there are many dreams and. there are many answers. and there are many stories so. many. don't need 4 minds. this is deja vu news africa on the program today the hunger crisis in magic ascap desperate families have been eating claims mixed with leaves because they have nothing else the world food program say space but no response from the international community to its feet for any. it's a sad day for zimbabwe as the nation warns 3 national bureau of economic to to

call the 9 to. zimbabwe holds a state funeral for 3 senior government officials who died of cold at 19 last week . at kickboxing is seen as a men's foolish way of patricia grew up but that hasn't stopped to and putting out a top 5. hello it's good to have your company the world food program say's 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 that drought 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 lockdown. 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 and it was so poor that we have nothing to eat because of the drought in desperate efforts to keep hunger at bay many and 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 i tried 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 o'casey bill onto the program he is

the world food program's country director for madagascar bochum to the program mr as he believes we've just heard that the hunger crisis in emetic uska 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. basically no rain except one single raining december in order so so much i guess. the 2nd 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 $76000000.00 to

address the crisis has that money come through. this flush upbeat as you did coordinate has been lunch together by the united nation and international community and the government of mother guessed 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 are responding to this action to feel. let's say that this is this is quite a normal situation in terms of the lungs the timings of the respond to this kind of upbeat we just hope that disabused will be heard by the international community that it will be widely do spread and then some responses positive responses will

come in the coming weeks and months if he doesn't come. send that we are hoping you really we think we. unfortunately we go from a very critical situation do you prefer i mean situation if nursing. is down the the net the shunda of what we are doing which some as a bot nurse. already need to i live suffering of just people. that's shown an example from the old food program and medical thank you. thank you. our next story is in zimbabwe away 3 senior government figures who died in 1000 have been buried in state funeral they include foreign minister cecil moyer transport minister and

prisons and pretrial services commissar. some bubbly initially recorded low numbers of covert 1000 has recently experienced a spike in 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. he 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 book of 3 of zimbabwe's. hierarchy in the political circles zimbabwe's so

far last fall ministers to quote the ninety's and citizens are now calling the government to procure vaccines in order to serve god the nation from the 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 in zimbabwe and to 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 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 lives a 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 public. many names came out to pay their last respects to j.j. warnings at the burial service and they told us how they will remember him people love him for his cars must meet him. because he was. given. so. it's not. a very big huge. he was a father to all. who is very assertive he wouldn't hesitate to speak his mind so i wish. you know.

because i know that he. and i hope that in the future. you know i am. strong and. 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 at that stop now she's training and mentoring other women and girls and she's determined to stand sexual harassment in sport. with 13 titles to his name patricia is the reigning world kick boxing champion in the female lightweight division. a lot of courage to stand up it takes a lot of courage. to make it to the top i never know 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 block out your story from what really you want to be. true i'll take area she has faced negativity into screaming nation in uganda kick boxing is considered immense on the sport so patricia rise to the top was an uphill struggle. people i'm not going to. that's what i want to change. you just to be one or you too long to. i choose to be a champion wife because when i was a young girl i had a lot of troops bedrooms don't come usually. so i reached a point whereby i said i have followed enough but people are turning me but what do i have to tell myself the 2 time world champion isn't just a tough opponent in the ring she also supports female athletes who have suffered

sexual harassment and violence alcohol large 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 a preacher said this on this for me my school days i'll bid the hell out of today patricia knows that you can't just let have fists speak for themselves in your home village in daraa the 29 year old founded a club for mostly young female kids boxes she believes that hope for a bit of future steps with the young generation is specially if he does also work towards creating is safer environment to fit the develop their talents they can do this we come out of it we are greater than we are actually we are the beginning of

everything. this year she is focused on defending a world title she is convinced that his achievements inspire more african girls to stay focused on their dreams. she's inspired me that doesn't fall program city mall on deja dot com forward slash africa we're also on facebook and on twitter has more content for you to see we're always keen on ageing with you about what we do here on the program see you next time a fact. it's about billions. it's about how it works. it's about the foundation of the new world order. the silk road. china wants to expand its influence with this trade network. but in europe there's

a shock the morning when for exception money from the new superpower will be coming into the club of. the chinese state has a lot of money at its disposal. and that's how it's expanding and asserting its status and position in the world. china's gateway to europe. starts feb 19th on w. 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 out on this one including manages in the cultural scene.

and mozart. reporter sara willis revisits a very different cuba a year after the project stasis. c. 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 old melodies of life the clarinet is no bench 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 a melody of light. 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 levens melody in project to mario mentally and other composers. this is the young man. and his family. didn't survive. but some other parts of the family did and it's very important for them that their memory of the younger mario melly will be

remembered and will be commemorated. not then show long and the nimrod ensemble rehearse 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 haiti they managed to create something and when i spoke with some of the survivors of the for the families they explained how those mellow 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. 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. north and shell 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 is a. testimony for decks that i mean nation 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 finance. holes 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 manages in or 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 feel legit event 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. is one sky and talk is 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. that with completely contradict our whole purpose quotes it's the sequence of 3 d. if. it's not enough people are willing to be vaccinated then cultural institutions would have to remain closed is there 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 and i would rather continue with restrictions than to divide people into 2 groups the disciplined and the reluctant and disciplined. 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 and 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 reason for your not middle part that 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 if honesty is a turn on here a one to those good. so what's the solution appeals to

commonsense don't seem to be effective enough at the factors covered denial lists and other conspiracy theorists are not in the majority but they are vocal 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 his own formed of the moment i'm not in favor of that kind of separation 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 and the political radius of what is actually of virological pandemic is so wide. that i think we really need to be careful though cause could warn those to follow those who stink of them is of course people in the arts sector continue to hope that hard

line anti facts are as 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 b.w. reporter realized a personal dream she travelled to have an a in cuba to meet and work with musicians there 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 quieter cuba to catch up with her musician friends from one year later. than january 2021 a much quieter havana than usual facemasks a compulsory everywhere of 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 been 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 an amazing week and they. said oh yeah. today i feel good because we over her sing but otherwise we're all stressed because of the situation here and everywhere else the. creech in the broader viola and have your country you concert master of the orchestra visit me for a café seato at the apartment i stay in in havana and i have heard that. so we do. 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 very special it is in your bodies you need to dance you need to sing you need to lay out how did you feel in this time where you couldn't play but it doesn't do much when you're really sad because we felt every day that this energy was missing this passion we have and we play. in the several projects we have the orchestra with pepe we have a string orchestra with maestro. we have our quartet. every week we had 23 concerts. i had nothing to do except practice. simply. meant you know 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 have you know if you would maybe play

something for me up here so at least we hear something live you think one of the palace not coming in the market at the moment we have nothing to do suddenly everything's cancelled again but we have the state 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 light street music i have seen here on this trip enjoy. the stories from the world of awesome culture on our website at d w dot com slash culture but that's all for this edition thanks for watching and do join us again. from.

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