the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing. measures are being taken. what does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus of data the code of special monday to friday on w. it's world press freedom day and then out in coachella we'll be looking at how different people have found ways to tell their stories and make their voices heard despite censorship and oppression. in zimbabwe will meet 2 comedians who are fighting injustice with a surprisingly effective weapon satire but. we'll see how director clothes

and the oscar winning film no mad land are being censored in china. and as an antidote to journey to fast fun plan places without ever leaving home in our series $100.00 german must reads. welcome to the show every year on world press freedom day d w awards its freedom of speech prize this year's recipient is nigerian reporter to bora of warre in 2013 of war a embarked on a courageous and dangerous project she went undercover as a sex worker to investigate human trafficking in nigeria experiencing violence and abuse in the process resulting report shed light on the problems facing young women who are louer to live the forced prostitution in europe the report also lead to criminal inquiries and inspired the netflix film or 2 to re. of warre

will receive the award next month during the w.'s global media forum now let's stay in africa but travel south to zimbabwe where 2 women are taking a different approach to fighting injustice with the economy in crisis and government critics brutally silenced comedians maggie and gone yeti are airing their dissatisfaction through humor their satirical sketches broadcast online are hitting a nerve the pay as you tube videos have racked up thousands of views. this is a parody but it reflects the reality in zimbabwe. all of them over my people who do i don't know about 4 to talk. about. many zimbabweans still don't have access to good health care. and their weekly skits maggie and 2 young female comedians talk about the daily issues affecting

their fellow citizens. a lot of women are facing difficulties. to live out in their babies. who finding mammy lou was one of the flaw so my giving bev in public transport was is this is said the channel bus stop t.v. started as an experiment among friends the host of the skits on social media and then they quickly grew in popularity. and that's what we thought. it. would vote so so. they decided to reproduce these conversations skits by the news and real life experiences. just before the start of the covered $900.00 pandemic they even launched the show in a minibus but due to the pandemic that show had to be halted social issues

governance mission or governance service delivery so such issues are those that we cover but there are still to boot topics insulting the president for example is punishable by law after the ousting of former president robert mugabe who was in power for 37 years and had hoped for better days but they call me is in ruins and those who criticize authorities are still being silenced. t.v. offers an alternative to the mainstream news and by disguising their messages in humor. they try to avoid government censorship. yes just like what we're going to get your next meal and in the meantime you'll see a skit from bus stop and you laugh so bad when you make fun of the situation we're not to chicken it lightly but actually telling you how things are like when talking about police violence but what i would like to assure the nation that we did not

promote violence it's something that the team members experienced 1st hand i was i don't think last year i guess last year. after being as cute. kid we were. we're talking about police brutality that's. for 3 things where it was it was tough it was something else going yet he feared for his safety but the reactions of our followers kept her going some are saying you are good at what you're doing truly highlighted the said situation in our beloved country. more tragic than fun thank you buster to hear it again for highlighting this story while letting the sort of state of our nation through comedy what we're trying to do. is head like people are watching people are relating saw. it is good. the young team at bus stop t.v.

make people laugh and they give them some form of comic relief they're hoping for change in zimbabwe and as they watch by so many they hope that they too can contribute to this change. clothes our made history as the 1st asian woman and the 2nd woman ever to win the best director oscar but viewers in her native china were not able to enjoy her triumph the ceremony was censored and on with all mentions of sour in the media a film in nomad land which won best picture still hasn't opened there the backlash began in march when beijing discovered an interview the director gave 18 years ago . the world is talking about filmmaker chloe except china where the director of the oscar winning film nomad land was born the reason is an interview style gave him 2013 where she described china as a place where there are lives everywhere she and her film have been censored from

the internet in china so have people in beijing heard of her. money sorry i haven't heard anything. i haven't heard her name very young. this man decides what people in china are allowed to see right after taking office president g. jinping declared that art has the fundamental responsibility to serve socialism he's increasingly been using china's economic might to censor hollywood as well. thanks to the pandemic last year china was the biggest film market in the world with some 2000000000 euros in revenue. now we're in a situation where offending the chinese government means potentially being shut out on the largest box office in the world and that is an increasing source of pressure on hollywood decision makers to play ball so hollywood has really edited films for

the chinese market like bohemian rhapsody the bio pic of freddie mercury lead singer of the band queen patrolling his life it addresses his homosexuality including a scene of a kiss which was removed from the chinese release. a scene recreating a famous music video in which mercury dressed in women's clothes was also cut homosexuality is taboo in china. in a report titled made in hollywood censored by beijing james taker analyzes the self-censorship by the us film business hollywood enjoys this reputation of being an industry that speaks truth to governmental power to see that this sort of free pass that the industry overall is given to beijing to influence their movies is disappointing. china's president knows that if he controls hollywood he also

