Explains Leslie Moonves was a key supporter of the made 2 movement in fact helped find one of the groups which is called the Commission on eliminating sexual harassment and advancing equality in the workplace and of course that's what makes these accusations so par full and so difficult for him personally there's also some issues as well as far as c.b.s. Is concerned because c.b.s. Has found itself with a number of situations that it's having to deal with because these accusations don't just go to Leslie Moonves they also go to a number of other people within the organization the winner in Pakistan's general election Iran can has started preparations to form a coalition government after his p.t.i. Or Movement for Justice Party won the most seats in the National Assembly his party's success in the elections on Wednesday is being hailed as the start of a new chapter in Pakistani politics which has been dominated for decades by 2 main parties and the powerful military South-Asian editor Jill McGovern reports it's taken Imran Khan more than 2 decades to move from the political margins to forming a government his next task is to piece together a functional coalition of small and regional parties many of his supporters especially younger voters in Pakistan cities want a new style of politics with less corruption and infighting and greater efficiency there's urgent need to for economic development and jobs and the stability that might bring foreign investment big rallies are expected in Zimbabwe today on the last day of campaigning before Monday's presidential elections the 1st since Robert Mugabe was ousted from power last November Mr Mugabe's successor and former close colleague the Zanu p.f. Leader mustnt Managua is hoping to legitimize his rule. British members of parliament say the u.k. Is facing a Democratic crisis because of the spread of fake news a parliamentary committee report says voters are being systematically manipulated by campaigns which rely on hate and misinformation the report examines the use of data by probe groups during the e.u. Referendum campaign here's Catherine Jones their relentless targeting of hype as a part of their own views which play to the fears and prejudices of people that's one line from the report and a warning our democracy is at risk and now is the time to act to protect our shared values and a call for action against the tech companies to make them be more responsible about content posted online and for the updating of all the rules surrounding how elections are conducted in the digital era world news from the b.b.c. a Judge in California has urged the u.s. Immigration authorities to focus on finding the deported parents of 400 children who were separated from their families as they illegally cross the border from Mexico drug Dana sub Ross spoke out a day after it emerged that more than 700 children remain in custody despite the expiry of his own deadline for families to be reunited a high profile Venezuelan opposition politician has fled to Colombia accusing Secret Service agents of harassing him and other family members in an open letter because a man well of our has said that he'd been approached in recent weeks by agents who threatens to prosecute him if he didn't abandon his political activities. The skies over the tropical north of Australia are filled with air force planes from 16 nations at the start of a 3 week by any old training drill exercise Pitch Black brings together personnel and 140 planes from countries of Asia and the Pacific North America and Europe including Japan India the Us France and Germany Australia as their force has reason been recently been in combat against the Islamic state group in Iraq and Syria Commodore Mike Kitch of the Australian air force described the drill as a vital exercise in cooperation we've got about 4000 people I bet 2 and a half a dozen Australians a bit 1500 partners and allies here with us and the number of aircraft that got participating in this this pitch black that huge chunk of advice is vital to us conducting as realistic operations as a coalition as we can millions of people have witnessed the longest lunar eclipse of the century as the moon passed through Earth's shadow its natural satellites turned a striking shade of red already brown creating a phenomenon known as a blood moon at least part of the eclipse was visible from Europe the Middle East Africa Australia most of Asia and South America and that's the latest b.b.c. 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Hello I'm sure Welcome back to the world this week as a distinguished cricketer is Ron Carr knew all about playing the long game when he took it back from the pitch to the pavilion of politics in Pakistan you can't have expected it to take this long 22 years it would be a period when his party had but a single seat in the National Assembly in this week's elections his party became the largest and Iran claimed the right to form a government providing all goes to plan this will be only the 2nd the cation in 7 decades that one civilian government has handed power to another yet Iran has been unable to shake the suspicion that the military played a big part in his success as our correspondents or could come on explains Well the Pakistani military had directly controlled the country for nearly half of its existence and for much of the rest of the time it's had a large role in how the country is run we've actually had 10 years of civilian rule in Pakistan now which is one of the longest periods in its history but there's a growing feeling that the Pakistani military is behind the scenes trying to reassert itself and trying to replace the Pm a lan party with Imran Khan's p.t.i. Party and the reason that people give credence to this is it's quite complicated really because there are a lot of it for example revolves around the case against the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif the reason that people think he's being convicted now is because he fell out with the military whilst in power because he was trying to assert himself in foreign policy trying to form a closer relationship with India for example he seemed to make more noises about cracking down on some militant groups which have traditionally been seen as being