gamey oh grow more numbers. with the sheridan you can share your children with just $0.50 and a tap on your smartphone together we can hunger please dome of the out. this is news and these are our top stories israel has begun to bury at least 45 people who died in a crush as a religious festival attended by thousands of jews around 150 people were injured eyewitnesses say people fell on top of each other as crowds tried to push through a narrow passage prime minister benjamin netanyahu has promised an investigation into what he called one of the nation's worst disasters. in

india starting saturday 19 vaccinations will open to all adults making 600000000 more people eligible but several indian states have run out of vaccines as the health infrastructure collapses under the weight of record numbers of new coronavirus cases 395000 new infections were reported in the last 24 hour period. russia has banned 8 european union officials from entering the country the announcement comes after the e.u. sanctioned russian officials over the imprisonment of opposition leader alexei navalny germany calls the sanctions from moscow and unnecessary strain on relations with the. this is the news from berlin you can find much more on our website w dot com.

in what's being called a historic milestone germany has committed to begin returning the famous binion bronzes held by german museums to nigeria as early as next year. welcome to arts and culture we'll have more on what this means for the debate around the restitution of art looted during the colonial era and also coming up. spring has sprung with the opening of germany's biannual federal horticultural show for short taking place this year in the east. africa. and paris based or trickster the truman burbank is an online sensation with a tongue in cheek take on how to make your playground. on thursday germany's ministry of culture announced the planned return of the binion bronzes from german newseum in 2022 and most of the artifacts were looted by

british forces during a military attack on the kingdom of binion in what is now nigeria back in 8097 and they're now scattered between as many as 160 museums and institutions worldwide well it's a trailblazing move and certainly ramps up the pressure on other european former colonial powers to follow suit. some of africa's most prized treasures for decades demands for their restitution have grown . now cultural and political leaders have agreed to begin returning to artifacts held in german museums by next year. i must admit. but there was a very positive result when everybody. agreed to 8 steps being grown so used to being in. our has to go back to nigeria so this is

really great really great news and a significant change of heart the branches were to be showcased at new forum just a few weeks ago the foundation which currently holds the bronzers was reticent about the possibility of returning them. many museums around the world. are exceptional. so when they came to europe they highlighted a completely new image of africa as a continent states in history and culture the bronzes are of course part of the cultural history of nigeria but they have also become global by good ones. the 4000 artifacts were founded from the beginning empire now part of nigeria after foreign and british trade in 897 they were later sold to museums in europe and north america now nigeria will regain sovereignty over some of these sacred our

work so central to the nation's cultural heritage nigerian part can say. how restitution we'll see how this repatriation will take place and. there will be looted art which will remain in germany using that will be there is it doesn't because. if. it were a dialogue. nigeria plans to build a museum in painting the house of the looted after foreign. means we. can't come to you can't visit european museums you know you will be able to. physically see. creations if they were in major.

one leading european historian says her research shows that for decades museums deliberately drank their feet on the issue of restitution. museum directors tried to buy time they actually formulated it in writing as a strategy they left the problem to the next generation that's now it's clear we can't we mustn't continue to push it off. so the next generation we have to act. hundreds not just about ownership but about a whole new way of thinking and really think you have to to deal with the school. and how burps become it police there it is a very very we and very complicated but we could write so it could be it was seen could also be occurring to even in europe. germany's

decision to act marks of paradigm shift in the handling of artifacts. well during these long months of pandemic induced long downs gardens have also become places of healing and response and germany's federal horticultural show which opened last week hopes to capitalize on people's need for outdoor pursuits interestingly this year's host city of our force has a very long tradition of garden shows that dates back to 865 and so just prior to opening we went to see how it's reconnecting with that heritage. flower power for more than 600000 plants on a site nearly the size of 16 football pictures germany's federal horticultural show booga is held every 2 years this time around tour against state capital is the host

