The retirement of a legend, the sinking of Planet Photo voltaic, the secrets and techniques of a Ukrainian soldier – rts.ch

SURVEY – The attraction of the misplaced treasure on the Chamonix glacier

With the melting of the Bossons glacier in France, the our bodies of the victims of a double Air India air accident in 1950 and 1966 resurface, stories the RTS program Mise au level. On the time, just one physique was recovered, the others have been left within the mountains, ready for higher climate.

The search by no means resumed and the our bodies remained trapped within the ice. The RTS program Mise au level went to the spot. After three hours of strolling, with out main difficulties, it’s attainable to succeed in the underside of the Bossons glacier, situated within the Mont-Blanc massif.

The positioning of the accidents has been attracting treasure hunters for a number of years. “It’s the every day outing of three quarters of Chamoniards, of those that are seeking ‘treasures'”, explains Josée de Vérité, an artist who creates artistic endeavors with the particles of planes to “pay homage” to the victims. She is frequently confronted with human stays. “I do not choose them up, for me they’ve to remain within the glacier. It is their shroud,” she says.

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LARGE FORMAT – Federer, the withdrawal of a legend

Twenty Grand Slam titles and an indelible mark on the historical past of tennis: on the age of 41, and after greater than a 12 months with out taking part in, the Swiss legend Roger Federer has introduced his retirement, on the finish of the Laver Cup, a contest scheduled for the September 23 to 25.

“I’ll nonetheless play tennis sooner or later, in fact, however it’ll not be at Grand Slam tournaments or on the circuit”, added Federer, winner of 103 trophies in his profession, however who has solely performed six matches in 2020 and 13 in 2021.

In a big format, RTS Sport appeared on the distinctive profession of the Basel: from his debut, to his first Grand Slam title in 2003, his ups and downs, then his return to the highest.

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REPORT – Planet Photo voltaic, from success story to fiasco

Ten years after its world tour, the PlanetSolar boat is stranded on an Indian seaside. Harm, unhealthy climate, crew adjustments and even mutiny preceded this extraordinary sinking of the catamaran, now renamed Porrima.

For a number of weeks, the photo voltaic ship has been stranded on an Indian seaside south of Mumbai. On a YouTube video, we see the well-known photo voltaic catamaran with the Swiss flag, which has turn into a neighborhood attraction. The inhabitants visits the within of the boat and marvels at its 500 m2 of photo voltaic panels, whereas on the sand, the very broken floats tackle water. The motor and the batteries are utterly destroyed.

7,000 kilometers away, on the shores of Lake Geneva, its proprietor, whose firm is predicated in Lausanne and who was not on the boat on the time of the accident, organized the rescue and put issues into perspective. “It is tragic. It is at all times tragic when a ship, after 100,000 miles, finds itself on a seaside. However then again, it is nonetheless fairly distinctive that after 12 years, it meets its first catastrophe”, reacted Gunter Pauli on the microphone of seven:30 p.m.

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TESTIMONY – Uncommon secrets and techniques of a Ukrainian soldier on the entrance

For greater than six months, Ukrainian fighters have been combating again towards Russia. The psychological affect of such a state of affairs, though it stays a taboo topic, is especially troublesome. The RTS collected the unique testimony of a soldier on the entrance.

The person is 43 years outdated, two youngsters, 16 and 9 years outdated. In “his life earlier than”, he was a sports activities trainer. Wearing a bulletproof vest over which an AK-47 is suspended over the shoulder, he managed to scare his household overseas. He has been combating in Mykolaiv, one of the crucial closely bombed cities in Ukraine, for six months.

“I am exhausted (…) Some guys do not sleep in any respect. Some do not even hear the bombs anymore,” he says in La Matinale. He cannot sleep both. He wakes up always, each hour. “In our battalion, we’ve already misplaced three of our companions. It is laborious.”

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BLACK NOTEBOOK – Jean-Luc Godard, intimidating cinema icon

Jean-Luc Godard died “peacefully” and “surrounded by his family members” at his house in Rolle (VD) this week on the age of 91. The Franco-Swiss filmmaker has resorted to assisted suicide, confirmed his household’s adviser.

Born in Paris in 1930 then immigrated to Switzerland along with his household from the age of three, the filmmaker had been residing for a very long time in Rolle (VD), on the shores of Lake Geneva. With a profession spanning sixty years and a few 160 movies, he was nonetheless engaged on two new characteristic movies.

Certainly one of his best-known characteristic movies, “A bout de souffle”, was launched in 1960. “Godard shattered the system, he wreaked havoc in cinema, as Picasso did like him, he made every thing attainable”, wrote François Truffaut about this cult movie shot on the spot. With a man (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a little bit thug who loves a lady (Jean Seberg) and wish to persuade her to go to Rome with him, this movie turns into the flagship work of the New Wave.

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