are always the same core to the social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press. corruption work on the 4th to stay silent when it's called as to the sounds of the humans and see her right through foals who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is jane hers and i work a d w. you're watching news asia coming up today 24 year old hong kong her joshua long has been sentenced to more prison time with so many top activists in prison where do things stand for the territory civil rights movement plus entire wind its story of covert success the past year could take a new turn we take a closer look at vaccine hesitancy there.

i'm melissa chana thank you for joining us honk honk pro-democracy activists joshua wong and 3 others have been sentenced to between 4 and 10 months in prison for their participation in an annual vigil marking the 1009 $199.00 and square crackdown for the 1st time last year officials had banned the event that gave the government grounds to charge those who gather on kong has been the only place in china where people could commemorate the events of tiananmen it was an indicator of the territory's political freedoms under its one country 2 systems arrangement with beijing. china hong tung one of the organizers of the event reacted to the sentencings growth disappointed in the call i'll quote have been failing to save got our rights to say the iraqi people. i miss

a guy right to defend us russian. because he was wrestling that. all of us have more freedom than other places not we're not seeking more freedom than the other we are seeking i'll guarantee right under our constitution under basic law under the bill of rights we have samuel a chew of hong kong democracy council he joins us from washington d.c. samuel ewing your father has participated in the candlelight vigil in the past it's gone on for 30 years now young activists have been sentenced for showing up your thoughts well i think that the timing of this is a mystical world coming up on the 32nd anniversary next month just under and i think that this is a deliberate attempt to intimidate people from participating even though just weeks ago they have already announced a government that they're banning the vigil or 2nd year in a row and i think that today's sentencing is to make clear that they don't want

anyone to publicly memorialize what happened in 1989. and your father reverential uming very well known in hong kong had earlier also been sentenced for his activism the government has gone after so many of the major players where does that put the movement. well i think that it's becoming increasingly clear to the world and to everyone and that the tactic that hong kong government of beijing government is using is to manipulate the rule of law in hong kong to pile up various charges for joshua law for example this is actually the 2nd conviction while he is already serving a jail sentence and so this has moved from jail sentence from 13 and a half months or 17 and a half months a few months ago and then out or another 10 months for 27 and a half months and i think that what they're really trying to do is to essentially

de facto putting them in arbitrary detention while they're in prison they continue to prosecute them and i think it's important point out that joshua for example in his case he hasn't even gone to court for his case under the national security law which could mean up to 10 years or lighted if he was convicted and so i think that this is clearly a way putting together charges and cases that oftentimes have very flimsy basis legal basis or evidence but as a way of silencing and putting behind bars and keeping the behind bars the most recognizable and how will boyce's for hong kong that makes me wonder do you think we can ever see the kind of protests we saw in 200-1000 ever again well i think that. this is in some way bad against hong kong or so at the

beijing is making. i think it's worth remembering and point out that back in 89 there were a couple 1000000 people marches in hong kong even back to 10 times square protests was happening protests in the d.n.a. . it is part of the historic development of this part of the collective consciousness it is part of the civic culture in many ways so dominant in the civic culture so i think that while we might not see the frequent lots of large scale protests that we saw in 21900 before cold it hit and before that actual security law i think that what you'll see is a lot you ward the square is creative way we're already seeing people using other form of public expression to continue to voice and express their dissent samuel

chant thank you so much for joining us thank you. taiwan a paragon of good public health that has seen stunningly low numbers of covert cases and just 12 deaths the entire pandemic is not having the speediest vaccine fallout and he explains. waiting for a covert job to restart her overseas studies and the way came back to taiwan last year to excavate from the us a fear outbreak in the united states she plans to go back in the fall semester but she needs proof that she has been fascinated with a one termer i'm ok i'll sit down good for none of my friends have got facts and i need to when i told them i'm going to get a shot they were all very shocked and asked me to reconsider i rather a lot of news about these side effects of the job and i'm quite worried basically

