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capitol by supporters of donald trump with several of the president's aides and a cabinet member resigning and new calls for trump. impeachment 4 people died during the violent protests and 68 have so far been arrested according to washington d.c. police trump had encouraged supporters to march in the capitol where a joint session of congress was certifying joe biden as president elect. american industry groups and corporate executives also condemned wind wednesday's violence among them the business roundtable the group of chief executives from some of the nation's largest companies it called of the president and other officials to put an end to the chaos and create a peaceful transition of power the organization tweeted that the chaos unfolding in the nation's capital is the result of unlawful efforts to overturn the results of a democratic election the country deserves better and also a strong statement coming from the national association of manufacturers which put

out a press release calling on quote the armed thugs to seize files at the capitol they said and i quote vice president pence should seriously consider working with the cabinet to invoke the 25th amendments to preserve democracy the 25th amendments allowing members of the president's cabinet to remove the president from power so some pretty strong statements there and with that we go to yes quarter our financial correspondent in new york for more on this yes hi there a tumultuous day in washington as we've all seen many times over those pictures very very striking how are business leaders taking this. you know clearly a disturbing images that we've gotten out of washington d.c. and we all saw got a lot of remarks from business leaders from trade groups from union members one business leader actually even apologizing for voting for donald trump this november we had the news from facebook that they're actually blocking any posts from u.s.

president donald trump at least till inauguration day for joe biden on a generally a trainee as those business leaders going for a unity hoping to bringing the u.s. population together and hoping for a peaceful transition it's you mentioned on a generally a 20 as i'm having that said it's also interesting to see that we did not really get a lot of opposition from those business leaders in the past them couple of years on the quite the contrary actually even if they were not necessarily always in sync with the style of the still current administration but they did take advantage of some of the policies like those huge tax cuts that we've gotten also. were less regulation but now obviously there is this fear that democracy is on the line and finally here we've gotten some pretty harsh comments from some of those business

leaders trade groups and union members those tax cuts a big part of trump's term what's been easy to overlook in all the madness of the past day of course was the democrats secure a majority in the senate that changes the outlook on joe biden's economic policy possibilities enormously doesn't. it definitely does and i would say a couple of days or weeks ago hardly anybody would have guessed that and now the democrats do not just to have the presidency but also the majority in congress and that doesn't make it much easier for the biden administration to get their agenda surulere one might be higher texas especially for the wealthier americans also there is talk about a mess of infrastructure programs a clean energy projects joe biden was talking about just in that area to create about $10000000.00 jobs in the future i have to say joe biden is going to be the 6 presidents that i experienced years since i came to the united states and

infrastructure spending always has been a hot topic but little actually has happened at least in the last 20 plus years that i've been here but what is astonishing is that there was so much talk recently if democrats should take over congress that this would be better for the stock market but now everybody is talking about more aid packages more money for the u.s. economy and the stock market is going from $1.00 all time high to another even technology stocks in form of the nasdaq composite today for the very 1st time ever services pos 13000 points so clearly animals variance everything goes up at the moment. with the latest from new york thank you very much. and we go over to europe where german biotech for firm cure vaca is in the advanced stages of producing a vaccine against covert 19 it's now linking up with fellow german pharma company buyer to help develop and read and distribute rather the drug and the corporate

giant will also assist in getting the him or in a base vaccine approved expects 1st results from its phase 3 clinical study by the end of march it hopes to supply hundreds of millions of jobs once it's ready or financial correspondent chelsea delaney says the move looks to be secure vacs advantage. this partnership will give care of a very experienced partner in the pharmaceutical space very young and small german biotech firm they only have about 500 employees and byers one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world they have a lot of experience developing drugs getting them approved by regulators and producing and distributing them as well so cure of developing the technology and hopefully it will help them really up the supply once this is approved by regulators we've seen these partnerships really popping up all across the pharmacy including the partnership between biotech and pfizer here in germany in the u.s. which is produce the 1st approved back here in europe but it also. a big supply

