joy gary coincidence. tara previously the earth was just a messy chemistry lab that i probably should. be empty. but. the creation of our solar system with our planet was a bit like winning the lottery there was a little bit of. money from birth. start feb 11th on d w. but this is due to abuse africa on the program today closed for business zimbabwe's informal sector has been forced into prolonging closure as the government tries to control the spread of covert nineteen's the country's small business owners say they're in distress. just south africa's sick to begin vaccinating its health workers off of the 1st 1000000 covert 19 facts and doses of riots in the country.

one of africa's biggest pirates has just released a new song with a timely message they'll be joining me to talk about this. big. hello i'm christine one 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 where he said the vaccines will be received quote soon close quote now the news comes as the zimbabwean government extended its lockdown because office and called the design team infections and deaths 2 thirds of the country's $1200.00 fatalities from january. alone now the extended lockdown includes

a 12 hour long curfew and the closure of all non-essential businesses now some informal workforce makes up about 85 percent of the country's total workforce the extended lockdown is a nother big belittle workers most of them who are self-employed privilege has this report. everson checkup is a motor vehicle space dealer in downtown hierarchy but he's now struggling to provide for his family that he can't offer in his shop i. don't restrictions he's 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. ratio. that we are in districts we survive from his shops there's no other job what i'm doing he says running a shop to show him what have you mostly now with

a lot of damage we are helpless. like so uncomfortable that. the usually busy downtown harare will remain closed off for another 2 weeks the government extended the lockdown which began in early january and now expected to end mid february. this strict national logged on his seen many businesses shutting down the government was force that to impose a 30 day down because of a spike in 1000 cases 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 lockdown 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 bernie's bikini ok. but where can we get food. of your young entrepreneur energy but don't is putting us down. fully to see it is necessary to keep the country under lock down to last in fiction cases and deaths. for government ministers have died in the past fortnight. citizens like everson check up on time now hoping for vaccines that could slow down a 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 secure through the deputy chose kovacs initiative are expected in march. this looks like a state visit by foreign dignitary. the guest of honor south africa's 1st spache of the past of seneca vaccine produced in india. president cyril ramaphosa and top officials welcomed at all 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. the

infection rates are steadily declining south africa has been hard hit not least because of the new more transmissible variant. because she 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 would be forced to take this vaccine i want to repeat nobody will be forced to take this vaccine.

the arrival of the 1st vaccines provides 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 are south africans. that was south africa's volvo youth choir and i'm delighted to say that i'm joined by the manager and one of the vocalists to talk more about this is the artistic director of the choir and scented eventually is one of the 5 invisible welcome to you both i'm so excited to have you on the program so many people remember your choir at that went viral after a performance on season 14 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 missile just really 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 get the world back to any sense of normality we have to embrace that's a nation that's a very powerful tool so the only tool to knock over. probably the most important one this points and we need to do a lot to encourage people to accept the vaccine and to go and didn't encourage their families to do it you know. because being like the rest of the world thousands of people have died and most loved ones and have been saying i'm 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 league meeting is autistic at least once a month. and you know all code particles are served but we just want to do something cool someday fraîche just positive about the vaccine yeah sandy i wanted we're hearing that there's

a lot of skepticism in south africa about the vaccine i wondered if if some of the people that you knew were skeptical about being vaccinated and some of the reasons that they're giving full of that. yeah i don't think you. can distil us. the people that are in the community it's if you wait until it's a week. and then that's why we need to point that. as if you've been and it's not our 1st time doing such videos we started. being taking part in this issue and you know ensuring that we're speaking to and making sure that people change their mind. souls humans because they know that people get that i come across dead a skeptic about this. they just saw it on the phone and to hear it from someone you know it's just a rumor right they don't like you what did you know but yeah i really like this 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 all of you guys been a fix it 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 collaboration with pizza 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 live stream concerts to companies and behold and people who product functions around the world right here from limpopo south africa so in that sense it's been a wonderful opportunity to raise expand our prime time and spread the word right as i do now wonder how you have been affected by all of this right and then just how you're coping with it 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 i was compared to our rehearsal space to additional 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 choristers we are genuine the money that we get from the schools but now being able to perform from our own visual studio all over the world and that has kept us going and we also released an album called i think we need rice right and that is made sense and a module of thank you so much guys for for that great to have you on and i am so will be done saying to the tear off their facts and they say it. thank you very much things i mean.

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it's. one giant problem and we are. going to let a few of you. how will climate change affect us and our children. learn more. w. dot com slash water. welcome to news from the world about some culture a renowned photographer has documented different aspects of life joining the corona pandemic in pictures lol in a minute also coming up today. the former artistic director of the belly not a dieter khosla wrote the stars to berlin and has written

a book about his time running the film festival. and british figurative sculptor jethro crap has a new commission can you guess who it is. done you know biscoe is a well known photojournalist here in germany 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. 5 to some i've never seen anything

like it i photographed a difficult situations in russia and you can slavia but i've never seen anything like this in germany. this is daniel 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 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 this group increasingly photographs frustrated angry people protests and conspiracy theories abound. the voters as a rule just there. observing closely and listening is biskup secret the photographer 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 biscuit shoot at the current 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 limits staff working around the clock in 3 shifts the

town in saxony has become a covert 9 hotspot despite the titan tristrem actions this is this is a great tragedy hundreds of people who died here in the last few days weren't. seeing for the 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 miss you the message on a shouted in cinema but when will that day come. indeed normally this city berlin is fully would fall off sorry. sorry sorry. ok yeah it's. normally sorry indeed normally this city berlin is full of hollywood stars right now for the belly not of the berlin film festival the festival is despond at the moment but the man who ran

it for nearly 2 decades due to cost flick has written a book about his experiences because it 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 but decades it was one of the burden on his favorite premier venues now it's in and in for slumber due to the pandemic since the festival director beryl downton 2019 he's had time to go 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 passage. 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 with passion jury present and manage 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 in. cosmic 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. first of all director cosmic embraced education as a mission at the berlin nola 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 one 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 stripper needs 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 allowed each and they were found and the abused women were recognized as victims. 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 abusing 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 we can begin to form the features most recently he's been commissioned to do the new man in the white house. high ranking politicians all in scope subjects for crops studio the sorry hills area of south east being. the new us president joe biden is being noted for a future wax figure in the presence of former 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 wax work. krap studied sculpture and began his career at madame tussaud . for the legendary london watch museum fashioned lifelike sculptures of many famous people. such as former beatle paul mccartney actors fan bing bing and compose a live event beethoven. for interests me about. the paper i scoped is that everyone is completely individual and trying water is someone that makes them. a cowbell less than others and have no experience. jethro crap mainly works using photos of the people he sculpting it's rare that he

works with large models he focuses more on physical characteristics and personality traits. once he's completed his crime model his team helps with the next steps 1st they make a silicon motor strength and the fiberglass 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 creates an authentic skin tone like here for us talk show host oprah winfrey. crop left to show off the years and went into business for himself making caricature those of figures like french president emanuel mccraw entrepreneur marx and members of the british royal family created for the satirical show spitting image. just getting concerned about the way he was picked up the longer the better unfold talking about walking. jethro crown 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 i warming his head as i was sort of. possibilities and that. is news from the music world now and shot rocca 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 geisha 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 the allegations saying quote the claim is a horrible distortions of reality. and you can keep up to date with more culture news on our website at d.w. dot com slash culture also check out our you tube channel state books and d.-w. classical music it's all for this edition of arts and culture.

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