welcome to news asia glad you could join us the biden administration has begun an overhaul of america's of gonna sound strategy and it finally wants india at the table in a leaks letter to afghan president a shotgun e u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken outlined a series of steps to jumpstart the stalled peace process one of them was a un backed conference of regional powers and stakeholders. we intend to osce the united nations to convene foreign ministers and boys from russia china pakistan iran india and the united states to discuss a unified approach to supporting peace in afghanistan. renaissance has a troubled history with its neighbors in a complex web of competing interests and proxy powers but increasingly india is a new focus for diplomatic efforts to broker a lasting peace the u.s. has made clear that it welcomes new delhi's engagement india has fostered close ties to the afghan government in recent jazz in the form of billions of dollars in aid and development last month indian prime minister narendra modi gave his support to a peace process that is led owned and controlled by a. and joining me now from delhi for more ensure would you throw his an award winning journalist and reports on india's foreign relations for the indian express newspapers or would you welcome indian prime minister net in the room or the once the peace process to be afghan led and afghan controlled as does the u.s. state department how does the current proposal from antony blinken involving 6 nations make it so. british you know the the indian position has always been that the gun to start should be of gun owners of gun lead and of gun control and it also had you know about 3 or 4 red lines one thing that should be the reduction in violence of women's rights should be respected and constitutional. principles should be of the. now in that india is finally part of the negotiating table in on and on the part 2 words peace in afghanistan this has been a u.s. led proposal which which was revealed last week through a letter by the u.s. secretary of state and now india is expected to be finally be part of the table after being on the sidelines for almost a couple of decades now so what does india bring to the table to reduce. of india has invested in afghanistan in its reconstruction and redevelopment. in a big gain a major gain the last 2 decades since 2001 after the $911.00 attacks and it spent close to $3000000000.00 in the reconstruction and redevelopment and it has developed that constancy very carefully because you know it essentially wants to counter pakistan's influence in afghanistan which has been of problem for india from india s. perspective terrorism emanating out of afghanistan and pakistan and across the border terrorism has been a major security challenge if you remember about 2 or 3 decades back when after the afghan war sort of ended the element be heirloom and from the from from the afghan border afghan territory they moved to the schmidt so that has been a major security challenge for india so india has has wanted that it should be involved in securing of gunnies stance peace and prosperity so that it is able to. you know have a seat and not be undecided like you said in there want to come to pakistan's influence but then endeavor to find itself sitting at the talks table with partners and with dry mouth 2 countries with whom relations haven't always been the best let's just put it that way are you also have russia or just been a traditional indian ally who is expected to be at the talk table but most of the patterns is too happy with india being part of this process so i'm just wondering how do these 6 nations get together despite these nations having converse divergent interests. well you. had the name at the right part what has happened is although the countries have expressed their position that it should be afghan led a gun owner not gun control but all the processes have been lead controlled and owned by other players other actors in in the region and that has been a major challenge part of gandhi stance and the peace process now if it has to take off all the regional players made a decision to eye with each other that the india versus pakistan or india vs china russia versus us all the countries have to have the stakes have to have the skin in the game for the peace process to move forward in a in a pragmatic in a feasible manner and that is the major challenge for this peace process which has been fragile as you know in the last year or so that has been very evident. you speak to the ear people of the around government as well i wonder how our government officials are viewed the involvement of so many missions in a peace process that is meant to benefit them. yes. you're absolutely right a grand government has always wanted it. the peace process to be led by dent but unfortunately as the realities down on the ground they are they are one. entity or one player in this in the in the mix. and as well as the americans. having cut a deal last year now. more country than more stakeholders are now in the game and this see some this see as not so benign influence and some feeling can contribute to or sort of a positive repast fair for all the constitutional gains that they have acquired over the last 2 decades surely draw a reliever there for the time being but thank you so much for joining us thank you thank you for. friday marks the 10th anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern japan causing the deaths of some 800000 people the tsunami wave triggered by the magnitude 9 earthquake hit the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant causing a reactor meltdown and the evacuation of up to 150000 people only chernobyl compares to the scale of this disaster. a 300 square kilometer exclusion zone around the power plant remains in place and contains the memories of a tragedy that's to find the lives of survivors not me it's a ghost town situated just a few kilometers from the fukushima nuclear power plant the only thing left here is memories from march 27th. samuel cano grew up here nowadays he rarely visits the family hive. it lies in the exclusion zone. well it's been too dangerous to live ever since. to call it what i don't find it time missed it still is that i feel more that everything has gotten worse. now there's just silence here. but sammy o'connor is still haunted by the sound of the tsunami. and the image of the wave destroying everything in its path is stuck in his mind. already there in a well i have to respect nature these are nature's warning signs that you must trust the earth with care. you got