once part of yugoslavia and then 20 years ago a theater of war. the manager and founder of the collective. pops by with her son. he was just 3 months old when his father was killed in 1999 his mother was left with nothing except her 2 young children 3 years later she founded an association called the widows of. which would later become a women's cooperative. it was really difficult convincing people in the village especially the women. the notion of working independently while also being a grieving widow in a rural community was unimaginable but i was persistent and managed to bring all the women together. on march 25th and 26th 1999 more than 100 muslim men from krisha were rounded up and shot dead by serbian militias the women and children fled or were driven out. of the graves of those murdered for some there are no graves their bodies were never found. it was massacres like this targeting albanian civilians that prompted nato to launch a campaign of air strikes against serbia. in june 1909 the multinational k. 4 force sent troops into kosovo t

the breakup of yugoslavia began in 1991 when the republics of slovenia and kuwait declared independence 6 bitter wars followed by the republic of bosnia-herzegovina paid the high price for independence them or their families or the magic there or the washington government backed out i'm a free market out of more of the mess but i'm not a member of the front of the without. the bosnian war started in the spring of 1992 and lasted for 3 and a half months. in the summer of 19951 of the worst atrocities in europe since the 2nd world war was committed here. bosnian serb forces under the command of general rights common law ditch occupied sort of beneath on the 11th of july 1995 in the following days 25000 women and children were forcibly removed from the town. and 8000 men and boys were systematically killed. thank you thank you thank. you journalist me murchadh to church pointed from 70 on the 10th of july 995 the next day was the last that his mother hieron saw him alive. don is the route to the couch or mine aren't fully thought fire goes wrong on a. bottle or on just as windows too much

the breakup of yugoslavia began in 1991 when the republics of slovenia and croatia declared independence 6 bitter wars followed by the republic of bosnia-herzegovina paid a high price for independence memory of the damage to the magic for the russian government back out i'm a free man you're out of more of the mess but if you must not a member of the front of the without. the bosnian war started in the spring of 1992 and lasted for 3 and a half months. in the summer of 19951 of the worst atrocities in europe since the 2nd world war was committed here. bosnian serb forces under the command of general rights common law ditch occupied on the 11th of july 1995 in the following days 25000 women and children were forcibly removed from the town. and 8000 men and boys were systematically killed. thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you journalist mean our charter which reported from several minutes up on the 10th of july 995. the next day was the last that his mother hyra saw him alive. though surely adonis dilute the dark altar feely fire guns all on aided their own daughter on just us

river in bosnia he visits his grandmother and records her memories the book looks back at tito's yugoslavia and its collapse in the 1990 s. nationalism and war forced the family to flee from it because. i don't was wanted to look at my own biography and of my family and the final stories that way where the present always dips into the past if we took the same route today my mother and i would have ended up standing in front of a barbed wire fence somewhere in hungary that's hard it's hard. chance to came to heidelberg the epitome of german romanticism. a gas station turns out to be the place where origin loses its weight. often we could be anything there we could be anything and everything in the stories we told there and there were hardly any conflicts it was like an unwritten rule not here maybe someplace else but not here in this stony shit place with a chance and lets his readers join in decision making in the end the book becomes an adventure novel turning like a relate wheel between fact and fiction. and congratulations to him staying on a literary topic it's time for our series 100 g

spoke at the funeral of the last which the controversial serbian leader and former dictator of yugoslavia and he's been seen by many as being an apologist for for serbia nationalism so not really the safe choice for the nobel not really the the p.c. choice and now off to the scandal. promised big changes how do you think they're doing yeah it was interesting because last year series of scandals they said they have they postponed suspended the prize last year because they said we've lost the confidence of the public we have to get it restored and they promised not only to make internal changes but also to make the prize more diverse to take it away from its sort of traditional male centered and euro centric approach but here they've given 2 prizes to european writers and one to one who's probably the most mail in euro centric writer you could you could think of so i think there's still a lot of work to be done done there but we'll have to see maybe maybe they will make changes maybe this is just the beginning but so far i think it's a work in progress now i do know that you're all of a fav

