this is deal with the news live from berlin the e.u. agrees on a more ambitious goal in the fight against climate change and member states agreeing to cut current house gas emissions by at least 55 percent in the next decade we'll get reaction to the deal in just a moment also coming up germany sees a 2nd record tally of corona virus infections with nearly 30000 new cases the pressure is growing for a new nationwide lock down to begin before christmas. and the landmark bill

pro-choice activists celebrate as argentina's lower house of congress votes now really to liberalize the country's abortion laws. i'm jared raid thank you for joining me world leaders will gather today for a virtual u.n. summit on climate ambition it's to mach 5 years since the power at con power is climate accord was struck and just in time for that meeting e.u. leaders have managed to reach a hard fought deal to dramatically cut their country's greenhouse gas emissions member states agreed to reduce emissions by 55 percent by the end of the decade and the new target aims to put the e.u. one track to reach net 0 emissions by 2050. judging by their faces there was no doubt it had been a long night here in brussels. after hungary and poland had finally

agreed to drop their veto on the entire e.u. budget leaders could get on with tackling what was the commission's most pressing issue before the pandemic struck the climate crisis. stuff you had to see often achieving this was worth a sleepless night i can't imagine what would have happened if we weren't able to reach this result is 10. she's talking about the e.u. xnu more ambitious climate goals compared to $990.00 the plan now for sea slashing greenhouse emissions by 55 percent in the next 10 years by investing in green energy technology the e.u. has pledged to become climate neutral by 2050 the previous target of 40 percent have been criticized as being far too low but some eastern countries with coal dependent economies feared serious consequences they demanded more clarity on funding to ease the transition according to the outcome of the meeting each member states individual situation will be addressed. this year and will is to take into

account that different countries had different starting points to take up the issue with the spirit of equality and solidarity. to the polish prime minister's office tweeted we have an agreement which creates the conditions for a just transformation of the polish energy an economy. with another major obstacle out of the way it was time for us to wrap up germany's e.u. council presidency the stuff in dog and i can tell you the german presidency was a lot of fun although we weren't able to achieve a lot of things that we planned this is all for me last time and as it's come 2021 portugal will be taking over. let's go to washington now and bring in david bosco he's the director of the international climate initiative at the world resources institute welcome to d w firstly i'm interested in what your reaction is to what the e.u. has agreed this 5055 percent cutting emissions by 2030 to reach the overall goal of

net 0 emissions by 2050 does this go far enough well this is a landmark of the sure. european union really jumped out ahead. with its target of net 0 emissions by the middle of this century and this is now a really important step along the way you can't get to 2050 without going to 2030 and this new commitment is one that really will i think have a creed of fact globally in terms of pulling other countries along showing the leadership role that the european union is playing with this target under the paris agreement and there's no question that some in europe wanted to go further european parliament for example said that it should be 60 percent target not the least 55 percent that was adopted but i think nonetheless this is this is quite a strong statement and david you mentioned the paris agreement saturday mox 5 years

since that deal was struck where do we stand globally how much progress has been made over these last 5 years. we're making quite a bit of headway i think when you look at questions like where renewable energy stands today the fall in prices of renewable energy where we're headed with electric vehicles which are now. growing substantially. especially in europe but in other parts of the world as well we're seeing quite a bit. of progress in terms of where we need to go at the same time missions are still over a long time horizon on the rise we've seen a drop this year because of the codice crisis but that's not something we can depend upon going forward we certainly shouldn't and so there's a real challenge because the trajectory is not is still not pointed in the right direction we have what we need to do we know what needs to happen in terms of

renewable energy in terms of transport in terms of agriculture but we need to increase the pace we're moving but not fast enough we've got about half a minute left i just wanted to ask your opinion on how crucial is america's commitment of course the incoming biden administration has expressed a commitment to you to tackle climate change sure well i think that the finest ration wants to take a quite strong stance on this the biden campaign had the strongest positions on climate change ever in american political history and by naming somebody like john kerry the former secretary of state as his special climate envoy to the world i think president biden has shown how seriously he's taking the issue there's a lot of work to be done but i think the opportunities are hard clearly there and need to be seen and that was david wasco director of the international climate

