greece went through a lot, a very painful period. we will never, ever relive these difficult times, but we have proven you can drive high-growth, reasonably reduce taxes while maintaining healthy public finances and i do expect our debt to continue to decline significantly. and this will give us the physical space to make sure that we ensure markets that we are serious in repaying our debt ahead of time. francine: how difficult is it to do this with a cost-of-living crisis? pm mitsotakis: the cost-of-living crisis is very concerning to us and it has hit the poorer segments of society disproportionately hard. two points, first of all we have lower inflation, more than most european countries. i think we were successful in using targeted measures to help those in greater need we resisted the temptation to lower taxes and i'm happy to see that studies are coming out that point out the fact that lowering vat does not lead to a reduction in inflation. this gave us fiscal space to use targeted measures. we will most probably continue these

mitsotakis: greece went through a lot. a very painful period. we will never, ever relive these times. francine: kyriakos mitsotakis, the greek prime minister. many have credited him for the transformation of the economy, from the basket case of europe to one of europe's top economic performers. in this episode of "leaders with lacqua," kyriakos mitsotakis sets out plans and objectives for the next four years. he tells me how he wants to restore greece's investment grade status, lower inequality, and continue the fight against populism. mr. mitsotakis: we prevailed through politics of competence and reason. we moved the party towards the political center. there is a future beyond populism and we have proven that if you run a competent government, you can make it possible to get reelected. francine: he also speaks candidly about his push to legalize same-sex marriage and balance booming tourism with the need to protect his country's natural beauty. mr. mitsotakis: there are parts of greece that have reached saturation point. if we have to place re

of greece against the interests. is self-destructive. we are waiting for the emergence of a political class that will not represent the interests of this or brussels, many thanks to you and all the best. listen, firstly, greece is always traditionally this country, in which russians love this woven culture, a lot of russians of ancient greece are just a kindergarten, they probably bring up too much, but besides that. we know that a few years ago, greece entered into an agreement with russia here, just on the topic of an emergency situation of dealing with them, because no one in the world has such experience as we have them, so i don’t know how they will continue with this policy, because this year. he just showed what prospects for further destruction could be in europe , not only in greece . and this is what the ukrainian propagandists, as always, say, it turns out, allegedly in melitopol schools, they are looking for the complete absence of schoolchildren by the announcement, and schools are switching to a forbidd

francine: what is your biggest dream for greece?ecome a protagonist, a global protagonist in those areas where we can be a protagonist. and to be able to catch up in those areas where we are still laggards. and to address what i would consider to be the three big challenges, which is the environment, the digital challenge, the opportunities and the threats of ai, but for me, the most important challenge is income inequality. at the end of the day, i want to look at the growth that we delivered and i would be happy if i see less inequality rather than more. it's always a risk in rapidly growing economies, that you have more inequality. we have been able to lower inequality over the past four years because we have actively supported those in need. at the end of the day, it's about giving opportunity to those who are less privileged. this is what really excites me and makes me work harder when i feel tired. francine: do you think that is why people voted for you or is it because they did not have a real alternative? >> i think maybe in

so greece is always breaking you records. ready uh, there's a lot of discussion about whether this is the effects of climate change. a lot of people assuming in that light, certainly this is the harvest july on records here in greece. and there is a lot of the law i'm about when the country has the resources necessary to deal with all the fires, the other fires also in the mediterranean region that may not be resources, despair to come to greece as a so um, even today we're a new car broke out on the outskirts of athens on mount funding, so there was somebody repulsive houses running on the outskirts of the city. so as you can imagine, there is um, a state of grace law across the country. now. all right, jump start off with less reporting from athens. thank you very much. the head of the port type part, the set. that's how we seen the will become plans. new prime minister, earlier on tuesday for her appointment is a text and shinall wad returned home and was immediately sentenced to serve 8 years in prison. tony cheng reports

it’s they both up and then you have greece and turkey.— greece and turkey.urkey. it's hot, basically. when you look . greece and turkey. it's hot, basically. when you look at | greece and turkey. it's hot, i basically. when you look at the economic backdrop, this particular sector has been really important in terms of stopping the uk slipping into recession, that outbound travel sector. , , , ., sector. very turbulent number of ears. sector. very turbulent number of years it's _ sector. very turbulent number of years. it's really _ sector. very turbulent number of years. it's really bouncing - sector. very turbulent number of years. it's really bouncing back. | years. it's really bouncing back. it's there to service customers and make sure they can get this at the price they want. it's quite complex now, but i think for a lot of people, finance has come into it. it's seen as a part of their annual planning. if they can afford it, they want to use that to get away, get in the sunshine and focus on their well—being. irate get in the sunshine and focus on their