close to the Pakistani military and the intelligence services ones that are for example focused on activities in Kashmir as they were are primarily anti India in their activities rather than being anti Pakistani now now as Sharif's party says he's in prison now his party is. The opposition benches Mr Carney has described the Army's the end leads to tuition in Pakistan functions but he's also promised a new corruption free Pakistan on drugs can lead government is there a risk that this will bring him into conflict of his own with the millet. Well it's often been the case in Pakistani history civilian leaders come into power with the support or acquiescence at least of the military establishment the same was true of know why she really was widely seen as a as a creation of generals they're all Huck in the eighty's and then he certainly seemed to side with the military establishment in the ninety's against the government of then is it better and that's something that he has effectively admitted to me in interviews in the past as well but once he was in power once he had spent more time in power he distance himself from them and he wanted to kind of grow his own wings so to speak and so some analysts here predict the same thing could happen with Imran Khan that now he's in power now that he wants to try and reform the country and organize it around the vision that he has that he certainly genuinely seems to believe in a society that's more egalitarian that's fairer where everyone's accountable people say that inevitably at some stage down the line he's going to come into conflict with the military whether that's about corruption whether that's about foreign policy I was speaking to one retired brigadier there and he told me if Imran Khan decided that he wanted to pursue his own independent foreign policy he would meet the same fate as Nawaz Sharif what sort of ammunition as it were does him wrong can have in terms of electoral popularity I mean he's obviously emerged as the largest party is that much evidence though the sort of a calm vision if there is such a thing for Pakistan is water as it is fused to voters and one leading this election victory Well that's one of the confusing things because for all the talk of the military's role in propelling Imran Khan forward he's been having these mass rallies and he's addressed these valleys and he said he's asked his the porters did the Army tell you to come here no they didn't and there's no doubt that he has real genuine support he's really energized young. People he's very charismatic he has a strong vision of a fairer society he doesn't come from a political dynasty as the Sharifs do as the Bhutto's do he is a breath of fresh air in many ways in Pakistani politics and he's personally honest and even his critics don't really allege that he's corrupt which in itself is a big deal in Pakistan let me ask you finally how difficult and heritage is this for what sort of state his is Park astonied right now when I asked him on Khan in an interview just the other week before the election how he plans to unite the country after what has clearly been a very polarizing campaign he said actually he didn't think that was going to be the main issue the main issue by him he said was the mounting economic crisis that seems to be happening in Pakistan a massive decline in foreign currency reserves could mean that Pakistan will need a bailout by the i.m.f. Later this year and if that happens then there could be conditions placed upon the new government on curbing spending for example 2nd a comedy in Islamabad on Thursday Syrian government forces raise their country's flag for the 1st time in years on the front here with Israeli occupied Golan Heights they've finally driven out Islamist rebels you might think the Israelis would welcome evidence of a return to stability after years of civil war and you may well be right but that approach didn't stop the i.d.f. From shooting down a Syrians twice a plane which head to the airspace above the Golan earlier in the week they climb a ladder of a u.n. Envoy in the region while the Security Council of the disturbing trajectory of increasingly frequent and dangerous confrontations between Israel and Syria yet the Israelis say they believe the fighter plane made another gay tional era it wasn't a deliberate provocation was impatience the B.B.C.'s Middle East correspondent has been telling me about the impact of this jet being shot down it's not only the circles. During the Syrian civil war which began in 20 a livin in the sea extraordinary in the face of it you think you'd be a monumental story by I think what's interesting is that everybody in the region has moved on now this aircraft were shot down over there is really all keep on going Lamhaa it's a that was land that was seized by Israel from Syria during a previous war and the plane crashed inside Syria and according to one more nurturing group the pilot was killed Israel as you would expand was denounced by the Syrian government for a drash And I think we need to be clear neither the Syrian government nor Israel want to see an escalation and from Israel's point of view President Bashar al Assad as its banks banks in Syria well significance of Russia is talking to a government like Israel's about what's happening in Syria where Russia is absolutely key to the Syrian conflict it became heavily involved in the war in 2015 it supported the Syrian government it's swung the war and President Bush on the last sense favor Israel in order to negotiate with Syria needs to negotiate through Russia we had this meeting earlier in the week between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and he was apparently altering to keep a rein in forces 100 kilometers away from the border and that was rebuffed by the Israelis their key concern inside Syria is the entrenchment of Iranian forces Israel's not so worried about the Syrian government and in fact while technically those countries are still in states of war relations between the Syrian government and Israel have been relatively quiet the border has been relatively quiet for decades but there's a couple of points it's not clear if there's release would exact any Russian or far to keep a rein in forces inside Syria itself. It's