initiative at the world resources institute thank you very much david. thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world today work has restarted on the controversial nord stream 2 gas pipeline between russia and germany almost one year after u.s. sanctions brought the project to wall holt the pipeline is almost complete washington says it will make europe too dependent on russian gas bottling says it will create a secure energy supply. in germany is lifting a ban on deportations to syria for the 1st time in 80 years despite the ongoing conflict in the country the decision means that syria nationals convicted of a crime or dangerous security risk face deportation from january the 1st. a police officer in albania who shot a man did on tuesday for violating a coronavirus curfew has been remanded in custody the shooting of the 25 year old

man has triggered violent protests in the capital to rana and led to the resignation of the interior minister. well germany has set a new record for corona virus infections with nearly 30000 cases in the last day have been nearly 600 deaths to the highest daily total get weeks of a partial lockdown haven't slowed the spread of infection enough tougher restrictions same almost inevitable now something chancellor angela merkel and state leaders will discuss in a marriage and see talks this sunday. here the record infections are not just a number german hospitals like this one in mannheim are struggling to treat the rising number of patients with covert 19 get out on the streets you might not know the country is in crisis the so-called lockdown light restrictions mean shops and schools are still open. the german state of bad and written bad is not waiting

for the federal government to take action. from december 12th on we are imposing a general lockdown for all of back. from saturday residents there may only leave their homes with a valid reason such as going to work or school the situation is dangerous all lawmakers seem to agree on that several other german states are urging action at the national level. we can see it getting away from us slipping from our hands we have to make a decision that's clear more resolute and more understandable and. it's good this is a matter of life and death to put it clearly it's a matter of ethical responsibility that we in the government have chancellor i'm going to mikel is also in support of stricter measures on sunday germany's federal and state leaders will meet once more to discuss the crisis. meanwhile germany's

schools are preparing for more restrictions or a possible expansion of the vacation period yet education ministers are asking for as few cuts to schooling as possible. in our opinion vacation should not be extended but rather we should introduce remote learning or even a lifting of compulsory attendance or a combination of both these are 3 models we have. just under 2 weeks to christmas eve and a holiday that will probably be a lot quieter than usual. well the devastating effects of the pandemic and now are becoming increasingly evident in the united states this week has seen daily deaths from the virus rise to more than 3000 and at the same time with more and more people losing their jobs hunger has become a hoss reality in the world's richest country. that some 50000000 americans no

longer have enough to aids. just before the coronavirus pandemic struck angela cairney had started to work again she and her 3 children lived on her annual income of $55000.00 they had just moved into a bigger home now she's unemployed once again and she's desperate how will she pay her bills her rent and buy groceries i promise. that they would be normal children that have to take the bills and throw them up and pick the ones and hope that they total the amount that i have across the country people line up for food about 50000000 americans aren't risk of going hungry low income earners as well as the jobless they were able to get by thanks to the increased unemployment funds from the 1st coronavirus aid package but that money has run out there so many people are just struggling right now they're

worried about rent payments they're worried about all of their sort of basic expenses there's just not enough money to meet their food needs the u.s. urgently needs a new coronavirus aid package but in washington republicans and democrats have been fighting over the details for months there's no agreement and cite even those subsidies will run out at the end of the year. at that point angela cairney and millions of other americans would no longer be safe from eviction they could all end up on the street. lawmakers in argentina's lower house of congress have passed a bill to legalize abortion in the for the 1st 14 weeks of pregnancy the legislation still has to be approved by the senate which rejected a similar bill years ago activists have been campaigning for decades to reach this point. and are you 100 in 31 in favor 117 against

with 6 abstentions. i get with what these women had tirelessly campaigned for. the other got my as we've been fighting for these fundamental human rights for 15 years so we're overjoyed we held a 21 hour vigil outside congress and in more than 40 places around the country we took to the streets once more to make sure lawmakers knew they had to vote in favor just as the people already have. knowledge and tina has some of the world's most restrictive abortion laws women who undergo the procedure face prosecution. the rules are only waived in a handful of circumstances thousands of women have resorted to back street abortions and died. if and if it is western of human rights social justice and public health. crisis right is one we must begin

a debate and begin to think about our role as women and what we want whether or not we want to be mothers this is it. and if it is. but not everyone was happy meters away antiabortion activists held their own rally. that i don't believe it's a right i think the unborn have a right to live. and i think there are other options such as education and prevention. if the bill passes the senate it will make abortion illegal. i go up to the 14th week of pregnancy that pro-choice activists can't rest on their laurels yet is the 2nd time this has happened in 2018 a similar bill was rejected after passing the now house and despite enjoying strong public support these women hope that will be repeated. i am

