this is in the second city of lithuania encounters goals and women literally compete as to who has the longest had last years when i had one hundred sixty six centimeters the record is two hundred forty five centimeters which is tell of the may and then some this hour and it's amazing amount of head anyway birthday to lithuania presumably years upon a lot more on our website absolutely d.w. dot com slash culture robin merrill from our culture that thanks so much. sticking with culture of dining room by the celebrated artist victoria boss already has been a fixture of germany's but most bank headquarters and pray for almost fifty years now the entire room is moving piece by piece through one of the city's art galleries to take center stage in an exhibition of. this dining room is in the process of being dismantled plates and cutlery have already gone now come the way the decor and the furniture. designed the room in warm colors yellow and tones and wall paneling made of aluminum and a carpet fleece the entire room the entire vasa really work of art is moving to the museum in frankfurt.

why is that well because the yabu has been a lithuania around for a lot longer actually almost eight hundred years in fact in the fourteenth century i discovered it was said to be the biggest country in europe to have bits about a roost bits of russia bits of ukraine and poland as well then in the nineteenth century was followed by the russian empire then in one thousand nine hundred eighteen and this is the date we're talking about the end of the first world war the acts of independence laid the foundations for the. democratic country we know is live when you today meanwhile of course it wasn't plain sailing off of that i mean polish troops were in lithuania shortly after that german troops in the second well will follow by the russians and then of course they were under the soviet union under the hammer and sickle of the soviet union till the lauzon all scame along and then today it is a very free and lovely country as we're about to see. one hundred years have passed since lithuania declared independence from russia the first time and laid the foundation of today's lithuanian repu

harvey was months old when they left lithuania. he could not bring the family to america until harvey's father had enough money to bring them.ri but bill had a very hard time and we can imagine why very easily. he left the family when bill was six months old now suddenly they come here he is a tall american stranger who takes over his mother's love and that was difficult. then another child was born. and he was called babe his whole life but that also hurt to bill because he was kicked out of that role. but then bill's mother died and then married again. that was a a very difficult. he had a contentious relationship with his father and out the risk of being that you have that contentious relationship with a parent sometimes that carries over into the parenting you have that relationship with harvey and did not have a good relationship with robert i don't think robert took him very seriously. and when he ran for office he admitted he thought that is harvey being harvey again but remembering that image of that eight or 9-year-old kid

to street smarts from lithuania. but we begin in lebanon where the civil war in syria has led to over a million refugees seeking safety now lebanese authorities are requiring they register their names part of plans for their return many are. it was not a voyage of cut the ever imagined undertaking but the mother of eight and grandmother of three children was forced to flee her syrian home and to take refuge in the town of ourselves just across the border in lebanon. although it happened five years ago the memories are still fresh this is my son her husband and eldest son were killed in the syrian war. and the beginning of the uprising protests were not violent and they were peaceful but my husband was killed because he took part in the my son was with the regime army doing his compulsory service and the syrian intelligence service killed him because he does or. who fears the assad regime but the pressure from lebanon to leave is building some three thousand syrians have already registered to return and that i can nev

harvey's father was born in lithuania. when his grandfather left he came to america by himself as was often the case, the man of the family got someone to sponsor him, he came alone and he made enough money to bring the rest of his father with him. his father was six months old when they left lithuania. he couldn't bring the family to america until harvey's father was six years old. it took about five and half years before he had enough money to bring them. i think william, bill as he liked to be called at a very hard time, and we can imagine why very easily. he left the family when bill was six months old and here's this tall american stranger who takes over his mother's love, that in itself was difficult and then another child was born, the six child and he was called babe and he was called babe his whole life but that must have really hurt william, bill, because he was kicked out of that role as babe and then built mother died, harvey's grandmother died and now she married again and that was very difficult for bill. he

