this is steve w. news live from virgin coronavirus salaam in the u.k. the country hits a new record of more than 53000 deadly infections with its of a stretched health service buckling what action should the british government take also coming up such a rescue teams work through the night after a powerful earthquake in probation to trim the leaves at least 70 and many more inches.

a matinee held welcome to the program public health officials in the u.k. are urging the government to take decisive action to bring coded 19 infections under control new cases jumped from a record 41000 on monday to more than 53000 on cheese day despite tougher stretches in places across much of the country hospitals are already treating more covered patients than the peak of the pandemic in april and new infections are expected to surge even higher in the coming weeks while mohammed joins me for more days of our lead just at lancaster university in england documenting it welcome 53000 cases in one day at chilling record by anyone's account what needs to happen now to get a handle on. and be absolutely i mean having a country under a strict lockdown 40 percent of the country is on the contest that restriction and

having 50 tweets 1000 or more than 50000 cases is really scare mongering and i think moving on that there is only one situation is that the current state want to disagree a little luck down that would be to get by it hasn't been defying but that means that it would have put. all of the private school into into the muck down restricting of the students going into the into the universities all those mayors all together will bring the number down but even though it's having a tougher space. i don't really think that there's a number of the cases would be dropping significantly and i mean we would be getting into a very grim prospect in the coming weeks we've heard accounts of ambulances having to white outside of hospitals because there was no capacity for seriously ill patients can the national health service cope at this point. well not really i mean

if we look at the number of. patients with a coma 19 mossberg they are more than ever since the start of this pandemic over going to wrong 1000 and according to an estimate the n.h.s. his own review teaching to 90 percent of its capacity and i mean a probably you are asking to be ambulances standing outside in birmingham hospital which is route b. to graeme and i'm waiting for 24 hours to get leave that empty that means we have to open the nightingale hospital and that was set up initially to to to to cover the whole what it's like so certainly n.h.s. is not prepared to accommodate all of the priests and then just to add into this that the number of infections that have risen due to testing season or not yet come to be because even the sample that would be collected that is are going to be out in the weekend so number will increase substantially variance do we know if the surge is the result of a more transmissible strain the new variant or just the unchecked cross and transmission of the more common or original strengths quickly notice basically the

new variant because at the moment we have 62 to 65 percent of confirmed cases belonging to this new variant so there are strong evidence says that the higher number of infections that we are seeing is primarily contributed by the high possibility of this new area and hunted many of our bella just at lancaster university in england many thanks. well governments across europe and north america are beginning to distribute a limited supply of vaccines and on the avoidable question is who get them focused for example opinions out of god had divided when the vaccinating prison went to vaccinate prison inmates even in the u.s. human rights groups want prisoners to be among the 1st in line with a limited means to social distance detention facilities have seen devastated devastating outbreaks of covenanting advocates say facts and i think prisoners would protect them and the general population. well did they believe reporter in

a safe has been following this story for us i mean where prisoners in the party list in the u.s. well they're not actually anything in the the list the guidelines that the centers for disease control put out they mentioned corrections facilities so prisons and jails but they only mention the workers there and not the inmates they don't appear in any federal guidelines some states have taken initiative and have put prisoners very high on the priority list to get some of the 1st vaccines even in the winter california massachusetts connecticut are among them that's even higher than in germany here in germany they do appear on the priority list but a little bit further down along with some other essential workers expect it's a tough argument to win but what is the argument to vaccinate prisoners as soon as possible well there's basically 2 arguments there's the one from the perspective of human rights that prisoners are an especially vulnerable population because they don't have any control over their environment and they live in very confined

conditions obviously in close proximity proximity to other prisoners and as we've seen there have been massive outbreaks in prisons especially in the americas especially in the united states and so they are advocating that prisoners have rights just like everybody else and they're vulnerable so they should be vaccinated but then there's also the epidemic logical argument that says. outbreaks in prisons don't stay in prisons and it's to the net benefit of the health of any community of any society that prisoners especially because of the risk of outbreaks there should be vaccinated so that the general population isn't exposed to that risk as compelling as the arguments for might they i expect they would be a backlash of course in conservative media in the us there has been a backlash there have been some efforts at the federal level progressive congresswoman i don't a presley said that she would advocate to get prisoners put on a priority list and there was a backlash that we can look at colorado as

