this is news and these are our top stories tributes are being paid to britain's prince philip husband of queen elizabeth the 2nd who has died at the age of 99 at windsor castle his health had been deteriorating in recent months with several spells in hospital british prime minister boris johnson praised the prince for his extraordinary life and work. of ok no has erupted on the caribbean island of st vincent for the 1st time in 4 decades 20000 people have been evacuated but

the coronavirus has complicated the operation neighboring islands want to accept only vaccinated people at 70 at the volcano. first started in december and picked up this week. german chancellor angela merkel plans to reduce the power of regional leaders to decide coronavirus policy germany is battling a 3rd wave of infections and scientists warn hospitals will soon be overwhelmed local decision making has led to a confusing patchwork of regulations the government now plans to impose national restrictions. this is the news from berlin you can follow us on twitter and facebook all check out our website d w dot com. welcome

to arts and culture britain's prince philip has died at the age of 99 a staunch fighter for the preservation of the monarchy philip was a member of the greek and danish royal families until 1947 when he married elizabeth later queen elizabeth the 2nd always at her side or a few steps behind that was royal protocol for the prince concert philip was married to elizabeth for more than 70 years he was known for his witty quips and for off color comments that often veered off script he was also credited with helping bring the royal family into the age of television. though its death was confirmed by windsor castle earlier we spoke to d.w. correspondent charlotte chelsea pale in london. he has been with that married to the queen as

a 17 years remains at the site by has signed for countless appearances often through very difficult times for the monarchy what springs to mind of course is the death of princess diana in 1907 that posed a huge challenge for the royal family and that the public support the image then off to the death of princess diana was with a face to this very serious challenge she remains throughout he's known of course for his his hema for his no nonsense attitude at times and indeed for his gaffes as well on international engagement he had been known in the pasta makes him some controversial comments which i'll remember widely but he is as the longest serving consul it has attended some 22000 so a solo abends many more with the queen as well he who that will be remembered as

a figure of stability and i think as well is an icon here in the u.k. the public service regardless of whether you are chrome on a key here he has been a constant steadying figure it here for decades the british royal family tweeted it is with deep sorrow that her majesty the queen has announced the death of her beloved husband the royal family joined with people around the world and mourning his loss and words of support are pouring in from around the world canadian prime minister justin trudeau said prince philip was a man of great purpose and conviction motivated by a sense of duty to others and india's prime minister narendra modi tweeted may his soul rest in peace. now to russia where a documentary film festival is fighting for freedom of expression the arts dog fest shows documentaries that often aren't what the kremlin would call patriotic films

with critical political viewpoints or films that tell the stories of oppressed gays and lesbians authorities in st petersburg already shut down the festival bear before it began they say because of coronavirus rich actions. it was though at the moscow edition where most of the films made it on screen. desperation. in more than $100.00 films the ark talk fest in moscow offers a broad spectrum of emotions and thoughts that includes thoughts about today's russia that few people there dare to voice out loud fearing government reprisals. the thing about the current leadership in russia is that they do not allow any open dialogue at all about topics that are disagreeable to them. in the recruit's which was pretty close. to berlin. in the film

cutler van for instance the protagonists confess their concerns to their cell phones and they don't shy away from strong language when describing our country life now 30 get us through. the film called love than had its premiere last year at the berlin film festival and since then not a single russian festival has dared to show the authorities do everything to destroy films that tell about the crimes those in power committed against their own people. or they just banned the entire festival that's what happened with the regional edition of the art talk fest in st petersburg when police sealed the cinema due to alleged violations of coronavirus regulations. in moscow. ortiz withdrew a film about gays in chechnya saying threats had been issued. and russian ultranationalists tried to disrupt the screening of a film about crimea just some of the problems of provocations the art doc fast has

