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the remains of the temples built to apollo by next house the loss and athens. the splendor of de los redounded to the glory of the whole deity in the now the poppy flowers here the symbol of. transience only foundations and columns remain the bases of votive altars and fragments of snow white can tell acknowledging. the third largest temple in ancient greece was the whole of the bull a macedonian warship was displayed that in grateful memory of a naval victory. in the grass nine bulls heads that once graced the for sounds. erect found lloyd male genitals show that another guard was worshiped here as well down asus the god of wine and ecstasy and time went by this youngest and most unruly of the progeny of zeus displace the other objects of greek worship appollo had been the god of the classic era when the greek ideal was kind of gothia the beautiful and good but in later times dark brooding gods brought in on the trade routes took the place of the elder such as the egyptian goddess isis whose temple facade has been reconstructed these guards came from asia mino

they wanted their synagogue, their place of worship in this country to be the temple. so that became a word that they used more and more often. but why an organ? what was the significance of that? >> well, the organ was actually started as a matter of controversy in europe in the german-speaking countries. and when i was doing research on this, i must say i just had a blast reading the arguments about the organ in europe which then became replicated in charleston, south carolina. but the arguments against an organ are, first, well, it's like a machine, and an organ is like a whistle that come -- compressed air is forced through it. and traditional judaism held that that violated the sabbath's prayer vision against work or operating any kind of mechanism or machinely. or machinery. but then other rabbis would point out yet there are many passages in the bible that say that jews created beautiful music with musical instruments during the sabbath. so they engaged in these arcane, technical arguments that i have to say i just loved, you know, exploring them. [laughter] the

on the site of the some temple which they destroyed the christians built the monastery of santo domingo thus the new true god could be worshiped on the square where once the sun had been venerated. the old waltz. where they said lines were covered in frescoes to hide all memory of the pagan traditions of the place. in one thousand nine hundred fifty an earthquake destroyed parts of the monastery and revealed the walls of the sun temple these walls were once covered in gold but there is little left of such riches. in the semicircular astronomical wall of the sun temple made possible an exact determination of the phases of the moon the position of the stones and the date of the suns to see these. the spaniards built houses of their own on the foundations of the buildings they had destroyed not one single income house palace although temple is still standing in ca school today. only the rules remain. the individual stones were country with such precision and fitted so exactly without motor that not even the point of i'm not going to be inserted between the. two school is still redolent of

home to the temple of karnak. the walls inside are temple of karnak.vered temple of karnak. the walls inside are covered in ancient graffiti, created over 3500 yea rs are covered in ancient graffiti, created over 3500 years ago. in 2010, i began a major project to record every individual carving. having finally made it back, i am lucky to have one special team member alongside me. christophe is not only an excellent archaeologist, he is also a great husband. i couldn't have got through my illness without him. having that little time to watch something just take control and literally destroy her body. there was less than 36 hours when she showed symptoms of the flu to organ collapse. then there was weeks of not knowing whether she would survive or not. she wasn't expecting too. christophe and i have decided too. christophe and i have decided to bring arsen withers on this trip. i was less than a year old when i became ill and for months i couldn't hold him or change his nappy. if felt really important for us as a family to do this together. because we h

this temple in particular, it quotes in men teenage should not be entering the temple.leasures or anything, so he doesn't wa nt to pleasures or anything, so he doesn't want to see women and things like that. though not all temples ban women. there is a belief that women who are menstruating shouldn't enter temples because they are not clean or pure, but for this temple there has been some other reasons as well, historically there are some myths and stories, so people believe that women shouldn't be entering and it is disrespectful for the god in that temple. but also, there are historians that do argue that this has not been the case always. women have been entering that temple in the past, many years ago, and we don't have proof to say whether they entered or not. how entered or not. h ow ofte n entered or not. how often have we seen courts intervened to say actually women of all ages can go to this site or this site? i think this is a rare scenario, considering there are very few te m ples scenario, considering there are very few temples that never allow women at all.

