When some appeal if we believe the episode to push the mountain brussels is a true opportunity to show discontent with the spanish justice system. Probably staying in brussels hes the best way the lawyers understand that it can help destroy the day for his personal defense. I dont think that theyre all together in peace to have a fair trial i mean we feel and to not put yourself at the disposition of the court when you have called always holmes the other codefendants. To deal with on day were convinced that weve done what we needed to do but weve got a long way to go. Also coming up the exhibition of paintings stolen by the nazis hidden by a hermit and uncovered by the tax man. Mostel works from the likes of. Expect man auto dicks and vassili couldnt ski the works on display just some of the mother lode found in this on a shooting flat in munich in two thousand and twelve that not been seen by anyone for decades except by this man good it. We begin the day with the arrest warrant expected for the spanish man that some people still call mr president elise across the European Union could soon be on the lookout for the ousted president of catalonia carlist bridged a mall today he defied the madrid court order to appear and answer questions about rebellion in sedition connected to catalonia his recent declaration of independence now we last saw mr porridge tomorrow on tuesday in brussels now according to his lawyer brussels is where he will stay put until he is certain that he can get a fair trial in spain and most cattle on leaders and Parliament Members well they did not leave the country eight of them who did show up today did not leave the court either a judge ordered they be arrested for trying to push catalonia away from space. For eight former members of the deposed Catalan Parliament the day ended with a trip to jail the law makers ordered by a spanish judge to be held in prison pending possible charges over catalonia has pushed for independence earlier hundreds of catalans turned out at barcelonas main station to welcome other lawmakers who had traveled to madrid to go before the spanish Supreme Court. Spanish justices fascist and dictatorial we never thought this could happen its shameful. I have lots of pent up rage im disgusted i never thought that the Spanish State would get to this point. Nowhere to be seen in barcelona as the Catalan Leader car less push demand whos traveled to belgium he failed to appear in court in madrid today and the Spanish State prosecutor wants him arrested. When someone doesnt appear after being cited by a judge to testify in spain or in any other e. U. Country and the arrest warrant is issued its a duty to answer to the summons pushed amounts lawyer says he will cooperate with both spanish and belgian authorities. Before. And. Defend against this. House exception. Will be in the warrant. A few. Outside the Supreme Court in madrid lawyers representing Catalan Leaders said push to months no show would impact on the other defendants. And theres a lot on we want to analyze whether it will be beneficial or detrimental but it is going to have an effect thats for sure. Despite his passionate support in barcelona months refusal to come before the courts in madrid can only damage his case. And we want to go now to our correspondent charles until she is standing by for us in barcelona good evening to you charlotte lets pick up the story with these eight former cattle on lawmakers who were sent to jail today without a chance of bail what more do we know about them. Good evening brand im stood outside the castle and hanumant at the moment this was the place where on friday dismissed catalan lawmakers voted in favor of independence there were changes inside the parliament two nights they we had a very different picture some of these men and women as youve just said hes voted for independence and now in jail for what theyve done we know that there are a sea of them who are now behind bars tonight oh one of those who will say appeared before the high court escape on bail he quits the government just before the vote so isnt facing similar charges now days people out there say facing very serious allegations rebellion alone for example one of the charges leveled at these people carries up to thirty years in prison so there is a great deal of concern among people here about what that will mean for the Independence Movement there is a huge amount of anger as well directed at the government in madrid and also at the European Union people here only evening have been chanting shame on europe theyve also was exactly how Many Political prisoners is it going to take the droids to act that europes eyes and charlie talk to me a little bit about what we are seeing behind you there it looks like a protest i mean how are people reacting to what has been unfolding today in madrid. Yes theres a huge crowd behind me at the moment it looks like its staying very peaceful or theres some real fear that this news that says that many women who it lets them it to independence something that people here have been wanting for years and decades even and now behind bars that have been cooled as well for more demonstrations just like this one behind me were expecting more tomorrow sunday and through to the next couple of weeks so it looks like this anger thats being devastated here behind me is not going to end anytime soon. All right our correspondent in charlotte tells him to live on the story for us tonight in barcelona charlot thank you very much. Ode today is the International Day to end impunity for crimes against journalists now it was first observed back in two thousand and thirteen and there has been no letup in the abuse of violence faced by reporters since the un says that in the past decade more than nine hundred journalists were killed simply for doing their jobs and so far only ten percent of those cases have been solved most of their attackers have never been brought to justice last year afghanistan and mexico were the most dangerous countries for journalists each with thirteen killings it was followed of course by war torn yemen where the loving journalists were killed in two thousand and sixteen. Well the french journalist roth richard has Just Launched an Online Platform for Investigative Journalism a place where the stories can be posted and a guarantee that the stories will not be silenced the roth joins me tonight from paris good evening to you or on back into the day and congratulations on the launch of the Freedom Voices Network i guess that the fact that your platform is needed is a sad commentary about the state of journalism in the world today how do you see it definitely i think