to contend with each year but along with the domestic russian perspective it also offers an outside view of the world as with productions by to achieve. in his film about german reunification w.'s general manager peter lim book relates his personal experiences they include memories of former german chancellor helmut kohl historical speech and dressed in. a film about beethoven's 9th symphony takes viewers on a journey around the world to highlight the iconic works global influence. by. and in a production by the w.'s moscow bureau russian viewers can experience their country through the perspective of a german russian t.v. team and meet 6 generations of their compatriots from 6 regions of russia. they are talk fest either functions the way we want to or not at all we won't compromise

with those in power. so they are tucked fest remains the only film festival in russia that dares to be confrontational and challenging and it calls on its audience to cover their mouths and noses but not their eyes. and staying in eastern europe or alexander lukashenko is often called europe's last dictator he's still in power with backing from russia despite condemnation from the united nations and the european union last year hundreds of thousands of belorussians took to the streets against sham elections and their country. responded with violent crackdowns since then reports are still emerging from belarus of censorship political arrests and torture. so what remains of that time and what's next for bella ruse my guest vitaly alex a marked published a book about last summer's protests the white days of men sc our dream of

a free bella rousseau it's out now and german and vitaly alex a not as are an orchestra conductor and artistic director of the aba coast symphony orchestra and munich germany who went back home developers last august to vote against location and to participate in the protests. but tell your book describes a very unique time in your country that at least then seemed to be a turning point what was it like for you when you went back to belarus last august and yet it was and it has made another continent other people know this people with all sorts of to be even more. free spirits creative and more beautiful than any of us put this image and on the other hand we also experienced incredible violence many have called quote the regime deep in 2020 and continues to do to date to sign it against its own people in full days alone between nights and 12000 going to more

than 7000 people that are a city and this people with tortured beaten held without food and water for many days and we all those who been not detained i was like it wasn't a danger but he didn't know it and if he goes it's sourced to all the kit no internet in those days the authorities had to cut off communications across the country when they turned it back on and we saw what crimes that taken place a huge baseball city there to threw him on that loosened people in a way that no of us going to see major and now the tell you right in your book about how you helped conduct a protest choir you write about the power of traditional valorous and songs what was special about that experience. yes this was they so-called required as far as we had open air concerts outside the club want to close a few weeks in august when there was a danger that we would be detained we started to create more partisan actions and

every day we deep secret place mosques in different buildings and means we have the same just different music and these music on the go to practice carts the because we didn't want to close omagh and keep doing something seemed something and these goals are very inspiring to people and continues to be so actually now people meet in other cities in the us to see and express the news in these way i tell you were born in 1000 anyone because shankar came to power when you were just 3 but at some point you did begin to question has authoritarian the government how did music play a role in that. first when i was a child i had no doubt that all the things to be saw around us where quite normal day all day books and the more i realized that it was probably possible to lease differently it should be possible to travel to other countries to speak other languages and it should be also possible to have a different political system not being destroyed as

a parson and for me they awareness of possible alternatives was music when i was 1516 the old i discovered it in the vault of classical music and i realised that you can leave different you can choose and you can create another tell it just briefly if you could bellerose nobel prize winning author spent a lot. of it has the chief errors there could be a civil war and belarus do you share her fears. and listen to i think the this is it was a beat and i have been talking to this in a lot lately and ended the suit by she says she says that being in the exile she sees already. behave and at the same time she regularly meets people who are not prepared to put up with this and i know she's constantly thinking about it david can wean peacefully through these and so to say bennett is a person that i am convinced that we have to be no violence because we are about.

to tell you thank you so much for talia alexei knox book the white days of men scour dream of a free belarus is out now and the german edition vitaly thanks for coming on arts and culture and. some more cultural news now archaeologists are hailing one of the biggest discoveries in egypt in a century a lost city dating back more than 3000 years near the city of luxor archaeologists said they have already discovered several mayberg hundreds of the gold in the city making it the biggest ancient egyptian city ever found they say the ruins will provide deep insight into a life and ancient egypt's wealthiest period under ruler and ho-tep the 3rd. and giant sculptures by 92 year old japanese artist your crew some and now phillip in new york a platonic old garden. hose work is influenced by her own bouts with hallucinations but also by growing up around her grandfather's nursery and japan after years of

preparation the exhibition was supposed to open last year and march now finally visitors can see it from this weekend. that's almost it for this edition of arts and culture i'll leave you though now with the legendary late musician prince who was so prolific during his life that there are still new albums coming out with music from his archives 5 years after his death the latest welcome to america is due out this july and there's already a preview have a listen see you next time. well to. where you can fail it's your job to get rehired. and get a $700000000000.00 tim. company. and given that you know. half.

