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now the pandemic has given a fitting. welcome to. join us india is facing criticism for planning to deport refugees from its territory to me and some 170 rohingya have been detained by police in the northern city of jumble ahead of their planned deportation some 40000 live in india having fled to me and mo over the years to escape persecution since trying to force the prime minister narendra modi's hindu nationalist government came to power there have been increasing calls to expel the rohingya who india sees as a security threat and as a legal. once again they're being forcibly moved scores of roe hanging

who fled the violence the beat down by myanmar security forces being made ready to return to the hands of that same military it's happening in the indian state of jammu and kashmir already some rohingya have gone missing we cannot get information on our neighbors you know where they are they said they were taken to jail. do you know what happened. i called some who were taken but now their phones are gone we can't speak with them and their children are left behind with nothing to eat. up to $170.00 rohingya have been rounded up so far police say more of india's estimated $40000.00 rohingya refugees are to be detained and deported fearing for their lives the rohingya are pleading with the indian government not to send them back rights groups have joined the chorus but many hindu nationalists backed by

india's ruling b j p party say the muslim rohingya are illegal immigrants and a security risk. found that on their us yesterday when i was away at work the police came and took my wife away and she hasn't returned my small children have been crying we're leaving we have no choice. we handle you go there you did again you're not going to india's latest moves against the rohingya muslims highlight the united nations view of the rohingya as the most persecuted minority in the world. for more i'm joined now by phil robertson deputy director of the asia division of human rights watch your joins me now from bangkok fairly how do you see the timing of this planned move by the indian government. it's extremely bad i mean you should not be sending refugees back into harm's way expression when you

have a military government that has taken control and is shooting people in the streets of myanmar to send people back into that kind of situation is absolutely irresponsible and you know them indian government should be providing protection to them and they should be providing access to the un refugee agency to help these people rather than incarcerating them and threatening them with a return to a situation which is very very bad what do you think is motivating the indian government's actions. well i think india has a couple different reasons 1st of all the government itself tends to be anti refugee it is a phobic 2nd of all these hate to say it these these these refugees are muslim and there is a bias in some ways against muslims by parts of the indian government and 3rd this is a situation where you know india feels like it's besieged everybody is coming into

their country they're trying to claim it back for themselves and this is an easy group to go after expression in a in a sensitive area like john will kashmir where there is of course an ongoing. situation which is very sensitive for the indian government strictly speaking. be speaking is the indian government violating any laws with this plan deportation. well it would be violating the un refugee convention which is international humans were rights law that's international customary law that if you don't send refugees back into a situation where they will face persecution. you know it's it's it's the height of irresponsibility so quite clearly this is indeed. potentially violating a major international human rights standard something that countries around the world are expected to abide by and at the same time that about $100000000.00 mom

nationals including 8 police officers who flipped to india to escape the military dictatorship mean mano once india to hand these police bust a man over what is in desperate sponsibility in these circumstances well under no circumstances should india abide by that myanmar request they shouldn't act allow these people to make asylum claims to un h.c.r. for it and where they could you know go through refugee status determination process and and be protected quite clearly these are police officers who have refused orders to shoot people they have actually been saying that to the media very clearly you know what they were expected to do and they're refusing to do it and so if they were sent back to myanmar they would face a very dire situation with their own units they could probably certainly would lose their jobs at a minimum but probably face persecution and worse for some are even there with the

time being but thank you so much for joining us thank you. demick china has introduced the world's 1st so-called vaccine pos bought essentially a digital the provides vaccination and testing information about a person it is intended to allow easy travel across borders the united states and the european union are considering similar policies but so far the chinese version is available to chinese citizens of. the digital health check in it's a requirement that every public space in china and now a part of the daily even hourly routine and the check in has worked it's helped curtail the pandemic here so well in fact that this use of technology to track and trace coded 1000 carriers has overshadowed concerns over privacy. we used to enter a place without doing anything but now we need to show the health code i've got

used to it. so it's time the government figures for the next step of travel certificate an international health passport that will look like this to tourists and business travelers immigration officials and the people taking your plane or train ticket. their q.r. health codes and their tracing application are required everywhere to enter a public place so people are already used to it and this one has or should just be an extension to get out of the country but for the rest of the world the situation is different. apps face trouble and gaining acceptance especially in europe. china is not europe of course and the chinese are not europeans i don't think concerns over this personal information safety are necessary 1st you need to control the epidemic then you can worry about other things. the chinese foreign ministry says the travel certificate like those being launched in other countries will facilitate safe travel as well as protecting personal privacy. but the check

