yes. that's indeed over your news a live from berlin donald trump's lawyers wrap up their case in his impeachment trial they insisted the former u.s. president holds no responsibility for the violence during the january 6th riots at the capitol look at the latest from our correspondent in washington also coming up on the show. former bank chief and mario draghi takes over as italy's new prime minister now the economist credited with saving the euro must revive a nation or ravaged by the pandemic and a crippling recession. hit the united nations human rights council calls for the

release of myanmar as i was to leader aung san suu kyi she will hear from the un's top diplomat on myanmar. plus germany dance trouble from the popular austrian holiday region of trouble it's once again making headlines as a full role in a hot spot this time with a new variant from south africa. hello i'm claire richardson welcome to the show where as for donald trump have wrapped up their defense in the former u.s. presidents impeachment trial denying that trump played any part in inciting the capitol hill riots last month after 2 days of emotional presentations and shocking video footage presented by house republicans before the senate trump's lawyers made it their case in just 3 hours or they said. but only those who actually storm the

capitol are to blame and to cry the impeachment trial as political vengeance. the article of impeachment now before the senate is an unjust and blatantly unconstitutional act of political vengeance this appalling abuse of the constitution only further divides our nation when we should be trying to come together around shared priorities we have reason to believe the house managers manipulated evidence and selectively edited footage if they did and this were a court of law they would face sanctions from the judge i don't raise this issue lightly let's cross straight to washington d.c. and bring in our correspondent to stephan assignments shaphan welcome back a good to see you again this is now day 4 of you covering this trial what did we hear from trump's lawyers. some lawyers made their case and as we just heard in the

sound bite they think they have to make 3 points a the entire trial for them is unconstitutional that donald trump stands trial in the senate in his 2nd impeachment for what happened on general use thinks they think is absolutely unconstitutional why because he's a private citizen now and not the president anymore number 2 they think the process and how the house impeachment managers who are functioning as prosecutors in this proceeding is entirely unjust to their client to donald trump and thirdly anything anything donald trump did or said in the pretext to what happened on january 6th in the ransacking of the capital was and is in the realm of political rhetoric this is the point they're trying to make over and over and over again they had 2 days to do this they cut it a little short they're done today with this and now it's questioning time for the senators senators are questioning now both parties prosecutors that means house

impeachment managers as well as the defense team as they will if they have any more questions speaking of the question of time what does come next when can we expect to get a result. so the defense team cut this all a little bit short didn't need 16 hours or 2 days to make their case in terms of defending all trump we expect for tomorrow the closing arguments from both sides and then they could be a vote tomorrow or on sunday so my money is on sunday let's see how it all pans out but this is an early read for this trial definitely now when all is said and done of the numbers are still clearly on a trump site here democrats are going to need at least 17 republican senators to join them in order to convict which let's face it no one is expecting to happen so how have republican lawmakers then been justifying their decision to stand by trump's words. well you know they want to win an election they want to win an

election in 2022 they're gearing up for this and make no mistake the g.o.p. the grand old party the republican party is still still a trump party trump is not really pulling the strings anymore but his followers his base is the overwhelming amount of and in the g.o.p. in the republican party those senators who are now are kind of not impacted and kind of bored with the proceedings are we saw people reading books and doodling during those 4 days of trial here on the republican side they want to win the elections in 2022 they want to cater and they must cater to this very very strong trump base which is still or which still makes the republican party as of now stephanie simons for us there in washington d.c. thank you so much. and the un's top human rights body is calling for the release of ousted myanmar leader aung san suu kyi in

a special session the council also urged the military leaders to restore civilian rule on sun soon she was detained by the military that seized power 12 days ago blaming the civilian government for failing to investigate allegations of fraud in the november elections elections commission has denied those planes. and earlier we spoke to tom andrews the u.n. a special repertoire on a man march and we asked him whether the un's message will get through to myanmar's military leaders so we have found in the past that that mean more generals will often say their impervious to international pressure so don't even try but when pressure has been tried particularly targeted economic pressure sanctions it has had an effect and the progress that we've seen made in the democracy of me and more is precisely linked to the sanctions that have been established in the past so i think if the international community can respond strongly clearly forcefully and

