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A group that asked themselves the question: What if we made chansons francaises but with gabber? These apocalyptic party starters are presenting their debut album Une Nouvelle Chance at the ARTE Concert Festival .

ARTE Concert Festival 2023

Gabber meets lyrical flights of fancy at Paris' Gaîté Lyrique for the ARTE Concert festival.

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Three evenings of music from the Gaîté Lyrique theatre in Paris; the ARTE Concert Festival is back!

Live from Paris - the ARTE Concert Festival!

ARTE Concert Festival

In 2022, Salman Rushdie narrowly survived an assassination attempt by an Islamic extremist. This year's winner of the German Publishers' Peace Prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair, we interview the acclaimed writer in New York. Also in the programme: Russian journalist Elena Kostyutchenko, Slovenian authors Pia Prezelj and Suzana Tratnik, and a focus on the graphic novel “Woman, Life, Freedom" by Marjane Satrapi.

Salman Rushdie and Freedom of Speech

Interview in New York with the acclaimed British writer, this year's winner of the German Publishers' Peace Prize.

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As it erupts onto the streets of Europe, few conflicts divide society as much as Israel-Palestine. In this week's ARTE Europe Weekly, an EU leadership scrambles to find common ground. In the Netherlands, the far-right capitalizes on Hamas' attacks, while in France, fears of terror grow.

Israel-Hamas: Europe is divided

ARTE Europe Weekly

Journey to the heart of the Cape Verde archipelago where the musical people celebrate carnival and cherish their traditional music, the morna, made world-famous by Cesaria Évora.

Journey to the heart of the Cape Verde archipelago to meet a musial people made world-famous by Cesaria Évora.

Cape Verde - Sound of Longing

Naples is rough, and ready, but beautiful despite itself. Artists are drawn to its sharp contrasts. A spectacular urban landscape with a harbour and Vesuvius looming in the background, it's a city full of classic, contemporary, and downright bizarre art. Its culture scene is being reshaped by private initiatives such as the group "La Paranza", which is constantly creating new exhibition spaces in the Sanità district.

Rough and ready Naples reveals her secrets

Naples is rough, and ready, but beautiful despite itself. Artists are drawn to its sharp contrasts.

Naples

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Why is it that a comparatively rare disorder such as coeliac disease seems to have become widespread within a few years? With more and more people complaining about digestive problems after eating cereals, is gluten really responsible? An in-depth focus on gluten, gluten-free diets and the food industry.

With more and more people complaining about digestive problems after eating cereals, is gluten really responsible?

Gluten: Public Enemy Number One

The painting "Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy" was discovered in a modest private collection. But is it really one of the last great works by Caravaggio, the Italian master of chiaroscuro? A fascinating investigation travelling from Paris via Italy to Malta in search of the truth.

Is a painting found in a modest private collection really one of the last great works by the Italian master?

The Caravaggio Mystery

When war disrupts daily life, social issues often take a back seat. Tracks East meets the men and women who refuse to let armed conflict get in their way. Anna, a doctor in Kyiv, wants sexual liberation along with sexual health and Alina and Stanislava are campaigning for equal marriage.

Social Activism in Wartime

Tracks East meets the men and women who refuse to let armed conflict get in the way of social issues.

Tracks East

Jannik and Tai are 17 and are called “Fatty” and “Fiji” at school. Two outsiders. When they find their drunken head teacher on the street one night and lock him in his own flat, what starts as a joke turns into a full-blown kidnapping. Tai enjoys playing God and forces the teacher to bare his soul. But as the teens uncover the man's secrets, the stupid fun turns serious.

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Two teens stumble upon their drunken head teacher and lock him in his flat. But the silly prank gets out of hand...

Naked Above Berlin

A focus on the geopolitical dynamics of the Middle East following the signing in 2020 of the Abraham Accords between Israel and four countries in the Arab world.

New Alliances in a Region in Crisis

A focus on Middle East geopolitical after the signing of the Abraham Accords between Israel and four Arab countries.

