no i want to meet. him back home who are volunteers and social rules and inform them of old dead basic rights my name is the about of people and a war. this is due to every news africa on the program today schools reopened in kenya after almost a year primary and high school children are back in the coster of but how safe are they and their teachers from covert 19 we have a report from nairobi. and president. has won a 2nd term in office in the central african republic but will he be able to pacify the country. and will meet a former separatist fighter from cameroon who has surrendered and is now in

a reintegration program. hello. to the program company millions of children are back in the classroom in kenya for the 1st time since last march when the government closed schools in response to the cove in 1000 pandemic students in grades 48 and 12 returned in october so they could prepare for exams now all primary and high school students are back in school you visited one school in nairobi on the 1st day back. kibera is one of the largest low income areas in nairobi here thousands of people live close together interacting on a daily basis social distancing is almost impossible now that schools have reopened pupils are waiting in line to get in. kenya is one of the last countries in east

africa to fully reopen that schools according to the world health organization prolonging school closures plus risks children from poor backgrounds like here for example higher rates of teen pregnancies born attrition and dropouts some of the reasons why the kenyan government said it was time to finally fully reopen schools . janet ones yet is excited to finally bring her daughter virginia back to school yet she is very aware of the risk. i didn't mention jane is the windus but i had a child for coffee. not even only even a common cause other. diseases because the many many garbage about. after they arrived they have the temperature measured and abortion senate ties the hands that's the new normal at primary school for girls

$347.00 girls are expected in the next few days divided into classes of roughly 20 pupils a distance of one meter can be maintained but still there are challenges. to wearing of their masks which is not easy for them because they have to be on their must vote they voted day so inflamed they're making they're telling you we need to create. this school as well place to deal with covert restrictions as it can provide the water space and masks to their pupils for free many other schools in kenya cannot it's possible because it belongs to shuffle an international organization that's funded mainly by private american donors teachers here were trained by health officials some classes even have 2 teachers parents feel that children are safer here than at home we have it all and i would say we have been told the children are privileged that able to social dissent that able to. get medical treatment twitch is not home one to everybody who lives there on this how

do they shower was yesterday despite the measures virginia is just happy to be back at school was and correspondent mario mona filed the report you just saw she joins me now from our bureau in i robot good to see you mari also obviously one school there that you profiled in to bear about how schools across the country fairing. so up to 16000000 kenyan schoolchildren have returned to school on monday and have you seen in the report there were huge lines that we filmed actually outside of public schools not at the school also and also of course the school where we filmed but also that public schools so their conditions are quite different it's not a saves not us comfortable teachers they're actually caution and they say they say schools are actually overcrowded under-funded and therefore ill prepared for

reopening because according to them there were no new provisions taking place in order to maintain the social distance of one meter inside classrooms and while the kenyan government said they will provide 7000000 masks to children from poor backgrounds but at the same time they admitted they are short of $1000000.00 masks so in the end it's clear that parents mostly have to step in and pay. and how do people feel about schools opening up to 9 months. so actually people where very happy especially the students but parents are very worried also they said well it's not very realistic people younger children are actually playing all sides they hug you know they have to you have to remind them constantly that they have to wear the mask and also classroom size didn't change this still the same but they are more children in some cases because private schools actually in kenya had to close down some of them at least because of the

break and because of the loss of income so parents have to look for new schools for their children and they were mostly public schools so there's the that's a big a big. schools were closed for 9 months how did that impact the curriculum and and what have education officials done their response. so the teachers we spoke to today they told us yes they expected especially younger children that they have gotten mostly not everything but a lot at least so they have to you know repeat a lot in some cases some call it some schools were actually able to keep in touch to bring paperworks to their homes because in most schools especially in poorer neighborhoods like there are now laptops no computers available so that the children could learn from from home so very difficult conditions for for many

kenyan right will children and so now they're expected to actually repeat and briefly maria what is the general covert situation in kenya at the moment so the numbers of cases and deaths have been reducing in the last few weeks according to the ministry of health and the johns hopkins university as latest numbers indicate that there have been nearly 1700 death cases of course always bearing in mind that there has been reported cases the number of reported cases is probably much higher so now the biggest fear also after the holiday season people went to visit their friends and family for christmas and of the updated number might be much higher and that schools could actually turn into a hotbed of the news of the disease right measures in place under not enough. with the reporting for us in nairobi thank you president for steen archons toward iran has one central african republic sprays it in chile election he secured more

than 53 percent of the vote in the evening which was held on the 27th of december the vote was marred by violence by armed rebel groups who try to disrupt the election now one of the president's biggest tasks will be to revive the shattered peace deal and handle a growing rebellion from several groups. it was the party to our their supporters had long been waiting for. after years of conflict and an election marked by violence many people here hope the president will bring peace. to. the people do not need weapons to take power we have suffered so much and today you can see what the president has done to bring this country forward so it's totally understandable that people here voted for him. elections on the 27th of december ran relatively smooth despite the opposition

calling it a farce and armed violence in many of rule areas. on monday the electoral commission announced 2 of their us win with over 50 percent of the votes . but it's not going to be an easy ride for the president the rebel coalition have continued that tax and says it does not accept the election result and now threatens to attack the capital bangui if the government does not engage in dialogue. the country is still reeling from a civil war in 2013 when muslim and christian groups clashed over political control and access to the country's past middle resources. 7 the u.n. has over 12000 peacekeepers on the ground and despite a peace deal violence and human rights abuses have continued.

