300000000 people are seeking to. get past the it because no one should have to sleep. please make up your own mind please w. . lead for minds. coming up. 100 days under the trees. with hundreds of civilians killed. in detention. protests making a difference. here and. a look at why young people think. the u.s. withdraws from the country. and fear.

combining social distancing with a. welcome to. join us $100.00 days since taking part in a cool myanmar's military junta still remains in charge of the country meanwhile its ousted civilian leader aung san suu kyi is still in detention denied in person meetings with her legal team and now ordered to appear in court later this month a parallel national unity government has been declared a terrorist group as has a people's defense force being set up to confront security forces still citizens continue their protest against the military regime responsible for the deaths of more than $750.00 civilians so far. a candlelight vigil one of many that were held in manama the weekend in price.

since the army ousted the civilian government and seized power on the 1st of february the day the demonstrations. saying. that despite an increasingly violent response by security forces. the bloodiest day of the crackdown was in late march on forces day around 100 protesters were killed in one day lying. i. since the coup more than 750 civilians have been killed and thousands have been arrested. human rights groups say the military is committing atrocities even possible crimes against humanity international leaders have repeatedly expressed

concern and condemnation. today i call on me and not military to stop the repression immediately release the prisoners and the violence respect human rights and the will of the people expressed in recent elections. but global pressure has so far failed to impact the situation on the ground last month when tallied emin on the 9th was invited to jakarta for crisis talks with needers of other southeast asian nations. but the talks yielded little except for a call for dialogue and an end to violence and the appointment of a special envoy for only days later the military regime undermined those resolutions in the morning i will as reality as he and wants to send an envoy to me . but right now we are prioritizing the security and stability of our country and the yellow you so we will cooperate with the un to have its envoy in our country

once we have a secure and stable situation. was i suspect looks remote the determination of the people in myanmar to stand up against the military dictatorship no matter what the cost appears unbroken. as sells the will of the army to hold on. on to power. and joining me now is david an activist in myanmar who's a hiding his identity for certain reasons david it's been about 100 days since the military took part in myanmar and nearly the same number of days of protest against it how the protests made a difference i would like to say yes. every day you're seeing about it including this is from states this. evening says the state has repeatedly said that they have had it propaganda against us and when they finally saw us as these days and see out with us here in.

our lives it's not starting to respect it and i also see that happening it's a masterpiece it's snowing there is enough under international pressure a lot of that's been brought to bear on the military you have sanctions from the e.u. or something your boss your leaders have also got involved would you say the big international pressure is working at all on the military frankly i don't think it's working at all because u.s. . military. is very it's 0 business associations with us in the e.u. instead he have a lot of investments china and russia which the f.b.i. now receiving a lot of help from and also the us you know meat is is merely. the a move meant that that mystery can't you know take its time to get more pressure from

it that's how i see it because on the end. of it and when we outline it read it will stop the violence. until now we need 25 people that has been killed. not to you one has warmed during the recent past start a serious start in conflict could occur to me and i do think the situation is such that it could lead to 7 wrong. it's it's like to say yes this isn't the only reason it is at it's kitchen you can use it and not it's aids a lot of people are starting. to learn other countries that the body parts are used as a lot of it is just has been set on fire and we could see from sort of feeds that thousands and thousands of villagers get injured scatty killed by the air raids and and thousands more fleeing to other countries so 'd i can confidently say that if it's

people have seen this kind of atrocities could move towards the mainland of the countries even even the capital cities briefly david what about aung sun suu true shooter means that in detention issues to a popular figure among the protesters i will say all men start to. see because of her that want is allowed to be free so i would like to see how popularity started this movement and since now the whole family has see enough we'll meet and then we get into the military is that we now have shipped it. more towards getting federal democracy a long state of. david who leave it there for the bombing but thank you so much for joining us. now to afghanistan which has been gripped by vevo violence as foreign forces withdraw the taliban has now announced a 3 day ceasefire across the country to mark this week's eve holiday an

announcement that comes after a weekend of bloodshed on saturday a bomb attack outside a girls' school in kabul killed more than 50 people most of them students and more relieved families have been burying the dead because of deadliest attack in more than a year the government has claimed the taliban which itself condemned the attack and denied the sponsibility. the attack highlights of the. future especially for young people many are scared about what life will look like once the u.s. military leaves are growing that all progress made in the last few decades could be eradicated 24 year old have money is a member of the national mutai team she trains about 70 students at a sports club in western kabul and she says she's scared about losing the progress they've gained 3 years of hard work. we have the women of

afghanistan want nationwide peace in this country and we do not want to go back to the past the dark past the taliban imposed on women when they were allowed to study or play sports i mean they didn't even allow women to go shopping but courts . have fisa is worried the foreign troop withdrawals would endanger her life and those of the girl she trains. more a myth that the situation we're living in now is frightening some nights i even have insomnia while thinking about what will happen when i go to the club tomorrow . a taliban return to power could also spell the end of independent media and the country many journalists and media workers have been directly targeted in recent months at least 11 were killed in afghanistan and 2020 many have left the country. no threat man saw as a 29 year old news presenter who works with one of afghanistan's leading t.v.

