when you've gone. through. every 10 minutes. someone. 10000000 people in the street you have no nationality you know. that everyone has the boy. everyone is not going to see. dozens d.w. news and these are our top stories u.s. health officials say the use of the johnson and johnson covered 19 vaccine can resume immediately vaccinations using the single dose shot were temporarily stopped 11 days ago after reports of rare but potentially fatal blood clots but experts

agreed the vaccines benefits outweigh the risks. prosecutors in france have opened a terrorism investigation after a police employee he was stabbed to death at a police station and rumble yeah about 60 kilometers west of paris a 49 year old administrative worker was reportedly stabbed in the neck by a man who was then shot and killed by officers at the scene. jailed russian opposition leader alex a no bond he says he is ending his 24 day hunger strike after his doctors told him his life was at risk he began the strike to demand independent medical care of amir was jailed for more than 2 years in february after returning from germany where he was being treated out for a near fatal poisoning and russia. this is g w news from berlin you can find much more news and analysis on our website w dot com.

it's that time again and film buffs are primed as we head into oscar's weekend with many things of note this year including the most diverse group of nominees in history more on that in a moment and also coming up. stand all in germany after a group of actors staged an online campaign criticizing the government's plans or tightening of parole restrictions sarcastic and cynical videos have largely backfired. and in order of world book day it's time once again to share our love of reading with another landmark german novel the hunger games all by nobel prize winning author. welcome to the show well it's quite a thing to have an academy award ceremony in the middle of

a pandemic and especially strange to think that because of continuing lockdowns most of those films involved have never even made it to a movie theater streaming services have largely come to the rescue both as human platforms and as creative engines for some high class cinema here's an overview of the nominee. bank with 10 nominations is technically the front runner at this yes i ask us david finch is black and white to the golden age of hollywood is up for best film and best director gary oldman could take home his 2nd best acting oscar for his performance of the alcoholic screenwriter helen manc mankiewicz the man who wrote citizen kane and any distraction eliminated every. fellow oscar winner viola davis is a favorite for best actress performance and the music drama madre nice black bottom playing the 1st black female blues artist tree caught professional.

it is my assumption i'm playing her because she had to know her because it was i didn't know we were or going. under the weight of the culture. didn't understand you were. also nominated from mar a nice black bottom is biola davis' costar chadwick boseman who recently died of cancer but his final performance as a blues trumpeter to determine to make it to the top could a posthumous academy award for best actor i read all the chicago to paul just to be . but there's no place to be with 6 nominations aaron sorkin's the trial of the chicago 7 is one of this year's most political contenders a group of activists protesting the vietnam war face a kangaroo court and this real life drama sasha baron cohen as activist every half

man has a good shot at the oscar for best supporting actor i was afraid of you judas and the black messiah and now the sixty's said drama has to supporting actor nominees daniel you hear as black panther leader fred thompson. and like keith it stands for years as the informer who betrayed him to the f.b.i. this year's oscars are the most diverse ever 9 nonwhite activists are nominated. to be including stephen ewan he's the 1st asian american to receive an oscar nomination for best actor for his performance in. as a korean immigrant who moved this family to arkansas to become a farmer. there is something so confident about its own point of view. why or another gave to the

police upon a routine needs to be juxtaposed to you know. the truth from this year considered a shoo in for best film and best director is no meant land the poignant road movie from china spawn director chloe joe francis mcdormand place of van living modern day know that no. i'm just. the same thing right now. no matter and explores a life lived off the great frances mcdormand has a good shot at her 3rd oscar for best actress appear on the stage of the 2018 academy awards for more diversity among nominees is already coming to an. advantage of the week let's bring in scott ross perot for his expertise on the 2021

