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welcome to news asia that you could join us china has hit back at western sanctions over alleged rights abuses in. beijing on friday night british lawmakers and several entities have criticised its policy and china has launched a p.r. war against western brands critical of alleged forced labor in. chinese state t.v. called for a boycott of. at least 1000000 people mostly muslim minorities have been detained at. testimony of sexual abuse and torture has emerged but china rejects the accusations as for them lies. the chinese people do not allow some foreigners to eat china's rice while smashing china's ball. and a warm body double to board

a hunk friendly our firm welcome how successful has this beer out of china be and tell you it has been very successful but maybe let me tell you what's happened 1st so a couple of months ago action and released a statement saying that it was not going to use produced in nothing to use cotton produced and she and john citing forced labor concerns and that was released last year actually and it went largely unnoticed and just this week it got picked up by a group linked to the chinese communist party on chinese social media way walk and then all of a sudden it's spread like wildfire and in just a couple of hours not just on em but also other western brands like for example nike also under attack and the reason why nike is also under attack is because it also released similar statements last year and now the cashback i love cotton

has become one of the most popular ones on chinese social media wave war and on the web sites under this hash tag posts been shared billions times millions of times people have commented on it and the state media people staley has even created a meme saying i love joe i support young cotton and it has been shared by many other people including stoss and in fact stoss even those who are ethnic we go have also shared this and also saying that i support cotton and we should support this our home country sorry i love our hometown and many of the stars who have had contract with h. and m. have cut ties with it and. store online is now off so it's not on the e-commerce platform anymore or it's

a stall. and what are people saying i mean you mentioned these are studs what are people saying in the nation to these well many people are buying into beijing's narrative that the west is spreading rumors about the situation in that there is no false labor and one you say for example says people outside of the country do not know the truth do only thing that these acts is a supporting discrimination so referring to those offices posting the hashtag and please focus on telling foreigners the truth and not on how to feel better about ourselves and other uses says boycott hurts us too if we cut our economic ties with these companies that's exactly what the west wants but if we pretend nothing happened and continue to buy these friends it's like agreeing with the insult they have thrown at our country a few so bad i feel like i can protect my country so basically they agree that

the claims about forced labor by the by the west. are force and many other saying that we are boycotting action and nike and they said and not going to use their products we have about 40 seconds left before 100 as you mentioned the statement from edge and i mean like you know from last year or is it causing a stall now i think we are under a time when u.s. and china ties are. getting voice and the divide between them getting bigger and of course is a fairly thorny issue and when the us used the word genocide is a very strong word so china said us is spreading hatred and so i think we will really have to see how this goes on out of 7 of the last word on this i'm sure but i'm sure and thanks so much for coming in and break this down for us.

indian prime minister narendra modi's visiting never to buy another shows the country marks 50 yaz of its independence more this visit to india's biggest trade partner in south asia comes as both missions look to strengthen ties that have been under strain in recent years his visit to bangor there is also highly symbolic given the part indian forces played in securing the country's freedom. december 1971 indian and pakistani troops are locked in a bitter battle to liberate a car. then capital of east pakistan winning it would all but ensure an independent state for the bengalis. bangladesh at the time was known as east pakistan on the eastern flank of india it along with west pakistan from the nation of pakistan. but led by this man shaikh more of a man is pakistan's been gollies feeling alienated and abused revolted against their government. a brutal military crackdown ensued.

soon india's hand was forced and it intervened militarily. pakistan lost the war and with it the state of bangladesh was born. with woman as its 1st president the end in a bloody conflict that cost an estimated $3000000.00 lives according to government figures. and displaced more than 10 times as many. since then has seen political assassinations and coups. throughout much of the eighty's the country was run by the military. by the 1990 s. democracy had returned. and in the 50 years since bangladesh gained its independence its praise for turning its war torn beginnings into a hopeful future for its young population. is a research fellow of the bond divisions to do it of peace and security studies and

he joins me now from talk with that welcome and happy independence day i know it's a big question to us but i'll ask it anyway on their 50th year of independence to most hopeful about their future in the country. thank you very much it's a pleasure to be here indeed this is not only will feel beautiful but they feel very optimistic about the future we have traversed a lot of ground in the last half a century our economic indicators our social indicators are absolutely marvelous and the last decade and a half that's seen balmer there are very impressive economic growth trajectory of course we have also plethora of challenges ahead of us as well and how we navigated the over 9000 pandemic in and its aftermath is one of those many challenges that we face but overall the people obama with this specially feel