the w.'s crime fighters are back at a bit of africa's most successful radio drama series continues then all of us owens are available online of course you can share and discuss on t w africa's facebook page and other social media platforms to crime fighters to mindanao. 986. it's very story of their very own personal trauma. the people who survived the catastrophe remember. and they share private footage with us that is never been seen before. back to chernobyl stuart's april 28th on t.w. .

a primal emotion. i mean stink response. but for something so fundamental fear is still a mystery. why are some people frozen by phobia while others seem like super humans. here is really doesn't exist no mind if and when he says frozen. cannot deepest fears be overcome and should we even try issues with a living breathing case study of what life would be like without fear or could fear in fact be good for us. to survive what is armies. thanks can you bear to find out. thanks.

sticks there's nothing like a walk through a haunted house there's thrills and chills. and shrieks of laughter. but facing your deepest fears is no laughing matter. oh miles. there's no better place to study fear than at its most extreme. but if you look calmer than they come that's exhale and. merriam can a gator is terrified of chickens the instant she sees a chicken her memory tells her body to go on high alert. oh

my so great is that. what you see actually is really irrational behavior. given the dosage right. and even though they realize that there is no real threat the moment that they are in the situation they rest falls as if there is your real danger and that they will die. our brain does not differentiate between whether the fear is rational or not. then a threat is real danger or no real danger miriam is here with dr merrill can't of the university of amsterdam in a radical attempt to cure her paralyzing fear. that. super hooker that one little pill a known heart medication appears to wipe away fear. 24 hours later dr kent accompanies miriam back to the rooster reasons.

for 40 years what do you feel. the let's relax yeah. yeah. fulginiti they found that. the motivation. for payback. is emotional and that if you're going through this crisis. from crying in fia to tears of relief a phobia is gone. yet she spoke to a rooster as almost a new friend. yet that was quite sad that coffin singing and. also impressive. reports of a cure for fear have attracted a lot of attention to talk to kids clinic eva holland has come all the way from canada to see what she can do about how fear of heights. she's writing

a book on her experiences with fear and was initially skeptical about this therapy it sounds like science fiction but just a single pill a 2 minute exposure will cure your decades long focus it doesn't even seem like convincing science fiction but the more i read about it it was it was clear that it seemed to be working for people like i 1st meet you as dr ken straight month is based on a new understanding of how fear memories walk it's not understood that they are not fixed in storage like a photograph bought that they get periodical resave and a manual. ought to be kill his 1st trick in a figure members by exposing people to a situation or stimulus that they figure in them i get really freaked generally freaks out yet. so we trigger these what we call fear memory.

here and then what is important is that something new should happen. because this is a signal to the brain to update. the memory. and if that happens that means that the memory trace is temporarily in an i d's several lives states. what's new in this case is that even a really tries to take in the experience and not look away. you really are can't go again are you but you are doing well right now. one doctor can feels that even as fear has been fully triggered i return to the ground. i'm still shaking. her composure everywhere. no. one fill out.

