Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor - IV. Adagietto. Sehr langsam

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor - IV. Adagietto. Sehr langsam · Berliner Philharmoniker · Herbert von Karajan - Adagio ℗ 1973 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin

Children Who Met Hitler Speak Out - Hitler and the Children of Obersalzberg - History Documentary

The Obersalzberg retreat was the summer residence and retreat of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun and his closest confidants in the Nazi regime. The public are mainly familiar with film footage and photographs from the alleged Nazi idyll. For the first time, eye witnesses are willing to talk about their experiences in Obersalzberg.

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Scottish Election 2021: Nicola Sturgeon Celebrates 'Historic' SNP Election Win

Nicola Sturgeon has hailed the SNP's "historic and extraordinary" fourth consecutive victory in the Scottish Parliament election.

Nicola Sturgeon Vows to Hold Indy Ref 2 as SNP Closes In on Win

THE GUARDIAN: First minister said voters gave ‘emphatic’ mandate to stage legally-recognised independence poll

Nicola Sturgeon has pledged to press ahead with plans for a second independence referendum after the Scottish National party was poised to win its fourth consecutive Holyrood election, triggering a constitutional battle with Boris Johnson.

With counting continuing into Saturday evening, the Scottish National party was expected to fall two seats short of an overall majority despite winning a record number of Holyrood constituency seats, after a surge in anti-independence tactical voting.

Sturgeon’s lingering hopes of winning a majority were quashed after the Scottish Conservatives won the key SNP target seat of Aberdeenshire West with a hefty majority – a result the Tories will argue vindicates their decision to make independence one of the biggest issues in their campaign.

Buoyed by a record turnout in a Holyrood election of 64%, the first minister said Scottish voters had given her an “emphatic” mandate to stage a legally-recognised referendum in the next parliament – a challenge the prime minister dismissed before the election result was declared. » | Severin Carrell and Libby Brooks | Saturday, May 8, 2021

Nancy Wake: Enemy of the Reich | French Resistance Documentary | Timeline

This is the incredible true story of Nancy Wake, the daring allied spy who became the Gestapo’s most wanted woman in WWII. Codenamed ‘The White Mouse’ for her elusiveness, this international femme fatale was a key inspiration behind Sebastian Faulkes’ celebrated fictional spy Charlotte Gray.

phoenix persönlich: Hamed Abdel-Samad zu Gast bei Alfred Schier

Hamed Abdel-Samad ist gebürtiger Ägypter und bekannt als Islamkritiker. Jetzt hat er ein Buch geschrieben: „Aus Liebe zu Deutschland“. Es bedarf vielleicht eines zugewanderten Deutschen um uns zu zeigen, dass unser Land liebenswert ist. Aber Abdel-Samad sagt auch, unsere Demokratie und die freie Gesellschaft sind in Gefahr.

New Concerns as Indian Covid Variant Clusters Found across England

THE GUARDIAN: Exclusive: Leaked emails show Public Health England assessment of ongoing risk from B16172 variant is ‘high’

Clusters of the Indian variants of Covid-19 have been found across England, including in care homes, the Guardian has learned, amid growing fears about the speed with which they are spreading in communities.

The latest update of case numbers of these variants was due to be published on Thursday. But leaked emails seen by the Guardian show the announcement was delayed until at least Friday because of the local elections.

The documents also suggest officials from Public Health England are poised to escalate one of the variants to one “of concern”. » | Nicola Davis, Science Correspondent | Thursday, May 6, 2021

Scenes of Scotland, as It Weighs Its Future within Britain

THE NEW YORK TIMES: If the pro-independence vote surges in Thursday’s elections for the Scottish Parliament, momentum for [an] another referendum on independence may become unstoppable.

It has weathered the conquest and loss of an empire, survived two world wars and witnessed more than one deadly pandemic. But now Scotland’s ancient alliance with England is itself in poor health, and on Thursday it could take a serious turn for the worse.

When Scottish voters go to the polls to elect 129 members of Scotland’s Parliament, strictly speaking the question of independence will not be on the ballot.

