From Oil Giant Shell of the environmental damage caused by will for this team deal they go back. A method he held welcome to the Program Germany is imposing a travel ban on countries most affected by new coronavirus variants the measure came into effect just alice ago and will remain until at least the 17th of february early and says the restrictions on necessary to prevent a surge in new infections. The fear of new coronavirus mutations is real in germany its also one of the main concerns for German Authorities to prevent them from spreading fast in the country the government has now announced a new travel restrictions the interior ministry has imposed an entry by until the 17th of february for travelers from countries that are particularly affected by them brazil ireland portugal south africa the u. K. List so 2 and a swat team. Mutations have not hit germany as hard as other countries but a radio hospital in berlin was forced to halt admissions after several cases were fond of the mutation 1st discovered in britain and Health Officials are stressing that the situation could deteriorate. We have to assume that if the more contagious variants continue to break in this country they will lead to even more cases in the near future and the situation will probably get worse we must Work Together to prevent. Desmond turner is missing. The travel ban a seen as a step in that direction but it is still unclear how effective it could be. All the ban takes hold just when transmission rights appear to be slowing in germany for the 1st time in months the countrys 7 day incidence has fallen below 100. 00 per 100000 residents so why impose the travel ban now when the current restrictions appear to be working hes the devil of Political Correspondent has brought. Well the answer to that is fear fear of the new mutations in the virus the ones that were 1st detected in south africa and Great Britain and in brazil and are said to be a lot more infective theyre safe to spread a lot more quickly than the corona virus variants that weve had to deal with recently until now and we have seen in countries such as portugal that there have been explosions of infections in ireland 2 and earlier in the United Kingdom so the fear that these virus variants could enter germany is the reason why this travel ban was non posed of course there have been similar sorts of restrictions in place for dozens of countries already for many months it is not easy to travel around the world as everyone who has tried to do that knows there are restrictions such as. Isolated that one has to go into quarantine rules or possibly presenting a negative test so this is the highest possible restriction travel from these countries into germany is going to be banned now from saturday for 2 weeks or so. That woman while france has also announced International Travel restrictions starting sunday people arriving on nonessential travel from outside the e. U. Will be entry the government says its responding to the virus variants 1st to take did in britain and south africa the country is also increasing its internal restrictions nonessential shops are closed and Police Checks on Rule Breakers are being increased and not the curfew comes into force at 6 pm. And the e. U. Commission has approved meanwhile astra zeneca is corona virus vaccine for use across the e. U. This as the euro pain Medicines Agency gave the go ahead to allow inoculations of people over the ides of saying the e. U. Is by saying a storm of criticism for the slow pace of its vaccine rollout this is the 3rd vaccine to get approval from the e. U. Following shots from biotech pfizer and modern the e. M. I. Is executive director explained why the body of astra zeneca the green line the recommendation to approve the aust is the seneca vaccine is based on that they chose the vaccine all for its protection against covert 19 with a reassuring safety profile while the 1st to approve both were for messenger r. N. A. Fox seems the astra zeneca vaccine is based on another technology its an at the no virus faith vaccine this this means both about 15 uses a common virus from the virus that has been modified to carry a portion of the code with 19 coronavirus called the 5 protein. I think of our respective vaccines are easier to handle than m. R. In a box scenes in terms of transport and storage and this should simplify the logistics of road and vaccine out across the u. And hopefully it can provide a boost to vaccinations in the member state. Correspondent teri schultz has been following this for us in brussels we asked why the e. U. Has been so slow in granting approval for the astra zeneca fax the european Medicines Agency is coming under some criticism for what some see as taking a very long time to approve vaccines much like the European Union itself is coming under criticism for what is seen as a slow vaccination rollout throughout the block but in this case e. M. E. A. Makes no apologies for doing what it says is necessary diligence on life or death matters in this case said that the data it received from masters anika was very complex in the meantime both the pfizer biotech vaccine and madonna both came in and were authorized but they said that astra zeneca was still sending them data as recently as this week so they simply worked as fast as they could to get through this this very large set of complex data in any case now the vaccine