catherine palace was based on the palace of louis the 14th of france a very inverse i like all of fakes castles and palaces it had no official function it was for the king alone. which spent a total of 10 days here in the palace in late september $885.00. after sunset on 35 servants had to light the candles in the palace and after that they all had to vanish and the king was all alone here. in the. interests. of aix most famous castle is in the region near to some noise french time it attracts one and a half 1000000 visitors a year. for its architecture drew inspiration from medieval castle. not far away is the only palace look fix all completed and it's the only one he lived in for any length of time. you can only reach the king's house in shock and on fort it's not an elevation of 900 metres. cashen. from outside it looks like a royal hunting launch inside its outrageously flamboyant especially the lavishly decorated turkish. his life king last week preferred his mountain retreat to his royal residence in munich. that one's mine cable cars are a wonderful invention. all in all there a

we saw her on the balcony of buckingham palace 75 yea rs balcony of buckingham palace 75 years ago alongsideon churchill and her father george vi. there is the added poignancy of remembrance, which has taken on this even sharper significance at the moment with all the losses of the pandemic. we recall a day 75 years ago when the nation, many nations, emerged from the war in europe when britain had suffered nearly half a million casualties and when the vetera ns million casualties and when the veterans of that generation are having to be isolated. bagpipes play. cannon fires bagpipes play sophie raworth: and there, on this cloudless day, over the white cliffs of dover, the iconic aircrafts such as symbols of the fight for survival against the nazis. and of the raf‘s superiority. and one last word from nick. tonight the queen will give her message to the nation. yes, an address to the nation at 9pm, when her father king george vi podcast to the nation. this is strangely representative of the day in that there are no great national acts of commemoration, remembrance. thank you. and so begin tod

1985, reissued today by the palace.lcony and then walked miles through the streets. i remember lines of unknown people linking arms and walking down whitehall, all of us just swept along on a tide of happiness and relief. the contrast between the crowded streets of may, 1945, and those same streets today is striking. yet, 75 years after the end of the second world war, a nation in lockdown looked beyond its present challenges to give thanks. nicholas witchell, bbc news. victoria howard is a royal historian. shejoins me now. we havejust watched the queen pass a message, she linked ve day with today's pandemic, saying at the end, i say with pride we are still a nation, the brave soldiers, sailors

so can you talk about how some of our iconic buildings, such address the palace of -- such as the palace of fine arts, has been repurposed during the pandemic? >> certainly. the city needs as much space as it can use during this pandemic, and the department had to relocate to moscone south convention center so that we could do social distancing as required by both the city and the state. we have hundreds and hundreds of staff people working on this covid-19 crisis. all of the department of public health and the departments of homelessness and human services, including several other hundred people, they need several different sites. they need testing centers, they need shelters for the homeless, those with the covid-19 virus, those who need a place to stay after they get out of the hospital. so we've been assisting them with places to stay. you mentioned the palace of fine arts. it has over 100,000 square feet of space. it could it -- we were going to use it as a shelter, but now, we're going to use it for different needs. we're going to negotiate a different lease so that the city can us

and the presidential palace more general thank you so much for explaining all of that that starts at the height of their academic at the european university in st thank you. political campaigns in burundi have ended her head of a general election on wednesday have been marred by violence and hate speech with both sides blaming one another this conference where reports health experts have also raised concerns that there are not enough restrictions to help contain the spread of covert 19. supporters of bullies main opposition candidate. on the streets of the capital which they hope that he'll win wednesday's general election he has run for president twice before but lost he says his victory was stolen by a president. who is not standing this time campaigns have been marred by sporadic violence between supporters of the ruling c n b d f d d party. in congress for liberty party government officials say 3 people have died others injured and many arrested all of this is meant to intimidate the opposition so as to guarantee the victory of the ruling party but this is quite clear nonsense .

her father king george the 6 and a prime minister winston churchill on the balcony of buckingham palace to greet the crowds the joyous crowds to wave was celebrating this victory day in the streets of london and around buckingham palace today a very different celebration for her she was planning on greeting the crowds again from buckingham palace but at the moment the queen is isolating in windsor costal as do have fellow veterans and all other people over 70 as advice of the british government at the moment because of the penn demick but back then and now the royal family really at the heart of these commemorations and celebrations with prince charles the heir to the throne this morning leading the country into the 2 minutes of silence as you said. all these celebrations the british prime minister boris johnson has also paid his tributes and he's been making comparisons with the battle against covert 19 what has he been saying. he did he also paid tribute of course to the veterans and he was saying that once again the nation had to invoke the spirit of national endeavor during the pand

