Need me. Im going to go just. Because you want to welcome to the program ethiopias Northern Region has gone ahead with Regional Elections despite being told not to do so by Prime Minister to the country had been due to hold national and Regional Elections last month but the federal government postponed them indefinitely because of the coronavirus pandemic decisions into groene accused of using the situation to prolong his rule not surprise population is rated to be small its around 5 percent of ethiopias 109000000 people need those from the ethnic group dominated ethiopias politics 130 is but that ended when it came to paul in 2018. Now about 2700000. 00 people in the region are expected to verts to gray officials have warned that an intervention by the federal government would amount to a quote declaration of war. An act of defiance in ethiopias Northern Region of to cry. These people are lining up to vote in an election that the federal government says is illegal. It also says the results will be null and void but voters here i determined to press ahead saying it said democratic right to cast their ballots you know just the latest argument how can we be without electing a government. Should we leave it open we must vote the federal government is saying that this election is not legitimate due to the coronavirus but the election is legitimate the only thing they have to take effect in this film is the election campaigning has been in full swing in the regional capital mcalary. More than 600 candidates from 5 parties are vying for just over 150 seats in the regional parliament. Tipped to weigh in as a party that already governs a regional particular i Peoples Liberation front or t p l f. Theyve played an outsized role in politics since leading the Armed Struggle to liberate the country from a marxist dictator in 1901. But their influence has waned since Prime Minister abbey a maid came to power 2018. Theyre also facing pressure from a party that wants to cry to go its own way and secede from ethiopia surely people have started to question if you are preaching to many in the village do share the use of started to agree with your analysis to this moment the acceptance is beyond your expectation. Perspective to gripe breaking away is yet another headache for Prime Minister ahmed who is struggling to keep the country unified. But for the moment his main challenge will be to decide how to respond to a vote he deems unconstitutional. For more on the story im joined by excessive bekele a from the deed to have a new service good to see so how is government likely to respond to this. House of a division i dont mislead declared dot. Today is in the action is unconstitutional and therefore void so we dont know how they did this decision will be implemented in regards to. The federal governments relationship but the Prime Minister. Did this election illegal. A. Military intervention to resolve this dispute the federal government might have options at its disposal if it decided to intervene to respond but any kind of measures for sure we complicate things further right and i can understand that but tell us more about this standoff between the leaders into grat. And Prime Minister asked. Of both parties who are in power and in l. A. Where members of the former e. P. A. Out of if who governed the country since 991. 00 the rivalry intensified after prime sabiha met and his circle decided to merge that and e. P. Out there and then after the 2 party said t. P. A. Left and then you really form of Prosperity Party have failed to agree on almost everything even the Prime Minister removed over members of the pm keep enough members from its cognate. Prosperity Party Members and the federal government officials accused to keep in there for almost or even did or in a bad thing this happened within the last 2 decades so the validity the difference was there but it was intensified after the merger of e. P. Out there. Is that they could. Take great take this a step further and push for secession they have the memory about wanting independence in this region. We. Should write a political platform. The people out of inclined to our decision the dots one idea we should become more for the printers these days among the 5 but its kind of part of this we are participating in this poll in this election todays election one roof is intended to have an independent to figure out a mission we see where that is not please kind of party we. Get the Regional Government or not but this is not an easy issue where many people feel as if there are approved by the federal government by people who are on different our government sure. We see what would happen but its. A new think they discussed among the political elites for the last 4 years and i said to beckon me with that insight fresh news from the park service thank you. A day off a report alleging that u. S. President donald trump made crude and disparaging remarks about Nelson Mandela and theres still no word of denial from mr trump no tweet all statement distancing involved the alleged. Now in a book written by Michael Cohen trumps hole a personal lawyer the u. S. President allegedly said that mandela if the whole country up now its a whole if mandela he was no leader but also mandela foundations of africa criticize donald trump. Mandela in a statement the foundations say that we do not believe that leaders who conduct themselves in the way mr trump does are in a position to awful origins of commentary on the life and with all. In a moment ill be talking to the sports person our. First ever listen to some South Africans we are asked how they felt about mr trumps alleged remark. I dont think is a. Great president because as for me on my site it doesnt care about black people it doesnt care about what happened to us in that i really dont think that President Trump have to have anything in those people for 1st of all his very 1st is proven time and time again that his very 1st. We are father africa and like most people we do know what the kind of leader that mandela was we do know all the struggles that he went through says mandela was a bad leader i mean take a look around to see whats happening in the streets thats because of fears like Nelson Mandela when bella 1st of all he was a good man you know he was the father of the nation you know and he was a very giving man you know and he. Was there for the children and you know a lot of things changed because of mandela and we are working in the streets and we are free because and joining me from johannesburg is pull him up he is a spokesperson for the African National congress or the a. N. C. Welcome to africa mr we just heard from South Africans reacting to mr trumps alleged remarks about a former president also madonna what has the president of your