french. they are the ones invaded. there's the challenge of research. i am not a french speaker. but the battlefields are largely intact so you can visit them. lot of whatis not a i would call fantasy associated with it. i, the grimar realities of war and the suffering is just fascinating to how these men endured such slaughter and squalid conditions for four years. >> tell me about your military service. >> i am a retired u.s. army officer. i served in the national guard and regular army for just under 24 years or so. >> how has the military changed? from 1918 to today. >> today, the soldier commands much more of a battle space than he did in world war i. units are much smaller. the firepower that can be put out by a squad now is likely to be put out by a company in world war i. there are so many changes, the advances in technology, the ability to see what the enemy is doing. it is incomparable, but the individual soldier experience is still quite common, but they say technology changes but

african french and african only french. it's actually done i think that we need to be sent to them and the way that they define themselves what's problematic is to impose an identity from one that doesn't and to label someone against his or her own will and that's what you can of experience of my know which is unsettling quite responsive to question that's not not only a catch as to another country but also united because that's we are truly fair and . ok you being white you know that if you can. i think this person would agree with you on twitter they write yes you can be french and african at the same time but that doesn't cover how white french people will treat you it's a fact that immigrants are marginalized and face layers of obstacles in society and ironically football is one of the past for many to come out of poverty and then they go and win the world cup. and i comment on that story well. if i could just i will comment. ok sorry just a short remark it's true that football all over the world has been the past for t

african french and african only french. it's true then i think that we need to be sent to them and the way that they define themselves what's problematic is to impose an identity from one that doesn't and to label someone against his or her own will and that's what we kind of experience of minor which is instead of being quite responsive to question that's not not when you attach us to another country but also united because that's we are truly fair and. actually you are right you know if you can. i think this person would agree with you on twitter they write that yes you can be french and african at the same time but that doesn't cover how white french people will treat you it's a fact that immigrants are marginalized and face layers of obstacles in society and ironically football is one of the past for many to come out of poverty and then they go and win the world cup. and i comment on that story well. if i could just i'm going to measure. ok sorry just a short remark it's true that football all over the world has been pa

and we're situated right across from the french market, the site of the old french market, which there was an active market here in the city from 1718 from its very earliest days. and so with the bounty of everything that was available in season, fresh, and local, using french and spanish traditional preparations, this indigenous, true indigenous cuisine developed, and that is creole cooking. the hallmark of creole cooking, first of all, we have to say, the no matter what it is we're cooking, it almost invariably starts off, first, you make a roux. and that is of course a combination of flour and oil. traditionally it's a french word, it was a french preparation originally, and in france it's butter and flour, but here in new orleans, butter would burn before the roux gets to the dark color that we like it to be. once you've got that dark roux, the other thing that goes into everything is celery, bell pepper, and onions. that is actually what i like to refer to as the creole mir poi because of course the traditional french was onions, celery, and carrots. when those first french people

post way back in the welder witness a french officer who greets george and you know very -- formal french officer who has a lot of training remembered george 21-year-old -- and george says i have -- a message from governor and french officer says -- oh you have the wrong guy. you need to show it to my commander he's a weeks ride that way. and so off george and christopher go through swamps on and on. they get to larger fort into the main head french -- and he's a very distinguished elderly gentleman a real formal professional soldier with great experience. of course he's only in his george calls him elderly in early 50s and standard of age in those days and french receives george for formally and very graciously with -- formal dinner and with french wine and imported from france and finest meats and you know candle light and it was very gracious time and he reads the letter -- and over the course of the next couple of days he writes a response. so george takes that letter and immediately sets out as quickly to get it back to ho is told him to travel with all possible haste. and so he gift

