we speak different languages we fight for different things that's fine but we all stick up for freedom freedom of speech freedom of press. giving freedom before you . use that matters to me. this is state of the news africa coming up on the program p.p.a. for personal profit franchise medical workers and god all contracting all that on the job because there's not enough partakes of equipment but the brains to supply the demand has been undermined to speak the event for hospital staff is the ending up on the black market. and the traditional roadside snack that's become a source of sustenance to mice meat is now a staple for hard up malawi and securing the pandemic.

want to welcome to news africa many medical work still have to do their jobs without adequate protection there is a shortage of all personal protective equipment in the country and more than 2000 medical workers have been infected with the coronavirus since the outbreak began the government and private donors have ramped up if it's to provide the much needed but as one investigation revealed some hospital staff have been saving the people on the black market. here at this clinic in central gonna health where caught. and his colleague caring for patients m h 1000 pandemic bites often without their required protective medical clothing difficile need to run out of supplies several months ago exposing webcasts to their

risk of infections lactase says the face mask he's wearing hasn't been changed for weeks before this one says cholera me just useful i nice full of that i was new to you know how to change things into a school i was i was always aware if i was on the way. i want to not know the people are complying with the government's but also from the c.d.c. i want to wait but i don't have the 2 minutes go by 2000 health webcasts in ghana have been infected with according to 19 at least 6 have died health union d.d.'s wants more protection from the members. we needed to be protected something we can't have health and my sister if you as pauses in the pot really don't go that we don't get why didn't we just it's there we got the disease let's look at. what

gave them. the government has already taxed lookout factories to produce more protective equipment for health wake is back to the doesn't seem to be rich in different cities and that to mediate this hospital has come under scrutiny after on the cover generally it's just garbage that's because they were selling people. health and i was calling for measures to prevent such incidents in the future. when this is in and go to simply on the. day that we see insufficiency of these. guns it doesn't look like he's going to do. it if someone just means you t.j. that when you come to that she did you just to be there he. did you get she didn't get to. pass health. and he's colleagues

with support from the government they hope they don't get infected before it's comes. as you heard in all reports if it's just supply the much needed p.p. is being undermined by hospital because some of them have been identified as sending the p.p. on to the black market now that story was uncovered by one of janet gun as famous at a visit of journalist he goes by the pseudonym adam a true and thus i began by asking him just how he came about the story. we started with the fairy for a story would look that kewl and. then in covered clear we decided to identify fic your so that people were using to treat called while doing this we got some information from some hospitals that this items are the way of being do need to have found themselves on duping markets we decided to look at that too it

was inside as we did in the hospital and that means who roots to us and told us that the thing something on thought could be happening in this hospital in the indeed we are glad that when we looked at it we found this going on. right now i know that even your investigation what are your journalists posed as a somebody by the p.p. eve from one of these hospital workers who was sitting it but who have the medical staff been sending the peat. for the p.p. is being sold to people who wanted to buy it. people who need it before the own personal protection and there's fools who needed it to sell it out there in the market they key thing is that. it is so bad i buy no propos perhaps you know what as times as we speak to people. in the tape who are selling the p.p.s.

have all been suspended according to the hospital and there wasn't a whole investigation that went on but it was a villa for sale for people who wanted it for your personal use or either you had a private hospital and you wanted to use it. unless you give us a sense off do you do you have any idea of how much p.p. hospitals might have lost out is it likely that this is happening at a grand scale. well look at rich hospital i can confirm that it was happen in a grand scale the reason is this simple that you know b.b.c. of. has died on how much you should buy out all material means that people who are dealing with told us that they had a large quantities but you know you have to balance the meat for workers to use it and your story so we decided to buy members that we thought were not affects the

intent of preaching and put their lives of their real people their health wake us at a risk so yes we did we got a lot of calls to buy large quantities but we opted to do less quantities because we knew that that was definitely affecting the lives of well guess who people were put together life on the line to see if to see if people a given one indication was that at a particular point the hospital then decided to even produce the. fees musk's it or sad that even the famous back of production somebody sold to us a $100.00 pieces i mean it goes to that level at which those people willing to say where we're going and the only reason why there was but those type that it production was because of the fact that they do make up once had finished they had

emptied it through the seal and sure there was what they decided to be ingenious by doing something new so indeed it was a very high skill all right that is the investigative journalist in the past i remember. is of course has to conceal his identity because of the nature of his thank you for being out out program today and that's. field mice have always been a traditional seasonal snack of allowin that's even when food was found to fall in the southern african country however and the impacts of covert 19 this unique delicacy has become an unlikely savior in rural areas. roasted field mice are a popular malawian delicacy vendors usually sell my smita next to this busy highway between the commercial hub of blantyre and the capital the long. term it's simeon is a mouse hunter now during the coronavirus spent to make his small trade has gained

