your thoughts there are tense. it's not easy to spot. the great books of the 20th century. present day hoaxes. and who's behind. the news manufacturing ignorance starts may 3rd on. hungary is easing it down but doctors a sounding the alarm death rates are among the highest in the world still stores are reopening with the government praising its vaccination campaign. at the same time as batting journalists from hospitals. coronavirus wards a filling to capacity but that's not the message the state wants to broadcast like

it or not the 3rd wave he's hitting i. agree has the highest number of people vaccinated in europe and one of the highest covered related death rates relative to its population. restrictions should have been in place sooner and should stay in place longer access to hunger in hospitals for independent media to verify what's going on is almost impossible. to speak on camera about the situation inside our correspondent funny reports. checking into his hospital treating patients when we start to film the building they are. over there they ask us to film the parking lot according to staff inside the hospital is that capacity. one doctor has to take care of 10 patients and all is in short supply these are just some of the claims to be hearing from inside

the hospital from a doctor but we cannot verify these claims as all sorts of barred independent media from entering that doctor is. we meet him after his shift 120 hour working reeks of the average now he says but the hungry and government says everything is under control we don't follow them out of any we've heard a lot from the prime minister that those who get sick shouldn't worry that they will be cured that we have extra medical staff but where are they every day we're left wondering what to do we not have time for today what did i forget. most of his colleagues don't want to talk in public because they're worried about repercussions. we need to reach the people not to create panic but to saying people this is what this is about and this is why you need to follow the rules. in an open letter to the government a large number of journalists requested access to hospitals prime minister viktor

orban responded in a televised interview. with now most of this is not the time to go inside hospitals and produce bogus videos and fake news. is a photojournalist he too would like to show what's happening in hungary right now. stop filming the hospital it's a public space or it's a very common situation says martin was a sign not a share of the past this effects the people who want to know the real situation inside the hospitals. we know that more than 300 people died today. o'keeffe uneasy it's hard to tell the story behind those numbers. meanwhile many young people in hungary are starting to shed their masks without knowing what's really going on in hungary hospitals to them it might seem as if the pen demick is already over. to shine

a light on the situation in hungary to what you know secret joins us she's a senior researcher at the center for social sciences in budapest is it time to be easing restrictions or is the crisis only getting worse there are. well my best to me is that the crisis as you know must not completely have its feet in the hungary we have extremely high mortality rates of. her that we think we. have that. so that would suggest not. yet a lot of your and also why if i can jump in there when when the government's doing so well with its vaccination drive. effect of that's the other thing we have a very high lux and they have a have the same time people get into hosts they have they are in the really terrible situation current day homes already and these maybe 2 to speed fast cars i

would say. one of them as. the. is that the public institution such as the move. as independent as in in 2017 and since it has seen other was because of control so this means that we are not getting enough information and at 1st i cannot really tell though their ideas their expertise into this the sum so far because the citizens are. probably the other if you may be this general cuts to the house expenditure in hungary recently not only yourself but. under the your boss government and the sir

is the most of my great. care from hungary and in the fast the a. how is the situation with the hospitals on the military bill why is that and what that affecting the situation. but you know what because i have been put under military rule the other the other assess the situation and this means that there is either for or through. by that public because that is always control over the source and also that they can must. expect their opinions in the media the unity and the media use not let into hospitals this was not going. to ace and you know how people are here or this was for the stars and nurses are doing them a thing so up there but it limits the information that the awfully and the

media make that is worrying whatever the situation may be. we don't offer from a cell usually house that this is a. situation like the regular hungary and i believe this is one of the only countries in the world to refuse any sort of extension of unemployment benefits in this pandemic. yes the fund that make us win though does not only have pest related consequences but also really severe social consequences so in hungary just like in other parts of the word many people hundreds of thousands of less. but i suppose other countries including our fellow spent far east european countries in hungary no accents and so the unemployment benefits to some of me. we lost. with was that we test that

only in the developers before that and then may with 3 months of a must must come on the length of the line months for the benefit that means that after that 3 months is gone you can or cannot receive some so for less this at a very low amount. and in general most of the post come up to 50. people are not going to serve at all in the state system so they are left without any police assistance. when they are low for unemployed and this out at that rate before especially those who were in and best are in a certain facts or events on and so forth i also believe the government used the crisis to push through a motion to see measures to make life harder for the l g b