begin to build clear sanctions economic sanctions and arms embargo diplomatic or it could have an effect but it's critical that it does because the heavy handed tactics of the military on the ground it is showing in increase that of course we know what this military is capable of so so it we have a lot of work to do. it was tom andrews un special rapporteur on it myanmar and here are some of the other stories making headlines at this hour germany has suspended a broadcasting c g t n china's multilingual cable news channel the german state media authority said the move was triggered by an earlier decision by the united kingdom to revoke the chinese stations permits c g t n had been broadcasting in germany under a license sharing agreement with the u.k. . right. meanwhile china's space agency has released the 1st of footage showing its

10 when one probe entering the orbit of mars after a 6 month long journey the craft slowed enough to be captured by mars gravity it's the 2nd spacecraft to reach the red planet this month. dozens of tunisians have blocked roads in the forest southern region of touch to win in protest at what they see as broken government promises last november the government pledged to create hundreds of jobs and a fund to support economic projects the protesters say those have not materialized . ukrainian president of a lot of years olinsky has visited the frontline of the conflict in eastern ukraine after 2 ukrainian soldiers were killed there in clashes with the russian backed separatists selenski said attacks had increased recently and accuse the separatists of wanting to disrupt a ceasefire agreed last july. and a former european central bank chief mario draghi has agreed to serve as the new

prime minister of italy a 73 year old economist said he was ready to lead a national unity government designed to manage the effects of the krona virus pandemic which has ravaged italy and sparked a deep recession. was asked to step in by president much either when outgoing prime minister condé resigned after being unable to build political consensus the new government will be sworn in on saturday with votes of confidence in both houses of parliament expected early next week. a journalist sima group to in rome has more on what's at the top of druggies agenda. the 1st issue really is of course dealing with the pandemic dealing with the vaccination program which started out well easily but then has been hit with many delays differences in terms of different regions how some do not better than others so that's one key issue that will be tackling and of course that's the health crisis but there's also the financial

crisis the economic crisis that lead to the speccy it was already in a recession before the pen demi and that's all spawn li been wasn't more than $400000.00 jobs have been lost in the last one year so dealing with employment the economy and of course most keenly the european union recovery fund money that is expected to come in will in 200000000000 euros coming out with a plan in terms of how they're going to spend that money to help italy deal with all these various financial issues so it's both a hell and the well if you like in terms of the crises that the country is facing that says most immediate task at least that's what he said that he is expected to deal with. journalists imma go to reporting there from rome where governments across europe are scrambling to contain new more infectious kovac 1000 variants germany for example is introducing new travel rules for arrivals from the czech

republic and austria as to role region german health minister young says the measures are quote unavoidable because variants are spreading rapidly there. when in fact if infection numbers dropping off regionally further rules relaxation is possible that being said we need to prevent more virus variants from entering the country that's why the german government yesterday decided to declare the czech republic the austrian province of tiran and slovakia as virus variant risk areas and this means that there is a travel ban now in place without exceptions tests must be taken before entering the country and quarantine is mandatory. now the german health ministry says that mandatory quarantine and testing only be a temporary measure but many people are asking whether the travel ban is too little too late the leader of the southern and german state of the various says to roll needs to take a tougher action to use any reports. it seems like

a deja vu we're driving through to roll the very same state you know that was a major corona hotspot in europe when the pandemic began is making headlines by becoming a hotspot again this time with a new variant from south africa and most cases stem from here shots a district interior 60 percent of at least 400 cases this makes the 2nd most infected country have to south africa with a coronavirus me take. the good with carnival season in full swing people here don't seem to be worried much we only went out for a little north and will be again in our midst of it at the house of the kite this is a saying. it is the same thing that happened in ishqiya last year there is a concentrated move to look for someone to blame myself for there are no. shortages

but it's always to blame anyway people's behavior politics opinions are split over this question here and i hate the show and feel free of the should have had buddha checks much. for better you could also have been prepared much earlier last year when the coronal are stretched orange yellow now red of. the restaurants and hotels remain closed and foreign tourists away there's plenty of domestic tourism austrians with holiday homes or even day trippers and when they leave to roll in many cases the virus leaves with them starting today people leaving to roll to other parts of austria must present a negative test pharmacies like this one have set up testing facilities the demand but the south african variant has already spread beyond the state borders have to rule the measures to set up if one falls now too little too late. as you say

