only make prices easier to calculate, but unfortunately, it won't make the embattled believer more valuable. she and human al jazeera and quit monday and catch up any time on our website. it or so that is out there, dot com. and you can also watch live. okay, in the orange 9 michael mountaineer dot com. ah, i might have top stories are now to 0. the taliban says it's taken control of the northern city of shabba, again, the 2nd african provincial capital to fall to the group in less than 24 hours. taliban video shows a group of sees buildings including the police headquarters and the prison. the african government denies losing all control of the city, sent reinforcements, and is conducting as strikes in a counter offensive. there's also been fierce fighting in the cities of her out in

the west as well as laska and kandahar in the south. a funeral has been held for a dell con minipaul, the government's top media officer who was assassinated by the taliban. on friday in cobbled afghan president, ash rough connie says delicate, many fools killers will be punished. but the enemies of f. galveston can not arise. the history of its gonna stone and they can not take our owners away from us . and clearly my promises that we will find the killers and god willing we will punish them. poor. everyone should know that we are standing in our place like a mountain. their waists will be broken because they have no message other than evil. they fill coffins with young people and send them like savages. this is not humanity. we stand for the humanity, life and dignity of afghanistan, and this is our volition. now what the half as greece is 2nd largest island area has been scorched by wildfires which are edging closer to athens. thousands of

people have now fled their homes. have been fighting to put out the flames. grease has been suffering from its worth heat wave in 30 years. a strong winds have been fueling the blazes. felisa fond gas and rubber bullets in thailand's capital as protest as rallied against the government handling of the pandemic and its impact on the economy demonstrates his march towards the prime minister's residence, demanding his resignation. in the us, the weekly average for new daily infection has gone above 100000. for the 1st time since cases surged during winter infections and particularly bad in southern states, including florida hospitals describing overrun with patients. vaccination rates are lowest in those states. those the top stories do stay with us. rewind takes us behind the scenes of north korean cinema next one years after best buy for now news

news, news. ah, me ah hello and welcome to rewinds. this week we are re wanting to 2011 and an episode of 11 east, which had secured unique access to north korea's elite screen academy. a school where young active was trained and how best to extol the virtues of the country.

then d, a leader, kim jong il here is north korea cinema of dream. the what do you see when you come over to them? money? i'm not in. i think if you look into those get all means on when i use on jason, you're gone. i'm has, i'm not over there. so, you know, there's a ton of i asked, what do you mean to clean things?

i was using only things humans i guess. oh, only they get it's a clear summer day on the banks of the tate and river gang north korea. these young students from the country's elite film academy are attending at l to a lecture. hi is good for something. can we put on previous normal one, grow your head on all these all this afternoon was, you know, was on because if you go it means 20 it is 100. was to see if i ended up filming this encounter a single session last in just a few hours has taken us an entire year to arrange what it was in 2008. when we 1st off the permission to make a documentary about north korea is aspiring film workers as a call here. months of negotiations followed, but the answer was always the same. the pyongyang university of cinematic and

dramatic arts was closed for renovations. but then in mid 2009, we received word that we could meet the students outside the campus. young and young enough to move on the go with you. and when he was interested in the thing i would have done when you created went to go. so yeah, i was going to be interesting in the incidental, don't you, when you're in trouble getting into the ration, you know, what day for going on. you know, i don't know if you're in town when you went to the christian on the flooding, similar graduate thing of what you meant. and so then can we go there for young? it is a long bizarre lilian, toyota cert. ever told you a letter. so i knew that i was talking you would call gets old. ok, so homeless,

put them on in the most pulse and then that so it goes 10. yes i was. how does she will how would you guess all oh, how about that? i come to you, well, that sounds to me visit on this would a lot of times a day or 2. how long would you go going to congress when the lady was in young once, adams in so doing the doing this already. it's a tiny window into a closed off world, but that's all we're allowed to film on this visit. it would be more than 6 months before we see and bump and you'd meet again.