1985, reissued today by the palace.the king and queen on the balcony and then walked miles through the streets. i remember lines of unknown people linking arms and walking down whitehall, all of us just swept along on a tide of happiness and relief. the contrast between the crowded streets of may, 1945, and those same streets today is striking. yet, 75 years after the end of the second world war, a nation in lockdown looked beyond its present challenges to give thanks, thanks which will be expressed tonight in a special broadcast by the queen. nicholas witchell, bbc news. around the uk, many street parties that had been planned before the pandemic struck have gone ahead this afternoon — socially distanced, of course. duncan kennedy has been taking a look at how people have managed to come together to mark today's anniversary, and is in cosham in portsmouth. duncan, what's been going on there? ican i can see the party is still going on. very much so. it's been in full swing all afternoon on hilary avenue, just like all t

so can you talk about how some of our iconic buildings, such address the palace of -- such as the palace of fine arts, has been repurposed during the pandemic? >> certainly. the city needs as much space as it can use during this pandemic, and the department had to relocate to moscone south convention center so that we could do social distancing as required by both the city and the state. we have hundreds and hundreds of staff people working on this covid-19 crisis. all of the department of public health and the departments of homelessness and human services, including several other hundred people, they need several different sites. they need testing centers, they need shelters for the homeless, those with the covid-19 virus, those who need a place to stay after they get out of the hospital. so we've been assisting them with places to stay. you mentioned the palace of fine arts. it has over 100,000 square feet of space. it could it -- we were going to use it as a shelter, but now, we're going to use it for different needs. we're going to negotiate a different lease so that the city can us

going to be the common theme for my tour of the city today and as always i have a lot on my list a palace for art and duster a monuments a boat trip and i really would like to see the birthplace of about published so let's go. well also look behind the scenes of. one of germany's most famous puppet theaters. a georgian woman will show us her hometown but to meet. answered days your video brings us travel impressions from combo. this is the center of the town hall is located on the square at the end of. this renaissance building is magnificent although it was almost completely destroyed by bombing in the 2nd world war it was rebuilt in the original style for many centuries was an important political center as a prince bishopric and a free imperial city. the golden hall recalls the city's former splendor. above the front door a picture shows that water was seen as the source of the city's wealth. it's clear they have become an important city from an early age by the way it's the 3rd largest here and of area after munich and nuremberg but there is much more you should know about all spoke. t

here, from the quadrangle inside the palace.e two programmes today, instead of our six hours of broadcasting live, we have been trying to put veterans at the heart of the programmes. we will still hear their stories. we have had to phone them because we can't visit them and fill them, but we wa nted visit them and fill them, but we wanted to include their stories and that's the most important thing, to hear their stories and memories on this day. a lot of the veterans we have spoken to describe what they see as some kind of resonance with the circumstances we find ourselves in now, restrictions of lifestyle. it does feel there is some parallel between those times. the common sacrifice, what we are all being asked to do for the greater good. but for me, what's extra that is especially poignant, is the generation that is being hardest hit is that world war ii generation, those most vulnerable to this virus are precisely that generation. i think that's why it was so important for us to do everything we could to really celebrate the

later, the two princesses left the palace to join the crowds. in a broadcast in 1985, reissued today by the palace. >> we were with the king and queen on the balcony, then walked miles to the streets. i remember lines of people linking arms and walking down whitehall, all swept along the tide of happiness and relief. correspondent: the contrast between the crowded streets of may 19 45 and those same streets today is striking. yet, 75 years after the end of the second world war, a nation in lockdown look beyond its present challenges to give thanks. anchor: it seems fitting thate leave that last word on the d-day celebrations to the queen herself, who has delivered a televised message at 9:00 p.m. local, the same time her father delivered the message of victory 75 years ago. here is what she had to say. >> today, it may seem hard that we cannot mark the special anniversary as we would wish. instead, we remember from our homes and doorsteps. but our streets are not empty. they are filled with the love and care that we have for each other. anchor:

took charge and let the competition even without the fans >>> then to sin city, where the massive palace is getting ready to rise again and open the casino floors once again >> this morning the investigation into that massive explosion in l.a. that was so strong firefighters caught on fire as they escaped a dozen seriously injured. >>> the first named storm of the season set to hit the east coast today. we're tracking its path. "early today" starts right now >>> good morning, we are just one week away from memorial day. much of america is charging ahead with plans to reopen this week despite fears of another wave of coronavirus. more than 90,000 lives have been lost to covid-19 in the u.s. as we approach 1.5 million confirmed cases. at least 270,000 patients have recovered. >> during an interview with "60 minutes", the federal reserve chairman say the economy may not fully bounce back without a vaccine. >> assuming there's not a second is wave of the coronavirus, i think you'll see the economy recover steadily through the succeed half of this year. we can't fully recover until people fee

