make up your. bill. this is steve every news africa on the program today chaos and on just an attic keyboard and post thousands also involved with this wanting to get into south africa australia did at the border they've been there for days. and we're in cameroon and often it's 3 african nations football championship. hello i'm christine window it's good to have your company fear is all growing off

a humanitarian crisis as south african border post as thousands of people from zimbabwe and of the countries remain stuck the crowds have been increasing at the bike bridge crossing for days as the try to get back into south africa off to the face of season and also a hard lockdown in their own country of the backlog is be exacerbated by a requirement that travel is be able to produce a negative cold of $900.00 test results and also restrictions on both sides of the border. for more on this story we're going to speak privileged who's in zimbabwe is capital had a privilege most of the people trying to get into south africa ah zimbabweans tell us more about them why are they being. it's a mode of pushing them to cross over to south africa you have to resolve

people. normally go to buy goods in south africa to resell in zimbabwe and the largest group of people who want to cross to so africa to get jobs some they work in south africa already but they had come for the festive season to zimbabwe but these people most of the them do not have. like immigration they have buzz or payments to aiken south africa they usually just go is casual labor but this time around because of $1000.00 so africa is also tightened their systems for people who are coming in they are requiring all of the tests results and all but some of these people cannot afford to get a test in zimbabwe because their course is also high so that's the reason why you find that the border is now having too much or people who are piling up were trying

to write. about that pressure that congestion let's talk about the reasons for that and all the authorities in south africa and zimbabwe doing anything to diffuse the situation. under so that fit inside so that is tightening its own security. allowing people to come into so after they have been instances where people are making the trip that us you know cross or. they limpopo river the crocodile infested river so i'm using boats and also makeshift. troops to try to cross over there even so you find so that state and its borders but on the zimbabwean side you find that zimbabwe may not have much to do because it doesn't have much to offer its own citizens in terms of employment and not dissuading them to cross over to south africa privilege this is happening as the government in

zimbabwe impose new lockdown restrictions tell us more about that this is about when government yes kristin decided to put the country under lockdown from the 5th of january the reasons are that there's been a huge spike in terms of the numbers or. infections and deaths what we have had of course infections in the past year but just after the season then numbers have gone up you know i strum an early and you find that even what was that recorded on. january the 5th. of the 5th the statistics they are higher than any other number that is recorded in the past year because we have had more than a 1000 infections in one day and almost today it's in 24 hours so as imbibing government is quite weary about what is happening and therefore they had to impose

they look down we started 12 is that the 5th of january privilege how is the country coping with this infections as you're saying. government at $32.00 unlike before they have all pinned up they are saying this in the health system is being overrun it's overwhelmed most of the public or if aero the tours are not so it's coming at a time when zimbabwe already has its own health system on its knees where they had a long time where. doctors have been on strike so that alone. is putting pressure on the health system in zimbabwe right that's privileged in how to thank you privilege now a wildlife reserve in the republic of congo is raising gorillas often by poachers with the aim of eventually releasing them into the wild western lowland gorillas

are listed as critically endangered and their population has been reduced by around 60 percent because of poaching habitat loss and disease outbreaks. this is the real country around a 140 kilometers north of congress capital process of ill. over the last 25 years the population of the western lowland gorilla has by 60 percent he had the national gorilla preserve the gonzalez patrol to track the gorillas but also watch out for poaching. the focus is to protect the young gorillas that have lost their parents due to poaching. the 1st iteration is to find the baby gorillas look after them and then the released into the wild so that the species. in the last 20 years. have been raised here and then later released back into the

wild. but the animals are vulnerable to human diseases and now with the coronavirus restrictions are even tighter and very few visits i'm now allowed for food is delivered by poked and dropped at a safe distance. but the gods are still trying to keep a special relationship with the young gorillas. and a lot of time with the gorillas they've become like children. but running of it in such a remote area is difficult task. under pressure from the growing population of the region but also from hunters coming all

the way from brussels to hunt. the government plans to fight poaching visitor numbers so that the park creates jobs the economy everyone in the area. kenya has one of the world's strictest bans on the use and manufacture of plastic bags spetz environmental activists say kenya and countries around the world must simply stop producing single use plastics until then one company in kenya has found a means of making a profit from such plastic. in the mountains of waste at this nairobi garbage dump workers chipped away to salvage or recycle some of the city's trash but they barely make a dent and some 500 metric tons of plastic waste generated every day here.

