. and kickboxing is seen as a men's polish way patricia grew up but that hasn't stopped her putting up a tough fight. it's good to have your company the world food program ses there has been no response to an appeal it made for humanitarian help for people facing hunger in madagascar last week the u.n. issued a so-called flash appeal be island countries agricultural season was ruined by the worst drought in a decade now because of that drought more than a 1000000 people inside the madagascar will need food aid this year of the pandemic has added to the hardship the seasonal work that people often rely on has been a fix it by the lock down. a country desperate. children malnourished. parents trying but often failing to find food. for my children didn't eat fish 3 days and then died because i their mother couldn't feed them i know it was the famine that killed them this is madagascar's 3rd consecutive year of drought in the south one in 3 people is facing life threatening shortages of food and water. there then live in a where so poor that we have nothing to eat because of the drought in desperate efforts to keep hunger at bay many are now mixing white clay with tar and fruit and eating it. story if we had something proper to eat we would never of eaten it but we didn't know that white clay was edible before i tried to mix it in it what good will the u.n. has launched an appeal for $76000000.00 u.s. dollars in emergency aid the race to feed madagascan has been made more complicated though because of the global pandemic. we are trying to be out there urgently right now to save lives. which are at risk the covert 19 situation has of course made everything much more difficult. without more help soon this humanitarian crisis will only get worse. for more on this we've invited sean exhibit on to the program he is the walt food program's country director for medic ask him to to the program mr z. bill we've we've just heard that the hunger crisis in medica sky is going to worsen if help doesn't arrive soon how how urgent is the situation would you say. the situation right today is a very alarming force of a reason because there has been an extreme drought for the past year and. basically no rain except one single raining december in order so some other guests . have a 2nd reason is that the harvest in the last year which is taking place in a pretty major was extremely cool and therefore the people have exhausted most of the. stuff so you have the un's appealed for 76000000 done is to address the crisis has that money come through. this flush upbeat as you did coordinate has been launched by the united nation and international community and the government of madagascar but so far we don't see any result that or what does that tell us that they could be this this this crisis all these people going hungry we just saw in our report families resorting to eating clay and leaves to survive and yet people aren't responding to this agent appeal. let's say that this is this is quite a normal situation in terms of the lungs the timings of the respond to this kind of upbeat we just hope that disappeared will be heard by the international community that it will be widely spread and then some responses positive responses will come in the coming weeks and months if he doesn't come. in the sense that we are hoping you really we think we. unfortunately we go from a very quick to court situation or do you prefer i mean situation if nursing. is down in that the show of what we are doing which some is about nurse. already to i like the suffering of these people. that's shown an example from the world food program and medical thank you so. thank you. our next story is in zimbabwe away 3 senior government figures who died of 19 have been buried in state funeral they include foreign minister cecil moya transport minister and prisons and correctional services comma saw had its eyes of morning some bubbly initially recorded low numbers a call that 19 has recently experienced a spike in cases it is believed a new more infectious variant up the virus came to the country when thousands of zimbabweans living in south africa returned home for the holiday season. he was at a state funeral in the capital harare and he sent us this report. it's a dark day for the zimbabwe as the nation mourns 3 national heroes who sit down to call the 9 to zimbabwe has been struck by the new strain of the call the 19 virus about 32000 infections have been recorded so far and more than 1000 deaths today we witnessed the burial of all 3 of zimbabwe's top hierarchy in the political circles zimbabwe's so far last fall ministers to call the ninety's and citizens are now calling the government to procure vaccines you know order to serve god the nation from the fear that countered by the . government has already said it is now negotiating with china and russia to procure some of the vaccines that are needed in the country. and it's a privilege reporting and they and to now and other feel this one in ghana jerry john rawlings the former president of the country and one of the country's most beloved leaders has been laid to rest his burial in the military cemetery in a crowd followed a service attended by dignitaries and the general public warnings as he was caught later military regime for more than a decade before running in democratic elections and winning twice rowlings died in november last year the force of his stance has not been made public. many names came out to pay their last respects to j.j. warnings at the burial service and they told us how they will remember him before long before his car is marked. because he was. given. to us so. there's a. very big huge 3. he was a father to all. who was very. he wouldn't hesitate to speak his mind so i wish. i'm not bad he said. and i hope that's the future. you know. and be strong and. well kick boxing champion patricia has humbled many opponents in the brain but she says her success is often undermined by prejudice but that hasn't she hasn't at that stop now she's training and mentoring other women and girls and she's determined to stem the sexual harassment in sport. with 13 titles to him named patricia is the reigning world champion in the female lightweight division. a lot of