if my school doesn't have this requirement i won't be getting a shot. or we as a cowboy don't want began as fact see roll out in late march and astra zeneca is the only f.a. both vaccine on the island with blood clot concerns the facts in asia rate has been much lower than expected even medical staff are reluctant to get a shot why wouldn't use a white board for those who need to travel abroad they're willing to get the shot. before the majority of taiwanese people they're sitting on the fence as local infection rate remains low income. taiwan is one of the top of almost in covert containment with only around a 1000 comfort cases and trials with a touch that so far but the atlantis far behind in the facts in asia raise the number of facts in dos and then the start per $100.00 people is only sorrow point 3 in contrast with the global after a shower $14.00 many taiwanese simply don't feel any urgency to get

a jab. in learning when you're going to spend years since the outbreak but life hasn't changed much the only inconvenience is we have to wear a mask but i'm used to that already so i don't think that's the urgency to get vaccinated compared to other countries. i'm in the lower risk country and all covert containment measures are exceptionally good i don't think it's necessary to . faxon aged but if we get worse. right now to hear that you know that i want to wait for other facts scenes because the side effects officer seneca seem to be quite serious now what are your ideas for toying with him. to achieve her immunity many experts say the facts in asia rate must reach these 70 percent taiwan's faxon has a tendency to make the island fun or a bowl once there won't open so but experts anticipate child one will pick up in july to august once western countries start to live travel bans when that day comes

the challenge will be whether there's enough supply of facts scenes i want to be done with taiwan will eventually get to 70 percent vaccination rates because people want to travel abroad so to be honest i'm not worried about that i'm only worried about the supply it's not in our control the balance of supply and demand has been disrupted by the outbreak in india. until taiwan is fact the nation rage the island will have to remain closed to the rest of the world joining us is journalist reinhold kilpatrick in taipei ryan this slow vaccine pick up is potentially a public health disaster waiting to happen for a country that has so far won the global p.r. campaign as a democratic model for combating covert what is the government doing to change public behavior on the matter if anything. key issue here right now

used to be earlier this year the government was concerned about not getting enough vaccines and after a deal with pfizer fell through the ledge to appeal to interference in beijing but just yesterday the health minister tranter joan told reporters that actually the biggest problem isn't surprised at all the public's willingness to get vaccinated today they introduced a new policy mandating 2 days for police to get actually did they get the job in a kind of a side effects but that is unpaid leave and we'll see how well it works. you have to at the moment it's very difficult for the government to offer carrots to people because as you say tom has been so successful is they want to taint a virus that it's been virtually untouched by zealots of the rest of the world so there's not many things they can that people at the moment schools are open businesses are open major events are going forward so it's going to take time when the more vaccines the come available more options such as pfizer and. or

a domestic there. probably help people who are concerned about yesterday seneca virus was. seen which is the only one currently available here or when other places around the world so open up an international child comes. to but this is going to take a long time right it sounds like it's going to take a little bit of a time in taiwan now i want to ask about misinformation it's been a big driver behind a vaccine hesitancy in many places and i wonder if that's the case in taiwan. of course a pandemic has been the locus for misinformation all around the world and tone is no exception as well as the usual rule of know is that if you look deliberate just information campaigns. from chinese state agents who are trying to sow you discontent and i rest domestically. but because it has been responding to this very effectively it's been very clear it's you it's messaging. notably the work of digital minister or if you're trying. one of the laws around the world i think what

we're seeing right now is actually more than deliver just information facts and hesitancy it's been informed by sort of skewed reporting that's been emphasising the side effects on the rare cases of complications arising from the axioms. but i think the key distinction to make here is that facts and hesitancy is not true in so much by conspiracy as it is just i caution the movie urgency and want to just see how it turns out and take the time and not rush into anything that's a huge distinction very quickly we do have a small outbreak i understand among a flight crew that has also spread to hotel staff how worrying is this. over the past couple of weeks we've seen over a dozen pilots and flight crew from the fi carry air china airlines be test test for the coronavirus and also hotel staff airport hotel entirely and so this this has been worrying but. yesterday there were 0 local cases today that

