can you hear me now. and. surprise yourself with what is. really sad and want. to talk to people. the way maurice and critics alike joining us. today. from those away from. india. to their country as it proposed with a devastating 2nd report on a group of indians in the netherlands who couldn't stand by and do nothing. to talk preparations despite. the public's opposition to. safety.

i'm going to welcome to news glad you could join us in just a devastating 2nd wave of corn of virus infections has prompted a flood of international relief at least 40 countries have pledged help and aid deliveries from major world powers including the united states germany the european union have already arrived but the crisis has also spied its overseas citizens into action with some 18000000 citizens such as myself living beyond its borders india has some of the largest export organisations of the world here's a glimpse at how some of them in the netherlands are sending help back home. becoming a mother during a pandemic thousands of miles. from home was

a tough challenge for a conch shell srivastav. but watching a covert crisis unfold in her home country india from where she now lives in the netherlands has proved unbearable for the business analyst i've started getting news from my friends my relatives relative that people are dying and you know my friends and their families are suffering they're not getting oxygen you're just crying every night because you just hear such news and you're like what do we do a conch shell is among 45000 people born in india you know late in the netherlands desperate to do something she looked towards others in her community. in nearby amsterdam software developer and cricket lover wrote it was raring to go he knew others with high paying jobs who wanted to play their part through local organizations indian ex-pats sprung into action. they all came together donated money so that when he was in india or $1.00 is supplying most of them

concentrated so we sent about $604.00 millions to india and also gave funding for. these families were affected but i can just imagine what they're going through just trying to help more there will be they've raised tens of thousands of euros no more cricket talk after training no it's all about sourcing and sending more vital materials. here in the hague say we're down temple dutch people of indian origin like hindu priest to be cashed in already are also stepping up. feel the impact whatever is happening in india has a direct impact on our community here as well to value wants to send positive energy to do those who are suffering. all. different today so whether it's. material support whether it's fundraising. or the

pay or the different ways of reaching those people they're. taking a break from the headlines instead filling her screen with faces of faraway loved ones who are yet to meet her baby found in person she knows the funds and resources she's helped collect are just a drop in the ocean india's staggering covert crisis but for now hopes of saving even one life back home keep her going. a petition to cancel the talk has been submitted to games organizers on friday 350000 people signed the petition in just 9 days it comes as the country faces a 4th wave of course on a virus infections the capital tokyo osaka and other prefectures are already under

a state of emergency but the government appears committed to opening the olympics on the 23rd of july a series of test events have been helped to track safety protocols and organizers say a spectator free olympics is also a possibility none of that has however dampened the growing public opposition to the games. almost nothing has gone as planned ahead of what is still called the tokyo 2020 olympics at a wednesday news conference brian your question please a man posing as a journalist staged a cancel the olympics protest for the olympic committee's spokesman. where. they were. you know. we don't want. and not that great no i'm sorry to disappoint you that it was me not the president today obviously would've probably made that stunt

a little bit more interesting was the stunt though voiced the same disapproval the japanese themselves are voicing in small protest groups and in big polling data that shows 59 to 65 percent favor canceling the games in light of the pandemic. oh no no not at all i was surprised at the number of people who are against the olympics have increased this much but i guess that reflects how bad the situation of the coronavirus is. but if you. put olympics organizers are moving forward and one thing that did go according to plan for them a dress rehearsal of what the track and field competition could look like. a mostly empty stadium safe for athletes and officials who've been placed into a virtual bubble. 4 time olympic medalist justin gatlin won the test 100 meters and was a few sivan his praise despite living in a locked down room sleep to watch netflix to dine and then he was let out to train

and compete. this competition here was a precursor to see exactly how you know the knicks can go off. maintaining a bubble for the athletes should be able to stay healthy and also to citizens of japan to be able to stay healthy which for an athlete for national coming into the country i think it was a success. definitely different is can be hard to adapt but the caution is definitely needed. should the games go off as imagined or imagined this could well be to look world class competitors inside the venues and the athletes olympic village. protests on the outside. my capacity as a journalist and robs the singlet so news agency he joins me now from tokyo michael to paris and being able to cope with the rising cases of coronavirus. well i think

that that's clearly not mary well no they're not. you know the situation in indiana before thwaite here has not quite hit the record for the country about it and certainly threatening to do so many you know the smaller rural prefectures outside of japan are hitting some pot totals of cases with everything before and the number of critical cases of people you know people who are on life support that number of hired never been pandemic started so japan's in pretty deep trouble you know compared to the previous record in terms of the pandemic and whether the country with vaccinating the general public. well as i think it's been well reported the japan among advanced industrial companies countries is a right at the bottom of the list i believe it's something like 3 or 4 percent of

