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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

Son of a Dictator

Current Highlights

Two years after the ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan, what is happening in Nagorno-Karabakh? We report on the disputed territory, a militarised zone that is now under Azerbaijan's control, and on the displaced people of Karabakh in Baku.

New violence erupts in Nagorno-Karabakh

Two years after the ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan, what is happening in Nagorno-Karabakh? 

ARTE Reportage

Spain’s historic win in the Women’s World Cup was overshadowed by scandal after Luis Rubiales’ non-consensual kiss of striker Jenni Hermoso. It’s had a ripple effect across sport in Europe, shining a light on deep-rooted inequality, from pay gaps to poor work conditions and cases of sexual assault.

Football’s #MeToo moment

Luis Rubiales’ forced kiss on Spain player Jenni Hermoso has sparked a reckoning over sexism in sport.

ARTE Europe Weekly

It is banned in the European Union and yet Burmese teak is still imported. How is that possible? Data Sources goes on the trail of the illegal trade in teak from Myanmar.

Traffic in Burmese Teak

It is banned in the European Union and yet Burmese teak is still imported. How is that possible? 

Data Sources

The earthquake that hit Morocco, has aroused strong emotions, particularly in France, which is home to the largest Moroccan diaspora. Yet France was not among the first countries asked by Morocco to provide aid: Rabat chose Spain, the United Kingdom, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. How can this choice be explained?

Morocco: Geopolitics of an Earthquake

France was not one of the first countries asked by Rabat to provide emergency aid after the terrible earthquake. Why?

Mapping the World Essentials

How is it possible for one of the world’s poorest countries to develop nuclear weapons? 

North Korea: Kim's Men

In Athens and Elefsina, European Capital of Culture 2023, Twist talks to artists, musicians and creative people. How has the financial crisis and draconian austerity measures impacted their work? Since the parliamentary elections, what is the mood on the Greek cultural scene?

Greek Artists Take Stock

In Athens and Elefsina, European Capital of Culture 2023, Twist talks to artists, musicians and creative people

Twist

In October 2022, residents of the pretty French mountain town of Rumilly were shocked to discover that their drinking water was contaminated with forever chemicals. The supply lines for the town's 16,000 residents were closed. Mayor Christian Heison had never heard of these toxic PFAS before, but for months - maybe years - he and his community had been unwittingly drinking them.

The pretty French mountain town of Rumilly is a forever chemical hotspot.

Re: Forever Chemicals in French Drinking Water

This week’s show uncovers a bleak picture for European teachers. In Britain, teachers' strikes and unsafe school buildings threaten to undermine the UK’s education system. Elsewhere on the continent, an aging teaching force fails to be replaced.

Europe’s Teaching Crisis

Europe’s teachers are underpaid and in short supply. ARTE Europe Weekly investigates why the profession might be heading for trouble.

All children in France must attend school, but the right to housing depends on the administrative status of their parents. In major cities, private flats have become inaccessible for the most families of modest means. But demand for social housing supply outstrips supply: in the Parisian region, the waiting period is at least two years, and there's a shortage of two million social housing units. Children find themselves without a fixed abode. To assist them, teachers are taking action: in Lyon, a collective has found shelter for 450 students.

Amid a social housing shortage, teachers are trying to find accommodation for their homeless students.

Re: Homeless Children in France

To open the Strasbourg Philharmic Orchestra's 2023-2024, conductor Aziz Shokhakimov has brought together the work of two towering composers: Richard Wagner's Ring in Lorin Maazel's orchestral version The Ring Without Words and Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2, performed by Kirill Gerstein.

Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra

Aziz Shokhakimov conducts Wagner and Liszt to open the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra's new season.

The Ring Without Words by Richard Wagner

The effects of climate change are becoming increasingly evident in Europe, from devastating fires, melting glaciers, and floods. Artists across the continent are responding to the unfolding crisis by addressing environmental concerns in their work.

Art Against Climate Change

European artists are responding to the unfolding climate crisis by addressing environmental concerns in their work.

On the largest lake in Southeast Asia, the enormous Tonle Sap, thousands of people live in harmony with the seasons, adapted to the cycle of the lake's nature. They permanently reside in houseboats on the water. Entire villages have adjusted their lives to the highly fluctuating water levels of Tonle Sap. The rhythm of the seasons requires them to move repeatedly - everything and everyone must go.

Cambodia's Floating Villages

Entire villages have adjusted their lives to the highly fluctuating water levels of Tonle Sap.

