this is g.w. news live from berlin safe and sound tonight hundreds of boys are back in the custody of the nigerian government after being kidnapped by militants the boys were taken from a northern school last week prompting anger and fresh demands to better protect the country's children get a live update from our correspondent in law goes also coming up tonight french president emanuel has tested positive for covert 19th the self isolating but there are concerns about all those he had contact with recently including numerous european leaders we'll have the latest on the tracking in tracing and physically

and emotionally abused d.w. speaks with 2 elite german gymnast who say they were bullied and mistreated. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us we begin with breaking news that's coming in from africa officials in nigeria say more than 300 school boys kidnapped last week have been released the boys were abducted from a government school in the northwest state of kut scene of the jihadist group boko herat claimed responsibility for the kidnapping though officials have cast doubt on that claim now the state governor says most of those taken have been handed over to government security h s. let's get the latest now from our correspondent in.

florida. this is breaking news have you heard anything about the condition of these boys i mean how were they doing. the boys all we know all we've heard is that the boys are currently on their way to crack the last 60 of all 340 of them have been released. most of the boys that were kidnapped have been released and they are now on their way to the city we also know that they will be received by the president in the last city . that they would be arriving at around midnight so that's all we know for now and do we know anything about the circumstances surrounding their release i mean were there negotiations between the government and i mean do we know any of them.

yes we know that the government has been negotiating the release of this boy for some days now in fact there were about 4 1. groups trying to negotiate the release of these boys and the government all even the president over time tried to promise people on ash these boys i eventually going to be released so they were claiming that a lot of effort into negotiating and making sure that the boys. and we know the islamist group boko claimed responsibility for the kidnapping why would they want to take hundreds of boys away from their family. well it's unfortunate that. they would they would do use us as a target to pass a message across you know boys who just want to be in school to learn but that is

the crux of the belief. we have basically an anti formal education terrorist group so that is the crux of the i believe they want they want an end to western education in nigeria so it makes sense to them to attack schools if you recall 2 years ago chibok. was attacked girls where. kidnapped from that school in chibok and that is not the only case we've seen teacher as we've seen school administrators anything that has to do with schools that's the main target because again like i said we want an end to formal education and i'm sure it's all right our correspondent lourdes took your reporting tonight from bloggers in nigeria with news that 300 school children school boys have been released and are in government custody tonight thank you

french president has tested positive for the corona virus the president's office says that it's highly likely that micro called the virus had a european councils summit last week has begun 7 days of quarantine his diagnosis is fuelling alarm and then desire to among europe's leaders many of them had close contact with him at that summit some of them are now restricting their movements and they're getting tested. and affectionate squeeze that's how french president emanuel greeted officials and heads of government last week at the e.u. summit and how he welcomed portuguese prime minister antonio costa to the elysee palace on wednesday. but now that michael has tested positive for the corona virus those close contacts may wish they dodged his warm embrace. last night the

president started to experience symptoms indicative of covered 19 immediately isolated and took a p.c.r. test the results of which confirmed that he is positive for coke in $1000.00. cinnabon as for everyone who test positive in this country contact tracing began immediately in order to identify the president's close contacts. back home symptoms are mild he attended this meeting virtually from isolation but the positive test has abandoned both his agenda and the agenda of european politics as the u.k. and the e.u. attempt to negotiate a breaks a trade deal before the end of the year. a growing list of european leaders who met with my call are now working from home working that is unless they become seriously ill. in paris there was little surprise at the president's misfortune. this i laugh at this it's serious it affects everyone so no there's no reason to

blame him. evil it's obvious given his job that this would happen so it doesn't surprise me. but they probably didn't respect the social distancing rules. michael joins a long list of world leaders who have caught the virus and just over a week before the e.u. was hoping to begin vaccinations. our here's a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines british prime minister boards johnson says it's very likely that there will be no trade deal with the european union johnson has been speaking to each commission president of the fund alliance she says it will be very challenging to overcome remaining differences we give have stalled over fishing and fair trade arrangements to the king of sweden says his country has failed in its handling of the coronavirus crisis king cargill stuff role is largely ceremonial made the rare criticism during an annual television appearance sweden's pandemic policy has left measures largely