Middle East: Between War and Peace

How can we live a happy life? And should we be pleased that our lives are short? Ronja von Rönne investigates the philosophy of happiness by meeting Jean-Remy von Matt, a major figure in German advertising and Sister Katharine, who left her job in finance to become a nun.

A guide to living a contented existence.

How can we live a happy life? And should we be pleased that our lives are short? Ronja von Rönne investigates the philosophy of happiness.

Unhappy

The muscles from Brussels has enjoyed a dizzying career as a high-octane action movie star. The highs and lows of his eventful life are told with archive footage and contributions from those close to the much-loved Belgian actor.

The story of the "Muscles from Brussels"

Focus on the eventful career of the Belgian action star, nicknamed the Muscles from Brussels.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Asaf Avidan took the world by storm with his hit "Reckoning Song" and an unmistakeable voice quivering with emotion. Here, the artist explores more personal territory in a fragile, intimate moment showcasing his qualities as a songwriter and composer. 

Reckoning Song hitmaker Asaf Avidan plays solo at Nancy Jazz Pulsations 2023

After becoming world-famous with his hit "Reckoning Song", the Israeli musician returns to performing solo. 

Asaf Avidan

Hania Rani has a gift in creating moments of intimate communion with her audience using only her fingertips, one reason why this Polish pianist is seeing her star rise in the neoclassical world. Her liberated, graceful playing defies codes and labels, while her startling melodies captivate and transport audiences. For this unmissable concert, Hania Rani will perform alone on stage.

Nancy Jazz Pulsations 2023

Witness this rising star of neoclassical piano suspend time using only her fingertips.

Hania Rani

From his gilded youth in Europe to the bloody repression of the Arab Spring, this is the engrossing story of Muammar Gaddafi's second son who, despite arrest warrants for crimes against humanity, is running for election in Libya.

Saif Al Islam Gaddafi's Comeback

Muammar Gaddafi's second son is running for election in Libya, despite arrest warrants for crimes against humanity.

Son of a Dictator

Celebrated violinist David Garrett gives an unforgettable concert at the ancient theatre in Taormina, Sicily with a selection of rearranged works by Dvorak, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, Vivaldi and Fritz Kreisler.

Sicilian Concert at Taormina's Teatro Antico

Renowned violinist David Garrett gives an unforgettable concert at the ancient theatre of Taormina in Sicily.

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Summer in Marseille. Two groups of young people jostle for control of the housing estate’s basketball court. Out of the collisions and clashes, an unlikely love story emerges.

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As two groups jostle for control of a basketball court, an unlikely love story emerges.

Marseille mon amour

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Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel was unprecedented, both in terms of its violence and scale. The terrorist group had carried out suicide bombings in the 1990s and 2000s, but the recent attacks demonstrated a new level of sophistication, both in terms of weaponry and strategy. Let’s take a closer look at how the group’s military strategy has evolved over the years.  

The attacks carried out by Hamas on October 7 show how the terrorist group’s strategies have evolved.

Hamas's strategy of power through chaos

The Israel-Hamas war exposes deep-rooted social and political divisions in Europe.

On 7 October, the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a complex and large-scale attack on Israel. How has Europe reacted? And what does this mean for the EU aid that Palestine receives? We look at how much influence the EU really has in the longstanding conflict.

The price of peace: EU aid to Palestine under scrutiny

Hamas’s attack on Israel has drawn attention to the aid that Palestine receives from the European Union and how it’s used.

The creation of an independent Palestinian state seemed possible in 1993, but thirty years later it feels like a distant prospect. The two-state solution has yet to materialise, and recent years have been marred by political assassinations, violent uprisings, extremism, terrorist attacks, and police repression.

What Future for Palestine?

The creation of an independent Palestinian state seemed possible in 1993, but thirty years later it feels like a distant prospect.

Mapping the World

Founded in 1948 after the trauma of the holocaust, Israel, where three-quarters of the population is Jewish, has gone through many crises and has tense relations with the Palestinian territories and neighbouring Arab states.

