it was trying to succeed as a good bunch of the clique because i wanted to see germany was for me the last few years have been quite over i really and. i'm ready to look them up when it comes to german beers and of course i always look right in the eyes for kids but perhaps the biggest fans a new blood hunger don't work for it i love to be in the news there are pros in their records but when you feel the giving you realize it's cold it's just another way of living are you ready to meet the germans when virginie right goes through it . you're watching news asia coming up today deadly attacks in afghanistan taint another round of peace talks for many afghans peace seems like a distant dream when they still see so much violence d.w. visit a family whose daughter price for daring to stand out plus where is jack ma he's one of china's richest and most influential men but hasn't been seen in months

is he in trouble with beijing. time melissa chan welcome to news asia we're glad you could join us talks are set to resume this week concerning the future of afghanistan with negotiators from the government and also the taliban among the different stakeholders they call it a peace deal but that hope scenes less and less apt instead we have seen a string of targeted killings across afghanistan specifically of the educated elite the kind of people the country badly needs such as government workers and those in civil society these include judges doctors and journalists including television anchor malala my want who was gunned down last month. miller ghoul's wife was murdered by the taliban years ago now their daughter has also been killed malala my wife and was one of the few female journalists in afghanistan until she

was shot dead last month in cold blood. she was brutally murdered for no reason at all her only crime was that she spoke the truth and fought against injustice she gave her life because she wanted to help other women in particular. mulatto was an anchor at the afghan news station any cas her boss zalmai latif he remembers her as a fearless broadcaster on the day of her death she was shed you have to present the morning show. to your colleagues who are waiting for her in the studio at some point a call came telling us she was dead. it was tragic that we all started crying and couldn't understand who would do such a thing to malala. and. her father shows us where his daughter

and her driver were killed by unidentified gunmen attacks like this are growing more frequent in afghanistan in 2020 more than 10 journalists were killed malala former boss is concerned about this constant threat. to the course this puts a lot of pressure on us it was tricks our reporting we expect the government to take necessary security measures so we as journalists can once again report freely in the country and in the future or the audience it with. malala as funeral was well attended. there are many here who fear the recent uptick in violence against journalists. intellectuals were for the silence civil society. just wanted one thing peace in afghanistan she was so happy when the peace

negotiations with the taliban started and she was so sure that everything would finally get better once she told me that she was ready to die for peace no she's dead but there is still no peace. as legacy hangs over afghanistan a defiant reminder of the victims of violence and the peace for which they fought. joining us is journalist allie latif in kabul ali how is it possible that you have a group sitting down for peace talks when the reality outside the meeting room is that there's a lot of violence this is exactly the question people are asking and i think more than anything what it shows is the desperation of the situation because you know while these politicians and these representatives will definitely be jockeying for their own position and their own. advances the average

person at this point just wants an end to the fighting they you know they don't understand why the war's still going on while there's peace talks but they just want something to actually come from these peace talks so it will be very important for both sides to actually deliver something tangible after all of these months now when it comes to the violence in many cases no organization has claimed credit for these murders but do we have an idea who they might be as the taliban involved in any way. so if you ask the government the intelligence agency the ministry of interior will say that 99 percent of these attacks are perpetrated by the taliban and you know these things are very difficult to prove. and just the fact that there really is very little proof of what's going on and who is behind these attacks that makes it much scarier for the average person because they feel like anybody could be behind my death and it could come at

any moment for literally anything i say or do and so it makes it that much scarier and that much more difficult and again this is part of why people are so desperate for a peace because they feel like is behind these attacks maybe a real peace will actually bring an end to it what is the message what is the goal of attackers here if we don't know who they are fear. ideas that literally you are not safe anywhere you're not safe from sticky not safe from you're not safe from suicide attacks you're not safe from someone getting on a motorcycle and shooting you and you're not safe because of what you say i was just speaking to an analyst for another story and they asked that i don't quote them in the story because of these targeted killings they were so afraid that you know because as we said we don't know who is behind these they. what they say could

end up getting them killed and this is just an analyst for a simple story for another you know news agency that's really what these attacks are accomplishing. but what is the goal of fear do they just don't want a government do they want an arche is that the sense that people are getting behind you what's driving these attackers. the sense is that it's either censorship trying to keep people from criticizing the government or the taliban or any other organization. and or it's literally the fear that no one is able to protect you that this state. cannot protect those of your the taleban you want to create the fear that the state cannot protect you if you're the state you want to create the fear that the taliban have not changed that they you can't be protected from them as long as they exist in and we should be attacking them and going after them so whoever is behind these attacks has their own unique message they're trying

to send. thank you for joining us. questions are growing over the apparent disappearance of chinese billionaire jack ma the founder of e-commerce giant alibaba hasn't been seen since october after he publicly criticized china's regulators for stifling innovation speculation about his whereabouts intensified when ma failed to appear as a judge on his own reality business show us financial services arm and group was due to be listed on the stock market but days after the remarks regulators pulled the i.p.o. until his disappearance mott was the richest man in china and is one of the country's most influential entrepreneurs he stepped down as chairman in 2019 but remains its biggest shareholder. joining us in the studio is d.w.

