for amanda, we are here in a very special place where people who have shaped the world have status guess is new social policy with all the heads of state politicians and people who participated in the great geneva conferences, the edition i have and of course, eleanor roosevelt and unforgettable personality for geneva, with whom she was in charge of a commission to draft the universal declaration of human rights. and she did it here on charlotte commission on get hot enough. it is the fundamental document of the united nations like a guiding star. so the more for them on the national genie, this is really to our it's our do not go far the cities, hotels in the united nation. so there's any special relationship during state visits, hotel service, the link between back room politics and official announcements. it's the point between private conversations and world phase. the like

a discrete unofficial pot to the u. n. o, the most momentous, international conference of the post war, iraq turned the eyes of the world in summer door. the clan goes with the capital of geneva, the dreaming pallets of nation, the big for america, england, france, and russia meant to seek an end to a decade of cold war. adding the soviet delegation will bring their gun him and communist party chief chris jeff, is playing russia as plan policy of friendship. bruce jeff called will gone back for camera. man. the nominally ranked by the mayor, bruce just appeared very much. the boss, president eisenhower, accompanied by secretary of state dollars to exchange complete military and venetian with the russians in a dramatic personal appeal. the plan was rejected. bible gannon and the president war time friend general, so called left me written aiden and french premier for support during american

proposal. it was in this hall of the united nations that the so called big form it. it was also here the geneva conference in 1900. 54. was it a new chapter? was set in motion for viet nam and it's where the geneva caught on a chemist. ben was fined in 1988 the palace of nations in geneva houses the european headquarters of the un. the how does the history of the united nations overlap put the hotel over the shallow new shack. my i wanted to know more about the us 1st lady eleanor roosevelt stay in his family's hotel. he has an appointment with the head archivist of the united nations library. the

committed the proposal that the high school in new york is the committee to prepare the declaration of human rights 1st met exclusively in new york on this then in december 1947. the committee came to geneva to approve the text with eleanor roosevelt has its chairperson to do the text. kevin, that's right. to declare we have the photographs that shows eleanor roosevelt and the the holding the universal declaration of human rights with vent on a very c 210, and a kid who chose her a chair. if you don't, i don't know. i to man, you as president harry truman asked her to help formulate the declaration of human rights. some of the male delegates were not pleased at 1st. could they gave

was that because she was a woman. she was an activist, right? yes. there were many different committees, us president harry, to me and gave her a job on a committee dealing with social issues. and it was more of a representative job, a token gesture in that and then also putting put gas for her to whoever couldn't do that. did he cut about the influx of refugees after world war 2? social issues suddenly became a thing of all you can appear to know in a case man. okay. eleanor roosevelt took on the task with a lot of careers and she was appointed the chair of the commission on human rights to claim as a mobile you can reach on the thumb. commission members complained about the pace she was

determined to finish within the given time. ready to go, or what he did on it. don't look at it. if it's funny and, and did did. he gave one delegate, i think from indonesia complaint, he said human rights are not respected by the commission on human rights. because she made the delegates work until 7 pm or some of them. i'd like to know what happened at the boulevard back then because she stayed there whenever she visited. cook, surely there were private meetings in the hotels then as there are now. and on and off like yes a lot happens at these informal meetings. this week to be revised is the perfect place because such private or even secret meetings. gifts can have their choice of several spacious rooms. but what happens when state guests arrive at the hotel?

he talked quite fishy, with the top officials and the protection of confidentiality is potentially compromised. that's with tact is crucial. it was on the last, traditionally this, a few years ago, i received the former secretary general of the united nations copy of your and did it just have the same time. we had a delegation here from a country that was not necessarily supposed to be directly associated with the secretary general. at harvard, on behalf of the united nations protocol asked me to let the secretary general in through the back entrance or good amount of yearly type. of course i had the red carpet rolled out between the dumpsters. as i said to him, i'm sorry to receive you amid the dumpsters, but he just said, don't worry. it happens all the time in new york city. because we want to, we are about

