organize the lines of defense a feat of two hundred takesh men of war has been sighted off the coast of malta forty thousand heavily armed autumn and are about to attack seven thousand christians by the knights of malta will attempt to withstand the. onslaught. on the eighteenth of may fifteenth sixty five attacks attack but despite their superior numbers they meet unexpectedly determined resistance the attempt to take the full by surprise fails the defenders put up a dog fight within a month the turks have lost eight thousand men and then does faults an elm a full. weekend to the turks launch a second attack on the opposite side of the haba there the defense is led by the grand master of malta john paris. with his soldiers and circled by the turks they resist the fall long months. then at last the help they have been waiting full arrives from sicily the tables are turned the sultan's army demoralized by the long struggle phase from the island in panic. i i. i i am. the whole of europe rejoiced at the victory of the aggressively expansionist autumn and the knights of st john was celebrated as

the enemy who had assembled his fleet this time of malta was a frenchman. napoleon bonaparte the most famous fortress of the mediterranean was surrendered without a shot being fired. the flag of the order which had waved so proudly of a countless battlefields in the holy land and in the east which was the dread of the muslims at sea was no good up to two hundred sixty ideas without so much as a. hand. their songs are dance floor hits. their fans are found around the world. their careers been full of ups and downs. an explosive look at the world of cust caught up. a special. this is one of the revolution. see it's time to measure since the revolution has been working to strengthen the young democracy. fighting for the environment jobs and against modern apathy. believes in the power of his generation. for tunisia's future. of the three thousand and thirteen. fasten your seat belts. look at the. chick in. the travel guide to dublin. busy getting it come to somebody at the right to arm. correspondent me is in central istanbul i'm joined by michel a couple of yo

arabia's last . 80 miles east of here, there is a boat laying in the earth much like the arabia called the malta. in september 1841. its cargo is different. it was working for the american fur company out in st. louis. on this boat for indian trade goods going up the river. some things are getting off in kansas city, going overland across along the santa fe trail on the southeast corner. we did a course ample of the boat last year to confirm that there was cargo that was still good on it. you could feel the drill cut through the top of the boat and we went three feet down inside of it to capture whatever we would find their and we found 150 gold buttons, ceramics, black and red wool fabrics and even chunks of lard. it will be a remarkable collection. is a remarkable collection. it would be hard to imagine anything better than that. i would not say that the next boat or the next would be better. it will be different. it will be from a different time period, and it's cargo will be every bit as revealing and is awesome. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to kansas city, missouri, to learn a

here, there isf a boat laying in the earth like the arabia called the malta. it's a 15 years before this one in september of 1841. the cargo is different. it was working for the american fur company out of st. louis. on this boat was indian trade goods going up the river to council bluffs, and an overlooked perhaps. some things were getting off in kansas city and going along the santa fe trail. we get a core sample of the vote to confirm it was cargo -- boat to confirm it had cargo. you could feel the drill cut through the top of the boat. we captured whatever we would find. when it was brought to the surface we found 150 gold buttons, ceramics, chunks of lard. the boat is still full. we are pushing for a gig in the fall or sometime thereafter. it will be a remarkable collection. the arabia is a remarkable collection. it would be hard to imagine anything better than that. i would not say the next boat will be better. it will be different, from a different time period. it's cargo will be every bit as revealing and is awesome. -- as awesome. >> our staff recently

that, as fighting in the country's civil war intensifies. police in malta arrested 10 people in connection to the murder of a journalist. she reported on corruption on the island when she was killed in a car bombing back in october. germany still without a government, but it could be closer than ever to a new one. they are looking to have talks with the conservatives. the question remaining, can they convinced the party to accept another grand coalition. i'm brent goff. it is good to have you with us. one step forward, two steps back. we are talking about the brexit dance we are familiar with. there were hopes of a breakthrough in brussels today, which were scuttled at the last minute. that, despite reports theresa may had thrashed out a deal with ireland over the border dispute with britain. she has a week if she wants to unlock trade talks with brussels by next year. >> the handshakes were maybe a little premature. teh e.u. and britain saying they are close to reaching an agreement on the border. but it failed to materialize. >> despite our best efforts a

