style is up for vinterberg last journey it's a comical tribute to train travel central europe and life in general and rudisha wrote it in german. the month. when you look at the map of the railway routes in austria hungary in one nine hundred thirteen and compare it with a map of the routes in central europe today you can see how many are left. for what is it i'm told that's all of these routes this station where we are now they all existed back then only as good as in this caption damaso alice. together with his melancholy geriatric nurse yon cross ninety nine year old one still winter buried in parks on a journey into the past taking his cue from a detailed guidebook dating from one thousand nine hundred eighteen he's drawn ever deeper into the country's history and his own. without such a form stalks into some little nonstandard after all stuart's song book once and only can see it since the communists in common own still sometimes up and go knowing someone with afghans expedition the soviets cause that's not the form which

tuesday to wednesday we are going to be see this area of high pressure really dominating much of central europe and this is going to stay as we go towards the end of the week as well so as you see here on wednesday a lot of sun and temperatures are actually moderating across much of the area with vienna at ten degrees burl and a beautiful day for you at about twelve degrees there now down towards the south though that is where the problems are going to be in the mediterranean we do have some storm systems across parts of algeria and that is going to be rain across much of the area over the next few days take a look the forecast map here on tuesday rain approaching algiers at thirteen degrees we do have some clouds over here towards tripoli but as we go towards wednesday we do expect those clouds to push towards egypt and twenty seven for cairo. that was sponsored by a town in. tennessee . my prison my freedom my life my languages my occupation.

when it comes to the european union, much of central europe gets a lot of its gas from there, germans and wealthier countries in the west have huge russia, billions of dollars invested in the u.k. in the financial system there. the -- what about steps have been taken and what is still to be done with regards and sanctions with regards to russia and what still needs to be done? the magnitsky act had of likeredible effect really upsetting vladimir putin. sponsors of the magnitsky act, john mccain and ben carden said, well, wait a second, this seems to really work, why don't we use this for other dictators and bad guys? why should the venezuelans or chinese or other human rights violators get a better deal than ended up witho we a global magnitsky act in 2016 which was passed unanimously by the senate. then we started to

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could watching this right here as that system makes its way towards the east well here across central europe it is the winds extending from poland all the way over here towards the baltics even in germany we have seen some very very gusty winds as well as power outages in many locations now that is going to ease up as we go into wednesday but we are going to see that big storm i was talking about out here towards the west making its way in windy conditions from the u.k. all the way down across parts of france as well as into spain over the next few days also some very windy conditions here across northwestern part of africa clouds also making their way across from parts of a libya as well as into egypt rain could be a problem in cairo you could be seen as michelle was in your forecast as well respected temperature there of ninety degrees. the weather sponsored by town and. went on line to the atmosphere and when that is your for them reason not to do this only if you join us on sat all of us have been colonized in some form or some fashion face is that diana brianna talking about

summer and before he reached out to the northern europe to central europeans because he's trying. to pick up winners and this is the crucial clash i think between paris and berlin. what crawled wants to move on into smaller europe? germany is a status quo nation and is terrified about starting to shake things up because not only today -- but i think. also the german foreign policy establishment afraid that that's that's a stepping stone to disintegration. so germany's no protecting key with twenty seven after brexit including hungry. and in spite of faux wood or bone is doing to find a allies including in central eastern europe for his. deep integration so let me come back to whether in fact to these proposals did find allies here in berlin. derek you said in your opening statement that the germany's ubik vocation is dusty and cliche did berlin dust itself off in response to what macro propose. well they responded but that's all they do they respond they say yes to this the noted that i mean they they said yes yes the border they said -- she she also knocked in a few things like sh

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druggy is set to leave the top job of the central europe the european central bank and who's going to be the next chief guardian of the euro. this is a business first welcome after two crashes of seven three seven max eight planes and other near misses putting plane make a boeing under additional pressure southwest airlines boeing seven hundred seven made safe emergency landing tuesday in orlando florida after experiencing an engine problem with no passengers on board meanwhile hundreds of boeing seven three seven . remain grounded around the world in washington politicians are looking into how the forty planes got certified to fly and how boeing is planning to fix the issue. under normal circumstances an emergency landing like this one would not get much attention an engine overheated shortly after takeoff the pilot returned to orlando florida and landed safely but the plane was a boeing seven three seven max eight one of hundreds that are grounded a southwest plane was headed for the carry a storage facility in california it did not carry any passengers the incident is likely to rui