in another part of the city an alternative effort started by a group of 4 engineers and focused on some of the plastic that would otherwise just add to nairobi's trash problem. so that he decided lead only creates like a plug where they don't have in the plastic to go to the dam site we like the deceptive and the weak and hence start to influence the making business is called gen game makers and they recycle stuff like cooking oil containers drink bottles and bottle caps shredding it melting it reshaping it to make bricks for paving outdoor landscapes does that do so on opportunity because west in itself is a. gen game makers mainly sells its plastic paving bricks to homeowners and to schools in various colors depending it turns out on the original color of the trash from which they were made. walking on them freedoms like you're walking on rubber

because i i understand they also have some plastic in them then that are meant to be friendly they also beautiful because you get to different colors they won't solve kenya's plastic waste problem but jane game makers make at least a small difference and battling a mountainous issue. and cameroon will be hosting the african nations football championship next week it's going to be the continent's biggest sporting event since the corona virus outbreak last year many high profile football events was suspended due to the pandemic however the court of ice has changed the way that's what i meant well. the paint as. reports now from cameron couture the must go for d.c.'s african nations championship begun. before the people that underlie it has proved the big city who see just. named the

tournament was originally shadow for last year but had to be called off because of the pandemic. flu which for all the traffic on the news time around it started in full gear. today we're happy to be the mascot is in this city one of the most in cities. if you consider the crowd is excited so i'm looking forward to what we got there. but most fans will not be getting tickets treaty with. restrictions mean all the normal number of fans will be allowed to attend a group stages however 50 percent more can be allowed in during the knockout stages this is according to common sportsmen the stuff but this is not the only award put seems unfun stick in part in this tournament meant for players playing in africa's domestic leagues uganda is the 1st. african country has been suspended. whose do not then my country is doing his best to get the side

written. for us you know we got the players together only a week ago on the last time this group of players were together was back in march so as an international team it's been very short preparations it we're from the stadiums cameron is busy with groundwork for hosting the competition. but i'm still into thinning the crowds and offense i determined to put a we were above the virus to one side. yes to that we are facing that going out there hope that everything will be ok. this is the 1st train coming this tuesday championship 16 national teams above the new doubts for africa's most important soccer title since the fundament. and that is it for now the show to check out our other stories on dot com forward slash africa also on facebook at that at will see the effect.

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the grammy awards have been postponed but we've still got plenty of arts and culture for you coming up we've even got last year's big grammy winner billie eilish as an edible sculpture and she's not alone. and also on the show be electronic jazz quartet treats to a special garage concert. all

that coming up in a moment but 1st a real life were refugees as the hero of a comic book. thought his own harrowing escape from iraq and his new life in germany would make a good science fiction story so he pitched it to an organization called new patriots the group helps normal people commission and finance works of art. find crates of comic books i handed over to the man who commissioned. me. the cop from the new patrons organization who put nomic in touch with the comic book is also here happy end to an improbable story. alexander caught from new patrons and the artistic team from the very beginning we put heart and soul into this and work that we burn a story on the comic but it was a fantastic experience for me in germany. the fictional comic spun

around nomics story after a happy childhood to protect against 3 says homeland because of drought he ends up in a fictitious camp called temple just outside the walls of a futuristic berlin in the camp the refugee faces many trials and tribulations. in real life fled from islamic state terrorists in northern iraq in 201622 year old spent a year in emergency accommodation at the former temple. that's where he heard about the new patrons and with their supports he created the comic together with author bruce sterling and an illustrator. everything i do is my artistic interpretation but the original idea came from south he. cuts off from his roots the saw in the comic

experiences violence. in a monolithic temple might his rights. but he also experiences solidarity the creation of the comic is a small miracle made possible largely due to the efforts of the new patrons organization. my colleague michael kruger has more on this initiative michael so obviously most people can't afford to just commission a comic book and that's where new patrons comes in who exactly is behind it and how does it work. well 1st of all. the network network was founded the couple of years ago in france and they grew big and now and starting now in germany. the goal is that as you said just normal people can come and say hey of it just a great idea for an artwork all cultural and facility and the network that means

