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on the. join a group of people in thailand just dying for a fresh start. welcome to the wus a show glad you could join us china has threatened a response after the u.k. media watchdog last week bandit chinese television network in the u.k. china a global television network for short was also to stop brought costs due to its links to the chinese communist party acting on a complaint off the u.k.'s media regulator said the links breached the country's editorial control guidelines you might better bites form a name the state broadcaster c.c.t.v. . branded name given to c.c.t.v.

international language channels including english. did not go down well with the chinese government which responded with these comments. when each of comus or precede u.t.s. broadcast in the u.k. on political grounds it politicizes issues on a technical level seriously hurts the survival of chinese media and seriously interferes with the normal exchanges between the 2 countries in china resolutely opposes this idiot in power the british side talks about freedom of the press but ignores the facts and into fees in the dissemination of c g t and in the u.k. this is a blatant double standard and political suppression. and joining me now is peter dollar and his director of the human rights group a safeguard defenders that filed the complaint but that led to see gittins u.k. license being revoked but it's a welcome what was the complaint that your organization had fired and. thanks

for having me the complaint filed was exactly one year ago hell that c g t n has no editorial independence and is a direct tool of the chinese communist party it political party and the chinese police and therefore were in violation of the u.k.'s broadcasting law not been from the chinese foreign ministry called off coms actions court a blatant double standard and political suppression how do you react to that. well there's nothing surprising really about that since you t.n. like any party or political or state organ in china operates with pretty much total impunity and that's what they're used to when they're held accountable to existing rules such as it's happening right now they tend to scream up double standards but in reality of course is the exact opposite here for the 1st time we're seeing that

c g t n is being held accountable to existing rules that their shows seem to ignore for many years which particular rules are you talking about given that you had experience with siege here and while you were in china and trying to 16. well the complaints would came out now and the result of course has to do with editorial independence or lack thereof we've also filed a number of complaints concerning forced televised confessions something that i personally had experience with that we show illustrates this lack of editorial independence where the chinese media is operating on orders from the chinese police and the political party to make and broadcast these kind of forced televised confessions long before suspects trial and they're often broadcast as a direct foreign policy tool in my own case and even though i was kept in a secret facility and even the prosecutor was denied access to me the c.c.t.v.

the parent company a journalist was given access to me to record one of these ludicrous confessions with the c.c.t.v. reporter and myself sat with the same paper with preview written answers and question and sort of acted out almost like a theater drama. and of course c.c.t.v. n.c.t. and are well aware of this they're active participant in this quite severe human rights violation of denying someone access to do a fair trial and they then broadcast them on orders of the c.c.p. across europe so this is not only in violation of broadcasting rules but also the european convention on human rights which all regulatory bodies in europe must and are legally bound to defend briefly peter does all forms actions in the u.k. provide a template for action against the communist parties media negative. it does indeed the most important thing here is not to get city and off the air they have every

right to broadcast their propaganda like everyone else but they must be forced to learn that outside of china they do not operate without be held accountable if there are existing rules they apply to show you know as well not just to the rest of us but i do believe this this drastic decision will raise a few eyebrows around europe were cheaper regulation is a lot more lax and the u.k. has a much stronger sort of framework. be it a dollar left leave it there or that i mean but thank you so much for joining us meanwhile a chinese born australian journalist employed by c.g.i. in beijing has been arrested on suspicion of court supplying state secrets overseas chang a a prominent business on currency to tim was detained by chinese authorities 6 months ago without explanation she emigrated to australia as a child before returning to china and joining the state broadcaster in 2012 she now faces severe punishment be found to have broken china's national security laws

here's what australia's foreign minister had to say. we have consistently rise strong concerns about her detention regularly at the most senior levels and we continue to seek assurances of her being treated appropriately humanely in cordons with international standards and that will continue to be the case and john his family released a statement saying they're convinced of that innocence they said their respective china judicial process and the authorities to bring this matter court to a swift compassionate and timely conclusion. now like in many other countries covered 19 prevented children in india from attending school for most of last year while some schools have now reopened for many children in india's villages going back isn't an option anymore. started apprenticing 6 weeks ago at this one in

a village for this. the shy 12 year old has been half heartedly listening to instructions. he's clearly not enjoying it. i want to go back to school. meet my friends i don't want to work here. but he doesn't really have an option nor does his younger brother who joined him here a few days ago. thought of following their father's instructions up to him on is out of work himself. with schools closed for nearly a year now and due to the good one of iris he has given up hope that education will secure them books him on says he's only looking out for their future is cool but the way schools are being closed they were studying but they aren't doing anything now we've asked them to work out of desperation so that they can learn something of hopefully a livelihood is schools reopened and they leave work to lose out if they stay it

helps to survive there's no advantage in going to school now. the state government has just announced a junior classes are set to resume but a sudden us just need to stay at school to support their family. high school classes resume back in october but children younger than 15 years have hardly studied for the better part of the year. at best the vital way that i'm playing with their friends at worst they are forced into labor or matadors. could have been told that he has weathered endlessly about this especially about the 400 children who attended his school his class is much smaller now he just helps his own daughters with their studies private school slight saw that he is educated close to hostel for india's children often feel very little money. now his own