$12000.00 un meetings are held each year in geneva much and what that means in terms of the number of guests, the city, the you in place, an important economic role for geneva. as event discretion is hoteliers jack, my essential beside the palace of nations is upon it's close to the public for security reasons. the so called cut she and that soon with its many international organizations form to see within the city. sure, navy, there's new units on this unit, but to me, the solver geneva became an international city in 1920 with the establishment of the league of nations for a new train station. and the airport were built various institutions and non governmental organizations emerged, such as pacifist or feminist associations,

which today form their own international ecosystem. the previous version, when it's sometimes like the people here are living on 2 different planets within one city. but in recent years and more effort has been made to integrate these organizations into the daily life of geneva is just what the national end on which again the united nations employs around 10000 people in geneva. but add in the n g o z and international organizations, and that number increases at least 3 fold. the hotels naturally benefit from this dynamic in the course, most of international politics and secret meetings. journalists prefer to meet their sources in hotels that night for their discretion. k, a safe places. how depressed to be us is one such journalist born in new york,

she's an investigative reporter, covering environmental issues, corruption and money laundering. she reports the scene in and out 0 among other publications. the international fame of geneva comes from i guess 2 elements that are sometimes in opposition with each other. on the one hand, you have of course, the un, the world's health organization, the international labor association, the international red cross. of course that's based here. on the other hand, you have the banking sector, which is also very well known internationally. the problem is right now with the stories of money laundering and corruption that has been linked so closely to the banking sector. here. they

have brought the limelight international limelight to themselves. unwillingly the scandals have damage to need this reputation. can the cities name be restored? the i think geneva is really trying to surpass some of the negative aspects of this image that project internationally. there's a certain hope that with this new international exchange of data and in what concerns the banking sector, that any of us so well known for that all these stories that have so lead it's

past will pass. i think it's trying as much as possible to maintain geneva as an international center of negotiation of humanitarian issues. so that is where the hope lies that all that these bricks, conservative lots together. and that that would be how people see geneva in the future. for decades, geneva has attracted not only enterprising reporters and serious journalists, but also pack see from all over the world. the important meetings that taking place under the roof of the boulevard all the time.

for hotel years jack, my, it's all about shielding and protecting tenuously remaining absolutely invisible when it comes to navigating political interests, financial ties, and image problems. my aunt is a seasoned expert, clear holder producer, the hospital to more the role of a hotel. yea, is to remain totally neutral and we are after all, in a political environment that is neutral, going to makes it cheaper. but as far as the economy is concerned, it's different. we defend in open geneva genevas, that can also play a social role to do this prosperity. obviously not at all costs, but the city needs to be prosperous. the blue varnish has also seen hard times. at the outbreak of the sycamore war, this was hotel, plunged into crisis. visitors stayed away. the pages of the guest

book remained blank. plus, he said, don't be good. he's already in switzerland was an isolated country. wedged between the blocks of the north and the south east and the west, the progress of it was on the border of the freezone. so people stopped visiting off coming up. and the movie vars like most hotels close down to me. private film footage from august and september 1959 shows troops in paris and normandy, the start of world war 2. the camera also captured late. geneva, seemingly untouched by the rule that the swiss were not truly unscathed. with you. that was a very difficult time. my parents and uncles,

my grandparents lived outside the city and only occasionally came to era votel opened the windows and check for any flooding for me. so of course it was the time that shaped my parents and grandparents i am now play. it was after that a new generation came with businesses reopened, and many new tourists came to discover geneva. it was why they wanted a new life, a different life. so geneva picked up quickly after the war democracy, happy market. i go to europe. the usual i spent all my thursdays in this place when i was a teenager, because my father received the wind deliveries on thursdays winds from foregoing ya