a fight let's try to stick to. that wanted to follow the instructions to the letter i wasn't supposed to do anything that might trigger me to feel afraid at all. and just kind of try to stay in a little bubble until i went to sleep. the idea of restating the memory happens during the night. between districts this process by giving the client a pail of propranolol. the bill has been used for years as hard medication but when administered under exact conditions it also blocks the work of a neurotransmitter involved in resave in memory. the memory has been changed in a way that it doesn't trigger this for we stroll for your response the next day eva

and dr kent are back at the fire station looking looking at the good yeah. that's a good. so far as well better than yesterday yeah. if you change position because here you feel horribly unfair you do to shirk yet call. as soon as we lifted off the ground it felt completely different the day before. we went all the way to debunk its upper limit and it was windier things than even the day before the bucket was shaking and i kept waiting to get scared and i did it i guess today when i don't like i was going to fall over. it felt like a completely different experience. every time when i see my clients being so scared it's really intense to be cutting but i'm doing i think it's necessary to charles a few it and to see the difference is there relief happiness this is extremely

rewarding. important of behavior therapy still many people that show reacts at all. they've been maintaining. in traditional therapy apostle nuns to overcome their fear by approaching that trigger over and over again then limits each time what happens in the brain is better than the new memory traces form to call it a sort of states memory or an inhibitory memory an additional memory competes with d. or which you know for your memory. and to fear memory remains in texts and this explains that people may relapse because if your memory is so strong. a hand not so difficult to reinstate if it was false. so even though they know that they shouldn't be afraid of spiders if you shouldn't be afraid of dogs or chickens or whatever they cannot change that. and so it is

a sort of. fraction into brain between the book and part of the brain are rational thinking and the emotional part of brain and this is such an. challenge from. what is new is to hear that we can change the emotional memory or to fear memory itself. only forming a new memory trace that competes with the fear memories. these new insights of fear learning and memory are at the forefront of science. well. he. is not something dr kent recommends. if i think of her life is not a fair few quark's m.t.v.

my greatest fear is that something bad happens to my children so i realize that's even though it is not a nice feeling of forest that is the other side of the love and that are few for my children. but how is it that some people panic before chickens spiders all heights while others. like calm their mellow seem to have no fear. collars a motocross stunt champion from all over canada when i was 3 years old i got my 1st year back up this kind of riding bikes up and down the road. my school friends bigger bigger steeper steeper go higher bigger distances. under tarps a commitment on the streets and as a consequence is a can be very high will we see the front seat during this 1st round yes. it's.

undeterred by pain fear or a broken down bike call immediately trying to again. yes i'm going to try to see. what. i. use. when tricks have gone wrong or crash or hurt myself and then i get up and you get to say 10 tries 20 tries maybe a 100 tries the feeling right when some new word there been done. your energy spikes a future in spite. of the course sure you do you really did enjoy the 1st robots no but this is their car. period really doesn't exist it exists in our mind but that's it and when you face it it's gone.

it actually kind of becomes addicting. non-com has come to vanderbilt university nashville in the us to work with david sound who wants to know how qandil swithin or if he feels it's a total what's my story i wanted to make music and film video and write soundtracks but somehow that didn't work out i ended up moving into neuroscience as a profession. conwell undergo a brain scan. doctors zone and also new scary pictures just to calm you would know that they are fake instead he uses gory images that activate the same brain region that is triggered by threats. hard not to have an emotional response to these images and so it really challenges the person to be able to clamp down on

that emotional experience that they have what i want you to do is try to reduce any emotional experience that you have during those pictures. if there is something special in connally's brain that makes him immune to fear dr zone will say it. the next morning the results are in. this is that area that we're particularly interested in. because it is really central to the experience fear. doctors all can see that coddles visual cortex at the back of the brain lights up as it takes in the threatening information normally the amidala would be fired up as well but not connell's you're

basically look quite silent in that condition by contrast the visual cortex is still doing some amount of response in terms of trying to figure out what it seeing everything we looked at here how can we relate this to it my writing and understand aspects of fear and how i deal with it. there are couple things i think are relevant for you in particular one of them is that you do experience fear of what can happen i remember my 1st attempt after the 1st stick crashes i was scared i was nervous i was shaking. but you show a really strong ability to down regulate that of me that circuitry that's involved when people are anxious or afraid you can control it to enough of a degree that allows you to actually go forward and do the tricks to do the jumps.

