well you. don't need to keep. people all for over the match and home the 4th time from the whole of the national scene and that became a little at least about. an 8 at the last dragons which were called down to 3 year. deal with the books on. this as did up in years africa coming up on the program it seems like a recipe for disaster fears of a potential current virus outbreak thousands of ethiopian refugees in sudan coms are forced to share facilities also coming out must be done to believe. that it. has been for the. good believe it. must believe it did it all find out why this rabbi and activist from south africa is on a mission to highlight the legacy of not b.b.n.

independence fight off and that but boy. the name is eddie michael jr you're welcome to the program after fleeing fighting i told him if you're going to refugees now face the risk of a cone of virus outbreak in neighboring sudan nearly 50000 people from ethiopia steve groene region after crammed into refugee camps which have not equate health care facilities. under the scorching sun they wait their turn at camps like home or cuba refugees have no option really they wait for food for cash to register with aid agencies and they also share shelter. health workers worry that raises the chances of corona virus spreading in the already strained conditions. i guess i was going to give you the nimby he never used when

the problem becomes bigger because the person that comes here will go back to their camp where they live surrounded by people so they could spread it very easily. they are people who are going through a difficult time while there are young people older people also people who have chronic illnesses and other diseases affecting their immune systems. and to that if cope with 19 is found here it could spread widely over the amount of the work that is out of. health care facilities are limited and there is no covert 19 testing or treatment available the refugees are themselves also concerned here for it whatever the matter is scary when you see people together they may be infected with corona virus people sit together and do not wear masks of course it is scary you see people always move collectively without masks of course it is

scary. but. with more refugees expected to arrive the already strained humanitarian services might not cope putting this safe haven at risk of its own crisis. for more on this let's talk to john the. head of mission of m.s.f. in sudan he let the exploration mission in there. first tell us has there been any confirmed case of course in 1000 in that comes over so. many cases in the camporee i mean we're in their response in the east of sudan we've got it rip. that sounds like they're pretty straightforward and good news but there's thousands of people no mosques no cubit tests a new social distancing and i'll break is more than likely isn't it indeed

we are facing a sieve on the wave here in sudan and we know that the incidence of 19 near tikrit was also to some degree of concern when the people wearing that took up so sure. we are lacking some test in the east of sudan and if cases with the race in the in the responses would be for some terrible consequences it's very complicated indeed to have any measures in place in the camps yeah definitely seems like challenging and now in such a difficult situation how are you protecting people from touching the virus so far we're staffing the clinics that we put in place in the ring our house khakis will protecting our. masks and washing points and or doing this is very measures

that we all know by now in the in the on the make it's much more complicated. to do the same for the thousands of people as you mentioned. every garden that they are older and are coming in boats then don't transfer being in the crowded buses and then go in crowded shelters that are not enough. they don't have enough water yet to drink or anything so it's all you see very it to us where i'm asking to washington to wash their hands when they even don't have the basics that all over. and now what do these like us edge and we need to help tako the situation. i don't know what side we on now are trying to get more people on the ground and more drugs to see to face the situation we are facing a lot of you've heard that on from the treatment of n.h.s.

which is a massive messy sure and then regarding could be 19 easy in case it arise what is going to be completely still find appropriate isolation centers and untouched ease at the moment i think it would be over in the cup best of the house care system so that ok now the zone all that's happening in the number of people and possibly more people coming how much longer can you support the people in the comp. as a misstep for we are committed to respond as long as there will be people in the camp and the transit areas which still receive if you could for some or their organization and the rest of the i didn't see the end of the year so for everybody the end of the financial year so it's all you see and the child resources and resources to find to mobilize. some so much resources on such a crisis and immediate of. the world like when they mean ok we do hope that

is definitely received soon i wrote it out later john the. head of mission of a missive in sudan thank you for your time thank you. let's not take a look at some other stories making news across the continent liberians are voted on a referendum which includes the plan to short of presidential term presidents george reus critics fear he could use the change to cling to power using templates relative no votes in all of egypt where agent presidents have used institutional changes to who don't. from a south african president jacob zuma corruption trial has been postponed to february the ex-president faces multiple charges including fraud and money laundering related to a $3000000000.00 deal in 100-9000 i when he was deputy president zuma in eyes in

the wrong doing. for a 2nd day in a row there's been a brawl in the democratic republic of congo's parliament on tuesday police stepped in to calm the log ages who were angry about president police to securities move to scrap the shaky would inclination to securities government is increasingly a force with m.p.'s loyal to his powerful t.v. sets up just half of the left. so ever had of. this guy that's and the good boy you national hero in the media he's considered a great fighter against the german colonized in the early 20th century he also served as a unifying force in bringing together various now my communities so that britain in the media but not beyond its borders this south african rugby behind me wants to change that he's a descendant of the namibian independence fighter and this advocating for taking

