clarity. for life after. 60 minutes you don't believe. those girls to go to rome no i'm sure the rivers are 0. in support of. god over some. degree of. this is t w news africa on the program today several countries have imposed travel bans on south africa because of a new strain of cold that 19 that's causing a higher number often fictions and hospitalizations will speak to one of the country's eating or are they just. told me to the 25 year old one day who's just won a big award for providing thousands of people with access to clean drinking water.

good looking. at will hear music from the sun how way a new initiative is making it possible for artists to send their troops all over the world. hello i wonder it's good to have your company south africa's say a new strain of the coronavirus is driving a 2nd wave of infections in the country experts say the new strain appears to be more infectious than the original virus and that case is all spreading foster it is still unclear if it is also more deadly scientists say the new variant is different from the one party causing concern in britain the number of daily cases has doubled

in south africa over the last 2 weeks. for more on this i'm joined by the audience as professor barry schiff he is the founding president of the african veronica association and is chairing south africa's ministerial advisory committee on the coronavirus at vaccine development welcome to news africa prof we understand that this new variant off called the 19 in south africa that it seems to be spreading faster than the current one how worried are you about has yet to sydney a sense of concern this variant as gets called in 501 why is very in this version to the to the vision one actually was in london in the u.k. it's also 5 to one else is a bit different to go to for you to asians but like this one in england we all very concerned because dispiriting very rapidly in fact it is thought displacing the original virus and this is really going to become the dominant virus in many parts

of the country but doing it in the south and eastern cape the west and cape and was it didn't help provinces this is really become the major dominant strain as a says responsible really for a steep increase in cases in a 2nd wave professor many people in south africa have travelled and will be gathering groups over the christmas holiday how concerned are you about that in light of what you have to say it you know this is a problem we actually were anticipating a 2nd wave later in the probably even in january favre has come. for 2 reasons one of them is or he had a big super spitting event in what's called the rage festivals when the students who finish the high school they have get togethers and many thousands of these jews get together and that's probably initiated the epidemic and others use trying to actually employ a fire that and this is really become now the time just as in any night in restrictions. you know all i have that i have increasing risk have increased some

restrictions but he does a balancing act they've got a balance what's the people need for their livelihood as he. goes from china to disease the old lies is livelihood equation. increase some restrictions but balancing it against what to keep the economy going and what is the discovery of this new variant of the virus needful for vaccine development professor ross fortunately so far does not appear that this is what you call it escaped mutation other was that the either people had augie uniform previous in fiction or if they have the vaccine that they're going not to be protected it doesn't seem to affect that part of it the vaccine does appear to be effective saw for the last studies or show on going but hopefully it will demonstrate that it is not affected by the by any changes and just the city other words the density right that's professor

speaking to us in south africa thank you. thank you. so before we move on we would like you to take a look at this. you have. already been congratulations. that was crystal the founder of the in geo water. finding out that she's been awarded the cisco youth leadership award at this is global citizen prize awards and other prize was set up in 2018 to on a young people who have dedicated themselves to working towards human goals in this case off providing african communities with clean water that. is a social enterprise that supplies of a 70000 people in rwanda with clean water on

a daily basis now throughout the lock down crystal has made sure water x. is one to continue to operate giving away free water to those who have become unemployed so they wouldn't lose axes or be forced to return so old and senate few ways of convincing russia. and i'm now joined by her from her office in kigali welcome to news africa crystal so you're supplying clean drinking water to 75000 people every day and to some of them for free just tell us what inspired you to do this. yeah what they what a crisis is it's a huge crisis no work right now almost 2000000000 don't have access to reliable so forth and what's a some thing that affects everything about our lives humans are made of what's out mostly. up to. 70 percent. is what are but who also

need what's out to leave for productive uses to well afford to work to keep the good ideas that he titian in 20000 and was in parts of the we needed water for handwashing so we can fight against group in 1000 christo just to pick up on the no thing when you say you know what is a basic human right in your home country of wonder unicef say it's only 57 percent of people have access to safe drinking water your work is incredibly noble crystal but is this not the work off government to provide water to people yes it is the way of governments but governments private sector can support governments to increase this axis yes government has a duty to increase the access to infrastructure but as private sector was stunned and decided just let government do this this in with private sector is involved in creation of roads which end up benefiting companies in the economy at

a large private sector can also be involved in the work of providing water water is if your resources shed resource by the pipes in the infrastructure needed to access that what are not free or easy as it would be require financing and quite large projects sometimes so that people can end up with access to what the that they need right i guess you know there perhaps is a conversation about you know private sector involvement when it comes to industries at all what we call basic human rights whether or not private pays them profits in a way that they shouldn't but i'm interested to know crystal how the pandemic has impacted your work. much like everyone else who were his affected does a company but the biggest to fix came because our customers were affected so our mission at what access from these to provide what in a simple way to make it affordable but even affordable in a pandemic can become impossible so when we not just