not clear whether or not the Russians could even deliver and Meyer at a more increasingly we've seen is Israeli airstrikes inside Syria picking off those are raining targets because Israel sees the entrenchment of raining forces inside Syria as its big long term strategic concern so in the light of that what does Israel won't from Russia from those other countries that have influence over what's happening in Syria it wants the Syrian government to regain control it wants their reign in rule and its allies for example the reigning back has blah group it wants those forces to be withdrawn from Syria but 1st of all it's not clear whether or not Russia can deliver after most people say that simply couldn't and the reason for either is there Iran has invested so much in this conflict alongside Russia that it will want to see the economic benefits as well as the political benefits and again Russia is supporting the Syrian government you know goes ations are going on with our President Bashar last hour but increasingly he's becoming a ball with wind and it's not clear whether or not the Russians can simply tell him what to do I don't think that's the case either lost patience You're listening to the world this week the program that tells you what happened in the past 7 days and why it counts coming up wildfires in the Arctic really we explain why why don't we may get a great deal worse if you want to listen to us again or to previous editions just like b.b.c. 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For decades Cuba has been a little bastion of communism in an unrelentingly capitalist neighborhood this week that a draft constitution passed through parliament which will allow private property got a few more stages to go through before coming into force but still what would the late Fidel Castro have said about it well his brother Raul still retains much of his power as boss of the Communist Party but it's clear a new era is daunting I've been talking about it with our man in the latter will grant in a sense this just codifies all of the changes that Raul Castro introduced when he took over from Fidel Castro he started allowing relaxation of the economic rules but they never really had any legal protection so a lot of these business owners have been kind of in legal limbo Yes they're allowed to have the businesses but there's no real recognition of private property so that change is significant the fact that for example the New Constitution limits the word communism and replaces it with socialism all of these things look interesting but there is a line of thought that what it is isn't quite window dressing but it is changes that do nothing more than strengthen the arm of the communist party in Cuba the military in Cuba or the leadership in Cuba and aren't actually going to allow private business and ordinary people to have any of the political power how widespread is private business become in the years since the restrictions were 1st relaxed. Well a lot of people have opened small businesses they tend to be little restaurants small bed and breakfasts catering to tourists the numbers are around somewhere around $800000.00 self employed people in Cuba which you know of a workforce in the millions isn't that many but it is significant the Cuban government know the in the years to come the private sector will continue to be important people will continue to gravitate towards it they may in fact continue to push certain state jobs towards the private sector because they simply can't afford to keep them on anymore the Castro brothers ran the country for total of 57 years between them until the Dell's death and their retirement is this the Polish Castro generation taking control I am of the belief that it is not everybody would necessarily agree with that but I only think this is setting the groundwork for a post gastric what I mean by that is there is clearly still the hand of Raul Castro in the Yes that's obvious what I think though is this role of the us can lead the new president to put down a document albeit hand in hand with round Castro that does set the stage for a post Castro Cuba I think it will give them the flexibility after there is no Castro around anymore for them to shape the economy a bit more towards the 21st century Cuba and beyond the economy the social changes to that are interesting or even political changes dare we say it the imposition of term limits of 2 consecutive 5 year terms on the presidency age limits on the presidency no one older than 60 can apply all of that is at least creating the conditions for a younger presidency a younger Cuban political system perhaps but of course any suggestion that this is a full and free and function. Democracy is is his laughable we'll grant in Havana Nigeria is another country where military rule is a relatively recent memory in uniform 102 Bihari was one of the organizers of a military coup in 1803 which brought him to power 21 months later another coup ousted him 30 years later in 2015 having long retired his uniform he was elected president his military background gave added credibility to his campaign pledge to take only Islamist militants Boko Haram who have destabilized the country's northeast on Friday his government replaced the military commander who'd be leading that fight an acknowledgement perhaps that is Security pledge has proved elusive even more devastatingly a report this week said conflict between semi nomadic herdsman and settled farmers is a much bigger problem killing many more people than the Islamist insurgency and even more devastatingly for him he was hit by a wave of political defections another hammer blow besides his own poor health to his hopes for reelection next year the B.B.C.'s Miami Jones spoke to me from Lagos about the significance of those defections they have been displayed in the ruling All Progressives Congress in the month saw a faction a number of members of the party had created a separate faction called r a p c So there was already thumb indication that there was discontent within the party but I don't believe the president would have expected for there to have been this many defections or mass on the same day 15 and it is followed by 37 members of the House of Representatives was