every journey begins with the 1st step and every language with the 1st word heard from the cook. is in germany to learn german and why not. simply on your mobile. learning course you can speak german. this is state of the unions africa coming up on the program the man portrayed as a hero in the movie hotel rwanda has admitted to backing a rebel group for denies that he supported any killings violence or attacks against. chick in odd madagascar as they've had the far is to themselves these last few months because of 19 restrictions. and what happened to the african soldiers who were taken as prisoners in germany during world war one.

it's good to have your company paul rusesabagina the polarizing hero off the film hotel rwanda has admitted to forming an armed group in rwanda he may be admission cheering his bail hearing in a courthouse where he also denied supporting any violence or killings of begin a war the standard pink prison uniform in court refusing the charges of terrorism against him now his on the group is believed to be behind the killing of civilians in the south of the country in 2018 the 66 year old was arrested by one police last month apparently after being lured into a private jets while visiting dubai and flown to now his daughter is in brussels seeking help for her father who has belgian citizenship. she left

a wall street job to come to brussels and find support for her father green consumers talking to the belgian government and anyone who will listen we are pressuring i'm talking to as many parliamentarians as i can to try to get them to act faster and to get my dad home safely and quickly. the hollywood movie hotel rwanda made paul rusesabagina famous all over the world but after 25 years in exile in the end neither his international reno nor his belgium citizenship could protect him it's been for many years and the rwandan government specifically part again he has been trying to not only silence my father but also just get rid of him because he was one of the few people who was who dared to critic and. bruces of again you know has now fallen into the hands of the rundown regime and he's awaiting trial on terrorism charges. they used the terminology terrorism because in

the lead the world responds to search terminology i'm worried for him i'm very worried for what they can do to him in prison because we know what to grow one people we want in prisons among the family photos another loved one the face of a friend who has been disappeared we still have no word from him though we have some rumors we've heard some rumors that he has been killed for paul rusesabagina charges of terrorism and endangering national security are worrying his supporters allege this will be a political trial. so we need to ask our governments why they rarely intervene in cases like this there's a feeling that they don't dare intervene in rwanda that they can't criticize mr khatami because he survived the genocide and so they let him do what he wants your . community activist through who wants the victims of the regime to be remembered that people have been killed in jail or disappeared but that's not easy run

community especially those who dare to speak out against the regime they live in. fear. not only but i think almost everyone before his 1st 2 years of the big chief of the big jets he said that we have been informed that they are. sent by run. undeterred karine candice continuing her crusade also here at the european parliament but worried every single day for his safety we do not believe he will get a fair trial and and so we need international community within the european union and the belgian authorities to help us to help us save him before it's too late she won't stop working to save her father's life. let's take a look at some other stories making news across the continent right now miley's new interim president and vice president have been sworn in more than a month off to a military coup. former defense ministers supposed to be a transitional government toward elections expected in 18 months. in ethiopia some

2000 people are facing charges over the violence that erupted in june just after the killing off i caught a pop star who dissent from the oromo if any group other countries attorney general announced the charges the state denying the indictments were politically motivated . it was back to the streets for the time it activist movement fridays for future kenya and the need were among the african countries that saw demonstrations and other weekly rallies had taken place every friday since 2018 but will hold it in recent months because of the coronavirus endemic. nigerian pop star gave me a last day has called for corona virus recovery plans to focus more on women also say that she wants to use her new role as united nations goodwill ambassador to help vulnerable people the afro pop singer was named goodwill ambassador earlier this week. now if

you want to see this animal. in the wild you need to travel to the indian ocean island of madagascar now the animals in recent months have enjoyed a spell of tranquility with few tourists in madagascar forests because of the pandemic but the quiet times of course mean downtimes for those who rely on tourism to make a living. and disobey forest is one of madagascar's many wildlife tourism destinations going to the clearing of ours lockdown and closure of the borders the lemurs that live here have recently had more alone time than they used to visit in numbers all gradually increasing but with international flights still suspended the usual foreign tourists are being replaced by malagasy people this family made a 4 hour drive from the capital to come and see that island's iconic creatures.

