well they're 2 countries spend 80 years at war back in those days as the protestant dutch republic battled for independence from catholic spain and it was a conflict that colored the lives and the work of both painters and their respective traditions. the highlights of rembrandt year 29 seen at the rykes museum in amsterdam here were the world is watching the restoration of rembrandt iconic the nightwatch live streamed across the globe. it's a painting that every child in the netherlands knows but it's here in amsterdam that rembrandt makes another master painting diego velazquez. become a smile on this console can we do it the concept is that we've always put together a judge and a spanish so we've always made pairs and then we see what happens when they speak visually each week and lo and behold there are connections between the 2 which emerge because of these parallels on a deeper level moving from being a senior. lived in staunchly catholic spain in the service of the king rembrandt lived in the dutch republic where citizens had a say they never crossed paths. in their lifetime and all

lived in staunchly catholic spain in the service of the king rembrandt lived in the dutch republic where citizens had to say they never crossed paths in. the life time and all the countries were at war with each other the old masters shared similarities they have never seen a self-portrait where the eyebrows are raised as high as in this painting by rembrandt he poses a question to the audience and it's certainly directed at us who am i what's the role that i play and then when i look to the other side to the last close he painted a portrait of a very small man on community phillips who took these tiny men with no court jesters under phillip the 9th in the hole but he doesn't paint them ridiculous the asshole us and i was this is a portrait where the last because it takes people as seriously as rembrandt on the sets both artists have in common is that they are both great portrait chests as you pirate it was i think it was the distance into. dimensions with our sister. both painters represent the golden years of the countries in the 17th century the recurrent themes of power love or faith

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england presents the first , france, and the dutch republic trying to nick the english passion. far englandows how and scotland traveled together in a war. here now scotland is a brother with his arm wrapped around england and aggressively attacking the french while england remains beset by the soldier. here we see a massive tenor ofnt toward the the anglo-scottish relationship. scotland lost the war, of course, but in many ways one a surprising these. newrevolution formed a nation here, the united states, but it did a lot more than that. in many ways it marked a vital ,oment when britain created when70 years before -- britain created only 70 years before became a fully functional union. thank you. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] i will take questions. yes, please? >> thanks for that. that was brilliant and convincing. coming back to something said at the beginning, that jefferson included mentions of the sco

side of france and the united states, without formally allying with the u.s., and by the dutch to public -- republic who joined in 1780. by the time british suffered its second great defeat in 1917 -- 1781, this had become a world war with fighting in europe, india, africa, and the caribbean. with the benefits of hindsight, we know britain emerged from the global struggle in much better shape than anyone, including the --tish, had reading to ask reason to expect. f these battles were great victories, the battle of the saints in 1781 and the lifting of the siege of gibraltar in 1782. victories, the british empire looked as though it might be one of the american revolution's chief casualties. desperate times called for desperate measures. during the spring of 1778, as the news of the french alliance reached britain, the government lord north responded by dispatching frederick howard to philadelphia with parliament's remarkable -- and i want to suggest unexpectedly successful -- offer. for anyone who followed the standoff that began with parliament's attempts to tax the american colonies with the stamp

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dutch word describes a place where people enjoy each other's company and cheated us here it's a refuge from the world of great city right outside the stores. and one for chelsea and the czech republic a goalkeeper patter jack hung up his gloves in 2019 a few guessed it would be to try on a different pair but after a glittering football career champions league winners now trying his luck on the ice rink the 37 year old her side of the semi professional contract with english i saw he cited guilford phoenix combine goalkeeping for his new team with his duties as chelsea's technical director he proves he still a cool head under pressure setting 2 penalties on his debut lp statements to victory i think this is news these are the top stories forces backed by turkey are advancing further into syria turkish free syrian army is reported to have taken the city of god with every move the flags of kurdish backed troops and raise that as part of a coordinated post. directed by turkey after american forces withdrew from the region. follows ruling conservatives have won a comfortable majority in parliament the law and justice party has clashed with the european union which usually forms this poli

republic has been sold off to horner's. that means banks and financial institutions and large parts of industry are no longer in the hands of local companies but in the hands of the germans dutch french koreans and japanese. shots and back understands the anger checks achieve a lot but earn little. a large part of the revenues are going to parent companies abroad and that's starting to annoy people here. our journey now takes us into the czech countryside the imperial general object time occupied the castle and friedland to the 17th century and the brewery there has been making beer for 700 years. and his staff work all day in the old vaults built by the great general the crates are still emptied in the bottles washed and refilled by hand everything is still fairly improvised at 1st the boss filled the bottles himself back then 7 years ago they were just a team of 2 and they believed they could get the brewery back on its feet. now there are 17 of them and soon it'll be 50. mark has a problem that many others would envy him for his breweries doing too well and he's desperately looking for staff. mark supplies his regular customers across rural bohemia himself. it's a beautiful