oscar is great to see you scott so this is really quite something of course because the oscars are looking to be the 1st host pandemic in person award ceremony tell us a little bit about how this is going to happen this year. you know it's completely unique and still be an oscar ceremony like we've never seen before and as you say it's a it's going to be in person i mean they're going to hold in a live ceremony at the dolby theater in los angeles and also this is going to be something to see at union station which is the main train station in downtown los angeles most of the nominees will be there in person to be a limited number of them and they're also of course have to be tested in fact the nominees will have to have 3 p.c.r. negative p.c.r. pass before the ceremony for nominees who can't make it who are coming from outside the country some of them will be piped in via video link satellite link so it can be a huge technical challenge it'll be really interesting to see i mean it might be a really amazing show it could also be a complete disaster but it'll definitely be something to watch wow ok very briefly

your tip on where we might see a surprise on some i think the one to go to look at we could see it upset is best actress carey mulligan who's in promising young woman i think she could be the upset could maybe be the only davis in that category but will be neck and neck. we will see ok well thanks very much for that scott and i'd ask you to just stay with me for a moment because of course here in germany another story from the acting world has not only overshadowed any oscar suspense but it's also provoked quite an amount of huge outrage on thursday night over 50 well known actors posted videos on you tube in which they delivered by turns snide and sarcastic statements mocking or directly criticizing the german government under the hash tag i was dished which basically means shut everything down they were a stance a plea a response to tighter nationwide restrictions but in no time the campaign backfired

. in the next days i'm stressed it's not. been a few days yet. and the babies immortal life. they read a. good group from your short lived president looked at me. duncan under median. and i'm young. i'm totems for the class the 1st on the no doubt that to him guns guns that.

land. or maybe not back over to you scott those are quite some performances there can you tell us a little bit about the reactions. yeah well the internet is essentially exploded and that's all the german twitter is is talking about right now and. the reaction i mean was immediate most of the media in germany but also most of these actors german called leagues immediately condemned these these videos and said they were they were stupid they were cynical and maybe even dangerous. to see maybe how dangerous they are or could be you can look at the people who really like them online including a lot of far right politicians including members of the f.t. the far right party in the german parliament who who applauded this action and say these videos show support for their actions against german lockdown policies right ok well that's obviously not a very well thought through campaign and somewhat of

a of a huge embarrassment what kind of consequences do you think this might this kind of thing might haue yeah. yeah i mean basically everyone's backpedaling now i mean after this reaction a lot of the actors who are in these videos have come out and apologized they said they do not want to be associated with the far right that was not their intention in making these videos and the company that produced these videos has taken them off their main site of course they are still available online they're still circulating but they've essentially everyone he's backpedaling it's just one huge mess all the more shocking perhaps when you think that just 2 days ago we were talking about health film and television were actually booming here in germany and so all of these particular actors are certainly doing pretty well thanks very much for the lowdown on this unfortunate story thanks very much scott and do enjoy the oscars i'll see you on monday see a monday. well when she won the nobel prize for literature in 2009 house

was 56 years old the remaining born german had just celebrated her greatest international success with a story that describes the fate of many ethnic germans in transylvania after world war 2 the swedish academy praised the hunger angel for its artful fusion of poetry and prose in its depiction of the landscape of the dispossessed have you ever stolen something for your mouth in german there's a word for it. a mouth robber. was hungry would you have to be to start stealing other people's. 17 year old leo is consumed by hunger and back home sickness and handsome and as novel the hunger in jail it's $945.00 and romania the soviets are sending tens of

thousands of ethnic germans into labor camps as punishment for world war 2 leo is one of them i want to be slow because i want the soup to last for my hunger crouched in front of the boat like a ravenous dog. the author's own mother survived years and soviet gulags would have tomorrow won the nobel prize american and british media asked who . aren't asking that anymore. and that's a tough one for sure but of course a timely recommendation for world book day well finally till lindemann best known as the lead singer of german heavy metal band comes to mind is always good for a surprise and he's posted a brand new video of himself singing in slow. russian of the song newbie negro twitch translates roughly as beloved city is part of the soundtrack for the 2

escaped from hell that's an upcoming film by the russian cuz actor director timor bekmambetov well no doubt liniments fans particularly in russia will certainly appreciate this rendition and so we'll leave you with some strains from that melody and with that don't spit on you from us and until we meet again i was cool to. see the. gong we don't seem. to be. remade. a name.