school survival is at stake. told that he believed his hundreds of be approximately bundle monthly fees jordan the lockdown he still feels that many gone before to continue sending their children out of that about year will mob of most of the children our company their parents to work. i fear 70 percent of them will drop out we try to appeal to the parents to keep educating their kids but they just say if we don't have money how are we supposed to send our children to school. but there were a number of. the lack of resources also the without online education todd she says . if parents are already counted for the nominal fee how can they pay for multiple smart phones for all the children at home education has not been a priority in his village he says and the tag been an uphill battle even before the lockdown hit. charges he is excited to see the children again soon but he's also

realistic he knows that even if just a quarter of them show up he can't count it as a victory you can call it the ultimate fresh start dying to be reborn that's what many people in thailand try to experience by taking part in mock funerals and now during the covered. the settlement he's taking on a special significance. laid to rest to avoid an early grave at least that's the hope of these worshippers on the outskirts of bangkok more than $100.00 devotees visit the temple each day to undertake this rebirthing ceremony they hope it will improve their fortunes or at least give them a fresh start. the ceremony aims to make people ponder about death. it reminds people that one day we will die so we must be careful about the way we

live our lives. under the monk's careful instruction the hopefuls lay in the coffin facing west and switch sides to symbolize rebirth the 100 bart or 3 year 050 covers the flowers and candles it's a small price they say for a new start for some at least the pressures of life during the pandemic have given the ritual an even greater importance. and i have to admit i'm stressed these days because i'm earning less because of the pandemic. i'm sure everyone here is feeling the same. but that buy. more. happy now i went to see a fortune teller who said my life is threatened this year that it made me feel stressed that's why i'm here today because i want to feel better. i feel like i came back to life became

a new person i left the bad things from my past in the coffin. to die and be reborn the ultimate 2nd chance. that's a little bit there's more our web site double dot com forward slash isha we're back to more of the same terms with about. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and a few newspapers with official information as a journalist i have worked on the streets of many characters and their problems are always the same or do social inequalities a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption we can afford to stay silent when

it comes to the fans of the humans and see the light through fools who have decided to put their trust in us. name is johnny carson and work a d.w.i. . we honor our 3 captains for their actions and impact in a time of uncertainty in the american activist and poet amanda gorman reciting her original poem chorus of the captains of the 55th annual super bowl finally and canadian r. and b. star the weekend shook up the traditional halftime show from the stands we'll talk more about the sporting event all the year for americans and also coming up.

something for the reading list. acclaimed novel i'll tell you is one of our 100 german must read and a landmark in 21st century holocaust fiction. and swiss musician is an all around talent in the electronic music business but his multiple ventures in food and wine reveal epicureans. welcome to the show well it was a super bowl like no other as the tampa bay buccaneers did their hometown proud by trouncing the reigning champion kansas city chiefs but aside from the action on the field it was a game played in the shadow of the covert $900.00 pandemic with thousands of cardboard cutouts filling up the largely empty stands and for the 1st time ever poetry playing a starring role which has given the event something of a new cultural significance well let's talk about this a little bit more with my colleague scott roxboro who's joining us from boston today hi scott chilly over there i'm imagining

a magic thing as well and that's go yeah definitely. some might balk at the idea of the super bowl as a cultural phenomenon i mean it is a football game after all so for anyone who's not american just tell us why this is such a big deal. well i mean it's simply such a big deal because it is the most watched event in america every year i mean about 100000000 people in the united states caught the television broadcast of super bowl 55 on sunday just to compare that's about twice the size of the t.v. audience for the oscars the emmys and the grammys combined so this is literally america's biggest stage and any artist any musician who performs at the super bowl or before the super bowl they are basically performing to the biggest audience they'll probably ever have so that's why when you have like the super bowl halftime shows the musicians that usually perform in these are the the top pop stars of the

world the the rolling stones lady gaga prince beyond say that caliber of performer and this year of course the canadian pop star the weekend how did he do what's your take. yeah it was a present actually the weekend i mean he had some disadvantages because of the safety conditions he was playing essential to a half empty audience he only had about 25000 people in the football stadium with about $30000.00 cardboard cutouts but he really he really gave it his all he performed most of his have time show from the stands but 1st finale he sort of rushed onto the field with an army of bandage face dancers to perform his hit blinding lights and i mean he really you know about all it all out you portably reportedly spent $7000000.00 of his own money on this production and it really paid off because particularly for that finale it felt like a traditional epic half time super bowl halftime show but i found this