a case study the state wanted to prioritize prisoners they had put them in the 2nd tier the 2nd phase of vaccinations and then there was a backlash there in that state you had one prosecutor prosecutor arguing that if you did that then murderers would be vaccinated before grandparents so you can see how this has been turned into an ethical battleground when even at the. epidemiologists are saying that it's to the net benefit of society to get prisoners vaccinated as soon as possible i mean this is thanks so much ok let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines this hour. in hong kong activists for up to 3 years on charges of illegally crossing the border allegedly fled the territory by speedboat to seek sanctuary in taiwan to manas who were also detained reportedly being returned to hong kong without much. taina senate is

debating whether to legalize abortion activists for and against the proposed bill i've gathered outside congress with my can psylocke they devote early on wednesday the legislation has already passed the lower house despite objections from lodging time pope francis. u.s. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has delayed a vote on whether to push covert 19 relief checks to americans is republican party is split on whether to defy president trump cultural raise the amount. from $600.00 to 2000 the proposal passed with a bipartisan majority in the house. the search for survivors is ongoing in central croatia where the powerful earthquake struck on tuesday at least 7 people were killed and many others injured the epicenter was 50 kilometers southeast of the capital zagreb. the search for survivors continued long into the night. once

a picturesque town not far from the croatian capital zagreb now a disaster zone. the 6.4 magnitude quake brought death and destruction without warning but the response has been swift the army moved into airlift oatley patients from a hospital. in one damaged nursing home residents lie on the floor as they waited for their turn to leave. as the most vulnerable are evacuated eighty's pouring in. across croatia donations of being collected for patrol and the surrounding area. by the way is more that about we saw they needed help people are coming from everywhere to bring food and necessities. they need humanitarian aid now because this won't be over anytime soon . the basic necessities of already reached this shelter for people my homeless by

the earthquake. our house has no roof only walls. they are all damaged and cracked. i would not dare go inside again. the crisis response is being overseen by the town's mayor one of the things i thought that today we feel with all the families who have lost their loved ones. we know there are no words but we offer our honest compassion. is good because to lose your loved ones in this catastrophe . is like going through hell. if. the mayor was holding a press conference when the earthquake struck shortly before noon on tuesday the

cameras capturing the impact. as rescue teams clear the rubble in the dark of night that moment seems a lifetime ago for the people of preaching you know. well after more than 40 years as part of different versions of the your opinion in the united kingdom is fully on its own starting generate 1st more than 1000000 british citizens live in the e.u. and i feel the call. points of break that the most w. has been talking to some of them across the block we're focusing on 4 british migrant communities in the french ports of callaway and polonius image and today brussels bureau chief alexander phenomenon is in chantilly about an hour's drive north of paris. we're here in st peter's anglican church and sean. that's been the heart of the british community for 2000 tourists and we're now joined by

reverend sara tell it thank you for having us here in your church maybe you can tell us more about the british community here in the town yes certainly i can so that you came out gave the land to the british community that they came. and then. the land was available for them to build this church we're talking about $185860.00 and some of the families that were around at that time were still remembered here so you've got the carter family who were big racing family from britain who were involved in the early british community here ever since then people have been arriving full sorts of different reasons for work it's close to paris it's only 20 minutes into commute on the train and there's also a large agricultural industry around so people have been coming. to this area of

fronts for a long time and so the community is broadly spread around. very calm pm this is our focus this and apparently the community communities were integrated and members of your community have been living here for many many years so now we're talking about rex it and the end of the transitional period on the 21st of december how concerned are members of your community well obviously people are very concerned because when they 1st decided to move here maybe 3040 years ago there was no expectation that this kind of change would happen. we for the last 3 years we've had various people from the british embassy coming to speak to us about what might happen what's. possibly going to be in the agreement and of course in the last few days we have now everything is much more certain. to do you think that disagreement that the european union and the u.k.

now agreed upon this trade deal has got more so well i think it certainty in the sense that we know. some of the issues that we might be facing and those are not necessarily in the agreement but for people who have lived in france for a long time some people may be under the radar in the sense that they have been living here on their pensions from england. they maybe have bought a house but they could fall into real problems until we know very clearly what the situation is in terms of pensions tax and so on and those are still things that are not very clear thank you very much for having us here from us . ok and not that the w. has much more on the new e.u. u.k. trade relationship in our documentary more bitter than sweet our correspondents talk about who they see as being briggs's biggest winners and losers that's

available now on ag egypt channel d w news ok with that you're up today coming up next on thing is adult film looking at the world's 2nd largest film industry centered in lagos nigeria stay with us for that terry not the movie back with more news headlines at the top of the hour now thanks for watching. we're all set. to go beyond. the stories that matter to you. whatever it takes. a running. really nothing out of the job you made for mines.

