this is g w news wire from berlin it's being called the end of an era the italian composer of the soundtrack for a generation of moviegoers as does. the italian composer ennio morricone some of the most famous film scores of all time he has now died at the age of 91 will consider what made him and his work so special also coming up tonight emergency workers scramble to rescue survivors after floods

and landslides hit parts of japan but with more torrential rain forecast they're facing an uphill battle and beaches remain empty in one part of spain as restrictions are reimposed because of a surge in corona virus infections and as a south africa sees its biggest single day increase in corona virus infections some communities are still not cooperating with the government in fighting the disease. i'm burnt off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and our viewers all around the world welcome we begin tonight with the man whose music was the real star in countless movies a composer whose work helped define an era of cinema. ennio morricone has died at

the age of 91 the oscar winning composer was perhaps best known for his scores of the italian spaghetti western films including the good the bad and the ugly a friend says that he died in the hospital from complications after a fall. in one of the most iconic movie soundtracks ever any american new school for the 1966 film the good the bad and the ugly over korea spending decay the composer found 6 a sweet he's unique style and approach. i'm not disc you want to move. i don't describe images with my music. when there's an important movie it's key that the music says what isn't said and what you cannot see. him.

born in 1928 morricone started out as a trumpet player after training at a prestigious rime conservatory rushing film music began as a way to make some money but he was soon in demand. his music for once upon a time in the west is as famous as the film itself it was just one of many collaboration suites big 80 western pioneer sergio leone in. the film music i write is constrained by the cinematic images their exact length like a stopwatch when it comes to interpret in the music that's a kind of prison at a concert i have more freedom i can conduct faster or slower and be more independent and the audience loves that. morricone composed more than

400 schools for cinema and t.v. as well as over 100 classical works in 2007 he was awarded an oscar for lifetime achievement and 9 years later he scored for quentin tarantino's the hateful as one him and nothing. marconi became known as the maestro he received a star on the hollywood walk of fame in 2016 and he celebrated as the world's greatest film composer. towards the end of his korea he went on to her with 200 musicians delighting fans with a life experience of the movie music magic that he'll always be remembered for my. i want to keep the music going on right here want to talk tonight with robin rimbaud he's a morricone fand and a musician himself he works under the name scanner scanners good to have you on the

program thought to me a little bit about the 1st time that you came into contact with any of these music do you remember that it would have been on british television in the 1970 s. that time when you weren't quite sure what was happening on t.v. and it would have been the spaghetti westerns of course it would be those classic films and just hearing this incredible eerie music. and he was known as the maestro the the composer of all composers for film how would you describe his music style. he understood that with film you need texture and you need melody and you mustn't interfere with the picture too much but the sound still needs to tell stories he some he was somebody who had this style that was kind of spiraling melodies with this kind of weird sometimes psychedelic sound sometimes it could be incredibly pastoral sometimes it could just be very gentle but he understood that music should not be bigger than the film it should be just as equal

in a sense in that it takes a special gift doesn't it scanner to be able to know exactly where that that happy medium is between the pictures in the sales. i think that's what's interesting i mean if you know about morricone he scored over 20 films a year he scored so many films that in fact no one really knows how many films he scored at something like over 500 but through this progression he learned the best way to tell the story interestingly that he obviously didn't only use music so he used the sounds around him so in the spaghetti westerns you have the sounds of a sighing creaking you have footsteps you have the actual movement around you so in many ways you combine that kind of world of sound design and music in a very interesting way. how big would you say his influence has been on other musicians musicians such as yourself i think enormously i mean if you were to look

at the social networks today they are absolutely swamped that everybody from every genre kind of mourning the loss of this fellow incredible i mean there was so much music everything from the band portishead a great debt to his style of music through to classical musicians through to so many film composers today the influence is just sort of beyond comprehension in a sense robin remember all the otherwise known as skinner joining us tonight and sharing his thoughts as the world mourns the loss of a composer robert thank you very much thank you well from the power of music to the power of mother nature severe flooding in southwestern japan as well for around 50 people dead and thousands of houses without electricity search and rescue operations are underway as bad weather continues to batter the region. on the grounds of a school a call for help. and

a desperate need for rescue. after record rains last parts of southwestern japan over the weekend some areas have been left devastated. thousands of troops have been called in to bring people to safety and search for survivors continues bad weather is making their work harder and with more rain expected a quarter of a 1000000 people have been told to evacuate their homes. some are reluctant to move to the shelters due to fears of coronavirus spreading. most have no choice but to leave. others were left trapped at this nursing home for the elderly 14 people died after being unable to escape the flooding. emergency services and local volunteers were able to rescue around 50 of the residents and staff of.