on the great ability to clamp down on fear also appears to get an extra rush from overcoming it dr zoner studied how thrill seekers have a greater amount of dopamine a kind of reward chemical flowing through their brains. found is that when presented with something that's highly motivating they get a stronger response to for you i think you know throughout your life there's been that whole to do it. so you're telling me a little bit about preparing a new job yes like when it comes out for doctors around fearlessness is that the heart of what it means to be human. if we think about evolutionary history humans spread out across the entire globe and then their relatively short amount of time it looks like how how did we do that if you had to be able to overcome fears of

doing certain things that hadn't been done before so folks who can do that may have a real advantage. so people like karl might be at the vanguard of human evolution. could it be that getting scared is actually good for us. no other creature on earth likes to get scab quite the way humans do. is very tall so. 6 why do people pay to enter the haunted houses and risk area. into. a. truck over fast is a 27 acre stream park and we have hoards all throughout the property. if they gave out ph d.'s in haunted house design sociologist. would teach the course

she's here in pennsylvania with patrick on appeals to give him some of the science behind his scam a finely tuned mix of psychology and physiology this room does a good job of taking childhood. dolls and toys things that we remember and regard with a lot of this knowledge and basically defiling really create such a big decision and such a violation of our childhood things that we think are supposed to be joyful and happy and now they're all the sudden the exact opposite i remember a lot of light nightmares when i was younger and it had to do with things in the room. we mix the real earth as well as props on these so with the chaotic life very loud music there are not 100 percent sure what's going on. our startle reflex does get

saturated after repeated start all in quick succession. if you start to tune it out. and here you do have an assault on the senses but it's in a confined space just enough time to really get the system ramped up and then move on to something else so that the customer doesn't get oversaturated. my smelling hurts fire snow we burn a device to emit that odor to immerse the customer our sense of smell is such a powerful sense it's tapped into our memories in such liar and ways it's the only sense where we're actually sensing molecules from the environment the trigger the neurons to fire is a sensitive sense to tap into because if you do use too much discussed or a smile that is so overwhelming it can quickly take

a. out of the experience of disgust and fear are different in the brain and the body the focus turns to just escaping that disgusting smell. mom has traveled around while visiting haunted houses haunted forest road coasters and just about anything else designed to scare. that's great. to better understand the formula. one thing she's not and is that it's often things that deviate just a little too much from the norm the disto the most clowns are terrifying people always wonder why are people afraid of clowns but really they have more in common with monsters than things because they have painted faces it makes their facial expressions really difficult to read you have somebody who has a painted on smile but their mouth is actually frowning you can't really get an

idea of what they're feeling or what they're going to do and it's dissonance it's our brain saying it is this person you know safe or not so they really are the perfect monster i mean. what do you think how was it you couldn't really or you know i was crazy like a roller coaster of emotions because it's almost immediately i'm like scared and then it's almost a sense of relief when i left right we found that people you know after they have come out of the track. and had a moment to collect themselves a feeling of almost euphoria because you've got all the into our friends that are at least while you were scared and now you're safe the natural high is not just the intensity the the relaxation that happens afterwards to. maybe a scam monster but tailoring the ultimate fear experience is not as easy as it seems . not lost on video game designers who are taking fear as

fun to a whole new level. when we set out to scare somebody there's the 2 main ways we look at it. the easy scare is the jump scare that leap out catch you by surprise kind of moment that is actually almost more startling than scary as far as i'm concerned the more effective way is kind of the hitchcockian way to do things which is to lure you in and extend that moment the anticipation of the scare that's when we grab your heart and we start to squeeze just slowly at 1st a little tighter. to the point where you're saying ok just enough get it over with brad firm injure his hump design some big names in horror games including eternal darkness. he also teaches game design and george brown college in toronto.