for the president to succeed he has to start talks with the rebel coalition and try to revive whatever is left of a shattered peace agreement. our next story is in cameroon separate as conflict has been raging for 4 years leaving more than 2000 people dead people in the english speaking french majority. country have long felt discriminated against by the government in one day in 2016 rebels in the northwest and southwest regions declared an independent state brasilia we met a former fighter who is now in a reintegration program. for kingsley this chicken coop is the most peaceful place he's been in the last few years kingsley used to be an amazonian independence fighter here and some 200 rebels attacked the cameroon military 3 years ago in their quest for a new independent state. so many of my friends.

this agenda so are so in the oceans. and because it was on the show that everything would be fine. but he ultimately surrendered to authorities assigned him to this reintegration center where hundreds of former fighters receive training. they learn sewing computer programming and chicken farming like kingsley before we begin filming the head of the center made sure the place was cleaned up he's apparently keen to counter the state's brutal image many people here still see the military and the government as their enemy. when it is not i want to want to cause trouble for some of the militants who are they friends and anybody who is living in the bush to come to the center is a friend so doctors in this receive. also the grass and on by the military

forces who are guarding the center. in 2016 cameroon's mostly english speaking citizens took to the streets of bomb and they were protesting what they said was neglect by the majority french speaking government in the cameroonian capital but the government responded violently thousands have died since then many trusts neither the government nor the military is the difference is due is a moment days days. mostly after but all of that needed to know what it is that the involved it needed to be very angry we did. back at the reintegration center kingsley says he doesn't regret his decision to flee from the separatists even though he hasn't been allowed to leave the strictly guarded center for almost a year due to security reasons he fears the danger of possible revenge attacks by the amazonian fighters kingsbury believes he will never be able to return to his home village. and that's all for our program today we'll see you next time.

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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 franek. my name is abigail fremantle. you come see me at every foot hole colorado kid you remember that probably.

fremantle drools have followers in infiltrating their dreams. but many choose the dark side following alexander skull scarred as randall flag was . told it is more more i will try my son and. stephen king not content with the original ending a piece for old a novel person a script is a new one a 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 slow born written directed and filmed by christian all that so born sees a north sea island community confronted with

a phone call virus and what that's your problem influence of history that. the epic series explores what happens when the thin veneer of civilization is removed. to. exhibit at the heart of the i. cannot. touch that. this series was nearly pulled off to broadcasters express concern that it might be too close to reality for some viewers to cope with. and also expect that real instance invited you to it 6. a 2nd season is now in the works. with or without a pandemic terry gilliam's 996 dystopian 12 monkeys starring bruce willis and brad pitt remains a modern fine masterpiece. the film's 25 year

anniversary rerelease has a full in june the coronavirus pandemic giving its predictions a lot more punch a 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 already to 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 the big box office than the u.s. ones which is not really surprised due to the corona pandemic especially over the past a week and they set a record high on around 162000000 euros 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 film i'm also a bit jealous. of oh probably had to come from 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 so 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 so so movements towards 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 sell a plex then it will go if you go to either blue 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 sort of exhibition well it won't because the income from streaming still cannot cannot even with what they get from them soon it releases so there's also 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

a 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 if you look at this month. i want to because we want to ask video recorders and i do remember also the bad picture and sound quality of the movies which might have been wiped didn't kill movie theater this either and before that was of course television. yes which me and many also addicted would be the end of cinema it wasn't by 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 that there is reason to hope speaking of history as well well last week cinema very quietly celebrated its 100 and 25th birthday of course 125 years ago there weren't cinemas to speak of but that's when the brothers in france oh sure they're very. first 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 phone that was shown with this train from today's perspective quite boring about the people in the audience but absolutely scared they were afraid that the train could run over them all the

brothers may have just filmed the work is of their own factory maybe you can see this as well yeah there's so many other examples you can find them easily on the you tube channel institute lim yeah and after that the development really foxed absolutely it's amazing to look back and see how different the films were how different people's perception was thanks so much. the director of animated films including spirited away and prince's modern ok is celebrating his 80th birthday legendary japanese animator and oscar winner. and 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 me as arky put out an illustration showing 2021 as an arcs crushing the coronavirus under its host how to destroy your enemy well that's what the late swiss author and playwright fleetly dylan much wrote