lagos nigeria home of africa's biggest film industry. in terms of production output it's considered the 2nd largest in the world after india was ahead of hollywood. a new york times article published in 2002 coins the industry's popular name. nollywood became popular through a certain type of film shot with digital cameras telling stories based on the dreams and fears of nigerian society distributed in bulk on street markets. over what to do over 60 movies come out in the markets today a new nollywood is a magic it generates an annual turnover of over $500000000.00 u.s. dollars and produces the superstars of the african continent i don't really want to

say that as a live joke i think you know. with glitz and drama the industry out shines its humble origins in an ordinary electronics market we started this business we outsourced them in this business to get in the market i'm looking in the. wall street vendors continue to lay claim to nollywood a new breed of investor has entered the business. now they're just we were earning around $30000.00 a month that was totally ok and then this american comes along and says your business is worth $9000000.00 make something of it it's an industry on steroids and up and play. and sing with entertaining those who manage it so don't go out but is what it was a jungle america because they don't win china because they don't when india is becoming all the way he's becoming you know this in methods to the madness our girl

go out there to compete on the world stage that's when the load is going. the industry was born here in lagos. the african metropolis has a population of over 14000000. it's a city that promises much but demands even more.

lagos sproles over a series of islands all connected to the mainland by a network of concrete bridges. urban development can't keep up with its exploding population. of over. 2 thirds going. around 2 thirds of lagos ians live in slum areas like here in moscow cote a community built on stilts between lagos island and the mainland. the economy depends on trade through lagos is industrial ports.

crude oil is nigeria's economic lifeblood it accounts for much of its federal revenue. deny jungle meant. they have been telling us right from when the danger to land is in this oil money for the country they want to focus on it in because they know that they cannot rely heavily on oil revenue and in this. where they can get money for me from the that the main industry fulfill. culture journalist who sign it has been reporting on nollywood for over 20 years he's particularly interested in the generation that started the business you need to know your past to know where you're headed in the future you need to know those who laid the foundation what were their visions what were they trying to prove what we're doing things that they wanted to achieve you know with the industry. a film released in 1992 marks the

birth of nollywood. was a significant drop in the whole mix of films that were made at that time. it tells the story of andy an unemployed man whose debts drive him to despair. he meets an old friend who introduces him to all luxury. and his desire to join the club of the rich and beautiful draws him into an occult brotherhood. the price of membership is high. and he is confronted with

a moral issue. in the end he chooses the money over his wife. shortly after her death and the now rich marries another woman. despite the material comfort and his life takes over the last. man. his wife's ghost returns to haunt and terrorize him and he eventually goes insane. the only source of

hope left. is jesus christ. living in bondage to find one of the most important nollywood chartreuse the get rich quick film it's narrative structure has a strong message of christian faith which remains a standard element of nigerian films today. oh. oh oh oh oh yeah. oh yeah. the movie about andy's rise and fall became a commercial hit sold as a v.h.s. tape in street markets. today the hub of this distribution system is located in an electronics market in the western part of lagos. these 2 men belong to a task force of the market traders association a kind of substitute police force that patrols the vast labyrinth of

a lot of markets. nollywood occupies its own section of the market. and production and distribution of the films are managed by this. and people in the market traders also nollywood movie producers. the associations chairman is samuel emeka doing otherwise known as magnetic link was on the board is us you will get on this market going to 90 percent of the contents are not made up neither would. that imply don't offer love or more so forth you know a lot about we've got the news business we are so often in business to advance the news i use in the days of polka dot i know. these songs too much money says anyway and the strong up link up with the rush of mine on the family left every 4 to the last 60 movies from out in the

markets just like you did the business use the names of movies yes i do want to lose too. many long long breath you know moments that are given it seems like it's all down to our bread it's our own 500 items we're news every yeah yeah. that. is the most important but not the only market for self produced films in nigeria the total number of films produced in nigeria is a long time. so we see 3 boards up in all of bodies to go for the scores and that is why it is the opposite if you want you send it out all fixed up. for quite some time this was the only method of distribution.

