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everything is online melbourne to interact to learn german for free with d w. hello and welcome to our deep dive into the worlds of arts and culture i'm karen house debt and here's a quick teaser of what's in store on today's program. from a musical dynasty and. a star in his own right a violin virtuoso and sometime after soloist with a big year ahead we'll talk to him in the studio. and roll out a little to the show with a visit to the annual lemon festival in malta all it's one of the most popular events on the french riviera and this year's theme is fantastic new worlds all in citrus of course. but first a musician's brain is a thing to behold consider the technical mastery of an instrument the mathematical precision of the music and then they have that incredible balance of discipline and emotion that come together to express something sublime violinist michelle bottom one not only achieves that balancing act but he makes it look effortless and he does it with a repertoire of puts him in a class of his own. less than music speak for itself michel barenboim's perf

that's so much more than just background music video game music starts february twenty fifth on d w. hello and welcome to a new week of arts and culture i'm robin merrill is a quick look at what's coming up today. on the fortieth anniversary of the iranian revolution we're joined by filmmaker marion's already born in iran's most infamous political prison a documentary born in. international film festival. she was a love addict and a serial cheater and wasn't afraid to write about it as part of our series on classic german books we look at the poet as alaska's shooter and her nine hundred twelve confessional my hols. thoughts we begin with a bollywood film with a difference golly boy had its world premiere international film festival over the weekend yes so love story like all bollywood movies but that's where the similarity ends it's about a poverty stricken indian family whose son writes angry hip hop lyrics and smokes marijuana and he got standing ovations at the premiere. boys about rap loud and freedom from society's expectations for what it would have been. many guide even a group. th

that's so much more than just background music video game music starts february twenty fifth on d w. hello and welcome to news from the world of arts and culture i'm robert merrill we're looking at the following topics today. along with altering films the but also highlights often comic acting talent with its european shooting stars awards we'll meet two of this year's faces to watch. we'll also meet up and coming young soprano as a prize seekers making a name for herself in start soap our. butts we begin with the american photographer cindy sherman she's this year's winner of the prestigious max beckmann prize which recognizes outstanding performances in the artistic field sherman is considered one of the most important and influential artists of her generation throughout her career she has explored identity and the nature of representation in society especially of women. cindy sherman has been photographing herself since the one nine hundred seventy s. but her works are not self portraits in the classic sense of an artist taking a look at their authentic self instead sherman takes on dif

that's so much more than just background music video game music starts february twenty fifth on d w. hello and welcome to news for the world of arts and culture i'm robin merrill and here's a quick look at what's coming up today film fans have already started lining up for tickets the birdland international film festival is about to kick off we'll take a look what's coming up over the next week and the heart. and series baking bread with. the all that matters who's making his way around the european union. the sixty ninth burned in film festival about it is about to get underway and it will be the last one for a festival directed teach a cost flick he's been in charge for nearly two decades and in that time he's raised its profile to make it one of the major film festivals in the world i'll be talking to my colleague melissa holroyd about what's in store this year but first a look back cos liks tenure. we caught up with to talk us look at butlins film and television museum. the current photo exhibition there on the history of the bally nala also tells his story as festival director. he too

that's so much more than just background music video game music starts february twenty fifth on d w. hello and welcome to news from the world of arts and culture i'm robert merrill we're looking at the following topics today. along with altering films the but also highlights often comic acting talent with its european shooting stars awards will meet two of this year's faces to watch. will also meet up and coming young soprano as a prize who comes making a name for herself in stop soap opera. botts we begin with the american photographer cindy sherman she's this year's winner of the prestigious max spectrum prize which recognizes outstanding performances in the artistic field sherman is considered one of the most important and influential artists of her generation throughout her career she has explored identity and the nature of representation in society especially of women. cindy sherman has been photographing herself since the one nine hundred seventy s. but her works are not self portraits in the classic sense of an artist taking a look at their authentic self instead sherman takes on di

d. w. . hello and a very warm welcome to news from the world of arts and culture today we have a mixture of film and food for your. film. for is back with the boy who harnessed the wind an inspiring true story of a young man who saves a village. and that movie comes in the middle of a heated debate in the film world about the role of streaming platform netflix i'll fill next ways in. breaking bad all breaking bread this low from ireland could get you hooked. to us all edge of four is best known for his oscar nominated role to solomon northup in twelve years a slave now he's directed his first feature the boy who harnessed the wind is a true story from malawi and the film was actually shot in the exact place where it happened and culture met with the cost at the berlin international film festival i'll be talking to film expert scott rocks for in just a minute but first more about the film the rains came late this year and now the trees are gone. he's being sleep and. this is. going to do some good a