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i how many of my kids you know welcome to the program several countries in africa are facing a 2nd wave of the covert 1000 pandemic a continent's number of confirmed cases has passed 2300000 according to africa's center for disease control and the current that toll is nearing 55000 countries with the highest number of positive cases roekel egypt ethiopia and south africa actually south africa this week announced that on lambing spike in infections seeing its teenagers are driving this new said infections authorities labeled clubbing of the school year parties spread out events we took our camera to the street and asked teenagers how they behave. i want you know far. more people. party i don't party

a lot of people in my age going out. seeing other people they don't follow like relations of. yeah they need money so they won't just say no. just ever because you can enter into inside the event wearing a. ring and you want to 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. the pandemic is is. it's you and me to sleep. it's it's it's not child. 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 doctors realized after studying more than 3000 blood

samples you said it was found in the kitchens that many people have been exposed to the virus 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. chain reaction or p.c.r. test. the p.c.r. test tells you who has an active viral infection of the types of 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. so then they will tell you that. in the population we do have a larger proportion of individuals who have actually seen the virus and then the find them bad we thought with the p.c.r. test. the findings reveal 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 and these are my favorites they also big on the continent the video game industry is booming across africa more people than ever before have access to gaming platforms and developers are designing games meaning young africans can now explore vegetal universes but they can relate to civic. 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. 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 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 at the

center of international competitions with big prizes up for grabs. i think if 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 e-sports is that it has the capacity to attract huge audiences who come and watch a bit like other sports today some games can attract the millions of people who connect online just to be able to watch others play. it was. just 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 a $34000000.00 prize pool. in an industry that is gradually providing more jobs african players are dreaming big. imposing i want to take it to the next level just

play to have applied to the best and to the best almost play again and again. here he can test the skills and compete with other game is around the world. globally the gaming industry has doubled in size in the past decade 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 you've got me through the. wall itself and on this yuki. you might think 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 nickel present but you need to visit again don't immediately review. 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 certainly there. is a bucket or minibus driver you need to pick up as many passengers as possible and be the 1st to our. platform games like pro. force and semblance which were made in south africa or the action role playing game orian from common room with huge successes now the market is still small but 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 sylvia i've got 20 known in a given well about queen rule she's one of the top professional game is in kenya and joins us from nairobi hello sylvia can you tell us more about challenges like yourself in africa. all right thanks so much for having me on some of the challenges that give us. a lot about the south those are based in other continents going to north america and you have to look and i said. give me experience and you can be it's difficult because this is really i'm not all meaning that. there's a lot of to me between getting input using the time actually and then to invest in somewhere to see if the options are beginning to get to you should you have someone parks you for that since you just did you reach up in search of. 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. well i feel that some of these challenges we've made for on ice these need to. connect you know more way to do things if you just this in the. race moved into being so you could become successful ask who came from some off into. the country or different quentin's not to mention a field that's the game developers need to start creating most of us not to look at the biggest this and make it easier for a lot of us to transition into professional guinea and it can also. become a market to because a lot of our debts are going to you financing in european or american sub was given the impression that time because of who professional. here you definitely are not

now you're a law student but also a game i'm doing because of the serious profession just like lowell. yes. given can be considered a serious profession mean i'm leaving what we have. from some of the continent and i feel that if you also get some of our most to lose if you next if you had to of technology to head this is a given once you just can for example give me on a country you give me a tsunami must be because they don't know or hasn't been upgraded. this year i mean yeah. now 10 seconds what are your final words to all the young game as in africa. my final words are. if you want to go professional game up go ahead and guess that one so you might me go to yahoo. game watch not so videos there's

a whole lot of jokes here for you ok guys i'm going to watch a lot of youtube videos and i'm going to be to you and gave so the i got the money . for 1st. time. and that's how we wrap up the show from all bastar is cool to do. for you can visit our facebook on twitter top pages remember mosque up because virus cases are rising again on the continent with pictures of some people setting a good example for us all good by the way we get.

