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00:00A suicide bomber in Syria opened fire before detonating an explosive west inside the Greek Orthodox Church during a Sunday Mass.
00:06At least 22 dead and 63 wounded.
00:10NATO allies have reached a deal on setting a new defense spending target of 5% of GDP ahead of a key meeting this week in The Hague.
00:19The United States and Israel at the UN Security Council promptly defend their strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities as Tehran's allies condemn the US military action.
00:30The United States and Israel on Sunday at the United Nations Security Council strongly defended their military actions targeting Iran's nuclear sites,
00:40saying the regime in Tehran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.
00:44The UN emergency session followed US-led strikes on three key Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday, prompting reactions from several member states.
00:54The time finally came for the United States, in the defense of its ally and in the defense of our own citizens and interests, to act decisively.
01:06The Iranian regime cannot have a nuclear weapon.
01:10Make no mistake. The cost of inaction would have been catastrophic.
01:16A nuclear Iran would have been a death sentence just as much for you as it would have been for us.
01:24Russia, China and Pakistan, key allies of Iran, condemned the US strikes and Iran's top diplomat vowed retaliation.
01:33The timing, nature and scale of Iran's proportionate response will be decided by its armed forces.
01:42Meanwhile, the B-2 stealth bombers that dropped bunker-busting bombs on Iranian nuclear facilities returned to its US base in Missouri on Sunday.
01:52US President Donald Trump insisted the airstrikes were a limited intervention and urged Tehran to negotiate.
01:59The Europeans are attempting to revive negotiations with Iran to stop the armed conflict with Israel.
02:12France, Germany and the UK, plus Kayakalas, the EU's chief diplomat, meet this Friday in Geneva with Iranian negotiators to find a last-minute settlement to defuse the threat of a potential total war in the Middle East.
02:25In 2015, the same three European countries, the EU, the United States, Russia and China played a key role in brokering a deal with Iran to limit its nuclear program.
02:37In 2018, the first Trump administration withdrew from the Accord, de facto ending the agreement.
02:44What went wrong?
02:45In exchange for renouncing its nuclear weapons program, Iran was offered sanctions relief.
03:07The European Union was hoping to restart trade with Tehran.
03:15Nevertheless, they continued developing their military conventional ballistic capabilities and financing Middle Eastern militias.
03:24This was enough for the Trump administration to consider the Accord null and void.
03:30According to a former British top EU diplomat that witnessed the first EU's attempt of detent with Iran in the early 2000s,
03:37Tehran had a double agenda all along.
03:40And this was a kind of matter of national pride as far as the Iranians were concerned.
03:46So I don't think that they were – this is in retrospect – I don't think they were ever planning to negotiate it away.
03:54It was going to mark the mount as one of the most important powers in the Middle East.
04:01The fact of the matter is that the talks in Geneva will only yield results if Israel is on board.
04:16Prime Minister Netanyahu has spent the last 33 years warning about an imminent Iranian nuclear weapon readiness
04:22and never trusted any nuclear deal or diplomatic effort with Tehran.
04:31A suicide bomber has attacked a packed Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus,
04:36killing at least 22 people and wounding more than 60 during Sunday Mass.
04:40The attack took place at the Mar Elias Church in the Devela district on the outskirts of the capital.
04:50Witnesses say an attacker opened fire on the congregation of around 350 people
04:54and then detonated an explosive vest when confronted.
04:57Images from the scene showed church benches covered in blood and debris.
05:16No group has claimed responsibility, but Syria's interior ministry says
05:20its initial investigation points towards the Islamic State group.
05:23Syria's information minister condemned the terrorist attack,
05:28calling it cowardly and wowing the combat criminal organizations.
05:34The bombing is the first of its kind in Syria in years
05:37and a challenge to the new government's efforts to stabilize the country and protect minorities.
05:43It highlights ongoing concerns about the threat from extremist sleeper cells in the war-torn nation.
05:48NATO allies have agreed to increase spending on defense to 5% of GDP by 2035,
06:00diplomatic sources said on Sunday.
06:02According to reports, ambassadors from all 32 member states of the alliance
06:07signed the new spending pledge ahead of their major summit in The Hague on Tuesday and Wednesday.
