don't want immigrants. to get the police will stop them down the road is the solution to their flight could be fatal but going back is not an option. it's money i'm on and property are stuck in the spanish border area where they're waiting for a chance that will probably never. shattered dreams starts january 18th on t w. this is deja vu news africa on the program today this isn't bobby and journalist and government critic hope spent the weekend in jail after he was arrested overnight alleged fake new street will tell you more about why he ses he won't apply for bail . but if there's nothing in it for just a critic you can. and will meet the

mostest student who's created an ai translation app for indigenous african languages he'll tell us why his mom was a big inspiration. hello i'm christine wonder why it's good to have your company a zimbabwean journalists jailed for last week sais he will challenge than again to see off his arrest and has decided not to apply for bail hopewell chinelo was arrested again from his home in how that on friday it came off to he tweeted that police had beaten an incense to death while enforcing a covert 19 lockdown rules police say if that information was false he has been charged with communicating false words but to no accuses the government or the stay . trying to silence him this is what he told reporters outside court on friday. my

political prisoners are going to be ignored and most from what we know. there are those who killed and become a formidable group but i'm sure in the new course we're going to try to avoid believe that this is nothing new but just a question you can. hope is one of the always most prominent critics of president innocent was governments this is the 3rd time in a space of 6 months that he has been arrested and put in prison for his social media posts now and i had recently said to journalists should all know explained is decision not to apply for bail by saying i totally would have sold out the journalism profession and the nation if i choose my immediate liberty over the media's rights to free speech and the nation's rights to exercise its right to

speak and be protected off to speak in. news correspondent privilege we're trying he was at the courts in and out a way of mr appeared today in what was meant to be a bail hearing he sent us this report. oh no and others will spend another night in prison after they were reminded to choose the day which they expected to come back to court for the magistrates to give a ruling on their fate the placement on remand challenging the law under which he is being charged for communicating for woods this law was struck of the books in 2014 when the constitutional court ruled that it was unconstitutional in 2016 another media pressure group also challenged the same stick to it and it was up here what is happening is that the state continues to use such laws against

the citizens and now the impression that citizens few that it is just a way of suppressing critical voices in the country you know what is that is part of these charges that is also facing there are also 2 other figures prominent opposition figures including the lawyer that was. a representative. when he initially appeared in court one lawyer was also arrested on monday her name. if you're a lawyer for they my head it was also expected to appear in court in the next 24 to 48 hours we expect in the coming days that the state and the defense would be arguing. against did the placement on remand of the 3. now

imagine if a language barrier meant you couldn't communicate with some of your closest family that is exactly the challenge that one of them showed those who had so he decided to do something about it by creating an intelligent translation service so he could understand all people his mother talking to him about his mission to preserve africa's indigenous languages off to this report. a new message from mom cindy from the west african country of ben mean she speaks phone her local language and tells bonaventure a disservice that she misses him until recently the student couldn't understand much fun because he grew up my niece speaking french and there's little help translating phone online. if you to google translate we have like only 15 languages afrikaans but in africa we have more than 2000 and we're just when it came to europe to study dot engineering he decided he wanted to overcome the

language barrier with his mother so he wrote an intelligent translation program complete with matching form keyboard his professor at university described his work as a pioneering. kind of vessel which is no better motivation of course than wanting to understand your mother or songs i've looked at his program and it's really exceptional work it's written very professionally. a major hurdle was the lack of documents in the phone language other than some biblical texts written by missionaries so he added them to his program and he posed a question to thousands of people in the noon on social media. what did a 15 or 20 sentence is. more used daily so day should provide different sentence and the translation. so far himself learning program has learned some 25 to down some sentences written. in international

broadcaster has speech a disservice work but he's also making international waves he's been invited to international conferences on the topic and his software will soon be used to regional nigerian languages numerous other countries have expressed interest it makes him happy that his work could one day be applied to many african languages if we are free cause we don't do it nobody would do for us but for one of interior the most important thing is thanks to his program he can know his mom's messages and phone. and i'm happy to welcome to news africa you just saw him in that report bonaventure though says he's doing his mosque is in de se engineering at the university in brampton germany so welcome to news africa firstly congratulations but i found it interesting that you've not been really able to communicate with your mom because you const you'll meet the time just stop by explaining that for us . really.