it is just one measure out of zone. i believe measures like these that i was so cannot be put in place from one hour to the next because he's such a logistics challenge. and a political one to austria is a federal state both the central government and the state governments need to coordinate how to respond to a crisis which takes time and exactly what does not happen. and time for some sports news before we go to australia and open will continue but without fans in the stands at the latest after the state of victoria entered a 5 day lockdown on saturday to contain the newest strain of the coronavirus supporters were present at matches in the early stages of the tournament but it's uncertain if they'll be able to attend again after the snap walk down is lifted. in the meantime tennis australia has said it would provide full refunds to ticket holders. and as your news update at this hour stay

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a lot. money at its disposal. and that's how it's expanding our serving your status and position in the world. chinese goods we treat your. storage february 19th on day w. . this is due to every news africa on the program today and rest ensued there have been violent protests in cities across the country what is fueling the flames. the former child soldiers in the central african republic who want to take back their futures off to a violent past. that's we will get the story behind feel bored winning nollywood film the range.

hello i'm christine one it's good to have your company there have been violent protests in several cities in sudan this week of a dire economic conditions it is believed the protests sought politically motivated and that act loyal to the else did former president omar al bashir behind them on thursday prime minister abdullah gave a committee in charge of dismantling published structure has a wide range in order to prosecute members officer duns ruling party now the protests so government buildings and vehicles on 5 properties pillaged markets were also looted and several city authorities imposed a curfew to try to curb the angriest. and for more on the situation in sudan i'm joined by one of us a political commentator in the country welcome today's everything is africa we've

heard that these protests are politically motivated is that the case about saving their political and economic remote and instructing the empowerment dismantling committee to go ahead with the dissolution of bush's party's one of the boldest moves that handbooks government has made towards taking back economic control of the market but this is because the islamists who are now said to lose economic as well as political power to react really the only way they not have which is to cause a political instability but the islamists are able to tap into popular discontent brought about by the hostage monica environment inflation now stands at around 200 to 4 percent and the dollar h.t.h. $400.00 s.t.g. to the dollar a week ago and this is not really come down the prices remain high and many are unable to make ends meet as price actually linked to the parallel markets and not the official rate just most people find fictitious. oh is the prime minister

has been office now for about 18 months how is his government fairy. there is no doubt that he has lost a lot of popularity since he took office 18 months ago since thursday when the new cabinet was sworn in he has now become more secure is he can find he has people with him in the cabinet now who are able to shoulder the strain of the transition including the very unpopular economic reforms such as that in the subsidies and the unification of the exchange rate and the government needs to have the currency in order to trigger the economic support to come in from the low band from biological donors but they want to shore up its reserves in the central bank to the tune of about 300 and $50000000.00 this is led to claim that it's actually the government that is steve actually buying up dollars on the part of markets and then therefore driving up the exchange rate and the prices. it's an enviable catches to situation

to be in but the longer it takes for the government to pull the trigger the worse it will be for the most vulnerable what doc has now is a fine new finance minister who's actually drawn from a rebel in the mint and is also in the rebel justice and equality movement is now part of the government and he's an islamist to do it which means that he now feels that he has a political cache to see through a lot of the much more controversial reforms which were unlike which were much more likely to make him much more in popular so he's in a bit of a shorter position now certainly more than a month ago right you did mention it yourself about the the new cabinet that we saw this week why was what was the reason for that reshuffle. so do it members of the new cabinet most of them are from the former rebel groups which sign that you will be sick and you know sober of last year so this new reshuffle is part and parcel of the peace agreement. it is not very inclusive in terms of gender