Yet as these photos vividly illustrate, Scotland is grappling with an uncertain future. Pressure is growing for a second referendum on whether to leave the United Kingdom, breaking up a 314-year-old union. If Scots vote in sufficient numbers for pro-independence parties in Thursday’s election, the momentum for another plebiscite could become unstoppable. » | Photographs by Andrew Testa; Written by Stephen Castle | Thursday, May 6, 2021

Wie alles begann - die Geschichte des Rauchens.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken: The 60 Minutes Interview

Norah O'Donnell speaks with Secretary Blinken in a wide-ranging interview that touches on China's recent military aggression, winding down the long war in Afghanistan and the immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Read more here: https://cbsn.ws/3edTdA6

Boris Johnson - Utterly Incompetent and Yet He’s Funny on the Telly

Despite a catalogue of failures from the mishandling of the COVID pandemic which caused so many unnecessary deaths, the PPE scandals, worst economic slump in the G7, lies about a border down the Irish Sea, refusing to say who paid initially for the redecoration of his flat and, most seriously, lying to Parliament, Boris Johnson remains very popular.

Religion in Pre-Islamic Arabia

American Germany

GI's in Rubbleland - by Mathias Haentjes

"Frankly, I had very little sympathy for the Germans. After all they were the ones who started the damn war, not us." These sentiments as expressed by US Press Officer Gene Mater are shared by many former GIs who came to Germany at the end of the war.

The years 1945-1949 were for many of these young soldiers the most important time of their lives. 'American Germany' tells the stories of German-American rapprochement from the perspective of former occupying troops. The Americans, who had previously only known the Germans from the battlefield or from propaganda, found that their opinion of the local population changed as a result of living in close quarters with them. At the time, they were undertaking a task that was the first of its kind, i.e. to re-educate politically the population of a conquered country, to put that country back on its feet economically and to help its population achieve a whole new attitude to life.

In this documentary, Gene Mater and other occupying soldiers discuss their experiences in Germany. They tell us of the misery of post-war Germany, of distrust between the Americans and the Germans, of the black market and of the hunt for hidden Nazis. And they tell us of great emotions. Love amid the rubble - at that time this was no cliché but a reality a thousand times.

Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce after 27 Years

THE GUARDIAN: Pair say in statement ‘we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple’ but will continue to run foundation together

Bill and Melinda Gates have announced they are to divorce after 27 years of marriage, saying they “no longer believe we can grow together as a couple”.

The Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist and his wife have built up a combined $124bn (£89bn) fortune, making them among the five richest couples in the world.

“After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,” the pair said in a joint statement posted on Twitter on Monday. » | Rupert Neate, Wealth correspondent | Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Melinda Gates could become world’s second-richest woman »

Köln vor dem Krieg - Die Ringe (koloriert) - Cologne´s Ring-boulevard - Pre-war (Colorized)

Eine Tour über die Kölner Ringe im unzerstörten Köln der Zeit vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in kolorierten Filmaufnahmen der 20er und 30er Jahre. Zu sehen sind Chlodwigplatz, Ulrepforte, Rudolfplatz mit Hahnentor und Opernhaus, Hohenzollernring, Ehrenstraße, Friesenplatz, Friesenstraße, Kaiser Wilhelm-Ring mit Vater-Rhein-Brunnen, Kreuzung Christophstraße, Hansaring, Agneskirche, Eigelsteintor und Ebertplatz (Deutscher Platz), Rheinufer mit Reiterstandbild und Bastei und schließlich der Messeturm im Bau. Ausschnitt aus der Doku: Das alte Köln in Farbe. 90 Min. Originalaufnahmen aus dem unzerstörten Köln der Zeit vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Eine Doku von: Hermann Rheindorf, Sprecher: Christian Brückner

Cologne before WWII (colorized). A trip on Cologne’s Ring boulevard, a half circle built around the old town in the 1890s until the 1910s. Our film shots show street scenes taken between the 1920ies and early 30ies with some of its major squares like Chlodwigplatz, Rudolfplatz, Friesenplatz and their monuments like the mediaeval gates, towers, the statues of the Imperial era and other monuments. We also get a glimpse into narrow streets like Ehrenstraße and Friesenstraße. Scenes from the documentary: Old Cologne in color, 90. min., (German narration).

