surprise. was. cool. and. we talked to people who follow along the way. critics how is the world's most powerful. coming up today the chinese city that sees jews from the nazis. shanghai provided refuge to thousands of jews. during world war 2 on holocaust remembrance day we look at how the city came to be a lifeline for a community in paris plus. making plans to. explore. more compelling.

and dancing in the face of death threats. determined to make it to the olympics as a break despite the dangers. welcome to. join us at a time the china is facing criticism for alleged human rights abuses against its weaker population and the dissidents it is surprising to many that the chinese city saved thousands of jewish lives during world war 2 shanghai became a place of refuge for thousands of jews who fled a modest nazi regime in new york today on international holocaust remembrance day as the world remembers the 6000000 jews and other victims of the nazis we look at the central role shanghai played in their rescue and how china is keen to highlight

it. 13 cell names 13 cells and destinies only a few traces remain of the safe haven jews refugees found in san jose during the nazi era a giant 4 to wall is a centerpiece of the museum dedicated to the shanghai kettle. at the peak of the holocaust 20000 jews lived in the chinese coastal city. which include a supporter all of those regulations have possibilities and this period of history is long time ago some of the refugees in the descendants have maintained this special connection with shanghai and a very deep friendship between us city and office hostility all change. in the city was one of the rare places that didn't require and try these are a small number of west of jews had been living in shanghai since 1900 century the community supported the european jews who fled to santa in the late 1930 s.

some took the weeks long journey by ship from italy. some went by train through russia on the transceiver and railway to vladivostok and further on crossing the sea from japan to china. during the darkest period of human history when jews were very few if you will. go through really after germany. after world war 2 most of the jews left china but in recent years the community started growing again i i must say this is perhaps one of the very few places in the world with when you walk on the streets and hear 2 people behind saying in the local language this person is jewish. you are not a fruit. and you know that if you turn your head and saw the greed of the small.

not many people know this shanghai says to me the city now wants to help make sure its never focus. and here in germany nazi atrocities are indeed not forgotten and commemoration of events this year celebrate 1700 euros of jewish life in the country. india's 1000000000 strong population carries with it a 1000000000 stories and indian filmmakers are finding new ways of telling them streaming services such as netflix and amazon are providing indian creatives opportunities so far not seen in mainstream bollywood. delhi crime tells the true story of a brutal rape case. and of the women who solved it one of them i don't have the details yet but. something

. it's t.v. like india has never seen before. doing. this crime is not just terrorists. only crime in november delhi crime became the 1st indian series to win best drama at the international emmy awards. project was led by women it was financed and put together and released by women this crime was so by women this is the courage of those women and all women who not only must endure the violence so many men inflict on them but are then tasked with. the most common. nasty side of indian toltecs is the focus of the new amazon series. which is billed as an indian version of house of cards. for.

political corruption. nepotism are nothing new to india showing them like this in a t.v. series definitely is. just . since i was a boy. to be a show that. had been hammered in my skull. the yawning gap between india's rich and poor is the focus of the white tigers and that blacks had a patient of the booker prize winning novel by i have been. i've been dominated by i drove the car. was. the. it made me sign the consent. in which. this is an slumdog millionaire like where virtue is punished and the only way for a poor boy to make it in india is through corruption and violence.

streaming giants are giving indians a new view of themselves and it's not always a pretty picture. i'm just was woken up. for the national through are still sleeping. let's bring in the no talk or he's an independent journalist and award winning film critic based in delhi. welcome now we've both grown up with mainstream hindi language cinema so-called bollywood and other regional language films but what is netflix offering that these films are not . i mean i think all the platforms are you know that place and those are. the happen in barton street even if you know me finances you know no i will experiment more ambitious more people out there wanting the locals to read a. piece. of the sure. and

meet a lot of people in general you know there has been geez i think. there's still lance and they want it is even possible to be on hold late for me and experimental story thinkings and b they don't have to when you're most insatiably sure as usual look for them in the past in fact just last year you had the investor short you know such as. low are you us can make it and those who need to get not just say that you've lost your netflix show and that he could end this drama in the next what's so i think i do think it's a mix of these things i mean. they move willing to take this there are whole hooks and i think the mediums have sort of mean when you look at their future but how moscow is this is the consumption of this these sort of firms i mean is it still is