inclusion but is increasingly times out and regional and ethnic inclusion which is a great sight to see and however there are 2 major rebel groups that haven't signed that it will be secure in sanaa therefore not part of the new government and specifically at the end of that if element and. and hello and doubt the biggest rebel groups they have the biggest number a large number of combatants and so on and their lack of inclusion is actually a real problem how will they be included in in the future will it require another maybe a competing peace agreement how will this you shuffle lead to more stability is unknown all right that is can she's talking to us from sudan thank you kluge great to hear from you thank you. tens of thousands of children are estimated to be recruited and used by aunt groups of around the world united nations research shows that in 2019 alone militia groups

drafted nearly 8000 children some of them as young as 61 of the countries where children are most vulnerable is a central african republic with an ongoing war rebels they continue to recruit children this has prompted responses from organizations working on child protection to put if it's into giving these young recruits a another chance as a normal life the news is a quarter chaya visited one such project. this is not a usual classroom setting this is a psych way to question session in a rehabilitation center for former child soldiers in but hunger for northwest of the central african republic i like it so you are here today because you have accepted to take on a new life. among them a 17 year old from a christian community he joined a muslim silica group at the age of 15 to revenge the killing of his mother and more doc by the mentally protection in the social system and community protection

up to vulnerable children in the central african republic mean what their continuing arrest is putting even more children at risk and that poses a huge danger to the country not just to be but also in the future oh oh. now the nigerian fill the milk raid is the 1st ever entry from the country to compete for the best international feature film at the oscars the nollywood production is set in northern nigeria and is inspired by the events involving islamist extremists in the region. the milkmaid tells the story of 2 sisters in north east nigeria and their feet going about their peaceful life until one day. people attack on their village turned their lives upside down. they become the victims of the militant islamist

insurgency that so often in the news headlines but hardly ever has a human face for the man behind the film this was a crucial point. i think photos important that you know we thought about fury's. personalities we had all these. things we. feel you know daily basis unfortunately in the country although nigeria is an english speaking country the film is nominated for an oscar in the best international film category because most of the dialogues are spoken in local nigerian languages like hausa and fulani. to show that. the film has already won several african movie awards and the producers had a clear impression from the start to make sure the film looked and felt like an international movie. for the new complete we've done our

best to ensure that we put all of those elements together and we've told the story which is which is our story from a very beautiful. 10 years ago the director abandoned his hi-fi. job as an investment banker to bush who is lawful feel he sees the milkmaid success hounding change for nigerian cinema. even our media this far is a huge encouragement to filmmakers who don't necessarily want to tell the boss commercial type of stories or comedy is all those ones that have lots of people which definitely hard to replace. now that is definitely one film i cannot wait to watch although we learned this week that unfortunately the most made did not make the shortlist of the 15 films for the oscar nominations round it like next time but that is

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global pension semiconductors now has the attention of the white house the biden ministration saying it's working with companies and manufacturers to increase production to get the latest from our correspondent in new york. also on the show germany set to begin finding companies for dirty and inhumane supply chains so critics complain the rules are too weak others say they're too onerous for big companies. and it's carnival season in rio de janeiro but the coronavirus is spoiling the party a tough hit for a city that counts on big money from its big celebration. alone welcome to the show and so you can visit in berlin it's good to have you with us oh by the administration says it's planning to address the global shortage of microchips which has hobbled u.s. auto production as well as other industries and the white house saying thursday it was talking to companies about how best to intervene and the president joe biden

would sign an executive order in the coming weeks focus on supply chains demand for semiconductors has recently outstrip supply with car companies in particular are feeling the pain for g.m. and volkswagen have all recently suspended some production due to chip shortages. in court as our financial correspondent in new york and he joins me right now for more on this ins good to see you what's behind this chip shortage. it's a mess of problem i'm standing here in front of a local used car dealer so i don't know how it funds those of you kill top but in general especially if you look at modern cars especially in the luxury sector they can have more than $170.00 contect just built in and specially early independent last year the car manufacturers scaled back their orders for chips those ships are partly it went to consumer electronics companies for instance and now there is

a mess of shortage and that's not not just a challenge for the u.s. car industry but actually for the global industry i've seen some estimates that in the 1st quarter alone about 7 $100000.00 cars might be build less globally then was originally planned for and that's because of the shortage for computer chips that are also desperately needed for common your factories suspension the after demand has recovered tremendously in the past couple of months 700000 cars that's a ton what can bike really do to change this what kind of order do. yeah and again globally we're talking that revenue this year alone in the car industry might be $40.00 to $60000000000.00 impacted so what the president joe biden is talking about possibly signing an executive order at some