but that's what happened in greece involved in greece when they melted down. the are the sections, in other words, when a on some of the people in the journal monega enrolled, where the coins was actually struck down from, from the decline. they're really to fight the unique work and are they uh, they ended up offering a lot of wow, which wrong decided to go to the wealthy families instead of the, the buyers and had been in the past because uh, almost almost the theater by hannibal and then son around $200.00 the seats. uh and uh they asked the rich people to, uh, you know, fight to preserve their freedom by giving their jewelry and everything. and the rich people are they the jewelry and the gold of them. the why was over one of the variables that we said, you know, really again, it's the end of the roman center where we spent a hold of my fighting on the war to say home. we don't have that. i only have to do land, but we just conquered from the cartridge and replace the city subordinate that will give you all the land are pointing the great the british histo

spain, turkiye and greece. we, ourselves. _ spain, turkiye and greece. and greece. we, ourselves, have seen _ spain, turkiye and greece. we, ourselves, have seen a - spain, turkiye and greece. , ourselves, have seen a 25% increase in last minute bookings, and that's from pre—pandemic levels. so i think it's a combination of things — the weather obviously quite a big one, because i think we've seen a big increase since we've been forecasted that we're not really getting a summer. just around the — really getting a summer. just around the corner— really getting a summer. just around the corner at this hairdresser, the weather, or how to escape it, is a hot topic. how to escape it, is a hot toic. ~ �* , ., how to escape it, is a hot toic. . �* , ., ., topic. we're 'ust going to bobbin . topic. we're 'ust going to bobbing a _ topic. we're just going to bobbing a last _ topic. we're just going to bobbing a last minute - topic. we're just going to - bobbing a last minute holiday. because i don't want to book time off for me and my tasmaniaily and it be raining

also coming up ukraine gets more backing from greece, but not to me as an excuse phase evidence as of fit to train ukrainian pilots to fly the f. 165 digits promise, pump them off, and the netherlands add us president joe biden views the ultimate of debbie while fi is on hawaii and on says criticism that his government was too slow to respond. the hello, i'm christine window. welcome to the program. thailand's, a former prime minister tax and shinall watch has been jailed on corruption related charges after returning from self imposed exile. he'd spend 15 years moving abroad tax and flew into bank call, where he was greeted by crowds of cheering. suppose it is. he was late to take into the supreme court which imposed a sentence of 8 years, standing from the corruption a conviction, excuse me, handed down while he was in exile, texts, and has rejected the charges as politically motivated types. and is one of thailand's most controversial and influential political figures. he won 2 elections as prime minister and was defeated an approved and flip thailand in 2008. i want to bring it out

wildfires kill at least 18 people in greece. officials say they're likely migrants crossing from turkey. the first of donald trump's co—defendants surrender themselves to authorities in georgia. and seven students and teachers are recused from a dangling cable car in pakistan. we begin in greece, where 18 bodies have been found in a nationalforest where wildfires have been raging for days. they were found in the evros region of north—east greece, outside the village of avantas. initial reports suggest the victims are migrants, and an investigation is under way. our senior international correspondent orla guerin is on the border between turkey and greece with more. the bodies were discovered in a forested area in the greek region of evros. a local coroner has said all 18 were male and two were younger, possibly minors. autopsies will be held in a few hours�* time, before that, dna samples will be taken to begin the process of identifying the dead. bbc news has spoken to one man, a syrian, who was worried that his cousin was among

in greece.several otherfires in greece. high winds and temperatures are making the situation much more dangerous. orla guerin reports. it is an inferno and it's leaving little in its wake. firemen have been battling the flames night and day, but the wildfires are spreading. they've come bearing down on avantas, a village where local people are counting their losses. translation: it has reached the entire village, _ our own house up there, where the fire started, has completely burned down. there is nothing. fire, only fire, that's what we could see. the wind was so strong. high winds and soaring temperatures have created a perfect storm, and beneath the smoke, a terrible discovery in the forest — charred bodies of those who may have been seeking a better life. so far, they are unnamed, their stories unknown. translation: in the wildfire of alexandroupolis, - in an on—site inspection by the fire department in the wider area of avantas, 18 bodies were found near a shack. the authorities believe th

