in the heart of. africa. what's in store. for the future. for teenagers to be able to get inside. this is t.v. news africa on the program today closed for business zimbabwe's informal sector has been forced into a prolonged closure as the government tries to control the spread of covert 19 the country's small business owners say they're in distress. southern african state to begin vaccinating its health workers off of the 1st 1000000 culvert 19 vaccine doses arrived in the country. one of africa's biggest pirates has just released

a new song with at the time the message they'll be joining me to talk about it. hello i'm christine wonder why it's good to have your company zimbabwe is going to be one of the 1st countries to receive vaccine aid from china the chinese ambassador to zimbabwe made the announcement in a tweet way he said the vaccines will be received quote soon close quote now the news comes as the zimbabwean government extended its knock down because office and called it 19 infections and deaths 2 thirds of the country's 1200 fatalities from january alone now the extent of lockdown includes a 12 hour one on curfew and the closure of all non-essential businesses now subways informal workforce makes up about 85 percent of the country's total workforce the

extended locked on is a never a big blow to work as most of them who are self-employed privilege has this report . everson checkup is a motor vehicle spears dealer in downtown haddadi but he's now struggling to provide for his family he can't open his shop jus to look down at restrictions his only source of income has been lost to father of 2 he can now only visit his shop from time to time checking for any possible break ins with the rules nursery. we are in distress we survive from the shops there's no other job he says running a shock to see a mortality mostly now with a lot of damage we're helpless. like. the usually busy downtown harare will remain closed for another 2 weeks the government

extended the lockdown which began in early january and now expected to end mid february the strict national lockdown has seen many businesses shutting down the government was forced that to impose a 30 day lockdown because of a spike in 1000 cases or only essential services like your hospitals pharmacies and supermarkets are being allowed to operate the majority of citizens are not formally employed most survive on street trading a lot done just means a total struggle zimbabwe's economy was in a crisis even before 1000 struck years over hyperinflation acute shortages of foreign exchange and power outages have brought down the country. if you say you know don't speak ok we will comply but we're going to get food

if you're going to run no you love your young and ripping your energy but don't is putting us down. fully to see it is necessary to keep the country under lockdown 2 laws in fiction cases and debts. for government ministers have died in the past fortnight. citizens like it will soon check out but by now hoping for vaccines that could slow down virus cases where they call on me to fully open up again. south africa's president says the country has passed the peak of its 2nd coronavirus infection wave but that the virus it remains a major problem on monday south africa received the 1st 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine the vaccines will be given to the country's health workers over the next 3 months a further 12000000 doses secured through the deputy chose kovacs initiative are

expected in march. this looks like a state visit by foreign dignitary. to guest of honor south africa's 1st batch of the national semiconductor scene produced in india. president obama and top officials will compete at our tumble international airport . later in an address to the nation the president struck a cautiously optimistic note. of these vaccines contains the promise that we can turn the tide on this disease. that has caused so much devastation and hardship in our country and across the world. though infection rates are steadily declining south africa has been hard hit not least

because of the new more transmissible variant. the contrie has had the highest number of infections and the highest death toll on the continent nearly 45000 have lost their lives. the 1st doses will be given to health workers stretched to their limits doctors and nurses have in particular been badly affected they have criticised the government of being too slow in securing the vaccines. but many south africans are also skeptical about getting the jap so the president reach out to them to. nobody will be forced to take this vaccine i want to repeat nobody will be forced to take this vaccine. the arrival of the 1st vaccines provide a glimmer of hope but there's still no date yet for when the wider national rollout

will begin. till then the government will keep testing as many as possible and hope by the end of the year tween ocular 2 thirds south africans. will. play that was south africa's youth choir and i'm delighted to say that i'm joined by the manager and one of the vocalists to talk more about is the artistic director of the choir and. is one of the crime in this hour welcome. so excited to have you on the program so many people remember your choir at that went viral after a performance on season 48 of america's got talent we've now just been listening to a new song and ralph maybe you could just tell us a little bit about that the mrs ray can't get vaccinated what was your motivation in putting this song together yeah i think i mean we feel that if we want to give

the world back to the sense of normality we have to embrace vaccination it's a very powerful tool so the only tool to knock over. probably the most important one this point and we need to do a lot to encourage people to accept the vaccine and to go on and didn't encourage their families to do you know. is being like the rest of the world and thousands of people have died and most loved ones and have been sitting there also like to point out when we make this video you know all the choruses are regularly tested it's almost like a sports team. with a lead may seem designed to sit at least once a month. and you know all code protocols are observed but we just want to do some really cool something for a she just positive about the vaccine yet send it out why did we're hearing that there's a lot of skepticism inside africa about the vaccine i wondered if if some of the people that you knew. about being vaccinated and some of the reasons that they're

giving for that. yeah i don't think you. can distill years people the people that are in the community it's every week it's a week. and that's why we need to point that. as if you've been and it's not our 1st time doing such p.d.s. we started the. institute in taking part in this issue and you know ensuring that we're expanding believe in making sure that people change their mind . souls unions because they know that people get that i come across dentist get sick about this people that they just saw it on the phone to hear it from somebody else it's just a rumor right they don't like you what do you buy yet run i guess so we don't have too much time here but ralph just quickly i mean i imagine you had loads coming your way before the pandemic just how do you guys been affected by the pandemic yeah it's been crazy and we were booked almost every day with 7 international tours