06:13During the NATO summit, allies are expected to commit to spending 3.5% of GDP on hard defense,
06:22like weapons and troops, and an additional 1.5% on defense-related investments,
06:28like cybersecurity and military mobility.
06:31U.S. President Donald Trump has long demanded that NATO states spend 5% of their GDP on defense,
06:39but said last week Washington should not be included in it.
06:44Meanwhile, hundreds of people in The Hague protested on Sunday against NATO and military spending.
06:51Billed as a demonstration against NATO and the war in Gaza,
06:54protesters also denounced Israel and U.S. military actions in Iran, chanting no to war.
07:01Polish duo Swara and Nichos are bringing a new beat to traditional Slavic music.
07:09Using white singing, a traditional vocal technique from the Podlasia region in eastern Poland,
07:14they aim to show that tradition does not have to be left in the past
07:17and that it can evolve into the modern day.
07:19We recorded a teledysk on the beautiful podlaskiej łące,
07:24I remember, on the wschodzie sun.
07:25And then we liked it to be, that we started to explore this topic,
07:30which is music from the whole world, which here Swada explore,
07:34and the podlaskies songs, the local culture, the local culture.
07:38As I was still a very small girl, I taught myself to sing black and yellow music.
07:47I also met with the local youth group, so this type of music is not a foreign place.
07:53I always loved it. I was a beautiful piece of tradition and culture.
07:57I think I love you.
08:27We w domu, w mieście, w Bielsku to już tak może nie za bardzo, ale na wiosce to wszystkie babki, a gdę to, a gdę ona, a skul, a czyja ty? Dokładnie, jakby tak, używało się tego i nadal się używa jeszcze.
08:42Jak się okazuje, do basu lubią tańczyć i osoby już takie posunięte w latach, ale też takie, że i swoje dzieci przyprowadzą i te dzieci też hasają.
08:52Swara and Nichos reach for the musical roots of the past and give them a contemporary form.
08:58They reflect the very borderlands they come from, geographical, cultural, and generational.
09:03The exhibition Romantic Life, Chopin, Schaeffer, Delacroix, Saint, seeks to recreate the atmosphere of romanticism in the first half of the 19th century.
09:16It was at this time that the close-knit circle of artists lived close to one another in Paris' new Athens district.
09:23Entering the exhibition, visitors are supposed to feel the famous French-Polish pianist playing behind the wall.
09:31Ari Schaeffer welcomed many artists in his studio, many painters, many writers, and musicians.
09:41Frédéric Chopin played piano in the studio of Ari Schaeffer.
09:45The exhibition is divided into four sections, the first being Ari Schaeffer's Atelier.
09:52Chcieliśmy pokazać, że są pewne tematy w sztuce romantyzmu, w muzyce, w literaturze, w sztukach plastycznych, które są wspólne dla wszystkich.
10:05I sercem tematów romantycznych jest również ballada, którą odnajdziemy zarówno w literaturze, w malarstwie, ale oczywiście w muzyce.
10:13I tam zobaczycie Państwo autograf ballady Fryderyka Chopina.
10:17The second part of the exhibition focuses on romantic themes.
10:22Dwie wielkie postacie, dwie osobowości, wspólne życie w Paryżu i w Nantes, ale byli oni przecież otoczeni przez innych.
10:32Do grona ich bardzo bliskich przyjaciół należał Eugeniusz de Lacroix.
10:38Next, the social circle or Georges de Sonde, Frédéric Chopin and Friends.
10:43Zostały stworzone po to, aby pamiętać o swoich przyjaciołach, o swoich bliskich, o to, żeby śmierć przemijające życie nam ich nie odebrało.
10:55The next part focuses on memories.
10:59Pokazują taki świat estetyczny, świat sztuki, który podobał się ludziom, który był dostępny, którą chcieli zbierać.
11:09Tak niezwykłe nagromadzenie, wręcz symbolicznych obiektów i złożenie ich w różnego rodzaju narracje, to jest naprawdę wielkie przedsięwzięcie i wielka przygoda.
11:25The exhibition can be seen in Warsaw until October 31st.
