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i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia we're glad you could join us in bangladesh the government has transported the 1st range of refugees from their longtime camp at cox's bizarre to a new island a location this was a unilateral decision made without the cooperation of the un refugee agency and has been criticized by human rights groups as yours and mine are many of these refugees have been in bangladesh for years the most recent large group of arrivals came in 2017 where more than 750000 people fled their home in myanmar following a genocidal campaign launched by the military there. cox's bizarre the world's largest refugee settlement. for the rohingya who live here bangladesh is decision to relocate 100000 of them to beslan char only adds to their uncertain fates. for some it's

a chance to escape the squalor of the camp. that the person in charge here told me would have a room on the island like his office that's why i agreed to move there. and the. others have doubts over starting a new on a place known as the floating island i don't know what happens in it we came here after so much torture in myanmar even if we're shot 2000 times we won't go to beslan child. we feel safe here in the camp we don't want to go to beslan charge. more than 1000000 refugees a squeeze on to 26 square kilometers near the bangladesh myanmar border. the bangladeshi government says its relocation plan will ease the pressure on the crowded camp. according to the country's foreign minister a.k. abdul moment ranger if you g.'s won't be taking the best forcibly only those who

are willing to go will be going there voluntarily. but some refugees say they're being given no choice. he did it 1st my father was arrested by the police they beat him badly he was put in a dark cell for a day and a night and they asked him to choose between death or going to best and charging. that's when my father agreed to go and even though he had a man and. international rights groups have also published evidence of forceful relocation. we are concerned that you know the board island which is off limits to everyone including the journalists and the rights groups it pose a serious concerns about human rights monitoring and for that to be overcome i think the majority should. create that framework they should be ensured that the

refugees are able to take free and prior informed consent they would give those be able to take voluntary decisions to be able to get. a 1st group of 1600 refugees were taken to beslan char last week the island is 34 kilometers from the mainland in the bay of bengal formed by silt liston 20 years ago. bangladesh has built flood protection barriers barracks hospitals and mosques. but international aid agencies fear a big storm could endanger thousands of lives. on the un which was excluded from the relocation process once more consultation and access the un high commission of refugees from grandy said he's concerned by reports of ranger if you g.'s being moved to beslan char he wants access to see conditions on the on himself and he

transfer he said must follow a voluntary informed decision. refugees are urging dhaka and the u.n. to focus on repatriation rather than relocation. they still want to return to myanmar but only if the muslim majority were recognized as citizens. joining us is. islam who reported this story it's not a great sign if the u.n. high commissioner for refugees says he'd like to go to bus on chair to check out conditions because he's not had access to the place is it yes it's a good sign that he has expressed his concern about every location of the rowing if it is do it the more thailand prone and floods and had all posed to the idea of relocating that if it is high land when it was fast proposed a few years ago since then by all of this has been a flood. cycle. and other face introduced to make it.

100000 people now un wants to tick independently avoid that dial and it is still here beatable or not the un technical team is reportedly not to getting access to the island. now cox is bizarre is itself overcrowded and vulnerable to flooding and frankly so is bangladesh's entire coastline so the christic criticism that this new location bus on char is vulnerable to floods is that really a fair criticism. that camps in courses was indeed overcrowded and it's also true the whole coastal area of bangladesh is prone to cyclons and floods but here we are talking about an island named a fashion taught in bengali which means a floating island in english the island has shifted its position a couple of times in the past to decades experts have different open your eyes on whether the island is old enough to become livable or not some exposed thing there

that dams height that island it needs to be increased from 3 meter to around 7 meters to make di land safe from that's a real disaster others say that increasing that dams height could be disastrous because the stocks are built inside the island was not planned for a dam of that height so the international community wants to examine everything in different indeed to find answers on the islands habitability but bangladesh is reportedly not allowing them to do so. now we heard at the end of the reports that there were some refugees who would really like to just go back hall back to myanmar but how realistic is this at the moment really no if you just want to the myanmar government to recognize them as citizens of this to majority country they want to make sure that they would be safe there when their return in the future now the

international community needs to work on that they have to do what they are but it needed strain sure that that if you just will have a safe and independent life if they return to the country they came from so far to me and what hasn't made any such commitment ruling the activists told to be there that got into the pit creation proposal of course to see if to these refugees from camps to other camps environment they have said they're going to get to return under the current offer. thank you so much for joining us. so many wedding ceremonies have been counseled this year in india known for its lavish huge multi-day weddings the social distancing and lockdown measures have proved difficult and not just for the couples the indian wedding industry is worth billions 2nd only to the united states so both the bride and groom and the

businesses have had to make adjustments as he. reports from delhi. it's peak wedding season in india like every your couples who waited for auspicious dates i'm cool over there are tying the knot but it isn't quite like every oh. india is country recording around $35000.00 kroner virus cases every day. while most restrictions have been eased there are still limitations on gatherings. which have had the great indian wedding hard. events of social prestige for most families where guest lists scanned run into the hundreds sometimes thousands. but couples like another in charge are finding these out. as corona cases in delhi will be king they move their wedding to the state of goa now for the deception they chose this open avenue in