uh, the apple area, north of greece. uh was that was taken over and just uh, devastated and reduced, uh, uh, just uh, to rubble by the middle of the 2nd century. and then uh, they were re, farmers in rome, the garage brothers and uh, help in the uh, the army, the citizens, a room full sites for the army. and yet they have no land of their own. they have to sleep outside. uh how long can you expect them to happen? so they only go to skilled them and they were just. busy decade after decade of mass murder and civil war. and finally the, the oligarchs one. and when they killed julia caesar and ended up an empire. and that led to feudalism in the dark age basically. and yet these voices remaining all all through it. i mean, there was a kind of debt cancellation for the rich after the 20 wait crisis. i give lee, i think people were eating something gold top. some people said trouble access. it hasn't relief. program funds. but using really the ukraine. there are parallels now with the u. s. and ukraine in the united states ha

and he's been in greece. and not in athens, in $506.00 of the city and uh, push democracy in and out of the audit or is it brand? so best number democracy began in the 7th and 6th century. and the tyrant that we use in the english language. what, what tire it means is democracy. that's where the democracy comes from. you might have to explain that i've cleverly, it leads have changed the definition so that we don't understand the democracy in these uh can with these constraints. actually comes from tyrants as well in the 7th and search century and the leading great series. you had some mafioso, the states of a few families control the land and the minor ma'am. oh, members of the family deductible. and they don't do that now just have a few families wanting everything, impoverishing anyone. so they, they, over through the, uh, the, uh, the real tyrant. yeah. they only got a letter and uh, they said, well, we need to, uh, have us citizens white names and for the supports we need to give them citizenship . right

he's been in greece and not in athens, in 506. that being said, he found the push democracy in and out of the uh they originally the brand. so best number democracy began in the 7th and 6th century. and the tyrant that we use in the english language. what the word tyra means is democracy. that's where a democracy comes from. you might have to explain that i've cleverly, it leads have changed the definition so that we don't understand the democracy in these uh can with these constraints. actually comes from tyrants as well in the setup and search century and the leading great series. you had some mafioso state so bought a few families control the land and the minor ma'am. oh members of the family deductible and they don't do that now the of. ready families wanting everything impoverishing anyone. so they, they over through the, uh, the, uh, the real tyrant. yeah. they only got a letter and uh, they said, well, we need to have us citizens, lightning and some for the some parks we need to give them citizenship. right. and they need t

air pollution in greece's neighboring countries in addition to forest fires in greece. hosseini by your side dear sir, thank you. hello, madam. i went today to be used by you. have a good weekend. until tomorrow, another reporter will say goodbye to you along with mr. eshgh . god bless you. buy one place from ivan's hyper goods. enjoy shopping at ivan's hyper goods from among the most reliable manufacturers of machine carpets and household appliances, furniture, sleeping goods, chandeliers and phones, along with children's play areas and restaurants. hyper goods for the house . let's go from one place . 70% discount, the best package. buy ready-made goods from digi let me also work with agrin 's electric meat grinder to quickly prepare food and all kinds of diet pots quickly and without any impact. it prepares diet and food for you. how can we cook all kinds of old coconut purees very quickly and easily with an electric meat grinder ? send the number 6 to 2054 and the aquarium electric meat grinder with free delivery to your home. electric iphone , fast and professional

you know, tourism in greece is, i think, about 18% of their economy. it's very, very significant.ountry that opened fastest after the pandemic, or during the period of the pandemic, because of the importance of tourism to their economy. what we've seen in the past is that they do tend to recover pretty quickly, again, because of the importance to their economy. and, willie, it's notjust europe that's seeing aviation disrupted because of extreme weather. in the us, the faa, the federal aviation authority, recently said that wildfires are causing more delays than rain orfog. in the us, we have seen significant disruption as well. i think the problem in the us is compounded by a shortage of air traffic controllers. so it's notjust one issue, it's the combination of a couple of issues that are having a major impact on operations there. but, you know, without question, this year, we're experiencing, if you like, a different level of disruption and different causes of disruption than maybe last year. and, willie, just to put this all into context, i mean, all of this comes at a time whe

regime in greece. and you can read the newspaper articles and editorials and december of 44 and basically greece and poland or britain and the soviet union are talked about in the same way. so this is a problem, obviously, that's brewing among the allies, especially among the big so-called big three. fdr, stalin and churchill, rosa velt gives his inaugural address, his fourth inaugural in in january. of 1945, the shortest inaugural speech of his presidency. again, he's in he's in really declining health at this point. but he makes a fateful decision to attend a conference of the big three despite, again, his poor health because of his concerns about keeping the alliance together. and we're going to go to portion of the exhibit where we focus very closely on what happens next. so we moved a different part of the exhibition to pick up the story where we left off. we were talking about fdr, his election, and then his inaugural in january of 1945, and then he makes a decision to take a very long journey to

they were found in the evros region of north—east greece, outside the village of avantas.