Israel: Endless Conflict, New Alliances

In the north of the West Bank, near Nablus, a new episode in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is being played out: the War of the Hills. It pits young radical Jewish settlers, protected by the Israeli army, against young militant Palestinians from a new armed group: the Lion's Den.

West Bank: War in the Hills

In the north of the West Bank, near Nablus, a new episode in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is being played out:

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Every year Israel builds more and more road infrastructure in the occupied West Bank, encouraging new settlements to house the overspill from the crowded urban centres of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. But where is the space for a Palestinian state?

Israel: Making (In)Roads into the West Bank

Every year Israel builds more and more road infrastructure in the occupied West Bank, encouraging new settlements to house the overspill from the crowded urban centres of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. 

What are the historical and geopolitical causes of the Israel-Palestine conflict?

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Why does the European Union allow deadly pesticides banned at home to be exported to developing countries? Brazil, especially, uses large quantities of harmful pesticides imported from Europe with terrible effects on the population’s health.

Why does the European Union allow deadly pesticides banned at home to be exported to developing countries? 

Pesticides: European Hypocrisy

A focus on geopolitics in the troubled region after the signing of the Abraham Accords between Israel and four Arab countries.

Middle East: Betweeen War and Peace

The Phelophepa is a train hospital that travels rural South Africa providing much needed healthcare. Every two weeks the train travels to a new town where its dedicated health care teams offer their services tirelessly to local communities.

South Africa: A Hospital on Rails

A train hospital crosses rural South Africa to provide healthcare to communities that need it.

Nickel, gold, iron, zinc, uranium... Beneath the pastures of Southern Greenland lies a host of natural resources. With global warming making them more easily accessible will Greenland choose to mine them? Or alternatively take advantage of a milder climate to develop the agricultural sector?

A crucial dilemma for Greenlanders: Mine their rich natural resources or concentrate on agriculture?

Greenland: Agriculture or Mining?

Jennifer Weist, Disarstar, Blond, PTK and the “Ton Steine Scherben” are German artists with one thing in common: the use music to send out radical political messages out. Because if the cultural world isn’t ready to play politics, then who is? These outspoken artists live in squats and write songs against the far-right AfD party, sometimes tinkering around the edges of legality.

This programme by German channel ARD is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

The power of music

Political protest can also be done through music, as these Berlin-based artists have shown.

Rebels: I rebel, therefore I am

At the height of the Cold War in 1957, at a time when the USSR and the USA were locked in ferocious competition, the US federal government created the "National Radio Quiet Zone". This vast area of 33,000 km² in rural Virginia, where radio communication is restricted, is used for scientific research and military intelligence.

USA: National Radio Quiet Zone

The vast area of Virginia where radio communication is restricted, is used for scientific research and military intelligence gathering.

Vertical indoor farming, algorithms that create precise climate conditions and LED lighting to stimulate growth: The Netherlands is preparing to feed the world's growing population with high-tech agriculture. The small country is already the second largest exporter of agricultural produce in the world, just behind the USA.

Vertical farming, algorithms and LED lighting to stimulate growth: The Netherlands wants to feed the world with high-tech agriculture.

Re: High-tech Food In the Netherlands

Since 1946, punters have flocked to Parisian cabaret Madame Arthur to see the creatures of the night. The pioneering venue is a place of iconoclastic freedom where the art of showmanship meets the refusal to conform to established sexual norms.

Madame Arthur's Carbaret

Behind the scenes of a  pioneering Paris venue where the art of showmanship meets the refusal to conform to established norms.

Re: Showtime in Paris

In Spain, healthcare professionals are sick of their healthcare system. Overworked and underpaid, 92% of healthcare workers in Madrid say they are suffering from burnout. The Spanish system, once considered the best in Europe so renowned, is in crisis.

Overworked and underpaid, many healthcare workers in Madrid say they are suffering from burnout. 

Re: Spanish Healthcare in Crisis

Thanks to analysis of videos on Telegram, social media posts, and articles and statements from Russian authorities, this episode of Sources tracks how Ukrainian children were forcibly taken from their parents or orphanages. Taken to Russia under the guise of keeping them safe from the conflict, these children were supposed to be temporarily relocated. But instead they are indoctrinated, given foster families, and even offered for adoption. This action has led to charges against Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian Commissioner for Children's Rights, by the International Criminal Court.

