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thanks to where they belong. welcome to the news isha glad you could join us. a controversial overhaul of school education to bring it in line with the national security and law implemented last june the changes will see children as young as 6 being talked about national security school students but a visible part of pro-democracy protests that gripped the city in 29 the changes are being seen by many as an attempt by beijing to solidify long term control over the city. to explain a crackdown. helping children understand the power. relations between hong kong and

china as well as the need to maintain them. national security affairs are of utmost importance to the whole country. hong kong's new education guidelines would teach children as young as 6 about the security law and its main offenses they require teachers to beyond guard for anything deemed subversive including books in libraries and flies on school noticeboards their reaction has been mixed so you get to see i'm a little worried about the independent thinking abilities of primary school students in the future. i think it's ok to teach national security within the country but my concern is about the reduction of good content in general education. is a good start no matter who you are or where you're from you have to love your country. a decade ago another attempt to bring hong kong schools in line with china

triggered protests and spawned a generation of activists in 2012 tens of thousands of students stage marches and sit ins to demand an education free of communist influence. then student activists such as joshua wong and agnes chao add on to become leading figures in hong kong's wave of mass protests and increasingly violent unrest against china's tightening grip on the territory. both joshua walang and agnes chao have now been jailed in a widening crackdown on dissent. china is now trying to reassert its influence on hong kong classrooms its new curriculum both the lesson and the warning be alert biting and responsible. joining me now is calling liar an executive committee member of the hong kong professional teachers union welcome mr lai these changes to the curriculum that have been ordered would you

call them an attempt of brainwashing or education. you know it certainly put a lot of constraint of what we can teach we use to emphasize critical thinking in our curriculum we allow the students to have different positions on social issues and some national issues as as well but now the early introduce national security education has put a lot of limits on what we can discuss and standpoints that we can hold education bureau has said in the past that court fostering students sense of national identity is done in other countries as well that sounds like a reasonable argument doesn't it. yes this our position as well we never say no to gnash no education we we know that of cause now we are under the rule of china aging government of course we we have a few learn about our identity as

a chinese and we need to care more about your security but we might be thinking that maybe the government is a bit too sensitive about these issues in schools that's what we are worrying about as a teacher you're sort of how do you think this sort of change in education will affect the way students act and think. yes there are actually putting a lot of constraints on what we can teach and talk about and they also have fairy specifically defined roles for different levels in the school hierarchy up from the founding organization of the school the school bought to the principal to that teaches you to students they're all fairy strictly defined so for example one of the things that according to the new regulations is that if they are students sane

sols with political message just to schools they're encouraged to report to the police so that certainly limits the freedom office expression in the school and also it breaks down the mutual trust between a school and a students so where you're of describing of mr laurie is the choice in hong kong right now between another generation of george or walls or a communist party collides. in the past year or soul obviously we see a lot of youngsters coming joining me for input who activities send off cause they're also a lot of challengers. by the government. in a freezing out in a just and we as educators we think that we should talk about these issues in schools freely because it is useless for us to indoctrinate to give them

a certain political stance and austin to believe so now the new curriculum and the new regulations are limiting freedom to do so. call in law relieve a bear for the time being but of course a lot more to discuss potentially or to made to bear thank you so much for joining us today sir thank you for having me. remembered freedom of expression shrinking in hong kong it's found a place to boom a lot in taiwan especially at a traditional new new york market in taipei where hong kong has a free to purchase and certain political much and something that was quite common in hong kong but things have changed drastically since beijing's heavy handed crackdown in the city. the smell of hong kong time some walk through this type airlie this is the chinese new year market told hong kong us who have gone into exile. hope hong kong people can get

a taste of home to encourage them to support each other as we struggle to survive in a foreign land you know this is the 1st lunar new year many hong kong this in taiwan are standing away from home most of them are stuck here because of the pandemic and the political turmoil back home. before beijing imposed this national security law last year you can frequently find political much dies in the chinese new year markets across hong kong now with that tradition can only be continued in democratic taiwan. free hong kong revolution now these slogans have been banned in hong kong how ironic is it that we can still chant them as much as be like in taiwan why has hong kong become like that. go along with. all the above sear our yellow ribbons dos indicating their support for the pro-democracy movement in hong kong some south

products made by hong kong designers some of the revenue were flown to needy hong kong as in taiwan. the market attracts a few 101st it has mostly hong kong students in university in taiwan. they are the whole the whole dalai. lama we've been studying here for many years we never had such hong kong peoples gatherings before we used to be scattered across different schools but because of the pro-democracy movement and the political upheaval we gather together and spread the word that you'll be arrested if you speak up in hong kong only. talked i guess it was as well as that are they to be honest we can experience firsthand what happened in hong kong we feel more or less guilty we come here today as a group of guilty hong kong years hoping to do something or simply to support each