right now to return to north korea in june 2010. but our quest to film inside the university has again been turned down instead were given permission to go in an outing with in bomb menu and me. she knew me was about, i don't want you to watch and reading, but i can do. i don't really understand when you get them and would not get through whom you will, you will not get to whom you had someone could give me a forwarding and will not get through speedy and threw me passionate to team. when i get to looking for a teacher to shift it municipal youth with that, and she will have someone bugging and go in and go in and will be done. i will call you julia cruz. i mean, what do you mean to do in order to get back emotional not to get her to go get the muscles that would have hung on an immune. it'll just be the time when you meet on the, on the day when you put your quote on some young jack that he would do,

you want to get a local this is perhaps one of the most unusual museums in the world, a shrine to the man north koreans revere as a genius of cinema theatre and the circus. the deer leader, kim jong il. we follow the students on their tour. but afterwards guides inform us that we've committed a grave error and ask us to delete the bulk of footage. this is because the north koreans have a strict rule for filming, and photography. as a mark of respect all portraits of their leader kim jong il and all his words of wisdom must be filmed like this in their entirety, with no camera movement, and no parts of the image cut off. it's

a tall order. photograph of the dear leader line, the museum wolves. it's hard to move the camera without breaking the golden rule. it feels like a wasted trip. but afterwards, a surprise, just as we're about to interview, but i'm not expected visitor arrives when mother very famous actors and the total is a needed to keep me content. i want to be a patrick born actor was the difference between the patrick and then actor cotton's. you got to talk to someone at that peer with whom you done that i had included you only my son

aberdeen that i've chosen cuz i said i wasn't not i took zone take a lot. i took on and then i will go least to stay somewhere, stay in grunting him to talk to him and also go thing and he's they will be in today. it's 6 months later and freezing when we next outside the country, the world is on edge as north and south korea trade. bob over the recent shelling of your pill island here in p yang. the is hardly mentioned of the incident if people are concerned, no one is saying, so life goes on as usual. 2 years of negotiation have been paid off. the university of law

were the 1st born crew ever allowed to film here. for nearly 6 decades. this institution has existed for one purpose to train film workers for the states propaganda machine. you and me and the bomb and now and the 3rd year oh, i can pay it a full key to get it. i will spot, i will knew how much it was and possibly can i change my local can fit it on to thought. and if you give me an issue at all times, i mean in a template over the new we don't even with i can go to the given and i'm glad you

asked me to new ways. ok on in, in gun go creating other towns on and federal kiddos are going to go. that was the bus and i didn't have to put it in an area you need to go to today or you want me to sit down and you remove the students quote, the did regularly here when to see if there's no denying his influences everywhere . oh the b b i i

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the i me ah ah ah. later afternoon and there's a dance class. you may be working on another film project and haven't practiced a month. she struggled to keep up the

moon, putnam that citizen, any longer get home for total if the end of a long day at school time to head home in north korea, housing is free and allocated by the state. you and me lives on the street. and one of the newest and smartest apartment blocks in pyongyang, we been given permission to visit her home. oh, oh oh, oh. oh.

good. who knew it? i'm not only in a cow, king toddler, who was there he will have own over to look tired. but oh oh oh oh i,

it's clear she leaves a privileged life. this apartment is a reflection of the family status in north korean society. i was a little in our car scholar. and the tongue tongue is whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, might have been it. this 100 gone. all logged in, i tunes who don't know who to true. pan gone up. cuz obviously when you go through the numbers are going to cause him to

do and to tell us if the woman who has to be in mrs. lee told me to talk to you, she can even though it wasn't. ringback to she was mid week bowman, me start work on a new project. director park when young is an exacting taskmaster or but usually we don't, we don't call them on lucas young. so what are them?

