Ex-Brazilian soccer star's rape trial kicks off in Barcelona
Ex-Brazilian soccer star's rape trial kicks off in Barcelona;
British PM Rishi Sunak arrives in Belfast for Northern Ireland Assembly;
Eponymous documentary on Jewish photographer dwells on photos taken before Holocaust
British PM Rishi Sunak arrives in Belfast for Northern Ireland Assembly;
Eponymous documentary on Jewish photographer dwells on photos taken before Holocaust
Transcript
00:00 Nightly greetings one and all. William Theo here, homegrown and happy to bring you the latest events brewing here and abroad
00:07 over the 24-hour news cycle.
00:10 Atop the leaderboard, professional soccer teams in the European circuit boast of star players from Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, among others.
00:20 And they are a magnet for adulation from adoring fans and the Ubicis press people on the hunt for a scoop.
00:28 And in Barcelona, ex-Brazilian star soccer player Dani Alves and his accuser are about to have their day in court over allegations of rape
00:38 by the former star player of Barca and Paris Saint-Germain.
00:42 And vans and security vehicle units have arrived at the Barcelona court, which will try the rape case of the 40-year-old Alves.
00:51 He has been in jail since January last year after a woman accused him of raping her in the restroom of a VIP area of an upscale Barcelona nightclub
01:01 in the wee hours of December 31st, 2022.
01:05 British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrived in Belfast for the Northern Ireland Assembly on the second day of his state visit to the United Kingdom-held territory.
01:17 His arrival coming at the heels of an election that put into power North Ireland's first nationalist leader.
01:24 Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill, a pro-Irish unity politician, has surmised Northern Ireland will seek a vote of unification with Ireland before the decade is through.
01:36 However, Sunak's government has assured since early this week that Northern Ireland's place within the country is fresh and secure.
01:45 Roman Vizniac, a Russian-Jewish photographer, travelled to Europe in 1937-1938 to document life in Jewish communities that would be snuffed out so prematurely by the Holocaust.
02:01 His photographs served as the inspiration for Hungarian cinematographer Janusz Kaminski in the Spielberg black-and-white tour de force Schindler's List.
02:11 VOA's Anna Reis narrates this report from Anna Nelson.
02:16 I remember many of his pictures being born in the dark room and this feeling of closeness to my father.
02:28 I would ask him about the people in the pictures and he would say, "These are our people."
02:35 The story of Jewish photographer Roman Vizniac is told by his daughter Mara Korn Vizniac.
02:42 Some of the thousands of photographs he took are shown for the first time in this documentary called simply Vizniac.
02:49 Roman Vizniac was born to a Jewish family in Tsarist Russia in 1897.
02:55 From 1935 to 1938, he travelled through Eastern and Central Europe taking pictures of local Jewish communities, not knowing that the life he captured on camera would soon be gone.
03:08 Vizniac's photographs became the last documentation of everyday life in Jewish communities before the Holocaust.
03:15 Director Laura Bialis spoke to Vizniac's daughter Mara and recorded her stories before she died in 2018.
03:23 He was in all the places where things were happening.
03:27 He was in Moscow during the revolution and fled from Moscow and went to Berlin in the 20s where everything was happening.
03:38 The Weimar Republic was at its heyday and he was there during the Nazi takeover of Germany.
03:45 A little bit after that is when Kristallnacht happened and he was in Berlin during Kristallnacht.
03:50 Then he's in France, he's in photographing people leaving on the Kindertransport.
04:01 The documentary tells Vizniac's tale of how he lived through the start of the Holocaust in Europe and managed to avoid being sent to a concentration camp.
04:11 Instead, in December of 1940, he and his family travelled from Lisbon to the United States.
04:17 Here, Vizniac would make significant scientific contributions to photomicroscopy and time-lapse photography.
04:25 When Polish cinematographer Janusz Kaminski was filming Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List,
04:31 he based a lot of scenes on Vizniac's photographs because they reflected the everyday Jewish life it was hard to find elsewhere.
04:39 The documentary's executive producer and Spielberg's sister Nancy Spielberg says the message is clear.
04:46 If humanity does not learn from its history, it's condemned to repeat it.
04:51 I do think that the images speak to all of us.
04:59 I think we are a visual society. We need to see it, not read it.
05:06 We need proof. Everybody wants proof. And so this is proof of how inhumanity runs amok.
05:17 And maybe it will help us understand each other better. Maybe it will help create some tolerance.
05:25 Maybe it will bring civility back to civilization.
05:30 Documentaries like this can change minds and help remind people of horrific events that recede a little farther back in history every day.
05:39 Vizniac is playing in select theaters around the US throughout this year.
05:44 For Anna Nelson in New York, Anna Rice, VOA News.
05:51 At this juncture, we turn to our colleague in PTV's Pine City Studios for the latest developments brewing in the Cordilleras, Ala.
06:01 In the Philippines, a female investigator was arrested at Tabuc City Police Office.
06:06 The victim was hit and run and was taken to Tabuc City Hospital.
06:11 The incident occurred at 3.45 p.m.
06:16 The victim was injured for four months.
06:20 The victim was taken to the SUV.
06:24 The victim was taken to Almoradero Hospital by a policewoman.
06:30 The victim was taken to the Bumper Hospital in Lugan, where the lead investigator was found.
06:36 The social media account of the incident was blocked by the suspect.
06:41 The 62-year-old driver was arrested at 8 p.m.
06:46 The family of the victim decided to file a case.
06:52 He is from Barangay Lucug, Tabuc City.
06:57 He is now in custody of our police station.
07:02 Maybe he has a conscience and surrendered to their barangay.
07:08 The barangay called our investigator.
07:12 The victim was defeated by Cordillera Mix martial artist Carlo Von Buminaang.
07:20 The victim was defeated by Fort Straight Wind, 150 Fikes, 50 EJ Bangkok, Thailand.
07:26 The victim was defeated by the team of the fighter, C.Jew Pong, China.
07:30 The victim was defeated by the team of the fighter, C.Jew Pong, China.
07:35 The victim was defeated by the team of the fighter, C.Jew Pong, China.
07:38 The victim was defeated by the team of the fighter, C.Jew Pong, China.
07:47 This is PTV Cordillera, and this is Ana Sunduan, reporting from Imbag, Arabia.
07:55 Thank you, Ala. We've come to the end of the show.
07:58 We look forward to you all joining us for tomorrow's set of Late Breaker.
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08:05 And never forget to work hard, aim high, be kind, and give thanks while you catch the news right here.
08:11 William Theo wishing you all a restful night ahead.
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