Im british banditry welcome to news asia glad you could join us china has the Worlds Largest population of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people yet the vast majority of them have to conceal their true identities discrimination at various levels within their families schools and what places are trying to 16 u. N. Report found that transgender people face the greatest forms and levels of discrimination and its something the protagonist of fun next story has experienced 1st hand. So as a woman who stands out although she was born as a boy shes been living as a woman for many years and being 182 are strongly built she still gets a lot of attention was no doubt that this has happened a lot ever since i was a child as a kid i was called a sissy boy and now people keep telling me i look like a man they asked the man or a woman ive got used to the looks i get. I say see what i see all mom is in nickname shes still not comfortable showing the face on t. V. Its been 2 years since their went gender reassignment surgery shes also legally a woman china allows people to change their id card after surgery her decision was the result of a long struggle. For them a few shots sound out when i was young media usually shoats transgender people less show girls who worked in bars or sex workers and never showed normal people with normal jobs really there were no role models for me back then. Finally about. When i went to thailand for surgery she told me from a job at a Media Production company but when she returned she was laid off officially because she had been late for work. There were many people at that company who were frequently late for work but they were not fired only i was i took a walk. She made headlines as one of the 1st transgender people in china to take her former employer to court there is no comprehensive antidiscrimination law but several labor related laws do have clauses against discrimination even so shall model lost her case. Progress in the legal system depends on experts legal scholars who push for it and each case is an occasion to raise Awareness Among them to help people understand the needs of transgender people the circumstances of our lives question peter your challenge i think you know john thats in the. Shah mas former employer refused to comment on the issue but her case is part of a wider trans gender fight against discrimination recently another woman wants to sit. In the meantime mom has found a new job as a photographer rents a small room and lives modest the kind of ordinary life she never thought shed have insurers looking. Rolled up. Driving it off for more is for make a beauty activist. Paul walker how common is show was story of discrimination in china. I would say still quite common now in china does this mean. Nation should be teaching many t. Sam pole a lot of my park and protect use of my docking tree has faced challenge facing she went to a female college when she was at and fire herself as transgender woman and also such events like this almighty permanency and working place has also had a lot because i decided to really like offer a way a new sound gendered up a city and also there is no law to protest protected their rights but is it undercut matter of a lack of awareness or is there something more behind the discrimination that youre devoting to. I think. Some are also saying media there is really any image is specially from a positive way presenting. And this is a highly regarded to the censorship in china and there were revelation against. The contents in film and to wait in china so this is make a lot of filmmakers. Very difficult to present any characters in those films and this is on but you have 1st hand experience or do interval warrior from a mom a rainbow or also came in for censorship but it was also removed from various Online Platforms because of the content of the film exactly so but that lawsuit even was very complicated but also brought positive results only myself even the regulation hasnt been changed because us because of mike and i lost you case but it can give to people very very is that well we can use the whole as a as a told to to change is trying to change as a society even is hasnt changed hasnt happened immediately but we become stronger ourself and there will be more possibility and we make people making more people noticed this too because now is the Beauty Community still very invisible you speak about laws and then bring about a positive change in society to just talk about them laws for example homosexuality has been legal in china for more than 2 decades yet you have this juxtaposition where the society is actually not that open so it doesnt all go to prove that you might even have the laws but that does not necessarily translate into a positive change in society. I think in china is a society that is still very patriarchal honestly a lot of families stus seeing. The children their children there as part of their. Poverty and they dont see them independently so this Strong Family while you still give a lot of the impact to people secondly the roup scenting of media had been giving a lot of. People in this is hiding dogs this think. Negative and certainly it is really lack of protection from from the from legal and then when you cant even work. In a stable state tubes and in a state stable. Situation it is so hard to fight for you only right what needs to happen for things to change i think firstly we need to promote a more diverse type of family a family doesnt necessary has strong traditional well all jews and family and they are also different. Type of off of marriage defun type of russian shit and secondly of course we need to remove this awful censorship because of these out to down people want to see us and. Also we need to see intersectionality and because even. The community not only have the label of bt we also have different challenge easing of the life and for example clos age and. And and also what they have may have changed by the 80 for all of the other life i work or related so different topics has to be together talk with bt and transgender issues is to high need related to