during the lockdown i decided i really wanted to get out of antananarivo when it was over to visit new places we've never seen before. for you. madagascar's tourism workers welcome the locals but it's not enough they need the footfall provided by international flights though these have not operated since march 2020 this hotel and landowner used to employ around 100 people the majority of them have now been unemployed for more than 3 months the big. hit by a plane with his own oil found. usually at this time of year it's high season and we'd be 90 percent full however now the tourists are not typical tourists but local visitors and were no more than 5 or 10 percent full. grown out of. the pandemic is

also having a disastrous impact on local nature force guide pascal has noticed a large increase in di for station i do not understand the. part because of the lockdown many local villagers have cut down the trees before i would because they can sell it others make timber there illegally exploiting the forests to make money . to turn a year. old. and as the trees but so does the natural habitat of the limas mammals that only exist naturally on this island. french artists nationally and. equal uses installation performance and sound to investigate the ideas of memory and history now based in berlin one of her works was inspired by african world war one soldiers detained in a prisoner of war camp in germany in her audience for nation. what kind of traces

these voices left behind and where the memories of these soldiers might have ended up. this quiet german lake beholding secrets secrets of history mysteries that art could uncover. things were hidden under the sand it makes the nature speak something here needs to happen a process or ritual of remembrance or same goodbye or pass it has to happen the artist. felt bad here for town outside berlin with nazi bunker towers between houses like this one collapsed. abandoned soviet barracks testified to the cold war. but it was a deeper layer of history that shocked her most a story nearly unknown and seldom told from the 1st world war people died in the camp because of hunger because of pneumonia germany already. believed that people

of color when not human during world war one prisoners from french and british colonies were kept here soldiers from africa and asia it was here that germany built its very 1st mosque meant to show where it was taking care of the mostly muslim prisoners and they were not actually praying inside of the mosque it was too small for the amount of soldiers that were here which was up to $9000.00 but actually the soldiers were praying on the fields on the outskirts with guns on the head. a century later found the space is now a camp for asylum seekers. where the mosque stood it is now a parking lot. only a tiny marker testifies to its existence. near the camp are the graves of inmates indian soldiers of the british empire who died

while prisoners here. wonders where the other bodies lying. there is not a trace of african soldiers here that are buried. she believes there are traces in this nearby lake. i wanted to come here and think about an underground museum or archaeology of water. or performance in arcadia how soldiers become mermaids together with artist and i use it. as a better remembering and mythologizing those who died. that i can enable you to only hear. there's a voice is over the hill enough to even need incentives they have no way i can talk you know every language i can help you to it and which is to come back here was a way to bury those the voices that were raised and those soldiers that were

murdered and make a sort of. yes act of healing and of burial in this water was the work also uses original audio recordings from the colonial prison camp. believes that some contain the voices of female prisoners whose stories she says historians have ignored. i don't think that history disappears i think it's narratives take power but we have forgotten how to listen. she says it's up to the descendants of colonial victims to share their ancestral story and bring them back to the surface. and that is it for now. the stories on d.w. dot com forward slash africa all on facebook and twitter now we took you to madagascar we'll leave you with these pictures of some of the island's unique animals see you

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and culture when mayo 1st came on the scene museums were reluctant to buy the artist's works large figurative paintings were out of style especially by artists from the former east germany well now i'll spend things are so valuable most museums can't afford this week the artist unveiled a new body of work and i reporter melissa hall right was there. this is the reason why i was anyway it's all just paint it's just paint that's something we all have to agree on the. paint worth millions the exhibition 100 or handrail on show in the house hometown of like to boast 16 new works by the master painter to make magic pieces that speak to the viewers unconscious but it also says that for him the characters he creates are much more

than just figments of the imagination. they are very real for me because my creations really do stalk me in the night. paintings are very open to interpretation and their inner workings are not something he usually likes to talk about until now that is kind of my. fault you could say that this woman who is in the foreground of the picture finds herself in a situation where there's petrol and so what does she carry at home playing something with no holes so how can she carry this flammable material when all she has is the space. so she decides to use that as a canister. in the end that is the job of art to take all the bad all the evil all that is uncomfortable and disgusting and to cultivate it as if you think. commentary gives the works

a new life. the paintings are. influenced by socialist realism style prevalent in the east germany of. but they're not one sided. this painting is called hand louth or handrail in english here we have a scintilla together with a woman who has 2 faces or 2 heads and 3 legs he's holding a hand it looks like they could be dead soon or he could be taking her somewhere near the rocks paintings and navel all gold all evil there's always opposites in them and so what we have is quite a positive situation there's music being played over here and a man with a guitar but with a hated looks like it's quite dark and for that they can a need to handrail. a lot of leo's house on life and contradictions are reflected through his work there's a stark difference between his work reflective and not about money or fame and the

huge success he's received. at 60 results already looking ahead. as for months if he's done with i'm working till 65 then i'm going to retire and get my monthly 365 euro pension so that's one goal of the one see you then i'm going to go on a cruise to venice. we need to. the till then still has a bit more time on his hands to get something to and. the whole ride just got back from that exhibition of welcome melissa that was a joke right thing about the pension isn't he one of the wealthiest men in germany yeah he's one of the 1000 wealthiest men in germany that's largely due to his popularity in the united states where his works sell for millions and that is before they even take my word. but that doesn't mean he's not without his critics

