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i'm british benji welcome to news asia glad you could join us the world's 1st covered 1000 outbreak continues to spiral out of control in india for the 5th straight day on monday the country recorded more than 300000 cases the highest global ever recorded the increasing caseload has outstripped available medical supplies but of oxygen the u.s. u.k. germany single pole and the european union among others have stepped forward with help help that's badly needed to relieve the pressure on india's overstretched health care system has more from the democrats on the well. not so. duty to these officers and once again just shouldn't be singing guess what it's

the ability to sing the poor they're all still blissfully julie saudi arabia and other countries in the neighborhood as well even china have so little things to support plus the e.u.'s the dress the school the now knowledge the media didn't show that he supplied the maxine that actually caught him just because this was what it's you know deception of democracy the us has been criticized for your teams up like to sure that seems wrong but you little of the prosecutor needs but now i don't want to buy my stats and i'm glad i was accepted the what you know and i'm a price is much like india supported us when it's right it's useless it's stretched we are independent and in the midst of the crisis in the country social media platforms like facebook and twitter are very large as life savers literally indians

are shedding pleas for help and information on availability of beds oxygen and other medical supplies but it's also prompted criticism of the government's response to the crisis criticism that the government has decided to go after last week following a request from the government twitter blocked over 50 tweets in india the for mostly critical of the government according to a media report the government felt these posts constituted social media misuse some of the post censored but those of organizations and opposition politicians the ritual you some of these tweets but not in their entirety as these have been banned in india a member of parliament from the opposition congress party every month of a.d.'s tweet pointed to the collapse of the health care system in india due to the more than 200000 cases being recorded daily. a minister in the state of west bengal molloy got alk lamented that the government

had underplayed the coronavirus situation in the country west bengal is one of the indian states worst affected by the rise in cases and for more on this i'm joined now by prefixing our he's the cofounder of or news a fact checking portal in india for the joins me now from about unrest in india think you are focused on a daily basis on weeding out fake news and misinformation online in india did most of the tweets that have been blocked meet that standard not at all there was no misinformation these are people expressing their opinions about the ground situation for example one act of unequal massing saying that it is difficult to get medication another you know member of parliament from another political party saying that you know the prime minister should be held responsible. a journalist a senior journalist from a organization called n.e.p. news saying that you know you criticize tablighi jamaat incident in which happened

where the muslim community was criticized for walling a religious congregation but you're not doing the same for hindus who are who are in the similes congregation in something called camilla so these are all genuine criticism that the new element of misinformation i hate and does not at all meet the standards of twitter as a platform to police these tweets so is the government then using its powers to block dissent on social media absolutely all of these tweets which would be considered critical of the government and the government is forcing platforms and unfortunately the platforms are buckling as well but the government is forcing platforms to adhere to certain lines where you know that dissent is corrupt but you mentioned the platforms are buckling to the government's instructions why. because in india if you have to do business you have to be friends with the

government if we keep talking about ease of business but is ease of business of friends and i know we have seen this in other platforms also even in facebook there are individuals who work in very high positions who at one point of time used to do propaganda for p.d.p. so this is not a case of just one platform all platforms in india social media platforms want to do business india is a huge market for them and for them to be successful they have to be friends with the government what exactly other legal powers of the government of india has that allow or to ask source for media platforms to remove content deemed objectionable. so everything is not illegal ran right and they can we use things we have seen in india that. you know for example of position political parties or media organizations recently they are subjected to income tax states raised by the enforcement directorate and things like that so go meant and. pressure is business

hours and multiple ways you know whether it's permission for a new building new land there are multiple ways in which a government can love the progress of a business that is not only in legal realms or you know through though they have also used those kind of threats that is you know if you don't take down the set of trees in the past when there's another problem at a hash tag that was stranded government you did use even threats as well but that is not the government has more means than that to intimate it distances us but overall our social media platforms are helping in the current crisis i mean the number of tweets that we have seen for example you have citizens who are meeting and organizing amongst themselves trying to find responses to this nationwide crisis is that a major positive to come out of this. it does but these are 2 distinct issues definitely twitter especially has been

a huge platform for you know this kind of crowdsourcing resources and or use as a not for profit organization every month we do get our funding and twitter is one of our biggest platform to be able to do that and that is the nature of the platform and we appreciate that appreciative of that but but that that is a very distinct matter from the policing and or from their inability to date don't hate speech. there are multiple times when you have written to twitter about accounts which have been suspended which come back and continue to put out hate speech and which is not which is against the policies and they don't act at all so these are 2 distinct possibilities distinct issues that you know a platform in useful and our platform is buckling under government pressure speaking of buckling under our government pressure do you see in the midst of the present coronavirus crisis is there actually an increase in misleading information and deliberate fake news that is being spread absolutely there's