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 ex lover quite the moral dilemma joking about stories are wild and unpredictable and so was he if he were alive today it would be the author's 100th birthday. switzerland's m.n. tardelli looks like a postcard bot being born here didn't stop all the free drink during mad from writing sentences like the world is a gunpowder factory where smoking isn't forbidden that's typical during mass the pastor's son who skipped school did auxiliary military service was a loner and was committed to provocation he was also a swiss national monument whose youthful activities drew the attention of the swiss secret service and whose works on 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. 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 duramax was able to produce one bestseller after another in 1952 the judge and his hangman 956 visit in 1960 to the physicists about an insane asylum where a brilliant scientist 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 of. his specialty tragicomedy works that 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 was to be 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. she demonstrates to the men the hypocrisy of their patry arkell society.

one more dramatic quote for the author's 100th those who despair lose their wits those who write comedies use them. well that's it for this edition of art and culture. the phone.

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this is the w. news live from berlin germany is locked down as extended until at least the end of the months chancellor angela merkel and regional leaders are also announcing some tough new restrictions intuiting limits on non-essential travel in coronavirus hotspots. also coming up to keep the runoff elections in the u.s. state of georgia voting has begun for both of those states senate seats the outcome will determine whether democrats can rest control of the child but from the republicans.

i'm going to have as welcome to the program and germany has announced an extension of its 19 lockdown and is bringing in tough on new rules the shutdown is being extended from next week to the end of the months and germans in places worst hit by the virus will see their freedom of movement restricted his chancellor merkel speaking just a few minutes ago. even though it's a market 1st the decisions that we made in december will be extended until the 31st of january. and being in certain areas these decisions will be tightened up and we have to do that for the reasons that i have just set out. one reason for tightening this rashers this is that we need to reduce contacts even

more because what we've seen is that in recent weeks we have not been able to bring down the incidence rate as much as we would have liked and then because of the virus and its mutation minute we are in a very uncertain situation we would like to appeal to everyone in the country to reduce their contacts to the absolute minimum and then them we will be reducing private meetings to one household with one other person from outside the household that is all that will be allowed which is a considerable reduction in the contacts that we have had now of 5 people from 2 households. we feel we must return to the measures that we had in place in march for the reasons i have set out if we believe this is the right way forward even if it is really hard for the people in this country we don't want anyone to be alone which is why you can meet one other person outside of your household but otherwise you have to reduce things we're going to be closing the canteen for work

wherever that's possible you can take food with you. to work but we want close canteens would also like to appeal to employers to make people it possible for people to work from home wherever possible. and the idea is to stay at home as much as possible to ease the viral pressure on public transport as well. then guarding this strategy that we have with the real. hot spots where there's over $200.00 cases per 100000 we've decided to introduce a. restriction on people's movements that people are to remain within 15 kilometers from their home unless they have reasons that would allow it an exemption visiting a doctor or other things that people have to do. and we have made the decision that day trips do not count as an exemption you know when

there was snow recently a lot of people wanted to go out. for day trips this isn't possible a number of countries already have a regulation where people are only allowed to travel within a 15 kilometer radius of home. where there are over $200.00 cases but 100000 we'll be introducing this we also looked at our nursing homes it's not the 1st time we've looked at this there's a duty to test in our nursing homes and geriatric homes that's been in place for some time now but what we have found is that it is not the case that these tests are being carried out as much as they need to be that we need to reinforce the personnel in the geriatric nursing care homes i'm a very pleased that our. job agency is going to help us here because we need to ensure that in all of our geriatric comes we are testing as much

as we need to in terms of real bursting the costs for some time now we have had a very generous reimbursement system both for the test costs and for this additional staff costs and we've made it clear again that integration of the help of all agencies will be covered by this to. just say a bit more about the new mutation of the virus the issue is that we need to ensure that the sequencing of viruses needs to be. increased in germany and within the 3rd act on protecting the populace from infectious diseases this is covered with also looked at vaccination quite rightly so because we are aware of the fact that with the vaccine that we now have there is a perspective to normalize our public lives and return to a life without a pandemic. without the restrictions it brings and in this context we

have made it very clear the national and federal state level governments very much welcome a european approach to vaccination pleased that the aim is to provide a vaccination for all 27 member states and that this is the right way forward very much in the interest of germany because we are surrounded with member states of the european union we are working within a single market there's the schengen area as well where freedom of movement of people is possible and the high level of people vaccinated here in germany with neighboring countries not vaccinated will not be helpful for germany and this is why we don't want a national unilateral approach we believe the best way to protect our health in germany is to take a european approach. speaking on increased measures lockdown measures here in germany and now let's bring in chief