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hunka is not uncontroversial politically during the war in yugoslavia he not only showed littery support for then president milosevic he also attended his funeral but that didn't play a role for the committee. even him the prize is a matter of course he's a great artist for 70 to 80 of his works in various genres a great creative ability that continues unbroken. to polish right to olga to celebrated surprising success with her novel the books of jacob she received the 2018 prize retroactively. can i get to some of your what she really does well a theme that cross borders she writes across borders and that's clear even in her style so tell us more from where you start the performance they will find she's crossing borders at the moment on a book tour in germany. now some 3 and a half 1000 women integrand spent the day doing something that has been banned since the reagan revolution of 1979 cheering on the radio football team from inside the stadium now the men beat cambodia but the female fans claimed a bigger victory in the fight against repression. you can call it iran's football revolut

hunka is not uncontroversial politically during the war in yugoslavia he not only showed literally support for then president milosevic he also attended his funeral but that didn't play a role for the committee. even him the prize is a matter of course he's a great artist 70 to 80 of his works in various genres a great creative ability that continues on broken. polish right to olga to celebrated surprising success with her novel the books of jacob she received the 2018 price retroactively. can i get this on john what she really does well a themes that cross borders she writes across borders and that's clear even in her style tell us more from where you start the performance they will and she's crossing borders at the moment on a book tour in germany. was i forget you can always get the news on the go just down or up from google play or the store and that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you know so use that e.w. up to send us photos and videos. where you're watching news live from berlin and helena humphre

nice bonus if you're good at the show hank is not uncontroversial politically during the war in yugoslavia he not only showed literally support for then president milosevic he also attended his funeral but that didn't play a role for the committee. giving him the prize as a matter of course he's a great artist with 70 to 80 of his works in various genres a great creative ability that continues on broken. polish right to olga to celebrated surprising success with her novel the books of jacob she received the 2018 prize retroactively. can i get this and you know what she really does well a themes that crosspost this she writes across fortas and that's clear even in her style to tell us more from where you start the performance they will and she's crossing borders at the moment on a book tour in germany. coming up next africa 2nd biggest economy is faltering and things could still get worse for south africa monica johns will have that coming right up and give you business. and. what's the connection between bread. and the european union the nose gear. correspondent.

advisors to the fledgling governments of austria, poland, czechoslovakia, and what became known as yugoslavia. these advisors, some of whom stayed for three years, worked to reorganize railways, reform currencies and modernize agriculture. hoover also helped to reopen the danube river basin to peacetime commerce. he dispatched american agencies to mining regions where they helped to settle strikes and increase production of urgently needed coal. after the signing of the treaty of versailles--you want me to tell me what to do? thank you. with the signing of the treaty of versailles in the summer of 1919, relief and reconstruction efforts entered a new phase. the american relief administration was reconstituted as a nongovernmental organization with hoover at the helm. it became part of a growing empire of philanthropy. in his associates developed it to cope with the great war's aftermath. between 1921 and 1923, it's more daunting relief project at all, they ministered a relief program to combat the devastating famine in the interior of soviet russia, where the worst famine in europe since the

he is what vomited up from a .ailed democracy like in yugoslavia.e have to begin to address the fundamental root causes that have created the political crisis and economic crisis, social, even cultural crisis that we are in. and ifif we don't confront that crisis, impeachment may very growing g gasoline on the antagonisms and violence that is besetting this country. , if nancy'sonifaz close -- if nancy pelosi's decision to move forward based on the phone call with ukraine president, i feel like i'm in casablanca, surprised there i is gambling at this establishment. the ability of president of the united states or pressure for leaders to do what they want sort of in part of the process of how the united states wields power? or is it just the situation here that the president did it directly himself rather than have one of his minions exert the pressure? >> no, the issue is he solicited for interference to help with his election campaign, not that he solicited pressure or forced a country to do something that he claims was for the you and -- one's peo

in bosnia and he visits his grandmother and records her memories the book looks back at tito's yugoslavia and its collapse in the 1990 s. nationalism and war forced the family to flee from it because. i don't we wanted to look at my own biography and of my family and the final stories that way where the present always dips into the past if we took the same route today my mother and i would have ended up standing in front of a barbed wire fence somewhere in hungary that's hard it's hard. chance to came to heidelberg the epitome of german romanticism. a gas station turns out to be the place where origin loses its weight. because we could be anything there we could be anything and everything in the stories we told there and there were hardly any conflicts it was like an unwritten rule not here maybe someplace else but not here in the. stanley ships plays with chance and lets his readers join in decision making in the end the book becomes an adventure novel turning like a relate wheel between fact and fiction. sasha's sanish itch my favorite on the left because there's pain and there are ther

