this is the devil the news live from berlin combating islam is to militancy in west africa france and germany disagree on how to do it 1000000000 has rejected their request from paris for more german troops to be sent to the side bridge and with groups affiliated with al qaida and isis continues to start tensions also coming up thousands of protesters take to the streets of boston wanted to demand the release of a popular rapper who was given a jail sentence for glorifying terrorism and insulting the moment.

i'm anthony held welcome we begin with the fight against islamic extremists that extremism in west africa for a summit with 5 countries in africa region french president a man moma krung has ruled out and maybe a reduction in the number of french troops stationed in the region he hopes additional forces from european allies will about france to reduce its contingent of germany doesn't agree with the strategy. enters roads leading through the sparsely populated sawhill desert this remote part of the world remains chronically underdeveloped and under policed. the west. by a violent islamist insurgency jihad is threat is particularly acute in the region bordering mali and blocking a fire zone prompting france and other european countries to deploy troops there

during a regional summit attorney by man where. the french president committed to keeping over $5000.00 soldiers in the area until at least the summer. i consider the year of 2020 to have paid off we have had one victories and we have the results we were working 2 words given the results the important reengaged bit of mali but you know fires are in need both are military issues and recommitment to your policy of developed bent i think that france withdrawing a significant number of troops which is an option i've considered it would be a mistake. so it never. can hopes that european countries will in time increase their presence in the region allowing the french to draw down their contingent. this was rejected by germany whose foreign minister

stressed the need for development aid instead. it is obvious that only governments are functioning in a tangible way and offer their citizens the prospect of development and a better life we will be able in long term to eradicate terrorism. but the german and the french positions are not at all it's in the sahil there will be no development without security and no security without development. well earlier we spoke to garrett could say i've researched fellow at the general council on foreign relations he explained what france and germany about hoping to achieve with their involvement in the sahara range. conflict in this that. is a very important one france has been involved since 20 said team militarily

when 1st rebellion and it struck mali and then a coup. struck that the government and. you know who could lead to government in above article wasn't ready to deal with an islamist and separatist insurgency in their own country and they asked france for help and this ever since then france has supported on a different mission 1st mali and now also the 4 other governments are that make up that you are setting the states their main focus is on strengthening governance and strengthening their security institutions in the south and especially in mali at the moment so germany is one of the most important true contribution countries to the e.u. training mission u.t.m. in mali. and that missing trains the mali and security and

defense forces and has been doing so since at 2039. and the hope is depp's that somalian forces will be able to protect their up populations from armed groups and other threats in the future was that kind of support. to yemen now where the u.n. is warning that an offensive by her teens to take city could displace hundreds of thousands of people and have diplomatic efforts to end the conflict there 66 years of war rather devastated economy and the coronavirus pandemic of all contributing and humanitarian situation leaving parents struggling to feed their children. 13 year old a humvee away just 11 kilograms or 25 pounds when she was brought to this hospital 2 weeks ago she's still in critical condition in the mind of a lot more often got no money to feed our children no one wants to help us there's

nothing to live for. half the children under 5 in yemen are suffering from malnutrition the united nations estimates that that will be 2300000 children by the end of the year more than ever before hundreds of thousands could starve to death their plight is the result of 6 years of war a collapsed economy the pandemic and falling donations food medicines and doctors are all in short supply the u.n. says the number of homeless and helpless is rising by the day. we have 80 percent of the population which cannot get by without support without human it and soup bought and then with a range of needs its growth forms. food like culture you cation housefull the heads i see it is have been destroyed there is little prospect of an end to the war the rebels have just launched

a new offensive against government troops they appear to have pushed back the rebels with the assistance of saudi air power and it's a war in which the weakest suffer the most. thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of boston to call for the release of rap a public has cell who is known for his radical leftist views was arrested after being sentenced to 9 months in prison for glorifying terrorism and insulting the monarchy prior to the arrest he had barricaded himself inside a university in northeastern spine with dozens of supporters. or for more on this we're joined by stephen bergen in basilan a stephen welcome how much of this is about angry fans and how much of this is about free speech. i think it's mostly about free speech in this case i think people are feeling. you know the you know what he said you know basically accusing the world family of being thieves. and saying that

there's a police force. is you know is not really the target stream. in the context particularly the context of brantley's or. the fact that he's been sentenced to 9 months in prison and 30000 euro fine on the one that is you know it seems it seems really a bit over the top i think the other thing is only at the weekend there was. a basically a fascist rally with people giving nazi salutes in which a young woman. gave a speech saying that all the problems in the world were could be blamed on the jews and she's you know she's a she hasn't been arrested and i think is appealing that. there's a bit of a. double standard going on here on. this. problem.

