respect. this is. coming up on the program. 6 months to presidential elections in uganda there is on the streets again security forces crack down on the winds come. also coming out. promises were made deep in their lives that will find out more of the benefits.

well. i. welcome to the program. the winds come being true uganda's pop star 10 politicians office says short live rounds. on tuesday his music producer down the oil what was injured by a bullet wind was heading to accompanying venue north of the copper tall kampala he tweeted. in danger after blocking ask him on the way to jinja they blocked the main route diverted us to a remote road a safety into a kill spot the shots the tires of my car and directly into our windscreen narrowly

missing on our bows on my drive. this is the 2nd violent confrontation in as many days on monday police used tear gas to disperse the crowd supporting both while this ahead of general election when wind hopes to unseat president during which 70 who's been in power for more than 3 decades while the white house hold of his campaign we asked people in kampala how they felt about the upcoming election. new york with a view to. the current political situation feels like a war. it's like we've gone back to the volatile days of. the new. president. so we're not sure what it's going to be like. and i can tell you no one is sure maybe except those who disagree to start. with we

hope for a great uganda in the future but if we slide into violence that will be terrible. even the security forces should handle the politicians with dignity rather than intimidating them with guns. on this i'm joined by a christian a political analyst with 15 years experience in monitoring elections around the world he joins us from kampala uganda hello said now human rights lawyer in uganda described tuesday's events the nation attempt on the wind is that fair but i think 3 to the lives of active politicians during this time that we're in we need to actually agree that this is a very complicated election that we're in right now the context of coffee does not even make it any better i think i want to say that so many lives and death rate. people who are actively involved in the politics but also the public as well and i

think we can see clearly and increasingly that the enforcement of the 19 prevention guidelines in uganda right now in the context of the political campaigns is ticking on you trieste from actually you know preventing the 1000 spread to actually using it as a tool sometimes to actually target the opposition politicians now. what has been the government's response to this latest attack well we haven't seen any government response to yesterday's events what is currently happening is the team of national unity platform and its head. robot. are currently meeting the electoral commission to sort of force your way forward and i think one of the critical things is that i think these need for the electoral

commission to provide guarantees and commitment that once the national unity platform decides to go back on the campaign trail they'll be guaranteed that security will be guaranteed and the events incidents of violence will not happen again what many ugandans actually calling for right now ok now we normally hear more about bobby wine and his supporters being arrested or talked and unfortunately even killed is there any blame on the side to i think it's not just a blame game i think it's about politicians. political leaders that have actually not. the guidelines that were put in place by the electoral commission and it's not just bobby wine alone i think days even many. politicians that are openly flouted because of the

1000 prevention guidelines that have been set out by the election management body and i think the blame goes on to them. it's not fair ok to single out bobbie why not on i think it's important to note that all the other politicians many of them how flouted these rules but they haven't gotten the rights that i think we seem to see so much associated with the opposition politicians ok now quickly before you go what do you wind has suspended his campaign what happens now well. campaigns are suspended so we await to see what the wind and his team resolve together with the electoral commission i think it is important was a good state to suspend the campaign and seek to draw a commitment from the electoral commission and the government site that we will now move into a more peaceful electoral process a more peaceful campaigning period and not one that is filled with incidents of violence ok our lives are actually lost where people of people are wounded and

where people affected and end up fearing to actually participate in the electoral process ok crispin political analyst in kampala uganda thank you. when ghana discovered oil in 2007 politicians made promises. for once it might come true and bring progress but a house that had been the case so far. documentary animation. touched a story. when oil was 1st discovered in qana in 2007 dreams of flying sky high connoisseur oil reserves are a blessing and a curse at the same time but what happens when the world of globalization and small african fishing villages meet. local farmer adam kubina hopes for the best for his family and his village. and

mind within if we don't become selfish and take good care of our oil our future is good may ends will be beautiful dodger doesn't have an engine about about adam's big dream is to have a house with its own bathroom but at the time his village has no electricity or even running water. politicians and investors promise for that to change one of many promises. when oil drilling starts in the jubilee oil field in 2010 a berlin film team decides to observe the developments more closely nigerian animation artist. comments on the events by adding animation arts and explaining her personal point of view. modern bathrooms for fashion and. that sounds great old village would disappear. no one is complaining after all who will miss the moment how's this. going to

misspent you water from the ocean for a shower. several years later the new modern village for farmers like adam could be in a is still seems like a far away dream. about what they have not come yet we are still waiting for our new village. that we still have no electricity i have to walk 2 miles to get my phone charged. big oil promises what became of them. over a period of 10 years the filmmakers follow up on that question the documentary oil promises is a case study of globalization from the perspective of people who don't stop hoping that finally they to get their piece of the big pie. joining me now is.

