measures are being taken. what does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus of the coded. monday to friday. this is enough good news coming up today southeast asia on alert. the region is starting a cold of august this is just as millions look to travel for the eve holidays we look at the new lock downs and the risk of a new wave coming up. living with the taliban why many afghans to think they're the best bet for the country's future and while others fear a return to the past a special report from taliban territory.

i'm british by welcome to news. even as india continues to cope with the world's worst coronavirus outbreak the situation across southeast asia is also worsening thailand cambodia and laos among countries reporting a major surge in infections the rising cases and the prospects of celebrations over either have prompted some nations to impose lockdowns and ramp up testing and vaccinations. queuing for a test in bangkok latest hot spot and testing center has been set up next to market site of a new plaster of infections in the city. many of the recent cases involve the b 117 variant 1st found in britain but this strain of covert 19 is very infectious and spreads much faster in 3 to 5 days the patients status can change

from green to yellow to orange to read in no time during the past 4 days we've had 100 deaths. just over 2 percent of the population have received a covert jab in thailand and a mass vaccination campaign is not due to start until next month a lockdown that was due to end last weekend has now been extended. in indonesia to tougher restrictions have been reimposed ahead of aid roads were jammed and bus stations packed with travellers leaving jakarta for their hometowns before a domestic travel ban came into force. malaysians will also have to forgo family gatherings this eed as a new nationwide lockdown has been put in place social gatherings and travel have been banned and shops remain closed seeing that there's a big spike in new variants a i also understand. that you know if we toned down our celebrations this year then

you know if it helps keep the virus at be it's ok with me. but no you regarding aid it's been almost 2 years since i've come back to my hometown to visit my mom and dad and that's really affecting me that. that's a sentiment shared by many across the region that's having to choose between celebrations and safety. correspondent dave joins us now from kuala lumpur with more dave just last week the government said it was planning to stick with restrictions in targeted areas and today a mission wide lockdown has begun why the change. well just skyrocketing numbers of coded 19 cases you know positivity rate of about 5 percent last week and intensive care unit beds and hospitals across the country are filling up we've got new variance and higher infection rates and there's just been

a real concern that so much of the public you know have gotten lackadaisical about basic safety precautions such as wearing masks that's why they went forward with this decision and now you know schools are closed no social gatherings interstate and in their district travel has been banned limits of 3 people to a car including the driver no dining at restaurants and that mosque the mosque that can accommodate a 1000 or more people are now limited to no more than 15 at a mosque and accommodate lesson about the people it can have more than 20 people so tiger standards restrictions starting today across the country appears to be that of across so many other nations in southeast asia but experts at all suggesting that increased rates of vaccinations potentially a way out of these new surges of money seeing in these nations where it is when they show when it comes to vaccinations and testing it so as of may 8th malaysia had vaccinated just a fraction over 2 percent of its population of more than 32000002 percent and when

you talk to help experts about this they say the real choke point for this has really been the supply that's the problem now malaysia is slowly making ground on that number but very slowly and that's obviously going to be said to stopping the spread of infections among his neighbors indonesia and thailand also seeing a surge in coronavirus this is dave is the concern that new video could potentially slip into when they see. there's certainly concern now you need to break this up into 2 categories here people who are coming into the country legally and people are coming to the country illegally people are coming in legally you know obvious the most common way would be at the airport well they believe they can really catch those people here you have to take tests negative for covert $1000.00 within 72 hours of travel and then when you get here it's a mandatory 14 day quarantine and it's not a home quarantine it's a quarantine and

a government approved hotel there are several tells most hotels set aside for this you got to stay in one of those and you'll get tested why are they are so they feel confident they can catch anyone who's coming in with kobe 1000 that way but then the other question that comes up of course is what about people who slip in illegally who don't come through the proper immigration channels you know we've got lamb borders this country with thailand and indonesia they've certainly scaled up patrols to try and cut down for that but as the old cliche goes there's a will there's a way so people who are determined to get in from those countries could find a way to slip in they're going to be in kuala lumpur thank you very much for that update. afghan officials have confirmed that the taliban have seized new territory close to the camp to kabul the capital district comes ahead of a 3 day ied ceasefire between the taliban and afghan forces the begins on thursday

the taliban now controlled more of than at any time in the past 20 yeahs and we were able to get a 1st time view of life on the taliban rule. a rare glimpse of another world a home visit with the taliban. welcome come on in. this father and his son don't want to tell us their names but they are willing to tell us why the son recently decided to join the taliban. i did this for 2 reasons one i had no job and true i wanted to do something about our unjust and corrupt government so they're oppressing the people of this country one is a long way his father welcomes his decision he's proud his son is now on the taliban side. this makes me happy because we're muslims and we should defend the islamic state islamic state allows us to fight

infidels we dedicate our lives to it we also want islamic sharia and taliban law to be implemented. but. many afghans are scared of the taliban's increasing power. ali khan is a truck driver he drives all across afghanistan and has to pay passage fees to the taliban on a regular basis just recently he paid the equivalent of $75.00 euros about a quarter of his monthly salary. yet. the taliban are increasing in number and their power is growing. they set up checkpoints and forced drivers to pay for safe passage the government can't stop them although the official checkpoints on from far away. jannot cool a farmer has had a similar experience he makes his living growing and selling grain from his meager

