i'm british welcome to news isha glad you could join us of these images behind me out of a tragedy 10 years old but one that remains fresh in the minds of thousands the afternoon of a cold march day in japan's northeast that began a chain of death displacement and damage the shadows of which continue to be cost to this day and afternoon that began at exactly 2 46 pm. 2011. japan's east coast has rocked by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the country. afterwards a tsunami ripped through fukushima prefecture. everything with it. is an army also cripples the fukushima nuclear power plant leading to explosions and meltdowns at 3 reactors. radioactive clouds freights over tens of kilometers around nukes are. thousands of people lost their lives as a result of the disaster tens of thousands were forced to evacuate their homes. at a press conference just 9 months later japan's prime minister at the time if he cannot maintain the situation was under control. but the battle wasn't over the fukushima meltdown would count as the most severe nuclear accident since the chernobyl disaster in 1906. to this day there is still only restricted access to 1600 square kilometers of land around the disabled tunable nuclear power plant at around 230 square kilometers from the contamination zone is much smaller but it will remain uninhabitable for decades to come and now we are. right of the accident we have still 70000 people that what came back to there or so well in fact it's a human tragedy. the fukushima nuclear disaster continues to contaminate the air the after underground water to this day bags of radioactive contaminated soil lie scattered throughout the province it's still unclear where the waste should be stored in the long term the city of tokyo was saved by a stroke of luck wind pushed the radioactive cloud away from the city and out to sea previous release of. any unit in the ocean in the past but not at this level. shortly after the catastrophe radiation levels in the large number of marine animals measured much higher than the limit values considered safe in japan today those levels are down significantly. but the fishing industry in japan is only recovering slowly in order to keep you in the reactors from melting tons of water a used each day to cool them and the 1000000 tons of contaminated water from the cooling pipes is stored in hundreds of tanks not a power plant but because storage space is limited and the tanks will soon reach capacity the japanese government is considering discharging that contaminated water into the sea in 2022. we do not expect. off season. that. you are states for a program of. that so many. residents fishermen and environmentalist say that plan offers no solution to an ongoing disaster. shows archy's a lawyer was part of a think tank independent investigation into the folks who run your disaster he joins me now from tokyo mr sure zaki welcome thousands can't return back their homes their fears of nuclear contamination this is very much an ongoing disaster when does this end yeah absolutely right even 10 years now there are deep scars of the accident still alive in everybody's lives and our lives to now that is the chairman of the japanese parliament's investigation into the fukushima disaster called it a disaster made in japan having what lessons have been learned from it. i think 2 key lessons that were uncovered through the investigation were one the absolute the safety myth which was a p.r. campaign that. downplayed any risk that was related to nuclear energy which was a necessary logic to persuade a lot of the communities to accept building a nuclear plant but later hunted them to it to create an atmosphere to even be hesitant to talk about risk thereby denying a lot of the known risks that were later on covered another problem was a conflict of interest in terms of the regulatory organizations which made it difficult for the regulatory agencies to effectively regulate and introduce a strict safety standards not given the sun safety breath as reported around your power in japan what are people's attitudes knol to nuclear power. people additives to ward nuclear power is still next according to a say every cent survey 30 percent of people believe that nuclear energy may continue as is but more than 50 percent of people are hoping that the company the country will become less reliant less dependent on nuclear energy in the future but yet the government continues ahead with it and if you plan that involves a nuclear power available to. that is true according to some future energy policy proposals the government is looking towards a energy mix policy where they would be using various types of energy sources including nuclear energy so one projection shows that in 2030 japan will still be using 20 percent of their energy sources coming from nuclear energy i'd like to just talk about the psychological impact on people from this massive disaster you have more than 18000 people who lost their lives and about 70000 people contract on to their homes how does japan cope with this collective trauma. i think it is something that we will long remember and need to relive the lessons every day it is not a disaster of the past but even as of today we are facing issues of what to do with polluted water how we can reestablish neighborhoods in these areas and it will be a long battle we cannot forget and should not forget the lessons from fukushima now in 2 weeks the some olympics torch run begins from fukushima and the prime minister has said that the olympics when showcase japan's recovery from the disaster i wonder if that is a very optimistic statement to make given whatever you have said. i think in terms of scientific safety there has been tremendous development in terms of ensuring that the pollution that happened 10 years ago is not affecting people's lives as of today i think the impact of this is more of a psychological one and motional peace that we will still continue to struggle with . shares our care a pleasure talking to you but thank you so much for joining us today thank you more than 18000 people die from the earthquake and tsunami but it's not used in japan the suddenness