i was you see when i arrived here i slept with 6 people in a room. it was hard it was for. white here. the german language. this gives me a little but you need to interrupt the play you want to do their story. for margaret. you're watching t w news coming up to date myanmar's bloody sunday to country has its deadliest day since the coup as police fired live rounds against protesters so what makes them keep marching many fear the past will repeat itself. and china is ramping up its harassment of taiwan withstand dredger there's visits to matsue islands just 9 kilometers off the chinese coast for

a look at least brody's situation. i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia one month after a military coup myanmar saw its bloodiest day of protests this past weekend according to the united nations at least 18 people are dead and that number may change as we learn more on monday on some suchi leader of the national league for democracy party which won resoundingly in last november's elections appear for the 1st time since her detention via video link for her court hearing her lawyer says she faces 2 new charges by lation of communications laws and inciting public unrest despite losing favor and recent years for her denial of genocide against the countries within just the international community has called for her release and for the restoration of democracy. the tension is palpable myanmar's

future is being played out on the streets of young go on young soldiers face off against youthful protest has. a right to the queen is just one of hundreds of thousands resisting the military coup. de la tactic is to maintain peaceful civil disobedience even when the security forces resort to violence we're remaining peaceful and we're not giving up we'll keep going until we win the protesters understand the dangers risking their lives by confronting an enemy determined to crush the our pricing they know that their future will be. taken away from them they see this as a they lost because they have seen the. older generation how they'll suffer it if they cannot fight back they will have to live under the military

dictatorship for all their life the activists a much younger than their figurehead 75 year old son suchi symbolized a man mas hoops of freedom and democracy until the army deposed the government she is once again under arrest but this charismatic leader is still crucial to me on most future robert cooper got to know suchi well she was working at the united nations in new york in the 1960 s. i think she's one of the most stubborn people of that's my life and she came from a family that made it natural. but the other side that you want to understand. is that she was always committed to nonviolence so. she was born to rule and she was born to rule by persuasion not by not by

force not by orders. after 15 years under house arrest suchi was freed in 2010 the generals needed her as a front to gain access to financial help from overseas from 2016 she effectively led the government and in last november's elections you want to learn slide victory. general min lang is suki's most powerful opponent he was supposed to retire last year at the age of $65.00 but his only strengthened his grip on power. to the cornerstone of the constitution is that no one is above the law that is democracy. has been accused of breaking import laws and failing to observe coronavirus rules the generals clearly wanted out of the way on the streets she's venerated by the young protesters well the military is hated the latest violence is likely to drive

the 2 sides even further apart. let's take a look now at the rising tensions between china and taiwan for years now beijing has been stepping up pressure on the territory it sees as its own one of its latest tactics in that campaign dredging up sand around the taiwan run maps to islands since last year chinese judging ships have started operating heavily around the islands which are just off the shores of mainland china dropping anchor and scooping up vast amounts of sand from the ocean bed for construction projects it's a strategy that's testing talons coast guard and officials say it's disrupting the local economy and intimidating residents and tourists ships are also a problem for local fisherman joyously reports from taiwan. cheer a year has fresh the waters here for 6 yes. 2 days catch just

one fish. my whole fish used to worth $100000.00 taiwan dollars here now it's got to $10000.00 only 10 percent left marks or used to be called the fishing paradise but now all the official are gone. he blames china's illegal son trashing for destroying sea bad habitats and the marine food chain the fish have gone elsewhere to eat and lay eggs that's not the only destruction he sees the sand scooped from the ocean bad by treacherous is causing coastal erosion around to . this was covered in sand in the past and now it's all stones the loss of sand makes the beach steeper than before it used to be just 5 degrees and now it's nearly 15 degrees it's much more tiring to move my whole fish up and you double the time and it takes my work along. the taiwanese small to islands are just

9 kilometers from mainland china last year chinese chipset ramped up their dredging in the surrounding water each fossil can take on a full load of 2000 tonnes in 2 hours officials say it is part of china strange so many tactics to drain resources and pressure taiwan by nonmilitary means. and has been left on the south and side of monstrous nagan island it's quiet tonight but they say they often hear the send dredges at dinner time noise pollution affects the quality of life it also brings spectrum magic memories of war from the sixty's and the seventy's. i don't want to remind me of my childhood trying not bombarded to alternate days of the week we always had to run to bomb shelters when we heard the alarm so we're very sensitive. though i don't think

china will start a war on us now it still makes me nervous. it is the psychological impact. manjoo served as taiwan's frontline military base against china and to 992. the sign behind me says fight against the communists and a selfie has removed. this war time so again from the cold war era still everywhere on the island a 5th reminder of the threat from beijing. last year taiwan's coast guard chased off nearly 4000 chinese structures a more than 6 fold increase from the year before in december taiwan's parliament changed laws to increase penalties and make it easier to confiscate illegal. but enforcing the law is difficult module parts simply don't have enough space to

