Welcome to do. Let you could join us hundreds of for refugees. Undertaking hazardous johnnies by boat to escape overcrowded Living Conditions in very few camps many people smugglers to escape to. Some make it many dont some even end up in indonesia after floating for months out in the open sea because no country will allow them entry. At least a 1000000. In. Most escaped of the military crackdown. And now the latest in the place to. Which. Theyve been promised an excuse to a better life what they got was anything but. These images were filmed by one of the traffickers he later abandoned the ship. A 19 year old survivor pocketed the phone a searing record of the abuse he too suffered. The rakhine sailors came on the lower deck with sticks and fan belts and started beating us indiscriminately when the women went silent instantly with the land catch resisting the beat as mercilessly bruising had spruiking of years breaking hence they wreak havoc on us. Like many wanted to excuse the camphor malaysia where smugglers promised a Bright Future now hes back in his squalid home in a bangladesh refugee camp stuck with around a 1000000 others like him most of them had exclaimed a military crackdown in myanmar and 2017 which un investigators sat amounted to genocide they avoided death but for many their new life is one of misery. Yeah. There through the hinge of cams are very overcrowded. Because mother was hunting potential victims every day with a very different. Its a multimillion dollar trade and involves people from various sectors including fisherman who want a slice of the proceeds and even running to refugees themselves. Some want to help families real night. This is the husband of julie hard bagel. She was told she would take less than a week to meet him in malaysia her failed journey turned into a nightmare. Where you. One day my sick sister got into an argument with the smuggler when she was coming back from the toilet and slapped him in the face. Fears of getting it out of it wheres the smuggler beat my sick sister with a leather belt and. When she bled to death. Still stories like these arent enough to scare off the desperate nearly 500 were injured muslims crossed over to malaysia this year about 400 others landed in neighboring indonesia but many more failed returning home with Horror Stories to tell or died at sea before they could. Rights watch he joins me now from bangkok fairly is a nasty thing done to prevent the smuggling of an already persecuted people. Well quite clearly not in fact these are syndicates that have been operating for a very long time with the primary send to malaysia they have been changing their tactics as needed depending on the sort of enforcement they see in places like thailand or malaysia but the bottom line is that rohingya are subjected to horrible conditions open boats with limited food and water exposed the elements highly unsanitary and facing beatings and Sexual Harassment from the men who are supposed to deliver them to a new country this kind of smuggling is not new fairly why isnt any action being taken well i think you have almost a game of whack a mole where you have various different crackdowns in some places and the traffickers pop up in another place the reality is that theres a great deal of desperation in the camps there are almost no opportunities for people there and they see the possibility of getting to malaysia as being the Promised Land and many families are willing to mortgage whatever money and resources they have in the camps to try to get one person the malaysia who they expect will then be the person who will send back remittances and support the family into the future but Michelle Huntley appears to be the promised one when it comes to the actual practice of how the government is not accepting many of these people who arrive by boat in fact to some of them are detained and others spend months out at sea some of them even ending up in indonesia what does that say about the response ability of missions like militia in indonesia. Well malaysia should be accepting these people they should be bringing in the machine or they should be treating them as refugees and allowing them to undergo Refugee Status determination by the Un Refugee Agency and actually before the last year or so that was what malaysia generally was doing the situation changed during the covert 1000. 00 pandemic and also with a new government in malaysia that has frankly using a phobia as a point of reference in terms of its covert 1000 response that you know. The government the movie in ga seen the Prime Minister basically did nothing as rohingya have been increasingly target in malaysia by various different hate speech campaigns and its very sad that malaysia which used to be one of the champions for the row he has really fallen back so far and to go back to bung others where most of these refugees begin their. Journeys from these bunker theyre being able to manage nearly a 1000000 refugees singlehandedly bangladesh needs more support from the International Community and its not getting it thats a big problem there is a certain degree about donor fatigue that needs to be recognised everybody is appreciative of the fact that bangladesh received these people that they open the border and allowed them to come across but now bangladesh is increasingly taking a very hostile position towards the rohingya in some cases are trying to voluntarily move people to what is a de facto Prison Island char you know theyre trying to get the attention of the International Community to focus pressure on the government in myanmar and i think thats a lot of will goal but unfortunately theyre using the road. As a method to try to. Get the International Community to act and you know treating people badly to try to get more reaction from the International Community is not the right way forward. Speaking of those flood prone island refugees have already begun to be moved there. To be having initial reports as to how theyre doing well theres over 1600 of them there now many of them were duped into going and told that they might be at the head of a resettlement queue or would have livelihoods there are a lot of people who are quite unhappy you know theres a real lack of livelihoods there you know bangladesh has said that theyre going to allow them to fish and farm on that island but. Actual ground water is too salty for planting and the fishing theyre not allowing these people to have their