farmers are expecting the worst harvest in a quarter of a century the governments of latvia and lithuania have both declared a state of emergency. in poland and the czech republic are watching their crops wilt and expect the damage to be long term experts say climate change is at least partly responsible and expect further problems around the globe. or climate models are seeing the negative impact of climate change. there will be much more. regions of. europe and that means the biggest. movie where people already were of. africa has been hit by an unusually severe drought this year. cape town became the first metropolis to strictly. farmers in australia run out of water for their cattle. drought there has even driven while the news into the city searching for something to drink. and in north america drought has helped spread catastrophic wildfires along the western seaboard. from california to the canadian province of british columbia millions of the forest to burn down the smoke also creating a major health hazard. pay museums. and. people put big dreams on the big screen. in the movie m

street smarts from lithuania. but we begin in lebanon where the civil war in syria has led to over a million refugees seeking safety now lebanese authorities are requiring they register their names part of plans for their return many are alarmed. it was not a voyage could they have ever imagined undertaking but the mother of eight and grandmother of three children was forced to flee her syrian home and flee talks to take refuge in the town of ourselves just across the border in lebanon. although it happened five years ago when memories austin fresh this is my son so that her husband and his song were killed in the syrian war. at the beginning of the uprising protests were not violent they were peaceful but my husband was killed because he took part in the my son was with the regime army doing his compulsory service the syrian intelligence service killed him because he deserved. huda fears the assad regime but the pressure from lebanon to leave is building some three thousand syrians have already registered to retu

scandinavian farmers are expecting the worst harvest in a quarter of a century the governments of lithuania have both declared a state of emergency farmers in poland and the czech republic watching their crops wilt and expect the damage to be long term experts say climate change is at least partly responsible for the drought and expect further problems around the globe or climate models are seeing that the negative impacts of climate change are all made revolts or will be much more severe regions of africa and europe and that means the biggest. negative movie where people are already poor and that's something we need to take very seriously. africa for one has been hit by an unusual a severe drought this year cape town became the first metropolis to strictly ration water. for. farmers in australia ran out of water for their cattle drought there has even driven wild emo's into the cities searching for water . in north america droughts has sparked catastrophic wildfires along the western seaboard from california to the canadian province of british columbia millions of hectares of forest burned

celtic were held to 1—all draw in the first leg of their europa league play—off against sudova in lithuaniathe last qualifiying round, took the lead through their french midfielder 0livier ntcham after only three minutes. but less than ten minutes later the lithuanian side were level. 0vidijus verbickas with the equaliser. it means the tie is level ahead of next week's second leg, but celtic will be favourites to qualify for the group stage, which home advantage for the return match, and and away goal in the bag. elswhere, konsta ntinos fortounis scored twice as 0lympiakos beat burnley 3—1, steven gerrard maintained his unbeaten record as rangers manager as they beat ufa 1—0 in glasgow, and pablo sarabia scored the only goal of the game as five—time winners sevilla won at czech side sigma 0lumoots. that means they roughly have one foot into the group stage. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport. but from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. well, some noticeable changes to the weather to end the week. it's going to feel a lot cooler and fr

>> because getting public support for the board for in palestin lithuaniae but he is big in thea u.s.uring the war. do taking out the beautiful newspaper ads. i don't get fully into what into the book except the white paper web how many jews could enterl s palestine is inundated by thehe british. that supposedly limited how many people could come to limit the number of jews. those that convince the british government not to tell anybodyln but to get them to land in turkey and into palestine. and with the middle eastern politics topoli reverberate with those messy origins act then. and trying to negotiate out to palestine during the war. 8,000? >> congratulations. m maybe this is more technical that you touched earlier this ir the outgrowth of your dissertation. could you speak from the gener academic dissertation to a wider audience?? >> my advisors here know that i put my dissertation thinkingg ts this is it. this is the most interesting thing. and nobody will read it. there were parts that bored me of the dissertation nobody had written it before i thought i would just put it all th

