this is d.w. news live from that investigators and the saudi culture that's in istanbul part of a joint saudi seen one hour search in the premises for clues in the disappearance of journalist to jamal khashoggi and take you live to istanbul also on the program one of the man involved in the september eleventh attacks is released from prison in germany on to mediately deported to his home country of moral compass. at least

ten people die in flash flooding in southwestern france after rivers of raging tongues. i'm filled welcome to the program turkish police offensive saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul to search for clues following the disappearance of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi uniforms turkish police and other officials believed to be prosecutors went inside the compound after being cleared by saudi authorities they investigate comes amid growing the pressure from the international community regarding the saudi writes his fate an outspoken critic of saudi crown prince mohammed bin salomon mystical she answered they called us almost two weeks ago and hasn't been seen since. let's get more from t.w. correspondent to your johann in istanbul welcome yulia what's this inspection

likely to include. well this is really a significant step a significant development turkish investigators have been waiting for this since they have been waiting for the saudis to give them permission to search what is essentially what is basically saudi territory now the condition has been for this that this is going to be a saudi turkish joint investigation so we saw a team of saudi officials arrive today later a team of turkish officials now the big question is the question about the scope of this investigation according to reports they will not only search the saudi consulate but also the consul's residence a little further away and they will also question and interrogate employees and stuff but the turks for example have asked the saudis to conduct some forensic tests they are looking for d.n.a.

of mystic for example they are looking for blood traces which would of course support the turkish claim that the journalist was indeed murdered inside the saudi consulate now the question is will they be allowed to do so and the bigger question me maybe even is what will they still be able to find it's been two weeks now since the critical journalist when to missing since he vanished basically. and it's not clear what they still will be able to find ironically as if to a drive the point home we saw footage of a cleaning team with mops entrenched backs entering the saudi consulate earlier today walking past the journalists waiting that this has of course caused a debate on the how credible this whole investigation will be.

well maybe saudi arabia has agreed to this search now due to increased international pressure pressure by allies by the international community to express an add on had a phone call with saudi king solomon yesterday britain france germany are all calling for a credible investigation into mr xi is a disappearance more importantly maybe american lawmakers also threatening tough punitive action it remains to be seen what kind of action president trump once now he at least said he is sending state secretary pompei o two in the act now interesting it's also interesting to see that major business leaders are withdrawing from an investment conference that is going to take place later this month in saudi arabia richard branson for example the c.e.o. of so the pressure on saudi arabia is growing so they have to deliver they have to

give substantial ever such central answers now. in istanbul thank you. one of the mad involved in the september eleventh attacks on the united states has been deleted from prison in germany when he. was arrested in two thousand and one and sentenced in two thousand and seven to fifteen years in jail this was for his role in the deaths of two hundred forty six people on board the hijacked planes used in the attacks german authorities say he'll be deported to morocco and prevented from returning to germany until he's ninety. on nine eleven two thousand and one al-qaeda terrorists took control of four passenger planes full of civilians and threw them into the world trade center and the pentagon a fourth crashed into a field in pennsylvania roughly three thousand people were killed the terrorist attacks were the largest ever under us soil they were put into action by a group of young men in germany which became known as the hamburg terrorist cell

one of the most money a martyr sadik the moroccan student was the only man to be sentenced in germany in connection with the attacks it took more than five years of trials and appeals for germany to convict him he was sentenced to fifteen years for being an accessory to the murders of two hundred forty six people aboard the hijacked planes and membership of a terrorist organization. never denied being friends with the hijackers but says he knew nothing about their nine eleven plans he was brought from this prison in hamburg to the city's airport for deportation to morocco he's banned from returning to germany until his ninetieth birthday by the authorities who still deem him dangerous back home in morocco his wife and children are thought to be waiting for him. at least ten people have died in flash floods in southwestern france streams became raging torrent equivalent of several months of rainfall in just hours here it is the hour would region where the river reach flood levels not seen for

a century. when it happened it happened fast several months worth of rain falling in just a few hours overnight here in southwest france turned rivers to raging destruction like it was the others of a day it started at two am raining raining raining. we heard rushing water i turned on the light and it didn't work it was dark as i get out of bed and my feet are in the water i go towards to kitchen and try to open the door but it's impossible i forced it open and then there was water up to my waist to go bush forged bush. such rapid rainfall took its immediate toll in france's district at least one of the victims was swept away by raging waters while sleeping helicopters scrambled to help rescue people from roofs of their homes struggled with bad weather which made operations difficult some two hundred fifty five men and one hundred police have been deployed for the rescue efforts. it was really