african french and african only french. extra down i think that we need to be sent to them and the way that they define themselves what's problematic is to impose an identity from one that doesn't and to label someone against his or her own will and that's what we kind of experience of minor which is unsettling quite want to question that's not not on me attach us to another country but also united because that's got to be fair and. ok you are right you know if you can. i think this person would agree with you on twitter they write that yes you can be french and african at the same time but that doesn't cover how white french people will treat you it's a fact that immigrants are marginalized and face layers of obstacles in society and ironically football is one of the past for many to come out of poverty and then they go and win the world cup. and they comment on that story well. if i could just. ok sorry just a short remark it's true that football all over the world has been the past for the underdogs of the society to com

team for example look at french team french team contains a multicultural society france beat another team from a small country in the balkans and all the players in this small team of the country of origin so there is no rule to be taken out of that to meet the multiculturalist that doesn't function is what you have communities living next to each other and not mixing it is very easy for example for asians to. melton and become members of society but we have some some part of the population that refuse it to want to impose their culture in the public space like the slum for example democracy can only be based on respect respect of the art each other culture respect it comes also from form not to fear from other people culture from the other society we import misery we have a social security system which is based on the contribution of everyone and the problem is that the millions that come to europe never participated they never contributed they come with families look at with examples off the continent of africa if we have left africa alone would not have seen african migrated to to

french national team so. that's what trevor said. i agree completely i agree with what you say he says not to say i can time when he was on the way. but i could have. i'm very interested in that conversation because everyone seems to understand that when you're african you kind of the french at the same time i understand why it is problematic to refer to french players as african in the french context but it should be because you have many people from the far right who deny the fact that they are french by saying that they are from growth that they don't belong and that they are africans so in the french context i mean from people from the far right it means denying the fact that they are french but as myself being a woman from african descent i'm french but my tummy comes from africa i can understand why people of african descent all around the world and i think it's important to say a true going to south africa how they can relate to that success and how no have how did you have the will to to share that mo

the french your country and i was very nice a lot of french people. would try to present a team of friends and the game was very interesting but russia won but now as st petersburg gears up to host france and belgium for that crucial semifinal clash there's an important question to be no fraud chips as we call them back in england are a crucial staple of any not so healthy diet but as we call them french fries are they actually french all belgium some content we also spawns here inside pizzas but the truth. of a belgian i don't know where the name comes from but they're belgian hundred percent so i could if he'd been generally here you know that he could process i. don't know could take you foot board fossick and get me new food. my. french like a hundred percent sure yeah yeah i'm not sure i don't know before you start you need to know what i am here because you know not what. you say it's french belgians as belgian who did it was the outside it's mcdonald's it was things like. isabelle's and fries but they did have the name you know to throw the bus

team for example look at french team french team contains a multi-cultural society france beat another team from a small country in the balkans and all the players in this small team of the country of origin so there is no rule to be taken out of that to meet the multiculturalist that doesn't function is what you have communities living next to each other and not mixing it is very easy for example for asians to. melton and become members of society but we have some some part of the population that refuse it to want to impose their culture in the public space like islam for example democracy can only be based on respect respect or for that are each other culture respect it comes also from form not to fear from other people culture from the other society we import misery we have a social security system which is based on the contribution of everyone and the problem is that the millions that come to europe never participated they never contributed they come with families look at examples off the continent africa if we have left africa alone would not have seen african migrated to to to eu

troops at french seaports. it shows training activity and ends in the summer of 1918 just as the french and americans are planning a major offense of in northeastern france. this is about 20 minutes. guillaume: i am guillaume molzan, i am a tour guide in france. i've been doing it for the last couple of years. >> what started your interest in it? why did you do it? guillaume: my brothers and friends walked in the forest and we would find remains everywhere. growing up, i wanted to know more about history. where were the germans, the allies, and i got involved and i have a whole life interest for this. in his region, it is something to be interested in because remains are everywhere. you can see here it was shot and hit something. mitchell: i am mitchell yockelson. i serve as the chief advisor to the world war i centennial commission and i'm an author of two books on the first world war. the most recent is 47 days, how pershing's warriors defeated germany in world war i. it started as a young kid reading books b