Geo Reportage

A ban on the Abaya dress in schools has sparked a debate about islamophobia and racism in France. Behind the decision, a piece of 1905 legislation that was supposed to bring people together but critics today say the opposite is true. This week, Arte Europe Weekly asks whether this law can be adapted for a diverse society.

Abaya ban divides France

In France, a century-old law to protect society has led to the banning of the Abaya dress in schools. But does the controversial law go against the principles it claims to defend?

From drought-resistant crops and water retention methods of the past to smart systems and drones that will help farmers level up in the future.A look at how farmers and scientists are pushing back against the climate crisis in this week's Arte Europe Weekly.

Future of Farming

Robotic cow milking and weed-fighting drones: is farming's future already here? 

As the effects of climate change become ever clearer, some individuals are suing governments and multinationals for their right to a liveable climate.In several German cities, judges are hearing cases against the car industry and in Paris the French courts have set a deadline for the government to change its environmental policy. Can climate lawsuits like these change environmental policy?

Could Lawyers Save the Planet?

Can suing governments and multinationals for the right to a liveable climate change environmental policy?

Climate Trials

California garage scene titans Osees are back to ruffle some feathers at La Route du Rock. The group are ready to unleash the full power and fury of their back-to-basics 2022 album A Foul Form.

Osees at La Route du Rock 2023

The Osees troublemakers ruffle feathers at La Route du Rock.

Osees

Psychedelic drugs as a miracle cure for mental health? In Europe and the USA, investors are pouring hug sums into research and psychedelic trips branded as wellness weekends are becoming more common. Tracks investigates the claims and the dangers.

Psychedelic drugs as a miracle cure for mental health? Tracks investigates the claims and the dangers.

Tracks Inside

In Germany, the Scoring Girls project aims to help girls from migrant backgrounds to build their self-esteem through football, It’s a sport that challenges certain cultural or religious practices. But for Tugba Tekkal, the initiator of the project, football can be a vehicle for integration.

In Germany, the Scoring Girls project aims to help girls from migrant backgrounds to build their self-esteem through football

Re: Empowerment through Football

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?

The Taliban conquered Afghanistan eighteen months ago and established an uncompromising Emirate based on their particular interpretation of Sharia law. An alarming economic and social crisis is exacerbated by the ban on education and employment for women. The Tablian enforce their policies through coercion, intimidation, and the establishment of a parallel governance structure.

What is life under the Taliban really like?

The Taliban conquered Afghanistan eighteen months ago and established an uncompromising Emirate.

The True Face of the Taliban

Secondary highlights

Helen Mirren, the most versatile of British actresses, has played diverse roles in her long and distinguished career, from sexually charged Shakespearian roles to secret agents to Queen Elizabeth II. This documentary paints a portrait of a strong woman, guided by her feminist convictions as a performer and in her private life

The most versatile of British actresses has played diverse roles in her long and distinguished career including royalty.

Helen Mirren - Queen of Actresses

In September 2022 the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody set off nationwide protests in Iran. One year on from this civil unrest, Tracks East meets the ultra-connected younger generation who demonstrate their opposition to the government through art and music.

Iranian Women Resist

Tracks East meets the ultra-connected younger generation who demonstrate their opposition to the government through art and music.

Tracks East

Since the 1990s, total insect biomass has declined by 75 percent. The rapid decline affects all food chains: fish and birds can no longer find enough to eat and are becoming fewer and fewer. Studies show that neonicotinoids used in pesticides aren't just destroying the insect popualtion, but also affect human health.

Since the 1990s, total insect biomass has declined by 75 percent.

How Chemical Giants Destroyed our Ecosystem

Kyle Eastwood brings his quintet together with the Orchestre National de Lyon to pay tribute to the career of his father, Clint Eastwood. A concert combining jazz, classical music and cinema.

Auditorium de Lyon

A symphonic homage to the work of Clint Eastwood by his son.

Eastwood Symphonic

Puerto Rico is an "unincorporated territory" of the US, its residents live between two cultures, and not all Boricuas, as the islanders call themselves, necessarily identify as Americans. They enjoy life in their own way and do their best to confront life's challenges.

A look at life and art on the smallest island in the Greater Antilles.

Puerto Rico: The Rhythm of the Caribbean

Tracks goes east and meets artists and journalists to get a different perspective on the war in Ukraine.

Tracks goes east and meets artists, journalists and activists to get a different perspective on the war in Ukraine.

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.

David Garrett

Love, power and ambition collide on the stage of Barcelona’s Teatre de Liceu in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, directed by Calixto Bieito.

Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea

From courtesan to empress – the unstoppable rise of Poppea, as told by Spanish director Calixto Bieito.