there is one new custom to govern has introduced a slew of new safeguards right extending mandatory quarantine for flight crews and you know mandating 5 tests over this extended mandatory quarantine at monitoring period. so they were spondon to know that they're definitely responding to this little outbreak thank you so much ryan help kilpatrick in taipei. that's it for thursday we're back tomorrow at the same time see you then a bike. every day. for us and for our pleasure. the idea is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make cities screener how can we protect animals and their habitats and what to do

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francis. welcome to arts and culture now on wednesday the g 7 nations wrapped up their 1st in person summit in 2 years and they closed it by officially accusing china of human rights abuses against its minority we got a muslim population is the latest step to condemn what an increasing number of countries are calling not only marginalization and persecution but even genocide facing a future all western criticism its campaign against it recently turned it to cinema as seen in a film set in the northwestern sheen jiang region the main home of the we got people. critics call this chinese movie showcasing the life of muslims a whitewash. they say the chinese state sponsored music oh the wings of songs is designed to deflect criticism of the government's policies in providence.

a we go back and a hand chinese man come together to fulfill the musical dream the film is big on spectacle but has no room for the human rights abuses by using has been accused of . the reality for weaker muslims looks rather different more than a 1000000 have been detained in camps across the province a recent schuman rights watch report says that the oppression of the majority muslim population inching junk has reached unprecedented levels and has included the destruction of mosques and harsh prison sentences for simply sharing islamic religious material. china at 1st denied the existence of the camps but later defended them as training programs and part of its counterterrorism program. in mid. china's state owned c g t and released

a documentary about life in shin jerry presenting prosperity freedom of choice and opportunities for muslim. activists have condemned it as a crucial distortion of reality. why not to unpack where and how we do that d.w. reporter william yang joins me now from taipei welcome to aunts and culture william now let's start by talking about the musical film we saw in that report the wings of songs it seems to be putting out the message will equal the same but it's that portrait of sameness that's part of the problem right. right exactly the chinese government attempt to really push back against the i.q. stations and the portrayal and the recognition of what has been going on in chin johnson's 2017 they wanted the world to believe the unity of the ethnic groups are

as tight as. that is according to china's own official media but then like in this movie and musical what we're seeing actually is a very strange reality which is that although we man are actually not having any of the beer and they are drinking beer and at the same time all the women are dressing in their e. modern style dresses and we don't seem to be you know like traditional muslim headscarves so all the elements of islam has basically been wiped out in this film and this is the reality china wants to the world to know which is. the islamic influence is just not like something that people need right now and there's a fine line isn't there between not acknowledging differences and punishing it and this is not the 1st time beijing has used a cultural prop form as a propaganda tool. right so last year i actually had

a photo exhibit outside the human rights council in geneva to showcase again their version of the which is the unity and people happy dancing in scene there is no trace at all any kind of of the depiction that have been going on in the western media and western research reports over the last few years and they repeated again in beijing to help try to strengthen the message that they're trying to say which is that the western media and being western countries have. you know creating lies and smearing them with smear campaigns but rather this is the version of the show that they won the world to know which is unity happiness and people being lifted out of poverty and landing modernization ok as you say beijing has denied accusations of human rights abuses against the weak of people including the latest one made at the g. 7 summit i mean they've more or less told the g 7 countries to mind their own

business one of the main tools beijing has used to dispatch this criticism social media even looked into this extensively william tell us about the mechanism. so this all started with chinese government diplomats and their spokespersons and other government officials using their personal twitter account which ironically this twitter social media platform is being blocked in china but they used it as a way to reach out to the world and to really spread their propaganda and when they realize that these attempts are not really working and resonating with the western world and western social media users they then go to french media outlets in the western world that has a similar narrative and ideology with them and use those reports which often times are discrediting or deep bunking the so-called research is by several leading journalists or researchers as a way to justify and claim see there are people in the western world that are