courage to stand up it takes a lot of courage. to make it to the top i never know when you make it to the top some people still doubt but if you listen to the voices of other people than listening to yourself you find out you block out your story from what really you want to be. throughout her career she has faced negativity in discrimination in uganda kick boxing is considered immense on the sport so patricia's rise to the top was an uphill struggle. people are not going to and that's what i want to change. to be one for you to want to. i choose to be a child your wife because when i was a young that had a lot of troops bedrooms don't come usually. so i reached a point whereby i said i have followed enough but people are turning me but what do i have to tell myself the 2 time world champion isn't just a tough opponent in the ring she also supports female athletes who have suffered sexual harassment and violence has a very clear message for the paper treating people are mentally sick because you have something to show to the watch but someone is actually limiting access to reach where you want to go many of the girls require crying about sexual harassment a lot of them but it's never occurred to me because once i showed them what i wanted. no one even ever thought about coming that this underscores for me my school days the hell out of today patricia knows that you can't just let have just speak for themselves in your home feeling the 21 year old product club pool mostly young female keystrokes and she believes that hope for a future with the young generation is specially if new does also work towards creating a safe environment to fit the develop their talents they can do this we come out of that we are actually we are the beginning of everything. this year she is focused on defending her world title she is convinced that his acumen so inspire more african girls to stay focused on. well she's inspired me that doesn't fall program city based on forward slash africa we're also on facebook and on twitter more content for you to see we're always keen on gauging with you about what we do here on the program. a fact. how is a virus spread. why do we have it and then we'll. just through the text and i weekly radio show is called spectrum if you would like any information on the phone a virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us and. science. literature invites us to see people in particular. and i like to see how it sounds as the kids find. right. to vote. on youtube. today jewish music composed joining the nazi dictatorship most of which has never been heard in public before welcome to arts and culture also coming up today. should there be a vaccine passport so you can go to a concert or a club the jury is out on this one including manages in the cultural scene. and mozart. reporter sara willis revisits a very different cuba a year after the project started. jewish music composed between 933 and 145 was mostly hidden away and forgotten as the nazis were in power now 75 years later with a project called laban's melodeon all melodies of life the clarinet is no bench himself the grandson of holocaust survivors has brought this music back to life i'm one of the resulting concerts is in a synagogue here in berlin on the occasion of holocaust remembrance day. this is a melody of light. peace was composed by mario medley when he was a very young man living in florence. a short time later mellie was murdered by the nazis as melody his being rehearsed for a holocaust remembrance concert led by berlin's nimrod ensemble. from mine if i mean it's. some of my family members survived some of them were murdered and. so these melodies are very sentimental to me it's all very personal for me. it's also personal for a new adventure. leader of the nimrod ensemble he's dedicating the levens melodeon project to mario malley and other composers. this is the young man. and his family mario many didn't survive but some other parts of the family did and it's very important for them that their memory of the younger mario melly will be remembered and will be commemorated. not then and the nimrod ensemble rehearsed their program at the apostle paul church in berlin. the product is about those people and their life and how in a terrible situation. in haiti they managed to create something and when i spoke with some of the survivors of the for the families they explained how those metal days. help them to survive the war. horse. this is the 2nd concert in the levens melodeon series with more planned to follow in the coming months the lutheran church as a partner of the project and secures the financing. shifted to the history of the show is present on every corner here and now there are some 30 to 40000 young jews living in berlin who are grandchildren or great grandchildren of survivors and have come here from israel and we can interact with each other as normal neighbors like before dominance. nor financial lamas from tel aviv he moved to berlin 12 years ago to study the clarinet he also has ancestors who were victims of the holocaust but for him and his ensemble this project isn't just about remembering the fates of individual people. 0 whose music together was the stories is a. testimony for the extermination of the jewish people when we play this music. we opened a subject and the discussion in the car. discourse of today's world. laban's melodeon our music against forgetting and for a better world. this talk of museums reopening soon here in europe because they can manage social distancing but what about mass entertainment finance. holes and clubs have suffered for almost a year now the only license the end of the tumbles seems to be vaccination then perhaps your basic rights of freedom of movement will be returned with a vaccine passport but is that a solution we've been talking to some cultural managers here in germany resulting in some rather surprising opinions. going to a rock concert a bar or a club is not considered an essential activity so it would be legitimate for organizers to demand proof of tax a nation before people were allowed to attend their events medical experts estimate that between 70 and 90 percent of the population would need to be vaccinated for herd immunity to