not everybody loves neo ralph his. queues of milking east german thing also accused of too much symbolism in his work and the lack of real content there's no where dreams are all about this sort of lots of symbolism little real content. yet that is what dreams are about and the characters in his paintings are very dreamlike it's almost like this walking they seem like they're quite lonely characters who are unaffected by what's going on around them whether that be good or evil they're also often in different historical costumes from different periods and this takes away any idea that there is a chronological order to the painting so it's like they're all trapped in that type of time warp ok so you've got this sort of weird mixture between history and mystery for me part of the mystery around nero has always been his name or knew how is the german word for smoke is that even his real name is his real name i didn't

think it was his real name but yeah apparently he says he doesn't like it he considers himself to be quite a conservative person he starts work at 9 o'clock in the morning and finishes at 6 o'clock in the evening he has lunch every day with his wife he has a very structured life but it was the main that his parents gave him and they died tragically when he was just 6 weeks old and that's something that also features a lot in his paintings savor boding connected to his biography melissa thanks so much for checking out the exhibition for us and thanks for coming in the studio. now german pianist mr advani was a child prodigy and is now in his forty's and still enormously successful as near jazz solo album more than carrot or moonchild is 46 minutes 38 seconds long and that is not an accident that's the exact length of an astronaut's solo orbit around the moon in 1969 here's a taste. no

'd it's not about the moon it's about loneliness be on the moon on the new album by michel i thought any. music is inspired in part by a u.s. astronaut michael collins orbited the moon on his own in 1900. 2 more famous members of his mission walk to the surface with each orbit cullen's lost contact with the earth for 46 minutes isolation a fitting theme for 2021 civility the coronavirus situation happened by chance just as we'd started recording it was mid april i drove into berlin alone and the city

was completely empty and for the sitting at the piano in the big studio i suddenly felt i was in a capsule sending signals to the outside but i was all by myself once and not also is about i miss transposition. ready ready ready coffee cups placed on the strings had an unexpected magic. the album's title mooned and kin or moon child comes from the fantasy novel the never ending story. see there's a part of the novel that's very important and moving for me around the middle of the book when the protagonist suddenly has to rename his inner world to know it and he has to give it a new name so his story can continue writing in kind i think that's a process that musicians and improvisers often experience and for them to you have

to examine your inner soundscape and your ideas and give them new names and most of them the name of moon didn't get into new child sums that idea up for manged as it also draws a nice connection to the lonely astronaut michael collins who were against the moon and with each orbit is reborn and won't cost and. good one much for you to morbid. jabs from the dark side of the moon for a late night. since the coronavirus pandemic started we've all become more aware of the air around us and the particles in it artist. has a new show with a computer program that creates sounds based on the dust that's in the air just the latest of his many trailblazing works. flying without fossil fuel is

this possible and how can i help to reach this goal. flanks ignites and thinking about the idea of flying cities for a long time is that our planet orbits the sun wheel humanity and all planetary species are travelling at a speed of 76000 miles an hour the idea of flying cities is really that utopian from a cosmic perspective but if i tell an astronaut about it he'd say but we're already flying. back in tinian performance and installation artist thomas arsinoe seeks to answer the most pressing questions of our time how can you mankind live in harmony with nature use the earth's resources more efficiently and develop greener mobility solution sorry say no has always been fascinated by the interplay between art and science in 2011 he showcased his cloud cities project at a museum in berlin this project like so many others question the way we live as

a society and vision of new forms of human coexistence and community. in 2018 service a no showcased in installation at paris's famous poly to tokyo contemporary art venue it focused on the importance of air and how we as a species are polluting this vital element sorry say no set up 76 spider webs to make the air more tangible as it were spiders after all depend on the air to construct their intricate web site. the spider webs were starting point i've been fascinated by them for a very long time they're connected to the spiders. thomas arsinoe often incorporates spiders in his work researching them and how they live. in his installations which take up entire rooms sarrasin no continually plays with the patterns and shapes found in his spider's web site visitors can even enter into a huge. web and experience the world from

a spider's perspective. sarah saying i was also interested in alternative means of travel and how art can inspire us to think outside the box for years he's been experimenting with flying arrow solar sculptures at a variety of locations around the globe these free floating sculptures are lifted only by the sun and carried only by the wind and they enable flight without burning fossil fuels are radical concept and one that has already set several world records . etc say no uses his art to get people thinking protecting the classical element that keeps us alive is its main goal a way of making amends to mother earth. journeys that is the nation we will often lose our way on this journey but we will continue on with enthusiasm and hope your parents are. good and we've got lots more of the muscle mass you know for you on a special edition of art's 21 this weekend on the w.

you can find it online at d.w. dot com slash arts 21 from here and all the crew here in berlin thanks for watching have a great week out. take

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