1700 years. in germany our series this week. we journey from berlin to munich to meet cultural leaders commemorating the past taking creative risks. building community 700 years of jewish life in germany. this week. in culture. coming up today fears for the future under the taliban. women in afghanistan why do you they lose their freedoms if the taliban enter government in kabul to go people's concerns and the expectations from the international community. fighting to stay open japan's old school video game our kids struggle to survive.

i'm british manager welcome to the. glad you could join us nato defense ministers are meeting their counterparts from the united states for the 1st time since president biden's inauguration the future of the alliance in afghanistan is an important point of talks over 2 days nearly 10000 troops from 36 nato nations including the united states currently support afghan forces in the country and whether these forces can secure without nato is a key concern. with the taliban to trumpet ministration agreed to withdraw all u.s. troops by me that decision is now being reviewed by the biden team. but even if that review is all. also discussed with nato partners levels of beilenson

continue to increase in. attacks often unclaimed but attributed to the taliban are on the rise and that's left particularly afghan women concerned about a future where the taliban could play an important role. aided doesn't stay long on the street she wants to get inside quickly afghanistan's best known model poses for the camera without a veil embodying the lifestyle of many of today's young afghans. the 26 year old has found fame as an influencer with more than 200000 instagram followers it's an image of the modern woman which the taliban cannot accept and i do receives regular death threats. that person has all know that i worry that if the taliban become part of the government all the progress we have made in the last

few years will be lost i studied abroad and returned home to set up a modeling business that if we lose our freedoms and women have to stay at home again then i will be forced to leave my homeland. but i once found. nothing in kabul can be taken for granted especially not a yoga class factory of montana's wants to bring in a peace to a country which has been shattered by war for the last half century. bactria opened her own studio 5 years ago in the face of stiff resistance from religious fundamentalists. her pupils are students office workers and housewives it takes a measure of courage to join the class in spite of threats from the taliban they say that yoga goes against islam and women shouldn't be involved in sport but these

women are undeterred and factory refuses to be intimidated. she will only agree to be filmed in the studio and at home not out on the street. after we 1st met her a year ago she started getting death threats from the taliban and had to close the studio temporarily. well known religious leaders have started talking about what we do. for a hot. leading declared holy war on us. that makes them. use the opportunities which are of opened up for women in recent years to start a business in the city center. she has benefited from western intervention in her

country. but now she worries that american troops could soon be pulling out. it's not a good time for the americans to be leaving afghanistan. everything is very uncertain . the americans should at least stay until we know what's happening. the future of business should become clearer over the next few months there's a lot at stake for afghan women their freedoms up more at risk than at any time in the last 20 years. joining me now for more is journalist if you drug me from. we have been reporting continually to the concerns of women in afghanistan have about the lost their freedoms if the taliban came to power but how much of

a concern is this across afghan society. i think the problem is that the taliban haven't been upfront about what they want in terms of women's rights they recently issued an open letter to the united states about you know their dream in the peace deal and one of the things that they brought up was the issue of women's rights they said that the rights of women would be maintained and accordance with islamic law in islam practices but again what we have to remember is that the entire of on the equal system the terror of our constitution and law and society all of that is based off of islam so the question that women men everybody feel that want to ask about any sort of societal issue is you know what do they mean by this law macv you say women's rights because as far as anybody can tell everything in afghanistan currently is based off of islam no founded on control in some shape

or the other more than roughly how far gone his sons territory based on your travels around has brought this on what has been the experience of people living under taliban control and what form of islam have the polygon been implementing. it . you know it really depends on which parts of the country you're living in it's interesting because a few years ago. i was in that province which is south west of kabul and i was talking to people who were saying that the taleban in part in pox on had allowed for girls to go to school but the taliban on the ground in wa that weren't allowing it so this is kind of the issue is that it can become very ad hoc depending upon where you are in certain places you know they'll be there they'll let you get away with more and in other places of the much more brutal and then there are also places where people you know turn to them to solve things like legal

disputes land conflicts things like that that otherwise if you went to the court system would mean you're stuck in endless bureaucracy and pain bribes and just years of complication so it's really complex issue with that situation being on the ground nato ministers are meeting here in brussels to discuss the future of nato troops including u.s. troops in afghanistan do you get a sense that of cons want them to stay. that i want people just want a solution right 1st thing they want is peace whatever will bring peace or bring an end to the war and then beyond that they just want to know what's going to happen they want you know with this nato meeting or with whatever you know for a future decision joe biden takes they just literally want to know are you staying are you going how long are you staying for and what are you really going to do that's all they want they just want to defend events or erode security duties have been in the hands of of gone forces for some 6 years now after nato handed over to

