those who were followers of charles de gaulle advocated waiting, we have to be patient. the allied armies are still miles and miles away from paris, and we are going to need their help and their support. and at that point, word was trickling in from the eastern front, specifically in warsaw, where the resistance in warsaw had begun an uprising against the german occupiers. and word was that the germans were inflicting brutal casualties on the resistance workers in the hundreds, if not thousands, and there was concern among the followers of de gaulle that that would happen to us. but, the communist elements in the resistance were adamant that now is the time to strike. those followers have de gaulle recognized that if they did not join in, when the liberation came, the may well have given up any claim to power because they did not join in the resistance. so, the battle for paris was on. scattered firefight sucked erupted across the city like summer thunderstorms. while the resistance force is especially targeted german convoys transiting across the city, and installations

tons of gold just over the last 3 years awfully good timing on that well piers 3 series the charles de gaulle figure remember charles de gaulle guy france's gold up before nixon close the gold window britain of course was left holding the feet out back your thoughts alister. i think it's a very interesting comment. that the head of the russian. central bank is a very interesting person when she was fast appointed i don't think anyone really thought this is a serious appointee is just. hussein's economic advice being promoted but actually she's dealt with a banking crisis there was a huge great banking crisis after she came in she reformed the banking system and that was ready quite an achievement. i think the policy on. it's a far as she has anything to do with it almost makes her a sort of prosecco austria in the sense that she ought to stab the for just say off someone else is paper currency that's an important point for the russians now fair enough all right alice macleod thanks for being on the kaiser report that's my question irit and that's going to do it for this edition of kaiser repo

is the head of the central bank of russia that she will kind of be seen as that equivalent of charles de gaulle the charles de gaulle of central bankers in that. you know russia the russian central bank has been stockpiling gold over the past 3 years they've bought 521000000000 dollars worth so do you think they might be seen as kind of the last huge buyer the last until bank able to even get. gold in exchange dollars and mansur absolutely yes. you know it's not it's not just her i mean it was shocks rough who counsel the gall to to demand the gold and he was right obviously but also the chinese i was and touch with the very intelligent swiss investor over the weekend and his view and i strongly support it is that combination of china and russia will be the 2 countries that will lead us back to having currency backed by by the precious metals and they'd both been preparing for i mean if you look at you know the behind the scenes purchases i'm sure china has multiples of what they report in gold reserves that they've probably got 20000 plus tons of gold reserves and as a result it would not surp

well, charles de gaulle arrived in paris late that friday afternoon and the first thing he went -- the first place he went to was the train station. this is a photograph of him and de gaulle is the one with the cigarette. and he went there intentionally because that's where general leclerc that we see here to de gaulle's left had the army headquarters. and de gaulle went there to emphasize the role the french army had played in liberating the city. and to downplay the role of the resistance that was made up to such a significant degree of communist, that de gaulle knew he was going to have a political battle with. there was also a young second lieutenant from the second armored division, a filippe de gaulle and he was able to fair this moment with his moment. de gaulle travel today the ministry of war where he had had an office in 1940 before he made his escape to london. and there he symbolically as well as in a very practical sense set the wheels in motion for the governing of france, once again, from its capital in paris. he then made his way to the prefecture of police as an acknow

french search and rescue personnel gather at charles de gaulle airport in paris france is sending 3 planes to help with the rescue efforts in beirut lebanon is a former french protectorate and the country's retain close political and economic ties. france is a part of the lebanese family and lebanon is part of the french family we share their grief and will do our best to help during this catastrophe. lebanon has asked the you for help and has received many positive responses you council president shockingly shed tweeted that the e.u. is ready to provide aid and support the european commissioner for crisis management confirmed that more than 100 search and rescue experts from greece the czech republic and the netherlands have already arrived in beirut. to put them in of these firefighters are highly skilled in search and rescue missions in urban areas we have also activated the copernicus satellite system which enables us to obtain very detailed photos of the disaster area. germany is also sending 42 rescuers complete with search dogs to beirut in the past 9 years the e.u. has invested mor