quite a lot of people when I spoke to a representative of the party earlier this week he said that they had been trying to address some of the issues some of the members of the party had raised but obviously that failed when you see issues that they raised how big an issue is president Barry I'm self. Yes So some of the defect is that the reason they were leaving is because of crisis and the factions within the party but. The governor of the new a state which is they've been plagued by violence between herders and promise of the last 3 months he also decided to defect that and he said that for him the main issue with security and it's something that we heard from other politicians as well has been growing insecurity in the middle belt of the country many clashes between farmers and herders there and also to in the northeast of the country where President Bihari when he ran for the presidency 2015 have promised to defeat the book or an Islamist group they seem to be regaining some strength they've been attacking members of the military over the last couple of weeks and so all of this makes the president look like he is no achieving some of the talk is that he said himself now Boko Haram is is a threat that many people outside of Nigeria will be well aware of not least because of the kidnapping of the schoolgirls in children but what about this violence between herders and foreigners What's the background to not well been going on for many years there's always been some clashes between farmers who tend to be settled and then the herders Thus I mean the magic they tend to be Muslim and Lonnie whereas many of the commas tend to be Christians the herders have grazing routes that they can go through with their animals but it's often been tensions when farmers have grown their farms on those grazing routes or when going through certain farms the herders animals eat the farm is crops but very recently the violence in thought escalated how far these problems are a reflection do you think of the economic inequalities in Nigeria because there are some fairly shocking statistics now about Nigeria despite being the biggest economy in Africa being a less populous country than India or actually having more people who are in absolute poverty than India does yet inequality is a big problem in the. Egeria and in the middle belt it's a part of the country where I grew a culture is the main breadwinner for a lot of people and as the population of Nigeria growth and its pressure being put on the farming sector here it's definitely true that a lot of this conflict seems to them from economic tensions and from people wanting to groom more crops make more money to feed his growing population and also from herders wanting to grow their herds and make more money that's way and the problem at the moment is that the government is seen as ineffective it's a very complicated conflict and it bleeds into many areas including politics and economics Miami Jones in Lagos now for many of us this week these are lyrics with which it's been hard to disagree. On how. It's down and hard even to be forgiven for thinking that the world is burning up not just the news headlines about wildfires in Greece even within the Arctic Circle or fatal temperatures in Japan on Wednesday a snapshot of that day's temperature is published online by the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine in the United States portrayed a globe almost entirely Baze didn't read so is it evidence of a shift in the Earth's climate or is it just weather a contact a nation of natural factors rather than the herald of things to come our environment correspondent Matt McGrath forsook the sunshine went indoors pulled down the blinds and wrapped a wet towel around his head to consider the conundrum back in the summer of 2009 the u.k. Met Office confidently predicted that Great Britain was going to have a sizzling barbecue summer of course as soon as the press release was issued the heavens opened for weeks on end and the barbecue sausages drowned in the Sunday rain having had their fingers metaphorically burned with their scorching metaphors the most awful substance reverted to more prosaic phrasing so in early June They coolly stated that for June to August in the u.k. Above average temperatures are more likely than below average temperatures. It's a similar story in the u.s. Where the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are know as it's known said that the chances of needing a knock this summer were very slim indeed with the Outlook also favoring above normal temperatures across most of the u.s. These rather understated predictions haven't quite capture the scale of what's been happening across the world essentially everywhere on the planet where it's summer now from Ottawa to a man from the Arctic Circle to Algiers is experiencing extreme often record temperatures because it's too darn hot in so many places at the same time many people are jumping to the conclusion that this must be climate change in action but what we are seeing right now the thing that's causing Metro passengers to melt sending suncream sails through the roof and ruining our sleep is the weather weather is the atmospheric condition we experience on any given day while the climate is the weather we experience over a 25 to 30 year period the relationship between the 2 is complicated but the general consensus among scientists is that a change in climate or with the rising temperatures loads the dice for the weather making the chances of extreme events more likely over any given period so our friends from No I point out that while June was only the 5th warmest on record the 10 warmest June is on record have all occurred since 2005 they point out that June was also their 402nd consecutive month with temperatures above the 20th century average that's $33.00 and a half years. Back in January the u.k. Met Office estimated that 2018 will be one degree warmer than the average from the pre-industrial period between 850 and 1800 Recent studies have shown that virtually all the warming that's been recorded since 1950 is down to human activities so how much influence does this changing climate really have researchers carry out what they call attribution studies to work this out initially it took them years and huge amounts of computing time to calculate that human activities had increased the chances of the European heat wave in 2003 by 500 percent now they are much faster scientists concluded that last year's flooding in Houston Texas was made 38 percent greater by climate change so expect to see several such studies in the coming months linking what we are seeing now to human induced climate warming but while scientists are getting better at attributing extreme events many politicians are very relaxed about the issue thinking that in signing the Paris climate agreement they have fixed the problem however the carbon cuts they have promised in that pact would still see warming the century of around 3 degrees Celsius when you consider what we are seeing against the background of a one degree rise it's hard to imagine the nightmare that awaits everyone in a world war 3 times as much as it is right now. 