>> there used to be a bustling ma mahala just south of the palace. but in 2014, the government tore it down. the idea was t establish a tourist path to the mosque and other heritage sites. hotels and restaurants were built on both sides of the avenue to hide what remained of the mahala. >> so there was the first settlement from which developed the old city, became bigger and all this history is wiped out, destroyed. so find some solution to keep it there or if they'll delete it, nobody knows what will happen. >> since it became an endangered site, fewer and fewer foreign tourists are including it in their travel plans. if nothing is improved, the city will be removed from the world heritage list. the government has recognized that mistakes led to overdevelopment and has prompted to improve the situation. >> i'm meeting with the unesca team. we're coming from paris too check, again, what's happening in our world heritage sites. they're very thorough. they're very critical. we have a joke even if you change the lightbulb, you have to ask from the repre

1985, reissued today by the palace.d the king and queen on the balcony and then walked miles through the streets. i remember lines of unknown people linking arms and walking down whitehall, all of us just swept along on a tide of happiness and relief. the contrast between the crowded streets of may, 1945, and those same streets today is striking. yet, 75 years after the end of the second world war, a nation in lockdown looked beyond its present challenges to give thanks, thanks which will be expressed tonight in a special broadcast by the queen. nicholas witchell, bbc news. leaders across the world have been commemorating ve day. in the united states, president trump met veterans at the world war 2 memorial in washington. he was accompanied by first lady melania trump. in france, president macron laid a weath and re—lit the flame at the tomb of the unknown soldier — who rests at the arc de triomphe. and in germany, chancellor merkel led a ceremony at germany's central war memorial and expressed gratitude for the nation'

. >> welcome to spanish governor's palace. what you're looking sat actually the last visual remnants of the house that we v the original facility was built in the 1720s. and it was really the residence for the captain. what we're looking at today is really a romanticized version of what this building would have been. again, it was the military headquarters. and one of our first preservationists here in san antonio worked very hard when she identified this building as being the original garrison in preserving it. it's been added on over time as well. so this is where it all began. the original house was built with adobe bricks in 1722 based on a letter of the governor wrote to the king in june of that year. he talked about 25,000 adobe bricks they needed to make and 40 additional labors they needed to hire to build the compound. you can see behind the wall at the top there, the adobe bricks. that is the original from 1722. we'll go this way next. this room and the entrance and the room on the -- to the right -- to your left was

palaces, buckingham palace, theme parks, historic houses, stately homes.tter. more visits went to the science museum and the national history museum combined then went to venice. in a few years ago, more people went to the british museum than the whole of belgium. so what could attractions do to prepare to reopen? through to chester zoo have very, very detailed reopening operational plans and progress. and that includes everything from supermarket style one—way routes, to adding contacts to operations, just having a card not paying cash, just having a card and i was talking to all my scottish members yesterday through a conference call and they are looking at reopening slightly later than england, but looking at online bookings. even though they are free, online bookings or time slots. coastal tourism has also been hit hard. 7% of businesses closed in many of them permanently. what we're hearing from businesses is that they will reduce capacity over the summer months. 32% of all visits occur injuly and this happened at the worst possible time, just as they

we saw her there on the buckingham palace balcony. there will be those who will conclude that this is quite a strong endorsement of the principle of the continuity that is represented by a constitutional monarchy, of having the same person at the centre of national life for a decade after decade. nicholas witchell, our royal correspondent. around the uk, many street parties which were planned long before the lockdown was imposed did go ahead, albeit with social distancing measures in place. our correspondent duncan kennedy has been taking a look at the different ways in which people have been marking the anniversary. the nation isolates, but the nation also celebrates. this might be hilary avenue, but it's definitely one of thousands of street parties across the land. i think it's really nice that we all came together to celebrate. i love it, i think it's a great way for the community to get together. obviously, we are all social distancing and everything. it was a double day for sheila webster, she was born on ve day. happy birthday,