been the ones the most critical of russia namely the three baltic countries dystonia latvia and lithuania what really is an issue with north rim too is ukraine namely that the ukraine is standing to lose annually year three billion dollars worth of transit fees. that's that's the point so i mean you creative also said that it undermines the efforts for russia to return crimea and that's another topic as well i mean they're also going to be talking about ukraine and you know the fact that crimea has been onyx almost four years ago what's the point of even discussing that at this point well i don't think that putin will spend a minute discussing crimea he made it clear again at the helsinki summit that crimea this is for him a settled issue what is going to be talked about is of course used in ukraine and there is a need for that too good to be done so. very much for joining us here in studio if it welcome. that's it for now you are watching d.w. news coming to you live from berlin and we will have more news again at the top of the hour and don't forget you can get all the news and informat

a poor goal to draw 1—1 draw in the first leg of their europa league play—off against suduva in lithuaniates old when olivier ntcham nodded them in front against the lithuanian champions, but their frailties at the back were exposed ten minutes later. still lots of work to do in the second leg. rivals rangers were 1—0 winners over ufa. i feel for supporters to me. ifeel for supporters to me. they have come all the way out here about 200 of them all the way out probably trains, buses the whole thing. and it's a disappointing performance from them. they see a goal, but we had to be much better than that. elsewhere, burnley will need a big comeback in their second leg. after they were beaten 3—1 by olympiakos in athens. after going a goal down, chris wood did level things up with that first half penalty. andreas bouk—a—lakis put the hosts ahead after the break and things went from bad to worse for burnley when ben gibson was sent off on a second yellow for handball and olympiakos got their third goal of the night from the resulting penalty. it's not been the return to english rugby that chri

for much of the summer of 1944, focused on a hazardous than to rescue refugees from lott yet, lithuaniaand estonia by water. the most skillfully organized type of underground operations because the baltic countries are now virtually feel to everything. he thought they might be able to rescue five to 700 racial political refugees from each country. they were paid for this project directly out of funds from roosevelt. but they realize that such a large deposit would be suspicious and they want to avoid any impression upon funding arrivals. even the swedish jews wrote their very interested in rescue operations along the way don't involve sweden. task of keeping money out of the hands of the enemy pass the swedish people and at his urging, the staff a goodyear tire in their headquarters in akron, ohio if they transferred $50,000 to their factory, their subsidiary in sweden would give olson the similar amount in swedish kroner. so there are no references to the tire deal in any of the papers. it is clear that they had scrubbed that out. henry morgenthau got a folder of all of their work. so

brendan rodgers was critical of his players following that h with suduva in lithuania last week.t with the board here over transfer targets. celtic have missed out already on champions league qualifying, so he knows the importance of making it through to the rugby league group stages. it's a competition we can use our experience of over the last couple of years to do well in. i'm disappointed we went out of its last year, especially after playing so well at home. not so well away, but like i say, it provides an opportunity to play against good teams but also to show we are developing. rangers are ready through to tomorrow's draw, a 1—1 scoreline with urie in russia earlier was enough, 2—1 on aggregate by steven gerrard's side. they played a portion of that game with only nine men. burnley host 0lympiacos tonight, and richard is a turf moor. bali have it all to do tonight, 0lympiacos a club more used to the champions league than the europa league. they hold that 3—1 advantage from the first leg. but that goal burnley scored in athens could be crucial, they will believe they can ge

celtic are in lithuania — they are took he lead against suduva but it's currently 1—1 at half time.are at home, hosting fc ufa from russia. it's been the best possible start for steven gerrard as rangers manager — unbeaten in nine matches so far this season. they're nowjust two legs away from a place in the group stages. gerrard says he's looking for "aggression and intensity". our reporter andy burke is at ibrox. it isa it is a big night for rangers as they look to negotiate the final round of your rope elite qualifying. they said 11 in the russian premier league and rangers will be confident of progression having seen of dangerous opponents in previous rounds. rangers will be without jamie murphy, suffering a season—ending injury against kilmarnock. but steven gerrard will be able to call upon kyle lafferty, his signing from hearts came through yesterday. it rangers can deliver a win and a clean sheet, steven gerrard will be confident of progression as they have kept the sheets on the road in the last three rounds of qualifying. if they go through it will add to the sense of momen

