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i'm melissa chana thanks for joining us the covert surge in india has spread to nepal it's seeing a record number of cases almost double since its previous peak last fall over the past week doctors have reported almost 70000 cases according to the red cross and red crescent 44 percent of code test conducted are coming back positive and the cases per 100000 people or about the same as india's 2 weeks ago in other words it looks like a repeat of india's disaster and with a weaker health care system than india's and a slower vaccination rate the challenge for an apollo will be that much bigger. getting out while they still can. these passengers are on the last flights out of katmandu you. as nepal's suspends international air travel. over you because you

just i'm glad that i'm able to leave nepal where the covert 19 situation is getting really bad. like neighboring india nepal is reeling from a deadly 2nd wave of the coronavirus the porous border between the 2 countries has contributed to skyrocketing case numbers. nepal's main towns and cities are in lockdown the health ministry says the situation is unmanageable doctors and nurses are being pushed to their limits. today we have not turned anyone away without providing them with oxygen. but the situation is getting complicated. but you wonder how colleagues are working very hard they are on duty for 24 hours we have even been giving oxygen to patients in chairs. nepal has

called for international help as case numbers hit record highs the country's neglected health care system is facing collapse. with the lockdown in place many migrant workers have returned from the cities to their homes in rural areas while katmandu is hospitals struggle to save lives fear is growing of outbreaks in the remote regions lacking health care infrastructure. we have the nepal head of delegation at the international federation of red cross and red question societies joining us from the capital kathmandu let's start with katmandu tell us what's happening there. yeah how one do is one of the hotbeds for as a 2nd wave of deadly cobra at 19 and you also have the other districts along the border with india i just want to say that. in the lock few weeks the number of infections have gone up by 50 times all over 50 times and is still

rising if you look at mach the figures that mocked were talking about 100 cases a day in the last few days it was over with 700008 sort of over $7000.00 about 70 percent so sound hours from a 100 a day or 2 months ago those death rate is. 50 over 50 a day and this is unprecedented in the net power context. obviously you have heard of the very adeptly variant and this variant is much more contagious much more aggressive and is spreading through board a spectrum of the population including younger people in apollo. vaccination rates so far as i know one percent compared to about 3040 percent in many of the richer countries this is

a major challenge and you're right i want to actually ask about the vaccines how good is the distribution is there not enough is there a vaccine hesitancy tell me a little bit more. yeah but the 2 little daughters that they have received have all almost been fully used up on the red cross volunteers have been very active in what we call in gauging the community to it will count anything back themes so i think in some way that faith is sort of over with the intervention there and you have a main challenge now is the lack of vaccines and one thing i've seen as has been coming into the country. so far it's called a shield from india and so you know if i'm from china interesting interesting and in our report just now it also show people especially migrant workers traveling going back home because there is no work in the cities with the lock down but i'm

wondering that also means possibly spreading the corner virus to more rule areas isn't that a problem and a challenge. yes there is there is and there but if you look right now the government shutdown in katmandu and some of the border town the restriction of returning migrants and the red cross is also helping authorities in some of the border areas are you know measures like sanitization like social that them so. it's extra. yes and you know that not only in their power but in many countries where there are people living below the poverty line challenge between restriction and livelihood is a life and death one as much last thank you so much for joining us right here. one additional know nepal held large religious festivals this spring

something the government did not discourage and the country's leadership including the prime minister has spread misinformation he said at one point that gargling on wobble leaves can treat cove it no part of the country is immune including mount everest nepal's economy relies on tourism dollars and the government reopened the world's highest peak to international mountain years earlier this year physically fit climbers have expressed shock they could contract cove it but the coronavirus doesn't discriminate and more than 30 people have had to be evacuated from base camp. this is where the climb starts. it's not unusual for more than a 1000 people to be camped at the foot of the iconic mountain but right now things feel very different. from the group there were other groups having.

