many stories. to make up your own. luck. made for minds. this is deducted used a show coming up today under control and check. out all of us infections in china updated with just why other countries around the world deal with increasing case loads we asked what is china doing right. and the indian primary school teacher who want to global teacher competition. has been praised for promoting girls' education and also sharing $1000000000.00 in prize money with other finalists.

i bet it's better to welcome to do. that you could join us got all of us infections continue to rise across the world with many countries reporting 2nd even 3rd waves of the virus south korea for instance and in india the capital delhi but in the country where it all began china it's a whole other story on thursday local media reported less than 20 new cases so what's china doing right and then lessons here for other countries we'll discuss that with an expert in a bit but 1st here's paul on life in china in the shadow of a global pandemic. in china signs of the coronavirus pandemic are hardly noticeable authorities say there are only a couple 100 active cases and next to no new delhi case since. we have

no evidence right now that the situation in china is anything other than extremely low levels all over the virus with a very aggressive response to any upsurge of. the moment some individuals test positive the authorities react by doing mass testing in the area that's why recently in the part city of tianjin 2300000 inhabitants were tested before the. that nearly 5000000 in cash car and in the city of qingdao authorities say more than 10000000 people were tested in just a few days. it's a big effort and in the end a few dozen people are found who test positive and are immediately isolated furthermore china has strict entry rules foreigners can only enter an exceptional cases and anyone who does must get tested and cornered for 14 days. beijing's head of that the genealogy says the priorities for curbing the coronavirus are clear. to help the translating the pandemic is like

a war poor hugh have to be quick if everyone bands together you can be strong and win and that sends the right strategy and strong leadership on health. care you need and in the studio you to everyone is required to download a state sponsored health app only those who show a green light can enter many places authorities are not forthcoming about how accurate the apps are hong kong epidemiologist bank collings has china can use tactics not easily used elsewhere. and it's very clear what the cause was of the test in mainland china a positive case is isolated the house or contacts a quarantine everything's done very very strictly and that brings an end to transmission now forced people to stay home if they're in isolation or quarantine they won't it will be a recommendation that will be an order for chinese authorities every positive coronavirus case is one too many they react quickly and everyone is expected or rather required to cooperate. daily fischer's an infectious disease

a specialist of the master nearest hospital in singapore and was part of a double team the travel to china at the start of the year to observe its response to the coronavirus he joins me on the line now professor official welcome there given the extremely stumbles in china right now what would you say china has done right. thanks for having me back. well china learned very early on the. a good way to control it was was really by this aggressive lockdown if you like and and then a very aggressive testing regimen with the i'm to eradicate it and and that's worked for them. other countries have done similar things of course taiwan viet nam thailand even new zealand whenever any of these countries have had any cases or any any community transmission there's been

a very very aggressive approach i guess towards mass testing and really trying to dig out all the cases. i guess there's probably some concern over whether it could be controlled or or if they tolerated a sort of a low level transmission as we as we do in singapore hong kong places south korea as as we try and do it a slightly different way i guess those countries have got a bit more confidence in their public school systems to be able to bring it under control whereas this other the 1st group of countries really go for eradication and and i guess that's a concern that it could just get out of control again lockdowns interesting you have a measures that have been employed in other countries as well yet they're seeing in some countries south korea in delhi in india 3rd wave of corona virus infections what is it not work in those other countries. well for instance

in china they. are i guess powerful in the response that they buy contests millions of people in days and and people can get they'll be a knock on the door and then though they'll be given a time when they go for the test testing is is essentially mandated and you can dig out all these positive cases even asymptomatic cases and if you find them all over the course of a few days and then you go back 10 days 2 weeks later and do it all again then then you really. stand a good chance of of that eradication and i'm not sure in india and other countries that they're going to despite china's success i wonder if china does some blame for its lack of transparency of the mission months of the outbreak i mean arguably that

contributed to the global spread of the virus. i'm not sure that's completely true maybe there is a component but everything that we learnt in the mission in february has played out to be true whether it's the mortality rates the modes of transmission the effect in the elderly the effect in children all that pain being true now now that was that was their brain and that was a lot of information to obtain when when really that only identified the virus a month or 6 weeks early and compare that to the response in other countries where that where they weren't really getting ramped up until macho right prole i think it's a bit hard to be too critical of what my own might not have happened in in january when even when it was known to have been very other countries still weren't responding as as they should have that is

a perception that china was hiding the truth of therefore that contributed to the spread of the virus just because you were there and you're into it to be trying these doctors and administration officials was you and the double which will praise to china photo its response what feel so special with what they did when we found them very open we found there was consistency in the stories as we moved from from one place to another we spoke to our peers we spoke to infectious disease physicians on hand and if one doctor is talking to another doctor who is you know not not necessarily a government official. and he's he or she is telling you things that you'd like to realize of being completely verified by what's happened in other parts of the world i just have never personally experienced. anything being being

