country. yes that will be true after rains blending here and respond tomorrow when i play in where i carry 26 medical professionals from germany among them knocked out from the german military i think it's plain when i write a friend but carry medical equipment ventilators hospital beds and so on and it's urgently needed equipment because there are reports that medical products especially oxygen is running very low here in the country when i saw how people are reacting to this news this must be a welcome spots of news in this disaster yes it really is it's a big topic for together and reports of us media and of course parts of us appreciate it very much of course everybody also knows that's 26 medical professionals and the crisis and. for the damage it's

a beginning but not much more particle has always been a very important part of very constructive part of the european union so off course they are also hoping fought for more help from the european partners and spain. austria and the countries they have already on terror and. predict that more european engagement will come in the following days young from the shelves in lisbon thank you thank you. now let's go to space what does the future of space exploration hold for mankind it's a big question one that astronauts and researchers will be chewing over today as they gather in the german city of bremen another key question what role will your of play in manned missions into space and europe's space agencies already working with nasa on the international space station robotic missions are more gruesome they are all right the 1st spacecraft capable of delivering

a crew to the moon 50 years. the next frontier a space station a lunar orbit the lunar gateway. nasa is planning to build this new lunar outpost in cooperation with canada japan and europe during the next few years. it's slated to serve as a research platform and space station. nasa has already built a powerful rocket about 100 meters high to send astronauts deeper into space than ever before. the astronauts will sit at the very top of the newly developed arayan spacecraft the european space agency the i.s.i. is in charge of creating the service module for the spacecraft this module will supply the astronaut capsule with propulsion electricity and breathing here until now nasa had commissioned all call components to be made exclusively in the usa up

to 4 astronauts can take off with the arayan spacecraft. the new transport systems 1st for launch is shared for november the flight will be an unmanned test of the arayan spacecraft in space. the rocket is designed to launch the vessel on course for the moon once there ryan will been orbit they're known under its own propulsion and. return to earth after 6 days. if everything goes as planned the 1st astronauts could be on their way to the moon in 2022. venue transport system will also play an important role in the construction of the space station. but 1st to bodge also set to begin their orbit around the moon in early 2020 for.

the lunar gateways orbit will take it over the north and south poles. nasa plans to operate future lunar missions from the station. initially remote control robots will investigate the part of the moon that is facing away from the earth and the south pole. its mission is to explore the resources available. later nasa plans to bring astronauts to the lunar surface of the gateway. is the long term nasa will use the outpost as an assembly hangar and a test site for a new spacecraft capable of carrying up to 6 astronauts to mars over the next decade the 1st humans are expected to orbit the red planet and then return to the lunar gateway. let's take a closer look at this project with the european space agency's director general yana verna welcome to the w.

sending astronauts back to the moon looks very exciting i'm hugely extensive will it help us solve problems we're experiencing here on earth. first of all i don't want that we sent astronauts back to the moon we want to send them forward to as the moon because this time it's in a totally different manner it's not in competition virtue of competition in the cold war but it's in geopolitical cooperation and yes exploration is very helpful for humans on air force because through exploration of you discovered for instance the climate change on earth it was not just come out on us we have developed a lot of new technologies for instance solar panels which i use now a nurse here and there but they were developed for it in space and you see a lot of other things like that so we can think about autonomous actions in space we need that right now we need it also on the earth's fuel cell it's for medicine many medicine medical experiments and investigations to be done in space so space

is good for human kind and be calculated it one euro invested in space an exploration if spec about 3 year us in return ok sounds very positive although it will tell you i'm still waiting for my own personal jet pack the author of his mission is the next step in the effort to get astronauts to . let's hear from german astronauts alexander guest with a prediction. i do not have any doubt that you and i have a real terms of one day seems humans and amongst them europeans walk on mars. so why do we want to go to mass. first of all. young he can say that i'm old i'm not so sure that i will observe it because to go to a moon and back takes about one week so you can do it in a sum of occasion to go to mass and pick takes about 2 years tool yes you can i say