perspective he places him on a sheet of glass and photographs him from underneath the photographer from lithuania has made quite a name for himself online but there's an entertaining shots. produced a whole series of these photos calling it underdogs. animals more interesting to. the people because they are funny they are friendly. always wanted to be your friend. their look you know i just love to. learn how to make them feel at ease he plays with them. gives them treats or showers them with attention so they relax. his favorite model is his own pet rabbit. the weight of the animal presses his flat so that he looks much more fluffy and copy in the photo but putting out a glass doesn't just change their appearance. on the ground. and on the glass. changing some motion changing is. this a centrist thing for me to capture something different. has photographed more than one hundred cats from underneath they were his first models. and he moved on to dogs he often goes to shows in search of animals who are not camera shy. he normally chooses black for the background. he's also produced animal photos p

my last trip i took with john mccain was to lithuania and lativa, esto nirch a, and -- estonia and georgia, and the president-elect had been talking negatively about nato and he thought it was important to show the world that there were people in the senate, leaders in the senate that stood by those baltic nations that declared their independence and that's why we went on that trip. and somehow we found ourselves on new year's eve in a blizzard in the middle of the night on live ukrainian steve with the president of ukraine where the president there wanted to show support for democracy and their quest to stay independent despite the foreign invasion by the -- russia. so, as we stood there, the president gave senator mccain a machine gun, a ukrainian-made machine gun. they are proud of their armaments there. mccain was holding it and then he gave it to senator graham and gave him a pistol, and i was standing there, and mccain says, i wonder what you are getting. it's a flat box and i opened the box and it had two daggers. and senator mccain said i was deserving of a pistol and arranged to h

perspective he places him on a sheet of glass and photographs on twenty three the photographer from lithuania has made quite a name for himself online with his entertaining shots. produced a whole series of these photos calling it underdogs. animals more interesting to watch. the people because they are funny they are friendly. always wanted to be your friend. their look you know i just love to. learn how to make them feel at ease he plays with them and gives them treats or showers them with attention. his favorite model is his own pet rabbit. the weight of the animal presses his fur flap so that he looks much more fluffy and cuddly in the photo putting out a ml's on glass doesn't just change their appearance. on the ground. and on the glass. changing has some motion changing movement this is interesting for me to capture something different. has photographed more than a hundred cats from underneath they were his first models. and he moved on to dogs he often goes to shows in search of animals who are not camera shy. he normally chooses black for the background. he's also produced animal phot

the governments of latvia, lithuania, have declared a state of emergency.rmers in poland and czech republic are watching crops wilt and expect damage to be long term. experts say climate change is partly responsible for the droughght and expect further problems around the globe. >> all our climate models are saying the negative impact of climate change on agriculture will be much more severe i in tropicical regions of south asia and africa than in eururope and that means the biggest negative impact will be where people are already poor and that's something we need to take seriously. reporter: africa, for one, has been hit by an unusually severe drought this year. capetown became the first metropolis to strictly ration water. farmers in australia ranan out f water for their c cattle. drdrought there has even drivevn wild emus into the cities searching for water. in north ameririca, drought has sparked catastrophic wildfires along the westetern seaboboard,m cacalifornia to the canadian province of british columbia, millions of hectacres of forest burned down,

special house in another episode of a serious living outside the box and for that we're headed to lithuania to the countess region west of the country's capital then yes we went to the small town of tool i met up with house owners who have a great boost and in fact they've built a home which entire structure has been designed to optimize the acoustics off the music they've built their home in the wood so you know they can play blues music as loudly as they want that's why the couple advised visitors to bring along if plucks when they come along we did just that so have a listen. its natural surroundings remain untouched a modern home nestled in a little indian pine forest. that was built as a tribute to the blues. hello i am either as my wife and do their best to meet you in their will come to my blues columns. i just come and ask as an architect has lived here with his family since two thousand and fourteen the woods aren't far away from the city of quantised but far enough to blast the blues as loud as they want any time they want it's a house full of passion. goes a wrong month for the b