has been approved for people aged 18 and over but there is some controversy and some confusion over whether its safe for people over 65 both france and germany have expressed some concern about this but what it may said was not that they found it could be possibly dangerous or even ineffective but simply that they didnt have enough data to draw a firm conclusion at this point only 13 percent of patients in the data they received were of this age group so they said that they would expect more information to be coming in and perhaps they will be able to release some firmer conclusions later astra zeneca representatives also held a briefing this evening and said basically the same thing that they d didnt have a lot of information yet on that age group but they would expect that more research is being done and there is also information coming in on a very large study from the United States so we would expect to hear more about this age group but certainly there havent been any contra indications from what weve heard from officials so far and astra zeneca pointed out that with me taking what everyone agrees is quite a long time to make its assessments the representative said they wouldnt have approved it if they thought it was dangerous. Teri schultz there will but you approval comes in made a bitter dispute between the e. U. And astra zeneca over delays to the delivery of Vaccine Supplies brussels accuses the Pharmaceutical Company of failing to fulfill its contractual obligations the company says its working hard to overcome production problems of its deal with a huge requires it to make its best efforts to supply vaccines with no clear delivery timeline redacted copy of that contract has now been my public. This contract is at the heart of an ongoing feud between the European Commission and specialist swedish Family Company astra zeneca over the lace in vixen deliveries the e. U. Has made the contract public that many of the crucial parts have been blacked out but astra zeneca a scandal say members of the european parliament. Your problem are simply not except that pharmaceutical companies which gets a lot of your money tax prio money. Im not really. Its those who all. Last week astra zeneca shocked e. U. States by announcing significant delays in its big scene deliveries to the bloc especially because the e. U. Has paid hundreds of millions of euros to produce to astra zeneca projection and because supplies to the u. K. Do not face the same shortages the dispute prompted the e. U. Should introduce a scheme to monitor big scene experts but the e. U. Commission emphasizes this is not an expert ban we are not in competition or in a race against any country the only race we are in is against the cyrus this comes as the block is facing criticism for its 12 x. Syndrome which so it is states are relieved that the vaccine has been recommended for use in the block this spider difficulties with astra zeneca its 3rd vaccine to gain approval. From around the world now. And italys president is trying to resolve disputes between Party Leaders following the collapse of the government to leave base month lets hope the squabbling factions can you not to form a new coalition Prime Minister just said the conte had resigned this week. Poland is saying trade not to protest a near total ban on abortion terminations are now forbidding except in cases of right and insist or where the mothers life is at risk the Constitutional Court has backed the legislation. Scientists say theyve produced to know that what embryos are bright for names there are now 5 viable embryos of the species the last 2 surviving northern white rhinos of both fame and its eggs were harvested in kenya and fertilized with persons from david miles. Well a court in the netherlands has ordered the energy multinational shell to pay compensation for oil spills in the niger delta the 13 year legal battle was brought by 4 nigerian farmers whose land was polluted the amount of compensation is not yet fixed. It looks like justice has finally been done and. After 13 years of legal wrangling the Dutch Appeals Court is holding the Oil Multinational shell responsible for spills from its pipelines in nigeria. In old age and can afford to told the court finds that Shell Nigeria is responsible for damages caused by the leaks shall nigerias here by order to pay compensation to the farmers. Now there were forced to. Now these farmers could finally see summer dress for the land and ponds that they lost. Yes with the fish bowl that we have one of the i like what i would do it with. These fields were so tainted by oil that nothing much has grown here since. What made me angry was that last night. Is that we had destroyed my fish pond the verdict is good news for the farmers who took the oil giant to court but it could also help other nigerians who have suffered the un discovered chemicals that can cause cancer in some Drinking Water in the region and babies born within a 10 kilometer radius are most twice as likely to die before they are month old many more victims could now claim compensation from the worlds 2nd largest oil company. Up until an hour ago people in developing countries were without any rights when confronted by multinationals such a sell and from today on they know they can get their rights but the amount of compensation for the farmers has yet to be determined i do hope that they will actually get some compensation soon because it was a steak and. For some it will be too late in any case. To have the claimants have already died. But the verdict helps to empower poor farmers who take on powerful global corporations. 