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this is. welcome to the program a christmas lockdown was once considered the worst case scenario by many in germany but now it's all but inevitable on friday the country reported almost $30000.00 new cases in 24 hours a daily record and the number of deaths continues to reach all time highs. it's a shock for many germans the record new cases suggesting tougher lock downs are on their way stores could face much stricter measures including closing entirely nationwide this christmas season the time when retailers had expected over 100000000000 years in revenues experts fear devastating economic consequences. we expect significant increase of bankruptcies in 2021 obviously the

longer and the stricter any law lasts and will become the higher the likelihood of even more bankruptcies next year and also. of an increase of our employment opinion is split as has become so common sharing this pandemic between the joule priorities the health of the public and the health of the economy. would i think it's good but i don't think is good is that shops are supposed to close because it'll fecht all the small retailers while the large supermarkets and drug stores where the situation is much more dangerous are allowed to stay open. he has a slim even though it's bad for the economy and everyone else i think a lockdown would be better it would definitely be better off either. but it wouldn't be better for business data agency credit reform predicts up to $24000.00 insolvency proceedings next year that'd be the biggest jump since the end of the

2nd world war with tourism catering and the cultural events industries being hit the hardest germany had expected christmas to be tough on everyone this year but for retailers across the country it could be an exceptionally dreary holiday season . here where u.s. consumer confidence has risen in december suggesting growing optimism about the longer term prospects for the economy the u.s. is posting record numbers of coronavirus hospitalisations and. yes economists had been expecting a drop in confidence compared with november however it experienced a bounce according to data from the university of michigan. let's get to the bottom of this with our financial correspondent in new york quarter explain to us why confidence can be rising at this time. yeah i mean it has been a slippery slope into pretty an even recovery what might have felt consumer

confidence is all the news about the vix scenes that we've got maybe also all those headlines all for records on the stock markets in recent weeks might also have helped to increase confidence up but then if we do see what happens with the consumer confidence figures they are not really bipartisan so after the election said democrats are definitely felt much better than republicans did. that's interesting so republicans feeling more downbeat democrats feeling more feet are any of them right. well there might be overly optimistic also if you look at the stock market by the way and you see all those funny constructions that they're building here to avoid indoor dining by the way the governor of new york today actually announced that indoor dining will be stopped in the upcoming monday so that could be tough for the restaurant owners we

might see more layoffs talking about layoffs just on thursday we got those weekly jobless figures that came in much worse than expected so clearly there is all this hope was the reccy and the like but that might take a while and especially in the upcoming months the situation all to economically could get worse and then also if you look a lot of people did not have to pay rents for now the same is true with evictions that were stopped for now but that's going to change at some point and that could also dent in the mood of consumers once again. on the streets of new york thanks for joining us. now some of the other business stories making the news work has resumed on the north stream 2 pipeline which will move natural gas from russia to germany despite u.s. complaints washington has threatened sanctions on companies involved in the project . and the you is set to announce new rules next week to punish

misbehaving tech firms including 6 percent fines on turnover brussels wants the likes of google and facebook to crack down on illegal content on their plan or. how the trading relationship between the e.u. and the u.k. is going to change at the start of january deal or no deal but we still don't know how it or change among those worst affected by the uncertainty of british farmers. these fields have been cultivated by monte andres family for 5 generations the farm of 80 great recs it he hopes to reclaim the freedom and independence of pre e.u. days wanted to take things back into his own hands just like boris johnson promised . but now with bricks it looming he says he feels abandoned by his government. well it's like driving into a fog with no law it's just me. i don't know i don't really don't know if you.

tell me what to do. or do it but there is no need think it's just a lot of talk on the television but there's no what do we do. andrew's dream was for britain to become an independent trading power again after breakfast it. but independent still requires structure a framework. will there be trade agreements or not if you go to stand what it's doing at the moment it doesn't. so we're on our own we're going to back to the wall again. but don't worry we you know we're we're resilient people and we know we'll come through it. like i'm sorry no more. we trauma andrew brown fools to stay in the e.u. its common agricultural standards. these are higher than those in the u.s.

