no i want to meet all of those women back home who are bound by their duties and social goals and inform them about the basic rights my name is the about of people home and their work. you're watching news asia coming up today we take a closer look at india and pakistan improved relations what's driving it how genuine is it and for how long will it hold especially given the tensions over the past 2 years. plus if you paint it purple they will come south koreans with no overseas travel opportunities because of the pandemic has found a holiday spot closer to home.

i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia india and pakistan have had a tense couple of years over the disputed territory of kashmir following a 2019 suicide bombing there and fighter jets skirmishes they had almost gone to war but the 2 countries appear to be making an attempt to move on helped along by a cease fire agreement recently brokered by the united arab emirates both sides are making overtures a communique of peace this led to circulating on social media this one purportedly sent by indian prime minister in the run promote to his pakistani counterpart imraan khan in it a wish for quote your relations with the people of pakistan. the message of goodwill as described by pakistani officials on twitter came just days after modi wished khan a speedy recovery from covert 19 these the 1st signs of reproach between the

traditional rivals in 2 years. the flashpoint kashmir a region both india and pakistan claim fully control in part and each of these parts divided by a so-called line of control both armies regularly exchanged fire across this defacto border despite an 18 year old ceasefire agreement. tensions reached a high point in august 29000 when india decided to scrap the autonomous status of its part of kashmir. all our friends i have full confidence that through this new step. we can all join together. and kashmir free of terrorism and separatism. india placed a state of jammu and kashmir under a strict lockdown internet and phone services were cut off. it's

a pakistan war and india's actions were a sign of worse things to come. this action will not stop at kashmir. tensions between the 2. incidents of firing across the line of control. some $7000.00 until february this year when both countries agreed to once again respect to cease fire. relations with pakistan you have always maintained good producing issues if any in a peaceful manner. a sentiment that was repeated some weeks later by pakistan's army chief who said it was time to quote bury the past and move forward. since then teams from both countries have made to discuss a water sharing pact the 1st such dialogue in 2 years. peace between

both nations still remains elusive but there is hope that recent developments bring a welcome change. joining us his shots of jelani shots why have india and pakistan decided to bring down the temperature now. that's a really good question but there's a slightly difficult one to answer because you know the 2 countries have a long history of deep mistrust if you ask analysts in india davil take a cynical view and say that pakistan has run out of options to pressure india on kashmir its economy is suffering and it is desperate to try to improve relations with india now there is some truth to the fact that box sounds economy is indeed hurting it is in debt inflation is high the i.m.f. suspended its program for

a year it has just been restored buckstone has been under pressure by the financial action task force the international body that monitors terror financing and money laundering so bug stands economic problems are huge but i think a more plausible reason would be the change in washington and the government has the biden spirit administration is very keen to progress on of gonna stand it needs pakistan on its side budgets on and return once the us due to pressure india to improve relations and so there's a lot of signaling going on in the last month. by the 2 sides and that is a 5 year beginning to see an early signs of possible improvement well i guess it sounds like prognosticating is going to be a little difficult so i'm not sure how much you can answer but how likely then will we see the 2 sides continue down this path. so if you've observed the

pattern in india pakistan relations this is something we have seen before. what we are seeing now is carefully choreographed statements from both sides on the leadership talking about burying the past and reaching the hand of friendship the indian prime minister sending a letter of good will couple of days ago and then also reaching the pakistani prime minister well when he was diagnosed or for corona so they are exchanging basic go to seize. and there is on the line of control in kashmir for the last month or so so they are taking these baby steps to try to create an environment where they can gain some momentum the words in gauge more and the next thing to look at is a meeting in tajikistan to moreover the pakistani foreign minister and the indian foreign minister are there for hard official conference on afghanistan and there's

an expectation that they meet there might meet on the sidelines they're playing it down they're saying nothing as you're doing for now but that's something to watch if they indeed meet we might hear some more positive noises that's very interesting now you had mentioned the united states i want to bring in china pakistan and china have very close relations and last year india and china had a deadly border battle so how has china's relationship with both countries played a part in their decision to maintain friendlier relations now. so we know that the word china is a strategic partner of pakistan it has provided weapons in the past it is investing billions of dollars in infrastructure project in one belt one road. scheme in pakistan but in the last couple of years i would see the excitement about investing in pakistan has somewhat slowed down. a notch or 2 did