traumatizing all our neighbors who were in the same situation i called the firemen it really happened so fast when they responded there was like a wave that came towards our front door the entire house was flooded the waters rose to my thighs i. just got me furious lee flowing floodwaters have swept everything in their path trees power pylons cars . the region is better known for its mediæval towns them for such flooding of biblical proportions the worst the area has seen in a hundred years. now to some of the other stories making news around the world jordan has reopened its main border crossing with syria for the first time for three years the move restores a commercial lifeline to the country of clearing the routes for exports through arab countries it comes out of syrian government troops from the top vessel of the

crossing in july. tensing. palace a prince harry and his wife the duchess of sussex are expecting their first baby in spring you know when kate was harry american arrived in sydney at the start of a sixteen day trip to australia and the pacific region. police in germany are investigating the motive behind a hostage taking at colognes main train station police stormed the building afraid the woman being held in the suspect was seriously wounded in the operation and is now in police custody. terms governing coalition is facing an uncertain future after i'm going to medicals allies in bavaria suffered significant losses in regional elections leaders of the country's three coalition parties are meeting to find a way forward after voters delivered what's being described as the resulting slap to the government chancellor merkel has promised to do more to win back voters trust. early in the morning after the bavarian station elections made one thing very clear germans are fed up with their coalition government. gael

dangerous animal here and heard the warnings i must know that this was a dummy show i mean echoplex but it wasn't a proper can and find on this and the one thing that is very lonely is that things cannot go on the way they are always trying to carry consequences to see if it's ok that is mission vital i'm going to michael has been on the end of sharp criticism she sees mistakes made in berlin as a contributing factor to the loss of her sister party in bavaria. the us and i thought i'm good please looking back at the formation of the government in the last twelve months so it's clear that people have lost a lot of trust in us but also goes for the union party who's the city year and the city as you would expect common ground. and that's why until now we have not been able to be clear about what the grand coalition has achieved doit lish mohan quanta but it was the social democrats who suffered most on the night losing half of their

voters in bavaria the party leaders it's increasingly difficult to justify why the s.p.d. is still propping up the coalition government that's kind of a summer what we do those are my what must we avoid alice we don't have control of everything and the government's bad image links are contributed to the fact that issues that were asked to the populace didn't get through which the vanity did mention which to get lose in. a new poll suggested that eighty eight percent of s.p.d. party members would prefer to leave the grand coalition. now senior figures are wondering whether it would be better to stay or go. karts shorter what is clear is that just because the s.p.d. and its members had good reasons for joining the coalition not only the country and allies on any collapse. years in. that world. compared to the grand coalition to form sharks and everything that's in the area could bring us into. the

debate continues to simmer behind the scenes to come the next eight elections and hasn't in two weeks time things could well come to a head. to move from v.w. political correspondent to thomas spargo tell us what you make of the chance of a statement essentially that it reveals just how much pressure on them a call is under now at the moment that's a statement there where she clearly mentions that need to regain trust is one that we've obviously heard from politicians or not only from merkel in previous occasions the question however fairly is how they plan to regain that trust how they plan to improve their work when both the conservatives on the social democrats and there are such pressure given the results in bavaria and given other results in the past as well one area that has been discussed here in berlin where they could focus on his leaving aside or at least not focusing primarily or exclusively on the issue of migration which as you know has been the key issue for the past few years but focusing on other topics as well that for voters are particularly important

i'll just give you a few examples education infrastructure health care care for the elderly all those are issues that voters are said on repeated occasions that they want the politicians in germany at the federal level down to regional level to focus on and that's one area where i'm going to vocal on how government could certainly work on in the next few months to try and regain that trust from voters that has been lost and put presumably this is why the domestic issues this is why voters are losing faith in germans conservatives yes undoubtedly that's one of the of the reasons the fact that they've been focusing too much on one big topic migration which is undoubtedly important but not the only topic that is important for german voters another aspect that has been discussed on why conservatives have had such a problem in the last few months of particularly in bavaria in these elections is that that idea of emulating part of the strategy of the far right alternative for. germany did not seem to work and whereas other parties clearly mentioned their goals and their objectives they did seem to gain from these elections whether

