fantasy. oh. this. tragic. secret. starts december 25th. was. this is deja vu news africa coming up in the program where the 2nd wave is here several african countries record new spikes in current are virus cases study in kenya shows far more people have been in effect at them previously thought. also coming up. although the gaming industry in africa is booming infrastructural challenges are making it difficult to compete with the rest of the world. but one day my in ivory coast is not giving.

i met him i could you know welcome to the program several countries in africa are facing a 2nd wave of the cuban 1000 pandemic a continent's number of confirmed cases has passed 2300000 according to africa's center for disease control and the current that toll is nearing 55000 countries with the highest number of cost of cases or roll call egypt ethiopia and south africa actually south africa this week announced on lambing spike in infections seeing its teenagers are driving this new surge in infections authorities labeled clubbing of the school year parties. events we took our camera to the street and asked teenagers how they behave. i want you know far. more people.

party i don't party a lot of people in my age group out there's no social distancing other people they don't follow relations of. yet the parts they need many so they won't just say no. just ever because you can't. even. eat. you want to have fun most teenagers feel like they've been locked up for so long. and just when they caught the chance they just took the chance and. is is. it's you and. me. it's it's it's not child. it's definitely not child's play now reports from kenya shows that the number of people in fact i would cover 19 in a country was much higher doctors realized after studying more than 3000 blood

samples researchers found indications that many people had been exposed to the virus and might not have shown symptoms. the samples were taken during blood donation drives in 6 kenyan counties none of those who gave blood had shown any symptoms of covert 19 yet when their samples were examined one out of every $25.00 was found to have contracted and recovered from the corona virus the experts suggest that increased testing of blood samples could help give a clearer picture of how the corona virus is spreading in africa rather than relying on the regular polymerase chain reaction or p.c.r. test. the p.c.r. test tells you who has an active viral infection of the time so who has a virus in their system the antibody test tells you. this person may have been infected in the recent past may be infected or may have been exposed to the

infection that means they may have been in contact with somebody who was positive too so then they will tell you that. in the population we do have a larger proportion of individuals who have actually seen the virus on in the find them bad we thought with the p.c.r. test. the findings revealed that the virus has infected people as severely in africa as elsewhere even though it has been less deadly on the continent. now let's talk about games right the call of duty for my and these are my favorites they are also big on the continent the videogame industry is booming across africa more people than ever before have access to gaming platforms and african developers are designing games meaning young africans come out explore vegetal universes but it can relate to civic. cost is one game enthusiastic

whose passion for gaming is making him dream big. every afternoon this video in a working class district is packed with young people coming to unwind after school . 35 year old. is the founder of this digital playground his passion for video games began when he was a child. you know i think i was around 4 or 5 years old when i started at 1st we were just watching our big brothers play so that's how i started by watching then as i grew older i played more i played a lot of university. has turned his passion into a profession and he had his fingers firmly on the pulse of a booming sector competitive video gaming. sports. is rapidly growing in popularity not just in ivory coast but all over africa. in less than 10 years it went from being purely

a hobby to being at the center of international competitions with big prizes up for grabs. to continue competitive video gaming is starting to become a thing here the mindset has to change because video gaming is now an international industry the important thing about east sport is that it has the capacity to attract huge audiences who come and watch a bit like other sports today some games going to track to the millions of people who connect online just to be able to watch others play. well you know the average salary of pro gamers around the world can range from $1000.00 to $5000.00 per month . the best of the best make even more last year in shanghai 18 teams participating in a top annual east ports world championships shared at $34000000.00 prize pool. in an industry that is gradually providing more jobs african players are dreaming big. boys and i want to take it to the next level or to just play to have fun or play to

be the best and do the best i must play again and again. here he contested skills and compete with other games around the world. globally the gaming industry has doubled in size in the past decade generated over $120000000000.00 in revenue last year alone. he dick wants to build the biggest gaming community in africa he networked with local startups to help them identify their needs and promote their ideas on the local market in the community then we. can on this yuki. you might think you're starting to see a number of local studios working in the gaming sector the main goal for them is to create content that reflects a continent. content that uses color and stories that come from the continent because it gives them more visibility into the local police and that's media visiting don't mean you're going to view the world the potential is there more and

more people on the continent have access to smartphones 2 thirds of africans are under $35.00 and millions of them already gamers and they would like to see more universes they can relate to there still aren't many game developers like wilfred or no one in ivory coast but the interest certainly there. is a backer or minibus driver you know to pick up as many passengers as possible and be the 1st to arrive in. for some semblence which we made in south africa or the action role playing game aryan from common room for huge successes now the market is still small but thanks to game enthusiasm like siddique this could soon change its message is clear africa has entered the game. and online the continent is also linking up with the rest of the gaming community but experience is not always seamless so africa is the only country on the continent

