late that theory. now subzero temperatures hasn't deterred so many enthusiastic in siberia dozens braving the freezing cold water in the russian city of almost. daytime temperatures don't rise above minus 20 degrees celsius at this time of year decided to take a swim in this water the idea is to boost immunity and protect the body against disease or even the onset of dementia though i would probably have to have it to spend and that's. just a quick reminder of the headlines now south africa's president has announced rate to measures to fight a surge in cases driven by a fossil breading coronavirus variant countries become the 1st in africa to possum 1000000 cases gatherings in the sale of alcohol will be banned and a 9 pm curfew enforced failure to our moscow wrecking public has also now been

criminalized a person who does not wear a mosque could be arrested and prosecuted on conviction they would be liable to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 6 months or both. a fine and imprisonment a muscles lips that this is addressed to measure but it is not necessary to ensure compliance with the most basic of preventative measures meanwhile has been there's new data suggesting the actual number of coronavirus deaths in russia could be much higher than previously reported according to the official figures russia recorded more than 25000 deaths in november alone it's confirmed just under 55000 cried a virus death as the pandemic began. in other headlines wall street has hit record highs in response u.s. president signing

a long awaited coronavirus relief bill $900000000000.00 aid package restores unemployment benefits for millions of americans but $14000000.00 people missed out on unemployment payments this week a saudi court has sentenced a prominent women's rights activist to 5 years and 8 months in prison during international condemnation jane i'll have been held since 2018 after being arrested along with at least a dozen other women's rights activists and a chinese citizen journalist has been jailed for 4 years lifestream reporting of the early days of the corona virus outbreak in the city of one hon john johns videos widely shared on social media platforms in february she's among 8 whistleblowers charged with taking quarrels and provoking trouble rewind is the program next examining the work of nigerian photographer george a saudi. is the year is extreme challenges and i'm sad to comes to and. we look ahead to potential major stories of 2021 through

a series of in-depth special reports. joining us as we assess the global impact of what is to come next year. hello and welcome to rewind. today with pulling back to 2013 when filmmaker katherina von schroeder has been given a fascinating glimpse of nigeria by one of its most respected photographers george of saudi back then as you'll see george's lens was focused on subjects ranging from oil pollution in the niger delta to the cultural legacy of nigeria's traditional monarchists if you're curious about what's in his portfolio these days i'll be

asking him that very question in a moment but 1st here is a truly memorable film kings of nigeria and the al-jazeera series. 21st century africa a continent undergoing great change and finally seizing control of its image but it's been a long bow to him on that he has that goal for doug i feel was a colonial tool going after a while without a place in the. primary camp but independent competent it in the post-colonial euphoria or talk of as like my legs the big shot that you call for us. but elsewhere the narrative was of a call on manageable content often with 2 for just one if. not a new generation if you see a photographer to celebrate the question and represent it continent on the

rocks. members judge the city my photographer. for the graffiti is only a broad range of issues especially when it comes to my country and you know. from the oil rich niger delta region one of the most beautiful blissful at good red coats all the good grits has to show. and although it's a bloody good. flow no wonder the focus of our times but of the most seen this level of dummy each is just a credible the level of pollution of. the voters being was of a blink in the delta it's

a very complicated the situation on everyone's confuse everyone is involved. everyone has a responsibility to play in disregards. my responsibility is what i'm doing right now i don't have anything to offer but for the girl who is people who are good and the comment in this book is a circus in it to everyone who cares to see. you

walk in the bank but deep down in me i will not for this fight so i developed to resign and take up comedy. at that stage you're like a warfare. everyone with against me you know my parents my friends they're like what it is and just a good job and live in it for there is. still a put food on the table i was kicked out for my little bit in floods of the bank and i was kicked out because i'm going to pay my rent anymore and move to a single apartment. and i have to say there isn't a just to move to finance my for the graffiti. but then there was this family me that wanted me to just do something much more pretty. calm. up and they're going to come right off the bus with me then down to where they