i'm joined now by keith macao is a journalist at the times of malta based in the maltese capital votes and he is good to have you on the show what more do we know about these suspects and and do we know anything about their potential motives. so far the police have been on the other these have been about. the horse so the climb to comment where there were actually masterminds of the caller though there were the execute there so are a lot of the suspects rounded up today too particularly being mentioned two brothers or their name is alfred and george the drop the investigations are focusing around and what's interesting is that this evening the relatives actually the sons of difficult it's you know have complained they should a statement saying this was more of a p.r. exercise out there then an investigation differently in that they only learned about what was going on from the media and they complained that they should have been kept in the loop about what was going on and they're practically accusing the prime minister he's doing it the other exists is some damage control too to make

. >>> strong winds push ad plane into a building at the malta airport. e nose of this privately owned aircraft went straight through the cement wall. wind gusts first knocked it off its wheel chalks and then plowed through the fence into a building. it belongs to lord michael ashcroft who is a major don't o'to the conservative group. >>> meanwhile, nasa posted animation, as you see here. the asteroid was about the size of a bus. more than 130,000 miles away when it passed by. that closeness is considered a cat's whisker in astronomical terms. >> if yo if yo if yo if yo if u another super moon will take place on january 31st. it will feature a total lunar eclipse. that will cause it to take on an eerie, fainter than normal glow. all fascinating and beautiful to look at. it is almost time to start recycling your christmas tree.te >> looking at how trees are turned into mulch, pick up is from january 2 until january 12th. recycling reduces the amount of material that ends up in the landfill and it feeds moisture and night rents pack into the voir. >> we're d

in september the weather in space was as the malta was as it was on earth. o blackouts. nassar recorded the biggest solarflare for a radio blackouts. nassar recorded the biggest solar flare for a decade, but why should a flair have such an impact? —— nasa. we went to cambridge to get the answer. antarctica is a brilliant place to observe space? it is. it's very radio quiet, so we can pick up radio signals in the antarctic which we can't do elsewhere. we detect a special radio waves and those charged particles pose a risk of damage to satellites. in fact they are called killer electrons because they've been known to kill spacecraft in the past. one of the largest solar flare is ever to be witnessed was an event named after the british astronomer who observed it in 1859. he sketched what he saw on the sun, telegraph systems went haywire worldwide. scientists have estimated that something similar today could cost billions or trillions, given now increasing reliance on satellite technology. colour—coded here, you can see the radiation belts, the regions of high e

month from the european parliament yet which is a serious crimes and not being investigated by the police in malta do you take well as seriously about allegations that off well any european parliament is of course free to comment and we always think anything the european parliament and the parliamentarians be they more to be the european seriously of course we do we don't always have to agree with what you fell out people badly with a recent delegation that came here the prime minister questioned whether whether the call for them to come the prime minister met did that again and then question whether it was useful for them to come because they appeared to have made up their minds oh yes you see because that is a bit unfair if you come here every of make it appear on mine before you actually start investigation the thing that can be a bit unfair but no should we take anybody's comments. seriously as far as long as the f.o. comment you take seriously that in the transparency international corruption in the full last year you fell to an all time low which was forty seventh place to take that seriousl

your green mint with with vitals in parliament it wasn't till the full document was leaked to the times of malta that the exact terms were visible to the public why did you seek to restrict access to the term green part of the agreements as you would expect in any. commercially sensitive agreement have need to be deducted by on the backs of lawyers because there's. there are commercial sensitivities which will need to be protected so what damage was done by having the contract leak while you say it was the full quote actually i haven't seen this full contact that what the times have i don't know what they have they had details which you didn't originally support i don't know what it is the times have maybe you know more than a company managing three state hospitals being paid one hundred eighty eight thousand euros a day on the basis of no experience whatsoever in the field know they're running the hospitals and those monies that you mention are not not legal not not not management fees they are fees to run the actual hospitals so they are salaries for for doctors and for nurses they are. expens

because there is a journalist at the times of malta based in the capital the latter welcome to day w. and what more is known of these suspects and their likely motives well. a few minutes ago actually sources close to the government have said the two main suspects out of ten suspects are george their children and for the georgia to will tease man brothers actually who has a long criminal history all of a sudden the investigation is her focus from the circle of ten people ten suspects potential suspects which were mentioned this morning know the focus to two people who know the motive is not is not yet been established but investigations are still ongoing and we expect at least by the looks of it that these two guys will be useful men could be arraigned if not tomorrow the latest on wednesday ok so that looks like progress when lol to us justice minister spoke today w. he seemed to have already decided that dominick i want to get it's he was killed by criminals she was investigating the family has its doubts and where were you on that. well the family up to forty eight hours ago they w