other. you know at the high. tens of thousands of hong kong as have already fled their hometown in fear of beijing's crackdown by those now overseas are trying hard to keep their traditions alive. this event has a spiritual meaning there are things we can no longer do in hong kong but we can still do elsewhere in the world we can't stop what we're doing because of the oppression we must keep going wherever we are. these hong kong most don't know when they can go home but home is always and their hearts. have you ever heard of snake in hong kong turns out there's quite a few of them for generations they've caught the slithering reptiles from across the city's box and green spaces traditionally they'd be handed over to restaurants as an item for the menu but

a new generation of catchers believes in conservation more than gastronomist. catching a 3 metre burma's pipe in by hand all in a day's work for ken lee he's hong kong's youngest registered snake catcher. he was saying that. the challenge of catching that snake was that it hid under fallen tweaks and leaves. the law so i had to remove them before i could catch it. i mean. many older hands at ken's job are into money by turning their catch into snake soup for local shops. but can't does it because he loves reptiles so much that he's become a conservationist when he saw the creatures being harmed he felt their pain. i got an. eye on it but they were all killed before i actually arrived at the scene

people had already caught the snakes some of the 4 but unfortunately some of them were killed or had fatal injuries. that my some people call the snake spray flea but actually it cost harm to wildlife. instead of ending up in a cooking pot all the snakes come by can are sent to an animal shelter before being released back into the wild. that way it protects not only human beings but wildlife as well. those lucky snakes that's it for today there's more i worked so i did a bit of gone forward slash believe you know with pictures of protesters a near demonstrating against the military takeover us president joe biden has approved sanctions on those responsible for the cool other countries are considering economic pressure on me and. we're back to more of the same.

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passionate drama competition rivalry marketing numbers atmosphere power by intuition love money. fans stamps and friends. greetings from the frosty german capital and welcome to arts and culture and with subzero temperatures and snow on the ground normally at this time of year berlin would be welcoming the film industry for its landmark international film festival the bally nala and we'll talk about how it's shaping up for 2021 and also coming up . a glimpse into the world of german photo artist 100 chance shrink meditative work documents the traces humans leave on the world around them. and europe

is the news that inspires german artist and when it was created a mural of monumental proportions all of it in pencil. a signature a film festival the belly not that was the last of the 3 major festivals to take place normally one year ago in february before the world was so radically changed by covert 19 mo since then the organizers have been working hard to salvage the essence of what's known as the world's largest people's film festival and the european film market of course in the grip of a tough winter long. they've had to be creative and so we'll go over to bonnie now to our resident film expert scott roxboro to see how the festival will shape up with lockdown restrictions at the highest they've been so scott this must be strange for you normally the belly knowledge would have kicked off today but instead there was a press conference to announce a modest program tell us what's happening. yeah a press conference and a virtual press conference of course because here in germany we are under complete

lockdown we cannot meet in groups in a public event which would you do normally the case for this this announcement of the belly not a competition lined up so instead of the heads of the bell and gave a virtual announcement in a socially distance and completely empty cinema so it was a differently a different feel for this year but of course this is a year unlike unlike any any other when it comes to the actual films that were selected for this year however it was quite similar to a lot of lot of that we seen in berlin it's a bit fewer films just 15 but the type of movies they're sort of these international art house films that berlin is really really known for so there's a new film from. the french director or maybe a shot of the german director who just won an emmy for her netflix series on orthodox she's going to be showing her new movie premier ing at the belly not a what i find quite interesting with this selection is the new team at the betting

are really putting a focus also on documentaries which crap is appropriate at the world that we're living in and there's a film who we were it's a documentary that describes sort of a cinematic essay about climate change and about. environmental destruction based on a book and the future of a series of conversations with interesting people including an astronaut and it looks like something that's contemplated but if you're the mood for something a bit lighter we also have a new comedy with michelle pfeiffer called french acts that it's not a competition but will be screening as a special at the belly now and. play if i for plays sort of. a sophisticated about how woman who's fallen on hard times and is forced to move back in with her adult son played by lucas hedges in a tiny apartment that they. kathy in paris looks like a nice frothy comedy to maybe lighten things up in what might otherwise be

a fairly dark and dreary berlin. ok scott so berlin is also known for being a very political film festival what can what can we look forward to long on that score. yeah there's one film i'm really excited to see it's called the mauretania and it's a legal thriller a true life legal thriller starring 2 time oscar winner jodie foster and she plays a lawyer who represents a man whose rendition by the u.s. and taken to guantanamo bay and she's trying to get him free it's based on a true story of a man who was actually snatched off the streets by u.s. forces off the streets of germany by u.s. forces and it's it's brought by kevin macdonald who did the last king of scotland very very excited to see that. some exciting stuff lined up there and of course we can't see all of it today it'll be happening as of march 1st but this kind of 2 part solution for this is this enough for the film industry if it's going to be

sufficient. it's going to be difficult to see if in a few have done the sort of virtual type of festivals berlin will from the beginning of march will screen these films online essentially for the film industry and for a couple of film fanatics like myself and then in the summer conditions if conditions allow it they want to have a proper in public film festival with red carpet screens with dollars for the audience for the audience in berlin that so loves this this festival i think that type of audience participation is needed for these type of movies the specials the smaller independent movies it doesn't it doesn't work as seen online people don't get excited about them you need a big crowd of people watching a film they've never heard anything about and getting so excited about they go and tell all their friends that's what this does and i think that's what we desperately need hopefully we'll have it this summer or we certainly do hope so because we're all i think missing that cinema feeling so part one of the 1000000000 dollar to 2021 kicking off on march 1st and thanks very much for that background information scott roxboro in berlin. and in other film news thanks to the pandemic the

