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welcome to news asia glad you could join us we begin in myanmar where 2 army soldiers appear to have testified on camera that the army had carried out atrocities against the rohingya muslim minority these appear to be the 1st public confessions of the army's involvement in crimes against the 2 soldiers have been described as. confessions were recorded in the custody of the army and. the army has been fighting we aren't able to confirm these confessions were made voluntarily or under duress but here's what the soldiers said. privates all said i quote we shot dead and wiped out according to the command of all irrespective of all children and adult private. said

a court. give us an old up all you see and all you hear so we indiscriminately shot at all. correspondent who covers the region joins me now from kuala lumpur what's your assessment of these videos i mean how. old might they have been to do this. well i can tell you that i saw a video that has been made public that came out made that the same 2 soldiers were in now they do not go as far as that video that came out in may as the one that the new york times was reporting on yesterday that everyone's talking about now but when you watch that video from may they do look like they're under duress and it leads to questions about whether or not their answers were rehearsed but here's the thing they are i.c.c. investigators are talking to them so that's really what's going to be the most

important 'd thing what are they saying i.c.c. investigators what new videos my i.c.c. international criminal court of educators might they be getting will they be testifying in any sort of international criminal court down the road that's the key thing the fact that they are in the hague now i've been talking the international criminal court investigators that is a huge deal and it cannot be stressed enough this ignored because because we've been hearing now for years from victims which is important is that is this is the 1st time that we're hearing these sort of confessions from perpetrators exactly as you just mentioned a lot of what the soldiers are saying has already been said before the ledge before but has to be that any action taken. against members of the army so. there has been a small number of soldiers who've gone on trial getting relatively light sentences again myanmar army has been saying that there is no command from the top to do this that these were isolated incidents done by robe soldiers that's been the defense of

the me and my army and the small number of soldiers who've been punished again these work clothes courts there's been no transparency about any of this so there's been minimal done by the me and my army there or their main argument has been all along that there is no orders from the top coming from this that this is not something organized on the top that's been the me and our army bands and that's the way they've stayed so far really with their thought i'm going to bomb in kuala lumpur thank you so much for. a live action remake of a disney animated film is facing budget cold cold from activists in hong kong thailand and taiwan but from used online last week is facing a bug if it was revealed. when up to a 1000000. by the chinese government the film's lead was already facing criticism for her support of hong kong police in the cracking down on pro-democracy protests

last year. that it cannot hide. from chinese folklore as it stirs national pride discusses herself as a man to stand in for her ailing father in the army a sure fire hollywood blockbuster aimed at a giant market but the film's production company disney is facing accusations of ignoring human rights abuses for the sake of business activists are urging people to stay away from the movie. now it's time for people to through the action to let this need to know that cult out of china should not be the way out and force at our parties and actors and dollars to police brutality the well respond and back fire to it and the outcry already began last year when the film star liu the face expressed support for hong kong police and chinese social media i. rights groups and the un have accused police there of brutality in their response to

pro-democracy protests in hong kong the irony of the situation has not been lost on some hong kong ors. i don't think i think the character is that of a righteous person but lou said she supports police brutality the police brutality in hong kong what the police have done is completely unjust she's so different from the actual milan she's the opposite it is really ironic. then last week more bad publicity it emerged that milan had been filmed at least partly in china's shin junge province ssion jiang is the homeland of the weaker people and ethnic and religious minority but china has been accused of systematically persecuting. a colony of detention camps there is believed to be holding and trying to brainwash over a 1000000 we china calls them vocational training centers. you're

saying that the film milan involves changing issues right. here a few things i'd like to point out 1st there's no such thing as reeducation camps inch and john. credits expressly thank the chinese authorities and shin jiang including some blacklisted by the us for human rights violations. so what are the business interests behind the film. from venice where he's covering the venice film festival scott good to see you how important is the chinese market for hollywood. vitally important i mean china is already the 2nd largest box office. in the world just behind north america something like $9500000000.00 in box office out of china last year and for the

really big movies for the big sort of hollywood blockbusters they desperately need that market in order to really recoup their money and to make a make a major profit so china is seen as incredibly important and really the big hollywood studios will do everything they can not to annoy china scott hollywood has also been increasingly featuring chinese actors in major international movies and also story lines to learn specifically to the chinese market matt damon starting in the great wall of comes to mind is this all a further example of how much hollywood needs the chinese market so it can succeed . yes definitely and i think also shows the extent to which the hollywood is trying to appease the chinese market the chinese government you also maybe might have noticed that in recent hollywood films you'll never see a chinese villain the chinese and the chinese government are always portrayed as