be reached that requires the majority of people to choose protecting not just themselves but others as well but the idea of excluding those who don't get vaccinated doesn't sit well with everyone not even those whose livelihoods are affected by the lock down. hawkers the for us it can't be a question of somehow excluding one certain growth and including others just so we can get back to clubbing. that would completely contradict our whole purpose. that's the sequence of 3 d. if. this is not enough people are willing to be vaccinated then cultural institutions would have to remain closed is there really what they want we ask this . cinema owner. do so every sector has to decide for itself i wouldn't want to discriminate and i would rather continue with restrictions going to divide people into 2 groups the disciplined and the reluctant to. discipline you. can the cultural sector really afford to remain in a limbo of semi normality with hygiene guidelines and social distancing rather than favoring the vaccinated and perhaps returning to full houses do we really want to embrace through plastic sheeting and only enjoy the arts at a distance well into 2022 a vaccine passport debate that risks dividing society even more it is not an appealing prospects as the artistic director of the national theatre of weimar was in fewer not myth about it there are some 400 people working here including all the artists who does this one of if i want to get the orchestra members back into the orchestra pit for instance and say that anyone who wants to play here has to be vaccinated then i start dividing people here and i wouldn't do that from his discipline or if you're a one to those who would wish to do so what's the solution appeals to common sense don't seem to be effective enough at the facts or scope of denial lists and other conspiracy theorists are not in the majority but they are vocal should dodging ones responsibility to the rest of society have consequences after all no one needs to go to a restaurant or the theatre let's go veba feels this kind of argument could be counterproductive he thinks the debate is evidence of desperation among political leaders. from these are formed of the moment i'm not in favor of that kind of separation we've been having the discussion about limiting rights and freedoms on so many levels sometimes to such an extreme that there's no coming back from it and would vote and the political radius of what is actually of virological pandemic is so wide. that i think we really need to be careful so cost of war most of for those who drink of the middle class people in the arts sector continue to hope that hard line anti facts or is will eventually realize that the answer is not in t. cinemas but a little jack is too many people resist however then a vaccine passport may be unavoidable. last year sarah willis french on plan with the burn in for the monarch and d.-w. reporter realized a personal dream she travelled to have an a in cuba to meet and work with musicians that on a project for d.w. called mozart a mambo exploring the connection between volved dance and the latin dance of bamboo which originates from cuba now she's been back to a quieter cuba to catch up with her musician friends from one year later. january 2021 a much quieter havana than usual facemasks a compulsory everywhere of long lines for food a total lack of tourists and absolutely no live music on the street was the controversy i i came back here for a concert with the have an odd lyceum orchestra to celebrate our project mozart he mumbled the concert will now be streamed without an audience but we are simply happy to play together again. we can thank you. but. today i feel good because we never have to sing but otherwise we're all stressed because of the situation here and everywhere else. reaching the broader viola and have your country you concert master of the orchestra visit me for a coffee see 2 at the apartment i stay in in havana was that. so we do the current. week for cubans music is like how they really you know it's necessary for a life. i mean we need to but i have the feeling cuba is very special if it is in your body you need to dance you need to sing you need to lay out how did you feel in this time where you couldn't play but it doesn't feel when you're really sad because we felt every day that this energy was missing this passion we have and we play. it have several projects so we have the orchestra with pepe we have a string orchestra with maestro. we have cortez. every week we had 2 to 3 concerts. have nothing to do except practice. simply. not something we do you're in the lockdown have you won the talent to combine or an online cuban music competition with his version of bach's shack on i had no live music yet here in havana so i asked have you know if you would maybe play something for me up here so at least we hear something live you think one of the palace. comes in the market at the moment we have nothing to do suddenly everything's cancelled again but we have the say salary so we're very lucky. and. it's wonderful to be on a have on a rooftop in the winter sun i've really enjoy. being back here but it has been sad to see the difficulties people are facing here right now but the positivity of my cuban musician friends always shines through and today i even saw a little sign of hope the 1st live street music i have seen here on this trip enjoy . and all the stories from the world about some culture on our website at d w dot com slash culture but that's all for this edition thanks for watching and do join as again. complex when china imposed a national security law on hong kong last year and promised that the principle of one country 2 systems and the basic rights that trials would be up the critics point to a rapid or roshon of freedom said my guest this week is michael cole beijing member of hong kong's legislative council and deputy china's national people's congress. conflicts. were all set to get to go beyond. government. take on the world. although there are all of the stories that matter to you. mike. brooks a good. thing. we are here is actually on fire. like we were. when we were. 80 percent of americans at some point in our lives will experience hardship