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
In other developments, a hamas delegation is expected to attend ceasefire talks in cairo on sunday, following an invitation extended by egyptian mediators. Israels war cabinet is reportedly set to discuss whether to send a delegation, whilst a British Royal navy ship is sailing to the Eastern Mediterranean to support the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the gaza strip. Our first report this hour is from hugo bachega injerusalem. In tel aviv, protesters are back on the streets. It has been six months since palestinian gunmen stormed southern israel from gaza, and more than 100 israelis remain in captivity. People are urging their government to reach a deal with hamas for hostages to be freed, and they also want their Prime 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 k
an explosion there, with news agencies reporting it was caused by an israeli air strike. meanwhile the palestinian militant group, the islamic jihad organisation, has posted this video, which it says shows fighting against israeli forces in the city. israel has warned people living in the area to move to safety aid agencies say there s a chronic and growing lack of resources to care for them. meanwhile, more details are emerging of the seventh october attack. the bbc has been hearing evidence that women in israel were sexually assaulted, raped and mutilated by hamas. israeli investigators have gathered more than a thousand testimonies from witnesses and those who handled the bodies of victims after the attack. our middle east correspondent, lucy williamson has more from jerusalem. a warning, her report contains some distressing details. out of the chaos and mass trauma of the hamas attacks, new stories are starting to emerge of rape and sexual assault. including graphic t
Terry Anderson, an American reporter once kidnapped by extremists in Lebanon back in 1985, and kept captive for seven years, died at the age of 76 on Sunday.
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