hundreds of years ago, the region of venetia in northern italy was an independent republic.oday, many people are fed up with being under the rule of rome. they held a referendum last month on the same day as crimea. for the media in russia, it was the perfect opportunity to accuse the west of hypocrisy. while the voting crimea was criticized in strongest terms, the region of venetia was allowed to have one. not much happened even after the italian police discovered that one group had been preparing for more hands-on action. >> for months, they were kept under surveillance. in a warehouse, police cameras recorded these self-styled freedom fighters converting a bulldozer into a makeshift armored vehicle. the public prosecutors suspect the group of planning and operation much like the 117 years ago when they occupied the piazza san marco in venice for several hours. eight people were arrested. the operation resulted in two weeks of pretrial custody for the organizers. >> all our 24 activist did was make a tractor a bit sturdier -- all our activists did. they were going to destr

also rain in portions of southern france and also to northern italy. it looks like we're going to see a big cooldown coming up later on as well. take a look at these temperatures. we're going to see temperatures near 20 for highs in berlin, into warsaw. then we're dropping off into the teens coming up for friday and saturday. so a big cooldown expected. here's a look at the forecast for asia. we have high pressure that's controlling the weather over in the korean peninsula. now moving into japan. that high pressure system bringing some very pleasant weather to japan. temperatures in tokyo around 24 degrees. that's the warmest that it has been for this year so far. it looks like the pleasant weather will continue for the korean peninsula into japan. meanwhile in china we have a cold front that's going to be moving toward beijing. and that's going to bring gusty winds into the korean peninsula as we go later on this week. we also see some showers down toward hong kong in the southern coast. another low pressure system developing in central china. that wi

it's in northern italy. guys that posted this is fascinated by this thing. you can see lots of debris from the damage it's caused. >> wow. >> what the heck? get out of there. >> time to go, dude. >> the debris starts hitting the window and that's when the guy is like, i'm going to back up. >> one guy has ducked behind one of the cubicles. he's still filming and then boom. >> start to hear a mess. >> all these people, though, looks like they're on a fifth floor or something. go down to the basement, right? that's what they tell you. that's what they've always told us when we were little. >> five people were injured in the town in the storm. bent street signs, roofs ripped off homes and various damage like a tornado like this would cause. >> you hope everybody made it out of this and good thing for these folks. couple days off work now, right? >> hey, everybody. we're celebrating the end of the week giving away another ipad mini. >> you need the buzzword and a twitter account. if you don't have a twitter account don't worry, it's easy to create one. >> the buz

he came to rome from northern italy in the last decade of the 16th century. strange, violent, driven m, he was in permanent revolt against authority. caravaggio was always in trouble with police. he kled a man in a quarrel and fled the city. he was a carouser and a libertine and painted himself that way. but the way he painted religious subjects was as shocking to his contemporaries as his behavior. he painted saint peter as a confused and frightened old man... the virgin, in life, as a neighborhood housewife. the virgin in death he painted as a swollen, careworn core. the painting was rejected by monks who commissioned it. never had they seen the virgin mary represented as deadrather thadying. caravaggio was rebelling against ideazed depictions such as this conversion of saint paul by taddeo zuccaro. this was the conventional way in which divine intervention on earth was portrayed, like a fabulous dream, but caravaggio sought to draw the beholder in, to make the worshiper a participant in the drama enacted on the canvas. in a small chapel in the church of sa

cup soccer tournament has been overshadowed by a car accident near the team's training camp in northern italy >> two players were passengers in separate cars as part of a promotion with team sponsor mercedes. one of the cars hit to pedestrians, leaving one of them seriously injured. the team is keen to put the focus back on the pitch. >> a latecomer to the training camp, the midfielder comes fresh from winning the champions league with real madrid. the coach now has 25 players available. the mood has been dampened by the car accident that left two bystanders injured. >> we hope it will not turn out to be a tragedy. our thoughts are with the injured. >> italian police are handling the investigation into the accident. the german football association and its sponsor mercedes have provided information about the crash, including footage taken from inside the two cars. they say proper precautions were taken. >> there were marshals on every side road, so the route was secured. >> activities with sponsors have long been part of players' duties. >> it's difficult for us when we do promotions like this