a deep sense of optimism about the next 50 years but where does or india fit into that picture over the next 50 years given their historical connections between the 2 countries. you are right in the amount of this shared a very historic to be a very close relationship india was a very pivotal partner in bottom of this is independence struggle and the countries share one of the longest land borders in the world and they're also civilizational an historical and cultural ties. bumbler this once to grow and deepen its relationship with the india prime minister narendra modi as a arrived in town today for this event which also coincides with the 100 that are perseverant the birth of the fall of the nation on the ship which when i'm up at the 50th anniversary obama this is independence there are many areas where in the above the shared work together the fact that deep in the relationship but there

also needs to be a very realistic thing on the relationship in our press of the challenges well one of the hopes that we have from the visit is that there won't be. a fun the deepening of ties in terms of connectivity. given the economic and cultural each month and also realistic on addressing some of the challenges that. face the british. in the in the near terms or given. the exchange of vaccines or rather the delivery of over 1000 vaccine for example from india to body levey's does that provide some sort of a template of relations moving forward. the going back to you know how that scene in each one does he need some quite encouraging our this is getting the vaccine from india and we hope. that this would be have good template for taking the relationship forward engagement in terms of combat in the pandemic and

other nontraditional security challenges as well. yes so we are hopeful about that we hope that the vaccine diplomacy replay are all in strengthening the relationship they are there any specific expectations of bangladesh has from not only more these visit this time around. what are those expectations it is as i said earlier a deepening of the connectivity and the economic ties and also. some resolution on some of the outstanding issues like the peace the water which has something actually in the relationship in the past but we are hopeful i mean like all neighbors and friends there are. sometimes challenges in the relationship but the 2 countries have. reached a stage where in a very mature manner and through a bilateral in here and. other for us they can dress all the challenges and move

forward but we are going to go from the visit there in addition to strengthening the good will some tangible our councils are competent and all through that happens we leave it there for the time being thank you so much for speaking to us just got money from the bangladesh institute of peace and security studies in tycho thank you so much thank you. i believe it today with images of celebrations across bond others as it marks 50 years of independence and 100 years since the birth of funding leadership of. iraq a member. of. that

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culture. another village. you want to become citizens. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. welcome to arts and culture on this edition. an artist puts a contemporary spin on old portraits by moscow in the subjects faces. and an architect and travel lover turned baker manages to combine all 3 of her passions. but 1st beethoven famously said that music can change the world that's nowhere more evident than in a new exhibition at the german history museum in bonn it charts the course of

popular music through germany's post-war history and highlights how over the years it's co-existed with and influenced politics. music is history the 1980s were political a young german woman in cap she dated what people were feeling. even in that side this was the time when the big question of whether nuclear weapons should be stationed in germany was at the for a question that didn't only interest young people in germany i mean his anti-war song $99.00 red balloons was an earworm for many all around the world. you know it was an overnight sensation. in the 1950s germany tapped its feet to us walking no music from the likes of elvis presley. and bill haley.

the music captured the sight geist the music was canned she too but 1st and foremost it captured a way of life you'd hear a great song then you'd go out and buy the record and listen to it and play it at the next party. the 9060s rock and revolution german concerts by the beatles and the rolling stones often got a little out of hand. punk rock arrived in the 1970 s. . rules of the german roost. lindenberg ventured into east west politics in the eighty's the west german rockers got to perform in communist east germany. the us rock musician

bruce springsteen his $988.00 gig in east berlin was the biggest opening concert in the other germany's 40 year history. you could add to the germany had the crazy idea that if we let the big question in a concert that will satisfy our young people and help us control them. the idea was doomed to failure the burning wall fell in november 1909 and $1.00 song became the german reunification. of the bar. down. and for a trip down memory lane my colleague adrian kennedy is in the studio with me and

ambitious exhibition adrian so what does popular music tell us about german history well a recurring topic is of course german unity we had. been able to put on a one off concert in east germany in 1903 but they're off to he was not allowed back and he had to wait until after the wall fell to fulfill his dream of a full. of eastern germany an emotional show in the light seeking $990.00 parts of the exhibition and we heard nina's famous antiwar anthem that that presented a new face of germany to the world it did. also a year earlier nicole had had a surprise victory in the your vision song contest with a little piece i remember it quite well because it was number one in the u.k. tour in the falklands war but these 2 songs to kind of a stamp edition new idea of the german has amused me but can stock sandal