own boats because they would leave so its essentially become a de facto Prison Island and thats thats a major problem people are unhappy and people have protested and they faced reprisals so that from robinson thank you very much for joining us on this for some though the journey across the bay of bengal in the andaman sea can end in tragedy but many are able to survive like the family name. It was he had to show held a funeral ceremony for his wife and daughter they left bangladesh in a rickety boat to join him in malaysia where he was working. But then he heard nothing from them. And that is that i think. When i went to malaysia i used to save parts of my salary i send money to my family every month and i want to save the money to pay for the bug she arranged the trip by herself and she did it without discussing it with me hed given them up to date but then a miracle. I saw on the news videos on the internet with about 100 ringing i landed here on a boat. Someone pointed out my wife and daughter to me in the images. Namaz wife image uma hes here with the people who left holding his 6 year old daughter. They do it all over the phone when i saw them i called my mother and my wifes mother and told them they were alive. That was the happiest day of my life. The boat carrying almost a 100 rangar refugees from camps in bangladesh was towed to indonesias some archer island by locals very very. The refugees said they spent 4 horrific months of sea surviving on rice nuts and rainwater and that at least one person died. Her parents. From malaysia shell was able to speak with his wife by phone he quit his construction job and made his way illegally by boat to indonesia. There he snuck into the refugee camp and found his family. I was only hoping to be happy and thinking about when i can live together with my husband again. Thank god he came here i am happy were here together now. But despite that stroke of fortune conditions in the camp a tough. They only have the small space to call their own. Sometimes they buy not so small extras from local market sellers to supplement the food break even. Though im very happy to meet my husband here but i feel sorry for my torso when she wants to eat something and we cant give her anything because my husband has no income or go the lives of no ma majeure and their daughter are governed by the rhythms of the camp but also by economic forces and immigration laws over which they have no control. But now they are living hand in hand one day at a time. Thats it for theres of course more on did. We leave you with the 2 latest members of the sesame street gang know what and as easy other sesame watch soaps 1st rolled into muppets made especially for the kids living in the refugee camps were back tomorrow with 3 of them. Where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one to the shadow and if you just pay for this one official information as a journalist i have walked off the streets of many can trust and they have problems are all the same 14 social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and gosh we can afford to stay silent when it comes to the fans of the humans on the scene or microphones who have decided to put their trust in us. My name is Jenny Harrison and part. As 2020 finally draws to him and you could all we would it is placing bets on oscar contenders people around the time of mexican jumping be welcome to my mind oh so well netflix finally win best picture thats coming up on arts and culture and later on the show. Musical genius would be fun beethoven reimagined as a comic book hero. And odd introspective often dark photos by one of germanys top actors who is enjoying time behind the camera. First in a normal year this would be whats called oscar season time when studios packed the cinemas with their best movies that was back in the day of course before carving 19 now things are a little different still hollywood is watching the last movies of the year with wide eyes and speculation is heating up heres more from our film reporter scott rocks. People say you know what are you concerned about an overreaction from a. 2021 could be the year netflix finally wins the oscar battle for best picture. The streaming giant has 3 big films in the running the trial of the chicago 7 set in 1968 gives an alternative spin on hippie history. And the plan was. I this one revolution looks like youre. Going to is what you should gary oldman stars as the man who brought film classic citizen kane in manc dissection of 1930 s. Hollywood is from new york to remove any distractions eliminated every excuse. And viola davis is a wild 1920 s. Blues singer and model raineys black bottom which features the final performance of the late actor chadwick boseman. Become a writer you can look at the contenders for cinemas biggest on or have never looked so diverse. Oscar favorites include judas in the black messiah about the f. B. I. Has infiltrated one of the black panther party. One night miami portrait of 4 civil rights giants including malcolm x. And muhammad ali. Because we are fighting. In which director Lee Isaac Chung tells his own immigrant story. 3 to 5 workers who were his family moved from korea to arkansas on the 1980 s. Become farmers. Through thing or in the acting categories pay close attention to Anthony Hopkins who turns in a late career master class as a patriarch suffering from dementia the father a bit confused something wrong. I mean. Beautiful and in our night to kate winslet and social ronan as 1900 centuries fossil hunters and secret lovers. But the big oscar front runner is no mad land from director. Frances mcdormand is eyeing her 3rd best actress award with a bare all performance as a woman living as a modern day nomad travelling the American West in a camper van. Theres no fun no madeleine one the Venice Film Festival and its the odds on favorite to take oscars top prize next year. Is just. Right im joined now by her film guys scott roxboro scott so the nominations are being announced in february the awards in april but already it looks like this could be the 1st best picture oscar for a netflix movie but do you think that it will be. Yeah im not quite sure i mean netflix has come really close before to winning the top prize winning best picture oscar i mean 2 years ago with roma they were within a hairs breath of it but this year i think theyre going to also fail the final hurdle i mean theyve got a lot of great films of the running