is directly responsible for what happened to the shiri one of the people who was also tortured in lithuania when she was there onsite as he was water boarded in thailand so the fact that she was able to dance away from that charge during the senate hearing was really unconscionable the judges according to some news the that she. picks a cue sions and rectal feeding of abbott all right. well you know it was really gruesome you mention the senate investigation report four years in the making and released just before the current chair richard burr took the chair of the senate intelligence committee now the first thing he did was recall the copies of that senate for your report what does that tell you all right he was involved he was in the house and the senate intelligence committees when all this was going on there joy. and at the hip the overseers are not overseers they're over lookers and what they do is kind of take care of people like gina hasbro and instead of requiring her to answer the questions they let her go to executive session boss in fairness to gina how many people in the mainst

serbia and scottish champions celtic, who failed to qualify for the champions league, travel to lithuaniaeed, in principal, to become coach of ligue one side bordeaux. reports in france say some of the finer details need to be ironed out but the arsenal legends deal is close to completion. the 1998 world cup winner had been assistant coach for the belgium national team, but will replace the former uruguay international gus poyet, who was had been suspended last week for his comments on the club's transfer dealings. 17 balls. that's all it took for india to wrap up their massive win over england in the third test in nottingham. james anderson looped ravichandran ashwin to slip as england were 317 all out, giving india victory by 203 runs — only their seventh success in a test in england. india are back in the mix, and now trail the series 2—1 with two matches remaining. in the four years i have been doing thisjob, i think, in the four years i have been doing thisjob, ithink, if in the four years i have been doing thisjob, i think, if you look at a clinical performance overseas, i think thi

purely professional armies well today ten european states still mandate military time they include lithuania and sweden where it was recently reintroduced. and we have this report from sweden whose defense minister argues that the annexation of crimea by russia makes a rethink unnecessary and we find out what the recruits think about it. these young people are undergoing military training in sweden's force they're being put into shape to defend their country. this year sweden introduced conscription lasting eleven months for every high school graduate and that means both young men and women. for me it's a matter of course it gives me something and i probably would have done it voluntarily. i mean for me my family and friends think i should stay in it's most believe it will become my profession i'm not so sure myself but i really enjoy it. this year only about four percent of graduates and four thousand other young people will be involved in the swedish government has reintroduced the draft mainly for defense reasons. when russia annexed crimea when we have conflicts in ukraine and a military

scandinavian farmers are expecting the worst harvest in a quarter of a century the governments of lithuania have both declared a state of emergency farmers in poland and the czech republic watching their crops wilt and expect the damage to be long term experts say climate change is at least partly responsible for the drought and expect further problems around the globe or climate models are saying that the negative impact of climate change are all made revolts or will be much more severe regions of so asia africa and europe and that means the biggest. negative movie where people already were and that's something we need to take very seriously. africa for one has been hit by an unusual a severe drought this year cape town became the first metropolis to strictly ration water. farmers in australia ran out of water for their cattle drought there has even driven wild emo's into the cities searching for water . in north america droughts has sparked catastrophic wildfires along the western seaboard from california to the canadian province of british columbia millions of hectares of forest burnt do

is directly responsible for what happened to the shiri one of the people who was also tortured in lithuania when she was there onsite as he was water boarded in thailand the fact that she was able to dance away from that charge during this senate hearing was really unconscionable the judges according to some news outlets that she oversaw malk executions and rectal feeding of of it all right. less sherry well you know it was really gruesome you mention the senate investigation report four years in the making and released just before the current chair richard burr took the chair of the senate intelligence committee now the first thing he did was recall the copies of that senate for your report what does that tell you all right he was involved he was in the house and the senate intelligence committees when all this was going on they join. at the hip the overseers are not overseers they're over lookers and what they do is kind of take care of people like gina hasbro and instead of requiring her to answer the questions they let her go to executive session bus in fairness to gina hospital many pe

