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The Hamas attack on 7 October 2023 shocked the world and was the largest massacre of Jews since the Nazi holocaust. But what is the organisation that carried out these acts of terrorism? What are the aims of Hamas? Who finances the group? And how do they keep recruiting?

Hamas leader Yahya Sinouar, has been killed by the Israelis. An in-depth look at the movement he lead.

The Hamas System

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Joachim Kühn and Michael Wollnyse perform as a duo at the Leipzig Opera. 
Their first four-handed encounter was back in 2008 and resulted in the album Piano Works IX: Live At SchlossElmau. Fifteen years later in 2023, a new opus entitled DUO, also recorded live, sealed the reunion of these two giants of European jazz piano. The specialist press in Germany were gushing in their praise, calling it ‘the concert of the century’.

Joachim Kühn and Michael Wollny perform a four-hander at Liepzig Jazz Days 2024

Joachim Kühn and Michael Wollny at Leipzig Jazz Days 2024: a pair of jazz giants for a four-handed double piano duet.

Joachim Kühn and Michael Wollny

More convicts than cells, Europe’s prisons are facing a crisis and it’s forcing big questions about the penal system and rehabilitation. This ARTE Europe weekly, we’re behind bars to find out the impact on inmates as well as solutions.

Are Europe's prisons at breaking point?

Europe’s prisons are hitting breaking point with overcrowding. But what does that mean for life behind bars?

ARTE Europe Weekly

Migrants intercepted at sea of the coast of Italy can now be taken to asylum centres in Albania, where their applications will be processed. The aim of this agreement between Rome and Tirana is clear: to dissuade migrants from attempting the Mediterranean. An issue at the heart of European political debate.

Migration Policy in Europe: The Meloni Model

Italian Prime Minister Meloni has set up two reception centres for asylum seekers in Albania. The aim: to deter migrants.

Mapping the World Essentials

In recent years, works by photographers who lived in the GDR before the fall of the Berlin Wall have been rediscovered and reappraised.  An exclusive look at a world that no longer exists.

GDR Photoshoot: Propaganda and Daily Life

An exclusive look at photography from the GDR, a world that no longer exists.

GDR Photo Shoot

Juli balances factory work, studying agrarian science, and a passionate affair with her manager. When she becomes pregnant with his child, she chooses independence over a suffocating relationship. But her manager's refusal to acknowledge their son forces her to confront harsh realities about love and autonomy.

Classic Hungarian cinema by Marta Mészáros

Juli juggles her factory work and a tumultuous affair with her manager, but faces rejection when her secret is revealed.

Nine Months

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For more than 40 years Kathryn Bigelow has been making films that explore male violence. With movies like Blue Steel, Point Break, The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, the Oscar winning American filmmaker has impressed with hard-hitting moviemaking that holds a mirror up to contemporary America and the world.

For more than 40 years the American director has been making films that hold a mirror up to contemporary America.

Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Adrenaline

The current Israeli government is the most right-wing in the nation’s history. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in coalition with far-right parties whose racist and violent discourses are poisoning Israeli politics. A focus on two extremist ministers: Minister of National Security Itamar ben-Gvir and Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich.

Focus on Netanyahu's coalition partners whose racist and violent discourses are poisoning Israeli politics.

Israel: Extremists in Power

In the last 50 years, the proportion of asthma and allergy sufferers in industrialised countries has risen from five to 30 per cent. This is likely due to the lack of diversity of microbes in our increasingly germ-free environment. This documentary look at how microbes affect our health and how we can plan urban space to renew our contact with the natural world.

Could microbes hold the key to understanding the increase in a number of chronic conditions and allergies?

The Power of Microbes

As artificial intelligence becomes ever more sophisticated, the film industry is split between enthusiasm at what the technology can achieve and concern over the future for human workers in the industry. Will actors and actresses be replaced by machines? An overview on the coming wave of AI in cinema.

AI and Cinema

Will actors and actresses be replaced by machines? An overview on the coming wave of AI in cinema.

Movies by Machines

An investigation to unlock the secrets of great works of art history. With help from the latest digital research techniques, shocking revelations arise about the past. Anatomy of a Painting goes in search of the stories behind works of arts in six parts.
 