us and we have a problem and you come back within a couple of days and therefore it will take a long time but why are we going there why are humans going on on the mount everest why are we investigate can that deep sea why are we going to the north go to the telephone obviously there is something in our d.n.a. . your city is the strongest driver we have and inspiration which comes out of the car your city has a societal impact off to apollo many many people started to really to study math physics engineering because it was inspiring and i think this social inspiration for motivation to do something for the future that is the strongest driver ok that's about all sounds very positive i'm mentioned this is a co-operative venture but now we know that lots of companies countries are competing in space for things like defense and communications and of course mineral extraction is this likely to lead to conflict in the future

i hope not for easy it's a simple european space agency has in its convention a sentence which says explicitly exclusively peaceful purposes and this is what we have doing and i hope that the geo political positive aspect of space will when we have together in the international space station's risk russian citizen americans japanese risk canadians and europeans or so sometimes on earth we have some issues so obviously the space activities for each approach over troubled water as simon and garfunkel would say all right we're talking nice to get i musical referencing the. director general of the european space agency thank you thank you. sport now as starting with football and monday's transfer deadline day so heter barely make a big splash by signing the 2014 world cup with sammy a day or from your vent as a surprise signing of the day he was coming back who moved from shall cut to

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i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia the united nations estimates that the chinese state has detained more than 1000000 weekers the ethnic muslim minority in china in camps some have been eventually released but notably communist party officials have shown reluctance freeing weaker intellectuals and according to the weaker human rights project based in the u.s. hundreds of scholars historians artists writers poets musicologists have disappeared activists call what's happened a cultural genocide correspondent mathias bolinger has this report spanning germany and. as he tells the story of one missing professor from the city of cash car. for many years that few scientific books have been tell him what teleco here is only a link to his family his father would tell it sitting here it had dedicated his life to linguistics specializing in the etymology of we can names

a member of china's ruling communist party the weakest caller was a model scientist incent young and the editor of the university's magazine then in 2017 he certainly disappeared he had been accused by the authorities of spreading ethnic hatred. so most in the party decides who is a professor and who is a criminal my father was a professor and scientist because the party allowed him he was of course hardworking but it was the party who allowed him to do this work and now the party has made him a criminal one to the melodrama here khejuri is a university lecturer in getting in germany he has followed in his father's footsteps and teaches we go language and literature this is teaching a class when we go pop culture online because of the corona epidemic.

some of the songs are just a few years old but took a year eat or it does sound as though they are from a distant era. on the porch with over. hundreds of professors who study we are culture have been arrested. many artists and singers have been arrested and by off with the man we listen to today is one of them or the 101. since 2017 china has detained hundreds of thousands possibly even millions of we gaze in reeducation camps or sentenced them to prison terms members of the cultural elite like his father have been especially targeted because of mugabe's doing but i'm very angry but i try to control my emotions to stay human and peaceful really. the persecution is part of a companion to assimilate minorities in china that we go language has been removed

from school curricula while historic monuments like the ancient city of qashqai have been renovated and turned into tourist attractions traditional lifestyles have come under attack on mosques inside the ancient city have been closed many minarets been removed some have been converted into tourist spaces the evolution facilities now host public toilets 86 ration. one mosque was even turned into a bar it has since closed because guards 2 main bookstores we ask about the works of mystical here is seeing. as if. oh you want. to hear more. than 100 official documents have clearly named the goal of these policies to destroy the roots and break the

lineage of the week is back in getting him to hear to hear a final even good news from his father in march 201918 months after his disappearance looking old and frail he denied via video chat that he had been detained and said he had spent the last months in hospital. my son you must not believe these lies you must keep your mouth shut and publicly renounce the accusations you have made and clean up the dirt that you left. this will be best for us if you want to do something for us do what i tell you. what you're going to always one sad for me is that here he's defending the perpetrators he is fine and. i try to see mystic a year e who lives on campus as soon as i am at the gate police at the border probably

