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the us ambassador dropping the beats like of. his rap. video. i'm british manager welcome to be wus a sure glad you could join us a world health organization team in china to investigate the audit of the corona virus has ended its mission without definitive answers to the question on tuesday the team said the virus most likely jumped to humans from bats through an unknown into media the species scientist also called out the possibility that the virus leaked from a lab in the city of war. the stated goal of the world health organization's mission was to identify the origins of the corona virus

a mission they weren't able to accomplish. sars cove 2 may have originated from 0 knowledge of transmission but the reservoir hosts remain to be identified so lets. all the work that has been done on the virus and trying to identify all regions continue to point to what's. the reason of this virus and similar viruses in better population. it was here in just over a year ago that the world's 1st cases of the novel coronavirus were reported in the city of 10000000 went on a hard lockdown for 76 days only bare essentials were let into the city its market believed to be the ground 0 from where the virus spread was closed down testing samples were taken and it was fenced off. hans hospitals were swamped with patients

in the images of the new deadly disease traveled around the world. about a year later w.h.o. experts arrived. as well as scientific challenges they faced diplomatic ones fears from the west that china might try to whitewash results and fears from beijing that the mission might be politicized. scientists spent 2 weeks in coron teen leaving just 2 more for field work including visits to the seafood market and the region's virological institute despite not accomplishing the missions main goal experts say they were able to all but eliminate a controversial theory that the virus had come from a lib oratory and. the findings suggest that the laboratory incidents hyper disease. he's extremely unlikely and.

to explain the introduction of the virus into the human population but the more pressing question identifying the intermediary species that might have transmitted the virus from bats to humans remains a work in progress. joining you know one of the members of the double which would rest a geisha and team epidemiologist dr fabienne lend from the prestigious robert clark institute here in berlin and was assisting the team in china from right here dr limits pleasure to have you on the program am i correct in understanding that the team isn't sure if the coronavirus originated in china. we still have no good evidence for the place over that's right. do you think the team would have had a better idea if it sort of been in china much earlier. well you know it's it's always the better because the tracks are still fresh or.

ever it's not too late any of the investigations and so not to diseases have started much much later than this one so i think there's still a good chance to find out what happened so you are convinced that we that they will come a time in our future that we will know where the coronavirus actually originated from. this is a very complicated puzzle especially since this virus causes all mild symptoms or no symptoms so it's harder to follow back the tracks to the patient 0 or the index case however i'm very confident that at some point we will know which spent. the right the rest of the interest or of all the human virus is and perhaps to get an idea into immediate which may have played a role in that transmission if we will ever find out where exactly and how exactly it happened that's

a big question mark the team spent about one month in china for 2 weeks was spent in quarantine indoors do you think this was sufficient time to try and investigate the origins of the corona runs. so that the whole mission is taking much much longer than that we had discussions with i want chinese colleagues in the weeks before and the mission still continues even if the team is not on site so that was the moxy moon we could. time for know and. the aim of this 1st mission was anyway just to see what the chinese colleagues have done already which day to day and without the gaps to design future studies so i think the time friend was ok for that do you think the date of the push shared with the doublets row team from the chinese side was sufficient and did you find that the chinese side were transparent and helpful in their dealings so that the

data are not sufficient but not because. they're hiding them from us it's because they're not there yet so this these are these future studies which i have to start know and which will hopefully fill the gaps in that think. also interesting was that. we did not get any evidence for well then hiding concrete data from us we got to saw some of the raw data we just cost all the figures and we really had investigations together so the general gut feeling is a good one however as everybody knows who has tried really you never know what they're hiding. the team also said in the press conference that there could be a possibility of so-called cold chain transmission of the virus which is to say that the virus could have spread through frozen food packaging for instance this is a theory that china has been putting forward especially in the past few months

would you say therefore the china has been vindicated. well so in the recent outbreaks in china they have generated good evidence that those outbreaks had some seems to was a cold chain of question throw doubt however those are now all new outbreak starting in the middle of a pandemic where there are lots of people there all the rules who can constantly need food packages so the question if that plate rolls at the beginning of the pandemic is something we need many more data on and the food packages nothing where the virus is bought right it's coming from the food packets that has to be content mean aged either by some dramatic human or by an animal that carries the virus and so that believe it is difficult to pinpoint and so a little bit too much attention on the food package because it's just the right right now

a lot has been made about the origins of the corn about us and that is of course been a lot of politics and finger pointing over it but just scientifically speaking do you think it's even important to know where the corona virus originated from. i think the most important thing is to understand how it emerged because only if we understand a problem we can try to take on time there is in the future to reduce the risk of something like that happening again if this event happened 10 meters to the left or to the right to a border between 2 countries really doesn't matter. dr fabia lend thank you so much for putting it into perspective we'll leave it there for the time being thank you so much for speaking to us thank you. now the new year ringing in the yet of the ox comes around this friday but as we all know the pandemic has made it