Baroque opera from Barcelona

"For the sake of all lives" is the motto of the voluntary Sanitary Battalion Hospitallers. Amidst the fighting, the approximately 500 medics provide medical care to both soldiers and civilians. The volunteers come from all walks of life in Ukraine and often leave their jobs to save the lives of their fellow countrymen on the frontline.

"For the sake of all lives" is the motto of the voluntary Sanitary Battalion Hospitallers.

Re: Ukrainian Paramedics on the Frontline

15 years after the sovereign debt crisis, Greece is still facing numerous challenges: corruption, an insufficient public service, mistrust towards political elites, migration, rivalry with Turkey, and China's takeover of infrastructure. But the country still has some strengths it could leverage.

Greece: the Sick Man of Europe?

15 years after the sovereign debt crisis, Greece is still facing numerous challenges.

Mapping the World

The London Afrobeat Collective say they have only one mission: Making people dance. That's just as well because it's impossible not to move when under the spell of this floor-filling 8 piece orchestra, a touring fixture in the UK and Europe over the past 5 years. 

Bardentreffen Nürnberg 2023

Get your body moving to the complex rhythms of British party orchestra London Afrobeat Collective.

London Afrobeat Collective

Fentanyl is fifty times stronger than heroin. The illicit trade of fentanyl has triggered a new health crisis in the United States, overwhelming emergency services with a surge of overdoses, often among the young. The synthetic opioids are from Mexico, where they've disrupted the drugs market. There is no need to cultivate poppies or rely on rural communities for opium production. Fentanyl, disguised as harmless-looking pills, is easy, inconspicuous, and simple to produce and transport. However, a single pill can be lethal. The devastating effects of this substance are gradually spreading throughout the American continent.

Mexico: The Cartels Switch to Fentanyl

The illicit trade of fentanyl has triggered a new health crisis in the United States.

Favourites

Apple launched its streaming service in 2015, and to celebrate, the company made their customers an offer they couldn't refuse: three months free subscription. The problem: during these three months, the artists streamed will not receive a penny. But that was without reckoning for Taylor Swift, who published an open letter to the firm on her Tumblr detailing why refusing to pay artists for their work was unacceptable. Apple backtracked. 

Taylor Swift

TAPE

August 19, 2014. Nicki Minaj releases the music video for Anaconda. The message is clear: down with the dictatorship of skinny pop stars and make way for XXL shapes and XXX speech. Provocative? Maybe. Feminist? Definitely.

Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj says down with the dictatorship of skinny pop stars, and make way for XXL shapes and XXX speech

United States, Gabon, Bahamas... Serge Gainsbourg wasn't just an artist, he was also a traveller. The wanderings of this icon led him to Jamaica, the Mecca of musical renewal.

Tape

United States, Gabon, Bahamas... Serge Gainsbourg wasn't just an artist, he was also a traveller

Serge Gainsbourg

Metallica's 35-year career is still going strong: they are timeless. To celebrate their latest album, 
Hardwired…to Self-Destruct, TAPE revisits the history of a music group that became a global movement. 

Metallica's 35-year career is still going strong: they are timeless

TAPE: Metallica

Dave Grohl is the co-author of only one Nirvana song: Scentless Apprentice, on the 1993 In Utero album. Frontman Kurt Cobain said, "I found it a bit stupid." But since the end of Nirvana, Grohl went on to release ten albums with the Foo Fights, wrote 76 songs and had 9 US hits. Not bad for a once-overlooked drummer.

Foo Fighters

Was Dave Grohl's talent ignored in Nirvana?

January 20, 1997. Daft Punk released Homework and began their conquest of the planet. But Inrockuptibles music critic Christophe Conte was scathing. 24 years, 6 grammys and 11 million albums sold later, he's had to eat his words. Daft Punk's victory begs the question: what if everything the journalist hated about them was precisely what made the band so successful?

Daft Punk

What if everything that critics hated about Daft Punk was precisely what made the band so successful?

In the 1990s Marilyn Manson got a kick out of upsetting American society. His videos and stage shows were designed to provoke and force the USA to face its cultural contradictions.

In the 1990s Marilyn Manson got a kick out of upsetting American society.

TAPE: Marilyn Manson

The Nobel prize, the Prince of Asturias Award, the National Medal of Arts: All prizes that Bob Dylan won but refused. Is this how he stays true to his counter-culture ideas?

TAPE: Bob Dylan

Céline Dion married her agent. Was it him who made her career or was it the other way around?

Céline Dion

When international superstar Beyoncé wanted some new dance moves for her latest video, she chose little known Mozambique dance trio Tofo Tofo to create the choreography.