earnings he has to pay the taliban over $100.00 euros on a regular basis the taliban threaten to imprison or even kill him if he didn't pay up he's afraid of what will happen when foreign troops finally leave the country. i would prefer that the soldiers stayed international troops have kept peace here for the past 2 decades if they leave afghanistan the country will go to pieces. the taliban are already taking control of more and more places around the country and they make no secret of their ultimate goal. we want an islamic state and an islamic government that provides law and order with foreign troops and all infidels must leave the country. nato troops have announced they will withdraw from afghanistan by september at the latest after they're gone the taliban hopes to turn back the clock and return the country to

where it was 20 years ago and joining me now for more is correspondent. in kabul ali you travel around the country quite a bit interacting with people do you find that many of them actually support the taliban and its aims of establishing an islamic emirate. even if there is support it's more out of necessity you know it has to do with how much has actually reached the people and how much ryan when they're subject to you so if you have people who don't have access to health care we don't have access to jobs who don't have access to roads and schools and think never got a chance to hell because of where they live because of the conditions there and then at the same time you would drop strikes in your rates and you know these other very violent. forms of quote unquote counter terrorism then that will lead people especially out of necessity towards the other side has also been criticised

and this is a useful thing about the cost of being cut off and i'm somebody who spoke about the necessity of people having nor the choice i'm wondering if this corruption plays did actually into the hands of the taliban. or what ends up happening. once again i'm going to my speech you know some hans talking about even say or our driver's license or aren't to go to see a doctor in a government hospital you have to pay a bribe along you have to know somebody. and that really that you know again that that that drives the wedge between the people and the right and so far there is that divide and it's feeling that you know you can only get something simple something basic high paying a bribe by knowing somebody somewhere and hearing all these reports of millions going getting rot and then you call places where there aren't proper roads where

there are proper schools where there are proper clinics and hospitals where you know for someone to go to a hospital in some provinces can take them up to 14 hours or you know just to get from a district to a city so then all of the you know again it comes back to it's not even necessarily support for the 2. all of on it's just the necessity of you know if someone isn't providing something for you then you go likely to the people who say they can take arms against the people who are abusing you and who at the very least claim that they can protect you and seek retribution if for instance say there's a night raid or a drone strike or an air strike your son or your daughter or your wife you know gets killed or goes disappearing. that's really how this cow this recruitment works and how it increases over time i have if you believe of them for the time being thank you so much for joining us thank you. i mean if you're there joining us from one of the most dangerous places in the world is to be

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joseph for this special exhibition. welcome to arts and culture the british board is one of the biggest nights in the music industry's calendar this year it made history as the 1st major indoor music event to take place with a low noise audience since a pandemic closed the doors of cultural venues everywhere thousands of fans and front line workers were invited to london's o 2 arena for the glittering occasion with some stars even braving quarantine to collect their accolades in person and some spectacular performances. the 2021 brit awards kicked off in ground style with a performance by the band coldplay from a pontoon on the river thames. but it was women who took center stage with 8 of 10 brits going to female artists including album of the here for future must tell jokes by julie.

i found a girl band little mix who became the 1st women to win the trophy for best british group. it's not easy being a female in the u.k. pop industry we've seen the what might dominance massage really sexism and lack of diversity we're proud that we stuck together by stood up around and surrounded ourselves of strong women and now using our voices more than ever with performances in front of a live audience including by iconic elton john this fierce brit awards marked a welcome return to normal for a music industry battered by a year of cold lockdown. i was watching from home and so was d. w.'s culture reporter scott rock's he joins us now from boston scott's high that as we heard

a big night for female artists dearly little mix spice celebrated let's talk about the other winners of the night. yeah i mean the brits have come under a lot of criticism as have so many award shows for in the past over emphasizing male artists and ignoring female artists but they made a lot of changes last year and it seems to have paid off because the majority of the winners last night were female artists we saw artists like arlo park who won breakthrough british artist last night for her debut album collapsed and sunbeams taylor swift the indomitable taylor swift took the stage to become the 1st woman to win the brits global icon award and the all 'd female band hine took the best international group on earth is interesting they're actually from l.a. and they spent 10 days in quarantine in london just to be able to be at the brits personally well that's what i call dedication scott how it was the 1st event at

london's i'm 2 arena since the pandemic started and there was a mix of niven pre-code performances but very significantly there was a naive 40 and tell us about. yeah that was only made possible because the u.k. government designated the brits a past event so they allowed them to try out new protocols to see if you could do life music with a live audience safely under coded conditions so the stadium had several 1000 people in it many of them were actually workers from the british national health service the n.h.s. who got free tickets to attend the event and they were treated to a really impressive lineup of live performances including. performed her megahit driver's license live on the o 2 stage we had. he won a u.k. drill band that really got the audience on their feet but i was actually been impressed by the the pipe in performances the pretty good ones like from the

