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because of course at 19. and unlike the hordes slipping away with time. welcome to d.-day. it's good to have you with us and indian jewelry brand has pulled down about this month featuring an interfaith family after a massive backlash on social media the advertisement shows a muslim mother in law organizing a baby shower for her daughter in law opponents to the advertisement accuse the brand of promoting so-called love jihad it is a term used by right wing hindu groups in india who believe there is a conspiracy to convert hindu women to islam to manage a trip to user tweeted this video of the advertisement before it goes forward.

you know. jeffrey don't you worry. you. know. who with the job. now the advertisement triggered shop responses on twitter like from this user who asked the company if it was promoting love jihad day or to do an ad of muslim daughter in law with hindu family use or went on to say famous bollywood actress going out on now it's treated that as hindus we need to be absolutely conscious of what these creative terrorists are injecting into us of conscience saying father it was the only way to save our civilization our colleague actress

a sort of lament of the withdrawal of the advertisement by the company accusing it of a sad lack of spine and conviction numerous women and men get death threats and social media on a daily basis they stand up to it she said and politician and author tweeted if hindu muslim got from them so much why don't they buy called the longest surviving symbol of hindu muslim unity in the world india is hindi for unity and was the name of the jewelry line from the company and the democrats one of my natural days on the story for us she joins me now from delhi when you know why so much outrage over a simple advertisement. well this is a question that many are asking why such an outrage with this act the ad offensive the shores of pregnant and the woman being escorted to a hindu style beamish are said to me by her muslim mother in law which essentially

indicates that the in the woman is not it into a muslim family the tagline of the brand also one of the video suggested that they want to send it back what they call the confluence between 2 different religions to culture than traditions but there's been a massive backlash to this and critics actually viewed this as outreach to what this is a deep seated in thought it is towards anything which towards interfaith harmony or the past you use for the overarching idea is that any content or any agenda which talks which is literally a secular and talks about how many is basically done at the expense of the sentiments of the hindu switched on the majority of the country and people who are against this ad who have been chanting boycott tonnage which is the brand name on social media saying that this ad notifies what they call love jihad what is this term love jihad that keeps coming up in some of the tweets that we have also shown to our viewers it is there out across social media what exactly is it what is its geneticists love jihad basically understood to be

a hindu fundamentalist conspiracy theory in which the adage is that muslim men out of gage into this conspiracy of converting hindu women to islam by madding them so certain cases in the past over many years have been big up by sometimes fringe elements of local political parties or even media to portray the mask. but they have been groups into this case as well in which interfaith managers have been called and agencies have found absolutely no evidence of love jihad in which hindu women are being understood to be being maltreated or suffered in these manages but from everything that you're seeing when you know it sounds like there is a religious divide in india how deep is the. well the in the muslim divide and the tension which follow are nothing new to india we have seen these issues springing up over the past many a different times in different regions but critics say that this deep seated into all of us towards anything which promotes the hindu muslim harmony has faced

a lot of opposition especially under the current ruling party which even though the ruling establishment the main leadership line has never said so in so many words but it has been an understanding that the ruling party slants more towards the majority in view of the country i critics say that this idea of intolerance has been played up by playing on the sense of feeling the injustice as it feel that their interests have played a 2nd fiddle to those of muslims especially under the previous governments so then does that mean that this is the end of this particular control received relation to this advertisement. it does look like because the brown have taken down that these men they have even published a statement that why they had to take down the advertisement and also there have been news reports of the shots of these but in this particular brad being attacked in different parts of the country so clearly the social media outrage that followed this advertisement over the past couple of days did push the brand to take this new just step of actually pulling down the advertisement and shutting the statement out

and that we leave it there for the time being but thank you so much for joining us mere natural debris from delhi. more than 30000 civilians in southern afghanistan are fleeing their homes following days of fighting between taliban militants and government troops residents of the city of muscular john hulsman province began fleeing of the taliban militants launched attacks on the city of the weekend afghan troops are fighting back supported by u.s. airstrikes. of the assault on the city comes even as afghan government to go shooters talk with polygon representatives in-door the dogs went ahead following an assurance by the us of a complete troop withdrawal from the country a prospect that has many of the country wanted about their security. 7 nangarhar province afghanistan villages go about their daily life but something

has changed many of them don't feel safe anymore there's no doubt family than them probably since the americans left we cannot go to our farms or outside at night anymore we worry that the taliban or i say spokane again and we keep guard during the night. the u.s. military set up bases here after islamic state militants seized large parts of the province in 2015 terrorizing the local population and destroying health centers and schools u.s. forces helped to put a stop to that using their military might to drive jihadists from the area. but in july this year they left handing over this and other military bases to afghan soldiers and with it the responsibility to keep the local population say. it's a huge task some fear to shoot. and recent months militants have