or bordeaux. i used to help him open the crate, said we tell you, my job was to use a ruler and make sure that the bottles were aligned perfectly. that's not even a 2 millimeter difference was allowed to be met for the day. when we my father didn't allow the wine cellar manager to help himself directly from the wine rags. soccer louis literally was, i think i'm a loser shack because you keep taking the ticket sort of tickets rack had a card with the name of the wine, the origin, the vintage, the quantity, and the purchase price of what he wrote, the purchase price backwards. so that nobody else knew what he paid for them when they want us to maintain an overview attached these cards. i spent my childhood cutting them out,

which he then placed on the raft or force that they could be, they won't do the whole cast don't. could be met the are pressure because you the assumption that there are the most valuable bottles. what does that one mean? i'm was the need from 79. no. sunday enough. so sound enough from 1979. what beautiful bottles do you know the oldest bottle we have taken? it's not a wine, but a carn. yes, said laughing chump on a kayak from 18. $20.00. the polio just missed that one. we still have a few bottles of it. my parents bought it at an auction a long time ago. don't liberals said installed the good wines come with a long history that the previous had some of the year or even his predecessor contributed towards the like. a temple of wine bottles lie here with their dust and history. the work of a some of the a is to continue the history,

which goes hand in hand with that of the hotel south bel julia. he started at least 12 de la missile. know i bring my knowledge and the wines that i like or discover, but i will always respect the tradition of the bordeaux and borg on the lines that bolden bosh surely var, just to the level do i hope these bottles will always remain here. for the sake of legacy and future, some of the for the future. so the good news

the news even even establishment is carefully managed to revive. there are some things to the hotel owners simply cannot control or prevent like what happened here. just over 30 years ago, this german journalist played a prominent role in the series of events. in october 1987, he discovered the former state premier felicia holstein, bashful dead in the bath tub. sebastian canal, a social graph him. the image appeared in the magazine stern

professing something of a scandal in germany. the school adviser's not to see john or to interview so the bo revised is an ideal place for interviews. nice oh shit. so even if the hotel management doesn't always appreciate the political interviews are conducted on their premises on the go to mozilla history, you can create a good atmosphere with, especially in luxury hotels where the guest feels comfortable and can open up a business hoses the so how did the scan will happen now i had traveled from handled to geneva in the hope of conducting an interview with the former jim is a premier who is the partial had been accused of organizing the smear campaign against a political opponent. the journalist was hoping to meet us in the bomb. oh

gosh, i didn't appear. so the journalist entities room the next day without permission. so how to log on on. so i'm a show of there's and from what was dimly led to its bit. there was a single shoe in the hallway. there was a corridor that led to the buildings, and there were other things lying about. it's such as pajamas. some sweets of this book by john paul saw was surprisingly enough. open to a certain story that deals with suicide and this was all along the documents i was interested in, were lying there as it prepared for a journalist visit and how that went. and i wasn't sure how i should document them so much. so i took the papers to my photographer with 2 lives post and had told them to wait outside the room and let me know when mister bosher returned mulish when he was supposed to keep a lookout and warned me by all skin since him on my way out i knocked on the bathroom door. i opened the door and saw the bathroom mirror. there was a lifeless body in the bath tub and leap was no wonder licked. no monday

o'clock he was calling was clear to me then that something terrible had happened. dan reporter found partial dead in his bathroom. do you estimate early reports suspect the politician shut himself up? journalist found him in the bath tub and his head above the water. apart from his shoes, basha was fully clothed. she is just on a couple of assets in saudi shows. come on, that was 1987. and these things can happen. they can happen anywhere anytime in the horse or just our role is to deal with this as a public place where children are born, a place full of life. people are born here married here and they die here. all see modern that life and a hotel is about live and attention of is the

following, the german politicians, death, journalists and photographers camped out for weeks in front of the hotel entrance. inside the boot of ours, swiss and german criminal investigators tried to determine whether it was suicide and murder, or a natural death. how did the hotel deal with the aftermath? with signature discretion? the room number 317 simply no longer exists. here we go to menus with progs ravioli, salmon, luster, so fog, and to orders of venison destroy so many good g is the head shift to revise like his predecessor, he has