accepted as french? >> of course. he's right. he said we are all french, we are all together. there is no color. but on the reality, we can take for example of what trevor said on tv. he said something very nice. he said that unfortunately when you do something good, you can be seen as a french here in france. when you do something bad, you are from the origin, you are like african. unfortunately, that's a reality in france. so i can understand what he said. >> nabil, you know he said the same thing, when i win, i am german and when i lose i am an immigrant. i would like to play for you what trevor said on his program, and then we'll talk about it. >> yes! yes, i'm so excited. africa won the world cup! africa won the world cup! africa won the world cup! [ applause ] i get it, i get it. they have to say it is the french team but look at those guys, huh? look at those guys. you don't get that tan by hanging out in the south of france, my friends. >> what did you feel when he said that because you know your

french weapons. it doesn't seem efficient. it does keep up a steady rate of fire. 450 rounds per minute. it's considered one of the most modern machine guns. plus the heavy metal of the barrel. it's like with modern machine guns, keeping the barrel from overheating. to operate the gun. typically these guns were cited so they could crisscross. one gun working in pairs with other guns. they try to keep him as camouflage. they are a big target for artillery. especially during daylight hours. you see a splinter proof shelter like this in the daytime, also from aerial observation. if there is an alarm or alert, they can quickly move up the front line and set up and be operational within minutes. nighttime they would set up the guns to be ready to operate at night. they would use obstacles in the front. they were designed to channel the germans in the kill zone and so they cut them down to read -- cut them down from both sides. that's what made the machine gun more efficient. you can keep a narrow arc and

(marie grimaud speaking french): >> navai: one of the reasons the case was dismissed is that the french investigators fnd, i'm quoting, "contradictions and implausibilities." what are they referring to? (grimaud speaking french): >> navaimarie grimaud is appealing the decision to abandon the case against the. soldie the boy that we spoke to hadn't spoken to french investigators.r i toldhe boy alexi's story and also asked her about the the soldiers who daniella says raped her. she gave us description of where it happened and of the soldiers. so she said that one of them was white, had a snake tattoo. have you got a description of a man like this? fr >> navai: the ch military declined to speak to us about the allegations or put us inf touch with anye accused soldiers from the 152nd regiment. we tried to interview prosecutors, but they also declined, saying the appealai agt their ruling is still being considered. nw do you feel about the that did this to you? (daniella speaking): >> (speaking local language) >> (speaking french): t navai: in response to the french scandal, summer of 2015,

it is not just the french team. a lot of teams who were supposed to be the most beautiful team on the pitch did not win. we saw spain with their possession, with their passing against russia, they probably were the better team. they were more beautiful to watch than the russian team. the russians won that game. in this final, may the french were not the best. they took their chances and that is what you have to do and especially in a final of a world cup. seeing six goals in a final is exciting. people who criticize france's goals innce scored 4 that final, are asking too much. it was a great final, after all. , that odd at the end thunderstorm, the french president and croatian president standing there in the pouring rain, hugging all of their players and those scenes of the french players jumping into the puddles of that stadium to celebrate this title, the second and a sensears on of cohesion, a group born in russia here. there is one glaring difference from 20 years ago that struck me is the fact that when you t

for the french, the first win in 20 yea rs. for the french, the first win in 20 years. the croatians kept telling me, we are small nation but we have a huge heart and a huge stream. this was their dream, they could not quite do it but my goodness did they fight for it. let us have a look around. there is a slow trickle of fa ns around. there is a slow trickle of fans coming out of the stadium. the french in particular remaining in sight for the trophy presentation. we know vladimir putin is inside the stadium, the french and croatian president saw inside as well. not many fans are coming out yet. they are saving the moment, this has been an extraordinary tournaments. these are the final moments. there have been an army of russian volunteers, young people who speak foreign languages, to help with the influx of foreign visitors to russia who have been here for the tournaments. the kind of thing russia has never seen before, so many foreigners in the city and because of football. sarah, obviously you know rush incredibly well, players and fans had their anxieties about the