emulating that strategy was part of the of the problem but yes as you say failed obviously that goal of touching on migration issues time and time again was certainly a big problem for conservatives in bavaria and it's a big problem for ungrammatical government as well at the federal level so it is germany now seeing a significant shift of support away from germany's big centrist parties i would undoubtedly say so and that is not only something that we see in germany we do see it in germany or for the federal level the fact that the social democrats and the conservatives the big traditional parties on the center left on the center right seem to be losing ground while that ground is now gained by by a smaller parties parties that are on such an occasion even on the fringes of of the political spectrum but that's the thing that you also see no other european countries or germany is not an exception in this case germany's part i would say of a wider phenomenon where these traditional parties are losing ground and other smaller parties seem to me getting some of the voters political correspondent

thomas thank you. that's it show up today more for you at the top of the hour of course in the meantime there's always a website that's dot com and facility will have to open its updates in just a tremendous.

shift living in the digital age today cyber stars take the stage. to help doctors in rwanda and our history on fast forward but first autonomous weapons such as robots and rockets equipped with artificial intelligence or they can choose to kill on their own no international rules regulate their use how dangerous are robots with killer capabilities. and independently navigate

difficult terrain a small. drones automatically work together to seek out a target without human help these one actually drones on tom but that could change quickly. this gun is also combat ready it's controlled by ai and has already been tested on a military base in iraq autonomous weapons can operate and kill independently counting many more systems are being developed. yet there are few if any international regulations for their use the united nations member states have commissioned experts to address the issue in geneva robotics professor no shockey is representing the international committee for robot arms control at the talks. demonstrate a human soul generally thought almost weapon is that a soldier can be discriminated in the response in the bay the laws of war and be compassionate lethal are thomas weapon this cold and compassionate lists that would

fire it could target much more accurately officially army currently deployed autonomous lethal weapon systems here in israel it's openly discussed how advanced the state of development is. not because of the it's already technically possible but our army is not allowing exploitation of this opportunity which will be completely automatic systems with lethal capabilities exist already but ultimately there is still a human attributable. when the battlefield and future wars be devoid of humans following orders of ai programs clever bots could dominate the scenes and skies are able to communicate among themselves and what attack that targets determined by a software program a professor shockey says this kind of horrendous scenario should never come to pass they come up the guarnteed to comply with international humanitarian law in many ways they're on predictable you don't know what they're going to do all the un to

secure the circumstances that can happen in warfare. there's a very strong chance that we're going to get a new arms reus like the cold war it was against human dignity to have a machine delegated with the decision to kill a human being proponents of autonomous weapon systems respond that it's all just a matter of programming one of them american robotics expert ronald arkin is working on an ethical standard that can be programmed into military robots. the systems will not only decide when to shoot they will decide when not to shoot warfare is becoming so fast right now that human beings are not capable of making intelligent informed decisions you can put that capability into an autonomous if the system should have the ability to if you. executing it on ethical order. another topic being discussed in geneva is where the software can make more ethically sound decisions than a human the us russia and israel are the primary opponents of outlawing these

weapons they want clear definitions after five years of talks at the un and chile and backed by twenty five other nations to say we need next year to start negotiating for a bomb we've been talking for too long the other proposal on the table is from france and germany and that's called a political declaration and that's leaving it up to nations them to set themselves to decide what's good and bad about the weapons. the talks will continue next year with an agenda based on least two proposals meanwhile the development of autonomous weapons systems continues and international agreement on them is urgent and immediate. shift says keep it human. now passionate networkers in their projects today it's musician rush meet is going to a special touch. us meet as

a jazz musician composer and professor at the university of music. and fried back he lives for music and wanted to find new ways of expressing themselves musically so he developed any data craft which he calls a piano cook. meat wants to change the world of music he's using a day to go after introduce a whole new level of sound he can play conventionally at the keyboard while adding digital sounds. less played on a piano that was different than chopin central command's piano was different from the ones we played today because over the centuries the instruments developed and today we have really different opportunities and tools digital technology makes it possible to generate electronic sounds and the use of the data glove helps maintain the musical flow of the college and flows so. the movement of the fingers are converted into signals and these are transmitted to a computer cuss me can then use

a music program to alter various compositions he's playing on his piano. which of course i want to touch the hearts of our listeners the fascination with technology is one thing but at the end of the day it's simply the sounds that reach the people playing at the mention of. the musical pioneer is on target with his unique blend of alec tronic and acoustic sounds. no the cyber stars take the stage whether as a singer on tour or as an instagram influence or cyber stars are competing with genuine artists fans in the marketing industry love the perfectly styled and completely controllable are the. perfect instagram influences should be trustworthy genuine and credible. trend says this little mckillop she'll always be nineteen and she'll always be playing with a match for. the fans on her first platform ten even cat if she's real.