listen. to. the frankfurt. international gateway to the best connection road and rail. located in the heart of europe connected to the whole world. experienced outstanding shopping and dining offers and try our services. bialik asked. managed by from. this is the the only news live from the european union increases the pressure on vaccine the new fast track astra zeneca as the company suffers production problems in its european plants and brussels demands a coded vaccines from 2 british plants plus. be shared with europe astra zeneca as paul says his company's contract with the block does not stipulate delivery deadlines are also on the program leasing brush are great properties and offices of jailed kremlin critical of save the valley and the homes of other russian politicians will bring you the latest from moscow. today is the international holocaust when that prince day 76 years after the liberation of the nazi death camp auschwitz the world is called on to come right the 6000000 jews and millions of other victims of naziism and to never forget. i'm soledad o'brien come to the program european union has told the drugs mecca astra zeneca that it must supply the block with more doses of its covered 19 vaccine brussels has publicly expressed its frustration after the company announced delays 2 deliveries blamed on lower than expected production i think e.u. based plans the company responded to the use demand by describing delivery dates of its contract with brussels as targets rather than legally binding deadlines be used as a shortfall that should be made up with those is produced in the u.k. which the company says should go to britain because it placed its order 1st is e.u. health commissioner stella kenney archytas i don't need. our united. front. by the company to. even be. not being able to. mean. what. that's going to morph from do don't do comes from the guy who bought us in brussels welcome go home today has been a day of claims counterclaims an angry messaging between the 2 sides i'm going to bring us up to date i think to a key points theory akitas made here and one being that the best efforts clause that apparently is in that confidential contract that the huge commission now has asked us resented got to put on the table so that everybody can see that there is a clear commitment to deliver the vaccines promised 80000000 in the 1st quarter not just the 31000000 that astra zeneca is now indicated they could deliver so making clear that a best effort clause is not an excuse but it's pretty much a standard if you buy a product that hasn't been produced yet and the 2nd key thing that korea kate is made clear today is that there is no hierarchy or factories astra zeneca is a clover company if there is a supply problem as let's say in india or europe or the u.k. it doesn't matter it cannot be that just one client and the u.a.e. you being the biggest client has to carry that burden off that supply problem so does she have or else one pressure can be e.u. exert. she made clear today that there is no talk about export ban because obviously a number of journalists trace that questions about vaccine nationalism and she said none of none of that is on the table what the e.u. seeks is fairness and they want that the contract they have signed is fulfilled but it was very clear at the end of that press conference she said that no company should be under any illusion that the e.u. does not have the means to understand what's happening so the message cheer for companies is don't all this for a fool we know what you are doing and the transparency mechanism that has been suggested by the european union will also show them and that is if you if you want a warning shot that now if that scenes are exported from the e.u. the e.u. will monitor this and potentially that could also lead to a ban but she ruled it out for the moment and we're talking about a vaccine this from astra zeneca that hasn't even been approved for use in the e.u. yet and now there are questions about its efficacy in older patients so what can we expect to hear from the european medicines agency really have to wait until the end of the week that's when the approval from the european medical agency is expected there are reports that data is still coming in from astra zeneca as we speak right now and that there is not a lot of data on the group of elderly people of $65.00 plus only 6 to 8 percent have been participating in trials and that is not a lot that is less and then of the vaccines that have so far been approved so it may be that the european medical agency will give a lesser approval for older age groups on on that particular vaccine for master zeneca but that we really have to see we can only speculate at the moment but i thank you for that gayle go watch us in brussels. well here in germany more than 54000 people have died from cover at 19 across the country makeshift memorials have been set up to commemorate those who lost their lives with restrictions on gatherings the memorials of become a place for friends and family to remember their loved ones. it's the 8th sunday that close john schmidt has come here to set out candles a visual reminder of those who have died from cove at 19. he's not the only one doing this. germany may have done better than other countries at the beginning of the pandemic but the death toll now stands at more than 50000. and that's about it yes during the 1st wave of other countries had these kinds of numbers and i felt like we just accepted it here with a shrug. we thought we needed images to make death something you can see. that's why we started this initiative. in much the 30 but. many people come here to talk about the disturbingly high number of new cases others come because they've lost someone else i'm far from a father it's just a question of where you can show grief or where can you go to experience this feeling peacefully like in a cemetery and that's how it should be here that i'm sorry others want to make a statement to show that the corona virus is a real danger. it's the feel of the there are so many people who just deny the whole thing we should all just hold back to keep our distance so that this pandemic ends and not so many people have to die it is a few toward even