never come over him and i ask them to let me see mr k. you. don't do that. to all the women are getting. a lot. i would have to go into. the to the old cause to the universe you were not answered to hear to hear you has gotten confirmation from a court that a verdict has been issued against his father but he has not been able to obtain its content he can now talk to his parents every 2 weeks for 2 minutes then the line is cut off from there to that's where you have who are in the chinese government has made me a lonely man a sad lonely man an exile. one of his only solace is is that by teaching at the university he can contribute to preserving the culture that has suffered so much under china's government

we have read her ethnomusicologist performance artist and still make her move das midget joining us she was born in the city of a in what china calls its shing junk region look at ask this story of metallics a dk here he has happened to many weaker scholars and when so many stewards of our culture from specialists and literature to music to history and anthropology are silenced like that what is the impact. this is a very important question i think what is the impact the 1st impact as like we are losing so much knowledge so much creativity even for human society i mean it is a loss for everyone it is the. it is really tragic for the human civilization i would say because culture is really rich and it is

a part of human history human culture if we lose that part of humanity it is it big loss for all of us. i know that many people doesn't really know and not really familiar with we go culture or or we go or. are but the main role of all these people who are disappeared in chinese camps are really the the people who knows really a lot about these cultures and who are carrying on and making these cultural expressions a life so in that sense it is a big loss for a week or society or people and it is also a big loss for anyone else that is a wonderful point you have highlighted because cultures interact so we don't culture doesn't happen just in its own ecosystem it's shared by so many other

people so tell us about your own recent work and how critical and important it is to preserve we their culture overseas in free spaces i mean you've taken traditional weaker styles and made them contemporary. yes i have a very traditional. dance education i went to the art institute in orangey when i was still living there and i had the chance to encounter with so many brilliant or traditional dance musters and then when i came to europe i realised that my culture was so less known like less known it's a nice way to put it but a lot of people didn't know who or that we were as and that they didn't know our existence so culture and artistic expression has always been this very important tool for me to introduce my culture introduce who i am and my people so

and then i went to this journey of being a ethnomusicologist and i i saw that actually apart from what i learn in the art institute i like my culture is so diverse and there's so many things still be be discovered for even for us for someone like me who are sick who are studying culture so with all this richness and then with my own personal artistic journey that i i had in in europe and in the world i started to think like weaker than simply their music they also have like a very strong apollo or off expressing themself it's not just a museum piece and it's not just a fixed or crystalized form of artistic expression or it doesn't belong to the past so i wanted it to be. a vibrant part of contemporary

art i wanted to make it more accessible and i wanted to use my own roots to express myself and tell my stories. now if the chinese state manages to control education and deploy propaganda the way it has for an entire generation of we are children we're seeing this to tight essentially make them conform to ethnic concho nice norms what do you think will be the outcome. the outcome is the we were region is a very historic and as you said a very mixed and very diverse part of the world and if we took away all the identity all that we go right into tea or all the the reach history and all the why burnett's of the these people and this culture and us displace. all like

what chinese government is eventually trying to do is just a raise anything which make these people individuals make those people free spirits and make this people different their of raising all the differences to bring them into like making creating like machines or prating like a soulless. man over and they can create like they can work in factories and then they just have to participate in this very dangerous in a mission of chinese government to to really control world economy. thank you so much for joining us. that's it for today we leave you with a clip from a course formants by without the workpiece tribute to the novelist carhart toure

sent and other weaker intellectuals the chinese state has detained thanks for watching see you tomorrow and goodbye. that is. so hard that a. partner in our lives in order to do that or. force me to insert a massive that. you know that i handed. her years there was. no issue here led. the fight against the coronavirus 10 damage. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update 19 special. on t.w. . life on earth one of

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where the pandemic began. while most countries in europe opted for temporary lockdown measures with mixed results some countries like sweden decided to go easy on the economy with many elderly bearing the brunt. and populist governments around the globe basically ignore the virus altogether again pushing up their country's mortality rate. and the economies and people are suffering all the same it's time for a silver bullet that ends the pandemic. hello and welcome to our kobe 900 special on d.w.i. monica jones in berlin which is still in lockdown case numbers are going down slowly but the virus is still very much active so what's next could the no covert strategy be the answer to our press here's what it's about. and your plan proposed by a scientists in germany aims.