telling same story as we do so that is a way for them to try to justify and legitimize the you know that their version of this change on and then when that also did not work they then use a state media company to hire a marketing firm to create all these like a short videos that is presenting singing and happy week or people or we are people thanking the government thanking the communist party as a way to spread that message and how they do that is creating all these i fake accounts on you tube and also on twitter but. you know like the videos as far as they become afraid we're going to have to leave it there thank you so much for your analysis we'll keep an eye on we see on those developments we man from taipei office thank you so much. as pandemic lock downs continue to ease in britain london's victorian albert museum is

preparing to reopen by unveiling a new look for its raphael caught the gallery is home to the raphael cartoons paintings the renaissance artists created in the 16th century as designs for tapestries commissioned by pope leo the 10th and the 7 of 10 original designs survived they were loaned to the museum by queen victoria in 865 the renovations to the gallery included a darker wall color and improved lighting. now what to footballer billy bremner back to derek jacket he and the queen have in common they've all been immortalized in bronze by francis siegelman and they didn't have to wait long because the british sculptor doesn't hang about famously her sittings lasts just 2 hours in a career spanning 3 decades siegelman has made dozens of works the accolades keep pouring in as do the commissions. violin maverick nigel

kennedy prime minister boris johnson and other members of british society when sculptor francis siegel money enters a studio in east london she always has silent observers here she's working on a private commission to 72 year old has always been at home in art it actually started as a hobby and all my life i was an artist because i come from a very very artistic background i took up a little class where my hug my 2 little children and then from that minute always i was completely obsessed with sculpture i'd never want to stop working and never want to stop doing it and only in about 30 years ago 32 years ago i started doing it as a career. her special talent is working quickly she can sculpt a bust in about. 2 hours siegelman often works in front of an audience for charity such as with these pieces british film diva joan collins russian ballet dancer

sergei pollution and british actress joanna lumley. i love working in an audience. i'm not very keen on being my own studio which is quite strange but i have to have positive thinking all the way through the 2 hours otherwise the sculpture doesn't work. in the year 2000 france a single mom was commissioned to sculpt prince philip the queen herself followed in 2007 since then officially a royal sculptor she has also immortalized prince charles and princess then in bronze. working with the queen was the absolute most amazing thing i've ever done it was incredible. she is such a lovely woman and obviously it was very nerve wracking because like i measure all the time and calipers and i had to get to hair and her face to get the measurements

and i was very very. over the course of a year frances siegelman had 3 sessions with the queen at buckingham palace the bust was unveiled personally by her majesty in 2008. but she not only betrays nobility and celebrities she is also working on a series that means a lot since 2017 she's been sculpting the heads of holocaust survivors thereby creating mostyn memorials to them. i thought that i wouldn't be able to cope with the feelings you know when i was sculpting ivor he said to me can i call you mother he said because i feel the same you give me a new life you know my life hasn't finished and it will go. i'm that was all i needed i was completely hooked and i just felt like these people are dying i'm going to do as many as i can. at this live event by the thames the audience is only

virtually present francis siegelman will sculpt a portrait of mahler tributes born in 1930 commissioned by the holocaust memorial center yard vosh am. it's something i would normally have so. i took well to i have to say now probably find it interesting watching. this because it's very skillful and she's obviously got to be so quick within 2 hours she morton lies is the face of the holocaust survivor and clay. the resemblance is impressive. but i think it's a very good likeness and i'm usually quite fussy about it was put down over the spot i think that probably looks much much of the.

later it will be cast in bronze so knowledge of each and other holocaust survivors will live on for future generations through the work of france a single mother. what an impressive body of work if you want to find out about any of our stories you check out our website that steve w. dot com slash culture thanks for watching and please join us again next time.

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