reappeared in the area and afghan troops say they don't have the resources they need to fight them. but 5 percent of the american forces have modern equipment like drones they were controlling the whole area from the air. unfortunately we don't have such equipment since the u.s. left militant activity has increased by 10 percent get that and sometimes the taliban are attacking our forces to make. a return of islamist militants is many people's worst nightmare here. and afghan forces will have no choice but to work with what little they've got to prevent it from becoming a reality. in hong kong with the performing arts community has faced a big hit due to the corona about us but theaters are empty and stage lights left cold and there is little hope on the horizon movement as entertainment venues begin to reopen. the world's

a stage for ballerina irene load. a breezy heart or even her living room. but that smile masks her desperation as a freelancer you have no show you have no teaching you've pretty much got 0 money i have been going for the past 6 months. if i don't teach i don't for a while there's no income at all cyril. 'd life has become a lonely routine for brock fang his hip hop gigs have come to a full stop. though hong kong prides itself on being one of asia's top performing arts cities he's ineligible for virus relief schemes because he's a freelancer. countries may have some very good subsidies but i'm not really envious of them i just feel really disappointed by the hong kong government so i can only rely on myself.

and dreams of the limelight have deemed. the aspiring actress graduated from theatre school in may right into the midst of a pandemic. i have a big vision and how it's starting i hope for i hope that after i graduate i will have jobs i will even go into like going to a theater company to work for them for years as a full time job but no war dishes and no call backs she works at a liquor store to make ends meet. the choice now for many hong kong artists whether to abandon holding fast to their craft. every day the pandemic lingers time is running out to stage a comeback. and

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what findings have researchers. information and background. of the 19 special. monday to friday. publishers are feeling the pandemic but it's not all bad how the world's biggest book fair is coping with the coronavirus coming up on arts and culture and iconic designs by one of film's top costumers go on display in berlin and a little later on the show 50 shades of grey more like 3000 our reporter rachel gets familiar with german bread culture. welcome to arts

and culture for book lovers there's nothing like it the biggest publishing event in the world the frankfurt book fair but this year with the coronavirus it's a radically different digital affair still it's attracting headliners including canadian author margaret atwood she's one of the big names set to grace the online event with a live stream. last year more than 300000 industry professionals and visitors came to the frankfurt book fair some 7500 exhibitors meet at the most important industry show of the year. but this year because of coronavirus the trade halls are empty and the book fair has gone digital. music and the trade fair holes won't be the same this year as well as a decentralized event we've had to come up with a relatively large scale digital concept and most. many publishers said that interview their own authors and then present the results at the fair thing.

over numerous digital platforms industry professionals from around the world can communicate and present their. authors this year's selection is extremely diverse from celebrity chef jamie oliver to whistleblower edward snowden they tim fung the fares so she oh political stage is this year all about europe and its cultures naturally it too is online. because of the emphasis on the digital some creativity gets lost that there are a few random encounters for example the great thing about physically being here is that i can look out for my shoulder and see what's going on 10 meters behind me to counter that on line. 2020 s. guest of honor canada has postponed its physical presence at the fair until next year instead it's presenting a culturally diverse offering online including books about its indigenous population the 2020 frankfurt book fair is an experiment but will it remain an online event in the future we're trying to figure out what works digitally and you

know how the economic transactions work how does the public interact with the digital elements of course we will use whatever works at this year's event next year the future is looking more digital anyhow but the desire to mix with others in person is unlikely to disappear any time soon. my colleague melissa holroyd is following developments in frankfurt. the frankfurt book fair this is normally a beer event of the year where the whole publishing world comes together hundreds of thousands of scherzinger scouting titles can this really work on why i'm. not sure i don't know how and they're doing their best they've got 4400 digital exhibit is there this year from 110 countries they've got 260 hours planned streaming of talks of readings of seminars but you simply cannot replace the social element that it's really important people don't just go to frankfurt to buy and sell books

they go there for the cultural element and you know they go there also to party. do you think it's going to bounce back after this in the same way that it was it's certainly time for you know publishes to take stock is that any sort of pause is time to take stock you know to think how much money are we spending going there how many people are we sending anyway books iowans are up in germany that were down at the start of the pandemic and now they are up there also up in the united states so this trend that we've seen over the years of the frankly what fay just getting bigger and bigger i don't know whether that's going to continue that might change but you said the book sales are up is that just due to people having more time to hang out at home with a book how do you explain that yeah well thanks to coronado we're spending more time at home was spending more time indoors i think people are also very very sick of looking at screens and looking at things online and there's a lot of comfort in actually having a book in your hands isn't there you know it's like an anchor in the storm

