Germanys most ambitious t. V. Series ever babylon berlin. And a focus on new art and music from south africa. But first we need so what can it the reporter writes about islamist terrorism and the most dangerous men in the world now shes published her memoirs. Ranks right mckenna takes pause the roots of the jihad the german journalist is interested in the other side of the conflict but has the world in its grip in her memoir she writes of watching found is so good a hobbit is a beginning and was moved by this is to look for these encounters because i think the only way we can try to understand these people is if we talk to them and put forward our arguments if you read the book you will see that i spoke with the i asked commander in the car and. And i discussed. This it is gushing continued to the point when he put his hand in his right trouser pocket and i knew he was carrying a gun. And i knew i had to tone down my critical questions. But i did try to argue with these people and try to understand how they became who they are. As moroccan immigrants grow up between two cultures when the western world was attacked on september the eleventh two thousand and one supposedly in the name of religion and it felt a responsibility as both a muslim and a journalist. To fall on his five m. Honest but i met the widow of a firefighter who was killed in the september eleventh attacks and his widow said to us journalists i think the media and the politicians are also to blame for what happened on nine eleven. When we asked her why she said because nobody has explained why there are people who hate us so much and why they hate us. And. Young men become radicals mckennitt wants to comprehend to hear valid in one on one dialogue she speaks fluent arabic and she is honest two things that work to her advantage. Before interviews. Before i start an interview with jihadi leaders of jihad groups or foot soldiers or recruiters i always explain that im a journalist everyone knows i work for the Washington Post i make no secret of that we dont do undercover stories i tell them i will listen to your side of things i want to ask you critical questions because perhaps i heard things about you from other people but i will publish the answers you give me fairly in my article. You. Repeatedly hears of the conflict between. And so on is and shiites she meets people with moral concepts and lifestyles that a different to ours but does that make them on acceptable. Dialogue seems possible and can its networks bring her to the core of the so called. Come of course they made certain demands he must leave your mobile phone at the hotel and that mustnt carry any id or Electronic Devices no bags just a pencil a notebook. Thats the decision i had to make. I thought about it carefully and then i went to this meeting this meeting but i did leave an envelope with phone numbers and other instructions with my colleague who was waiting back at the hotel. Just in case i didnt return that evening and then up to where. She did return but the threats remain her constant companions and not just from my ass in two thousand and eleven she was thrown in jail by the egyptian intelligence service. That i moved in but they threatened me with all kinds of things tied me up blindfolded me and led me into a room where a woman was screaming would be mine to follow you and i thought now maybe they are going to rape me just with others and this was a point where as a journalist a woman and a human being you reach your limits i wish to begin you have to find a way to overcome them into order to overcome the fear. And then decide to continue so inside you that sorts of. Turmoil the questionable game of world powers and an ideology that plays on fear mckenna takes a close look at the conflict situation. This would be very. Mattick if we saw it from the perspective that this conflict is linked to islam and people hate the west because they are muslims that is exactly what these people want they want us as a society to see it as a problem between religions and that a religious conflict a religious war is happening. Or should not do the mad favor of five or twenty just. A memoir titled i was told to come alone will soon be published in arabic Souad Mekhennet wants to be high in the arab world to. Babylon berlin is germanys most ambitious and expensive t. V. Series ever it all started as a crime novel written by this man. Hes fascinated by germany in the roaring twentys a time of upheaval. To be honest i became fascinated with his ear as soon as i was old enough to read how germanys first democracy blossomed but so quickly faded with the start of the. Man for the entire. Its a period of great tragedy. We dont know thats what. Its a tragedy that fascinates him so much so that he quit his job and began writing the resulting six crime novels about the one nine hundred twenty s. And thirtys and berlin. Now the first of those novels has been adapted into a sixteen episode t. V. Series and what a series it is. Babylon berlin with a budget of forty Million Euros this berlin is a metropolis thats home to poverty drug abuse and crime a volcano waiting to erupt fascinating and modern the series paints an authentic and gripping portrait of the german capital in that era. Cup and there was an incredible explosion of creativity art and culture it was so much going on especially in berlin. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants mainly from Eastern Europe arrived and were made to feel welcome in a city where millions of people filled the streets. With used. Is. A crime writer who does Amazing Research and comes up with an incredibly vivid portrait of the era. Where the idea of is never good. Police and communists battle it out on the streets of berlin both the novel and the series are accurate down to the smallest detail. As precise as a history book and as exciting as a thriller straight out of hollywood. Doesnt deal with a t. V. Series and the novel are two very different wilds i allowed the three screen writers and directors as much leeway as possible i said we need to tell the same story with the same spirit how we see this here and transport the same message but otherwise tell it. If you feel you have to. Most of void. The main character of the series is detective gary on heart a heroin addict left deeply scarred by world war one hes a typical figure of the period he has to