quite a few tours to germany we were going to have a lovely collaboration piece in my file we eventually released a song with him towards the end of last year. but yeah i mean it's had a devastating effect on our turf but it's also been an opportunity for us to enter the virtual space and we've been doing last concerts to companies and behold and people who private functions around the world right here from limpopo south africa so in that sense it's been a wonderful opportunity trail so expand occupying time and spread the word write as i do now wonder how you have been affected by all of this right and then just how you're coping with that we're all having to adjust to this life in the pandemic what are your civilian some of your coping mechanisms. when you know having this amazing plan out since we can bet our rehearsal space to the official deployment studio in our own space in the local school now we can people around the

world but it's been very difficult and you know as christians we are tending the money that we get from the schools but now being able to perform from our own visual studio all over the world then that has kept us going and we also released an album cold i think we need rice right and that is made sense and eventually thank you so much guys for for that great to have you on and i am still will be done saying to the tune of their facts and they say it. thank you very much things i mean. i'm. sure.

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discovered. subscribe to documentary to. welcome the world about some culture a renowned photographer has documented different aspects of life joining the corona pandemic in pictures more in a minute also coming up today. the artistic director of the dieter costly roll star. and has written a book about his time running the film festival. british figurative sculptor jethro crap has a new commission can you guess who is here. is

a well known photojournalist who has documented many significant world events in a 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 a variance of bellin from hamburg to saxony in a photo diary that began on march 15th 2020. some i've never seen anything like it i photographed difficult situations in russia in yugoslavia but i've never seen

anything like this in germany. 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 joining the 1st lockdown there were seen such as this cheerful cashier in our. thank you to doctors and nurses. masks being sold on the streets and school classes moved to the gym. of how much from 10 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. and we drink and keyboard a measure encountered by chance on the road in eastern germany biskup increasingly

photographs and frustrated angry people protests and conspiracy theories abound. the voters as a rule just there. observing closely and listening is biskup secret the fatah for makes visible the devastating impact of the invisible virus it creates closeness even when distance is the top priority. january 13th 2021 is day 299 description at a permit 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 9000 hotspot despite the titan 2 stricture. this is a great tragedy hundreds of people who died here in the last few days waiting for

their last journey into an african. daniel biscuit keeps working but how much longer is it hyperbole that we know day 1000 could only get lost no one will miss you the message on a shuttered in cinema but when will that day come. indeed normally this city berlin is fully full off sorry. sorry sorry. ok yet. normally sorry indeed normally this city berlin is full of hollywood stars right now for the bell in berlin film festival the 1st moment but the man who ran it for nearly 2 decades due to cost flick 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 de 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 pandemic since the festival director bowed out in 2019 he's had time to write his memoirs since it 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 pallor it's not there believe in a little less. 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 president and managed to present superstar shah rukh khan to adoring fans today he's thinking about the future of cinema. is it does 1st thing is that we see cinema it's now fulfilling its social function as a meeting place quite differently again due to the dawn of the streaming age you have to get preschool 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 just plain ability 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 berkeley known a talent campus 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 it 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 mandy each and they were found and the abused women were recognized as victims. 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 and has just been announced the main public festival is now planned for june the 9th to the 20th

. british artist jethro crabb specializes in making detailed wax representation of famous people sometimes as realistic and true to life as possible but sometimes . as a music caricature each figure can take months from start to finish and crab says it all starts with getting the shape of the head right before it 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 crops studio the sorry hills area of southeast england. the new u.s. president joe biden being modeled for a future wax figure in the presence of former british prime minister winston churchill whose likeness is also in the world as. 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 watchword. crap studied sculpture and began his career at madame tussaud . the legendary london watch museum fashioned lifelike sculptures of many famous people. such as former beatle paul mccartney actress fan bing bing and composer little big van beethoven. or interests me about. it as that everyone is completely individual and capturing what it is about someone that makes them. a cowbell western medicines have experience. jethro crop mainly works using photos of the people in sculpting it's rare that he works with large models he focuses more on physical characteristics than

personality traits. once he's completed his play model his team helps with the next steps 1st they make a silicon motor strength in the fiberglass over the heads a special wax mixture is poured into the silicon mold. the hair is inserted strand by strand several layers of oil paint creates an authentic skin tone but here for us talk show host oprah winfrey. left to show off the years and went into business for himself making caricature is a figures like french president emanuel mccraw entrepreneur. and members of the british royal family created for the satirical show spitting image. just. when it was big stuff and full of 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 sculpture of biden. has had as i was sort of. possibilities and that. 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 brief and gage in 2010 on monday she posted on instagram that he groomed her as a teenager and abused her for years since that instagram post at least 4 other women of share their own allegations against manson accusing him of sexual assault and psychological abuse manson known for his controversial stage shows has denied

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