this year but i think i think its going to be nomad land. Is in my opinion the best film of 2020 and i think its going to win best picture oscar and i got a little money on Frances Mcdormand winning her 3rd oscar her 3rd best actress oscar for this role i mean she plays a woman literally on the edge of society and her performance is astounding and its the most of unvarnished real and powerful performance ive ever seen from our and i think everybody else can just basically pack up and go home because Frances Mcdormand has this one in the bag ok so you if you were a betting man your money would be on mcdormand for best actress are you ready to place bets in the best actor category. Yeah this ones a little bit harder but i think the smart money has to be on a chad but those men for a nice black bottom. Both of course star black panther tragically died this year and this is a very final performance and its a real knock out and he plays a 1920 s. Blues musician whos really ambitious and striving to get ahead a really sort of a powerful powerful performance and because this is. The last performance because this is the last chance the cademy has to honor this amazing actor i dont think were going to miss out on this and i think hes definitely has his performance is definitely going to win best actor interestingly this is a netflix film and another netflix film could win best actor best supporting actor and another africanamerican actor could take that prize im speaking of delroy lindo he stars in the 5 blood film from spike lee playing a furious vietnam that whos also an avid trump supporter its a real raging performance thats gotten a lot of critical support and i think its picked to win best supporting actor next year ok scott so we could see for the 1st time 2 africanamerican actors take our top prizes thanks so much always a pleasure. Well if youve been watching d. W. Arts and culture you know that this is beethoven youre marking 250 years since the composers birth and illustrator haas is looking at the musical genius from a new angle comic book out in german is called god your mad man in golden boy. Larger than life a hero one of musics greats thats how we think of Ludwig Van Beethoven today bought berlin cartoonist mikhail ross has now taken the musical giant down off his pedestal and turned him into a comic hero. This is in november so this is with frozen fingers since its winter but what i find amazing is that all of the images we have of beethoven show him looking grumpy. To help people get an idea of beethoven ross turned to the composers childhood in bone a big source of inspiration with the accounts of beethovens then neighbors got freed and Cecilia Fisher does. Their incredibly direct theres so much detail beethoven is described as a serious child who doesnt laugh much the one who doesnt have much to laugh about and then suddenly when he gets piggy back he freaks out and then hes totally happy and cant stop laughing. With pen and ink ross paints a picture of a childhood marked by a sometimes violent father a 2nd rate tenor who drank the familys earnings away at the local tavern. In that side during beethovens time the idea of the von dickey indoor child prodigy 1st appeared. Beethovens father thinking his son is fairly talented fairly good on the piano sings hey i can make some money with this one ill turn this one into of wunderkind so he comes up with the concept of the golden boy he came up with this whole plan without realizing the true scope of his sons talent so his talent for the show. The only person in the whole story whoever forbade beethoven from playing his own music was his father who thought it was their accounts that the boy liked to improvise on the piano but his father was against it and banned him from doing it and he said stick to the notes and do not improvise listen to his ear. But how do you depicts the music of a brilliant composer. Ross does it with just a few strokes. 74 feet or more i listen to the music to see what images with there but then i had the problem that when it comes to beethovens music in 20 minutes there are just 5 images of music but 35 for the 1st bit of the story of a gifted child capable of creating whole worlds with sound but whose ears and digestion fail him a very human hero. Worthy of applause. As one of germanys top actors i think that is used to a pause and several movies a year as stage performances sell out within minutes and as if that werent enough hes also put out a book of photography. A train manicured almost beyond recognition. Forest on the back of a trailer. Photos that capture the absurdity of the big city and natures battle with the human world. Photos taken across the globe by one of germanys top actors plus. He captures these moments with his mobile phone some of them just odd others tragic. And i remember that moment with the man in front of the Mattress Store he was snoring and. Thought. Thats wonderful it was so embarrassing standing there in the cold knowing that my hotel room is 5 minutes away and he has someone sleeping on the street and just a metre away on the other side of this glass there are a 5 unused beds just in from the bed and. We meet up with lars iding at the museum for photography in his hometown berlin finding a says people wouldnt be so interested in his photos if you werent already a famous actor. It was pretty smart of me to place my bets on acting for 20 years so that i could finally put out a photo book. In German Television films and theaters i did his face is everywhere publish his photos on instagram under the pseudonym or to stick disco. The photos point out flaws and weaknesses enough. Human existence despite our best efforts with admirable everything with achieved our lives and the lives of all beings are at risk if we cant curb our appetite for more. Dollars and these images you cant escape because were all part of the system isnt a were also in tangled in capitalism so how can we even look at it from the outside and denounce it because but a little was. The seemingly harmless images that one Second Glance reveal painting. Just as when he was on the theater stage last iding a brings the world to us in its contradictions and tiny fail his perfection is out of reach. And we are out of time thats it for this edition of arts and culture but you can find us online at www dot com slash culture to see their top man take care and stay safe. 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