hide his suffering while working for the Homicide Department in a world with perverted morals. Entry in the novels or smuggling out last. D. M. s i got some on the sauce a russian found in a berlin canal. Great trial mustve shined on the d. V. D. I get called in to see the when its not going fast charlie is the love of his life. The main characters have more problems in the series than in my books it was in the First World War and is traumatized and challenger comes from an even humbler background but is basically the type of woman who tries to use the new freedom of the republic to go on why. This was your big game. The last though. You were. Born. The last real life of that era as well captured. Yes there. Was this fifty percent. So. Charlie is a prostitute by night a typist by day. That it was a time of change especially for women who demanded their fair share in the society shaped by the via republic. Know. It its a pulitzer when you know its a minute. At most i think this is why as a woman you can identify with this era on the women have a real mobilizing force its a period of change women can drive cars and so on but its still in the early stages but it does about allison and im feeling. This series has just celebrated its german premiere in berlin and had its International Premiere in los angeles its been sold to over sixty countries and further seasons are in the pipeline and for. Still writing three more daily on hard novels are still to come taking us into the darkest hours of nazi germany. So its more difficult than i imagined id like to finish at a time when we know where the journey is headed how dark its become in germany for me whats nine hundred thirty eight on the November Paul grahams. Of the t. V. Series and the novels provide excellent entertainment and simultaneously ask how fragile is democracy and how can we protect it. Now more cultural highlights picked up on our radar. Heart grows more abstract the more terrifying the world becomes thats a quote bipolar clay from one nine hundred fifteen during the horrors of world war one now. An exhibition in Basel Switzerland shows just how much the abstract influenced his work many works are on show for the first time on loan from private collectors and carefully restored for the exhibition. Clay dismantled reality to make one of his own. In his works letters a random making them impossible to read what remains is the form all you see is lines but for me it is the entire world clay allegedly said shortly before his death. That stripped down style made poet clay a trailblazer of modality. Lively take on addressing pain. Young violinist mathias vend has collected funeral songs from the balkans heart rending yodeling from the alps and the indian ragas sounds of morning from around the world the final farewell sounds different in every culture. Much as though had to travel and write down notation because many of the songs are passed on from one generation to the next solely through playing them now though has won a family mendelssohn advancement award for his work. Its a musical homage to in comprehensible loss. A Museum Without windows might streams in just the same the facade changes according to the light and color of the sky. Comes to house. Twenty years ago now to mark the jubilee the museum a staging at some toy retrospect. How did this was original become one of the worlds top architects. What inspires and motivates him in a kind of course of the senses. How can you deliberately experience a space by filling it with melodies from a music box for example. Or by creating an oasis of purposelessness found objects fragile branches grounded but weightless just like some toys architecture its at home in this space rooted in uncompromising. The opening of the cape town was a major r. To vent in africa the Museum Showcases contemporary african art reflecting whats happening right now. This museum fills a void its the first museum for contemporary african art in africa its a milestone for african artists but it is not without its critics. The film. And his team are all europeans bringing to africa. A return to colonial times is about the. Expression of a whole continent. Communicating and speaking in this. Weve created from. Anybody could have living in a global world and we got to get over. This used to be a storage site for grain. Provides ample space with one hundred exhibition rooms for sculptures photos paintings and installations. Finally on display in africa. Its very important that we have a museum like this of scale so that we have a map of voices that could be heard that we could have two multiple exhibitions running at the same time from many Different Countries across africa or the dies for them so that we can demonstrate the richness this richness has not gone unnoticed by the international same. As commanding top prizes at International Auctions has dragon like installation now hovers in the atrium of that sites museum of contemporary art africa. But there is also room for new discoveries divider is an installation by longest into rope and beer bottles everyday objects that can also do harm. Longest walk in woodstock cape towns ops district the what if the World Gallery here is displaying her work force memorial one a critical look at the monuments of the colonial rulers. The guess was art is decidedly political fighting against established structures from the dark days of colonialism and apartheid. I want to shift things i want to take away the comfortability. That that exists currently right now in the city. But comfortability in terms of black White Privilege and things like that thats what i will destroy. What is currently exhibiting in london and is tangible shes noticed that the International World has set its sights on africa. Thats great but like also just like it just the whole notion of african like kind of also like bothers me because you know why did you have this issue. Place as artist in why can we not just be seen as artists they dont go to someone like oh youre german others so theres quite a lot of work that needs to be done. For people to actually take it seriously and start engaging in looking at us differently instead of like fittest sizing african artists. A few kilometers away revisit our tanks a car a studio traditional materials and techniques like beads and braiding dominate his latest work. Hes currently exhibiting