of sun here on tuesday but actually things get much better as we go towards mid week most of central europe is going to be under high pressure and that means a lot of sun across much of the area we're going to see the temperatures start to moderate about average or a little above average for this time of year paris a fifteen degrees and most of the weather is either going to be to the north or down here across parts of the med now that weather across the med is going to cause a problem here across part of algeria over the next few days coastal areas are going to be seeing some rain algiers you could see a combination of rain as well as clouds in the forecast as we go towards wednesday well most of that pushes a little bit more towards the east tunis is going to be a rainy day for you as well but gazi winds are in your forecast we do expect to see about twenty six degrees there but over here towards her but it is going to be a partly cloudy day with twenty one degrees in algiers that rain at thirteen. thing as i want to finally we're going ask about that but that's the balance of. when it's

the shells are found all the way from the black sea to the coasts of central europe . people fashioned them into pendants bracelets and belt buckles. and they were popular as gifts. in. the neolithic period cover several thousand years. that's not very long in the timeline of history but archangel ancestors had the same spiritual and emotional needs that we do today. this period saw fundamental changes in everyday life and the ways that people lived and worked together. they began to bury their dead and to honor them afterward they built houses they raised crops and livestock. they organize themselves in the construction and erected huge stone structures and some of these have survived to this very day. does it seem as if. the transition to civilization in europe began with the arrival of the migrants from the east short migration produced civilizations see that is it sir. the indigenous hunter gathering peoples either merged into these new societies or adopted sedentary farming culture on their own. there was no turning back. to see that was absolutely a major step fo

a story of economic success generally and we tell a story of ashkenazi jews coming from central and eastern europe. generally we imagine them as poor, whether or not they were. we imagine them coming to the lower east side or other urban neighborhoods and struggling economically and then american jews generally this is true, though it is assemblyfide story, that they generally get more money overall and their communities are a little more stable we might say. so to lock back at the food we imagine our ancestors eating tells a story about our ancestors and communal answers storrs were. >> and if they were to go to a passover seder or ashkenazi wedding or baby naming, that sort ofening? >> yes. the way we find meaning in our lives in our religious lives, in our community live is is always built around food. i'm most interested in the food outside of those big religious celebrations, though i don't know where alex would point us. i'm interested in the every day food of our lives and how that makes up our lives and tees us who we are in the world. >> fascinating. we're going to take another break and

for describe most european weather windy and cold the clouds actually swept all of them across central europe so this mass here over turkey in greece already now temperatures back power from just taking away the sunshine the strength the wind is at its greatest so the british isles and northern europe one storm system after another was temperatures just about above ten degrees only eighteen zero is even madrid's down to sixteen and it's pretty miserable in good part of greece and particularly western turkey obviously is cold enough for some snow there some a big problem over the high aground in particular going to spend a snipe sickly over night wind up on thursday was tensions not much different winds to a quite strong middle looking picture the green is rain of course the low countries a good part of france you scape it in spain and push go slowly warming up here with the sun coming out as little bit better in turkey but not so in northern greece and macedonia where the next storm system wants to try to develop in the sudden adriatic so actually it's come a long way sasson and in fact the i

your international weather forecast we're here across europe well in quite nice across much of central europe the areas we're dealing with weather is down here towards croatia we're going to be seeing some windy conditions today up towards the north though we are seeing a few front about is pushing through parts of northern europe and scandinavia and then down towards the south in the mediterranean we are dealing with some messy stormy weather across that area so here's your forecast map on wednesday gluten quite nice a lot of sun for many locations and as we go towards thursday temperatures are on the rise particularly out here towards the west we saw fifteen degrees in paris on wednesday as we go towards thursday seventeen degrees there up towards london it is going to be about sixteen degrees few well here across the northern coast of africa we are dealing with some stormy weather notice those areas of circulation right here across parts of algeria as well as tunisia the rain is on the increase as we go from wednesday and into thursday and that means we are potentially going to be seen loc