thousands of the seaborn fans packed the french capital. dancing in the streets and shouting from the rooftops. well this is great everyone is here together and it's a good atmosphere and makes everyone feel better and we're happy to be here and pride to be french. nationals and it's honestly i really felt as happy as i do today. i remember in one nine hundred ninety eight it was fourteen years old i can celebrate like this but tonight i'm going to set the city on fire thank you france think you laid look it's great it was great thank you go they observed where the champions. one fan in particular couldn't contain his excitement french president and man were not called watching the match in moscow he even got a pass on the head from his croatian counterparts thrilled to the team second place . ok we're not going to get some reaction and analysis on what happened last night from g.w. sports team extensively covering this story for you tom general here with me in the studio good to have you with us and standing for by forests in the french ca

to french people. to present a team of friends and the game was very interesting but russia won but now st petersburg gears up to host france and belgium for that crucial semifinal clash there's an important question to be. fraud chips as we call them back in england are a crucial staple of any not so healthy diet but as we call them french fries are they actually french all belgian content we also love. pizzas but the truth. i don't know where the name comes from but there belgian hundred hundred percent so i could repeat. that it could cause as i. don't know good to know for good policy and get me off the good news for. my. french like a hundred percent sure yeah yeah i'm not sure i don't know the party has found you need to know about i am here because you know not what. you say it's french belgians as belgium who did it will feel that it's not going to get things done. as doesn't rise but they did have a name we know it is true that there. was a phone signal to address the new with them from the. t

relations with the french. one early encounter occurred when the unit responsible for training the first division was replaced. general bordeaux, the commander of french 18th division, spended to repeat the training the first division had completed. despite marshall's attempts to reach a compromise, general bordeaux refused to consider any alteration to his training program. marshall drafted a letter to be signed by general cyberthat set forth our position and stated what assistance we desired from the french and informed general bordeaux if he could not accommodate himself to the proposed arrangement, we would have to go our own way. the threat of ceasing additional french training was enough to convince general bordeaux to agree to the terms that marshall agree had outlined. french pressure to get american soldiers into combat mounted. george clemmen sew had tried unsuccessfully on several occasions to meet with general pershing showed up to speak with general cyber. marshall who was present for the meeting r

last laugh right the french unions the french because the french are out there in the streets fighting for wages so their productivity is higher as expressed as a fraction of a g.d.p. look i mean in the britain in the united kingdom to solve this problem they want to include prostitution and drug dealing in the calculations of the government to come up with a g.d.p. number that's desperate they are to avoid just giving workers livable wages i think it's just the motto by which your society and culture run. so the french actually have one of the lowest union union indications around the world partly because they go by egalitarian galatz a fraternity liberte and when we've been there you and i lived there for many years and what we saw was that if one group of workers was on strike other groups of workers would go on strike to support those not that their union told them to but that they as individuals realize that they are society against their government the french government is always afraid of the people of france the opposite is the case in most other nations that the people who are

so after hundreds of miles they get back to a french post in the wilderness with a very formal french officer and remember he is a 21-year-old neophyte with a message. through more snow and cold. he's a very distinguished elderly gentleman in th the chuh calls him elderly in his early 50s as it turned out with a whole different standard of age in those days. he reads the governor's letter and over the course of the next couple of days he writes a response so george takes the letter and sets out as quickly as he can and the servants set out and get slammed by winter again. it gets so cold and snowy they cannot find forage and the streams are frozen so they can't find water to drink so george and christopher leave the horses behind and they set off on their own. at one point george suggests let's take the short cut through the woods. they kind of get into a mess that way but they go on and on and at one point they think they are being chased by indians. they go from 36 or 48 hours straight of running on this pursuit by indians who they think are tracking them through the snow and in the

