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  • Iran, de révolutions en répression : L'Iran des Pahlavi, portrait d'une dynastie

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    Iran, de révolutions en répression : L'Iran des Pahlavi, portrait d'une dynastie

    durée : 00:58:56 - Le Cours de l'histoire - par : Xavier Mauduit, Maïwenn Guiziou - En 1921, un coup d’État renverse la dynastie des Qadjar et annonce le règne des Pahlavi. Entre modernisation et répression, la Perse, devenue l’Iran, s’établit comme puissance régionale et internationale. - réalisation : Thomas Beau - invités : Oliver Bast Professeur à l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, spécialiste de l’histoire contemporaine de l’Iran; Salomé Michel Docteure en langues, civilisations et sociétés orientales

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  • Putin and the Apartment Bombs: 1. The Four Bombs

    12 JAN

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    Putin and the Apartment Bombs: 1. The Four Bombs

    Four bombs. Twelve days. Hundreds dead. What really happened in Russia in September 1999? Helena speaks to BBC foreign correspondent Andrew Harding to revisit a story that has haunted him for decades. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Harding takes us inside a world of power struggles, inflation and a country on the brink. Then, in September 1999, just weeks after Vladimir Putin becomes Prime Minister, the apartment bombs begin. Russia is gripped by fear. The question is: who did it? In Season 1 of The History Bureau, presenter Helena Merriman returns to one of the most contested -- and consequential-- stories in modern Russia. In September 1999, just weeks after Vladimir Putin became Prime Minister, four bombs blew up four apartments buildings across Russia. The bombs exploded in the middle of the night, killing hundreds of people while they slept. In this season, Merriman returns to the story with the reporters who were there on the ground. What did they get right first time around? And, in the chaos and confusion of unfolding events, what did they miss? Presenter: Helena Merriman Series Producer: Sarah Shebbeare Series Editor: Annie Brown

    12 Jan

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  • Putin and the Apartment Bombs: 3. The TV Show

    12 JAN

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    Putin and the Apartment Bombs: 3. The TV Show

    What if the truth behind the bombs could be revealed - on a television show? Following the events at Ryazan, journalists at Russia’s major television channel NTV prepare for a primetime broadcast: a confrontation between the residents of the building where the sacks of powder were found and the FSB officials who insist it was nothing more than a training exercise. With the Russian presidential election just days away, the TV show becomes a gamble that could cost NTV far more than its ratings. In this episode, Helena speaks to Yevgeny Kiselyov, one of Russia’s most influential political journalists and the man who brought the show to the air. In Season 1 of The History Bureau, presenter Helena Merriman returns to one of the most contested - and consequential - stories in modern Russia. In September 1999, just weeks after Vladimir Putin became Prime Minister, four bombs blew up four apartment buildings across Russia. The bombs exploded in the middle of the night, killing hundreds of people while they slept. In this season, Merriman returns to the story with the reporters who were there on the ground. What did they get right first time around? And, in the chaos and confusion of unfolding events, what did they miss? Presenter: Helena Merriman Series Producer: Sarah Shebbeare Executive Editor: Annie Brown

    12 Jan

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  • Cixi, la redoutable impératrice qui a dirigé la Chine "cachée derrière un rideau"

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    Cixi, la redoutable impératrice qui a dirigé la Chine "cachée derrière un rideau"

    Dans les couloirs de la Cité interdite de Pékin, une femme tire les ficelles. Les empereurs se succèdent mais elle n'est jamais loin du trône. Il s'agit de Cixi, l'une des grandes figures oubliées de la dynastie Qing. Habile stratège, l'impératrice s'est maintenue au pouvoir durant toute la deuxième moitié du 19ème siècle, quitte à éliminer des membres de sa propre famille. À travers un récit long format, Vincent Parizot retrace, toutes les semaines, la vie et les crimes d'un salaud de l'Histoire. Une collection spéciale de notre émission phare "Entrez dans l'Histoire. Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

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  • 18. Surah Al-Kahf - Maher Al-Muaiqly | سورة الكهف - ماهر المعيقلي

    20/10/2023

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    18. Surah Al-Kahf - Maher Al-Muaiqly | سورة الكهف - ماهر المعيقلي

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  • Putin and the Apartment Bombs: 2. Sugar

    12 JAN

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    Putin and the Apartment Bombs: 2. Sugar

    Three sacks of white powder discovered in a basement – and a ticking timer set for dawn. As fear grips the country and families sleep on the streets, a strange discovery in the city of Ryazan sparks a chain of events that challenges everything people thought they knew about the bombings. In Episode 2, Helena speaks to David Satter, a journalist who has spent years trying to make sense of two pivotal weeks in Russia’s history. In Season 1 of The History Bureau, presenter Helena Merriman returns to one of the most contested - and consequential - stories in modern Russia. In September 1999, just weeks after Vladimir Putin became Prime Minister, four bombs blew up four apartment buildings across Russia. The bombs exploded in the middle of the night, killing hundreds of people while they slept. Merriman returns to the story with the reporters who were there on the ground. What did they get right first time around? And, in the chaos and confusion of unfolding events, what did they miss? Presenter: Helena Merriman Series Producer: Sarah Shebbeare Executive Editor: Annie Brown

    12 Jan

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  • Putin and the Apartment Bombs: 4. The Poisoning

    13 JAN

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    Putin and the Apartment Bombs: 4. The Poisoning