but that changed in 2010 when 2 men with a bold business idea arrived in bangkok. one of them was german investor boston gotten. it's a man. this man out of a market the 1st time i was in the a lot of market there weren't many white people there everyone looks at you as if to say what are you doing here. since i went up to one of the nollywood guys selling video c.d.'s there was a small market booth everyone was hot and sweating. his english wasn't easy for me to understand. because i said i wanted to buy the rights for some of his films but i didn't know if he really owned the rights she really is it was hard for me to figure out what was going on i hadn't spent much time in nigeria it was still unfamiliar to me but i trust this guy or not i didn't have such a clear feeling but i thought no fun. the initiative behind the venture came from a friend of. jason

a british citizen with nigerian roots who had the idea to distribute nollywood films through you tube got to raise the initial capital on the london stock exchange after completing a degree in economics as a derivatives trader for the oil company british petroleum and standish he was here when things finally got going and we bought our 1st 100 films they were really cheap because people weren't so internet savvy at the time. we acquired $100.00 films for $10000.00 and put them online and we made $2000.00 a day. we thought wow. we're going to make a lot of dough in just 5 days we recovered our investment and thought let's buy more. i was still working on the trading floor so i asked a few of my buddies there if they were interested in getting into the film business in nigeria. but they said sure we're in. the not much and we need to gather another

$200000.00 and went on a serious shopping spree. so the move is a just business initially he was surprised by the popularity. a sharp contrast to the producers. who know exactly why their films are so successful. oh. welcome welcome welcome welcome lisa is the producer of a wildly popular film about sheena rambo in the most successful film in the history of motherboard yes in the history of the making in the in the market this is the most successful film. the movie is based on the legend of sheena rambo a criminal sent to have carried out a series of spectacular robberies in the 1990 s. his name pays homage to the hollywood action classic starring sylvester stallone. the. western part of this country and he does this with impunity because of

the. you know african magic schon believe in that but it's written to his buddy. in the film machine a rambo supernatural powers come from a magical snake. of a woman. nollywood films often make use of the treasure of west african oral tradition. sound and moving images give new life to well known narratives and make them magic appear. for you to make money you must think of these don't just think of good movies alone

. i. think was the. one you hear from. my gosh. as well by them the person if he has on the movies here and the one is involved he must want to see the 1st. part of the ship. christianity is also a strong source of inspiration for michael isa he often develops ideas based on compelling stories from the old testament 5 take for protection it does a giant here and there's a small divide here on earth and i was told ok everybody would love it it was a put i'm going to the i'm going to do the job so when you just make david to just go to giant. and kim is the most or you love the gent do.

you think. good what good is what is good the let me get is what this is film people watch the book leave you abuse. so sometimes i'll be at the back and see people doing this and i feel i think yes i got it. on occasionally so also appears as an actor in his own films. the sheena rambo series has released 18 video c.d.'s and many of them have sold over a 1000000 copies all across africa. the producer has the means to achieve high audio visual quality but his business sense tells him not to. want to put a film. the quality reduces it's

a cd since it is quality you know what i'm talking about so any fear of the soft sort you cannot be able to browse my picture is too good so why the absence of suffering where us where nobody will give attention to we. understand so is about with the prince i coalition has tried switching to d.v.d. but each time he failed the problem is the rampant piracy at a labor market we find ourselves in the web of the said piracy challenge when i'm fina that for us to be adding money enough in the screen loss deprived disparity between. the pilots i've given pilots more power to sell more because here people care about what is cheap. the nigerian police are just confiscated pirate copy is worth over $100000.00 us dollars.

in order to survive in the face of piracy filmmakers need to keep their costs as low as possible. the city of a somber and down to state in the south west of the country provides the ideal infrastructure. a small village on the outskirts of town has served as a backdrop for countless films. when i found it. was like sleep let's go around it read. more about what i want my family down here i think what. your art. in nigeria at this time the film is called an epic movie it is a highly successful genre that enables nollywood to construct its own version of africa's pre-colonial ponced. the title of the

movies are some of the song. is actually. an african tell. about that called me to you know you see the fire on god sees all evil man evil monk you can not discipline because paula from the song. you've really got on you want your doctors in this song of the song the subsidy is what you require if you really wish to hold price shopping. c c several of the actors on science are actually evangelical pastors i mean plus the one my church knows that they become most stop me from opt in because i believe i'm

using that octane to preach something to the people also. ok that's what i thought i thought i would look we're going to we're going to why are people this is africa before they come in on the white my we have a life we have we have cultural we have really just what we have what keeps society together i think that's what we have succeeded to the next what's into the war outside of what mother would. the notion of a purely african world before the arrival of the europeans holds great fascination for nollywood audiences. look our streams on plants are inspired by the producers imagination more than research about historical accuracy is don't take away from the success of these films. like mercy johnson is undoubtedly one of knowledge world's biggest superstars we bring africa as a cultural to the stable of millions of storytelling picture.