in apps already gathers data on the user's phone number their contacts health risks and locations visited the health passport for travel adds at the very least the holders of vaccine status and coronavirus test results but a country that imports 90 percent of its food from abroad food security is an important issue in singapore even before the pandemic hit the government was already working towards reaching 30 percent of home grown capacity by 2030 but admits the supply chain uncertainties of the pandemic all grown food production has acquired a new focus. these seedlings need a gentle touch explains tan so yuk she's growing can come also known as water spinach in the corridors of her building and that's not the only vegetable cultivated here mrs tan and her neighbors have a passion for gardening. and there is

a very surprising ways see them yeah ok bitch you know you pick one. and then. so do with ruthie yos and all. singapore is experiencing a green wave from the high rise commodore it spreading everywhere. between buildings and on top of them things are sprouting and blossoming like these bananas the government distributes seeds free of charge and it's creating space for cultivation as always in singapore it's part of a bigger plan once a pandemic that happens and you can see the news well why how is the cultist is that i think it raises awareness on how anyone can feel or is creating such interesting ability right you know. all those singapore is densely populated with nearly 6000000 residents the city is already very green but it wants

to become even greener so the government has set out some clear guidelines if you want to build you also have to plant if you put down concrete you have to create green spaces to. plants help cool buildings and improve the climate indoors and of course counts are also a source of food. a lack of space fosters creativity vertical farming is the buzzword growing food inside buildings the goal is to increase in-house production from 10 percent to almost 30 and to make singapore more independent of imports in other words more crisis proof care. more food less space and something like this just to put things into perspective. of purposeful but event is farm is equivalent to about $400.00 acres of produce from a traditional farm so more from less. inside there are tree conditions no

soil no pesticides no bacteria the supply of nutrients is automated the close to irrigation cycle saves water but the light means high electricity bills agriculture is an economic endeavor and in singapore it's one with some real growth potential. and. that's a bit of a there's more. to do with images of type a fashion with the world's 1st for. this year's edition features sustainability as its theme. of birth and. better and. for.

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a possible game changer for the art market just half a year ago the artist beatle had never sold a work but on thursday christie's auction off a digital collage by the artist for over $69000000.00 the 3rd highest auction price ever for a living artist it's also the highest price ever for a purely digital artwork the piece containing images the artist had been posting online daily since 2007 sold as an n f t a non fungible token a form of encrypted data that can't be replicated the artist whose real name is mike winkleman says it's a new day for digital art. there are thousands of artists and that is something that you know i sort of really hope comes from that and i'm going to be pushing or is sort of going back actually and looking at the history of digital art over the last 20 years digital artists design websites they describe apps they desire off

you know t.v. shows how t.v. shows they design how characters look at movies and you know. that's all digital art so they have a huge huge impact on that visual language of the moral and so i think it now be on the black demonstrator look at them as you know real art as i'm super super excited about your vision song contest as told bellerose to change its tune or get out they say the song bellerose submitted breaks the contest rules against political entries it features the lyrics out teach you to toe the line words that feller's opposition figures say support the regime of strongman leader alexander lukashenko and mocked widespread protests in the country following last year's elections. for music news and a piece that still very much in the running for this weekend's grammy awards a recording of the dwarf by austrian composer unexpanded at some minsky is

competing for best opera recording sung by the door when it's a chance for the world to get to know an opera that is rarely performs. it's the 18th century and the spanish royal court is celebrating the birthday of the king's daughter one gift in particular is causing a sensation it's a human being a dwarf a gift from a sultan the man doesn't know he's a little person because he's never seen himself in a mirror. 6 the one act opera was written in 1982 inspired by oscar wilde story the birthday of the infanta director to be as cuts a has brought the tale into the present day he sees it as less a drama about an individual artist and more of a description of the state of society. where. you can read it as

a very individual story regardless of age or size that's what i found to be the crucial issue of all the characters in the piece not just the dwarf have that great discrepancy between their self image and their public image how they want to be perceived and how they think they are perceived and how the others really see them . the dwarf's attempt to win the heart of the princess with a love song only appears to succeed. i am a tragic story takes its course as the dwarf ends up seeing himself through the unloving eyes of his beloved. the. how do we see ourselves how do others see us and how do we deal with being different director cuts or does without makeup and elaborate costumes simply casting 2 people in the main role. i decided to bring the conflict of interior images the

conflict between the self image and the external image of the character onto the stage through 2 characters and a cast the title role with a tenor and with an actor who corresponds to the image one already has when reading the libretto mainly of an actor of small stature for me that was the way to really make the inner conflict theatrical. and this approach to casting works thanks to the excellent performance by mick morris may not an actor with dwarfism and the extraordinary singing by american tenor david but philip. from. the state production has already been celebrated by audiences in berlin if the video production wins a grammy award this weekend that would certainly help bring it to the attention of an international audience.

