every night. that's it for me and the news team stay change for our ups and culture program coming up after show them to get you can always say up to date on that website that's the dummy dot com and you can follow us on twitter and instagram the data i'm rebecca reaches thanks for joining us. why are people forced to hide in trucks. there are many reasons such. as. there are many answers. and there are many stories.

make up your own cut. cut. cut. w. made for mines. 10 years after egypt's failed revolution an author in exile speaks out most afloat. a lot of us wanted his novel the republic of false truths tells the story of a revolution he says isn't over yet that's coming out on arts and culture. but 1st music fans were shocked last month when folk legend bob dylan sold his entire song catalog but dylan isn't the only star looking to cash out investors in this

coronavirus economy are spending unheard of figures on old tunes there's more. bob dylan's deal was the biggest they felt star and nobel laureate 250000000 euros from universal music for an entire catalog of 600 songs maybe a rocker neil young signed off a half share in his music rights to british company hypnosis which also bought out the song catalog of colombian pop superstar secure. behind this investment gold rush is in online streaming. something that really stuck you know i 6 used to be to take all sort of a new format our music be suz and it's been very strong growing since then and even more people who invest into music are you right now it's also expected to continue to. hold music is making money again fleetwood mac's seventy's hit dreams have

a streaming well of songs on tick tock but young artists who don't have a back catalogue of hits are being left with digital pennies one of my friends who is an extremely successful young songwriter and wrote a track. the biggest selling all the fastest selling number one album in the u.k. has made 100 pounds from the number one record which is ready. to pay your rent with. your letter and singer songwriter billy bragg however is optimistic young artists will find new ways to make money online without selling off their music. come from will become huge already so we'll know the names of many of them will find a way to make a living and be able to. enact the most important step in any of his career which is where you give up your right now day job and start to earn a living doing the thing you always love doing that that's

a meta definition of singing. and hanging on to your right you have a better chance of doing that than you do if you give all your money away to a corporation just because they're going to pay you a huge amount of money one. eventually this online music gold rush could mean more money for music makers big and small. my colleague adrian kennedy has more on this ok dream we just heard that this big sale of music rates could benefit all musicians but how exactly would that work well these music set off so if you like motivated by increasing streaming revenues and the speculation on the part of the bias is that if they amass big catalogs they can the for which that to get even more money from the streaming services and if that works that would benefit all musician was ok i see it let's talk

a little bit about the timing of this i'm wondering if it has anything to do with the coronavirus with mr revenues from tours that can't happen is that a factor well we asked about less it doesn't seem to be the case this trend began before the pandemic and analysts say that actually tax issues are a big factor especially in the u.s. where higher taxes are feared under the new administration ok ok so a tax avoidance strategy for the already rich let's talk about musicians who are getting started what's their best bet well saying that billy bragg who we spoke to in that report was quite positive he pointed to new ways that musicians have getting their music out there due to social media his big example was see shanty tick-tock sensation nathan evans he started posting his covers of centuries old songs on tic-tac and sparked a. viral craze tick-tock now hosts 1600000000 see shanty videos and lo and behold

breaking news evans has just signed to put it all records and has done just what bragg talks about he's given up his day job as a postman surely be working to sell the rights or should he be keeping them adrian . history is littered with examples of people who sold their rights for lump sums but died destitute one counter example is dolly parton who didn't sell half the rights on her song i will always love you elvis presley's manager wanted elvis to sing it only if elvis got co-composer credit on it and said no way and payoff came 20 years on when the song was a massive hit for whitney houston and featured in the movie the bodyguard curse that held for dolly parton a very rich woman but we keep hearing about streaming and how artists really just don't make much on streaming well they don't the individual small but you can reach

bigger audiences global audience is much more easily and most labels have strategies for expanding reach now we have an example of this in the news today billy irish singing in spanish for the very 1st time a collaboration with spanish singing. law vidar we can take a quick listen i think. both. by expanding their audiences streaming revenues might be. a song for example bad guy has 1600000000 place today on one streaming service alone that can add up to a tidy sum. you know i can't really do the math a.j. and i know you're better at it thanks so much for bringing on this us the story on

