this is news coming to you live from berlin history is made. parasite i the 1st time ever an english language film wins the world for best picture so paul. wrote and directed the film called. we'll have the latest on the historic night in home. also coming up. a major

winter storm sweeps through extreme weather already. karlin causing floods disrupting travel. and the battle to contain the coronavirus the death toll is approaching 1000 more than 40000 cases have been reported. welcome to the program the 92nd academy awards have made movie history in los angeles with the south korean film parasite becoming the 1st ever known english language film to win a top all score for best picture. oscar 2. harrison . it was

a big night for director ball in june ho who is dark comedy about wealth inequality picked up a total of 4 trophies parasite came the 1st south korean film to win any oscar when it took best original screenplay earlier in the evening and also won the best director trophy for home and best international feature film i will d.w. movie correspondent scott roxboro joins us now for more all the oscars start i know that when the oscar nominations were announced you were very excited about parasite what in your opinion makes this an oscar worthy film. yet terry parasite was my favorite film of the year i saw it last year in can work won the palme d'or and i think it's amazing actually that the oscars got it right this year they almost never do in my opinion they almost never agree with me this year they did the the thing that makes paris i such an amazing film is not just the fact that

it's the 1st non english language film to let the oscars it's because of what duncan home does with with the movie i mean this this is a real genre mashup it starts sort of as a comedy satire and to sort of thriller territory and by the end it's almost a horror movie and the whole time the whole film is a basically an allegory of social division in society which although it's set very specifically in south korea is a very universal story i think is probably one of the strongest and most proficient directors working today and it's. almost a crime that the korean cinema and him in particular haven't been recognized until now i think it's phenomenal that the oscars finally did get it right and finally recognize what's been happening in south korea for at least the last decade what's to say about the american film industry scott that a non english language film has won best picture. well it says good things i think

it says perhaps that as suggested when he won the golden globe a little while ago he said that audiences to just get over the one inch barrier of subtitles and they'll be open to a huge international cinema which is seems to be the case with the parasites when i don't think we should see this is anything negative for hollywood because if you look at the other nominees in the other winners hollywood that is the big studios that really really well parasite was the only independent film nominated for the oscars this year all the other films were either from big studios or from netflix and so it does show you that the traditional hollywood the big studio hollywood is still doing very very well well at the same time opening up to cinema from around the world ok so a parasite winning is a positive development and your opinion and you say that's actually a bit of a surprise not just that the oscars now agree with you and the other big surprises at this year's ceremony. not so much i mean as i say parasite was the big.

shock for me because this sort of safe choice would have been the big prestige war film 1917 which won 3 oscars but all sort of in technical categories i think it was interesting to see that all the acting oscars went to the people we expected them to go to so walking phoenix winning for joe. rainey seliger winning for judy laura dern winning for marriage story and then brad pitt finally winning his 1st oscar for once upon a time the hollywood i'd like to. focus on brad pitt just because this is probably the world's biggest film star and he played a role in this film where he's playing essentially himself playing the huge gorgeous film star and i think it was a bit of a tip of the hat to an old style movie icon that they gain the oscar to brad pitt and he gave a nice very sort of politically charged speech no film award ceremony these days

would be complete without a controversy of some color only some strong political statement got the attention this time scott. well there was a lot of focus this time on the lack of female representation at the oscars i mean there were no female directors nominated there were barely any women nominated at all in all categories this is measured by several of the people who one mentioned joaquin phoenix about i'd like to actually point out a silent comment that it was very very effective natalie portman the actress came to the oscars and on the red carpet she was wearing a dress with embroidery of the names of the female directors who were snubbed including a graphic airway and a french director matthew but i thought that was a perfect statement of saying how women voices that sort of been silenced at this year's oscars scott thank you so much as always the w. film critic scott roxboro. major winter storm is bearing down on parts of northern europe after having already battered the british isles germany's entire long

distance rail network is shut down and people across the region are being advised to stay indoors. blustery day the bache in the belgian port of our stand despite the high winds walkers were out in force no swimming ones a sign not that many appeared keen to take a dip. in the capital process the elements hamet buildings exposed to the storm's fury. in island go away was forced to cancel the ceremony for its year's european city of coachella and the aptly named wild land equate on the west coast took a pounding. flooding in the north of england caused extensive damage to route towns and villages as the storm battered britain there's been widespread transport disruption with emergency service is warning people to travel only if absolutely necessary. there were chaotic scenes at london train stations