t community. you know some of the m.o. since the measures have not much to do with coffee is itself but rather the government's political incense and was so. controversial measures including. the best. think of 1st i was let out and this is to counter gay couples. and the other one is. that sexual people over 2 think their sex and their ids with the game does not pass. anything with up on them but rather an idea was to follow the guidelines. to. celebrate. it would have to be that that the hijab she cried on the latest developments in the

past thank you very much. well. on the topic of mass vaccination campaigns a mutation is his our very own dairy williams with today's question. is there a link between mass vaccination and me taishan of the virus. like other pathogens sars kovi to mutates constantly and vaccines do have an impact on its evolution but a less direct one than for example a theoretical antiviral treatment void because the 2 work in different ways drugs work by wiping out an active infection while back scenes work by preventing them from occurring in the 1st place wiping out an existing infection with a medicine applies a kind of scorched earth selection pressure the only pathogens that survive are

those like these with mutations that make them resistant to the medicine and only they go on to spawn the next generation that's why drug resistance is such a common problem nowadays because we put pathogens under massive pressure to evolve quickly in a very particular direction which is to grow resistant to a medication by deploying vaccines on a wide scale we're also having an impact on virus evolution but a more subtle one by making a lot of people resistant to infection we can drastically reduce opportunities for a virus to spread so we're also upping the selection pressure but in a different way when the supply of potential hosts grows limited because many

people are vaccinated viruses that have for example. mutated to be more infectious they'll have a clear advantage and well on average in fact more people that's why more infectious variance can supplant less infectious and sensor old ones over time and there are indications that this is happening in many places now with sars hope you tube. thanks for watching as they say and see you again so. their story their very own personal drama. of the chesterfield remember claims and they share

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a stone's throw from the german capital. and it's w. noble that explores the german refugee experience in our series $100.00 german must reads. 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 matter land 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 that was 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 scorch was the result he were expecting.

yeah very much i mean no man's 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 fur 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. directed a cost that also included a lot of known actors to 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 buff there was very heavily criticized for a distinct lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the awards. this is all changed best has 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 back to 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 those others. yeah i mean there's a lot of very interesting winners in the back to 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 in till 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 political turmoil in the u.s. and supporting actress went to the korean south korean star. who won 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 but let's talk about the so itself scots hosted from london so obviously since it wasn't quite what they did try to make it as much of a spectacle as they could. 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 were at least 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 by scott we've got about 30 minutes 30 seconds left that quickly would gearing 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 know that 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

movie see you again in a couple of weeks to talk about whether you also his predictions came through. looking forward to it. now as well as 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 a well capital city has a host of architects who gems to delight and relax the senses and more than just a taste of italy. strolling past palazzi and palm trees and enjoying some dog on a pier 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 hider explains that part stems transformation from austere military base to architectural showpiece began any 18th century. the president star 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 and home but frederick the great never set eyes on rome district 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 nova. a new app our 1st a virtual or even actual tour through the earth sats rome of the pression kings.

30 locations the actions of side by side comparison of the original italian structure the pottstown replica. some of those replicas look so authentic even italians like chris are not 0 and his son almost forget they live an. obviously there's more of this kind of thing in italy of course but this wonderful architecture and the flair here are certainly impressive what's important answers this is showing us a stop for the perfect vibe chris says his fellow part stammers 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 of parts down. beautiful now how about a statue of jesus even bigger than we i was christ the redeemer where you won't have long to wait a new one is under construction in the city of any kind of tahoe in southern brazil that will tower over the iconic one in rio de janeiro has been in the making since 2019 but until now it was only a tool so and legs this week it got its head an outstretched arms the statue was expected to be finished later this year. now to a book that was a surprise success when it was 1st published in germany 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 a 100 and 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 the 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 war. 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 land were nothing but wind borne sand and washed up. this scum hildegarde were born into a noble family but that's no use now here's 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 very nice turns up child in tow escaping an unfaithful relationship in the big city where 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.

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