canadian pop star the weekend which looked quite impressive in general i think the brits felt like a return to normal of and a sign of hope that maybe in the very near future real concerts with real audiences can take place again. keep our fingers crossed for that now the push towards a not 9 for being political but briefly if you can this year that changed. oh yes definitely everyone who took the stage used it basically to make some political point to. dress the british prime minister boris johnson directly telling him to raise the pay for workers of the n.h.s. we can't use his acceptance speech to call for more action for the victims of violence in ethiopia and even taylor swift in her acceptance speech to thank the n.h.s. for helping out during the pandemic of course so many of the members of the n.h.s. or in the audience there said it was over very very well in general it was incredibly activist night at the brits. reporting from bone thanks so much for your analysis. big screen small screen over the

stage center bagger is master of them all from teenage starlets in 1950 s. austria to hollywood leading lady charlton heston in cut douglas wood just leading men she's been on the ballot in film festival jury twice and in 2622006 she became one of the 1st female activists to talk about sexual harassment in hollywood long before people started listening in the weeks center bagga turns 80 we look back at her career. sent a background has brought the power of her charisma to both the big and small screens in a career spanning more than 6 decades she's become a role model of self-confidence femininity she gives even the most confessional characters that certain something special making them authentic and strong but never arrogant. as to them for the caption.

manacles to miss i'd always been pretty realistic about my job i wasn't interested in signing autographs but in just being allowed to act and being seen of course there was some useful exhibitionism involved but you get over that as you go through life. battle was born in vienna in 1941 her father was a musician and her mother a teacher though her parents were not well off she was able to take ballet and acting lessons. economic integration i never felt my childhood was hard just the opposite i think we along with the rest of society were very fortunate to be able to feel we were able to look forward to the future belong to us. i want to get out of the social housing i grew up in and conquer the world and. the very. center bagger ended up going to hollywood where she acted alongside stars like charlton heston your brenner and kirk douglas seen here.

what about bob swanson my mother was 23 and was suddenly working with a list actors over there that wasn't always easy haag i think she was almost mobbed by all those men concluding for instance kirk douglas they were also friendly to my mother i wonder why when i look at her from back then i can understand why the men were so friendly to her while they were all after her but then my mother always charmingly put the muffy because she was already with my father this diva the screen goddess i stayed true to him luckily because otherwise i wouldn't be here gives me. a $966.00 bagger married director mystery for good together they started the centanni production company their sons also worked in the film business zeman 5 even gave his mother a lead role in the successful comedy welcome to germany. could be coming but i didn't house. and i just. don't

rollerblade well ok those fish will only look classy and disease coffin live in east indies new house and i'm not finished as i think there's a particular challenge for an actress that has to be said but she's mastered it brilliantly she's remains a young soul she tries to confront the difficulties that are a normal part of life with a smile and to take joy in her life she tries to find some things each day that makes life worthwhile because i hope i'm able to grow old like that too. if jellicoe sure i think i've been very lucky and still land but i also think that i've learned to make the right decision at the right moment not always but often lifting moments of. whether on screen or are sent about has had a rich and fascinating life full of success and joy we wish her many more years to come. a strong woman with some to. hales to tell now

german conception artist joseph boyce would have been 100 dismay one of the many artists he inspired is pushing sculptor 10 he cried he later my gemini his home voice was both a mentor and a friend to cry as a tribute to voice in his. crack has selected 20 of his works from private collections and put them on display in his own special gallery. tony cracks greatest because our constitution is arguably this sculpture park which was transformed from an abandoned part of land. where the british artist has lived for some time now. like boyce he believes that part is always political. in a world where everything is becoming impoverished and weaker and destroyed scotcher is one of the only ways of producing new forms new language new ideas new

emotions and i think that's a very very important role you know while industries death killing everything around us the sculpture park is a space of energetic exchange. cracks on works enter a dialogue with the works of other artists. currently those of joseph boyce. voice and a lot of artists of that generation they were the 1st ones to talk about the environment they were the 1st ones to really start to talk about our relationship to nature they were the 1st ones to talk about our acceptance of political systems of of ideas of hierarchy and so when you look at out today and you see how many platforms for protest have opened up. tony cracked 1st met voice in london in 1972. first time actually. in him in the white house he stood there

with his face a jacket on and his hat and a curious curious figure and not very good english i have to say the exhibition perpetual motion comprises small works that make for big art replete with symbolism like the rose for democracy or cup read battery. voices complex thoughts compacted into little sculptures raise more questions than they answer. indeed there's not so much to see but what the observer is left with is what owns one's own reflection you find out what you think what you have in your head. so you don't have to understand it all to get boyce just be creative and follow your intuition. that is it is not the. contrast it is.

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it's an ongoing quest story but the picture. of the arab spring began in 2000 that. people stood up against corrupt troopers and dictatorship. all these moments. have left deep box in my memory. because i'm in a critical feeling the people who were in the clique to. play they had hoped for more security more freedom more dignity. of their hopes for civil. 10 years after the arab spring. arab alley and starts june 7th on g.w.

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