I am grateful that my father never really knew the extent of how he was duped. He auctions i first heard about the Zaks Collection from Konstantin Akinsha and andrei vassiliev. From the very beginning, the story seemed hard to believe. We wanted to understand how paintings of such dubious origin could be sold as genuine works, and how did they end up on the walls of museums All Around The World . One painting from the Zaks Collection unexpectedly appeared in a scene from Christopher Nolans oppenheimer. A few months later, the same painting turned up in another film, The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar by wes anderson. Im Beatrice Gimpel and im swiss and im partly french, through marriage, but ive lived here in london in the uk for 49 years 49 very happy years. My parents, especially my father, were very interested in paintings and sculpture and from the mid late 60s, early 70s on, he bought extensively anything he liked. And he did a lot of his homework inviting, talking to artists, s
To our world . With us this morning, the Prime Ministers right hand man, Oliver Dowden. And by the man who wants to be the next Foreign Secretary, labours david lammy. And the chief of the Defence Alliance nato, Jens Stoltenberg, tells us about the growing threats to the west. We live in a more dangerous world, and we have to be prepared for crisis. Morning. Today were reflecting on two important anniversaries six months since the October 7th Hamas attacks on israel, but also 75 years since the founding of the defence partnership, nato. We are living in serious times, but i promise we will have lots of enlightening conversations too, maybe even a bit of wit with our panel this morning ruby wax, lord mark sedwill, who was the National Security advisor and Cabinet Secretary in charge of the Civil Service, and baroness amos, Former Labour Cabinet Minister under tony blair, and master of University College oxford, a very warm welcome to you all and a very warm welcome, of course, to you at
October 7th six months ago that hamas fighters stormed into towns and that they then took more than 250 hostages and killed more than 1000 people. The attack sparked whats become the deadliest and most destructive israel gaza war, killing over Thirty Thousand palestinians according to the Hamas Run Health Ministry. The un says it gaza is now on the brink of famine. Here in israel, the hostages are described as an open wound. There are there a re protests there are protests across tel aviv demanding that the government does more to bring hostages home. Their anger was intensified by news that our body was recovered in another military operation. Elad katzir was taken on october and seventh, along with his mother and father. His father was murdered that day, and his mother was released that was released in november as part of a temporary ceasefire deal. Pressure is mounting on negotiators to try and achieve a more lasting ceasefire. Indirect talks between israel and hamas have resumed in
Minister to go. He should resign after what happened six months ago the war start, and hamas and everything. He claimed that he wants to go to war and make hamas go away and bring all the hostages home, back home. For one israeli family, the hope is over elad katzir, kidnapped from kibbutz nir oz, his body returned from gaza today. The Israeli Military says he was murdered in captivity by the islamichhad group in january and that Special Forces recovered his body in khan younis overnight. During the attack in october, his father was killed. His mother was abducted but later released. In a facebook post, his sister blamed the Israeli Government for his death, saying, he could have been brought back alive if there had been a deal with hamas, and said the israeli leadership was cowardly. In gaza, a desperate wait for food, amid warnings of famine. Aid deliveries have been, at best, sporadic. When help does arrive, people rush to get it. Translation when we were displaced at the beginning,
Netanyahu. The families of the hostages say he hasnt made their release a priority. They say that the governments strategy of trying to put Military Pressure on hamas to negotiate has failed. Now, the main hope is for a dealfor more captives to be freed. Any kind of deal would see the release of hostages in return for Palestinian Prisoners who are being held in israeli jails. Now, on sunday, as we mark the six anniversary of this conflict, hamas says it is sending a delegation to cairo for a ceasefire talks that have been mediated by egypt and qatar. The head of the cia is expected to be there, and these are difficult talks. We still dont know whether major obstacles have been resolved. Meanwhile, a hamas delegation is expected to attend ceasefire talks in cairo on sunday, following an invitation extended by egyptian mediators. Others expected there, include Us Central Intelligence Agency director bill burns and qatars foreign minister. Israels war cabinet is reportedly set to discuss