a suburb of delhi. it can accommodate 1000 guests they have invited 300 to allow for social distancing family members have been tested regularly showing any symptoms of voluntarily missing the event. while the scale had to be reduced it was important for the couple to have all the ceremonies in style we were going to get anywhere very feed which i am. intimate reading yes myrtle beach we don't have a granddaughter for going into the afternoon voicing that we were to do to have the very hope so that's what the guests will tell us. but why she was even on a may have pulled off their dream wedding many other couples haven't been as lucky smaller weddings are having an impact on the wedding industry like you're into on the chalk a traditional wedding market in delhi's old city typically this market is full of people buying wedding finery but shopkeepers see delis todd spike in november has

also driven many customers over. how do you all know has been working in bridal best stores for 2 decades he says even recessions did not hit the wedding industry as hard as the coronavirus has and it has a pull of fact how do you on was unable to sell stock earlier in the year as veterans were pushed back indefinitely because of india's harsh lockdown. now customers are unhappy with what they consider last year's designs he also finds that for smaller gatherings even guests don't want to buy expensive new clothes. for a gathering of 50 people why would someone dress up even the bride is not enthusiastic for a small gathering they just want to make do with something and expense of. their biggest customer is fine just not especially as they're supposed to be there so there should be excitement around a wedding there should be happiness i feel none of it for my wedding cost goes

a little or not able to celebrate as well with restrictions even if we just call our closest relatives there will be 50 people from each side and that's already a 100 but why are many and disappointed because of the strict ins for a moment the pandemic wedding will be a story to tell you made in the old don't go through the band did a lot more space to measure up to a different group yes but i think every view of the full thing is difficult intimate and grand combination the fabled indian bedding seems to have pulled off despite significant obstacles. that's it for today there's always more on t.w. dot com for it slash asia and check us out on twitter or facebook as well we leave you with more pictures of indian weddings in this most surreal year thanks for watching next time and goodbye.

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trying always to understand this new culture. and i think. you want to become sitting. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. about. every character i write this is actually about me it's a little. meryl streep plays a famous author who's burned her bridges and the improvised comedy let them all talk. more on that experimental project coming up here on arts and culture also be talking with our film expert about the trend in this year's christmas movies it's beginning to look a lot like same sex romance. there's straight talk and later on the author johnny

pitts his book afro pm about the search for black european identity wins a major european prize. ringback welcomes arts and culture just when you think meryl streep has done it all well think again the queen of hollywood's latest straight to streaming movie is new territory even for her street films let them all talk and just 2 weeks on a real atlantica crossing and with no script that takes a lot of trust and a director who loves to experiment steven soderbergh. start work on my labs meryl streep plays a famous author trying to finish her latest novel while on a cruise with her nephew into artist friends the film was shot in sequence and dialogue was improvised and the actors including lucas hedges diane least in candice bergen had no idea where the story was going to go have a drink later no i can't. it's not anything any of us has ever

seen before. as it came out of the perfervid imagination of everybody you know in it and it was a real seat of the pants kind of production. director steven soderbergh a 3 time pastor winter street only of roughly line before each day's shoot your entire film was shot over 2 weeks as the cast crossed the atlantic on the queen mary 2 back when you could still take cruises. and it was like a fever dream it was i who i'm not sure of that really any of us think we made a movie it was so fresh and that was all stephen and he shot the entire movie himself with a little teeny weeny camera that needed no lights and we just worked all the time on the ship we didn't get to go to the scraw our gym member we just did this movie

let them all talk premiers on line on h.b.o. max on december 10th compas who is the real. joining me now to talk about let them all talk as did over his movie guy scott roxboro scott this actually looks like beside this amazing cast it looks like kind of a small movie for a director like steven soderbergh yeah of course that sort of makes has made your big movies emotional weapon series you know magic mike you know but in between those huge movies he likes to make really small experimental films he's done a lot of these type of boobies which are. basically with no budget where he shoots everything himself i mean this film is they were shot 2 weeks on this cruise across the atlantic he shot all by himself like rolling in a wheelchair with with with with with his camera improvised a script and essentially he does it for almost no budget he gets these great actors to work with them you know meryl streep diana west you know. candice bergen they

simply work for nothing just so they can be on the project to be p.-p. part of it and and this film is getting great reviews i mean it shows you maybe you don't need a 100 $1000000.00 to make a great movie you just need a great director great actors and you know the energy to power through skype so we've got to stick around because i want to look at some different movies let's check out this year's crop of christmas flicks. there's a more diverse crop of christmas movies this holiday season kicking michael keaton and forest whitaker play rival toy makers and netflix's jingle jangle it's a fresh take on the holiday musical genre with the only african american league. school. are proof that there are foods pools food food food food food you are seeing people of color being represented in a way you have seldom seen 1st and the christmas romantic comedy gets a new twist with happiest season starring kristen stewart and mackenzie davis as

lesbian couple abby and harper their holiday trip home gets harper admits she hasn't come out to her family to talk about sort of the complexity is hard for country and the heart of course very. brave. need to be she lots of cringe comedy and some on the nose for gas rigs are all who they are. what are you doing and. there's no reason to wait i'm not the more traditional is dolly parton's christmas on the square also from netflix one for me it's an update on a christmas carol christine baranski has screwed. himself and dolly parton of course does this signal. christmas is a time for sharing even in the christmas season time for angel pagan things all.