with host in local service for most games those playing elsewhere in africa have to connect to set as far away and that's a 100 in this competitive i mean to tell us more about this experience here sylvia i've got 20 known in the gaming world our queen she's one of the top professional game is in kenya and joins us from nairobi hello sylvia can you tell us more about the challenges like yourself in africa. all right thanks so much for having me on some of the challenges that we need to give us. a lot of this out because our best to you in other continents and in north america and you have to walk and such and. give me experience and you can be excused because these are very emotional meaning that. does a lot of to me between continue using the time actually means the team that's going somewhere to see if the objects will begin to make it so you're shooting at someone parks before that since you just did you read something sure to bail you out right

now doing ok i mean we don't want you to die or you know what else to die of a game but how can we get around some of these challenges. i feel that some of these children just me before on these need to. connect and i've been to more waiting seeing their future this experience. with this move. so you can become successful ask who came from some of my friends who are this never of the kind of in the quantity and not to mention a field that's the game developers need to start creating most of us not to look at . this one makes it easier for a lot of us to transition into professional guinea and it can also. become a market because a lot of our debts always are you connecting in european or american sub was giving the impression that time because who professional. here you definitely are not now

you're a law student but also a game giving become so the serious profession just like lowell. yes if given can be considered a serious profession a mean i'm leaving for you have the game was from the facts of the continent and i feel that if you also get some of our most to fix that he had to tee off to college coaching into the head this is giving once you just in for example get me on a country to get me synonymous it's been because north hasn't been not. easy any team yeah yeah and now 10 seconds what are your final words to all the young game as an africa. my final words are. if you want to go professional game go i have to guess that's going to be found it might be good for you who. watch lots of you tube videos there's

a whole bunch of here for you ok guys i'm going to watch a lot of youtube videos and i'm going to beat you in your new game so i got the money. for 1st. time. and that's how we wrap up the show from stories cool to do w dot com slash africa where you can visit all things will calm twitter up teachers remember to moscow because cornel virus cases are rising again on the continent you would pictures of some people setting a good example for us all good bye on the weekend.

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comes to the fans and the humans on the scene why the folds 400 decide to put their trust in us. my name is jenny paris and i work again. is going to war with netflix pumping billions more dollars into its streaming service. can disney catch up that's coming up here on arts and culture and nigeria gets its 1st lesbian why the film's makers are risking jail time to tell their story.

and cellist yo-yo ma offers songs of comfort and hope a new album for tough times. welcome to arts and culture the battle lines been redrawn and the war over home entertainment disney announced plans to spend $16000000000.00 on streaming content about half of that on its own streaming platform disney plus where the company is set to release 10 new series from the marvel comics universe and 10 new star wars series which are sure to include disney's cutest new cash cow. if you could take a good jericho as mandelbrot take a good picture joined now by do you know when you stole my expert scott roxboro i am he's here to tell us what this means for the global entertainment industry scott so disney launched its disney plus platform just about a year ago it looks like they're going all in on streaming those should netflix be

worried yeah i think so i mean netflix is still course the big you know $800.00 pound gorilla in streaming they they they have something like $200000000.00 subscribers worldwide but took them a decade to get there disney launched its disney plus service just last year. they're already at 86000000 and they expect it 300000000 subscribers in the next 3 years i think they they could make it and as you're saying they're just pouring money into streaming i mean 10 new marvel t.v. series 10 new star wars t.v. series basically what disney's tragedy is taking minor characters from their big film franchises like loki or one vision from the avengers movies and they're making them into a spin off t.v. series basically they're hoping that. these stories these characters have global fan base from the films they're hoping with the series they can basically go toe to toe with netflix so does that mean the disney is giving up on cinemas on the big screen no actually not i mean disney made

a very clear they said last year we made $13000000000.00 at the box office in cinemas there not to throw that business away but i think what we are going to see now is a real division that we're going to see the very very big movies the big disney movies the big marvel movies the big star wars movies those are going cinemas for the smaller stuff is probably going to go online and we might even see smaller films from studios that disney owns like like fox or search like pictures also go straight to straight online ok it's got stick around because it's also the european film awards they've been handing out prizes all week and we've got a look now at some of the winners. italian period drama hidden away in one european film honors for best cinematography and best costume design. the film star ileo johnno is also up for best actor for his performance as self-taught italian artist antonio de luca boy i don't turn out to be the hero of my own story or that station will be held by anybody else is

a european film award for best production designer went to british comedy the personal history of david copperfield coverville. if you were you very very real dangerously she died. for a very sorry. is this can take on tuesday starting to. feel. conditional with. spanish side high dystopia the platform which netflix released worldwide won for best visual effects. it was. so good to be moved to new jersey. best original score went to the heartache soundtrack of berlin alexanderplatz a modern day update of the german classic novel.