netflix still very much a niche commodity in india or has it expanded enough to become to be called a muscular product. i don't think next legs is nice anymore in fact just last year a lot of. sharp explanations are of course that. it hasn't had any tradition and does not look as. an open source in any. case as much but i did i didn't catch up lose your early for us especially with anyone. on this ng that and the late. i don't want nice anymore if you really wanted to be. as nice as well we what's he. going to talk about censorship

a little. now online platforms such as netflix have recently been brought under the direct purview of the indian government that was on the curious earlier and you already seeing a series like thunder of something that be featured in our report already heading into legal trouble over allegedly i think religious sentiments i mean how much of a challenge is this for filmmakers moving forward. i mean yes it was a definite yet isn't what it is by no means that i now believe. we have seen sure . look. beings. as you may just be the target off a lot of vicious attacks on length of slaughter sort of badly keane's that and if you flip the sentiments of these majority these these kind of shows are back by numbers and. little and things like that. as you make of the fact they're just

as. off ministry of information broadcast leavings should. be all of the one up manship that. i don't talk or present over to a focus on mars. so as we love this next piece of news the 2024 paris olympics are set to feature breakdancing as a sport for the 1st time and that's given one young woman in afghanistan the motivation to work towards a dream despite the threats she's facing along the way. many sure tash wants to be taken seriously as both a woman and an athlete the 18 year old started breakdown thing 3 months ago as well as breaking down moves she's determined to break down stereotypes in full specifics since. since they are not many girls in this profession i want my name to be known

as a good athlete in afghanistan not for people to kami a dancer i want people to know that this is not a dance but a sport. but that's a dangerous attitude in afghanistan where the ultra hard line taliban is gaining more influence many in the country belief sport should just be reserved for men. moment that they say we are muslim and dancing in afghanistan is a sin because it is a muslim country. even have even threatened and said if we find you we will cut you into pieces. despite your threats many she and her team mates have high hopes breakdown single be added as an m.p. sports at the paris games in 2024. what. we have 4 years to train more goals in afghanistan and introduce at least one or 2 of them as break dancing athletes to international competitions but is only going on what if

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discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. w world heritage 360 getting up now. today jewish music composed during the nazi dictatorship most of which has never been heard in public before welcome to arts and culture also coming up today. should there be a vaccine passport so you can go to a concert or a club the jury is as on this one including managers in the cultural scene. and mozart in mambo reporter sara willis revisits a very different cuba a year after the project stasis. jewish

music composed between 933 and 945 was mostly hidden away and forgotten as the nazis were in power now 75 years later with a project called laban's melodeon all melodies of life the clarinet is no been shot himself the grandson of holocaust survivors has brought his music back to life i'm one of the resulting concerts is in a synagogue here in berlin on the occasion of holocaust remembrance day. this is the melody of life. peace was composed by mario medley when he was a very young man living in florence. a short time later mellie was murdered by the nazis his melody his being rehearsed for a holocaust remembrance concert led by berlin's nimrod ensemble. from mine

if i mean it's. some of my family members survived some of them were murdered and. so these melodies are very sentimental to me it's all very personal for me. it's also personal for noor. the leader of the nimrod ensemble he's dedicated the lead ins melody in project to mario mentally and other composers. this is the young man. and his family mario many didn't survive. but some other parts of the family did and it's very important for them that their memory of the young will be remembered and will be commemorated. was not then shown on and the nimrod ensemble rehearsed their program at the apostle paul church in berlin.

the product is about those people and their life and how in a terrible situation. in hell they managed to create something and when i spoke with some of the survivors of the for the families they explained how those metal does help them to survive the war. horse. this is the 2nd concert in the laban's melodeon series with more planned to follow in the coming months the lutheran church is a partner of the project and secures the financing. shifted to the history of the show is present on every corner here and now there are some 30 to 40000 young jews

living in berlin who are grandchildren or great grandchildren of survivors and have come here from israel and we can interact with each other as normal neighbors like before us. not finish on alms from tel aviv he moved to berlin 12 years ago to study the clarinet he also has ancestors who are victims of the holocaust but for him and his ensemble this project isn't just about remembering the fates of individual people. together with the stories is a. testimony for the extermination of the jewish people. when we play this music. we opened a subject and the discussion in the car show gentlemen discourse off today's world. laban's melodeon our music against forgetting and for a better world. there's