outlets he says afghanistan still needs a lot of help. given the fragility of afghanistan's security situation i do not think it is the right time for the americans to leave afghanistan because as you know the war is still going on in the country some of the root causes of the war have not yet been solved with drugs smuggling and mining they're all important factors prolonging the war he worries about his industry and his own future here and says he may also be forced to emigrate because of threats against him. to young afghans relying on their country to provide them with a stable future but deeply worried that it won't. go on about a spender because hits the performing arts especially hard social distancing laws have forced theatres the world over to shut their doors for one dance company in

japan it was a challenge on served by creativity they came up with a safe and novel way for their audience to experience their performance. thank you keeping their distance but are still up close like a 4 year peeping through a letterbox still in command says and an intimate closeness. 6 6 1 going to go during the east you feel a kind of excitement like in the animal kingdom like a predator watching its prey with a good one and any positive. 6 6 good of a person's thoughts and feelings that are communicated solely through the eyes. the theater has 30 seats the actors from the outside in

a natural setting the audience keeps to the correct distance the show is called the peeping heard a peep show is always somewhat seedy exciting and tense. no not at all related to the pandemic that in times of social anxiety people want rules punishment surveillance even if we are highlighting that they had state that you. still see. the whole audience gets to sit in the front row. one in this piece it feels like we're taking on the role of researchers that are observing the actor's studio in our children the newest of. the artists aren't making any money with this project but simply not performing is also not an option the theater is creating a closeness through distance something that has become uniquely possible during the pandemic. but it is more to do double talk on forward slash

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newspaper headline to its 2016 review of the underground railroad colson whitehead novel about 2 slaves you want to weigh from a georgia plantation was showered with praise and given the pulitzer prize it seemed inevitable that hollywood would one day come knocking and it has this friday the t.v. adaptation hits the small screen and it's already been described as a remarkable american epic. the underground railroad tells the story of escape slave cora and her flight to freedom pursued by a vengeful slave hunter. the drama starts on familiar historical ground but director barry jenkins following the colson whitehead novel then shifts into the realm of fantasy imagining an actual railroad whose trains carry african-americans to an imagined promised land. where you run away from the

show. and old people. grounded by an astonishing performance from south african actress to salem bay to as cora the underground railroad balances the brutality of slavery with a surprising sense of beauty and even hope the series is not always easy to watch but it's not to be missed. while our film and t.v. experts got rocks for has had an advance preview of the series he joins me now from board hello scott. now ahead of its debut this friday the series has already got glowing reviews the book was highly acclaimed how does the adaptation measure up. yeah it doesn't credit who well i mean this is a very very difficult book to adapt because colson whitehead story it's not just it mixes genres and tone so it's not just a sweeping historical epic about slavery it also has elements of fantasy even

science fiction but very jenkins the director doesn't credibly well i mean he obviously won the oscar for moonlight and here in the series he's able to really balance the tone so he does the pick the sort of visceral brutality of slavery in america racism but also through his visual style an approach he's able to evoke sort of the poetry and the beauty of whitehead's where it's. the underground railroad is the latest in a series of historical failings and t.v. series that put the spotlight on african-american history why this trend now. well frankly i think it's just because more black directors and writers producers are getting the chance to tell the stories that they want to tell and so you've already seen it in film with directors like steve mcqueen and 12 years a slave or a jordan peele and get out they found huge audiences with those films now you're seeing a similar thing in t.v. with black creatives telling the stories that they want to tell so we have this

series of we have another series from h.b.o. called love broadcast county which imagines the story of a black man in $1000.00 fifties america but it's told as if it's a horror story there's another incredible a series from amazon as well that's just come out called in them which is the story of a black family that moved to a white suburb and that are confronted by the racism and violence of their white neighbors what i find so interesting about these new series that are coming out is not only are they sort of retelling the african-american story after american history but they're doing so often using the very genre so the genres of science fiction or horror joiners that have traditionally excluded people of color as characters i think it's incredible powerful movement and i think it's going to continue that it definitely sounds like one for me how do you both have the same ease the underground railroad actually becomes an actual railway line different