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. i starting in february 2019 each week millions of algerians took to the streets to protest their country's off for a tarion rulers and unprecedented movement it roused the nation that seems to have lost faith in itself. least.

no one expected this algerian revolt in the streets known here as iraq but it swept the country from iran to algiers and from on about to thomas say like a giant block party. police repression threats of chaos political pressure the all for it syrian military regime in power for more than half a century since algerian independence tried everything but nothing could suppress the peaceful iraq movement led the march a year of demonstrations i never would have imagined things would go this far. i am sick now we don't know where this is all going you know so we know we have to challenge them. goodness me i know this. all my life but they've always sat up in their ivory towers they don't

know. not only we don't want to give up we want to live in step with modern times despite our belief my clinical or rather no matter what he believed there. was. such. feb 22nd 2019 tens of thousands defied a long standing ban on protests in the capital to oppose president abdelaziz

bouteflika its decision to run for office yet again. across the country algerians took to the streets to say no to a potential 5th term. lender's we didn't really understand what was happening on february 22nd when i visited guy i was on call that night then i came home and went to bed. i had heard rumors about a demonstration but i didn't believe it like everyone else i was a bit disheartened and i thought we were powerless and there was no way out. but then around 2 or 3 in the afternoon my mother broke me up and said they're demonstrating me people are demonstrating song and they shot you not that's exactly what a country where every 20 seconds meant to me. an awakening. is in this event you are a 22nd will stay in my mind forever. it's a great memory

a huge amount of emotional. speaking i will never be able to describe how i felt at that moment it was a redemption. move and this is really is why i headed out that day with very dim hopes i thought there'd be maybe 50 or a 100 of us and we'd all get arrested here. only a few blocks away. i gave a friend some money and said take that and if i get arrested try to bribe a police officer to let me go i can't stay locked up. you can make these a mental i was sitting with friends in a cafe and we were following the hero out on social media. people across the country were sharing it's a true then we saw a live stream of something big happening in to c o's 2 and if so we went there and

joined in a lot of people were there and more kept coming it was huge how did you feel it was great that. the crowd was made up of every section of society also classes men and women for the 1st time we were seeing algerians in the different light i. was was. going to use for the 1st time we all had a common goal here for good luck i was listening. i. was i. was only through until then we were just getting by now we had the prospect of a. oh my god we're fed up we've had enough.

we want our children to live in a prosperous algeria a developed algeria. they've robbed us of everything they've broken everything. so look what they've done to algiers look how devastated and slow we just want our algeria have asked. 6 i. was the life was i saw the money i want to live with this revolution enabled everyone to reappropriate their country to reappropriate algeria we realize it belongs to us all the natural i. i.

was. i was the only one they marched in against a 5th term it was amazing because most people in on our apolitical they don't give a damn to me as one i thank. the names individual player the most self-aware generation of algerians to come along since the war for independence. and where stubborn. i. thank the algerians won independence in 1962 after a long war against colonial france the algerians over their freedom to the national liberation front or f.l.n. . as of 2019 the f.l.n. had been in power for 57 years. an oppressive regime systematically plundering the

country's wealth resources and heritage the algerian people gradually lost faith in democracy sends its independence algeria has suffered a number of tragedies in the 1990 s. the government fog a brutal civil war against a radical islamist insurgency government forces eventually won but not before as many as 200000 civilians had been killed the black decade as it is called hans algerians today us in galveston eviction but i associate the war with an experience that turned my whole life upside down to the moment you got my life probably would have been very different if they hadn't murdered my father shown of it but i seen him up to. 1996 when honey i was 3 years old terrorists shot her father on the street in the casbah way as a former policeman he was a prime target in those dark years. not

that not my father reminds me why i'm here. for the books no matter what happens you have to keep fighting and keep living. city and then the king live you know he was a man who loved life and lived as he saw fit he did honest with me a look he was a man who stood up for single women too so he was everything terrorists hated. mugs and any more says i'm 26. i was born when the terrorism reached its zenith and i grew up under go to figure to. use the only president i've ever known. it was