as being. up for trial and. you know also that often other people you know seem to say these things with impunity stephen against that backdrop the coalition government announced changes to the criminal code on freedom of expression last week is that move related to this case. no i didn't i don't think so. i think i think a lot of confusion country about treating a spiritual as. if saying we saw her will trump is impeachment trial i think. and you know this is also the backdrop of the concepts of we we just had a very inconclusive election in total in there and there's also frustration about that and i think you know it's a part of what's going on today is an expression of the frustration i think the

question of how they both work for the laws about free speech here there's it feels good to many people. kind of a dark horse to me between the government and the judiciary seem to think in the same way and i think that's what the government's trying to correct but i think it's going to be difficult for them to do so stephen bergen impassive one of thanks so much for talking to us well in the u.s. the bottom ministration has once again voiced its opposition to an underwater gas pipeline from russia to germany not strain to pipeline is almost complete with on the around 120 kilometers left to finish the u.s. is threatening $24.00 sanctions that were imposed by the trump ministration targeting companies involved in nordstrom so this is what the white house press

secretary had to say earlier. president biden has been clear that nordstrom too is a bad deal bad deal because it divides europe it exposes ukraine and central europe to russia russian relation and because it goes against europe's own stated energy and security goals we're continuing to monitor activity to complete or to certify the pipeline and if such activity takes place we'll make a determination of the applicability of sanctions for more on this let's bring in our washington correspondent of a salad. bar than ministration mulling sanctions are there any hints about what that might entire or when the decision will be knight well as it is certainly one of the many examples where we've said from the start when joe biden took office that he stands for change of course but he will also certainly hold on to some trump policies and this might be one of the criticism over the russian german pipeline not stream to there is bipartisan opposition in the u.s.

congress for this pipeline joe biden does not have a clear policy yet i mean we just heard jen psaki is wide hole spokes person quote him on that and he has a critical take but we might hear some more soon the administration is currently facing a deadline to report a list of companies the u.s. administration things they are violating u.s. laws and of stopping this pipeline in a soon as we find out which called these those are we might hear more about those sanctions you allude to the broader situation sanctions would strain the relations with germany a close ally that's something biden failed not to do but taking no action would be good relations with other eastern europeans have combined navigate this dilemma. it really is a dilemma because of you take a closer look at joe biden wants to improve the relations with germany that have suffered a lot under donald trump on the other hand he has congress pressing for sanctions

then biden said it's a bad deal for europe so his position is moral is clear but nevertheless he is willing to find a diplomatic solution with germany reportedly germany is working on a proposal to be able to shut off north stream to if for instance russia pressures ukraine that would be an option for joe biden to be able to save his face something that he could propose in congress where you could please his european partners but as well critical from all troop stream to the project is a washington rarity in that it has bipartisan backing you alluded to that isn't biden heed to simply forced to talk tough well to some extent he is of course congress has authorized sanctions so the legal ramifications are already set if you will. joe biden has always been scrutinized by republicans as too soft so he certainly does not want to appear weak before russia you know donald trump is pretty assessor had

a very questionable relationship with russia and joe biden certainly wants to make the biggest contrast possible and also he needs bipartisan support for other policy areas so why not give in here when it comes to nordstrom to it would certainly be an easy goal for joe biden to score of a sell it in washington many things. sport down champions league football and live a poll of beaten bundesliga side. in the round of 16 after a goalless 1st top mohamed salah hit the target for liverpool minutes after the restart and they netted another just 5 minutes later also on she's day. 41 thrashing leo messi in the scoring for boss a then p.s.g. came back with a hat trick from killian in back and another goal from was as keen. all right coming up next on the w nice africa with any of my continued don't forget you can always get more on that