the mentors than just there to help you to realize everything the establish the contracts contacts with the artists for example and he are a few examples of projects they have already completed so art and culture accessible to everyone and that means really everyone not just some exclusive circle which may feel a little bit excluded so how does this work with your applications i'm guessing you can't just apply and say hey i really need some beauty i need some beautiful art for my bathroom and there's a criteria for you good to be true that's that's that's true no every mission should benefit a whole community 1st of all and making the finances financing possible is also great art and that needs marketing so there must be somehow a public interest and we have a great example for that

a french family which lost their son to the buttocks attack in 2015 commissioned the song the composition was just premiered by the public chambre orchestra in december and sometimes the new patrons don't have really a concrete idea and. the network is helping to look what's really possible and there we have also a good example from ban book here in germany from a very tiny district of stein who fit some of the elderly residents wanted to commission just some artwork any artwork something which could bring together. the people in the community the network brought them together with the collective protocol and they developed together the idea of more by theatre on a truck which comes to the different villages if the crew on the pandemic will let them could start. some really moving projects michael this is an international

initiative just quickly how many countries are part of this. in the moment in europe it's round about 8 different countries they expand there's also a project in africa and cameroon for example which is very exciting and i guess we should stay in contact with this network and i hope to hear a little bit more from them soon and what i'm really looking forward to that michael krueger thanks so much. former bond girl and charlie's angels star tanya roberts has died of an infection this comes after roberts' publicist prematurely announced her death and then retracted that announcement a day earlier while the actress was still alive with her steely blue eyes roberts stole the show from roger moore back in 1985 in his last bond film a view to a kill us she later had more small screen success with that seventy's show roberts

died at age 65. well 1st it was the academy awards now the grammys have also been postponed due to the coronavirus unlike last year's awards there won't be a live audience at this year's ceremony in los angeles now set for march 14th instead of later this month the announcement comes as los angeles is seeing record numbers of coded 19 cases and deaths of hospitals there even turning patients away . and sticking with music d.j. is a bust on vice also known as supple lot put out well over a dozen albums before deciding he wanted to try something new and electronic jazz ensemble here's a taste of the settle out cortez shawn robust 2nd album now and next inside a garage in munich.

quartet's music is an eclectic mix of late night jazz infused with haunting hip hop social dancing sampling. something really is making a collage you smash up a huge toy put it back together and create something completely new that was initially personalized to pluck out its pieces are often based around memorable sound samples melancholy miniatures almost like water marks. because on the sink what's special about our music is that it's not tangible it floats on top but still gets inside your head even though it doesn't have

a very insistent melody. started teaching for small groups of friends and this is where he fell in love song which really clicked for me was collins collins. do. you know how he started off the original and then i started collecting secondhand records i traveled question germany went to all the secondhand record shops i bought this single at a flea market for just $1.00 each mark and that was it for me collecting old records sampling old records hip hop music everything came together in this piece of music. that. said lott was the d.j. for the rap blumenthal but he's lindenmayer fabienne through spring of one guard jazz and soul to the mix and finally the soft beauty. full force of law and blow

outs. the name of the record label supply runs in munich is. iska part of the german with the escapade and adventurous way would handle taking off the straight and narrow. using my set to get people into music that wasn't hip hop but something completely different that was a challenge for me to send people home after a gig with a smile on their face and the question in their heads what was that song like dance to tonight i have no idea but it was really cool and i'm going to stop us we are cool. the sounds created miscarriage can almost be confused with the summer festival everything's bewilderingly pitiful. hour. since the advent of instagram people have started caring so much about the statics of food that sometimes food itself is hard

to recognize and while a lot of artists don't have too much on their plates right now one designer has gotten very creative with what's on hers. from a concert here at 1010. this looks like pop star britney eilish the master behind these edible creations. and i'm going to show you how to make some incredible. today she's making up there in part made for us using these simple 1st. because it's very easy. it's like kind of like a instantly. while the potatoes boil she cuts the better for the dental the traditional dress. and use this to make it a little secret the designer by training loves to cook in her home in course ne

belgium. her original plan was to make a website to teach people how to meal prep for the week to grab attention on the internet she make the dishes look more and more artistic. everybody. nobody asks everybody wanted. to this dish she has to mold a base from mashed potatoes. she paints the base with food coloring and cream cheese makes the bed look for a fake. bell peppers and zucchini come together as a colorful dress. you'll understand commands is bursting with ideas for new dishes she takes inspiration from famous movie characters celebrities and animals all as in today's creation of a cultures like germany the bavarian barmaid has come to life and is ready to serve some. that is if she doesn't get eaten 1st.