When international superstar Beyoncé wanted some new dance moves for her latest video, she chose little known Mozambique dance trio, Tofo Tofo to create the choreography.

TAPE: Beyoncé

How did Tupac go from being gangster king to the paragon of the underdog? TAPE tells the story.

Tupac

From Paul McCartney to Bono, pop stars love to talk about their green credentials. But in the midst of all this ecological commitment, one artist stands out: Icelandic superstar Björk

Björk

At first glance, nothing connects Mylène Farmer with  ultraviolence. But… TAPE puts the spotlight on the dark side of the French-Canadian popstar.

Mylène Farmer

Pharrell Williams manages to combine coolness and super-geekdom à la Star Trek. But how?

Pharrell Williams manages to combine coolness and super-geekdom. But how?

Pharrell Williams

With the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles took a step into the avant-garde. TAPE tells the story of its famous album cover juxtaposing Marilyn Munroe, Stockhausen and Hitler.

With the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles took a step into the avant-garde.

TAPE: The Beatles

How the 2005 music video for their hit Stress got French duo Justice in trouble.

Justice

TAPE looks at the relationship between the Red Hot Chili Peppers and on-again-off-again band member John Frusciante, a toxic love affair.

Red Hot Chili Peppers

To accompany the release of their first album in 1967, the Doors send their biographies to the press. The bio of their singer Jim Morrison is worth a second look. Full name: Jim Douglas Morrison. Eye color: blue. Parents: dead. Hmm… Really?

The Doors

Why did Jim Morrison lie to the press about his parents being dead?

How did counter-culture icon Patti Smith get invited to the most hallowed hall of the French republic?

Patti Smith

Old and young, everyone seems to agree that Kate Bush is amazing. TAPE looks into the success of the most discrete and the most creative star in pop. 

Kate Bush

Old and young, everyone seems to agree that Kate Bush is amazing. TAPE looks into the success of the most discrete and the most creative star in pop.

Tracing the humble beginnings and dizzying successes of all your favourite stars.

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Going east to meet artists and activists that give a fresh perspective on the war in Ukraine and other conflicts.

Ukraine Corner

Does the name Ifi Ude mean anything to you? If not, it's because you're not Polish... or Nigerian. It's within these two musical traditions that the artist finds her inspiration. And this blend doesn't come from nowhere; it began in the 1950s during the time of student exchanges between the communist bloc and the newly independent African countries.

The Soviet Erasmus

Does the name Ifi Ude mean anything to you? If not, it's because you're not Polish... or Nigerian.

Gymnastics

She was called the queen of Warsaw. A prominent figure in the drag scene in Poland, Kim Lee was a muse for photographers, painters, and writers. In a country with a conservative government, Kim Lee was an icon for the Polish queer community. An ode to a Queen taken during the pandemic.

Warsaw's Queen of Drag

In a country with a conservative government, Kim Lee was an icon for the Polish queer community.

Featuring masks, faceless faces, truncated bodies either dismembered or dissolved, Polish artist Aneta Grzeszykowska creates uncanny, unsettling imagery. Her art prompt us to question our identity and society's expectations of women.

Feminism Behind a Mask

Featuring masks, faceless faces, and truncated bodies, Aneta Grzeszykowska creates unsettling imagery.

When we talk about visionary science fiction writers, we often think of Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, or René Barjavel... rarely of Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006). And yet, this Polish author created one of the masterpieces of the genre, Solaris, which was adapted into a film by Tarkovsky. He also envisioned ahead of his time what the Internet could be and a world where computers would be capable of thinking and experiencing emotions.

Science Fiction Prophet Stanisław Lem

The Polish author Stanislaw Lem created science fiction masterpieces and envisioned the Internet ahead of his time.

Do you know Kraków, a picture-perfect city? It's the former Polish capital, with 500,000 students and a castle... But Kraków also has its hidden side, quite literally "underground": its cellars. This is how these underground Gothic remnants have become a hub of artistic avant-garde and dissent.

The Secret Life of Kraków Cellars

Kraków has a hidden side, quite literally "underground": its cellars. 

The series that quenches your curiosity and puts the cult back into culture. 

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.

On July 26, soldiers belonging to the presidential guard took power in Niger. The Nigerien head of state Mohamed Bazoum was overthrown and the commander of the elite unit, General Abdourahamane Tiani, appointed himself the new ruler. While the military junta is stirring up sentiment against France, what happens next in Niger?

While the military junta is stirring up sentiment against France, what happens next in Niger?

Niger. The Aftermath of the Coup

Incisive investigative documentaries and reportage