you know. in the art of climate change. there's so. much i. want to use today the future of. the old dot com folks are just sort of making. clear. this is a state of the news africa on the program today tis the season but it won't be as johnny told 19 dampens christmas celebrations across the continent. because of the recent days no more and no markets. will be unable to switch traders are struggling with the effects of the pandemic. and that robie

buses all filling up with people trying to get to the advantages for the holidays but it's fear if they could be carrying the virus to their destinations. and it will be in rural moderate way experience with the rolling out of the polio vaccine has proved it's going to be a challenge getting the coded 19 vaccine to the people. hello i'm christine one day it's good to have you company christmas holiday celebrations in much of africa has been dampened by the coronavirus pandemic many countries all seeing cope with 19 infections rise forcing governments to impose restrictions on gatherings. has i will 1st report from lagos nigeria with the

economic fallout off the pandemic has made things even worse. christmas season is always packed with all kinds of parties festivals and events but this year is going to be more quiet than usual because of the recent spike in. the governments has introduced. patsy's county vows and music shows are now banned throughout the state of another major highlights of christmas shows here. is the amazing food unfortunately nigeria is going through an economic recession as a result of the pandemic so food prices are the highest they've been all year.

last year we were not this one for up to 300 you could even get 2 of these for 500 but this one goes for 1500. because. no markets. so. desperate. nigerians are great food to be. swayed. and from nigeria to kenya people in the city planning to travel to.

but always he's fear the travelers could carry the virus to the rural parts of the country where health facilities are limited interest stopped by one of the busiest best to mills in nairobi where commuting is where not strictly to the cold and 19 protocols. as christmas approaches thousands of passengers from nairobi are preparing to travel the country for the past. week on the transport money to influence the t.n.i. what's chuckles country station it's an easy day for me compared to previous festive citizens cross a busy right now it's a challenge for us because now when people travel they're also complaining about the lack of money it's not like previous years when you would say a $1000.00 shillings for a ticket and someone is ok with. an awful. lot of money is

not the only challenge but also through road called 9000 particles inside these counties buses. rosling get she's a university student traveling to visit her grandparents although she's wary of the called $900.00 in say these buses it's the only option for how i have it may have mixed feelings i'm excited at the same time i have fears because the interactions here are too much you see some people don't want to wear masks or not but are doing it on our boys after obama this is my tacos country bus station the busiest in kenya it's usually a beehive of activity thousands of families traveling back home but the 0 things are different because of course on the vital. when kenya's minister of health has been uprising people again struggling the country the virus has been spreading to rural areas where the public health system is creaking and limited i see news and

food capacity. the last 2 weeks recorded the noise number called name to make sure this is the sinking how about the dangers of fall from all with no end in sight or hope of a vaccine availability in kenya many are left to nothing but the believe that things are going to. travel to people cannot be saved. from traveling i advise them to take care of themselves when they're traveling to protect themselves and pray to god. us is. one after the other the only hope is that past. lives. and it joins me now from our studio in nairobi for more on this story good to see you interest just how worried are officials about the people traveling during the christmas holiday and potentially taking calls at 19 to rural parts of the country

kristen the canoes minister of have as one people against traveling to rural areas and this is especially because of the lack of proper health systems in place no i.c.u. was we understand that nearly 3 quarters of intensive care unit beds in the country are all in the 2 largest cities which is they will be in mumbai. for people like rose or english or who we just saw in the story is that the biggest fear is that they travel from nairobi to these rural areas carrying the cutting coronavirus yeah it's a must point out that these are the places we have many elderly people live but just just moving along idris doctors in kenya striking at the moment tell us more about that. yes kristin the nationwide strike which started on monday is basically over grievances which which has been in place for the last 8 months is

the pandemic started and it's largely because of inadequate insurance policies that the doctors are given and the other thing is that luck of p.p. is that the doctors who treat covenanting patients have so far we understand that 14 doctors die from corona virus and the fear is that if nothing is done more doctors could die from the virus at the moment the minister of health is actually being consultative meetings with the doctors union to see the way forward at the moment to still have no idea when the strike is going to end but the biggest fear with the doctors if nothing is done if they're not provided adequate p.p.s. with insurance policies we never know when you 2 and. not infections might be slowing if this but the economic impact of this pandemic has affected most people will they be any help and relief from the government.