nigerian german painter and made sure that the nation work for this feature so any of the black gold promises being delivered it will actually in my opinion a little bit it's who had to leave not everything was the lever because the promises were. made how they they displace people from who need for instance and all these small fishing villages promised them everything that they were going to get schools and everything in the end they had built just facilities for engineers from outside and high class guardians and then on the 2nd no. they promised them jobs like of hotels not be opened and they all have to i guess about 2000. job openings and in the end what happened the people spent money to learn to do these jobs but in the end what

happens the chinese company that came to do the job they can with their own stuff i want to find out what made you decide to be a part of a film like this i decided to be a part of this because i am very critical about stuff like this you know i speak i speak my mind so in berlin produces i've worked with them before of what we believe in process before so when they are personally and asked me if i wanted to be a part of this i found it very very interesting being especially that i come from nigeria which is an oil producing company contrie and we already know the effects of these oil things we know that it can cause a lot of issues and it's not easily manageable so i decide to be part of it in order to be able to comment on it with my animation ok now on that animation note

what rural does it really play in such a film. and emission play will be a huge role in such a film because it kind of gives people a different view to what has happened in documentaries generally use animation to relay things that were not got on camera things that happened in the past right and then in oil promises we wanted to use animation to also bring the such iroko aspects of a whole thing into it because you can see the whole faith the whole idea of discovering the oil and the promises that were made like beyond being an ultra modern town with 500000 inhabitants it's just it's just plain. like a joke so the idea of using animation there was not just to document the things that we would see but also to comment on these aspects or use it as

a matter for go to sue show the irony behind it so that a leader would be able to look differently ok. miser and servant painter and inmates are many banks that are thank you very much. and you can see that documentary on did use you tube channel that's all we have time for on the show if you want more of our stories go to our web site. africa so you sort. of crave. for over mention home the force and. dragons. through your. books on.

the side on the international front i as came to a resort dealing with anyone and then i killed many civilians. coming including my father while. i was a student i wanted to build a life for myself that these totally sudden my life became hellish kind of. providing insights global news that matters d. w. made for mines. welcome to news from the world of arts and culture up 3 decades after the release of the godfather 3 movie a new recount and hopefully shiny a version has been released or about that in a minute also coming up in the next quarter and. a new exhibition and light sea of the photographic kenda during the postwar years pioneered

a brand new genre after documentation. and the remarkable tiny worlds of miniature ista don ordered mine in the museum he created himself in frogs. but we begin at the movies of course many cinemas around the world are closed at the moment but there are movies being released although this one isn't exactly new director francis ford coppola likes to revisit his films and 30 years after the release of the godfather part 3 he has been tinkering with this one the result has a new name the godfather code on the death of michael corleone. heres some classic cina. are out. there. i love it when they speak like that my colleague is here with the

details a new version of the godfather part 3 was the original actually in need of improvement well that depends a little bit on who you are asked some people think that the original is under appreciated because they had to exist alongside 2 bonafide in masterpieces in god father one and godfather 2 both of those won best picture oscar and together garnered 9 oscars the godfather part 3 got 0 oscars the general consensus is that it was by comparison a disappointment with the convoluted plot and some mediocre acting not all in particular from the director's 18 year old daughter sofia coppola yes she got some really bad critics she did it she did then that eventually prompted her probably to give up acting in take up directing of course she was very successful with the

virgin suicides lost in translation she has more than we deemed self and it has to be said that the role was key but it was quite a small role i think that people back then were quite hyper critical because it was the director's daughter ok what's the new movie like doing. it's improved well copula himself says it's an entirely new experience that is a bit of an exaggeration it's 12 minutes shorter and basically the same story an altered ending there is plenty that's good in the movie and he's definitely worth a 2nd look or indeed a 1st look many people out there might not have seen it yet but most reviews of the new version say it's different it's maybe somewhat improved but basically it's much the same but it remains a good movie by any standards ok now there's another story from the movie world that's hitting headlines at the moment that's for actor elliot paige best known for

playing the lead role in the 2007 offbeat coming of age drama juno fantastic movie and currently in the netflix series the. academy announced via social media on tuesday that he is transgender paige announced his new name and pronouns on social media saying hi friends i want to share with you that i am trans my pronouns are he strokes they and my name is elliott the canadian born actor of course won an academy award nomination for best actress as ellen page for his role in. page she has actually been a prominent l g b t q activist in hollywood in recent years and that's roy paige came out as gay in an emotional valentine's day speech in 2014 pages 8 alleged that the film director had outed him against his will on the set of expand