so it's a simple scene extolling the virtues of the countries health care system. but here in north korea, even comedy. so the higher purpose, one of the many, some chairs, you have to have an initial having no one medium. so we, so we want to turn on a group it's bitingly cold. the next day minus 6 degrees celsius in the sun. we don't on said it's also freezing. most of the crew are in thick winter clothing. but for obama, you and me and the fellow actors, there's no such luxury. they're dressed for their parts cold,

but ready to start such men. i've but then a power outage, one of several, during our time here. mom, due to you to see the trinity to see they fumble in the dog for a while and then it's business as usual on sounds in which to me when you continue working despite the blackouts and you're not actually making them and you know my own them to either call you to that, when you get on said the actors run through the scene, you and me take the opportunity to figure out her new problem

until i get home off to now are in the dark. they're about to give up and call it a day when the power comes back on or show up or show you, show them loan through us know you have to show us and go one young, get straight back to work or why another power outage. the problem going to be there on the tv on your project, enjoy those marks and what do you want to know? so mick, i meant something about it into the

hope of opponent. ready we just spent a week with some of the countries most privileged young people they've shown us a tiny slice of their life, but we're acutely aware that there's much more we've not seen the cleaners timothy just so you don't have to hit tick service or you can feel the need. okay. the only thing i can go ahead is it didn't approve your teams. i'm just gonna

tell you just put it up some guys so often you know, when you get you probably get in some good news. there are to complete them. do in august and the message we've heard many times throughout the week the message they're trained to convey to their countryman the belief they exist in a perfect world, a place to really the stuff of the me i lose

. i know when i was growing up in the 90s in north korea, that's when there was curious, economy was collapsing and there were stop providing the food and the pub ration to us. so people had to find their ways to survive, which means engaging in black market. that through brand market, the people was able to getting the small grid, the black d v d 's from china. so i was, you know, i was lucky to able to access this, also the information. and i remember for the 1st time watching movie titanic and as a young girl watching titanic, it was a complete shock that i just couldn't believe. why, any one in his words, you know, make a movie out of such

a shame for story in school. i do not learn about me and jewel it, everything that i learned in government was being all revolutionary and die for the regime. and suddenly you, you see a movie need to buy this chain for story and at the end, oh, man, buy for the woman. and i never seen anything like that. and that's a nice starting to really fear that maybe in the outside world is not the monstrous, scary place and or so maybe you know, god is a humanity that the human being and maybe that's freedom. i watch in garlands a made felons was sold as boring and it was so that it didn't come leg to read. and my schuman fillings are, even though you know i, i wasn't going to be no coach. oh, where we were. she laugh like in the west,

but still love is such a human nature. when i was 1000 listening, it's like a foreign dvds and movies and songs, right. every thing those songs were the all about she miss truckers, human feelings, love and something that she wins daily experience. but the things that made by the government in north korea, it wasn't really very lat relevant to how i felt as a human being. so was say, no, i really tasted this, i grew for information. i could only connect to this, they proposed the fillings. of course, i couldn't say this because if i did, i was going to be executed and 3 generations of my family was going to be wiped out . i 25 millions of north koreans are trapped in this hermit kingdom. and only a few may did. and i am one of those few people was so lucky to be able to stay in

this living, this freedom. so i am working with a lot of groups in south korea and america to get information. the also the information that the liberal in my mind. so we are getting this information smuggling through china to north korea and this information our, it is actually just hidden revolution. i the biggest thing with north korea is that on to the diesel, i'll say the information came in, that we did not know that we were oppressed. and imagine that if you don't know you are pressed that you don't know you're a slave. how do you fight to be free? and this information they're going in to north korea are telling us korean that they are pressed and they are in slaves and they can be free on they too. so this

information i believe, is the only hope that will change north korea and repeat my people. i me with energy to every part of our universe or small to continue the change all around the shape by technology and human ingenuity. we can make it work for you and your business.

a lot of the stories that we cover highly complex, so it's very important that we make them as understandable as we can, as all just correspondence. that's what we strive to do. mm. mm. hello, i'm lauren taylor. in under the top stories are now to 0. the taliban has taken control of the northern city of shabba, again the 2nd african provincial capital to fall to the group in less than 24 hours . telephone video shows the group receives buildings including the police headquarters and a prison. but the afghan government denies losing all control of the city. sent reinforcements and is conducting ass strikes in a counter offensive. as also been fierce fighting in the cities of her art in the west as well as laska.