The Stolen Children of Ukraine

Nearly 20,000 Ukrainian children are thought to have been abducted and taken to Russia.

Data Sources

Incisive investigative documentaries and reportage

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This summer, the European Parliament introduced an unprecedented law to ensure that member states provide adequate support for rape victims and punish perpetrators. But it has run into legal and ideological roadblocks from some countries, including France and Germany, which refuse to define rape as the absence of consent.

European institutions are at odds over the definition of rape and consent.

Only yes means yes - A European law on rape

In France, the ready-to-wear sector is going through an intense crisis. In the first quarter of 2023, around 50 companies were in receivership or liquidation. A figure that has risen by 33% in one year. Why the turmoil? And why are Spanish brands like Zara and Mango still so successful?

While the number of clothing store closures are increasing in France, Spanish brands are doing well.

French Fashion Industry in Turmoil

Finland’s right-wing government has plans to roll out sweeping austerity measures, which has sparked protests and strikes across the country. The measures include cutting workers' rights and social welfare benefits, but also clamp down on immigration at a time when Finland is in need of skilled workers.

Union leaders in Finland say the right-wing government is rolling out “reverse Robin Hood” austerity measures.

Finland faces strikes and protests over labour reforms

The war in Ukraine is taking place 5,000 kilometres from the Indian subcontinent, yet its impact is clear in the city of Surat. The centre of India’s diamond industry is suffering from western sanctions on Russian diamonds.

The war in Ukraine is happening 5,000 kilometres from the subcontinent, yet its impact is clear on India's diamond industry.

India: Diamonds in War

Neighbouring Lithuania is a safe haven for exiled Belarusians. Hundreds have fled Alexander Lukashenko’s regime to seek refuge in this EU member state. But Minsk consistently tries to make life difficult for them, by impeding access to official documents or hindering their ability to do business back home.

Hundreds of exiled Belarusians have sought refuge in Lithuania. But Lukashenko’s regime makes life difficult for them, even abroad.

Belarusian exiled opposition faces pitfalls in Lithuania

Following the terrible attack by Hamas, Israel has responded with massive airstrikes and the siege of Gaza. But there is also another threat, Hezbollah from the north. This episode looks at the key role Lebanon has played in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Israel - Hamas: Lebanon's Role

A look at the key role Lebanon has played in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Mapping the World Essentials

In a bid to combat rural depopulation, the Spanish government has launched a countryside Erasmus programme. Instead of spending a year abroad in a European city, students can opt for a paid work placement in a small rural village. It’s a win-win situation for both participants and local residents.

Instead of studying abroad, young Spaniards can opt for a rural Erasmus programme to help revitalise the countryside.

An Erasmus programme in rural Spain to help combat depopulation

In the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel, the international community is scrambling to react and take positions on the Israel-Palestine conflict which in recent years had become a secondary geopolitical concern.

Israel-Palestine: What positions are the international community taking?

In the aftermath of the Hamas attack, the international community is scrambling to react and take positions on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

The French government has put in place an emergency plan to tackle bullying, after a teenager died by suicide just a day after school started. Although bullying is a problem in schools across Europe, there’s no EU-wide law and so different countries tackle it in different ways – to varying degrees of success.

The silent problem of bullying in Europe’s schools

It’s hard to measure how much bullying goes on in Europe’s schools. But social media means the problem goes far beyond the school gates.

Candidates for this year’s parliamentary elections in Poland are taking advantage of their last campaigning days to sway voters. In the north of Warsaw, construction of a new gymnasium has just kicked off, an opportunity for a local PiS candidate to remind rural voters of everything the party has done for them.

As Polish voters head to the polls this Sunday, candidates from the ruling conservative PiS party take the lead in rural areas.

Poland's ruling conservative party looks after its rural voters

The housing crisis in Ireland has been a burning political issue since 2008. With a shortage of 250,000 homes for a country of just over 5 million inhabitants, the market has become saturated. And as the country’s population continues to grow each year with the arrival of new asylum seekers, tensions are rising.  