voluntary and has been blamed for a high death toll among the country's elderly. a major winter storm has been battering the u.s. east coast much of new york city including times square blanketed with snow millions of residents are dealing with heavy snowfall just a week before christmas officials say they are working to ensure there is no disruption to deliveries of coronavirus vaccines severe weather warnings remain in force. now to a controversy engulfing germany gymnastics there spiegel newsmagazine reported recently on allegations of bullying and mistreatment by a coach in the city of camden and v.w. has been speaking with 2 former elite jim news who say that the problem is much wider than previously thought. naomi and ruby vandyke are learning to love gymnastics all over again for many years their love for the sport

has disappeared. aged 10 and trying for big things the twins moved to an elite training center near cologne when their performances dipped they say they were called fat and lazy by their coach that's slim's the front is the worst thing was when he said he wouldn't come to competitions with us because we were embarrassing him when you're 14 or 15 you need a coach he supports you no matter how badly he always let us down just before the competition saying you're super heavy and you're embarrassed i may be out of them yet miss on one occasion during a bar's exercise naomi said she was purposely dropped on her head to teach her a lesson before he pushed me 2 or 3 times to go down lower but i knew he wasn't holding me properly that's why i didn't go lower and then i did under pressure but he let go of me and said there you see. if. they complained to the local

gymnastics association but say they weren't taken seriously or believed it makes a field day with a problem with devastating affects on their development if i was not the same and i still remember when i was 14 i just didn't want to wear my gym outfit anymore i always thought everything about me was wrong how i look where i come from what i do how i talk who i am so it really hurt me as a person back then and also when it has an effect on pilots in a statement to the local association the right nischelle turner said it was quite surprised by the allegations adding the r.c.b. takes the allegations raised very seriously and will clarify the facts as soon as possible. at the time naomi and ruby were given 3 options either put up with the coach quit the sport or as they ended up doing move to the a limp. training censoring penates earlier this month problems there were uncovered magazine a dozen other gymnasts accused the head coaching chemists gabrielle

a fraser of bullying them and making them train through injury naomi and review say pain killers and injections were handed out freely without prescriptions and without the knowledge of athletes parents but the twins felt they couldn't speak up because of the baggage they come with. because we were always told we were annoying a we were the problem we didn't want to be a nuisance we just wanted to show we were actually hardworking and so that's why we didn't mention a lot of things. went on at this big. 3 be that acceptance came at a price and she was forced to ignore her constant back pain with one coach telling her it was just pretty competition. maybe and she would often tell me i was imagining the pain in my back but i didn't know the difference between so muscles and real pain that went on for a year and a half and at some point i believed i was imagining it to the run up to get out

those matters no i don't know if it wasn't her imagination ruby having been denied access to her mit scans would eventually need an operation. fraser who's been suspended pending an investigation has called all the allegations baseless and says she never oversteps the mark it was her strong denials that prompted naomi and ruby to tell their story. stating we can definitely confirm these baseless allegations that the other girls have meant by that i have 2 or 3 of them are with us in candidates and we witnessed how badly they were treated it like that we can easily say it's not baseless. and they convince us that. these days the twins only compete in the national the no longer trimming of international success percent least now they can perform again with a smile on their faces. russian president vladimir putin has used his annual news

conference in moscow to praise the national health care system in a virtual gathering dominated by the pandemic also accuse the us of starting a new arms race and he left off claims that the criminal and was behind the poisoning of opposition leader alexei. this year's news conference with the russian president was a socially distance video encounter with journalists spread out through several rooms across russia. each reporter held up a sign bearing their news outlets name or the subject they wanted to ask about the coronavirus pandemic dominated the 1st hour. and yet not one single health system in the world was prepared for the pandemic we've analyzed nationally and we found that our system was the most effective.

you know the rate of infection in russia is higher at the moment but much lower than in the u.s. for example however doubts of been raised whether the figures reflect reality whether the middle one journalist asked whether the president had himself been vaccinated. putin responded by saying that russia's vaccination program was taking place in stages and his turn had not yet come he was also asked about the poison attack on russian opposition leader alexina valmy. he's not working always in english who cares about him if we had wanted to poison him then we would have completed the job. the kremlin has vehemently denied any involvement in the poisoning but this week the investigative group telling cash released a report alleging the russian secret service agents had been tracking the valley in the days leading up to the attack. you're watching the news live from berlin been facility's up next with the business news ticker well he will be right back on the