oh, i didn't mention the temple, did i? this is the temple of mithras. around 2,000 years old, and is now finally open to the public for free. the cult of mithras itself, we know, was male. 0nly men would have been allowed in and the people who would have been worshippers were generally high—ranking merchants, or high—ranking members of the army. the bigwigs, the wealthy guys. exactly that, yes. newsreel: the remains of a roman temple have been uncovered near the mansion house in the city of london. it is the only one ever found within the city. it was discovered 64 years ago and then moved to give space for a new office block, and the redevelopment has enabled it to be returned back to its original site. but all this money and innovation does have a purpose — profit. i think companies always look at space backwards. they have a budget for space and then they have to work with that budget to fit in people and the design of the desks and how close they all are, and what ancillary benefits you give people. they all have to be within that budget. but if you

and chaotic scenes at a major hindu temple in india we'll look at what sparked the bomb it's. good to have you with us they tried again and again it fails european union leaders met in brussels tonight they had hoped to break the deadlock over a deal for britain to withdrawal from the e.u. and it seems they didn't get very far at all plans for an additional broadside summit in mid november have now been shelved leaders say more time is needed however british prime minister to resign may she says that most of the issues have been resolved although differences remain over what is known as the northern ireland border backstop. both sides say they want to ensure that there will be no physical border between northern ireland which is part of britain and the irish republic and what we've seen is that we've so place to be she's in withdrawal agreements there are still there is still the question of the northern irish backstop but i believe everybody around the table wants to get a deal done by working intensively and closely become a sheep that you could leave a deal physically for n

home to the temple of karnak.reated over 3500 years ago. in 2010 i began a major project to record every individual carving. having finally made it back i'm lucky to have one very special team member alongside me. christoph is not only an excellent archaeologist — he's also a great husband. i couldn't have got through my illness without him. having that little time, you know, to watch something just take control and literally destroy her body. there was less than a 36—hour period where she showed the first symptoms of a flu, to organ collapse. and then there was weeks of not knowing whether liz was going to survive or not and she wasn't expected to, she really defied the odds. christoph and i have decided to bring our son emeran with us on this trip. he was less than a year old when i became ill. for months i couldn't feed him, change his nappy or even hold him. it felt really important for us as a family to do this together because we've just been through so much. and every kind of triumph we do, we do it togethe

and chaotic scenes at a major hindu temple in india hundreds of police try to prevent clashes between women of menstruating age entering the temple for the first time in centuries and conservative hindu groups are determined to stop that. plague. i'm sorry so much condoms good to have you with us british prime minister teresa mayes face. an intense criticism at home that's after admitting that she is considering a european union proposal that would keep britain bound to the blocs rules for several months longer than originally planned after a summit of leaders in brussels failed to make enough progress and reaching a divorce agreement the e.u. has now suggested more time for striking a trade deal that ensures a frictionless border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland that with drugs at the border between northern ireland and the republic is set to become the u.k.'s only land border within the e.u. both sides want to avoid a physical border which many fear could reignite social tensions in northern ireland now a key part of negotiations a so-called backstop that's a gua

new temples and palaces were built they were consecrated to venus the evening star but the new owners were not alone. other families on the south side of the great square raised claims to power their temples were sacred to venus to the mist the morning star. entered upon a new golden age its territory extended from western and northern mexico to the regions of yucatan and honduras to the sun. and who knows of man to wealth and respected and from up here they could oversee the entire economy of mesoamerica. throughout the country really round as was stationed at regular intervals ready to bear lists of orders to the remotest parts of the nation. these are honest trade nor. sophisticated system one trolled the flow of goods through lesser america. the trade loans afforded what was grown or traditionally crafted in. one region and sauted on into other areas for a commission nations that had trading relations with montalban counted themselves fortunate gave them access to exotic goods such as leopard skin pruett's arrowheads made of obsidian. the trade lists used widely recognized symbols