this time. at another coronavirus memorial in berlin ingrid johnson is mourning robert muntari a friend from new york he died of covert at the age of 72 she says he was a man of many talents iron steel and then for none of his many talents was that he was a lyric baritone and sang in different operas it's always discomforts i think that this memorial here in this historic square is a beautiful place for him especially because so many. wonderful concerts have taken place here and he would have loved to experience them. proper nuns are is now more into johnson wants to make sure other clean a virus victims are also visible. i think the all we hear are coronavirus statistics but they represent real people we need spaces public spaces where we can remember these people mention that in an. every afternoon a candle in the german president's residence bears witness after easter a statement morial service is planned for the victims. much of russia where police have detained the brother of kremlin critic alexei the valley after raiding addresses connected to the opposition leader. of his attempt to break down the door of mr nifong is out wife's apartment and searched his home they also write in the offices of his anticorruption fund and his team's unity studio searches come after his team held mass protests in cities across russia on sunday calling for his release from prison. straight to moscow that we were joined d.w. correspondent in a welcome i'm going what more can you tell us about these raids. what we're seeing seems to be a flurry of police searches and raids across mont moscow as you say phil in the apartments of these allies that his office is according to the head of his anti corruption fund needs personal doctor has also been detained now the police apparently are saying that it's connected these searches are connected to a criminal case that they've opened into apparently illegal calls to protest last weekend there were those mass protests in russia all over russia that these team called for and the police have also in connection to that it seems been searching of the apartment of union of by their knees wife and outside of that apartment my colleagues from the russian service managed to speak to her lawyer let's have a listen. of that we can see that there are mass searches owns of the employees of the anti corruption funds today. clearly being treated in a biased 20 by authorities and their right to legal protection being violated. i mean the transfer lawyer i would think that at the moment you do is right on being violated and so the rights of others who are not being allowed to see their lawyers . will sit with me unfortunately at the moment this is a common practice and believe me. i'm really sure wouldn't know why these rights happening now well it seems from the authorities point of view at least that these raids could be part of various criminal cases that have been opening opened after the protests last weekend about 20 criminal cases so far have been opened against protesters including for violence against the police. for calling for an authorised protests and for blocking traffic for example and it does seem that we've seen similar sort of criminal cases being opened in the past after big protests and some critics say that those are an attempt to intimidate protesters which could be the case especially since july these team has called for another round of protests this coming weekend the mission in moscow thank you. germany's parliament has marked international holocaust remembrance day commemorating the 6000000 jews and millions of other victims of nuts isn't that a falls on the anniversary of the liberation of the nazi concentration and extermination camp at auschwitz beyond the very 2nd world war the speakers at the ceremony in the bundestag award against the resurgence of anti semitism semitism. day of remembrance for the victims of the brutal nazi regime representatives of the country's jewish community took part in the commemoration alongside german officials including chancellor angela merkel and president. this year the ceremony also marked 700 years of jewish life in germany shiloh took no bloke holocaust survivor and former head of the central council of jews warned of a worrying recurrence of anti-semitism. it was initially but i don't need to present you with a timeline of anti semitic incidents in our country they take place openly blatantly almost daily conspiracy theories are becoming more and more popular thing once again anti semitism is bringing in votes it has become socially acceptable again the bundestag president echoed cannot block's concerns and says need us metal it's devastating to have to admit that our culture of remembrance does not protect us from a brazen reinterpretation or even a denial of history that you thought rich nor does it protect us from new forms of racism and anti semitism just those reading in schoolyards on the internet or in conspiracy theories on steel reinforced by. the ocean spark and death camp remain the chilling reminders of just where such thinking can lead this year the site lies empty due to the pandemic with the 76th anniversary of its liberation on line by an ever smaller group of survivors there is concern that the lessons of the past could die with the witnesses the director of the site's museum says that virtual events are no much for a visit. and you just don't get a cup of the for nothing will replace the opportunity to experience the place the authentic space because this isn't just about seeing and listening this is about looking around walking around touching experiencing the perspective and understanding. it's of in ski hopes the site can open again soon so that people can once more come to remember those murdered in the name of not cism. i'm up today brant gough will have more of the top up next here on day to move to help them along as your business. of the day. it's about billions. it's about how work. it's about the foundation of a new world order the new silk road. china wants to expand its influence with this trade network. putting up there's a sharp morning wherever accept money from the new superpower will become dependent on.

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