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during the war in yugoslavia, you not only showed -- he not only s swed supporort for slobon milosevic, h he attended his funeral. >> giving him the prize is a matter of f course. he is a great artist. 7280 of his works in various jon runyans, a a great -- in various jogegenres. repoporter: polish w wrir o olga totokarczuk had surprising succs for "the book of jacob." she received the 2018 prize troactivelely. >> she writes acrossss bordersr, anand that is clear eveven in hr ststyle. reporter: and she is crossing borders of the moment on a book tour in germany. brent: thousands of women in tehran are happily hoarse tonight after spending the day doing something they have not been allowed to do since the iranian revolution of 1979. they were cherry on the iranian national football team from inside -- yes from inside the stadium. the men won the match against cambodia. the female fans and say they reached a more significant role in their fight against conservatism. reporter: you can call it iran's football revolution. silenced for decades can these women were ready to make some noise. 3,

rail tracks once garbage arrives from moscow now the series of wars that followed the breakup of yugoslaviaack in the 1990 s. were notoriously bitter and bloody and still today militant nationalism plagues the region with accusations and counter-accusations our reporters visitors in a small village in the sheba nick region of southern croatia where the serb minority has regularly being faced with violence but one local man boris petticoats says the time has come to begin to look to the future. the people of this story a will never forget the day a group of men attacked because bar boris his family and friends had been watching a football match when they stormed the bar beating up everyone inside and wrecking havoc. a 16 year old boy from the neighborhood was even hospitalized with a serious head injury. to a local boys on the school there were 2 they weren't local men. also spoke of it. they travelled here for more than 100 kilometers. one of the bits missing this was a premeditated attack. yeah exactly what. i want the authorities to find out who organized this. and who sent them. you know

these laws were largely adopted from the federation of yugoslavia to which i belong. bosnia-herzegovina was a stablish by the 1995 digna courts which ended the war and set up a power sharing government designed to represent the country's 3 major ethnic groups. it was considered a temporary solution but to this day the presidency rotates between a serb a muslim and a croat. and its frozen ethnic divisions in place. i know wants to do her part to overcome these divisions she's unrolled at a youth academy financed by the german government it's open to bosnian muslim serbs and croats students. during the 12 month course the young people learn about political processes and civic engagement and human rights and they graduate with a diploma that makes them eligible to apply for jobs with the government or human rights groups. initially i know didn't share her personal history with her fellow students but then didn't read her story in a media report now she too was engaged with the invisible children's fight for equality. was out of the mothers of. your luggage you know a gre

ever since it gained independence from the former yugoslavia, zaev says, it's had two parallel objectives. >> since independence in 1991th first prime goals for our country was membership of nato because of securitand participation of keeping peace all around the world and our membership in the european union. >> reporter: but those aspirations, being part of the e.u. single market beingnd the blocked by greece for a reason that may seem arcane. greece has a region called macedonia-- the birthplace of alexder the great. the name dates back to ancient history, when historic macedonia contained parts of six balkan countries, cluding modern day greece and north macedonia.im ic cg the name "repu of macedonia" in 1991, the new country angered greece. were there ever any ambitions on the part of north macedonia-- >> no. ( laughs ) >> reporter: --to actually annex parts of greece because of the name? >> discussions on territoria claims border science fiction. >> reporter: dr. simonida kacarska is director of a local pro-e.u. think tank called the european policy institute. >> if we take a look b

that's the bloody period that saw the disintegration of yugoslavia and the shocking bombardmof dubrovnikcroatian-serbian war. the scars are still visible today. but eventually, visitors couldn't resist. and when the rebound came, spurred by "game of thrones," there were unintended consequences, particularly innc the walled "old town." it had close to 3,000 residents a decade ago. today, with homes being converted into vacation rentals, there's barely 1,000 full-timers living here. compare that tvinge 10,000 tourists who might single day. >> we have a lot of visitors coming j thrones." of "game of is that good? it's good because they're goings to sething new and something unique... but this igain, we are coming on the beginning, and this is at the management of the tourism. >> reporter: the city isma ging tourism, he says, by limiting the number of cruise ships and tour buses. the city has also cut the number of souvenir stands by 80% and banned loud music after 11:30 at night-measures it took after unesco, the cultural body of the united natio, warned the city risked losing its special w