you feel worried about the. truth. i'm neal on the green fence post and to me it's clear remains true. join me for a deep dive into the green transformation for me to use for the planned. visit up in years a chef coming up today pandemic that continues to pummel india. with daily cares numbers continuing to cross the 300000 mark called a growing for a national law to reduce infections but some states are already imposing their own measure as we have it on top of the situation in the country. and stretching it out

to get to the top i look at the practice persistence and pressure that accompanies capel dream was hoping to make the big time. welcome to news asia glad you could join us the world health organization has classified the coronavirus mutation in india as a variant of concern that has also said that there is some information to suggest that it is easily transmissible that is partly evident in the record numbers of cases the country continues to be just nearly 330000 reported on tuesday alone these numbers have prompted experts to call for a nationwide lockdown the federal government has so far not relented but several state governments have imposed their own restrictions. and now that 19

victim brought to an already overcrowded crime my tour we am in the city of bengaluru sobering case rates have not spotted this city to impose a lockdown. police in some areas of beating those violating the strict rows and seizing their vehicles. are the very very or deliberate. will bring the system and break the rule then it is the possible. for now bangalore roads markets and stores are closed christian love will there aren't many people here but they don't maintain social distancing after providing some relief to the poor there's nothing wrong with the lockdown. vaccinations are happening slowly in a country desperate to bring infections under control we're going to put it on those. people who are facing so many problems they're sitting on

a powder keg they can easily get infected unless an alternative is found distributing vaccines in more places like community halls or playgrounds. to redo the. there's no country wide policy in place critics say the government is up to cater to responsibility by leaving facts and nations to individual state that's resulted in a scramble impinge on province people crowding a vaccination center put themselves and others at risk the police we would know we had to call the police to maintain social distancing but to no avail people are not listening to us at all medical workers have mounted protests against the government's handling of the coronavirus and the indian medical association has called on the government to impose a lockdown across the country. for weeks now states have been

competing for scarce resources including oxygen. they've been left to the messy of the market leading to more anger and frustration with the government in delhi. and in other developments related to the corner of august crisis in india 11 covert operations at a government hospital in the south of the country died on monday due to a shortage of oxygen dozens of bodies suspected to be of corporations have washed up on the banks of the river ganges in the states of be hard in northern india rising costs of commissions are forcing some families to dispose of bodies of loved ones directly into rivers and the government has also doctors to look out for signs of my courses infection in covert patients commonly called as black fungus it can lead to chest pain breathing difficulties and blurred vision. in trees vaccinations are seen by experts as a way out of the current crisis but that too is faltering correspondent michelle

just walked in delhi in just back going to with right now which is just for you time when you're. you know and this is especially happening i think that if yes actually founded it back just by making everybody you want you to be eating a little bit but in u.s. high doings it had to school me in and now look at this market and it's. one of the meetings it's carsten do you it was it is not spent off to do it in time to keep a man and it just on do not it was in the night in fact should in addition even if this is one of the unit that is widespread had students did you know because it was so chilling to do is getting vaccinated i get to see who is getting that so you can get a little bit even dying so this must have station strong also i'm not trying to get the vaccine and those who are trying to get votes which is going to. look as innocent as a fighting. i call it good of

a correspondent for this world there in delhi and you can of course get regular updates on the coronavirus situation in india on our website dot com. the sound of blitzer has the latest people band battling to become the next b.t.s. their debut album is out on wednesday the product of years of auditions and rehearsals to find the magical mix. and the rewards are huge as demonstrated by the international success of boy band. careers cultural exports the so-called korean view has become a multi-billion dollar industry but for young koreans shooting for global capel stardom the journey is a grueling 1. 3 years of intense training distilled into just 3 minutes of music and dancing this will determine whether the

blitz is there a hit or just and not know where to. go there she toys at around 8 pm we would start practice and there's no time limit on it we would practice into the early hours of the morning. these boys give it their all it's an endless cycle of singing lessons promotional shoots gym workouts and dance practice their weight is monitored and their sleep in bunk beds in a shed a sole house is limited to around 5 hours a night the empty beds a reminder of those who didn't survive the rigorous testing process. no matter how much time i spend with the other trainees i always found it hard to see them dismissed even though i hadn't done anything wrong i felt a sense of guilt every time i had to say goodbye to my on the tour.

no time for hard feelings though because a lot of money is riding on their debut album the bliss is will put together by a young soul management agency and it is betting its existence on their success the potential returns a huge but the odds are stacked against them and the k. pop industry is a tough one it's been described as a factory like mass production system but the blitz is believe they've got what it takes to be the next b.t.s. or in my opinion i think we're good enough to perform they were always ready. but you know already there were already you have to be ready. for this week's album launch will prove if they really are. tomorrow her mom is a care pop columnist who document of the astonishing global rise of the music genre and she's also the author of bitter years of blood sweat and tears which explores