in the first half french coach gigi additional coaching his team's victory down to what he called shia mental strength we have a full team covering this story for you this morning tom from sports here in the studio good to have you with us tom and in paris in the french capital we have a limo tuckey standing by and in the croatian capital that grab melanie. tom we're going to start with you. first of all how significant was this french victory on sunday night well i mean the records tells something of their own story. did it is holmes has become one of only three men in history to win the world cup as a player and it was that as a coach back pages nineteen years old he's now the first teenager to school in a farnell since pele in one hundred fifty eight the final itself was the highest scoring for the world cup since one thousand nine hundred sixty six france's court was the second youngest at the tournament. hope this somewhat because we're about to take a look actually and see how the match unfolded yesterday with. i an early and one these more free kick made its way past the croydon

fries are you really french. i don't know where the name comes from but they're belgian. to spell to rice but they could have the name we know it's true it's not going to. write. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for tuning in this hour. has new foreign secretary following the resignation of boris johnson has been replaced by jeremy hunt there's been a string of departures by key breaks the tears over the government's adoption of a softer approach to leaving the e.u. the new foreign secretary jeremy hunt has been serving as the country's health secretary for the past six years he supported the remain campaign during the two thousand and sixteen bucks that referendum though he claims to have since become a bricks a tear as forced johnson was leaving his official residence in central london after his resignation he was bombarded with questions from reporters. the other one this is a call for. mr jones thank you for that is that. you think you could do a better job th

people wanted for crimes in french as far as the french-indo-china war. some of these people were living in southern brazil. the brazilian authorities wanted them out of the country because they were creating problems in brazil. they worked closely with the united states. they were deported to france, in one case, to italy because he was italian. but there were no direct flights between brazil at the time and europe. they had to come through the united states. and when they came through the united states, they were captured and in most cases rather than go back to france where several of them were sentenced in absentia -- although the death penalty had been cancelled since he was sentenced to death, they would basically be facing life in prison. they agreed to corporate. so they turned over everything they knew about the investigations and it turned out that they were the conduit, they were the link between the sources in southern france and the italian mafia groups in new york that were importing the heroin. >> and in the movie called "the french connect

as they were in their trucks or camions, they saw french civilians passing them by an french, french members of the army, throwing down weapons saying the war is over. these men pushed forward into the front, and it was here that lloyd williams from 25, the men set up behind parts of the french army near bella would. was made by colonel preston brown, chief of staff for the second division, the french wanted to immediately commit the marine corps and army piecemeal, thrust them into the line. he insisted they be able to dig in behind the french in shallow wait.es and weight -- this potentially helped save the war because the marines and army were ready. if the german army advance over the wheatfields, the french were clearing -- fleeing. according to the marine corps' lore and other documents, lloyd williams was confronted with this dilemma, and he said we just got here. they began to fire with their rifles, accurate rifle fire. most marines were marksmen. they took down the germans. they stopped them and on june 6, the allies go on the attack. the french order them to push forward.

the french army was evaporating. company and 49th the marines from the fifth and sixth regiment as well of the second division were all being trucked as quickly as possible along with a third division of the u.s. army into the vortex of battle to hold the line at all costs. these were some of the only reserve units of the time and they were, in many cases, super divisions. the u.s. divisions were about twice the size of the french division and sometimes even more -- much larger than a german division. they were quickly rushed to the front and as they were in their trucks, they sought french civilians passing them by as well as members of the french army. some throwing down their weapons saying that the war is over. and iten push forward was here that lloyd williams from 25, the men set up behind the french army. and a decision was made by colonel preston brown, the chief of staff of the second division. the french wanted to immediately commit, thrust them into the line. and he insisted that they be able to dig in the