new importance. since the start of cave in 19 life has been difficult as a result we were hunting and selling so that we can sustain our livelihood and we do produce the. produce. traditionally village children hunt the mice smoking them out of their holes they're cooked salted or dried some allowance choose to eat mice but at the moment for others like simians family it is the only meat they can get. has done really well earlier today that. most times we rely on my husband when he goes out and when times are hard we were mice to supplement our diet because we cannot afford to buy meat teach the lack of money. the. mice meet my conjure up ideas

of unsafe or unsanitary food but local health authorities don't discourage their consumption. if ever your community is. to take my so you are able to rise is one of. the. protests. created tape. so as you get. a minute amount of protests. more than 50 percent of malawians already lived below the poverty line before the fire is struck the country has had under 6000 official cases of covert 1000 up to now but the economy people's livelihoods has been the big victim. long after the fires has disappeared mice may still be an important food source on the household table after decades of civil war mogadishu is recovering and seeing

a building across the city buildings are being constructed but there is often little planning involved so one young somali architects is now trying to make a difference newly built houses and hotels somalia is slowly rebuilding itself. one of the people involved in the efforts is a 30 year old architect all monday again but persuading clients to create beautiful buildings it's not always easy. designing architecture and the architecture in somalia is 6 grimly complicated because the people doesn't see that as a need or a necessity but he's actually very important. before the civil war mogadishu was dotted with hawks theaters and libraries many buildings in the italian colonial period. but today the city doesn't have many public places so the beaches is where many go to relax and socialize the city is still facing frequent bombings and attacks by al-shabaab and when rebuilding the city most people are looking for

what's practical not what's beautiful. for me culturally density should be preserved us view they their city so for me good going back to the roots of somalia learn about the tradition culture of different regions and then try to redesign the spaces according to that will help the people to feel that they belong to the space and that they spaces their own his parents left for italy before the civil war and that's where he grew up. studied architecture both in italy and hong kong skills and experiences he now brings back to somalia. when we decided this case was the main idea was to monday cause related entity to. give us a touch of. it would teach at the same time give the contemporary of the design to us we can see here we use the traditional maui's which is the scary if you want the

somali man. his passion for traditional somali to sign is also showing a book he recently or 3rd. part of his mission to make a difference by building new and still remembering the old. and that's a full today. life on earth and one of the current and. gigantic

coincidence. for the improbable happened. of course we're going to have the creation of our solar system and our planet is a bit like winning the lottery. money for unique start september 18th on d w. reopening the theatres and opera houses of europe is a challenging task in times of corona we'll check in with moscow's famous boy so i thought her and have a look at these stories. a new museum in amsterdam explores how human experience is altered by new media and technology with experimental multisensory installation. and to italian photographers publish an ode to the beauty and diversity of the

humble chicken. well it's proof once again that reopening measures must proceed very carefully indeed just days after moscow's legendary bosch choice theater reopened in grand style with a production of giuseppe verdi as don carlos starring among others russian austrian diva and on the threat it was unfortunately abruptly canceled when one of the soloists tested positive for the coronavirus so much for that but the company's ballet went ahead with its season premiere. back on stage after forced break of almost 5 months this is lunch ourselves 1st performance since the corona locked. together with chris on over. 40 dancers from moscow's legendary bolshoi russia's number one theatre and ballet.

the 2 soloists are overwhelmed to be back on stage. and with so for us it's a huge thrill to get out of our apartments again and just be creative if you. just let it out which we have a jam packed schedule of performances so all the dancers even the carter ballet are rehearsing several pieces a day. for the one act ballet for characters in search of a plot the bolshoi decided to forgo the opulence set this in an effort to have a few people as possible involved in the production. with over 1000000 people infected russia currently ranks 4th in the world for covert 1000 cases. the danger of contagion is ever present. theater staff know it could be months before

a vaccine is made available in the. those so those 3 on the one hand we're overjoyed that we can kick off this season. but we're also very concerned. because their virus is still an issue and we have to deal with the situation but it's the british concluded. that. for example the engagements of 4 choreographers who came in from abroad for the opening piece which borders between russia and the e.u. still closed getting to moscow wasn't easy. was it is it i'm not sure what exactly happened but one day they called us and said come and then suddenly here we were. all 4 segments of 4 characters in search of a plot deal with the corona lockdown especially with ideas surrounding longing and closeness but also physical proximity which has taken on

a whole new meaning for the dancers cheering the pandemic. at its doors we artists belong on stage we've missed it even just thinking about stepping out onto the stage gives me goosebumps. it's a choice just means we're alive so we're living again. the bolshoi theatre is daring to live again despite the harsh reality of the pentagon. well over to amsterdam now and while the city's museums were closed during knock down a privately funded start up museum devoted to new media was busy preparing to open its doors as soon as regulations allowed for the next museum is meant to fill a gap in the cultural landscape with multisensory immersive installations by international new media artists but also by scientists and technologists and its inaugural show shifting proximities well run for about the next year full.

