same bus ravi old a zero wrong california's governor is pledging to spend whatever it takes to contain the wildfires sweeping the u.s. state eight people have been killed in the past week and tens of thousands have had to leave their homes california's already spent one hundred thirty million dollars fighting the flames that's one quarter of its annual fire budget. fifty years ago at the height of the u.s. civil rights movement are leading cartoonist made a small but significant contribution to racial equality charles i'm sure it's introduced his first black character alongside charlie brown in the famous and hugely popular peanuts newspaper strip one cartoonist carrie johnson looks back at the legacy of franklin my name is carrie johnson i'm a professional caricaturists and cartoonists is a key in and really didn't have a lot of people of color to look up to the characters caricature illustrators or

cartoonists when i see franklin in the newspapers i realize wow that's good to see a person of color in the charlie brown series someone asked me. do you think frank and i have in franklin and newspapers really helped the black community or the way people look at african-american cartoonists you know maybe i can only say that because there are so few of us out here doing doing this. never took the risk to put franklin in his strip who knows would have to make that that happen because one thing about it was already popular he didn't need it frankly but he i think a lady wrote him a letter i remember reading about it a few years ago and he said well i don't want to thin the aftermath and pretty however he took a chance and it worked out ok let's just. say wait frankly it wasn't a stereotype you know he had a place will do this here but he still is pretty straight forward troy brown and then when the holidays are coming around you'll see franklin with the with the but

peppermint patty lucy linus and they were just you know i think they want to missed you most of the work but i enjoy that just because you know. this is all just here these are the top stories soldiers in zimbabwe have opened fire on hundreds of opposition demonstrators in the capital hadi protesters are angry about alleged vote rigging in the country's election three people have been killed in the violence the party of president emerson has won two thirds of the seats in parliament but the result of the presidential vote is not yet known. somebody is home affairs minister has blamed the election related violence on the opposition. to. the command of the police. forces. but it may deploy. across the country to. the government of

zimbabwe. destruction of property. is turkey has condemned the u.s. decision to impose sanctions and two of its senior ministers is the latest effort by the trumpet ministration to get ankara to release an american pastor brunson's accused of helping a group the turkish government says was behind a failed coup attempt. democratic republic of congo's health ministry has confirmed four cases of ebola in the northeastern city of goma the ministry says there's no evidence linking these cases to the recent outbreak that killed thirty three people the u.s. is planning to impose even higher tariffs on chinese imports upping the ante from ten percent to twenty five percent the proposed levy will cover two hundred billion dollars worth of goods tariffs have already been imposed on thirty four billion

dollars worth of chinese imports president trump accuses china of unfair trade practices and is putting pressure on beijing to reform the remains of what north korea claims are more than fifty u.s. soldiers who died during the korean war six decades ago have arrived back on american soil north korean leader kim jong un promised to return the remains during his meeting with president trump in june california's governor is pledging to spend whatever it takes to contain the wildfires sweeping the u.s. state eight people have been killed in the past week and tens of thousands have had to leave their homes those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story life and.

marching against violence women in south africa protest against a long running problem of gender based puce so what can be done to stop violence against women not just in africa but around the world this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program today with me thousands of women have marched across south africa against gender based violence the demonstrations were organized by a campaign called total shut down south africa has one of the highest rates of violence against women last year alone around seventy thousand women both victims of sexual assault now protest as a calling on the government to take action across generational action if young men

are to understand how to behave before we bring in our guests malcolm webb sets up our discussion today from johannesburg. you know land that yankee had just started a degree at rhodes university in south africa when she says she was raped she went for a drink with friends she doesn't remember anything else the following day other people told her that two different men had sex with her it's just really made me angry. really angry and through kin i mean it has affected my relationships with men in their eyes. obviously the encounter after that i had my trust in people in general . and i guess i just was a become a prison's really and gets a say. you landers met many other students who tried of their universities and police not acting on reports of sexual assault. on the exchange students marched in broad university in twenty sixteen as part of their campaign they published

