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the birds of prey hunted down themselves in pakistan as playthings for the rich. i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia we're glad you could join us japan's prime minister yoshihiko has locked down tokyo covert 19 cases hit record highs topping more than 7000 cases in the country in one day for now the state of emergency will last a month but that very much depends on the case count. at this tokyo supermarkets they're filling the shelves with all the essentials noodles and pastor nearly ran out during last year's state of emergency they're hoping this time around they'll be more than enough. of the i'm. going to i felt relieved

to see there's an ample supply on the shelves. coronavirus cases are rising sharply in tokyo and hospitals are struggling to cope it's why the capitol and 3 surrounding areas and now under one month lockdown. so i would like to take all possible measures such as shortening the business hours of dining establishments and reducing the number of people going to work by 70 percent infection is the highest ever in the respective regions of the country. that. bars restaurants and cafes must close by 8 pm and people are being urged to limit their movements but stores and schools remain open. the virus is spreading rapidly we won't contain is if we continue to live normally we do have a thing about there's no need to declare a state of emergency people are already refraining from going out i think this was

scary everyone. and more so if it's her killer lympics despite the emergency organizers maintain the showpiece event will still go ahead they say the measures now can help plan for a quote safe and secure games this summer. it comes off to one prominent international olympic committee member dick pound cost down on that telling the b.b.c. i can't be certain because the ongoing elephant in the room would be the surges in the virus. with the fact see not due to be rolled out until march the next few months will be crucial for japan much is that steak. joining us for more on the situation in japan is journalist michael penn in tokyo michael it generally japan has seemed a bit sanguine about the pandemic it didn't respond as proactively as other countries in the spring why has that changed oh well the government

you have to kind of make a distinction between the government and the people here the government has taken a position that is really prioritized keeping the economy open basically at all stages of the pandemic and they've only been calling these states of emergency including the most recent one sort of. under pressure from the public and from medical officials to do something so while the japanese public would probably like tougher measures in general the business community and the government have essentially said that what's most important is to you know keep people's daily lives as free from and pediment as possible so yes it's true japan's taken a much softer approach to the pandemic than a lot of other countries including neighboring south korea and are most people fairly cooperative about these new lock downs. i'm sorry you are you faded out of the question there are people cooperative about

these lockdowns or are they pushing back and grumbling about it. yes well the japanese people are sort of maybe world famous i would think for being cooperative folks and in fact over the new year's holiday something like 2 thirds of the public was not traveling on trains as much as possible so even you know if the government just says you know don't go out as much a lot of people in japan will go ahead and obey that. they when they still go out basically because sometimes their companies require them to come into the offices and japan has a real problem with teleworking and and issues like that but but generally speaking the japanese public gives a high degree of cooperation when they're told what they should be doing now does japan some of the same problems we seen in other countries where people question

the jab with the vaccines rolling out do we have anti-vaccination in japan. certainly not to the same degree you have been a lot of other countries it hasn't really been tested yet there there isn't a a vocal anti vax movement in japan of any kind so i think probably we will find that once the vaccines become available and they're not here yet but when they do become available i would imagine so it's also a sphere where you'd find that most japanese are cooperative and you know if they're told they should take the back scene they'll probably do so ok so last summer tokyo really didn't want to postpone the olympic games and now what's it looking like. well the message from the government is crystal clear they're saying we are going to hold these olympics no matter what that any cost even if nobody watches them even if nobody comes they're still going

to hold them so the government really you know is 100 percent committed at least rhetorically and probably in reality to holding the japanese people now essentially the majority of japanese think they should be delayed or canceled it doesn't have a great deal of public support but this is another thing where the governments on one track and the majority the populations on another and right with every delay it's more costly i imagine michael penn thank you thank you. a particularly cold winter has hit the residents of delhi with temperatures falling to almost 0 degrees centigrade usually at this time many of the city's homeless stay in shelters but this season will be complicated by covert 19 and the need for social distancing as. reports. as the cause of the sweeps to delhi and the sun disappears for days behind the fault it is those with

out of all who suffered the most according to estimates about 150000 people in delhi are homeless making them particularly one of the blue to the cities it's seen . as a chord is given to me and nights the homeless who are outside government on center well just right. 52 year old promotes saying he is a migrant labor living in delhi for the past 20 years the globe in $1000.00 loved down left him unemployed and without the resources to resent even shared accommodation. he ended up on the streets. without shelter. during the summer i can sleep in the prog just a sheet because at least there's a cool breeze in the winter it becomes very difficult. life and he has been a frequent visitor to such shelters for the past few years this year he says the