i pod or a little while ago that. thought the way she just was cool an idea like baking to be a robot but supposedly it's a real i don't know. around one point four million people are following her account . she recommends styles that she's not alone. then one day indicator made an announcement that she wasn't real creators maintain her account had been hacked to reveal she was fake but marketing expert ted donek says that didn't tanishaa success he started to display qualities that humans have and you know that people tend to like a lot of most machine learning as well going on there so they're able to see what types of behavior. people are drawn to. another example is he an amazing i have so many q. of japan she's been giving live concerts for years fans will show much as much as

one hundred thirty euros for ticket. you know what a dancer and a singer are used to give canadian side just on my or her moves and voice. and a hologram of the late aubusson is currently touring the us. flesh and blood musicians and transactions are currently getting some competition in the business with true to life artificial reality is promising billions in revenues but users have their doubts i think it's a little creepy i know brands have used her to sell their products which is kind of genius because it's. an easy way to get an influencer and make her be anything you really want her to be no matter how legal limit you know seems she'll always be controlled by her creationist. shift that's fake. no one to digital doctors rwanda is the first african country to introduce an out for basic medical care patients can speak to

a doctor get prescriptions and make appointments with it how effective is the. digital technology. there's a digital health care service in rwanda that relies on artificial intelligence more than two million users mainly in rural areas use the app. for many using a mobile phone is easier than visiting a doctor. between eighty to ninety percent or blanked out actually calling us from it was not stout and. i think the reason is it don't people have some kind of access to health care. chat but it is used for initial medical intake and assessment it carries out simple tasks to relieve medical staff for example then asking about and classifying symptoms after that a face to face appointment can be scheduled or drugs can be prescribe a prescription code for the pharmacist is issued via text message or user explains the advantages. just about openly without adequate if you're not here early to get

a good number he spend the whole day here and he can't do anything else. but equate . that with other health the approach is easier. that if you do it from home and just come head to obtain the drugs without killing. which is seldom i appreciate it a lot. possible the fact that he is. the rwandan health ministry and the bill and melinda gates foundation are supporting me out but it's not supposed to replace actual doctors so we still need to talk to us but fish didn't for admission to just the way we see it it's just a tool that we're putting in the handle does to empower them if basic medical care using ai is successful in rwanda the baba out could be used worldwide. shift says to get well soon or with artificial intelligence.

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cannot. bangladesh the dawn of islamism and exclusive d.w. report starts october eighteenth. news live from berlin coming up in the next fifteen minutes the meet to hash tag went viral a year ago today triggering an explosive debate about sexual harassment some violence towards women in africa though many women are still wary of speaking up we'll take a look at why. african slam poets and wordsmiths take center stage in palin as an evening to celebrate political autists. first though we take a look at the crackdown on against small scale farmer mynahs in angola receiving reports of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the country most of these

crossing from beyond golden problems of the wound that north say are back into the democratic republic. now local officials say border posts have been flooded with people this comes after as many as fourteen called police were reported to have been killed in clashes with locals and police around the town of copper and gold little thought is a clamping down on the illegal mining of diamonds another precious minerals fleeing minus say that being forced out violently. the congolese side of the border with angola. the people stranded here are exhausted they left with little or no time to prepare many have been on the road for up to a week. when it overwhelming soldiers and people from our town chased us like you would not believe they burned our houses their goal and police took everything we own so the town has been emptied. and we had to do with our league and i

was in angola for a long time and all my papers were in order i was forced to leave because of the violence from the soldiers and the people. chased us they forced me. to go along with. these congolese were among an estimated three million foreigners living in angola thousands of whom work in the unofficial diamond mining industry angola is one of the world's biggest diamond producing countries and mining provides vital revenues but precious stones have been a curse as well the mining of so-called conflict diamonds helped to finance a thirty year civil war with so much money at stake now the government has a new plan. goes over with that i gather by the president of angola ordered us to leave the country they said they want to reorganize the mining sector which is overrun by us foreigners we prefer getting diamonds in angola because the taxes are