the country so far have been vaccinated. you know at least once that's a very low number compared to most countries in this class but at the same time the numbers have been rising recently in but i mean recently amino acid week or so and the government believes that most elderly people will be vaccinated by the end of july but this is really going to be too late for you know the olympic situation which should start. in july given all the issues and the fact of the large majority of the public appear to want the games can go against all forms. of understand why the government insists on going ahead with the olympic. well there is a bit of a mystery there but there have been so adamant and you know not just so the japanese government but to the international olympic committee as well as and so essentially come out and said directly oh you know we don't care what happened

doesn't matter what happens we're definitely going ahead 100 percent and you know this line has taken some people by surprise exactly why they are doing so well we can speculate you know it would seem that they've put a lot of investment in this and probably a lot of money riding on it all the facilities the stadiums never think we're built over a period of 8 or 9 years so they want to at least make some use of it but there's also the prestige factor which is of course. you know important for the government itself especially the 2 government they don't want to be the one that pulled the plug on the olympics and which failed to hold them so i think that's also a very big factor. but michael it does come down to it who gets to decide who has the japanese government orders of the international olympic committee that gets to decide to be in a big go ahead and not. well that has been in dispute in fact

prime minister yoshida suga has said that the final say with the international olympic committee but this these statements have been widely disbelieved and and even mocked by the opposition parties you know it's just handed a sovereign nation to have to follow the orders of the international olympic committee they they question that and i think that you know the real answer obviously is the state has the final say you know if prime minister who can said ok we're not holding them there's no way that the international olympic committee can force them to do so but at the moment how a total truth exactly plan to make them pick. not just al qaeda but all the potential people on. they don't know yet in fact they don't even know if fans are going to be able to attend the events this decision is still pending they're probably going to make it last minute. you know they are trying to do their best to to create a bubble around the athlete to try to you know keep them in separated from the

general public as possible and they're also talking about back in a thing most if not all of the athletes. head of many of the citizens of japan in fact so it's it's a question it's a question have been answered convincingly and in fact you have to say that the japanese public doesn't believe that they believe that to be holding lympics will be some kind of super spreader event with you know thousands of people coming in here from all over the world i was who knows what copa variance so you know the government says it's safe most japanese don't believe it journalist michael. thank you so much for that update thank you. and there's of course further updates on their debates preparations on our web site heat up a dot com. shout and we end this week with this huge ocean liner being built in landlocked sichuan province in china why you also well it's

a replica of the titanic being built for tourists to spend a moment to relieve you of that and see you on monday. people in trucks enjoy one trying to see the city center more and more refugees are being turned away or it. seems. to be quick on the screen straight. people seem extreme.

coming to the gifts. more than 300 people are seeking. because no one should have to sleep. make up your own mind. w.'s. for mines. coming up on arts and culture beauty or the beast these concrete structures divide opinion but here in germany there's a growing movement to preserve them. and a photographer who's turned his lens on people and their canine companions. but 1st to the bosnian capital sarajevo where the name walter conjures up memories of

national hero vladimir parritch he died leading a resistance movement against sorry ivo's nazi occupiers at the end of world war 2 later won't became a household name depicted in comic books that once flew off the shelves fast forward to present day sorry ivo where one bookstore owner is intent on rekindling walter's memory and spreading his own passion for comics. evil nazis and heroic partisans every child growing up in the former yugoslavia knew the story while to defend sarajevo as well as the film it was a comic book that had millions of fans around the globe. comics were hugely popular in the former yugoslavia and me a shot which hopes to preserve this tradition has been a comicon through z.f. since childhood he founded design publishing company this courtyard in sarajevo is

home to coffee comics as well as a shop which sells comic books and graphic novels there really it is more of a refuge. with the dallas ft worth i do think anyone in bosnia today would enter the comic book trade purely as a business venture were available through porn you need to love comics or the children can bring in a comic they've already read and exchange it for another shahad it earns nothing from this but he says that's not important he's too busy trying to salvage whatever he can his collection of comics is now larger than the one held by boston his national library. in the 1960 s. seventy's and eighty's with everyone in yugoslavia read comics the break of yugoslavia also spelled the end of this comic culture since then sales have been sluggish back in the early seventy's

a comic issue could easily sell 800000 copies. today young artists like and it's cheech ish have a tough time living from their work she just says the market has been decimated even though the internet is creating new opportunities he says what's missing are publishers like challenge and his publishing company. got to colleagues or for our audience. is doing with a graphic comics so with the publishing house on the comic book store was a good step towards creating what bosnia lacks a coffee comics has brought out a new edition of wall to defend sarajevo the story has also been republished in german and chinese in china the tale of walter the resistance fighter who took on the nazis is well known chinese tourists visiting sarajevo flocked to his memorial there though until the end the nazis never knew who walter was you know him walter