that's so much more than just background music video game music starts february twenty fifth on d w. hello and welcome to news from the world of arts and culture i'm robin merrill and here's a quick look at what's coming up today film fans have already started lining up for tickets the birdland international film festival is about to kick off we'll take a look what's coming up over the next week and a home. and series baking bread with d.w. whose own view of matters who's breaking his way around the european union. the sixty ninth burned in film festival about it is about to get underway and it will be the last fall festival directed dita costly he's been in charge for nearly two decades and in that time he's raised its profile to make it one of the major film festivals in the world talks by colleague melissa holroyd about what's in store this year but first a look back cos licks tenure. we caught up with to talk us look at butlins film and television museum. part. of the current photo exhibition there on the history of the bally nala also tells his story as festival director. he took over

i'm sure that's so much more than just music video music starts february twenty fifth on d w. hello and welcome to focus on europe i'm liable we begin our program in europe's poorest country moldova high unemployment has caused a mass exodus of people struggle to feed their families all the poverty is most evident in the rural areas where many villages are usually empty around half the population has left to find work in other european countries those who stay make ends meet by selling their possessions and smuggled goods well at the heart of the problem is corruption frustration with the government in case she now has caused many to give up on a future in moldova and upcoming elections have failed to spark hope for change but some moldovans have opted to stay and fight for its future. most of the roads in moldova are pretty bad driving is a real challenge the infrastructure has been neglected and poverty is widespread. marianna took on works for a program that encourages young people to stay here. instead of moving to other countries the immigration rate is unusually high. there's

that's so much more than just background music video game music starts for you in twenty fifth on d w. hello and welcome to another episode of tomorrow today the science show on d w coming up this week. sensors that fly walk and crawl getting animals to collect big data on our planet. the smart swarm exploring new pathways in the creation of artificial intelligence. and dropping pounds weight loss with a new generation of natural sugar substitutes. since the beginning of the space age we've launched nearly seven thousand satellites into orbit whether g.p.s. internet search weather forecasting or navigation many aspects of modern life now rely on data sent back from above but the data can flow in both directions a program being tested on the eye and says is now opening up new horizons in research on disaster prediction by tapping into living sensors all over the planet . in february twenty eighth seen this soyuz launcher took off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan carrying a quip meant for these german scientists to the international space station and then ten o'clock for their a chor

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d. w. . hello and welcome to the latest edition of the environment magazine eco africa like every week we will be presenting reports and sustainability and best practices in action from africa and europe. here in the faucet in the vibrant lagos nigeria and joining me as always is my colleague from the show and is the injured hotties hey andy nice to see you again and greetings to all your africa of us out there as n.t. said we have a lot in store for you on the program here's a quick peek at what's coming up. thousand members one goal and all the nation and told go is doing on it cats get communities interested in climate protection. after being driven out well over a century ago wolves are making a comeback in germany but not everyone is thrilled about its. hundred meter man in uganda who is building bikes from a sturdy fostering and earth friendly plants. we begin the show right here in south africa a country with a long and varied history a site known as the cradle of humankind is less than a hu

that's so much more than just background music video game music starts february twenty fifth on d w. hello and welcome to tomorrow today you'll science show on t w coming up this week . we take a trip to south america to meet the only native member of the best family found their. food preferences just a question of taste they are we explain why and how they do better. and how the u. n. is trying to get more girls and women involved in the sciences. but first let's look at something we all take for granted in industrialized countries a steady power supply so everywhere it still relies heavily on fossil fuels currently only around sixteen percent of the energy we generate comes from sustainable sources suggesting he wants to stop burning coal completely by twenty thirty eight and many other countries are also investing heavily in renewables but how big a listing is the quick large scale transition a space research is working hard to make it happen ok good morning everyone let's get started that i guess the times. to ask me i think of the book and my name is gabby hook i'm thirty eight and th

i'm sure that's so much more than just music video music starts february twenty fifth on d w. hello and a warm welcome to focus on europe with me lar about a lola we've heard a lot about people leaving britain ahead of bragg's it but there are others willing to risk their lives to get to the u.k. before its scheduled departure from the e.u. at the end of march some are crossing the waters at night on inflatable dinghies they see it as their last chance for a better life but as the crossing is heavily patrolled by the coast guard most don't make it and are brought back the narrowest part of the english channel lies between cali and the port of dover a route popular with asylum seekers for people like hamas britain offers familiarity many can speak english and have relatives already settled there but their chances of being granted asylum have dwindled as both the french and british governments take a hard line on immigration but that doesn't stop refugees from taking risks as our correspondent susanna door haga found out at the northern coast of france. thirty kilometers from here lie