controls what the rest of us see and what we feel. is hollywood being willing to change content for the global release of the movie not just the version of the movies that show in china so that the chinese communist party censureship dictates actually affect what the entire world watches chinese posters for nomad land had already been printed before the ban china's propaganda apparatus loves films that are critical of the u.s. not criticism of its own country nomad land is unlikely to ever be shown in china. in other news here's something i bet you haven't seen for a long time thousands of revelers have attended a music festival in the u.k. city of liverpool without masks all social distancing the event at the weekend was part of an experiment to test the safety of large scale gatherings ahead of the country's to be opening attendees had to produce

a negative 19 test. u.k. police say they are assessing allegations of sexual harassment by a as a get on named man that statement follows accusations against actor and director no clock made by more than 25 women bafta has suspended his award for outstanding british contribution to cinema clocky is best known for kidulthood adult brotherhood films about bullying and drug abuse among young london is. the pandemic has turned many of us into chad to ists only able to dream of the adventures we might enjoy if only we could austrian author christoph runs my own has been all over the world for you and he's fictionalized his adventures in a collection of short stories the result atlas of an anxious man is the latest book in our series 100 german must reads.

what if you could travel the whole world see every continent and you wouldn't even have to quit your job abandon friends and family or max out your credit cards well i may have an idea. here's a little tip atlas of an anxious man by austrian author costar for i'm smart who take you want to world tour you want to have to leave the house for it's more adventurous than it sounds you'll meet a golf player at the north pole and a welsh birdwatcher drinking whisky on the great wall of china. you'll experience a terrifying drug search on the malaysian border you'll hear an aztec human sacrifice back from the dead playing accordion for spare change. 70 very short stories about different places different people different landscapes each poetic

tale starts with the words i saw and the sun smiles lets us see with the wonders and the horrors of humans and nature and their violent collisions for instance our brazilian anaconda the queen of the wild getting run over by a truck the anaconda was still alive and slithered on words slower now without its former fluid grace and occasionally as though seized by spasms but on words nonetheless there was no visible wound on its pattern skin but it's spine must have been broken this queen would now brain only over the realm of the dead with her broken back whom could she hunt now without once raising its head above the foliage the queen crept silently into oblivion author close to a crime smile spent decades travelling to the places he describes in the book his adventures will either make you want to go out and collect some stories of your own or maybe you'll just be glad you read his instead.

you can find more on all the books in this eries on our you tube channel. and check out our website w don't call us culture more stories including the latest casualty of the time to make germany's iconic the thanks to which has been canceled for 2nd year running for more about the culture in belin. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and if you newspapers when official information as a journalist i have worked at all of the strengths of many cantrips and their problems are always the same forward to social inequality

a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption who can afford to stay silent when it comes to the fans and the humans on scene or my dual roles who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is jenny harrison i work a d w. virtual reality could revolutionize the sex industry what's already possible what is being developed and how might these changes affect the digital technology and sex i want topic on shift today. let's be honest despite my personal and foozie as i'm for v.

our technology in general i have not taken be up on knowledge of you very seriously for me it is a nice market for a very special clientele in japan however the concept has really taken off even special stores here where you can have completely new experiences with losses is there perhaps more to the idea after all i took a look at one of these stores in tokyo. asking about in tokyo the district is a. computer games alex and the pornography the company soft on demand alone operates 70 special b r 6 dogs in japan it's one of the largest producers of pornography films in asia. here you can see employees faces to keep things discreet i asked to book a one hour of the hour package it costs almost 1000 yen about a year old all dodged up in the cities have venues like this. can be rated for up

to 3 hours there are 3 different options reclining chair reclining mat. i chose reclining match. my booth was on the 2nd floor i'm one meter 93 tall and felt pretty claustrophobic on the way up. in the booth i found the our glasses handkerchiefs a telephone slippers and countless options it was a little bit confusing to be honest. a lot of people you don't know either because 50 percent of people come here so they have a special service well that i would call for help. help me set up and stop of ya feel the film's a shot from a subjective camera angle so depending on where the u.s. seated are lying down you will be watching a different film with a corresponding setting. you can see your own virtual body so

this video here wouldn't have made much sense if i had been sitting upright. the sex industry would not be going to those technological length if we didn't expect to profit illegal porn streaming and private providers have resulted in considerable losses in recent years gamble only time will tell whether we are on really does offer a way out of the crisis more and more videos are becoming available online but what's the attraction. no mortal in tokyo is one of japan's leading produces obvious. when you watch a p.r. on a t.v. or a p.c. screen it's usually from a bird's eye view of the real v.a.r. emphasizes the experience much more. the customer feels as if he could really touch the girl that he has real eye contact or that he can feel her breath next to his ear. so the media it's