travelers simply on the able to reach their destinations classical untrained help a county that was somewhat sympathetic to cycling going on so not only input unless one it's been delayed country in the complex and i think she's going to take time not time to tell all it takes a kind of. airports across europe canceled hundreds of flights kitten month i have a business appointment tomorrow in berlin and was planning to travel to nice but i guess that's not going to happen it's not. consonant to europe's west in the northern coastlines have also borne the brunt of the storm and it's not over yet. with the storm now sweeping across the southern shores of the boat. our reporter. is covering this story for us. this storm

thank you terry these are severe storms and even i mean here in bonn it's maybe less bad than other parts of germany and europe we haven't seen the same level of disruption but it is clear that it is disrupting people's day to day life we're seeing schools that are being. public transport is only working in some areas that's been as you said long distance trains in germany have been completely stopped and even the employees telling employees and their work has not come into work because it's just too difficult to get in and commute in here and yet even being outside here in the weather is tricky but it has to be said that seems to have escaped the west of it and people have woken up last night maybe less devastation than some had anticipated. tire train system a train network in a country with 80000000 people is a rather severe move what led. to do that.

so jenny has known for a while that it was expecting a big storm these winter storms aren't so one common they happen every couple of years and in fact this one isn't even as bad as some had expected but meteorologists had already said that there was going to be severe winds very very strong winds of up to $140.00 come to the now in some parts of germany and i think the german weather service had issued weather warnings of the most severe level in the northern part of the country and in large parts of the southern southern part of the country the 2nd most severe warnings. that was a storm tracking jade is it is it has already gone through the u.k. it's hit the european mainland here on the continent but where is it where is it most severe at the moment so it's over ready moving the i have the storm is already moving south easterly towards the southern parts of germany here and we've really already seen the worst of over and this

storm will continue to move inland i think it will be the meteorologists think that it should start to die out in the northern parts of germany already and further down south even in the next day or 2 days we've got a couple more days of destruction ahead of us thank you very much that was. in ball . now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today ireland's general election has delivered a surprise result the 1st day of counting shows the left wing republican party champagne has won the largest share of the vote leaving the to establish centrist parties those parties ruled out a coalition with sinn fein before the election due to its history as a political wing of the paramilitary group the ira. l g b t groups in switzerland are celebrating after voters approved a law that bans discrimination based on sexual orientation the measure passed with

63 percent of the vote parliament passed last 2 years ago but opponents forced a referendum on the issue. and african union countries have begun a 2 day summit in ethiopia focused on ways to promote peace on the continent south africa's president cyril rev oppose it took over the organization's rotating chair for the coming year he said he wanted to prioritize ending long running conflicts in libya and south sudan. mourners are gathering at a shopping center in thailand to pay their respects after the country's worst ever mass shooting they left flowers and wrote messages for the victims at least $29.00 people died when a thai soldier went on a shooting rampage on saturday. health authorities in china say more people have fallen 'd victim to the coronavirus they say the death toll has now passed 900 and that more than 40000 cases of the virus are now reported

across the country this after thousands of people were allowed to disembark a cruise ship in hong kong after a 4 day quarantine resulted in passengers testing negative for the virus another cruise ship off japan remains in quarantine with over 100 confirmed cases. roopa 20 german citizens are back you waited on in china are beginning to 2 weeks coroutine in their own. country a military jet carrying the evacuees landed here in the capital berlin after a stopover in britain 17 service and some other european countries were also on board the german passengers were taken to a hospital on the outskirts of berlin where they'll be kept in quarantine for the next 14 days it is the 2nd group of german citizens to have been flown in from china says the corona outbreak began. france has recorded just 6 cases of the coronavirus so far but chinese people and others in

the east asian community there say they are becoming targets for discrimination with many taking to social media to share their stories didn't cover correspondent sun your product i went to paris is made in china town district find out more a basement in badasses chinatown. these elaborate costumes were meant for the annual chinese new year parade the draws thousands of spectators but for the 1st time the event was called off the sea or suddenly 10 was a regular participant blames the coronavirus and the stigma if you would said than it. was cancelled not out of fear of the coronavirus but the fear of children being stigmatized we've been told that ice and children are coming back from school crying because they were singled out and made fun of they were insulted and called names so we didn't feel like celebrating that it's been very tough to find if it grew up in this neighborhood a melting pot known for its 960 s. high rise apartment blocks and dozens of station stalls and restaurants the