from in we a life what's the significance of that scott. yeah that's sort of the center of central metaphor of colson whitehead book and also the series so he imagines a an actual railroad with with with tracks with with conductors with trains that carry african-americans to freedom and by using this sort of element of fantasy basically he expands the story and jenkins does so as well in the series so it's not just a story of a specific time and place in american history but it's a bigger metaphor of the underground railroad stands for. americans journey sort of the ongoing journey to a promised land beyond american racism is incredibly powerful metaphor you wouldn't think it would work but it definitely does both in the book and always has yours and scott before you go just briefly if you could at the but in film festival has given us an update on the status of that pie and some special part 2 of this is that inara fill us in on that if you would. yes berlin is going to hold

a person version of the festival of the summer in june it's going to be open air but it will be with actual people they're going to be showing the winners of this year's festival which were shown online in march they were worried that they wouldn't be able to do it because of the coronavirus pandemic but the numbers are dropping in berlin now back stations are going up so like very very good about cyber i have a report for red carpet in berlin ok thank you very much scott in boston as ever thanks for your insights. now the world of architecture is mourning helmut yon he was killed in a road accident on saturday while riding a bike chicago he was 81 the german born architect was famed for his post modern steel and glass buildings including the sonny center here in berlin but his name will always be associated with the city of chicago shortly before his 75th birthday

v.w. caught up with him here in berlin. completed in the year 2000 the sony center on potsdamer platz in the heart of prelim news one of the city's most spectacular structures. it features helmet yon's trademark use of glass and steel. that you wouldn't get voided by we want to build buildings that combine solid architecture and engineering ones that are oriented on performance as they are for other retailer terrio project that you're. building us to be utilitarian not just a statically place of speed. was born just outside nuremberg a 940 and he studied architecture in munich in 1966 he moved to chicago initially for further training but before long he landed a job at the office of highly respected architect charles murphy soon young was the firm's planning director and a part in the early 1980 s.

he took over completely. became a star in the business. of embassy if you get up to why everything you might have the feeling that i was just in the right place. i didn't do it to build a career because it was simply a very active period background the u.s. commercial or government buildings were setting a standard for modern architecture there was a major building. under was a lot easier back then than it is now. what almost. the james r. thompson center in chicago is one of the most important buildings from that era later he designed the terminal for bangkok's new international airport and he often worked in germany planning frankfurt's trade fair tower. munich's airport center and other structures in berlin. with his focus on dynamism and elegance hemel kyon

had a defining impact on the look of many cities. a great loss now one of the most enduring and visible symbols of the pandemic is undoubtedly the face mask we've been wearing them for at least a year they're required for us to work on to participate in society and they certainly have an impact on how we see each other when work dried up for gregory stock the photographer turned his lens on himself it was the beginning of a wide reaching and very tiny project for. it all started a year ago when model and photographer marcel gregory showed up had no work and a lot of free time. in the cold. war to overturn a world. war and on

which missionaries i sat down and said i'll just try something how do i look with a mask on what do people see right now when they see me with a mask. that. he then travelled across germany photographing people with and behind their masks his photo book behind the mask collects a broad variety of types and characters it shows people in the midst of crisis from all social classes and experiencing various emotional states. the viewer is confronted by their. press of the intense cases. moment how does the right now or facial expressions are reduced to just the eyes that's why it was important that the eyes really shine and with these 2 rod lights you have very brilliant eyes reflecting these lights then when you blow up the

images you really feel like you can look into people's souls just a few hours from to monday mentioned in his initial. in front of stocks camera people are candid revealing their state of mind whether they're famous or not. actor dieter heller farden boxes against the pandemic actor ben becker in a monkey costume wrestles with being human. and viral that just ended a crushed lake regrets that the fronts are increasingly hard. for a violinist the pandemic is like a dramatic pass. and a geriatric nurse shares his insight that experience makes you smarter than knowing facts for myself stuck these encounters were a lifeline during the pandemic. did you keep up on what you remember hamburg's

paper banners really beautiful colorful lights lots of people and that evening when i walked along there it was almost like a ghost town but the door opened and it was like an explosion of color pink wig great makeup and at that moment the darkness was completely gone human body suit is a dog a lot of room. the book is about hope and grief about struggle exhaustion and confidence the photographer is not concerned with the politics of germany's coronavirus for spots he simply paints a picture of life at the moment of the pandemic. for mrs does for me this is a cross-section of our society a reflection of what it looks like on our streets but that's also the intention behind this book to show people that they're not alone because mr lyon. well someday hopefully soon we'll be able to emerge from behind our masks in the

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