crunch for vaccines in europe so the e.u. is really counting on this vaccine to be available in the next coming months so this will hopefully help us beat the production and distribution of. our financial correspondent chelsea delaney there from frankfurt look now at some of the other business stories making headlines. germany's main stock exchange index has risen to its highest ever level breaking above 14000 florins for the 1st time the blue chip dax index has rocketed over 70 percent from last year's low investors are hoping u.s. economic stimulus measures will boost demand for german goods. but corn is continuing its amazing rally climbing over $40000.00 on thursday a new record high institutional fund managers have been scooping up the cryptocurrency in an effort to find liquid high risk high return investments. world

famous jewelry company tiffany is now officially french after completing a merger with l v m h that's the conclusion of a massive $15800000000.00 deal major announce today that 2 executive executives from its louisville tahn brands will move over to tiffany to begin design overhaul . a local government in germany has come up with a way to protect controversial gas pipelines nord stream 2 from sanctions state of mecklenburg western pomerania is putting all the north stream associated companies into a foundation trust measure it will legally shilled the companies involved from u.s. sanctions. over latin america where cuban consumers have had a rough start to the new year facing price hikes and long queues in shops all due to a new currency reform and the government has done away with the country's confusing dual currency system but that itself is creating confusion and some anxiety.

there are long queues at the banks in havana as cubans scramble to stock up on national pesos since currency reform in january 1 it's the only way to pay in the shops market oriented reforms have led to tensions. i think stores should continue to take the convertible pesos so as to make it easier for people to change their money and so people don't have to stand in lines at banks in the end that's a lot of people and with the situation with the virus i think it's unnecessary. for more than 3 decades to currencies have circulated in cuba state run economy the peso and the convertible peso pegged to the dollar now they're stuck with the strong the devalued peso many subsidies have been abolished and as expected prices are already rising because of a scarcity of dollars widely used on the island. no pressure oh my god it was about. prices increased even for some items that were not subsidized

they increased in the same way and let's not even talk about the basics we're talking about other items that should not have been increased with. the economy was already in trouble before the pandemic there were long food lines since the pandemic tourism which generates precious foreign currency has plunged energy prices have soared and the trumpet ministration sanctions are taking a toll monetary reform is the government's most radical measure to transform the communist country and crucially cubans are hoping for a reset in relations under the new u.s. government under joe biden. and it's official it is now the richest person on the planet worth it with a net worth of $185000000000.00 needless to say that's a huge amount but the question is how huge a must is now worth more than the g.d.p. is of at least $142.00 countries separately including these. the i.m.f.

puts iraq's 2020 g.d.p. at $178000000000.00 musk is worth more hungry ukraine kenya must beats them as well but he's still worth less than new zealand is also richer than the g.d.p. of all these 54 countries put together from rwanda to tajiks then to togo a must well has surged in the past year due to the inclusion of his car company tesla in the s. and p. 500 stock index he overtakes amazon founder jeff bezos bezos with just $184000000000.00 to his name basis is now too poor to take the top spot or something like that. and now it's time for a reminder of our top story business leaders have condemned the storming of the u.s. capitol which interrupted congress's attempt to certify joe biden as president elect despite the chaos u.s. markets open stable on thursday. and that's it for me and the

business team here blend as always you can find out more about these and other business stories online dot com slash business also facebook and twitter as always thanks for watching. into the conflict zone to survive. china is roiling the west and europe for the with the u.s. in many countries is pushing back as you shoe a growing list of human rights concerns including home homes new security by hears me from beijing is one cool yeah like flies whose country for so many fights these days of a new meeting conflicts. in 60 minutes phone d.w.

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disco. documentary. this is deja vu news africa on the program today he said political tension in ghana on the day of the president's inauguration parliament descended into chaos soldiers had to be called in to break up clashes between m.p.'s what is the reason for the tension. and how doctors are improvising in order to save lives in south africa when a deadly 2nd wave of coal that 19 is fear is the raging. hello

i'm krissy window it's good to have your company now call for idol has been sworn in for a fresh term as president in guyana he narrowly won reelection in the vote on december 7th last year now ahead of his inauguration there were scenes of chaos in the country's parliament clashes between opposing parties erupted off to a nor make a seize the ballot box joining a vote for the parliament speaker eventually the army was forced to intervene to stop the violence. and for more on this we've invited is to armand to the probe. graham she's a political commentator and gun and joins us from good to see you so as we just saw clashes breaking out in parliament just ahead of the president's wearing in what is feeling this tension. so we have