a tough time for celebration zz people across having to forego their traditional events and gatherings because of covert 1000 restrictions and militia is due exception. the gravity defying concern can line dances this performance at a shopping mall in kuala lumpur was one of many in 2020 but this lunar new year the high leaping lions a lying low as part of malaysia's coronavirus restrictions line dance troupes have been grounded equipment and costumes get a call whips during the busiest and most lucrative time of the year. you know to get to hear what you're going to rely on this period to cover every expenses for the. it wasn't because the pandemic is bad the government has banned line dance so it will do what the government says and hope next year it gets better

. the lion dance is a much loved tradition among malaysians more than 7000000 ethnic chinese. dating back thousands of years it's supposed to chase away evil and bring happiness and good fortune. reason enough to stay optimistic. once the pandemic over every day is part of new year one and. the trip is making sure it won't be this lions last dance. or the vaccine now in our lives hopefully those lions will be dancing in no time but over now there is certainly no such problem with dancing a rap video from the u.s. ambassador ahead of lunar new year has gone by little danielle kryten brink has

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a special status but be completely normal. 11 teenagers 11 story saying i'm jewish and so. german and jewish starts february 22nd on d w. 3 . these are images from song for which one of the 1st feature films to be made in los angeles during a covert 19 and it imagines the horrors scenario of an endless lockdown well it's one of a slew of films made either during or about the pandemic and its emotional toll and we'll get the lowdown on some of those later in the show and with welcome to arts

and culture 1st we'll take a look at the financial toll as life becomes increasingly precarious for artists and musicians everywhere under prolonged lockdown in germany one survey here in berlin reported nearly a 3rd of solar musicians have given up their profession how are desperately in need of support all relatively speaking the german government has been generous with its support for the arts but too much red tape and a lack of perspective for the long term having a devastating effect on the sector. a life without art is a lonely one no performances no audience and no income and entire sector is calling for help from big names such as jazz pianist michel you viney to lesser knowns like opera singer ben wahpeton his last concert was a year ago now the 45 year old bass baritone works for a beverage delivery service here he sings for us from fi delio. nice to all call it finally con more news consecrated. that already.

been. going on church. born in canada the singer has a voice german critics say it would have been nice to hear more of the. now he's lugging crates of drinks which we're not allowed to shoot what's been the biggest challenge for him so far i'm simpson bias i my voice the worst was when i had to carry 22 crates up 5 floors by myself with no elevator. instead of performing on the stages of sights borgo. peto is making ends meet with the delivery job and the small stipend of your back and we're waiting for the moment when the government finally says we can perform again you just feel helpless as a month for 15 models. since march 2020 some 2000000 people working in germany's

cultural and creative sectors have been in a government mandated lockdown the german culture council says only one in 10 self employed people has so far received public assistance with a good deal of those core there'll be discussions about a guaranteed basic income but and i think this has to be said quite plainly not just for artists that won't be possible simply for reasons of fairness. francisco hos are an author and single mother lives off of what she earns teaching german and from savings her 1st book the glass sisters was published right as the 1st lockdown was imposed all of her promotional appearances were canceled another on the one hand i sometimes get totally panicked and think oh god how long is this going to continue usually at night but i often also find it really fascinating to see what's changing how people are changing and everything that's happening as a writer as a storyteller i want to pay attention to all of that and not miss anything.

francisca holes are fun successfully to stay in the social insurance scheme for artists one year into the pandemic everything else is uncertain for her and for an entire job sector. and let's go over to my colleague scott roxboro in bonn who's been looking into this for us hi scott it's it's really tough times for so many industries but particularly of course for freelancers in the culture and events in history you know germany as we know has put lots of money out there why is it that only 10 percent of needy artists have gotten support. yeah well it's a very complicated actually very big question you're asking where but without going into all the details and the complexities of it one of the main issues in germany has been that the german system initially for support for covert relief wasn't designed with with artists it wasn't even designed with freelancers in mind it was

mainly targeting initially targeting full time salaried employees now germany has has updated that since and they have promised billions in support for freelancers but the system that you have to go through is quite complicated it's quite bureaucratic and it's very difficult to then finally get the cash that you've promised and it's just the fact that a lot of artists in germany are really just falling through the cracks so what's the situation for instance for artists in other countries like. well i mean as you mentioned germany is very very supportive of its artistic community and i think artists here. on the whole are much better off than they are in most other countries because the government here is so supportive but there have been a few countries that have maybe been a bit more effective in supporting their artists like hope that the u.k. for example their scheme was designed with freelancers in mind and it apparently reportedly at least has been a lot more effective in getting money to the to this struggling artists who need it . so dire straits obviously for much of the cultural sector and on the other hand