political editor mr to talk about this. what are the most important points that stuck out for you in the message that we just heard from the chancellor. well 1st the basics that this 2nd lockdown which wasn't as severe as in many other european countries including spain and britain so far is now being extended until the end of generally and it's a much tighter lock down than before in fact it's moving just one step closer to becoming something that stops just short of a quick curfew with exemptions because people are still allowed to go to work that's seen as a significant reason to leave the house but they're no longer allowed to just see leisure in those hocks hotspots as a valid reason to move about so clearly this is the government clamping down in a situation that is being described in this 6 page document that was just agreed on

between the german chancellor and the 16 state premiers as a very difficult situation to assess coming out of this christmas break so a tighter lockdown a longer lockdown with reassessment on the 25th of january so we only know over the next 3 weeks what we're facing and then the situation will be reassessed with yet another option to clamp down even further. tightening of the sort in this press conference. so far the lock on that we didn't bring the numbers down how is she so sure that a tightening of the law will bring the desired effect. well simply without a massive roller to vaccines that's the only instrument the german government house and clearly here we're seeing not just the infection rate still very alarmingly high the average is around about $140.00 per 100000 habitants. over the space

of 7 days the aim remains to bring that down to 50 now 70 districts alone are above this new magic mark of $200.00 which sees them declare it as a hotspot which then means that from now on with people living there will not be allowed to move any further than 15 kilometer radius around their homes so this is a very very severe situation indeed and without more vaccines on track the german government simply doesn't have any other option than clamping down even further but this is especially this 15. rule in hot spots that is no difficulty for people living in the big city but how's this going to go down in the countryside for example. but it's not likely to go down well at the same time

if anything opinion polls have shown that our words of 3 quarters of. back the clamp down back the 2nd lock down and a significant part of those backing it even wanted a title locked down to begin with and this comes out of a history of uncle americal going into the autumn and winter season telling his state premiers that what they were willing to agree as a common line simply wouldn't be enough and unfortunately that prediction has come true there's a very different dynamic now they still sat together for 5 hours but now they're all on the same page that they really need to take countermeasures particularly in areas like saxony which is hardest hit at the moment. well you see an incidence rate of one about 300 in that formula that's very alarming indeed and that basically means loss of control in a pandemic with not enough vaccine to go around just yet to make any real

difference obvious senior political editor michelle o'keefe and i think you may hear the. voting has begun to kill runoff elections in the u.s. state of georgia and the stakes are high the outcome will determine whether republicans or democrats control the senate president donald trump was in georgia to rally support for republican incumbents kelly lefler and david purged and president elect joe biden held a rally to get out the vote for their democratic challengers polls show the kind of it's neck and neck and democrats need to win both seats in order to have a majority in the senate clearing the way for biden's agenda. as the country hold holds its breath on u.s. bureau chief talked to voters in georgia this is why playing right now because going on between know even who you vote for not go for all the violence other than

just for minorities and for black people so we've got to make it right and the only way to make it right is by voting i think in this particular election is about balance. the 3 branches of government. that's what's really. i think about. no government entity complete complete control did i mean is washington bureau chief in a sport is in georgia and she sent us this is meant. it is here in georgia where the fate of joe biden's presidency will be out to minutely decided today because it is this election that will decide who controls the senate if the republicans keep the majority it will be hard for biden to presume his political agenda as it is very likely that the republicans will block all of its bills to undermine the success there is a lot at stake in the southern states so no wonder that a lot of money actually more than half a $1000000000.00 has been spent on campaigning over the last 2 months the biggest

challenge for both parties is to get people out to vote again after an exhausting presidential election at the end of the day it will come down to who can motivate more people to go out and cast their ballot the polls will close at 7 local time but it is well possible that it might take days before we have the results because everybody is expecting a razor thin outcome and there is fear that we might experience violence later because the united states still has a president who is obviously not able to accept the democratic process unless he is the winner. it is poor reporting before i let you go or rather curious story coming out of russia 12 women there have joined the ranks of moscow's metro drivers after russia lifted a controversial law that bans women from certain jobs ostensibly because of health reasons women began working for the subway system on new year's day the metro stop

hiring them in the early eighty's before that women have been employed as drivers for decades the profession was then listed among jobs with harmful dangerous conditions the recent legal changes also allow women to work as long haul truckers tractor drivers and boat skippers. you're watching news is a reminder of the top story we're following for you right now the leaders of germany 16 federal states and chancellor angela merkel are announcing details of a new coronavirus measures they've agreed to extend the country's lockdown until the end of january there will also be tighter restrictions on social contacts as well as limits on movement for people living in corona virus hot spots. that's it from me and the news team of fun our next stop is the business news for more world news you can always visit our website of course d.w.

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