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The maturing into 4 very different global habitats the plainness the desert the mountains and the forest and exploring the relationships between the soundscapes the people and the wildlife in living with nature the world as you've never heard it before at b.b.c. World Service dot com. This week on the cultural front line life a phrase that takes us to Mexico's culinary States a place where violence and murder co-exist alongside a hub of artistic creativity in one of the many by products of widespread violence that we've seen then if nothing else art can be a reminder and we discover how the memory of the conflict in culture that inspired one artist to recreate his last type join us after the latest b.b.c. News b.b.c. News on dramas for one of the major u.s. Television networks is investigating allegations of sexual misconduct against its chief executive 6 women say Leslie Moonves of c.b.s. Harris them in the eighty's and ninety's he has admitted making some women feel uncomfortable but denies sexual assault. Talks are underway in Pakistan to form a coalition government the p.t.i. Party led by Imran Khan emerged as the largest in Wednesday's election it doesn't have an overall majority and says it's got the backing of smaller groups the former governing party has rejected the vote as rigged militants have attacked a government run training center for midwives in eastern Afghanistan there's no word of casualties the attack is the latest in one go hard province where the Islamic state group has been active in Britain the parliamentary committee has warned that democracy is facing a crisis because of fake news and called for tighter regulation of social media companies it had examines the use of data and extent of foreign interference in British politics the final campaign rallies are taking place in Zimbabwe ahead of Monday's presidential elections the vote is the 1st since Robert Mugabe was ousted last November more than $100.00 flights have been canceled in Japan where a powerful typhoon is due to make a landfall the likeliest to be hit is the Western chew Goku region where more than $200.00 people died in flooding last month reports from Nicaragua say more than 40 medical workers in the city of lay on have been sacked for treating anti-government protesters more than 300 people have been killed in the violence mostly carried out by government supporters and the actress Carrie Fisher who died almost 2 years ago will feature in the next installment of the Star Wars series the director of the new film said the previously unseen footage was needed because the saga couldn't be concluded without her character princes later and that's the latest b.b.c. News. We had to leave walking a when I reached the camp for 2 weeks I could draw everything that I thought I felt as I could tell through the drawings what I just experienced in the war can tragedy and death by a great heart one of the many white. Men if nothing else art can remind Hello. This is the program that explores the world we live in through the work and the voices of artists Welcome to the cultural front line this week we'll hear from 4 artists who've created and been inspired by work borne out of some of life's most painful moments and memories we find creativity in catharsis and artistic child through tragedy on this week's cultural frontline. It was the memory of the home lost during war that's the inspiration behind the work of our 1st guest the artist Petry to hell ally Petra it was born in Kosovo but his life was turned upside down by the conflicts fought during the break up of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990 s. I was born in 86 the years that I started to remember are the ninety's were the holds them of Yugoslavia started to fall down and 1st elements of a conflict started to appear and they were growing and becoming worse and worse until the $98.00 when the war happened they were coming all kind of actions that were completely against well being and so my father had to leave the job with no reason to all this kind of actions that were completely new. And they were frightening and this was coming from definitely from the regime in the same time we had a live that was going on from before that we had neighbors I had friends that were 30 and it is. Well so confusing to to see how actually the bigger events was affecting Saumarez the everyday lives like a huge amount of of hate was coming from both sides so me as a kid I just remember a lot of talk from my parents that how we have to be careful from the police how the square of you know something that was part of everyone became. A territory that you have to be very careful or to think twice before going in the centers just to buy bread it became so bad that by the late 1990 s. You had to leave if you fled you became a refugee can you tell us what happened it was really really hard time because although 13 I remember very well my father getting taken from us like all other men in the village and brought to the prison and we had to leave walking and going to Albania like many other refugees when I reached the camp I met Italian voluntarily that was given to kids paper and some callers to draw and for 2 weeks I could draw with him everything that I thought viewings I felt as a kid I could tell