and when you're in no mood to see i'm hoping to hear you. losing by reading a little features include a few economy greeting. how will climate change affect us and our children. our lord and e.w. dot com slash water. this is d w news africa on the program today diffie is in uganda i head off thursday's general election the campaign has already been modified for that shit now the main opposition candidate say's today's been full 5 of us. last night one of our team members was shocked by the minutiae and the prasco we'll be smarting. under good this morning. my house was reviewed.

in south africa shots on the foot sea and gorgeous as a 2nd wave of covert 19 brain shoots in the country. hello i'm christine one day it's good to have your company the ugandan government has deployed a massive military presence across the country ahead of the general election not those days voters comes off to one of the bloodiest election campaign and he is the veteran d.j. un will 70 who's been in polyfill 45 is is seeking a 6th to his main challenger is the singer to make a rabbit known as bobby why as the election draws near they're all growing fear is about escaping violence. violent scenes of become common during the election campaign. and the victims such as just

a number. today there was. one neighborhood where 10 but one that. was. number was shortened to buck last year on nov 18th police clashed with supporters of the opposition candidate will be one leaving at least $54.00 people did the policemen came and started shooting. i was in the cluster. suited to behold it. that those people. who live there people who are think. that people who are going home

moreover suited. on christmas eve sophie another war and her daughter were attacked by unknown people she saw spades they were attacked because she mobilized support for president jordan was 70. we want one more everyone should be given the right to support a candidate of his or her own choice on war well that whoever wins should not mistreat the other party because we all need peace we are all ugandans we must be united with. their governments and cleanse the violence on the opposition watch the opposition counter accuse the police and the military for all pressing ugandans opposed to president must have and. what do i know once the international criminal court tory vista gets there i legit human rights abuses we have information that

the media and people that are not in uniform have been deployed with automatic rifles. sitting on top of buildings. too short and the kid anybody that would be seen with that with a black eye no matter how peaceful the president was 70 has assured ugandans the election will be peaceful and across the country security forces have been deployed to enforce this. no one will threaten peace in uganda. but what we would like to tell all the people who were previously done this. we will not accept anyone destabilizing uganda. no matter who you are not already. the election on thursday is important to many ugandans especially the young people who make up the majority of the electorate. the country's youth have been the

biggest victims of violence activists of them to exercise their democratic rights in a peaceful manner. for more on the human rights situation in uganda ahead of thursday's election we've invited mr kamath vali onto the program he is the un special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association welcome to news africa you recently urged the ugandan government to drop charges against all those who've been arrested during the election campaign but many opposition supporters are still behind bars it appears president you are safe and he is not listening to peel's by the u.n. . thank you very much and yes as you mentioned we caught in one of the press release that to be easy sure at the end of december to read your book on that to release your mother defenders about also what is you've

got to do to start because we're seeing the darks. it's important to have a fear and fair election is important for people to be able to start who can lead the country for the next year is important or school for the peace in the country that is a lesson is organized with the right is the vision of all because you don't have anybody having said that they and do you think that those days the election is going to be free and fair. well you got on to the reality because then you know and we are soon going to get a lot of pressure on the opposition a lot of pressure on the basis that to be able to honest weaver a person of the beast will rule this and we have created as if nothing is going to free those of positionally this story short on these around about him and this election wouldn't be fair because you have to fear and really be split a lesson you need about is the vision hard you need to google for me that you need or small people to do. to be part of these process new doubts fears are there

we need to step must have only is your gander at true democracy well i mean what we ask you essentially i mean it's already what in the house because we are seeing it in the country on the thing that we saw in terms of. this election what is happening currently is our gains are democratic to the kinds of needs that's got to inform the conduct of such a lesson we have to be up and down with all of these are pressing going on the democracy again that it would democracy is a really it is a very nice in there in that in that regard what recourse do the people of uganda have to to challenge a state that continues to suppress opposition. well i think. i think actually from the information that we are. trying to decide about

a national level but also at the international level and of course that we are making nice in there but then there is also about these goals we do not able to really. i do not do not live and he's important for the international community to really be out there to not what is going on and i don't eat that this election is also did our if nothing is done really to ensure that these a lesson going to go on that it will be the by the supervision of all position members right that is a warning effectively from the u.n. they have a satanic bully a un special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association thank you thank you very much thank you very much. since new year's day we have recorded nearly a 190000 new coronavirus infection. the country has recorded more than 4600. 19 deaths

so far this year. that is president settled on a post said they with grim new numbers about the spread of coronavirus in south africa he also announced that the closure of 20 border points for entry and departure to neighboring country is sealed so say existing restrictions due to expire on friday will be maintained including limits at public gatherings such as funerals which he said had become a death trap for many south africans and he has extended extended excuse me a bad on alcohol sales kept balls closed with a nighttime curfew in place. and the country's new call that 900 variant has prompted some countries to ban visits to and from south africa making the situation even worse for the hospitality sector that depends on tourism now a visit to tourist hot spots in johannesburg shows