2 german football and stuttgart hosted mine in the bonus legace friday night fixture hunting war run by a strike jersey in support of diversity both on and off the pitch it took some 55 minutes to get on the scoreboard such a collage which took a century cost not a in went on to win this 1. 00. Up to tennis now and there is tennis being played down on that in the run up to the strive in open. Strolled out on the court wearing a mask in adelaide for an exhibition the 1st since he and dozens of other players were put in quarantine when they arrived in australia 2 weeks ago the dollars rank 2nd in the world he played number 3 dont mean dominant team in front of a packed crowd thats because adelaide has 0 active cases correct. Youre watching news from berlin the deadly news africa is up next with restraint from going to kick up to that will lead stories from around the region and around the world at our site its a deadly dot com also follow us on twitter and instagram the handle you need is at the deadly news for now im anthony held for me and the team here in berlin thanks for watching. Whats going on here. House of your very own from a printer. Computer games that are healing. My dog needs electricity. Shift explains delivers facts and shows what the future holds. Living in the Digital World shift. On d w. Ws crime fighters are the. The goodwill africas most successful radio drama series continues through the only concerts are Available Online courses you can share and disco song w. Africa strange for other social media platforms to learn for to tune in now. This is deja vu news africa on the program today hoping for the best but preparing for the worst south africa is battling an aggressive 2nd wave of covert 19 thats being fueled by a more infectious variant of the virus the countrys top scientific advisor ses the 3rd wave could spell even more trouble. If we see a new variant its likely to be much worse we are here on the basis of the worst case. Advantage reaction from kenya where doctors had been forced to drop some of their Reproductive Services because of a lack of dont aid from the us now the new us president has just reversed that policy. Last week on the story on what is behind the turtle hatching in kenya 7 beaches. Hello im christine wonder why its good to have your Company South africas chief pandemic advisors say a 3rd wave of covert 19 which is expected in the 2nd half of the year could be even worse than the current a 2nd wave south africa is the worst hit country on the continent with 43000 deaths and 1400000 cases now the number of infections has soared because of the new variant of the virus that is say to be 50 percent more transmissible now the country is expecting its 1st delivery off 1000000. 00 doses off the astra zeneca vaccine thats made to arrive on monday ill be talking to professor sally in a bill karim after this report. Health care workers at the frontline of south africas Coronavirus Crisis theyll be the 1st to be inoculated when the country starts its Vaccination Program but the initial delivery of 1000000 doses point even be enough to vaccinate half of south africas Health Professionals its still not clear when more vaccines will arrive and how many South Africans will get the jab only 2 thirds want to be inoculated a recent survey found that is far below the global average when one of the. People in. Some precedent injects any becomes ok ill be. There did i would. Im afraid we. Are is your word that person good teacher day should be just. Good. To get that its what you think but if the. Peoples how. Did you get what. South africas Vaccination Campaign comes as the country appears to have passed the peak of the 2nd wave this all confirmed cases and hospitalizations spike in january. Deaths from the coronavirus also soared to triple the level seen during the 1st wife last year. Just put in the whole. Quarter just put pressure on the 11 you just not immune from. The decline in confirmed cases says the Health Minister is partly due to the stricter lock down brought in at the end of december. But the countrys still on high alert with a new more infectious variant of the virus circulating in south africa making it more pressing than ever for the country to finally kick off its Vaccination Campaign. Im now joined by professor selim abdul karim he is an epidemiologist an Infectious Disease specialist he is the south african governments top scientific adviser on the pandemic welcome back to the Program Professor so south africa is expecting its 1st in every office 90 vaccines on monday when we actually start vaccinating people and how many people are 1st in line is going to a tuesday in the days of the e. U. Is we are expecting delivery to take place on monday there are some procedures that need to be followed and looting release of the individual lots following larry passes so i think it will probably take another 7. 00 to 10. 