is a vip site called of fact focus it's run by an investigative journalist called and what noorani he's currently based in the us and he apparently has been looking at the family business empire of general budget in 4 different countries and he managed to unearth over you know some of oking over several months documents that show that his family his wife his sons his brothers have companies which are for you know multimillion dollar companies and the suggestion is that as general bodge of all of us getting promotions and the army his family's business empire

abroad was expanding so for example his brother went to the u.s. in 2002 and he was delivering pizza at the time and today they have 113 restaurants in a pizza chain but 40. $1000000.00 so it's evidence like this which made this story a bombshell in pakistan and a broad general budget did not comment on it david did for him for about 3 weeks but he did not comment on it and eventually when the story came out he denied all delegations and he said this is baseless i've done nothing wrong and i'm happy to prove the money trail of my family's business abroad so that at the base of it it just sounds rather extraordinary that a general in the army could build such an empire from scratch. well i mean this is this is this situation in pakistan you hear about corruption stories all the time about politicians former prime minister nawaz sharif has been declared an

absconder he's currently in london and the former president zardari has been indicted in a corruption case the defacing multiple cases but when it comes to the army or powerful generals. you cannot question them you cannot question their social fame income their spending their family's wealth because it's seen as unpatriotic even in this case the general budget support us said this is an attack on chinese investment in pakistan this is the best in conspiracy decision indian conspiracy so they quickly turn it into a kind of issue of patriotism accountability is a big issue in pakistan and the opposition believes that selection accountability even not delivered it has to be across the board and how much traction is this story getting closer in pakistan. so you know just as everything only of armies involved in so many businesses from banking to fertilizer to real estate.

do you know it has a multi 1000000000 dollar military industrial complex but stories like this been declared about generals they are suppressed or even this story when it came out centrally blacked out in the pakistani media given general budget was influence in pakistani news channels and in the media over all but d.-w. or do interviewed journalists and if the story came out the story of obviously event vital because people wanted to hear a lot of people were shocked i got phone calls from people in pakistan in bucks county government they were shocked that this could happen but it seems that the prime minister is unimpressed general butler did resign from his job as media adviser to the prime minister promised imran khan has refused to take it as ignition and generally the view is the issue will die down and nothing will happen he will not be asked to present his money trail or in a court of law. johnny thank you very much for that.

the city of george porter in the northern indian state of rogers he's famed for its majestic clifftop fort and many other historical sites of us will visit on the northern indian twitter stream the city's also no one foot it's insurance step wells many ladies used and decrepit for the longest time that is until kevin rawnsley how to them and stepped into action. if the crystal clear waters of about a traditional indian step well. this one in the city of jordan was built almost 3 centuries ago. it's here in these peaceful chambers you often find karen round slea an orangeman who's been working to save its heritage. these buildings were constructed. the behest all know how danis that female

companions of the. princess is still queen. of this city. being consumed and always about war and the security of the common population is can only exist anymore it was harvested reliably and hygienic $300.00 there. in the city still thing is this war dead that we see gathering in a round below us food for laws in a region that receives very little rainfall. the step wells will once the city's main source of clean water but with the arrival of pumps to extract ground water the old world systems fell into disuse and we filled up with trash rawnsley helped clean out these barrier year ago are you storing it to its former glory. for.

me it's a heartfelt struggle that i'm involved in i work for these places because they are precious heritage truly precious they're not just a fancy building that is usually derelict they are a system of water harvesting that is priceless as an example of how people in the sophisticated society is ancient red just down the wall it's how they could gather the water resources that were so precious for their survival. from the working well water was no pumped into the city supply. karen rounds where your heritage is love of india from his grandfather who was posted here is an engineer in colonial times . he's traveled the world and lived in several countries but is the historic city of george poor and its ancient water worlds that have given him a purpose in life. this is my he lead by john. the 1st

historic site that we helped restore. in the heyday of their use were luxuries bots were female members of the royal family would come to swim or entertain themselves and it would have been a very lovely place you know we believe is the thing to their music they would have this time to play is probably sitting around and it would mean a very atmospheric place very beautiful and you can imagine it. is to me when i visit this place was in his great period of years then i simply thought for him in love with it it's a lovely place. a local businessman is now paying for the upkeep of the box and he's employed a permanent can take it to manage them. karen roundly also helps out with his expertise. but not everyone appreciates the importance of this historic site. which is often strewn