the origins of cape aabs biggest and best known band tomorrow welcome thank you for joining us on the news now the blitz launch 3rd debut album on wednesday what other chances of success. but you can never really tell the start of a cape packed groups career where they'll go or how far they'll go but nowadays there's a lot of eyes on k. pop so i imagine a lot of people are really interested in every cape pop group that's coming out nowadays in general the industry is very over saturated and very full of all these talented stars working with various companies so it really depends on how they are able to make themselves and a part and their company is able to market them and get them integrated into the industry with you know good music and good performances and build up their international and local fan bases so we'll see what happens with them but i think because we're talking about them that's

a pretty good sign. use of the market close only times when it is not hopeful news conference to making it as competitive as it seems. just generally cape up is coming from seoul and the entertainment industry in south korea is relatively small in comparison to some other countries industries just because south korea is a relatively smaller country than countries like the u.s. or india where having huge giant industries with a lot of different talents competing every day every year to get into you know the t.v. show and music video and song and everything so the global scene for k. pop is much bigger than the local scene itself so you have all these artists hoping to get the airtime and to get the audience's ear but just like in the music world everywhere because of streaming because of social media because of radio there's only so much time that you can spend on actually getting an artist popular before you have to you know it's. a business they'll be a good day so there's that was

a trainee is that study every single year essentially training to become escape idols and because it's something that takes years of their life before you can start your career then once the career you know you release your 1st song release your 1st album every single album every single release every time you do something there's another step toward some tracks but it kills obvious a step away from you know the start of your career and maybe towards the potential of your demise so there's a lot of competition thousands of hopefuls every single year debut hard and $100.00 and like $10000.00 even make the cut at this point so it's very competitive industry there's a lot of older industries for training tutoring or become try out we're able to try out make it into a chill it make a proper. so i think the statistic is that don't quote me on this as a fact but i believe it's like one in every 1000 people who debut as a k.

pop star actually are able to make it a lifelong career is not in god you have told to just talk to us a bit about the pressure of of these performers are facing i mean what do you need to do to be able to start out and what is the practice that is involved to get to their. people who want to be stars whether they can saying they can dance they can rap they can act whatever it's a they can i just can for companies and these companies you know they see tolerance that they think is worth investing in and they bring on several you know young talents every year and it's an investment and then they usually the norm nowadays is competitions every single month so every single month you have. something to the executives to kind of prove that you have what it takes to make it into a k. pop group and every month there are cuts this involves 'd you know performance aspects this involves physical training for your body you will all tell you all you need to dye your hair you need to you need to get plastic surgery maybe you need to

diet diets severe diets are serious issue across the industry so nowadays we still a lot more tolerance coming from social media like to talk or people going viral cross oceans media really changing careers and these sort of things are more and more popular but at the same time because more and more people are going bigger and better than ever before you also having more and more people entering the market and so it's becoming even more saturated trial that's a fascinating explanation of what goes on behind the scenes thanks so much for joining us. that's it for the i will see you back here tomorrow provide. leg up with hardly. people have to say matters to us. that's why i listen to their stories. reporter every weekend on t.w.

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course i bet you didn't know they were called sat we'll tell you where they came from and how they ended up everywhere. and for decades after his death the music of reggae legend bob marley still resonates when looked back at his life and legacy. but 1st to a growing scandal in hollywood it's one of tinsel town's oldest and most watched award shows but u.s. t.v. network n.b.c. says it. will not cost next year's golden globe ceremony the decision follows complaints about alleged ethical lapses and a lack of diversity in the hollywood foreign press association which hands out the film and t.v. prizes now someone who has been following the situation closely is all film and t.v. expert scott's rocks for he joins me now from vaughn scott to this move by n.b.c. is just the latest nail in the coffin a lot of people have been distancing themselves from the golden globes and the hollywood foreign press association fill us in on that please. yes you're right

this is just the latest in a long list of companies and stars who come out to protest the golden globes and the hollywood foreign press association just shortly before n.b.c. is announcement the actor tom cruise came out and said he was going to give back the 3 golden globes he's won in protest and we've seen huge media companies netflix amazon warner media saying they're going to boycott the golden globes right so quite a backlash there this all goes back to an exposé published in february that caused quite a stir. yes you're right it's the from the los angeles times they published a exposé that exposed alleged alleged fraud and corruption and mismanagement at the globes they also revealed that none of the members of the hollywood foreign press association who vote on the golden globes are black then added to that more recently an e-mail was leaked from for president of the

association in which he quoted a article which called black lives matter the black lies about a group quote a racist hate group well that's all been too much for hollywood and so we've seen a lot of big stars ugly scarlett johansson and mark ruffalo come out against the globes and now pretty much everyone in the hollywood film industry has come out against the hollywood foreign press association saying they have to undergo really fundamental reforms at this point many of us quite naturally see in the golden globes of i don't buy thousands of professionals not me academy awards but that's not the case briefly if you could. ease the hollywood foreign press association. a basically a small group of american foreign journalists who report on the film industry there just $87.00 members of the golden globes there are there with their prize their money has grown to be the large 2nd largest unimportant award ceremony but the group itself is still very small and till now has lacked any form of oversight or