interesting performance because i saw the subtext here because the weekend is a big pop musician but he's also an activist and he's a big supporter of the black watch movement and has particularly been very outspoken in support of calling. capper next who you might remember is the the one back who was essentially kicked out of the n.f.l. for taking the needy in support or in against. police abuse of people of color so for me seeing the weekend perform at the super bowl was almost like a pop music all of branch sort of an attempt to heal some of the divisions in american politics using the power of football and the power of pop music i thought let's just get to amanda gorman because after 4 years of poisonous vitriol poetry is having our she's made history yet again. yes i mean we always remember amanda

gorman chorus from her her amazing performance of a poem at the inaugural. inauguration of president joe biden here she posed a new poem called chorus of the captains and this was also a message of healing it was an homage to 3 actual frontline workers. that she sort of composed this poem for that's right let's that we have a clip of her performance so let's have a quick listen to that amount of garment. tremaine is an educator who works nonstop providing his community with hotspots laptops in tech works off so his students have all the tools they need to succeed in life and in school susie is the i.c.u. nurse manager at a team hospital for chronic use prove that even in tragedy it's possible she lost her grandmother's to the pandemic in fights to see other lives in the i.c.u.

battle zone defining the front line heroes risking their lives for our legacy with these warriors charged with these champions you can report the cold war to this week. and that's amanda gorman who tweeted poetry at the super bowl is a feat for arts and our country quite a moment there for her i'm sure we'll hear more from her poetry catching the heart of the nation and thanks very much for those insights scott ross perot in bonn and be sure to stay safe and stay warm scott. well it's 20 years ago this year that german author. published his final novel and widely considered to be his masterpiece i like his other works it deals with themes of memory and the holocaust in a style that exhibits himself sometimes described as documentary fiction and because of his unique voice critics the world over agree that his early death was

a devastating loss for literature. what if everything you thought you knew about your childhood turned out to be a lie what if your parents weren't really your parents and you were born with a completely different name spoke a different language what if all of this were kept secret from you how would you feel when you found out. i was still it's by w. g.'s e by it's the story of a young man named elias the son of a dour welsh preacher or so he thinks as a teenager he finds out that his real name is jacques i'll start it says that he's a jewish refugee from prague sent by train to escape the nazis by this point his adoptive mother is dead his adoptive father in a mental hospital one day at a train station also that sees a young boy who he realizes is his 4 year old self being sent by kindertransport to

england this vision finally inspires him to go searching for his original family. also lets learns that while one train saved his life another train took his mother to her death to raising doubts his former nanny though is still alive and he's reunited with her in prague the furniture she had inherited in maine 1933 together with her great aunt's flat the writing desk the long autumn the camel hair rug lying folded at one end of it throughout my entire life which was now unraveling had long before me all this had stayed in the same place because as vera told me once she had lost me and my mother who was almost a sister to her she could not bear to alter anything in 2001 when all started came out the book caused a sensation but w.g. sebald didn't get to experience the full glory of his achievements he died in a car crash just after his book was released chances are you've seen heard and read

lots of stories about world war 2. holocaust but you haven't read like us. and with reading at the top of everyone's agenda during all these various lockdowns is certainly a novel i can recommend for all fans of electronic music will know him as the front man of the swiss band yellow and in that capacity determine my us says that his pop star career was always something of an accident but as someone who didn't really systematically learn anything he's interested and even passionate about seemingly everything and is now variously of ventnor a farmer and a pioneer in the chocolate business among other things. church. teacher maya the singer from yellow is passionate about more than just music she's

also a core man here in the swiss city of zurich as well as in germany and argentina maya operates a number of bars and restaurants they serve mainly wines beef and nuts produced on properties he owns including an organic farm in argentina located a 5 hour drive south of buenos aires it covers several 1000 hectares of land. but this is how people know detail my best next of boris plunk a singer of the celebrated electro pop duo yellow miles been in the music business for over 4 decades he never expected to become a successful artist. i was originally a while. but then i got to know boris long and that was how the lead 100 counted so to speak without morris i would never have become a musician or a singer. in aug 2020 yellow released their latest album point which stormed the

european charts the duo creates songs in this studio in zurich. long been before i always find boris's sound as being incredibly inspiring and it goes like this. it's on an endless loop for me i listen to it 20 or 30 times and then start to sing it without there being any content to it through i just dog noises. and suddenly a sentence will come together something i can hang on to still another draws me into the song 9. point 11. the musical success is clearly not enough. the pop star is also a wine maker inspired by his own love of wine. he owns vineyards in argentina as

well as in the north of the spanish island of obesity. and in zurich the enterprising singer has also become a chocolatier his approach to producing chocolate is as innovative as his music using a patented process called cold extraction allows cocoa beans to be processed without roasting them 1st so they retain their natural aroma. and their no one else and make chocolate the way we can with this cold extraction methods obviously make captures 100 percent of the aroma from the cocoa and then need much less sugar because we've been able to remove the bitterness that that i was named. dieter maya has certainly made his mark both in the music world and the world of fine food in line. and i'll certainly have to get my hands on some of those chocolates they become a zing but that all is all for this time so until we meet again all the best from the frosty german capital should i stay safe and.

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