Lebanon and the worlds biggest Ice Sculpture festival. Is hello. Thousands more people have turned out for antiislam rallies in germany. With Angela Merkel branding them as racist and urging germans to turn their backs on them. Weekly rallies over what protesters call the islam fiction of theiislamfication of the country. Also going dark in solidarity. Thousands of protesters turned out in seven cities for counterrallies. Lets go live to nadim baba. How these proafts are spreading. Lauren behind me thousands antipegida protesters, others in other parts of the cologne to stop a planned march towards the cathedral. Several cities across germany are hosting margins by pegid after but in general the counterdemonstrations are larger. In berlin the police are talking about 10,000 antipegida demonstrators showing up. The propegida draimentors areda demonstrators are far far smaller. The largest was in dresden a couple of weeks ago which drew 17,000 people. Thats what spurred her to actually m
Where the illnesses found. Of course, the gravity of the situation as has been described by panelists leaves no doubt about the vital need for the International Community to undertake urgent action in order to reverse the current trend. As you said, mr. President , at present the time has come for specific actions. We need to act quickly. Not only to suppress the spread of the disease, not only to save human lives while theres still time, but also and especially in order to maintain stability and the gains of the last few years. As part of peace building and social peace. It is essential for unmeer, the u. N. Mission, to be deployed as quickly as possible so that it can respond effectively to the most pressing needs of the affected countries. In our opinion, this mission should also help build local health capacities, as was said, through making available mobile hospitals, helicopters, protected vehicles and qualified medical workers and older to take care of sick people. Therefore, le
narrator the quest for immortality the desire to extend th certainties of life beyond the grave is as old as egypt itself. The pyramids at giza, the wonders of the ancient world, were not just designed as the pharaohs last restingplace. They were the first stop on a long nights journey to everlasting life. By 1550 bc, power had shifted to a n kingdom 500 miles south in the ancient city of thebes, now called luxor. To the west, in the hills beyond the niles west bank, the royal tombs of the valley of the kings were cut into limestone cliffs. Their interiors are richly decorated with hieroglyphs and paintings signs and symbols that detail the necessary steps to attain immortality. Egypts power and the grandeur that came with it were wellestablished by 2500 bc when the Great Pyramids at giza were built. The sphinx was a philosophy of government set in stone. It depicted the king as fearless, cunning and brave as the lion. And as crucial to egypt as the nile itself. The king was not just a
Their interiors are richly decorated with hieroglyphs and paintings signs and symbols that detail the necessary steps to attain immortality. Egypts power and the grandeur that came with it were wellestablished by 2500 bc when the Great Pyramids at giza were built. The sphinx was a philosophy of government set in stone. It depicted the king as fearless, cunning and brave as the lion. And as crucial to egypt as the nile itself. The king was not just a political leader but a religious leader too. In the minds of the ancient egyptians, the pharaohs power and authority as a king stretched far beyond the boundaries of his country and into the cosmos itself. After death, he would escape the earthly bounds of his tomb, board a solar boat and sail into immortality. This vision became material in objects and images founin the tombs and temples as a way of preordaining a central idea afr a perilous and carefully prescribed journey through the night, the king would become one with the sun god re.
Reach the crash flight of the malaysian plane. A court orders payouts from russia. And all that glistens is not gold. Digging up precious medals from sudans kingdom. Reports that a number of people have been killed or wounded, israeli armies said that hamas rockets misfired and struck the compound. Our correspondent is at the scene. And at Al Shifa Hospital where a number of casualties were brought in. Its quieted down since we first came to you an hour ago, but do tell us what you hav you have been seeing over the past hour. Reporter frankly, laura, we have seen a very sad scene here. A number of small bodies brought into this hospital. What we understand of the eight hi killed by the airstrike, seven from children. This man has broken a leg and arm but he will survive. Still as you can imagine a very, very terrifying and harrowing scene given the fact that there were so many children there. There was a number of children here some of them suffering from minor injuries. You can see th