with plastic bags and other trash. in the middle of job because old city is cool up sagar lake. much of the credit for cleaning it out also goes to ruin silly and young volunteers like prachi used. jeweled pool has more than 500 historic bodies of water. resources that the city could still be making use of today. ok you kind of awareness programs are held by various organizations of different levels. but we still see cases where people try to damage the wall will pollute the water. we have to stop it now. we are witnessing a water crisis in many parts of the world. you know if these resources on conserved would also face a water crisis he. would. be

son and daughter live in the united kingdom but he says the worlds of joy and poor have also become like family to him so we want to go deni. i want to know for connection that dyad with my planet and with my ancestors now they're trying new best for these our ocean my mother and i care for them for any valerie i well all is doing so my family. karen roundly is still fighting fit at $75.00 and he says he wants to spend many more years saving india's step worlds. that's have been all this mall on did i was knocked off over the pleasure you showed on facebook and we leave you now with some pictures off to other sites in the city. are back tomorrow we'll see you back.

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drive marketing numbers atmosphere fight at sac intuition love hate money. fans crimes plan to spam and fans. on you tube joining us. greetings from berlin and a warm welcome to arts and culture venice film festival at the top of the show again today and also coming up. we get a glimpse into the world of him gary an american war photographer robert come at a new exhibition here in berlin. and the painstaking restoration of not a dime to partly is progressing with crucial work on the roof to reestablish the building's delicate architectural. well so far so good

as the 77th venice film festival keeps on moving the 1st major festival to do so in the corona era competition films are generating lots of discussion and as the viewings are drawing to a close on friday there's certainly no shortage of noteworthy titles. almost good ties into cultural drama in haifa the film follows 18 diverse characters as their paths cross one night into trendy bar in the port city. for. you to. feel. the ministers of the. russian filmmaker andre conscient of ski's furious india comrades is

a gripping recreate of a 962 workers strike and the massacre that followed it you don't need to feel like a boy. to keep. you 3 in. one night in miami by regina king the film set a box a celebration riata party and $964.00 imagines what can happen when for us icons put their heads together on margaret yes there is one that's for sure. some pretty are. joining me one more time from the lido in venice is my colleague scott roxboro scotty so many interesting films out there in the suspense is mounting were there any surprises or new discoveries for you in this year's lineup. yes quite a few surprise i mean this is

a very different year in venice because of the court of owls cut crisis and not so many big hollywood films here but a lot of interesting smaller films to discover and for me one of the great pleasures of coming to festivals like this is finding new talent and particularly new interesting actors this year is a bit different it was finding actors that i thought i knew doing completely different things. for example alec a british actor who you might know from the netflix series stranger things where he plays sort of a russian scientist he was here at the festival with his 1st ever film where he plays a leading role and it's in polish drama called never going to snow again in it. plays a ukrainian masroor who tends to the needs of the rich and shallow in a polish gated community is a very sort of strange and beautiful but also really really funny movie and alec is just hypnotic in the role i mean this is a really mainstream actor but he shows here that he has real art house chops and it

was a real revelation for me yeah it looked fantastic but i thought the clips who would be your tip to win if i can dare to ask that question. yeah well i mean the jury never listens to be so putting money on it but the absolute favorite film of my at this festival was was a mexican movie it's called new order from the director michael franco and it is a violent revolution against mexico's privileged elite now this isn't history this is set in modern day fictional but very realistic mexico and this is the sort of slow burn of a movie 1st we see sort of the the the privileged pampered one percent and the completely oblivious to what's going on outside and what's coming for them but when the revolution happens it's brutal and it's bloody and the film really hits you like a punch to the god i mean the combination of this credibly relevant topic and just

the visceral style of michael franco's film makes it my pick for the golden lion i have another question i want to squeeze in here scott before we get to our last one to film with picked as the festival darling it's still coming up you haven't seen it we've been waiting all week tell us about. yes no matter. how directed you know it's a film that everybody's been talking about i've been talking about nobody's seen yet it stars frances mcdormand as a woman who loses everything in the 2008 recession and becomes a modern day nomad traveling across america in a camper van at the same credibly a look huge amount of buzz around this film people are already talking about it as a potential oscar candidate i just can't wait to see that i know ok well we'll hear from you soon enough i guess so venice has pulled this off a film festival in times of a pandemic what impact do you think that this will have in terms of restarting the film industry. the are huge huge impact i mean you have to remember