00 days for those procedures to be done so you can expect that the 1st vaccinations will be sometime close to the middle of february professor is this the right time to be talking about and perhaps preparing for a 3rd wave of the virus and perhaps even more mutations or variants. So what we have seen so far of this violence its been quite surprising we had thought that this is a very stable virus there are very few mutations and every month i look at the sequences im i see again generally one of 2 mutations or that changed in november when suddenly we have a new thread into 23 mutations and that is quite a concerning observation when we look at that we did not anticipate that that variant would be able to spread so much faster its estimated that its about 50 percent more transmissible and thats what drove our 2nd when we anticipated a 2nd wave would only be generally but instead we ended up with it being about 5 to 6 weeks earlier based on what we know now we can anticipate that we will see a 3rd and 4th wave in the course of this year probably the 2nd with the 3rd wave occurring when we get into our winter months thats usually when people spend more times more time indoors with the windows closed and we can anticipate that thats the likely time if we see a new vietnam and that would be even more concerning if it had to immunise kate because it would mean that they would be a higher proportion of our population that could be susceptible as things stand we are in the midst already of planning for the 3rd wave of doing some estimates of what that wave might look like when it might occur and we use that for planning the number of beds and the amount of oxygen supply is it going to be a virus then the 2nd wave do you think they think it will be worse that that wave and the 2nd one. Experiencing. So based on what weve kind of models it could go in either direction if we see a new variant its likely to be much worse if we see the current theory and its likely to be similar if not less severe than our current 2nd wave we are preparing on the basis of a worst Case Scenario all right thats professor salim abdelkarim at talking to us from durban south africa thank you so much professor absolutely thank you bye. U. S. President joe biden has reversed a ban on u. S. Foreign aid going to organizations that perform or promote abortion the policy prohibits that organizations from counseling women about abortion or referring them to. Provide is if the organization wanted to receive. The policy comedy known as the global gag rule in directly cash african womens access to Health Services and affordable contraception according to studies. Now kenya is one of the african countries whose womens Health Services were hard hit by the you expand edith kamandi has reaction now from nairobi. Sexual and Reproductive Health organizations have welcomed the end to the ban securing kenya its not unusual to go to a Public Hospital for contraception only to be turned away because there simply isnt any so these organizations critically close the gaps found in the Public Health sector but they also provide Counseling Services for abortion and they want to be able to receive in the u. S. A doing that some presidency and speaking to a woman who works in one of these organizations earlier she said to me that services had to be killed back including that you should also free and affordable contraceptives which as you can imagine saw an increase in unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions were still small the budgets men standing back on distribution of hiv medication as well as council screenings because these Services Also depend on us. So were staying in kenya which is seeing more green turtles hatch on its Southern Shores its welcome news because the green turtle is listed as endangered on the list of preach and species now a local Conservation Group is one of many trying to protect the turtles and their head from a wave of. Making a break for the ocean in newly hatched green turtle leaves its nest on t. V. Beach on kenya south coast its journey monitored by fishermen from a local organization the t. V. Turtle police theyre happy that the green turtle numbers are bouncing back what. With humans were the biggest threat the turtles faced because people used to eat them. Up to what we mobilized ourselves here in t. And turtles and total eggs are no longer being eaten. Long before. He returned all Police Monitor and protect eggs that are laid here now more eggs are hatching them before the fisherman also receive training on turtle ecology and they pass this knowledge on to their communities. Ive seen a lot of benefits for the turtles because since 21000 we havent heard any reports of anyone eating turtles or killing them or injuring them so the number of titles that are dying has gone. And people have begun to learn about them. Outside. The fisherman also benefit from the conservation project. Turtle program is helping us. And were getting some income. Even if we go out to sea for 2 days before we know well receive some income later because we can then at least use that to take care of our children. The baby turtles still face multiple dangers when they make it from the beach. Into the ocean. Threats range from plastic rubbish to industrial fishing but with green turtle numbers on the rise the fishermen hope to see some of the hatchlings return to this stretch of the coastline to lay their own eggs when they reach maturity. And that is it for now there is of course more on b. W. Dot com forward slash africa you can also check out our facebook and twitter pages today let me leave you with footage often giant francos spray painted on the ground in cape town done by the french artist its part of a Global Project that he hopes will foster unity has painted so many images in other parts of the world including in and in the ivory coast extra of our. Passengers are in school. Right. Here need nerves of steel. While passengers here can get an eyeful along the way. Taxis accommodate passengers over the world. Drive. 