pride in one's own heritage. rich boy the title of humility assumes latest release the track is an ode to contain hendrik which boy unama chief. vic boy died fighting german colonial troops in present day namibia south african rapper humid because some is a direct descendant of that boy's his goal inspiring people to take pride in their ancestry. we don't have that icons that people saw on. shore. or whatever and so it's so important for people to have that to to i think a beautiful way to put it is to say the rock from which we were cut you know to to know this is who we are we can strive for. with his people here will be a some refers to the so-called colored community in post apartheid south africa the

community faces economic challenges and prejudices their way of speaking the afrikaans language he says is often associated with gangsterism and poor education . they're making fun of that so that need 1st needed to be liberated and for me for about 10 years now then was all i focused on is to go into schools and say boo but i'd say what i was your how do you speak it's not a substandard odessa whatever this is so important this is one of the most important things that the big afrikaans picture needed right now is you steam must elicit the love good signals but denialism done to sing was fun fun and list limited because it is kind of empowerment and education of one's cultural identity is human besoms mission it's something his friend and to true artist kind of can attest to.

and i remember there was a time we to get the book of enoch wood boy and he wind through mountains to actually just get a copy and he actually let you go to me look at it we actually made copies or single page. the search is reflected on the rapid skin can a saucy it cut to the face and seal of the nama chief onto a human be some arm the reason. is because there's no need to reach a you find inside africa and in that exact place said it in one of my songs i say you give me an elson. you know it's the equivalent but you'll find nothing and yet these born here in namibia hendrik vic boy is a national hero even appearing on the country's $10.00 notes but in south africa where he was born he's relatively unknown while preparing his music video here mobius some stumbled upon a feature on his ancestor by de w.'s african roots series. i like

using what's out there or maybe you know why because somebody didn't they i hope somebody will use it for something else so why do you want to compete with something and then i found this by the inch of ella which is and i contact them immediately and do days later she came back to. everything and there's this glimmer of light so i'm so happy that all of them just said yes believe that the resulting video is a powerful tributes to hendrix but boy i could just see a few more of the acim is probably just said. in the book. but politico. and i'll tell you up on the show so which african legend would you up about now while you're thinking about we need you with more music celebrating now maybe an independence fighter and a big fat boy see you soon i say not. believe.

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and beethoven is for. beethoven is for everyone. beethoven 2020. 150th anniversary here on d w. creamy award winning entertainer chilli gonzalez may not be the guy you'd expect to put out a christmas album but i mean you're 2020 he could be just the right person for the job. i'll be talking with charlie about his a rather melancholy christmas album a very chilly christmas coming up on arts and culture and later on the show. some call it the comedy of the year another round the danish movie about dave drinking

and the male midlife crisis we'll hear from our film expert. first though canadian musician jason back aka chilly gonzales felt that this year christmas needed a different soundtrack west cheerful less commercial so he got to work putting together his own album for the holidays a record that sounds more like christmas 2020 most of the songs are familiar but the sound is more intimate at times dissonant even lonely. a very chilly christmas. the album opens with a dramatic rendition of silent night one thing is clear this isn't going to be your usual christmas album. and why should you think it's not a normal christmas this year and surely comes out as isn't normal musician.

from classical to jazz to hip hop for decades he's made them all his own. take the problems. we think we. think we. know that came to a good thing because it pays the bankers to face the big change. now he's giving classic christmas carols such as jingle bells some minor key changes. the album also features collaboration's with the singers jarvis cocker and leslie feist. here to tell us more chilli gonzales welcome to arts and culture one really fascinating thing about this album is actually your own relationship with christmas you grew up in

a secular jewish family you've said that you actually don't even like christmas so how did you end up making a christmas album. well i don't like what christmas has become which is you know when it went to a secular jewish family celebrates christmas it's not to convert to christianity is to assimilate to you know as i say it's not jesus it's santa claus it's about gift giving it's about consumerism and about capitalism and you know my only way into christmas as a kid was at the piano to lead a sing along and then i could believe in it and that's why i made this album as a kind of get back to that very intimate way recorded here at home on my upright piano with my musical family jarvis cocker and feist because i feel that's missing i feel those songs have become corrupted by their use and you know soundtracks for commercials and cynical entertainers cashing in year after year i want to try to

provide a bit of an end to dote on that but i've always had mixed feelings at christmas because of the gap between a kind of dream that were sold and what reality and so i made this christmas album for those like me i would say i don't like christmas but i have very a cocktail complex emotions that say and i wanted my albums are ok so let's talk about the songs themselves a lot of christmas classics that people will recognize what what is special about these songs for you why did you want to record them. well the carrolls on one side which is the bulk of my album they're full cusick that means that it comes from a time before the culture of the individual it's when music really had a social role to play that's why the songs tend to be very easy for kids or you know drunk people to sing along with they usually are based on scales like the 1st no well. you can hear it just like a staircase going up or joints or the world is famously just