frenchman is of chinese and come to st and says he never really experienced racism opened in paris until a week ago. i was a. mess took the metro and as i sat down the person next to me got up and moved away and then he covered his mouth and nose with a scuff i realized it was a form of xenophobia and fear i was sad and shocked because it's far from being an isolated case accounts of prejudice avoidance and slurs up by ling up in france stalking the needs. here in southeastern paris the city's main chinatown which is home to large numbers of france's ition community the usually bustling neighborhood seems a bit subdued many residents are wary of speaking on camera but some are clearly rattled by incidents off reeses abuse amid fears of the. enemy i'm what a friend of mine who's asian was taunted and called

a virus in the metro that's not very nice but. our customers wanted to know if our waiters had chinese nationality even though ours is a vietnamese restaurant seeing asian faces didn't reassure them fitted to the potomac has really given free reign to racism against asians something which in france is not really talked about and not taken seriously the issue was revoked aerated across the french media on the banks of the river sent. journalist lynn london has been following accounts by french asians of being targeted using the now popular hashtag i am not a bias it's like it's the french train. she has long campaign that gets and says i'm in france but nothing prepared her for these responses to an article on the coronavirus in china she translates into english you shouldn't have weird beast this is normal they would do anything in that country the country is overcrowded

nature is doing its work this is horrible like people they have no empathy we're just talking about sick people some of them they will say say racist things like part of virus is just a pretext to be hateful it will react clear says she was trying to deal with little and has been speaking out against the hate on talk shows and on social media she's also hit out at sections of own professions for example for this headline in the local newspaper warning of a yellow alert so far france has recorded only a few cases of the corona bite was if the numbers go up the fear is the prejudice could spread just the smallest. in buddhist leah soccer of the match between army life's a can buy it on sunday not only featured the top 2 goal scorers in the leak by as well but. they're also decided the table leader only one point separated the

defending champions and the visitors ahead of kickoff despite the game finishing in a draw the end to end action had fans on the edge of their seats let's take a look. at a full house in munich as expected for this final league meeting between these 2 titans byron unique in our being live seek share of the spoils earlier in the season and with t.-mo vanna the lead 2nd most prolific striker with 20 goals versus robert 11 dosti who's got 22 there was a high expectation of balls hitting the back of the net byron got close in the 1st half but it ended scoreless 11 dusty's face says it all in the 2nd half life seek look to break the deadlock 7 site used a bit too much from close range. minutes later to move in a draw us neuer off the line gets past him but david alibaba put his body in the line of fire then no one at the handball but neuer says calm down kid finally

a penalty look to give byron a chance to score after 11 dogs he was taken down inside the box by open mcconnell but levin dusty never got his shot v.a.r. stepped in and made the right call noting the striker was offside when he received the ball then it was life 6 turn again wrong team on piano botched this one just a bit outside no goals at all in this top of the table clash definitely not with byron brass wanted another draw against life see. well for more on sunday's game in munich we've got nick mckenna. klein from sports with us good morning good morning so we saw there a tale of 2 strikers as it were who do you think will regret having missed shots marist at the end of the season have you heard from both the match the game yesterday i mean the both teams and both players are content with the result as it

was and these are of course 2 strikers and their mission is to score as many goals as possible but obviously as you see you see now on the screen they didn't try they tried as hard they couldn't it wasn't for the lack of trying this game is more one for the pyrrus you can see how tactically astute both teams were especially the 2nd half with lights they managed to show they capable of holding their own against by on a very good davis in the 1st time and therefore have been mistaken history they've managed to take a point away from violence and still get score a goal that's going to be something they might do next time but they held their composure against that one point i mean it might go a long way for them especially the next 13 match days between now the end of the season this game ended a 6 game winning streak poor by munich are they beginning to stutter or do you think they'll still take the season title we're still talking about through the best teams in the league and it is only a draw in the grand scheme of things there's a long way to go between now and may of course there's plenty of points to be one implanted to be lost the most important thing for buying now is to learn from what happened yesterday against leipsic they of course have experience by that one lost