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happy holidays to you again soon everybody daisy one who sees it. why subscribe to d.w. books you meet your favorite writer might object to what i write is to share where to find beautiful. books on you to. record highs of the new york stock exchange despite a growing army of unemployed americans traders are optimistic about something. europe finally wakes up to the importance of batteries for electric cars joining the race against china to power the future of mobility. at a symbol of the star of bethlehem shines on a pandemic fails to destroy christmas for mexico's points to the oppressors. and it fizzling as you business the number of americans applying for unemployment benefits

rose again last week 288-5000 the highest since september and worse than expected the resurgence of corona virus infections as disrupt a business and threatens an economic recovery the pandemic is seeing many states limit the size of gatherings and close all reduce the hours of restaurants stores and other businesses that's triggering a new wave of layoffs. and hopes is still high on wall street that congress will soon serve up $900000000000.00 recovery package let's get more from its quarter he's in new york force against is that what is buying boeing stocks rallied today you know so s. you might see so the 1st 2 winter storm just possibly all my son back out of virtual a snow day so so far far to the good course if you look at the job market clearly the trend is not really our friend here for

a couple of weeks now the situation actually worsened sold at the stock market was up might be due to the hopes that we might get an aid package but then we also shouldn't forget the 5th meeting that we had on wednesday when fed chairman jerome powell reiterated that interest rates will remain close to 0 for at least mix 2 to 3 years so there is an enormous liquidity flooding the market and basically everything is up so did it mention stock prices on your records that was true for the s. and p. $500.00 and for the nastar composite the dow jones is just high as shy of a new all time high but also gold oil prices or bitcoins everything is up at the moment as far as the unemployed time is running out though isn't it. it clearly is running out i mean 1st of all on saturday spending bill is going to

expire so it will be crucial to get a new spending bill passed and what members of congress try to do is that they do both possible new spending bill and a new aid package at the same time time wise that might not be possible so there is talk in congress that actually they might come up with a short term spending bill so that they can get a bit more time but if you do talk about the labor market actually the day after christmas there will be unemployment benefits expiring for $12000000.00 americans so yes time is running out and it would be crucial to get something done it was then the next week how likely that is i really don't know i mean we've been here for weeks and months so much talk about hope that a picket will come and it never actually materialize so let's wait and see if this time is different white and see approach there from

a new york correspondent thank you. the u.s. dollar got a global beating on thursday it plunged to a new 2 and a half year low against the major currencies the euro hit $1.23 in asian trading before giving up some of those gains china as you want also moved higher against the dullards from levels not rape since june 28th at a list expect the queen back to weaken even further in the coming days. the strength of the euro is a double edged sword for europe on the one hand it points to the fact that investors are quite confident that the european economy will recover even as many countries here are heading into our now and new walk down to combat the coronavirus on the other hand it raises the risk of deflation in europe that's been a big concern as the euro strengthens that means imports are getting cheaper at the same time it will also raise pressure on european exploiters whose products are going to get more expensive for europe's trading partners the european industrial

sector and export in sector has been one of the one bright spots in the economy the strength of the euro is not going to be welcomed by many of these acts borders and export dependent economy use. now to some of the other business stories making news big cohen has risen to another record high topping $23000.00 u.s. dollars the value of the virtual currency has rocketed this year it could be a boon for platforms like client base it applied on thursday to go public it would be the 1st big american crypto exchange to list on the market. the european union has extended fishing quotas for stock shared with britain for the 1st 3 months of next year and go she does is still working on a long term deal as part of break the talks one of the reasons for the quotas is to prevent certain species from being over fish. and europe's court of justice as deems the written devices used by for illegal

a comic to use the technology to cheat on emissions tests french prosecutors said be deceived by is of its diesel vehicles. the electric vehicle sector has moved into the fast lane a fleet of startups has gone public this year as the man for lithium ion batteries picks up the consultancy mckinsey says annual global demand for the batteries is 282 gigawatt hours in a decade it could be well over 2 and a half 1000 that's growth of more than 800 percent or another sector is dominated by one country china $100.00 of the world's 140 battery plants its largest producer has a 3rd of the market followed by a few more asian manufacturers from japan and south korea but where does that leave europe well it's trying to play catch up you got an exclusive interview for this next report with the european commissioner for strategic foresight as well as the

c.e.o. of scandinavia thought. in sweetens forest something is taking shape which many say is decisive for the economic future of europe political my own battery plant start up north bold plans large scale battery production here to supply european automotive giants like fox of argument b.m.w. found a pizza carlson used to be tesla's purchasing director now he's taking on asia's powerful competitors. in a very green way it's definitely a challenge i mean we're we're fighting against these lords large corporations. we do it with very very strong skills and with speed and you know my experience from from my days at tesla is that you come a long way if you have the right people and you work with a sense of urgency and it's certainly urgent europe of all places home to the world's largest car makers there's barely any automobile battery production and the

