thank you. for your exploits are tons of ways. after all him find his interests like global. make up your own mind. w. made for mines. this is. coming up today the island that. taiwan has recorded just over a 1000 cases of the cold in a population of 24000000 so how did you do it and what. others. countries like the philippines perhaps struggling with an alarming sergeant infections that's made hospital beds. and stroke.

becomes the 1st japanese man. i'm british welcome to dublin glad you could join us as many countries around the world to battle 2nd even 3rd waves of the coronavirus life in taiwan appears near normal the reason it's success with battling the pandemic the numbers tell the tale looking more than a 1000 registered cases and only 11 covered related deaths for a population of nearly 24000000. strict quarantine controls and best interests are being attributed to the island's remarkable success in keeping numbers low

something that was visible when a small outbreak hit a large hospital back in january located near the airport colgan hospital was one of taiwan's keepers against the virus authorities have stan the 5th of confirmed cases here for cheap man since the start of 2020 but in january this year and infected dr ticker the fresh outbreak several of his coworkers were later tested positive taiwan based its biggest koren the virus crisis since the start of the pandemic in the. hospital acquired infections very serious and hard to control the patients in the hospital need health care workers to take care of them. there next to each other it's impossible to just quarantine hospital workers and leave patients alone you would have. a. long work service don't show up at demick command center has 13 decided to set himself up in the hospital to directly

oversee communications from the command center but. we had to contain the virus. in the large hospital of more than 2600 employees and there were all 700 in patients one wrong decision coolly to the charge of the similar to the 2003 sars outbreak then the government locked down a hospital where even healthy people were not allowed to leave leading to 154 infections and 31 death. it was ok when there were only one or 2 cases in the hospital. but when there were more and more people came from positive tests we were definitely nervous we were afraid of getting phone calls in the middle of the night hearing about yet another new case for your kids at this time the command center reacted quickly. tracking all possible contacts and home quarantine over 4300 people they also transferred negative test to patients to other hospitals to

decrease the workload on the staff after 14 days with no new come from places all hospital employee is happy to do mass testing to convince the public that the hospital is safe in 44 days it was contained with only 21 cases and just one death transparency and honesty is the very important and you have to give the people the reason why you want to have. a very strange encounter and very stringent home quarantine and everything is we have to show that every piece of it very useful to prevent a future pandemic chose said no car cheese can fight alone but i would like to emphasize that important thing is the prudence of it as we have to keep by all the possible outbreak in all the countries to prevent its spread off now tell me and hospital is back to relative normality the sars experience reminded

a government and its people not to let history repeat itself a lesson not only for taiwan for the world in its approach to tackling this vast breading virus jupiter look is a researcher on global corporate 19 strategy of the university of edinburgh and joins me now from leeds in the u.k. jay welcome know you study global responses to the record on obama spend in your assessment what has taiwan done well. well taiwan focused very early on on having an elimination strategy they were not keen on this idea of having community transmission where we've got the virus circulating in a population so had a very early very rapid and focused effort sue eliminates any cases and clusters that were emerging from the initial china connection then how were they able to implement this story factory did they have any previous experience with tackling

pandemic that came in handy well the sars pandemic of 2003 certainly came in and they they had the planning they had the pre coded infrastructure to deal with pandemics well but above all they recognize that acting quickly. and trying to protect public health 1st of all in an attempt to recover economies after the pandemic were crucial and certainly applied those lessons to cope with $1000.00 very well it would appear that what you're saying is it's quite it makes a lot of sense to put it simply i'm just wondering why other countries could not draw the same lesson early on in the pandemic. well it's a difficult question to answer but perhaps one of the reasons is adopting an influenza approach or a flu approach which many western countries had rather than

a sas plant i suppose the primary difference between the 2 is that flu favors some level of end a message cie some some speculation in the population to build immunity now the problem is that sars coronavirus 2 is much more lethal it's much more transmissible and so that approach just simply would not work. it is also down to the fight for earlier on in the pandemic it wasn't really well known how infectious new coronavirus the new coral virus is possibly yes but in any respect that actually enforces the need to drive down cases to as low as possible as quickly as possible when there are so many unknowns exercising what's called the precautionary principle certainly has a lot of value and in the western countries we didn't really see that approach

instead what we saw was a affirmative rence to the existing flu plans which were clearly not compatible with this virus right where you live there for the time member thank you so much for joining us draper terrell from the university of edinburgh. and one of those struggling with an increasing number of cases is the philippines since march of the country has been seeing thousands of new daily infections just yesterday registering some 11000 new cases the spot has taken its toll on already stretched medical resources. a covert 19 intensive care ward in manila amid this crisis the sick patients are in fact lucky to even have a bad unprecedented demand has left hospitals tony desperate people away. angelo barrera was among them. we didn't dissipate that there was this but it was