wearing peacenik and do you think that those songs played a big role in changing germany's international image well they at least reflected the change that was going on. up until then most peoples owning council were german port had been crushed for a very different image of the german the technocrats rather cold emotional although we have to remember that in the music of. of craftwork it's quite sentimental and has a lot of warmth at its core right and adrian i had that it was an encounter with jevan music that actually brought you to ballad yes i was inspired by legendary starts and to annoy about. this was a west berlin band that made music with cement mixes pneumatic drills and metal pipes the concert was dubbed the best gig since the crucifix haitian crucifix crucifixion story and it really quite blew my mind and prompted me to jump on

a bus and get over to west berlin to find out what was going on and we're very glad you did and the rest as they say is music and history thank you very much my colleague adrian kennedy thank you some other news now brazil's christ the redeemer statue is getting a facelift ahead of its 90th anniversary celebrations in october dozens of engineers architects and geologists are scaling it 38 meters to remove rust and replace weakened rocks before the pandemic some 2000000 people visited the statue every year. scotland's aberdeen university is to become the 1st institution to return a benny bronze sculpture to nigeria the university said the work depicting a king was a quiet in reprehensible circumstances bush stole just destroyed by any city in the late 19th century looting thousands of treasures from the palace the move raises

pressure on other establishments including the british museum to follow suit. well dozens of german museums still have been in bronze as to the culture minister monica pluto's has called a special summit to discuss restitution and we'll have more on germany's role in looted african arts next week here on arts and culture. now to an artist who takes what's gone before and really interprets it painter for her hair mass has a love of the old masters and their portraits he's particularly interested in the clues they offer about their subjects and the times they lived in and he's found a unique way to reveal their secrets. europe's museums are filled with paintings like leaves the rich and famous of centuries past. portraits painted to exude high status

and noble character. artist foca hammers looks to portraits of the past for inspiration. he takes the paintings of old masters and reworks them digitally with one big twist. the subject's faces are fail and. presents them in a way that modern viewers can't so easily ignore. countries or who. can break down the hurdle to these works if you just had a humorous aspect which at the same time highlights important features of the image without overwhelming it. by masking

hammers aims to unmask he takes elements already present in the works and multiplies them. the idea is to exaggerate visual codes already built into the paintings codes that people at the time would have understood but that viewers today need help decoding. voluminous wigs for instance one stood for great wealth for the hamma satirizes the conventions of past era us masking the actual faces perhaps to refocus the attention. in the midst. of in this individuality the faces and blocking our access to this. it's almost as if we were standing in front of the painting and holding one hand up to it so we can concentrate more on the areas of. the gun so the incredible diversity of these pictures revealed becomes far more pronounced when i take away the faces.

herremans has been creating these hidden portraits now for around a decade last year he began posting them on instagram and became a global sensation perhaps because so many of us can relate to wearing masks. maria trought sky and studied architecture in moscow in paris in 2012 she discovered baking and it became a passion now she mixes her fields of interest making desserts that look and even taste like famous landmarks. the skyline of copenhagen the eiffel tower in paris the sydney opera house these edible works of art are the creations of maria trucks going on. here but i'm primarily interested

in the artistic aspects it's a kind of performance for. her copenhagen berlin cake is especially elaborate and took 3 days to complete it's made of short crust pastry with nothing chocolate sponge without flour coffee mousse and a glossy glaze made from salted caramel the optical highlight is the chocolate skyline. what's important is that the landmarks of the most cities are recognizable and will when i am in one of them it was a special request from a customer who loved both european capitals. a version of st basil's cathedral of her hometown moscow was up course amongst the shape of a cake is just as essential to her as its taste each recalls the flavors of the respective country was a was moscow tastes like the typically eastern european blend of spices but combined with something light and fluffy like a butter cream it doesn't seem to bother her that her artistic creations end up

being devoured. remember that's the most important part of the taste is everything you. and i didn't leave a slice for me. you can find more on all those stories on our website that's d.w. dot com slash culture and as venice celebrates its 1600 birthday i'll leave you with just at the very days left. sung by francesca dato at last in each opera house the same venue of its $853.00 premiere from the whole team from arts and culture in berlin of evil dead she.

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