correspondent clifford kuhn and formerly based in beijing clifford what is going on well you know the question that they have the answer the germans don't like to give but we don't know but we do know is that the most famous businessman in china has disappeared. and there's been no message from his company from. came shortly after he made some comments in shanghai on october 24th saying that he believed the regulations in china for were too difficult to foster innovation so a combination of all these things means that we suspect that he is probably one of several things he could be in singapore on a fake passport that's one room or another is that he's been in administrative detention that he's been picked up by the police and then the other is that he's been ordered to take to keep a low profile and he's in hung joe which is the chinese city where he's had courses give us a sense of how big a deal this is well i think i think it's very difficult to overstate how big jack

is in china i mean when you get in there. the shelves are full of books about how to be like jack or you know the advice of jack ma the words of jack he's he's most of these t.v. shows that he's on his company is is is the flagship company for china it's one of the 3 biggest tech companies there he's very very important so for him to suddenly disappear like this is definitely suspicious it's a bit like jeff bezos of amazon disappearing or something like that it is it is and as we know china is not a model of transparency so it's not great for getting this information so that's exactly what i wanted to ask which is what does this tell us about the government and also what does what should the international business community take from what's happening well it's interesting the timing of this basically it's not a good sign in terms of transparency and if you're thinking of investing in china you know you're going to see these they're going to be

a bit worried about this kind of thing when someone so famous to such a big global company like ali baba can can get can just disappear like this it just shows to me. politics always beats out financial in china even if there is a good sound financial economic reason for this you can be sure that it's something to do the communist party asserting control so i think that stuff's the key factor here and as you know this year is going to be the 100th anniversary of the communist party so there's a real sense that in china everyone is getting things lined up getting all the ducks lined up so it's going to be a big year celebrating the communist party and it's very possible that. well it's very interesting because silicon valley is big when it comes to investing in china and china chinese tech so one really wonders what's going through their minds in terms of processing this and to what extent it's going to impact how they invest in china so i guess to sort of step back

a bit how this is really weird is it it's definitely very weird but we've. seen this kind of thing before we had a case a couple of years ago with being being the actress who is china's most famous actress she just disappeared for 2 months nobody knew where she was. absolutely no information and 2 months later she read to months wherever she was she reemerge with a massive tax bill full of the policies messages of support from the communist party so like taylor swift disappearing exactly yes so it's not it's these these big figures i was almost you can almost see a pattern you know i don't read too much into it because there have been other things about the government to implementing rules and about monopolies and stuff but it's also highly symbolic i think that the most famous entrepreneur and the most famous actress you know these leading figures show that in terms of power they're not they're not the main thing on chinese thinking that it could fit couldn't thank you for joining us. that's it for today for more check us out on

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monday to friday. in the eye of climate change. africa's make. up for the future. for the major cities. inside. counter. more than 40 years ago stephen king wrote the stand about a deadly virus and the scary world it leaves behind. too soon to watch the series we'll check out the stand and other fictional pandemic stories coming up and later on the show how the swiss playwright treated durban back to lift off

crowdfunding back in the 1950 s. before there was crowdfunding. you know welcome to arts and culture most of us these days are looking for a distraction from the pandemic but some are excited about watching more pandemics and movies and series here's a look at what's playing starting with the stand featuring a new ending written by stephen king himself the story starts 5 months after a bioengineered super flu has decimated the world's population directed by josh boone this new and timely adaptation of stephen king's 978 novel the stand is not about a viral epidemic as such but it uses one to set the scene for a battle of good versus evil. on the one side there's a mysterious centenarian played by will be goldberg. hello friend of. my name is abigail fremantle. you come see me at every foot

hole colorado kid you remember that probably. fremantle draw her followers in by infiltrating their dreams. but many choose the dark side following alexander scars guard as randall flag was. exhorting. more i hear charm is an american. stephen king not content with the original ending of his sprawling novel personally scripted and new one the stand is a vision of a world blasted by a plague with a survivors' force to take sides. another series planned before the pandemic and now with added timeliness is the german danish

series slobodan written directed and filmed by christian albert so born sees a north sea island community confronted with a fatal virus and what that's your india problem influence of especially with. the epic series explores what happens when the thin veneer of civilization was removed . i. think. it's about the old south i. cannot. touch. that. just series was nearly pulled off to broadcast as expressed concern that it might be too close to reality for some viewers to cope with. but it is out and i also expect that real life is invited to to its success a 2nd season is now in the works. with or without

a pandemic terry get. 1906 dystopian 12 monkeys starring bruce willis and brad pitt remains a modern science by masterpiece. the film's 25 year anniversary rerelease has recently full in june the coronavirus pandemic giving its predictions a lot more punch. pandemic films old and new and the very real coronavirus pandemic is also changing the film industry my colleague michael kroger has got more on that. some of the big changes we're seeing in the movie industry are happening actually where the coronavirus started in china absolutely the people there are going all right the. restaurant they're going to the clubs and they're going to the cinema and. yet and for the 1st time in film history the chinese movie theaters did they go box office than the u.s.