relations with the french and english were ordinary topics of conversation and discussion. marshall transitcontrasted this his service in the first division where he had struggled with feeding, clothing, training, and marching the men. their health and morale a daily issue, their dead and wounded a daily tragedy. he continued, huge projects for the future made no appeal to us. we wanted trained replacements to fill the ranks, more ammunition and horses. marshall's first assignment was to gather as much information as he could and begin to develop a plan to reduce it. by august 6th he had completed a preliminary study that called for the participation of four american divisions and three additional divisions in reserve. planning for the operation provided marshall with another glimpse into the challenges of alliance warfare. as the situations changed on the british and french fronts, the number of available divisions was constantly in flux. with each change, marshall had to make adjustments to his operations plan. over the course of air week, marshall submitted plans based o

thousands of the seaborn fans packed the french capital. don't sing in the streets and shouting from the rooftops. that this is great everyone's here together and it's a good atmosphere and makes everyone feel better and we're happy to be here and try to be french but no sense in lieu of honestly leafing feeling french for three days now and we'd like it to remain showed up and we are proud of friends and the guys from the suburbs have done it for friends they go a container told you so. only if you're proud thank you yeah give it. one fan in particular couldn't contain his excitement french president and manuel not call watching the match in moscow he even gossip pats on the head from his croatian counterparts thrilled to the team second place. ok let's get more all know the reaction to this match and some analysis also from this much from the sports tom get all here in the studio with me. you know we just saw all the positive celebrations if you want but there was a blemish on last night's celebrations. there was some trouble last night a

the french stars kept their heads. their core of players will have a fantastic chance to wind back to back world cups in qatar in four years time for the first time in 60 years. it is a young squad. we have seen that the rise of the underdogs. fifa rankings turned on their heads. the reigning champions germany, former champions spain, brazil, all stumbled. 0ne third of the matches saw the favourites beaten but it was here at luzhniki stadium that order was restored. croatia gave it their all. two penalty shootouts and an extra time wind over england, they dug deep. class saw france through. 20 yea rs deep. class saw france through. 20 years after didier deschamps captain the team, he has now won the world cup as coach. well you won't be surprised to hear that the celebrations are going on long into the night in paris. the arc de triomphe was lit up in red white and blue as thousands of fans flooded in to the french capital. images of the players were projected on to the arc as parisians celebrated a first world cup tri

i am with [french spoken] quarter at the citadel. we are a french-speaking unit. men are french descent and come from the province of quebec. stewart: i am told the royal 22nd regiment is frequently referred to as the van dous. what is the story behind us? 2 byes, we are known as 2 the english speaking people. they have difficulty to pronounce 22eme regiment. come now as we watch the changing of the guard. ♪ [trumpet being played] stewart: the traditions of canada's regiments have been nurtured by the older british customs and provide added luster to the parade gallons. one of the most famous summer sites in quebec city is the inspection and changing of the guards have the citadel by the royal 22nd regiment. these 19th-century uniforms belie the modern, professional soldiers who wear them. ♪ stewart: the regiment's lead on parade by a guest from queen elizabeth. these ceremonials are an important part of a proud military heritage. they are very much a symbol of canada's modern fighting force. highly trained to assume the military as possibilities of a growing

also coming up as europe looks to asia for free trade the french ports. laughs a hopes to become an important part thanks to china's one belt road project. welcome to do business the e.u. and japan today agreed a free trade deal which will create the world's biggest open economic area addressing the press after a signing ceremony in tokyo you counsel president on a task said to the deal sent a strong message against protectionism together the e.u. and japan make up almost a third of global g.d.p. now after five years of negotiating the two sides have reached a deal that creates the world's largest open economic area addressing the press after a signing ceremony in tokyo european council president donald tools kept this to say. graphically we are far apart but politically economically recruit hard to be in the close. we both firmly believe in open live corp rules based international order and free trade the two blocks are ready have a pretty balanced trade relationship last year the e.u. exported goods and services worth seventy eight billion euros to japa