. of the city's petersburg with its 17th century since it is one of the show's main sites and skate architect. has been in charge of transforming the former fortress and military site into a lush paradise. fever that the state bar goal was to make this somewhat forgotten place an experience for the visitors we wanted to breathe a new life into. this fantastic fortress. this is a military site that was off limits to locals and visitors for a long time. to do this. a lot of work went into transforming the neglected sorry buildings had fallen into disrepair. the transformation is quite amazing together with. top a network of parts that link the historic buildings with flower beds. when we

create open spaces we are always paying attention to what is already there and kiss it away so to speak like in sleeping beauty we want to make it visible again and accentuate the atmosphere. for example in the monks which can be accessed by a giant slide also mix things up my planting old for arches of vegetables and herb between the flowers the spinach garlic and mint. the 1st ever international garden show was hosted in force in 19553961 when earth was in the former communist east germany it began staging regular international horticultural shows with the new park at the heart. the park remains the main attraction 60 years later the huge garden complex is one

of the state's top tourist attractions and will remain in bloom and told this year's show ends in october. is relieved at this year's show is able to open with covert restrictions in place she spent 3 years working to get the pieces in shape. we really hope that visitors to the pater's bag will see the fortress in a new light. noise. the new spaces with the many delicate flowers different colors and sense. and few fitting for do so it will give them fresh input and joy. especially in this corona virus a pandemic. the. joy and color at the federal horticultural show in a city famous for its floral tradition. and

after its success in 10 other cities around the world an exhibition devoted to dutch artist and sea esha opens this week in barcelona as one of the world's most widely admired graphic artists famously united arts with mathematics to create impossible worlds and impressive optical illusions the show features over 200 works that have influenced advertising fashion and even cinema. and deprived of an audience the artists of the past he decided to play to the statues at the famous music city which is also devoid of visitors due to covert 19 shutdowns the recorded concert will be broadcast on may 1st fulfilling conductor pablo had asked casado his mission to bring music and the museum into people's hopes. and finally once upon a time in grade school he was a class clown and today he attracts attention as one of the quirkiest skaters on

the french scene i took a young also known as the truman burbank makes parents his playground with an take on how to enjoy the urban landscape. is a skateboarder with a sense of humor he's been posting his one of a kind videos online for 5 years an internet sensation but you're also known as the truman burbank has turned. every day environment film set for his. stunts. i used to play the clown in the classroom i love to fool around i don't plan anything i just improvise once i arrive on the scene. to use the. entertaining clips all right with. people not just skateboarding friends. creases a little world of. high level. somewhat unconventional look i

want to entertain and i don't have to be the best they're great thing about my sketches is that they do so anyway iranian american or portuguese can understand. the person 1st at the age of 4 at 16 he was practicing hours every day. tricks like this one require preparation. the great has been treated with wax at 35 is one of the more senior around. you magine along here it's easier just dressing or running to the board but in reality forming tricks is physically demanding especially when you're doing 2 or 3 in a row. and it's mentally taxing too there's a real risk of getting hurt. i never try to take myself seriously i always see

we're just skating. having fun with a board under our feet nothing more there's no reason to get arrogant or think you're better than anyone else it's about having fun. one thing travelling. right by the eiffel tower. well that's all for this edition but we'll leave you with some more images of the same as they need bronson's held in various museums across the globe germany will be returning the examples in its museums to nigeria in 2022 without all the best from us and.

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them the chernobyl reactor was the last i've built. you're. right. i knew it was.

for many years i tried to forget it it was a childhood trauma and i didn't tell anyone about it. i'm still afraid. it still haunts me but so did you suddenly. your number scare was a chernobyl disaster still affects people. people who are suffering through for dealing with illnesses people who are dying of. heat but they have since i came back the doctors did their best to help me. here till. i had 2 strokes here and so the blood vessels in my head were damaged by the accident the food room or move.