a mission. stop the restaurant, lou shovel to open 50 years ago to the outside world. before then, it was exclusively for the hotel guests. the products come from the lake and the mountains, seasonal and regional for the june of cooperate is it when they go, when you're young, you chase after the stars point present in the michelle and star city. that's just incredible for a chef is present portal to be famous, genius in you. but as you get older, you realize that the most important thing is to please your guess the trees to be attentive and killing the. if you prioritize the customer, the stars will follow on their own. the bottom, you learn that at the age of 50 is going to be taken

from one subsidy collision for me, a table has to feel friendly. that's important. on the it has to look beautiful and inviting to assess rice. you should feel at home to a table set like this. invite you to sit down and have a meals or the me appetizer for 2 front legs in better. deep fried, served with garlic, milk, firm, speech, thought and fresh basil. it's a classic dish here. so

city when we jump like these are the prox dish i developed a good 15 years ago. i like yeah. it's on the menu every day. feeling really many guess come for the frogs, savannah or the burgers ready? yet? we even have fast food. you know, tell you have to do it all. the borrower's eyes opened more than a 150 years ago. how does it present tradition? still keep up with the times when she says she, then we're fortunate to have a very loyal clientele who have been coming here for many years this year. similar to that in the level. and of course, we strive to take care of these customers as well as their children or even

grandchildren will want things done differently and all have differing demands on us to adapt to this new to do this at the hotel manager, the florist, the head of reception they all share the same philosophy. the house has a soul because they give one second that will show us the proper mom. she's got the, the vote a formal each generation has its own way of expressing itself, even if we all maintain the same fundamental values. my father, for example, was a man who enjoyed good food. he opened the house to get strong to me and to a modern world, which was a world of business matter. don't see a one year due to his period of good when he took over the bully vash. he catered to a new generation that came to geneva for conferences and seminars that had nothing to do with the fine society of the bell. because what were the crew is going to put

it up. they also had to further develop the house. you found them, shows them the more geneva connects with the world, the more secure the future. it's hard because that's obvious shoes on that. so how with the coming generations, the 5th or the 6th change things 40 years from now? that's what i'd like to know. like in the gym national ball to handle. some of them sort of said, well, me to revise. each generation has had a hand in writing the hotels history can be politics to celebrity encounters the owners, have navigated every twist and turn with signatures with discretion. and they are ready to greet what chapter comes next.

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ah, this is the news live from the numbers rise by the out. catastrophic flooding kills more than a 150 people in germany and belgium, rescue as a searching for another thousands missing. and count, devastated by the water, belgium declares morning before its victims and tens of thousands ordered to leave their homes in the mid. what's also on the show taliban fighters in afghanistan capitalized on the us trip with grow. people caught up in the fighting, desperately seeking away up and back on the red carpet. despite the pandemic jury at the com film festival is getting ready toward it's called cross rather than force and they're not all wearing months.

ah, i'm anthony. how welcome the west flooding in decades has killed at least 150 people in europe. most of the dates are in western germany. the disaster area stretches between the districts of hines, big i upset and violence near the border with the netherlands and belgium. a massive clean up operation is on the way as risky crews search for survivors. more than a 1000 still missing. his torrent filmed on wednesday used to be a stream. it's a site you would have thought possible in western germany. what comes next? it's even harder to take in a drift. in

many places, the waters are starting to recede and clean up operations have begun. but the floods have left a trail of devastation and residence in shock. because like i said, that was my apartment. i'm trying to think about it, but it's, it's really dreadful stigma if you have another sort of speculation. and it's not just property that has been destroyed. emergency work as a warning that as they comb through the wreckage, more bodies could be discovered. many people are still stunned at the speed at which the water suddenly rose, risking so fast. we watched the water rise, an insane current. i knew it was in english toys more than we thought to people clinging to those columns over there. we shouted from above the hold on because it took 3 hours for them to be rescued with some spoke of the trauma of having to