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1985, reissued today by the palace.cheered the king and queen on the balcony and then walked miles through the streets. i remember lines of unknown people linking arms and walking down whitehall, all of us just swept along on a tide of happiness and relief. the contrast between the crowded streets of may, 1945, and those same streets today is striking. yet, 75 years after the end of the second world war, a nation in lockdown looked beyond its present challenges to give thanks, thanks which will be expressed tonight in a special broadcast by the queen. nicholas witchell, bbc news. 20.5 million americans lost theirjob last month as the coronavirus pandemic paralysed the economy. the us unemployment rate for april soared to 14.7%, the highest since the great depression. and the true economic damage may be even worse — as the numbers don't include workers whose hours have been cut or those unable to look for work because of stay—at—home orders. the monthlyjob figures — shown here since the 2008 crash — showjust how quickly

narrow and his call to end lockdown measures he greeted hundreds of supporters at the presidential palace in brasilia posing for photos with children pulled from the crowd but this time the leader and his team or face masks something bo's'n are has rarely done since the outbreak began on this hour paolo hundreds of people rallied for hours in cars and on foot calling for an end to virus restrictions. break has now killed more than 15000 people in brazil which is overtaken spain and italy to have the 4th biggest number of infections in the world nonetheless president johnson are is still pushing to reopen the economy and that's left many people feeling of being left to battle the pandemic on the road priyanka gupta has more. this specialized hospital agree or destroy our state is on the frontline of brazil's fight against the corner virus the country is the worst affected in latin america and the state has the 2nd highest number of deaths most hospitals are running out of blood and the intensive care units are good while what is today's big problem it's the law of supply and demand the num

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>>what do you think post pandemic las vegas, specifically caesars palace.s going to look like well, i think you'll see a lot of social distancing throughout all different parts of the will be encouraging customers to check and through mobile technology. >>to use the asset someone wants to check in at the front desk. the social separation between the groups when you looked throughout the gaming floor. it will look a little bit black jack table used to have 6 spots now we're only going to 3 people per table a busy. >>dice table that could have 14 or more customers will now be limited to 6. so you'll see a lot around social distancing in every part of the business and you'll see a lot of hand sanitizer and encourage our guests to wash their hands as frequently as possible. and we'll make hand sanitizers readily available as we can that the company's already acquired over 225 million dabs of hand sanitizer so it will be plentiful so they're obviously in a casino a lot of touch surfaces cards and dice and. >>in vinyl how do you control that to keep that clean an

caesars palace is preparing to reopen, but things are going to be a little different coming up we'll have an exclusive look on >>good morning, welcome back the time check the weather forecast with meteorologist dave spahr as we take this live look outside beautiful view of the golden gate bridge little hazy though and days here to tell us more about to heat up that's going on around the bay area beginning on the weekend right. >>yeah, it's just going to be delayed by just a couple of days and then away we go on into early next week it's going to be something it's going to hang around after the holiday is over into tuesday and even into wednesday and many portions of the bay area typically inland, you won't really feel much of a change the coastal areas will start chipping away probably as early as maybe tuesday, here's a shot of the bay bridge you can see the sun coming up over the east bay hills that doesn't have the intrusion of the cloud cover that we had from yesterday. temperatures right now we've got the 40's going on up in the north bay 57 of all a hoax 55 conquer to 5450 for

as elizabeth recalled in a broadcast in 1985, reissued today by the palace. we cheered the king and queen on the balcony and then walked miles through the streets. i remember lines of unknown people linking arms and walking down whitehall, all of us just swept along on a tide of happiness and relief. the contrast between the crowded streets of may, 1945, and those same streets today is striking. yet, 75 years after the end of the second world war, a nation in lockdown looked beyond its present challenges to give thanks. nicholas witchell, bbc news. victoria howard is a royal historian. shejoins me now. we havejust watched the queen pass a message, she linked ve day with today's pandemic, saying at the end, i say with pride we are still a nation, the brave soldiers, sailors and airmen would recognise and admire. yes, andi airmen would recognise and admire. yes, and i think there has definitely been a link comparing this pandemic with the second world war which seems to have resonated with the british people, that it is a struggle that we don't know how this wi

cnn got a remarkable exclusive look inside caesar's palace. >> really eerie and sad.place normally would have so much energy and so much excitement going on. >> reporter: this is caesar's palace in the dark, because of the coronavirus. >> you can hear our voices echoing through the lobby. >> yeah. you don't hear that echo, because it's muffled because of all the bodies and sound and activity. >> reporter: there's not a soul here. something the iconic casino has never experienced in its 54-year history says tony rodeo, ceo of caesar's entertainment. >> you're talking every single day? >> every single day, every second. there weren't locked to lock the front door. tough in the beginning, uncertainty how long it would last and we're starting to see movement. >> reporter: as nevada moves to reopen parts of its economy caesar's is making changing across the ka sean casino floor >> kipiccal for blackjack. normally six seats. in the new world, only three chairs, and nobody will be able to be within six feet of any of the three customers that are playing. >> this looks like i

