to make every delivery special. not just next day but every day. thousands of children still waiting for their delivery sponsor a box today so together can deliver inches. this is deducted news asia coming up today 15 years old and already seeking asylum . for all rise of hong kong pro-democracy activist who sought asylum in the u.k. but how open are countries to providing a safe sanctuary to those fleeing beijing's heavy handedness in hong kong. and a filipino family that was on their way then the pandemic hit now they can't even afford to eat what options do they and millions more like them have.

i'm british comedy welcome to dublin news asia glad you could join us a 15 year old girl is believed to have become the youngest ever hong kong protest to seek asylum in the united kingdom called she applied for asylum last week she joins a growing list of hong kong pro-democracy activists fleeing the territory in the wake of beijing's increased crackdown on dissidents did have a correspondent phoebe kong met before she travelled to the u.k. her story. aged 15 junior high school student aurora is packing for a trip of no return. it will be her 1st times hovering alone this frock plushy the icon of last year protest as a gift from her boyfriend will be her only companion on her journey to the u.k.

where she is seeking political asylum. once the shelter for political dissidents from mainland china hong kong no longer seems safe even for locals a role is among the city's youngest excels the teenage protestor was arrested in many and has been living in fear ever since i was a horse who sometimes i feel like being tailed i'm terrified of not from the door as police may come after me. all my teammates during protests are charged for serious offenses like rioting and arson. i'm afraid i'll be the next one someday my boyfriends identity makes me feel more insecure. auroras boyfriend. was the 1st protesters shot by police with a live bullet last year he's now facing 3 criminal charges the 19 year old was among a group of 5 activist who made

a failed bid was silent an assistance added u.s. consulate in hong kong this october 1 of them formally though of a pro independence group tony jones was arrested before he could breach the consulate gate and prosecuted and then the national security. sources told me the view that the other but at the best you couldn't sell tickets would give up ask permission to enter the possibly have power over turned away after a brief stay without specific ways that either one of them is it was said at. the u.s. consulate general in hong kong said it's unable to comment due to privacy issues. we're worried about and. fair trials and treatment in custody. the 3 protest related charges some cheekiness facing me put him behind bars for 6 to 7 years. he was shocked and hopeless of being rejected by the consulate

hong kong authorities are trying every means to silence the dissidents we are even more fearful under a security law the couple haven't seen each other in weeks because of safety concerns a rollover gretz having to leave without saying goodbye to most of her friends and family but she doesn't regret how her activism has affected her life. and. my generation is losing our freedoms day by day. that's why i don't see my future. seeking asylum or force myself into exile for the rest of my life which makes me upset and anxious but sacrifices have to be made it's still worth fighting despite repression. otherwise hong kong might be dead a lot sooner. a roar has now arrived in the u.k. where work takes 6 to 10 months to validate her asylum application 2020 months to

start of a new political era in hong kong but as generation of exiles like aurora have taken so staying the activism from afar. and someone who knows all about sustaining that activism is from law. and joins me now from london. a 15 year old. young people. well stephanie devastating because just in her shoes 15 year old go trying to protect the city's freedom but end up living in exile and has to apply in another country is the deficit a thing is an experience for her and it also shows that. if out it's young people and the people in general because well we were just fighting for democracy and autonomy but the city's judiciary system and also the government put all the

political persecutions on these freedom fighters yes indeed the political situation is really bad and i think the 15 year old go of feeling imminent danger and make that. choice ok you can serve where you has made it possible for hong kong those who were born before 9 to 97 the year of the handover. to british citizenship but that does not include people who were born after my md 97 do you think the u.k. government needs to rethink its policy. that in italy with being close contact with u.k. government and has been proposing that the scheme include individuals who were born after the 97 mostly from 18 to 23 and they are also in the main part of the protest to be able to have a pathway to citizenship in the u.k. so indeed we have very grateful for the b. and o.

scheme which allows 3 meet and eligible to hold us to come to the u.k. but i think it's a foreach in the scheme we work hard to kind of make all the people in need have the opportunity to go to a free place as they wish how confident are you in your dealings with the u.k. government the government is actually thinking of changing this policy. i think the government is considering of course there are lots of factors that the government has to consider and we appreciate that because. it is a big policy so that must be a lot of cooperation between departments and a lot of policy consideration but i think that the government is indeed rethinking about the policy and i read to hope that we can get good news in the coming future not a surge or oh there are many other young protesters who are also fleeing hong kong and seeking asylum in countries like germany canada and the united states how often

have you found a country to granting asylum to hong kong activists i think is quite early to say with court cases in germany and canada and some other paid places. normally the asylum seeking procedure takes 2 years so for now we don't have a massive amount of cases for. review or adequate reference but i think in general. the reception of the countries arrived with the exposure of protest and but we've got better documentation etc so i think indeed there are many countries improving they are policy towards hong kong people who flat for example in the us and i hope that by communicating with them.