sponsibility to the afghan security forces are they in a position to battle the taliban and other groups singlehandedly. so i was just in lookout province in the south of which is just south of kabul and it was home to soldiers news talking to police and they were saying that the u.s. presence really doesn't make that much of a difference for them in the fight because for the most part they haven't actually been involved in combat in whatley 8 years 7 years. but what does make a difference of them is being properly equipped is having the ammunitions i mean the guns as having even walkie talkies things that they are lacking at the moment or even being paid on time you know there are several that said that it's been 6 to 8 months that they hadn't paid so to them they feel if they're properly quipped and they're properly supported they could stand a good chance at standing up to the taleban if they were given that support right

we'll leave it there for the time being but i do know if you thank you so much for joining us from kabul thank you. gaming arcades offer an alternative to playing online and often popular in many parts of japan many of those yes go there for the retro experience of meeting an actual human being and that unfortunately is the rub as we all know by now the pandemic has made such face to face contacts perilous that means many of the our kids are now at risk of being closed. it's a throwback to a golden age of gaming. video arcades like they say usually the stuff of eighty's nostalgia but in japan they're enjoying extended play. the mikado in tokyo isn't the legends cave of vintage games. among the rows of cabinets classic taught was like street fighter and gallagher a still going strong. it's

a mecca for old school but mashes. needn't have all the information we can play games online at home but one of the pleasures of coming to an arcade is to be able to strike up a conversation without this to hear what they're thinking. or games that they go into. but in the age of social distancing it could be finally game over for arcades and japan's motion see measures businesses have to shorten opening hours and adhere to strict hygiene rules and all that costs money but unlike bars and restaurants arcades aren't eligible for government assistance the mikado as manager knows he's facing an uphill battle full of the what you are going to get i you know i know i have to work hard to earn a living in these hard times but the pandemic is truly an extraordinary event. and the government is doing nothing to help us out of this hopeless situation. so on

thinking about asking for support through crowd funding we'll see that it all well probably. several arcades went bust following japan's 1st lockdown last year those remaining are now struggling to keep the doors open leaving richer a game is in the cold. it's sad i've already lost one arcade that i used to go to and i've also lost contact with people that i used to play with. a lively and social place is now simply gone well you know but when it's on the political. the macau dough is now adapting to keep itself afloat even streaming matches on you tube to reach game is stuck at home. for video game arcades the pandemic is one last boss fight for survival. that's it for today there's one i work so i did. well even though with it we just to do with

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tell you why. but 1st it was the memoir that shocked the world the true story of f. a german teenager who financed her heroin addiction through prostitution the now 40 year old book and subsequent movie have now been turned into a series we children from bonhoeffer saw the amazon coproduction takes us inside the lives of desperate youths who once gathered at westboro ends 0 train station. it was it was. the reboot of the eighty's classic cristiana as it's a coming of age story with a twist the series doesn't just focus on the original film protagonist cristiana it tells the story of a group of teenage addicts and their desire to rebel against conformity sets in seventy's and eighty's west. the original book and the

1981 cult film both focus on the cycle of substance abuse prostitution and drug related crime christiane i get caught up and. people see. the series tells the story of christiana i have friends over a number of years. she grew up in a housing estate on the outskirts of her parents were constantly fighting. the sound disco she meets like minded people who become her new replacement family together they like to push each other's limits. my cristiana of the way i played her likes to test her limits and to experience as much as possible she wants to feel as much as possible. and she has

a strong desire to connect with other people to connect with the. life and those around her and that's the path she follows. in you saw the movie. we children from bahnhof so it's an unrelenting depiction of teenage descent into addiction 6 young people 6 very different fates all trying to find themselves ringback. the series while not shying away from the sometimes fatal consequences of drug addiction tries to distinguish itself from most conventional films about drugs. and the parts of the story that are heightened have to do with emotional states we didn't want it to be so much the drug rush that's depicted but rather what's going on inside the character. one past year. we

children from so that's the difficult line between fascination and repulsion. this 40 year old story has been given a timeless update. and the new series is out this week here in germany and with global release dates you have to follow my colleague james jackson got a sneak peek anything to tell us more ok james though but let's go back to the original movie for people who haven't seen it what made the original cristiana have so special so christiane that really broke the mold in german cinema because a lot of german films that are popular internationally they have to deal with really big moments in history like the nazi dictatorship or the cold war christiane f. tells a very possible story which is as you mentioned based on a true story. of christiane or a young girl and her sort of dissents now it's become a cult classic and i think part of that is the realism the gritty realism part of

it of course is the soundtrack from back david bowie who also makes a cameo performing in the right. of course that's part of what made it so big internationally. how is the t.v. series different other than the fact that david bowie's not in it well i would say you can tell from the titles actually because christiane f. the old film is just based on christiane it's very possible the camera just focuses and how the whole time was the new one we children from bahnhof so folks as a whole range of characters christiane as friends who were real people and this they wanted to tell the real story i think it's very modern and it looks very expensive very slick some of the club scenes. you know apart and they built a whole club and prod just to film it looks very different from the original dingy rather dingy low budget film. this time it's all actors it's not it's not real life drug users and sex workers like in the original movie i understand what did you