japan's prime minister has everyone to do what they can to help. nothing is more important than human life please make your utmost effort to rescue people who are stranded in their homes and search for missing people. at the moment more than 40000 members of the police fire department japan coast guard and self-defense forces are working hard in rescue operations in the search for the missing. floods and landslides a common sharing japan's annual rainy season. but this year the pandemic has made responding to the emergency more complicated. and at that fake climate change it's making conditions west. so here's a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world french president emanuel microland has reshuffled his cabinet bringing in new ministers of the interior and environment among other groups this comes after mccrone replaced the country's popular prime minister felipe on friday geoffrey

epstein's former confidant just plain maxwell has been transferred to new york city to face sexual abuse charges she is due in court on friday prosecutors allege that she helped the late financier groom girls as young as 14 to engage in sexual relations with him a court in germany has ordered the lifting of coronavirus to walk down measures in the western district of his loan the regional high court ruled that the restrictions were unlawful the district of more than 300000 people closed its bars theaters pools and other institutions following a severe outbreak of closed 19 at the local tourney's slaughterhouse. a 5 day lockdown has been reimposed on parts of delete seen in north western spain following a surge in corona virus infections it's the country's 2nd local lockdown after catalonia placed one of its just drinks under restrictions over the weekend

authorities in leeds you have traced the new outbreak to bars that were reopened. back under lockdown no one's getting into or out of our marina until friday except under exceptional circumstances some people weren't taking any chances but i think that this is very unlikely we were told we might be able to leave on tuesday but we're afraid of getting stuck here so we decided to leave that part of. the popular tourist region on the northern coast of galaxia is home to around $70000.00 residents people have been asked not to gather in groups larger than 10 and to wear masks in all public places including the beach. the restrictions come after a spike in coded $1000.00 cases the regional health minister said the biggest outbreaks were linked to several local bars. and measures but due to stay in place until

friday 2 days before regional elections some say such a short lockdown isn't enough. we're under confinement for 5 days and that's because elections are coming up but will this flare up be over by then we should be taking serious measures and closing down for as long as it takes. at the national level of the spanish government says it has the pandemic under control but the returns are not down in galicia is a grim reminder that the virus is never far away from resurfacing. for journalist stephen bergen joins me now from barcelona the capital of spain's catalonia region steve it's good to see you we know that the government says that this outbreak is under control is it. difficult to say i think the i mean you have to get in perspective. excuse

me and here again. numerically are quite small what's worrying is the sudden increase ration of infection and it went up 10 fold in the space of about 10 days and has gone up considerably more in say korea other parts of country in europe which is a sense. 524 in your case isn't the case we've also seen an outbreak here in barcelona not so much in the city but the provinces over the past few days for 76 percent increase and the number of infections. i think it shows. the he authorities are being quite vigilant because we're all talking about numbers of a few 100 over the space several days which in the scale of what's happening where it's going to be trivial but i think the. government is on

top of it but obviously this was always the risk with easing the increasing social mobility people. were saying most of the sense of. the fishing boat. the stephen. lynch it means ask you the scientific consensus is that. period is about $5.00 to $14.00 days and we usually have 2 weeks for quarantine so how are authorities are they justifying this 5 day lockdown . well i don't think it is justified the thing is what happened is once we ended the 3 different phases phases a blow to the national government then said it was up to. one of those regions with a lot of those in germany to make decisions about. they've made this decision

it does appear to be based on the fact that on the 12th of this month there's an important regional election and so they don't want if they impose a 2 week quarantine every election would ever say place as as somebody said in your piece it does seem a bit. absurd really. doesn't prove anything to. the journalist stephen bergen joining us tonight from barcelona stephen we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you. ok thank you. south africa has also reported the sharp increase in the number of corona virus infections nearly 20000 new cases reported over the weekend despite government warnings about the need for social distancing and better hygiene some communities are finding it difficult to comply a dream creech reports. cape town one of the a.p.

centers of the coronavirus pandemic in south africa but there's little evidence of it in this if you abide by the mandates to wear a mask and social distancing is unusual. you see i was supposed to make myself. so in that thing was i don't let me know i'm not there for you because i believe very. understand so i'm so used so i'm not scared because we're going to but poor overcrowded neighborhoods is just where the virus is rapidly spreading many people here feel the economic fallout of the pandemic is a greater threat than the disease itself that's why a covert 19 mission from the health ministry is trying to convince potentially infected people and their contacts to enter quarantine. to protect your loved ones. protect yourself.

and. probably wrong. towns where we take you the government has massive funds into field hospitals and quarantine. more patients go to the hospitals the question rooms remain empty. people who refused to go into isolation how big of a problem is that we're talking of huge numbers where this is happening it's huge because we i think it was about 10000. prepared for the current in an isolation. out of those. 2000 and. 8 i do find that in those areas it's the people who don't want of course the law does say that you have to. he's out issue.