and housing they fish a. process that we can let these countries to have a better understanding of what's happening in hong kong and benefit those who have left and if someone finally what is it like to leave one's life behind where one grew up and never be able to go back to. for me i left the city at the age of 27. for 5 to 6 months but locationally i i've been thinking about home i've been thinking about staying with my parents and my family's having dinner together so it's definitely devastating and broken when you think of these memories and you realize that you are now in the able to go back possibly in decades times or even for a longer timeframe so i think it's definitely psychological pain for

a lot of people and. it's difficult but i think for us we have great of course are we we are pursuing a course that is larger than ourselves and it's for the people phone calling for their basic rights so i think for me i never regret and i think most of the others share the same feeling. from law thank you very much for speaking to us. the hunger was already a problem in the philippines and then the pandemic struck but it's destructions put dually word journos out of work and pushed me into poverty it workers are struggling to meet demand for food with millions across the country need here's what one family feels is one of duty bruce's. volunteers prepare meals at a center in manila they're working overtime to meet their country's growing crisis

2200000 families now face sivia hunger. i believe that the hunger has affected us severely to the point that even goals with all means but they're living already in that desperate mold would come in ask for wood from us. the charity says it expects to reach 200000 people this year after the coronavirus crippled the economy sending many into poverty. they don't come more destitute than daniel and his family he lost his painting job when the pandemic hit now the face hunger and homelessness. i lost my job so my family can't eat when they want to and i can't even buy my daughter milk or diapers because i have no work. on.

the family are able to get some help busy free food centers like this one. the charity that runs it says they're overwhelmed with demand as the ranks of the city's poor swell nonetheless hope has not vanished. all of them by the way i wish our life would go back to how it was when we were happy when we had a proper shelter when we could well when we could take a bath and sleep i wish we could live life as before. daniel carries his 2 year old daughter back to their bed for the night an underpass where they can finally settle down for something to eat. and since the brandenburg began numbers of families going hungry has gone up in the philippines a crisis 1st forced many to beg and queue up for food. these pictures that story.

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temporality transformation and the transience of life and art. speculation was rife but now it's official berlin's international film festival one of europe's big 3 alongside the venice and cannes film festival will be quite different next year the belly naleo which just managed to squeeze in its 2020 addition last february just prior to the 1st corona lockdown had been hoping to hold an in person event in february as planned but now the new lockdown measures here in germany have forced them to come up with a plan b. for its 71st edition. so to get the lowdown on just what that plan b. will look like our film experts scott roxboro joins me from bond hello scott glad to see you there's been

a lot of speculation over how the belly nala will handle the festival next year what can you tell us about the plans for 2021. yeah. there are still some details to have be officially announced by the barely nala but i think we can give the sort of the general outline of what looks like is going to happen next year basically so the 2 main parts of the festival the main competition which is where the the big films that premier at the berlin festival and the film market which is where the films are new films are being bought and sold by people in the film industry those will happen but they're going to go online only and they're probably going to happen a bit later so instead of late february as was planned they're going to go into early march. otherwise what's going to seems like was going to happen with the belly now is they're going to move the rest of the festival in a sort of stripped down version to the summer and have a in person festival but much much later in the early summer when hopefully the

worst of the pandemic will be behind us and people actually be able to go back into the theaters again ok now how does briefly how do you think this will affect the film industry. the industry itself i don't think will mind at all they've gotten used to doing things virtually there was a film market in cannes that was all virtual there's one last month in los angeles that was all virtual the film industry itself doesn't really have a problem with this they got the custom to it and i think they've adjusted very well to doing things only online to doing zoo meetings like like the rest of us and obviously a lot less travel as a result now it's a bit of a late reckoning for berlin scott as the largest public festival in the world you were in cannes and in venice in their very reduced versions with those strict safety measures in place how do you see the future of the film festival circuit itself in the belly not in particular. yeah but is up against a real challenge here because as you said they were lucky earlier this year to come in just before the 1st lockdown in europe berlin lives from its audience it's the