a lot of different issues in this society we need to see that we leave it there for the time being with thanks so much for coming in from america thank you. For the global deaths from covert 19 around the 1000000 mark in the city where it all began life appears to be to tony to normal. In Central China was the epicenter of the virus at its peak. Since you have around 11000000 residents was placed under the Strict Lockdown new hospitals were built overnight critics and whistleblower was silenced including this man dr one who was one of the fust to report on the deadly disease but 9 months into one has a different story to tell. Its the story of a reenergized metropolis recast as a heroic victim of the coronavirus thriving again. Traditional opera for example can be found outdoors in the crowded and well to do central city. China shows off hahn as a city reborn and save the government media says by chinas efforts to fend off and almost send off the coronavirus that emanated from here. Now that everything is so good what risks can there be han as the place where the epidemic broke out in the 1st place and i believe it must be the best managed. 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This virus is terrible to go in the eyes of the ive made up what that maybe every country like us never imagined it would break out all around the world i never imagined it background. Beijing though maintains the world can learn from its handling of the coronavirus triumph it says even as it faces bitterness overseas from covert 19 and the initial attempt at covering it up. Thats a little bit this morning did up a doco forward slash will even though with images from india as it crosses the 6000000 kovac is mocked about tomorrow so that. Every 2 seconds person is forced to flee their home. The consequences to say stress our documentary series displaced depicts dramatic humanitarian crises from. Forgetting we dont have time to think i didnt go to university to kill people. People see. Their future so they seek refuge abroad but what will become of course who stay behind and say. My husband went to peru because of the crisis. If he hadnt gone there we would have died of hunger and of them. Just. Starts october 16th. Welcome to arts and culture and this week were delving deep into the d. W. Archives for our series ninetys we visited a german time trip the momentous changes here following the fall of the bird in war also coming up. The arts on the wall revisited 30 years after its side gallery was created. And the great poets rainham only wrote one novel featured today in 100 john must reads. We begin though with our series on the headed mystic decade of the 990 s. After the fall of the bubble in wool a time when German Society changed in so many different ways scenes here from 30 years ago celebrations surrounding job and reunification. Series begins with a look at german music which suddenly became very cool in the ninetys and a music genre emerging here that went on to call the worlds techno. I was. The love per in a generation celebrates itself after the fall of the wall willin became a playground for fans of electronic music. But hearing it puts you in a great mood. Only a few 100 people were at the 1st of the raid but by the end of the ninetys the event drew more than 1000000 to party in berlin streets. For lynn techno took off and d. J. s like wes bam and the russia helps to make it world famous. Germanys music business also grew the pop com was established a combination trade Fair Convention and festival its founder dieter gone had recognized the signs of the time. I wish everyone a successful pop con 1993. 27 years later hes now a professor of media studies and he remembers the spirit of optimism back in the ninetys. Than for me the ninetys were the decade when german pop music really developed it was euphoric because we suddenly sense there was a Creative Power that was spreading because the target demographic was suddenly there just isnt suitable. For many years pop com was an important Meeting Place for the music scene fans producers downs germany the worlds 3rd largest music market was discovering its own potential. To. Were showing the world how good the music is by having a lot of fun with it like every year with our festival were also trying to create an identity. Party. That is the german rap became popular band the fantastic and feel the fantastic 4 conquered the german charts a minor revolution never say. What a good dog for a month what the German Market was incredibly strong incredibly important but there was no opportunity for it to present itself that was a nice demonstration of our own artistic creative strengths i always said pop come wasnt a trade fair it was a message of the message the message. Gone and a few others decided that german music needed its own television station so in 1903 they launched the german Music Channel feed in an effort to compete with its american 4 runner m. T. V. I think. I had to get through a. Roll of film and then on to the reactor and then and there then i at aqua ordered i outlined. In my program ok yeah. Kids come home from school and turn on viva so it had to be a companion for all their important issues as well as music it was more than an attempt at an anti m. T. V. Diva was almost magic in that way. Foster magic. Diva held out until 20 gay teen when it went off the air but much has remained from the ninetys. For instance new german hardness embodied by comstock formed back in the ninetys they now play to sold out stadiums worldwide german song lyrics became cool in the ninetys and are now par for the course. A lot of it in other words we really felt we could create something out of nothing and turn it into. Great for me it was a decade of new beginnings and momentum was wonderfully beautiful. Today german deejays and pop stars like robin and felix mean enjoy global success and the roots of their music lie in the 1990 s. When german pop music stepped out of the shadows. That was the 1st part of our series ninetys revisited a german time trip is leading up to this weekend the 30th anniversary of german reunification with me now