you know that we can eat but it's not just the little suffering it's the environment we were in on a journey to find ways out of the ignition if you will where you clipped the proof on the whole truth train it was between listening to our podcast on. you're watching. coming up today in investigations got old or at least it delayed the world health organization team of scientists had wanted to travel to china but beijing now says no we take a look at why that might be. plus the language of protest why money mongolians are embracing an ancient writing script to resist the rise of china.

i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia we're glad you could join us the world health organization planned to travel to china this week in order to investigate the origins of covert 19 but now says beijing has blocked their team's arrival scientists have said and on ground is essential to understand how the virus jumped species to humans the w.h.o. has criticized china but chinese officials say it's merely a bureaucratic delay. disappointed with this news given that 2 members had already begun their journeys and others were not able to travel at the last minute but i have been in contact with senior chinese officials and i want to see again made made it clear that the mission is a priority for doubly and the international team. to ensure the work of the global experts group in china is successful we need to carry out to you necessary procedures and make relevant concrete plans currently both sides are still

negotiating on this for more on what's at stake for both sides we have joyce lee out of the east asia bureau in taipei and joyce the perception has been that the china have had a pretty good relationship during this covert pandemic crisis what's happened yes it has been a lot of analysis thing that the actual has been the indian to us china because it hopes to. get some time for china to you know profile more transparent data and information to the w.h.o. but then it has not worked well with this strategy because this is not the 1st time the expertise has been denied to watch the origin plays of the outbreak of the endemic so how much can an investigation team learn travelling to

china one entire year after the earliest known outbreaks there many people are probably wondering isn't it already too late. it is probably too late to go to the wet market to collect evidence and data regarding you know how the fires jump from animals to human but then this is exactly why china it's not so welcoming for the team to go to war hunt because china authority is trying to reshape the narrative of how d.c. originated this fight global scientific consensus that the fires 1st came from one and not actually a lot of. citizen journalists has been detained or even sentenced to jail because they were. covering you know there was

a situation at the very 1st stage of the pandemic tell us a little bit more about how this is sensitive for china joyce. for the chinese communist party it has turned this pandemic into celebrations for their triumphs in containing a fire and despite many question that the virus originated in one and that. very poorly in the early stage and if i were a stretch across the word. john john a. citizen journalist was detained and sentenced to a 4 year giotto recency because she was doing what live stream reporting in. joyously thank you for joining us.

our identity and our sense of nationhood to an extent is connected to the language that we speak sometimes it becomes a political statement more and more that's become the case for people who identify as mongolian most of them live in the country one goalie or in china's province of inner mongolia language emerged there as a lightning rod issue last year after beijing announced mandarin would replace mongolian in core school subjects many parents there saw it as an effort by china to embrace their culture correspondent bolinger went to the city of whole hotch after rare protests erupted over the new policy here's a look back at the tense atmosphere he observed there i am not one of these groups as you can see security measures. but you'd be wrong to. do it with your head. in the beginning of the week students try to organize

a strike that would turn the losses because if they knew by doing would be losers but police have exerted pressure on the families and now it's the most you're talking. as you can see here is the world long. if you people know me before. we let me read you the words don't mean. to be afraid to come on 3. times and i'm not alone here. you don't want you're going. to. leave a little. bit you're going to be able to you know.

those efforts by beijing to diminish the mongolian language within china has caused a stir across the border in mongolia proper a country of 3000000 people there the languages classic script is now seeing a revival. it used to be an artifact of history now it's a sign of protest not for what it says but because of the way it's written in vertical script most mongolians grew up using cyrillic but this engine script is making a comeback sparked by what's happening in among across the border in china. protests to save the mongolian language in minimal goli a went viral here. i believe mongolians were not aware that in a mongolian swer so dedicated to the ethnic culture and the language until people saw all their protests. from. the sudden

revival started earlier this year after beijing introduced a language reform in. schools had to replace mongolian with mentoring as the language of instruction for core classes. critics say the policy aims to assimilate local minorities into the dominant han culture and let you read protests in the region. it also hit a nerve in neighboring mongolia. should be alarming to us to know that people who speak our language are losing that identity. it's a tough. fight it isn't just a fight to use the language. this is a fight to remain mongolian. but that inspiration takes quite a bit of concentration students have to master archaic language and learn new

grammar rules. who jim is also in need of a digital facelift developers have also been at work designing ways to incorporate the vertical script into apps. it is simple to read and write in proficiency we need social media platforms to practice and used to moglen script to be a way of communication has already shifted description exists in digital platforms so that's how we can save an identity that's bay teach. still on the greens really need to learn who is a paper and pen then practice makes perfect. for more we have journalists wholly owned by at sub to joining us from all end but tart mongolia hollow can you tell us more about how mongolians in mongolia react to