this looks like a video game but in fact it's a highly accurate copy of a real temple it's the temple of the weather god from aleppo one of the most important day it is in the ancient middle east the oldest parts of the temple date from the third millennium b.c. with visualization software the operator can make the sun rise and set allowing for a view of the complex in changing daylight the viewer gets a sense of space size and proportion. to provide instruments with though we are not really standing in this temple we can judge and see things very differently than we could on a normal computer monitor as well as a religion computer morning to about how good. just the fact that i can stand here and for example squat down and actually get a three dimensional view of the object is not something i can do on a normal computer monitor at all. aleppo in syria the temple was located in the heart of the city in the medieval city del from twenty twelve rebels holed up inside use the citadel to fire on government troops the result five thousand years of history turned to dust in a brutal civil w

oh, i didn't mention the temple, did i? this is the temple of mithras.ublic for free. the cult of mithras, we know, was male. only the men would have been allowed in and the people who have been worshippers were generally high—ranking merchants were high—ranking members of the army. the bigwigs, the wealthy guys. exactly that, yes. the remains of a roman temple had been found in the city of london. it is the only one ever found within the city. it was discovered 64 years ago, and then moved to give space for a new office block and the redevelopment has enabled it to be returned back to its original site. but all this money and innovation does have a purpose, profit. i think companies always look at space backwards. they have a budget for space, and then they have to work with that budget to fit in people and the design of the desks and how close they are, and what ancillary benefits you give people. they all had to be within that budget. but if you think about it, a company, particularly one like ours, they have one expense, it is people. so, anything yo

they always sat in the back of the temple to greet people as they came to worship.ten to cecil's long time friend. >> a sweet, sweet, gentle soul that was friendly to everybody. helpful to everybody. he came, i understand, all the time because he wanted to help and be part of the community and to make it accessible to everybody. >> daniel stein was 71. his sense of humor was legend y legendary. his son wrote that saturday was the worst day of my life. >> bernice and sylvan simon were the sweetest couple you could imagine. they were 84 and 86 years old and always trying to help the community and temple. 97-year-old rose mallinger attended the synagogue with her daughter. even at 97, rose was full of life and vibrant. >> the holocaust and ugly times. she made it through that. these are not the kinds of things that are supposed to happen. you don't walk in on saturday morning and think you are not walking out. >> 88-year-old melvin wax of squirrel hill was the first to arri arrive. friends remember him as a gentleman. and irving young never had a bad word to say about

as well is standing by in delhi with more on the story now the temple doors have been open for a few hours has history been made have any women entered the temple well so we despite the heavy police deployment that you have mentioned not a single woman has been able to break this centuries old tradition and the shop. the while and so it opted last evening itself and taught us to attack buses and pulled out women off menstruating age between the ages of ten and fifty saying that they were going to the temple now seven people of all rested last evening but today the wyverns has not been down despite heavy police department at least full vim and journalists who are not even do wood is going to the temple attacked and cameras were also pushed aside those were broken out and despite all the kind of pull its deployment that was there one who was trying to make his way to the temple is actually done back with her family she was forty years old but she was afraid for her safety because so many did want to use protesting out of that oh and don't turn over the misha why are we seeing this push

rabbi singer is making sure members of her temple feel safe. >> we just pray for peace. we say shabbat shalom on this day and we pray for peace everywhere. >> reporter: and back live where the gates of temple emmanuel are locked up tight tonight. a vigil to honor the victims of the pittsburgh shooting is scheduled tonight at 8:00 at the contemporary jewish museum in san francisco on mission street. vigils are also happening in berkeley and in oakland this evening. we're live in san francisco. cornell barnard, abc 7 news. >> appreciate the information, cornell, thank you. >>> a congressman from pennsylvania says attacks like the one today highlight our nation's inability to effectively deal with gun violence. >> congress continues to do nothing about it. you know, you have a situation here where you have disturbed minds with hate in their heart and guns in their hands and we just talk about thoughts and prayers and continue to do nothing about it in the united states congress. >> kelly called the shooting an act of evil that is a direct assault on every american value. >>

keep in mind we restored a temple, we helped build the subway stop. yes, he's returned the temple of mithras to its original site, a cult of wealthy men. 2000 years on, little has changed. it's now presided over by a man who is pondering a run for us president. the building is pioneering, polite, but it also exudes power. david sillito, bbc news, the city of london. newsnight is coming up on bbc two. here on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. hello and welcome to sportsday. simone biles prepares to return to comeptition and tells us she felt empowered speaking out about abuse. there's a downpour in dambulla. england's one—day opener against sri lanka is abandoned. and shane warne opens up about all things cricket, and why aren't there any more characters like him in the sport. hello and welcome to the programme. four—time 0lympic champion simone biles returns to international competition at the world gymnastics championships in qatar later this month after taking 18 months away from the sport. during that time, the world's most decorated g

