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welcome. to join us. bitten charges as farmers forced their way into the company to protest a set of laws. to enter the. truck. with the military culture in the heart of the city the celebration of the constitution. which made. public. for 3 months. a complete repeal. they say we hurt their livelihoods and. leave them open to exploitation by business

conglomerates correspondent michelle just paul was at the site of the farmers' rally and sent us this report. groping the. 4th through the already deployed. the unified by going to. come up on monday and then let me read appropriate and even more for the timing when the fighting. line. many believe. in fact the. truck to protest had already been approved by delhi police beforehand but no one anticipated the force with which it eventually proceed to the

farmers had already been protesting the government's new farm laws for months now the law was opened up the agriculture sector greatly to private conglomerates farmers are saying that the moment that happens get into prices that they get for their produce from the government will become undermined the mission just fall and shoddy travel to the northern state of punjab to meet one of the thousands of farmers who want these laws repeated. said non-single so fascinated by his father's tractor as a 6 year old he would follow him to these fields soon after deciding to leave school and farm for a living but now he's afraid he could lose everything thanks to new agriculture the formulas passed by the indian government but he doesn't plan to read to find out. he's travelling to delhi to join the ongoing farmer's protests

there. it's better to stay there for 6 months it's better to die there we don't care. if we lose our farms will die anyway so we might as well die there while confronting the government. since teenage son good preet will be looking after the fields while he's a. good pete has already spent 10 days at the protest he does his father to pack extra to brave as he's called. and sing plans to do just that. with the help of his wife and daughter this is the 1st time he will be spending more than a couple of days away from his family and his feels. the call to move comes when it is still dark out the farmers have to be on their way at the crack of dawn singh's daughter coleman is proud of her father but also avoided she says she knows he must go because their futures are it stick. cameron the prime minister should understand

that he is in his position because of farmers i'd like to remind him that it's the farmers grain the farmers vote that has made him what he is. saying expects to drive to midnight and then again for 7 or 8 hours the next day. but still it's a high. c standard we're not alone 40 or 50000 of us are taking care of and to get these black laws revoked we don't care how long it takes we'll stay put until these laws are rolled back. to got a fantastic couple over 400 kilometers on snow but this meant for the farms but lucky there is a lot of help along the way. across one job those who cannot participate in the protests are setting up community kitchens to support the farmers there is even fi

fuel and medical services. even as the light starts feeding sink still expects to dry for another 6 hours he says he scored on his back hurts but there is no option they must make it. and driving relentlessly they do ahead of said your. songs of protests was through the doubt about. the farmers momentarily forget their exhaustion. everyone we are so i'm happy to be in delhi we're here to fight. and sing knows this isn't going to be easy. but. multiple rounds of negotiations with the government have feed dozens of deaths including suicides have been deported. but this has only added to singh's determination he has left behind everything he nods for the 1st time he's. says he will be sure to make it down but

. the focus is on farmers today in delhi but for those who live in india's capital a daily wadi is the one breeds as with other mega-cities across asia principal cause is vehicular traffic and building activity but how can one solve these problems to make cities greener and reduce their carbon emissions it's an important theme being discussed of this year's world economic forum that's been held online due to the coronavirus and from aw i'm joined now by grace food she's singapore's minister for sustainability and in bottom and on this food was a participant at a panel on building net 0 cities she joins me now from singapore pleasure to have you on the program now we're living in the middle of a pandemic that's challenge to us all but i wonder if there is an opportunity here

to rethink how we live in cities to make them green. absolutely right this last year has been a challenging mile but i think there are many good things to add to have come out of it for example we appreciate our our surrounding my spec we enjoyed the blue sky . and the grass around us because this is our place of living in a place that well up for the last minute because of not down it's on so we're beginning to look after ourselves and reflect the public kind of living and ran and do we want it also questioning what the future of place of work will be so we've made major decisions and the debate by worthy just like china japan and korea they helped me pledge this on. climate action targets and now with the new and i did and this station coming back to the paris agreement we're very hopeful that this really

positive momentum to what's a lot greener world and these last economies putting together which he had i and also the e.u. putting but just behind the movement list the inability we have a very hopeful that many new technologies new products and new services and more sustainable be available in the market like i think they all the last to do is really to look at how we individually help make our consumption choices our passions last as a noble for example up to meeting public transportation can we take more cycling instead of our cars signal action that we do can impact the mission can impact a cow that they're all responsible and i think if we can take collective action we can make our well actually more sustainable but what about the investments that are