lower. angola wants to cut down on smuggling by expelling illegal miners to raise revenue from officially sanctioned mining it's called operation transparency but it's these small scale miners who are paying the price. though year ago today the me too hash tag exploded on social media the worldwide movement against sexual violence and horace meant was sparked by sexual assault claims against hollywood mogul harvey weinstein the me too movement went on to become a rallying cry against sexual harassment and sexual assault in africa for speaking out publicly on this issue remains a huge challenge. at this university in kampala two professors were suspended after being accused of sexual harassment female students found the courage to speak out thanks to the has technique to movement they say more ugandan women are daring to go public about all kinds of abuse but there is a cost as much as we see women coming out then we see a lot of backlash we see

a lot of people when you ask some ugandans out there and say what do you dread of these women empowerment talking in uganda it's an uphill battle to change attitudes about sexual abuse and violence towards women. here's what one politician had to say about domestic violence earlier in the year. as a man you need this preview i need to you know catch a bit. somehow you know too real is. to really get to the lame yeah you need to to do some little bit of beating it shows a lot of even. he later apologized for his remarks but many share his views. this kenyan psychologist who wants to remain anonymous is a survivor of domestic violence she says such attitudes make it difficult for

survivors like her to speak out it doesn't come easy but you know what marc mauer you're too intellectual saw you know maybe they're going too hard assed you know with their own questions so i'm going to have to suggest if i myself i'm not going to take myself through that a global report released by plan international on the safety of young women found africa's a danger zone according to the report for the top five most risky cities in the world for sexual violence on the continent johanna's book compiler in nairobi. well one got to watch era as director of the center for rides education underwear no sets of women's rights organization in nairobi or welcome to day w as we just heard in the report hearing one of the world's top five most dangerous cities for women how does that affect your daily life. i think probably mean to you that women in go out on. to the. what to

the. environment for me to be able to to leave. within their own be what our when my in constantly not feeling very secure in it read the women that you should know all of their walk in of course that are going to go into the kitchen in townsell game in their full potential because you must be always looking about your safety whereas best who didn't appear to be what we need to be protecting those women in gold when they in frankly in have dick species and we heard in the report this member of parliament saying that when it's necessary to beat women a little bit just to keep them in line is this a prevalent attitude. i think they get through referring to it's from uganda but i think he has been two or three never. cultural context

whereby family against women he. say that there are acceptable that men with the gifts you need to be tapped the way of the final sharing which totally did no. way of showing them rameses environment and must already be condemned and fragments there's no way you in a body can be showing love to the one by brain and issuing threats of physical assault sexual violence emotional violence better violence and a lot o. women would not come out in talk about it in the sense because. the whole question of equal system. to protect in that also prevent an ear when you look at the number competing there on the meat to no three is only it to the women kinda

but again neck i see them the ecosystem to be able to support is not there even woman comes out and say yes it did happen. the question of whether she's going to be believed if anybody is going to forgive both they were violated second is that you must be able to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he did happen so meaning that you need the kind of evidence that presented to the court for you might have to be have been determined so they then were told by then it is put on the subway. the sides are joining us i want i say we're here for an hour of dissent from rights education and awareness thank you. now to shine a spotlight on political artists africa took center stage in a birth in theater recently a mesmerize the audience with their critical but hopeful views of the african continent they use poetry and drop to push for political change.

because the company that runs this past us this is reading is just like. political poems made in zimbabwe linda gabriel hides messages between the lines but her audience understands what she means when she talks about who's driving the bus . i just hope the words fall on the right is an activist if to talk about an issue and police makers are listening in in that way they're supposed to respond to what the poetry has been talking about sometimes here just a poetry in their me on. the news to the change but i hop. into time goes into the right the kenyan author or do a check arrow also wants to make a difference but few people in africa actually read books so he decided to publish

his script online but his confrontational tone often puts him in danger despite this both he and linda continue they want things to change so if i don't go onstage and voice out he's going to do that because this is a gift it's not everybody who's a poet and it's not everybody who does it the way i do it for me is like the corning so all i did was answer the call so i want to perform as a minister just as they are out there giving a voice to those who are otherwise not heard and telling stories from a woman's point of view powerful and without taboos linda gabriel lives up to her stage name the poetic angel. and joins me now welcome to you linda gabriel. so we heard you in the report that described as an actress clearly you want to change things why use poetry as a medium for me. it's

