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Liberty is important to the violinist Daniel Hope. He regularly visits Schloss Elmau in Bavaria when he is on tour. The owner of this luxury hotel, Dietmar Müller-Elmau explains how it came to be in his possession, almost against his will.  

Daniel Hope

Square Artist

Before, it was simple: there was selfishness or altruism. Either we got rich or we helped others. But now these binary divisions are fading. A supporter of effective altruism, the young philosopher William MacAskill proposes to go even further with "arithmetic altruism". This is, applying the concept of profitability to charitable contributions.

Square Artist: Sibel Kekilli

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Carta blanca a Daniel Hope, violinista

Daniel Hope, skrzypek

<p>Liberty is important to the violinist Daniel Hope. He regularly visits Schloss Elmau in Bavaria when he is on tour. The owner of this luxury hotel, Dietmar Müller-Elmau explains how it came to be in his possession, almost against his will.  </p>

Daniel Hope regularly visits Schloss Elmau in Bavaria when on tour, a meeting place for artists.

Earth of Women helps women and girls to escape the vicious cycle of poverty, forced marriage and prostitution

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You can choose your friends, but not your family. Some siblings work together in creative fields such as architecture, design or music. A source of joy and inspiration, but also sometimes a source of conflict...

Creative Siblings

Some siblings work together in creative fields such as architecture, design or music. A source of joy and inspiration, but also sometimes a source of conflict...

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The great chef from Aveyron, Michel Bras, makes the most of his episode of Square by shining the spotlight on the life of André Valadier, a local farmer who has fought all his life to save his land from the trap of a industrialised agriculture.

The great chef from Aveyron, Michel Bras, makes the most of his episode of Square by shining the spotlight on the life of André Valadier, a local farmer

Square Artist: Michel Bras

The Ponant college is the smallest school in France, spread across several remote islands in Britanny. Teachers brave the sometimes rough waters to offer an education to a handful of children in these small isolated communities.

The Ponant college is the smallest school in France, spread across several remote islands in Britanny.

Re: An Island School in Britanny

If a woman gave birth at the top of Mont Blanc, what nationality would the child be? For France, of course, the baby would be French. But not for Italy! The quarrel has been going on since 1860, when the divison of territory at the top of the mountain was unclearly defined... leaving each country to interpret the boundary more or less as they saw fit. This really is a case for Crazy Borders!

Mont Blanc: A High Altitude Dispute

If a woman gave birth at the top of Mont Blanc, what nationality would the child be?

Crazy Borders

Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. Which US election candidate has the best plans for European interests and the best outcome for the EU in terms of economy, defence and climate change?

Depending on who wins, it will have a different impact for European partners.

Harris vs. Trump: What does it mean for Europe?

Portuguese actress and director Maria de Medeiros produces a documentary on the Spanish journalist and activist Richard Mateos. Blind from birth, he defends the right of disabled people in Bolivia to live with dignity.

Blind from birth, Richard defends the right of disabled people in Bolivia to live with dignity

SQUARE Artist: Maria de Medeiros

Language is an instrument of political and social domination. From ancient China to Europe, the number of words and languages one mastered were signs of belonging to an elite. Artificial intelligence is reshaping the linguistic landscape. An interview with linguist Stefanie Ullmann, machine learning specialist Omolabake Adenle, and philosopher Marc Crépon.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the linguistic landscape.

AI and Language

Who is hiding behind Noël Godi and what secrets is he hiding? Actor and screenwriter Jackie Berroyer decides to find out. Under the mask of the clown, there emerges a lover of letters and culture.

Who is hiding behind Noël Godi and what secrets is he hiding? 

Carte Blanche to Jackie Berroyer

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Entire generations have learned about sex through mainstream porn, blurring the lines between personal desires and platform-driven fantasies. But if our sexuality is shaped by algorithms, can’t we take back some control? The post-porn movement is doing exactly that. Aimed at creating pornography that reflects honest, consensual sex – its creators are making waves online.

Can Post-porn Awaken Our True Desires?

What if porn reflected our true desires? Post-porn aims to be more ethical, more honest and more revolutionary.

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The 2024 presidential election looks like a dead heat between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. The swing state of Wisconsin is a microcosm of the United States and one of the major battlegrounds for the tight contest. No surprise that the Republicans held their convention here and both Republicans and Democrats are campaigning hard to win the mid-west state. What do the people of Wisconsin want? And who will win the state this time?

The swing state of Wisconsin is a microcosm of the USA and one of the major battlegrounds for the presidential election.

US Elections: Showdown in Wisconsin

Chinese men are suffering. There are simply not enough women to go around since China implemented its one-child policy in 1979.  This means that 1 in 5 Chinese men will not be able to find a partner in five years’ time.