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going to do yours today the future of. g.w. dot com africa made a serious film making it. clear sure. this is the w.'s africa coming up on the program the struggle with 19 vaccines nigeria's gains in continuing the 2nd wave of the code of virus fisi setback because the country has not yet secured any vaccines. and while many african countries eagerly a weak spot seems for a while brought the direct top of the africa c.d.c. tells us that honesty is the game to view the. difficulty in those particular step back and really made. that we must give up on manufacturing of these scenes that.

i am any my journey are welcome to the program the battle against over 19 continues across africa so it's particularly good news when the continent's most populous city latest is slowly recovering from the 2nd wave but even though nigerian authorities say the number of known infections is decreasing our correspondent beth karas tells us there's no guarantee this will continue because the country is still far from securing a nickel the 19 bucks in doses. welcome back for right. or your wall is sharing how 1906 perience on duty she contracted the virus here in ny nj area where after returning from the u.k. ruggedness offered to undocumented. didn't see her for this but every time

a. how will she do it. or you was case became critical because of her underlying even less asthma she says she visited 4 hospitals in 22 before she started to get better we are given access to one of the government run isolation in lagos treatment in this hospital is subsidized by the government it's run by a team of volunteer doctors and nurses only people in critical condition admittedly here father is a saint whom to self isolates and treats themselves most of the beds that empty. official figures of confirmed khulna virus cases have been decreased since if the 2nd wave in january but the numbers may not truly represent the extant of the pandemic in nigeria we know this. is the result of the true burden that almost the

president as a whole my getting but the number of people hospital will really be good reflection of the burdens to good on the community and well know that it is both warm blooded because only to take is going to community about it to be. as a result of misinformation and lack of trust in nigeria as government and health care system many people are not even willing to get tested to hospital i don't have the governments of. one government hospital for wanting or. even. serious. medical. health experts say that the only way to completely prevent a major outbreak in the country is through vaccines but getting

a hold of the jokes has been proving difficult but the government plans to vaccinate up to 40 percent of the nigerian population by the end of this year but it's still unclear when the 1st set of vaccines well are right. dr cheek which is the head of nigeria's center for disease control he says nigeria is walking to the ashes any cover but that his country is also prepared for the largest challenge is less user friendly vaccines. i think even more important with the human resources the capacity. you know things like sustaining the power supply getting them back to from the cities to the villages and this is where we really have a lot of experience until those vaccines i believe add to fill health experts one that nigeria as most take precautions most seriously you know that to prevent if we

find something that nigeria as and the country's health care system cannot afford. joining me now is dr john in. africa center for disease control and prevention and . for your time 1st tell us how can the c.d.c. make sure that africa get. vaccines. no thank you i think that is. maybe the most urgent question we're working on now and times today continent. when you record it 3 weeks ago or 4 weeks ago presidency that i'm opposed. now is that through the african vaccine acquisition testing the continent was going to. have secured 270000000 doses of vaccines and since then what i do see 7 secures us for next week distribution of those vaccines will be end

across the member states of the african union so i think we are working very had. just escaped i just same time we have a line and remain optimistic that that facility will also contribute doses have told us that about 27 percent of the doses we go to to the country and again slowly we begin to move towards a target of immunizing that are 60 percent of our population between this year and next year so while that's selling to us as deciding on what vaccines are good enough to use because we are reports and how well we had that nigeria is trying to acquire astra zeneca vaccines but south africa suspended the use of the same vaccine so what do you recommend. so 1st of all let's celebrate the good news the good news is that we have vaccines out there now i mean it's

a couple of us inside out there that have been proven to be board safe and if you cautious that is extremely good news i said because geez this situation could have been was i mean we've lived with hiv for more than 40 years without about sin so i think that let's pause and celebrate the good news now the question of choice of vaccine is important we've all heard and learned about the news the challenge in situation that a new very end in south africa poses to. keep less of their stress than a comeback since we have issued clear guidelines to the country and we see one if a country has an extensive spread of the varian then it is preferred not to start is in yesterday as president come backs in to use other vaccines bed 2nd if we don't have evidence of the extensive spread of that variant to go ahead and use it i think they should definitely be using that vaccine and again as i said