still gusty winds here down towards the south though we are looking at clouds across much of central europe out here towards the west though things looking quite nice we'll be seeing plenty of sun if we get a few clouds maybe that's going to be about it here across parts of the u.k. down across france as well as into spain well we are going to be seeing the weather though is going to be here across the northwestern part of africa plenty of rain plenty of clouds are going to be in the forecast here on wednesday the earth low pressure across italy is really the cause of it and we are going to be seeing those rain could szish ns as well as cloudy conditions make their way over here towards the east for little parts of libya you're going to be seeing the rain continue here anywhere from tripoli over towards benghazi but for egypt really not looking too bad we are going to be seeing a partly cloudy day here in cairo and from morocco things are getting much better a few partly cloudy conditions we do and a temperature about twenty two degrees there. eastoe war where on live t.v. and it's taught u

so here is your sunday map we're going to be seeing some very nice conditions across much of central europe still holding on but we are beginning to see some of those clouds some of the cooler air beginning to make its way down so for berlin clouds in your forecast at about eleven for london at about twelve the big change is going to happen as we go from sunday to monday where we have another fun about a right there coming through and that is going to bring some very gusty winds along with it as well we're going to be seeing berlin with some rain in your forecast only getting up to about seven degrees over towards warsaw it is going to be ninety degrees there for you where across the northwestern part of africa it has been quite rainy anywhere from parts of libya over towards tunisia algeria as well the good news is most that rain is going to be making its way towards the west so from morocco you're going to be seeing some rain here as we go towards sunday as we go towards monday things of much better you can see a lot of that cloud area is out here just about ready to make its way over her

equipment to the east quote of fresh air they even discussing to install a new and you have athens in central europe these is to try to develop a new arms race visit russia is a big economic power of the nato countries and the u.s. in the bigger economic poets russia they really believe that they asked john now than russia that they could get back on their side that they would give up their national interests and their own independent foreign policy i think this is it is losing by the nato countries and above all of the trump administration believe these and. thanks for joining us on r.t. international we're back in thirty minutes with the latest. in a world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth. the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. the country's gone into a nihilistic fever i think they've got to hit the road an

military equipment to the east part of russia they even discussing to install on your new club in central europe this is to try to develop a new way to visit russia with the big economic power of the nato countries and the u.s. in the weaker economic power of russia they really believe that they are stronger than russia and that they could get russia back on their side that they were russia give up their national interests and their own independent foreign policy i think this is it it lucian by the nato countries and above all the truck and his race believe this illusion who benefits from a new arms race. you know you can see the united states and the needless spending about one billion for military purposes this is a huge profit for the arms industry aren't investing in countries and in all the nato countries above all in the state capital of this country united states russia is spending a vast sixty five billion for military purposes and you know they need the money for developing their own country for their health care the education system and that so what they're trying is to push russia to

being driven by strengthening wind that being the main difference it's windy in much of north and central europe the clouds increase and some rain coming in still not cold in a fourteen to fifteen degrees the early march is pretty good twenty in madrid we're single figures still in germany and poland and subzero in kiev even that is going to change as this wind does drive everything eastwards including generally speaking a rise in temperature where it's being cold recently but this cold wet heavy snow still going to fall in scandinavia sweden in particular differing dian through the baltic states and of course into moscow now all this is taking place in northern europe in the sas with the exception the eastern med it's not quite quite as interesting breeze which isn't allowing the sun to warm things up very much yes we've got twenty now jeanne is by the same in most of america but it's middle teens otherwise and the eastern med is increasingly windy and likely to wet once again now if you come further south you're picking up up coming showers in the sun's moving quickly north and then when the s

across europe with plenty of sunshine but no fall of us you can see this speckled area of cloud that is making its way southwards working its way across scandinavia there and down through the central parts of europe this is an area of cloud and showers and it's really dragging down the temperatures so we'll see some snow after this over the high ground as well and that will gradually feet down towards the southeast corner as we head through into choose day so for bucharest instead of around twenty two for tuesday will be just fourteen lots of clouds and lots of gray weather around as well with a chance of quite a few showers behind it staying fairly cool with the top temperature in berlin just of seven degrees but in the west is still fine unsettled we're looking at fourteen in london twelve in paris and twenty one they it's hot of matt though for some of us in the northern parts of africa look at robots up at twenty seven degrees a very hot day for us a much warmer than most we'll see it out she is things will change for a simmer of this system makes its way across us and then we'll see a change in the wind direction as well so a top temperature on choose day just of twenty three