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that's so much more than just background music video game music starts february twenty fifth on d w. hello and welcome to quadriga i'm brian thomas u.s. president has declared a national emergency to access funding that congress denied him for a border wall with mexico the move as a sign to halt what he calls the invasion of drugs and gangs and a humanitarian crisis on the southern border the declaration is facing a legal challenge from sixteen states led by california.

starts for you or twenty fifth on d w. hello and welcome to quadriga sexual predators and the catholic church have destroyed the lives of countless people around the globe and church authorities who knew about the abuse routinely denied it and sought to cover it up now after being forced to acknowledge sexual abuse of children pope francis has admitted that nuns were also victims of clerical sexual violence. the admission comes at a critical moment for the church next thursday at the vatican will host a conference on sexual abuse by clerics but francis will be meeting with bishops from around the world to discuss ways of preventing such abuse demands are growing louder for substantial reform. abuse of power a church in denial that's the topic this week. and here to help us break it down we have three well informed journalists philip is editor with the german religious affairs magazine type psych and he says the sexual abuse scandal in the catholic church is a wake up call for the institution to globally reform itself. also with

that's so much more than just background music video game music starts february twenty fifth on d w. hello and a warm welcome to focus on europe with me lara babylon we've heard a lot about people leaving britain ahead of bragg's it but there are others willing to risk their lives to get.

that's so much more than just background music video game music starts february twenty fifth on d w. hello and welcome to quadriga venezuela is bracing for further potentially deadly protests as his embattled president targets the young politician seen by many venezuelans as the only hope of breaking the grip of a corrupt elite that has plundered the country.

genre that's so much more than just background music video music starts february twenty fifth on d w. hello and welcome to quadriga sexual predators and the catholic church have destroyed the lives of countless people around the globe and church authorities who knew about the abuse routinely denied it and sought to cover it up now after being forced to acknowledge sexual abuse of children pope francis has admitted that nuns were also victims of clerical sexual violence the admission comes at a.

that's so much more than just background music video game music starts february twenty fifth on d w. hello and welcome to quadriga art brian thomas u.s. president has declared a national emergency to access funding that congress denied him for a border wall with mexico the move as a sign to halt what he calls the invasion of drugs and get.

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that's so much more than just background music video game music stores for you were twenty fifth on d w. hello and welcome to quadriga venezuela is bracing for further potentially deadly protests as embattled president targets the young politician seen by many venezuelans as the only hope of breaking the grip of a corrupt elite that has plundered the country president nicolas maduro has presided over a dramatic economic collapse declaring that president illegitimate one why do leader of the democratically elected national assembly stood before tens of thousands of frustrated venezuelans last week and has himself sworn in as acting president tending to elections the police have fired on demonstrators killing dozens and they've carted off hundreds to jail for now the army's on the side of the regime the u.s. on the other hand was quick to recognize go i don't know and has not ruled out intervention. power struggle in venezuela who's winning that's our title this week and these are her guests it is a pleasure to welcome on a so these days stengel she is a research fellow at the university of the

that's so much more than just background music video game music starts february twenty fifth on d w. hello and welcome to quadriga i'm brian thomas u.s. president has declared a national emergency to access funding that congress denied him for a border wall with mexico the move is assigned to halt what he calls the invasion of drugs and gangs and humanitarian crisis on the southern border the declaration is facing a legal challenge from sixteen states led by california the president is also again set his sights on europe indicating german automobile imports are a threat to national security and might be subject to painful tariffs so will president trump succeed in both building the wall and incurred tailing auto imports including those from germany. our question this week trumps national emergency if you define democracy talk about that we have on the steps today tori tell us it is a fellow in foreign policy at the brookings institution in washington d.c. . she's based here in berlin this year as a fellow with the boss foundation and she believes president trump's decision to declare a nat

