Sofia

As you can see from my background, I am not in the JBS studio in New York.

In fact, I'm in Sofia, Bulgaria.

I'm here for a series of meetings and for a book launch.

And I'm talking with one of the great leaders of the Jewish community in Bulgaria, Dr. Alexander Oscar.

And because of technical challenges, we're not in the same room.

He's elsewhere in Sofia, and I'm in my hotel room.

All that said, Alec, welcome to the program.

Thank you for inviting me.

An Aer Lingus jet from Dublin to Rome is diverted to Avre, France with a military escort.

Three Ryanair flights bound for Sofia, Bulgaria make emergency landings.

Four planes headed for Prague get threats.

In Spain, authorities receive three emailed threats in under 20 minutes.

The Men's Downhill World Cup Skiing Championships from Val Gardena, Italy.

The World Sport Acrobatics Championships from Sofia, Bulgaria.

And we'll have a report of the National 500 Stock Car Race for you.

On first down, Fuller throws it short to Rathford.

The 151 passengers and six crew members have been brought to safety and bomb disposal teams are on site, French Prime Minister Sébastien Le Corneau said.

A Finnair flight from Helsinki landed in Rome under escort by Italian fighter jets, while three Ryanair flights headed to Sofia, Bulgaria made emergency landings.

Today's chaos followed a similar wave on Tuesday when at least seven flights and a cruise ship received threats that turned out to be false.

Those threats briefly shut down an airport near Warsaw and prompted Italian Air Force to escort a Ryanair plane into Rome.

So...

Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, Vladimir Karamazov graduated classical drama theatre at the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts.

He has had a 25-year career as a professional actor and as part of the company of the Bulgarian National Theatre Ivan Vazov.

he has performed many roles in theater cinema and television but as always love photography making his occupation since 2019 he looks for the images the places the atmosphere of the plays in which he has performed and looks for special people with dramatic and interesting stories photography helps him understand humanity in its complexity and scale and reveals the true nature of it over the past few years he's won a number of photography competitions including from sony world photo awards the bjp and lens culture Vladimir recently published his debut photo book with Ghost Books, For the Grace of God, which takes us into the notorious Belen prison located in northern Bulgaria on the border with Romania, the most heavily guarded facility of its type in the country.

And now I'm feeling how I find the personality for this novel, atmospheric, everything.

and uh in my photography have a lot because in academy they learn us to learn us to imagination and to how to find the special characters this is very important and now i am looking like ego i drive in the car and i'm looking for the special men's the facial stories and when i catch the stories for me this is absolutely success this is like a Droga, Aron and Narcotics because one week after that I'm thinking about the story.

Very often I become very good friends with these people and we're talking a lot and after that I explain something what I do now with the new project and for me it's fantastic and I start for 13 years old I have the school from the child from theater and after that I go in the academy for the theater in cinema in Sofia and after that I have big lucky because maybe I am from the first actor immediately after I get the diplom from the academy I go in the same day for the national theater And I start to play with the big name of the Bulgarian actor.

And yeah, I have a lot of roles, a lot of performance.

Oh, pass of the week.

This week's racing highlight comes to us from Sofia, Bulgaria at the Hudi Balkan series round two.

We're not sure who were the drivers involved, but check this out.

Just coming off of the start line, it's a pass, knocking the car into oncoming traffic and then smash! That clip came to us from RCTV news partner, the Hudi Balkan series.

Congratulations, Scotty.

Good job.

Now back in Europe, round two of the Hudi Balkan series kicked off in Sofia, Bulgaria at a fresh track for the series and four exciting categories of racing for the weekend.

Rados Kostadinova won the GT stock 17.5 class while Razvan Stroa took top spot in the frontie category.