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a reintegration program. hello. to the program it's good to have your company millions of children are back in the classroom in kenya for the 1st time since last march with 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 their rupie here thousands of people live close together interacting on a daily basis social distancing is almost impossible now that schools have reopened pupils

a waiting in line to get in. kenya is one of the last countries in east africa to fully reopen its schools according to the world health organization prolonged school closures plus risk spot children from poor backgrounds like here in canberra 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's very aware of the risk. i didn't mention jane is. windus but i had a child for coffee. not even coffee only even a common cause of the. diseases because the many many. about. after they arrive 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 the next few days divided into classes of roughly 20 pupils a distance of one meter can be maintained but still there are challenges. when they're wearing of their masts reach is not easy for them because they have to be on their must throw to they've already 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 you know were trained by health officials some classes even have 2 teachers parents feel that children are safer here than at home we haave told i would say we have been told the children are privileged that able to social dissent that able to. get medical treatment tweets she's not come on to everybody who lives there on this how

do you think you are you ok despite the measures virginia is just happy to be back at school was and correspondent mario muller filed the report you just saw she joins me now from our bureau in nairobi good to see you also obviously one school there that you profiled in canberra but how are schools across the country fairing. so after $16000000.00 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 also of course the school where we filmed but also is that public schools so their conditions are quite different it's not a say it's 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 taken plays 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. parents 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 paying 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 had to look for new schools for their children and they were mostly public schools so there's the that's a big. bit wary. schools were closed for 9 months how did that impact the curriculum and and what have you cation officials done in response. so teachers we spoke to today they told us yes they expect 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 school from home so these are 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 called that 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 is latest numbers indicate that there have been nearly 1700 death cases of course always bearing in mind that there has been reported cases of 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 hot bed of the news of the disease. plays out on a not enough that's the reporting for us in nairobi thank you president for stealing our charge toward iran has one central african republic springs eventually election he secured more than 53 percent of the vote in the election which was held

on the 27th of december the vote was marred by violence by armed rebel groups who try to disrupt the election one of the president's biggest tasks will be to revive a 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 who 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 rural 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 their 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 mineral resources 7. the un has over $12000.00 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 the is leaving more than 2000 people dead people in the english speaking of the french majority. entry have long felt discriminated against by the government. in 2016 rebels in north west and southwest regions declared an independence day. 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 people have joined

a struggle my 1st. agenda so so in the oceans. other than to join them because it was an assure 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. within it to become one it is what i feel i want to there toward want to cause trouble for the middletons were a friend and anybody who is living in the bush to come to the center is a friend so the person is received. also the grass and on by the believes.

forces who are guarding the center. in 2016 cameroon's mostly english speaking citizens took to the streets of bomb end 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 this insurance is new is a moment days davis says most. of the religion but what did he does that do involve it needed to be very angry he 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 filed have em say we'll see you next time.

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there are many old trying to. make up your own mind. made for minds. more than 40 years ago stephen king wrote the stamp 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 fish durgan bought the lived off crowdfunding back in the 1950 s. before there was crowdfunding. you're welcome to arts and culture most of us these

days are looking for a distraction from a 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 1978 novel the stand is not about 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 day is abigail fremantle. you come see me at every foot hole colorado kid you remember that probably.

fremantle drawls have followers in infiltrating their dreams. but many choose the dark side following alexander skulls god as randall flag was. exalted was more i their charm the son of man. stephen king not content with the original ending if the sprawling novel closely scripted any one the stand is a vision of a world blasted by a plague with the survivors forced 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 problem influence of history that. the epic series explores what happens when the thin veneer of civilization is removed. to. itself be a part of it was a. tax. cut. that. this series was nearly pulled after broadcasters expressed concern that it might be too close to reality for some viewers to cope with. something that also unspecified the real instance invited you to it 6. a 2nd season is now in the works. with the without a pandemic terry gilliam's $996.00 dystopian 12 monkeys starring bruce willis and brad pitt remains a modern masterpiece. breezer. the film's 25 year

anniversary rerelease has only 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 this cinema and. yet and for the 1st time in film history the chinese movie theaters big box office 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 a film and also a big. picture of what it's hopefully to come for the rest of us in 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 journalist cameron crowe's on a beach says that's unlikely to save and they schedule films so they don't cannibalize each other's wake 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 solar plexus then it will go to 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 will streaming 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 from senator with rhesus so there's they're 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 and

went through 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 the 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 and i want to because we want to ask video recorders and i do remember also the back picture and sound quality of the movies which might have been white didn't kill movie theaters either and before that was of course television. yeah which me at many also addicted would be the end of cinema it wasn't right 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 involved in that that. 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 and friends oh sure they're very for. 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 though it was shown with this train from today's perspective quite bawling about the people in the audience but absolutely scared they were afraid that the train could run over them all the

brothers have just filmed the work is 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 really really fast 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 princes is celebrating his 80th birthday legendary japanese animator and oscar winner you know 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 ox crushing the coronavirus under its. how to destroy your enemy well that's

what the late swiss author and playwright freak which dylan might 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 driven mad 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 frederick dura mater 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 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 dura map 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 or 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 options. his specialty tragicomedy works the pointed out the weaknesses the corruption of society. to 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 biographer already 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 patrick 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.

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