i can tell by reading the latest american just that greece in this sense, but it turns out, i remain,kely. e first on this e list, and we have e with respect to nato, uh, nato policy rejection fifty-five percent. this is not enough. this is absolutely a lot, and thank god that, despite all the pressure of propaganda. eh, we ended up like. mind dissatisfaction in many shows of nato countries in spain, vitality in france and it is very surprising, of course, that the united states itself is 35 firmly, but percent, and they believe that nato is pursuing a policy incorrectly and most likely from it could have been refused, and in this sense , this is another proof that we say about hmm well, in many programs of this kind, that, but ours practically does not ask, but politics is the most important policy that is pursued in our states. uh, that is, here i clearly disagree, the people of the people, here with the policy that is being pursued in our government. and in this sense. i think we can only join. here's to that line, which is to say that it is necessary to prevent a big war. gotta tr

has a significant number of tanks, about a thousand tanks, now this project provides that greece willnsfer to ukraine 100 tanks 1a5, but combat tanks that can really be used immediately on the battlefield. we have trained calculations that already know these tanks, and in a month germany e-e will transfer e-e or modernize another 100 e-e greek e-e tanks one e-e but pa- one a5 to a better version by replacing there, in particular , for example, thermal imagers and these works can be carried out on the territory of greece or at any company in greece and what greek the management will determine the most optimal way of heart, such a cunning scheme is connected with the fact that transfers from other countries , in particular, switzerland, there are tanks to ukraine , now this operation looks quite logical . the question is that in germany there, my greece , managed to reach agreement in this this will really strengthen our m-m capabilities in the bratakov shield, although i repeat the tanks on desk 1a5, they are good from the point of view of the chassis, good from the point of view of in

they were found in the evros region of north—east greece, outside the village of avantas.n investigation is under way. 0ur senior international correspondent 0rla guerin

wildfires kill at least 18 people in greece. officials say they're likely migrants crossing from turkey. a legal shadow hangs over a political showdown. donald trump, the republican presidential debate , and the elephant not in the room. and, building a case for the brics alliance. leaders of brazil, russia, india, china and south africa try to present a united front injohannesburg. we begin in greece where 18 bodies have been found in a national forest where wildfires have been raging for days. they were found in the evros region of northeast greece, outside the village of avantas. initial reports suggest the victims are migrants and an investigation is under way. our senior international correspondent orla guerin is on the border between turkey and greece with more. what is rediscovered in a forest area across the border in the greek region of evros illegal coronets at all 18 were male and two were younger, possibly miners. autopsies will be held in a few hours time for the before that, dna samples will be taken to try and beg

to us that's why we listen to their stories. reporter every weekend on dw, the on may 20 is 2023. greece is culture ministry announced the rest of the tuition of a trove of looted arts. a total of $351.00 objects were to be returned to the country. they had previously belonged to the disgraced former art dealer. robin simes, the among them is a bronze sculpture depicting the ancient macedonian ruler, alexander the great, the peace is sou spectacular. did it seem destined to go on display at the acropolis? but there was a problem archaeologist think it's a fake, the archaeologist stuff on lima, and has spent the last 20 years researching fake antiquities. we 1st met him in 2015 when he was still working at the university of honda in germany. here he was just finalizing a catalog listing. suspicious, bronze is for publication. the artworks had come from auction houses, galleries, and art dealer's. as many had been laundered onto the market by robin symes, the our dealer authorities also sees the alexander bust from lima and believes the bronzes are forgeries, the works of an expert forger

after all, greece is culture minister has a doctorate in archaeology, herself. it's now up to greek authorities to make the next move and disclose to the world the providence, the alexander bronze, the, the, the slicing for the traditions and language the have. the indigenous people live on the cruiser volumes of kansas pacific coast. often centuries of oppression that finding their way back to the root of that culture. the have the people in the 15 d, w, w dot, the silver, the from the key. those are still good point. it's almost sort of i ordered for a $120000.00 group if he couldn't believe it's still bombing was the solution off to the collapse of cotton production which hit the village of re we hold the way now self sufficient and not dependent on others for money because india 90 minutes on d w. the . this would be the news slide from berlin. ukraine gets more back in from greece, president. the last he says, athens may help to train of 165 pilots. with photos, pledges from denmark on the netherlands to deliver dozens of war plains, pulse on the program. u