a challenging and divisive political season the. presidential campaigning in the context amid the backdrop of the devastation of coded the lockdown the pandemic has absolutely fuel political tensions and so we've seen that explosion on the streets the common ated into scenes that would have triggered trauma for thousands and thousands of gagnon's who lived through the military coups of 966-979-1901 to see soldiers in battle fatigue coming through into the seat of government and scenes of unrest would literally hearken back to history the ghana has long left behind but it also echoed in some instances what was happening with the military in ghana was happening with the citizens in the united states of america so this global framework of i have read with politics and campaigning in this moment is step the president his inauguration president out

of what i do is you know gratian is taking place even as hoff of the country doesn't accept his election victory. i don't know that hof of the country doesn't accept the victory is a fair enough. reality suddenly the contesting of the results is not a new space for us here in ghana we have been here before it is not the contesting that's the issue it's the resolution of that contesting it is the choice finally for the m.d.c. to actually go through the legal framework which is which it is entitle to do and most importantly to desist from the kinds of violence on the streets that is traumatizing for millions of citizens who remember what this violence spoke to and treated is under arrest it's a utility we don't want to get you said it yourself that this was a very divisive election there were reports of violence 5 people were killed how

did it get service in guyana this is the country hailed as the beacon of democracy in africa. so you know to be clear we always have to talk about nations not in the context of some political democratic utopia ghana is a nation in put in context it's a nation with a history of political violence and thankfully there has been a peacefulness for many many years but we have to put what happened from this election season in the context of a pandemic that has absolutely devastated the economy and made the just the environment much more fraught when you stitch together those realities then in the midst of this violence are not surprising but it makes them no less disturbing right answer before my next question which is let me play you a couple of views from ordinary guy names talking about what they see as the main challenges for the new president. club should. you promise to

fight against old school. and i think he's doing his best cause he tell you monday naming game he can do everything just him for us all with those 4 years we will. you've got a. job job job you know. we all want jobs. jobs. those policies that president. 3. 3 senior high school. i mean. granted. a lot of. you know. a lot of people really appreciate the initiative that we had so we've had a instead jobs corruption education importance to the people we've just listened to

what more can you tell us about what president now before i don't need to prioritize and do in his next 5 years. when we think specifically about the economy i think we need to double down not just on the real importance of jobs but the kinds of jobs that are being created what does it mean to strengthen and infrastructure around issues of health of the mining what does it mean to think about an entrepreneurial power an entrepreneur with economy that centers women 32 percent of ghana's nation and who dominate when it comes to actually employing people but who are also always locked out of access to finance issues that are longstanding and that have been exacerbated by the pandemic so yes jobs corruption is a longstanding issue that always requires being tackled but the pandemic off was gonna an opportunity to reimagine an economy that centers the absolute flourishing

of indigenous expertise indigenous activity women and use and those are the specific areas that i think the president needs to focus on not. not more rhetoric but the reality of reimagining that because of the pandemic all right that's esther on the talking to us from. thank you esther. south africa has ordered 1500000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine to inoculate the country's health. a more contagious corona virus variant in the country is driving a 2nd wave of infections hospitals this week deaths from 19 supposed 30000. visited a hospital in cape town where doctors are having to improvise to save lives the world. this isn't a waiting room it's the treatment room for qubits patients at the hospital in

khayelitsha one patient calls out to us to tell us she'd been sitting and waiting for 3 days waiting for beds to become free next door has been reduced to one or 2 we put them into them and distributed to the world who were able to. talk to susan we can call it has been working here for 9 years and this pandemic is pushing him to his limits the 3rd of his colleagues here have already had the virus how do you feel to your feel that sometimes you feel for those who you don't even know for priests some from we don't know who didn't feel we need you already and you know do you want to be difficult to do something you truly. do we do you proved to be able to do and we should we just don't know sometimes we just did it. on average one person with coverts dies in the hospital every day

there's a small room next door with somewhat better beds for acute patients waiting for an intensive care bed at another hospital. the low. health minister at mit's that not everyone can get an i.c.u. bed most are already full if the person lives but i see. that instead of number 2 it is all i.c.u. and that is what is. called by so this is actually the waiting all the waiting area off the hospitals where people would normally wait for their treatment but you can see it people who come here with non-coverage related issues emergencies are being treated here because they need the space on the other side of the building the potential covers cases. south africa meanwhile has reintroduced tougher lockdown measures there's a stricter mosque requirement alcohol sales are banned and beaches have been closed