that you just we. want. our feelings kind of bringing. into centrally our language of centrality address centrally. as a people you know that's what nollywood stands for want me from the line of. director ken stephen has been in the business for many years he stopped counting his films a long time ago. you can go out. she . is on average of 2 weeks p. a movie so i'm hoping to rumble this one down harvey to do a rest stop on a good yes let's go see rowsley i have to be

frank about it you could see me on by and there's frederick he goes well if you were there you would like time you given a period of time so you could enjoy it and your socks says the depends on the how well you do it wouldn't be given the particle of freedom of time you were given to deliver that oh i don't know that i drove over here and got it right forward here. solomon a patent is one of the most influential film producers in a samba. i showed this to you and was a dozen. other while 51. he's come to the set to ensure that shooting will wrap today will do and will do just as you would do to you know the one thing you know you don't usually like the movie live up. to the end of the world and

that was the model for one that was all. the things demanded by the big stars take the biggest chunk out of nollywood film budgets if nancy johnson goes a single day overshadow the financial viability of the entire project is jeopardized. and miserable devil you are left. alone let's go running. ok thank you. user error. 200 7 00 7 000 there is now only one i mean you know no man. 'd over the past 11 days the crew shot enough footage for a 4 hour film it will be divided into 6 parts and each one will be released as

a separate video cd this production style has made nollywood one of the biggest film industries in the world. unfortunately real improvements in the art of filmmaking are almost impossible but things have started to change as many nigerian filmmakers begin to break new ground. with a i got an interest in german expressionism new hollywood. i want that same appreciation. for the nigerian film industry people who can have the intellectual discourse about our. camera sees film as art is feature length debut green white green from 2016 was screened

at festivals around the world and streamed on netflix. green why green is a coming of age story about 4 friends from the 3 major ethnic groups of men your house your board who go on an adventure to make a film inspired by nigeria's history. the script for the film within the film is based on a text by character called professor organ and the thoughts expressed and it reflects my karma's own analysis of the current political situation in nigeria. having seemingly moved from over 3 decades of merry go round military rule we stand now with the 3rd regime of the 3rd democratic republic we find ourselves still uncertain when will the scourge of boko haram be brought to an end how can we curb the mass corruption crippling our country can we truly eradicate poverty when will

we become an export based economy nigeria was really what it was we're all ready to speak so that we can quit importing bloody toothpicks i mean who in. port's toothpicks. among other things become a criticizes nigeria's heavy reliance on imports something that also applies to sophisticated films. with green white green the young filmmaker has shown that it is possible to turn the tables. we have another cinematic movement on the continent you know and that's just what we're good at a new real cinematic movement that. will stand the test of time to make an imprint in global cinema you know. karma has attracted attention he received state funding for his film benefiting from the fact that the

government has identified the industry as a key sector of the economy. in 2008 tough to realizing the business potential in his native country. left his job but odeon cinemas in the u.k. once home he helped found the company film house which developed 9 multiplex cinema we now want to do a good 5 thing as a 3 and a half years from home. you know so. it's aggressive it's ambitious but it's possible. the new cinema such asked one component and part of his grand scheme. so welcome to film how cinema was. ok so we got to the next floor. see that building there the green building there. that's the house of the good to the rich or the black man in the whole world clearly the rich africa so we like this office because something is

when the wind blows from that side yeah blows through him and then touches us if we like. and here is film one production and distribution. ok this is not just the fastest growing but the biggest film theatrical film distribution company of nigeria in west africa really was about to appear got executive director of a film poster of one of opera. 3 years ago the stupid remote wooden boat in terms of box of the size with a one man to match to be valued and be more than this years ago 64 and that's where we will see a complete flip between hollywood and bollywood and we'll see a complete flip it will double dare say will 734 money and it's the only english speaking so that i know of the war that the local films through here one.

as movie ticket sales go up. and the demand for local productions increases a brand new market for high quality films his evolving. film house film one does not only want to scream these films. but we definitely produce films we have produced albeit as part of a core production the wedding party the biggest film ever in west africa in cinema anyway because for me. the wedding party released in 2016 was the 1st nigerian film to more than a 1000000 u.s. dollars at the box office. but even new normally words biggest blockbuster only reached a certain section of the population. when you look at the demographics of the place it's really from here to the top from the middle to the top we haven't reached those guys down there and. the huge population this spend

a lot of money but small volumes you know small denominations was huge part of you know so we are looking to go target those guys give them the entertainment they want. power wants to reach the masses starting in the poorer districts of lagos he envisages cinemas which sell tickets for about $1.00 and screen films produced by his own company. who think. it's a formula and if work is what he told me the prevailing more fields are more successful than the next because where i work you. can think of this as the professionalization of nollywood and that's your points like. the. majority of this. from the u.k. all.