is better therefore it haunts me alive one night philonous horrible memories of chernobyl come to me and i can't fall asleep because it keeps haunting me every day as monk was a road. map at a paris crime. i care for. her am proud that had occurred to her but i think i am not i am i am proud 2 to have a credit. line come to the book at a day on the day of the disaster. i woke up in the morning so that it would mean it was a friday and i had school that tayla get a good day i went to school as usual but on the go and you know it and i might on the way to school i saw a lot of ambulances and machines washing the streets with some chemical some kind

of foam that is the most of course and it looked like snow all over the street it was foam a chemical us this was unusual. they usually just used water and soon the classic focus of the money. that was peculiar. and when i got there no one was around the school was closed and i didn't understand why. there was no announcement that there was no school. in the dia and the when i got to school the door was closed because there was no one outside i stood there for a few minutes and knocked on the door. then they opened the door and they let me here is the 3rd of i went to my classroom and so kids they are. somewhere crying because their parents were on duty at the reactor that night and they didn't

come home. but this matter the quarter. you know has it all but i don't still presence of the church numbers guy if. i only found out about the accident at the chernobyl station 3 or 4 days later when they had to tell the whole world about it from the business i pictured we are because the radiation had already reached sweden i said their flowers ripple with her got the sheriff i mean we all had no idea about it neither the army nor the civilians. movies and. there was a call the roof of reactor 4 is on fire stands the station was secured by a military firefighting unit and i presume if a nuclear station is on fire that's the biggest emergency there is and was the beautifully. the 1st to arrive were 2 fire fighting units who were a 5 minute drive away and they went right to work. remind me and they were the

1st ones to make it to the reactor room i mean. every single one of them died just to. see who did get rid of you could of course all the people working there they were so horrible. none of them survived obviously none of them survived you need to do is you can. and you learn i don't know when i slept for the 1st time my diet when we ate for the 1st time. a year i can't remember i only remember the young men the soldiers coming in with burns and we thought it was going to the helicopter. or was. zip you are easy going that's all we could think of a hot meal gonna look how you did none of us knew what to do you thought we didn't know what you are what radiation was one of us had ever seen such a thing it was like we were at war. so tragic come on so horrific.

i won the so many people i'm so much chaos there were people on the floor but it's so many people everywhere for how you have said on this issue. i knew the reactor had exploded and that radiation began to spread all around into the air. to who it was when radiation rises in the air it's like detonating an atomic bomb the shockwave collapsed the reactor roof and destroyed the reactor which as you know made the graphite fly all the way to reactor 3 there was graphite everywhere spores. that didn't work that's got some of the night between april 25th and 26th i was

operations commander of the brigade that is. we are forced. but aboard i had a whole control room with instruments but our instruments didn't show anything because i've gone through they didn't show that the radiation was increasing so we didn't know what to think what. we ensure you're going to go there but when we went outside we saw that around the puddles left by the rain some substance that accumulated a little door. i figured naturally that it was pollen from the surrounding trees. my friend gave it to proceed i actually think it was nuclear fallout look at you with a report that the kids were there to purchase not the time we thought it was a color guard and the truth the truth neither regional h. or nor the brigade commander told us there had been an accident at the reactor. you said should you not show up for the fly why didn't you.

the foreman found me and told me to move out so i went. i had no idea the situation was so bad that the radiation level was so high up with them new who said anything everything was top secret somewhere we were the greatest country we had to catch up with and beat america and so on the them would go. by the government gave us no information nothing on the radio or t.v. only room. iraq swart center so there was a malfunction some said there was an explosion a fire in the locker that. we had no idea what happened you know that's another given no information so we decided to go ourselves and see what was happening on a clock on the deck of the little. micro day. my father took all the clearances for kids. my mom was busy at home. and we went to the stadium and prepared.