wired to make this happen so it is across the world on created in the same way. where does the extra money to make all this happen come from. yes indeed you are right so i think now there is a very big discussion about the role of finance yes i think some of the behave out way to getting questions from their shareholders whether they are financing new investment yes the novel we have seen that happening in europe and also in many parts of the well this is retired because they are that invest as up there looking for opportunities to invest as you know in the interest rate environment has been very you know so actually they are looking for sustainable projects that could last many decades to come and ashwell if we put our minds together able to find you know good investment products good investment projects because it would be sustainable

and again it will cities governments private sector people say when we look at how to rebuild our societies from the cold it is the rhythm might it rectifies us actually can find products they give us the benefits of the lifecycle daises some technology may be more expensive on the outset but if we take the entire next cycle this list save us on the day to day made this includes sumption electricity it's going to make it worthwhile. right a whole slew of actions from greece through the environment minister from a cigarette ball thank you so much bridgeable. thank you. there's of course more now website. you can find a more in-depth look. from the fields of jobs.

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for over rights and home the 4th time for the most recent article about. dragons is worth. to through. your books on. hello british author. latest book is out right now partly a kind of rumination about his life here in berlin as an ex-pat he's my guest today also coming up the world's largest archive on victims and survivors of the nazis starts a new project to coincide with holocaust remembrance day. and one of the world's great libraries the stops bureau take here in berlin reopens off to substantial

renovations costing over 450000000 euros. i was born in london and moved here to berlin 2014 he studied lore of oxford and then practiced both law and football with the emphasis he says. actually the emphasis is also on the written word as he gave up the law to become a poet and writer his latest book in the end it was all about love is just published i'll talk to him a minute in a minute after this. also congo was born and raised in britain after earning a scholarship at the age of 11 he attended the prestigious eton college an experience which left him with the feeling that as a black person in british society he always needed to achieve more than his white

peers in order to be accepted. congo went on to study law at oxford university but after graduating he soon realised that working as a solicitor did not fulfill have instead he decided to focus on writing evening news. his latest book in the end it was all about love is the semi out of biographical story of a black british man trying to adjust to life in berlin it's a tale of pain and loss but also love and spirituality as the narrator drifts through an endlessly addictive and sometimes mystical city. people ask people to breath. and also using just these words as if you're someone to. perhaps some sense you were. apart from writing books a conga keeps himself busy as one half of the future blues duo b.b. excello and us the co-host of a pod cast about football home while continuing to live in berlin the city he was

summoned to 6 years ago. and. joins me now on skype for 1st of all i should say i love the book sort of fall off and i feel as if if i know you because it is your writings are personal but it's cold and novel is it really a novel. you'll see why actually you'll see why there is much that has a very strong element of magical realism running through just your future which develops at the time. but it starts with the heart realism because the idea is to make the reader feel attached to the car so when things go left in the book you work out why yeah. you say bowden is where outsiders feel at home and this web page will end up who don't feel like they fit in anywhere else did you not fit in anywhere else and do you fit in and bowden yeah i think i do fit

in here because i think it placed in a particular sense of chaos when i say chaos i mean anyone let's go a life that is not entirely linear where there's a clear path of a to be. korea mortgage and so on it does not you'll sort of set off and i think but it works for units and it works for me because i think my creative journey has been unusual i think it's fair to say then suddenly it's come to some more of your creativity in a 2nd but you seem to have a love affair with the city but you say berlin is done i want in the book why is that are they do they do they do they do they don't i would call it a love hate love relationship so as you know that is you know your cup and how things are in the northeast and it's like the sounds of it being a bit grumpy but they're not really i do you realise this is sometimes external grumpiness hides and it warms up to me as a kind of paradox of life in the city what seems unapproachable is actually very into the sun i think you've put the nail on the head there about london is out on

another notes and you said this in the past as well you don't imagine i believe having a family and i quote now from the book bringing a new life into a civilisation that appears to be center racing towards its finish plunging headlong into a well pool of its own making now you write as actually before the pandemic so how do you feel now. i feel we have a choice i think the pandemic has changed a lot of the old rules it's made to look at things in terms of the inequalities do exist so we really have a choice that really matters to be honest reading what we do in the next 18 months i think it's. important that critical that we really are now in relation to climate in relation to social issues political issues we have to act now otherwise the world poll is going to accelerate. ok yeah let's lighten it up a bit because we have mentioned about your love of the beautiful guy football and