escape before the water rushed into their houses. to mr. warren, we weren't given any warning here i had between 10 and 15 minutes side. as much as i left my apartment, the water was up to here. many communities are still without power and water. it fed the damage could run into billions of euro's people say they have no choice other than to start picking up the pieces. but it's obvious that it will take a long time before anything can get back to normal. here. we'll take up a report in since the south of cologne, kate. tell us what happened where you are. so i'm stood in french's, this residential home here for disabled people where sadly, 12 of the resident problems the 32 residents here died when the flood waters rose.

and as you can see behind me, you can see just how high the water actually rose above the windows of the 1st floor. and they were unable to be rescued in time due to the flood water rising so quickly. and i've read to the take a walk around the, around the residential home, and i looked him through some of the windows and you can see some of the rooms of the residential of the people here in the home for disabled people. and there was a room just completely destroyed. there was a stand for a, for a keyboard. the cable was on the floor under a door that had been knocked down. that was someone's, there was some cup on the table. maybe they had just drink drunk. that before going to bed that night, and you could see that bad as well in the corner and a painting on the floor and these are just such as passengers. obviously you have gone to bed expecting nothing. and you've just really human details show you how much of a kind of possible tragedy this is for each, every single life lost in the home. as we digest these tragedies,

people now turn in the hours, the pos, of course, to asking how this could have happened. yes, that's the question that's on everyone's lips ends in vague no one can really understand. i spoke to some residents here some across the street from the residential building who actually had, they said they had the screams of the people inside. you are unable to be rescued. and they told me that they actually on this street didn't receive any warning from the, from any official information channel or tool. and other people said that they did receive warning, but the flood waters just rose high into such an unprecedented level that they were actually unable to be rescued in time. but the question is still that how some of the most vulnerable people in our society. i like left like badge and not ready for about and not a vacuum. when it is people who did know that they would be some flooding. you

speak to my next question by talking about the screams of those who couldn't describe, how are the residents coping so we're, that is definitely a sense if collective trauma here, people are very on edge people worried about perhaps being all the floods or anything possibly going wrong, everyone is feeling quite uncomfortable talking to the press here. quite exhausted and they say, you know, is just such some good pieces. so close the harm to convey is that one woman she said, pointed to all have fun on the street covered in mud. and she said, this is everything for me. the devil reporter kept mater insignificant on thank you very much. jim and president frank felt this time i has visited the town of f step, where a giant sink hole caused major damage. stein,

mom was joined by premium and lasha to the front runner to succeed angular medical . as chancellor president says, the scale of the loss simply hard to comprehend. hillis is low on money, has been lost and will not be easily replaced. they not d and again to talk about the biggest loss is the one felt my luck. relatives in the flood itala on committee. we are morning with the people who have lots of friends and acquaintances and family members, and your site had broken out and says house. but joining me in the studio as our political correspondent, amino shars and welcome a strong message from the german president, frank felt a shy my. what more did he have to say, while a strong message and he used the word heartbreaking. it is true that those teachers absolutely devastating. he also said that for some people all that remained was

hope. and in that of course it's a very green prospect, but it's he also. 1 pointed out, at the fact that the germ, the federal government would actually either go, america has said, said from the us would actually not abandoned all to abandon all those people who are affected. and so this was a message of hope that know from this fall, the state premier, unless it was who is also a conservative candidate for the chancellor, was there he was also enough that what role is he seeking to play here? well, you know, he's a faith premier of one of the west effected region. no one was fall. yes. so he's place is in his constituency in this hour of need. but of course, we cannot ignore the fact that this situation is very striking. resemblance to what happened nearly 2 decades ago when gal who was campaigning for his re election for