60. They want to know what makes the jet blue. Jump. On banning the claim from. Im not out to push my own car and everyone was in need of Holding Everything just getting are you ready to meet the demands and join me right just do it under a w. Its not quite game over yet for a game stop small investors have reversed their ban on buying up the stock at the end of a wild week on wall street. And normally the World EconomicForum Meeting is a gallery of the elite adults with ski resort this year it was entirely digital to look back at the top stories from the meeting. This is d. W. Business im joined now the milan in berlin glad you can join us again stop stock is rising again after it dipped following a bad on buying the shares on some trading platforms now at least some of those curbs have been lifted its just the latest twist in the thriller thats captivated the finance world shares in game stop have rocketed over just a few days gaining over 2000 percent thanks to Small Traders. This is game stop a brick and mortar retailer specializing in video games its pretty popular with gamers even though much of the market. Has moved to streaming a trend that will likely continue threatening to put game stop out of business just like Record Stores and video rental chains some big time investors on wall street have foreseen this and try to make a buck on the obvious trend hedge funds have been short selling the stock which means they have borrowed shares and sold them hoping to later buy them back i dont know what price and thats where things got out of hand and gamers and hobby investors came together to go after wall street. Yeah my names column mccloughan im here in Houston Texas im 31 years old and i have been in the stock market for the better part of the last 10 years and i bought game stop earlier this week on tuesday when i saw some traction around in the wall street. Read. Wall street bets is an online forum way users discuss their big plan to buy up as many game stop she has a possible driving up the price and hurting those hedge funds who had bet against it the plan worked and looking at an insane rally in the stock price multibillion dollar hits funds found themselves in the squeeze quickly buying back shares to cut their losses among them high profile names like melvin capital citroen capital and point 72. 00 Asset Management wall street cried foul and warned the new investors about the danger of losing demo knee in the long run it turns out they already knew. Thats what it is is their regular joes versus wall street and when i put money into it i said even if this goes to 0 and i lose everything i like being a part of it that sentiment is shared amongst a lot a lot of people. So its not only about money its a david versus goliath fight. The craziness continues as we close the trading week so here to help us take stock is again score to our financial correspondent yes this has obviously been a huge story whats it actually done to the market. You know well and we have definitely learned a couple of lessons for instance how vulnerable those some headphones are was their bets on falling stock prices to 5 seeing that correctly since the beginning of the year those hedge funds have lost evolved to 20000000000. 00 and to cover some of those losses maybe they have been forced to sell other stocks and that might be one reason why wall street was under heavy pressure also here on friday blue chips down by more than 600. 00 points the worst week since october but weve also seen there before is that Retail Investors and actually can bring to the market and then some companies will get into the crossfire between those big hedge funds and the day traders they try to cash in no American Airlines for instance decided to sell new shares for about 21000000000. 00 so some companies obviously try to profit from this trend. Yes but could this spark a trend where Companies Start then courting these Retail Investors directly. Oh well i mean that what we definitely see in how important a Retail Investors have become even before the whole game stop the craziness started Retail Investors basically stood for about 20 percent of trades on wall street thats more than double the than what weve seen a couple of years ago but im not sure if you really want to go after those resident investors directly what you have basically you want also as an Online Broker for instance or and as a bank or as and as a trader you will and some columns you dont want to unpredictable movements that weve seen in the past the couple of days and weeks but obviously once the stampede started its tough to stop it and to well we heard earlier david against gold here some people even called it the french revolution so lets see where this revolution leads us next revolution in the air yes quarter there in new york for us thank you very much for your reporting all week. Time now for a look at some of the other business stories making news. A dodge court has ordered Oil Giant Shell to pay compensation in a case brought by 4. 