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this is the news live from berlin a last ditch effort by u.s. president donald trump to overturn the election result will never give up we will never could see it it doesn't happen. that. the president rallies his supporters the us congress prepares to certify joe biden's victory. meanwhile by then some across the party is poised to take control of the senate after a runoff elections in georgia raphael warnock wins his race with john also fall on

course to take a 2nd crucial seat. also coming up the european commission approves the medan of vaccine against covert 19 there's hope a 2nd weapon against the disease will be a shot in the arm for the e.u. use the slow moving vaccination drives. thanks for joining us thousands of supporters of outgoing u.s. president all trump have gathered in washington to support his effort to overturn his election loss attendees of the rally are calling for trump to remain in office citing absolute unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud congress is expected to formally certify joe biden's presidential victory today but several republican senators plan to challenge the tally of electoral college vote a move that is largely seen as symbolic. so long as i'm still so speaks at this

rally putting pressure on fellow republicans to reject the election results he called out vice president mike pence specifically let's listen to what he had to say. vice president purchased is send it back to the states to recertify. and we become president and you are that happy is. washington bureau chief as paul joins us now from. the house been speaking until just moments ago what's been the reaction to that speech that. well gathered people were cheering him there he has since a very early morning hours and it is cold but you kind of felt the heat again when he was speaking and and challenge and saying again you know these election are rigged they're taking from us and that's exactly the mood of those people who came here today from all over the united states they think donald trump was reelected

and everything they learned from the media is wrong and victory is stolen from them so don't trump she didn't do that and well you put more oil and fuel in the fire so to speak where congress is meeting now to certify each state election results what's necessary to block joe biden's policy into the white house. well they won't be able to block is part of the carrot i just walk with your own because you see the mass is actually moving towards the senate here right behind me you know on the one side here in washington is the white house and on the other side is the senate this is where the senator and the house is coming together at this very moment to a vote for joe biden the senator is who are going to vote against him will not be able to blog that process but what they can do is they can feed the narrative that

these elections are rigged and that's exactly what they are going to do and we have to be aware that they are really. the democracy after all because they undermine the trustworthiness in the democratic process of an election and that will stay much longer than this very day well we've seen some live pictures there from from the senate so if biden's victory is safe it was certified today and he can be sworn in in a couple of weeks' time is that is that game over for donald trump. not at all you know we have to keep in mind on the interim gods are on the board 73000000 votes so not all of them are die hard trying supporters but he has a couple of 1000000 americans behind him and they won't go away i talked to many of

them this morning here in washington and they told me if the republican party doesn't stand behind donald trump they are going to found their own party and that's something what joe biden is facing that something what the g.o.p. is facing and that is something what donald trump is hoping for. chief. thank you. well joe biden's democrats meanwhile have moved closer to taking control of the senate off the 2 runoff elections in georgia. has made history by becoming the state's 1st black senator and rising star jon also has claimed victory after gaining a narrow lead in his race democrats need to win both seats to help biden advance his agenda in the senate. another election in the united states

georgia is bracing for a political upset in the traditionally red state as democrats are poised to unseat republicans in tween runoff elections. raphael warnock stick to re has already been projected if the result is confirmed he would become the 1st black senator to be elected from the state. so i come before you tonight as a man who knows that the improbable journey that led me to this place in this is storage moment in america. could only happen here. we were told that we couldn't win this election. but tonight we're through with hope hard work and the people by our side. anything. is possible. but for his rival senator kerry loffler anything is still possible.

we're going to make sure every vote is counted every letter. every every legal vote will be counted and i'm not going to stop working. the race will determine president elect biden chances of pushing his agenda through congress . and i was on the other stories making headlines around the world today a judge in britain has denied bail for 2 wiki leaks founder julian assange has 2 days after blocking his extradition to the u.s. where he's wanted on a spinoff charges the judge said there were sufficient grounds to believe that a sans would not turn up to court for a pending u.s. appeal if he were to be released from prison. venezuela's new parliament has met for its 1st session leader nicolas maduro as united socialist party claimed more than 92 percent of the seats a month ago after the opposition parties led by one why don't boycotted the