a give that i've been gifted with so what better way of bringing change when you have a gift and you can do it so well so what is it that you seek to change. everything about this order going sorrowing just recently you hear that a nine year old is sexually abused in a public space and people are transponding to that he look at our kids is about where we have leaders who wants to who for river here to the economies of the country the education access to primary health care just for senator senator peds for young girls all this things needs needs to be changed and how does poetry help you it doesn't strike me as being a non-person. about business has been the most effective way of trying to affect social change. when there are days where public meetings are banned what do you do if you do a performance and you get away with point to crisis right so you use your voice to

voice out but it's also a medium that you really don't want to force someone to say ok i'm about to so did the mrs that we need you really does we need progressive women in high places we need we need so you read the performance hoping then that when the people at the miss edges they are actually listening to you and hoping we get some way do they dissect your messages how do they react or i've had some performances where i've left the origins crying so for me that's a huge emotional. impact of my way of audiences then in sometimes when i'm doing creative writing workshops and the young voices to also tell their stories so they're ministers that needs to be told and some people just don't know how to tell them and we use poetry then it is a medium to cross the boundary of have a story to tell and this is another way of telling it so but we can be a dangerous place for people who want to change things has never got you into

trouble and i don't think i'm going to be in trouble in a very long time my where care has been more social commentary so for instance when i talk about women being abused or not talk about young women not being able to access primary health care for me that's politics but only if you wise enough to be able to read the line is that what's happening how is it that young women are going to be able to access primary health care you need to start connecting the dots between my work and the politics so it's not a rant with some have been saying. this it's been daily stories of the price of bread going up our women not affording an education for their children so these are my day to day stories but that's a very political because their influence within the community i live in where we don't have jobs we have hired by inflation going on now we have young people stranded and some of them abusing abusing drugs because there's just nothing much

more for them that they can afford to even advance their their education so that's good to close by giving us the forms of one of the pillars of one of your programs of that you stop doing we're told this young woman not to cry she mother of tweens it's eighteen after walking ten kilometers to the nearest hospital with one baby boy on your back and then. he turned because she's not on medical aid and she doesn't have a penny we cannot help here does food don't know. twenty it it just leave come to you at night after you turn away such a woman and woman walking ten kilometers with two baby boys and joyce everything and your ten year away she can feel the sense of death stepping on a doorstep stick talk to talk to talk she's losing it because she is losing her boys by just her hair because you don't have many and general medical aid will not

be able to help you. in the gabriel thank you thank you so much for having me. deals around the fighting in northern syria officially came into effect today but it's already on the strike as an al-qaeda thing jihadi scroope declares that it will continue to fight province as the last major rebel held area in the country millions of people are trapped between that and the turkish border government and rebels have agreed to withdraw from a buffer zone on the edge of the disputed territory which includes the town of marek why the deal is largely holding. fast to rebels four years ago government forces for to retake it this is what is left after repeated attacks and counterattacks with strikes barrel bombs tanks and heavy artillery. yet amid the devastation there are signs of life.

people are coming back and trying to rebuild their lives and their homes this was mohammed ali is house. we're shocked by what we found destroyed houses no infrastructure no services electricity or water in the streets the schools the hospitals there's nothing in a city yet. families are bringing their children home too many too young to remember what marek used to be like. because marek is in the demilitarized zone the number of families returning is growing fast. we have so many more students now we were hardly able to welcome them or so the teachers decided to repair some of the schools themselves. if the buffer zone becomes reality and holds people in mark will be safe at least for a while but there's no guarantee that it will. political leader using

twitter to get his message to the public's nothing new unless you're the president of cuba because of the ask about has become cuba's first tweeting president which seems at odds with the country he leads one of the least connected and most controlled in the world with more of this we turn to the us social media aesthetic about you welcome. what is cuba's president tweeting about so kind and who became president in april ending almost sixty years of the castro family rule he chose a national holiday to put out his first tweet with a message of glorifying the communists run states and this is what he wrote this was his first message we're in. the place in the south of cuba the place where with the greatest some of patriotic feelings we are cuba and we are continuing to and that first tweets from the president of course got

a lot of attention a lot of retreats a lot of comments and he has been very active since he has tweeted seventy times in the last five days which is a lot and he has also got a pretty solid following he now has more than thirty thousand followers on twitter and that number is going up then of course he has also opened a platform for critics to the directly speak out at him and we've seen that a lot of these critics have been slamming his twitter starts and they've been replying to these tweets by calling him a dictator by asking for more freedom for cuba which is regarded that regarded by many observers many are going to say she is a strongly not free country we're seeing a leading opposition figure here she's based outside of cuba and she tweeted president to become president you have to be elected by the people in free fair and open elections she says don't be ridiculous and it will be interesting to see if.