>> somebody done bombed the temple. >> what? bombed the temple? >> yes. that's how come we're stuck here so long. >> i don't believe it. >> well, it's what the policeman just said. >> oh, no. oh, my god. was anybody there? were people hurt? >> i don't know. he didn't say. >> who would do such a thing? >> you know as good as me, ms. daisy. always be the same ones. >> that was a scene from the academy award winning movie "driving miss daisy" which depicts the temple bombing from 1958. this has a shocking history of mass murder in houses of worship. one of our first weekends on the air here at "kasie dc" was the shooting in sutherland springs, texas, where a gunman killed 26 people in a baptist church during sunday services in november 2017. back in 2015, a self-proclaimed white supremacist walked into mourn emanuel church in charleston, south carolina, and killed nine black parishioners. a year before that, a white supremacist killed three people in two jewish centers in kansas. during his 2015 trial, he said he wanted to kill jewish people. all three of hi

every 14 days. >> over 3,000 pago das, temples and monsteries remain today.dha figure, each one different. >> and i like how integrated it is with the trees. >> actually, funny you should mention that. people used to live here, but the government came along in the '80s, i believe, and relocated -- it was a mass relocation project. so, any homes, anything that was understood, this was a tourist bucks here. they relocated the entire population. >>> we're in one of the first mass waves of tourists. european tourists have been coming here in relatively small numbers a long time. the floodgates opened like crazy around this area called the tourist triangle. >> what is this here? >> as myanmar begins its shift towards accommodating increasing tourism and a service economy to go with it, there will be adjustments. there will be, of course, a downside. >> what's that going to mean? how will burmese react to all the good and evils that come with tourism? >> perfect. >> it's going to be mobility. it's going to mean prosperity for some. it will mean a lot of bad things,

what they have said to some of the drivers is, if you bring journalists into the temple complex thenhave tried to get in today and have failed. but we were there yesterday and we saw some of the violence meted out by some of those protesters, particularly violence towards women. we saw buses being checked for women and when a woman was found in there, mobbed until the buses turned around. we sought one woman being illegally attacked by the protesters. essentially, what the protesters were saying was that they did not want women of menstruation—age, the ages of between 10 and 50, to enter that temple. what they believe is that the supreme court ruling which lifted that i am has replaced one form of dissemination with another, that of religious intolerance. that is why they are so angry. norway's prime minister erna solberg has issued an official government apology to norwegian women who were mistreated over world war two—era relationships with german soldiers. up to 50,000 norwegian women are thought to have had relationships with german soldiers. the germans were also encouraged to h

we had to fend off protesters hell bent on stopping women of mensch to age into the temple believing that such women are and pure. it's clear that. the romans in the. hundred fifty grand of the demo it's done it's against our culture it's against ingle. woman to lead the protest. heavy line of police were on duty to keep the peace but in the feverish atmosphere of india's culture wars they were no match for the mob fighting broke out a high profile female journalist was attacked. pistone could be there facing up journalists a lot of people have turned up and they are beating up people. in the kiosk police threw rocks. the tones were drawn. i thought. it was in the end the on holiest of days that's most sacred of sites. in the. mexican boxer. has announced he has signed a quote historic contract after agreeing a three hundred sixty five million dollars deal to broadcast the sights on the streaming service does own the world middleweight champion a signed a five year old levon fight deal that could be the most lucrative in sports history the twenty eight year old a big janardan goal of