call it will be half way right now my current projects it's not. there's been frequent classes on long difference i think groups. i realize that a lot of people of lost trust in the identity offense was put on the sea is the culture of. us a point of unity instead of seeing it on something that should divide us initially . there is this wicked opposed this will still look at the monarchy structure in the country because they even close up to the people but it will. go real martin oh sure all those are also took. i love

love love they are. a the word we. got off on the morning now for you. if you want to watch finale prepare for all. we're doing well are not together and drink together. ok i don't read your. want to do introduction you have hundreds of books and be a few stories on you know on the road for additional costs i don't mind something that never mind what. you're going to. do with the world you. are also a role for. him i just. want to thank you so much for you know

this warm welcome it makes me feel like i'm just on the rights of the right thank you. for the media this is the states i looking them up want to. fall into the states with is what the past of security just wanted an insight will know the reasons why i do huge went into militant activities namely to get away exploitation of resources for me. from this part of the country. i'm glad as way those seats by get this was he's seriously disadvantaged in fact to be give me cause by donny blessed. i was complementary to compete man who would do. what government d. . wants to do we've got to complete what we think we need.

to do see. we have. been kids. for. a long do you. know about food that i must look talking about you tell. me i can also see how. that's. ok that's fine. let's let's try something else when i won't fight and then middle 5 i try to put some teeth behind just to create a little bit of confidence but then in one of them to stay in front.

of the city i'll tell you i was a little bit to this is not a very beautiful a meal system to come and you want to see yourself looking rich good. it's a little to come out in their own greed and dignity so it did all they have to do is to blend. on through with the lady. looking up from the roof in about 200 kings because the brotherhood is a group suddenly in 1914 the british managed this vital kindles the one country called judea. and the country was about 160000000 people some if it's the largest blood missile in the whole world. was like a gold mine in terms of people on court so. this

is connell of course as well the most important one. in the country in the north. of the country which is one of islamic area and you can see its head tied it to bonn. looking stuff there up over. the face and head in a very stylish one of them and it's portrait. of the king but it was over to follow him when he was leaving for the most he was riding in these thieves prone. which is very classic.

very very british. it's very common to see a lot of things british collected in this country you can see that robe of the king with a picture of the british queen elizabeth but very peculiar of course we call them as by the british and there are some pictures that was by the. way in a can don't was captured you can see that the kings are happy. it's. because. it's not him really wanting to think of something so it's almost they're wanting to photograph him is a new poem that has to note is going down imagine what it is to depose a king song kings. almost what it's you know there is

a powerful new like dogs. in the in the. documentary not all it's true we're not too good at most things that of a point in the past and the country met in the committed by phone from the 40 year old paul america.

to be about. how much i would look if you look i'm going to stay with us i would. listen thank you thank you so much. yes ok. please come for you there's nothing ok because. of you i just thank you so much. george i've been very very impressed with your work. your upright to this nation because you are a young man that has decided. with love compassion. to go the length and breadth of this country to showcase that

a rest of the world where you come from this kingdom dating back as far as 721 b.c. . being one of the oldest kingdoms in the entire africa our people were here. during the times of crisis. i see as an opportunity the more nicky. is certainly an opportunity to serve my people for example during the west of the crisis. when the niger delta was a very very hot bed i personally went to the creeks i knew that it was a very dangerous thing to do but i will never forget the shock of the niger delta boys that the king of i book would come to the creeks and try to build some form of harmony. we are all representation of the earth as a whole. we are all like pillory these veins blood vessels

if any part of the world is sick then we as the world are sick. the world is almost 70 percent water and truly the human body is equally 70 percent water so i think in that god tries to show us something. we cannot separate ourselves from each other. to put something in there to rejoin us in the up in still being us what it is to be. so many where companies are present in their soul and then once in a while would make one stick and the other spilled into the but. sometimes they cannot sometimes it's left. of young men bindo the field that's they don't really have any means of survival and this is there for them to break into by applying state oil refining to make money what they will say it's the