to international audience through the drawings what I just experienced in the war Petrik continued drawing and is now an acclaimed international artist based between Germany Italy and Kos about his latest work sees him return to the village she grew up in to create a special performance piece this performance was made for and with people of Runic is this very little town in Kosovo where I was born and I grew up for more than 30 years nothing happened from the point of view of cultural events before the war especially who are the you Colombian system started to collapse 6780 s. It was a little town with a long tradition of cultural events and having the House of Culture with theater its own cinema library of more than 10000 books all of these elements they disappeared in the beginning of the ninety's so slowly like my dream to bring back something in runic that would gather us together can you tell me what I would experience as an audience member at the event you held recently I left all my. This month's time to move back to reneg and start to work with citizens of running acts actors and people who experience this years and it was so much material related to performance music theater with this memory I started to write a script I wanted to use performance such as sound which is related with all Karina and the instrument that people really identified with and it's a sound that I really love such as other plays I put it for fragments of this old play that were played in seventy's going back to sixty's and I put it new elements such as the whole play started from a boy that goes actually with a bat and after he falls asleep. Everything that happens later is because he is dreaming so everything that happened later is as if the collective memory of people of and the theatre without the name of Petraeus performance piece scrappy team at it now basically in Patrick's native tongue strategy means flash lightning bolt or sudden and intense feeling it was also the name of the magazine once published in the seventies and eighties in Riddick one of the dreams that I had the beginning was to reawaken the cultural center when I talk with actors they will explain to me about the main hall where you would enter for a little town this was huge because almost 350 people could follow that theater plays and all the actors will describe to me the emotions between being even the public and expecting what they will play this month and when I when I came back in February the theatre is basically a ruin it has no roof and windows and everything is collapsing on top of that people were using it as a dumb place so they were throwing their garbage and things in there I couldn't understand how. A place that was so important for our cultural identity and our identity and it up to be a ruin and a damn for the whole town one of their audience members there who remembered the cultural center from the days before the war and what was the overall response that was the most natural call experience that I had to be together that act actors and the teachers and activists from before the war that now are in their sixty's seventy's and eighty's together with all other generations for them when they saw a crime and of a piece that was played by them themselves they had no words to describe the emotion to say the alive again in 2018 How did you involve the did you speak to that older generation when you were doing your research for the piece I started to they sit in knocking the doors you know from a conversation than of they will come up not only theater plays but also all the details and names and then I would jump from one house to another from the city to another gathering together all the information that I had you have to know that none of them except one has images books or any notes because everything was burned in the war so the only way to get and have access to that period was who their memory and their stories Petra tell a lie on the power of memory and his performance piece scrapper team. Can be seen on display this summer in bad Switzerland and in the autumn ensure in Italy please do get in touch with us unless know what you think of the program all you need to do is use the hash tag b.b.c. Cultural Frontline on social media. And you are listening to the cultural frontline on the b.b.c. World Service. Also liar who Fraser wrote about lost and. Weeks in her award winning 1st novel mommy in 2015 but she promised herself she wouldn't write about the violence that afflicts parts of our home country of Mexico connected with the illegal drug trade the newly elected president on dress Manuel Lopez Obrador who won an overwhelming victory at the polls earlier this month has pledged to tackle this violence just as he's free distress has promised to in the past for over a decade the so-called War on Drugs has seen the authorities crack down on criminal gangs yet 2017 was Mexico's most violent year on record with more than 25000 murders according to official figures but do artists like politicians have a responsibility to confront the carnage caused by drug related violence will now for the 1st time live Fraser writes about the place of violence and the space left by the disappeared people all last desperate I see Das in her country and its culture. We drove from Mexico City to the state of get a. Mountain stream around us their faces that the and Russia screens. There are natural stone walls at the edges of the road and in some of them huge trees have grown in a sculptural the way their twisted brute completely exposed. I am more or less able to appreciate at all until I look at my phone we've lost signal I start sweating a function in phone feels like a lifeline when we travel around Mexico without it fear creeps in the road fills our ministry empty or when they enter Mexico now produces most of the heroin consumed in the United States and the state of get rid of a mountainous mixture of tourism and poverty is where much of the poppy crop that makes that Herring is grown. So the puppies are here the cartels are here and almost just as frightening so is the Mexican army every time with us a car I braced myself for guns to appear but nothing happens and eventually we come to a fork in the road the ride leads to the town of Tasker