battery makes up a 3rd of a car's value the e.u. has been asleep at the wheel now it's responding with billions of euros in economic development aid 3 years ago but 3 production system in europe was nonexistent and i think it was very clear that people are very sore and not import only the batteries about the fee want to change the course they will very soon be importing electric cars so it would be really a danger for the whole european car industry. not fold once mass production here to begin in 2021 and a further plant is in the planning stage other companies are also lining up for a piece of the action the e.u.'s to be self-sufficient in battery production in 5 years time we all are in the me that this transformation or revolution the way he you like to look at it and it's very very exciting and it's also exciting to see europe taking a leading role here where china has been kind of dominant up to now but that europe

is really taking a lead a position. from battery importer to export or you know only a few years then ambitious goal right now the sector is still very much a lot of work in progress. coronavirus isn't stopping mexicans from celebrating christmas with the traditional point said he. ministry says some 16000000 plants have been sold across the country there were fears sales at full many producers will be worried about their future 9 months ago when the planting season began and the pandemic hit. mariella espinosa has been growing and selling concepts he has for many years but this year has been her most challenging year to date the pandemic has given her so many obstacles to overcome but now she's almost managed to sell all of her christmas eve flowers. never to my meant they left the campus but becoming thankfully we're about to run out of our

producer the last time they met but the pandemic did affect us because we planted less than we usually do but primarily because the producer did not deliver the seeds in full and then we thought we wouldn't be able to sell all the projects but we're about to finish. in some of cannot see them in that interview that they're not the film mario's family is just one of 200000 in mexico city whose livelihood depends on flowers the city council has supported them by providing around 40000000 euros in aid this year. but could figure. because if they have a good economy they won't stop that activity and the activity gets preserved. he got it but if. the pun says he is an indigenous mexican flour the plants association with christmas began in 16th century mexico the star shaped leaf pattern is said to symbolize the star of bethlehem. for the producers who depend on

its sale to make ends meet the importance is threefold economic religious and cultural it's become a universal icon at this time of year. and it will certainly make a brighter christmas business with you again very soon.

entered the complex missouri kelly more than 2 years ago ethiopian prime minister abi ahmed road to power with a wave of hope but now he's waived the military offensive on forces in the northern tier growing region my guest this week from addis ababa is saudi cobra ethiopian minister for jamaal which is a ship where is the peaceful future his prime minister promised conflicts of. 60 minutes. and you know. years we knew you and

how last year's german chancellor will bring you an angle a man called as you've never heard her before surprised to so with what disposable jewish medical relief. we talked to people who followed her along the way myron's and critics alike now as the world's most powerful woman shaking her legacy joining us from eccles la stops. every day. for us and for our partners. good morning to you. on the 20 children you more conservation. how do we big city screen or how can we protect animals and their habitats what to do with the waste. we can make a difference by choosing reforestation to produce forestry recycling for disposal

more new solutions for bush cheney said you know what. is truly unique and we know that the uniqueness is what our wows are so we're going to survive good why do i see the important issues in global 3000 on g.w. and oh my. goodness. this is due to the news africa on the program today concern grows for the millions of people still cotswold ethiopia's northern region up to dr sami has begun arriving but agencies say they're still not being allowed to reach people they know in need and that the situation there is critical. just last week get behind the scenes of a new film being produced in cameroon the producers say peace is the message.

hello i'm kristie one but it's good to have your company international aid agencies all sounding the alarm over the situation in the northern ethiopian region off to cry they were allowed to deliver some supplies at the start of the week but they say they need full humanitarian access to the region if they are to save lives the fear is that millions of people into did not have enough to eat or drink and that the area is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster following the recent conflict there not scenes of thousands have fled the hostilities into gride as we've reported many of them on now in sudan and they are also in dire need. the refugee camp in sudan one of several camps scattered along sudan's border to ethiopia the feeling out with people fleeing the conflict in the neighboring t.