china's new language policy. first of all thank you for the opportunity yes. the brain manch. react that the protests in g.r. in on gornja famous song cold war young when there are protests in broke hearts of many modern mongolia who are too easy to use english or are other foreign languages as i heard he. had no intention to. get off their interpretation or turn up or their culture or their national identity are in among our guests yes in short the practice mongolian in mongolia to make more effort just. to start their own articles grasped. the progress made us realize that. there is great and the language is theirs not

our are our national and that invented so the so we thought that it must carry the our so it karen on generation to generation. also i'd like to mention that those protests and. protest videos not only inspired us started the language it also spike at this gushes about the relationship between 2 mongolians. go yeah and among the ones in the goal yeah yes so give us a sense of the level of cross border exchange between mongolians and enter mongolians is there much communication between the 2 groups or not really. in order to answer that question i have to give provide you some facts for example mongolia was sealed off from the world 70 years. so the

communication can actually it was last so we were we were only able to talk to each other or interact with each other after the afternoon got it became the mechanic and also there are some problems after teaching our teaching history the way they teach in history is pretty much. not enough so model isn't what we have mis understanding about inner mongolia and we used to think that you know i'm going are chinese or half chinese or they all become chinese people that's. that's what that's what we used to think but not now it's changes thanks to all those protests we learned that we learned that you know are just like us. they are still loyal to their national culture our national language and

they are ready to sacrifice their life to protect their own culture language script and by at sucked thank you so much for your time. that's it for now thanks for watching see you next time and good bye. i'm scared that my work. and in the end it's a me you're not allowed to stay here and we was into that. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers with lions and. what's your story. 'd 'd of numbers and women especially in victims of violence and. take part and send us your story train always understand this new culture.

of a little. you want to become sitting. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. american entertainers are speaking out against president trump after a mob of his supporters storms because legendary singer stevie wonder tweets i am heartbroken and a standard but this narcissistic and dangerous president were put lives in danger and encouraged violent sedition against our government share rights to trump regime is a lawless un-american and is putting all of our lives in danger. well

coming up we'll see what other artists are saying about wednesday's riot in washington and later on the show. rebuilding beirut after last year's devastating blast the man responsible for preserving the lebanon's photographic memory talks about his hopes for the future. welcome to arts and culture american artists and entertainers have slammed donald trump and his followers after radical supporters of the president broke into the u.s. congress on wednesday singer john legend's tweeted anyone who voted for this tragic narcissistic mess of a president bears responsibility for this debacle he has shown you exactly who he was all along you still supported him you are complicit in the attempted destruction of the country and singer pink also spoke out i am ashamed of what is happening in washington this is

a sad day for america novelist stephen king also joined in saying the only thing that might stop this is for donald trump to concede the election. just a few of the reactions coming in there and my colleague michael kruger has also been following the responses on social media what are you saying micah 1st of all we could really tweets on and on for hours and also the hollywood celebrity celebrities react with shock and anger also some of those who had sympathies for donald trump in the past they all raise their voice now and as far as i witness what's going on on social media right now is that they all. have to do with one question so how could that happen and and we all know how could they come and get in so easily and i will have to say we all have of course and we all have those pictures in minds of the summer with a like

a live mad at meadows movement and so the rep a 50 cent he tweeted this maybe we can have a look for the record this was the u.s. capitol during the protests and we have also khalidi be the red perp the irony is pretty funny when people just wild animals and the some of my. justice and now. and the model chloe kadesh and post the p. to me of white privilege how disturbing sick to my stomach but there are also some crites optimistic people but one of the one of those is political filmmaker michael moore who stayed up all night and expressed some optimism let's hear what he had to say and that's really at the i think the core of their anger they know what the country's become it's more diverse they hate this country because it's no wonder the white man's country the white man doesn't rule anymore

it's the sure power and soon it will have to give up the power because white men will no longer hold their majority and hold their power in this frightens them a last cry of white supremacy according to michael moore michael we're also hearing a lot of entertainers calling for social media reforms what can you tell us about that just quickly sasha baron cohen for example as in the role of bharat and he was also very critical about social media and he posted this facebook and twitter getting trump a little time out is not enough to investigate an act of domestic terrorism against america facebook and twitter have banned other extremists permanently they must bend trump permanently now but to be honest i don't know if this is the solution solution big because they are already so many other alternative platforms right like like parlor where all the yes the far right have gone michael kruger thanks