where we're headed the left leads to you while these 2 places are quite near one another yet to me they seem like 2 different worlds. In Tesco a picturesque little town I meet with 200 fellow artists receiving this year's hominess calories for young creators grant awarded the Mexico's national fund for culture and arts the funding is enabling me to write my 2nd novel but other who work in anything from choreography to printmaking will all share ideas while admiring the stunning scenery from the comfort of the cable cars less than an hour's drive away is a city of he while until recently Mexicans knew he was a mostly from history class as a place where our independence from Spain was a clarity in 1021 but in 2014 it was a made war headlines when 43 students were kidnapped and killed their bodies never found it's been almost a week since quarter 3 student disappear from the Gulf What was it as a group to bring any of the reaction has been a very small force to change the image of this country and what's wrong with that plan in place and what Neil will be a man who has suffered a bit. Because the news. You probably heard about that particular case but there are many many more and monster remain unsolved and that's why they're called love this about this leave us the disappeared because without a body their families cannot even claim their debt. Is it ironic he said we get the disc country of mine that has this amazing support system for young artists is incapable of us hearing the survival of its people and are the 2 worlds really that far apart. Not necessarily last year the grant was awarded to photographer Dale Martina's perhaps the person to best breach this apparent divide morning classical day lost 3 brothers in law in a while one was killed 2 when missing he documented the emptiness they left behind in a serious of hunting photographs called the hells depletes as the title suggests something is hurting in this darkened almost empty spaces and even of the children playing or the adults wrist the pain in the rooms is palpable life in a country full of absences feels like these we're often paralyzed between 2 opposing forces the pool of the terrible questions and the effort to go on living without answers it would be naive to claim art can do very much in the face of violence but looking at work I think art isn't completely useless either what it can do is focus on the individual stories m p 5 the personal losses and make space for the feelings instead of leading us to the numbness that the 36 often create because if they tell you they're over 34000 us up to see the Earth is just too much who can grasp such a thing but if I tell you author whole flotus is working on a book about his best friend who disappeared 10 years ago and through his work you may begin to glimpse the many broken lives every single this out but I see the leaves behind filmmaker Elena Coleman is working on a film to reflect on the very term forced disappearances in it we see real families seeking justice Well the fictionalized dictionary community searches for a missing more appropriate word to describe the situation of the missing. It's a strange overlap the sad reality of the of sword scenario but perhaps one that can help us should light what we don't seem able to see or understand because just blinding and. This disappearance told that growth by the minute in fact it's been recently estimated by the National Register of missing and disappeared persons that a person disappears in Mexico every 90 minutes that's when new media are. Programmed automated computer software a booked 2 x. Is the least of the disappeared every 90 minutes. Plus the bot picks a name does an image search then selects the 1st and faces that come up and treats them as a single image. It makes my heart skip a beat every time one pops up and. They're confusing ghostly portrays you can't hold their gaze and weep you with their 3 futures as if they were made less of pictures and more slippery memories like a face you knew but are already forgetting. Although in my own work I have made a conscious decision not to write about violence because I don't want to give it any more space than it has already taken I admire in many more artists are doing. The projects are both poetic and political but mostly small strikes back. Against Us normal life tragedy against us make in this up I see those disappear all over again to talk about them. Because if one of the many by brother of widespread violence is that we stop seen then if nothing else art can be a reminder. The Mexican will say Leah who phrases. Can and need death experience ever be life affirming for thrill seekers death defying sports like bungee jumping parachuting oval Caithness surfing have often been known to cause euphoria alongside the 51 if you made me an artist has decided to take my search for euphoria on the concept of thrill seeking to another level by designing a roller coaster meant rather worriedly to kill all its passages least yes met him at the Reagan International be an olive Contemporary Art in Latvia. I merely honest organise I am an artist designer engineer researcher and with standing in front of a black tabular with their white lines on it yeah it's a rollercoaster that puts an end to the writer's life well it is called euthanasia coaster but it was more a variant to Greek meaning of the from Asia which means good all pleasant that I just wanted to make the object that makes the deaf euphoric So what happens to the writer. There either accidentally or dies of so-called cerebral hypoxia or deprivation of oxygen to the brain. But a so-called drop our interest cases very large very tall is half a kilometer and when you drop down you freefall and you know she have something like 400 kilometers per hour and then you enter the 1st vertical loop and because of this curvature you're pushed against with it so much of the blood is just kept in that lower part of the body and what happens because of lack of oxygen all back of blood to your brain it starts to produce 1st of all euphoria and you just quickly pay. It's out and then the brain starts to die so you probably you would die of a 2nd of Ferd loop but in terms of engineering it has to be very effective which means if you don't and