you know that some time before the climbing of course and then. i see that many groups put in some line to not to cross they said please do not put a cold it's a nice change. last year the pandemic devastated nepal's tourism industry so this year authorities have eased quarantine rules and issued more than $400.00 climbing permits a new record that maybe allowing the virus to spread uncontained on everest to try to stop this climbers are not allowed to socialize before they start their ass and and customary religious ceremonies to pray for say fix the dishes are now smaller more private affairs but the local serpas guides and cooks who depend on tourism and climbing for their livelihoods are worried. we're working

here and we're making sure we follow all protocols so that we can save ourselves from cold at 19 and it's only you know a lot of good. although you know you try not to mingle we used to have a lot of fun at base camp that we would sing and dance. but we don't have any of that now just we keep to ourselves and speak only within our teams to some of the simple to stop and to some of the good and the last. health professionals at everest base camp say they do not have the capacity to test for the disease dozens of people have been flown off base camp in recent weeks and at least 2 tested positive afterwards yet the government has yet to confirm a single official covert case on everest. we ended this week with a story about a camel named a row shine who has

a very important job fighting illiteracy in pakistan roshan lives in the country's region which has the lowest literacy rate in the country at just 40 percent so when schools closed because of the pandemic the camel library came to the rescue russia on the camel is on an important mission. his slow plodding through this hour a desert terrain is in sharp contrast to how urgently he and his cargo of books are awaited. russia has been a lifeline for children in this district during the pandemic he carries books to 4 different villages making the journey every other day. children can choose the books they like and give them back the next time russia returns. i like picture books because when i look at the pictures on the photographs i can understand the story better. you know the camel library is the brainchild of recchi my jalali

a local school principal and of her sister a government minister. could or not when the current virus spread to the entire region and all the schools were closed there was a real atmosphere of depression old and young alike the region where i live there's no entertainment for the children at all no place town stations the only activity is the children and they're going to school and then coming home again or after the schools have been closed for 8 or 9 months because of coded would you start thinking about what we could do for the children in the years how we could start some sort of activities that would keep them busy and also be of benefit to the giant virtual corps fly them in giant. has big ambitions for the project if she can get more funding she'd like to expand its reach from 4 to 40 villages and that's something the russians i don't know would be very happy about.

i used to collect wood and sell us in the market then the camel library project asked me if i'd like to carry books on my camel i was surprised but now i carry these books to 4 villages and the children love it i'm very happy and so are all the people in the villages so now it's continuing and i'm happily doing it. pakistan schools have sausage reopening but local officials say there are many requests for the common library to continue. that's it for friday you can always check us out on social media and on e.w. dot com for slash asia we leave you with whatever e.w. news asia team found a bit of levity in a week of intense coated news pictures of a giant squid sculpture that's what one japanese town decided to do with its covert relief money thanks for watching have a good weekend and goodbye. where

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it comes to the fans of the humans on the scene or why the poles who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is johnny carson and i work again. on this edition of arts and culture a look at how a world war 2 anti nazi activist sophie schol might have used instagram had she been a young woman today also coming up. the legacy of another revolutionary 100 years since his birth we'll find out why groundbreaking conceptual artist joseph boyce is still making waves. and the work of a serbian sculptor who transforms weapons of war into instruments of communication

and harmony. welcome to the show 100 years after her birth and almost 80 since i death sophie show remains a powerful symbol of peaceful resistance against tyranny in 1943 the student who was executed for her brave attempts to resist the nazi dictatorship she was just 21 shoulder documented her short life using diaries and letters imagine what she could have done today with instagram that was the idea that inspired a new project in germany launched to mark her said tina. disaffected mines and at stanford to get itself into what was being in the. manchester so coming in live not into it. as an homage to our initial mention should you not construct and. aside ringback the film

shoot at the end of march depicting sophie shores arrival in munich her brother hants is there to pick her up actress luna regular is 21 the site may just so for show in the last year of her life. this is the cause even so short years ago it's a great honor to play so for sure of course there's a certain amount of pressure because you want to do. justice to this person what's great was so sure is that there are quite a few biographies her own diaries and especially the correspondence between her and fritz it's such a gift because it lets you get right inside her head and seem has also based the instagram story on sophie shaw's letters to her fiance and other historical sources everything is as authentic as possible the narrative is packaged as a multimedia chorus with new installments on instagram every day and a stray sions photos reenacted scenes video clips but only what sophie herself

might have seen. so far this form gives us the opportunity to get snow sophie show on a much more personal level to relate what made up her everyday life with not just telling the classic sophie short story that everybody knows and learn. to make it illustrations show scenes from the war but also more magical moments and the dreams of sophie schol. may 9th 1942 sophie's birthday filming yourself at the same time is a challenge how much have health care yourself you have the monologues but it's also exciting because you have to capture scenes in a completely different way you have the vertical format and you have to work it out with several people so every scene is like a little package that you open up and you see what comes out and. the birthday party and other scenes depict emotional everyday moments feelings that