point that would mean at the beginning there would be a review or so that it's going to take a couple of months so we've already heard from some executives from some of the business because if you as a chip manufacturers like a.m.d. you qualcomm or intel for instance asking for financial aid from the government to drive up production of semiconductors here in the united states but clearly all of that is going to take quite some time and probably won't help the industry and i really mean the global industry to to produce enough semiconductors in the next couple of months but it isn't general a very interesting discussion because we also do that from the pharmaceutical industry for example it was all the global 2 upright chains and so on and so forth so that clearly there is a national interest to bring more production back to the united states it's also true for other countries but as i said all of this is going to take quite some time

. with the latest from new york thank you. well not just a pinch in semiconductors that's hitting the global economy also shipping space containers have become hard to find their prices soaring just another example of how the pandemic has knotted up global trade dynamics. cities are all decked out for china's most important holiday the weeklong new year festival chinese family celebrate together anxiety is increasing in europe demand for goods made in china is huge traders are filling up their warehouses manufacturers need supplies to revive production but few freight containers are available. following last spring's coronavirus crash shipping companies reduce their capacity by about 20 percent now there's a bottleneck that's reflected in the price less than a year ago it cost $1400.00 to ship a freight container from china to europe now the prices soared to $8000.00 but it's

not just ocean freight that's congested assembly lines are at a standstill due to a microchip shortage. steel is also in short supply and key role materials such as copper are almost impossible to get the supply chain disruption is becoming a hindrance to economic recovery even though demand has begun to pick up worldwide companies are having trouble getting the materials they need to ramp up production . a look there at the difficulty of and tangling supply chains let's look now at efforts to police supply chains of 3 years of wrangling the german the german cabinet has finally agreed on a new draft law to hold german companies responsible for the environmental and human rights violations of their suppliers a measure threatened steep hill teams but also provides significant legal options for companies. a bright day for human rights that's how the german

government has described the completion of its draft supply chain law soon germany's biggest companies will be responsible for ensuring they source materials and labor without harming workers or the environment the 3 ministers who announced the lore on friday said it was the right thing to do. if your foreign ford what it's about the responsibility companies have also for their suppliers it's about some respect human rights in global supply chains and humane work. but the law hasn't been universally welcomed business groups have warned it could harm the competitiveness of firms based in europe's biggest economy folks bargain for example has more than 40000 suppliers worldwide keeping track of all of them could be expensive but the german government says the law will help protect the world's

most vulnerable. for example we're talking about around 150000000 children who are forced to work be it in textile factories in bangladesh or gold mines in mccain a facet half of these children are below the age of 12. the punishments for breaching the law haven't yet been set out but ministers say fines could run into the millions of euros either way when it takes effect in 2023 the supply chain law will have an impact on workers the world over miriam saga moss' vice legal director of the european center for constitutional and human rights in berlin i asked her earlier why she believes the draft law doesn't go far enough starts already that it's only covering really large companies step from what i understand 3000 with the 1000 employees only in germany that is that excludes a number of companies that are especially. active in higher with the human rights

questions something we can strongly criticize is that this law does not include civil liability which means that it does not necessarily enable victims of human rights abuse in which german corporations have been involved to bring direct civil compensation claims in germany now look at some of the other global business stories making headlines. the u.k. economy the u.k. economy rather sought for its worst ever annual slump during 2020 g.d.p. shrinking by 9.9 percent it's more than double the previous record drop provirus restrictions caused output to fall in all the main sectors of the economy with construction at the worst. because it hit another record high on friday briefly trading at over $49000.00 the new peak comes as companies like b.n.y. mellon mastercard and tesla have warmed up to the crypto currency because it is up