a sorry sight of struggling restaurants and street vendors. mobile lincoln's inn at tiny place in down to make is one of the off the gas tourist spots so over the years it is sin vast development but over $1000.00 it has reversed those gains empty chairs and just waiters and waitresses and the absence of ford and probably this is now the new normal can do 9 year old. is a pro or not out in the shop at my morning. african. a big wig and many other defects. so so so is she has lost 75 percent of your foreign tourist customize the gmane didn't travel restrictions affecting us a lot because now we have she used the money that you have saved them and that you you did not plan to use on the piece next year cept for other things now you have

to use each to pay the employees cheech to pay your bills and everything because at the moment just like from hand to mouth each of which is not enough pickings americanist now living in tanzania is one of the rare form in parties decided to travel to south africa recently to seems worth at this point uncovered because everyone's been stuck inside and you just want to get out and see the world a little bit like we used to and find that kind of joy from exploration so it's hard but i think it's worth it on the other side of town in some way to another tourist attraction along the street resembles the town of many businesses like that who asked buckling due to the absence of. can we believe for better say nothing not even one. it's not easy target carter crowd but what can you do the tourism business council of south africa. with 1000 left again type industry on

its knees the fact that people were not allowed to come into the country and the fact that a lot of south africans were not allowed to travel within the country many of our hotels were closed attractions were close parks were close and so forth and with a number of countries now banning flights to and from south africa as a result of the recently detected your very end of 1000 it could be a long how long before international flights with more tourists that i've been asking. and that's it for the program today be sure to check out our other stories on deja dot com forward slash africa we're also on facebook and twitter today we'll leave you with an. look at south africa's heady nightlife the full the carnival rides took its toll let's hope that that vibrancy will soon be back to the sea of extra.

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. what secrets lie behind. discover new adventures in the 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. w world heritage 316 get kidnapped now. a wealth of young acting talent is cause for optimism at the start of this new year and despite all the uncertainties there's lots to look forward to and i'll speak to our film expert scott roxboro also coming up. conductor says simon rattle coming back to germany to take over the helm all of the varian radio symphony orchestra in 2023. and in a new documentary german film maker followed retraces

a historic journey wants to buy his i don't be telling him director. welcome to arts and culture well if there's one thing we can say about the year 2021 it's that it's a great year for watching movies and because of production times there's a lot of new releases happening this year all made before the pandemic of course that are positively brimming with talent so let's have a look at some of the biggest names to watch for. this whole i'm a little sort of english actress vanessa kirby goes from t.v. star to austria favorite with her performance in pieces of a woman she plays a mother who loses her newborn child a tragedy that tears her family apart. it's about you have to face the years in facing this i have faced it gets. yes well i don't think you are we need we need some justice you know you meet that is what you want that is what

you need that is that is your way that is not my way because we are fighting. fellow brit kingsley ben a mere shines a smell comics and one night in miami playing the civil rights leader as they contemplate an intellectual you know a good question what's on the agenda. this would be one of which is for us to reflect on what's happened that night. there's no denying that great of forces were at work. you know. no one else is coming the rest assured my brother in law missing. irish newcomer claire dunn makes her mark with herself as a mother trying to escape an abusive partner which done also wrote the screenplay. i want to give you the lab and lend you the money to build your house.

he can i can you can pay me back over as many years as if we decide. what do you say. it's not a yes. i don't see what's going to. lead to that after strong. growth problems. american sidney flanagan was working as a janitor before being cast in the never really sometimes always nice girl who travels from rural pennsylvania to new york to get an abortion.

judging by her quietly stunning performance she's definitely a talent to watch in 2021. a selection made there by our film guru scott ross perot was drawing me once again to talk about the talents to watch in 2021 welcome scott some amazingly powerful performances there and i want to start with an s a kirby because i know she's a favorite of yours and i'm also seeing pieces of a woman and she's she simply blew me away and it's amazing is that i mean it's interesting so i really think kirby is going to be the breakout star of 2021 i mean this role is just gut wrenching i think you know front runner for the oscar this year for this role and what i think is interesting is that this really is a huge leap from from the previous work that she had i mean i know you're a fan of the netflix series the crown there and she's in that you know smaller role as princess margaret but kind of as a role the place her strength you know you saw herself an upper class brit with sharp sharp wit and that's kind of like the character margaret in the series and

i've seen as well in sort of small roles she was in some action films i should have a small role in mission impossible and she's been in one of the fast and furious movies but this a role in pieces of a woman this is her 1st leading role in a film and it's really sort of a meaty media role and i had a chance to interview were in venice when the film premiered and that these are the kind of role she wants in the future playing sort of complicated dark. complicated female characters i can't wait to see which is going to the future absolutely and you say of course that she could be up for an oscar either are there any other. contenders in this in this cohort of the 4 fields i think if i pick i think all 4 performances are also worthy but if i had to just check which is one maybe kingsley abene 1000000 playing. which is a phenomenal performance and it's also another sort of jump for him because he's almost in a weird way become typecast for this role playing this sort of a cute boyfriend in the us a t.v. series. for example is the x.