a descending scale. that's inclusive christmas music then fast forward so you know the eighty's and ninety's i want to make sure i had some modern christmas classics under as well last christmas by wham and all i want for christmas is you by mariah carey but as you'll see physically how my handle is all over the keyboard this is a virtual 6 on and a drunk person just can't keep up with this even if they sing into their beer bottle as a fake microphone just watch how different is it. wants . to geno's. on stuff that's not a sing about for most of us certainly not for me. well there you go so i needed to take those pop songs in a way turn them into carols and you take mariah's strident hair dryer of a voice and sort of removing all i want for christmas so that you can sort of going to clear shot of what the musical material is the play last christmas on the piano

very simply. you don't have the synthesizers the drum machine or the app priest keys what is that they're wearing in the video where they're having a snowball fight all of that is gone and you're left with just right hand melody left hand harmony and in a way i tried to take the individual out of those pop songs and turn them into those kind of selfless carols christmas carols don't have the word i and that's what i think is so fascinating we've lost a lot of that because our music now is much more about the glorification of the artist but by playing things on a piano you can sort of divorce or a sort of you know you know surgically remove the personality of george michael or the towering persona of mariah carey and the songs can maybe be you know considered folk music modern day folk music in that setting right gonzalez you really turned mariah carey into almost a solemn christmas song that people can enjoy at home maybe by themselves the

theory is that it's a very different christmas for a lot of people thanks so much for coming on arts and culture thanks for having. and a few headlines and now the mystery is growing around a series of unexplained metal monoliths that have appeared in several countries now with no explanation found the latest one in a dutch nature reserve and park rangers don't know how it got there similar structures have already appeared in the u.k. and romania where this 4 meter monolith appeared and a few days later disappeared the phenomenon started late last month in the united states where the 1st of these sculptures appeared in the desert in utah before it was also mysteriously removed. how about a date with the mona lisa the louvre museum in paris is auction off the chance to see her famous 500 year old smile up close during the paintings and he will check

out the museums trying to raise funds after shutting again due to the coronavirus the movie expects this year's revenue losses to total as much as $90000000.00 euros . while the front runner at this year's european film award is a midlife crisis comedy from denmark another round by director thomas vinterberg the movie starts with a potentially dangerous philosophical premise one that the characters a group of bored high school teachers decide to put into practice here's the scene they defeated and also feel self assured gabe. was a bit. so by the stream that they ask for those dipping. them a good night he says and the meat not minced the food meant him only to feel it's. ok and then a monster sent. after. him and. then

he in the interim place me as a 2nd step higher but at the head of the family like over at me as this comes up like. yeah. and paphitis pull at no one has been definite head of it. so i do get little from p.s. need me i'll slap him in the have hot and she came to school. simply. did over his phone experts got rock springs here with me now ok so we just watched the setup of the film for teachers trying to start decide to try a day drinking in order to revitalize their lives kind of how does that go yeah initially it works out great they start they start over you keep your day. and they're using breathalyzers to check to see what they were blood alcohol level is so they can keep it at a constant level and so initially as i say they start start doing this they have

rules they're only drinking during the day and it goes great there they come better teachers or become more engaged they start to really enjoy life. again and they think well this is where he really well so being a little bit drunk feels good one just driving your own lot drunk and and then the movie progresses from there wow ok so am i to understand that this is a pro alcoholism film no definitely not i mean distance from thomas he's known for socially critical dramas this is a comedy but he knows how to go dark and so we do see as they start to drink to excess we do see things start to get ugly we see how excessive alcohol can you know ruin relationships can can ruin lives so we see all that and in the film but really it despite the premise of the movie this isn't really a movie about alcohol it's actually more boat i don't philosophy of life i talk to thomas than to the director and he said that. he feels that everything that's worth

experiencing in life whether it's with great art or even falling in love is all about giving up control and embracing the good and the bad in life and he himself is a father of 3 kids and he said he worries that young people today like the school kids in this film there are too worried about not giving up control their they have they have great anxiety or they have to get good grades like a good job if they don't get a good job to fall behind and so forth and so on so that they think they're really worried about taking the risk of giving up control is in the missing out so much in life so by not giving up control and so being drunk in this film is more a metaphor for for giving up control and embracing the good in the bad the sort of the risky business of life itself where it's really notable. this film is coming out now when we're all trying to control ourselves so much with the pandemic and doing things right yeah actually i think it's really really interesting right now we are so cold we have to be you know can't can barely go out if we go we have to

wear a mask we have to keep distance we're under so much control right now and so i seen this movie really shows us what we're missing and i think all of us you know when this pandemic ends we just want to be able to do this again to you know embrace life to get it and give up control with with or without alcohol but until then we do have this movie ok so this movie had time for losing control when we can't lose control scott roxboro thanks so much and that's almost it for this edition of arts and culture scott and i will leave you now there with the latest work by italian artist and former farmer daddio gumby in there used his tractor to plow a portrait of composer need to open or 250 years ago this month thanks for watching .

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