many other countries in africa should be doing the same events in is save the vaccine if you care what we still don't know is what it is effective against the very end in south africa just because the study that was published in reviewed in south africa was based on a limited sample. what do you say city of najaf the kind who is hoping for the end of this pandemic. 2 things are safe to. africa and one is that we have the tools to fight desponding me ok we have been able to bend the curve twice in these since last year the peak africa experience the peak. of the planet meet around july august last year and we are able to bring down the curve very very nicely. then the 2nd piece. after doing it is and we are now

seeing that it's going to we have been into curve. nicely using probably had measures i think that is one we. did and we were one year ago ok $22.00 to fight is pandemic the 2nd thing is that vaccines come in bed i want to really push and caution comes in and that the measures that probably had measures that have enabled us to be where we are today that is when of must avoiding crowded species species but indoor and outdoor washing of hands and make sure the community is fully engaged is very important to me just worked beside it measures that have enabled us to be where we are today vaccines i mean a zone of travel 60 percent of our population would take time but we have actively engaged in that process of acquiring vaccines for the continent now while the continent is dealing with a covert 19 pandemic has another viral outbreak

a mola as back again in the house and do you know what several that in both countries are already recorded how concerned should we be we should all be very concerned because of the. various is that tend to spread very quickly decide various is that spread through contacts and we dress and he street of what happened in 20142016 is t. very fresh in our minds especially with respect to west africa situation however let me just say this that we know how to fight it. now than it was 45 years ago because we have to vaccines out there we have treatment as monoclonal antibodies that can be used in the theater of respond and we have people are deployed i mean and we've learned lessons that you don't delay the reason that depending alberich in west africa was so devastating was that it. so long to recognize that there was something going on and mobilize and mount an effective

response as we speak we already have people mobilized and moving towards that response already so i think we should be concerned but no absolutely no reason to to panic we are working closely with anyone who. has to address this situation ok no reason to panic that's good news now we're talking about covert 19 and ebola but i got in solutions how far is africa in developing its own vaccines to tackle any such diseases now and then he has utero. that is a very good question and i think africa has to be very deliberate in developing a continental approach to frustrated look up production of vaccines drugs and and then our sticks. country of 1200000000 people cannot depend on to know support order time to fight

a pandemic so outbreaks want i want to be very clear that we live in and it off pandemic ok outbreaks and it will continue to occur i mean we are dealing with this clearly we are going to defeat this pandemic but there will be another pandemic so the country and has to take a step back and really recall amazed that we must develop manufacturing of these vaccines. p. and the gnostics depressed states richard in senegal it's already been a factor in vaccines against you know the fever south africans have manufacturing facilities egypt so he started a continent doesn't have a but we need to really be very deliberate and support those infrastructure in the continental manner that is that ok resources appropriate sources to develop those important to us ok dr john. director of the africa centers for disease control and prevention thank you very much for your insights. and on africa should

develop insulin vaccines we end today's show we need you with pictures from the few african countries like. egypt. so the next time. too old. or not too low. but what about a sharing economy instead. of. the change in thinking is changing the economy to create something the. economics magazine maybe in germany. in 60 minutes w. w crime fighters are back to africa's most successful radio

drama series continues all of this odes are available online to get more so you can share and discuss song w. africa's facebook page and other social media platforms to. tune in now. klein reaches another record high after the new the support of some big name investors will ask our financial correspondent what a mainstream adoption could mean for the digital cards. also coming up supermarket workers are on the front lines of a pandemic but where are they in the line to get vaccinated. and once upon a time it was a pandemic posterchild now. call it a surge in infections portugal is struggling with the economic fallout from

restrictions. ferguson thanks for joining me. the value of bitcoin has surged to oppose $50000.00 an all time record high their vice comes after several high profile endorsements most notably from the world's richest man even musk who invested 1500000000 dollars in additional currency last week other companies including twitter and mastercard have also signaled their support for bitcoin not everyone's on board though critics say the currency is too volatile to be used as a reliable payment method or to store a value. let's break this down with the financial correspondent jose luis to her in new york high of a lovely to see you again tell me what does this mainstream approval of bitcoin mean for the future. located in the short term we can see and mentioning

