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Rome, Apr 17, EFE, (Camera: Álvaro Caballero).- Few know more about confinement than Roberto Saviano, the Italian journalist and writer who has dedicated his life to investigating the mafia and who has lived with a bodyguard for 14 years, ever since he was sentenced to death by the Camorra after the publication of "Gomorra". In a conversation with EFE, he reflects on the reality of confinement in the face of the coronavirus crisis, on his life experience and the growing power of the mafias taking advantage of this situation of weakness.SAVIANO'S SOUNDBITE TRANSLATIONS:1- "Companies that wash hospital sheets. Companies that supply ambulances. Funeral parlours. Food distribution. What does all this mean? That they are already winning because they have invested in sectors that are on an incredible rise."2- "With the pandemic, things are changing. With the pandemic, they realize that with relatively minimal investment... For example, with 50,000 euros of shopping bags they give people for a month, they have the whole neighbourhood with them, instantly. Before the effort was much more burdensome, it had to be more important."3- "The truth is that the answer is completely trite: money. They must give money. There is no other immediate answer. Access to funds and allow companies and individuals not to sell their lives, not to be forced to resort to any economic model of survival".4- "Everything. They have done everything wrong. The red zone with delay. The management of the sick who have wanted to be sent to the nursing home, probably for interest, for money. They probably imagined that in the nursing homes it was not as deadly of an epidemic as it, unfortunately, is, especially for certain people. So Lombardy has seen its system of efficiency born of the balance between the public and the private fail. Lombardy, which has always been ruled by the League and the reactionary right-wing has always made propaganda saying that the Lombard public health system was the best in the world. Obviously, the situation has shown that the reality is quite different. 5- "The crime that Viktor Orban has done, is a crime. He has ended Parliament with an authoritarian operation, taking advantage of it as all military and authoritarian regimes have done". 6- "Orban is the first dictatorship within Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The authoritarian risk is enormous, because the pandemic creates the state of exception, and the state of exception dispenses with democratic rules and initiates what these political groups have been seeking for years, a single guide, a single direction, a single power'. 7- "Very fragile, very fragile. Europe seems dead with the COVID. Now they are trying to straighten out the course. Europe has only two possibilities, either to refound itself exactly as the founding fathers imagined it to be, a United States of Europe, or to die. Because if you consider the pandemic to be a purely Italian or Spanish or Portuguese problem, you are delirious, it is not. 8- "In general, after pandemics, there are no attacks of solidarity, of trust towards others. Because while after a war with the other you are at peace, because there has been a peace treaty, of negotiation, with the other you feel repaired, because there are no more uniforms, there is no order to charge or shoot. The other is no longer your enemy because there has been a formal halt that has closed the conflict. Not with the pandemic, because the others are still dangerous, because mismanagement could infect you, or you could infect another. Even if the pandemic ends, or there is a cure or vaccine, the suspicion remains. The distance between us, politically or socially, we can resolve, but culturally it is a very long way away. 9- "It would be enough for me to go out a little bit again to recover, like everyone else, a little bit of the measure of a life in which you do not feel completely imprisoned. Having said that, nostalgia is the greatest internal danger, and I have not managed to live well with nostalgia. For many it is a resource, for me, it is a continuous trap. Because nostalgia grips you, it deforms what you've lived through, you've probably lived through things with normal intensity and nostalgia describes them to you as moments of happiness, of great vital intensity, of pleasure. 10- "Especially trying not to lengthen the day, but to widen it. Live everything with more intensity, the music you listen to, the book you read, give it as much time as you can without being distracted".
Geneva (Switzerland), 18 June, EFE, (Camera: Antonio Broto).- The number of refugees and displaced people in the world increased in 2019 to 79.5 million people, according to the annual report released on Wednesday. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, discusses the details in an interview with Efe.FOOTAGE OF PART ONE OF AN EFE INTERVIEW WITH FILIPPO GRANDI, UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES
Moscow, Nov 5 (EFE), (Camera: Céline Aemisegger).- Azerbaijan will stop the war in Nagorno-Karabakh immediately if Armenia withdraws and its prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, personally and publicly announces his retreat and defeat, the Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev told Efe in an interview.In power since 2003, the Azeri head of state spoke to Efe via videolink from one of the rooms in the presidential palace in Baku. His demeanor is one of defiance. He claims that Azerbaijan has a clear military advantage over Armenia in conflict over the territory, which is internationally-recognized as belonging to Azerbaijan, although is populated predominantly by Armenians. SOUNDBITES OF AZERBAIJAN'S PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV DURING AN INTERVIEW WITH EFE.
Geneva (Switzerland), 18 June, EFE, (Camera: Antonio Broto).- The number of refugees and displaced people in the world increased in 2019 to 79.5 million people, according to the annual report released on Wednesday. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, discusses the details in an interview with Efe.FOOTAGE OF PART TWO OF AN EFE INTERVIEW WITH FILIPPO GRANDI, UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES
Checkford a bien changé depuis l'arrivée des célèbres May Ray : les touristes affluent, l'immobilier flambe... A la Bread Factory, Dorothea et Greta travaillent sur l'adaptation d'Hécube d'Euripide. Mais le vrai spectacle se situe peut-être à l'extérieur. Face à toutes ces transformations dans la ville, la Bread Factory est toujours menacé.