good use crime fighters are back but africa's most successful radio drama series continues through not only preserves are available online of course you can share and discuss on w. africa's face for each other social media platforms. to me and now. this is g.d.p. news africa on the program today the hunger crisis in magic aska desperate families have been eating claims mixed with because they have nothing else the world food program saves face but no response from the international community to its full ain't. they. as the nation warns 3 national heroes. 19. zimbabwe holds a state funeral for 3 senior government officials who died of cold 19 last week.

and kickboxing is seen as a men's sports way of patricia grew up but that hasn't stopped to putting up a tough fight. it's good to have your company the world food program saying is there has been no response to an appeal it made for humanitarian help for people facing hunger in madagascar last week the u.n. issued a so-called flash appeal be island countries agricultural season was ruined by the worst drought in a decade now because of federal more than a 1000000 people inside the madagascar will need food aid this year of the pandemic has added to the hardship the seasonal work that people often rely on has been a fix it by the lock down. a country desperate.

children malnourished. parents trying but often failing to find food. for my children didn't eat for 3 days and then died because i their mother couldn't feed them i know it was the famine that killed them. this is madagascar's 3rd consecutive year of drought in the south one in 3 people is facing life threatening shortages of food and water. there then live in a where so poor that we have nothing to eat because of the drought in desperate efforts to keep hunger at bay many are now mixing white clay with tar and fruit and eating it. story if we had something proper to eat we would never of eaten it but we didn't know that white clay was edible before we try to mix it in it what to

avoid the u.n. has launched an appeal for $76000000.00 u.s. dollars in emergency aid the race to feed madagascan has been made more complicated though because of the global pandemic. we are trying to be out there urgently right now to save lives. which are at risk the covert 19 situation has of course made everything much more difficult. without more help soon this humanitarian crisis will only get worse. for more on this we've invited sean new jersey bill onto the program he is the bald food program's country director for medic asked him to to the program mr as he believes we've just heard that the hunger crisis in medica sky is going to

worsen if help doesn't arrive soon how how urgent is the situation would you say. the situation right today is a very alarming force of a reason because there has been an extreme drought for the last year and. being. basically no rain except one single raining december in order so some other guests. this are going to reason is that the harvest in the last year which is taking place in a pretty major was extremely cool and therefore the people have exhausted most of the. stuff so you have the un's appealed for 76000000 done is to address the crisis has that money come through. this flash upbeat as it did coordinate has been launched by the united nation and

international community and the government of madagascar that so far we don't see any result that or what does that tell us that they could be this this this crisis all these people going hungry we just saw in our report families resorting to eating clay and leaves to survive and yet people aren't responding so this isn't a feel. let's say that this is this is quite a normal situation in terms of the lungs the timings of the respond to do so kind of upbeat we just hope that disappeared will be heard by the international community that it will be widely spread and then some responses positive responses will come in the coming weeks and months if it doesn't come. in the sense that we are hoping you really we think we. unfortunately

we go from a very quickly current situation do you prefer i mean situation if nursing. is down in that the shadow of what we are doing which some is about nurse. already to us suffering of these people i think that's shuttled the bill from the world food program and medical thank you. thank you. our next story is in zimbabwe away 3 senior government figures who died of cold in 1000 have been buried in state funeral they include foreign minister cecil moyer transport minister and prisons and preach all services commissar. some bubbly initially reported low numbers a call that 19 has recently experienced as fighting cases it is believed

a new more infectious variant up the virus came to the country when thousands of zimbabweans living in south africa returned home for the holiday season. these privileged was at a state funeral in the capital harare and he sent us this report. it's a dark day for the zimbabwe as the nation mourns 3 national heroes who said come to call the 19 zimbabwe has been struck by the new strain of the call the 19 virus about 32000 infections have been recorded so far and more than 1000 there it's today we witnessed the burial of a group of 3 of zimbabwe's top hierarchy in the political circles zimbabwe's so far last fall ministers to court with 98 and citizens are now

calling the government to procure vaccines in order to serve god the nation from fear that cornered by the. government has already said it is now negotiating with china and russia to procure some of the vaccines that are needed in the country. it's a privilege reporting and they enter now and other funeral this one in ghana jerry john rawlings the former president of the country and one of the country's most beloved leaders has been laid to rest at his burial in the military cemetery in a crowd followed a service attended by dignitaries and the general public warnings as he was fondly called later military regime for more than a decade before running in democratic elections and winning twice rowlings died in november last year the force of his stand has not been made a big. many names came out to pave the last respects to j.j.

warnings at the burial service and they told us how they will remember him before long before his cars must meet in. because he was. given. so. there is a. very big huge 3. he was a father to all. type of tests and he was very assertive he wouldn't hesitate to speak his mind so i wish. you know. because i know that he. and i hope that if you tell him. you know a. strong.