a 2nd mandate. a german chancello. well, those flows in 2000 and 2nd, really invited them in the mid to late to campaign. and that's a very similar area. very similar to what i mean last year. who's the front runner in the next? the next election? he's he's experiencing right now. he hasn't been very successful so far. and also he's a track record in terms of environmental policies in those one west valia has been criticized. for example, he has an plans of coal exec phase out quicker than 2038. even though he said in may that he might try to accelerate that process. so he ended the construction of new wind turbines, so he does have a lot to answer for in that environment. question in the region. if we're to view this through the climate change lens, could these floods shaped the federal election in september while the climate

change? a question definitely took center stage following this disaster, these natural catastrophe. and of course now that candidates program, especially when it comes to environmental questions, will be highly scrutinized, not only by a germans in the regions effected by by does flows, but also by the rest of the population. because this is a country which is to very much reading after what happened this week. they w correspondent amongst us, thank you very much. least 24 people have died in belgium. government has declared tuesday a day of national morning. cities of the age in belgium and fin low in the netherlands have been devastated in fellow 10000 people were told to leave their homes. 200 patients were moved from a hospital. in the age, the swollen news, or

a river burst its banks community side, the flooding is the worst they have ever experienced. with the river still menacing the residence of pippins to begin the long hard task of cleaning up the floods have wrecked home, destroyed cars and ruins. live in this small belgian town. everyone. everyone is crying. everyone is only now seeing the real damage. most people have had enough love to talk to it is it's distressing because you were all your life to build something and then even with the water levels receding. the danger remains during an interview with the towns mayor, a tv cru captured the moment a house partially collapse. that makes, that is just a new rec eclipse,

with its residence still inside. the such scenes of devastation have unfolded across the country and are set to continue to new the gale and the stench of the weather related disaster left a national state of emergency was triggered yesterday afternoon. let us your situation is changing, minute by minute. all right, and in many places remains stream li, critical as the sift through the wreckage pincers. residents can only that the worst is behind them. well, the w correspondent, barber basal is near pinta barbara. the scale of the flooding was overwhelming. more than 48 hours on now, do we have a clear picture of just how widespread and how serious the damage is?

the picture is pretty clear, anthony, and it is total devastation wherever you look around here. all these small tributaries of the river moves who was carrying the masses of water. all you see is rubble. everything is covered in debris and water in dirge. in front of people's houses. you see their furniture, you see everything they have owned that is, has been collected there. people know, just trying to clean out their houses, throw everything out here in the river, in the water a bit further down. we can see still cars that have been torn away by the floods and that submerged in the order. so it will also be difficult to clean up the rivers that have really contributed to this devastating floods. never have people seen anything for 200 years in this area within living memory, there is nothing similar. and as so often it is really the small things that touch

you most. some child lost, it's totally lied to the floods as so many people have lost everything they own. up and down this river barbara, the belgian king and queen were there yesterday to show support emotional support to the victims. aside from that type of support, i wonder, what do people most need there in terms of tangible and practical help in the bigger towns like, like inside of pepin. so a lot of heavy machinery has arrived there. huge big problems in order to clear out the the basements, and in clear out the, the streets that are still submerged. they have j. c. visa, they have everything they need. but in the villages just a little bit further upstream, people have to just do self help. what they use here, i just, tractors and shovels. and they of course, would need more machinery to come. there is no lack of money. of course,

the belgium state has said that they will refund everybody that they will do financially what they can. and the european union has said that they have put out an emergency fund. neighboring countries like friends have sent emergency troops, people to help out here, all 3 heads and rescue rescue groups and the same as italy. so there is a lot of solidarity. there's also a lot of sort of, derrick, the among belgians here. people come is food and water and coffee to help out locally. but this is a task that is simply beyond as wall plays like the one we are in. you look at it and you think this is impossible. how can they conquer this barbara? clearly the last thing rescuers and those residents you speak of need now is more right in terms of the forecast doesn't look like the town and the outstanding areas will be speed more. ryan, incoming dates. not really. i mean, you see a standing here and brilliant sunshine with which only highlights the catastrophe