the country boris johnson wants to close a trade deal with. a trade deal that could spell ruin for farmers like him. the way they treat their animals i think is absolutely appalling that they're saying they won't allow low standards food into the u.k. that is that is produced at lower standards than ours but they refused to put that into into law yet such a law would grant protection to british farmers brown and others like him simply can't compete with the low costs of industrial farming but so far only has a vague promise says when you guarantee that imports will have to be at the same standard that we grow yes absolutely there's no point in having all the environment with high animal welfare standards if you lead them to be undercut much choice and

ultimately if you have high standards here and then you allow food in from elsewhere you're not really contributing to animal welfare or environmental standards you're simply offshoring those low standards and that's wrong but with rex it less than 3 weeks away an actual law guaranteeing this has still not been passed. cuba is scrapping one of its 2 official currencies in january that convertible pays so mainly used by visitors to the country will go as part of a reform package that will also see the minimum wage dramatically increase cubans will soon have to get used to paying with just one kind of money the peso the communist government says doing away with the convertible equivalent is about improving fairness. yes. it's already been said that this reform is not a magic solution to all the problems that are present in our economy however it will enable the creation of conditions necessary to enhance in

a more substantial manner. in normal shops people will only be able to use the peso doing away with the convertible peso which was pegged to the dollar but because the cuban government desperately needs hard currency a number of new dollar stores now offer household and other imported goods in exchange for dollars or euros this means fewer goods like these in other stores so retailers could theoretically increase their prices for scarce goods but shopkeepers are being warned not to stoke inflation. we will not tolerate speculative pricing because it clashes with our coronavirus measures those not complying will face severe punishment. good shortages remain an issue in cuba whatever the currency the pandemic and related drop in tourism have hit the country hard whether pesos or dollars are in scant supply is

essentially a moot point. and finally one of the ways you know christmas is coming in japan when you start saying. everywhere. the japanese retail phenomenon is caught. and what's inside the bag is with more than the price tag but the catch you don't know what's inside to you. that's all from me in the business team here check out our website to. suspect this .

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it. our future depends on what happens here in one of the most fragile ecosystems on earth. northern lights life within the arctic circle starts december 21st on the w. . he is going to war with netflix pumping billions more dollars into it streaming service. can disney catch up that's coming up here on arts and culture and nigeria gets its 1st lesbian why the film's 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 unst. contact 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. you don't know if you could take a picture i know there's mandelbrot trick or treater joined now by do you know when you stole my 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 there should netflix be

worried yeah i think so i mean netflix is still course the big you know $800.00 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 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's tragedy is 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 so does that mean the disney is 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 searchlight 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 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 de luca boy i know i turn out to be the hero of my own 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 shoot the you very real real dangerously she's got. a very sorry. if this can take on tuesdays but. all feel. ok the show with. spanish side high dystopia the platform which netflix released worldwide won for best visual effects it's. ok if you believe those 2 digits 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 grass got rocks sky it looks like there 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 stuff the barest obviously we have blocked out 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. in a great great year for european cinema 2020 ok so the technical awards have already been announced but they're the really big awards best actor best actress best film those are going to be announced saturday night germany already has one if they withdrew and i'm excited about any chance of another yeah i think the best chance for me to win another is in the best actress category because you got 2 german actions nominee 2 by favorite german actresses i think either could win you got

nina hoss she's nominated for little sister where she plays the long suffering little sister of a famous theater actor played by famously or actor lars i did her and she sort of cares for him as he's dying of cancer i really hope the last wins for this but she's up against big competition because there's another german actress. and she stars in dino which is a love story from the director kristen 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 talk 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 it's very it's 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 the competition particularly from a polish movie called corpus christi which is about a priest who a person is a priest and so gets involved with small town spiritual community also great film 00 already nominated for an oscar this year so maybe that's the big competition but i'll definitely be pulling for another round to wed ok scott rocks for us thanks so much. another movie making headlines is nigeria's 1st lesbian feature film effect meaning whoa 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. for let's be honest this is the past. 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 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 thirty's 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 norm but but but i don't feel that it's bold i feel that it's ordinary i feel that it's my life just being shown on screen but it's been beautiful so the filmmakers have

opted to have if a real east 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 dropped her 2nd surprise album of 2028 the new work is called evermore swift says it's the sister album to her chart topping records 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 the 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 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 reaching into people's hearts and memories. or early on. i think when i think of the words. over the rainbow it's like it kills me you know. it's like it's a good birth you know you care like it 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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