selling of song rights and the big bucks yes thank you well if i have a 1000000 i know where to invest it now and speaking of billie eilish it's been almost a year since her new song for the james bond film came out and now hollywood executives say it will be another 8 months before you can see the movie now if this sounds like old news to you that's because it's now the 3rd time that m.g.m. has pushed back the film's debut due to the coronavirus no time to die it was the 1st major movie delayed by the pandemic it was originally said to be released last april. and salisbury england one of europe's most famous gothic cathedrals has been turned into a coded 1000 vaccination center hundreds of elderly people have already received the pfizer vaccine in the cathedral's 800 year old navy where there's plenty of room for social distancing they're also getting free concerts from organists who

have been playing soothing music to help calm the patients nerves. and a very different tune and china young people there are out and back on the dance floor revelers in the former coronavirus epicenter have to get their temperature and their tracking app checked at the club door then it's masks off and part of this saturday marks one year since we were on went into hard to walk down to try to stop the corona virus from spreading. on january 25th 2011 tens of thousands of egyptians took to cairo's tahrir square demanding the ouster of dictator hosni mubarak soon mubarak was out but egypt's turmoil didn't end there now with another authoritarian president in power egyptian writer. one is remembering his country's failed revolution nearly 10 years ago and what could have been as novel the republic of false truths as drought this year in english.

egypt since took to the streets of cairo in january 20th levon hoping to bring about a new egypt they wanted democracy and an end to the mubarak regime. their protest was part of a movement across the region that became known as the arab spring. soon the thousands turned into millions farmers finding common cause with young people found intellectuals such as noted writer allah our last one in a d w interview he explained with the local residents of the old ruling party are still in power as are the old security forces people are still being arrested and tortured but now we have a voice with the purpose of. 10 years on our last one in our lives in exile in new york his latest novel the republic of france truths which tells the tale of an unfinished revolution is said to be published in english this april for him the

story is far from over i believe that egyptians all leave. egypt destroyed. it to ship ready. egyptians or leave. egypt should. forgive me i will shoot a lot. forget their 6 year. old age over 40 so. sure that you are real important and those young people will be getting you should they will all go to. the novel 1st published in 2018 is about the 2011 protests recounts the story of those yearning for egypt to transition peacefully the young in the disillusioned who see an opportunity for something new but it's also the tale of those who. against the protesters and stand alongside those in power. there was great hope when president

hosni mubarak stepped down under the pressure but the people's disappointment was then all the greater once his old comrades in arms took over power palace wanny knows the subject of his tale all too well because he was one of the initiators of the demonstrations his novel doesn't tell how events transpired but we know the story mubarak was brought to justice and sentenced to life in prison for corruption and abuse of office in 2012 the fundamentalist mohamed morsi of the muslim brotherhood then became president in 2013 the military completed a successful coup against morsi who was arrested since then i've done fattah el-sisi has been president of egypt in the country's darkest hour yet with a new war. everything. has to be approved by. many people i have fuel for a. lot of multigrade. more still float

reds. under o.c.c. oil as one it was immediately banned from publishing his work even though he's considered one of the leading writers of his home his novels and essays have been translated into nearly 60 languages and millions of copies have been sold but the arabic edition of his latest novel could no longer be published in egypt only in lebanon still l. as one e knows that despite the bam his book is selling as illegally pirated copies. swanny never wanted to leave egypt his homeland but when a military tribunal threatened to try him in court for insulting the authorities he went into exile in 2017. now living in new york he teaches a university's hold on line writing workshops and publishes political analyses on you tube and he continues to write. well that's all for this edition of arts and

culture but stay tuned to the w in the coming days for more coverage of the 10th anniversary of the arab spring and egypt for now for me and all the crew here in berlin and thanks for watching have a safe weekend. everyone wants to travel to page and look at the picture ask city on the day. the ferry was . one try to literally go world heritage site. privilege takes a look around to enjoy and marvel at the sights and going to be a journey for 2000 years of history checking. on w. . national drama competition wide

marketing numbers atmosphere powered by at intuition love hate money millionaires fans friends find us fans and found hold. on you tube joining us.