but police are overwhelmed with enforcing the rules. only patients over the age of 45 i'm now being tested at the state clinics the demand is overwhelming. here in viral load just devolved on kaiser's laboratory every 2nd test is positive the peak of the 2nd wave is expected in south africa in mid january but even after that experts anticipate further waves. i fear that neither the current. that we are experiencing no nor the arrival of the vaccine sometime in 2 half way through 2024 small proportion of the population will be able to make a big difference the government announced it is already in talks with the manufacturers but there are no details yet. second cailleach or however there is hope initial studies show that during the 1st wave up to 40 percent of residents

were already infected and possibly even social distancing remains impossible for many here. dr i'm calm cool and his team they are forced to bracing for a tough few weeks ahead of them. now orthodox christians around the world are celebrating christmas today including communities in ethiopia eritrea sudan and egypt but for some today celebrations will be mobbed by hardship almost $60000.00 a.v.o. pins f.a. at fighting in the northern to grad region since november crossing into neighboring so done after months in makeshift refugee camps today they're facing a tough christmas. it's far from a happy christmas for these ethiopian refugees after fleeing violence in ethiopia is no than t. cry reachin they're marking the holiday in a crowded camp in sudan. with people living hand to mouth they'll be little feasting this year. on christmas eve prices at the local market sought as people

scramble to buy something to mark the occasion. we've come to the market to buy our needs for christmas such as lamb sugar or coffee christmas is coming i just want to buy some sugar and milk or anything else markets must go to. her buying a cheapo poultry is very expensive it's the same for all the goods this chicken has to 6 people to share. the demand is high the camp is already close to capacity and more refugees keep arriving from t. cry $800.00 people have come to sudan since the new year alone the un says. a 3rd of them children. some people use their savings or club together to buy a sheep chicken or goat for a christmas meal they're determined to celebrate despite the circumstances. with no

idea when they'll be able to return home for many here faith is all they have to hold on to. and that is it for our program today be sure to check out our other stories on forward slash africa but also on facebook and on twitter the next time i . first girl who could ever consider it was i was. in support. of. the debris of. the new year mean years years we knew in her last years just. and songs that will bring you an angle that magical as you have to surprise yourself with what is

possible who is magical really what you. want. to talk to people who follows along the way my runs and critics alike how is the world's most powerful woman shaping how they could be just the macro floss the. american entertainers are speaking out against president trump after a mob of his supporters storms. legendary singer stevie wonder tweets i am heartbroken and a stone to this narcissistic and dangerous president were put lives in danger and encourage violent sedition against our government share rights the trump regime is 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 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 to baku who 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 race their voice now and as far as i witnessed 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 how could they come and get in so easily and i will have to say we all have of course and we all have this pictures in minds of the summer with

a black live medhat metes 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 we have also khalidi be the red pearl 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 it that 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 longer 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 session baron cohen for example as in a role of baraat and he was also very critical about social media and he posted this facebook and twitter giving trump a little time out is not enough to investigate an act of domestic terrorism against america facebook and twitter have banned other extremist 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 lake parlor where all the yes the far right have gone my crew got 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 to what a lot of people in which i thought these images really really neat the moment and that when they you know redo textbooks to actually include the trump era these will for sure be those breakout sections where they happen. you can just see exactly how it leans into all this stress all this strife and even instead the way that you know the different sides of this polarized country interpret images. 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 shrum 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 or 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 not all be on the 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 or 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 embodiment of those k.k.k. pictures in which 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 image making that they 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 them 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 other i'm sorry 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 . after the devastating bomb blast the city is traumatized 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. 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 judea that operated join the lebanese civil war they tell the story of his country.

in many of his films he returns to story using pictures and sound. it brings the past into the presidents into the collective memory a confrontation with history. this is how you would read what's happening around you and 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 wintering 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 of. the same political stay in 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 on its feet. 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 back from satire he says he's staying. who founded the

arab and its foundation it was about writing 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 scenic stuck .

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