Using the latest digital research techniques to unlock the secrets of great works of art.

Anatomy of a Painting

Kate Winslet has charted her own course, choosing to play authentic women with complex psyches and realistic bodies, showing unfailing resolve in her acting choices. A portrait of a determined actress who, through a broad range of acting roles, has remained resolutely herself.

A portrait of a determined acting talent who, through a broad range of acting roles, has remained resolutely herself.

Kate Winslet - Decidedly Authentic

At the beginning of 2009, in the midst of the financial crisis, "Satoshi Nakamoto" put Bitcoin into circulation. He created the first decentralised and reliable cryptocurrency. In 2011 he disappeared. The Mystery of Satoshi tells the exciting history of Bitcoin and blockchain technology, from the perspective of its mysterious creator.

The Story of Bitcoin

The exciting story of the cryptocurrency from the perspective of its secretive creator.

Satoshi

Climate change is making the weather increasingly unpredictable and volatile. Extreme weather events are on the increase: In a matter of minutes, hailstorms can destroy an entire year's harvests and flash floods can take lives and destroy homes. What are the causes of these extreme phenomena? And how bad could they become in future?

Hail, thunderstorms, flash floods: Why are these extreme weather events happening?

Extreme Weather Events

On 7 October 2023, Hamas terrorists killed more than 360 partygoers at the Israeli Supernova festival and took many hostage. Five survivors of the massacre tell their story.

Five survivors tell their story of the massacre that killed 364 Israeli civilians.

Survivors of the Supernova Festival

In depth look at the terrorist organisation that carried out the 7 October massacres.

Canada's majestic wilderness is shrinking. The exploitation of the natural world is threatening the boreal forests, home to the caribou, but also the prairies, once the realm of the bison, and the Pacific coast, home to salmon populations. However, scientists and indigenous peoples are trying to preserve these ecosystems.

Canada's wilderness is shrinking, but scientists and indigenous peoples are trying to preserve the country's unique natural heritage.

Canada's Natural Heritage

Between France and America, from punk beginnings to Hollywood blockbusters: A journey into the fascinating world of French filmmaker Michel Gondry, famous for his offbeat and inventive music videos and visually arresting feature films.

A journey into the fascinating world of French filmmaker Michel Gondry, famous for his offbeat and inventive creations.

Michel Gondry - Do It Yourself!

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Since the beginning of the war in Gaza, nearly one million Palestinians have been displaced and are surviving in terrible conditions in makeshift refugee camps. Nidal Bulbul, a Palestinian-German living in Berlin is desperately trying to get his family out of Gaza.

Nidal Bulbul, a Palestinian-German living in Berlin is desperately trying to get his family out of Gaza.

Re: Getting Out of Gaza

How are extremist Israeli settlers taking over land on the West Bank? Data Sources reveals the extent to which illegal outposts contribute to harassing and ultimately driving out the Palestinians from their homes. A strategy supported by the Israeli government.

Colonisation on the West Bank

How extremist Israeli settlers are using violence to seize the land from Palestinians on the West Bank.

Data Sources

The attacks perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October 2023 shocked the whole world. While Israeli bombardments continue to claim countless victims in Gaza, a group of Israelis and Palestinians are seeking to break the vicious cycle of violence. All of them have lost loved ones and all want the same thing: a lasting peace.

A group of Israelis and Palestinians are seeking to break the vicious cycle of violence and build a lasting peace.

Re: Dialogue in the Middle East

For 15 years, Edward Kaprov has been photographing Israelis and Palestinians along Israel's borders, the dividing lines between two visions of the same land. In the kibbutzes around Gaza, in the Palestinian villages and Jewish settlements of the West Bank, and in the Bedouin hamlets close to Lebanon.

Israël-Palestine: Borderlines

Photographer Edward Kaprov has been taking photos along Israel’s borders for the last 15 years.

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The massacre perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th 2023 has profoundly affected Israeli society, awakening terrible memories of pogroms and the Holocaust. As Israel tries to deal with this trauma, attitudes are hardening to the suffering of the Palestinian people.

