A show of support for the gambia is ousted president thousands rallied calling for those we turn from exile. And in sport color sciences won the dakar rally the spaniard winning the worlds highest profile offroad race for 3rd son. Libyan warlord have a for have to has held talks with greeces Prime Minister in athens as part of International Efforts to win the conflict in his country after is in greece ahead of a peace conference on libya that will be held in berlin on sunday. Criticised its own exclusion from the un backed talks it says it should be included because tripoli has signed a maritime and military deal with its regional rival turkey well lets go live now to John Psaropoulos whos standing by for. In athens john tell us what youre hearing about these talks. The Prime Minister and general if i have to still in session those talks started about 2 hours ago and we havent heard what the result of those has been presumably will be statements but we did hear what emerged from the di
Fifteen hundred square metres of space this exhibition area in berlin is committed to gallery has been prepared for sixty works from the Tehran Museum of contemporary art works that have never before been shown in the west its the start of a planned Cultural Exchange intended to strengthen relations between iran and the west. But it never came to that just weeks before it was due to open authorities in iran prevented the artworks from leaving the country. Come run veba has lived in spain and france since the late one nine hundred seventy s. The architect artist and collector left his homeland a year before the iranian revolution. Dba knows the tehran collection more intimately than most for he was once closely associated with it and he still spends a lot of time thinking about whats become of it he is the architect who designed the Tehran Museum of contemporary art in the one nine hundred seventy s. Debo was also its first director of the Tehran Museum of contemporary art held the larg
when word got around it and chris prada the uranian government and the shah were buying our. members of the art world naturally approach them to suggest works to buy. iran was very wealthy at the time and the international art market was out a low point. some of the works proposed were selected and bought from and. that. eventually the collection grew to include well over three thousand works by both iranian and international artists painting such as a mural on indian red ground by jackson pollock found their way there. along with works by brock. roy lichtenstein rauschenberg. and many others. financed by petrol dollars from the sale of oil its total