region. and. we were in the house have a refugee camp and then we came here we've been here for a week there aren't enough tents or enough water and we're exposed to the sun most of the time. the u.n. says aid groups are struggling to care for the influx of refugees the remoteness of the camps is also a problem. in the 1st 2 weeks they took care of us but after that no one came again a truck comes with food twice a day but other than that there's nothing that i haven't even registered as yet. had so much to do. the refugees torn between the threat of violence into gripe and the grim reality of the camp. thanks be to god i'm with my daughters here who take care of me there's nothing here to make me happy as

a refugee and this isn't a life at all but thanks to the lord at least i'm here with my daughters. refugees continue to pour into the camps in sudan despite ethiopia's prime minister and the ahmed declaring victory in 2 grime more than 2 weeks ago and those at the camp hope they can soon return. meanwhile into grind baby starting to trickle in the 1st trucks arrived carrying bread cross medical supplies earlier this week you would. read. what they said. there is every. but millions into grime remain out of reach of aid as the conflict leaves hunger in its wake. of the formal i'm now joined by the

ethiopian american author and. to her new novel the shadow king was shortlisted for the booker prize the book's about is it is invasion of ethiopia in the 1935 welcome to news africa i do want to begin by asking me about the current conflicts in your country of the u.n. said that the world is watching the unfolding of the full scale humanise here in crisis how does that make you feel when. you know this is spend really it's a distressing. it's been a distressing event to watch this from a far. to know that. there aren't hiring other groups of people that are being left destitute that people's hopes and dreams for their families are being destroyed and people themselves are dying. it's

been a horrible month. and you know the fact that the world is watching. it feels like this is also a part of this war a part of everything that has been happening in 202030 year is ration versus ration your latest novel the shadow king tell us more about your using the fiction to tell the story of how ethiopians for the italians during the invasion. you know i have i was interested in looking at what war can tell us about human beings the human condition what war can reveal about our fears our love our ambitions our dreams the war that took place in 1935 when italy invaded ironically italy invaded and around the region that is being that is at in conflict

today's so i have been looking at what's happening in 2020 and thinking very much about the way the war was fought on the same grounds in 1935. now the main protagonist in the shadow king is a woman the other main characters are also women why was this important for you to do. i wanted to think about the fact that when we speak about war and when we speak of conflict we imagine men we imagine soldiers as men and yet women and girls are directly affected by war and in ethiopia in 1935 they understood that and they went to the front lines in order to have their own say in the way that their country and their future went and i wanted to portray that because we don't talk enough about the active role of women and in. the books to release it is city early dates to tell us why you're particularly looking

forward to that. well. i've done so much research in italy it's this this history is the italian history but it's also history that most of italy either doesn't know about or feels very uncomfortable in addressing and i welcome the conversations that will happen there and i am eager to join the dialogue that has been started by other italians already this is a history that was supposed to be forgotten. muscle violence that invasion in 1985 is a strong theme in the mill in the novel do you think that ethiopia has healed from that do you think it will heal from the conflict that's currently raging ethiopia has not healed from 1935 ethiopia had not had a chance to to talk about that history italy has never apologized for the

human crimes against humanity that they acted on with europeans at that time in 1935 there was a war fought in ethiopia in 1974 there was a revolution that came some of those people who live in 35 had to contend with revolution in 74974 to 2000 you know to 2020 people have those memories too so what we're seeing is a layering of memory and pain and trauma and violence and we haven't dealt with it yet that's the many guests ethiopian american brighton author of the shadow king thank you mustn't. stay with ethiopia for a moment to grab a is also the focus of the conflict zone this week we just want to show you what the country's minister of democratisation told us they were killed when she put it to him that the war was not over. mr minister of the international crisis group

says the following that this conflict runs the risk of ripping the state asunder the t.p.o. life as a valley into fight on there are reports of clashes continuing on the ground experts say we're seeing the beginning of a drawn out insurgency and yet your government is declaring victory you're saying that you have the situation under control after the offensive on the kelly your prime minister even said that that no citizen was killed is in your declaration a victory premature amid all of those assessments look. at reports a little graham we know what's. out there we. know there's a 100. and up him some pretty much. the war is over but you can see more of that interview here on 930 u.t.c. or watch dot com forward slash conflicts.

now the women you see behind me are part of a film crew in cameroon that happens to be the country's only all female production crew the women of gold boss productions have taken their place in the country's male dominated film industry their latest project is a demand for peace in cameroon which is being torn apart by conflict and crisis plays a young reports from jail one day. we one piece a group of all female. issues in a unique film piece. they want to see into the soup which is conflict region of the country.

