department so obviously people are wondering why it's always happening there but especially police officers here in the country now feel particularly threatened their colleagues their stephanie's colleagues the woman who was killed yesterday they had to watch her being killed because of the the attack or killed her in the airlock and they couldn't access that place so that was really traumatizing for them many people here especially police unions are now saying you know we should protect our police stations better. later lois there we'll have more headlines at the top of the hour satan. i'm secure in the fire were the target and in the end this is a me you're not allowed to steal and more we will send you back. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers we're alliance of. what's your story

ready. i'm working i was with women especially of victims of violence in rooms and take part and send us your story your train already understand this new culture. you are not a visitor. you want to become a citizen. in for migrants your platform is reliable information. it's that time again and film buffs are primed as we head into oscars 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. scandal in germany after a group of activists staged an online campaign criticizing the government's further

tightening of parole restrictions sarcastic and cynical videos have largely backfired. and in honor 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 ewing platforms and as creative engines for some high class cinema here's an overview of the nominees. make with 10 nominations is technically the front runner at this yes i discuss david finch as black and white and to the golden age of hollywood is up for best film and best director gary oldman could take home

a 2nd best acting oscar 1st performance of the alcoholic screenwriter herman manc mankiewicz the man who wrote citizen kane. any distraction eliminated average. fellow oscar winner viola davis is a favorite for best actress performance and in music drama a nice black bottom playing the 1st black female blues artist tree caught the professional. it is my assumption i'm playing her because she had to know her because it was either knowing your words or going. dying under the weight of the culture. didn't understand we were. also nominated from our rainey's black bottom is biola davis's 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 going to chicago to paul just to be. with us so pleased to be working 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 month has a good shot at the oscar for best supporting actor i. love you judas and the like messiah and now the 60 set drama has 2 supporting actor nominees daniel call you here 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 non white actors are nominated. to be including steven ewan he's the 1st asian american to receive an oscar

nomination for best actor for his performance in me natalie as a korean immigrant who moved this family to arkansas to become a farmer. there is something confident about its own point of view. wire another. upon origines be juxtaposed to you know. the true front runner 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 known that no. i'm just. not the same thing right. 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 it's 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. yeah you know it's completely unique it's 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. tests 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 like 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 will definitely be something to watch 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 a promising young woman i think she could be the upset could maybe be theola 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 . i'm. doing. these i'm stressed it's not. been a few days yet that disco. ball and the baby's immortal life. they've . been ripped from short lived credit knocked out of me i.

wasn't. going to. dunk another median when it was them this is a. fun totems for the class the 1st on the no doubt that to him guns guns that corner. 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 i mean 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 coleen's 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 i'm 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 thing kind of thing white house 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. hungry what do you have to be to start stealing other people's.

17 year old leo is consumed by hunger and back home sickness and how to minimize novel the hunger in jail it's $945.00 in 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 wanted to be slow because of the super bowl 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 some but i 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 of finally til 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 flawless russian all the song newbie new growth which translates roughly as beloved city is part of the soundtrack for v to escape from hell that's an upcoming film by the russian cuz actor director timor bekmambetov will 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 rifat. from us and until we meet again i was caught.

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