tesla specifically that it exposes off usually the s. and p. 500 to beat coin and this is an important fact in the medium and long term. it's a nexus stepped in the right direction for big going to to become more of a regular currency that it can be used to buy and sell things in these regards important to having consideration it's a use it is still pretty limited and it seemed more. like an asset class of investment than currency percent and 2nd let's pick up on that so critics say that because it's much too volatile to be either used to buy and sell stuff or as a store of value like gold what's your take on that. i'm definitely protect i'm still a millennial kid but i have to agree with the critics indias in this regard. it's very difficult to see a broader adoption upbeat going with such

a volatile moves let's not forget that last year it lost in only 50 percent of its above you and it was trading below $5000.00 now we are trading above $50000.00 in the next couple of minutes hours or days it can increase or decrease in value in thousands of dollars and let's not forget about regulation and do we don't see the broader real framework in place it's a very difficult to see broad adoption in our daily lives of 44 bit coin and basically it's just one of hundreds of digital currencies aipac can explain to us in really simple terms what are they exactly and why is there so much interest in them i would do my best to kate we're talking about bill tool or digital currency is it that are basically encrypt it and that they use a decentralized system of computers what it's known as a block chain to basically recorder transactions disease are all very important

because basically these accrue to currencies are very very difficult or nearly impossible to countrified and also they are barry immune to any kind of information breaking it down for us thank you so much how is the harrow. one silver lining of the pandemic is the attention it's brought to the contribution of essential workers including the millions of supermarket employees around the world often dealing with hundreds of customers a day they're at heightened risk of catching cold but 19 by rights they should be prioritized for getting vaccinated but even in new york where vaccination is progressing swiftly getting the job isn't necessarily straightforward. joseph lupo would never have dreamt he'd get his covert 1000 vaccination so fast the 59 year old doesn't work for the fire department or a hospital he's employed at

a supermarket but in the u.s. state of new york he's considered an essential worker joseph eco recommends getting vaccinated. i got cold. so. it's not fun and anybody that doesn't want to take a shot is making a wrong the 1st german on supermarket chain legal organized vaccination appointments for its employees probably because of the numerous reports of infected supermarket workers in other states in the past 2 months there have been 137 outbreaks in southern california in houston 520 pounds with coke at 19 he want to prevent that here. i think this is this is a textbook example of government and business working effectively together an employer who organizes vaccination appointments that would be

a dream for francisco might day. he has to somehow get his little shop through the crisis while struggling to get vaccinated. it is really better to offer or to. do to have been a form of all to do that i see is a big difference between. what. they care about gibbes their community the supermarket employees and your company's chief preferential vaccinations feel it's a sign that their work is appreciated. in many other countries around the world we would have to wait like everyone else. time now for a look at some of the other business stories making news german sports equipment maker to sell us subsidiary reebok after struggling to lift the bronze fortunes i did us both reebok for 3800000000 dollars in 2006 and a bid to compete with arch rival nike plus its performed mostly sluggishly to

workers. representatives of germany's retail tourism and hospitality industries have told economy minister peter to maya they're unhappy with lockdown measures in a conference call they complained that state support hadn't been paid out fast enough 65 percent of retailers and city centers and a quarter of tourism operators face bankruptcy berlin says it will expand to government aid and create a hardship fund. us investment bank morgan stanley is reportedly planning to move about 100000000000 euros of assets to francs 1st other banks including goldman sachs and j.p. morgan chase have a ready relocation stop on assets to the e.u. after the u.k. voted to leave the bloc london and brussels have so far failed to reach a deal on financial services. growth in the 19 countries that make up the eurozone fell 0.6 percent in the 4th quarter of last year that slightly less than expected

measures in the lead up to christmas contributed to the decline over all the eurozone economy contracted by 6.8 percent in 220 our financial correspondent chelsea delay any time those numbers for us. it's no surprise that we saw the euro zone economy contract in the 4th quarter in october and november is when we started to see the 2nd wave of infections really take off here in europe so many countries really entered lockdown and that dealt a big blow especially to the service sector a but we didn't see economies grow into a whole in quite the same way as they had during the 1st. of lockdowns early in 20 twentieth's so this small contraction we saw in the 4th quarter compares to a much much larger 11 percent contraction in the 2nd quarter of last year when economies were very much shut down but there still is not a lot of hope on the horizon for many economies many countries including germany remain and walked down to the hope that we had seen for a 1st quarter rebound in g.d.p.