the last stand when page was just 18 allocation and later corroborated by another actor on that movie and page yesterday in that post also condemning cultural in institutional prejudice against trans people i drink as always thank you very much for the update thank you. german photographer and the hung garion young kenda produce some of the most iconic photographic images of the post-war era they were at the height of their powers in the 1960 s. and 970 s. when perceptions of what contemporary art should be were changing there's an exhibition of their work in leipzig right now not open to the public of course because of the corona pandemic so you can have a look at it here. in the decades after the 2nd world war paris was the undisputed capital of european art is creative circles included like cyclone photographer harry shankar ventured he made his name as shown in his home garry in part kenda.

like many protagonists of that artistic iraq they were skilled at creating a legend around themselves although their faces remain largely on his her breast self portrait would you. be again deaf and also so i would have a shawl i. would like to be self-taught they were they didn't have a studio. legend has it that in the early days it would go to exhibition openings with no film in his camera and pretend to take pictures just to make himself known . the new generation of artists was rising to prominence including klein who was just in barking on his blue part. doesn't sound all what's interesting is that today of course we see the likes of andy warhol robert rauschenberg trisha brown and nikita song file

a stars but back then they were just young people experimented with new ideas at 1st now it's also have these images these photographs were basically visual calling cards designed to raise the profile of it the contacts. kanda were fixtures this vibrant scene they come. indeed warhol and his entourage wherever they went even into that hotel room they shared in the artist's lives his show painter and sculptor eva epic. sean candour photographed thousands of artworks events and landmark exhibitions of the travelcard movements of the era is sean tangled in the scrap yard where he collected the components for his kinetic sculptures. the geos pictures chart not just the dynamic developments in art but also in the audiences for that's all.

disappeared and shot and one when you look at the images you can see that the audience going to an even klein performance say was dressed up as though they were going to the opera will he go whereas just a few years later and he will hold flower painting exhibition in paris attracted a very different crowd and a much younger and edgier crowd and he. walked he had. another renowned artist shank kendo works with in the late sixty's was cristo who together with john claude his later wife was working on the monument all wrapped coast in a strange. while she can and documented the art of others the photographs themselves were also. the 2 photographers parted ways 973 sean who died in 2006 stored that body of

work in his new york apartment while some photographs were published and helped popularize. most of them languish in the security the rediscovering of this extraordinary archive after 3 decades is a gift to 20th century art history. museum incident is hoping to open again before christmas but nothing is show in these unpredictable times but we'll keep you updated hit on day w. now and interior design a done or none has very steady hands that's because he's a miniature iest he creates tiny versions of famous and sometimes not so famous places which he displays in his own museum in neal in france the work requires lots of patience to with his creations requiring a lot lot of precision what which could take months the end products are amazing

take a look at this. scene the renowned restaurant in paris is known around the world. but why do they have a ready made tables here when there are neither waiters no cares. this miniature version of the famous restaurant in the french capital was created by dan oman it took him a year to finish the handmade miniature. i mean i feel i missed the new premature as an art form has existed for centuries and i can use me found in the ancient egyptian pyramids. in the 17th and 18th centuries when you had miniatures it was usually depicted daily life. disappearing technical but also 3 dimensional in many other the ban on they are quite good. in 2005 done omar opened his museum of

miniatures in the heart of leon's historic district it was here in france the 3rd largest city that he arrived for an exhibition in 1809 bringing along 3 trucks bearing tiny artworks he immediately fell in love with the city. from an area of 2000 square meters visitors can see over 100 extremely realistic miniature scenes built by various european many tourists though the majority were made by done online himself. oh my piece of 11 years have i think the miniature of the ballyhoo was particularly beautiful because it really depicts the cityscape of lunar which you can see through the windows of the opera house but of the hot my favorite miniature is this leon bistro the whole scenery is full of little details and it's very precise in its depiction of what really impresses me is the light as well as the individual objects in the room you can see how much work has been put

into it. in addition to scenes from your done on mars. basically replicated half the world. but he's not short of ideas for future miniature projects. i saw a very atmospheric place a family lives there. palace there are a lot of empty palaces there and the atmosphere is in credible and in these fantastic palaces hundreds of white sheets we in the wind it was really impressive . i'm currently working on a miniature of this scene and it will be a beautiful secret and i've already said. the lens natural history museum as a doll house in dun oman's work gigantic skeletons are easy to handle and huge rooms a rather cute view is stunned by his artwork even though or maybe because the

scenes hardly differ from the real thing. i think there are amazing things those minutes as that's all for this edition go to the website for more cultural stories about steve w. dot com slash culture and i can also farley recommend checking out all you tube channels d.w. books and data classical music as i thanks for watching and until next time i'll buy.