a reign based on terror he justified his being there by having brought peace he said i'm the man of peace and if i go terrorism will return a critical reason. after being sworn in as the new president in 1999 beautifully go kept his promise to bring the conflict to an end. a painful national reconciliation provided amnesty to insurgents who handed in their weapons. bouteflika completed 4 terms keeping an iron grip on the country even after suffering a stroke in 2013 that left him too fragile to campaign his legacy consisted of voting fraud and corruption. his joy lives are at 1st it was great our savior had come visit the country was at peace and we could move around and travel we can finally agree that's how the 1st years were all streets so to big

government projects began popping up everywhere and we thought great who cares if he has another term. with after that it was just dec nation and week rational is it just. then it was announced that 81 year old abdelaziz bouteflika would seek a 5th term with the elections scheduled for april 29000 the head of the f.l.n. launched the head of states campaign with a painting of him. for many algerians this was the last straw. i. i. i. i. i. i'm not sure what they let me tell us you know for 3 put up with

poverty and corruption sure as a name but we weren't prepared to be mocked and to prove specific comment it was really degrading for our president to be campaigning for a 5th time in that situation to 20 years prison they've been as we didn't know any other leader when the queen cosa their corruption had reached its climax and the government was deteriorating i thought there was a complete void and we were afraid of having blood to think either. thanks. i should say i must say i'm just 28 years i feel tired drained irritated and i feel more like 40 you have to fight so hard to meet your basic needs. you have to justify yourself all the time.

if you want to have a drink you have to hide it that's. can't live with someone without getting married . this country damages you would want you to waste your time and energy for this and i know it suppresses you when it drains you if you didn't you thought you feel like you're just meandering until you die. just gotta go i was going to watch this is that you get so desperate hispanic all you have left is hope that's your shows keep it to so the only thing keeping you going is hope for something different simple enough in a jaunty dockside that we've all experienced the darkside with its massacres corruption poverty and misery and dirty ness we know how to live with it and

survive feel about it how about we try a new way we didn't have much left to lose just ourselves but with this revolution we found ourselves again and we found out who we really are he shall feel what to fail not what we feel need to the headlines. of the. visuals really what most people follow what's happening it used to be just retired people in cafes in the activities here and there people but now everyone is getting political it's wonderful so someone. would be

how's it going through now that you i'm good i'll be listening. that seems to suggest that. this is a letter to the president. mr president i don't want to be offensive but when did you last talk to your grandkids where were your eloquent speeches you held like a hero when did algeria my love become a 0 and how about my brothers crossing the see if they've gone through hell but you just don't want to see you can do anything but your system is corrupt your legislators are against you don't care about the youth. so that's not an insult it's just the truth. violence. it's why i have to write this in silence so she can see the truth. but.

i don't think the problem is the person sitting on the throne. throne itself. what this man represents. the stands for an entire ecosystems. he's achieved such media presence that he's seen as a saint but he's just an effigy. 1234 and someone else will come but the represent the same system. will cause infamous and. exactly. what is the problem. and it's much deeper and more complicated. it's not about swapping one residence for another's you know it's about morals.

so i think one kid the 25 it's quite hard to be a woman in this world if you experience many little aggressions on here observe more closely than men. among the slightest slip up and the whole society judges us much more than they do a man we are cut less slack and. there's a controlling more culturally added society women have a much harder time claiming their rightful place of family and it is why they are often attacked and 2nd guess critics no matter in what millions from young templeton you know whether you're a member of the world of the so-called democrats or you move in a more conservative sphere i don't accept that women are always under more pressure than men you could definitely take the family code for instance it only applies to us i mean the family code states that women always have to subjugate themselves but

they can't marry without a man's permission as we are watched our entire lives the fact that. i. was i. was i shall. i. i was. moved. to be

like sonia many women took to the streets as part of the here rock movement. indeed algerian women have taken part in all the protest movements and wars in the country and with this popular uprising some women feel they've been able to carve out a new place for themselves in society didn't. need to it used to be go home or hear places in the kitchen or. you shouldn't be a mystery with the man should i and i found the now to be at the point when it was normal for us to be outside this is a huge step forward. and sit down next to men in the past weeks the men even called on the women to join the margins because they were needed to know what women really play a central role in this revolution. now men are learning to listen to women a woman can talk a lot because they finally understand women have ideas women can talk about politics and things that are important to everyone including men of upon