not at all the funny thing is that the government which just a few weeks from when kenya announced its 1st case of coronavirus give the citizens tax relief to people from the impact of covered 19 i can stay on the economy is now trying to take back the tax relief is trying to raise and don't mind that there was a 1000000000 pile and and parliamentarians were planning to pass this bill which is going to ensure the normal tax is by complaints basically which means that businesspeople unemployed people employees or people who have been employed by the government and private sector are going to be taxed like you to use to be before and this is because of the shortfall of revenue for the country all right that's interest malta reporting for us and harrowby thank you interest.

on next report comes from mali where health officials say inoculation people against kovac 19 will be a slow process a lack of infrastructure in the country means health workers often have to travel by foot to reach people in rural areas where people hope that they too will be able to get the vaccine. one of these refrigerators are essential hardware at this health center they hold vital medicines and polio vaccines part of an effort across mali to immunize 5000000 children against the disease in a country where temperatures often top 40 degrees celcius the campaign is a huge logistical undertaking vaccinating malia's in the largely rural country against the coronavirus will be an even greater challenge. it's extremely important to that the vaccines have a functioning logistics chain it will be very complex to get it to the people in

the countryside. so not a city big travels on foot by motorbike and sometimes by donkey to distribute the polio vaccine in remote villages people ask her if she will soon be bringing relief from covert 19 the health worker doesn't know what to answer many african countries will struggle to pay for the drug. the coronavirus affects the whole world but here in mali we have no vaccine but i pray to god that we get it to. russell. infection rates are on the rise in mali while little testing is taking place in the capital bamako the health minister recently opened an intensive care station with the help of the w.h.o. she hopes that the international community will help pay for the vaccines and that rich countries don't keep on buying up everything for themselves. the numbers are

rising we need the vaccine that's why i have asked for help. mali hopes to access the vaccine through the w h o's kovacs fund developing and rich countries have already pledged to $1000000000.00 to the fund and some pharma companies have committed to delivering the vaccine through the mechanism but even if it becomes available the vaccines distribution will be tough in a country without a reliable electricity supply. and. at least have a generator but that's not the case at other health centers. if there is a power cut that's a huge problem with. the vaccination drive is gathering pace in europe across africa most people will likely still have to wait and acknowledging we've long time for relief. and that's it for our program today be sure to check out all of the

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more i'm disturbed vs songs now a digital mozart festival coming up here on arts and culture and. one of 2020 is a big winners take to how the social video app is conquering the world of culture even museums. and super grandmas a spanish artist's mission to honor older women on an epic scale. well it's been a bumpy ride for rolando villazon the director of the mozart week festival in salzburg austria how it all but promised that the festival's january edition honoring the 265th anniversary of mozart's birth would take place with live audiences but now the austrian government has made it clear it's digital or nothing . mozart week the wintry city of sulzberger normally celebrates its most famous

son's birthday with the live music was. announced as had held out hope throughout the pan to make the world famous artists could still gather for a week packed with concerts operas and recitals. now those hopes for a live mozart week. the festival's director opera singer rolando villazon has announced that despite his best efforts 2021 will be joining the long list of events to go online because of culvert. this christmas animation studio pixar is putting out its very 1st film with

a main character who is black the movie soul deals with the big topics of life and death. not just us it's the story of a music teacher whose soul is separated from his body. must've been good for you. pixar hired its 1st black director and consulted with numerous african-american organizations to make sure the portrayal felt real and not stereotyped so is the 4th ever american animated film with black we. better late than never well another under represented group is getting its dues older women spanish street artist. paints real people he knows his hero ones he calls them super grandmas. they have super powers are carried by the wind like mary poppins or juggle with

a large heavy pumpkins grandma's superhero whose. these murals over work in spanish art is joseph. fear based on real grandma's from the countryside in his artwork joseph combines fantasy and reality why not come up with sort of the stuff. i'm fascinated by these women by their extraordinary strength and their ability to bring can keep together family i also have a personal relationship with each of them i get to know them before and during the pain of process and every new subject i get to learn about another person's life it's fascinating on the more they're going to be in the know as me that's. him as his are his name goes grandma's from his native clichy north question space these women had to work hard to provide for their families. and going to be

uninspired by telling stories and that's also what i want to do songs both an artist and a narrator at the same time. is about alonzo is one of his muses she does a little clip. taliban and can is the protagonist of his latest art project. us a unique hello what are you doing up there. oh my god. it's very good i really like it a lot. i'm better looking in the mural than in real life is really. the. this of the alonso began fumble get a girl then she was 15 a mother die and she had to take her 5 siblings she worked in the fields all her life. yeah i was always ways of doing something when you're working in the fields you still need to

keep an eye on household chores if only there had been a gas heater our washing dishes but they didn't exist back then. isabel randall is the 16th grandmother to have been painted by joseph m.p. he created his 1st large scale superhero grandma back in 2016 this near the town of junior shows putting the expert. end in a bio is a strong performer. as photos of these murals traveled the world and became his peroration for younger generations who started sharing photos of themselves on social media just as the grandma's. going. back in there and he also bought him piece and year olds can reach up to 15 metres in height and take about 6 weeks to complete before he starts working on a new project he 1st gets to know the grandma and her family.