make of the series you've had you've seen it i've seen a and to be honest i've got mixed feelings because there was some elements i really liked how good it looked a lot of people said that the main actor looked a lot like cristiana the real cristiana i appreciate they took some risks with how they showed the drug sequences with the club but it also kind of lacked some of the gritty realism from a. particularly the music stood out i kind of lost my focus because they had music not just from the seventy's or just modern but from all over the shop and it didn't feel very consistent i think they could have done something a bit cooler than some the costing decisions also i would say confused me a bit because the christiane who plays it she's 22 years old and she's meant to be playing you know 1415 year old her parents really don't look much older than i thought maybe when i 1st saw them i thought of is that the brother and sister so i mean that was a bit of a problem. otherwise i'd say it's worth watching for original founds of the film

but it takes a little while to get going and i'm worried that people are going to lose focus by then ok james jackson thanks very much. this year germany is celebrating its 17th century long jewish history dating back to the 1st evidence of jewish life here in the year 321 and this week we're taking you to jewish cultural sites across germany today the city of holland were jewish community members survived what nearly became the country's worst anti-semitic to attack and decades . on october 9th 2019 on the jewish holiday home kapoor heavily armed neo nazi tried to storm the synagogue the strength of that will save the worship is inside but failing to gain entry the attack and then shot 2 others did today in the oriel stands to commemorate the victims. diana martin lives in hama and grew up in a jewish household at the time of the attack she was in oxford england researching

music she was deeply shaken by the events and i was always one of those people who said that it's really important for the jewish community to be open and welcoming and to be as transparent as possible. as. well time has proven me wrong. me and special embody at. many years the east german city paid little attention to its almost 1000 years of jewish history in former communist east german times the subject was to be. and i want to find this baltimore reason to keep jewish heritage alive. in the womb of the protestant community centers she discovered a grave stone from the middle ages. to you she would like to see free tool for the jewish medieval cemetery was dissolved back in the 16th century so it's possible that this stone was found in the rubble somewhere. dug out by

a workman and then placed here i am glad i did this is in here we see a name engraved the name as referenda and behind it we see but the box. is a teenager tantamount to a jewish classics and her parents put shelves she studied west in need each new original language of jews in germany and researches west and east songs. may help him out of unforseen i was always fascinated by the fact that these are not the texts in the music of the synagogue of the liturgy in hebrew. but that these are the songs that everyone knew and everyone sang and would you dogs all had. the world in a. 1000000000 songs of the early modern

period. culture brought back to life. through her music and research which has become something of an expert in judaism when it comes to. showing us around the historic jewish cemetery she describes it's eventful past that. this is the oldest gravestone in the cemetery. here you can see very clearly that it's been engraved with a big number one this brings us to the end of the 17th century high to the time when jewish people were being allowed to return and resettle in holland. and to hear that indeed it. it was not a sign of tolerance reaching needed people like wealthy jews to come in and help rebuild the area following times of war play the importance of the jewish population in the city didn't protect them from the rise of national socialism it wasn't until the 1980 s. to use the end of the g.d.r.

the memorials for trustees of the nazis against the jewish population rented these victims didn't fit into the heroes of the communist resistance image of the g.d.r. still judaism in holland is not just history diana martin is pleased that the jewish community is becoming more open despite the attack she's convinced that diversity is essential for a vibrant jewish life. one last story before we go it's considered the pinnacle of chinese ceramics incredibly rare and mythologized for centuries a legendary wine of porcelain known as rue where produced for the emperor's court for a brief period just about 20 years now a museum in dresden germany has confirmed a once over a week looked piece of its collection is in fact. this simple jade green bowl is an international art sensation the rare roo where

ball from china is almost 1000 years old and worth an estimated 40000000 europe's. because i know it's a sensation for dress down for germany for europe but i think also for china there are really so few examples left from these kilns and it's just wonderful that we now have a ball like this in a german collection about. only 88 complete pieces have survived to this day the ball was acquired for the dresden porcelain collection in 1927 but initially believed to have been from korea its true origin was discovered recently by chance . on that site hasn't been since 2014 we've been researching the historical inventory of augustus the strong with the help of 30 international specialists and so we were in contact with many experts who visited us frequently to examine pieces and they also looked around in our storage to see what else we have fact as early as 2018 colleagues from the palace museum in beijing thought this could be

a genuine rue ceramic. its authenticity has now been established such pieces were made exclusively for the emperors of the song dynasty in the 11th century the simple pottery has become an icon of chinese culture. makes you nervous seeing someone touch something so valuable 40000000 euro anyway that's it for this arts and culture.

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