i'm back with our film dr scott roxboro scott it looks like there was a great year for european cinema i'm a little embarrassed to say that i haven't seen any of these movies yeah but of course the barest obviously we have blocked out across most of europe and that's case most the world so a lot of these films never even made it into indiscernible because cinemas were shut which is actually why the european film awards are extremely important this year because this is a chance to really shine a light on on some of these movies that maybe got maybe got overlooked and as you say it's. a great great year for european sort of 2020 ok so the technical awards have already been announced but there are the really big awards best actor best actress best film those are going to be announced saturday night germany already has one if a with berlin i'm excited about any chance of another yeah i think the best chance for jimmy to win another day is in the best actress category because you got 2 german actions nominee 2 by favorite german actresses i think either could win

you've got nina hoss she's nominated for little sister where she plays the long suffering little sister of a famous theater actor played by famous theater actor lars i think her and she sort of cares for him as he's dying of cancer i really hope a loss wins for this but she's up against big competition because there's another german actress pola big and she stars in dino which is a love story from the director kristen petzl both these are 2 incredible performances and i would want to pick between them ok what's your pick for best film a best film i mean i think we talked about this early in the week another round the danish dramedy i love it's about 4 high school teachers in midlife crisis and the side to sort of get through it by getting really into day drinking it's very it's it's a lariat movie it stars mads mikkelsen. it's also not just a comedy though it's quite a touching drama really life affirming film i love this movie my favorite movie of

the year be competition particularly from a polish movie called corpus christi which is about a priest convict who a person needs a priest and so he gets involved in small town spiritual community also great films already nominated for an oscar this year so maybe that's the big competition but i'll definitely be pulling for another round to wed ok scott rocks for us thanks so much. another movie making headlines is nigeria's 1st lesbian feature film if it meaning what's the movie was released online this thursday for human rights day that's because the country's censors won't allow it to be shown in cinemas nigeria has one of the world's biggest film industries known as nollywood it also has laws that punish homosexuality with up to 14 years in prison. or less but. this is the path. if a tells the story of 2 women who fall in love in nigeria

a country where same sex relationships are illegal in the past nollywood has often depicted queer characters as mentally ill or deeply troubled but the filmmakers say their film portrays normal life for a sizable percentage of the nigerian population i feel like for a very long time we've been told one sided story and the story is not complete it does not represent all the groups in the society so what i wanted to through was until the full story by representing l.g.b. 3 people in 1000. production had to take place in secret the film's director the actors all face prosecution if censors decide their work promotes homosexuality and indeed thora these have threatened legal action in nigeria it's not accepted and so doing something like that puts you where you feel like it's not it's not the norm but but but i don't feel that it's bold i feel that it's ordinary i feel that it's my it's a big life just being shown on screen but it's been beautiful so the filmmakers

have opted to have released on a streaming platform to ensure it can be seen by people within nigeria as well as. more arts and culture headlines now and hold onto your mask the elusive street artist banksy confirmed on instagram that he is the creator of this rather graph. public health warning the painting appeared a few days on vale street england's steepest road in bristol reminding us that coded safety measures are nothing to sneeze at. but they were swift drop terse 2nd surprise album of 2020 the new work is called evermore swift says it's the sister album to her chart topping record folklore which came out just 5 months ago the 1st video from the new album had millions of you tube hits within hours. lucky her well the world's most famous cellist yo-yo ma has also been keeping busy during the

pandemic he's got a new album together with pianist catherine stott and songs of comfort and hope something a lot of us can use here's a preview of the album starting with somewhere over the rainbow. this is. tough times and you know lost people who are who are pushing through and leading their strenuous life and and. and for the longest time not knowing whether there's light at the end of the tunnel.

all of these songs have i think specific meaning for people in different places and since this is you know a worldwide epidemic and and it's one of the few things that actually. all it wants are joining us together you know i mean in a horrible way but we're all kind of faced with the same issues right and and so we think music kind of could do that at various times also and we're hoping that this is sort of like you know

a way. into people's hearts and memories. are only a. i think when i think of the words of over the rainbow it's like it kills me you know. it's like it's good for you know you care you know it's. just it just kills me and 2nd every time we play it you know we're sort of. misty eyed. ready.

that's all for this edition for me and the whole arts and culture team here in berlin thanks for joining us we hope you have a very peaceful weekend. to

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