same time after years of enervation belgium's africa museum is reopening its doors to visitors robin merrill from v.w. culture is with us to tell us more about this how is that robin that at the same time we're talking about we're turning littered art this museum is now we'll yeah it does sound like a dichotomy really but france is neighbor belgium is not disagreeing with the french initiative passed one can say is approaching in a different way the africa museum which we see behind as was written established by king leopold the second in the late nineteenth century he had annexed all belgium had brutally and exports of what is now approximately the democratic republic of congo and committed terrible atrocities they rates the country of its cultural artifacts really and put it in a museum outside brussels now this museum has as you rightly said it's been renovated but with a completely new narrative an attitude towards its colonial past. the royal museum for central africa was long considered the last colonial museum in the world it was where generations of belgian children marveled at stuff

people jumping they are full let's find out more from robin merrill from each of you culture hi robin tell us a bit more about these awards well there were sobs in ninety nine which was the to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights the demand for yeah right. this ceremony actually the winds have been and as the summer take place this weekend the awards are held every two years and the idea is that they all outstanding films on human rights issues as you mentioned the big prize for best film has gone to this film styx is a subject well concerning is old in recent years it's about the refugee crisis that is being played out very tragically in the mediterranean. a woman doctor embarks on a solo sailing journey it proves to be a fateful trip. sticks this whole dick says the river of the dead right from the beginning i like that title a lot because it really gets to the heart of the matter and this separation of the living and the dead that really appealed to me. a severe storm tests the sailor skills but both she and her first all survived inta

bush very different from robin merrill from our culture desk is here to tell us all about it so robindick cheney this is a story of a man who is said to have been the most powerful vice president in history yes it is i mean evidently before cheney really it was a kind of ceremonial role the vice presidency not as important as secretary of state or secretary of defense. cheney changed that from the time he took on the job persuading george w. to give him but most states as we saw all that the movie is also i should say about his his whole life and indeed very much about his marriage to his wife linda was paid by the wonderful amy adams because he was very much the tactician the man who knew the corridors of power in washington because she was the evidently the steel in the relationship i mean they do show a scene in beginning the movie dips out of yale he starts hitting the booze she basically says that if you don't stop the booze and get your act together i'm outta here and he does get his act together anyway here is a being actually offered the job of vice president by george w. secr

had its german premiere break here in the capital city berlin and it has a twist culture editor robin merrill well tell us what makes this particular song lake different from all the rest. and trust me you know want to see this is stick around i'll see you after these messages. of. weapons from the west start being used on the battlefield in. our exclusive report reveals how saudi arabia and the united arab emirates buy weapons in europe. and just put them on the front violation of international law the such the enduser yemen and the global arms trade. in forty five minutes. how to cover more than just one reality. where i come from we have a transatlantic way of looking at things that's because my father is from germany and my mother is from the united states of america and so i realized fairly early that it makes sense to explain the different realities. i'm out here at the heart of the european union in brussels we have twenty eight different realities and so i think people are really looking for any journalist they can trust for them to. make sense of it. by the mismatch of i work at. the

are right robin merrill for. our culture doesn't seem to tell us why why this is different so what's so special about these swans well the secret was in the pictures a little bit because it's being called the greatest swan lake in the world perhaps it should be renamed the biggest i mean it's got triffitt critics by should say. normally in the in the sort of court about a there are sixteen swans sixteen dancers sometimes twenty four this time the showing how about a forty eight and then the entire culture exists either rises the entire cost is actually close to one hundred while the entire company and it's all being choreographed by the famous choreographer derek dean of the british choreographer who's done many swan legs but nothing on the scale like this i mean he must be quite a challenge for him but i think one he definitely relished so let's see more of the production and hear more from derek dean himself. he's a swan lake of mammoth proportions it features not sixteen not twenty four but forty eight swans d

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enterprising museum here in germany has an exhibition all about fake artifacts down the years robin merrill from our culture desk is here to talk about a robin. this fake art been around longer than fake news who knows it's going to be a question and it's. i mean it could be lone gobby view it i know you like to go to museums so why and we could have been looking fake hasn't been discovered yet anyway the enterprising museum you talk of is in a place called hilda's just south of hanover and the school the room appendant say this museum and it's got a specially exhibition called fakes and facts wrong tracks in archaeology archaeology is the main thing looking up because of course it's prone to being i think anyway it runs to the end of next may it does fit feature many off you know logical exhibits because also basically look at the spectacular misjudgments that have been made down the ages on behalf of extra in the field wrong or actually people being home by amazing need talented forges nowadays we have the help of modern technology for instance carbon dating to help us but even so as we s

one in britain is as much a festive tradition as turkey allowed christmas sweaters like the one robin merrill is wearing and it's not just allowed in color terry it's. because it is quite a jingle i love it i love you. so as a brit tell us a little bit more about the spot tradition it really began in the nine hundred seventy s. in fact you can put a date on it christmas nine hundred seventy three we're talking about a time when there was the three day week in britain there were power cuts the already the irish republican army were on forty boming long it was all a bit. terrible in london and raible needed something to brighten up their lives and they got it in the form of two big christmas singles actually that people will most probably know. i wish it could be christmas every day from wizards and merry christmas everybody from slade slade eventually won out and got the top spots and ever since that year there's been a chase to who can get a christmas number one in britain anyway let's see who are the contenders for this year's top spot based christmas. ariana grande day has topped the u.k. c