a means to dziedzic partners india every time pakistan has scored with india in the un in the security council china has come to the rescue so that relationship between china and pakistan is strong but at the same time johnno doesn't really want constant bickering and broad between india and pakistan so it has tried to encourage by august on to to dissolve its border dispute the dispute with india. i think that the india china border dispute which went on for a couple of months could have focused minds in india about not trying to open too many fronts. but i think for the most part china and bogs down partnership is very much intact so you talk a little bit about this earlier but can you say a little more about the domestic pressures driving both prime minister narendra modi and prime minister imran khan in this. so you know there's a belief in both the countries. if peace is ever achieved between them

it will be through the hawks on both sides so at the moment we have prime minister narendra modi who is a hardline hindu nationalist. in india and pakistan we have the prime minister in brown hand but effectively the government and policies run by the army and when the army chief in pakistan says we want to bury the past and we want to move forward with the other exciting opportunities that says a lot so there is clearly. opposition but in each country there's a strong meaty lobby in pakistan pakistan will want to see some movement on kashmir to try to take a leadership on board so they don't get a sense of being abandoned. but i think. india feels it can now engage with pakistan from a position of strength after having unilaterally effectively annexed meet in august

1900 it feels it has got nothing to lose shuts up jelani thank you so much for joining us. it's monday the start of another week and when we all rather be on vacation then working well since travel has been especially difficult this pandemic year here at the del feel will at least take you on a visual if not actual trip to one very lavater island in south korea. no there's nothing wrong with your screen these islands really are purple from the purple roofs roads and bridges to the lavender fields and even the locals working in the. in the morning i dress up in purple from head to toe even including my underwear and shoes and it makes me happy when i go to other cities like. people praise me as i am from the purple islands and i feel great that

. inspired by native flower and government tourism initiative residents of the ban will and back she islands in southwest korea have cleverly transformed their towns into a tourist attraction more than $4000000.00 u.s. dollars have gone into purpling up pretty much everything there are purple hotels and restaurants and there's even purple food. we couldn't travel overseas due to covert 19 so we thought about a local trip instead and we found these purple lions so i'm here with my friends and we're all dressed up in purple it's amazing and looks like fairy tales and magic as i'm seeing the grandmas are all wearing purple close to it's dreamy for. visitors who wear the magic color are allowed free entry to the islands they can

stroll along the 3 purple foot bridges connecting the islands and if they get tired they can take a break on one of these benches i purple you was made popular by a member of the k. pop band b.t.s. and something which attracts even more visitors. imo big b.t.s. fare and so there's many places there are in korea that i wanted to visit because of the connection with the ts and this is one place that i had seen online and i thought it was so beautiful and wanted to come and when i came it's true it's just as beautiful as in all the pictures and i didn't know that it even would have this year so it's really nice to see all these things as a fan little more than 100 people actually live on the purple islands and then mainly elderly farmers they say they're happy about the tourists now visiting their home even if some do were the wrong color. that's it from us today we leave you with pictures out of india and the annual hindu festival of colors

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welcome to arts and culture getting high on jazz. that's a very rough translation of the name jazz house the jazz big band also calls itself one of the busiest bands in europe before covered 19 they were playing about $120.00 concerts a year now the group launched its new album with a live stream concert from the const hollow museum in munich. oh. oh. oh. 0. 2 dozen musicians all with a negative coronavirus test but a positive attitude after all as difficult as dealing with the pandemic is organizing a big band is also a huge challenge. but

a few months traveling to china with a big band of 25 people as opposed to a trio is probably always a kind of catastrophic situation so i have the feeling i didn't need to give the topic of the pandemic too much attention because it's already taking up everyone's attention everywhere. but it is because of the pandemic that this concert took place without an audience. and this is what a normal jazz cowshed big band concert looks like sweaty dancing bodies pressed up against others something that's hard to imagine now. but since the coronavirus has been on a world tour the band has stayed at home and live streamed concerts without an audience viewers can pay what they want to watch them.

oh my gosh you know if you tried out various ticketing schemes based on voluntary. contributions and we quickly learned that we can depend on our fans we made more or less the same amount that we do for a normal live concert going to. the 10 tracks on the new album have a more international flavor than earlier releases. that's due to their contact with the global audience in the days before the coronavirus. and i even met you notice things like how do people at a jazz festival in shanghai react to us what pieces to people in nairobi respond to how does someone in london respond i think seeing these reactions in a constantly changing setting leads to an internationalist ation in the music and

our influences are the paygo. but all the tracks have one thing in common they make you want to get up and groove luckily dancing with yourself is still allowed. or one place where people hopefully won't have to dance a lot and soon as london's iconic royal albert hall now marking its 150th anniversary and walked out queen victoria dedicated the concert hall to her late husband prince albert back in 87 he won the royal albert put out a video message narrated by mick jagger saying they look forward to being able to