party and the countrys sort of im a process it about this. Just 1st tuesday the position of the African National congress that we are condemned today despite a few months attributed to president of the United States going to try about her than others and wonder you would know that president mandela well i quote who is celebrated to this day because of the route that he played not just as ongoing damages in south africa people but also extending for the peace of the rest of the would have to show you will be familiar with a set mr trump has in the past insulted south africa one could say in 2030 for example he tweets of that south africa was a quote crime ridden miss waiting to explode and quote what have written asians between south africa and the us been like with mr trump in the white house. Well we we there are those kind of lesions where they do from state to state we can gauge with the president of the arctic or south africa but we do not welcome. Some of these comments that would seek to undermine our superiority they have again National Congress including the government it leads right here in south africa having bestowed its and the mantle of leading society will never go out of its way to undermine disobedient to other nations we expect that the president of the us will also be doing the same respecting the rule that democratically elected governments like i was scarce occupy and are expected to perform on behalf of the citizens they lead. And this somehow that would also give this again this is alleged to have been said by mr trump that he is said to have lost namely a country thats run by a black person that is obsessed that is except say it must be quoting him there but you have to speak for one of the oldest parties on the continent so to say just your reaction to that that youve got somebody in the white house who is basically disregarding an entire continent leadership we do not need affirmation from donald trump or any other leader outside this country it is the people of the people of this country the republic of south africa we have gone out in successive elections to indorse and our friend the a. N. C. Led government where we shot that we built a strong multiparty democracy now if you come to south africa regardless of the challenges that would take on the ground you will see that the infrastructure we are built over the past 26 years is such that we have to be focused on constructing a better country where people write that split my bit in johannesburg he speaks for the a. N. C. Thank you so. Thats it for now you can find more of all stories on our web site thats all its nash africa. And facebook page. People for information. They want to express g. W. On Facebook Twitter updates in touch follow us. Life on earth one of a kind and. Coincidences. Where the improbable happen. That often was going to be the creation of our solar system and our planet is a bit like winning the lot of raising. Money for unique start september 18th on d w. A shakeout after the academy of Motion Picture arts and sciences in los angeles over diversity means strict new rules for any film vying for the best picture oscar will get the lowdown on what that means for the industry and also in the pipeline. The codex month and so a 14th century collection of middle high german poetry makes a rare appearance at an exhibition in minds. And in meet the germans my colleague Rachel Stewart gives us a comprehensive tour of germanys at times quirky film and television landscape. Well to be eligible for a best picture oscar filmmakers will have to adapt to new inclusion and diversity guidelines in unspent came on tuesday and the new rules will be implemented in 2024 at the academy said the decision is part of a greater push to promote diversity both on and off screen and none too soon as the problem is hardly new. Black demonstrators are brutally beaten by Police Martin luther king was the figurehead of the 1960 s. Protest movement and 2015 the movie is so mark was the hot chip to sweep the oscars but went home almost empty handed reactions were angry the academy and the oscars were considered too white. I disproportionate amount of people who do not look like me doing what i do. Protests on social media use the hash tag so white women to protest that law you werent getting a 1st at the oscar awards ceremony in 2019 despite all the protests it was mostly white men who took to the stage in 2020 and more positive signal from hollywood the south korean film parasites became the 1st Foreign Language movie to win best film. And our film experts got rockstro joins me once again from the Venice Film Festival to talk about the new oscar rules welcome scott in a nutshell just tell us what are these new requirements. Well the new comments and to be clear they only apply for nominees for best picture so only the very top award handed out by the oscars but these requirements are based require diversity at all levels in front of the camera but also in the production staff all the way to the people who market the film that there should be very strict requirements for a degree of diversity in the cast in the director and all the way down basically if you dont have that degree of diversity you will not qualify for best picture and how surprised were you by this rule change. Quite a bit i knew that the academy wanted to make a change i didnt think it would be this this radical really will be interesting to see how this is received because this goes a lot further than i at least expected the academy do it shows that theyre quite serious about pushing hollywood to become more diverse ok so essentially this is a good thing obviously with the academy wanting to shed that also a white image but what impact might this have on the stories that filmmakers want to tell. Yes itll be interesting because i mean if you look just at the nominees for best picture this year 8 of the 10 wouldnt qualify under these new rules i mean films like a joke which which won best actor or Martin Scorsese the irishman but also a film like little women which many celebrated as a tribute. To female filmmaking because its only white women on screen it wouldnt qualify under the new diversity rules so itll be interesting to see what impact this will have and if we will start to see new and different stories and if certain stories might start to disappear from hollywood screens its very interesting obviously we were speaking earlier that divot diversity is a relative term it depends on the perspective that youre coming from but id like to go to another story thats flaring up again disneys new live action remake of moulin is facing boycott calls from activists for being partly at least filmed in the region in china where we are muslims are being persecuted by the Chinese