it was a fairly open space and we could see the reactors from there so my little did i know so well because it was daytime i couldn't really see the flames as you noted but i saw the smokes. black smoke coming out. and i saw lots of helicopters and planes on cars and military men on the way to the reactor ships of our show you but it was then that we realized punished by disaster had occurred should cut us off. down the previous 3 should not when we got to turn on they sent me straight to city hall it city hall they told me your mission is to check vehicles and prevent any disorder shouting disturbances and so on near the postcards display to secure the

area over there what does that mean. and with means we checked vehicles going in are now out of the escort of buses carrying the evacuated people and children of the abuser and we caught looters. mr blumenthal enough to be assisted me is did to me 3 requests here locally not to do it of. the news a quarter that's no doubt but that it believes and has a let's get a clue i only remember being in people nothing before that and also my whole life began there. get over that if i went to kindergarten and school there i could go up there until the disaster happened. all the families living in town had

something to do with the reactor look up some work there some worked in town here in the school but they all have some connection that it was the town's whole purpose. i knew. there were plenty our families and most of them had many children. and because of that we have lots of kindergartens and schools. 1 and you know to get that wasn't 3rd grade in the morning i went to elementary school and around no i went to art school a couple of us a friendly woman who. i had lots of friends there are sort of it was a wonderful life for you you could even call that perfect. i didn't see what was happening around here right maybe it was just because i was a child you got that's how i remember it. it was a special town as a critic of the get go our. march from.

campus to be luxury and should not be a woman in labor came and she was giving birth so we took care of that we'll bring you much before that the same woman who was married to a fireman stopped on have balcony and watched the reactor explode i had been in constant contact with the radiation for 24 hours genius. and when the baby came out . it was black and blue jordan of a theatre at the boot that was the 1st incident. but a few hours later another girl in labor came and she gave birth but the baby was dead she then will you please listen me after that all the pregnant women at every stage of pregnancy were called in for emergency examinations. and when they were all examined which was done very quickly because time was of the essence the initial time you determined to do live and to die i cross the bridge of the home

sustaining i knew the women were in a terrible state would loosen the glasses but drugs to look at environment in this what we saw inside with all the features just it was exactly like in the books. all the heart defects is the eye is the limit but within just a few hours all those babies were contaminated you saw good picture with $36.00 women at all stages of pregnancy and it went on for a nice folk or a bit longer. maybe a bit longer has a lot of good noise which that's how we dealt with the problem bush. believe it was the most to reflect day of my life the book which instruction in jail i wish i could raise it will be a good deal of which disarranged use. by

i have put it there more later that evening soldiers went to all the houses and told us he's allowed to prepare to leave. and. we never thought we'd live in forever but they told us it will last 4 days name underlay told us to take only casual clothes by going on a picnic or camping and attend. the song we thought we were leaving because they said there were things they had to do our sense can cleanse the town so everyone had to leave their bed we've been gone for 4 days and then come back so we take

nothing with us to buy and move us closer to the other cars from the lot anybody my earliest people didn't know where they were going what was happening here for washington europe they didn't take any closer possessions i heard them crying screaming because they have disappeared imagine leaving all your possessions behind soon as a tour started that through the drop everything and they take you somewhere you have no idea where but that is not the thing is magical that even though you don't know where they're taking you. with these magical divers you don't know what's going to happen when years later stormont have some army. that was the 1st bill with the 2nd stage was. if i'm.

gonna be living. my. life and i am very sure that not everybody has given me. the i'm on the right lane nearly everyone i've not met him among. your. value out of. me. that was

the worst thing that had ever happened to me. i had a crisis. of activists with misfit my life was torn into hiding in the 3rd quarter stacked. i want that on my long this is my house. the other variable 3

it's a very low haven't been here in 33 years. my children grew up here sort of lean way didn't we spent the best years of our lives here for a lot of similarly in order. for.

very good about 3 years old when i 1st entered the zone they put a mask on me on my face about 20 kilometers from the station got my. dress and joined me afterwards and i wore that mask all day. and that was on the 1st day the card you'll fit so that it's a bit of a gate enough that only you on the 2nd day i didn't wear a mask when i entered the zones only when i went up on the roof. of the put them on some mixer and i've driven didn't agree with you on the 3rd day i only wore it when i was actually on the roof of the workshop and sometimes on the roof i take it off so i could smoke might explain why but i've seen you can you read you can we the enemy is invisible you said you drop or could you be it has no flavor of smell or form so people weren't afraid of me going through are. nice but we didn't realize

at the time what it could eventually cause. when you've been in my room. chilling where you keep working. for 3 of the mercury vigil later i saw the results when people i had worked with started dying skimmer of worth and could not burn. but we weren't afraid. we'll talk or solution the why didn't you know i heard about 2 general who are in charge of the platoon was working near the reactor street alias in the orange forest region richelieu river you know what the orange forest is ridiculous one was walking toward the forest really you the other toward the reactor. and they started talking you started to worry there was a puddle by the. how did you know one of them stepped into the puddle. they always carry radiometers he tested the 1st of them and the radiometer showed

