but we begin in moscow where several popular russian artists that a vote on a concert in support of the opposition. which has been protesting the outcome of the presidential elections that since august the kremlin is seen as one of president bush and co's stormchaser supporters so perhaps not surprisingly russian musicians found it difficult to stage their concerts in moscow. and the prison tear down all the walls a musical message from moscow to the people of minsk in neighboring bellerose. anybody calling themselves the partisan party a number of russian rock stars are showing solidarity with the thousands of belive regimes who have taken to the streets to challenge president alexander pushing. to ban from mario is one of the acts that have lent support their song is about

courageous women who saved the world a clear reference to the women's protests in minsk. but. what's going on in bella ruse concerns us as well because i have to think day and night about it and also see how people are brutally beaten by the police there as a humanist as a peaceful and intelligent person i feel real pain when i see this with the least now boys. man look of this doesn't actually see himself as a political singer his music is a mix of soft rock and melodic pop still he didn't hesitate to sign up for the solidarity concert. it was of regionally meant to take place in a moscow club but organizers received anonymous calls threatening to close down the club. after other possible venues also cancelled the musicians were forced to move the concert to the independent t.v. channel dodged such intimidation is by no means isolated. in russia.

these anonymous threats need not necessarily come from the secret service often it's activists among what you might call concerned citizens in our country where self-censorship is stronger than proper censorship intimidation works very well. please remember this is. the suppression of alternative views means that almost 2 thirds of the population believe the protests and are orchestrated by the west and provoked by foreign intelligence agencies the idea of the west as the enemy is widespread in russia likely that sooner or later all bloody regimes come to an end for me the protests and bella roots are a mirror into the future in the mirror i see that one day this will be possible in our country as well but i think the confrontation here will be even harder.

what was originally planned as a small concert in a moscow club for a few 100 people will now reach a lot more people via television organizers say the parties and party will continue . by colleague. to give us some background on the story adrian 1st of all all russians really interested in what's going on and. yes they are many russians of course all of the better or worse a sizable russian minority in the country and there's about a half a 1000000 people of. dissent in russia so they do pay attention and they do what's happened they look at the process with. admiration because they are hoping for reforms in the country too and is there much protest music in russia yes there's a growing saying but musicians do face problems if they touch on. the political

this usually takes the form of canceled concerts for bands like ice pick have been affected gigs are often cancelled after local protests many believe are incited by kremlin intervention they provoked a video to i speak song death no more showing them in front of the seats of the russian government and on the shoulders of riot police has received more than 50000000 views all that's a lot of views even russia that worries the kremlin yes they fear that all this could inspire a ufo test movement in 28 seeing putin caused quite a step by saying that rap music is based on 3 pillars sex drugs and protest he insisted he was most worried about the drugs aspect but we can see him in this clip saying quite openly in the kremlin meeting that if this kind of music cannot be

stopped we have to lead and directs it properly or schooling interesting obviously we'll hear more about that the coming weeks aging kennedy thank you very much for your insights on the protest music see in russia. saturday is the 30th anniversary of german reunification this week we've been looking back at the defining decade afterwards the 1990s when a society change so much there were so many positive developments in this newly reunited country which brought lots of people here in germany then became much more multicultural sadly there was a negative side to this appalling racism reared its ugly head. in the early 1990 s. germany was shaken by a series of violent anti foreigner attacks the included incidents of. in motion where 3 turkish women died in an arson attack. and in rostock where

a mob rioted for several days attacking vietnamese guest workers all watched by police and applauded by neighbors these images of anti foreigner hate in germany went around the world sparking disbelief both at home and abroad. it's reached a climax and now it's murder being carried out openly and there's the silent army silent perpetrators who just stand by and help what happened. here is later a powerful feature film who's based on the events in rostock it again poses the question of how things could have got to that point how could the euphoria of reunification turn into such hatred. while the skinheads and right wing extremists made trouble in reunify germany. there was another hotly debated social movement multi culti referring to

a peaceful coexistence of different cultures as in furtherance klotzbach district court diversity has long been a reality. sammy to valis grew up here the comedian was born in iran and is. family moved to germany when he was 4 years old he likes quite. moved who do but isn't a multicultural society i live in that part of the city and it's wonderful i want that element i would say germany is on its way to being a multicultural society. in his stage shows back then as now to alice incorporates influences from around the world that's one of the things that's made him well known and successful including on german t.v. . was. we caught up with him 26 years later he no longer lives in quite speck but in

another part of berlin he was shocked by this in a phobia of the 90 it's longer but. of course that was frightening i had never been aware of it to that massive extent i did face a lot of hostility at school because i clearly looked different from the others but that stopped when i started getting involved in the comedy scene in combination with living in berlin. with. the lens multicultural community got its own radio program in 1994 featuring world music. he could he got off to an improvised start but was deeply loved by its listeners out of provincial ality into the metropolis. this city is definitely multicultural and we need a radio station of our own. station or it's silly to violence was one of these most devoted listeners he still has one foot in each of his cultures and. i was able to observe the germans through the eyes of in

a rainy and look at the iranians as a german i can't say i've ever felt 100 percent at home here this kind of. germany maybe even more diverse today than it was in the 1990 s. but racism remain. as much of a problem as it was back that time forgot to mention it was going to be tested. now since the corona pandemic started live music has suffered and this is something that i personally miss a great deal music is food for the soul and live music is like a mission on star have me if you know what i mean but i also saw crazy by nature and his a wonderful scheme where you can experience live music very personally and help support artists in this difficult time for them. i shared a long deep wordless. that's how all $1.00

to $1.00 concert like this one a cloak in order to be in germany began. 10 minutes for an intense encounter a tremendous experience and then you look into this person's eyes for what feels like such a long time and then just let yourself sink into the music that follows it's totally unlike hearing an orchestra or a regular concert some of them can see has them be somehow there's the situation at that moment where you feel like you know i'm playing a little concert just for you and you try to really put everything you have in to have the what if as a month i'm going to start. everything and almost everywhere flutist stephanie vinca and her team came up with the idea last year specifically for the abbey and then came cove it. sort of with the situation that the opportunities to perform in public disappeared in the spring it

was clear to us that we wanted to do it again and not just in our little enclave in the middle of nowhere and touring we wanted to take the idea out into the world all the bad. now thousands of $1.00 to $1.00 concerts are being held worldwide from australia. to switzerland the analogue idea has spread digitally. very beautiful you don't usually get to be so close the project is continuing and has raised well over 100000 euros to support freelance musicians. our producer tells me it really is a unique and wonderful experience so try and support it finally the argentinian cartoonist queen has died aged 88 he created my file the spanish speaking world's equivalent of peanuts or charlie brown my father was an inquisitive and quick witted go who was delighted children and adults alike so. it's the 966 so take

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