and scott roxboro has joined me in the. thanks for coming in scotts you're just back from jerusalem and the i n t v conference that's an incredible output of compelling series that we've been observing coming out of his relatives who are background as to why they're so successful yeah i think israel is that they've taken all the disadvantages they have being a small country not having very much money and they've done it to their advantage so israel doesn't have any sound stages for example so all their shows they have to shoot on location and that gives the shows a real sense of of real is a real sort of gritty realism and then because they don't have the money to spend on special effects they've got to focus on on character so israeli television writers but a lot of time developing characters going really really deep in the plots and i think that is reflected i mean you can see that in a series. like like you know it's got a sense of authenticity because it comes directly from the character who created it this is a show ab

so what is the secret to their edgy creativity when my colleague scott roxboro went to jerusalem to find out how the israelis make such high octane drama on a shoestring budget. israeli t.v. draws its inspiration from the frontline of political terror. banned from the most personal of family drama. snakes. on the spittle just. at the annual i n t v conference in jerusalem writers from around the world come to learn how to make drama the israeli way partly it's an attitude. israelis just don't seem to have time for niceties we just cut to the chase we say it like it is and therefore we're not afraid of really challenging subjects we're not politically correct in the positive sense so we're not offensive but we're also ready to tackle issues head on. as one of the country's top t.v. producers donna stern focuses on uniquely israeli stories so we'll do less of cop procedurals shows no hospital shows kind of you know americans do that better than we can but we can tell stories that regularly resonate from here so post-traumatic stress disorder for example. i should see both tell you much abo

jackson's legacy and the exhibition joined here with our culture correspondent scott roxboro good to see you scott allegations of sexual abuse by michael jackson had been around for a while but the documentary needing leaving neverland has really revived the discussion it's making the ball an exhibition about jackson very controversial why is the. film having such an impact yeah i guess it's probably a couple of reasons i think first off this is coming in the post me two era and i think victims or alleged victims are now being given a platform they're being listened to in a way that maybe not have even been a year ago were or longer were they probably just been ignored so i think that's the reason i also think it has something to the way with films made because this is doesn't offer any new evidence this film but it's two very very personal very moving testimonies of these two men who claim they were abused by jackson when they were children and it comes across as a very authentic very very moving and powerful so it's it's it's very hard to deny and i think that's one of the reasons w

culture correspondent scott roxboro. now film and football and this year's edition of a festival dedicated to the beautiful game it takes place every year right here in berlin the festival's opening film this year tells the story of. the brazilian football team in two thousand and sixteen a plane carrying the first team squad crashed on route to colombia killing all but seven on board despite the tragedy there is hope for the future of the club. in front of the battle in cinema berlin lies not a red carpet but green astroturf it's eleven millimeter time again they came in their droves for the opening film among them brazilian sports journalist rafael hensel was one of the seven survivors of the tragic chapnick owens of plane crash in two thousand and sixteen. no such operation a documentary about a football fairy tale turned tragedy. due to a lack of feel of the plane with the brazilian team onboard crashed into the mountains near minty jean colombia. quote of the day i remember every moment of the flight we were happy y

well there's a verdict for you in direct from our film expert scott roxboro who's joined me in the studio thanks for coming in scott so we have here a film with seemingly all of the ingredients. good tear jerker dramedy why it why didn't that's why yeah it's funny because basically makes hollywood style movies for the german audience and so this looked like this was his biggest success this looked like an ideal film to adapt for a hollywood scene but all the elements and so forth ticked all the boxes but i don't i think it's just casting or maybe something's lost in translation but i mean it dorothy great actor but he's not sweet he's not he's not fun and funny and you know how to fall in the original german actor he's both of those things and so i think. that's what we're it sort of fell apart what should be funny and should be touching ends up being awkward and the jokes fall flat if you're interested in in this you probably see the original thought ok well i'm thinking about a film like the french comedy. which was so successful and so terrific why and it was also recently remade yes i

i can just imagine myself standing on that rim staring into the sunset scott roxboro my colleague from d.w. culture is here and thanks for joining us scott of such an awesome place for really a unesco world heritage site on top of it all tell us something about the significance of the grand canyon in terms of how americans it makes american feed themselves yeah i think it's interesting because the great and obviously huge amazing natural beauty but it's also it's a symbol of america and i think it's interesting because when the national park service what it was declared a national park under a hundred years ago i think it did mark a shift in americans perception of themselves in regards to nature because before that i think the main image americans have was themselves assemblers as pioneers who were there to exploit nature conquerors to you know to force where they are to be cleared land was there to be plowed to be productive and i think with the designation of the national heritage sites with the national park service being founded and especially with the grand canyon being made a na

the wall at the barn and on its way to finland in the summer so we might hear more about this scott roxboro thanks for those insights. as my eyes grew accustomed to the light details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist strange animals statues and gold everywhere the glint of gold and that's how british archaeologist howard carter described his discovery in the tomb of the egyptian king to a time common in november nine hundred twenty two and in the lead up to the cent ten or a of that landmark discovery a traveling exhibition of tots treasures opened saturday in paris. what's on show in paris is quite spectacular the atmosphere calls to mind the silence of the grave and a sense of eternity the treasures of the pharaoh have been carefully arranged in the dark blue room only the audio track of the exhibition disturbs just a bit the eternal rest of to turn common the young pharaoh who was crowned king at the age of nine and died just ten years later a likeness of tutankhamun on a black panther many of the items are being shown in europe for the very first time . it is an icon for g