of the events deprived many a final goodbyes with loved ones now a telephone line is has been survive a scope. can see ya she says saki is about to cool his wife may walk itself and. he wants to tell her what happened the night she died. and it's in this phone booth known as a wind phone that he can speak to her. like thousands of others in japan's devastated coastal communities suck he lost many loved ones in the disaster this is where he comes to work through his grief but also to tell his wife about their children they'll soon be moving in with their youngest son and that a recent medical checkup showed he's lost weight. this phone booth embraces all of me. this is a place that embraces not only the people who are alive but also all those who have passed away that's how i feel for. the phone booth owner says it attracts thousands of visitors now from all over japan to troops. they were suddenly not able to see their loved ones after they left that morning to go to work or to school so there are many feelings left behind you know these people would have wanted to say something for the last time had they known they were not going to see them anymore but they can do that. this isn't only a place of solace for the older generation such equal has been bringing her ground sons here since her husband was swept away in the tsunami. of a tiger on the far more well as grandma said it's been 10 years since the earthquake i'll be a junior high school student next year is already in his 2nd year in junior high so he'll be in his 3rd year and he'll be doing high school entrance exams yeah and there's this new virus that's killing lots of people just like the earthquake and tsunami that's why we're wearing masks but we're all doing well. it's a good game of the of. the boys and their grandma feel like he can hear them. and later when she's alone in the booth. the husband to keep them all safe from the current virus. across parts of. today bring loved ones they lost 10 years ago to the deadly tsunami. where i come from we have to fight for a foreign forest and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one to his shadow and a few in his favorites for the official information as a journalist i have worked on the streets of many can trust and there. was the same order to social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press. work on the 4th to stay silent when it comes to the found something human seen the microphones or have decided to put their trust in us. is. work. we're. going inside protests against a man called europe's last dictator a new documentary film shows the courage of a group of actors risking their freedom to speak out against bellary says leader alexander. that story. and culture and. filmmakers around the world want to work with lebanese born cinematographer christopher. but 1st an exhibition years in the making and months in waiting finally opens the works by artist are monumental both in size and in subjects kiefer often deals with the dark chapters of german history as critics like to say his work is too dramatic even too big people can judge for themselves the exhibition in the city of modern home is now open by appointment under germany's newly eased coronavirus restrictions. 16000000 peas pressed into lead a play on the german term for been counting this was a key 1st reaction to germany census in the late 1980 s. it's a protest against the collection and storage of people's personal information a topic that still timely. for the past 4 months an exhibition of kiefer's art has been installed here in mannheim now it's finally being opened to the public it includes uprooted palm trees headless women. books made of lead. and paintings as tall as how's it as so often with anson q. for the viewers 1st reaction is to be overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the works that scale was a consideration when the museum's new extension was planned and as i said this was not what it does seem as if these large light filled rooms in this new building were made for key 1st work and during the building it did become clear that the rooms weren't going to be large enough for this collection for instance this painting behind me would not have fit downstairs on the ground floor so this room was made bigger during the design process with 6 metre high walls so key 1st works could be displayed here before he doesn't want to come so the const heller mannheim built higher ceilings just for uncertainty for. another place at another time a visit to keep our refuge in the south of france 2 years ago he calls this 50 hectare large expanse lightly bought it's where many of his artworks were created and still remain not for the public but only for him so why does he make art in the 1st place. if. i make art because i believe the world doesn't exist i think it is all an illusion it only becomes real when a new connection is made when i join up. that are otherwise far apart i link up all things in new so i make art in order to be real. what is it about this place that is so special to him. this is martin you know that it's my playground when we work we always go back to our experiences of childhood and i play here like a child i grew up and don't know it and when i was born my family home was destroyed in a bombing raid that night. and then i had the best playground and wonderful bombed out ruins. and i picked up the bricks and built houses with them those were my only toys we didn't have anything else from and i think. that. back in the can stop the manhunt and keep his fascination with ruins can be seen again and again. grappling with the 2nd world war with the holocaust with religion history and mythology it all gives rise to unsub keefe monumental art and . more art news now at new york's museum of modern art is honoring the late self-taught sculptor nikki dissatisfied with the 1st major exhibition of her work in the united states el saffar was born in france in 1930 but grew up in new york she was one of the 20th century as relatively few women artists to find fame during her own life time. in russia a ballerina is going viral with this video shot at minus 15 degrees celsius and by god do