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so can you talk about how some of our iconic buildings, such address the palace of -- such as the palace of fine arts, has been repurposed during the pandemic? >> certainly. the city needs as much space as it can use during this pandemic, and the department had to relocate to moscone south convention center so that we could do social distancing as required by both the city and the state. we have hundreds and hundreds of staff people working on this covid-19 crisis. all of the department of public health and the departments of homelessness and human services, including several other hundred people, they need several different sites. they need testing centers, they need shelters for the homeless, those with the covid-19 virus, those who need a place to stay after they get out of the hospital. so we've been assisting them with places to stay. you mentioned the palace of fine arts. it has over 100,000 square feet of space. it could it -- we were going to use it as a shelter, but now, we're going to use it for different needs. we're going to negotiate a different lease so that the city can us

following winston churchill, going from when he goes from the houses of parliament to buckingham palacest incredible scenes, and we can see them today, both in black—and—white and in colour, so it's absolutely iconic. it is very much ve day we remember, because as you say, there was another three or four months of war in the far east, so what was the impact of the end of that war in britain? i don't think it was celebrated does make well it was celebrated, vj day, there was a holiday, but not to same extent as ve day. and it also, i mean, there we re ve day. and it also, i mean, there were soldiers who were actually still fighting after that. in saigon and indonesia. propping up the colonial empires there, which i think is perhaps not quite does make it is quite forgotten about. we are going to have to leave it there, so thank you very much. while many people think of conscription in terms of armed forces being sent abroad, many were conscripted to help the war effort on home soil. men enlisted to work in the mines — or bevin boys as they became known — faced jail if they didn't accept

martin bashir, bbc news, at lambeth palace. prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his former rival betty gantz. under the power—sharing deal, he will serve another 18 months before mr gantz takes over. it ends the longest political crisis in the nation's history. mr netanyahu crisis in the nation's history. mr neta nyahu bowed crisis in the nation's history. mr netanyahu bowed to push on with controversial plans to annex large parts of the occupied west bank. he said israel wanted unity as the country battled coronavirus. in the pacific islands, cash has become so scarce that residents have been turning to bartering in order to meet their household needs. the islands have been hit hard economically and many popular facebook pages have sprung up — attracting thousands of members — to swap anything from groceries to gardening services. well, because, with the closing of borders, we have lost basically our tourism industry, which is one of our highest gdp earners. so with the closing and the collapsing of the tourism industry, we

that is near lambeth palace, the official residence of the archbishop of canterbury.e south bank towards the us embassy. but all peaceful, without any incident. these pictures about half an hour or s0 these pictures about half an hour or so ago. you can these pictures about half an hour or s0 ago. you can see these pictures about half an hour or so ago. you can see quite a considerable number of demonstrators. some standing on car roofs, but no clashes with police. i think we can go back to the helicopter, but i am not sure if the pilot has gone to refuel. no, he is back, he has just pilot has gone to refuel. no, he is back, he hasjust come round. this is the scene outside the us embassy. this embassy only been built a few yea rs this embassy only been built a few years now, huge embassy, massive, secure complex on the south bank, surrounded by a moat. all the latest technology in terms of protection for that embassy. there you see a number of people protesting about the killing of george floyd in minneapolis a few days ago now. so those demonstrations spreading from

once reigned from this palace 1600 years ago this is the old town of the door to the sacred plan of the gas into this century. traditions are still being embraced here today that may change less than 2 kilometers away the bulldozers are never the ground for a controversial new airport that's expected to shuttle millions of tourists to historic sites the airport should then be the sacred folly to share has culture and traditions for thailand's by the big powers because it's the door to much of. the kind of poor is divine. i would be in favor of an airport if more people come and make business with us but only if they preserve our environment and our ruins some farmers like. their lives may change this to bring development to our community and country. mostly us involved in the attempted coup in venezuela washington says it wasn't even those detained suspects seem to claim otherwise but the u.s. and most of latin america want nicolas maduro out of power but does that mean venezuela this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program now on the 3rd of may the venezuelan government annou