very very. 2020 has been on the specially bloody year in the english speaking regions of cameroon the civil. peace. to reach the war in factions was a famous recently. the protagonist of the film. on the streets. on the. record i'm interested in taking part in this project. the women with. the project is promoting peace in our country . with the. peace still seems far of cameroon is. in the north and the super just militias in the west. thousands of people have been

killed in the separatist conflict which began in 2016. divisions have been disappointed in the country. is not easy. to say love we have just. had. a great one so they're really stable. so like. this is very but. what are we going to do what you have to. read. the young women say they want to be as inclusive as possible be looking at the footage for yourself on the project she was a kid she didn't piece of videos people from different backgrounds in florida volunteered to be part of it maybe the reason. will bring renewed hope. now that's

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suffering it's the environment we went on a journey to find ways out of the ignition if you want to know how old one cliff to the priest i'm conscious changed as we speak or listen to our podcast on the green . greetings and welcome from the german capital where the city signature berlin international film festival is set to probably go virtual for 2021 we'll find out more and also in the pipeline. controversial swiss director meals out tackles the injustices all of the modern world with a film that asks the question if jesus were alive today what would he preach. and german sculptor michel as i software uses trees for his visual ruminations on

the themes of 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 bally na 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 471st edition. so to get the lowdown on just what that plan b. will look like our film experts got roxboro joins me from bomb 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. there are still some details to have be officially announced by the belly nala but i think we can give the sort of the general outline of what looks like is going to happen next year basically sort of 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 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 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 its the

world's largest public film festival and having a sort of stripped down version like happened in cannes or like happened in venice really isn't the same thing it's only a sort of a temporary fix i can't i can't see. moving on permanently it would change the festival entirely and change the spirit of the film so i can only see next year as being a temporary fix and everyone is hoping that when the pandemic is over things will go back to normal i will have full theaters in berlin and that we can get back into the cinemas thanks very much scott roxboro in bonn for that update and stay safe there scott. and staying with film another person taking covert 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 cruz.

all his efforts to keep the filming going joining the pandemic could be at risk using multiple explosive 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 when 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 well the new gospel is a hybrid film project that seeks some answers. to. the new gospel presents jesus as

a modern day migrant played by evolve. in real life sunday moved from cameroon to italy as a student but i'm picking tomatoes organize a strike that drew international attention to the exploitation of farm workers for director mueller how the perfect man to play jesus. 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. 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. they have for years hundreds of thousands of

migrants have been systematically exploited on italian farms created from refugee camps as illegal harvest workers for pitiful pay the mafia takes a cut. from the film you've also knew you were to. turns 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. the many call knowing that you did not because they did there is nothing. left if you didn't. vote for dignity as a kind of umbrella organization that we founded together with evil. together it's about 30 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 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 this is. also 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

a plea for more 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 are. german artist. and in these uncertain times to say the least a look at his often quirky musings on the theme of transience is somehow pull 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 actually true for an impala it's the very archetype of a tree and narrowly fashion when the leaves fell i collected them and painted them green again then i reattached them to the tree with cable ties and. if it could stay sickly it's about stopping the passage of time about bypassing

audit that's why it's called anti autumn didn't help so making compared to all that offered to host. 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. to buy puts this work is called vide ports or forest sweet but once i made it in the forest behind my father's farm. i grew up in the countryside so for me nature and the forest are something very familiar and important. because it's even more important to me the longer i live in a city with. a tree as

a rocket. a street light as a shooting star sighs tough as artistic happenings have a certain fleeting humor to. the report says familiar objects here truck tires tied in knots become floating clamps . this isn't the voice this here is a model for the cloud sculpture i'm going to cast in bronze and. it's basically to motorcycle or moped tires now that they're put together they're a sculpture to the north just a kind of cloud good stands for lightness but also for gravity and avoid could you feel like you just. did. as i was taught and his assistants have 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 resounding happy birthday the 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 bon merits a list and so with that choose from us here in berlin stay safe. by.

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life style you're a hero. kong. in the far north. beyond the inhabitable world. it's lonely. barren. and breathtakingly beautiful the arctic powerful expanse of bitter cold. and the sound of global warming. we took a journey around the north pole. profiteers and talk with people experiencing the changing environment of the ice disappears earlier and it keeps retreating it case years the last years have been smelting ruffy. makes it hard which makes it.

our future depends on what happens here in one of the most fragile ecosystems on earth. northern lights within the arctic circle starts december 21st w. this is due to be news and these are our top stories officials in nigeria say that more than 300 school boys kidnapped last week have been released the students were abducted from a government school in the northwest state of cuts to the state's governor says most of the boys are now free. french president. isolating after testing positive for covert 19 his office says it's highly likely he caught the virus at a european summit.