able to have to answer for for their actions. ok scott roxboro reporting for us from boston there thanks very much for helping us understand that. aki takes down your leave a scant has created dozens of famous buildings but his name will always be associated with places as a member of one of his most famous works is the jewish museum here in berlin he was kinda lost much of his family in the holocaust so the project had special meaning for him he went on to oversee the rebuilding of the world trade center on the occasion of his 75th birthday has this report. architect daniel levy comes from a polish jewish family he's a musician a humanist and a philosopher especially when it comes to buildings. every building the symbolic not even the stupidest building you see tells your story a very short one it says i have nothing to tell you. the skins architecture on the

other hand has a lot to say. with their skewed and irregular geometry his building seem to suggest that nothing is certain not even historical buildings. whether for museums or high rises his designs are trailblazing. but it was a while before his career took off britain's jewish museum was the 1st of leaders can still signs to be implemented some 20 years ago. by sort of the new idea cutting it with a void with the abyss of history with with show all with the holocaust and create something that is memorable. towards the past but also looking forward to a future broom with hope and with new light. it's a thoroughly symbolic construction marked by empty spaces meant to represent absence the millions of murdered european jews. a place of remembrance

it's 1st and foremost a flexible space for the exhibition of 1700 years of german jewish history. leap askins work in dresden is also about history in this case military history he's driven a huge wedge into the city's old military museum. here he's created new perspectives with a glass platform facing the city you see exactly what a 1st bomb fell in making 45 drugs that and their whole form is so similar to the triangle of bombs from which drugs and was completely erased from history all the buildings today in russia have been rebuilt luckily but i wanted to insert into the military history building this sense that we are also in a new city it's not the same drugs that it's is just one that has been transformed through war. leave us kendis from new york city traumatized by the terrorist attacks of september 11th 2001 he planned the construction at ground 0

a combination of the highrise freedom tower commercial buildings and a memorial in place of the destroyed world trade center. buildings shape our lives they shape our health but more importantly they shaped our spiritual sense of identity and of belonging to a community and a solidarity with other people daniel leaders can't believe that architecture should touch the soul quest he continues to follow at the age of $75.00. now remember those days before when you went to cafes well in the likelihood you sat on a monitor block that's the real name of those. instantly recognizable white chairs made from a single piece of plastic stackable wipe a ball and 3 years per piece cheap to produce they could be a 1000000000 of them in circulation now they're the stars of a film that premieres this month at munich's documentary film festival.

somewhere sad and dreary alone mysterious thing stands against a wall plastic chair a seemingly ubiquitous one found everywhere despised and ridiculed a pathetic little actor on a big world stage which. isn't it will be over if i've always seen this chair the way most of us do such a ridiculous object it's just lying around broken on a soccer field or at a party does it ever collapse under someone. the documentary shows that this chair is also a symbol a worldview an impulse generator indeed it's the best selling piece of furniture in the world and it's called lot of luck that its story starts in a shed in france in the 1970 s. where all the muscle need created the prototype of the plastic chair its success meant he later lived as a happy multimillionaire incentive pay. hundreds of companies produce the chair the

model block has conquered the world by the billions and polarizes some people are dismissive of the cheap product then when they're on a balcony or whatever eventually they just become unsightly if it's poorly designed or not very comfortable to this day i don't understand why they even exist anymore i know but in poorer countries the chairs are celebrated like pop star. is a word cockiness chair actually characterizes the world we live in more than anything else whereas here in europe we're really skeptical it's ugly it's ecologically problematic in many other countries people have no alternative to it or there's either this chair or there's no chair at all would have got a country where the film team traveled through 5 continents vividly demonstrating how this chair connects people across the globe. in a small hut in uganda and that sits and leaves a basket she's paralyzed and gets around mostly by crawling.

over in california engineer don tests his groundbreaking invention low cost wheelchairs for developing countries the heart of the design is the panel plug. in the meantime one of them has arrived at a mets house giving her much greater mobility and improving her life. if you are in for we don't need need jerk answers it's not the plastic chair that's bad and awful and damn a bill this black and white way of thinking is wrong it's not going to get us anywhere when it was right up to the scene in the light this film is a wonderful tribute to attack a plastic chair that is so much more than just that. i'll have a look at them the same way again now his soulful melodies and poignant lyrics seem to transcend time his songs will always be remembered as anthems of the

dispossessed yearning for freedom and justice i'm talking of course about the legendary bob marley who died 40 years ago aged just 36 he packed so much into his short life spreading his love of reggae from his native jamaica to the whole world while also advocating for peace. good. was my one of bob marley's biggest towns it was recorded in the mid 1970 s. when the musical genre of reggae started its triumphal march from kingston jamaica around the world 2. my job. was shot. to death and this song

started it on i shot the sheriff but as recorded by art clapton the single by the british guitarist landed at the top of the us charts in 1974 and then everyone wanted to know who had originally written the song. so clapton paved the way for bob marley's short but highly influential global career his lyrics often clearly address the situation of black people facing repression racism and poverty in. 1976 before marley performed at a concert aimed at calming political unrest in jamaica he was injured in an assassination attempt today bob marley is a national hero in his home country an idol to music fans around the world and the undisputed king of reggae music. marley died of cancer at just 36 years old following his death his song is this love became one

of his most successful. and legend taken from us far too young for more on all stories check out our website w dot com slash culture thanks for watching good bye. bye

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