well as during the suppression of liberation movements in the balkans in hungary, czechoslovakia and greece , the mountain infantry division was formed from climbers with combat experience, the symbol of the connection was the edelweiss flower on a green background, which gave an unofficial name to the unit of mountain shooters, special hopes were placed. during the attempts of the nazis to cross the main caucasian guys and break through in transcaucasia, a short summary of historians participated in the capture of poland, france and other european countries, when the nazis set off in the ussr, they walked through the territory of ukraine, leaving a bloody trail. they were single. destruction of jews civilians children. women, old people, there was no mercy for anyone. on september 26, 1943, units of the edelweiss division took part in the killings of italian soldiers and officers after italy left the war. this incident was called the kefalonia massacre, then about 5,000 italian soldiers were killed and this is considered in one of the largest mass executions of prisoners of war and one of

. ~ ., , , ., , greece.96 increase in _ greece. we ourselves have seen a 2596 increase in last-minute i a 25% increase in last—minute bookings, and that's from pre—pandemic levels. so i think it's a combination of things — the weather obviously is quite a big one, because i think we've seen a big increase since we've seen a big increase since we've been forecasted, we aren't really getting a summer. just round the corner at this hairdresser, the weather, or how to escape it, is a hot topic. how to escape it, is a hot toic. ~ , how to escape it, is a hot toic.. , how to escape it, is a hot toic.~ , ., topic. we just booked a last-minute _ topic. we just booked a last-minute holiday - topic. we just booked a - last-minute holiday because i last—minute holiday because i don't — last—minute holiday because i don't want to book time off for him, _ don't want to book time off for him. me — don't want to book time off for him, me and my family into be raining— him, me and my family into be raining all— him, me and

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greece, and there was a riot in athens and that match was canceled for all matches in greece, security measures were increased , and this match did not end well, nothing bad relatively suffered, although there was such an unpleasant sediment, er, aris fans stood out, posted some strange slogans of proazov well , i think it is still necessary to get our boys, our footballers, and they should show in bucharest on thursday that well, they play for these boys also bucharest in general that's all still chose mircea lucescu, who, in my opinion, did not work to the maximum last season in kyiv dynamo and, after all, in order to have the support of the fans, because lucescu constantly talks about the fact that there are not enough supporters of kyiv dynamo it is our ukrainian fans, no matter where they play, no matter in which european stadiums they play, what is happening in ukraine is not enough. in fact, what kind of support was there in ukraine when dynamo played at the olympic eurocup ? and bucharest is precisely the city that mircea luchevska chose, he himself is romanian, and he hopes, h

, edelweiss, severe genocide in the small greek village of commene at that time greece was in the zonethe italians, 43 hitler decided to strengthen the flank and transferred there, the same edelweiss was annoyed by the partisans and frets behind less than a month, the nazis burned the villages of tkaliveisi ointment, aidona, chore, fireplace, the executioners came in the early morning when the locals. everything is peaceful, they slept after the celebration of the day of the virgin and the wedding to the villager at dawn, the punishers will open fire on residential buildings and from mortars and machine guns massacre in a small village will turn into a mountain of corpses 317 inhabitants will die, including 97 babies and children under 15 years old and 119 women killed in the most brutal way by the german mountain division. edelweiss is cruel. she dealt with the inhabitants of the greek village of komen, suspected of collaborating with the partisans, it is very difficult to describe what the bearers of european civilization did. let's say they ripped open pregnant women by placing raft

and dinamo zagreb, and there were riots in athens and they canceled that match for all matches in greececurity measures and this match is good, nothing bad. ended relatively suffered, although there was such an unpleasant sediment , er, aris fans stood out, posted some strange slogans of proazov. well, i think it is still necessary to get our boys, our football players, and they should show in bucharest in thursday that well they play for these guys also bucharest in general it was still chosen by mircea lucescu who well, in my opinion , the last season in kyiv dynamo is not working at its best and after all in order to have the support of the fans because lucescu constantly says that he does not there are enough supporters of dynamo kyiv, exactly our ukrainian fans, no matter where they play, no matter in which european stadiums they play , there is not enough of what happened in ukraine , in fact, what kind of support was there in ukraine when dynamo played at the olympic european cup dynamo isn't like that, it's not a stadium like that for a long time. we haven't seen it anywhere. and