this bad the more hospitals we called it went to the more to the panic settled in the lower the feeling of helplessness at them and. spent 5 frantic hours driving around manila looking for a hospital that could help his sick father. it was just heartbreaking because even if we went to all these hospitals that said again i had all these writings on there and that you know people were telling us that they couldn't accommodate and there were still people there you know there were still people just begging to go inside. or to be admitted to be cared for and you know eventually became one of those people. his father died on the steps outside one of 15000 filipinos to perish in this tragedy in recent weeks the virus has spread faster with hospitals building makeshift tents to accommodate the result. last week

on which the nati of all last week was are washed scenario we have 400 beds in ward and 100 beds in i.c.u. what happened was i had to borrow 50 i.c.u. beds like so we had $450.00 beds in ward all of them were occupied and then only 50 beds were left for i.c.u. right. and 50 beds the ones i see. the government has provided extra money to expand capacity in the system but health care professionals warn that's an acute shortage of stuff isn't even baker can sound. japan is boskin in the north another sporting achievement on sunday he dickey matsuyama became the 1st japanese mom to win one of golf's major titles the prestigious mostest at augusta. after the 1st 3 and

a half days of play at the masters tournament. yama seemed to be a sure bet to win with a massive lead of 6 strokes and just 9 holes to play but his home country had to hold its breath as the leader made a number of poor shots including one that landed his ball in a pond allowing his rivals to move within a single shot matsuyama held firm at the last however to win for himself for his long suffering caddie for his country and for his country's youth. some more hopefully. others will be inspired by what happened here. and maybe follow in my footsteps. back home in japan golfers of all ages picked up their clubs with a slightly firmer grip this academy proudly displays matsuyama as image signature and accomplishments. japan's prime minister meanwhile sang his praises

she got that going on a killing now with the prolonged coronavirus pandemic i think this win really gave courage and excitement to everyone in japan and then they'd chip golfing greats like tiger woods also offer congratulations for making japan proud the legendary jack nicklaus noted the historic nature of the moment but matsuyama rarely shows emotion but after receiving what's known around the gulf in world as the green jacket of the masters champion he celebrated outwardly briefly the winner of perhaps gulfs biggest prize. and that's it for today you can find more in our website. not just part of the record. thousands of people. continue to mock the festival on the backs of the. concerns are mounting that it's becoming. for the coronavirus of those images and see you again tomorrow for.

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a stone's throw from the german capital. and it's devil you know boy that explores the german refugee experience in our series 100 german must treat. welcome to arts and culture the 74th bafta film awards have been virtually handed out from the royal albert hall in london there was no red carpet no live audience and the winners excepted from home but there was plenty of buzz the prizes were hotly contested but in the end no matt bland almost swept the board winning best film best director and best actress joining me to talk about that and the rest of the night is off film experts scorch rocks. scott welcome now there was a very strong competition for best film this year but the winner wasn't really a surprise nomad land has been cleaning up this award season at the golden globes produces scales etc etc but scott's was it the results he were expecting.

yeah very much i mean nomad land has been a huge favorite of mine since i saw it at the venice film festival when it premiered last year and it's been sweeping all before it this is a really an incredible film i mean in some ways it's a classic american road movie but it's done in a completely different style of frances mcdormand who won best actress at the bafta as she plays fern who is a woman who's lost her husband she's lost her job and so she packs up everything she owns into a camper van and she becomes a modern day nomad traveling traveling the earth it's a very poignant movie that looks at poverty and at the failures of the american dream but it does so without any form of judgment and with just an unbelievable overflowing of humanity really i think my favorite film of last year you know the director sound directed accost it also included a lot of known at playing themselves showing just how innovative as a director but she's also made history. yes definitely she was the 2nd woman

to win best director at the back after kathryn bigelow and the 1st woman of color to do so but i think i was getting kind of accustomed to being such a pioneer i mean she's already been the 1st woman of color to win a best director at the golden globes and various other awards ceremonies and i'm pretty sure she's going to break that glass ceiling at the oscars as well later this month now after last year's awards scott bafta was very heavily criticized for a distinct lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the awards but this is all changed doctors made a really big effort to make the awards more inclusive. yeah basically what they did last year i mean there were no people of color nominated in any of the acting awards and so bafta took action and basically changed things top to bottom they diversified their voting base they changed their voting rules to allow people from less represented communities a better a fair chance to get in and it seems to have worked i mean this year we had 4 of

the 6 director nominees were women and 16 of the 24 acting nominees were people of color including the 2 best supporting actor with. many of the other winners and nominees still have a chance for the big prizes at the all schools which of course take place later this month but let's talk a bit about the others. yeah i mean there's a lot of very interesting winners in the back does that have oscar chances i mean my favorite looking at them is probably promising young woman which won best british film and best original screenplay and this is a really clever story it's sort of a meet to revenge tale it stars the british actress carey mulligan and she plays a traumatized woman who basically entraps men by pretending to be drunk until they take her home and then when they try to take advantage of her she snaps back awake and turns the tables on them very powerful film with a lot of interesting twists and turns on and i think it's got great chances at the