Israel: Commemorating October 7th

The massacre perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th 2023 has profoundly affected Israeli society with attitudes hardening towards Palestinians.

On 7 October 2023, the Hamas terrorist organisation launched an attack in southern Israel. More than 1200 people were killed and 251 hostages were taken to the Gaza Strip. One year later, Israeli filmmaker Ori Szternfeld travels through his country to find out how civil society has reacted to such a trauma.

One year after the attack of 7th October 2023, Israeli filmmaker Ori Szternfeld reflects on the aftermath.

Israel: One Year On From October 7

In a derelict hotel known as a Hezbollah stronghold, a few kilometres north of Nabatiyeh, around sixty Shia families have found refuge. They all come from villages close to the border with Israel.

Lebanon the War with No Name

The fighting between Israel and Hezbollah on Lebanon's southern border is turning villagers' lives upside down.

In the Jenin refugee camp, children like Youssef and Rayan risk their lives when they go to school or play in the street. The Israeli army has stepped up its presence in the north of the West Bank, a stronghold of the Palestinian armed struggle. But the growing violence is jeopardising the future of these children.

In the Jenin refugee camp, children like Youssef and Rayan risk their lives when they go to school or play in the street. 

Re: Growing up on the West Bank

 "Gaza. Life" is the name of journalist Rami Abu Jamus' WhatsApp group, in which he has been sharing news from his everyday life in Gaza with his friends for many years. From 7 October 2023, "Gaza. Life" became his digital diary about the war.

Surviving in Gaza: One journalist's experience

A year of war in Gaza: the digital diary of journalist Rami Abu Jamus and his family. 

The Houthis rule a third of Yemen with an iron fist, after ten years of civil war. Their ideology is as ferociously anti-American and antisemitic, as it is pro-Palestine with young people indoctrinated into a strict religious view of the world that burns with anger.

The Houthis rule a third of Yemen with an iron fist, after ten years of civil war.

Yemen: Houthi Fury

The number of Israeli operations in Palestinian resistance strongholds in the West Bank is increasing. Operation Summer Camps, launched at the end of August 2024, is the longest Israeli military operation in the West Bank since the battle of Jenin during the second intifada.

West Bank: The Battle of the Camps

The number of Israeli operations in Palestinian resistance strongholds in the West Bank is increasing.

A glossy promotional video, created by the Israeli government, imagines an idyllic Gaza free of Hamas. It was broadcast as an advertisement on mainstream video platforms. A look at Israel's international propaganda strategy, known as "Hasbara".

Israel: Anti-Hamas Propaganda

The World in Images

Hamas and Israel have still not reached agreement on a new hostage-for-prisoner exchange.

West Bank: Prisoners of War

Since the Hamas attack and Israel's response, the conflict in the Middle East has escalated with much loss of life. Yet some voices are calling for reconciliation.

Enemies Forever? Voices against hate in the Middle East

The Israel-Palestine conflict has escalated with much loss of life. Yet some voices are calling for reconciliation.

Tracks East

Alon's sister and wife were taken hostage on 7 October 2023 by Hamas. His wife has since been released, but his sister is still being held in Gaza. Along with other families, Alon is campaigning to make the release of hostages an absolute priority.

Alon is trying to get his sister released who has been held hostage by Hamas since 7 October 2023.

Re: Are the Israeli Hostages Coming Back?

While some are killing, others are trying to save lives: In Gaza, where hospitals are overwhelmed or out of action, the task is proving almost impossible. In Israel, health workers are struggling to overcome the trauma of 7 October.

Focus on health care workers in Gaza and Israel who are trying to save lives in war.

Saving Lives in Gaza and Israel

What exactly is Hamas? Is it the Muslim Brotherhood's instrument to keep people in Gaza under Islamic law? Has it been manipulated by Israel to discredit the Palestinian Authority and sabotage the two-state solution? Or is it a pawn of Iran to attack Israel?
In this documentary, journalist Sofia Amara gained access to key figures in order to understand Hamas and its aims, as well as to paint a picture of the current state of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Hamas: Creating a Monster

Hamas, with its extremist ideology, has never stopped advocating for the destruction of Israel. Why?