you have to love dolly parton working 9 to 5 as an angel scott actually let's talk more about how p. a season a lesbian christmas rom com in a way this just looks like a lot of other christmas movies we've seen it is it yeah it's very much so it follows the exact same sort of formula of these christmas movies you can really read the beats throughout the front the film i mean they even have scenes in there that are in every single sort. christmas rom com the sort of skating scene where everyone gathers together their search but of conflict through a lot of for old mans and so on they have all those traditional scenes you see in every christmas movie but it kind of works i mean particularly the chemistry between person stood and mackenzie davis is amazing even though i think dave's is far too tall for her sincerity it's a matter of personal taste ok so maybe not the most radical film for the 1st big wise beyond their christmas it's actually also not the only game christmas comedy this year is never no no exactly i mean there seems to be of the little bit of

a mini trend this year of lifetime you know lifetime it's a t.v. channel the us actually quite conservative traditional channel and they do almost a day program like a dozen christmas movies every year this year for the very 1st time they've done one where a same sex romantic relationship is at the center of the story the film is called the christmas set up and it's about a matchmaker mom played by fran drescher of nanny fame who sets up her son when he's home for christmas by setting up with his old high school crush is exactly what you'd expect from a lifetime movie incredibly cheesy you know exactly where this is going and a happy end of course is guaranteed and a little bit of an unexpected turn for fran drescher notably one of the funniest jewish comedians now and a christmas comedy scott there's so much for for coming on and radio through all these wonderful movies. some more arts and culture news now tenet director christopher nolan has slammed the warner brothers over its new streaming strategy

the studio announced it will put all its new films next year online the very same day that cinema director says one of the others should have told filmmakers 1st before deciding to premiere their long run in project on h.b.o.'s streaming platform wonder woman director patti jenkins agrees with no one but she says she's glad her film will be released online instead of being held back. she won't dwell the longest running soap opera in the world britain's coronation street is turning 60 with more than 10000 episodes broadcast the show has served as a model for daily television around the globe pairing white humor with plenty of intrigue and drama. lots of drama there and former u.s. president and best selling author barack obama accepted the voice of influence

award given by literary and human rights organization pen america singer and writer paddy smith was also honored at the virtual edition of pan's annual gala she accepted the literary serviceable award for authors who write about the human condition have the power well african american culture is known around the globe but the experiences of black europeans have only recently gained visibility it within the white mainstream british author photographer johnny pitts has done his part to help as a 21000 book afro p.n. notes from black europe has just been named the winner of the leipzig book award for european understanding we met up with pets a few months ago in his hometown. sheffield city in the north of england is where journalist television presenter and photographer johnny pitts grew up his mother was from a white working class family and his father was an african-american so musician

it's his book after a peon has just won the lights it book award for european understanding in it he traces his journey through black europe to uncover black european identities that go beyond cliches. you either get images of black people in tower blocks and hoodies looking like they're violent or you get images of black people or sports stars and smiley and all festivals or carnivals and how in foreign parts but there's this heart you don't often see the in between the things the banality the everyday in this. work commute i want to people on the metro going going to pick their kids up from school so you get a kind of everyday black experience that kind of tries to normalise of an exact society's blackness in your from sheffield pitts travel to paris and brussels on to amsterdam berlin stockholm and my say he wanted to meet black europeans from the most diverse backgrounds the result is a look at a black d.

asper in europe whose realities often go unnoticed. did start a rise in racism and it troubled me and i start to know it's a kind of insularity that was taken place in this country that scares me a smooth brown skin living on an island. that is leaning towards the right so i want to look beyond britain i discovered an old continent that was creaking. black community is very often living on the periphery of europe. the notion of blackness that never really fit together properly you know the more i tried to. solidly on to something the more it fell upon what is afro pianism something that actually exists or is it a construct. it's definitely a construct and i think that's something that the black community in europe. historically in the same way that the african-american community of you know

a kind of solidarity in the face of racism. in the interweave stories of the people puts matter on his journey with the history of european colonialism you shed light on atrocities white europeans committed on africans that are still often shrouded in silence today genocide perpetrated by german imperial troops against the herero a number of people in present day now may be out for the cruelty of belgian colonial forces in the congo it says it's high time europe faced up to its past i think there needs to be a level of honesty and i think it will start with teaching colonialism in schools when i'm criticizing europe when i'm criticizing this country i want europe to be a better place i want to take part in europe. i want britain to be a better place i'm fighting for this country but maybe not in the way that people traditionally fought for it which is you know to keep. prejudices in place. europe that confronts its colonial past head on and stops marginalizing black people

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