still gusty winds here down towards the south though we are looking at clouds across much of central europe out here towards the west though things looking quite nice where to be seen plenty of sun if we get a few clouds maybe that's going to be about it here across parts of the u.k. down across france as well as into spain well we are going to be seeing the weather though is going to be here across the northwestern part of africa plenty of rain plenty of clouds are going to be in the forecast here on wednesday the earth low pressure across italy is really the cause of it and we are going to be seeing those rain could szish ns as well as cloudy conditions make their way over here towards the east for little parts of libya you're going to be seeing the rain continue here anywhere from tripoli over towards benghazi but for egypt really not looking too bad we are going to be seeing a partly cloudy day here in cairo and from morocco things are getting much better a few partly cloudy conditions we do in a temperature about twenty two degrees there. a prominent saudi journalist committed to freed

international weather forecast where we've been seeing some very stormy conditions here across much of central europe extending all the way up toward skin and navya with this system right here behind that system were in store for some more wet and windy weather across the area you can see here on thursday a lot of that rain coming in across the region some of those rain showers will be heavy at times also piggy have snow down here across parts of the else now it's going to be in the higher elevations now that we are entering spring some more snow in the overnight hours and then during the daytime it is going to be a combination of snow as well as rain for berlin actually day for you with the terms of the of nine degrees warsaw at seven kiev you will see some sun but a temperature of about nine degrees there well here across the mediterranean we are going to seen some windy conditions mostly along parts of tunisia down here across parts of libya as well as alexandria you'll be seeing some windy conditions as well as we go towards friday we're going to be seeing more winds across been gazi but it is go

weather forecast we're here across europe we ended last week looking quite nice across much of central europe we have seen a lot more problems in terms of the clouds in the winds as we start the week here and we're going to be seeing more of that as we go towards tuesday we have a fronts can be slipping down here towards the southwest there the clouds right there and the winds behind it and we're also could be seeing those temperatures only getting to about the single digits for many locations so berlin at seven the war side about eight degrees there here across the west not looking too bad in the trend is going to be as we go towards wednesday things are improving out here towards much of western europe temperatures are going to start to come up in some locations so paris a nice day if you at fourteen degrees there well here across the northwestern part of africa and fortune of the next few days we are going to see more in terms of clouds as well as rain for many locations we did have a break across this region we did see some very rainy conditions it did clear up but in forty as we go from

military presence in central europe.en 4,000 and 6,000 troops in central europe today. >> right. >> it's probably going to increase with enforcement negotiations going on with poland. yes. it's a mixed message that comes from the trump administration but the rhetoric is also matched by actions. >> yep. so robert, you've been reporting on former vice president dick cheney and opened a front about trump's foreign policy. tell us about it. >> what a scene over the weekend in georgia at the american enterprise institute, a conservative think tank at a private gathering. he had former vice president cheney sitting there with vice president pence. people expected a chummy conversation between two number two, talked through the vice presidency. it turned into a confront acceleration. former vice president challenging vice president pence on foreign policy, on the nationalism of president trump, on the president's instincts on a lot of his decision-making. vice president pence reportedly, we've seen a transcript at the "washingt

here in sweden southern sweden unwraps from it is this frontal system that goes down through central europe now and goes back through the southern alps it's not particularly changeable this weather and it doesn't know the temperatures back more than a degree or so but it is a line of class i was some right on the biggest no in the fast over the high ground you'll note as it goes into what's croatia taking rain more than snow with it and the picture come tuesday means it's reached moscow with a bit of late season snow and less stockholm in the sunshine but still it's really graze and burn it is not particularly warm whereas for london and for paris rough in the teens again mislead not so and in madrid yeah fifteen degrees is ok but look at the south southeast display not green there suggests a certain amount of activity in the western med which will show itself maybe not on monday but on tuesday north now geria and to new. whether sponsored by cattle it was. my name is some people say that my feelings are only programmed that they're not real but if i think the real then they are real don't