european states were invited to join nato the czech republic hungry poland bulgaria is still in latvia lithuania romania slovakia slovenia so yeltsin tried everything he even begged. let us have a verbal gentleman's agreement we would not write it down in the statement that no former soviet republics would enter nato i cannot sign any agreement without such language especially ukraine consider what a terrible message it would be were still organized against russia but there's a line across which we won't go pleading didn't work so we'll turn tried warnings. russia will pull out of the agreement and consider it now and void i know what a terrible problem this is for you but i can't make the specific commitment you're asking for not even complaints could get through you are conducting naval maneuvers near crimea it is as if we are training people in cuba how would you feel it's unacceptable to us the spite of all that they were named friends even joke together three months of the pre-election races taken its toll i feel somewhat tired i saw the picture of you dancing with the girls in the band and

their defence fell apart again the team in lithuania.—1 going into the second leg on thursday. i feel for the supporters tonight. they have come all the way out here, 200 of them, all the way out here, 200 of them, all the way out, trains and buses, the whole thing, and, you know, it's a disappointing performance. they have seen a goal, but we have to be much better. chris ashton's hopes of an england recall could be further, located with the dates of his ban for a dangerous tackle during the preseason. possibly subject to change. his seven—week ban was due to start with another pre—season friendly scheduled for tonight but that match is not on the fixture list, which means the bank could start later and he won't get to play a tall before eddiejones named his squad for the autumn internationals. the first track gold medal of the day of the european para athletics championships has been won by great britain's david davies. he added to britain's david davies. he added to britain's impressive tally at the games. 5000 metres, on top of the s

poor goal was conceded to draw 1—1 in the first leg of their europa league play—off against sud in lithuanias of work to do in the second leg. elsewhere, rivals rangers were 1—0 winners.|j feel for the supporters tonight. you know, they've come all the way out here, 200 of them, all the way out, probably trains, buses, the whole thing and it's a disappointing performance for them. they go away, 0k, they seem a goal but we have to be much better than that. burnley need a big comeback in the second leg of their europa league play—off after they were beaten 3—1 by lnp costs a nd after they were beaten 3—1 by lnp costs and they had ben gibson sent off on the night in athens. now, it's not been the return to english by it's not been the return to english rugby chris ashton was hoping for —— by olympiakos. he has been banned for seven weeks after getting a red ca rd for seven weeks after getting a red card for a for seven weeks after getting a red card fora tip for seven weeks after getting a red card for a tip tackle in a preseason friendly last week against castre. he didn't accept the charge bu

is directly responsible for what happened to the shiri one of the people who was also tortured in lithuania when she was there onsite as he was water boarded in thailand so the fact that she was able to dance away from that charge during the senate hearing was really unconscionable the judges according to some news outlets that she oversaw malk executions and rectal feeding of of it all right. cheri well you know it was really gruesome you mention the senate investigation report four years in the making and released just before the current chair richard burr took the chair of the senate intelligence committee now the first thing he did was recall the copies of that senate for your report what does that tell you all right he was involved he was in the house and the senate intelligence committees when all this was going on there joe. and at the hip the overseers are not overseers they're over lookers and what they do is kind of take care of people like gina hasbro and instead of requiring her to answer the questions they let her go to executive session boss in fairness to gina many people in

is directly responsible for what happened to the shiri one of the people who was also tortured in lithuania when she was there onsite as he was water boarded in thailand so the fact that she was able to dance away from that charge during the senate hearing was really unconscionable the judges according to some news that she oversaw malk executions and rectal feeding of of it all right. less sherry well you know it was really gruesome you mention the senate investigation report four years in the making and released just before the current chair richard burr took the chair of the senate intelligence committee now the first thing he did was recall the copies of that senate for your report what does that tell you all right he was involved he was in the house and the senate intelligence committees when all this was going on there joe. and at the hip the overseers are not overseers they're over lookers and what they do is kind of take care of people like gina hasbro and instead of requiring her to answer the questions they let her go to executive session boss in fairness to gina many people in th