all around us about that and the forecast is relatively clear. it's going to become there will be some clouds, but maybe a little bit of rain, but nothing is devastating as people have experience here. so the worst is over. but for many people who live in this area, the worst is yet to begin, because they have many houses can be rescued here, they will have to be torn down people living in emergency shelters and their lives . they will really have to restart their lives. and many people here are still in total shock. w correspondent, barbara fazel, input in the, in belgium. many okay, let's take a look now. some of the other stories making headlines around the world. syrian later busha allison has been sworn in as president for another 7 years for german office. extensive family will to almost 6 decades. germany and the us have

condemned to be presidential election held in may, is neither free nor firefighters. a battling a blaze on spain's hat land coast. 350 people were evacuated from the town of yansa near the national park. a bob fire has destroyed more than $400.00, which is in the tourist region. one of them worship is arriving in the saudi city of myka for a downsize, downsized hodge ration only $60000.00 fully vaccinated. saudi citizens are allowed to take part millions. normally join the annual pilgrimage. i. yes. can government representatives have been holding more peace talks with taliban insurgents despite clashes continuing on the ground? the terror group is making gains in the power vacuum left by the potted international troops and fighting is now broken out as african forces trying to re take a keyboard of crossing with pakistan. desperate and looking for way out. 100

to gather at this close border crossing between afghanistan and pakistan with whatever they can carry quite the hood of the there's a war going on between the government and the taliban. on the other side, the border is closed. they have to stop fighting and let us go through. so we can go home. that's the best battles between afghan forces and television fighters have escalated across the country in recent weeks. there really is challenges to cover this kind of story on friday award winning photo journalist denise should iq was killed, new spin bull dogs crossing. he was embedded with special forces when the military attempted to regain control of the crossing. it's an economic lifeline for southern afghanistan, a crucial artery for exporting farm goods. controlling it would be an economic windfall for the taliban. insurgents,

recent attack seem tactical, taking advantage of nato and us troop withdrawal. us president joe biden had made it clear nation building was not part of the war on terror launch 20 years ago. he says it's time to leave afghanistan future to its people, russia foreign minister to the swipe it by calling the mission of failure. we faced the truth as president biden had confirmed americans left because they considered their mission accomplished. obviously he tried to present the situation in the best way possible, but everyone understand their mission failed. even as districts topple to the taliban afghan leader look with optimism towards piece talks in doha. they say piece will only come from negotiating table and not the battlefield or early a. d. w spoke with journalist i lead to 2 feet in the afghan city of harass we asked if afghanistan is at risk of falling back on the taliban. control the risk

exist. but you know, the question is, if they're not able to keep these districts, if they're not able to keep these checkpoints along the duran line, or these border crossings with eat on, or they weren't even able to keep, you know, the capital of bother east province, which is actually a small capital, it lead a lot to question whether or not they could take a major city like condo or have author jewel about they haven't shown yet that they can really sustain their control over an area. i think the chief you there for latin american governments have split along ideological lines of a recent protest in cuba. thousands took to the streets last week in the biggest demonstrations there. in decades, she lay hazards cuba to allow per democracy protests, but not all july. and i agree with that. tension boiled over on friday when supporters and opponents of cuba government clashed outside the embassy and shallow capital classes on the streets of santiago protesters both for

and against the cuban government traded blows with each other and with the police. emotions are running high after the largest anti government protest on the island. in decades. many cubans living in chile felt the need to show solidarity with protesters and their families back home. it's impossible to live in cuba. you can't do it anymore. my family is hungry, they have no medicine, new phase, you don't have to spend the money. it's very, very hard. not only and government protest is charge keeping president miguel diaz, kind of running a dictatorship. they say people living on the island are suffering under extreme economic and social hardships. meanwhile, across the street, government supporters called for an end to the decades long us blockade of cuba. de stress,