Government now coming from our diversity discussion there here is a film that was hailed for its chinese story with an all chinese cast but tripping up for cozying up to beijing how big a problem is this for disney. Its a pretty big problem actually i mean hollywood the big studios at least have an issue with china theyre desperate to get into the Chinese Market its a huge market they need it to really make their film successful but the Chinese Government to determines what films get in so hollywood really bending over backwards and has been for years to do everything it can not to offend china and disney with thought it had the ideal type of film a chinese story with an all chinese cast ideal for the for the Chinese Market but because they shot in this area of china where alleged these these persecutions are taking place its really put them in a in a bad light im not sure if its actually going to hurt the film itself commercially but it definitely has hurt the image that disney has because no one wants to be seen as a cheerleader for a dictatorship thats right well scheduled to be released in theaters in china on friday i believe so we will keep an eye on not and see what kind of an impact this controversy has had thanks very much for joining in tuning into i think and god will see you tomorrow scott roxboro in venice. Next up we go back in time to the middle ages here in germany and a new exhibition in my aunts sheds light on the complicated power structures that were in that area at the time of charles the great of the king of the franks and the founder of the Holy Roman Empire in the year 800 well its been years in the making this exhibition and years since one of its central attractions has actually seen the light. This massive steel door protects one of the most valuable books in the world the codex manesar is 700 years old a collection of songs and poems from an entire era 811 decorated parchment pages with love as the central theme. Greets with singing the sweet ones i neither can nor want to avoid. This is the source for more than half of minutes and poetry. We very rarely lend the book out to those people interested in seeing get up close this is really about the aura of the original. The last time was 14 years ago now the codex manesar is going back on public view its been cushioned in shock and fireproof packaging for the journey its insured for 80000000 euros and has a police escort. And this is its new temporary home from charlemagne to frederick bubble rosser the exhibition the kaisers and the pillars of the power in the land as museum minds examines the complicated network of relationships between emperors and kings and bishops and princes. And we want to show how the middle ages were different in fact only about 10 percent of the population belong to the pillars of society but it is just as important to us to show that they were always in a network of influence with each other so there was a process of negotiation that was not just based on orders and obedience the emperors power was limited. The funeral crown of empress user of sway via the marriage certificate of farnell the acts. Mission reflects the importance of women in the middle ages as the pivot of court life. The woman is in charge she holds the court together even when the men are waging war and shes the guarantor of a courtly behavior that rises above desire and brutality. Women are objects of desire but at the same time the educators of man without the codex men as we would not have this perspective on the not so dark middle ages. And from literature back to cinema now a topic that is ever close to our hearts especially german cinema and television i think for very obvious reasons nowhere is it more evident that national tastes really do differ when you arrive here in germany as a foreigner for instance there are a number of lets call them idiosyncrasies to get your head around but there are also a great many gems. Crime scene thats the name of one of germanys favorite ever t. V. Shows millions treated on sundays at 8 15 pm sharp and the show has been running for 50 years the germans love crime but what makes this one so special its got murder and intrigue of course and often picks up on current social debates like far right extremism or the refugee crisis but its see what has got to be regional accents different episodes filmed in different cities with different local detectives taking the lead. Vienna in austria a new sense of sin even but theyre entitled to the collaring to not stop off 1st not going to crash for another day of solving murders. Ive got to get something off my chest i am not a big fan of German Television but things are looking up in 2015 a series about a young east german spy it made waves approach on the 83 it was the 1st german language show to want a major u. S. Network and it became the most watched Foreign Language drama ever in britain and duck was recently voted the best netflix of all time of us are not. Very impressive productions like babylon but theyre not trying to sell drugs im just shaking up the ship and small screen and helping its a type of switch to. The what about the Silver Screen lets find out more from my colleague film buff. Guy from the of. The team and much more feeders much more distance pantano i was skipped of. And seen as a fearful clash is this judge aquino into that scene on. Dice to dodge a few miklasz tons of foreclosure happened. 100 years ago the majority of films being watched jay. Many german in fact it was the 1st country to try and protect its National Film industry using a quota law for every foreign film shown in germany a german film had to be made and distributed abroad that actually lead to quantity over quality anyway these days the majority of film showing in german cinemas are imports mostly from the u. S. And you know what that means right. So if you run the father which often country minded or just him as he saw on here on having his interview about. Some. Of those hollywood stars who are. Dubbing is an important industry the top names can be quite famous in their own right and we usually take on more than one stop saying this guy has been the german voice of Robert De NiroRobert RedfordDennis Hopper and ladies and gentlemen i now give you the german voice of angelino jelly fish as the cloud. Spins and. The end is included. As are the 2 this is the sea it still doesnt end. Up in storage as it seems on view avoiding the tuna. Meant to be seen doing and for hostile obvious stuff. And that does bring us and lightens to the end of this edition so until we meet again all the best from us here in berlin and stay safe. And during the conflict. China is roiling the west and europe along with the us in many cultures is. 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