ARTE Reportage

Chinese men are suffering. There are simply not enough women to go around since China implemented its one-child policy in 1979. 

China: Men without Women

Diwa is only 11 years old. She is one of the thousands of victims of a crime that is hardly reported on in Europe but which is causing havoc in the Philippines. She was raped by her parents, live on the internet, to satisfy the desires of foreign paedophiles who paid for the spectacle of her rape, giving instructions from a distance.

Philippines: Child Rape Online

Thousands of children in the Philippines have been abused, live on the internet. Report on a shocking crime.

Horses have long played an essential role for the nomadic peoples of Mongolia, but as Mongolians have adopted a sedentary way of life, they now breed horses primarily for their meat. This has had disastrous consequences, including animal abuse, overgrazing and obesity in large swathes of the population.
Naranbadrakh Batkhuu wants to revive the age-old relationship between Mongolians and their horses for the good of the people and the natural world.

Mongolia: The Man Who Loved Horses

Naranbadrakh Batkhuu wants to revive the age-old relationship between Mongolians and their horses.

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It is one of the seven pivotal states in the US presidential election - along with Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and North Carolina. It's also the state with the most electoral votes. What is it about the geography and sociology of Pennsylvania that explains why Trump and Harris are neck and neck there? Join us for another episode of Mapping the World.

Pennsylvania: US Election Battleground

Is Pennsylvania the decisive state in the American election? 

Mapping the World

There have never been more opportunities to meet new sexual partners in our liberated world of dating apps, sex parties and queer liberation. But how come we are having less sex today than in the past?

Why Do We Have Less Sex?

There have never been more opportunities for sex in our liberated world. But how come we havz less sex today than in the past?

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The unclassifiable Róisín Murphy shows how difficult it is to pigeonhole her once again at Paris' Ground Control, where she displays all the richness and eclecticism of a discography stretching back to the 90s.

Ground Control

Protean pop star Róisín Murphy on stage at Paris' Ground Control.

Róisín Murphy

All in their mid-twenties, models Vivian, Lisa, and Tanja chase personal fulfillment and career triumphs. As they grapple with societal pressures, their friendship turns into rivalry, their bodies becoming battlegrounds in a relentless pursuit of beauty, love, and success.

Three models juggle the pressures of love, career, and self-image in a seemingly glamorous world.

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In recent years, works by photographers who lived in the GDR before the fall of the Berlin Wall have been rediscovered and reappraised.  An exclusive look at a world that no longer exists.

Propaganda and Daily Life

An exclusive look at photography from the GDR, a world that no longer exists.

GDR Photo Shoot

During the Cold War, when Germany was split between West and East, people still fell in love across the physical and ideological border. Some risked everything to cross over to join their partners.

Despite the Berlin Wall, people from East and West fell in love and wanted to live together. But how?

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It’s the sound from South Africa that went global during lockdown: Amapiano mixes deep house with traditional music to create a sound that is spiritual and celebratory, and for some its a way of life. Tracks went to find out more about it.

Amapiano: The Sound of South Africa

House music was born in Chicago but South Africa has given the genre its own spin: Amapiano.

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Could microbes hold the key to understanding the increase in a number of chronic conditions and allergies?

The Power of Microbes

Yetundey is originally from Leipzig and mixes styles and influences. Layla Boe wants to make the German language smoother in her music.

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Yekutiel Epstein is a 17-year-old Israeli. He identifies with the views of Rabbi Meir Kahana, a radical Israeli-American whose Kach party was banned in Israel in the 1990s for racism. His ideas were marginal for a long time, but are now making a comeback, more than 30 years after his death. On the ground, on social networks and even in the Israeli parliament, Yekutiel Epstein and his far-right allies are pushing to extend Israeli sovereignty over all the occupied territories and to expel the Palestinians entirely.

Israel's Ultra Nationalist Youth

Religious ultra-nationalist youth dream of a Greater Israel with no space for the Palestinians.

Thousands of Spanish people have been protesting the lack of affordable housing in Spanish cities. Europe’s housing crisis is getting worse: Across the continent it is getting harder to find a place to live at a reasonable price, pushing many into poverty. What solutions are out there?

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Across the continent it is getting harder to find a place to live at a reasonable price. What solutions are out there?

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In homage to the composer who died a hundred years ago, on 4 November 1924, Thomas Hengelbrock conducts his celestial Requiem under the dome of the Panthéon in Paris. A musical event introduced by an orchestral version of Beethoven's String Quartet No. 15.

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The Orchestre de Chambre de Paris under the baton of Thomas Hengelbrock.

Thomas Hengelbrock and Orchestre de chambre de Paris

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Every day in Beirut, Israeli missiles are raining down on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital

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The immune system is as vital to the human body as the heart or the lungs. It protects us from harm survival but can also turn against us. 

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