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you can try to christmas table and in that case chris still tableware the pic for you the first still is a mix made malta and the son of st it to one thousand four hundred fifty see that crystal is blown glass because of its thickness it requires a team of four to seven architects for aswell coordinate and meet the power. of factory manufacturers twenty to twenty five thousand different no it seems to me it was shipped our products run the country and explodes in a range of countries including mongolia trauma bay and switzerland but if you're looking for something more a thousand chicken traditional while there are russian national said remix one else the most popular as a style which takes its name from the village where it has been pretty use since the nineteenth century but if you wonder if you look closely you can see a cabbage blue rose engraved in every piece of table where it is a distinguished feature of the shell tottery no matter wad she choose to bring back whether it's ceramics gloss where or decorations perhaps the most treasured thing as mallory in a question marks her thoughts are on top o

did today's events the timing especially has been has been question all right mcauliffe with the times of malta joining us tonight from valetta key thank you very much. you're watching the w. news live from berlin we're going to the pub of the hour with more world news. enter the conflict zone confronting the powerful i'll be challenging those in power asking tough questions demanding on some. as conflicts intensify i'll be meeting with teeth players on the ground in the senate as a flower cutting through the rhetoric holding the fossil back of conflict so. conflicts on confronting the powerful on d w. are not about and they will not succeed in dividing us set out not succeed in taking the people off the streets because we have tired of these dictatorships. taking a stand global news that matters d. w. made for minds. my soon to quito spent two hundred eighty days in the torture chambers of the islamic state terrorist group in syria. the twenty four year old kurd finally regained his freedom in a prisoner exchange and fled to europe. he brought with him valuable intelligence about the ins and i

risks opening a new front in yemen's war, one that will leave ordinary yemenis once more in the crossfire. malta's prime minister, joseph muscat, says eight people have been arrested in connection with the killing of the journalist daphne caruana galizia. drawnrders have widespread condemnation. investigators have 48 hours to question the suspects to decide whether to seek charges. the three officials with a french cement company have been placed under investigation for their alleged role in indirectly funding islamic extremist groups in syria. initial official said on friday the men were handed the luminary charges of financing a terrorist enterprise and endangering others. to funneling money to syrian armed organizations in 2014, to guarantee safe passage for employees and supply its plants. lafargerter is at headquarters. what are the reactions to these preliminary charges? we actually talked to the lawyer of one of the three executives who were charged for indirectly financing terrorism in syria. the one who was in charge of security at the time for lafarge -- he told his lawyer he denied any

the question becomes, if the malta and cyprus are so dependent on u.k. exports whether there will be a trade diversion effect if the u.k. is no longer a member. the second point going to garrett workman's point is that there are critical agreements in almost every international sector. you mentioned open skies and aviation. one of the things i would like to see policymakers look at is, how many agreements are there when both the u.k. and the e.u. are signatories? because there was a period of time when the e.u. was not a legal entity. so there will be some agreements. we are not going to fall out of everything in the u.k., but there are going to be ones we will in the u.k. have to renegotiate. so the fact we got 750 protocols and agreements, some of which the u.k. is an independent signatory, may mean that it will be less critical. the third point that canada plus, plus bespoke agreements, i'm just -- like everybody else, there is a whole new language going on here. if i know anything about trade and i look and i actually read the e.u.-canadian agreement,