oscars as well later this month 2 other things i'd like to point out 2 winners from the past as with the supporting actor nominees daniel british actor won best supporting actor playing black panther in judas and the black messiah and credibly powerful performance from that period of the political turmoil in the us and supporting actress went to the korean south korean star. who a one playing a sharp tongued grandmother in the american film minority both those films both of those actors are nominated for the oscars and i think they've got great chances coming off this bafta wave right let's talk about the so itself school is hosted from london so obviously since it wasn't quite as usual but they did try to make it as much of a spectacle as they didn't. yeah i mean they did they did they did their best i mean these are the shows we're getting accustomed to now these covert shows this was done by the royal albert hall but the guests the hosts were alone on stage presenting the show and presenting the awards to filmmakers who were sitting at

home communicating via skype or whatever and not the most exciting thing but then they did have some some moments of magic i mean there were some great live music performances by liam payne and and celeste and and there was a sort of sense that they're really trying to put on a show but i have to be honest i'm getting kind of tired of these. award shows i'm really waiting to get back to a real in person awards of that right scott we've got about 30 minutes or 30 seconds left that quickly would be airing up for the the american academy awards coming up in just a couple of weeks how predictive is success in the box does do you think we're going to see a repeat yet the batteries aren't actually the greatest predictor of the also usually for the best picture they don't have a great record in that respect but i think in this case they definitely got it right i think no doubt land is definitely my pick for the best picture at the oscars and close out for the best director i put money on it right now ok scott well it's very environmentally thanks for your analysis and at the very latest

we'll see you again in a couple of weeks to talk about whether you also his predictions come true. great looking forward to it. now is what is cinema going locked out of put the brakes on travelling and holidays so we're all having to spend our leisure time closer to home for us here in berlin one of the most popular places to do that is potsdam once of oil capital the city has a host of architectural gems to delight and we're lacks the senses and more than just a taste of italy. strolling past palazzi and palm trees and enjoying some dogs on the piazza no it's not italy it's germany potsdam to be exact next to berlin the state capital of brandenburg offers a bit of comfort for people in the region who'd really rather be in rome but can't get there at the moment due to the pandemic. the city's italian

flair is thanks to the pression king who also yearned for italy art historian ought to divest harder explains that part stems transformation from austere military base to architectural showpiece began in the 18th century. the president of the seat of royalty was meant to be an ideal city and so inspiration was drawn from italian urban planning and individual palazzi especially in rome in the home but frederick the great never set eyes on the strict father forbade him from traveling there so instead he sent his architects to copy the most beautiful buildings and build somewhat more modest interpretations he wanted to give parts to which he called a wretched backwater that bit more splendor. the month of may you just have to walk around san soo see palace and look from there to the hill with the artificial ruins to see that frederick was an italian at heart you know about. a new app our 1st virtual or even actual tour through the earth that's rome of the pression king.

30 locations the app shows of side by side comparison of the original italian structure the potsdam replica. some of those replicas look so authentic even italians like crisps are not 0 and his son almost forget they live in pottstown. obviously there's more of this kind of thing in italy of course but this wonderful architecture and the flair here are certainly impressive. imports answers this is showing us a stop 'd for the perfect vibe chris says his fellow pot stirrers could take a more italian attitude towards life but otherwise as the saying goes all roads lead to rome in this case with

a detour potsdam. beautiful now how about a statue of jesus even bigger than we i was christ the redeemer where you guys have long to wait and you one is under construction in the city of any kind of tired or in southern brazil that will tower over the iconic one in rio de janeiro he's been in the making since 2019 but until now it was only a torso and legs this week it got its head and outstretched arms the statue is expected to be finished later this year. now to a book that was a surprise success when it was 1st published in german in 2015 inspired by a traumatic almost forgotten chapter in german history it focuses on 2 generations of women in one family and what the concept of home means to them this house is mine by dirt is the latest subject of our series 100 german must reads.

some nights when the storm came in from the west the house groans like a boat tossed back and forth on a heavy sea gusts of wind squeal before being dead and by the old walls that's what witches sound like when they're burning their whole thought. this house is mine by delta hines and starts with the creepy sounds of the farmhouse where young and her mother held a guard have found shelter the 2 of them are refugees not from syria or afghanistan they're ethnic germans fleeing eastern europe at the end of world war 2. they try to make a home for themselves in northern germany in a region that's it dilip full of orchards and thatched roof houses but the welcome they receive is far from warm. you knew your place in your position in this landscape and it always went according to age 1st came the river then the land then

bricks and oak beams and then the people with the old names everything that came after that people who'd been bombed out driven away those weary of the city those without land and looking for a home lands were nothing but wind borne sand and washed up. this scar here they got and were born into a noble family but that's no use now has a god marries the farmer's son to secure her and her daughter's existence decades later little vehicle is all grown up and lives on the farm alone and history seems to repeat itself turns up child in tow escaping an unfaithful relationship in the big city for the knows a refugee when she sees one this house of mine is about the illusion of home and about a family of strong women who get by but never quite belong sometimes kitschy deeply moving.

and that does sound moving and if you're a book and that's not enough for you there's plenty more where that came from and i you know d.w. book and you can get more information on all of our stories on our web site d w dot com slash culture to me and the arts and culture team. thanks for watching and goodbye.

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