what amazing risk venice took an even having this festival but they have pulled it off i mean they've shown the world really that you can hold a film festival safely that it is safe to go back into cinemas and sit next to strangers and watch movies together and that's that's that's that's that's huge basically the film industry will be leaving venice with the hope and i think also the expectation that the cinema business can can and will a bounce back from this coronavirus crisis it's a huge sense of optimism that we come out after that on stone festival well that's very encouraging and exciting stuff as we wait to see who takes hold the lions this year enjoy the rest of the festival and that last key film's gotten thanks so much for joining us from the lido invent it. well the name robert kapper was a fiction created to rid himself of a jewish surname and under its guy's hand garion born andre freedman and his 1st

love and soulmate. forged their paths as war photographers until her early death in 1937 well today robert singular is widely considered to be the greatest combat photographer in history having covered countless conflicts from the spanish civil war to world war 2 the end of which gives its name to this new exhibition. 0 hour in the summer of $945.00. for talk or for robert kapper roams the streets documenting destruction and new beginnings. these kitchens can now be seen for the 1st time at the new synagogue in. this city was of course in ruins and how over 2000000 people had to start

a new life you really get an impression of that when you look at these photos. the mind is a fortress seat. capper fled the german capital to escape the nazis in 1933 he became a us citizen and the most famous war photographer of his time life magazine sent kapur back to berlin to get the photographer's impression of the end of the war. is about over and it's still a distance to view because kapil was jewish and the people he observed were not necessarily resistance fighters or anti fascists. is it but his gaze is not one of malice nor is it one of a victor. deceived us people who have lost everything searching for the missing. for work and for food on the black market.

some also looking for a scapegoat in a bar allied soldiers celebrate with german 4 lines here kappa can also be sane. you can see him here he's very dark and his cheeks are filled with cognac a whisky he's standing at the bar. as i passed it and there. are these other types of discoveries we made when going through the 600 photos 6 and had guns and. here are a few survivors of the jewish community celebrating thing you. are mad and here we see that catherine has a different relationship with these people than with those he has seen on the street that there's actually no more distance there thank god and that makes these

pictures all the sadder that it was actually the end of the berlin jewish community of berlin's jewish history and of german jewish history in general you hope that you do. become gays of war photographer robert capa imperfect fleeting and haunting. well these images equally unforgettable as not keyed roll in paris was in gulf in flames in april of last year fire had broken out under the roof of the 850 year old monument and by the time it was extinguished its fire had collapsed and most of the roof was completely destroyed or restoration work is underway and it's archaeological crypt has just reopened but the work has been tricky as the mangled scaffolding put in place for renovations prior to the fire is painstakingly removed

. restoration work on the roof is to die at dizzying heights climbers saw through the $200.00 tons of melted scaffolding piece by piece for months they feared the walls of the cathedral would collapse under its weight with a huge crane the parts a carefully lifted out and lowered to the ground it's precision work. when we have a wind speed of 20 to 30 kilometers per hour then you can see that the containers sways 5 meters in both directions so we have to be careful not to hit the scaffolding. the fire broke out almost a year and a half ago when i pull 152019. not only discounting but also toxic lead dust has posed a constant threat to the cleanup crew with the entire structure in danger of

collapsing and precious artifacts needing to be salvaged countless sculptures and stones were removed. and taken outside of paris to geologist john d.m.'s because the stones are still contaminated with lead he needs to wear protective clothing these angel heads fell 33 meters to the ground when the vault dome collapsed only their wings are broken the stones are in critical condition badly damaged by the into. since he's with the fire sun or as fragile as glass and ultrasound scan determines how porous they are and whether or not they can be used again in the restoration at the same time researchers want to know more about the cathedral's construction the research is making the best of the situation. we would never have been able to take these kinds of samples had the fire never happened or we never could have isolated such big pieces it would have been impossible to see back at the building site the workers are forging ahead the

scaffolding needs to be removed by the end of september the cathedral will be reconstructed exactly as it was before the fire and that hopefully before 2024. a big job there indeed in paris visit our website for more from arts and culture and in the meantime to stay safe all the best. clothes.

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