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ninety five genocide in tripoli needs a is one of the bloodiest pages in yugoslav history the massacre of malta involves the acts perpetrated by units of the bulls. resulted in their commander ratko manage being jailed for life by the un special court in november twenty seventh. but atrocities happened on old sites in one thousand nine hundred three sixty nine so being civilians were killed by bosnia and herzegovina army forces in the scale on the massacre but an orthodox church in the cemetery burned to the ground. over all despite much evidence of war crimes conducted similar taney asleep by different forces the cia eventually declared said militants were responsible for ninety percent of all crimes including genocide. tonight and they took those into action against yugoslavia it is indeed tragic that diplomacy has failed and nato is now intervening in a war in a sovereign country. and eventually nato air campaign conducted a number of operations to undermine the military capability of. army. to this day the u.n. special court distil investigating war crime cases from the conflict well a tota

be blacklisted -- among them, four countries within the european union -- ireland, the netherlands, luxembourg, and maltat there is not a single member states on the list. critics say europe should put their own house in order first. javier: our reporter charlotte chelsom-pill has been covering the story for us from brussels. charlotte, hi, good to see you. not a single eu country is listed on this blacklist. how does the eu even justify that? charlotte: that's quite right. well, the eu will argue it has its own tools for regulating tax avoidance within member states. they will say this is something that was always planned to moderate the action of third-party countries, countries outside the bloc. but certainly the fact that no eu countries are on either the blacklist or the grey list, a list of countries that will have to adjust their behavior, is causing a lot of anger in some circles. oxfam, as we just heard in that report, is particularly angry. it published its own report saying, was this a blacklist or a whitewash? it argues that had the eu applied its own rules to its own member states, then four

members island luxemburg the netherlands and malta should be on the blacklist of tax havens if the e.u. applied its own criteria to them while oxfam also points out that some e.u. members not only use so-called conduit offshore financial centers but they also act as ones and they do this by being an intermediate destination for money transfer to tax havens they also provide favorable tax policies to ensure a quiet funds flow well this enables the mediators to protect the reputations of their client countries financial commentator charlie boyle believes the e.u. has made in effectual attempts to clean up its image after the twenty sixteen panama paper scandal. it was an attempt to be seen to be doing something internationally about the offshore havens the problem is inside it's inside the london as one of the biggest financial centers and it has the the this this transfer pricing policy which which makes it. virtually zero percent for the big corporations in terms of corporation tax and it's also. saving in big saving the v.a.g. as well so again it's totally on. what i've most interesti

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that should be blacklisted among them for countries within the european union ireland the netherlands luxembourg and malta but there's not a single e.u. member state on the list critics say europe should put its own house in order first . and our reporter charlot shell some pill has been covering the story for us from brussels charlotte hi good to see you not a single country is listed on this blacklist as we just saw how does the e.u. even justify that. that's quite right well the e.u. will argue that it's got its own tools for regulating tax avoidance within member states so they'll say this is something that was always planned to moderate the action of third party countries countries outside the block but certainly the fact that no e.u. countries are on either this blacklist or the so-called greylisting list of countries who are going to have to adjust their behavior has really caused a lot of anger in some circles oxfam for example as we just heard there in that report is particularly angry it publishes own report saying was this a blacklist all was it a whitewash its own argues that had the e.u. appl

members ireland at luxembourg the netherlands and malta should be on the blacklist of tax havens if the e.u. applied its own criteria to them oxfam also points out that some members not only use so-called conduit offshore financial centers but act as ones as well and they do this by being an intermediate dis to nation and for money transfer to tax havens they also provide favorable tax policies to ensure a quiet funds of flow this enables the mediators to protect the reputations of their client countries financial commentator try to boil believes that the e.u. has made ineffectual attempts to clean up its image after the two thousand and sixteen panama paper scandal. there seem to be doing something internationally about the offshore havens the problem is inside it's inside the event as. this is the center for the big corporations and the lake. in those. political opposition has been arrested in kiev saakashvili regards himself as an anti-corruption activist and is calling for the impeachment of the current ukrainian president poroshenko after the arrest actually was placed in a tempora

member island luxembourg the netherlands and malta should all of the input of all not blacklist so-called conduit to offshore financial centers such countries act as a into media destinations for money transferred to tax havens they also provide favorable tax policies to ensure a quote quiet funds flow that means the media is ultimately protect the reputations of their client countries and financial commentator charlie boyle believes the e.u. is made ineffectual attempts to clean its image after the twenty sixteen panama papers scandal. it was a an attempt to be seen to be doing something internationally about the offshore havens the problem is inside it's inside the e.u. london is one of the biggest financial centers and it has the the this this transfer pricing policy which which makes it. virtually zero percent for the big corporations in terms of corporation tax and it's also. a saving in big saving of the eighty as well so again it's it's a totally unfair what i found most interesting is the panama papers and the paradise papers and the leaks to deal with that there's a lot of uproar