a huge increase in both medical misinformation as well as political misinformation the last one year has been just. in you know any less amount of political and medical misinformation political misinformation is very closely linked in india to current affairs and it is organized that is it is used to set a narrative so and a lot of it comes from the right wing government so if things are going wrong then false negatives are created using social media so and it is done in a very organized manner and we have seen a huge uptake of it i think that our co-founder of old news thank you so much for breaking that down. thank you and this force continuing updates on the evolving coronavirus situation in india on our website there to double dot com and on facebook and twitter as well. after the country's military confirmed that all 53 crewmembers of

a submarine that sank last week are dead photographs are from the wreckage of the. submarine lying on the sea floor off the island of bali at a depth of more than $800.00 the cause of the sinking is yet to be determined. the crew of the sunken navy vessel in happier days singing the indonesian song some part. by. little did they know that it was a prophecy of their fate. good day kartik one of the 53 crewmembers aboard the sunken submarine. now that he's gone his family hopes that at least his body can be salvaged. since they've been declared dead according to our beliefs we pray to god almighty

so that the body of our nephew can be immediately removed from the sea that way our family can perform rituals according to our teaching of. the submarine went missing last week during training exercises of the island of bali. ships and aircraft from various countries search frantically. until the navy discovered the ship's wreckage over there we can meaning there is no chance of survival. while experts try to find out the cause of the sinking precedential has offered condolences to those who lost their loved ones. but i. put up with the country of what the name. remember this by promoting them one rank higher and i want them with a star medal for their services and contribution and i. got that.

but none of the awards can bring the victims back. retrieving the wreckage and remain through challenging if it happens that. family members will have to be patient while hoping at least their pray is can reach their loved ones. there's more updates on our website it ever dot com forward slash despite rising numbers of coronavirus cases india continues to hold local elections some 8600000 voters eligible to cast their ballots in the state of west bengal today the state is one of the worst affected in the current over 1000 outbreak in the country massive election rallies you had in the past few months have been in part blamed for this we leave you with these images and we'll see you tomorrow at the same time .

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and in our continuing series 100 german must reads we feature austrian writer joseph ross novel job of reworking the good little story. welcome to arts and culture it was a very different oscars in 2021 with the upside being a very diverse lineup of nominees but meanwhile many commentators postulated that ratings would dive and that most people not being able to even see the majority of the films had simply lost interest let's see how it panned out from the center of hollywood pretty pandemic to the main los angeles train station made pandemic a nice room where this happened oh. that was the best actress winner frances mcdormand who led the acting in what was named for best picture of 2020 nomad land a tale of down and out americans living out of their vehicles. and the concourse to

. momentum. it was directed by the groundbreaking chinese born chloe joe the 1st asian woman to take home the best director award. this is for anyone. you have the faith and the courage to hold on to the goodness in themselves in a delayed toned down intimate event in a socially just space the winners were more diverse than in years past. and the oscar goes to. judge young you take for example korean winner you know john of the best supporting actress award from the film inari own elected thanks to my 2 boys who make me pull out and work so. good out done. it this is because mommy was so hot. also picking up

a statue with the film judas in the black messiah supporting actor daniel kalu you who in his own way offered a wait one moment is incredible. incredible moment that he had 6 amazing legis it over here you mean so i was so happy to be alive so it was a really that's a no. you are probably a diverse array of reactions to the top honors amidst our diverse array of nominees and winners. diversity writ large at this year's oscars and of course scott ross perot joins me now on the line from bonn welcome scot's now finally is what i feel like saying after all these years the diversity message seems to have gotten through what stood out for you this time round. well i mean the best picture but i really stood out not only because it was directed by a chinese director chloe child but also because it seems really to speak to this

moment in time i mean this is i think a moment for all of us after the year of the pandemic where we're hearing feeling vulnerable where we're perhaps more introspective and and this film really is a very introspective movie about an incredibly vulnerable woman played by frances mcdormand who has lost everything and is living out of her van as a modern day nomad. in some ways this film can be seen as almost a retelling of the american western or of the american dream story and i think it's interesting that it did strike such a chord with the academy this year because i think it's coming at a time when so many people also in america are saying to question question their national miss and the and the stories that they tell each other and i think it's very significant and and really a deserving winner for this year's oscars that's really interesting and great to see chloe's all making history in so many ways only the 2nd woman ever to win best director tell us a bit more about her as a filmmaker. yes she's fascinating i mean she's