you know if i took to the frozen gulf of finland dancing a scene from swan lake she posted it in protest against plans to build a port because she says the construction would destroy a v h popular with people. and with swartz. pretty brave and speaking of bravery a new documentary just premiered called courage the film goes inside the protests in belarus last year against the country's red elections where hundreds of thousands of people stood up against strongman a leader alexander lukashenko despite violent crackdowns now director alexey apollo jaan shows us what it was like for a group of dissident theater actors. play opposing dictatorship what's being performed here is strictly forbidden the actors have all been banned from performing they are poverty. denise. and marina members of an underground theater who are fighting for freedom they're part of a massive opposition movement but they're in constant danger. you'll see that. generation of young people that go on the street but at the same time all of these people right now look all the time maybe somebody her or her it is people in our and it's not possible to leave and says so. specially for the art . director and lexie paolo yun observed the protests in bella ruse last summer he's convinced that when winter is over people will take to the streets once again. many demonstrators have ended up in this prison despite their peaceful protests their families wait in front of the building for a new. i some protesters are eventually released. you could cheer them up with it in the midst of what this is this and if you have to watch i'm going to get really scared yes right now 270 person in prison and and for sure is this person will not see in. their homes next to us where yes it happened i doing protests in front of the parliament building a young soldier attaches flowers from the demonstrators to his shield it's a moment that inspires hope i the crowd congratulates i was. easier if you saw it as the said you understood that all this young people most of them. didn't want to do its. own is convinced that the young soldiers are on the side of the people but their commanders remain loyal to leader alexander lukashenko i usually. goes with. the film courage shifts between resignation and pathos it shows convincingly that the vast majority in bella ruse rejects the man known as europe's last dictator. still has the security forces behind him the protests will surely continue. for years now we've been meeting up and coming filmmakers at the berlin international film festival the festivals barely know the talents programme brings together young creatives from around the world like lebanese born director of photography christopher variety magazine called him one of the world's 10 cinematographers to watch and that's what we've been doing rechecked in with him again to see what he's up to. we 1st met beirut born christopher $2900.00 talents program was the cinematographer on the visually stunning capernaum the film which worked with real refugee kids tells the story of zane a child living on the streets of beirut for that film on one the $29.00 team german cinematography award the movie also won the jury prize of khan and was nominated for an oscar which gave a huge boost to the cinematography his career. so i get scripts. from across the world at the moment. which which is what would have been. last summer own worked on the international coproduction the man who sold his skin it's tunisia's oscar intrigue for best foreign film this year and it's made the short list. it's a love story that begins in syria. have . a beer and sam ali are in love i don't know about them. yes i don't know what it's all. kind of like how i bought and pretty secular. all my kids are always up it's always like that just say i was naive colfer revolution will be has i'm doing the police hunted down and forcing him to flee to lebanon i appears stays behind marries a diplomat and moves to belgium. will sam ever see her again an artist offers a promising solution and sam becomes a living canvas. my soul. i want your back i think you know to york during the body and what it means to that person. to become abusers and that's going to be just. a deceitful art world staged with lush visuals. you know the critically acclaimed film premiered at the venice film festival. and travel around the world it earned our own another german cinematography award nomination this work in. the signature of the. own latest film as copilot directed by underwater better shape it follows a young couple as lee and say you eat when saeed suddenly disappears his family comes after astley but the couple swore to keep their secrets. when was the best possible site my wife and. cameraman yuki's you kind of dancing with the actors kind of and they need to grow up to get america. this is do they know that this is for about that was nobody's though he got his when he. christopher nolan's camera work captures the sense of mountain claustrophobia copilot just premiered at the berlin international film festival this is for by you finished my phenomenal. i'm. going to his plight be here. with my ideas. that's it for this edition of arts and culture thanks for watching i'll leave you now with the latest designs from paris fashion week were reviewed so unveiled its new collection at the louvre turning the greek in a roman sculpture gallery into a catwalk checking out. what's going on here. house of your very own from a printer. computer games that are healing. my dog needs electricity. just explains delivers facts and shows what the future holds. living in the digital world shift. on t w. indeed. climate change. is a major city. what ideas do they have for their future. for. the get. clear. this is the w. news line from above any europe gets another vaccine the european medicines agency is approve the johnson and johnson single shot for use in me. so will it help speed up the blocks locking vaccine roll out also on the program you had sex for submit ma says the military's like be committing crimes against humanity with his father crackdown on protests and this comes to several more protesters are killed after security forces opened fire.