and send us your story you are trying to already understand your culture. you are not a very good turnout and yes you want to become a citizen. in 4 migrants your platform of the information. you're watching news asia coming up today we take a closer look at the disappearance of hundreds of weaker scholars in china they serve as cultural stewards and their absence has been painfully felt by the weaker community there and in the overseas diaspora. 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 has been eventually released but notably communist party officials have shown reluctance freeing weaker intellectuals and according to the weaker human rights projects 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 fishing jan as he tells the story of one missing professor from the city of cash car. for many years if few scientific books have been tell him what teleco here is only a link to his family his father would tell it citic 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 in sindh 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 is followed in his father's footsteps and teaches we go language and literature. 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 a year

e they already sound as though they are from a distant era. on the porch us over the limit with hundreds of professors who study we are culture have been arrested. on freely shows crew many artists and singers have been arrested and wise but off with the man we listen to today is one of them or the 100. since 2017 china has detained hundreds of thousands possibly even millions of we gays in reeducation camps are sentenced them to prison terms members of the cultural elite like his father have been especially targeted. i'm very angry but i try to control my emotions to stay human and peaceful really created the persecution is part of a companion to simulate 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 cost 2 main bookstores we ask about the works of mystic i hear he's seeing not only. those in food. all. day every meal you know mother 100 official documents have clearly named the goal of these policies to destroy the roots and break the lineage of the week is back and getting in to here to hear a final eve of news from his father in march 2918 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 year was it always one sad for me is that here he's defending the perpetrators just fine and then. i try to see mystic a year in who lives on campus as soon as i am at the gate police at the border or the border was over come on minimal i asked them to let me see mr could hear. them down due. to all the way kids and. a lot.

i would have to go into. the water because to the university were not good to hear criteria has gotten confirmation from a court that a verdict has been issued against his father but he has not been able to obtain it's content he can now talk to his parents every 2 weeks for 2 minutes then the line is cut off from there to have her go off so i know 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 reader ethnomusicologist performance artist and filmmaker das midget

joining us she was born in the city of a in what china calls its shing junk region look at asd this story of. harry 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 of 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 weaker . our 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 as a wonderful point you have highlighted because cultures interact so eager 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 weaker 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 orem she when i was still living there and i had the chance to encounter with so many brilliant other 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. very important tool for me to introduce my culture introduce who i am and my people so and then i went to just 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 we were then swedes are music they also have like a very strong apollo are off expressing themselves 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 rich history and all the why burnett's of the these people in this culture and thus 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 they're raising all the differences to bring them into lekha making creating like machines are creating 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 close formants by look at us which it is the work pays tribute to the novels car hot tour sun and other we're intellectuals the chinese state has to take thanks for watching see you tomorrow and goodbye. that is.

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you know biscoe is a well known photojournalist here in germany who has documented many significant world events in the long and distinguished career but he says he has never experienced anything like the current corona pandemic so for the last year he's traveled up and down this country documenting different aspects of the pandemic in a photo diary which he posts on instagram. snapshots of a nation behind the mask people keeping their distance people who are unsettled and learning to adapt germany under the coronavirus from bavaria to belin from hamburg to saxony in a photo diary that began on march 15th 2020. 5 never seen anything like it i photographed difficult situations in russia in yugoslavia but i've never seen

anything like this in germany you know this is daniel biskup the renowned photographer has been on the road for almost a year posting a new picture on instagram every day at the start join the 1st lockdown there were scenes such as this cheerful cashier in. a bank queue to doctors and nurses. masks being sold on the streets and school classes moved to the gym. of my from then all of a sudden nothing works anymore i can take pictures but people who play music they can only post on twitter or live stream but i don't think that's very satisfying. when summer came things changed again with more or less distancing being observed a new normal. punk band we drink and keyboard a measure encountered by chance on a road in eastern germany discover increasingly photographs frustrated angry people

protests and conspiracy theories abound. the stage voters as a rule they're just there. observing closely and listening is biskup secret the photographer makes visible the devastating impact of the invisible virus he creates closeness even when distance is the top priority. january 13th 2021 it is day 299 biscuit shoots at a christmas story i'm in mind a difficult moment even for the season for talk of hundreds of coffins piled up furnace is operating at the limit staff working around the clock in 3 shifts the town in saxony has become a covert 9 hotspot despite the titan. this is a great tragedy hundreds of people who died here in the last few days waiting for

their last journey into. daniel biscuit keeps working but how much longer is it really that we know day 1000 corona get lost no one will misuse the message on a shuttered in cinema but when will that day come. indeed normally this city berlin is fully full. sorry. sorry sorry. ok yet. normally sorry indeed normally this city berlin is full of hollywood stars right now for the belly null of the berlin film festival the 1st of august perspire owned at the moment but the man who ran it for nearly 2 decades due to conflict has written a book about his experiences conflict made it the world's biggest public festival