was. also this weekend actors and over 120 places from tokyo to new york el salvador to mumbai are performing the same play and none of them knows what it's about with no one her soles and no director the work white rabbit red rabbit by iranian playwright nasim so a month for is perhaps the perfect choice for a day of action calling attention to the plight of theaters one year and the coronavirus pandemic this unusual play always begins the same way ok. i have just been the. i've begun to read and i have no idea what's going to happen. there are no were her souls no

real script and no director the actors get their instructions once they're on stage where they slip into the role of a 29 year old theater director from iran there is a bit of a plot but that's a secret it's all part of the concept and it's meant to allow the actors to be more spontaneous in their improvisation that's also why each actor is only allowed to perform the piece once in the meantime thousands of actors have done that including rahman carry out my preparation is to not prepare you know not google not think about it too much i just want to be vulnerable as possible with it because. i think the whole point of broadway producers tom kurta he and devlin elliott came across the piece at the edinburgh fringe festival noticed that there was a play written by an iranian playwright and thought that would be interesting to check out and within minutes we realized we were seeing something we'd never seen before for their 2016 production and new york's west theater they were able to

recruit a number of acting stars that helped bring the play with a secret plot to the world's attention. and i'm joined now by theater creator nasim soleimani poor who lives in berlin but wrote the play white rabbit red rabbit in 2010 when he was still in iran so now see him you've said that this device of keeping the play a secret even for the actor was born out of necessity what do you mean by that well hello to you and everyone thank you just like in 2000 and among you might know i was a still in iran and in war and i was really keen to to do a show globally so i thought maybe i can shift some paradigm. in that in the future as like a structure came up we did. something with you supposed to be formed fight and theme quite a 1st time with an actor in front of

a live audience and the actor basically is reading your voice now i've got a question about the story so if there are any actors out there who might perform this play some day stop watching right here. i understand that the end of the play that the actor who's playing here is basically instructed to do something terrible to him or her south it's a kind of test whether the audience will intervene why did you include that. well i think it's a choice you're right. david i strongly believe that we live in a very useful but yes very very troubled world we have black lives matter the climate change is real and you and i are speaking something is happening a catastrophe in myanmar so question is do we basically react to them thing what are the borders of our of the media and how much do we push in which direction

what are the red line i think that's what that's what the play is is trying to to to to explore with the help of the performer and the audience and he told me that when this performance is done alive as is usually the case there is actually a lot of audience interaction. it is the eye it happens at all didn't even they try you know the audience members to go on stage and stuff to show friends environment like you were going to do a show where we're going in may and mexico tomorrow inside a prison so different context as i bring it brings and brings in different you know moments and with this plan i was speaking of the white rabbit red rabbit is being performed in over 120 places this saturday's some virtually and you can't possibly be there to see all of the 120 performances in one day is there a show that you're particularly excited to see are you going to be participating in

any way. i mean i look at the list today i was doing good we had like what mama mama you know 1 you have to stumble i want china new york london and some of those plays out of being there personally can perform i want to talk about you know the mexican company or she showed across the netherlands i hear only 5 and one theater in crete different venues in the land there are 7 painted peter doing shows and the audience without a choice on whom to basically pick which show room part of the show it went to from actors i would try to do sneak peak in how they differ a bit the different show if they are on you know most definitely i will do that well it's not some silly month for thanks so much for coming on arts and culture congratulations on this work of art which is now 11 years old and still as relevant as ever and as popular as ever thank you very much i also want to thank you all removal for initiating it's an old heave great preview fairs and the actors are

going to take a look thanks so much. of our more culture news now england's royal shakespeare company is harnessing 3 d. video game technology and live stream performances of a midsummer night's dream the technology transforms real life actors into virtual avatars actors in the trip say they believe the once radical 16th and 17th century playwright shakespeare would approve the performances are free of charge but viewers can pay $10.00 pounds to interact with the cast as virtual fireflies. and to leave you now with some new works by french artist site proof uses sand and grass as his canvas and the last 2 years he's taken his biodegradable paints to 3 continents painting giant linked hands he says the project is all about friendship there's his latest from any.

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