will. of god of they don't have the technical ability to know this will come out of this votes. i grew up in this place but today we have all these that they deeply new single feature be found you say no single. even of these bits. when i was a small boy. that was nothing like the. after school we used to run to

displease wendy what. indian india you know about that. for you and your family this beach. fishing boats be done going to fish i mean from good community bad now as you can see us. very old listen to the song look beautiful. picture you want to know what it is and that's a good drive. to appreciate the situation better. when . somebody saw us. and in the calling before that we don't know if. the employee

utes wouldn't call them so he does contract talks yes who are supposed to be watching the games so being one of us from his community and sending back. we have so much more with just don't know how so money's the most that we have a very. good. this is. the biggest

commitment of this is the. good i love that. i feel it's important i keep for the cricket more or more if i think of some of the schemes it will stay within. kind of a saturday. or sunday night or. 12 course. and day long lasting the move into africa. suck on longest in the home more. time to shine or let me get i'm too much to. dish an issue.

this was the wonderful throwback to. the issue of identity subjugation i mean. it's not angry it's not aggressive yeah it's still relevant so it's i don't know i think. we have to really take the time to plan this exhibition to plunder the show so that we show it in the best possible way so that we can also engage not just the crowd or the culture of the crowd as a way of the more we should be able to engage the younger generation of people who really want to get to understand where we're coming from as a nation all of the things we've lost. i mean look at the just the o'neill he said looking very simple and straight in the same room. you are all free and a new identity. you seem them displaced you see in them subjugated you know

we've read about these are nice trip books but i have a compilation. because i'm in a dignified manner so busy with some present well. you know sort of because this is one of my favorite protrudes a plan to have them that really didn't blow. he which is kind when you see the hunger and long and very and the gun. i really don't wince for the time. sitting at sight of the routes are the. kings of nigeria and i'm thrilled to say that for talk of a georgia study is here with us so let's not visible with the monarchs exhibition

because in the film it talked about how you wanted to take the exhibition global you were going to start in lagos what happened how did it go i. have been very different as well but it was wanting to show. the projects in the spaces do you feel it's had the desired effect of of increasing people's understanding i am a political artist so the idea basically lived with it for me it's too pretty balanced with people from diverse cultural backgrounds and religion in the country would sit inside of us are unified people one of them said i'm sort of part because we've heard that issues quite a lot the current situation in nigeria unfortunately when we see it on the news we're hearing about conflicts. but she wants you documented as well is it tough for you as a nigerian to see that picture of the world painted so immense where is it's

reality we have a reported to be. which country that sticks skillfully populists and develops a country if only we have leadership that wants to be serious attempts of. the its allies well from. how they're able to keep people united in the irrespective of. culture about gran allegedly come from tell me about your new project orphans of boko haram i mean that's a powerful title in itself and again unfortunate boko haram is another thing which we hear about a lot with kids and with nigeria the koran phenomenon it's another such story from the nigeria there's this class of people who people don't talk much about stuff actually i couldn't be the victims of booker. yeah but of them are

kids to parents of been killed. in the course of militancy conflicts we have kids who've lost their parents some died as is a bonding or some died while refusing to become members of a coram or things like that for me it's to creates. a strong visual awareness that probably will. influence the people in authority to to make a change you know. i think that's very possibility honestly i really don't know if you have kids that are around in various homes not people taking care of and then i have these images of them in no saying that these kids need to go to school they need attention they just care they love their parents you know you need to be loved

and they need to be cherished. mine is just this agents who want some change or something so painful to believe george has been a pleasure talking to some of the roco.

a calm and make sure you're not hyping the situation be part of the debate my main characters are women and when no topic is off the table the law is in the last allow our child marriage to happen legally these are basically archaic walls to dads often legitimize them greta why is pedophiles. online jumping to the quick section and leaching to be part of the discussion the stream on out is there. and i had 3 jobs and now i only have one but i'm soo providing for my family. and the 1st time i was admitted to hospital i didn't show any signs of m.s. . and all that but at about my opinion i might have become very past

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