more than 60 percent since the start of the year. over south america now a typical year of all brings over a 1000000 people to rio de janeiro and pumps billions of dollars into the city shops hotels and restaurants but this is no typical year and the week long celebration has been suspended and will most likely be canceled altogether all of rio feeling the pain. carnival time in rio a raucous riots of costumes and. if people performances except not this year the world famous samba dream will host vaccinations not crowds and sampras city is all but deserted. without the parades and the people the performers who would normally be rehearsing here are out of work . it is normally you have the 102120 people who are

working producing everything for the parade and then on the day of the parade you have other jobs like the float pusher security even more people. as well as the many thousands of jobs that depend on it carnival also brings around $2000000000.00 into rio's economy each year according to brazil's tourism industry businesses who would usually make a killing selling to the festival goers now have to go without a much needed boost. fares it's terrible our sales are down 90 percent we're not buying anything given the lack of work that was available last year with the shopping activity at present we can't buy anything . for all of us. the parade floats will have to stay in storage this year however things could be looking up brazil has now begun

vaccinating its citizens bringing hope that in 2022 rio street could once again be rich with the rhythm of carnival. and finally the words global pandemic don't really suggest romance but it is valentine's day on sunday and greeting card companies are determined to bring some love out of this plague well this year's cards include clever messages like will you be my quarantine and maybe that's quarantined and i'm bored of lockdown i'll never be bored of you proving of course that there really is always a card no matter the occasion through. all right that's it for me and the business scene here as always find out more about these and other stories all i d w dot com slash business facebook and twitter as well some seniors that is watching .

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hello and welcome to arts and culture legendary musician chick korea has died at 79 of a rare form of cancer we'll look back on his exceptional career and also coming up . in a plea for more diversity both on and off screen $185.00 actors from germany have joined forces for a collective coming out. and german photographer john tight now uses his art to look closely at the fringes of society and where others often avert their gaze. as a pianist and composer to korea is lauded as a pioneer of jazz fusion he performed with the likes of miles davis and gary burton and his compositions spain and 500 miles high are fixtures in the jazz canon

someone who pushed the boundaries of the genre he said that he played piano because it felt good and his music was always an experiment. chick corea reinvented himself during the pandemic lockdown he started an online academy showing his fans and friends how to really play the piano. rightly. or not armando anthony korea he was an exceptional and a groundbreaking jazz musician he played with legends like miles davis who are as here herbie hancock. in the early 1970 s. he founded the band return to forever becoming one of the most important projects knitters of the then new jazz fusion genre. chicory hour and

$67.00 grammy award nominations over the course of his career and took home $23.00 . but he faced criticism for his involvement in scientology here he's with actress an archer at a scientology center korea deeply admired l. ron hubbard the founder of the self described religion and thanked him for decades in the liner notes of his albums. korea gained new listeners by balancing jazz and classical music at this concert he combined mozart with gershwin. the orchestra. i have a background that is focused on playing music. not playing jazz it's a different language and culture and feel and. it's a slightly different musical language. mix those musical languages on the album the

mozart sessions but he remained true to his roots in jazz. in a final message posted on facebook he thanked his musician friends saying that playing with them had been the richness of his life. well it seemed like a not unusual initiative this is 2021 after all and in here in germany a country that where the arts are concerned considers itself to be very liberal but think again was the message as nearly $200.00 actors challenge germany's film and television industries for their antiquated attitudes and lack of diversity under the hash tag act out. it started with this $185.00 l g b t q actors from german film t.v. and theater staged a mass coming out in a national newspaper they wanted to raise awareness and promote change. first of

all i think we want to create more visibility for marginalized groups like homosexuals all sorts of people who are a people. trying to. leave. if you were trying to if you would not. having witnessed the conflicts which people have in their heads about that topic really made me think that that industry needs to change and also needs to wake up a little bit. answer these are the darkest i'm going to experience how important. what people in the media what kind of stars are told. oh no you see it you know you have this picture of 185 and it is an exorcist and it's not it's like the other

song so this is like where is the proof that all the stereotypes are stereotypes we have to leave them behind us that hash tag act out is not just about visibility these actors are calling for systemic change at all levels of the film and t.v. industries. so the people have to be there not only in front of the camera but behind the camera not only queer people but also if people see black people and and people with disabilities disability right now i would say that queer story is only a pair. in that they're victims so the ones who get murdered are raped or so we're still dislike even in the small parts we are we exist in movie and t.v.