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of. the book. the best. this is the revenues lie for a role in britain paves the way for mass vaccinations against the coronavirus. announces the government is accepted the recommendation from the independent amidst the filth care products regular tree agency should prove the fines are going to tax enough for distribution across united kingdom i'm going to support johnson says the

world out for the most vulnerable will begin next week. also coming up jail time for demanding democracy joshua walk into other hong kong activists will go behind bars for their role in antigovernment protests. and it's a formula one family affair make sure lost her son at the 7 time world champion michelle schumacher is set to make his formula one debut next season as a driver with the u.s. owned team haas. the as. they are thank you so much for your company everyone we begin this broadcast in the u.k. that country has become the 1st nation in the world to approve the covert 1000 vaccine jointly produced by the german company beyond tech and u.s.

drug maker pfizer well british prime minister boris johnson has hailed the authorization as fantastic news saying it will allow the british people to reclaim their lives while the vaccine got the green light after just 10 months of fast track research and development and has also awaiting approval in many other countries. a trial participant is given the bio on tech finds a coded 19 vaccine in the german city of mind he's just one of thousands who's been part of large scale clinical trials that have already proved the vaccine is 95 percent effective in preventing the disease. now germany's biotech and u.s. pharma giant pfizer have been given approval for their vaccine in the u.k. making it a world 1st vaccine i would begin to be made available across the u.k. from next week i strongly urge people to take up the vaccine but it is no part of

our culture our ambition in this country to make vaccines mantra that's not how we do things there are challenges though the vaccine has to be stored at minus 70 degrees but the british government says its health service is prepared the vaccine which uses novel emma and a technology is still awaiting regulator ie approval across the rest of the world he will thirty's say it could be authorized within weeks meanwhile to other western drug companies astra zeneca and madonna have also reported trial success for their vaccines and inoculations developed by chinese and russian researches have also shown positive results some of already been approved for emergency use.

the u.k. was the 1st country to reach an agreement with bae on tech and pfizer for the supply of vaccines it's already ordered $40000000.00 doses with several 1000000 expected to arrive before the end of the year. or earlier i spoke to dr john campbell who's the hells analyst in the u.k. he told me the vaccine approval is good news but did express concern that it might lead people to let their guard down. yes i certain i certainly do this news is so good and there's quite a lot of euphoria around and the scientists of police and the politicians of please do you are pleased and i'm pleased but this is not going to start affecting herd immunity in significant numbers in the u.k. till march or april and the countries like germany and france read the regulations coming little more slowly than we probably talk about a pool maybe for we get significant that was

a herd immunity until then we're going to need to ventilate out buildings we're going to have the hands face space message needs to get through we need to consider that we're going to victim indeed to keep our immune really levels good over winter everything that we're doing now has to be carried on for so months until we develop a good immunity and we're going to need at least 70 percent of people to become immune before we have that kind of level so this is not an overnight fix this is approach sest but this process that started the $800000.00 doses from belgium is going to notice that you appear vaccine and now on the way to the u.k. it's been bunch tested we know that batch is good to go and i suspect people in the u.k. will be being fascinated by it but with a bit this vaccine on sunday more monday depends when you want to start that in the next few days. dr john campbell speaking to me earlier from the careless like a look now at some other developments in the pandemic russian president vladimir putin has ordered voluntary mass vaccination to start next week russia says it

sputnik vaccine is 92 percent effective and portugal's the prime minister says securing a vaccine for all european countries will be a top priority for jewel takes over the use of rotating presidency in january and germany has reported a record 487 deaths over 24 hours officials have been expecting deaths to trend upward following a steep rise in new infections france says it will make random border checks to stop people from going skiing in neighboring countries like switzerland where ski resorts are expected to be open over the holiday season french ski lifts will be closed over christmas. and now that you're up to date on the pentagon let's shake out some other stories that are making headlines around the world the united nations has reached an agreement with ethiopia to allow aid into government controlled areas of the ticket i reject the conflict between this above aa and

a to guy rebel forces has displaced tens of thousands of people the un had been warning for weeks now about a possible humanitarian catastrophe. a german man is being investigated on 5 counts of murder and 18 counts of attempted murder after driving his car into pedestrians in the city of tia on tuesday residents have been paying their respects at the landmark city gate the motive has yet been established. has been a year like many u.n. secretary general antonio has urged world leaders to make 2021 of these year they commit to fighting climate change with denis said he manatee is waging war on each or any report the un has highlighted 20 twentieth's record breaking weather and fossil fuel structure. we want to turn our focus now to hong kong where court there has sentenced 3 leading pro-democracy activists to jail for their involvement in