is a man who had a front seat in the historic decade here a. Kennedy an important time for german music that yes in particular for the rise of pop culture as we saw in that pool of course famous nightclub but kind emerged from that ninetys scene and the song that ice months strongly associated with the ninetys is by snap palla snap were europe dance act from frankfurt and this really sums up the ninetys spirit for me sometimes teasing a very positive vibe it was a time of great hope propping up yeah it was indeed what else is in store in this series but each episode contains d w footage rediscovered in an extensive search of our archives our archive team doc up gems from the legendary. Magazine program heat so i think you remember its they tracked down the protectiveness to reflect on then and now each episode looks at different aspects of life in the new reunified germany at gender identity and sex in the ninetys as east and west quite literally came together at the rise of ecological activism at an emerging racism which was not only confined to the east of the country and the scenes looks at changing attitudes and still divisions in east and west mentality our car team also picked up some pictures. Working on east German Television what was that about. When shortly after the wall fell in the 99th i did do some lighthearted reports for television. East germany constantini to sr all of that year the idea of the scene was actually that i was teaching east germans english because they dont russian in school i did get to play in the legendary open and they knew the route with real social distancing i guess they just just one or the audience. Thank you adrian much more to look forward to this week classic moments from the day of happening all this week. The Standard Program of living to the side gallery a piece of the berlin wall which was painted by various artists shortly after the wall fell indeed it is the only major bridge of the infamous wall Still Standing exactly 30 years after the opening of the gallery we meet one of the original wall artists. 1. 3 kilometers of street art the once formidable wall is now colorfully decorated including with children well as world famous heads the french artist started painting the western side of the berlin wall back in the 1980 s. It was his way of coping with the depressing reality of the citys division. I had some physical reaction i have to do something against that. Melancholy. And so i start to paint the wall to give a smaller message not a big one the smaller may say its possible to do something on your home on these deadly machine some left over paint a ladder and a big dose of courage that was all it took to get the socalled antifascist protective wall a friendlier look the long faces with button eyes were purely pragmatic decision. So it was. Quite quickly. Its a perfect size 2 this is a bear in war so to meet a 40 by 60. Then the wall fell and most of it was dismantled including most of mars for feeding but one segment was preserved and became the east side gallery in 1992118 artists from 21 countries painted the berlin wall illegal wars colorful figures became global icons of street art his Mission Remains the same the fight against. So is it top art or political when you think on the streets its ultimately political because you change the city. Trains. And. That. Norah says the east side gallery has lost its significance for him in the meantime reunified berlin has moved on newly constructed buildings now tower over the diminishing the powerful effect of one town. Is no. Small thing so its hard to connect. And. Thats what. War was. Giving me. Its time to focus on new topics. Very much worth a visit the austrian a rhino maria is considered one of the great lyrical poets of the german language he wrote just one novel the notebooks of mother to laura. Set in the cultural metropolis of early 20th century paris a city that surprisingly real didnt enjoy the book doesnt really have a plot but is rather the musings of a great mystery wordsmith. Do you ever feel like youre living in the wrong time like things used to be simpler calmer more poetic. The poet i dont know was both fascinated and overwhelmed by the pace of modern life and that was more than a century ago he started writing his 1st and last novel after moving to paris as a young man for notebooks of motor lower its break 1st at the beginning of the 20th century. It was a daunting cruel exciting new time he wanted to capture the spirit of that time and also his struggle to write new literature for it so he invented an alter ego breda another foreign young poet struggling to make ends meet and express himself describes paris as a city of outcasts are both life and death are terribly anonymous. I sit here and im nothing and yet this nothing begins to think is it possible that one has not yet seen recognized and said anything real and important is it possible that one has had thousands of years of time to look with placards and write down and that one has left the millennium pass away like a School Recess in which one of its one sandwich and an apple. The book is about the artist as an outsider and observer struggling to turn the world of prose and to poetry. The notebooks of malta Lourdes Berger is one of the 1st works of modernist literature written in stream of consciousness without sentimentality or a clear plot. And there are reports about all 100 books that are in english and definitely worth a read youll find the you tube channel d. W. Books thats all for today though thanks for watching. The fight against the corona virus pandemic. Weirdoes science stand. What the new findings have researchers may. Information and background into. The corona update covered 19 special. Monday to friday on d w. D q you know that 77 percent of africa are younger than 65. Thats me and me and you. If you know what its time no voice is. On the 77 percent we talked bobbie issue stuff about oxygen this is where you cut. The 77 percent this weekend on d w. S of the morning. Because you know war isnt love. In those force war. Wounds lol the. 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