you know if this criticism which is now coming from the open internet will have any bearings on. or indeed might just bring a knock at your door at midnight who's you trying to reach out and. easy succeeding in reaching them well he is in the sense that generally speaking in cuba isn't and he isn't he isn't cuba doesn't block platforms like twitter and facebook generally speaking but mainly because they don't really need to in the sense that cuba has one of the worst internet access in the whole world and that means that home and mobile internet are largely nonexistent less than ten percent of cubans have internet at home in order to access the internet you need to buy a prepaid card from one of the government's controlled telecommunications companies and with this card you can access internet in public life by areas public hotspots and these acts it is access is really expensive and affordable for most cubans and

the speed is just really slow so in all this amounts to a form of censorship in itself and that the government has promised to bolster the digital infrastructure and we have to see if this if the fact that the president now has a teacher account is it shows that they are making steps in that direction or it will just be an under propaganda tool. fredricka project thank you thank you. and. i. believe these rights. well otherworld quite sure how those were your. first classic music prize the first time on sunday night in brotherhood that was the grand finale all of the prize winners singing a rendition of thank you for the music comforted on the piano by. swedish composer

betty i'm the son of one of the piece of opera that from our culture desk is here to tell us more welcome this is a why were you a pop classic. at a classical music brothers well because benny andersson who we really saw very briefly there actually was a prize winner at this guy and he picked up as perhaps his first very own prize that had nothing to do with aba namely it was it was for his new piano album which is an instrumental. recording that includes six songs that he did compose for but this is a recording that apparently he intended only to to do for his grandchildren but happily for his fans that is there and already getting quite some recognition proves that he's really a virtuoso instrumentalist and why does this prize appear for the first time seemingly from your well you probably remember the echo which normally this would have been the echo classic and the echo was germany's top music award that covered all three areas of jazz pop and classical music but about six months ago. at

the eco pop awards the war died a sudden death when german rappers bang and quickly got won the award for best hip hop album and they then proceeded to perform their song zero eight one five in which they refer to their muscles as more defined than those of auschwitz inmates went out with an obvious no no that generated huge protest and controversy here in germany and so the work was scrapped completely and the classical team has just gone on to create its own award with the aim of course of departing from the eco rules the eco prize was based entirely on sales figures so they want to change the focus to look at more quality and also privileged young musicians ok so tell us about the big witness ok well i can start with the female singer of the year who was germany's magnificent. and she won for an album and gave a knockout performance a value that's have a quick look at that just. around. i

and the you word for male singer of the year went to peruvian tenor one do you feel then score his mozart album. i. after accepting his word he also gave a special command performance of the song piece of me mucho.

heard it. was. everyone just with their eyes glazing over including the conductor who by the way the conductor the female conductor leading the concert house orchestra here in berlin is the mexican american along part of the who's based in new york and she hosts our g.w. series series music come my stuff in spanish and in english so i can be found on facebook people might recognize trends you mentioned younger musicians who talk about the ok so there are absolutely scores of really wonderful young acts making making their names including for instance the youth the brothers nathan and arthur

lucas and the. arthur from the netherlands they're twenty three and twenty five years old both virtual so pianists who've been playing for dutch royalties since two thousand and five when they won the award for classical recordings for children and here's their performance. in fantastic. performance there are also great acts like for instance four times a rock that's a quartet that's based in frankfurt they're referred to as the boy band of barack also the british cellist mason who played at the wedding of prince harry and meghan markle he was also among the winners of classical music but the take home message is clear the classical music scene is alive and blooming and there's lots of fantastic talent to look forward to salute the kind of pope should thank you sir for such a film. just undermined our top story this hour police in the german city of cologne have not pulled out terrorism as most of the hostage should take me and the

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