real still this maginot lived and stigmatized. part of the society. smashing stereotypes about gender and identity on screen these actors argue you mean a richer source of stories for everyone or even meeting. the viewer. we were once in the local newspaper and got very proud of and. you know we were. not all were home say. yeah yeah audiences ready they want to see different firms they want to see different stories so we have to change the structure of the industry otherwise. it's not going to. act out is looking to the u.s. and other countries for inspiration and calling for enforced diversity including quota on screen representation.

who. stories told. now that they've got the industry's attention act out wants action. to. turn. 185 individuals 185 artists pushing for systemic change. and that report there from my colleague scott roxboro who joins me now from bonn hi scott so i'm thinking that many might be wondering why this act out initiative was actually necessary can you put it into a bit of context for us how behind is germany in terms of its recognition of minority groups compared to say let's english speaking countries because it's not just sexual orientation and tension that we're talking about here. you know we talk about diversity across the board i mean legally germany is as far along as almost any western country means discrimination on the basis of race or sexual orientation

is banned by the german constitution but in terms of representation in terms of the faces you see on t.v. and in film the stories are told i think germany really lags behind i mean just turn on german t.v. and you can see it's still very very white very male and very hetero normative. so act out has gotten a lot of resonance in the media also internationally how would you say reactions have been so far and where do you think. change will be the quickest to happen. yeah i think change is good depend on what the people in power in the industry really do i mean a lot of the act actors that i spoke to pointed to britain as a model in britain already you have a lot more diversity on an austrian than here in germany a very prominent black british counts like oscar winning director steve mcqueen who is a face of british film britain's gone further they've actually made diversity the law so new regulations by the british film institute. forth that you have to have

diversity on and off the camera in order for your film to get public financing if you don't you don't get money from the stage and here in germany a lot of the actors from act out are calling for that same kind of sort of top down movement because they say without that we won't see any real change happen here ok so german actors obviously taking a very very important step they are joining forces to push for more diversity and visibility and systemic change in the industry thanks very much scott ross perot in bonn for that story and be sure to stay safe have a great weekend. well speaking of visibility there are of course other members of society who barely have a voice at all the homeless and those who suffer from addiction for instance these are the people that sit down take no seeks out with his camera and after traveling the world his home beat in cologne germany is a story just waiting to be told. picking the best and taking

a looks closely where others avert their eyes looking into by his friends he has what's known as street credibility. and street credibility do i have street credibility i would say yes definitely simply because i've been involved in so many subcultures and i've done and experienced so much with you so when i meet new people they take me seriously with what. he dives into subcultures whether it's boxing or skateboarding. in addition he's worked as a stylist has sold men's suits found in a model. that's me that's how it used to look not even that long ago it's still these days i don't really like being in front of the camera anymore i definitely prefer being behind of you farai and. when modeling got to be too much he discovered how relaxing taking photographs can be since then his camera has

been his constant companion he takes photos of people at the fringes of society he gets close to them and tells their stories. the wounds or in all this is in go in they approached me at some point they stopped me on the street and asked if i would take a photo of them together mr fogg and then i gave them the prints they both immediately stood up and were really happy and they looked at me and said now i have a photo of my best friend out of the top george bush someone just scored. tossing him a lot of lives of people on the street are about more than just suffering and frustration they also have a laugh with each other and over the years they spend their they also have their favorite people around them why shouldn't that be shown to the side. it's important to take note that his photos are free of lawyer as that requires not just.

communication but trust. and in some cases that's even resulted in genuine friendships like with copley and. mystics in sydney for me the most important thing is having respect for the other person so that the photos don't simply put them on display rather every photo i take has to contain a certain empathy and that means i have to really engage with my subjects as people as extreme. as that's most the result is that sebastian trade now doesn't take a lot of photos sometimes having a chat is much more important and he doesn't need a camera for that. and a smile goes a long way to well that brings us to the end of this edition and of this week and you can find more on our website at www dot com slash culture as always and until we meet again to have a safe weekend and all the best most hamblen troops. move

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