were remembered if you know what i think these minerals are one of them are going to be because they give recognition to all these women you who have worked so hard their entire lives on the to this day and they haven't really been here now as you know b.f. are going to run out of and now that i'm all of this merely looking for the whole family is just so proud when you have made. money after having met the protagonist of a painting several times you know it was about impeaching the source by doing a photo shoot grandma's equipped with a superpower that matches her life story and they were all painted in comic style. that ended up the on the generation born in the seventy's and eighty's let me up with science fiction and coming out so it's really fun times elements from those 4 houses and combine it with the grandmas this. even young children can immediately spot what superpower is grandma possesses but i'm out of gaza but all that know.

now more and more towns is paying for asking joseph. to come and pay $1.00 of his large scale murals there of the superhero grandmamma's. one of the biggest surprises of 2020 has been how many older people have gotten active on social media even on the video platform tick tock which used to be just for teenagers. i'm going. to go right even though 82 year old actor anthony hopkins has been getting down on for talks showing off his moves and painting and he's not alone another celebrity is also outside that age group of 13 to $24.00 but she's also into the trend. and you're hungry to go to is the head of social media for culture and lifestyle

department. what is it about take talk that made it these social media trying to 2020 yes david i think that actually has a lot to do with covert and the lockdown because we had all these people family stuck in that home with a lot of time on their hands and you know and tie a family with a started making talk and even going viral on the app and you know i mean the taguba still of this is that we saw that you know there's no age limit to tick tock anyone can find this space and i think that's because of how the books on facebook and so on we watch you know videos from people we follow so big a colonist get a lot of us but on tape talk it doesn't work that way you know anybody can go viral and you know the grandma sitting in her living room she has only 10 follow us maybe on to talk of but she has a great idea makes a great video and form you know she can get 10000000 of youth even if you say this all happened so quickly with tic toc this year and now suddenly even serious

broadcasters like t.w. have ticked our channels you actually started 1st talked channel berlin fresh and within just a few months you've got millions of views over $50000.00 subscribers followers what's the secret what does it take to make it on tech talk well basically with bone and fresh we want to show people it fresh cool local for european culture and lifestyle and one of the things that did surprise us we actually sparked a lot of debates so we had these people. you know discussing and debating i know article talks in the comments section and sharing their life in their view with and that was like really wonderful to see so i think we also got the tick-tock use that it's very different from the instagram user they ask a lot of critical questions really they are always ask us with your number from what's your source and so i feel like there's this huge hunger for information on the app and you know the secret of course you do have to keep up with sound spyro

challenges and then you know you have to put in your own spin on it and sort of our culture is to talk having an impact on the arts or it has a huge impact on the arts i mean you know we saw that even museums are starting their own take of college and really quite successful and then we have to like really struggling young artists who normally you know won't get their songs out and suddenly they go viral have a hit on ticked up and record labels start offering their them like these $1000000.00 record deals so record companies are even scouting on tick-tock for talent and but also like you said you know drake j. lo big performance also using tick tocks to talk to push their songs up in the trial so if it really doesn't work and their works because people it is my understanding right that people don't want to dance to these songs and the more people who dances songs the more the song goes around yeah so we had this like everybody's hearing now fleetwood mac the dream song and why is that's

a popular popular right now it's from the seventy's it hit the charts again because that was actually a tick tock challenge saw lots of us starting started to make their own videos to the solid and so it got pushed back in the charts so when i turn my radio on i always go like yep that's the tick tock sound that the tick tock found so for many many songs we hear are started on tick tock so knowledgeable things things are so different now you hear this song 1st and then on the radio you're going to it's a weird world removing a bird so much. thank you and speaking of tech talk and music here's some music news to end our show the song dance monkey it by australian singer tones and i was a huge take stock hit now it's the 1st song by a woman to get more than 2000000000 hits on spotify here she is in disguise in the music video for me ana and me both thanks for watching c.n.n. the time.

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