is now being pushed further and further down the line. until recently portugal was winning praise for highlighting the virus better than its european neighbors but 2 weeks ago the country's medical system almost collapsed after christmas a new year's festivities led to an explosion of covert cases the health classes is also beginning to weigh on the economy. these trucks should be rolling down the highway from portugal to germany dora got dissolves manages $160.00 trucks and even more drivers their biggest customer is volkswagen. as i mentioned them. we've more or less lost half of our business we're only making 40 to 50 percent of the trips to germany that we used to make money and. the drop in demand for german cars has meant fewer contracts for portuguese suppliers and it's been like that for months now at the moment the country's in lockdown restaurants and retail shops are

all closed and people are only allowed on the streets to buy essential or to go to work at least there is work for example at elevator producer schmidt the german company has 500 employees located near porto the pandemic hasn't stopped production there. so it wasn't easy but we have been able to keep working everyone stayed active the whole time the construction industry kept going and that affected suppliers like us think on something you'll be forgotten it's so much bigger problems schmidt is one of 300 german companies in borgia goal most of them have made it through the pandemic unscathed. from film to film it varies from company to company but in general from what we're hearing it's going pretty well life goes on and you get mostly good but for how long strict travel restrictions are becoming a problem truck driver hugo for vero used to make the trip between the v.w. factory near lisbon and votes back 4 times a month but portugal's considered

a high risk area now. well so never got much good to go before the situation is more complicated because we need to have a negative test to enter that makes the trips to germany more difficult to other countries we've got a little money. it's a serious situation for the logistics company doric unsolved is already looking for new contracts and other countries. and finally french but deaths are in the running for this year's unesco world heritage list they face competition from zinc roofs on a wine festival in our walk french bakers have been fighting for the traditional big get to be given unesco world heritage status for a while as they fear the quality of bread is becoming poorer in songs in mid march the french culture minister will have to decide between the 3 national bits and submit hard choices to present. these have been get

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month. hundreds of thousands of people have been protesting for democracy and the release of the country's elected leader aung san suu kyi among the crowds of young demonstrators a 28 year old german pop star musician and actor. has lived in myanmar since 2015 and has become somewhat of a celebrity there appearing in films and fashion ads as well as singing in english hands or means. quarterly or i spoke to me at his home in the capital gang gone about how he as a foreign a pop star in me and maher has been supporting protests against the military well i have to show my colors i support the people by going on the street by posting

certain think the facebook and but at least of course sharing that you and getting interviewed international media. i have to take have to watch out a little bit as i have quite a media presence that i want to get to and politically i won't make dangerous statements that could lead to my my arrest or anything because of course i'm also in the spotlight of the media but. yeah i. show my support and i also let the people know that well let's see how our artists and myanmar handling the crew what does it mean for them. and that's. already going on for over a year people were already used to a preexisting condition that people couldn't shoot. but now of course i think. more celebrities that i know on the street not only i could but also like big top

tier celebrities they show their support and. because people. see that even those kind of people are on their side and everybody is on by but you see i just on the street playing music doing. doing you know you have painted musicians. everybody on the street at a very unique protest because you don't see. it all fighting against each other every. basically every every person is. together on the street and i think by the same reason you know i do understand that at nighttime the situation is good time served particularly when the military cuts off the internet what has nighttime been like for you in the area where you have. frankly and i time it's been very spooky since tonight night and the night before we had internet. we couldn't even. the night before we had alarm here in the

neighborhood that we have a neighborhood watch you might know there were 20. in there to have been released and they have been doing i think that it was done by a poison in water stabbing people so the people are going to i don't think they're being contracted by military by police they say and not to know what's going on but before what you can do you need to imagine you are in the country and. everybody's recording things like that you can you can watch online now people are. doing arrest and such or interrogating. from a prison that didn't touch and now because that is a way that we have to try to stay calm and pray that we don't hear any alarm sound and we can. write and i know that the internet and particularly facebook play a really big role over there do you see yourself staying in myanmar now do you

