there i am i am glad. i am i am sad then i am. and. i'm still the they work that's hard and in the end it's a me you're not allowed to stay here anymore we will send you back. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers would lie and since the what's your story ready. i'm what numbers of women especially of victims of violence. take part and send us your story we are trying always to understand this new culture.

another visitor and other guests you want to become a citizen. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. hello and welcome will be talking about the devastating effect that the coronavirus is having on so many live cultural events at the moment also coming up today as iraq eos is to serve up to the so-called islamic states in mosul and survived and now live safely in germany. and this might look like great graphic patton's these are photos of tiny insects magnified thousands of times.

bots we begin with what's happening in the cultural world regarding the coronavirus the short answer to that is very little as events that require audiences are being canceled as i speak governments around the world are restricting gatherings of lots of people which of course course means most popular artistic events cannot take place but there are intriguing ways of safely playing to your audience as one british pop singer did in hamburg. it was a surreal situation and a 1st for purchasing james. playing a major show and she. gave it his all saying later he could feel the fans watching.

at least. went ahead. on friday the secretary familiar silicone became the latest cultural destination to close its stores construction work has also been halted but really just services will go ahead. in the u.s. the krona crisis has reached disneyland it's not just me fans and workers directly employed in the entertainment industry who are affected. in. more. work. just like you work in a hotel. in new york broadway shows have been hit on thursday public gatherings of over 500 people and in the states. it is weird because this morning the train was like

n.t.p. that never had everything and it feels like you know a lot of people have nothing to really look forward to so you don't want to have the cities totally shut down because then you know what to the people who are we still they still have james blunt's playing to 2100 chairs. at home. lifestream concert could be a model for the weeks to come. here to tell us more about this is my colleague a drink kennedy. we have the technology. called the only bomb that took place many artists who are unable to perform in public at the moment are keen to reach out to their fans at home possibly isolated by social distancing measures italian rock singer i need played a virtual concert against what's called corona loneliness on instagram in italy of

course cultural life has come to a complete standstill to the corona virus outbreak and here in berlin concert pianist igor leavitt who was a guest here just a few weeks ago as also lifestream the 1st of what he calls his daily social media house concerts this video is being seen by 200000 people there it has said that it is sad and necessary to stop public concerts but he wants to keep sharing music and keep in touch with his fans as we heard in your report many artists of people working in industry are suffering financial hardship we should say here in germany the government has promised support artists how it's going to actually take shape. good news of the movie from. probably has taken place after a number of high profile postponements 1st and foremost of course the new james bond movie. somewhat unexpected 3 perhaps the knees moulin did launch in

london yesterday obi it with a scaled down european premiere at london's leicester square it was no media line up all red carpet guests had to pass through and sanitation station before entering a was a photo call this took place indoors moulin with its chinese heroin and or asian cast was tailored for the chinese market cinemas in china the 2nd largest cinema market remain closed i'm sure going to be talking all this lot more aged kind of the fanatics very much. asas all over the world who put their lawyers on the line and fights against injustice with words videos and images. is never rocky and force against isis in the middle

of occupied mosul and 2016 not with weapons but with all and it almost cost him his life now thanks to a scholarship from the writers' association pen he is safe and living in the city of weimar which has always been a home for creative spirits. this café in central weimar eastern germany has become something of a home from home for. the iraqi poet musician and filmmaker hasn't seen his family and friends in mosul for 4 years. before he left he'd spent 2 years in hiding from the i asked which deemed his work incompatible with islamic law. but in my hometown. i think the situation was a bit like more complicated so it wasn't difficult to get to go to work outside or . just things especially going when i was there. he still in touch with his friends back home and follows the news from iraq closely from

social media he knows that the iraqi protests begun by civil activists in october 29th seen have cost some 500 lying. to mom prefers not to talk about his private life his family is still in iraq. before he fled the country and 2016 had studied english in what is a teacher his creative work tackled the values of i asked and the devastation being wreaked on his city. including a short film called a prisoner from mosul. despite the risks he continued publishing poems and performing and uploading videos to you tube and facebook. after spending time in poland

abdel nasser is now a fellow at the pen program writers in exile and the association vimal city of refuge. it's organized by vice has sacks a local sculptor and graphic artist mosul was liberated in 2017 but still can't go back the situation remains too dangerous. the problem that we always suffer in iraq that there is a government that maybe the represent some of the. people in iraq but there is also a huge number of people this government doesn't like they do that they don't represent those people and those people they want to change the government but they don't have the power of. the fighters sacks is a member of the international cities of refuge network founded in 1993 in response to iranian fact against right a salmon rushdie it office persecuted

a safe haven of. visual artists musicians they can exert influence this week but that's why they're often the 1st to be persecuted by the powers that be whether state powers or religious fundamentalist forces that's the problem that's why we have this program we take it very seriously what if you're going to live. here environment. is making new friends and building up new cross cultural networks he's not just here to bide his time until he can go home he wants to share his past experiences and see what he can learn from the ones. who are. going. to work. now insects like you've never seen before as works of ops 22 year old young rosenblum is actually a chemistry student while look here insects under a microscope he got the idea to take photos of them to show what extraordinary

models of nature they are and they need his images reveal the hidden beauty of creepy crawlies. giant eyes hair and teeth. meters that might seem repulsive to sun are actually fascinating when observed under a microscope. these photos offer an unusual perspective on the common bugs that are all around us but are often overlooked. microscopic photography is young and bones hobby a selection of his images is on display at the zoo in the northeastern german city of boston. and if you see a wasp or a fly that might almost past you any day in summer and you see the textures and the incredibly exciting stories behind. biological wants to be interesting.

and you realize how beautiful and sometimes monstrous everyday insects can be when you're enlarge them to 2 are 2 metres of. the images are made up of hundreds if not thousands of individual photos the results are fascinating. in 2019 this photo of a male mosquito came in 4th in an international photography competition. was in bloom had already submitted photos in past years he was thrilled to make the top 5 . as far. as that was incredible. i never really would have expected to make it this far especially because i work with the simplest tools and relatively improvised

equipment but. i'm competing with people from top international universities who work with very expensive microscopes and are professionals on a scale. to dust the supporters and. back at the exhibition yarn holes in bomb hopes the photos will help visitors to see insects differently so it is fun for a biologist at the zoo he asked yon to exhibit his photos here despite the fact that insects aren't usually the kind of creatures that draw all visitors to the soup. is into. the symbolism at the zoo were always about the big animals with you people love to see the polar bears the great apes are always popular of course and we've also got smaller animals but a detailed view into the heart of this whole microcosm is still hidden from many people still hold to before boarding john has made it his mission to show people

the beauty of. and reveal a world that can normally only be seen through the lens of a microscope. just proves that the greatest artist of all is nature itself awesome culture stories on the web site at v.w. dot com slash culture that's all for. like 30 years after the fall for. everything seems possible here. 1900. 90 is where the peaceful revolution is again. today it's a creation i'm reading the trunk of this. those are just the right time to try to trip into the city's past and present choking. on details. i'm not

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