>> how tall was de gaulle? >> how tall was de gaulle? his -- the nickname that the americans gave him was du metre, two meters. he was about 6'6". so, in the video we saw, he wasn't standing on a platform or anything. he was just simply that much taller than most of the other people. so, he was quite a tall individual. yes, sir? >> what was hitler's response when he learned that the destruction of paris had not taken place? >> furious. furious. he anticipated he was going to carry out those orders. which i expect being taken prisoner, going back to germany, being taken prisoner would of course be the best choice. he was furious. but there was nothing he could do at that point. the war was going badly, as pointed out, and it was going to go much worse for hitler from that point forward. yes, ma'am? >> i just want to make a comment. we were in paris for a 16-day trip four years ago. and you cannot believe how many times we were stopped and said, thank you for what you did for us during world war ii. i mean a lot of times. especially like i

the following day, de gaulle sent word to eisenhower by de gaulle's senior military commander. what he told eisenhower was information that the french were receiving from paris was that the city was on the verge of anarchy. there was no police presence. transportation had completely stopped. food shortages set the city on the verge of famine. and de gaulle argued that if allies don't move now, they were risking a humanitarian disaster and perhaps the destruction of paris itself. as it happened a number of times early in the war, de gaulle and eisenhower, two extraordinary personalities, were putting that relationship to the test. but events in paris would drive eisenhower's decision-making as much, if not more so, than de gaulle's urgings. the next day, on monday, august 21, that tentative truce that the swedes organized completely fell apart. more radical elements in the resistance forces refused to recognize the truce. the fanatical elements of the german forces, the s.s., agreed and refusing to acknowledge the truce so the battles were on once again. in scenes that remembere

truth is de gaulle had not been elected by anyone. but in the four years from june 1940 when the germans invaded now to the summer of 1944 most had kcome to recognize de gaull as the leader of free france. one significant exception was the franklin roosevelt, the american president who did not like him. roosevelt wasn't alone in that. he continued to remind people degaul was not elected and the united states could not recognize degaul as president without a democratic process. and we can identify with that to a degree. but despite roosevelt's relu reluctance to recognize de gaulle by the spring and summer of 1944 as i said most had accepted de gaulle as their leader including the various resistance factions in france and there were many. there were many. but they had decide today set aside their political difference for the moment to present a united front to against the german occupiers and they collectively became known as the french forces of the interior or the ffi. and they acknowledged de gaulle for the moment as their recognize

in response to charless de gaulle's call to arms on june eigighteenth nineteen forty. all of the island's a hundred and twenty eieight able bododied men. joind to t f free frenench forces. on the nearby mainland troops and civilians refusing to accept defeat we're also looking to join. including jack in the gulf. when he was nineteen he and his seventeen year old brother boarded the island's postal vote the r. as in east. the first french but to arrive in england. soso many volumes yu confirm region on the border no i yeah i k. dcield to avoid the amount of force reading off it there's so little known we have a good. home cooking since only down. he eighteen. initially to call was relatively unknown most volunteers were young and inexperienced thosese who were competent were immediately given high ranking positions. meanwhile in london thehe free french airir forces were welcomd at the french institute or nasty to fall said who's director denis saw immediately rallied behind to call. zero seven four two the denisova. evacuation of honduras is it useful to katie please

figure remember charles de gaulle guy france's gold up before nixon close the gold window britain of course was left holding the fi outback 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 all must make sarasota proceso austria in the sense that she understands the for josee of someone else's paper currency and that's an important point for the russians now fair enough all right now's macleod thanks for being on the kaiser report that's my question our righty and that's going to do it for this edition of kaiser report summer solutions with back to stacey once again i want to thank our guest house macleod from gold money

. ♪ while general de gaulle approaches the arc de triomphe to pay homage from the people of france atictory with the the memory of those who died to gain it shall for all time be preserved in peace. ♪ the capitulation to field marshal montgomery of the remnants of the northern german army and navy is not only a signal of germany's total defeat, it was the signal of liberation for those countries still remaining under german occupation. the british fleet sails into copenhagen harbor. denmark is free after five years, five years of stubborn resistance and heroic acts of sabotage. ♪ a german cruiser falls prize to the british navy. to the danish capital, where a guard of honor awaits him, comes field marshal montgomery, victor and liberator. ♪ [cheering] ♪ at his reception by the people of the city, they demonstrate feelings of deliverance and gratitude. as in every liberated city, the people of copenhagen welcome allied troops. this world the world has seen such scenes of joy in france, and belgium and holland and now it is the turn of the people of denmark. ♪ sheets of music are printe

