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a few saxons. still to the brink of collapse. the red cross warns of a human catastrophe in nepal. welcome to the show one bed for zola millions of polys work in india but many are returning home due to the lock downs and lack of work a lot are also bringing an unwanted present for families and friends with them covert 19 cases have exploded in border towns in the capital gap and 200 kilometers from the border prevent tory and run out of space bodies are being burned on pies in public places we checked in with b.j. a charlie are from the johns hopkins university school of medicine and i asked him who's to blame all the pollies returning home from india or india itself. i think of having me i don't think it's a blame game to be honest because the corridors circulating in the amanda valley

way beyond the good never actually was under control the same way it was in india i think it was easier to sort of blame it on the porous border and sort of differ on the responsibility of the government and the authority. that is what i think was frankly going on because political rallies were going on religious festivals are allowed marriages big marriages with hundreds of people were allowed for since numbers like started to playing last year and even up to like the last 3 weeks or so people are still gathering for engagement parties like weddings 2 big rallies were happening the political parties were like going out in full force so i think it's fair to like blame on some of the people who are just going back and forth from india and up are you talking about the situation in nepal where rallies were going on and political rallies and gatherings and events yes and in kind of alley where the numbers actually never went down there were all these like people having

covered they were going to the hospitals just not the scale of. rate of patients down but you know went down and the political leaders including her prime minister never actually address the core issues as you know just a couple of weeks ago he was saying if you could. leave and guard live coverage go away the national t.v. wow so we can turn back time but what's the government doing now has it changed its tune is a taking a different tack is it clamping down. they have initiated a law. and try to like stem the flow of people but. like last year they made a rash decision saying our everyone. should lock down and that is people from villages and far away places they had to like leave government to because they

wouldn't have a place to burn make a living and they are left early 500000 people left in the day and i wonder how many of them were like us in dramatic carriers straight to their like taking cover from all of all across the country now and within 2 weeks we have seen more than nearly $100000.00 cases going up the death rate has climbed more than like 250 percent 2 3rd of the country is like high or higher risk of called it right now so it is actually like i think that is a bigger super spread event in my opinion this situation sounds a lot in his at how you describe it it is it is very dire i've been talking to my friends and colleagues physicians doctors like other activists and people are burned out they're frustrated. just east of me the prime minister had it interview with c.n.n. where he blamed people for being negligent which is kind of giving up

a responsibility as a leader saying like this is how we're going to come out of this and he basically institutions under control and it is telling not under control so what are people doing to cope and how are people coping how can they cope. so lot of young volunteers have risen up to this moment gives me ideas i have a feeling of what happened after the earthquake in 2015 where india was also a crisis and we had come up with like solutions right away there are different faces groups which are active connecting people there's a group of people who are running a website called liquid connect. where you can request housing food because you need a caretaker for your family member to be in the hospital but then they don't have a place for the caretaker to stay because of cover lockdown so people are cooking meals at home they're like supplying meals to the local hospitals we're all across the world diaspora is like raising money trying to get oxygen concentrator in the

foundation that i work with american upon medical foundation we just raise $100000.00 to staff a mass isolation center in the clinic clinical care center along with the government and the army so you know all of us are like trying to pitch in but we need to have like a central authority who's like directing all of these like fragmented some word services and i think that is what is lacking in my opinion let's see if they can get their act together i hope so b.j. tahlia joining us from the johns hopkins university school of medicine thank you very much thank you for and i thank you for having me and the news just in complicating the political situation in nepal or maybe even improving it the prime minister has lost a vote of confidence in polland fighting to show he has enough support to stay in office well the coronavirus meantime marches on managing to invade every corner of the globe even the world's highest mountain everest as tourists gear up to make the

world's most famous climb is a new danger that awaits them. 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 absent and customary religious ceremonies to pray for say fix the dishes are now smaller more private affairs but the local sherpas guides and cooks who depend on tourism and climbing for their livelihoods are worried. you can see. we're working here cities and we're making sure we follow all protocols so that we can save ourselves from cold at 19 i'm going to disown you know. although you know we try

not to mingle we used to have a lot of fun at base camp we would sing and dance. but we don't have any of that now we keep to ourselves and speak only within our teams. to stop some of 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. oversize making it to the top of the world today is something else climbers could do in a poll has asked trick is to bring back their empty oxygen tanks which they usually abandon on the slopes and see if they'll take on the extra load meantime a team of mountaineering guides is setting up a separation line at the peak before climbers attempt to reach the summit from the