but rain will persist, particularly because we had this low in northern italy that will continue to bring some rainfall. so it looks like places like paris, you'll see a chance of -- you'll see a chance of rain and thunderstorms. highs in the mid teens. hope you have a good day wherever you are. here's a look at your extended forecast. >>> and that's all for this hour on "newsline." i'm shery ahn. thank you for watching. >> thanks for watching "france 24." here are the headlines this hour. pro-russian separatist asked to join russia after claiming victory in the referendum. former israeli prime minister to 6olmert is sentenced years in prison for taking bribes and a massive real estate deal. the judge compares his crimes to treason. and as france gets set to announce its team for the world cup, we will take

now this particular system was tracking from northern italy, and it was pushing eastward. now it's over the balkan peninsula and it's going to be a very active weather day coming up on this wednesday. let's take a look at a picture out from tuesday. very strong lightning bolt with this particular picture. and it looks like that you're going to see more of this activity for those of you in bulgaria, romania, and even into parts of greece. you will be seeing the system, because it is intensifying as it continues to push toward the east. we have also a very deep trough that's helping to energize this particular system. so it looks like that as this system continues to rest over the balkan peninsula we're looking out for the possibility of some severe weather. again looking out for possibly some large hail, also tornadoes are possible, strong winds, and very heavy rainfall over the next few days, because the system is not moving very quickly. you can see here during the next 72 hours, we're looking up to 80 millimeters of rainfall, and so we have to also look out for the possi

that's what's happening in northern italy.nning a year of community service after he was found guilty of tax fraud last we're. he'll spend four hours a week working with elderly people with dementia. he is 77 himself. he was spared because the legal system is lenient to those over the age of 70. david is in rome trying to find out what the former prime minister will be expected to do. >> we don't really know what he has to do. he has a tutor following him around. he's going to do we understand from the head of the care home medial tasks. the director said it's not going to be a fun job. i don't know what he means by that. of course there's been speculation he is a past entertainer. he's the owner of the three main commercial television channels in this country. he might entertain the people in this home. it's run by the catholic church, and it's quite a big facility. there are a large number of patients. they are keen in this home not to give gratuitous publicity for his own political purposes. not with standing the fact he's

lake garda in northern italy has been a magnet for tourists and nature lovers for centuries.lake's majestic cliffs, matthew finds a rocky ledge to launch his latest jump. it towers more than 100 stories. he suits up for his jump, making those crucial safety checks. >> preparation before coming to the object is key. every jump, you check your gear, everything from your boots to your protection and essentially your parachute. the main thing is your parachute. >> the parachute appears fine. next, matt attaches a go-pro camera to his helmet to record his jump. matt gives the thumbs up to his friends. >> when i first launched, it felt really smooth. i felt pretty balanced in the air and what we call a track which is the position you use to try and fly away from the cliff as much as possible. >> and he's tracking fast. >> with every jump you notice the increase in speed. when you go from standing still to up to 100 miles per hour. >> matt pulls the chute. the parachute is so tangled in its own lines that it doesn't fully deploy. matt struggles to steer. >> i'm trying to look up to

office worker stopped to take smartphone video of that tornado barreling towards his building in northern italyinjured at least three people. >>> fox news alert now, because the state department saying that it has received that subpoena from house lawmakers for secretary of state john kerry to testify about benghazi. but they are saying that he will be out of town. no reaction yet from the white house, which has been playing defense since the new e-mails about the talking points surfaced this week. chief white house correspondent ed henry live at the white house. ed, sounds like the heat is being turned up on the president and the administration. >> no doubt about it. you mentioned secretary kerry, i'll get to him in a moment. the president himself, though, obviously not going to be pleased here at the white house that house republicans now deciding to move forward with this select committee to investigate benghazi. they've been frustrated with all the questions they've been getting in the white house briefing room this week. you know that speaker john boehner moving forward here is a big deal

this is by robert edcells, this is a story of saving the art treasures in italy, the monuments to movie focuses on the northern europe and what took place in italy is absolutely incredible, saving some of the great art treasures throughout italy. the final chapter of this was interesting to find what had happened with mr. heller, dean heller, one of the principals in saving italian art and he ended up he was a painter, he was also a professor before he got into the service to save art. could have been knocked over with a federal when i found that one of his most famous works is in the reception room of love u.s. senate. he painted one of the portraits, there are five portraits there, afterwards, robert heller did taft, just finished, you can see i have all the oil -- i was visiting italy. a great book about the construction of one of the incredible monuments and a couple others i recommend you have got time. conquering gotham if you're into transportation infrastructure, the story of building the station in new york and getting the tunnel from new jersey into man hadn't. an incredible thing, we have thousands

