oh floodlight day when everyone in the world who would be able to see. the cold for go. in 60 minutes w. . in the light of climate change. africa's most of. what's in store. for their future is. pretty major cities to get insight good culture i am. getting this news africa coming up on the program where the 2nd wave is here several african countries are called new spicing cohen are by restasis study in kenya shows people have been expected from various people also coming out. although the gaming industry in africa is booming the 1st struck gold challenges

are making it difficult to compete with the rest of the world. but one day my in ivory coast is not giving. i i met him i could you know welcome to the program several countries in africa are facing a 2nd wave of the covert 1000 pandemic a constant number of confirmed cases us past 2300000 according to africa's center for disease control and the current that toll is nearing 55000 countries with the highest number of cases the roll call egypt and south africa actually south africa this week announced on alarming spike in infections seeing its teenagers are driving this new said infections authorities labeled clubbing of the school year parties. events we took our camera to the street and asked teenager how to behave.

i want you know far. more people. i don't party i don't party a lot of people in my age going out is no social distancing other people they don't follow like relations of. yet their hearts they need money so they won't just say no it's for ever because you can. have fun most teenagers feel like they've been locked up for so long. and just when they caught the chance they just took the chance and. is it is. it's you and miss take it seriously. it's it's it's not child's life and. it's definitely not child's play now reports from kenya shows that the

number of people in fact i would cover 19 in a country was much higher than doctors realized after studying more than 3000 blood samples you say just found indications that many people have been exposed to the virus and might not have shown symptoms. the samples were taken during blood donation drives in 6 kenyan counties none of those who gave blood had shown any symptoms of covert 19 yet when their samples were examined one out of every $25.00 was found to have contracted and recovered from the corona virus. the experts suggest that increased testing of blood samples could help give a clearer picture of how the corona virus is spreading in africa rather than relying on the regular polymerase chain reaction or p.c.r. test. the p.c.r. test tells you who has an active viral infection of the time so who has

a virus in their system the antibody test tells you. this person may have been infected in the recent past may be infected or may have been exposed to the infection that means they may have been in contact with somebody who was positive too so then they will tell you that. in the population we do have a larger proportion of individuals who have actually seen the virus on them to find them than we thought with a p.c.r. test. the findings revealed that the virus has infected people as severely in africa as elsewhere even though it has been less deadly on the continent. now let's talk about games right the call of duty for my and these are my favorites they are also big on the continent the video game industry is booming across africa more people than ever before have access to gaming platforms and

african developers are designing games meaning young africans come out explore vegetal universes that they can relate to civic. caused is one game enthusiastic whose passion for gaming is making him dream big. every afternoon this video in a working class district is packed with young people coming to school. 35 year old. is the founder of the digital playground his passion for video games began when he was a child. you know i think i was around 4 or 5 years old when i started at 1st we were just watching our big brothers play so that's how i started by watching then as i grew older i played more i played a lot of university. passion into a profession and he had his fingers firmly on the pulse of the booming sector competitive video gaming also known as the sport. is rapidly growing in popularity

not just in ivory coast but all over africa. in less than 10 years it went from being purely a hobby to being at the center of international competitions with big prizes up for grabs. to keep you competitive video gaming is starting to become a thing here the mindset has to change because video gaming is now an international industry the important thing about east sport is that it has the capacity to attract huge audiences who come and watch a bit like other sports and today some games can attract the millions of people who connect online just to be able to watch others play. but what will be. the average salary of pro gamers around the world can range from $1000.00 to $5000.00 per month . the best of the best make even more here in shanghai 1900 participating in a top annual east ports world championship shared at $34000000.00 prize pool. in an

industry that is gradually providing more jobs african players are dreaming big. boys and i want to take it to the next level or to just play to have our player to be the best and to the best must play again and again. here he contested skills and compete with other game is around the world. globally the gaming industry has doubled in size in the past decade it generated over $120000000000.00 in revenue last year alone. he dick wants to build the biggest gaming community in africa he networked with local startups to help them identify their needs and promote their ideas on the local market in the community through the. wall itself and on this you can. imagine you're starting to see a number of local studios working in the gaming sector the main goal for them is to create content that reflects a constant. content that uses color and stories that come from the content because

it gives them more visibility into the bosom but you did there's a donor you're going to view the world the potential is there more and more people on the continent have access to smartphones 2 thirds of africans are under $35.00 and millions of them already gamers and they would like to see more universes they can relate to there still aren't many game developers like wilfred owen one in ivory coast but the interest is certainly there. the player is a backer or minibus driver you know to pick up as many passengers as possible and be the 1st to our. games like straw. force and semblance with who made in south africa or the action vote playing game already and from cameroon with huge successes for now the market is still small thanks to game enthusiasm like siddique this could soon change its message is clear africa has entered the game.