chinese side or come in contact with anyone or anything from the nepalese side. in other news germany is making the johnson and johnson one shot vaccine available to all adults it only been recommended for people over 60 because of blood clots in younger recipients the government is now adopting the same approach as with the astra zeneca shot in a move to get more people inoculated germany has managed to get the 3rd wave under control in recent days and is trying to wrap up its vaccination rollout. time to add some more of your questions now over to our science correspondent there williams. what proposals are there to finance production and distribution of vaccines to countries not able to afford them. the central proposal to do this is what's called the kovacs initiative it was set up around a year ago by a coalition of different agencies among them the world health organization to help

ensure access even for the world's poorest countries to the tools that they need to fight covert 19 including vaccines that have been authorized by the w.h.o. kovacs is being funded by a number of wealthy countries as well as private institutions like the bill and melinda gates foundation back in february gano was the 1st country to receive vaccines sponsored by the initiative a couple of months on the kovacs is still far from living up to its promise for a number of reasons the primary one is that in a market where vaccines remain in short supply money talks and the countries that pledged to help provide access to poorer nations have snapped up almost all the vaccine being made straight off of production lines so far around half of the

available doses have gone into arms in those wealthier country. for instance in germany over 30000000 doses have been distributed until now that's around 2 and a half percent of all vaccinations given so far worldwide in the democratic republic of congo on the other hand which has a larger population fewer than $5000.00 doses have been getting so kovacs is still falling far short of the initiatives stated goals even though practically every expert author says that in the globalized world leaving less wealthy nations out now could end up costing us some or even all of the progress that we've made so far . eric williams that i'm been fizzling thanks for watching stay safe and see you again soon.

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a profile of the german architect illustrious career. welcome to arts and culture and luminous serious and wildly inventive that's how the guardian newspaper headline to its 2016 review of the underground railroad colson whitehead novel about to slaves who 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 a skate 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. 'd you have planned old people. grounded by an astonishing performance from south african actress to so and they do 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 advanced 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 barry jane consider ector 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 the racism but also through his visual style and approach he's able to evoke sort of the poetry and the beauty of white as words. 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 stories that they want to tell so we have this series of we have another series from h.b.o. called love have 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 them down 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 owners of science fiction or horror genre 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 in the book and the series the underground railroad actually becomes an actual railway you know i'm different from in we a life what's the significance of that scott. yeah that's sort of the center central metaphor of colson whitehead book and also the series so he imagines actual railroad with with with tracks 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 real world stands for. african-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 it was yesterday's and stop before you go just briefly if you could at the but in the film festival

has given us an update on the status of that pie and some special part to this is that fill us in on that if you would. yes berlin is going to hold a person version of the their 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 would 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 pepper 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 near chicago he was 81 the german born architect was famed for his post

modern steel and glass buildings including the sony center here in berlin but his name will always be associated with the city of chicago shortly before his 75th birthday the w. caught up with him here in berlin. completed in the year 2000 the sony center on potsdamer platz in the heart of poland news one of the city's most spectacular structures. it features helmut young's trademark use of glass and steel. but 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 it or terry a project that you're. building has to be utilitarian not just a statically pleasing of stebic. was born just outside nuremberg and 1940 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 to rector and a partner in the early 1980 s. he took over completely. became a star in the business. and. you have a biscuit for you happy while everything about you and more of the feeling that i was just in the right place. i didn't do it to build a career 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 background there is now. what almost. the james r. thompson center in chicago is one of young's 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 airports center

and other structures in berlin with his focus on dynamism and elegance hemel dion had a defining impact on the look of many cities. and 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 and 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. on the go.

out of the $100.00 or. one ton auction she has not 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 traveled 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 expressively intense gaze its. moment how does that feel sort of right now or facial expressions or reduced. just

the eyes that's why it was important that the eyes really shine and with these 2 rad 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 of them demand mention in his initial. in front of stocks camera people are candid revealing their state of mind whether they're famous or not. actor due to how the farden box is against the pandemic act of bend back in a monkey costume wrestles with being human. and viral adjust and the shtick regrets that the fronts are increasingly hardening. for a violinist the pandemic is like a dramatic parts. and a geriatric nurse shares his insight that experience makes you smarter than knowing

facts from ourselves stuck these encounters were a lifeline during the pandemic. did you keep up on what you remember hamburg's banas really beautiful with colorful lights lots of people and that evening when i walked along there it was almost like a ghost town out the door opened and it was like an explosion of color pink wig great makeup and at that moment the darkness was completely gone the moment about. the book is about hope and grief about struggle exhaustion and confidence the photographer is not concerned with the politics of germany's coronavirus response he simply paints a picture of life at the moment of the pandemic commission's 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.

well someday hopefully soon we'll be able to emerge from behind our masks in the meanwhile check out our website for more on or last always that steve w. dot com slash culture from all of us here in berlin see you next time in.

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