of ok you can feel. some you used to work at the power plant now he wants nothing more to do with nuclear energy. one look at the area explains why the banks littering the ground are filled with radioactive soil an entire city has been eradicated and almost no one wants to live here cleaning up the damage will take generations thousands are busy on the site of the nuclear plant but the toughest work is yet to come west. there's no blueprint for the work here and even though we're making progress you still come up against problems you didn't anticipate. you can you want to do much of. the work is recover spent nuclear fuel and make sure the reactors a constantly pumps with cooling water the water is purified but it's still contaminated and it may have to be dumped into the ocean at some point. the area is still in a state of emergency according to greenpeace. we're only in year 10 over lucas austin will be going on for at least the rest of the century. japan has invested billions of euros rebuilt sounds and constructed entirely new ones but they are mostly empty filled only with those who work at the power plant or the elderly. semi o'connor who hates the word reconstruction he says nothing will be like it was before. the gravesite of his family lies in the exclusion zone no sure not over but just look at what i have to put on the kinds of annoying things i have to put up with just to visit a grave site it won't be over tomorrow or in 10 years or even decades from now that's why sammy o'connor feels compelled to talk about what happened on march 11th 2011. and they're marking another tragic anniversary this week it's been 20 yeahs since the famous bull does off of god is on valley were destroyed by the taliban but on tuesday night hundreds gathered to see one ancient statues a time thanks to a 3 d. projection for a few hours of virtual replica feet the alcove whether 55 meter high but the had stood for centuries it kept off the data remembering one of recent history's whilst acts of god spoke on them as. i actually have mixed feelings. on the one hand i feel upset because the 3 d. image reminds me once again it is empty here. on the other hand i feel happy that we have the chance to see the image of the border again. that we get to see once more the great heritage of mankind and that gives us a good feeling. that the world was shocked when the taliban blew up the bombing on board those in 2001 explosives and rocket fire would use these cultural treasures to rubble $1500.00 yards off they walk into the cliff face we leave you with that today and see you next time but. why are people forced to hide in trucks. there are many reasons. there are many answers. and they are. many stories. make up your own. w. made for mines. a new craze is sweeping the art world highly encrypted it digital works being sold for millions of euros why are collectors racing to buy art they can't even hang on a wall that's coming up on arts and culture and. hoping for democracy in sudan film director had huge kuka talks about his country's struggle for peace. but 1st a decade after the earthquake and tsunami that caused nuclear meltdown to japan's fukushima power plant artists in the country are still coming to grips with the catastrophe a new exhibition in the city of mito in the prefecture next to fukushima is giving artists space to reflect on the nation's trauma and on how to explain what happens to the next generation. today on. this is the fukushima exclusion zone a japanese artists collective has used this no man's land for an art project exploring the restricted area around the ruined nuclear plant and placing artworks the public will only be able to access them once the restrictions have been lifted until then the website for the project remains a blank page that's displayed as part of an art exhibition in me to a city about 150 kilometers from the exclusion zone. the contemporary art center in me toll is now featuring these and other artworks exploring artists reflections on the triple disaster 10 years on. the art center was damaged by the 2011 earthquake but it wasn't affected by the nuclear accident that allowed curator utaka he said to address the catastrophe early on by documenting artists activities. like this recording made in the aftermath of the disaster. we're going to that that is us the affected area and they started to do some volunteer work but afterwards they actually use their. techniques to sort of. at ease and heal the damage inside the people. he karo fuji was one of them immediately after march 11th he went to forests with extremely high levels of radiation and film there he felt driven to create a memory of that time. that it's very difficult to create a work of art when such a catastrophe has occurred to me as a question but when i started shooting with my camera it wasn't with the intention of creating art but rather to record. it. as for my comment her. husband must. 10 years later he addresses the issue of discrimination against the people of fukushima who are regarded as being contaminated traumatizing them yet again in his documentary a teacher conducts an exercise with her students labeling them as inferior or superior depending on where they live so they can experience the strawman and reflect on. and all that go on without that. though on lost but that's not too much he caro fuji's goal is to pass on the memory of the catastrophe almost no traces of the destruction remain visible in neato today people seem to have moved on. but the artists in this exhibition don't want to forget especially in a country where natural disasters are a constant reality. comes in and i think it is a reality that there will be a catastrophe at some point in the future in japan or elsewhere in the world as it was preparing for it is a very important issue. that's why we worked with the children has topics. that were smashed. in the last room of the exhibition there are no artworks just a space for visitors to reflect and express their feelings it's an attempt to make art a platform for building a collective memory in order to move forward. people have their own memory to the disaster if you have experienced it but we just didn't have on our day to night that talk about talking about it something different so organizing an exhibit both sort of a given opportunity for people to. have to that disaster and also to talk about it. more art news now for the 1st time ever christie's auction house is selling off a work of purely digital art the collage by artist b. people does not exist anywhere as a physical artwork only as highly encrypted data there are just a few of the