a drop in demand we reacted very quickly we did a q. days as a company we reached out and found who was traveling instead had to provide it visit come on to what. we also extended payment for customers who go for our more. of the services like filters irrigation systems and so on crystal we sold excitement when when nick jonas told you about your having won that award but just tell us how important that recognition is. at this recognition it's quite amazing it's almost like winning the olympics of doing social way it is quite amazing in the huge recognition it comes with money which the company will you put to very good use in improving us over says and i reach across africa but it's also a testament to the work really been doing in the a very mission focused culture what axis runga wind up on the mic he tries to keep tops open and to keep people employed. and that impact of division

will drive going forwards to in 2030 where we 6 to have over 30000000 people using the services are it's a pretty grand vision so having to support a global citizen in this i wade is a pretty big cats in the east for that moment. when al vision will have to leave it there but thank you and crystal and congratulations to you and all the best for the with that you continue to do. musicians in mali and other parts of africa face. beyond their countries that's mainly because of the difficult. files and it turns out that music are happy to pay.

for a recording session in his courtyard in bamako. it's a low tech session using a mixer and. tree or a seems to be longing for his hometown of. the town and. when he's happy with the sound. file what's happened to his producer at the stock hill sounds like in the us. one day my producer asked me if i could record some song tracks with my phone and. so i said ok no problem i'll do that. and that's how it started. sahil sound then puts the tracks on line the idea behind the low tech production is to help musicians from the sad hell to reach new audiences says the producer it's

just essentially an experiment to see you know how can we break down these barriers in truth for artists and we're stuck with who really don't have access to things like. you know the credit card or how they can get on a lot of these digital platforms. some of sat hill sounds artists and now an enhanced and sounds from fans who pay to download tracks it's really really well though i mean the we've got artists typically artists are making between at say like 800 the highest artist made by $3000.00 in a month was. for trailering as well as making money this is a chance to expand his horizons beyond bamako. a label from mali can't get you to the united states are going on international tourists and kamaka doesn't have that possibility and i think. his hope now is

that others will also hear his music and help him to hit the big time. and on that musical notes that swayable leave it for today's program be sure to check out our other stories on you dot com forward slash africa we're also on facebook and on trips that will see you next time. they want to know what makes the germans leave just the joy of love and bonding going away from. i'm like that of course my own daughter and everyone with little holes in everything. getting are you ready to meet the germans then join me right just do it under a

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and later on the show. musical genius fun beethoven reimagined as a comic book hero. and odd introspective often dark photos by one of germany's top actors who is enjoying time behind the camera. first in a normal year this would be what's called oscar season the time when studios packed the cinemas with their best movies that was back in the day of course before carving 19 now things are a little different still hollywood is watching the last movies of the year with wide eyes and the speculation is heating up here's more from our film reporter scott roxburgh. people say you know what are you concerned about an overreaction from with. 2021 could be the year netflix finally wins the oscar bab's for best picture. the streaming giant has 3 big films in the running the trial of the

chicago 7 set in 1968 gives an alternative spin on hippie history. and the plan was . i guess we're really. going to miss what you should gary oldman stars as the man who wrote film classic citizen kane in manc dissection of 1930 s. hollywood from new york i removed any distraction eliminated every. rule. and viola davis is a wild $1000.00 twenty's blues singer and model rainey's black bottom which features the final performance of the late actor chadwick boseman. if you can look at the contenders for cinemas because on or have never looked so diverse. oscar favorites include judas in the black messiah about the f.b.i. is infiltration of the black panther party. one night miami

portrait of 4 civil rights giants including malcolm x. and muhammad ali. because we are fighting a lot. in which director lee issac chung tells his own immigrant story. we need to find somewhere his family moved from korea to arkansas on the 1980 s. . become farmers. through thing or in the acting categories pay close attention to anthony hopkins who turns in a late career master class as a patriarch suffering from dimentia the father a bit confused something wrong. and in our night to kate winslet and social ronan as 1900 s. and secret lovers. but the big oscar front runner

is no mad land from director. frances mcdormand is eyeing her 3rd best actress award with a bare all performance as a woman living as a modern day nomad travelling the american west in a camper van. there's no fun no madeleine one the venice film festival and it's the odds on favorite to take oscars top prize next year. all right i'm joined now by our film guy scott roxboro scott so the nominations are being announced in february the awards in april but already it looks like this could be the 1st best picture oscar for a netflix movie but do you think that it will be. yeah i'm not quite sure i mean netflix has come really close before to winning the top prize winning best picture oscar i mean 2 years ago with roma they were within a hair's breath of it but this year i think they're going to also fail the final