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>> it's this beautiful place in northern italy. he loves hanging out there.ops got him. fortunately, security caught him before he could get into the main house. there was an alcove outside the house where they kept some wine. broke in, tried to get in, nabbed a bottle and security called the cops. >> sounds like a prank, a stunt. i got a bottle from clooney. >> exactly. at least reach higher. go for some jewelry. >> it's a good thing he didn't. all right, other star power. one of the biggest music icons, paul mccartney unfortunately having to cancel his japan tour and south korea as well due to illness. >> that's right. he's in south korea and had to cancel. they're not saying exactly what the illness is or what it was. he had already cancelled some japan dates. he's coming here to the states next month. he hasn't cancelled those, so it's obviously nothing particularly serious. the guy is 71. >> i know. looks fantastic. >> and he's still on tour. that's what's amazing. >> and people spent up to a thousand dollars or more on these tickets and they're bummed a

spain and italy have been calling on northern european countries for more support in dealing with these waves of immigration. >> polling stations in egypt have reopened for an unscheduled third day of voting in the presidential elections. authorities have declared today a national holiday in a bid to get more people out to vote after a disappointing turnout. >> more time to cast their ballots, yet very few voters in this cairo polling station. with a low turnout so far, authorities have extended egypt's presidential election. on wednesday, polls reopened for a third day in an effort to encourage more egyptians to vote. the absence of a strong party candidate means people are staying away. ofegyptians have lost a lot confidence since president hosni mubarak was ousted as well as the isolation of mohamed morsi. a lot of young people are boycotting the election because of all the promises -- all the promises they received have been fake. sources put the first today's turnout at 37%, far lower than the nearly 52% who voted in the last presidential election in 2012, which was won by islamist

the northern irishman is five shots behind. italy'sn the 13th stage of the tour deitalia. what started out as a mainly flat stage, turned into heavy rain followed by a freak hail storm. he sprint finished to win the stage in the biggest victory of his career. the columbian maintain overall lead still 37 seconds ahead. >>> north korea says it will take part in the asian games in south korea this year despite tensions between the countries. north korea announced it will send athletes to the games on state run television on friday. this comes after disputes over a maritime border earlier this week. north korea has not participated in a major sporting event in the south for more than a decade. the canadiens have pulled back to 2-1 by beating the new york rangers in game 3. new york went 1 up in the first period. they drew level in the second period. and daniel briere then got them a 2-1 lead in the third. it looks like montreal were on the brink of victory, but new york were not going down without a fight. kreider got a shot forcing overti

download it now >> since the arab spring a flood of migrants from northern africa has fled to europe. and in italyticularly difficult time trying to stem the tide. >> in doing so they've left many migrants in lem bow. how man--in limbo. >> look at this street, look again. consider this is rome. one of the world's greatest cities in one of the world's wealthiest countries. >> we don't have a home. we're homeless, jobless. >> reporter: everyone here i lafayette behind terrible violence looking for a better life. they didn't expect this. >> we don't have a real place to eat or sleep. this is not a life. >> this is your room. >> his room is 160 square feet. he shares it with four people. he has lived here for almost five years ever since a harrowing 72 hour boat ride across the mediterranean. >> the island of lampedusa has always been migrants' most appealing target. but last october a boat like this one full of people dreaming of a new life. >> i needed to come here to pray. >>> the cost guard expanded it's patrols today the intercepting more boats and fewer are dying. survivors are offered asylum bu

italy. the separatists northern league recently published videos showing mike grants were warned not to travel to italy and many do, and die trying. >> the new report says the number of migrants and refugees found crossing illegally into the european union rose sharply after leer. the highest number of people head for italy's shores. >> a newly crashed drone reported is actually a toilet. the door was a similar blue color to three drones believed to be from north korea found in march and april. north korea denied sending any surveillance aircraft over the border. >> china launching construction projects on a contested group of islands in the south china sea, sparking protests in the philippines, beijing calling the move routine. manila said it violates a long standing pledge not to build on any disputed islands in the sea. china deployed a large oil rig. secretary of state john kerry criticizing beijing's moves as provocative. several countries lay claim to part of the south nine that sea. >> china's trying to shake its reputation as the world's leading manufacture of cheap goods. the governme

just -- it makes you want to cry reading those people who got sent over there knowing to northern africa and then italyand then ebay. a number of people we lost because of lack of training, lack of leadership, lack of resources. there were people whose guns did not land. you know, we do not want that again. nobody wants that. and yet, we did it again in korea. then every time after a work, we have taken our military down and then we pay the price and they pay the price afterwards. they have to kind of built back up. we build 86,000 planes in one year in world war ii. >> we do not need that now. qwest knows what we need? can watch this markup in its entirely at c-span.org. we will even out to take you live to the u.s. house.