00 nigerian farmers they allege that the dutch firm was responsible for widespread pollution on their land the farmers 1st sued shell in 2008. A risky expansion the conglomerate was involved in numerous other Industries Including steaks and Hilton Hotels a bank and in several air carriers the pandemic the travel slump was the death knell for the company. General motors says its planning to phase out all gasoline and diesel engines by 2035 the largest us car maker is aiming to be Carbon Neutral by 2040 g m sold around 2 and a half 1000000 vehicles in the u. S. Last year but only about 20000. 00 for electric. The boss of germanys financial regulator is set to be replaced felix who felled was head of boston during the recent wire card scandal and was accused of failing to investigate the fraudulent fin tech firm the German Finance Ministry said it was looking for a fresh start at the top of the regulator. The World Economic forum is 50 years old this year but its golden Anniversary Event wasnt bigger and better than ever before where the coronavirus pandemic making in person gatherings a no go World Leaders came together over the internet as well as driving the forum online the virus also dominated its agenda davos hasnt been this quiet in decades no signs of the usual hustle and bustle instead of the blanket of snow. The locals like it that way. You should. I enjoy it there are no grading so there is little traffic it is quiet there so you are guests i would be happy to not have the w e f here anymore. I mean. What the locals enjoy however is a painful sign of what has happened to the world over the course of the past year online World Leaders offered their plans and solutions with regards to the ongoing pandemic and stress that International Cooperation is key to overcoming the crisis. Lows the employee builds and if we need to choose a multilateral approach a self isolating approach wont solve our problems we see that 1st of all and the question of vaccination since is the root out of the pandemic and thats fear missing thats an option. The british people blame to lose but poor countries say wealthier nations are not looking for Global Solutions to the crisis and only thinking of themselves we are all not safe in some countries. Vox ability to have people in other countries im not vaccinating we all must act together in combating a current artist because it affects all of us in quite a while Global Leaders can meet virtually to speak to each other the coronavirus pandemic reveals that International Cooperation has many challenges. Its now been 4 weeks since the u. K. Said its final farewell to the European Union that meant leaving the e. U. Single market and extra paperwork for brits who sell their products across the channel over here on the continent those with a fondness for british meat and dairy may be left wanting the cheese famous for causing unusual dreams has now become a nightmare gourmets across europe fell or had fallen in love with it but now stilton might also be falling victim to bricks it. This business indaba she made a Healthy Living from direct sales to european customers last year the dairy had to turn over of more than 4000000 pounds they were on the verge of expansion that is until the brics a deal that emerged last year left them cut off from their core export market the issue really revolves around the vet issued helps to focus for instance this one which is cheese too if you. Were toys exactly the same if it could be issued as a 180. 00 pounds each house was a pilot of these cheese going over as a wholesale shipment consequently this makes a commercially sickly it possible for supporting us the shipping city year. And it affects all british firms that export milk or Meat Products to the European Union the dairy had him up to a 1000000 pounds for a Distribution Center which would have employed 20 people in rural england now they are considering building it in friends. And finally an airport for flying cars will launch the english city of carbon tree into the future where the project aimed at demonstrating how era taxis will work in urban centers the british startup urban airport has partnered with south korean carmaker haiyan day to develop the infrastructure required for a one flying cars take to the skies from november visitors will be able to see how a flying car airport might look like when the temporary insulation opens there. And a reminder of the top business story were following. Game stop stocks rose again during fridays session after popular trading apples robinhood lifted some curbs on trading the shares the price of the video games retailer has rocketed over just a few days gaining over 2000 percent. Thanks to Small Traders clubbing together online. And thats all for me and the Business Team here in berlin if you want more from us check out our web site t w dot com. Thanks for watching have a great weekend. 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All apps like to talk on instagram revolutionizing the pop Music Industry is it all about 15 seconds old social media well be discussing nothing more in a minute welcome to our culture also coming up today. They must yourself in the natural paradise is created by american artist class celeste who illustrates the fragility of our planet with installations. Tik tok a mobile phone app which boasts over 800000000. 