of integrated production, it does have a much, much broader impact of the question becomes is, if the malta and cyprus are so dependent on uk exports, whether there will be sort of a trade diversion effect if the uk is no longer a member. the second point going to garrett workman's point is that there are critical agreements in almost every international sector. you mentioned open skies and aviation. one of the things i would like to see policy made -- makers look at how many agreements when the both the uk and e.u. are sigtoresrys? there was a point in time when the eu was not a legal entity. there will be some agreements we'll not fall out of everything in the uk, but there are some in the uk we will have to renegotiate. the fact that we have 750 protocols and agreements, some of which the uk is an independent signatory may mean that it will be less critical. the third point that canada plus plus spoke agreements i'm just, like everybody else there is a whole new language going on here and if i know anything about trade, and i look and i actually read the eu's ceta canadian agreement, the

so once the british made a decision to leave the you, paris, frankfurt, dublin and malta everybody was after the investment by the banks and they were pretty clear they would not be single market under the passport access for the u.k. -based banks so it is a competitive issue. with the u.s. we already had experience with the europeans wanting to cover financial services. the u.s. was firm that we were not interested in that. you certainly know more about this than most but it is partly competitive but more regulatory. so we have a variety of approaches after the crisis and even before terrorist finance, anti-money anti- money laundering into the federal reserve and treasury is unwilling to delegate those even the united kingdom regulatory agencies. so just one other diversion is what they are discovering in this brexit process is that in the context of negotiating with the united states and european union, they are a small player to negotiate with the eu as we are seeing and if they negotiated with us they would be a small player. we are relatively indifferent so we were look at this n

should be blacklisted among them four countries within the european union ireland the netherlands luxembourg and malta but there's not a single e.u. member state on the list critics say europe should put its own house in order first . and our reporter charlot shell some pill has been covering the story for us from brussels charlotte hi good to see you not a single e.u. country is listed on this blacklist as we just saw how does the e.u. even justify that. that's quite right well the e.u. will argue that it's got its own tools for regulating tax avoidance within member states they'll say this is something that was always planned to moderate the action of third party countries countries outside the block but certainly the fact that no e.u. countries are on either this blacklist or the so-called greylisting list of countries who are going to have to adjust their behavior has really caused a lot of anger in some circles oxfam for example as we just heard there in that report is particularly angry it publishes own report saying was this a blacklist all was it a whitewash it argues that had the e.u. applied

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things first that the forensic case that was bill is hugely impressive that's the one that leads the trail to malta and to libya but there dent the case and evidence which helped convict mr mclaughlin he is the very least suspect not least because mr gauci the key the key witness was paid after the event and by the american authorities but still paid which is not something that we encourage in the scottish traditional system. now on and on for marvin again on the same subject says just watch the show fascinating stuff indeed about lockerbie can you say is the court in your opinion was the reason for the plane being blown up was it just a terrorist incident or something more sinister while our on and on i think it was a terrorist incident and i think that's probably sinister enough patricia atkinson says. it's been a shit reporter scott in the brand in the world the fashion show tonight from her nomic sam and yes patricia it is great to see the scope of the brand concept been so successful in the fashion world and gold money finally says excellent third episode detail point zero quake the state it's

that should be blacklisted among them for countries within the european union ireland the netherlands luxembourg and malta but there's not a single e.u. member state on the list critics say europe should put its own house in order first . and our reporter charlot shell some pill has been covering the story for us from brussels charlotte hi good to see you not a single country is listed on this blacklist as we just saw how does the e.u. even justify that. that's quite right well the e.u. will argue that it's got its own tools for regulating tax avoidance within member states they'll say this is something that was always planned to moderate the action of third party countries countries outside the block but certainly the fact that no e.u. countries are on either this blacklist or the so-called greylisting list of countries who are going to have to adjust their behavior has really caused a lot of anger in some circles oxfam for example as we just heard there in that report is particularly angry it published its own report saying was this a blacklist all was it a whitewash it argues that had the e.u. applied