there is a need for that kind of platform because what we do believe that when a journalist is willing to risk his life for one story or for the free flow of information wed be all that dylan is committed to the same idea deals we have to make sure that the walk under story of these to john is we had to reach the audience not only for the jonas himself but for the genuine interest for the Public Interest most of the time when delays to get killed or get arrested it was because they were working on investigative stories very concerning about environment about corruption about Human Rights Violations and so algal on this platform for be done stories with Freedom Voices Network is to make sure that to guarantee access people to independent information know what you say that this platform will remove the incentive to hurt journalists house. We we even had the pencils if they want the door is can secure their stories why they are investigating they can send us through security secure Communication Channels some pieces of the investigation or the full investigation and they have to send us the instruction what do we need to do if we dont hear from them if they disappear if they get killed if they get arrested why do we have to do how to fact check how to continue the investigation how to do more interviews to to continue their stories and so thats one part of the process and the other thing that if they decide to claim publicly that that they already are with the save and already did some kind of backup and that could be a good signal for enemies of the press that it would be too late for touches for making any attempt against those drone is because the al drive of this race would be in the ends of journalist based in munich based in new york based in paris and thats the the force and the poor full aspect of the collaborative joint isnt that it makes no sense to to make any attempt against one journalist if there is ten or twenty journalists who are ready behind him to follow and to continue the work of that of this trial and its all the right what youre doing is very important a valuable service to all journalists and we wish you all the best success with a lot richard founder of the Freedom Voices Network joining us tonight from paris the right thank you very much. Thank you so much thank you. U. S. Senators this week of held hearings on russian interference in last years president ial election sitting before them the lawyers as sent by americas top tech and social media firms Facebook Twitter and google what has emerged is a troubling picture that involves close to half the worlds population i have more than a little bit of frustration that many of us on this committee have been raising this issue since the beginning of this year and our claims were frankly blown off by the leaderships of your companies its pains us as a company it pains me personally to see that we were that our platform was abused in this way does it trouble you that it took this committee to get you to look at the the authentic nature of the users and the content but i went home last night with profound disappointment i am questions i got very good answers and that just wont do the United States is going to be the first of the countries to bring it to your attention and others are going to follow im sure because you bear this responsibility. Well some thoughts now about tech social media and all of us it has been a years since the u. S. President ial election and the world is still asking what happened we know that social media was used to interfere we know that millions of americans were exposed to russian propaganda and lies in the past year there have been several major european elections were Facebook Twitter and google used to meddle in the results of german french and dutch votes what we really dont know there is growing distrust between the public and the tech titans of Silicon Valley so why are lawyers testifying on capitol hill this week and not the c. E. O. s now facebook c. E. O. Mark zuckerberg reportedly said that his presence at the hearings would over emphasize the problems well Mr Zuckerberg your absence emphasizes that there is a problem you and your peers created the platforms that have changed our lives forever those platforms that are now sometimes being used against us this is you were responsibility is time to stop being a no show otherwise youre legions of users around the world will demand that their respective governments take responsibility for you. Well one hundred years ago today a document was drawn up that changed the course of history in the middle east a letter written by British Foreign minister Arthur Balfour expressed support for the creation of a homeland for the jewish people in palestine it became known as the Balfour Declaration now after the autumn an empire was defeated in world war one the area known as palestine was put under british control later the countries of jordan and israel emerged israel sees the one nine hundred seventeen Balfour Declaration as an important step towards statehood but the original document stated that nothing should be done to prejudice non jewish peoples living in that territory a century later israelis and palestinians remain bitterly divided over the balfour legacy. This is a message to the British Government that weathered it before one hundred years will never bust. And will never forget that sort of gave the money stein for the. First time he would look at the. Palestinian population here in our land we have walked in penance to express our sorrow for the one hundred years of suffering this possession injustice and conflict which the Balfour Declaration has brought the Palestinian People the palestinians. About for directly or looked worse than it was a tragedy that wasnt a tragedy whats been tragic is the refusal to accept this one hundred years later i hope to change our mind because if they do we can move forward finally to making peace between our two people. Yet we still are talking about that document one hundred years later im joined tonight by sam simon maybe he teaches International Relations in the middle east at Lancaster University in the u. K. Simon its good to see you know the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu hes in he is in britain to mark the anniversary is london in the mood just celebrate i think i think theres quite a number of competing views and competing visions about how important about the declaration was about about british complicity and i think there is this deep Division Within the society about about how complicit the u. K. Was and whats happening in the middle east today but also the extent to which we