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d w. the b. . hello welcome to news from the world of arts and culture i'm robert merrill and here's a look at what's coming up today. we find out how you successfully combine eighteenth century opera and contemporary dumb. we take a literary dive into the underbelly of the weimar republic in our latest installment of one hundred german must reads. and we visit an exhibition of christiane dior's iconic fashion in london. but we begin with a production that's new to the hamburg opera it's the baroque opera in your idiocy directed by the legendary choreographer. who has been bad a director there for over forty five years so is this an opera or is it a ballet well actually it's a bit of both a choreographed opera if you like bending the genre a little which noir is celebrated for. with his tragic opera ofis and you really see christoph look at one time revolutionize the world of music director and choreographer john new in my it continues this revolution with his production in. the version is done as a scen

that's so much more than just background music video game music starts february twenty fifth on d w the first. hello and a very warm welcome to news from the world of culture i'm robin merrill and here is what's coming up today. we have a round up of music documentaries screening at the berlin international film festival including one featuring the late great queen of soul aretha franklin. and we meet american comic book artist jason lutes the author of a popular graphic novel set in the bayou era. but i'm going to begin with a quotation from the wall street journal from al jolson and mae west to princeton share the annals of popular entertainments are filled with inimitable figures into their ranks we aren't the german singer. i'm quote he and his problem. big stars here in europe and i'm making waves in america and elsewhere mike's rob is my guest in just a minute but first his music and according to. the very. best bob. woodward. and the plaster cast record classic tunes of the one nine hundred twenty s. and thirty's as well as their own compositions which sound convincingly as if they came from

d w. such. hello and a very warm welcome indeed to focus on europe with me peter craven and we begin with a problem that's facing societies right across europe the fact that they are bradley aig and the question is who's going to look.

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w. m d. hello and welcome to the world of arts and culture i'm david leavitt's on this edition of the show we will have you screaming and whispering we'll show you the libraries of the future how innovative architects are getting people checking out books and a whole lot more. and what books should you be checking out we've got a hot tip from our series of one hundred mustering. but first i promised you screaming and you're going to get it hard rock has gone global and south asia in particular is putting the pedal to the metal with deafening bands from all over the indian subcontinent going head to head and head banging bangalore. tango roll. these are the kinds of images we are used to seeing from india's largest city but just outside city limits its head banging on all the back you know i've been a festival is an annual paradise for mexican lovers it's the country's only heavy metal festival in. the back of the bands here just so i will get to go to the world's largest heavy metal festival in fac

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returns home on the d w dot com. hello and good evening i'm very happy that you're tuned in tonight today we have two two very special guests at all so the first one he wrote hundreds of songs for other artists before he decided to become a famous artist himself so we're really happy to have him here nico son to us and we're happy to welcome a star who influenced the history of international pop music he's been part of the spice girls and you know as this is. probably about the sex and music and talk and. well. thank you. that's got to take the same time i like your tracksuit i'm a little bit jacqui kept me extra i've had the choice i know i'm going out it's wonderful when it's time to say. to the lady i have struck in the yes. so totally obvious big lie to me and against violet the holes and also not. the i'm trying often long to go yeah that sort of gave up to must be exhausting for me because i was here all going to africa at first glance was on that let me ask it says i him or not i got the sun's shining he says i once

d w. thank. you. hello and welcome to focus on europe i'm lara babylon we began our program in europe's poorest country moldova high unemployment has caused a mass exodus of people struggle to feed their families and the poverty is most evident in the rural areas where many villages are nearly empty around half the population has left to find work in.

joining me in the studio this week is former bundesliga player michel didn't say hello and d.-w. been in this league a reporter all over moody. so welcome to both of you and i think what we need to do is take a look at some football and we're going to start with two teams determined to pick up a coveted european spot frankfurt and so far the season looks good for them with both sides riding high in the bundesliga table frankfurt still in the europa league normally european regulars didn't make the cut last season and they're determined to get back on to the international stage tight to look like so let's see how the match panned out. dominated the early going toward firing a warning shot in the eight minute frankford allowed back to create a series of chances and it's forcing kevin trout to make his best save of the first . frankfurt didn't even fire on target until the thirty ninth minute. denied by young. then with the last kick of the first danny de coster to open the scoring for the hopes i crossed a controlling unit and it goes months corner and hitting the turn. after that

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hello and welcome to d w business asia i want to jones in berlin good to have you with us so we're starting with india where the country's reserve bank surprised everyone by cutting its key interest rates down twenty five basis points to six point two percent the move is seen as a bid to bolster up india's flailing economy and today's rate cut is also welcome news for prime minister narendra modi his government wants to boost lending and lift growth as it faces elections in may the indian finance minister is believed to have been.