we are situated right across from the french market, the site of the old french market, and there was an active market in the city from 1718. it was a bounty of everything available in season, fresh, and local, using french and spanish traditional preparations with true -- reparations, a true indigenous cuisine developed, and that is creole. a hallmark of creole cooking, first of all, we have to say, no matter what we are cooking, it almost invariably starts off, first you make a roux. it is a combination of flour and oil. it was a french preparation originally. in france, it is butter and flour, but in new orleans, the nutter woodburn -- would bur before it gets to the dark color we like. that, celery, bell pepper, and onions. a traditional creole start. when the first french people got seedsundoubtedly they rot -- they brought seeds and ingredients come intending to carry on like in france, and we are painfully aware of being at least seven feet under sea level. how are you going to grow car rots? you can't, the water table is too high. car's why i believe the rot came out and the p

we are not allies with the british and the french. co-belligerence with them. it creates some interesting differences. result, we never declare war against the ottoman empire. as a part of wilson's 14 points, one of them is self-determination. of population, particularly looking at the one case, the ottoman empire and also the german empire. was, we send out one delegation -- sent out one delegation in particular. one of the things that everybody realizes is that most of the people locally want america to administer territory. which is why armenia is one of the things. the suggestions are why don't you guys take armenia at? the reason everybody wants us to take it is because they don't know it. we have dealt with the british, the french, the russians, we don't like any of them, you must be better. the idea was we will give it to the americans. from the british perspective, they said you can have that headache. wilson won the 1916 election by saying i kept you out of the war. america -- giving getting america in. list the clear involved with armenia was never go

global economy a powerful push for free trade also coming up as europe looks to asia for free trade the french port city of must say hopes to become an important hub thanks to china's new silk road and boeing expects sky high demand for planes in the next decades china is said to be the world's biggest market. i'm daniel winter and this is your business update it's a massive deal covering nearly a third of the world's economy the european union and japan signed a new trade pact to link the economies of six hundred million people across both markets in the so-called cause for cheese deal is the moment it happens. a grand fanfare for an historic agreement. as the e.u. and japan signed the world's largest ever trade deal in tokyo. to do signature of the you economic partnership agreement is a landmark moment for go with the if we used together you call them is that the cone for the third of the world's g.d.p. and home to over six hundred million. the talks got off to a difficult start and took a full four years but as u.s. president donald trump ratcheted up the protectionist rhetoric over the la

you dealt with the british, you dealt with the french. we don't like any of them. you must be better. the idea was just give it to the americans and from the british perspective, they were like, hey, you guys can have a headache. wilson won the 1916 election by saying "i kept you out of the war." the idea of getting america imperialistic lee evolved with something like armenia was never going to sell politically. we back out of that relatively quickly in opposition to the american presence. one of the things when i talk to students about america's role in the middle east, a lot of people today tend to think we have always been in the middle east and they fail to understand that really, up until 1979, we had very little involvement in the middle east and we tried to keep it that way. so wilson following what is going on in versailles, wilson is basically trying to keep the middle east at arms length. he is trying to avoid it. he just sent off the delegation to try to understand the king trade commission, is what gets named, and he is trying to figure out what should

multicultural is not a french expression, from the french point of view, from the point of view of a emmanuel macron, this is not a multicultural team, it is a french team, maybe they are immigrants, from a lot of different places, and thatis from a lot of different places, and that is a hallmark of this young team, but, the french view is that this is a french team and what is very striking about this team, and the elements that have come from different areas, like kylian mbappe, symptomatically emblematic, they are extremely outward in their patronage is and their expression of patriotism and i have not seen that before. 0ther patriotism and i have not seen that before. other teams in the past have had a large immigrant element but they have not maybe had the same outward willingness to address their patriotically fervour that this team has. i think that is different, and that has made the country very happy about rallying behind them. france isafair about rallying behind them. france is a fair weather football country, only rallies behind winning teams but this time it has rallied