can see that its a good thing so i think you dont probably be small pockets who are celebrating but theyll also be equally small pockets who will sit for us lee protesting against it on the streets of london today do you think that the world really understands what the Balfour Declaration meant and i mean do people understand why britain would even advocate setting up a jewish homeland. Well its pretty odd if you look at what was happening at that time branson was engaging in diplomatic dialogue with the french and with the arabs about how to how to carve up the Ottoman Empire a sort of assuming the and the defeat in world will one and and not send this letter from alpha to lord rufford child leader of the Jewish Community in the time i did in this extra character into the equation that hadnt really been being discussed that is of course the idea of a state for the jewish peoples and and that i think is is a particularly all think at the time when you think that france was jewish because in some marx sikes what were talking about how to how to redistribute land across the Ottoman Empire and how to how to create some kind of some kind of dialogue some kind of relationship with the arabs and arab leaders at that time so i think its a pretty strange agreement a pretty strange declaration to be honest and some with a minute left what do you think with the state of israel wouldnt exist today if there had been no Balfour Declaration i think about the declaration was obviously a really important step along the way towards establishing the state of israel and palestine now i think that that is perhaps the biggest thing he had that there could well have been a state of israel and we know that there were a number of different possibilities considered but whether that would have been in palestine or not the big question so i think that the declaration was important for getting the state of israel to where it is today all right simon member thats Lancaster University in the u. K. So i mean as always we appreciate your insights good to have you on the day thank you. Thank you. Well for the first time a collection of paintings stolen from their jewish owners in the nazi era are being exhibited in switzerland in germany now for decades they were hidden in an apartment in unix until one day the tax man paid an unexpected theres. The hoard of precious artworks is going on display for the first time in bern switzerland and bonn germany the linked exhibitions include master works from the likes of kirshner spec man otto dix and vassili couldnt ski the works on display just some of the motherlode found in this unassuming flat in munich in two thousand and twelve had not been seen by anyone for decades except by this man Cornelius Gurlitt tax inspectors discovered the trove of around fifteen hundred works during a raid on gurlitz apartment and later at another residence in salzburg. It was said to be a recluse who identified with. The scene here in the middle hildebrand built up the collection after being enlisted by the nazis to sell socalled degenerate modern not. The story of the art discovery quickly became about a nazi tribe of looted works but the real number is more sobering. Theres a total of six works that have currently been identified as. You could say thats not many but i say its six too many and it six works with the human story behind the. Bullet died in twenty fourteen and the conspiracy im burned was stunned to learn that it had been nine is the song. The exhibition then is composed mainly of words confiscated by the nazis from museums after receiving the works the swiss museum let some five hundred of them in germany so the provenance could be researched the exhibition there in bom focuses on work looted from victims of the nazi regime and works whose ownership has not yet been established tracing the works origin seventy years on has proved a major stumbling block we tried to turn every stone but in spite of this there are actual limits to our search. The exhibitions not only served to bring these masterpieces back from the grave but also give voice to works and the nazis had hoped to silence. The now. Shes a providence researcher at the art register in london welcome to the day if you cant. Tell us how many. Are do we know how many works of art were seized by the nazis or forcibly sold by their owners i mean how many remain unaccounted for. Barry it is very difficult to give a concrete not about how that we know that were not i am new to hundreds of thousands of acts and some of them were rescued to direct the war but there is still that to be found and that probably in the no one hundred thousand but if you take into account that the nazis not i am going to try not but also that question of sin and also but then the number becomes absolutely immense and. To say no more wins in the millions that lee you give you your job i mean i called you earlier today i mean these are. A lost art owner hunter if you will. Told me a little bit about how you go about conducting the research to determine the paintings origins and and to find its original owner. Where half am at the opera just a stopping point is always database checks so the atlas register runs a database of about half a million stars and looted i tunes so that includes a comment as as much as not saluted but there are also a number of public databases out that such as the jam unless they have a web victims can basically read just items that they are looking for so that is the starting point but then from that you really get a very complex you start looking into detail records auction house records from the one thousand fact hes and forty and that sort of the limits in business and by law the trade is only applied to heat their records yes and we have court quite a few auction house records some of them are also digitized but not all of them are and many of the you know records of the auction house records have been destroyed now that is one side of the problems research and then the other side is finding the claimants so you might know that an op where once in the procession are a family that was victim to nazi persecution but then many members of that family might actually have died during the holocaust and is very difficult sometimes to track down if that still are any descendants there well its a fascinating story and your work is says a lady we know it must be when you are able to bring art back to its original owner only every house a provenance researcher in london only if we appreciate you being on the day and taking the time to share your experience with us thank you thank you very much. 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