the cube is problems should be for cuba alone to resolve the want to support the government. we don't want an intervention. we want cuba problems to be solved in cuba. i think they do have the havana is facing major purchased at home and abroad . and that also means on the street of santiago. 7 ok, let's take a look now. some of the other stories making headlines around the world. brazilian president julia ball scenario has appeared on television from his hospital bed in south hollow. an hour is being treated for a stomach problem. this is related to a knife attack in 2018. to say he is making good progress. thousands of miles in france to protest against the run of our faxing pass announced vice president amendment to difficult will be needed to access indoor dining venues. retail centers and public transportation will also be mandatory for health with bus alona and the surrounding northeast corner of spain. reintroducing some public

restrictions to slowed the spread of the delta variance of ground of ours alone yet is imposing a night time curfew in towns with more than 5000 people. and time fiction writes, you know, thailand has tightened run virus restrictions as the delta vary, fields, surgeon cases, their public gatherings, a band and bangkok and other cities remain under nighttime tissue to sport. and organizes of the tokyo olympics had reported the 1st confirmed case of 19, at the athletes village. c, o should have moved to his says i visit from abroad involved in running the games is not positive. the person's identity is being kept confidential. the name, the japanese olympic football team have walked off the pitch in protest against the braces to abuse during a friendly against honduras st. jordan, to note our ring was targeted late in the game. racism in football has become

a prominent issue of life. 3 black in one place suffered abuse after missing penalties. in the hero 2025. defending will champion lewis hamilton will be in pole position for formula ones 1st saturday, bryce at the british grand prix. the winner of the 17 lap dash around the silver spoon stick. it will take the whole position for sundays might have been the fill out crowd of more than 140000 is expected. well, the count film festival is about to award its top on the palm to or its almost business as usual. despite the pandemic day with 12 days of red carpet premieres in the glamorous town in the south of france, there are some restrictions but most stars have remained unmasked. with such an eclectic group of films in competition, spike lee and his jury have their work cut out for them when deciding who will win the c as palm door. here at some of the front brothers it film director,

you need to call me back at conn. and getting plenty of attention to, to tom, about his killer, to fix the car. my intention in the film is really to make the audience except that's the question of gender is absolutely irrelevant. when you, when we're talking about identity one's identity, one's journey in life, one's choices and all this sense of director with anderson. delighted with his latest efforts long delayed by the pandemic. the french dispatch is an episodic tribute to old school journalism starring bill murray until the swinton assembled a team of the best patriot journalists, his times parents and direct cremeans robot. right? the were his people just try to make it sound like you wrote it that way. on purpose, it's also reminder of the dignity of journalism because that's

a real thing and i think it's possible for people to either have forgotten that or pretend they never knew that to know that the journalism and this is, i think, credibly dignified and important cultural and and we really rely on it. so yeah, it's just a reminder i agree with tilda, which is the subject of tonight's lecture. mister moses rose suddenly lounges odyssey boys of his rowdy generation simone naked cell block, j. honda. i want to buy and director pool. the hoover is known for mixing sex and violence, his latest film, benedetto, religion, and just causing plenty of control to see. it tells the story of an abbot. he starts from lots of things with another woman. for me, what was really important and the movie i think, versus dr. i asked me what was driving me was in fact that it was way through that. i was it. and that i was making

a movie that's about events that in some way has really happened. and this is a real rock opera by leon. correct. with adam, try that unmarried courtyard. they play a glamorous deliberate couple whose lives are turned upside down by the arrival of the child. this is my, the me. the can, competition is back after you without you to depend demik making the prospect of winning a palmed, or even more desirable than ever. the and before we go or mind of the top story, we're following for you, this was flooding in decades is killed at least 150 people in europe. more than 1000 still missing us to deaths in west germany. massive cleanup operation is

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