the pandemic situation has elizabeth elicited some incredible creativity particularly where movies are concerned so let's see what directors have been up to . surprise as we have 200. new reality of merger between horror film songbird the world's worst fears are realized. it has mutated into something even more deadly lockdown has become a dictatorship. because the over 100 shot most angelus during actual lockdown last here songbird is one of the 1st cinematic attempts to address the real horror of the pandemic. sadly the movie produced by transformers director michael bay is superficial schlock. they say and.

they evolve. a more in-depth examination of coburg comes from the documentary in the same breath which premiered at the sundance film festival director not to weighing shows how the chinese government initially tried to downplay the crisis a pattern she saw repeated in her adopted country america you see how. the dissent from a stand up for. the cover on the highest government has. basically enable it. operate to be a severe and out of control as we are experiencing the today. you are by far the most excruciating difficult stubbornly of nuts this woman i've ever met in my entire life in malcolm and marie the struggle to find connection is framed as one long romantic fight between the stars and diana and john david

washington. what is the netflix drama was shot on a single location entirely under pandemic restrictions. this movie was sort of born out of the idea can we tell a story given the restrictions of coded can we make a movie that doesn't compromise in terms of emotional scope cinematics broke. and that was sort of it was sort of an exercise in that regard would you do if there are no real answers in any of the films made during or inspired by the coded pandemic. but as shown best in life in a day 2025 mcdonald's crowd sourced you tube documentary in times of crisis cinema to reveal our common humanity why can't we just. like everybody

6. this is a lot of different emotions coming up there for me when i see that material there scott it's so interesting how filmmakers are reacting to this pandemic just overcoming the physical challenges for instance with all these lockdown restrictions. yeah i know it's been interesting because of course filmmakers have found incredibly difficult just to make their movies now but what i found interesting is how. filmmakers have been so creative in finding new ways to make their movies and also in some cases being inspired by the pandemic and the stories they want to tell a really good example this is locked down which is a film a british film starring and hathaway and she would all be geo for and they they play a couple in lockdown in london whose marriage is sort of on the rocks until they come up with a great idea to rob parents the luxury british department store which of course is empty because of this is sort of

a light heist comedy but the producers came up with the idea when they realized that harris was actually going to close quickly wrote the film around bad and because the department store was shut down for the filmmakers were able to get access to it to use it as a setting for their film so you see this is just one of the examples of filmmakers are being creative in finding new ways to solve the problems created by code and so it's really incredible on how things fall into place and just give give a new story now would you say the pandemic is going to continue to influence the kinds of stories that are being told. yeah i think so i mean you're already seeing for example a lot of horror movies come out coming out that were either shot during or inspired by a coven the 1st was songbird this horror film that we shot in los angeles last year during the 1st lockdown in march it's a great movie but i think it does capture a bit of the the fear that i think we all have felt in regards to this pandemic and

horror is a great john of course for expressing relating to sort of bigger social issues and i think you're going to see a lot of horror films come out there either directly address the pandemic or words fired by it but what i also find interesting i'm seeing a lot of films now like malcolm emery the netflix movie which don't necessarily deal directly with covert or even talk about it but are all about intimacy and and trying to connect with another person and i think that's an issue that is really relevant right now because we're all isolated and we're all feeling distant from one another and so i think these films really hit hard right now and i think we'll see a lot of them coming out ok so covert 9 have been quite an effect on the film industry which is of course pivoting admirably and thanks so much for far all of that backstory scott rockstro in bonn. and speaking of film 2 of britain's most famous performers actor michael caine and singer elton john teamed up for a tongue in cheek video to support the n.h.s. in its covert 19 vaccination drive stars of course having been vaccinated

themselves. my name is wrong. that was me acting. and as you can see i am still the most people in society the get vaccinated the moment chance the result be eradicated the national code pandemic. kind of just had a vaccine for kofi it didn't have. not many people know that. and 12 year old german acting sensation. system crasher famous making her hollywood debut opposite tom hanks in news of the world as an epic western directed by paul greengrass a china plays a young girl in post civil war america who was raised by the kiawah tribe the role

has already earned her her 1st golden globe nomination in the film hits netflix on wednesday. so lots of fodder there for your movie list more on the web site at w dot com slash culture and on not upbeat note until we meet again all the best from us here in berlin and you stay safe china.

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