hidden. do you think your criticisms of trying the response in those early months especially the criticism that has built up in the past few months you think the that's a bit unfair i do because i know what it's like at the beginning of an upright and and you could well look at all the effort that was put into for instance the west african ebola are out bright and really it was it was 6 months it was really when they didn't support emma even though it being 1st identified in around march. this was like 4 months 5 months before we were really getting a response going there son i think i think the fact that china had identified it going to test shared the genome sequence with the whole world i just wonder what would have happened had we been in another part of the world hold road with the response of brainy that are not out of always

a pleasure talking to rebel fisher thank you so much for joining us my pleasure rush. now to the teacher in india who's been awarded a $1000000.00 in what's considered the nobel prize for teacher as it's called the global global teacher's prize that went to this man behind me this early working it over primary school in maharashtra state in the west of india he was on it for having transformed the life chances of girls at the school way attendance has skyrocketed from single digits in the community now to 100 percent when it happened on a global teleconference with london. he's run. from india. he'd won a $1000000.00 for his dedication to teaching he immediately gave half of it away to the other finalists $12000.00 nominees were considered but england's vark e.

foundation and the un's education agency determined rangi decelerates contribution to the global teaching profession was most noteworthy. his 11 years in parental water has seemed to sol a turn the fortunes of a school built next to a cattle shed i still remember the day one when i saw the school building and i saw that this is like indifference looking at education. so i started to interact with the. language participated in their events so it was like being a member of the coming. as a community member and as a pretty good teacher he influenced the way the community regarded education and the way it regarded girls back in 2009. girls getting battered at the age of 18 were not. going to be looking to the

family. in the state to. me why now lamely i didn't find. any length. to sally also changed education in the community by translating textbooks into the local language he changed education in india with a system of q.r. coded textbooks now used across the country. the pandemic has changed education again distance learning is the norm for now in parade awadi to sally continues to employ every tool at his disposal to ensure his students learn. and that's it for today there's more did. we need to know what images from thailand were following the successful use by protesters to defend against police water cannons rubber ducks have become a popular item being sold by street when there's no back on monday even through the

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despite coming from a poor family the pop star wants to become president. just come visit. my. credible story. starts december 10th d.w. . clips from some of the 12 films made by film students here in germany. the last year we were tossed with showing europe in film in 2020 which the students have managed to make despite the pandemic. more about those films in a minute hello and welcome to arts and culture also coming out today so sensation

out of black is back with a brand new album now a father all love everything is an inspiring tribute to his new family. with the 6 month german presidency of the e.u. coming to a close at the end of december this also sees the end of an artistic project initiated by the german foreign office and supported by the german film academy 30 film students here were asked to travel through europe and shoot what is important to them what moves them like the climate crisis or the plight of refugees here the result sometimes fictional sometimes documentary a very moving. the kind of it 19 pandemic has worsened the plight of refugees in europe restricting them movement and reducing their chances of gaining asylum. in the short

film caps in your mouth a young refugee and rural germany encounters unfriendly mistrustful locals hungry and scared to kill the cat and the hostility turns into outright hate. came from got the mark on that side. from the cat so. what if this was wrong. because this does sound. i mean that house or. family about. something. i don't know. but help comes from unexpected call to. and unsettling study of loneliness and desperation. go to identify the twilight of the gods picks up on some of the most notorious images of the refugee crisis while telling the story of a wealthy family holding

a burial at sea in the mediterranean whose ship collides with something floating under water. and what we wanted to convey with the film was that the time when we can look the other way is over we need to face up to the failure of our values and act with. both believe me. or the film takes the form of a parable contrasting the idea of european solidarity with the harsh reality of fortress your. what. you believe. the battle for our voices is a short documentary about pro-choice activists in warsaw involved in the women strike in poland as of 27th of november 2020 abortion is banned there.