situation is different everyone has been instructed to remark inside shell to maintain distance and clean their hands as often as they can. the pandemic has posed a challenge for the authorities and civil society organizations alike as it is not just because they have to protect people against. other mammals during the summer we could arrange for people to sleep in open spaces like parks to maintain social distancing but during the winter we have to protect them both from the virus and from this extreme cold according to delhi government officials the capacity to house the homeless of the city in the shelter had been to do something to 800000 in less than half a day to maintain social distance to make up on that temporary shelter have also been fed up in different parts of the city apart from taking other precautions in these shelters like conducting how many creaming and providing mosques and sanitize i believe in what that also been created to accommodate those bushell symptoms many

social workers see that sometimes it gets difficult to explain the seriousness of the pandemic as it is the basic day to day survival that takes utmost out of the for the people who end up in these shelters for which they are fools to step out into childhood to seek work. not just sons who has been working for the rights of the homeless for decades has the same concerns he says the government needs to do much more insidious how to become what. we need to do a lot more we need to maintain more social distancing among them and encourage the use of sanitizes because once the spreads among the homeless it will get very hard to control its. will go beyond our control because we won't even be able to trace the chain of contact in the jan koum prisoner. then he says that everybody tries to take the cautions as instructed by the show to get it but it is not easy. nobody

can have a mosque going for 24 hours people to take them off at times or get together to just chat with each other but it should be fine as long as we maintain some distance. the coming month will be what goes on the streets as the cold and will drive many more seeking a warm bed and a blanket to. let go people like then the hard reality is that surviving the pools at the moment is a big welcome then so why the dividers. every year falcons fly thousands of kilometers from siberia south down to pakistan where it's warmer and wildlife traffickers follow poaching them for export to the gulf states most recently authorities seize dozens of birds with the word 1000000 u.s. dollars it's a thriving black market that's tough for conservationists to counter. these rescued falcons represent a small fortune for poaches in pakistan a single bird can fetch tens of thousands of dollars on the black market. the

falcon poaching ease officially banned in pakistan wildlife groups say demand for the birds is rising. since learning to capture birds is attain this local poacher has made more than a decent living trafficking the animals. this was a peregrine falcon which i caught in a one week hunting mission. i brought it here and called the dealers from kharaj. one of them for the price of $1000000.00 rupees and another fix the price at $1003000.00 rupees. conservationists estimate some $700.00 falcons were illegally smuggled out of the country last year alone most of them headed for gulf states fell canary is a treasure tradition. out of falcon is usually have up to as many as $500.00 birds most of them captured in the wild here in pakistan the most common threats that

asylum is most birds of prey human encroachments climate change loss of habitat loss of primary food sources one of the biggest threats however is they go shopping to supply the focal meats right. if it's for conservation schemes such as regulating the falcon trapping market around the consideration but for now these birds of prey still pray themselves. that's it for today thanks for watching have a good weekend and goodbye. happiness is for everyone schuman penises are very different from primates we have a totally ridiculous size view nature. as climate change brags that sex is happiness in books you get smarter for free books on.

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emergence from decades of oppression more on that groundbreaking film coming up here on arts and culture and later on the show bringing art to the people when the people can't visit art museums in munich find a work arounds to the code 19 lock down and. american voice of peace through to most or as time's activist singer joan baez turns 80 meet. the world. well only a handful of feature films have ever been made in sudan the latest one bears the chilling title you will die at 20 the movie's already won awards at the berlin and venice film festivals and it could bring sudan its very 1st oscar in just a moment i'll talk to director

a la la about what it was like filming during saddam's revolution 1st here's a look at the movie. the way it was only on. the baby was a man is born into a world ruled by superstition. soon after his birth an unexpected event cast the shadow of death of his young life. you to but many of them and maybe soon and my show my show a lot of it was sure. cemented within me that is even then to be so blah blah while he was in the mouth was handing out his you know the kind of the pot of the market in the. congo was that the russians.