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

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 surprise me at all when when the thing comes crashing

de gaulle or mr. mcmillan, but mr. the impulsive suggestion that president eisenhower's are could have apologized or sent apologies to mr. khrushchev. [booing] be the problems confronting the next president. far more difficult and critical will be the decisions he must make to defeat the enemies of freedom in an entirely different kind of struggle. you ofto speak to another kind of aggression. war where thehout aggressor comes not as a conqueror, but as a champion of peace, of freedom, offering progress in plenty and hope to the unfortunate of the earth. i say tonight that is a major problem. the biggest problem confronting the next president of the united states be to inform the people of the character of this kind of progression. to arouse the people to the mortal danger it presents and inspire the people to meet that danger. he must develop a grand new strategy which will win the battle for freedom for all men and when it without a war. that is the great act of the next president of the united states. [cheering] thi

what general de gaulle should have done was take all the harkis and their families to safety in france independence was declared in 1962, the french disarmed the harkis and left us defenceless. the fln took advantage of this and began to round us all up. they took me to a barracks, where there were about 50 other harkis prisoners. there was blood everywhere. they stripped me naked and started torturing me with electric shocks. each time a new group of soldiers came on shift, they began again. the same thing every day. the fln even made us dig our own graves. some people were thrown in alive, some were thrown into the river and the jackals did the rest. i was arrested onjuly 8th 1962 and i escaped on september 10th 1962. it took me a long time to feel welcome here in france. i decided to change my name and convert to catholicism. i wanted to make a fresh start. i could say that i was born under a lucky star and that i am lucky. but not all the harkis were so lucky, and that is the fault of france. serge carel, an algerian muslim, who fought on the side of the colonial power france in th

de gaulle, or mr. macmillan, or mr. adenauer, but mr.rash and impulsive suggestion that president eisenhower could have apologized or sent regrets to mr. khrushchev for the u-2 flights, which the president had ordered to save our country from surprise attacks. but formidable as will be the diplomatic and military problems confronting the next president, far more difficult and critical will be the decisions he must make to meet and defeat the enemies of freedom in an entirely different kind of struggle. and now i want to speak to you of another kind of aggression, aggression without war, where the aggressor comes not as a conqueror, but as a champion of peace, of freedom, offering progress, and plenty, and hope to the unfortunate of the earth. and i say tonight that the major problem, the biggest problem, confronting the next president of the united states will be to inform the people of the character of this kind of aggression, to arouse the people to the mortal danger it presents and to inspire the people to meet that danger. and he mus

harry truman was furious with charles de gaulle for the rude treatment during the war and truman told james burns' aide if i want to see de gaulle, i will send for him just as i would the head of any minor power which is a great line. poll understa poland is not invited to the conference either to present their various position. 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 that you see in the back are there to be advisers. they're there to be translators and several of them who left memoirs said 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 that they're starting to think about what they want when push comes to shove in setting the future of europe. the treaty of versailles analogy is not the only thing they talk about. some of the american hard

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

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

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

that's going to be changing by the hour we actually have another reporter coming up here felipe de gaulle he's going to continue to to follow this and continue coverage for you so make sure you head to our app kronon and they'll be here making sure that you are informed. for now peonies here. firefighters are here. i'm gonna stay with them and see how we can get out of here before nelson the back to you in the studio ask you real quick sara we when we chatted earlier with will power son cal fire. he said that because of the terrain that we see behind you. >>that for those portions of the fire they're going to have to hit it from the air. you say if you've heard anything yet or not in terms of any sort of aircraft in the area. >>any so far i've heard just only boots on the ground chainsaws going. water attack from the engines but not a lot from the sky even if they were though james i don't think we'd be able to see them now how thick the smoke is that that may be why they're not running right now the visibility might just be too poor about or remember the chief said that this resource is

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