think that you can stay. i think i have to be prepared paul scenario so i have to pack my back in any case and that could be kicked out from there it could be that my feet that won't be approved. the light quality you just have to leave or whatever. if i leave. ok for me i mean it's just so many people i love to get up the country i love people i don't want them to wake up and. actually because everybody is combine and people are suffering it's just unfair and not. completely human rights restrictions that mention that people will wake up in a peaceful country again and what might happen. not relevant for me i can come back at some point if i'm not blacklisted. because favre thanks so much for talking to us and please stay safe. well here in germany celebrations are about to begin to

mark 1700 years of jewish history dating back to the 1st recorded evidence of jewish life in germany in the year 321 and an author of the occasion we're meeting jewish artists and leaders in cities across germany today actor alexandre very up on his debut film mazeltov cocktail has struck a chord with young jewish viewers here it's a comedy about anti-semitism. and incentive that man is a good example of the new jewish generation his young cosmopolitan and confident we meet up with the son of russian immigrants in berlin where he's just finished his acting studies. the thing with me is i didn't even really know that i was jewish it was not a big deal in our family courses. nothing much to me at all and she was even a swear word i even used to use it myself this way a lady in primary school at high school. but. the funny thing about this is.

investments acting debut takes a stand against anti semitism. it's . an end to a culture of remembrance that ignores the problems of today. but i just don't feel that i can accept this situation anymore or the semitism is on the rise it's real and it's happening here as a jew in germany i just can't say everything's cool and i feel good at a situation. where alice says he quit it was only as a teenage that had been really discovered his jewishness was also joining this time that he became a star member of the local youth theatre trip and i'd like to see people take a clear position in the for them to also to take action. today being jewish is

a big part of the actor's identity sometimes is more and sometimes less active than you synagogue in iranian bogus traffic lane really consecrated in 1998 it stands as a symbol for a lively jewish community. rabbi the bag she's one of and i 9 fame our rabbis germany wide her synagogue stands for diversity and tolerance as well as confronting the issues of the day. we would like to call ourselves l g b t i q straight inclusive which doesn't mean this is arson queer people are now welcome here but of course they are welcome here and have been so for a long time that's all. to back study jewish theology and converted to judaism 30 years ago. she was fascinated by religion which allows room for maneuver in terms of faith and lifestyle.

to day isn't has always been a religion that changed with the times and has asked the question how does what our ancestors handed down to is fit with today's times where do we need to attach and where is to important to keep things the same. a balancing act between looking to the future and preserving the past. accent investment also wants to move forward. so he's leaving ben in for his 1st acting engagement at the renown season the show being house paul whom. features leaving engine mini vandeman humps above all this i wish that people wouldn't see this is strange will an alien not treat us as though it was something special does not just one way of being jewish it's actually incredibly diverse up if you take. a.

minute. and we'll have interviews with more jewish artists and leaders in germany coming up this week on arts and culture but now we're off to london to the studio of painter patrick hughes he's got his own unique perspective on the world or should i say perspective. to cool lucian's on 3 dimensional surfaces. they play with trap a zoid and perspectives to trick the mirror and seeing what's not really there. british artist patrick hughes calls this reverse effect of for the 1st perspective the painter developed the technique itself. it's extraordinary because it uses you to create the movement there are artists who make the move through the machines inside but my work makes it work by having you move on the painting

seemed to him and. he's got a team of 6 to support him in his london studio the act of creation is a very involved process. it can take up to 3 months to complete one image. the 1st step is to build a 3 dimensional base out of wood. then touch accused sketches out his ideas. music. puter to project his designs onto the canvas then he and his team paint the pictures and orioles trash excuse likes to reference the work of other artists we choose by pursuit for paul because people like him and i quite like you i'm not mad about him i quite like his. logic goes there wools though any graffiti os would prefer to work in a concrete but we like to make other work home group pools. patrick hughes created his 1st reverse effective picture in 1964 and called it sticky room. but not until

the 1990 s. did he set himself to perfect this painting technique. the work titled jazz from 26 teams made him famous. is physical is a combination of the whole person is for 2 feet and your knees and your legs your body your stomach as well as your so although all of those 3 in an intellectual logs all of it's all in the mind is actually all in the mind on the ball the more perfect feel lesion the more complete the experience patrick hughes creates fascinating perspectives on our world. well that's almost it for this arts and culture so thanks for watching and i'll leave you now with a global pop icon multiple grammy winner multimillionaire and birthday boy ed

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