for film goes but also brought the hollywood stars here in abundance making the berlin other truly international we met up with him to talk about the book but also about the future of cinema and its chances of survival in this age of streaming and social media. we met up with the to caustic at berlin's famous super last cinema for decades it was one of the burden on its favorite premier venues now it's in and in for slumber due to the pen demick since the festival director bowed out in 2019 he's had time to write his memoirs since this is now a world for me i've never had this book in my hand before you brought the 1st copy and this is also the barely known the palouse it's not that. deter costly it was a familiar figure in his trademark red scarf and black hat welcoming movie and showbiz legends to the red carpet for almost 2 decades his entertaining book

explains how he lured the rolling stones to berlin with the film shine a light how he won meryl streep national jury present and managed to present superstar shah rukh khan to adoring fans today he's thinking about the future of cinema. is 1st thing is that we see cinema is now fulfilling its social function as a meeting place quite differently again due to the dawn of the streaming age you have to get free school kids to physically go to the cinema once a week on a regular basis so that these kids the next generation get used to seeing a movie on the big screen with other people in a space that we call a cinema. caustic wants to make cinema attractive to young people that even includes ecological alternatives to popcorn. film production he says also needs to

become more climate friendly with measures like sustainable catering using recyclables and less travel not sustainability doesn't just mean using recyclable coffee cups sustainable. he is also about something quite concrete there are 17 u.n. goals which include justice and education. as festival director cosmic embraced education as a mission at the berlin and a talent camp young filmmakers from around the world exchange ideas with seasoned professionals under his direction the festival also addressed global issues and challenges such as human rights political oppression climate change and migration the festival was political in line with his thinking that films can change the world. because i witnessed this for myself it was the golden bear for asthma secret that was the film about srebrenica in bosnia the

siege of sarajevo and the mass rapes that followed i remember when yasmin spaniel she was on stage she said this bear will help us to track down the 2 war criminals kara chits and minardi each and they were found and the abused women were recognized as war victims. and their kind. during his 1st full 10 year marriage the tricky balancing act of presenting both art house cinema and entertainment now despite the twin threats of the coronavirus pandemic and streaming data caustic is sure that cinema will survive. incidentally the festival has been split into this year due to the pandemic the awards will form part of the industry event from march the 1st the 5th has just been announced the main public festival is now planned for june the 9th to the 20th

. british artists jethro crabb specializes in making detailed wax representation of famous people sometimes as realistic and true to life as possible but sometimes . as abusing caricature as each figure can take months from start to finish and crabbe says it all starts with getting the shape of the head right before he can begin to form the features most recently he's been commissioned to do the new man in the white house. high ranking politician all in scope subjects for crop studio the sorry hills area of south east think. new u.s. president joe biden being a model for a future wax figure in the prisons reform a british prime minister winston churchill whose likeness is also in the world. the figure was commissioned by the national presidential wax museum in the us state of south dakota jethro crop has been working on the clay model for 4 weeks but it will

take another 3 or 4 months before it becomes a finished waxwork. crab studied sculpture and began his career at madame tussaud. the legendary london watch museum fashioned life like sculptures of many famous people. such as former beatle paul mccartney actress fran bing bing and composer lute big ben beethoven. or interests me about. it as that everyone is completely individual and capturing what it is about someone that makes them. a cowbell less than others and have experience. jethro crop mainly works using photos of the people in sculpting it's rare that he works with large models and focuses more on physical characteristics than

personality traits. once he's completed his clay model his team helps with the next step. first they make a silicon moat strengthen the fiber glass for the heads a special wax mixture is poured into the silicon mold. the hair is inserted strand by strand several layers of oil paint create an authentic skin tone like here for us talk show host oprah winfrey. to show off the 8 years and went into business for himself making caricature the figures like french president emanuel mccraw entrepreneurial muscle and members of the british royal family created for the satirical show spitting image. i just going to start with concerned about the way it was picked up. i'm told talking about walking. jethro cram things joe biden is characterized by his dazzling white teeth and eye symmetrical smile which gives his face

a slightly longer side appearance but is that enough for a good caricature of a router a caricature a sculpture of biden i warming his head as i was sort of. possible. news from the music world now and shock rocker marilyn manson has been dropped by his record label after allegations of abuse by a former girlfriend evan rachel wood she dated manson from 2007 when she was just 19 years old and they were briefing gaging 2010 on monday she posted on instagram that he groomed her as a teenager and abused have a years since that instagram post at least 4 other women have shared their own allegations against manson accusing him of sexual assaults and psychological abuse manson known for his controversial stage shows has denied the allegations saying

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