and online the continent is also linking up with the rest of the gaming community but experience is not always seamless so africa is the only country on the continent with host in local service for most games those playing elsewhere in africa have to connect to set as far away and that's a 100 in this competitive arena so tell us more about this experience here as sylvia got the money known in the gaming world ask queen she's one of the top professional game is in kenya and joins us from nairobi hello sylvia can you tell us more about the challenges like yourself in africa. all right thanks so much for having me on some of the challenges that we need to give us peace on the continent is a lot of this stuff was are based in other continents going to north america and europe are all sections. give me experience and we could be because this is really a model meaning that. there's

a lot of to me between continue using tribunes to invest in somewhere since the auction is a big if you think it's your shooting that someone parks you for that you just did you read something sure to bail you out right now doing ok i mean we don't want you to die or you know what else to diet again but how can we get around some of these challenges. i feel that some of these 10 just before on ice these need to. connect you know more way to think if you just this in the experience. with this move it could be so you could become successful ask who came from at least some of my friends it's not up out of the country or different quantity and not to mention i feel that's the game developers need to start creating most of us that i'm ok biggest this will make it easier for a lot of us to transition into a profession who can meet and it can also. become a market because

a lot of our debts are going to you financing in european or american sub was given the impression that time because who professional. here you definitely are not now you're a law student but also a game i'm giving because of the serious profession just like lowell. yes if i'm giving can be considered a serious profession mean i'm leaving what we have. from the facts of the continent and i feel that if we also get some of our most through conflicts then she had beauty of to know and she had this is a given once you just can for example get me on it can actually get me synonomous into being because your husband you know. he's yeah yeah that's what you know and now 10 seconds what are your final words to all the young gay mess in africa. my friend not what are. if you want to become

professional game up go ahead and get that scorns that you've got that might be good for you who. watch notes of you tube videos there's a whole bunch of here for you ok guys i'm going to watch a lot of youtube videos and i'm going to be 2 year old again so i got the money. for 1st. time. and that's how we wrap up the show from stories cool to d.w. dot com slash software or you can visit all things will contour top pages remember to moscow because colonel virus cases are rising again on the continent we need you with pictures of some people setting a good example for us all good bye on the weekend.

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makers are risking jail time to tell their story. and cellist yo-yo ma offers songs of comfort and hope a new album for tough times. welcome to arts and culture the battle lines been redrawn and the war over home entertainment disney announced plans to spend $16000000000.00 on streaming content about half of that on its own streaming platform disney plus where the company is set to release 10 new series from the marvel comics universe and 10 new star wars series which are sure to include disney's cutest new cash cow. if you could take a picture i know it's mandelbrot take a good picture joined now by d.w. storm expert scott roxboro i am he's here to tell us what this means for the global

entertainment industry scott so disney launched its disney plus platform just about a year ago it looks like they're going all in on streaming those should netflix be worried yeah i think so i mean netflix is still course the big you know 800 pound gorilla in streaming they they they have something like $200000000.00 subscribers worldwide but took them a decade to get there disney launched its disney plus service just last year. they're already at 86000000 and they expect at 300000000 subscribers in the next 3 years i think they they could make it and as you're saying they're just pouring money into streaming i mean 10 new marvel t.v. series 10 new star wars a t.v. series basically what disney strategy is for taking minor characters from their big film franchises like loki or one vision from the avengers movies and they're making them into a spin off t.v. series basically they're hoping that. these stories these characters have global

fan bases from the films they're hoping with the series they can basically go toe to toe with netflix internationally so does that mean that disney's giving up on cinemas on the big screen no actually not i mean disney made a very clear they said last year we made $13000000000.00 at the box office in cinemas there not to throw that business away but i think what we are going to see now is a real division that we're going to see the very very big movies the big disney movies the big marvel movies the big star wars movies those are going cinemas for the smaller stuff is probably going to go online and we might even see smaller films from studios that disney owns like like fox or search like pictures also go straight to straight online ok it's got stick around because it's also the european film awards they've been handing out prizes all week and we've got a look now at some of the winners. italian period drama hidden away in one european film honors for best cinematography and best costume design. the film star ileo johnno is also up for best actor for his performance as

self-taught italian artist antonio would look up to him i. know i turn out to be the hero of my story whether that station will be held by anybody else is a european film award for best production designer went to british comedy the personal history of david copperfield the appeal. of the shoes were you very. real dangerously is that. for the resort. is this how they came to contest this part. of your. condition. spanish side high dystopia the platform which netflix released worldwide won for best visual effects. could.