00 active users and is said to be worth 75000000000. 00 and its not even 5 years old and it is immensely powerful for instance seems to be able to create global pop hits in a flash is this a good thing and how does it all work ill be discussing this with our social media expert after this. Months clips uploaded to tech tucker 15 seconds or less making the app the perfect platform for todays short Attention Spans but i still anyone with a user profile can upload video content viral dances and music videos are among the most popular content on the platform. Is made me. 17 year old olivia rico made headlines this month when her debut single drivers license hits 100000000 listens faster than any other song in the history of music streaming then take talk was a big factor in the song success since within the 1st 24 hours of its release many popular tech talk creators had uploaded reaction videos or used it as background music for their. Dancer. The song gained even more momentum when used by fans to showcase their acting and look sing skills as part of a so called tech talk to challenge creators showed themselves heartbroken during the 1st part of the video before transitioning into a glamorous version of themselves evidently the magic recipe for a viral hit. Im not a social media expert but by colleague you know how to root or get. A drivers license went from 0 to the top of the charts in a matter of days all because of tick talk well you know if they didnt need 10 actress she is a big famous but that doesnt explain the she was instant success so what happened on the day the sun came out on tech talk just so random tech took you that you thought that song and have video and created a challenge and lots and lots of people participated in that talent so now we have all of our a 1000000 videos you thing that song want to talk and i mean even i use that song and i want my kicked off on my account to fill it with everywhere and then you know tell us with commented on the instagram polwarth and so it became this huge pop cultural moment really yeah ok so this is not the 1st time to be in a tick tock challenge has pushed a song to the top of the jobs i think you fleetwood mac. How the likes of to talk on instagram changed how the charts in the last year what picked up and in 2nd re of which is the new video. From you that thats kind of it picked up clone really but they encourage to use the. Apple of their own content but you someone else thats music philippines people who really multiply it and thats new for social media because you know if you remember facebook was very much about. Copyright violations even taking you with a video camera if they used popular music so i mean its a bit ironic that now the feud to take took off get paid to use the song and for instance charlie the meal you know she is one of the biggest to talk us and reportedly she gets paid 40000. 00 just to use the song in the video and dance to it so off of course all in the hope that this viral on the app and then goes viral in the charts and you have a number one hit so basically your song needs to have the potential for a good social media challenge then you go viral right to the top of the charts doesnt matter about the music sounds easy so why doesnt every pop singer do it well its actually not that easy because you cant plan a viral moment it has to be offended because social media users if they can spot a fake a mile away and thats actually what happened this week to Jennifer Lopez she uploaded a video on her instagram and had to talk and twitter channel because she wanted to recreate the it almost iconic beach scene a lot dont cost a thing than you think video and so we see her strolling down the beach and shes throwing up an expensive watch and have fun and laughing and you know eventually this posting and saying cant wait for your recreate new challenge but social media you thought they didnt like it they even criticized her why because they called her tone deaf it went that way in the middle of a pandemic i mean how are we going to recreate this huge scene and we dont have our own private jet to fly to the beast and were not supposed to travel so they criticized her and made quite a few funny means around that making fun of the talents so its not that easy its not even put Jennifer Lopez oh what a shame i was going to do a swing number which i remember why are. You very much for a visit with the thanks for. Explaining all that now a look at some other cultural stories from around the world that we give to new york where a must a piece by the italian renaissance painted by to charlie is just fetched a record price for a work by that artist at auction. The painting sold for 80000000. 92 with commissions and fees young man with around rule is thought to depict a young nobleman showing off his own prize of possession a decorative medallion bearing the image of a saint it is considered one of his finest portraits probably dates from the 14th seventys or 1480. 