were 2nd or 3rd look the 7th would do the job for sure you would die happy Yeah Yeah Yeah well 1st of all you would have physiological pleasure but also I refer to it as meaningfulness instead of using V's boring medical procedures of injecting poison or just having a pill I'm suggesting something more customized well but also it could be seen as something totally different it could be seen as a kind of blank you more object for nonexistent movie it could be seen as as science fiction that goes beyond literature and cinema and it manifests itself in sculptural language and can it be seen as a comment on contemporary society that we're always looking for thrills Yeah but also it has something to do with the very amusement park as a phenomenon to do getting taller faster moxa liberating and actually reach the peak off but a stimulation if you talk with the designers of Midsomer right there crying we have no longer. Any kind of space left for creativity. You might be relieved to know that openness is Machine of Death only exists in drawings and as a scale model but he has also designed real rides and actually grew up in an amusement park when Lithuania was still part of the Soviet Union. Was. My father was a director of that park and he at the time he didn't like it or gardens he would consider them as kind of communist indoctrination camps so he would take me in my. Sister in the park and my nana's were right operators cashiers and so on and a van I just started to work a sort of amusement ride to designer architect engineer also I took over my father's position I were running that park for 4 years myself and never like to ride writes I'm kind of motion sickness profit I can easily you know shout sweat why people queue up for 2 hours to have a bit of vomit and if they tell me at least I have become obvious if even exist so it's also something that made me to do artistic research on what is going on organise his coin the 10 gravitational statics an artistic manipulation of gravity to push the human body to extremes with his taste for the more bit it's no surprise he's also invented a graveyard which is literally after this wild. I'm suggesting sending human bodies of living and citizens to one specific location in space it's a super vacuum it's absolute 0 it's ideal location for very very long term preservation of biomass we have 4000000 bodies and there be free and once these frozen bodies floating. In the shadow of the moon after a while we start to truck each over because there's no planetary gravity but only the gravity of it actually is going to dating from the bodies that have met it's kind of. Basic physics so they'll be the obvious or squashed together we did the astrophysics calculations it would take a few weeks until all of the bodies would be Gabbert into one huge spare but I call asteroid look poignant. Lucy asked speaking. The artist Herb on us and even more thrills please do tune into the arts hour on tour with Nikki Beatty Nicky's in Montreal where she'll be speaking to the creator of t.v. Comedy drama Mohawk girls and exploring how the landscape is changing for indigenous culture in the city. The classic Greek drama the iris diary is a work full of tragedy loss and death it's been the inspiration for storytellers around the world from its before been season a should Greece to the modern productions on stage and screen but the one writer and poets the our study has proved not just inspirational but life changing my name is Ben a Korean a poet novelists just a writer essayist playwright scriptwriter Walker thinker asker of questions and deep prayer. And the piece of art that changed my life was Peter Holmes production of the horse time at the National Theatre in London and early in 1008. 100 to see the production because of my abiding interest in Greek drama particularly Greek tragedy because of my interest in the fundamental questions of life in my mind have always had a tweeny sense of the relationship between Greek tragedy and the African worldview I think all the asian was talk to one another and also have been deeply interested in drama in itself one of the greatest of the literary art forms no one and which of all your I muttered my pleas for that got along all right I was at university at the time still in comparative literature and heard about this production. And somehow you know recklessly. I still remember when the actors came in stage with their masks on them long her Greek tragedy was. Original and I had never seen it nobody had done it in the time boldness and the courage to go back to how it was great as things are right. Now that meant a very special kind of. I mean for actors to actually be able to speak through the Gnostics kind of deep Northern accents and tones and gotten was and took you back thousands of years and right away from from the Times in which you're living on us suddenly back into the hof dreamworld heart ritual half huge communal catharsis that Greek tragedy horse. Tale picks up. Right. There. I was with a girlfriend at the time and she didn't quite feel what I felt and I kind of babble on about it while oh my God what have I just experienced and it was of us working on steps and steps made of the new perception. Can. Last Out of the. After great artistic experience you feel like half the world something of the cloud something of the sky something of the night something of the Seas gets compacted into you you just get opened out into much more than what you where all the old boundaries of your been blown apart that's what it. C C would i urge other people to get a horse or start i wouldn't because you can't sadly tough luck it's not going to happen you have to get your life and. Makes you ever hungry for only those artistic experiences that best do what open and make you ready for a new kind of. The right sound poet but not crazy on the power of the classic Greek tragedy. For this week's program can catch up on any of our episodes you may have missed by going online to b.b.c. To Kate slash. Am searching for us and please do let us know what you think about. B.b.c. Cultural. I will be hip same time next week with more stories about is changing the world on the way until the. This is the b.b.c. 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