In Ireland, a serious housing crisis is throwing asylum seekers into disarray.

Asylum seekers face Ireland’s housing crisis

"We are at war" declared Benjamin Netanyahu following the Hamas attack on 7 October. The Israeli Prime Minister soon came under fire for his reform of the justice system, which has divided the country, and for deploying part of the army to the West Bank. Hamas and Gaza on one side, the West Bank and the Palestinian Authority on the other. An explanation with maps.

Israel - Palestine: Geography is key

"We are at war" declared Netanyahu following the Hamas attack on 7 October. To understand the conflict, geography is key.

Too many people, too little space. Migrants in Malta have contributed to a strong economic boom over the past 20 years. But as the island becomes more crowded, more and more residents seem to be turning against non-European migrants.

As Malta hosts the MED9 summit, a look at how the smallest country in the EU is dealing with increased migration.

MED9 summit Malta: Migration

The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Colosseum in Rome and Pompeii are some of Italy’s biggest tourist attractions. But staff who check entrance tickets or work in souvenir shops at these destinations generally earn less than 7 euros an hour. They’re hoping that the introduction of a 9-euro statutory minimum wage, currently being debated in Italy, will ease their precarity. 

Italy’s famous tourist sites attract millions each year, but workers behind the scenes often have a hard time making ends meet.

Precarious workers in Italy’s cultural sector

Now that the media, the legal system, cinemas, theatres and universities have fallen under the influence of the Hungarian prime minister and his right-wing Fidesz party, is the publishing industry next? In early July, a company close to the government called Mathias Corvinus Collegium Foundation (MCC) bought Hungary’s largest bookshop chain, Libri. And bookshops have had to follow a specific directive recently imposed by the government, stating that any children’s books even remotely referencing homosexuality must be covered with plastic.

Now that the media and the legal system, have fallen under the influence of the government, is the publishing industry next?

In Hungary, the state wants to control literature

After losing the presidential election to Joe Biden in 2020, Donald Trump wants to run again and seize power back from the Democrats. But since his first term as president from 2016 to 2020, he's been embroiled in a series of legal scandals that could scupper his chances. Donald Trump has been indicted in two cases, faces a lengthy prison sentence, and is also under federal investigation for the storming of the Capitol by his supporters on 6 January 2021. But on the flip side, his legal cases could have the opposite effect and paradoxically galvanise his voter base, who are convinced he's the target of an unfair witch hunt.

Trump's legal cases could paradoxically turbocharge his re-election bid.

Trump's Legal Woes: Boon or Bust for 2024?

A law stating that surrogacy is a “universal crime” was passed in Italy’s lower chamber. In September, the bill will go through the Senate. If it passes, anyone who decides to have a child by surrogacy abroad could automatically face prison and a hefty million-euro fine on their return.

Anyone who decides to have a child by surrogacy abroad could automatically be prosecuted on their return to Italy.

Italy, where surrogacy is a crime

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Imagine a concert as the sun rises over the beach, a few notes of piano ringing out in the hall of a museum or electronic beats in a hundred-year-old cathedral. On ARTE Concert, music and dance are invited to unusual places, celebrating the dialogue between artists, architecture and nature.

Taking music outside of traditional venues into beautiful and unusual venues.

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1952/53: Europe is divided by the Iron Curtain. In the East, Russia determines the development of its satellite states. In the West, the capitalist democracies embark on a difficult path, under pressure from the Americans: they are to show unity against the East. The biggest obstacle in the way is the relationship between West Europeans and West Germany.

A snapshot of Europe in movement as the communist East and capitalist West face off against each other.

1952 - 1953: The Cold War in Europe

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in the worst place at the worst time twice over. On August 6, 1945, he was working in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb exploded over the city. Traumatised by the apocalyptic experience, he just wanted to go back home to his family. Except home was Nagasaki. 

The Lost Ones

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was traumatised by Hiroshima, and went back home as soon as he could. Except home was Nagasaki. 