elections they planned to maintain a parallel parliament. thousands of orthodox christians have taken part in traditional opinion is celebrations in bog area despite coronavirus restrictions religious leaders oversaw festivities including an icy dive for a crucifix in the town of. authorities in bulgaria extended covert 19 lock down restrictions at least until the end of the months. the european commission has approved the use of the corona virus vaccine developed by u.s. drug company madonna it's the 2nd vaccine to get the green light for use in the e.u. after the buy and take pfizer. to maternal vaccine requires 2 doses $28.00 days apart and was found to be 94 percent effective in clinical trials for us canada and israel. all approved its use and the agency workers in california

were among the 1st to get the shot. that you would now like yes so here is staffing you know and all of the patients the line employees 10 it's kind of. health care in this case why it. didn't turn a vaccine and company name of based on modified r.n.a. it contains the genetic instructions to produce proteins with the coronaviruses telltales bikes preparing the immune system for an attack from the real virus. it's the 2nd such m.r. in a vaccine following the german developed by own sick pfizer shows the u.s. company madonna is just over 10 years old and hasn't released a single approved product now the company's share value is in the 10s of billions of dollars madonna's advantage it can be kept at normal freezer temperature making

it easier to distribute than others which need colder storage it's disadvantage it is expensive costing up to 10 times as much as other covert 19 vaccines. by approving madonna the e.u. has unlocked the use of 160000000 doses preordered for its member states further vaccines are under review with the pandemic still raging the news is the shot in the arm that many a desperately waiting for. you correspondent standing by in brussels to the 2nd vaccine approved in europe how important is this. well it's very important gary hart as you noted it is only the 2nd vaccine approved in europe so europeans have been watching as other countries the united states israel canada britain have approved more vaccines and they see citizens lining up for jobs where here it's gone much more slowly in fact the netherlands is just starting its coronavirus

vaccination program today so people here very much feel like they're being left behind obviously adding another kind of medicine to to vaccinate the half a 1000000000 nearly half a 1000000000 citizens in the european union is going to be very important and as you mentioned it's also going to be easier to transport and to store than the pfizer biotech vaccine because it can be stored in a normal freezer so this should really speed up the deployment of this vaccine once it starts getting here to europe and speeding up some sort of need to because there's been a lot of criticism of the slow roll of the vaccinations in the e.u. countries home once will this whole governments across the block speeded up. well each government is responsible for its own program of vaccinating its citizens and including the transportation and storing of the vaccination so so the e.u. is only partially responsible for the slowness on these decisions admittedly you

know the european medicines agency only considered an approved the moderna vaccine today so this is behind other countries and they do have their share of the you know responsibility for for that coming behind other countries but now it's up to the governments themselves one of the problems is of course the production capacity and says that it is only going to be able to produce $100.00 up to $125000000.00 doses in the 1st 3 months of this year so out of the $125.00 only a portion of those will be exported it all only a portion of that amounts to europe so we don't even know how many will be coming here but certainly not that 160000000 doses that the european commission has ordered some officials are saying they should see some of doses coming already perhaps within the month but it won't be the number that the european commission is waiting for so we may not see a huge bump in the speed of the vaccination process across europe with this single

approval. from brussels thank you. to someone with a real passion for the olympic games 51 year old ishikawa has been to every summer olympic games in the past 30 years and the tokyo resident is determined to turn the one scheduled to come to a hometown this year many japanese believe the event should not go because of the pandemic but kyoko is hoping to keep a record in time. kyoko ishikawa has done her summer games superfan attire every 4 years her traditional outfit and hace maki headband started out at the barcelona games in 1902 and along the way she's collected memorabilia at every game since the tokyo olympics were postponed until this year due to the pandemic and just last month tokyo organizers

banned cheering in stadiums which means. he. will have to leave her whistle at home even with a muted atmosphere the tokyo games kyoko believes could serve as a symbol of hope i think i didn't mean it on that. despite the difficulties i want the tech games to be a place where people around the world feel that the flame of hope was protected. country do you want that humanity kept alive. that i know the. plans to take part in the rescheduled torch relay she's also looking forward to adding to her collection of memorabilia the tokyo games are set to open in under 200 days. this is the w. news and here's a reminder of all top story u.s. presidents donald trump has been rallying supporters in washington as congress

prepares to certify joe biden's election victory and a last ditch effort to overturn the results trump is pressuring his vice president to contest results in a handful of states. as it from me and the news team for now don't go away soon beardsley has your business news update just after the sense of. what secrets lie behind these walls. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. d.w. world heritage 360 get maps now. in the. climate change.