ones which is not really surprised you the crew on a pandemic especially over the past a weekend they set a record high on around 162000000 euro by the way exclusively with chinese films and everybody is wearing a mask it's a bit different but i have to admit i've really enjoy watching people watching the film and also a bit jealous. of what is hopefully to come for the rest of us and some not so distant future we'll talk more in just a moment but 1st what are movie theaters going to do with all those films they couldn't show last year. the number of films held back from release in 2020 is considerable could there be a glass of movies in the cinemas this year will james bond have to fight it out with other film heroes of the box office film journalists cabin crews on a beach says that's unlikely to save and they schedule films so they don't

cannibalize each others week there have been some movements toward shortening the window and the window is for exhibitors how long it's going to be on the big screen at your local can't you know cineplex and then it will go if you go to either blu ray or d.v.d. or streaming there is a shortening of that which endangered 6 exhibition but for the most part i think we're going to look forward to a really great 2021 and possibly even better 2022 and she cautions against worrying too much that streaming services will be the death of movie theaters once kind of it is a thing of the past. so now i think people are looking at people they think your stream is going to take over cinema exhibition well it won't because the income from streaming still cannot cannot even vied with what they get from from cinema releases so there's that also with netflix netflix in their favor there's

a lot of original content even for feature films but they're very strange about putting out financial figures so we don't really know what money they're making and what they're saying. mike and i are back and mike or maybe it's encouraging for us to remember that this pandemic is actually not the 1st big crisis that the movie industry is not it isn't it isn't at all looking back at the history of cinema they have been so many crisis. and that flick let flicks you know they started with d.v.d.'s and which many thought could be the end of cinema us as well but before that there was the h.s. do you remember and do look at this month and i want to because we want to video recorders and i do remember also the picture and sound quality of the movies which might have been why it didn't kill movie theater this either and before that was of course television. yeah which means many also addicted would be the end of cinema

it wasn't a great yes but they survived the 1st world war for example he nearly destroyed also the european film industry but at the same time you know they invented hollywood so the theater always evolved into depth. yeah some very historical cinemas some say shit transformed into museums ok michael thank you for reminding us of there is reason to hope speaking of history as well well last week cinema very quietly celebrated its 125th birthday of course 125 years ago there weren't cinemas to speak of but that's when the brothers in france oh sure their very 1st moving pictures to an audience what films did they show because there was no industry and they invented a device which was a camera and a project at the same time they did little films from the daily life situations not really a big sensation but it was moving images were a big sensation we have an example of the 1st photo that was shown with this train

from today's perspective quite boring but the people in the audience were absolutely scared they were afraid that the train could run over them all the. i have just filmed the work of their own factory maybe you can see this as well yeah there's so many of those you can find them easily on the you tube channel institute limb here and after that the development read really fast absolutely it's amazing to look back and see how different the films were how different people's perception was. the director of animated films including spirited away and princess modern ok is celebrating his 80th birthday legendary japanese animator and oscar winner. made movie history bringing japanese animation to a global audience while creating some of his country's highest grossing films and for the new year put out an illustration showing 2021 as an ox crushing

the coronavirus under its. how to destroy your enemy well that's what the wait swiss author and playwright dylan might write about in his classic play the visit it's the story of a rich old woman who returns to her poor hometown and promises to help rebuild it if the townspeople murder her actual lover quite the moral dilemma driven mad stories are wild and unpredictable and so was he if he were alive today it would be the author's 100th birthday. miss with silence and mentality that looks like a postcard being blown he didn't stop the free drink during a match from writing sentences like the world is a gunpowder factory was smoking isn't. that's typical during the past a son who skipped school military service was a low not and was committed to provocation he was also

a swiss national monument whose youthful activities drew the attention of the swiss secret service and to his works a modern classics. what's less well known is that he was unable to feed his family of 5 at age 31 he was broke his desperation was so great that in 1952 the swiss magazine but after called for donations to support what it called a 1st rate talent $170.00 donors gave 5 francs a month for 3 years that's about $100000.00 euros. the magazine decided it was better to help people while they're still alive and make it possible for them to work them to commemorate them when they did. thanks to this crowdfunding durham at was able to produce one bestseller after another in 152 the judge and his hangman 956 the visit in 1962 the physicists about an insane asylum were brilliant scientists poses as

a mental patient to protect humanity from its own dangerous discovery. he did believe that reason could win out but he was also just a fantastic storyteller. during that steams with justice complicity and the repression of memories his passions food and drink gods. his specialty tragicomedy works the pointed out the weaknesses the corruption of society. for my entire youth i was always in opposition against my whole environment. that's how my imagination grew much larger than reality. t.v. a cricket of some present day critics say his works was sexist duramax biography very best says he was a man of his times in the visit the main character seeks revenge on men like.

she demonstrates to the men the hypocrisy of their patry arkell society. one more dramatic quote for the authors hundreds those who despair lose their wits those who write comedies use them. well that's it for this edition of art and culture.

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