this was a child who we have from her and she doesn't really understand french as i don't really understand what's. right ok so. also mickey you're now talking about how you know we can preserve africa's addition as languages because give us a sense of how in danger do you think these languages are. i think those lanes are those main ways. we leave favorite inventor because for instance we don't have a the start which will come with a heart in the established documentations so it makes the work very hard for us we want to do it on the entities and to like that so yeah that's it musically right now tell us more about what ai can do to to protect indigenous languages like farmville your mom's megaton and how does the technology that you've created do that. ok so who wants

a beer on the. what we call the russian transitional we need so hard our what we call it a simple cup or a cause that means that we need to look for sentences they'd be seconds that we need to create a cup and you know i don't know if you can realize but it does mean he's worth he's in the weight support so why is he and so we go we look for dates are you look for said this is and we on the in the days that i'm searching weight that people can efficiently use it so not only earth but also people that were absolute transfer of the learning of our more there or were they wrangled us so do indeed reading those rights and actually to create the committees of the country larry and to make sure that those the records see and use for the benefit of many others. so whatever tell us a little bit more about fun of the native language i know that it's spoken and been

enough but just tell us a little bit about it and then the process that you and the wind speaking of say either fun speak has in terms of kind of build the vocabulary for the app. ok so the process is basically going to be able. to speak in french to do away with friends i go to there i missed on some good summer breeze and then i asked for ice for us and it's a very. morse 22 of 25 cent i'm all used 80 soon and which one person he refused me another person so and so i gather 'd it and then right there on my own i'm sorry we do that there was a scene and then. it will wait for more from there ok very picky just say hello to your mom in fun for us we all want to listen to this beautiful language. you know where you know the 2 are. going to leave and you want to leave.

oh that's music to the jail it's a hard. time bar this is your song and i just wanted to tell you so mark thank you for being right is true isn't bad is the sweetest and fun sounds like a range of beautiful language good to have you on the program bonaventure all the best with the rest of it is. an ounce ethiopia where the great ethiopian run finally got underway in address of about on sunday the anyways 10 kilometer mass race has been held without interruption since 2002 but it was postponed last year because of the pandemic in only attracts tens of thousands of athletes but with current kovac 1000 restrictions in place only 9000 runners to pot remains race was won by abbe ghoshal . to the spot for women. now ethiopia is home of course to some of the world's greatest run is including

a limb taken while champion haile gebrselassie he also happens to be the found off the great ethiopian run. number of participant who was not as we plan. we expect in a $50000.00 about the by this year but that because of course one theme we could. have only one more governor. and it's the 2nd time that the 22 year old a big national has won the men's raissi also took on his and 2016 on sunday he finished in a time of 28 minutes and 906. i'm not. a different topic and accomplishing a lot of. things that are 50. and that's a proper answer dave sure to check out all of the stories on dot com forward slash africa we're also on facebook and on twitter today we'll leave you with small sights and sounds from the great ethiopian run and i just about on sunday i'll see you next time i think.

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his response was. oh. love and respect. greetings from berlin and welcome to arts and culture where we'll look at how inclusive casting is challenging the long traditional white washing of period cinema adaptations and sparking some debate also coming up. german photographer your guggenheim documents what he sees as germany's greatest feat of structural engineering its iconic network of motorways until bonn.