00 s. To paris where british designer kim jones is debut collection for fendi brought some bookish glamour to his 1st show the collection was inspired by Virginia Woolf novel orlando and jones recruited as many superstars and superstar models as possible with no Live Audience the models runway was actually a cool glass maze and another debut this time in the United Arab Emirates the 1st of a fashion week for men there a macho couture set the show in the desert with all the models wearing white and sporting various interpretations of the traditional dish dasha row. And in the United States where the annual Sundance Film Festival in park city utah was for the 1st time a virtual festival and got on the way with a very topical film. In the same breath as a documentary by chinese american director none through wang which charts the misinformation and propaganda that accompanied the spread of the corona virus in both. Washington. Now the american artist Claire Celeste started her professional life as an Arts Ministry to dealing with other artists but see she soon changed sides as it were a meanwhile now based in berlin she exhibits her work around the world raw material is simply paper but she creates extraordinary immersive collages that bring the viewer into a natural paradise and theres an environmental message in all her work to. This nature collages assembled from hundreds of paper images the installation biodiversity celebrates the wide variety of species welcome to Claire Celestes blooming world. I use actually and then i will use collage to plan my paintings and then one day i realise of a collage that i made to plan the painting was actually much better than the painting itself celeste is inspired by Natural History images of flora and fauna from around the world the american born artist is based in berlin from where she creates works like biodiversity a tribute to nature but also a warning. It was originally only about nature but then when i realized just how many spaces in my artwork are vanishing or have are to vanish to pick am impossible to ignore and has since become i think the most important part of my artwork. So i just doesnt want her creations to be seen as merely decorative but she does try to make them beautiful or works or shown in International Galleries such as these canvas collages and sweep. This mural adorns a Department Store in munich illustrations installations and glass cultures are all part of her portfolio the artist draws inspiration from places with lush vegetation like berlins Botanical Garden as a diplomats child she lived in many countries such as thailand brazil italy and the United States exposing her to the joy of natures great diversity the threat to the environment is a source of worry for. During quarantine the 1st short 3 weeks i remember looking at my artwork and thinking that the planet doesnt need both at all though i think its sometimes my glue and the eggs are perhaps not. Very environmentally friendly and this is a question that i have but ive recently decided that im going to continue making my art because i think its really important as a vehicle for change and that im giving people a math earnshaw of ecological urgency and ecological hope or im trying to. Her art is based on vintage naturalistic drawings of animals and plants mixed with present day photos. Like the idea of birds from 20300 years ago coexisting with contemporary ones i like that theres sort of this seamless timeline thats connecting the older drawings to the contemporary photography. She began by cutting out suitable images for her collages and in the process realize that quite a few of the depicted species are now extinct. Nowadays celeste uses online archives she starts by composing her nature collages on the computer then she prints them on recycled paper and cuts them out her latest work using that approach as a kind of chandelier. Claire celeste is still working on this hanging installation which she plans to illuminate with a lamp. Her original plan was to burn the work after its completion as a protest against the extinction of species. I think its important to have a message of hope as well we have the tools to make the changes that we need to to save ourselves and i i want that to be part of the message as well so perhaps i wont set this on fire. Instead the flames are made of paper and can be attached to removed depending on the message clear celeste hopes that her beautiful artworks will raise awareness of how endangered that beauty is. Finally tributes have been pouring in for the pioneering american. 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Its about the foundation of a food order them. New silk road. China wants to expand its influence with this trade network also in europe conflicts are inevitable consequences unpredictable but in beneforti ever since a Chinese Investor got involved here our situation has changed again before the floor was privatized a work was much better at it any easier. China is promising his partners rich but in europe theres a sharp warning whoever accept money from the new superpower will become dependent on it or can it get other shaking the Chinese State has a lot of money at its disposal. And thats how its expanding and asserting its status in position in the world to be fish if its above board meeting. Chinas gateway to Europe George feb 19th on d w. This is the news and these are our top stories germany is imposing a travel ban on countries most affected by new coronavirus variance measure comes into effect on saturday and will remain until at least mid february berlin says the restrictions on necessary to prevent infections starting sunday france will close its borders to nonessential arrivals from outside the e. U. The European Commission has approved as