as usual committee made it difficult to meet with the wheat mamak to get. in at the bottom it's not all that was. the patent law form far back and see what it were but it got a new board with. you know what they thought. i didn't even want one commissioner. who's a mills mother sakina played by islam mubarak grieves for a child who is not yet didn't know but i'm sure. for you both well you know one of the. matter. was a mill is caught by the prophecy and wades through a life he can't properly it. has been with

a fishing net i. play . a quiet film. that you will die a 20 shows moved in it tells the film has been praised for its fabled high quality and sensitive foreboding visual static. might be sugary for how if you suppose. you will die at 20 i'm moving tell about the importance of questioning face and living life to the fullest. you will die at 20 was directed by i'm john. who joins me now from khartoum. of just a higher. thanks for coming on so 1st of all i want to say

congratulations to you on this historic movie and sudan's very 1st entry to the oscars in the foreign language category that must be quite an honor it's also maybe a sign that times are changing and sudan after decades of dictatorship. thank you thanks a lot i'm not. much of a lot of you have to buy me. like you know what a lot of you buy you know i haven't. thought about a war of the fuel shut up and more like 19 or 20 a war so that. the old to be the 1st ever. to bring it up so that a lot because it just happened. or do it would show the fall do it we had in the fall and we lost the fall after the. success that had been emotional and we

have like a new government that's why our poll that we could change it to be more modern and open mind you have that. and i thought you saw this movie as the revolution against former dictator omar bashir was taking place down must have been quite a challenge can you tell us a little bit what that was like. well i mean 2000 a few of the bet in the fall from the far south of the u.s. the foreign ministry with the government thought you know with permission visas for the national school to join the the new school that was was was crazy and we decided to hold the phone in 7 this. just happened the 25th one of the stuff that goes out with having to do the night. so it was like the child i was in

but the thing was short lived for the fall like the hour away for a couple in my den and met in a village and so we you know we kind of. you know in that village. by default of the film distribution so that it had the phone in egypt so to collect all the folks outside and also that as an evolution happened you know that have been and played so i thought they did think that i can back to that and i thought they did because they really are full of a just because i want to be a part of that and so that the film and. the news and. a lot of people a lot of people are seeing parallels between the story of a young man in your movie the story of destiny and liberation and the liberation of the sudanese people from dictatorship you will know in march if you will die a 20 gets the oscar nomination. best of luck to you thank

you thank you it was just like thank you. well it's a tough time for art lovers here in europe high coronavirus infection rates are keeping museums in several countries shut at least for now but in munich germany one artists collective has figured out a way to bring museum collections outside into the fresh air. of munich in lights the city's max forced that district home to 18 museums an art collections is now an outdoor nighttime gallery. video installations and project does provide some much needed cheer at the darkest time of the year. goes to washington it's a surprise but for me it's much more than that i'm used to visiting museums a loss and now i can't so this is a wonderful alternative. looks like this famous self-portrait by they were nice once master al brush dura from the year 1500. things are going even if it is

a little chilly out you still stop to watch it's wonderful seeing all these different things as rick for i like it a lot and i'm fascinated by how they didn't take nick di there are looking to pick out. the idea came from the artist collective v a video a year ago before the coronavirus pandemic spread to europe. point 0 ensconce right now our projection art is one of the few ways we have to bring art to the outside and the project's not over yet right now the artists of finalizing another installation about our eyes in the human gaze. he's a vaca to show these works are looking out from inside the out of a museum watching people as they walk by maybe people who want to find out who it

is what famous work of art is watching following them that i don't fuck me. and so aren't fans will have something to look forward to for their next visit. one of the highlights to visit his is the forest of lights where many taking photos that some day will remind them what it was like when it could only take place outdoors. after the images of violence that came out of washington this week and enduring voice for pete's american singer songwriter joan baez was just 22 years old when she helped make the song we shall overcome the anthem of america's civil rights movement singing it at the mt racism march on washington where martin luther king gave his famous i have a dream speech back in 1963 well john baez is still speaking out for freedom

and occasionally singing she turns 80 this weekend. joan baez remains someone who raises her voice since the start of the coronavirus pandemic she's posted several videos of her playing songs from her kitchen and i'd like to sing the song to the heroes of our time. to the health care providers i'd like to dedicate a song in support of an armor of the american indians of this country a message of hope and comfort for many. my ears continues to highlight the plight of those who are marginalized downtrodden and disadvantaged. her own. back in the 1960 s. the legendary singer songwriter and activist was dubbed the saint of the peace

movement for his songs of protest and social justice she's credited with launching the korea fellow singer songwriter bob dylan a frequent collaborator although their romantic liaison lasted only a few years they had a strong musical influence on each other. joan baez retired from recording and touring in 2019 following what she called her faith the well to us at 80 years old she still raising her voice to draw attention to the causes she believes in. and this weekend is also a moment of remembrance for another singing legend david bowie who died 5 years ago this sunday bowie was a one of a current to say the least the artists death in 2016 came just 2 days after his 69th birthday here he is with one of his classic hits life on mars thanks for

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