. >> a scary moment for alan capturing a tornado in italy in the northern part of the country. he was at an oil control point as the twister passed by his office. he and his colleagues eventually got under their desks for safety. >> in toronto, several videos including this one from a police officer's dash cam of a bright light in the sky. residents report that go they heard a sonic boom. >> straight ahead, the battle over the minimum wage in washington and why it could mean changes to waiters and waitresses in the country. >> we turn to nicole mitchell. good morning. >> a lot of the country is going to be pretty comfortable even already this morning, 40's across the northern tier, 50's up the east coast. into the central plains, we have the core of the heat. here's what we have going on, a stationery boundary trapping the heat south of it, north of that line, it's pretty typical for this time of year, south of the line, 10-20 degrees above average. what you see cutting, it's not a front. behind that, the really dry air ahead of that is where you get a little gulf moisture, but

makes you want to cry reading, those people that got sent over there, going through northern africa and then through italy, and then d day. the number of people we lost because of lack of training, lack of leadership, lack of resources, there were people that land ed -- i mean, we don' want that again. nobody wants that. yet we did it again in korea. and then every time after a war, we've taken our military down, and then we pay the price. they pay the price afterwards. because they have to kind of build back up. we built 87,000 planes in one year in world war ii. >> but we don't need that now. it looks to me -- >> who knows what we need. >> it seems to me we're getting so mechanized and so high-tech -- >> we can't do a thing right now to stop putin. if he wants to take all of ukraine, he's got it. >> yeah, it's all over the place. >> that's right. that's right. and they didn't -- a few years ago they didn't do that. >> but it shouldn't all be on our taxpayers, on our men and women who volunteer to go. and, you know, we're talking about the va a little while ago. i really think this statement needs to be

italy. hundreds have been trying to escape the area. zena hoda reports. >> the government targeting rebel controlled areas, particularly in the northern part of the area, aleppo province and itlip. up to 2,000 people killed in aleppo province alone. the weapon the government is using is barrel bombs, improvised weapons cheaply made, and they're indiscriminant weapons, what is the military strategy? what is the government gaining? they are pushing rebels back, depopulating, and more importantly, they're trying to throw a wedge between the people and the rebels. they're saying, if you want to support the rebels you will be punished. govern the territory that they're winning in order to not cease an alternative. so the upsurge in violence just a few days before presidential elections are being held, both sides are trying to gain the upper hand but nobody is winning this war. and in the interim civilians are caught in the cross fire and they are the ones who are dying. >> hundreds of syrians are on the move. these since are from the city of idlip. it is surrounded by rebel control territory and it seems armed opposition fighters have made it their next tar

the northern league recently published a series of videos showing migrants warn co compatriots not to travel to italyt more than ever do and many still die trying. claudio lavanga, catania. >> qatar has promised to cancel sponsorship system for my grant workers and replace it with contracts between employers and workers. the system gives corporations tight control over what their workers can do and what they can't do for that matter. among the restrictions in qatar is the need for permission from the individual employer each time the worker wants to travel outside the country. it's called an exit visa. the sponsor also decides on whether a my grant can open a bank account, get a driving license or even rent a home. and staff aren't free to transfer to a different company within qatar even if their salary and conditions don't match what they were initially offered. qatar has a concern that removing restrictions could have major economic complications with workers abandoning jobs at short notice. some fear that foreigners will leave the country unchecked and unpaid debts remain and even stolen money be

italy or maybe malta. but they don't want to stay there. a lot want to head to northern rohn or the u.k. many people hear don't speak english. many of their relatives are in the u.k. it's difficult for them to get there. >> thank you for that, for the update on the situation. >>> hundreds of people have forced their way through razor wire barrier to crossing the spanish border at the northern of morocco. it provides a rare land-base route for illegal immigrants. more from jonah hull. >> there are many land based routes. this is one where morocco meets melia, and these were the scenes in the early hours of wednesday morning. >> go! >> hundreds of illegal my grants had forced their way through razor wire barriers and across the border. immigrants from all over africa regularly try to cross the fences at melia and spain's other african enclave. both out crops of land bordered by morocco on one side and the mediterranean sea. it's safer than the crossing others make by sea. in february, spanish police fired rubber bullets at a group of people as they tried to switcswim ashore. 15 drowned. in