last year's anti-government protests the longest sentence that of 13 and a half months was handed to joshua walk but he remains defiant bound to continue to fight for democracy from prison. headed back to jail after his sentencing on wednesday joshua wang seen here in black pled guilty to charges which included inciting and illegal assembly fellow activists agnes challen ivan lamb also received jail terms one has been a prominent figure in hong kong's pro-democracy scene in 2014 he helped spearhead the umbrella movement for months of protests heard by a government plan to prescreen candidates for local elections one was front and center. everybody here has to stay alert this demonstration has been peaceful and the police haven't bothered us much but now they have brought tear gas and plastic bullets we have to do all we can to protect ourselves.

he was arrested at the age of 171 became an international political figure in 2016 he founded a new political party demo sisto aiming to define hong kong's long term future. one himself was too young to be a candidate though that didn't stop him from trying to run for office. in $29000.00 he was jailed for 2 months but went free in time to join widespread protests over a proposed new extradition law to mainland china this time around the demonstrations were much more violent wong was arrested along with thousands of others. in july 2020 things went from bad to worse for pro-democracy activists china passed a new security law for hong kong that made wang's demo see still party illegal the

party disbanded and wang went to trial for his activities in last year's protests undeterred he told the w in a recent interview he would not back down. for some boss never stopped me from activism and thinking critically if it is such difficult time and awesome all of us were arrested since last summer and 2000 people were to be prosecuted is still important for us to stay and fight. after wednesday's sentencing wang renewed his commitment to the cause he released a statement on twitter through his lawyers saying it is not the end of the fight ahead of us is another challenging battleground we are now joining the battle in prison along with many brave tro tester's less visible yet essential in the fight for democracy and freedom for hong kong. despite his defiance one sentence will likely keep him out of the public eye for some time to come.

south korean pop sensation v.t.s. will now be able to for mandatory military service thanks to a new law passed by the country's parliament all able bodied south korean men between the ages of $18.28 must serve in the army but this new law will allow globally globally recognized k. pop stars such as the ts to perspire own that to 30 years of age. they may be a boy group but for their country's military not to mention many compatriots they are able bodied men. now with the new deferment for k. pop stars or the singing sensation's b.t.s. being unfairly advantaged or. all south korea's physically fit young men must serve in uniform a legacy of the korean war which started 70 years ago and technically south and

north korea have yet to make peace. and the army life was quickly closing in on the group's oldest member known as gen just 2 days before he turns 28 the laws upper limit for beginning service parliament cleared the way for a 2 year deferment. other heartthrobs didn't have that luxury in 20131 of the country's biggest k. pop stars known as rain was discharged from the army after serving his time. in sports stars enjoyed their own special rules saw on young men a footballer currently playing for tottenham hotspur was exempted from service because he'd won a medal at the asian games but he still had to complete basic training which he did last year when the covert pandemic conveniently interrupted the premier league

season. so whatever they decide to do b.t.s. have 2 more years to set more industry records and break more hearts until their national service is supposed to begin and the music's over. its 1st news now and the son of ferrari great to me he'll show her will make his formula one debut next season make sure her well brace for the us owned team haas after securing a multi-year deal. mick is set to make his formula one debut next season exactly 30 years after his father michael schumacher made his back in 1901 the 21 year old german a product of a racing family security deal with the u.s. own team has it's really been dream that i've always dreamed about and now it's finally comes through some really really happy and just mostly excluding really

nice i'm really looking forward to it and you take your body for the right messages and support mick has shown signs of promise in 2016 he started racing in formula 3 and won the division's european championship 2 years later that success helped make the move up to formula to where he is currently leading the championship by 14 points. but formula one is a whole different ball game a ball game his father michael managed to dominate for many years michael is a legend in the sport with 91 wins in 7 world championships unfortunately the german great has been in a coma since 2013 mick knows he won't be able to escape the comparisons to his father for now he's just happy he can test his wheels on the big stage of formula one china as the latest

a moon landing has only been on the lunar surface for a few hours but there is no time to relax for the spacecraft after touching down on tuesday the chang 5 which is named for the chinese moon goddess started drilling and collecting samples of the moon's surface researchers hope the samples will provide new information about the origins of the. exciting stuff thank you so much for watching a little rock n roll and on behalf of all of us thank you so much for spending this part of your day with a stick with us business headlines are next i'll see you want. to . come to bobbie with. pop star rails against corruption violence to. discipline coming from a poor family loves to become president. and

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