the portrait of another musician chilly gonzales landed director philip k. dick in his first ever invitation to the berlin film festival his study of the charismatic cologne based canadian performer churches evolution from hip elector rapper to concert pianist from underground bohemian to respectable composer. to. actually console is a master of reinvention in the course of his career he's been variously described as a punk provocateur to or a performance artist ever to osho pianist. and others so much. so. he's a brilliant artist with so many talents he's a producer a composer a rapper he's an entertainer. he combines many different forms of artistic endeavor and on the other hand he's also interesting because he's so driven. because of turbocharged when i discovered rap so that was the time when i kind of got the key to be proud that i could be superficial and deep at the same time. the documentary takes us for a spin around berlin's electroclash scene in the late one nine hundred ninety s. . the period in the late ninety's and early two thousand was when

chilly gonzales is the subject of a new documentary that's just premiered at the belly nala the film's director joins me in the studio to talk about his inspiration. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us. the united nations says the syrian government is targeting civilians in the rebel held enclave of eastern ghouta and that it must stop the syrian observatory for human rights says that government air raids on eastern close to the syrian capital damascus killed at least one hundred people on monday around four hundred seventy were injured in the suburb has been under siege by regime forces for more than four years this as syrian media report that militias loyal to the syrian government will soon be entering the northern region of freeing to help kurdish militias repel turkish troops there. an entire town in mourning this is become a familiar sight in a free in recent weeks with residents regularly attending mass funerals for kurdish fighters killed in clashes with turkish troops. it's against this backdrop that syrian state t.v. reported on a move to change the dynamic of the

and play the piano premiered at the berlin belly not a film festival this weekend on the one chilly gonzales thank you so much thank you very much. desperate times call for desperate measures in venezuela a severe economic crisis is front of the government to come up with an unusual strategy north showing a new crypto currency called the picture now the oil backed digital currency goes live today amid doubts it'll actually work as well as actual opposition on legal grounds. if you can dispute just how badly venezuela needs a plan hyperinflation shortages and soaring debt have brought the country to its knees and its citizens to the streets. when venezuelan president nicolas maduro announced plans to launch a new crypto currency some viewed it as an imaginative way out of the crisis and as a workaround for western sanctions that effectively keep venezuela from raising cash from bonds happen and this is going to allow for advancements in international financing for the economic and social development of the country the new crypto currency will be backed by reserves of israel and while the old