brad is advising one group of students on a game they call rebuff. so rebirth is a 1st person horror game that places the player in the role of a jury of mother who's lost her infant daughter and has undertaken a cult ritual in an attempt to resurrect her child. we join her in the middle of this ritual she should see it to its conclusion in her suburban home where things are getting very very creepy. they've sent them project to to reason lynch of ohio university who uses video games to stop the fear these that were placing on her feet are going to be capturing your skin conductance levels and what it's doing is sending a very very minimal electrical impulse being sent through the sensors that's interacting with the amount of sweat that's being produced in the glands of your foot along with the horror classic amnesiac the doctor sent to rezone has agreed to test drive

rebuff with us to turn to lex's to see how its fear factor has at the games provide us this very interesting context in which we can study a fear responses you have the ability to make decisions in the game with an agency that is not available and less interactive media to raises a quick munt plots the players hot right skin conductance and facial expression allowing ha and her assistant to break down the fear response into 3 stages true in video games as they are in real life. in the pre encounter stage this is basically when you're might be a little bit anxious if you're in an environment that is signaling to you that there may be threats working my butt is that list 2nd stage is the actual encounter the ball the ramp stop for a fight or flight. not. pointing

to the distance between the eyes mikes has narrowed. now if the threat is approaching then we enter into what's referred to as the circus right stage where you're going to have to make a decision about whether you're going to try to run away from the threat or you're going to try to fight it. i don't know that it was oh god now it's a bit of rally i've just described chaos so that's occurred over over a one on the scale so that was a pretty i was the most dramatic change that we've seen so far. in the game isn't over but this plan is dumb. so we're just testing everything out on our end to make sure everything's working good to reason and the rebirth design is discuss how findings they especially want to know about the role of the senses in their game. is their areas. of greatest things this is things.

we think of visual stimuli as being the thing that's going to be more scary just because it can be more extreme but when we are able to orient to visual stimuli in our environments we know a lot about it so i think there's a monster there it is i see it i know where it is now i can track it now i can respond to it we're actually much less shark in terms of our ability to detect and orient to sound so sound can definitely heightened fears sponsors anxiety and prepared nests without really giving the player something to latch on to you just a simple little blast is really all you need it's it's cheap it's a fish of above all with so much about thea being learned from video games people are turning to video for treatment. well 1415 like a car just lean remember having this fear. in general is

embarrassing for me but today i'm here to look at a bit deeper into what it is that if i could read it rid myself of that they'll be amazing. michael ampitheater and has come to the university of quebec in got to know to try on therapy with virtual reality see that how you see that death is really cool and because there is no lead she can actually forward jump. and talk to stefan is a pioneer in its use and has the world's most developed our lab for this very purpose 1st of all vastly put on this have sat. together with his assistant. mabel put michael through his virtual pacer's the emotional part of the brain limbic system kicks in within 12 of the seconds and the logical part of the brain comes afterwards so it means that we get emotional before we get logical so in virtual reality 4 percent sufficient virtual similar part of the brain that deals

with emotion believes or reacts as if it's true even though it's not too late because emotions are there and what we want to do is terribly he's build your strength in controlling his emotions it's confidence who want to build confidence that is safe coincidence if you're not drawn by the cliff order for it and confidence that if you feel your draw you can stay in control and actually pull back at you pace with. the 1st step is for michael and to assess the severity of michael's condition we want to see what point you can climb up the ladder comfortably as soon as you start feeling that you don't want to keep going up you simply start a comeback. it's best.

if you're unafraid it's easy but when gripped by fear the imagination runs wild. in the lattice 30 great. good. job michael now you could come down michael stops at the 5th wrong and can go no hi this treatment. so you simply got this it was your son you could. get the choice to go. back and allow a deep sinkhole has opened up in michael's new reality he must begin by moving towards it a big part of it wants to get in a hole with a. body of. frozen state we want to show your body that it's ok because of alleged largest assault out

are you able to just see your arms down just a bit. slowly bring them down to your side. progress is slow but sure invention michael attempts to walk a plank over the abyss ok my mother. was still there because there's no there isn't a what if. there's always try to convince you basically that the stations you're trying to give says a look of i'm doing good subjects or it's 5 is. what makes virtual reality such a powerful therapy is that patients can do what is impossible or too dangerous in real life. one of the basic things that we could do for fear of isis you could actually chuck the whole book back. so the further you go the less fear the. emotional the feel in russian.