Hidden from the world's attention, radical settlers in the occupied Bank have been displacing more and more Palestinians from their villages in recent weeks. Faced with threats and violence, residents of the Bedouin village of Wadi Al Siq in the Jordan Valley abandoned their hills. South of Hebron, in Wadi Al Tiran, some families are still holding out. The inhabitants of the nearby village of Zanuta have already left.

Palestinians are being displaced from their villages in the occupied West Bank by settlers.

Occupied West Bank: The Hidden Conflict

Forty years ago, in June 1982, Israel invaded southern Lebanon, dubbed Operation Peace for Galilee by the Israelis. A small guerrilla group came together in secret to resist this offensive. Formed and supported by the Islamic Republic of Iran, it officially declared itself in 1985 as Hezbollah: The Party of God.
Four decades later, this small group has grown to become one of the most important military and political forces in the Middle East. A party of resistance for some, a terrorist group for others, Hezbollah is admired as much as it is feared. But the organisation, practically a state within a state, is living through turbulent times as Lebanon is experiencing a major political and economic crisis.

Focus on Lebanon's state within a state

As Hezbollah attacks Israel:Lebanon experiences an existential crisis, a focus on the history of militant group supported by Iran.

Lebanon: Inside Hezbollah

War in the Middle East

Ten years after the Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong and five years after mass pro-democracy protests, a recent national security law continues to brutally restrict freedoms as China tightens its grip on the territory.

The recent national security law continues to brutally restrict freedoms as China tightens its grip on the territory.

Hong Kong: As Democracy Dies

Caught between the regional powers of Turkey, Russia, and Iran, Armenia is constantly fighting for survival in the powder keg that is the Caucasus. A deep insight into the recent history of Armenia including its independence from the Soviet Union and the struggle to hold onto Nagorno-Karabakh.

Caught between regional powers, Armenia is constantly fighting for survival in the powder keg of the Caucasus

Armenia: Caught in the Middle

Just to the east of China and the highly contentious South China Sea, the Philippines find themselves caught up in the geopolitical tussle between Beijing and Washington. As tension mounts between the two countries, we take an in-depth look at the situation in the archipelago.

The Philippines, China, and the South China Sea

The Philippines find themselves caught up in the geopolitical tussle between Beijing and Washington over who controls the South China Sea.

Collision Course

A young Dutchman sets out to find places that respect the dignity of elderly people suffering from dementia. It's a journey that offers hope and new ways of caring for the elderly. His first step: moving into a care home for people with Alzheimer's, even though he is in perfectly good health.

A young Dutchman sets out to find places that respect the dignity of elderly people suffering from dementia. 

Human Forever

As  Lebanon experiences an existential crisis, a focus on the history of militant group Hezbollah, a controversial organisation supported by Iran.

Before the Russian invasion began in February 2022, Ukrainian women were not allowed to occupy certain roles, deemed too dangerous. The war has changed everything and women are now working as minors and other male-dominated sectors, in a society that is still patriarchal.

The war in Ukraine has meant women taking on jobs in traditionally male-dominated sectors.

Re: Ukrainian Women in 'Male' Jobs

Since 15 April 2023 war in Sudan has been plunged the country into a major humanitarian crisis. The ongoing conflict between the Sudanese army and the RSF paramilitary group has led to thousands of casualties and countless acts of rape and violence.

Since 15 April 2023 war in Sudan has been plunged the country into a major humanitarian crisis.

Sudan: The Forgotten War

In eastern Turkey, close to the Armenian border, an archaeological site highlights the difficult past between Turks and Armenians. Ani was the old capital of Armenia, and it’s restoration by Turkish is a bone of contention between the two countries.

In eastern Turkey, close to the Armenian border, an archaeological site highlights the difficult past between Turks and Armenians.

Turkey-Armenia: Peace in Ruins?

Many Taiwanese are realising that if Ukraine can stand up to Russia, they might just be able to pull off the impossible, and stand up to China. Inspired by Ukraine's surprisingly successful resistance, some civilians are studying the basics of civil defense, others are taking urban warfare courses, and some are considering how to renovate old bomb shelters.

Many Taiwanese are realising that if Ukraine can stand up to Russia, they might just be able to pull off the impossible, and stand up to China.