heroes or at least helpers in the story lines that hollywood is presenting and what i find is interesting though you mentioned the great wall with with matt damon a big attempt by hollywood to to make a real chinese movie with a hollywood star it failed completely it was a huge bomb showing that hollywood really doesn't know what the chinese audience wants or what the chinese government wants but still they keep trying and they keep sort of self censoring in order not to offend particularly the chinese government so when joshua long pro-democracy activist in hong kong says that it appears that it is something element of cow towing to china on the vog of hollywood and big companies like disney for example he's not wrong. no i completely agree with him i mean this isn't all of american filmmaking there are plenty of american filmmakers who make films that are critical of china but when it comes to the really big studios and the really big movies they desperately need and want the chinese audience in the box office the billions of dollars

a box office that comes out of china and will do almost anything to. avoid annoying the chinese government so they can get their films into that market because that's the big problem with china the chinese government controls what films are shown there so any hollywood studio has to get through that censorship system and they do kowtow completely they censor scripts they change characters there was a film dr strange movie it had a character from the comic book that was tibetan that was changed to a non-tobacco character played by tilda swinton and that seems deliberately done in order to avoid offending the chinese government and that film of course was shown it did very successful was very successful in china speaking specifically about this firm and it was already facing backlash last year when the lead actress of you your faith forced it on social media in support of hong kong for news but on the mainland a lot of support how much does approach imo stunts help with the firm success in

the mainland. well we'll see actually with this film because i don't think disney's stance necessarily hurts it in america i don't think people pay as much attention really and people who like this movie will probably try and watch it or like these kind of movies when it comes to the mainland mean land chinese market i'll be interested to see how this film is perceived if it's perceived as a really patriotic movie maybe that will help it but maybe not because the chinese audience is a credibly diverse and the chinese government often will promote a very proper propaganda movies and they tend to do very badly in the chinese market so this film if it's a good movie and gets released in a big way in china will probably do well but that it's going to be based on the strength of its story and not sort of how it's perceived as being pro or anti china scott at the end of the day this sort of bad publicity is better than no publicity

does this work in favor of disney and more than. not enough not in any way disney does not need a bad publicity they got plenty of good publish do they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on movies like this to get good published the out there this can only hurt the film i'm not sure if it will because as i said i think a lot of people who want to see this kind of movie don't really care about the politics behind it but the bad publicity surrounding this movie can only do it harm and really i think can only do harm to the to the brand of does the into disney's image abroad i think that is what the studio is most worried about. for a reporter from wonderful surroundings and redness thank you so much for your time . that's an obvious show to check out other stories on the double dot com false pleasure facebook and twitter but even today with the most likes of those of. thing violence in rakhine state we're back tomorrow through that.

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rachel stewart gives us a comprehensive tour of germany's at times quirky film and television landscape. well to be eligible for a best picture oscar filmmakers will have to adapt to new inclusion and diversity guidelines in unspent came on tuesday and the new rules will be implemented in 2024 at the academy said that the decision is part of a greater push to promote diversity both on and off screen and none too soon as the problem is hardly new. black demonstrators are brutally beaten by police martin luther king was the figurehead of the 1960 s. protest movement and 2015 the movie is so mark was the hot chip to sweep the oscars but went home almost empty handed reactions were angry at the academy and the oscars were considered too white. i disproportionate amount of people who do not

look like me doing what i do. protests on social media use the hash tag so why women true protesters that they weren't getting a fur tail at the oscar awards ceremony in 29 despite all the protests it was mostly white men who took to the stage in 2020 and more positive signal from hollywood a south korean film parasites became the 1st foreign language movie to win best film. and our film experts got rockstro joins me once again from the venice film festival to talk about the new oscar rules welcome scott in a nutshell just tell us what are these new requirements. well the new comments and to be clear they only apply for nominees for best picture so only the very top award handed out by the oscars but these requirements are based require diversity at all levels in front of the camera but also in the production

staff all the way to the people who market the film that there should be very strict requirements for a degree of diversity in the cast in the director and all the way down basically if you don't have that degree of diversity you will not qualify for best picture and how surprised were you by this rule change. quite a bit i knew that the academy wanted to make a change i didn't think it would be this this radical really will be interesting to see how this is received because this goes a lot further than i at least expected the academy do it shows that they're quite serious about pushing hollywood to become more diverse ok so essentially this is a good thing obviously with the academy wanting to shed that also a white image but what impact might this have on the stories that filmmakers want to tell. yeah it'll be interesting because i mean if you look just at the nominees

for best picture this year 8 of the 10 wouldn't qualify under these new rules i mean films like a joke her which which won best actor or or or martin scorsese's the irishman but also a film like little women which many celebrated as a tribute. to female filmmaking because it's only white women on screen it wouldn't qualify under the new diversity rules so it'll be interesting to see what impact this will have and if we will start to see new and different stories and if certain stories might start to disappear from hollywood screens it's very interesting obviously we were speaking earlier that divot diversity is a relative term it depends on the perspective that you're coming from but i'd like to go to another story that's flaring up again disney's new live action remake of moulin is facing boycott calls from activists for being partly at least filmed in the region in china where we muslims are being persecuted by the chinese government not coming from our diversity discussion there here's