reserves into 25 here's the 520 tons of gold in the last 3 years alone will history see her as the charles de gaulle of central bankers justice france managed to get 300000000 worth of gold before the us shut the gold window in 1971 so too will russia be the last central bank to have stacked goal before it became unavailable at any price mark well i think that's a quite an interesting in the elegy you bring up. i don't think it's quite comparable though because you really have this cold war situation when when the cold was there so you had the west and within the west france which was challenging the us a little bit. and right now you really have a different situation my view you have the u.s. as a skill political make power and it is being challenged by it but more than one state and also within within the perhaps the west an alliance this is happening if you look at the cold reception germany recreate recreate to their results. some years ago but also china obviously is doing this in the in the large scale so so it is really looking as if we would be going into mum multi-polar world but yes russia

reserves into 25 here's the 520 tons of gold in the last 3 years alone will history see her as the charles de gaulle of central bankers justice france managed to get 300000000 worth of gold before the us shut the gold window in 1971 so too will russia be the last central bank to have stacked goal before it became unavailable at any price mark well i think that's a quite an interesting in the elegy you bring up. i don't think it's quite comparable though because you really had this cold war situation when when the cold was there so you had the west and within the west france which was challenging the us a little bit. and right now you really have a different situation my view you have the us as a skillful economic power and it is being challenged by it by more than one state and also within within the perhaps a western alliance this is happening if you look at the cold reception germany recreate the recreate the. results. some years ago but also china obviously is doing this in the in the large scale so so it is really looking as if we would be going into mum multi-polar world but yes russia is obvio

speculation i was making in the book about europe changing because the old europe that i knew from charles de gaulle time grew up a lot of the time in france it was much more independent they were separate countries they were not into a common market de gaulle was very independent and tough with america he threw he exited nato as you remember so when 'd he came along and neither all was a socialist but you could feel i felt that there was. when reagan came into office in america that was a breakpoint that was a beginning of a reaction to the liberalism of so-called of jimmy carter etc and john kennedy and reagan took it back to a worship of the market in any cost get rid of the unions get rid of regulation same as trump kind of thing and free up the whole thing it would do better business and everybody be happy well it's a nice idea and to some degree my father of course believe that too but not to the point of reagan my father you mentioned him earlier did believe in a regulated capitalism and he would not have approved of this breakout that happened with reagan in fact he called reagan a dope and

those who are were followers of charles de gaulle advocated waiting, we have to be patient. the allied armies are still miles and miles away from paris. at that point word was trickling in on the eastern front where the resistance in warsaw began an up rising against german occupiers and the word was the germans were inflicting brutal casualties on the workers in the hundreds if not thousands. and there were concerns with the followers of de gaulle that would happen to us. and those followers recognized if they didn't join in when liberation came they may well have given up any claim to power because they didn't join in the resistance. and so the battle for paris was on, and katered fire fights erupted across the city like thunder. some are thunderstorms. well, the resistance forces especially targeted german convo convoys transiting across the city and installations where they believe they could get additional weapons. and then early that morning and striking policeman clamored on top of a car in front of a prefecture to police, the police headquarters. when he got on top o

harry truman was furious with charles de gaulle for his rude treatment of roosevelt during the war. he said if i want to see de gaulle, i would send for him just as i would the head of any other minor power, which is a great line. poland is not invited either, except to give a brief statement on one day of the conference to present their various positions. so it is the great powers who are going to run this and make these decisions. this is the table in the main conference room inside the palace. it is intentionally kept small to limit the number of people who can attend. only the people who are sitting at the table are allowed really to have a voice. the people you see in the back are there to be advisors, translators, and several of them who left memoirs say they spent an awful lot of time cleaning those ashtrays. you can see the room is red. that is also by design. and you can see the way they are starting to think about what they want, when comes to shove when setting the future of europe. the treaty of versailles as analogy is not the only one to talk about. some of the american

one flight, one report showed one company, one flight, quadrupled the price of its flights from charles de gaulled be built into their own system so as they see more people applying for those seats, the prices are going to rise. it is not fair and i'm sure people have had a big shock. at one point last night i think there were nearly three and a half thousand people trying to get onto the eurotunnel website to change their bookings to come back earlier. those were trying to get on, three and a half thousand people. it's going to have a massive impact. we probably have up to half a million people either in france or other countries right now are trying to get back in the next couple of weeks and it really is going to be a problem for those who aren't able to self quarantine at home or work from home while they are in the self quarantine period for 14 days. it's going to have a huge impact. lisa, thank you for talking to us. let's find out how this is working in practice. joe crowley is on the line, the one show and countryfile presenter. where are you and what's happening? right now, i am under th