sleeping getting near the temple. canada has joined the very exclusive club of countries that allows the say in the recreational marijuana. of the second country to do so smokers started lining up well before midnight on tuesday to get their hands on legally so we'd done reports from toronto. the. illegal no more at midnight in the easternmost time zone the first non-medicinal cannabis is sold without breaking canadian law. would be super happy to if you're a first person in line legalization is being celebrated countrywide and not just by smokers canadian cannabis companies have seen their share prices soar in recent months as the big day approached there is not one client yet that has not been touched by the introduction of canada canada life sciences technology the banking industry retailers but in addition the food and beverage companies are going to start seeing a lot of activity as they touch the cannabis market how canadians buy their cannabis depends on where they live there will be different distribution rule

hate and violence. ♪ >> reporter: music helped soothe the hearts of those who came to temple emanuelo honor the victims and to ask why. the rabbi could not complain the anti-semitic violence that took 11 lives a at pennsylvania synagogue. the service included people of all faiths, coming together as one. >> we reject this targeting of our sisters and brothers in the faith, we are reminded that jesus went for us all. >> reporter: the names of the shooting victims were read. mayor london breed called for an end to gun violence. >> we all know we have far too many guns in our country and we have far too many guns in our communities. >> i felt like i was 15 years old again, lying in a pool of my own blood. >> reporter: she told the crowd to be strong and have the courage to make change. >> we are all part of this community, and together we can get through anything. and lastly, i'm an american. and i'm a voter. >> reporter: during the service, a san francisco police officer was posted outside the synagogue. and the department says that heightened police presence will continue around local

it's a unique and distinctive religious site a temple built for eternity. the structure of the stone circle can only be seen properly from above the standing stones form various circles and horseshoe shapes grouped around a common center a bank and ditch mark the perimeter. archaeological excavations have given us a fairly accurate idea of who built stonehenge when and how. but why stonehenge was built remains a mystery. it was a wrecked it over a period of almost two thousand years from around three thousand to one thousand b.c. . the outer ditch and bank came first presumably they encircled an area of sacred ground. there was only one point of access to the circle a gap in the perimeter to the north east the builders placed a striking monolith on this axis the so-called healed stone the complex was abandoned after about five hundred years. this pottery is typical of the so-called beaker people it was they who completely remodeled and enlarged stonehenge. from twenty one hundred b.c. stonehenge was a major building site for the beaker people transported pi

they don't want women to attend this temple. no, no, no.ant to change our beliefs, destroy our culture, destroy our religion, that's the only thing this is. the crowd spot a woman getting out of the bus. she needs a police escort to escape the mob. other cars containing women are also attacked. the police are trying to stop the protesters from actually boarding the bus. they're saying that there's a woman inside. we've been told to move away because it's just not safe. it's not safe, it's very dangerous. 0k, we'll move. will move, sir. —— we all move, sir. —— wheel move, sir. we're told to leave. as we do, a female journalist is attacked. 0ur car is pelted with bottles and stones. 0ur colleague's car came off much worse. not everyone protesting here is violent. there are a surprising number of women who have been angered by the decision, too. this woman is a teacher here in kerala. more than 99% of women in kerala don't support this. 0nly only 99%? —— more than 99%? only a microscopic minority, they are ready to destroy our customs. kerala

benjamin hall has the latest from his temple. truck president trump holding a closed-door discussion at the white house. it with secretary of state mike pompeo with the emergency meetings in turkey and saudi arabia. committee comes at the trump administration wants to get into the bottom of the disappearance of the us based journalist jamal khashoggi more than two weeks after last being seen after the saudi consul in a sample. spiked are a lot of stories about what happened. just started going through a lot of the process of to move forward and a lot of the facts or unfolded as and told her remake a determination for ourselves about what happened, based on the facts presented, the united states will determine what the appropriate response might be. >>reporter: officials reported that they have audio or video recordings improving tamaqua shall be with murder. the washington post publishing the saudi writers final column received by the newspaper opinion that is a day after jamal khashoggi went missing. he has writing, arab governm