very much. and i'm joined by my next guest now american political filmmaker and former white house videographer to president obama around choudary around thanks for coming on arts and culture you have built a career on the emotional and political impact of images so what was going through your mind when you saw these pictures of men and women storming the u.s. capitol yeah really striking images and i think my immediate reaction is probably similar lot of people in which i thought these images really really meet the moment and that when they read you textbooks to actually include the trump era these will for sure be those breakout sections where they have. you can just see exactly how it leans into all this stress all this strife and even the way that you know the different sides of this polarized country interpret it misses. so

these are these are according to you the images that we're going to see in history textbooks when school kids learn about the trump era what is it about these images that is so shocking why why are we so shocked is a is it the hero ism almost of these people in their minds. yes yes you put your finger on exactly with the word heroism because this is in caps elation of what trump ism is i think some people give it more credit for having you know a kind of political project to even think michael moore sort of over analyzing what people are feeling who are in these photos as they're doing this it is a simple prospect trump is that is proven every expert group every piece of the elite prove them all wrong and the evidence of these pictures when you see these folks who stormed the capitol doing something that's impossible to them resonates exactly with their hero donald trump who you know no one wanted to be president not

even the republican party and kind of you know in a whole bionic way to sort of seize the moment these folks also just seize the moment and i think if you don't think that these pictures you know we're seeing widespread condemnation from both sides of the aisle but i think if you don't see these pictures as feeling a row a significant portion of the american people you don't get it in fact i'll give you an example in that in that you know people are laughing oh the fellow you know behind the speaker's gavel who is wearing the viking hat or whatever these costumes american conservatism american far right pressure has always been dressed up in costume the klu klux klan were ridiculous outfits they didn't think they looked cool they thought it's are we serious are we not serious is this a good time is this a party is this a movement you can't really tell and i think these pictures are the modern and body image of those k.k.k. pictures and what you see people who seem sort of even in

a laughable costume. proving them wrong where it's proving the impossible is possible a run talking about the power of images just briefly what kind of new images do you think it will take to restore a sense in the world that the oldest democracy is a stable democracy. you know i don't think this is an image for image thing you know i think a lot of people took comfort in the fact that and i think this is helpful and it's making that a senate went back into session they did their work they did it orderly they didn't seem hurried it was 3 in the morning but you know you know what there was a problem here before we cleaned up we moved on with government but i actually think that this these images need to be met with action and we need to see biden ministration not just condemn these folks not just seek to prosecute people who have perpetrated real terrorism on america but also make sure that the people of

this country know that there's something in it for that you know that there's something in it for them right in terms of the social democracy in iran getting something because otherwise there will be one charity for the protesters every time around thank you so very much for coming on arts and culture we're going to have to leave it there a pleasure as always. and one more story before we go that deadly explosion that rocked beirut back in august left many people in the lebanese capital feeling a sense of resignation that their country's situation and its corrupt politics might never improve while lebanese photographer and filmmaker said his country's people will manage to rebuild. is the co founder of the arab image foundation a group that saves and preserves photographs from across the arab world. beirut for months after the devastating bomb blast the city is true much chinese more than

$200.00 die and hundreds of thousands lost. somewhere may never heal. after the 1st. so you go through phases like mourning. just tare collects photos documenting lebanon's past together with the arab image foundation he's working to secure and preserve photos depicting life in the arab world these pictures from the photos judea that joran the lebanese civil war they tell the story of his country.

in many of his films he returns to story using pictures and sound files that brings the past into the presidents into the collective memory prompting a confrontation with history this is how what's happening. automatically interpret it in a poetic sense and therefore what you go through becomes a work. the more recent history of lebanon is another dark chapter the country is facing bankruptcy the current virus pandemic has brought the health system to the furch of collapse the crisis was already all around when almost $3000.00 tons of ammonium nitrate blew up in the ports of beirut. back a year after the october revolution mass protests against the government the

numbers demonstrating for political read your. protest now a gesture of defiance with little hope of fulfilment prime minister saad hariri who was forced to resign in the wake of those protests is now back on the political stage and putting together a new government. for many in. the same political power for 2030 or 40 years for the long term something structure that needs to take place and for the country to stand up. on the its own that city. the people of lebanon's ability to prevail in difficult circumstances is legendary but many have had enough they want those responsible call to accounts now are hyper inflation is hitting the middle classes and the poor hard many have given up hope and are leaving if they can akram tyree says he's staying. who founded the arab emirates

foundation it was right in the history of photography in this part of the world how can you do this from abroad the vision of a mediterranean country that unites diverse communities and cultures drives crimes are terry to carry on. that's it for this edition of arts and culture see you next time.

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