200 the puddle measured 200 and they sent him straight home only stood there for 10 minutes one foot in a puddle was all it took what should. they know that the radiation had struck many people choose to live with and by then it was felt in other countries too few there and in finland in poland in italy if it. is not did a bunch of wisdom people she didn't or much of gave a speech on may 14th will end on may 15th there was a government meeting where it was decided to charge our bureau with a task of building up protective structure over the reactor that exploded the people nicknamed the structure of the sarcophagus as well as a couple. kirsty

. took videos can just see her for. the route that period before they finished the sarcophagus which was a protective structure the kind you love room increases the reactor gave off a massive amount of nuclear emissions which would have been an area where not millions were going to write tens of millions live. still me doing just share communal. but almost up must surely you really get to there is not 0. need to have good natural functions like the wind carried not just the nuclear fallout from the explosion but also the contaminated dirt and sand. it was a huge catastrophe the divil it will certainly fit us to. egypt that will still be cut in order to reduce the nuclear fallout yeah it was decided

to stop trying to extinguish it with water you understand why it was a bit less of a sneer at the instead it was decided to cover the reactor with sand so in the way in the news the north they're looking for this they put together a special brigade of military helicopter pilots who drop sacks of sand and lead around the reactor to reduce the nuclear fallout that filming should leave those with the sealed. up until the death penalty is about on. them but if they're not. prepared for that specific really is. a robot or a bird or the neutralization process robots were used which were brought from japan

and germany are very very rigorous or perceived wisdom or fear or fear when they brought them there apparently they didn't tell the engineers about the radiation levels on the roof or better through storage lockers or bertram will. do when they're activated the robots on the roof they stopped working. i knew were forgiven is through where i deny your one robot fell off the roof because it lost control. but your father was from pretoria will put a wreath. at the bureau with here. i mean that was just the robots rear we were living human beings who worked in absorb all that radiation your short periods of time granted corrupter for all but they called us bio robots most of the. gear all the. time did you need more work in places where the robots couldn't do

the job the buyer wrote much did it people had to do it to deal with sure there was no time to find another solution. they made every effort not to endanger human lives but nothing else could be done the illusion you perceive any of us are yet seen moving there was no other solution and surely as the world the robots simply didn't work you see when you have a band we were very frightened by the early thirties you. know the work of drilling operation of pumping out the water and removing the nuclear waste around the station had to be done quickly at the it had to be raked out with a shovel. right by hand. eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat or the members of your group mom go read what our

mothers and we came out on the roof they'd say there's a graphite rod it has to be removed if you knew but there were others you could always remove it was impossible to measure the radiation levels or the graphite rods the reason you were far beyond what our instruments could measure would be to order you to drive through 2 of them will still suitably good although we worked in short chips with as we had to work in difficult conditions and near the reactors them some of them for money at the power distance from the reactor determined how much radiation we absorbed says so we used monitors in the computer and at the end of the day we saw that they'd absorbed an almost lethal amount of radiation the use of yeah you'd have to call that lethal if the good. lord. was. moved for the murder of my career so since there was some sort we sent 800 men to

the roof every day through it's already. pushed further well i knew it was for you to put on lead aprons and went straight on to the roof where they used shovels to break the waste and dump it into the reactor below. us. for the 2nd their time was up they were ordered off the roof for the while as commander near the conclusion and then they'd come down and go change clothes while the next 20 men went out on prefers to get it to wear let's have a good look at the majlis for the others and this process was repeated nonstop but i assure you despite a very much.