indifference he quits grades and remember. i want to define. the have women as opinion leaders with many followers on social media to have people listen when they talk with them so they found the same things that these women they stand for opinions political movements ideas it's a good thing and a big step forward there's our number one. and i love his top class women have started to take their place to both pledged citizens because it's only like any other algerian it's why you know we are all citizens now you know or rather we're learning to be citizens minded and that's quite remarkable in itself.

to be sure they were absent our citizens now we've decided to demand our citizenship back it's as simple as that if you stop because. i was. most by how humorous the slogan is worth understood. the news 1st one was from a young woman whose sign said it was a fluke you don't even have the support of my bra.

i. i. i. i. answered your plea for taking back the streets before me i saw young and old whole families marching up so that people were able to speak more freely again for algeria it was astounding that we're like the north korea of africa was that was that was john even much money event that really made an impression on me occurred announcing our share we were marching and we were surrounded by islamic fundamentalists i'm just now stood together yelling the same

slogans with the same goal of him in logic to the arrow united the people against the traders the algerian people we're all united the people against the trader the okemos i never got any nasty looks and wasn't cursed at did me a screw i wondered if we could ever have imagined it or can be in this situation one day little isn't she transformed by was. still a lonely voice taught us to take an interest in each other people from care about to be less and to be of us care about shall we it's remarkable. thank us. thank you. thank.

us. thank you lou to flee because candidacy for a 5th term woke up the youth after over a month of protests he stepped down as president. in algiers ecstatic crowds celebrated boot of leaders ouster and demanded total systemic change thank. the 1st city for example for the league that toppled one of the strongest dictatorships in africa and got looked at like i was a dictator the facts and guy along with millions of others made him feel so small that we threw him out he media the humiliation he suffered was worse than any

humiliations he made. the claim. was plain. plain. to lucky to hit i.q. but i don't see that here rock is a revolution it is yet to alter the paradigm so a shake the very core of the algae are. he insisted it was only what you drew. she's the namely the military's i agree everyone else politics she will surely put it up after step down the cracks in our democracy appeared and we saw who really

was in charge of the military as general ahmed. the head of the algerian army a staunch supporter of beautifully nonetheless urged him to resign then took over the role of algeria strongman himself a self-styled defender of the nation so law held power until the end of 2019 when he died at age 79. i thought he was put in office by the military former president was a soldier. and d.n. was a soldier too. said to really take the time they were all from the military. that is to stop. while still alive some laws tried to appease the demonstrators by throwing beautifully because cronies in prison the tactic failed the general was still seen

as a member of the former president's clan as the head of the army so law was the face of the very algerian system the people wanted to overthrow the general tried other methods to break the back of the iraq movement he made it illegal for demonstrators to wave the berber flag an important symbol for algeria as indigenous ethnic minority the cubbie old people. the regime hoped this would divide algerians instead the flag became a mark of solidarity i the police arrested dozens of young people on charges of conspiracy against the national unity for flag waving government repression grew increasingly intense but the beautifully good generation had lost its fear. from 2 in the afternoon to 5 pm the police are usually quite peaceful they said it's been that way for

a year now and they go out in the morning and you get rounded up by the cops ok then they tear gas you aster 5. i. i . i wouldn't go so far as to call the current situation a dictatorship but it's a totalitarian regime that. does just them. commit on the issue

and i would call it a mafia like susan and there is underhanded scheming and corruption and they act like a gang. i wanted to become a lawyer in order to be an activist passports because the most effective activists are lawyers most of those are fed enables you to defend people to stand up for justice to understand what people are subjected to to control should it allows you to express yourself at the limits of capacity to do exclude me. most people see they will see i primarily deal with political cases and prisoners and i see incredible things involved and therefore the inquiry you. are forced to join when i delve into a case on my desk i realize the justice system is rotten to the core there is no free decision making. to this illness.