of our modern culture and people are getting more and more artistic with their instagram photos robin merrillfrom our culture desk is here to talk about it . so what's the connection between instagram and art well museums mainly in that what's happened in the last in recent years is many more people being going into museums to see this picture or be in a certain room or indeed taking pictures from outside the museum because books museums have one flaw and it's old instagram photo isn't it it's the backdrop that they're looking for. and in fact sort of people are paying into i mean to be seems just to get this kind of good for the museum. with that in mind a few weeks ago a pol pot museum in cologne in west germany simply drawing people into scenes or spaces that actually very suitable for such photos let's look at. their own tiny exhibits at this museum nothing to see apart from the perfect backdrop and a perfect photo. instagram museum. open the museum up to seeing its success across the pond. concept the concept is from the us it's been going strong for about a year now have. since many cit

part of the celebration surrounding the two hundredth anniversary since that carol was composed robin merrill from our culture desk is here to tell us all about it so start silent night or still enough to in the original german said to be the most popular carol in the world robyn why do you think the. it is i think it's the simplicity of it both the lyrics and the melody. they really are quite simple but beautiful melody actually and the sentiment behind it of peace on earth i mean and the optimism all is calm all is bright i mean. it's all dark here at the by been severed and that's another thing i thought i personally find it very atmospheric it's classic to sing around an open fire with candlelight. yeah and. i mean it is originally i was going to say and it's not as calls austria but in the german language and it's estimated that ninety nine point eight percent of the jump population actually know the chewed but i should say it's traditionally here first sang on christmas eve on december the twenty fourth so we're preempting it a bit there's no hard and fast rules we are allowed to sing i

different from other versions of swan lake at least at first glance but this is so very different robin merrill from the culture desk here now to talk about that day to you what's so very different about this one like well it's being billed as the greatest swan lake in the world and it's simply because the size of the cost if you like hold a cord of by the way normally the cole is sixteen swans if you like sixteen dollars big productions sometimes have twenty for this one believe it or not has forty hits for stage at any time the entire cost is just below one hundred in the company itself i mean we can see behind us there they are actually posing for photographs of the boat a museum it's a magnificent images and yeah it is fabulous and it's all being choreographed by the british choreographer derek dean now he's done a number of swan lakes but never on a scale like this it must been quite a challenge for him but i also think i mean i know he relished in it he said he's actually registered it so let's have a look at it a bit more and find out well from derek dean him self. is a swan lake of mamm

modern culture now and people are getting more and more artistic with their instagram photos and robin merrillfrom our culture desk is here so good to see you love that picture that we have on the wall so talk to us about this connection between instagram and arts well it's all about backdrops i mean people are going to museums to more and more people are going to museums to a particular room or to a particular picture or even standing outside some of these wonderfully designed museums and getting that as the backdrop this is the notice to anyway with that in mind just a few weeks ago a museum emerged in color in western germany simply drawing people into to two scenes or spaces if you like that are perfect for these instagram photos let's have a look at it. there aren't any exhibits at this museum nothing to see apart from the perfect backdrop for the perfect photo at the super candy pop pop instagram museum in cologne. open the museum to seeing its success across the pond. this concept and the concept is from the us so it's been going strong for about a year now and exists in many cities. ba

currently hosting the biggest retrospective of his work to be staged in thirty years and we have robin merrill from culture with us here robin so this is an exhibition that covers his whole career yeah it does indeed i mean it's got the obvious iconic images like received behind as elvis there marilyn monroe behind you multiplied of course as they were so screen things but the title of the exhibition says it all it's called andy warhol from a to b. and back again that's actually taken from his book he wrote back in ninety five so it is really a comprehensive look at his extraordinary career and i said extraordinary you don't have to like. to accept that he was an extraordinary visionary of the time i mean just one example he walked around most of the time with a camera and a record a tape recorder while we altered that. but he was doing instagram and the like really fifty years ago and i do find that extorting over anyway an artist way ahead of his time. hopefully. the exhibition features more than three hundred fifty works including iconic images that are instantly recognizable as warhols man

currently hosting the biggest retrospective of his work to be staged in thirty years and we have robin merrill from culture with us here robin so this is an exhibition that covers his whole career yeah it does indeed i mean it's got the obvious iconic images like received behind as elvis there marilyn monroe behind you . multiplied of course as they were so screen things but the title of the exhibition says it all it's called andy warhol from a to b. and back again that's actually taken from his book he wrote back in ninety five so it is really a comprehensive look at his extraordinary career and i said extraordinary you don't have to like his art to accept that he was an extraordinary visionary of the time i mean just one example he walked around most of the time with a camera and a record a tape recorder while we altered that. but he was doing instagram and the like really fifty years ago and i do find that extra over anyway an artist way ahead of his time. hopefully. the exhibition features more than three hundred fifty works including iconic images that are instantly recognizable as warhol

merrill lynch survey of fund managers in december. here to talk about the challenges and opportunities in a post selloff environment is robin brooks, managingf economist at the institute for international finance and former economist at the imf. great to have you back on the show. since the volatility has picked up in the u.s., starting in is nicelyber, e.m. outperforming. the ratio from em stocks to s&p's back to its highest level since august. are the fundamentals in place, in your view to this -- view, for this to be sustained? the survey you were talking about, a lot of people basically look at e.m. after the to currencies fell. our metrics are quite cheap, but people are nervous because the big picture is if you have had 10 years of superlow rates in the g3, hugh have extraordinary monetary accommodation, so you have massive capital flows to emerging markets. the number one question we get is which places are heavily positioned, and which places should be steer clear of? romaine: when we talk about clap -- capital flows, the returns have not lived up to some expectations that strategists have put out. given the fed meeting tomorrow, th