Alex Ritson

I could not travel. European Union, United Kingdom and maybe Commonwealth countries and not United States anymore. Can I ask about what the authorities in Russia are doing as an alternative to these messaging apps? They've come up with their own app called Max, haven't they? Tell us about it. It's been in place for several months now. How does it work? They're mandatory ordered to pre-install apps.

The argument that the Kremlin makes as to why it's doing what it's doing, it says that there is posts on Telegram from terrorists, from people who are trying to undermine the Russian state. What would you say? It's just a platform, just a tool. And many Russian propagandists very successfully use Telegram as well.

Galina Timchenko, founder of the independent Russian news organization Meduza, speaking to my colleague James Kumarasami. The University of Cambridge here in England has transferred legal ownership of more than 100 bronzes looted from Benin in West Africa in the 19th century.

The head of Nigeria's Commission for Museums and Monuments said he expected the objects to be returned before the end of the year. A number of other British institutions are also in possession of similar artifacts, and pressure will now be on them to follow suit. Barnaby Phillips is the author of Loot, Britain and the Benin Bronzes.

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and the pillaging of all the treasures within its palace, what today we call the Benin bronzes, brass, bronze and ivory carvings, which were brought back en masse, some 5,000 of them, here to London. I think Western museums in general have felt under a lot of pressure over this over the last, let's say, four or five years, probably since

Black Lives Matter really hit its height in 2020, and the relevant point, particularly to the Benin Bronzes, is they've just become so emblematic, that the way they were taken was so shocking, so well documented, so photographed, and German and Dutch museums have moved en masse, as it were. Some smaller British institutions have moved, but this is now a big moment, because Cambridge has the second largest collection of Benin Bronzes in Britain, behind the British Museum itself. I don't think

This means we're going to see an imminent change of policy from the British Museum. It has a new director, a man called Nicholas Cullinan. Despite being younger and perhaps you might call him more progressive than his predecessors, he's rather conservative on the crucial question of whether the law should change to allow so-called national institutions here in Britain

to return, or as museum curators call it, deaccession treasures from within their collection. So I think there's going to be a lot of frustration. I think the British Museum is going to end up appearing more isolated, but I don't think there's going to be an imminent move on the Benin bronzes, or for that matter, many other contested treasures in the British Museum.

Barnaby Phillips on the Benin Bronzes. Some of international cinema's biggest stars are gearing up for the prestigious Berlin Film Festival, which gets underway on Thursday. It's one of the biggest European film events of the year, and Tom Brook is already in the German capital.

Berliinin keväällisen keväällisen iltapäivä voidaan jätetä yhdestä Euroopassa suurimpana elokuvafestivalta. Yli 200 elokuvafestivalta maailmassa näkyy Berliinin ensimmäiset 11 päivän aikana. Horro, sci-fi, drama, dokumentteja ja paljon muuta. Se aloittaa No Good Menin kanssa. Oikeastaan todellisista tapahtumista. Se jatkuu Afganistanin Kabulin TV-palveluissa työskentelevän ainoastaan Talibanin puolustuksen ajan aikana.

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This festival embraces global cinema. In competition this year there's A New Dawn, an animation from Japan, and films from Africa and Latin America and elsewhere. Culture journalist Thomas Rogers. It's a very international program every year, and it often offers very personal takes on current events or geopolitics.

Mielenkiintoisesti Berliinissä on yhdistelmä skottisista elokuvista, joista yksi on elokuvaportretti adventuurisesta Douglas Gordonista. 2006 Gordon käytettiin monia kameroita, jotta hienosti otettiin kappaleiden Zinedine Zidanein live-matchin.

Filmmaker Finley Pretzel says he was partly inspired to make his documentary about Douglas Gordon because he so admired the artist film on Zidane. It was a 90-minute film, huge soundtrack by Glasgow-based mogwai. It made me sit up and think about making films in a very different way.

The Berlin Film Festival has been one of the key vibrant elements of the cultural scene in Berlin since its inception in 1951. But over the decades, the media landscape has shifted dramatically. Movie fans can now access films in multiple ways, not just through festivals. So what is it that the Berlin Film Festival gives the movie-going public that it can't get elsewhere? Krisha Tuftel again.

Tom Brook.

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This edition of the Global News Podcast was produced by Muzaffar Shakir and mixed by Chris Kizaris. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritson. Until next time, goodbye.

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