powerful effects multimedia and interactive. amsterdam's new next museum is devoted entirely to digital art. museum's founder of a postman developed the concept to her a few years ago she found the ideal location for a project in the north of amsterdam a former television studio. the marketing expert was able to win over a number of investors and make her dream a reality. i think we are totally obsessed with the future and with technology and like with everything that's new in technology it's evolving so rapidly that what we want to do is take. a shared artistic science and mold them together music and reading interview the experience of the future and also about topics of the future that you continuum installation by environmental artist ty speer staker

visualize the subterranean communication between 2 trees the simulation reacts to c o 2 output vibrations and temperature changes caused by the festers. that you do or are does a field that's emerging not only because it enables people to understand. and other data streams a lot easier so did you are just used to our new generation. the inaugural exhibition is called shifting proximities. it's really nice if you are. the middle of the. sandwich for the sheer size or just sick so amazing although i'm not sure that i mean it's it's really a unique experience and it goes beyond interactivity to really it really touches your gaze it touches me and. many places in the world where you can actually experience out there installations can't predict how the future will really look

like. with visitors to amsterdam's new museum could already immerse themselves in potential visions of a future. and melissa whoa. roy joins me to talk about this daring venture this is really fascinating melissa because it seems to me with this exhibition as a visitor that you're almost agreeing to be a bit of a guinea pig and you know with some of the installations here at least the next museum office people more than just your average multisensory experience here visitors can be protectionists in a speculative experience which looks to the future it really stands on the edge of what we know and what we don't know and it asks you do you like what you see do you like where you are headed i mean in terms of where technique where technology is heading yes that's right i mean the exhibition space in general looks at the times we're living in and focuses on art that uses modern tools to explore these times

one of the most interesting pieces and shifting proximities is a piece called biometric mira it was put together by siphon artist and body architect lucy mcrae together with action research in human computer interaction targeted niels vow to realize your titles really just like an algorithm analyzes you and basically tells you who you are your age your personality your agenda it also spits out of more beautified version of you're more say mean we had a vision i think you can imagine what type of version it is the set up is deceptively warm and spongy there are questions on the side of the mirror and the whole thing is a very sort of tan worn color it draws you in perhaps in the same way that technology draws us in bought the results of this type of technology of facial recognition can be also quite brutal and this is it sounds incredibly intense it sounds almost invasive and in some ways perhaps a bit overwhelming yeah it is intense and there are rooms in between that sort of

act as a sort of among other things this type of palate cleanser as they often visit is a break between the installations another installation other things very interesting it explores the. relationship between people and the natural environment it's called habitat it's by mixed media artist hellene blanken and uses scans of organic artifacts to create a game like medicines of environments the piece is responsive to the movement of visitors who can be seen reflected on the museum's floor with the environmental problems that we're facing habitat is not just a beautiful piece it's also a very loaded piece ok so the there definitely is the critical fight 2 to the fact it's very very critical the exhibition pieces unpack today's issues and they do this by appealing to the experience of the visitors to it by spirit by appealing to the emotions of the visitors so through their experience through actually going through this thing they become

a part of the technology. yes so. so so with things like facial recognition and the environment we can understand the more readily by having the actual experience itself ok well let's hope that we can actually get to amsterdam physically to see this shifting proximities on at the next museum for about the next year thanks very much for bringing us that story and the whole roid . well most people start raising chickens in order to have fresh eggs and if you've ever been lucky enough to do this you'll know that they are indeed endlessly fascinating to watch and chickens can have quite a personality to italian photographers were also struck by the incredible variety of chickens and their new book is an ode to love between any 2 birds of a feather. proud self-assured and with elegant feathers. these words describe the ornamental

chickens displayed in coffee table books by photographers matteo trying to leave and marino monte from milan they both openly admit they're fascinated with chickens and have even acquired a few of their own. their pets could just as easily struck the catwalk. it was a love at 1st sight i never would have expected him. to make a very good motifs for their very photogenic and great. they know right away what they're supposed to do but you don't have to explain it to them. they need hardly any make up from our experience in the advertising and fashion industries chickens are the best top models and the most natural. and they also seem to be the most patient they obediently follow whatever directions the photographers give them . for their latest project tale tranche. supposed to chicken

each from one of a total 60 breeds as lovers chicken in love as the snappy though somewhat tongue in cheek title. the rooster may protect his hands but he doesn't have that great a reputation as a romantic lover. in the roosters the worst example and absolutely not a role model when it comes to romance. he doesn't do anything he doesn't produce anything and he dominates hundreds of hands we know that is definitely not politically correct i recall but it works well but if you're. well biology being what it is we'll go now to physics and the celestial realm every year london's royal observatory selects the best photos of the universe for its annual astronomy photographer competition and will leave you with these impressions

of the heavens and all our best wishes until next time and be sure to stay safe just. but. the.

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this is newsnight from broadway in the mounting fear and frustration from migrants on the brink of the last refugees stagers probably demanding to be allowed to leave the island after a massive fire destroys amaury a migrant leaving saudi and suppose one could also on the program france's coronavirus all break threatens to race out just control the country such a wreck hold with nearly $10000.00 cases in a single day but the nation's leaders aware of the return to long. time to deadly wildfires sweep are close.