thousands of images contained in it and christie's on why an auction ends thursday morning new york time and potential buyers are already bidding millions to try to get it. this is the latest in a movement called crypto art and stick in the art world by storm t w reporter michael kruger is following this trend micro 1st of all who is this people guy and why do people want to spend millions of dollars on his artwork be people is mike winkle man and he's a graphic designer from the united states and he's one of the most prolific artists of all time maybe. for more than 12 years he produced every single day an artwork which he puts together in the end and the whole picture this is what we just saw and of of course he was also busy with other stuff and he's not only very productive some say he's really it genius when it comes to this graphic artist here we see him he's just maybe a new type of a not just looks like a typical nerd for me since by the game community and developed together with so many other artists maybe now even a new drama ok so very soon somewhere someone will own this piece of work that took years to make but what does that even mean to own a piece of crypto art how does that work it's all about and t. this is the basis of everything which makes everything possible an f. and f. t. that means fungible token and that means that it guarantees you ownership so. so it can be copied it's no it's not possible to copy it's written in the dock to base that this is the reach and all it's grainy and much of maybe the mona lisa in the louvre. he is able to make pictures of the mona lisa but she stays in the louvre hopefully has a rich you know and with and of t. and cook to artists it's just the same nearly but they only exist in the digital form term krypto are does this whole explosion around. i don't think many of us had heard of crypto art not long ago and now it is the big thing in the world what's going on when it's new it's fresh it's was and because of these auction at christie's maybe it's now a topic not only for this fringe group of digital ochsner. now it's available for us for everybody. musician growing but here is a few 1000000. and a lot of people are trying to experiment now with an f t like sample. she created the series with new bone flying fighters and sold this odd collection for $6000000.00 maybe you remember also this iconic cats on the internet mean for 11 the artist behind 10 it was just creating and if t. out of her and sold this as well full of millions so you can create nearly everything which is digital as an f t as an original a very exciting project was another one a very exciting into the it's a group of fans. bolt this print from banksy and burned it in a live stream so that the physical part of work now is destroyed but this still the digital ones and whoever owns it maybe will project it on a wall or maybe it's just going to be in a computer somewhere my could just wait to the bed you to rise absolutely thanks. at the berlin international film festival talented young filmmakers from around the world come together each year as badly not a talents a program where they can network and exchange ideas who over the years we've met quite a few talents including director dr cook up from sudan we checked in with him again to see how he's doing since his country's transition to democracy. wants to make films for his people we caught up with a filmmaker in berlin where he was taking a break from his troubled home country of sue down a land long beset by conflict and mismanagement the conversation about filmmaking soon shifted in august of last year together with 10 other artists who was arrested on what he says were trumped up charges as a long time supporter of peaceful change in sudan. we're on the steps of getting into peace but we're struggling with new things new things we're struggling with a technocrat government that can't really deal with running the government alongside this military and national security and the remainder of the old regime with the old mentality with the old mind shift so now we're we're set we're like we could do it it's this is the time in sudan's history where we could do it if we fail it's us failing but it still needs a lot of energy to go forward with we 1st met back in 2016 he was living in the nuba mountains at the time the middle of a war zone he took part in the belly knowledge talents program after making the award winning documentary beats of the antonov. and it's a film about music identity and what. you learned about the war using music so within that i construe you know music and culture on daily life and concentrate on people who. moved from new york to the nuba mountains to support his people in 2012 the film shows how locals cope with the civil war that surrounds them. you scared like you naturally scared everybody around you scared everybody's running to foxholes there's a moment when you come out that you. you want to make sure everybody's ok there's that moment of fear but as soon as you know is everybody ok then there's that moment of extreme happiness. bits of the antonov one the best documentary audience award at the 2014 toronto film festival. in 2018 he made his 1st fiction film akasha an antiwar comedy it premiered at venice. i wanted to make sure that we don't just keep having this heroic idea of war and war this amazing thing and become a man and become. a hero and to go to war so so i wanted to destroy that. despite the difficulties surrounding him continues to make films for his people he's now planning a film about the odyssey africans undertake in an effort to reach europe a kind of pan african road trip. that's it for this edition of arts and culture are leaving now though with a little glamour from paris fashion week the house of budget unveiled its new collection and a video shot at person's shot of the airport just a little reminder of what it was like to travel once upon a time. all set to go beyond this. as we take on the world. we're all about the stories that matter to. whatever it is meant. to be on fire made from. everyday comes from us and from planet. global mind is on its way to bring you more conservation. under me makes it the supreme. critics have a chance to. make a difference in. the line to environmental series of the $3000.00. when we take steps to restore a forest we play a part in something much bigger. when making a better world for our health and for the house for future generations. by replanting and managing the forests of standing we create new spaces where plants and animals comprise we 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