few people seem interested in the awareness raising campaign in the township even though the region is a coronavirus hotspot. and i'm on this because it does so sad i said i do live in it and then it's so close to isolate all of us says to stay in one that only you see so you couldn't get in contact in the state set out so it's just because i didn't want to say i think it was because we could if we could move to take that deal so we was like what is going to happen if she's not to it and it ends many people here are too afraid to leave their homes for extended periods due to the high crime rates. in places like this self isolation is obviously very difficult for that young lady we just talked to lives with 9 people and it 2 bedroom apartment but many people here still do not really take the threat of the virus serious despite the fact that cape town is currently experiencing the 1st

peak of the pandemic in the country. the government in hong kong has ordered schools to review their books for possible violations of the sweeping new security law imposed by beijing books must now be in compliance with the law which independence sentiment books by pro-democracy figures have also been withdrawn from the shelves of public library. facebook twitter and google have all said they will no longer respond to requests from the hong kong government and law enforcement authorities for information on users the polls pending further assessment as facebook puts it also applies to whatsapp which is known as the tech companies are among the 1st to respond to china's new security law in hong kong. it's not just freedom of expression at stake the focal point of these protests and hong kong money over the weekend the new security law raises questions over common

business concerns like the safety of intellectual property and data security and it lengthens the reach of the chinese authorities i think if you are a business and are calling it your own individual or even if your thank you go it's all kong but i joke that advice i'm going to think of on kong as a transit start of irene not be holding up a lot of intellectual property and hold on i sat with hold any. i would have any excess cash in hong kong i would simply be much more cautious about it and i were treated very much as i wouldn't see the chinese city. hong kong's calling card was that it wasn't just another chinese city that offered legal certainty and access to western finance but the mainland lacked. china believes it can preserve hong kong as a financial hub though it's put capital into the island and mobilized allies among the business elite many of whom have deep stakes in the mainland on monday and even

drove markets hong kong stock exchange close at a full month high when a chinese state run newspaper encouraged bull market investment beijing's message you can engineer the stability that business wants under the conditions that china want. to talk about this more i'm joined now by my colleague from the business stephen beard stevens good to see you so do we know why facebook and twitter are doing this so it's not unusual for a lot of these social messaging services to comply with local laws when it comes to investigations when it comes to legal matters that are within the law and also meet those services terms of use and we say terms of use they do have provisions on human rights they're not going to turn over human rights advocates in countries where they fear they could be persecuted and that's where we are right now with this hong kong laws that it's very clear that the law is vague that it is meant to target opponents of beijing and that it's being applied very loosely and so there

is a fear that these requests that would normally be used to aid a government that is acting in good faith would be used to act to harm protesters who are expressing what these companies believe are is a freedom of expression so it's also a good p.r. move for facebook and twitter we have to say that it could well facebook is used to run you know users exactly why is the business community in hong kong being so quiet about this. i think there's a number of reasons i think you have to remember that there are deeper ties between a lot of hong kong businesses and chinese mainland and we may. they sort of understand and so those connections have been cultivated over decades and they've grown deeper and richer over the years and i think sometimes that's easy to overlook we also have to remember the protests that really went a lot more it was a rant but the protests that were pretty strong last year also really damage the economy or threaten to damage it more and mostly turkey's i'm not the financial

services sector but it really put hong kong at risk of something like a financial crisis and the prospect of capital leaving was something that was really scary to a lot of hong kong businesses so the idea of stability is something that a lot of businesses are going to underestimate i also think that china is in a position of strength it's coming back from the krona virus perhaps better than a lot of other countries it has a lot of might as we saw in that piece they can really order up a lot of. a lot of investment in some ways but wants to it has a lot of power and that's the muscle that it can flex and they have to respond to it hands muscle but i wonder can china really keep hong kong which is a financial hub remains a financial hub under a wall like this forever you know the question is whether it can remain the same kind of financial 100 is i mean china i mean hong kong has been that gateway between the chinese economy has been booming and western capital that requires many believe an open system i mean you talk about a class of bankers you don't want a class of auditors professional financial people who are relying on an open system

they rely on legal certainty and they also probably rely to some extent on the civil liberties that's going to the question does the economic liberties of hong kong rely on the civil liberties and i would wager that probably so you're not going to see the same kind of efficiencies you're not going to see the same kind of responses to capital the way it moves that you would see in an open society compared to one that centrally runs that's the question going forward stephen beard as always david thank you. for the world's most visited museum the louvre in paris has reopened after being closed for nearly 4 months because of france's coronavirus lockdown visitors are being reminded to wear a mask but maintaining social distance around the mona lisa well that will clearly be a difficult task as you see right there. the eiffel tower reopened in the french capital 2 weeks ago its operators have made significant changes in the way that the place

operates but as g.w. news found the reopening it seems to be going to plan take a look. that the only eat the woman was it's still as breathtaking as ever getting close to these $10000.00 tonnes of iron the tower was built for no other reason than glory an engineering wonder by gustav eiffel designed to look like lakes since its opening in $889.00 it has been closed only during the 2 world wars and now for $100.00 days due to the coronavirus pandemic there have been few visitors since the reopening receives his family just for you from the difficulty west i'm told it's been pretty clear that. the couple thinks it's a very good times a visit it's such a big sum of our is that the 1st time around here the whole family and also some cars that it's time. they are going up on foot

only one of the lifts is operating so far and much reduced capacity but more of the town will be opened in the coming weeks visitors will have access to the summit for mid july but climbing the 704 steps to the 2nd floor isn't that where it. gets through the good deeds yes the hope of the mafia is the 2nd part was the big stuff for. these days crowds can be dangerous and the towers managers are doing all they can to prevent it becoming a coded infection zone we implemented a couple of measures such as social distancing by a one meter and a half and with a mask the face masks man that's right here though some would take him off for a quick selfie. fight and he would have the limits of

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