young instagram users may be able to identify with. cloud your sophie was is our heroine our resistance fighter but she's also a very normal multi-faceted woman with insecurities the whole journey up. this point was a huge struggle also with herself. for 10 months the team will post only moments from sophie's life and from everyday life in 142 on instagram. maybe with the things we generate here we can also inspire people to take a look at what's happening in our world today because the topics that were relevant then are still relevant more than ever the sad thing is we still have to talk about the role of women rights is not c's. explained so she sure is the name of the channel aimed at today's instagram users. i think it's time. for them to

journey becomes an activist and is arrested at the university while handing out leaflets she holds on to her convictions until her execution. is good thing has a wonderful quote from sophie schol have i been training so far sometimes maybe but now i've woken up so this waking up that something we all may be need to do. another famous jam and he would have celebrated his 100th birthday this may his conception artist joseph boyce his adult card sculpture and particularly his performance art was seen as whether it's time as was the man himself based continue to inspire artists today in boise 17 a year his legacy has inspired literally dozens of exhibitions across germany.

just of course continues to pass the night and polarized 35 years after his death the artist and teacher was famed for his performances. once he covered his head in honey and gold and guarded the dead hair through his exhibition with us looking on from the outside. prophetic or simply provocative. this is an artwork that gets the hearts of many things such as the question how does conventional communication function and what happens when that communication is declining. at. the upcoming starting from language exhibition at berlin's hamburger bahnhof explores the ways that is still relevant in the 21st century. is

a huge waste of fact both animal and synthetic the work is about unfinished writing questions about spatial change and its formation was an important point. $4921.00 joseph boyce was in the hitler youth and during world war 2 he was part of a bomber squadron does he have something to hide was he really progressive or perhaps backward looking his experience in the war that him to believe that people and society had to change and that this was a process he often chose materials that change like fact or felt. the space curator a current exhibition at stuttgart darts gallery makes this clear. on the 100th anniversary of his birth boyce's unrestrained creative urge is taking center stage again boyce was anti or farsi and resonated with the younger

generation is objection to admission requirements famously lost in his teaching post at the. academy. but on television. voice was a champion of social change but he was also interested in religion and spirituality and in creating his own mythical person or he wasn't always consistent. you have the boys who have. come for the work that they do at home so that's pretty progressive. and at the same time. that this kind of patriarch. in the center of his discourse always i think it's as ambivalent on this question as it is on every question with choice and that's probably why remain interesting as an artist i think is pretty much every issue you

look at. even in 2021 voice comes across as a larger than life the cost forensic collection and juxtaposes his works with contemporary art works that question capitalism and the financial system demanding alternatives. and radical change. the environment plays an important role to. films of several voices performances in 1904 he wrapped himself in belts and locked himself up in a new york gallery with a life. and copies of the wall street journal. the man in the hat was a pioneer of the ecological movement in 1902 he proposed a plan to plant 7000 trees in castle for document to 7 he was rooting for a better future history planting project has become

a model for artists and activists all over the world. and there's more about joseph boyce and the artists he inspired on this earth today's edition of culture program $21.00. another sculptor whose work blurs the lines between art and life is nicholas sera his woman to realize what once instruments of division and hate but much sirrah gives them a new life as musical instruments he thought is the discarded army kit from junkyards across his native serbia some of the weapons he transforms date back to the ethnic conflicts that ravaged the region during his lifetime. dystopian military junkyard serves as a stark reminder of the plot it all can was that preached some 20 years ago. today some of those on the equipment is being repaired this room.

transformed into musical instruments by sculptor economic slowdown that part of his from noise to sound project. gets to work on a salvation army in his studio novi sad so the 2nd largest city usually combines 2 objects to create one musical instruments an elaborate process that takes months for takes inspiration from traditional balcony instruments to build this kind of instrument pink iow the hell that 1st saw fall i clean the helmet and i put it together like this they can see things from this gun and then string there after that i call the musicians to try to play on this instrument we talk about what we should do to get

a better sound of course i want all to send the message to make music not bore but it's not so simple i actually want to show people that you can think about stuff differently you know about or about everything about life. and now you can use transforming military kids into musical instruments. and. his cello for instance is made from a canister in a portable rocket launcher this guitar from an automatic rifle and a helmet this wind instrument for mind parts and it's because an instrument from a canister and yet another rocket launcher. i think it's a very interesting project and for me is a question of it's very natural to take objects through your surroundings economic zira would like a small orchestra like this to tell all the countries that were once caught up in

the deadly yugoslav wars during college everyone to make music not school. what a great idea there's more on all our stories on our website d.w. dot com sas culture and please join us again next time.

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