    Two men challenging the FSB’s story flee to London seeking safety, only to end up dead. Years after the apartment bombings shook Russia a press conference is held in London, led by exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Once a kingmaker who helped propel Putin to power, Berezovsky now claims the bombs were an inside job. And in the room sits another man, Alexander Litvinenko, whose own investigation into the bombings will set him on a perilous collision course with the Kremlin. As the danger moves across borders, one question lingers: how high is the price for speaking out? In this episode, Helena speaks to Jeremy Vine and Gordon Corera, two journalists who followed the story from the UK. In Season 1 of The History Bureau, presenter Helena Merriman returns to one of the most contested - and consequential - stories in modern Russia. In September 1999, just weeks after Vladimir Putin became Prime Minister, four bombs blew up four apartment buildings across Russia. The bombs exploded in the middle of the night, killing hundreds of people while they slept. In this season, Merriman returns to the story with the reporters who were there on the ground. What did they get right first time around? And, in the chaos and confusion of unfolding events, what did they miss? Presenter: Helena Merriman Series Producer: Sarah Shebbeare Executive Editor: Annie Brown

    13 Jan

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  • Episode 2 - South Africa’s poisoned mandate and SWAPO emerges as the key early struggle movement

    07/03/2021

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    Episode 2 - South Africa’s poisoned mandate and SWAPO emerges as the key early struggle movement

    By 1914 the German colony had been developing slowly but steadily – but it was very much a backwater even amongst the hazy list of obscure colonies. It was the discovery of diamonds in 1908 near Luderitz in the south of the country that sparked a frenzy of German interest. An avalanche of fortune hunters descended on this desert land in a few months – and if you travel there today the region is dotted with ghostly reminders of that time, buildings disappearing under the weight of shifting sands. The Germans quickly declared this area as “Sperrgebiet” or Forbidden area and the prospectors were chased away. The diamond rush didn’t last long, but nearby Lüderitz had grown large enough to become a sustainable community. That Sperrgebiet however, remains in place. You need a permit on parts of the coast and will find yourself thrown into jail if you try to go diamond hunting. By 1912 the port town already had 1,100 German inhabitants and trade was surging. Two years later the outbreak of the First World War ushered in another period of major change for the residents of South West Africa. As the tension grew between Great Britain and Germany, South West became more significant. In this episode we also take a closer look at how SWAPO emerged from various organisations and entities in the early 1960s - with strong links to the ANC and its armed wing, MK.

    07/03/2021

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  • Episode 8 – The Portuguese pull out of Africa and the first Reccie dies in Angola

    18/04/2021

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    Episode 8 – The Portuguese pull out of Africa and the first Reccie dies in Angola

    This is episode 8 and we’re dealing with the period in the early 1970s as the border war began to escalate - and the first death of an SADF soldier inside Angola. The Portuguese had fought a ten year war in Angola by early 1970 which was showing some signs of success until the rug was pulled out from the local military and security forces because of a military coup in Lisbon. The South Africans support for the Portuguese in Angola had escalated through the 1960s and by 1968 the South Africans began providing Alouette III helicopters with crews to the Portuguese Air Force. Meanwhile in April 1973, the SA Defence Force assumed responsibility for border protection of South West Africa from the SA Police who had struggled to maintain control in the face of increased insurgency by the South West African People’s Organisation’s armed wing, PLAN. SWA Command consisted of Windhoek, Grootfontein and Walvis Bay which was commanded at that time by Colonel Ian Gleeson. Officer commanding SWA was Jannie Geldenhuys, a person we’re going to hear a great deal about in this series. Apart from the permanent Force members and a few national servicemen at Grootfontein and Walvis Bay, there were also part-time soldiers known as the Citizen Force of 24 Brigade and others in what was known as the local Commando Force. There were unusual characters in these forces such as Colonel Koot Theron and the members of Commandant Hans Heinrich Otto Denk’s 112 Commando Squadron which had its own light aircraft as a spotter plane. The concept of local armed militia was a long tradition in South Africa’s frontier communities.

    18/04/2021

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  • Episode 7 – SWAPO escalates incursions and the SADF eventually takes over from the SA Police

    11/04/2021

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    Episode 7 – SWAPO escalates incursions and the SADF eventually takes over from the SA Police

    This is episode 7 and the political pressure is building when it comes to the United Nations and South West African independence. At the time that South Africa had started a series of show trials under the Terrorism and Suppression of Communism Act in 1967 for SWAPO members, the UN Council for South West Africa was drawing up a timetable for the territories independence supposedly set for 1968. What really happened on the ground was that SWAPOs armed wing, the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia or PLAN changed their focus from northern incursions into Ovamboland to the eastern finger of the Caprivi Strip. That was after the South Africans had crushed the first attempts at setting up a base at Ongulumbwashe as we hear last episode. Follow up PLAN insurgency was also defeated and a new strategy was needed. The local population in the Caprivi vascillated however. They did not at least initially, take too kindly to outsiders, mainly Ovambos, pressurising their leaders to support the struggle for independence. As I explained the chief PLAN commander Tobias Nayeko was killed in an intense firefight on a barge on the Zambezi River in 1968, and by March of that year, 160 insurgents were behind bars. After concerted action by the SA Police who were still in command of operations, the Caprivi Strip insurgency quietened down for a few months. But soon violence escalated and the Pretoria government realised it was time for the SA Defence Force to take control.

    11/04/2021

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