one french politician will say the biggest threat to french security is fornication. we need more of it. [laughter] and the population of france actually does not return to its pre-1914 rate until the 1960's because of that bubble. it gets so bad that when the war ends, the french are actively trying to convince the american soldiers to stay. stay, meet fifi, settle down and have a good life. and some of the soldiers do it. and some of the totalitarian regimes that will rise, be it mussolini, the japanese, be it hitler's germany or stalin's russia will all push for, you know, go forth and multiply, be fruitful because they see that as a critical wartime necessity. democracies, not so much. what they will do for the french, for example, will have a big influence on world war ii. going into world war i, the french soldier was conscripted for three years. so they could match the relative number of the germans. after the war, we need those french guys to be meeting fifi. in 1930, they lower the amount of time the soldiers spend in the ranks from three years to one year. a

marshall recalls the result was reassuring to the higher french officials. the french were so pleased the prime minister once again visited the first division headquarters. this time his reason for visiting was to award 20 oh soldiers who fought well. the allies were sent scrambling. they were the only american division to complete training. after the decision had received its orders they went through final training exercises. general percy visited the division to view the exercises. the way that general percy conducted himself made a great impression on marshall. marshall reflected. surrendering the direct control of his troops, which he has invidiously maintained in the face of repeated endeavors, to repeat the formation of an american army, he released them to be scattered over 400 miles up front, temporarily jeopardizing his own, and even american prestige, he laid all his cards on the table. marshall also took note on praise his demeanor, despite the circumstances he faced, saying in the midst of profound depression, irradiated determination and the wil

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the pony and a hundred thousand french soldiers are captured the deposed emperor of the french dies in exile in england three years later in paris news of the defeat sparks of rebellion the empire has collapsed. but the war still goes on the french capital is besieged by german troops and is bombarded with heavy artillery this was to lead to deep rifts between the french and the germans for decades to come. the siege of paris is directed from nearby their sinai the prefecture in the center of town becomes the royal prussian headquarters. it is also from here that the next steps the german unity opera penned. this mock intends to use the national euphoria after the victory at sedan to motivate the south german states to join the north german confederation fall. and terribly but there's resistance. to overcome this bismarck writes a letter to the bavarian king ludwick the second he knows the monarch books that the idea of making his kingdom part of a unified germany which is what the majority of his subjects and his own government want. but he knows the king's weaknesses and plans to exp

that investigated your openness how ninety experts from the french government who is prepared to talk about it we have an appointment to neutral place because he has to remain anonymous in order not to lose his job but the most there is in investigate you're a colleague let me now know has also found documents that show how closely the french government cooperates with microsoft ok the auburn for defense has really given the hub and document here as the i'm going to have four. does and with about a minute and the e-mail address of the tidings minister young's a party at one try upped their them for delay tied to us and another document. that's going out is a myth about it or. a complete buy microsoft under status can see a clear invaders mcleish is no as many of you do next he's not at his enemies he declared is that they have off was. nice to us you're like anything they had set that mark. yet is their point of. course after. it is he said it in the news are shown again me. at their. the closeness of this relationship is also demonstrate. secret treaty that the ministry of defense ha

mitchell: french citizens being fed. some of them were driven from their homes as early as 1914, and had to vacate the area. now they were able to come back after the germans had left the villages by force by the americans. here's the german pows. they marched over here. guillaume: we can see how excited the civilians are there. seeing the germans leaving. mitchell: for the americans, they did not have time to gloat over st. mihiel because less than two weeks, it were launching the meuse argonne. for general pershing, st. mihiel was a great battle. he desperately wanted, even from the moment he came to france, he had his eyes on st. mihiel because this was an area germans used to bring more troops and supplies in. while the french agreed with him, they wanted it to be a limited action. they reduced the american attack in preparation for meuse argonne. what did you think it took so long to break through? guillaume: i think the german defenses were too strong. then, they focused on other battles and it became to be quieter