so here is your sunday map we're going to be seeing some very nice conditions across much of central europe still holding on but we are beginning to see some of those clouds some of the cooler air beginning to make its way down so for berlin clouds in your forecast at about eleven for london at about twelve the big change is going to happen as we go from sunday to monday where we have another fun about a right there coming through and that is going to bring some very gusty winds along with it as well we're going to be seeing berlin with some rain in your forecast only getting up to about seven degrees over towards warsaw it is going to be ninety degrees there for you where across the northwestern part of africa it has been quite rainy anywhere from parts of libya over towards tunisia algeria as well the good news is most that rain is going to be making its way towards the west so from morocco you're going to be seeing some rain here as we go towards sunday as we go towards monday things of much better you can see a lot of that cloud area is out here just about ready to make its way over her

record breaking the warm the cloud is very obviously moving at some place through a good part of central europe that's not the temperatures bacchis brought rain down through southern france snow on the high ground as it was the northern sleights of the house it's still relatively moderate so to get level twelve degrees and ten in berlin the cold still confined now to this top right hand corner of europe the circulation more or less centered on moscow but the snow is really only on the higher ground and is still quite warm in spain and portugal think ok keep the same sort of motion in the atmosphere there was weather coming of the atlantic wet and windy frequently in the british isles in france the low countries and that's the picture but we're up in the teens it is not cold day twenty in madrid ten in vienna and even worse in particular unsettled recently around greece and turkey it's nothing like as bad athens up to eighty degrees ankara eleven and probably in the rain the snow the far east of to keep. hasn't warmed up the same degrees throughout the mediterranean there's no real action apart

here across europe we've been talking about that very lovely weather they've been having across central europe we've had some weather up to the north that's all dealing with a cold front as well it's very very windy conditions across the north sea and around scandinavia well unfortunately that nice weather across much of europe is about to change we're going to be seeing that fun about to start to make its way down here towards the south things are really looking too bad here on sunday we're still seeing some very nice conditions down here across much of southern europe we are getting some cloudy conditions here across much of northern europe and then the winds are going to be picking up too as well as we go from sunday to monday notice this next batch of winds clouds as well as rain coming through the area so for germany most of germany's going to be rainy windy temperatures only into the single digits there we're going to be seeing some winds across much of france down towards the self it is going to remain quite nice for italy with rome seeing a temperature there of about one thousand degre

beautiful weather across much of the area that's all due to high pressure dominating much of central europe that's what we are looking at high pressure up here towards the east as well as high pressure all the way back down towards the iberian peninsula now we do have a couple of systems here across much of the northwest that is going to be the system that causes that high pressure to begin to break down over the next few days here's our forecast for saturday we do have some clouds up here to the north as well as gusty winds across parts of northern germany as well as poland but all the way down here towards the south things are looking much much better we are looking at temperatures into the low twenty's for rome as well as down towards sicily athens you're going to be seeing the attempt a few of seventeen degrees as we go towards sunday notice is cloud area right here begin to sink across parts of northern europe that is that stationary boundary that is beginning to break down that area of high pressure down towards the south though it is going to rain quite nice across much of the region

is a nice change down here towards the south anywhere across parts of southern europe and into central europe we are going to be seeing some very nice conditions sunny skies in temperatures are coming up so by the time we go from saturday to sunday a lot of this high pressure that's dominating is going to be making its way over here towards the east where we are going to see some stormy conditions here across the eastern part of the med that's all dealing with the storm that's been bringing a lot of rain across parts of turkey over here towards the west part of aunt as well would we see some winds along the coast here across parts of libya as well as into egypt we could even see a rain shower or two in those storms but we do think it. things are going to get better as we go towards saturday and speaking of better weather it's going to be quite nice across much of the northwest algiers is going to be a very sunny day if you are twenty two and tunas at about twenty three degrees for you. some journeys are tougher than others. but this route is even tougher than the current the truck it's danger

we got something of a change in the weather across central parts of europe over the next couple days been quite remember across a good part of central europe this area clattered right that same stormy area that affected the norwegians see through the weekend fast pushing further south with this area cloud that will introduce some wet weather and at times some of the wintry weather center cooler weather down across the northern parts of germany for example pushing down towards vienna pushing across into world war so coming in behind thirteen celsius for london brighton breezy i think sums it up here at will feel a little on the cool side level self just for paris on monday no go into to say things do start to quieten down high pressure starts just not just way back in across those western areas of europe that are a six for the southwards in these for say the balkans italy seeing some of that disturbed weather as we go on into the middle part of the week want to see showers into central parts of the mediterranean but for many it's still fine and dry athens at around twenty degrees cels