is tell me his name at once. sure thing in fact i will show him to you. you see the city. this is a factor. in sarajevo walter is once again a symbol of resistance now against the political corruption that's paralyzed bosnia for decades. within those who are the more people are sick of having to just survive on their own. and walter's message to fight for others to fight for others for their lives in all of us with they are the cause of us to make something of our lives here in sarajevo and in bosnia i'm isha hell each is optimism in the face of all odds is reminiscent of walter's message never give up even in times of great resistance. as someone else who is staying strong in the face of adversity is

french d.j. tate hope when the phones stopped ringing during knock down the electronic music maestro picked up his decks and carried them up a mountain he's now released this video filmed in the middle of the swiss alps it's 3000 need to see it could be highest. now this building looks like a nuclear power station that's according to britain's prince charles in fact it's london's national theatre it's a classic example of brutal ism a no frills architectural style popular in the 1960 s. and seventy's often called bleak and institutional many such buildings are at risk of demolition including this form of the bar tree in berlin now thousands of people have signed a petition to rescue it from the bulldozers the part of

a growing movement to preserve the city's architectural history. architecture style known as brutal ism can be described as monumental colorless and inhuman these edifices tend to polarize to some their eyesores while others a growing number of architecture aficionados the world over are rediscovering berta as a. friend and. i find burchill isn't so fascinating because it's so antagonistic and controversial on the one hand the buildings are written off as ugly and many of them do take some getting used to. but once you look behind the scenes and begin to understand why these structures look the way they do it's a whole architectural cosmos opens up if. you take a course most. this is a 17 story apartment block in berlin was designed in 1957 by french swiss architect

. the man who coined the term brutal is an architecture historian and photographer felix talk car sees it as one of the city's principal examples of the style. the building with its 530 apartments has been called a machine for living. nicole museum was unable to carry out his plans for the interior but this one apartment was later remodeled to reproduce the architect original idea it's based on his color theories recall buzy grams of color the same importance as the floor plan and layout hendrix peddler and bought the apartment and most of its furnishings. we were not going to change the colors of his apartment never it's like a house of cards sticking everything can just fall down if you start changing too much. also left unchanged since the late 1970 s. the czech embassy building in downtown berlin and the architect even designed the

lamps tables and armchairs. recently a british publisher put out a series of city guides focusing on brutal as a felix toy car curated the berlin edition increasing support for brutal is among social media put a hold on some demolition plans including at this former animal testing lab nicknamed the mouse bunker in the 1960 s. when these buildings were planned a great number of structures from the mid to late 19th century were torn down buildings that we think are fabulous today and a horrified at how much beautiful old architecture has been lost at the time many of them were only around 60 years old exactly the same age as these buildings are today so we have to think about whether or not we want to repeat the same mistakes . all the while new conquer. buildings are going up in the neo brutalist style this berlin apartment building called the lobo block has already won several awards.

its unfinished look was made not only to be stylish but to reduce construction costs and to keep rents down. more than 6 decades after it hit the scene brutalist architecture still polarizes and fascinates people today. they say just 15 minutes spent petting a dog can you lower your blood pressure so that skinner will say keep you company and she you up as many people have found out during the pandemic you know down sent the dyno on fashionable companions soaring when human commissions dried up for 1000000000 based photographer he found himself any projects. as the saying goes

dogs are man's best friend. dog owners regardless of gender loving their canine and the female seems to be linked to. that one part of her promise doesn't have a dog and never has with. one of the 3 i've got to admit that i'm a little bit scared of dogs the bigger and more boisterous they are the more they scare me so it's errands for me now but it's always good to learn something new in life. timing and are the promised 1000000 have to market for the price that. not all dogs love to be photographed. bribery is the main priority to get the perfect picture. in comparison human beings are the easiest subject. type of the graffiti dog and owner i love it's really exciting. sometimes the similarity between dogs and their owners is quite amazing when you see the next to each other. who similarities.

resemble the dog or the wise a bird or bird but i haven't really seen that. with the corona pandemic his latest person dog project a big. i think i wasn't getting many of the targeted jobs and was running once a time just going for a walk that's when i had a closer look at the dogs and owners i ran into. ready photographed 40 parents. has already applied this is that x. to his most successful projects so far there are 100 here he focused on the person during the course of their life from the centenarian and another project called 1.2 people wearing. his work. looking into the eyes of a person or an animal creates

a connection. whether promised himself or some point established a deep connection with the dog is uncertain and more likely his human hands photos will appear in the volume of his latest photographic work to the delight. you may have heard of tom cruise this pilot should take hollywood to outer space cruisers do you just start shooting a film at the international space station well now he's got home picture rushes space agency has announced plans to sheet a russian feature film on the i s s also. the film crew will undergo astronaut training before taking off just space let's see who gets there 1st. and tom cruise is back on screen next year with the 7th film in the mission impossible franchise the 1st one came out in 1996 meaning cruise's alter ego

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