a chinese born director but she's probably the most insider director and best seller of of the american underclass really in all in the whole earth her 1st 3 films and what she does she basically embeds with the people the story she telling and she usually works only with nonprofessional actors no matter that is the 1st time she's actually worked with professional actors with francis dormant and the rest of the cast almost the entire rest of the cast are nonprofessionals they're playing versions of themselves i'm what i find so fascinating about is that she's really taking a very american for the western with a road movie and giving it a completely new spin and also a very female focused point of view and i think that's what really causes her to have such strength as a director now in terms of surprises i guess the surprise ending left a few people cold. yes this is very fascinating they put the best actor award at the end usually that for best picture goes and i think they did that because they soon but we all did that the winner would be chadwick boseman the late actor who

died last year i was nominated for his final performance in black bottom but when the award was announced it wasn't one but anthony hopkins who won for his role playing a man suffering from dementia and the father unfortunately mr hopkins wasn't at the ceremony so instead of ending with a very touching moment in tribute to trap with those men we ended with a bit of a damp squib. ok well i'm sure the data isn't in yet but it's interesting that in the lead up to the oscars the overall interest was a blow many were questioning the point of this event especially in a pandemic year how did this ceremony work actually and is the model and david do you think. yeah the ceremony itself i think given the conditions that had to be produced under was fine it felt felt like almost like a regular normal award ceremony but maybe that's the problem because this this format of the 3 hour long award ceremony really feels old hack by now it feels like a throwback to another era i. especially in the instagram world that we live in now

maybe there's something they have to do something new to attract the younger audience or and the other fans hoping that for next year's ceremony that'll be interesting to see what that looks like thanks so much for that analysis scott roxboro in bonn and stay safe. oh when you're you a quiz i was just a girl and now merged with painting and drawing her mother took away her inks and paints in the hope that she would lead a respectable life all the artists in her saw no other choice but to escape literally to new york city and emotionally into mental illness over the next 7 decades art was a way to manage her own mind and at 90 to her of the now on show digitally here in berlin is dazzling introspective and complex. huge turns because draw us into the world of your kusama the princess of whole conducts a major retrospective at the marching gropius bow in berlin pays tribute to the 92

year old japanese artist. so there is there's a real icing desire of her to create needed like a parallel universe in which you know she sometimes lives it so the polka dots are way to create also for us a completely different ways of looking. creates whole new world psychedelic and disorienting from early youth the artist to have to pollution nations and anxiety attacks pressures of lights and threaten to engulf her installations put us in charge with her in a world. like that like the you know you get slightly dizzy you suddenly think oh what's happening with the floor and if you look longer on the wall you suddenly feel like i was there through the war there is this kind of going into into that so it is of course a kind of way of playing with the way we see in our vision and i think she's very

good in kind of every tainting how we can see and therefore also of course questioning you know what is the normal way of looking. for the past 40 years kusama has lived in a mental institution. in japan but by day she paints obsessive li in a studio situated across the road. i'm not sure if it is a suggestion from my illness or if i wanted to do that we because i am totally absorbed in creating the piece when i am creating my work so everything disappears around me my friends create the work. the retrospective traces her autistic journey over 7 decades of intoxicating

creativity in the 1960 s. to some i left her native japan for new york and found a place in the world of flower children political ever shocking she staged happenings against the vietnam war and against the food dish sexual morality of the time but don't now adorned naked bodies somerset in both history art history she was one of the 1st you know who did make it performances and even at the time in new york that was shocking and i mean that is something of course this has has revolutionized also. that the presence of the body the idea of that we can be naked is of course sexual but it's also true as a vulnerability it shows a way of how the human body connects with the environment. to some has recalibrated the world and push its boundaries gender boundaries personal boundaries even the boundaries of the universe and chancing and visionary she makes

lots of points about the nature of existence and leads us to ward's infinity. life is finite joseph roth only lived to be 44 years old but in his short career. he wrote a dozen or so novels and huge amount of journalism but most of those novels are habitually overlooked in the modern canon and so this week's pick of german books in translation is job his novel of jewish life in europe that we feel certain. this is the biggest jewish cemetery in europe bisons in berlin here in germany jewish cemeteries will always be a reminder of the millions of jews murdered by the nazis before the holocaust most of the world's jewish population lived in eastern europe nowadays there's hardly any jewish life there left at all.

use of quotes novel job tells about life in the shuttle or jewish village whose main character a torah instructor named mendel singer faces challenges of biblical proportions like the job of the bible he survives one twist of fate after another and his horrible loss has put his face. i am alone and i will remain alone during all these years i have loved god and he doesn't hate at me all the arrows from his quiver have already hit he can but kill me but he's too cruel for that. job was published in 1933 years before hitler took power but even then it was read as a swan song to the jews of eastern europe he was a poet spoke allows us to see and smell the dirt poverty and misery of the status we understand mental singers struggles with tradition his longing for freedom and his anger with god but it's also an uplifting novel full of warmth and hope the

actress and singer marlene a ditto called job her favorite book maybe you will too. don't forget about our website for more arts and culture and until next time. i was going to from up here for length and he doesn't just. come.

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