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Venice carnival season starts with water parade

Venice: Thousands of people from all over the world visited Venice on Saturday as the Italian city kicked off its carnival season with the traditional opening water parade on the Cannaregio Canal.

Venice carnival season starts with water parade

Venice carnival season

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Published : Feb 17, 2019, 8:41 PM IST

This year's moon-themed floating parade pays homage to dreamers and travellers all over the world and featured a giant moon balloon carrying a caravel - a small sailing ship dating back to the 15th century.

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Footage showed various dance, acrobatic and fire performances onboard small boats and rafts, all aimed to create the world in a post-apocalyptic style, leading spectators to think of Venice and its memories and dreams.

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The Seconda Materia Artistic Group, founded by cyberpunk sculptor To.Ma and acrobat Silvia Proietti, based the show on an imaginary trip from Venice to the moon.

Visitors from all over the world lined the banks of the canal to see the opening performance, however many missed out on the spectacle due to overcrowding of spots around the canal.

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The water parade will continue on Sunday, with the second part, as a procession of masked gondolas, lead by the famous "pantegana" (a giant water rat), the symbol of the Venetian Carnival.

This year's Venice carnival runs from 16 February to March 5, a public party lasting for weeks leading up to the Roman Catholic period of Lent.

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This year's moon-themed floating parade pays homage to dreamers and travellers all over the world and featured a giant moon balloon carrying a caravel - a small sailing ship dating back to the 15th century.

Venice carnival season

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Footage showed various dance, acrobatic and fire performances onboard small boats and rafts, all aimed to create the world in a post-apocalyptic style, leading spectators to think of Venice and its memories and dreams.

Also Read: 8 killed in Bangladesh slum fire

The Seconda Materia Artistic Group, founded by cyberpunk sculptor To.Ma and acrobat Silvia Proietti, based the show on an imaginary trip from Venice to the moon.

Visitors from all over the world lined the banks of the canal to see the opening performance, however many missed out on the spectacle due to overcrowding of spots around the canal.

Also Read: Trump urges Europe to 'take back' captured IS fighters

The water parade will continue on Sunday, with the second part, as a procession of masked gondolas, lead by the famous "pantegana" (a giant water rat), the symbol of the Venetian Carnival.

This year's Venice carnival runs from 16 February to March 5, a public party lasting for weeks leading up to the Roman Catholic period of Lent.

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Munich - 17 February 2019
1. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif greeting officials
2. Qatar's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani arriving
3. Zoom in on Zarif addressing conference
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iranian Foreign Minister:
"We have long been the target of an unhealthy fixation, let's say an obsession, which continues to this very day. The demonisation of my country has been a convenient cross for seven consecutive American presidents to bear."
5. Audience listening
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iranian Foreign Minister:
++FRAMING CHANGES DURING SOUNDBITE++
"At the recent meeting of - let me just call it the unwilling, and the openly coerced - in Warsaw (Middle East conference) the US Vice President (Mike Pence) and the Secretary of State (Mike Pompeo) both blasted Europe, on European soil, for even attempting, albeit without much success, to abide by its obligations under the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known as Iran nuclear deal) and under UN Security Council resolution 2231. Yesterday, right here in Munich, Mr. Pence repeated this farce when he arrogantly demanded that Europe must join the United States in undermining its own security and breaking its obligations."
7. Wide of Zarif speaking at conference
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iranian Foreign Minister:
"Europe needs to be willing to get wet, if it wants to swim against the dangerous tide of US unilateralism."
9. Al-Thani listening
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iranian Foreign Minister:
++SOUNDBITE PART OVERLAID WITH SHOT OF AUDIENCE / MADELEINE ALBRIGHT LISTENING++
"Indeed more and more nations are becoming explicit about the fact that the United States is now the single biggest source of destabilisation in our neighbourhood. As we speak, Iraqi lawmakers are demanding the withdrawal of US forces from their land. And after more than eighteen years of failure in Afghanistan, the United States is now negotiating with the Taliban to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan. In contrast, our standing with the people of Iraq and Syria to counter terrorism has put ISIS (Islamic State group) on the verge of extinction."
11. Zarif receiving applause, sitting down for podium discussion
STORYLINE:
Iran's foreign minister on Sunday criticised the United States for having an "unhealthy fixation" with his country, condemning the Trump administration's efforts to press European countries to pull out of the nuclear agreement with Tehran.
Mohammad Javad Zarif addressed the Munich Security Conference on Sunday, a day after US Vice President Mike Pence prodded European powers Germany, France and Britain to follow Washington in withdrawing from the deal and to "stop undermining US sanctions".
The US withdrew unilaterally last year from the 2015 agreement, which offers Iran sanctions relief for limiting its nuclear programme.
Zarif said that Pence "arrogantly demanded that Europe must join the United States in undermining its own security and breaking its obligations".
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