2021 oscars will also be different from past years now take place on april 25th several locations simultaneously much like they did back in the 1950 s. when for a few years they actually held ceremonies in los angeles and new york l.a. is still on the schedule but as it's currently a covert hotspot other locations will mean less travel and easier social distancing . his work is a good place to turn if you're in search of a bit of stillness or even if during prolonged lockdown conditions you want to do some vicarious travel in your mind german photo artist hans has traveled the globe for his labor intention intensive photo series and he trains his lens not on the people in those places but on the actual traces they leave behind on landscapes themselves or in the form of architecture. huns close down shrink goes out into the

landscapes near his home there he finds images that tell of people and their relationship to the world around them but he doesn't like to leave things up to chance his photos are planned measured and smoothed out wherever the eye calls for it. 'd doesn't come out of. this is a camera i've been working with for more than 20 years i haven't used it as much lately but for me it has the advantage of this really large negative from which you can make large creds and above all it requires that i work with extreme precision i have to consider very carefully where i position myself and what picture i want to create almost. in shrinks birthplace of effort an exhibition of his work awaits the return of visitors after lock down. made a name for himself with photos of roadways in eastern germany since the 1990 s. highways cutting sharply through the landscape altering the time and space of those

regions these images capture human influence digging up the earth and building as efficiently and effectively as possible. shing photographed a lot of new architecture. and he also went travelling he's taken photos on all the continents of the globe he's fascinated by paradoxes and juxtapositions such as here in myanmar. he's even been able to take photos in north korea. i've been to a total of 50 countries and for the one hour project i actually traveled around the world in a single trip like and around the world in 80 days but i did it in 90 days in. for his one hour project shrink photograph the sun in 37 different places around the globe he used a one hour exposure and the resulting solarization effect created these. blackline

the sun's path over the course of an hour has a different angle depending on where in the world the photo was taken and sometimes clouds get in the way for a tree. after photographing the wide world the photographer returned to germany settling in make the book in the northeast in his own unique style. basically the house was built this way with this kind of orientation in order to have an openness to the landscape there are these wide south facing windows which really capture a landscape image. in a new series called hinterland shinkansen floors his adopted home of mecklenburg as always the photographer takes his time using his high resolution mid forman camera over the past 7 years. enter land i've been trying to engage more deeply with my subjects and to take

a less critical stance toward certain developments than i did fairly often in the 1990 s. and early 2000 i think that's resulting in a broader spectrum of moods and atmosphere. the series dramatic arc 1st reveals itself in the book edition it's less a portrait of a region and more hunt's close stanching subjective collection of the traces human beings leave behind 'd. and now to a very different german artist i'm 20 that hails from light sake and she's currently holed up in eastern germany in the state of saxony on putting the fish it finishing touches on a unique masterpiece of a mural the altar of as she calls it is an incredible cumulative work that covers

about 100 square meters and even more remarkable the whole thing is done in pencil . in a palace in the eastern german town of man's a book the artist a man to annette puts the finishing touches on her monumental creation made with just colored lead pencils her drawings 'd cover $100.00 square metres. inflation gamete a lot of pencils for these big homogenous surfaces this panel alone took 36 blue pencils. i didn't draft any sketches or plans beforehand with the work on the scale you wouldn't get much of an overview from small designs anyway. she's gone through $1500.00 pencils in 3 years for the work she calls the altar of europa in mass a book she created only the last 4 of 13 panels in total she drew the others further east in gurlitz and the european capitals of vienna and prague.

europe has been the focus of my work for 30 nearly 40 years this continent has a prominent position in the world and it's evolving as is the rest of the world so i think it's important to describe the common identity that binds us together and can lead us into the future. goals. the entire alter was united for the 1st time in mao's a book for a work that spans 25 metres that's no small feat but the work will only remain here until it's finished and open studio was planned for the final stages but the pandemic put an end to that still visitors can catch a glimpse of antoinette's work through the windows. and antoinette is still searching for the perfect permanent home for her alter of europa in all its

glory. and we wish her luck finding a suitable spot for more on the web site at e.w. dot com slash culture you can also find us on twitter at d w culture and without until next time take good care and all the best from us from berlin up i.

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how work. it's about the foundation of the border the silk road to. china wants to expand its influence with this trade network and so even russia conflicts are inevitable the consequences unpredictable the can is look on the face of the chinese state as a model of money at its disposal ok i'm going to let out expanding that and asserting its status and position in the world he said look of course moving china he's promising its partners rich profits but in europe there's a sharp warning you could never accept money from the new superpower will become dependent on it. china's gateway to europe. starts feb 19th on.

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