absolutely well we're going to have to see how this goes if. e-books are the thing if really this could be the resurgence of the physical book thanks so much for keeping us up to date on the frankfurt book fair. and it looks like it may be another year yet before a large scale performances returned to new york the new york philharmonic has now canceled its season through to june and expecting to lose about $20000000.00 in ticket sales the orchestra's president called the corona virus the biggest crisis in the philharmonic's 178 years now in the meantime with concert halls closed members of the still have been putting on small performances in the streets. for decades now designer bob balm has been bringing german films to life or costumes tell stories about the characters who where about the time and place they're from and how they see themselves

a new exhibition in berlin celebrates some iconic designs by a woman with a special feel for fabrics. intricately flowing silk delicate chiffon or heavy brocade this is the world of. germany's most famous costume designer. the stunning costumes on display are a visual testament to the importance of her craft within the film industry and to her legacy. cost turned this into the costume design in those films tells a story and i think that's the specialty of bob of about the through the costumes she brings a narration a meaning to the scene and not the one. thing. the rear spans more than 6 decades and over 70 films it's her particular feel for

historical fabrics that earned her the recognition of her peers. down has worked with germany's biggest directors thanks to her collaboration's with focus learned off like here on home a father or with kind of an offense spend her. work reached an international audience. to move into other films are known worldwide and for example live in my layman's deeply imprinted on to collective memory especially this wonderful silver limaye dress which was showing in the exhibition and which is inseparably in twined with fast in dos and bob a bonus work. the count is put to stunning effect in fassbender is film about forbidden love in the 3rd high he was. shut. down she. was. but it was. a. it was pounds collaborations with fassbender that propelled her to the

top of her field and even beyond. your brother is in great danger she became an inspiration beyond the film industry through 1st been those posthumously released film with sean. is used instead of we know that she is the inspiration for many costume designers but we also know that when john saw 1st in this case he got inspiration for his fashion line that's quite unusual her costume designers best press his office here in question. from sketches to film stone the exhibition covers the decades of bob of a career. her attention to detail is literally palpable as visitors can actually touch the fabrics and experience some of the magic of the films she worked on.

from fashion now to food world bread day is coming up this week and as anyone who lives here in germany knows in germany it's basically bread day every day here's our reporter rachel stewart with this week's installment of the germans. grain east and water 3 key ingredients for 2 german fashion. the germans even call b.s. because they want to eat with bread cost germans what they make stuff up all else when they go forward and that's one of the shortest. pulled from the state to take place with the. little wonder then that german bread has been designated an official you know sco intangible cultural heritage but it is obviously a favorite staple all over the world and plenty of countries eat more of it than the germans for example in turkey twice as much but the germans take great pride in their specific for riotous of bread there are more than 3000 different types on the official bread register wheat and spelt are all very popular varieties then there are

a variety of like spots on the board they usually come in fin slices like this one very tasty but very heavy i get a lot of stick here in germany about bread germans seem to think that will look for it see it as a really bad version of what they call tools while this makes me pretty defensive of my country superior sliced bread varieties i can't deny that the germans make a cracking look so what's the secret. to warn you they seem a few for the front door trying to get. off the nuts to the soldiers because it was an early show but was and is one thing going on with. the 1st one the this is transposed and told my mom and norton for the one thing i love about living in germany is a large hearty breakfast on the weekend including the vital ingredient of fresh bread from the bakery bread traditionally makes an appearance throughout the day in germany it's the start of the breakfast spread later on you might munch on a great time bread and in the evening many families will have evening bread but

over the last 10 years the germans have become a little less loyal to that crystal staple with demand dipping and more shoppers switching to discount to supermarkets there's also been a decline in the number of independent breakaways like this one. anyway i was lucky enough to have a. there are so many of them right. which literally means little bread and that's the time pretty much anyone. except you might hear. of. it generally. speaking. and depending on where you are in front you might. i have a theory that germany is trying to test its new comers by making it. difficult. to harvest words in the german language. i remember trying to pluck up courage to

go. when i was. i would front labels to find words like. get to the front. of the time i'd end up walking away with a. perfectly fine. perhaps in the woods. and it'll be worth. a picture of siberian tigers hugging a tree as a one the wildlife photographer of the year award for russian photographer sergei cross has photos called the. and i'll leave you now with a few other shots that were in the running for that prize from britain's natural history museum thanks for watching arts and culture.

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