talk of museums reopening soon here in europe because they can manage social distancing but what about mass entertainment fear. polls and clubs have suffered for almost a year now and the only license the end of the tumble seems to be vaccination then perhaps your basic rights of freedom of movement will be returned with a vaccine passport but is a solution we've been talking to some cultural managers here in germany resulting in some rather surprising opinions. going to a rock concert a bar or a club is not considered an essential activity so it would be legitimate for organizers to demand proof of vaccination before people were allowed to attend their events medical experts estimate that between 70 and 90 percent of the population would need to be vaccinated for herd immunity to be reached that requires the majority of people to choose protecting not just themselves but others

as well but the idea of excluding those who don't get vaccinated doesn't sit well with everyone not even those whose livelihoods are affected by the lockdown. for us it can't be a question of somehow excluding one certain growth and including others just so we can get back to clubbing. that with completely contradict our whole purpose quotes at the age of 3 d. if. it's not enough people are willing to be vaccinated then cultural institutions would have to remain closed is that really what they want we ask this. cinema. producer every sector has to decide for itself i wouldn't want to discriminate and i would rather continue with restrictions than divide people into 2 groups the disciplined and the reluctant. discipline you know to. get the

cultural sector really afford to remain in a limbo of semi normality with hygiene guidelines and social distancing rather than favoring the vaccinated and perhaps returning to full houses do we really want to embrace through plastic sheeting and only enjoy the arts at a distance well into 2022 a vaccine passport debate that risks dividing society even more is not an appealing prospects as the artistic director of the national theatre of weimar was and fewer not made up at all there are some 400 people working here including all the artists that's one of if i want to get the orchestra members back into the orchestra pit for instance and say that anyone who wants to play here has to be vaccinated then i start dividing people here and i wouldn't do that for his discipline or if you're a one to those who would be finished so what's the solution appeals to common sense don't seem to be effective enough at the facts or is covered denial lists and

other conspiracy theorists are not in the majority but they are vocal should dodgin one's responsibility to the rest of society have consequences after all no one needs to go to a restaurant or the theatre. feels this kind of argument could be counterproductive he thinks the debate is evidence of desperation among political leaders. from these are formed of the moment i'm not in favor of that kind of separations we've been having the discussion about limiting rights and freedoms on so many levels sometimes to such an extreme that there's no coming back from it and would vote in the political radius of what is actually of virological pandemic is so wide. with that i think we really need to be careful zocor school board and most of those who think of them in the post people in the arts sector continue to hope that hard line anti facts are is will eventually realize that the answer is not in the sentiments but of little jack if too many people resist however then

a vaccine passport may be unavoidable. last year sarah willis french all planned with the berlin philharmonic and b.w. reporter realized a personal dream she traveled to havana cuba to meet and work with musicians that on a project for d.w. called mozart in mambo exploring the connection between volved about dance and the latin dance of bamboo which originates from cuba now she's been back to acquire to cuba to catch up with her musician friends from one year later. january 2021 a much quieter habana than usual facemasks a compulsory everywhere long lines for food a total lack of tourists and absolutely no live music on the street. culture that. i'm back here for a concert with the have an a lyceum orchestra to celebrate our project mozart he mumbled the concert will now be streamed without an audience but we are simply happy to play together again and

i mean we can thank you. but. today i feel good because we never had a sing but otherwise we're all stressed because of the situation here and everywhere else. preaching the brother of the owner and have your country you concert master of the orchestra visit me for a cafe seato at the apartment i stay in in havana and i haven't done that. so we do the corona. for cubans music is like how they breed you know it's necessary for a life. i mean we need it too but i have the feeling he was very special it is in your body you need to dance you need to sing you need to play how did you feel in

this time where you couldn't play it doesn't do well when you're really sad because we felt every day that this energy was missing this passion we have and we play. we have several projects so we have the orchestra with pepe we have a string orchestra with maestro. we have our quartet. and every week we had 2 to 3 concerts. i had nothing to do except practice. simply. innocent people during the lockdown have you won the talent to combine it with an online cuban music competition with his version of boss shack on i had no live music yet here in havana so i asked have you know if you would maybe play something for me up yes or at least we hear something live you think. nothing else

in the market at the moment we have nothing to do suddenly everything's cancelled again but we have the same salary so we're very lucky. and. it's wonderful to be on a have on a rooftop in the winter sun i've really and. being back here but it has been sad to see the difficulties people are facing here right now but the positivity of my cuban musician friends always shines through and today i even saw a little sign of hope the 1st live street music i have seen here on this trip enjoy .

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