impart all the fast. alone she says he may have to give up fishing soon. fishing is my passion when there is no more fish we have no choice but to do something else. this is not just a problem for the fishing industry we are losing our land as a country if they continue to steal the sand it is a matter of national security. marjah residents typically welcome cross trace exchanges but sandra edging has crossed the line joining us is steve tang director of the china institute at so as the school of oriental and african studies in london steve this small island affair seems like a small matter for an outsider who might not follow the ins and outs of taiwan china relations why is this important. it is important because it is a new park. in the park the chinese government

respected that it must rule and cumin and are territories under taiwan's control and therefore they will not go and direct descend from the from those islands now under siege in pain if policy has change which is that all these are now defined simply us chinese territory and they have borders no reason why the chinese government should not simply allowed chinese merchants and others to extract whatever they want to extract from chinese stop and territory is a very powerful message to type a that things are changing and that taiwan should take the message ok so they're dragging this sad what's the worst thing that can happen here. well it does cause a bit of

a problem for the government in taiwan because if they don't do anything they are they facto accepting the chinese assertion op sovereign rights and jurisdiction over sue and that to them will in effect be accepting chinese cleaned up some t. will for taiwan which they cannot possibly do not politically. doing so in taiwan and then you have to issue of if it should have been in taipei tries to respond for example by sending taiwan's coast guards to. protect those waters then you are looking at potential confrontation between chinese and taiwanese authorities and that can get. that here politically is this something that might pull other powers into the picture i think you have for example the way things have played out sometimes in the south china seas with the

us conducting freedom of navigation operations etc probably not because the actual islands of taiwan it is case not to really is something he's that. is completely indefensible from the perspective of either time warned or the united states must or you're really talking about a small island. less than a mile off the chinese coast so is a very very difficult. piece of. islands to protect and to defend against the world's 2nd most powerful military power. so i don't see that happening but i suspect that the chinese government not at this stage wants to seize control of the natural right of the simple reason that if they take all those islands and taiwan in effect isn't that kind of. staff saying thank you so much for your time.

you know we leave you today with pictures from this weekend sweep of dozens of hong kong politicians and activists charged with subversion most are not expected to be granted bail which means jail time for these democrats will be back tomorrow see you then and provide. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and a few newspapers one official information as a journalist i have worked on the strength of many characters and they have all those are almost the same or do the social inequalities that can the freedom of the

press. go up should we can afford to stay silent when it comes to the fans of the humans and see the microphones who had decided to put their trust in us. these cars were a d.w.i. . welcome to arts and culture china's director chloe jour made history on sunday night as the 1st asian woman ever to win a golden globe for best director and only the 2nd woman ever her film nomad land also won best drama more on that also coming up. international film festival is happening all this week starting with the online industry events the 1st of its

hybrid 2 phased pandemic form. and new music from japanese australian. he. turns the isolation of corona lockdown into a contemplation of life and hope. cinema bashes on regardless of pandemic restrictions and sunday night's golden globes awards ceremony was quite a different affair streamed online from multiple locations and allowing multiple digs at the events need to diversify well nevertheless black actors did win several trophies a woman won best director and there was a healthy number of surprises. so the 2021 golden globe awards this year's golden globe awards were symbolic of a changed media landscape no stars on the red carpet no tables full of laughing actors the strange atmosphere was made even more awkward by the earlier revelation

that the hollywood foreign press association has no black members co-hosts tina fey and amy poehler didn't pull their punches here everybody is understandably upset at the h.f. p.a. and their choices look a lot of flashy garbage got nominated but that happens ok that's like their thing but a number of black actors and black led projects were overlooked and look we all know that award shows are stupid yeah they're all a scam invented by big red carpet to sell more carpets we know that point is even with stupid things inclusive it is important and there are no black members of the hollywood foreign press i realize f.p.a. maybe you guys didn't get the memo because your workplace is the backbone of a french mcdonalds but you gotta change that so here's to change the event was dominated by streaming platforms as netflix raked in awards for the crown and amazon took the category for best musical or comedy for the 2nd borat film but

there were some surprises. golden globe goes to. no matter where director chloe xiaobo won best picture and became the 1st woman of color to take on best director for her film nomad land which stars frances mcdormand. blood nomad and i did score for me is a. pilgrimage there are grief and healing. so for everyone who has gone through this difficult and beautiful journey some point in their lives this is for you we don't say goodbye we say see you down the road thank you. in another surprise when andra day took best drama actress for the title role in the united states versus billie holiday on a night when the winners more closely resembled hollywood's new creators the question remains whether the hollywood foreign press association will also show

a willingness to change. and joining me from our studios in bonn is my colleague scott rock's throw quite a night out the golden globes there scott what were the biggest surprises for you. yeah well for me nomad land wasn't a surprise i mean that's been my pick for best film since i saw it in venice last year it's an amazing movie and definitely deserved the top prize last night at the globes i was however a bit surprised with sasha baron cohen and he won best actor in a comedy for bharat movie film and i'd expected colin to win a globe last night but i thought it was going to be in the dramatic category because he was also nominated for his amazing performance in the trial of the chicago 7 and i think the globes voters really missed a trick there because i mean he was a credible man who had been great to see him take home that prize i have to agree with you there are lots of controversy around the golden globes traditionally and they're often criticized for this lack of diversity that they have so