is a most wanted situation with them all in the face of. your own stock tip who was our focus was very firmly on the activists political and social agenda 1st and foremost we wanted to show what our values are and how important that work is we wanted the film to be inspirational. so. the film provides intriguing insights into women struggle for equality in some a terrorist. groups have their own now. it's a struggle that's underway across not just europe but the whole well. short films that are as diverse as the young filmmakers who make them but who share the

belief that we can all help to solve europe's problems and then perhaps the whole world. there are a total of 12 films you can watch all of them for free at this website i was kino dot de and you can vote for the best one as well as music now and the new album from in my humble opinion one of the great solve voices around today out of black dabbles in many musical genres hip hop rap r. and b. he's also a really good songwriter and it's his singing voice that really gets me on his latest album all love everything it really has matured into a thing of beauty in the last few years. my way son by californian so started slack featuring the sing his trademark smooth

focal zz the track of black's latest album all love everything igs huge hope and positivity. this week. aloe blacc breakthrough came in 2010. with this song i need a dollar it was a hit around the world. carefree as it sounds it actually tells of people marginalized by society of alcoholism and hopelessness it reflects the long history of struggle by black people in the us. aloe blacc campaigns for the rights of people of color he uses his popularity to reach politicians and fight against injustice following in the footsteps of some

pretty big role models. of activists civil rights heroes that i look up to the leaders of the past we're talking about. or gandhi or martin luther king we're talking about stevie wonder or bill withers aretha franklin you know. there is a place in their just being in their existence that humanizes. everyone by humanizing the most of all are able. i want to follow in their footsteps. you know black's own story is not typical of black musicians in the u.s. his parents were immigrants from panama but black grew up in california. he went to a good school had white friends and the picture.

he didn't feel quite at home in that world so he searched for another. foundation initially and breakdown and then later. i couldn't live the life that my parents live in panama and i couldn't live the life that my white friends were living in america and what i found hip hop hip hop culture was something that i can embrace and say ok this is different but our feel like. i can belong to something like this even if. you were. black eventually had success with the soul and heart was younger it was but he's never left the

political behind i follow black a singer who wants to bring the light into the darkness. whole state was a german photographer famous for the way he works with lawyers when he started back in the 960 s. it was with his black and white photos later in his career as a light artist who was one of the 1st to use lasers so successfully as an art form is archive has now been donated to a museum in the german city of mannheim 'd. curators at mannheim sefi a gallery of contemporary art a sorting through the estate of photography cost aged man it's a vast collection man was $1.00 of germany's most successful photojournalists and

light artists with a fund most at least in the early years to 2 subjects in particular. front to be out on the front cars and on the back when men. found man made his name in the 1960 s. with photographs of motor sports but also with sensitive portraits of the stars of the era because you get a cool deep in contemplation his talent was to capture intimate moments without intruding on. balance gaze was never intrusive but he was a keen observer he began taking photographs at a young age in 1053 aged 19 he took this self-portrait armed with his trusty like a camera he quickly launched a success. career soon he was taking pictures of leading figures of the day from then chancellor ludwig add hot to bond actress and yes i had her on as a photographer his subject range was vast he was basically interested in everything

i was into. his skillset was also vast working as a light artist gave him scope for creative experimentation. in 1977 he took part in document a 6 and capsule where he installed the 1st prominent laser sculpture in the world but his career began to suffer on there came a point where he lost his fishing he ran out of money but continued to be extravagant he ended up on welfare for. forced age bellman died in 2019 his daughter bequeath his estate to the mannheim gallery a retrospective is planned but 1st they'll sift through the thousands of negatives and photographs the seminal artist left behind. now a look at our couple of other stories from the world of arts and culture a moment to start with we're off to hollywood for these 2.

the highlights of an auction of film memorabilia in hollywood on thursday was the original james bond prop handgun from dr no that was the very 1st bond movie which of course starred the late great mr sean connery the iconic p.p. k. was estimated to fetch between $150.00 and $200000.00 but eventually she went to an anonymous buyer for $256000.00. no sign of the latest james bond movie yet but a new film called manga starring gary oldman comes out this weekend netflix it's the story of how hollywood screenwriter herman mankiewicz wrote citizen kane which is often regarded as the greatest film ever made and he wrote it despite being drunk dissolute oldman is said to be brilliant in the title role.

and that rounds up this edition of culture a lot small stories as ever on our website at d.w. dot com slash culture also do check out d.w. books and d.-w. classical music on you tube they are worth visiting thanks for watching and until next time i'll read is a good book. i'm

not laughing at the germans well i guess sometimes i am but less than nothing with them and i don't think deep into the german culture. knew that scene from take this ground they all eat because it's all that they know i'm right so join me for me to get funky golf course. a duel with words. where i come from you don't run away from a confrontation. when i was 5 years old my father took me to his friends and i was hooked on the spot. a sport that you learned sold me and to school sold. fencing is a language and a good sword fight is a conversation. must keep your opponent to understand that thinking new of the main to get close otherwise. it's.

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up. this is g.w. news a line from berlin u.s. lawmakers prepared to block troop withdrawals from germany. the clock is running out on donald trump's presidency does this mean his order to reduce troops here is null and void. and out of sight but not out of danger of bangladesh is moving thousands of refugees to an island in the big.