Today along with films comfort cautionary measures social distancing mandatory mask wearing and temperature taking. This podium we hope everything will go well we hope that this mosque can be fruitful we will be in with. It for easter and might see fewer hollywood stars in attendance but one Silver Lining is that the festival has done better in terms of gender parity 8 out of 18 films in competition directed by women. Actress Cate Blanchett leads the jerry. Was to the swinton receives a Lifetime Achievement award the competition runs for 11 days before we find out who will take home the series coveted golden lion. 8 out of 800 films by women directors and im joined by my colleague melissa horrid melissa some pretty impressive gender parity there for venice so finally we might say is there did dare we hope that the golden lion might be taken home by a woman well yes it could well be taken home by a woman couldnt i mean if we think about the comparison with great recent years this is a m
Has opened in paris of 14 people accused of aiding the 2015 terror attack on the satirical magazine charedi abdo and other targets including a jewish supermarket 17 people died in the islamist a soldier before the killers were shot dead by police the magazine was targeted because it published cartoons of the prophet mohammed. A british actor Tilda Swinton has received a golden lion Lifetime Achievement award in the Opening Night of the Venice Film Festival its the industrys 1st major festival to be held since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and strict Safety Measures are in place this is d w news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram or visit our website w dot com. Or. German doctors treating russian opposition figure say without a doubt he was poisoned with a form of the soviet era nerve agent no german chancellor Angela Merkel today called it attempted murder a crime to silence dissent germany the European Union the u. K. And the u. S. Are all demanding an explanat
Well congress of families provides a powerful platform for such groups and this week one of its founders Allan Carlson joins me from Rockford Illinois what lies behind these close connections with russia and why wont he leave the Gay Community alone. Alan carlson welcome to conflict zone. The World Congress of families is a very benign name for a group thats credited with inflicting considerable misery on many people around the world these days the Southern Poverty Law Center which has tracked your movement for a very long time says youre one of the Key Driving Forces behind the religious rights global export of homophobia and classifies you as a hate group do you wear that with pride i dont accept the label at all not were not a group at all the Southern Poverty Law Center has its own agenda its own fundraising goals and it distorts the truth of a vast i. C. s approach away group yes as a Prolife Group we affirm understandings of the natural family of family based and focused on the p
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Numerous groups are active in europe and elsewhere seeking to overturn a whole raft of lords for the legalized among other things abortion and gay marriage the World Congress of families provides a powerful platform for such groups and this week one of its found those alan carlson joins me from Rockford Illinois what lies behind his close connections with russia and why wont he leave the gay community. Alan carlson welcome to conflict. The World Congress of families is a very benign name for a group thats credited with inflicting considerable misery on many people around the world these days the Southern Poverty Law Center which has tracked your movement for a very long time since youre one of the Key Driving Forces behind the religious rights global export of homophobia and classifies you as a hate group do you wear that with pride i dont accept the label at all not were not a group at all the Southern Poverty Law Center has its own agenda its own fundraising goals and it distorts the