a film that was hailed for its chinese story with an all chinese cast but tripping up for cozying up to beijing how big a problem is this for disney. a pretty big problem actually i mean hollywood the big studios at least have an issue with china they're desperate to get into the chinese market it's a huge market they need it to really make their film successful but the chinese government to time determines what films get in and so hollywood is really bending over backwards and has been for years to do everything it can not to offend china and disney with thought to have the ideal type of film a chinese story with an all chinese cast ideal for the for the the chinese market but because they shot in this area of china where alleged these these persecutions are taking place it's really put them in a in a bad light i'm not sure if it's actually going to hurt the film itself commercially but it definitely has hurt the image that disney has because no one

wants to be seen as a cheerleader for a dictatorship that's right well moulin is scheduled to be released in theaters in china on friday i believe so we will keep an eye on not and see what kind of an impact this controversy has had thanks very much for joining in tuning into i think and god will see you tomorrow scott roxboro in venice well next up we go back in time to the middle ages here in germany and a new exhibition in my aunts sheds light on the complicated power structures that were in that area at the time of charles the great of the king of the franks and the founder of the holy roman empire in the year 800 well it's been years in the making this exhibition and years since one of its central attractions has actually seen the light. this massive steel door protects one of the most valuable books in the world the codex manesar is 700 years old a collection of songs and poems from an entire era 811 decorated parchment pages

with love as the central theme. greets with singing the sweet ones i neither can nor want to avoid. this is the source for more than half of minnesotan poetry. we very rarely lend the book out to those people interested in seeing get up close this is really about the aura of the original. the last time was 14 years ago now the codex manesar is going back on public view it's been cushioned in shop and fireproof packaging for the journey it's insured for 80000000 euros and has a police escort. and this is its new temporary home

from charlemagne to frederick bubble rosser the exhibition the kaiser's and the pillars of the power in the land as museum minds examines the complicated network of relationships between emperors and kings and bishops and princes. and we want to show how the middle ages were different in fact only about 10 percent of the population belong to the pillars of society but it is just as important to us to show that they were always in a network of influence with each other so there was a process of negotiation that was not just based on orders and obedience the emperor's power was limited. the funeral crown of empress user of sway via the marriage certificate of farnell the acts. reflects the importance of women in the middle ages as the pivot of court life. the woman is in charge she holds the court together even when the men are waging war and she's the guarantor of

a courtly behavior that rises above desire and brutality. women are objects of desire but at the same time the educator's of man without the codex men as we would not have this perspective on the not so dark middle ages. and from literature back to cinema now a topic that is ever close to our hearts especially german cinema and television i think for very obvious reasons nowhere is it more evident that national tastes really do differ when you arrive here in germany as a foreigner for instance there are a number of let's call them idiosyncrasies to get your head around but there are also a great many more. crime scene that's the name of one of germany's favorite ever t.v.

shows millions treated on sundays at 8 50 pm sharp and the show has been running for 50 years the germans love crime but what makes this one so special it's got murder and intrigue of course and often picks up on current social debates like far right extremism or the refugee crisis but to see what it's got to be regional accents different episodes filmed in different cities with different local detectives taking the lead. vienna in austria in the sounds of it even while they're in town. the cologne tonight stopped off for a snack and occurs after a number of celtic. i've got to get something off my chest i am not a big fan of german television but things are looking up in 2015 a series about a young east german spy made waves approach on the 83 was the 1st german language i want to major u.s. network under became the most watched foreign language drama ever in britain and duck was recently voted the best pick for all time or on line with us are not the.

other impressive productions like that. time fast shaking up the japanese wall street and helping us fight this which talked about but what about the silver screen let's find out more from my colleague film buff. guy from of the of. the team and much more featured much more. of a skip of stuff. we know about. because it's fear folks you know internet's in on. the dog food. festival. a foreclosure happened. 100 years ago the majority of films being watched and to. many german in fact it was the 1st country to try and protect its national film industry using a quota law for every foreign film shown in germany a german film had to be made and distributed abroad that actually lead to quantity

over quality anyway these days the majority of film showing in german cinemas are imports mostly from the us and you know what that means right. in the house including so it is just on the father which often cunt him on the door just him as he flew on her own having the same view about rush month you torture the argument that some. in this hollywood stars who are on. the canon dubbing is an important industry here the top names can be quite famous in their own right and we usually take on more than one stop and say this guy has been the german voice of robert de niro robert redford dennis hopper and ladies and gentlemen i now give you the german voice of angelina jolie as the cloud. on spins and. also in this infinity. in this including. as of the 2 this is this yet still doesn't india and also mention films include easy and doesn't even need. in storage as it seems on via voyager to. get food to do it's meant to. do it

shined. hasta la vista baby. and that does bring us and lightens to the end of this edition so until we meet again all the best from us here in berlin and stay safe.

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