open against syria. speaking of returns artists. back home and the armenian capital yerevan after last year's brief war with neighboring azerbaijan the armed conflicts may be over for now but armenians national experiences and brushes with death are now fuelling his painting. last autumn armenian artist cedric for the cognitive volunteered on the front line of the new war a violent conflict between his country and neighboring as a by john in his new painting he associates the biblical figure of judas a jewish widow who saved her hometown from a syrian soldiers with armenia he's trying to come to terms with his country's defeat. sometimes it happens that you paint take a painting and spoil it deliberately you understand that you will continue to work

and finish a painting after all i'm sure it's a similar process to dealing with the war you just have to go through. their economies painting style mixes armenian traditions and national colors with soviet era ascetics and images of superheroes and iconic movie characters. as a volunteer soldier barely cartney ended up in the so-called hell's gorge near the city of shusha the clashes there were especially brutal. we were attacked with rockets and cluster bombs were used terrible. if we hadn't

been able to shelter in this cave many of us would have died because we were bombed very aggressively when i look at this photo i can't believe it's me sometimes i want to return there for some reasons i don't know how to explain it maybe it's a feeling that something has not been completed. the beauty of the landscape there was amazing. the war ended on november 10th when a cease fire agreement was signed very commonly returned home in early december he's glad to be alive but he feels apathetic and i'm certain he says he changed after the war and that all armenians have changed. the gender of a certain that day when the war ended we learned that everything was over. on the one hand you understand how events developed an offensive was being prepared on our front and i don't know how it would have ended on the other hand there was an

understanding that what had been there before us all that was no longer there we could not defend it we could not save her i also think about the deaths of young men all this is so hard for the future. now art helps the year of an artist to cope with difficult memories. i'm a loser and i draw i analyze i try to understand who we are what we are as for more than what we are for why this small country between these empires is needed why we exist here what should we give to people to the world. cedric valley cognate says a rethinking process is needed for a country to survive the bitterness of defeat in war he tries to do that through his paintings. it's all about resilience and that's certainly true for

germany's jewish communities 76 years after the holocaust jews are a small but growing minority in germany israeli born photographer rafael have a sense been documenting jewish life here for decades is on a personal mission to show germans and the world what the nazi regime tried to erase. north. apartments for in frankfurt through this ritual a boy is rendered accountable for his actions by jewish law. hellish often photographs occasions like this his images show how jews live and go about their daily lives his aim is to appeal for greater tolerance. if. it's amazing because there's so much interest many people come up to me after seeing the photos and say we didn't know how beautiful jewish life could be and i'm

glad it's a great privilege to be able to show it to them was a privilege to sort of say. rafael hellish we'll never forget one particular barmitzvah the boys grandparents had survived the holocaust seen in the photos with their grandson are there tattoos that identify them as one time inmates of the auschwitz concentration camp the photographer shows pictures like these to school classes and explains the meaning of the tattoos. these cannot who did this why did they do and where were they what happened was that what is auschwitz this is one of the important tasks i've been performing in germany. the years your along. a concrete block house left over from world war 2 now rises where frankfurt's biggest synagogue once stood before the nazis burned it down in 1938 today exhibitions are held there such as one with raphael how they see

photos of jewish life the photographer shows his pictures to his daughter orley. to go to the i'd like to show that jewish life from this place that was nothing but ashes jewish tradition goes on in germany today if the at the tomb. the search for his own family's fate also makes up part of the exhibition the murder of his grandparents by the nazis it's hard for him to talk about but necessary the rising numbers of anti-semitic attacks leave no doubt about that. because of the renewed hatred of jews in germany today it's important to me personally to show this and not remain silent or look away any longer. here rafael hellish visits his father's grave he had survived the concentration

camp another stone commemorates rafael's half brother who was murdered by the nazis when he was only 2 months old his father was never able to talk about it. at 1st i was angry about it but later i found out everything that had happened to him i can only say what a wonderful person he was in his own way he protected his family and i really respect that because it was. hellish dedicates his work to fighting not only anti-semitism but every form of racism and exclusion he says he'll keep at it for as long as he can. this year germany's marking 1700 years of jewish life in the country will be meeting more jewish artists in germany in the days and months to come. well that's almost it for this arts and culture leave you now with a century old house in san jose california that's getting a new home so to speak the victorian style building was set for demolition until the community raised $300000.00 to move it so you next time.

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