Single frame colorization based on DeOldify, Topaz & Davinci Resolve. Part of the video contains quotations of: I Think of What You Used to Think of Me, 1928, performed by Abe Lymans California Orchestra provided by syncopatedtimes.com and archives.org

Anfragen/requests: archiv@koelnprogramm.de

More Than 3 Million Lebanese Face Poverty

More than three million Lebanese - almost half the population - are facing a tough Ramadan. The monthly cost of iftar, or the meal to break their fast, now costs 2.5 times the minimum wage. The World Bank says food prices there have become the highest in the region. Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr has more from Beirut, Lebanon.

US-China Doomsday Threat Ramped Up by Hi-tech Advances, Says Kissinger

THE GUARDIAN: Former US secretary of state says strained relationship is world’s ‘biggest problem’, as he warns of Beijing’s economic and military might

Former US diplomat Henry Kissinger has said that US-China tensions threaten to engulf the entire world and could lead to an Armageddon-like clash between the two military and technology giants.

The 97-year-old former US secretary of state, who as an adviser to president Richard Nixon crafted the 1971 unfreezing of relations between Washington and Beijing, said the mix of economic, military and technological strengths of the two superpowers carried more risks than the cold war with the Soviet Union.

Strains with China are “the biggest problem for America, the biggest problem for the world,” Kissinger told the McCain Institute’s Sedona Forum on global issues.

“Because if we can’t solve that, then the risk is that all over the world a kind of cold war will develop between China and the United States.” » | Guardian staff and agencies | Saturday, May 1, 2021

Best of "Helmut Schmidt bei Sandra Maischberger" | Er ist im Jahre 2015 gestorben

Ein Nachruf in eigenen Worten - ARD-Sondersendung zum Tod von Helmut Schmidt, 10. November 2015

Dozens Killed in Crush at Religious Festival in Israel

THE GUARDIAN: Emergency services and ambulances ‘treating dozens of injured’ as rescue services say 28 killed

Dozens of people have been killed in a crowd crush at a Jewish religious gathering in northern Israel attended by tens of thousands of people.

A rescue service spokesman said 28 people died in the crush early on Friday, according to Reuters. The Magen David Adom ambulance service said 103 people had been injured, including dozens fatally. Channel 12 TV put the number of dead at 38.

Magen David Adom posted the updated toll on Twitter, adding “MDA is fighting for the lives of dozens wounded, and will not give up until the last victim is evacuated.”

The Jerusalem Post said six helicopters were called to the scene to evacuate the injured. The Israeli military said it had dispatched medics and search and rescue teams along with helicopters to assist with a “mass casualty incident” in the area.

Israeli media published an image of a row of bodies covered in plastic bags on the ground and videos posted on social media showed chaotic scenes as Ultra-Orthodox men clambered through gaps in sheets of torn corrugated iron to escape the crush, as police and paramedics tried to reach the wounded. » | Guardian staff and agencies | Friday, April 30, 2021

India's Hospitals Swamped as Daily COVID Cases Approach 380,000 | DW News

India's hospitals turn sick away as daily COVID cases approach 380,000 | DW News

India has set another global record in coronavirus cases, reporting almost 380,000 new infections in the last day. Medical aid from abroad has started arriving in the country, but hospitals are still struggling with shortages of staff and supplies, including oxygen. India's health care system is so overwhelmed that many patients are being turned away.

A COVID-19 ward in a hospital in Delhi. The hospital, like so many, is full to overflowing. Medical staff are stretched to the limit, some falling ill with the disease themselves. Just one reality in India's coronavirus emergency.

A woman receives oxygen outside a Sikh temple. She's not alone. There's no room for these people in Delhi's emergency wards. Relatives are left to cope with severely ill patients by themselves. A long line outside a Delhi gas supplier. People doing what they can to save their loved ones. Some get the oxygen they need. But there isn't enough to go round.

The state of Delhi is reporting one death from COVID-19 every four minutes. And as the hospitals can't cope with the growing numbers of patients so the cremation grounds are struggling to cope with the rising numbers of deaths. The funeral pyres are burning day and night.

Delhi is one hotspot of India's COVID-19 emergency. Maharashtra state and the city of Mumbai is another. Here vaccination centers ran out of supplies on Wednesday. India is one of the biggest producers of vaccines. But it doesn't have enough to vaccinate the next 600 million people who will become eligible for the jab.

Amid the frustration and suffering this: A 105-year-old man and his 95-year-old wife have survived a COVID-19 infection. The family says they want that story to give hope to others. For many fighting the disease, hope and prayers are all they have to help them.