and our series 100 german must koreans features a winner of the german book prize the blind side of the heart by berman author punk . well everyone's talking about bridget and streaming as it did over a lock down christmas it was the definitive coup for netflix based on the romance novel series by american author julia quinn the 8 part series billed as a glitzy period piece with a difference which means it's a regency romance infused with 21st century sensibilities and we'll look into its colorblind casting right after this. this stuff. cost you in spirit sets pomp and circumstance britain isn't much different from the historical dramas that came before it staff new britain high society last thrust

onto the marriage market of 19th century britain where money and reputation matter more than true love always amused me miss britain ever since i was a schoolboy and you were. what sent the show apart is it's costing me. bridget's are your own fresh this is my sister. bridget jones a love interest is a brecht jews and this england is ruled by a black queen and people of color are often a re-used from historical fiction front and center in britain writes however is not the focus of the series nor is historical accuracy terms might start with this adaptation of julia quinn's best selling novels t.v. pioneer shonda rhimes uses colorblind casting to let only viewers see themselves in the story. and get lost in the soapy romance scandals intrigue and yes

costumes that are at the heart of any good period drama. preached. and scott rush was here to talk to us a bit more about bridget in hi scott and obviously this phenomenon that we're calling colorblind casting president just came out on netflix tell us 1st of all what's the response of response been amazing to be netflix user doesn't really stop unless they do really really well they did this time so they did really really well they said more than 63000000 people already watched series which makes it on the most successful shows ever on f.x. but obviously there's perhaps expectedly also been a bit of a backlash from some. quarters about the decision the good in this series to have this colorblind casting to be such sort of person or to help a so they're all these terms that we're throwing around inclusive or color conscious casting but then colorblind casting just tell us what's the difference

yeah it's a bit complicated but basically inclusive casting is very simple it's basically saying the world is diverse when you cast a film or series try to make as diverse as possible so reflects the world very very simple colorblind casting is a little bit goes a little bit further that's saying even if a character on the page is written with a certain ethnicity you take an actor from wherever doesn't matter and the new cast them so you could have a white queen on the page but if you have a great black actress you cast her for the role that's colorblind casting so obviously some people are disagreeing with this because they say that it isn't historically accurate what do you say to that argument yeah i think that's wrong on a couple points but i would just look at britain you have queen charlotte who's who's played by a black actress there is some historical debate that the actual queen charlotte in fact could have bringing this but even no matter what that argument is made there's no or. no question that there were a lot of and i have been a lot of nonwhite people in england throughout the centuries and you see that

sometimes in a few films there's a recent film belle from a few years ago which was about a true story of a mixed race woman. who was raised by aristocratic family the director of the film he said she was tired of seeing black people written out white washed out of british films and so she want to put them back in i think that's interesting and significant but i think this whole argument about historical accuracy when it comes to the period dramas it misses the point because we're not talking about history we're talking about movie conventions i mean nobody argues nobody gets upset about dr shove aagot. one of the great period movies of all time starring an egyptian man or sharif an english woman julie christie playing 2 russians in a moscow where everyone speaks english and it's so interesting because obviously this is been done in theatre for years but it seems particularly sensitive with

cinema do you think obviously that there's this is making movies more relevant for a modern audience yeah i think it can i mean there was a recent film adaptation of david copperfield that just came out last year starring a death patel british indian actor in the lead role i think it's actually a very truthful and boil adaptation of dickens' but it makes a very it creates a very diverse cast in front of the camera make it reflect more closely the diverse britain that exists today and i think doing that allows a maybe a broader audience to sort of see themselves in the story being told i really love this type of colorblind casting because i think we should fall into the trap of thinking we can never have a black english queen or i don't know a black james bond just because we haven't seen them before and who i'm sure is not far off in the future the black james bond with a much scott rush for coming in and giving us those insight. well there are a few other landmarks that represent the essence of modern germany more than its

system of motorways 413000 kilometers it crisscrosses the nation and over the decades. has morphed from a piece of national infrastructure into a cultural icon and with our concept of personal mobility poised to change drastically with the advent of electric and autonomy cars an exhibition in one home captures its heyday. started so innocently people wanted mobility and travel to far places the through of driving their own car down the autobahn. for me this is the most monumental german construction egypt has its pyramids we have. it's an integral part of our identity and culture. and there's plenty to say to the left and right of german autobahns. york put a man has delved deep into the german soul as witnessed along the motorists