parting for near different years and then three hours later in the most traditional main temple of my sect all dressed up at five am like i was crazy. it was exhausting but i still do it because i want to enjoy and still not break the rules. and the more you have yeah then five hundred. pounds i think most we are hearing. me going on with. you must say i eat on the uk your show you don't. have is a. good. little boy in there but it was in there you got to go to war boy they're. no good you know that i mean. not to control him so other parents just says the show didn't go just overnight them all hoarded to get back to you. and divert to understand that so you want to be that the. ocean we want you to know that like you have our search for support you know like i feel like i know that you're feeling the pressure even though mommy and daddy and i were not verbal in telling you these things but all the pressures that you're feeling you're in such a privilege place as well like i think like she when i would just like take your place in a heartbeat if you decided not to be the head priest y

from even getting near the temple. or just in haiti have turned violent as anger grows over billions of dollars are missing funds haitians want to know how money from the venezuelan sponsored oil assistance program was shoes to the fans were to provide social care and improve public services and he jocasta reports. police important clue. inspired live ammunition at unarmed protesters wednesday as thousands spilled onto the streets in the capital and across the country the demonstrators accuse the ruling party of corruption and ignoring the needs of its people you know pay day we're living in a country where there's no health care there's no good schools for our children and the farmers are bad and then with no support from the government and in the same country you have a couple of people who stole over three billion dollars. haitians are demanding an investigation into what happened to some three point eight billion dollars from a venezuelan oil agreement the money from the petro caribbean fund was supposed to be for

in south india despite a supreme court ruling for centuries the temple and kurla state banned women or girls older than ten because they were of mistreating age and considered and sure and yes top court said that in french on their right to worship general they could visit the temple starting on wednesday despite fact out of their protests or stop female tea parties from even getting near the temple there are government has begun closing camps for thousands of people displaced by years of war but a worker say security forces are forcibly returning civilians to unsafe areas and the predominately sunni unbar province monotone reports this is the calm point tonally displaced people in iraq's problems. at the height of the military operations against eisel in two thousand and fifteen it was home to seven thousand people. government officials have come to see it closed you know how i'm going to add an amount of time so i mean a hundred last hundred fifty or so families that remained here finally returned home we've closed it as part of a government program to resettle all i.d.p. camps. i

. >> reporter: there is a san francisco police patrol car that is stationed outside the temple. the sfpd issued a statement saying they've stepped up their presence at other synagogues around the city as well. at congregation emanuel this morning, one of the lead rabbis side members were shocked at the gunman's attack. over the years, this congregation has invested in metal detecters at the front doors and guards to keep a watch on the property and the addition of a patrol car outside and lots of patrols circling this temple throughout the day after news of the pittsburgh shooting also helped add some sense of comfort in what was a difficult morning here. >> clearly, it's -- we want america to be that beacon, but ronald reagan talked about that being a light on a hill. cast our light into the world. and we have to return to that better sense of ourselves and who we are. >> reporter: rabbi jonathan singer encouraged his congregation not to let the hate of the gunmen across the country to cause them to respond with hate. the jewish community in san francisco is organizing a candle

came together and formed a friendship and the hardest of time officer shooting at the sikh temple in milwaukee in 2012, the gook gift our wounds tellses that story and my distinct pleasure today to welcome arno and listen to their conversation. here they are. [applause] >> thank you, good morning. my name is arno and party plika i'm just kidding but over the yearss we have definitely become that close that we can probably speak for one another and we are going to as soon as possible possible open up to questions that you have. we love that there's so many people here on this cold saturday morning. we appreciate you. love you, and you know, i'm really party plika and this is arno our brotherhood started because of -- a tragic shooting that happened on august 5th, 2012 as connor alluded to. that day, not only changed my life but it changes the lives of a lot of people not just within the sikh community and within our temple. but poem all throughout wisconsin, the united states have been affected by it. at that time, i was an educator i was working with at risk youth summer vacations fo

he has a law degree from temple university, lives with her husband and two children in hyde park. republican brad wenstrup represented the second district for congress since 2013, he is 60 years old. part of politics he worked as a podiatrist and surgeon and rose to the rank of colonel in the