a number of awards did go to actors of color and there was a serious nod to women will that what this controversy to rest or do you expect it to continue. no you know they could contras his death we're going to continue it's has legs as they say i mean the globes is an incredibly powerful organization in hollywood it's the 2nd most important award show after the oscars but the group that votes on the golden globes the hollywood foreign press association is probably the least diverse group of any of these voting bodies as we heard they have no white non white members and although it was great to see a lot of a quite diverse group of winners last night a lot of nonwhite talents taking home a golden globes much deserved i think this isn't going to change the discussion and isn't going to change the need for really systematic change within the globe's organization ok now of course there are many is disappointed because it's nominee

had they not saying a didn't win this time around but she does have quite a bit of time doesn't she. yeah i mean it's almost 12 years old so i think she's got plenty of time for a rematch at the globes she was up for best actress in a drama for alongside tom hanks in western the news of the world she lost out to jodie foster in that category who won for her role in the mauritanian so if you're going to lose that the golden globes losing to a 2 time oscar winning hollywood legend like jodie foster that probably takes a bit of the sting out of it i would say so and speaking of jodie foster she is headlining a round up at berlin's international film festival which runs this week and prides itself on privilege and political films in particular let's take a look at the mauritanian you need to tell me the truth you need to tell me what happened to her i can't depend on you want to stand next to the fire you know nothing whatever i said. doesn't matter. a defense lawyer and her client mohamedou old slahi from mauritania is in custody in kuantan amman he's

accused of having aided the terrorists who carried out the 911 attacks but is he really guilty golden globe winner jodie foster plays lawyer nancy hollander like the real person the character is based on she also believes in the law. you know how our country is shaped by that how the world is shaped by that and if there was ever there was anything that made me believe in democracy and the rule of law it's been me that's from. the film copilot is also based on a true story having to do with 911 astley love say yet a seemingly perfect love story but then he becomes one of the terrorists on that fateful day september 11th 2001 he was the man she must've asked herself at some point was that a monster could i really have loved a monster how could i do that but on the other hand she knows very well that he was also lovable. mo has to make

a line in the last. the film dissects the main character's pain without making her seem naive that makes copilot into a successful it was strange one of the maxim love is blind even against the backdrop of the terrorist attacks that changed the world. as some heavy stuff there with 911 a recurring theme scott why are politics so very important at the belly not what role that they play. poll could share our central berlin film festival probably there are more than at any other film festival in the world and i think it makes sense because i mean the festival itself was set up as a political statement it was originally set up in west berlin in the divided city as a statement of artistic freedom and political freedom in opposition to the censorship and political oppression on the other side of the wall in east berlin and in the communist bloc and you always see that but the real focus on serious political

movies and they're often the ones that when the awards and i often have the feeling that the jury in berlin will often use their own wards as to make a political statement i think that was partially case last year when a rainy and film one from a director who suffered censorship in his home country and was actually put on in under house arrest in iran was unable to attend the festival so i think you see this sort of political stuff thread throughout the festival and it's always been center to what the delhi dolly is now we don't have time to hear about all of them but tell us just very quickly which other titles might have caught your attention. there's a couple i'll mention really quickly the ballad of a white cowering in film about a woman whose husband is executed a miscarriage of justice seems really really interesting compelling and courage a film from bella ruse a documentary which is sort of an inside look at the protesters on the streets and bella who's trying to return later her. that's very very timely content indeed

there is scott and the 71st belly now taking place online will be speaking to you all this week so thanks very much for that 1st overview scott ross perot in bowling . all the older players know what it means to play 2nd fiddle as the saying goes usually taking a backseat to the violence in iraq istra so it's refreshing to hear the deeper mellower sound of the viola get some air time of its own japanese australian the oldest he only took grew up here in germany and her new solo album recorded in lockdown braves' some new territory with her instrument. 'd 'd 'd feel the tug surrounded by nature and sounds in a berlin park during these pandemic times the young violist has often found inspiration here including for her latest album songs of solitude. for this project she commissioned 11 composers to create music for her one of them was toshio. 'd

guys the byrds during the logged on faced. traveling back to his childhood and he started hearing melodies and one of them was. cherry blossom he is also someone that connects to nature very much and brings nature into its own. another of the striking works written for songs of solitude is by finnish composer khaled the are all. his piece calls for to go or to play and sing. actually had this clear vision in front of me and which i thought when they're pretty the most

wonderful gift if we could distill into sound the isolation that we are globally facing in order to give people a place through music through these songs of solitude. to reflect upon what we are dealing with and to cope with it. along with music what has helped to go in this time is painting she sets before the canvas each morning and allows her imagination to run wild the result as colorful pictures full of optimism like some of the compositions she recorded for the album. that includes a piece by british composer john powell making songs of solitude had a positive impact on livia lust. it didn't change my approach to

music but it definitely gave me a deep sense of belief in music. she only took our hopes to give her listeners not only belief in music but faith in life itself. and on that uplifting note stay positive and we'll be back with lots more arts and culture tomorrow same time same place so thanks for watching all the best from berlin and stay safe.

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