speedways and made some wondrous discoveries what could be nicer than sunbathing with a view of the day for. parts official likes are great places to unwind to the accompaniment of a traffic concerto. dr can i have strong childhood memories of the. we would go on holiday to austria and the landscapes would drive by behind the crush barriers strong images and actually positive images and also i'm interested in showing these places with ambivalence in them or in front of me for a length of time. your book a man has been around the world taking photographs but there are plenty of stories . this is more or less a childhood memory i grew up close to the

a $43.00 and we really did play on the wasteland behind the noise barriers dispute . from the a one to the a 111 in the tail wind of the poetic still lives can be found. after appreciating a certain beauty in the shapes and colors here you are maybe left with a lump in the fruit because you draw your own conclusions about what happened here how are these colors and shapes created from. the pain of every motorist like the traffic jam 2019 jam straight through 1400000 kilometers along german roads. i hope very much that these go to stick petrol consuming motors which are produced largely in germany. of the past and that new mobility concepts that are more socially and environmentally friendly are developed and implemented and it's

a good question how much longer. and that's the name of this exhibition how much longer but the photographic evidence suggests the nation of germany will. be towards climate catastrophe for some time. such prospects well if our new dominated climate dominated reality is getting it down literature can serve as a reminder that things could always be worth think of our grandparents who experienced one or even 2 world wars events that shattered many a promising young life and that's part of the fabric of the blind side of the heart today's pick of german books in english translation what would drive a mother to a. child what would it take for a joyful woman to go. i know that she can't feel anything. for.

the blind side of the heart by you is about her and the chaos that follows world war 2 she leaves her 7 year old son painter alone at a crowded train station to fend for himself. why does she do it as a child herself i mean a peer is to have a carefree future ahead of her she grows up in a picturesque town in a well off family but then world war one breaks out her father is drafted her jewish mother falls into a depression and the family business goes broke her lena decides to try her luck in berlin where she meets the love of her life and then loses her. while helena does manage to survive the nazis using a fake identity she winds up married to an abusive monster by the time she has her son peter she has no feelings left for her child or for herself. perhaps her heart

was a stone cold icy hard as. she didn't cry because she had nothing to cry about her feet hurt her back hurt she had been running around all day she knew she had only 5 hours of sleep before she got up to the ironing mopped the kitchen made breakfast for woke him and sent him to school before she herself went to work the blind side of the heart is the story of a woman with no chance at creating her own destiny whose spirit is crushed by the time she lives in and the people who. found will finish with the news that sex and the city will get a reboot in 2021 the successful comedy drama series ran for 6 seasons and followed their lives the romantic ups and downs. new york women in the city the movie and its sequel in 2010 were panned by the critics but had commercial success in the new

show will be called and just my thoughts and will feature the original stars with the exception of. a plate of course in from the. and that's all for this edition of arts and culture is the hope you'll join us next time and until then stay safe all the best for live. in.

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soon. to be a good. match. discovered . subscribe to the documentary on you tube. nico is in germany to learn german published in the. why not learn with him d w z e learning course because fake. every day counts for us and for our play. a little ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. play how do we make cities scream or how can we protect animals and their habitats what to do with all our waste. we

can make a difference by choosing reforestation over the forest recycling over disposable smart new solutions oberstein said in our ways earth is truly unique and we know that uniqueness is what allows us to live and survive gloom ideas the environmental issues in global 3000 on t.w. and on my own. this is d.w. news these are top stories in the u.s. congress democrats have introduced an article of impeachment against donald trump a charge the president with inciting insurrection following the deadly riot at the u.s. capitol last week a vote is expected as early as wednesday trump could become the 1st president in u.s.

history to be impeached twice. the. united states has read designating cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism hitting the van.