in amsterdam and last year he showed in basel and miami. Explains why there is such high demand when you start coming across something that you havent seen before and you can quite explain it but its a booking emotion that was you to question is. To open your eyes and change your perspective this is what you want. Is it enough to just be different. Going out there and pretending that we can make stuff just because it looks different but then it is self is quite high its almost like the olympics of. The country and show what we can really do and come back with a lot of gold by the way. Back to cape towns waterfront for Guild Gallery is closed to the tight. Kevin mcgowan and her husband julian has been displaying african art and design here since two thousand and eight. They say interest is growing. Globally were looking to connect with something thats more human and more real. And with narrative and meaning and i think thats what we offer as a country and our creative platform as we we are very very real and very visceral and very connected to Human Emotion and i think thats what people are looking for whatever art lovers and collectors are looking for the small car is poised to direct their interest to. Arent made in africa. Now to jazz from south africa musicians such as miriam a cable and m. Do that you bring him have had global careers now a new generation is letting its voices be heard. And. So marketing me is one of south africas leading jazz musicians he sings for a nation still torn apart some twenty five years after the end of apartheid. This song is a part a call to our ancestors to try to healing that and healing to these candidates and set up. The fight for equal opportunities popped up and so marketing his biography born in one thousand nine hundred two he experienced south africas transition to a post apartheid rainbow nation. The pianist is a sangoma or natural healer he wants to use his music to help his home and overcome the trauma of racial segregation. My. Sort of lessons in where. They were in ceremonies you know my first lessons of how money they were in chess news e. Q. Know everything you know and also what its said to me was this music was introduced in a spiritual mode so this is something i love to hold to myself. And do to marketing me belongs to a new generation of musicians in his homeland. Jazz has always been political in south africa and was often viewed with skepticism by those in power today the white minority is no longer in charge but problems remain the countrys written with widespread corruption and in danger of collapse but can music really help. With the. Nothing has changed much for south africas poor oppression exploitation and a lack of opportunities remain the underdogs often fight each other on the streets instead of resisting their oppressors. There have been student demonstrations with the slogan fees miss falbe for years the protesters are calling for Free Education and a total de colonialization it is now the largest and most violent protest Movement Since the end of apartheid. Drama to me mother rosie is not seeking a spiritual side. Lucian but a decidedly political one in his music career first to the right in some fronts for known a radical critical polonia listen in the one nine hundred sixty s. There is no way not to be political and there is no way not to be. Within the experience of the condition of the world. Because we our are. To be part and parcel of this sort of embodiment of the idea of what humanity should be. Jazz as a protest against racism segregation and the lack of opportunities for the black population in south africa. To me mother rosie and many others the colonialization has not yet happened in south africa. The idea of you cannot they should just means means exactly that come to me as you dont come to me as i think you are. And as opposed to the world with a us centric sort of like notion of how the functionality is then you have to be violent in that kind of situation. Violence that tomorrow see expresses in his music. And do. Uses music as a part of traditional african healing rituals its a lengthy process as south africa continues to battle the burden of a brutal past and the challenges of today. There is an illusion that up lead men is free but were still very much farther away from the from the freedom that was sick for and theres a need for a new humanity and thats whats want to project in our music today. A new generation of jazz musicians its rediscovering african traditions making itself heard beyond the borders of south africa. Thats all for march twenty one for now next week well focus on Martin Luther the most revolutionary and reformer five hundred years ago he nailed his these days to the door of the church. And the city is celebrating in style until then good bye and. Your spirits child its. Never a mushroom. A glass of red wine a day is good for. Many people need something to believe thats where myths come from. In the media its much easier to stop them and to stop them and to figments fifteen. Make your store t. V. Smarter with the d w four small. What you want when you want it up to date extraordinary. To decide whats on find out more double come smart to. Meet the germans new and surprising aspects of noise and culture in germany. Us american keep news out take a look at germany it is interesting that their traditions everyday lives and language doesnt just come out of my life. So im. Good just. Like the suspect guy of t. W. Dot com the germans. He tells us storing stories. It makes us laugh. And cry play tremble and smile. Magical images and big emotions enough. To know the legacy of every weekend on d w. Because that where they start to divide the country i do its still where they start to divide the language your blood will flow for the. Ninety nine days the soviet union is breaking up part. Of. The members of the Russian Federation would have to find their own way politically and economically of love so it was an incredibly difficult task not misadventure because democracy was a lie but the elections were a fraud because private is a sin was robbery just focus instead of cultivating its culture its words and language it brought forth a repulsive nationalism. Of the soviet unions heritage where does russia stand today and moscows empire our series starting november fifth on g w. The. Japanese Prime Minister shinzo ave and