of the stars kravitz in high fidelity which is a series about who is often the sort of cute brit it with malcolm x. so it's a revelation to see in this play this i didn't think anybody could play malcolm x. after it was you know who can transform that role but he's phenomenal i think we'll see a lot more of can see ben i mean ok so just quickly these performances are all from independent films how how to what extent is corona. streaming difficult to identify new talent given that all the festivals have been yeah it's become very difficult me think that's key here these 4 films they did premier in festivals tour and sundance before the us and 2 were in venice which was held in between the lock downs in the us i think that's very important was that we got lost but luckily with krone these films are online. piece of woman's on netflix herself and one night miami on amazon and never really sometimes always is available but you know i mean i can see them go out go online and i want to see who leaves things to look forward

to and a reason to stay optimistic thanks for that cinematic outlook at least for trying to 21 thanks scott roxboro. and speaking of off to ms i'm there were tears in germany on monday out the news that simon rattle would step down as conductor of the london symphony orchestra and take up the baton in munich on the bavarian radio symphony orchestra there has been without a chief conductor since the death of modesty in 2019 answer simon will take over in 2023 with guest performances already planned for this spring. simon rockfall already has a close relationship with the bavarian radio symphony orchestra having worked with them on a number of occasions over the last 10 years he said he felt at home in the orchestra i would like now just. so all these extraordinary musicians who before. creating this is. such an artistic and mention shite.

fractal 1st saw the orchestra 970 when they performed in his hometown of liverpool under the pattern of conductor. writer was 15 at the time and already dreaming of becoming a conductor. i saw for the 1st time what this total commitment between an orchestra and a conductor as one animal could be. 40 years later and 2010 he too would conduct the orchestra. it was clear from the outset that there was a very deep musical relationship and a deep musical understanding between us. it. was previously principal conductor at the berlin film or nick he will step down from his current job as music director of the london symphony orchestra in 2023.

italian paired apollo was best known internationally as a film director but he was also a major talent as an actor journalist's novelist and poet politically outspoken he remains controversial because of his willingness to address social and sexual taboos and now a formative journey that he made in 1959 has inspired our german director people. i don't have my heart pounds with joy all in one just me and my toe and all of the south ahead of me. in 1959 writer night of filmmaker paolo paso leni traveled across italy from north to south and back he wrote a travelogue documenting the structural changes the country was going through as it entered the age of morton mass tourism 60 years on just before the pandemic hit german documentary filmmaker pepper thank quat repeated the journey taking his camera with him. there was this passage in the shop

window. or the long road of sand and i'm such a big hassle in the fan and he was such a big influence on my life and on my cinematic work i bought it i got this car that he drove at the time effie had many cento and retrace that journey and go on in these are his or not before the legend of passively any poet filmmaker anti fascist homosexual is death remains unexplained to this day he radically exposed the double standards of the boers waze some hated him for it others loved him but in fishing ports fishermen would come out and say what are you doing i'd say i'm making a film about passive leaning think kids would run out asking questions everyone knew him. this is fascinating talking to us this is me this is no pets or we were at this dump looking for things to sell. dollars or the dollar

out of your mobile singles. and counters in the crisis torn italy of today with pasolini thoughts in his back pocket the tax from 1959 describes a country on the move and the loss of cultural identity it's only as an object of yearning back in 159 passed in the already understood the high social cost that came with the new material wealth and saw that cultural diversity was a prerequisite for an open society. to standardize ation to conformity with fascism fail to impose is now. imposed true to power structures the power of consumer society. while the selling of design drives some to head south for the 1st migrants and families from the south head north. in the 1st to emigrate south in italians because there was no work in the region today i run a bar that caters to transients migrants and migrant women are all.

over the southern italians went north the northern italians call them italian the africa karni that is the african italians now the real africans are coming 60 years on. the further south and call travels of pasolini in this wonderfully poetic and intelligent road movie the more the images intertwine the landscapes which themselves seem african conjure up images of dead migrants on europe's itself does but you know. me saw his hope for the transformation of society in africa in that sense i'm extremely saddened by these many deaths by the way rescue missions are prevented. like pasolini done quite heads back home with a lot of questions raised by his love for a country that with its beauty and contradictions is representative of the pro european crisis the question that confronts us does the journey go from here for

all of us. looking back to look forward there well more on our web site and until next time all the best from us here in berlin and today.

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