be due to the age of the. best original score went to the heartache soundtrack of berlin alexanderplatz a modern day update of the german classic novel. i'm back with our film gratis got roxboro scott it looks like it was a great year for european cinema i'm a little embarrassed to say that i haven't seen any of these movies yeah but of course the barest of italy we have locked down across most of europe and that's case most the world so a lot of these films never even made it into indiscernible because cinemas were shut which is actually why the european film awards are extremely important this year because this is a chance to really shine a light on on some of these movies that maybe got maybe got overlooked and as you say. been a great great year for european cinema 2020 ok so the technical awards have already been announced but there are the really big awards best actor best actress best film those are going to be announced saturday night germany already has won it yesterday with berlin i'm excited about any chance of another yeah i think the best

chance for jimmy to win another if a is in the best actress category has got 2 german actions nominee 2 by favorite german actresses i think either could win you've got nina hoss she's nominated for little sister where she plays the long suffering little sister of a famous theater actor played by famous theater actor lars i think and she sort of cares for him as he's dying of cancer i really hope for this but she's up against big competition because there's another german actress pola big and she stars in dino which is a love story from the director petzold both these are 2 incredible performances and i would want to pick between them ok what's your pick for best film best film i mean i think we talked about this early in the week another round the danish dramedy i love it's about 4 high school teachers in midlife crisis and the side to sort of get through it by getting really into day drinking where it's a lariat movie it stars mads mikkelsen. it's also not just

a comedy though it's quite a touching drama really life affirming film i love this movie my favorite movie of the year competition particularly from a polish movie called corpus christi which is about a priest who a person needs a priest and so gets involved in a small town spiritual community also a great film already nominated for an oscar this year so maybe that's the big competition but it will definitely be pulling for another round to wed ok scott rock's for us thanks so much. another movie making headlines is nigeria's 1st lesbian feature film if it meaning what's the movie was released online this thursday for human rights day that's because the country's censors won't allow it to be shown in cinemas nigeria has one of the world's biggest film industries known as nollywood it also has laws that punish homosexuality with up to 14 years in prison. or less but.

this is the path. if a tells the story of 2 women who fall in love in nigeria a country where same sex relationships are illegal in the past nollywood has often depicted queer characters as mentally ill or deeply troubled but the filmmakers say their film portrays normal life for a sizable percentage of the nigerian population i feel like for a very long time we've been told one sided story and the story is not complete if it does not represent all the groups in the society so what i wanted to through was until the full story by representing l.g.b. 3 people in 1000. production had to take place in secret the film's director the actors all face prosecution if censors decide their work promotes homosexuality and indeed thora these have threatened legal action in nigeria it's not accepted and so doing something like that puts you where you feel like it's not it's not the law

but but but i don't feel that it's bold i feel that it's ordinary i feel that it's my it's a big life just being shown on screen but it's been beautiful so the filmmakers have opted to have released on a streaming platform to ensure it can be seen by people within nigeria as well as. more arts and culture headlines now and hold onto your mask the elusive street artist banksy confirmed on instagram that he is the creator of this rather graph. public health warning the painting appeared a few days on vale street england's steepest road in bristol reminding us that coded safety measures are nothing to sneeze at. but they were swift drop terse 2nd surprise album of 2028 the new work is called evermore swift says it's the sister album to her chart topping record folklore which came out just 5 months ago the 1st video from the new album had millions of you tube hits within hours. lucky her

while the world's most famous cellist yo-yo ma has also been keeping busy during the pandemic he's got a new album together with pianist catherine stott of songs of comfort and something a lot of us can use here's a preview of the album starting with somewhere over the rainbow. this is. tough times and you know who lost people who are who are pushing through and leading their

strenuous life and and. and for the longest time not knowing whether there's light at the end of the tunnel. all of these songs have i think specific meaning for people in different places and since this is you know a worldwide epidemic and and it's one of the few things that actually. all at once are joining us together you know i mean in a horrible way but we're all kind of faced with the same issues right and and so we

think music kind of could do that at various times also and we're hoping that this is sort of like you know a way. into people's hearts and memories. when we. were only i. mean. i think when i think of the words of over the rainbow it's like it kills me you know it's like it's completely birthed you know you can't why can't i you know it's a. it's just it just kills me and 2nd every time we play it you know we're sort of . missed you know either.

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