well kick boxing champion patricia has humbled many opponents in the brain but she says her success is often undermined by prejudice but that hasn't she hasn't let that stop her now she's training and mentoring other women and girls and she's determined to stand sexual harassment in sport. with 13 titles to him named patricia is the reigning world champion in the female lightweight division. a lot of courage to stand up. to to make it to the top i mean when you make it to the top some people still doubt but if you listen to the voices of other people than listening to yourself you find out you know from what really you want to be. true

i'll take area she has faced negativity in discrimination in uganda kick boxing is considered immense on the sport so patricia rise to the top was an uphill struggle . people are not going to that's what i want to change. you choose to be one or you just want to. i choose to be a champion swash because when i was a young guy that had a lot of truth but dreams don't come usually. so i reached a point whereby i said i have followed enough but people are turning me back what do i have to tell myself that 2 time world champion isn't just a tough opening in the ring she also supports female athletes who have suffered sexual harassment and violence pole lodge has a very clear message for the perpetrators people are mentally sick because you have

something to show to the wild but someone is actually limiting access to reach where you want to go one of the girls were crying about sexual harassment a lot of them but it's never occurred to me because once i showed them what i wanted. no one even ever thought about coming that he put this on this course for me my school days with the hell out of today patricia knows that she can't just let her fists speak for themselves in a home village in daraa the 21 year old founded a club for mostly young female kids boxes she believes that hope for if that's a future that's with the young generation is specially if need does also work towards creating a safer environment to fit the develop their talents can become a cubit we have greater than we are actually we are the beginning of everything. this year she is focused on defending your world title she is convinced that he acumen so inspire more african girls to stay focused on their dreams.

while she's inspired me that doesn't fall program city on deja dot com forward slash africa we're also on facebook and on twitter more content for you to see we're always keen on ageing with you about what we do here on the program and it's time. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language but the 1st word published in the group. is in germany to learn german why not. simple online on your mobile. learning course nikos speak german maybe. you're going to an official estimates more than 1200000 venezuelans live in colombia legally and illegally. i'd return to

venezuela. visiting friends i don't think i'd ever go back there to live you know what i lived there again i don't know so i'm not sure. they're in with global news that matters the need for minds. 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. reporter sara willis revisits a very different cuba a year after the project stasis. jewish

music composed between 933 and 145 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 ben shot himself the grandson of holocaust survivors has brought this 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 flying. this was composed by mario medley when he was a very young man living in florence. a short time later he was murdered by the nazis his melody is being rehearsed for a holocaust remembrance concert led by berlin's nimrod ensemble. from mine

if i mean. 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 legions melodeon 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. not then shown the men 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 laden'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. 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 it's. not financial naaman's from tel aviv he moved to berlin 12 years ago to study the clarinet he also has ancestors who were victims of the holocaust but for him and his ensemble this project isn't just about remembering the fates of individual people. whose music together was the stories in their testimony for the extermination of the jewish people when we play the music. we opened a subject and the discussion in the car show gentlemen discourse off today's world. laden's melodeon our music against forgetting and for a better world. now

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 that 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 legitimized 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 lock down. hawkers the 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. with that with completely contradict our whole purpose. of these quotes of g.d.p. 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 owner . you are going to so every sector has to decide for itself i wouldn't want to discriminate would occur and i would rather continue with restrictions going to divide people into 2 groups the disciplined and the reluctant to. discipline you. can 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 it is not an appealing prospects as the artistic director of the national theatre of weimar was impure not made up but there are some 400 people working here including all the artists who doesn't sort 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 feels to common sense don't seem to be effective enough at the facts or scope of denial lists and

other conspiracy theorists are not in the majority but they are folk should dodging ones 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 and sometimes to such an extreme that there's no coming back from it and on the political radius of what is actually of virological can demick is so wide. that i think we really need to be careful so course could warn most of those whose going to have them isn't the issue of course people in the art sector continue to hope that hard line anti facts are is will eventually realize that the answer is not in the sentiments but a little jack too many people resist however then

a vaccine passport may be unavoidable. last year sarah willis french all planned with the berlin philharmonic and d.-w. reporter realized a personal dream she travelled to have an a in cuba to meet and work with musicians that on a project for d.w. called mozart a mambo exploring the connection between volved about das and the latin dance of bamboo which originates from cuba now she's been back to a choir to cuba to catch up with have musician friends from one year later. january 2021 a much quieter to have than a than usual face masks a compulsory everywhere long lines for food a total lack of tourists and absolutely no live music on the street. that you have to have. i'm back here for a concert with the band of 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 they think we can say. what. i said. today i feel good because we over her sing but otherwise we're all stressed because of the situation here and everywhere else. reaching the broader the only and have your country you concert master of the orchestra visit me for a café see 2 at the apartment i stay in in havana the one that. so we do the corona. for cubans music is like how they bring you know it's necessary for a life. i mean we need it too but i have a feeling cuba is very special if it is in your body you need to dance you need to

sing you need to say how did you feel in this time where you couldn't play but it doesn't feel love when you're really sad because we felt every day that this energy was missing his passion may have played. in of several projects so we have the orchestra with pepe we have a string orchestra with maestro. we have cortez. every week we had 2 to 3 concerts that. had nothing to do except practice. simply. not something we during the lockdown have you won the talent to combine it with an online cuban music competition with his version of bach's shack on i had no live music yet here in havana so i asked her if you would maybe play something for me up here so at least we hear something live for you think one of the one pair. in the

market at the moment we have nothing to do suddenly everything's cancelled again but we have to say salary so we're very lucky. and. it's wonderful to be on a have on a rooftop in the winter 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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is. show me the vaccines the european union increasing the pressure on vaccine manufacture astra zeneca the e.u. demanding that vaccines made into a vast british factories must be shared with europe astra zeneca c.e.o. says its contract with the e.u. does not get to deliver at a particular deadlock also coming up today is international holocaust remembrance day 76 years after the liberation of the nazi do.