Taiwan: Learning from Ukraine

The US prison in Guantanamo Bay, where prisoners of George Bush’s War on Terror have been held, without trial for years, is still open. Almost forgotten by the outside world, there are still 30 inmates at the facility when once there were more than 700. ARTE Reportage managed to visit the detention camp.

Many in Washington would prefer to forget the US prison at Guantanamo. ARTE Reportage managed to visit the detention camp.

Guantanamo: Still Not Closed

After two and a half years of war, Ukraine remains a major exporter of grain. Production levels prior to 2022 have been restored, a sign of the country's resilience. But what does the future hold for agriculture in this vast country? And how might it integrate in the European Union?

After two and a half years of war, Ukraine remains a major exporter of grain, a sign of the country's resilience. 

Ukraine: Agricultural Resistance

Offshore wind farms are a major player in the move away from fossil fuels, especially in the North Sea, and they are increasing in number. But their impact on the environment is not yet clear: We take a look at ongoing research in Europe that is measuring the impact of wind turbines and their harm, or benefit, to biodiversity in our seas.

Can They Coexist with Nature?

Wind power represents a major renewable energy source, but the environmental impact of offshore wind farms is not yet clear.

Offshore Wind Farms

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In 2014, Islamic State fighters massacred thousands of Yazidis in northern Iraq, abducting women and children and turning them into slaves. Many of the survivors later found refuge in Germany. How are the Yazidis who survived the massacres faring in Europe?

10 years after the genocide of the Yazidis in northern Iraq: What has happened to survivors who fled to Germany?

Re: Yazidis in Germany and Iraq

Madita Hemcke from North Rhine-Westphalia was born into a Christian household. Her parents are members of a free church near Cologne. For eight days, the 23-year-old and over 300 other evangelicals will preach, pray and hold services amongst the party tourists on the Ballermann - a real contrast to the conventional programme on Playa de Palma.

Young evangelical Christians from Germany and Switzerland having taken to the streets of Mallorca to preach the Gospel. Will their innovative approach work?

Re: Mallorca - Prayers vs Partying

A single industrial trawler can take the equivalent of the catches of a thousand small-scale fishing boats, seriously depleting fish stocks. To counter this unfair competition, small-scale fishermen in Normandy are waging a David versus Goliath battle against the mega-trawlers and finding new ways to sell their catch.

Fishermen in Normandy are waging a David versus Goliath battle against the mega-trawlers and finding new ways to sell their catch.

Re: New Small-Scale Fishing in the Channel

Covid-19, AIDS and Spanish flu are all epidemics responsible for millions of deaths around the world. Today, researchers are trying to better anticipate and prevent future pandemics. Their aim is understand and detect zoonoses: A disease which passes from animals to humans.

Researchers are trying to anticipate and prevent future pandemics by detecting diseases which passes from animals to humans.

Re: Preventing Future Pandemics

Marine biologist Andrej Gajić is fighting to save sharks in Albanian waters; more than 60,000 sharks and rays die each year caught up in fishermen’s nets. With his girlfriend Emina they go out to sea with the fishing boats to investigate the effects of industrial fishing on endangered species and try to work with the fishing industry to improve biodiversity in the seas.

Marine biologists Andrej and Emina are fighting to save sharks, which are important for the ecosystem in the Adriatic.

Re: Saving Sharks in the Adriatic

One third of the Latvian population is Russian, a hangover from the Soviet past. The Latvian and Russian speaking communities have been living side by side since independence in 1991 but this cohabitation is not always easy. The government has taken a tougher stance on the integration of Russian speakers since the war in Ukraine, with some now risking deportation.

The Latvian authorities are taking a tougher stance with the country’s Russian-speaking minority since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Re: Latvia’s Unwanted Russians

Ever more people are travelling abroad for medical procedures. Hungary is a major destination for dental health tourism from Germany as the price for implants and crowns are significantly cheaper whereas wealthy individuals from Russia and the Arab world come to Germany for the health sector’s reputation for quality care.

Going Abroad for Treatment

Ever more people are travelling abroad for medical procedures with Hungary a major destination for dental health tourism.