you're actually renowned for your football podcast you wrote a book called had to be a good football manager so would you like to be a want to mean thomas took what he's going for the chelsea job well actually of this into your into setting him at the airport to get his job back on the top cause shout out to write another study or set up to run understudy across the caucus but yeah i definitely miss chelsea so i'm sure my messages after this incident show have several messages from the contract office the rest yeah you've been very busy the lockdown seems of help show writings and because you're also i believe got another book coming out in a couple of months as well what's thought about actually there's a there's a couple more so the one coming out in a couple months is about my time 80 college i won't come out september as a book about the like of iraq to parachute actual story based on his life the great for pull in right so you know it's going to a busy year the little 2 it ok so those 2 ones coming out and i come back in

september. it's very great talking to you thanks very much i should just mention the book. i've got it is cold in the end it was all about love it's published right now i can recommend it to anyone especially people who've left their home country and live somewhere else most thank you very much thank you so much for a much appreciated. here in germany the aros and the international center on nazi persecution is aiming to create the world's largest digital memorial to the victims of national socialism january is $27.00 is holocaust remembrance day and the archive is promoting a project called hash tag every name counts inviting people from all over the world to take part in this project is mall. the every name counts project kicked off of the striking things will crowdsourcing installations shown on

the facade of the french embassy in berlin the names of holocaust victims sent in under the hash tag are projected on to the building and they can be added by anybody who wants to participate. at this also and it's extremely important to rediscover the names of the victims and to highlight them. that is how we can resist the legacy of the nazis attempts to erase those names to erase their identities. and to treat people only as numbers or categories of categories banalities what are we without a name. on a nominee the project was initiated by the arrows in archives in hessen central germany they're part of the unesco memory of the world program and contain information on more than 17000000 people who are victims of the nazi regime some 15000000 reference cards and thousands of personal objects recalled the darkest

chapter in germany's history. it's part of an international effort of remembrance and it helps researchers and relatives of the victims find out more about millions of individual destinies that were shattered decades ago. the german ministry of culture is a patron of the every name counts initiative at a time when remember its culture is more important than ever so it's obvious to us these are it's so important that this action reaches each and every one of us and not just the research community because we see that democracy as we've known it for 75 years the rule of law that human dignity is respected our achievements and not gifts that we need to work for them that we have something to lose and that these are things that continually have to be defended here and now against right wing. populism discrimination racism hate and anti semitism else lawyer on. the title for

most of the project is a testament to peace and despite their painful shared history france and germany are working together to face the getting going to see everything good in the culture of remembrances a very important aspect of the bilateral cooperation between france and germany but it also has a european dimension and i think that's especially interesting because it is european but europe in all its diversity because the history of national socialism was experienced differently from one country and one person to another was east in need of nuns and from new dimension under us and leap to all. in these pandemic times only a few people were able to attend the opening of the installation but those who were there were moved by what they saw. really about guns but there's emotion being conveyed here i think we have a lot of theories we know a lot we read a lot we hear a lot about what happened but this kind of initiative is another way of

experiencing. the digital memorial knows no borders and thousands of volunteers around the world have already joined the project to make sure the memories of the victims are honored because each and every one of them counts. it is germany's largest academic research library and one of the leading ones in the world the stops be viewed take all state library here in berlin renovations have been going on there for 16 years of the last year the library was closed because of the corona pandemic it's still not open to the public for the same reason but it had its official reopening digital day. in the heart of berlin's historic center stands a pression palace of knowledge finished in 1914 and filling a whole city block. the extensive renovation took 16 years partly because the library remained open for much of the time surviving 2 world wars and

decades of neglect the complex bore the scars of time now finally removed 12000000 books and manuscripts are kept here rare and important pieces of germany's cultural heritage such as a 15th century gooden berg bible or handwritten scores by beethoven and mozart including a magic flute at the virtual opening ceremony understood president spoke about the library significance today give arginine of to get out of lou's charge in our digitalized public sphere we need neutral and reliable institutions that document knowledge make it accessible and yes filter it to freedom and so allow readers to evaluate information critically from informants your own produce to give you part of their role is making the treasures of the library available online a decade long project that's the only way people can currently access this trove of

knowledge well the reading rooms are shut due to the pandemic. that is an impressive building it does look amazing to visit more on that story and many others on our web site www dot com slash culture that's all for this edition. of thank you very much for watching and join us again as soon as you can.

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