hurdle i mean they've got a lot of great films of the running this year but i think i think it's going to be known that land. is in my opinion the best film of 2020 and i think it's going to win best picture oscar and i deftly put money on frances mcdormand winning her 3rd oscar her 3rd best actress oscar for this role i mean she plays a woman literally on the edge of society and her performance is astounding i mean most of unvarnished real and powerful performance i've ever seen from our i think everybody else can just basically pack up and go home because frances mcdormand has this one in the back ok so you if you were a betting man your money would be on my doormen for best actress are you ready to place in the best actor category. yeah this one's a little bit harder but i think the smart money has to be on a chad but bozeman for rainey's black bottom. both but of course stark black panther tragically died this year and this is a very final performance and it's

a real knock out and he plays a $920.00 blues musician who's really ambitious and striving to get ahead a really sort of a powerful powerful performance and because this is a boesmans last performance because this is the last chance the academy has to honor this amazing actor i don't think we're going to miss out on this and i think he's definitely has his performance is definitely going to win best actor interestingly this is a netflix film and another netflix film could win best actor best supporting actor and another african-american actor could take that prize i'm speaking of delroy lindo he stars in the 5 blood film from spike lee playing a furious vietnam that who's also an avid trump supporter it's a real ranging performance that's gotten a lot of critical support and i think it's a pick to win best supporting actor next year ok god so we could see for the 1st

time 2 african-american actors take our top prizes thanks so much always a pleasure. well if you've been watching d.w. arts and culture you know that this is beethoven you're marking 250 years since the composer's birth and illustrator horse is looking at the musical genius from a new angle comic book out in german is called god your main golden boy. larger than life a hero one of music's greats that's how we think of ludwig van beethoven today but berlin cartoonist mikhail ross has now taken the musical giant down off his pedestal and turned him into a comic hero. so this is with frozen fingers since it's winter but what i find amazing is that all of the images we have of beethoven show him looking grumpy. to help people get an idea of

beethoven ross turned to the composer's childhood in bone a big source of inspiration with the accounts of beethoven's then neighbors got fried and society official. does. incredibly direct there's so much detail beethoven is described as a serious child who doesn't laugh much the one who doesn't have much to laugh about and then suddenly when he gets piggy back he freaks out and then he's totally happy and can't stop laughing because going to fuss with pen and ink ross paints a picture of a childhood marked by a sometimes violent father a 2nd great tenor who drank the family's earnings away at the local tavern. in the outside during beethoven's time the idea of the vaughan to kindle child prodigy 1st appeared. beethoven's father thinking his son is fairly talented fairly

good on the piano sings hey i can make some money with this one i'll turn this one into of wunderkind so he comes up with the concept of the golden boy he came up with this whole plan without realizing the true scope of his son's talent so his talent for the show. the only person in the whole story whoever forbade beethoven from playing his own music was his father who thought it was their accounts that the boy liked to improvise on the piano but his father was against it and banned him from doing it and he said stick to the notes and do not improvise in this sort of a 0. but how do you to pitch the music of a brilliant composer. mikael ross does it with just a few strokes. of a nickel off it was i listen to the music to see what images were there but then i had the problem that when it comes to beethoven's music in 20 minutes there are

just 5 images of music between 354 dozen of them the story of a gifted child capable of creating whole worlds with sound but whose ears and digestion fail him a very human hero. worthy of applause. as one of germany's top actors i think is used to applause he's in several movies a year as stage performances so out within minutes and as if that weren't enough he's also put out a book of photography. a train manicured almost beyond recognition shimmering forest on the back of a trailer. photos that capture the absurdity of the big city and nature's battle with the human world. photos taken across the

globe by one of germany's top actors plus adding up. he captures these moments with his mobile phone some of them just odd others tragic. and i remember that moment with the man in front of the mattress store he was snoring and. thought i mean that's wonderful it was so embarrassing standing there in the cold knowing that my hotel room is 5 minutes away and he has someone sleeping on the street and just a major away on the other side of this glass that a 5 unused beds just in from the bed. when we shop would last iding at the museum for photography in his hometown berlin by doing it says people wouldn't be so interested in his photos if you weren't already a famous actor. it was pretty

smart of me to place my bits on acting for 20 years so that i could finally put out a photo book. in german television films in theaters i did his face is everywhere he published his photos on instagram under the pseudonym or to stick disco. the photos point out flaws and weaknesses in a. human existence despite our best efforts with admirable everything we've achieved our lives and the lives of all beings are at risk if we can't curb our appetite for more. dollars and these images you can't escape because we're all part of this system isn't it we're also in tangled in capitalism and so how can we even look at it from the outside and denounce it because it a little was. seemingly harmless images that one second glance reveal

painting. just as when he is on the theater stage last iting a brings the world to us in its contradictions and tiny failures perfection is out of reach. and we are out of time that's it for this edition of arts and culture but you can find us online at do w dot com slash culture to see a very tall man said karen stacy.

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