a completely different view or perspective to a standard movie that. i found the unusual perspective unsettling. first impression it's really very detailed a little bit weird to watch to be honest because the woman in that clip i just saw shoot this distortion is linked to the distance between all pupils which is different for every person the images are set to a stand at this time if this doesn't correspond to the eyes of the person wearing the glasses the proportions will be distorted. the filmmakers of soft on human produce that videos in this studio everything here is why. this ensures that the background isn't distracting and allows the producers to better direct the viewer's focus. to the way my

mother the strength that we are is that it enables different forms of interaction what it will take in the pit allows you to get to a place you couldn't get to before so into action is the magic word this combination of technology and emotion is something that can be found most of all in japan according to not alina hi the british author and podcast focused on ethical issues related to digital technologies. amazing innovation and. if you think. a lot of people in a lot of places are very expressive of that affection for technology and you may end up going in a great relationship ok i kind of love my smartphone too but that's as far as it goes some of the observations already enable you to build your dream partner does that really create deeper connections. being able to configure a virtual partner like in a computer game and having custom made avatars thanks to computer generated images

this is a future v.a.r. producer yasha moto finds promising. will be possible to design individual body parts such as breasts waist or hips to create your ideal woman with the help of c.g.i. you have. sex therapist dr michelle paid to refine this technology problematic he says even normal porn films already create unrealistic expectations in his patients . we have somebody taking one point. and now we're reaching a new level here the user can actually select his or her ideal partners body. but the consequence of this would be that any real life partner would end up being compared to this fantasy product. how does it constitute missing lots. not only no high also worries about consequences this comparison can have she researches ethical issues surrounding digital technologies. well. being human

being and believes about so it's actually quite a complex issue if you end up real being humans trying to emulate. themselves in order to look more like that's the reality count models real people trying to look more like virtual of a tot's sounds pretty dubious to me but they are already reports about people having plastic surgery for that reason cutting edge technology and the sex industry seem a good match for not a few has long been a driver for technological advancements but a passion boss the author of the erotic engine is certain that without tomography the internet would not have grown so quickly not convinced well you know some examples online payment systems without paypal and size the payment would be a simple and secure as it is today online streaming without with streaming software developed for pornography sites media platforms will struggle to deliver news clips

online advertising without advertising from sec size many free internet services wouldn't exist and now we are even in the development of sex toys experiments are being made with virtual reality and for once the products on offer are not mainly targeted at map we are. dealing with this exclamation of surprise is from an ad by dutch sex toy manufacturer the company offers a vibrator that can be linked to v.r. glasses by an apple special vibrations which correspond to what's happening in the film or transmitted by the gadget. of course there are similar products for men to for example virtual made a device for men that works with. b.-r. and real time sensors and promises a realistic erotic experience. such devices can also be linked using apps and controlled remotely my someone's partner

possibility that some couples find appealing. but i think nothing that enables us to relate more fully with someone else especially when so many of us are at distance well for instance in a pandemic if you looked in different cities. it's going. to express your desire for the other partner and it different way and so i think it is designed to create a connection in a way that people want and that's one. sense of the cover of night and then it began digital adult entertainment services have become more popular well direct physical contact is rather difficult at the moment especially for singles the us paul web site pornhub has registered up to 25 percent more hits on its site this year and if people really miss physical contact that's why resources currently being conducted about how to make virtual experiences even better one promising possibility special suits that simulate touch and warmth. and technology when.

your assets in could be really powerful because it gives us physical cues it's a physical sensation that he took. to digital. and that's going to be much more pleasant for a much more real and actual sense and just having some. visual or auditory. soft on demand in tokyo is currently working on integrating additional sensations the goal is to eventually include all of our senses in the experience. at the moment we're testing new technologies to make that we are experience even better to this for example we're working on a technology for smells like a woman's mouth to protect. now feel taste prospects seem dizzying but we are already off as the possibility to slip into other characters or other bodies or for example to playfully change sex if we are not amiss. the sense of anonymity can give us

a great feeling of freedom to disclose and to be honest and. able to express things that we might otherwise and difficult so i think given the reality office that possibility it is very possible that we can be more insular nuts that could technology really help us to better understand our own sexuality and so to gain a better understanding of others in real relationships it's an interesting thought if you like. i might get maybe one day all of us will not only want to have sex in our bedrooms but in the dream worlds that are most exciting for us all about once and that was just that would be one way i could see virtual reality providing exciting possibilities for users in everyday life. not just as pornography but for couples as well documented service young star income funds. to be our sector is expecting the market to grow to 13 and a half 1000000000 euros by 2022 and this includes sex products after all many

people enjoy exploring new options we are very adaptive as humans and we can learn to find all those things exciting and erotic and normal given the amount of time to get used to it so yeah i think a lot of us will end up expanding our sexual records income that's that remains to be seen we're quite a way are really natural looking and i and i think a certain point we might end up singing but in the other direction and one seeing real physical human contact with other human beings. what do you think what do you try adrià sex to technology and feelings go together share your opinions with us on facebook on d w dot com if you want to know more about. a reality check out our you tube channel that's it for me they care your next hour.

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