7 titles that's no fluke they know how to win a ballistic a title and they are in the driving seat definitely it does however mean for the bundesliga is incredibly interesting for fans because there's any 4 points now between 1st and 4th and of course you know how the benefit of hindsight and the team which will be the most frustrated from this weekend's results will be top and who lost on saturday they went from a winning position to a losing position in the last minutes of the game and they now have a full point gap between themselves and bind that 4 point gap we psychologically harder to make up than a is for other teams of points in the season and to see how domon do. their game was called off because of weather but they're still doing pretty well in the league they have good standing do you think. that mentioned plot has an outside chance of taking the time. that's the see you find those in the same position as dome in their full points off by having that game in hand having the fact that they will play cologne at some point between now and probably the end of march and get those 3 points i do see them having

a title challenge is very much alive i don't see them finishing for us i see that very much as being behind in life 6 place to finish the season nick thanks so much for your insights nick mckenna climb from v.w. sports with. well those results mean things stay incredibly tight at the top of the bonus they give just 4 points now separate the top 4 with defending champions by defending maintaining their slenderly with that draw get slightly later couzens win over dortmund moves them closer to the champions league places at the other end raymond's last 2 coupled with possible ones draw means they are now just one point off the bottom lines is when puts daylight between themselves and the relegation places it's. a solar orbiter has been launched into space on an unprecedented mission to capture the 1st pictures of the sun's elusive poles the $1500000000.00 craft is a joint mission between the european space agency and nasa it will join us as

parker's solar probe which was launched 18 months ago and will venture perilously close to the sun in order to unveil its secrets. the solo will examine the sun's activity by exploring its magnetic field more closely than ever before the satellite will also look at the electrically charged particles that all star emits into space under average circumstances but also during active phases known as solar storms having some forewarning of when such a storm is imminent would be invaluable because they can wreak havoc on satellites . that's why research is hope data from the probe will help for cost them one day. but the solar orbit so will have to get very close to the sun to gather the necessary data. hoped we had a couple so that's the difficulty with the solar orbiter the satellite will be

fried like a sausage on a grill it won't get will make us the air around it is hot it'll get grilled directly by the radiation. each time it approaches the sun and it's circular path the solar orbiter will be subjected to have a 10 times the radiation that strikes satellites and earth's orbit no electronics can withstand that that's why the sensitive measuring devices have to be protected by heat shield the orbiter's outer layer will heat up to over $500.00 degrees celsius surprisingly it's made of a black material. the black layer will absorb the enormous heat coming from the sun protecting the sensitive equipment during the observations. in them shots and if something happens to the black material the area beneath it wouldn't heat up any more intensely than the areas around it if you use say a mirrored surface instead on a crack appeared in the mirror it would get especially hot that hides causing it to

break. in. the so low orbit so will bring several telescopes closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever has before. they need to have a clear view of the stuff. but it's powerful radiation cond blind them. that's why each device is equipped with a custom fitted protective window these are coated with a special fin layer that only lets a very small amount of radiation through only the frequencies the researches want to observe such as x. rays or ultraviolet radiation. they. think she's seen one side of the sun you seen them all but you haven't you need a complete overview to get the full picture of the solar orbit and will play a decisive role in delivering but. it will allow scientists a look at the sums turbulent areas for extended periods much longer than in the past and they will also be able to observe its poles for the 1st time the solo

should provide new insights into the secrets of a stock and help predict solar storms better than ever before. well it's the year of the rat according to the chinese lunar calendar and the rodent is also putting in an appearance at this year's carnival celebrations here in europe a giant water rat made its way down venice is grand canal as the guest of honor in a boat parade by the local rowing club the city's tourism industry says visitor bookings are down this year after the record flooding in november carnival events in venice continue until february 25th. and just a reminder the top stories we're following for you here today history has been made at the also groups where for the 1st time a non english language film has won the award for best picture south korean junho

wrote and directed the film called parasite. in a major winter storm is sweeping across germany and other parts of northern europe after battering the british isles germany's entire long distance rail network. work is down and people across the region are going to fall is to stay indoors. you're watching t.v. news from berlin coming up next to morrow today at the science magazine i'll be back a complex hour with more extreme weather so lucky. to

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