world's largest public a film festival and having a sort of stripped down version like happened in cannes or like when it happened in venice really isn't the same thing it's only a sort of a temporary fix i can't see. moving permanently it would change the festival entirely and change the spirit of the film so i can only see next year is being a temporary fix and everyone is hoping that when the pandemic is over things will go back to normal i want full theaters in berlin and that we can get back into the cinemas thanks very much scott ross perot in bonn for that update and stay safe there scott. and staying with film another person taking covered restrictions very seriously is hollywood star tom cruise who blasted workers for breaking distancing rules on the set of the mission impossible 7 currently filming around europe cruz

was furious all his efforts to keep the filming going during the pandemic could be at risk using multiple expletives and threatening to fire anyone who put other people's jobs on the line. well he's been called the world's most controversial film and theatre director a man to challenge any taboo you know how was invited to italy's european capital of culture mattera in 29000 to stage a production he ran with it in the place where a pair of me and mel gibson made their own milestone films on the passion of christ he wondered whose cause would jesus take on in the 21st century the new gospel is a hybrid film project that seeks some answers. the new gospel presents jesus as

a modern day migrant played by eve also new in real life sonny moved from cameroon to italy as a student but i'm good at picking tomatoes so any organize a strike that drew international attention to the exploitation of farm workers for director me you know how the perfect man to play jesus. good. for me jesus had to have more than just acting skills i wanted to bring the bible to life in this way with these contradictions that's how i decided on even a black jesus from cameroon an activist who advocates for farm laborers. follow together we made a movie that's both about jesus and a kind of modern jesus tale that's his campaign against exploitation against the mafia. and. then for years hundreds of thousands of

migrants have been systematically exploited on italian farms recruited from refugee camps as illegal harvest workers for pitiful pay the mafia takes a cut. in the film you've also on your returns to the farms and finds his disciples in the fight for fair work conditions. filmed in the region around the team began a real life campaign called the revolt for dignity that organized real protests. even then they call going to jail not because there's a good thing. but they did. this in. revolt for dignity as a kind of umbrella organization that we founded together with eve also new together it's about. organizations that fight to protect refugees farm workers and sex workers against the mafia and big companies. and try to give them the dignified

living and working conditions. but already they've created affordable housing fair trade production and sell from distribution businesses for which he is still campaigning. in the film is a careful mix of reality and professional actors the new gospel is not a history film or a faithful adaptation of the bible but a tale for our times with parallels to the life of jesus. that's not so the subject of our film it's not by chance that jesus gets crucified he doesn't end up the big winner what's crucial is how we transform his weakness through solidarity that's what our movie's about the power of solidarity. brings the bible and to the 21st century. topical highly political.

humanity and just world. very moving work there from you know how and speaking of humanity it's the intersection of the natural and the manmade worlds that occupies german artist. and in these uncertain times to say the least to look at his often quirky musings on the theme of transience is somehow for at a clean relevant. a tree changing colors with the seasons that's what it looks like but there's more than meets the eye it's also a sculpture. this is. a very archetype of a tree and narrowly fast when the leaves fell i collected them and painted them green again. attach them to the tree with cable ties and. if it gets to a sickly it's about stopping the passage of time about bypassing audit that's why

it's called anti autumn and helps to mccain compares to all the gulf and he hopes. trees as a symbol of impermanence a motif much as i was taught for keeps returning to 8 years ago he installed these spinning trees in a berlin museum over time the leaves slowly ground to dust. through outside stuff as career the forests of his childhood in southern germany have stayed with him that's where he made some of his 1st artworks. that have been shifted by puts this work is called divide ports or forests sweep i made it in the forest behind my father's farm when i grew up in the countryside so for me nature and the forest are something very familiar and important it's something it's even more important to me the longer i live in the city. the

tree as a rocket. a street light as a shooting star sighs tough as artistic happenings have a certain fleeting humor to. be repurposed as familiar objects here truck tires tied in knots become floating clouds. this isn't an avoidance quick tour this here is a model for the cloud sculpture i'm going to cast it in branson to. it's basically a motorcycle or moped tires now that they're put together they are a sculpture to the northeast a kind of cloud good stands for lightness but also for gravity it's in the void could you feel like. it. stauffer and his assistance of kept producing work throughout the pandemic even as exhibition after exhibition has been cancelled.

the major theme of his work remains impermanence. and will finish off with a resound ing happy birthday beethoven germany's most famous composer was baptized 250 years ago on thursday the tributes have of course been global but this particular one from wednesday night in his birthplace bone marrow and so with that choose from us here in berlin stay safe. by. player.

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