a list of students and university staff on social media they said were responsible for sexual assault students have also protested here the university has run in johannesburg and since the student movement began thousands more south africans have taken to social media to express their anger at the lack of justice for women who have been raped or killed when carol mcqueen i was found murdered in johannesburg last year it prompted hundreds of thousands of tweets activists say the pressure pushed all four of these to act her boyfriend was found guilty of the murder earlier this year ten james won a study the movement she says the social media activism and the naming of suspected rapists may not always bring justice but it breaks the silence because of the of how quickly hashtags pick up your able to call out your rapist and there's a bunch of people who say i believe you this is your first interaction been going to the police and saying this is happened to me and the police saying well what we

were where were you what time was it south africa's some of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world activists say less than one in ten. reported rapes result in conviction we asked the state prosecutor what she thinks about frustrated victims receiving justice on social media instead consider the dangers there are a few dishes go fifth american could wear extremely well where the burden of proof is on their kids or at least as a prosecutor i know i can sleep soundly at night because i know if i had convinced the court that someone is guilty that person really figure he'll under says a rapists have never been held to account this is the authorities failed her no justice has been done now can webb al-jazeera johannesburg. ok there we are here we go let's bring in our guests joining us today in pretoria

lerato more toying and activist has just joined the shutdown movement in new york will be joined by person she is the u.n. women's director of policy and from nairobi we have say for corey program manager for sites a place in ngo educating and engaging youth on how politics affects society welcome to you all the rights and much more in coming to you first how far away is south africa from complete and total gender equality. wow. that's a hard question to answer. i don't know it could be anything from being is two hundred years it really just depends on the entire society coming together and deciding that it's had enough of gender based violence i don't think we're working on timelines i think we're just working on at this point conscious sizing people around gender based violence and getting to a point where is saying that patriarchy is killing women daily and we just wanted

to stop i can give you a timeline because people have been fighting the three years in a sense if this is caused by a certain going on for decades if not more in the country understood put in a sense if this is caused by a certain intersectional aspect of different parts coming together warsaw they are . well if i may just add to what your last interview he said there that states all states have made a commitment to end all violence by twenty thirty so when you ask how far away is the country from achieving true equality one indicator of that is ending violence and that they have promised to do by twenty thirty so there's an imperative now to speed up everything that's being done intersectionality is the ways in which different aspects of inequality come together to shape particular people's experiences whether that's race and gender or that's disability and gender sexual orientation and gender and that complicates how people understand and experience different expressions of inequality so it makes it harder to talk about all women

in the same way it means we have to pay attention to the different ways in which racism and sexism cooperate and intersect with each other to make any closer to real for different people and i think we haven't done enough to recognize those inequalities whether it's women in rural areas where we disability surely to have that reflected in our approaches with the job of work to do all of us and ship of be in what ways is masculinity or the expression of masculinity a key toxic components in this. i mean the whole idea of my skill than tim and cell phone is to be and packed and it should be put in its right place where it belongs which is in the peach because when we kind of then have conversations about how masculinity and meant relating like they have the ability or they're allowed to express suddenly emotions will set in feelings and not at there is terribly terribly wrong in society because it's manic in our society now men are large

express anger anger which fuels violence violence which has been meant to the women and women's bodies for eternity is problematic in so many ways so even just starting conversations like what there actually is doing with women in south africa basically is that is a great start in just understanding that masculinity is not about a man being allowed to get away to violence and it's not just physical most of the time it's emotional and to a point where now man gets to put their hands on a woman it's just going overboard and the fact that we're not even allowed to talk about these things will happen he and in the way that they should be talked about as being violent and being a crank is terrible and set in the african culture as well plays a big dynamic in this and then the fact that there's no knowledge and no safe place is a safe spaces for women to express all this on this all is criminal activity is is terrible because the bodies of women have become

a political playground of what is that women have become a playground for people to just do what they can do and walk away with it if it's hot they can dream that we talk about violence against women to date as if it's something that we don't know exists and if it's something that we cannot fix what's selves and it's paralyzing it's i'm not. and there are so you're nodding there as corey is taking us through how to recognize the discrepancies and she's talking about african culture where you are in south africa does that african culture exist in a sense above the law of the land i would assume in south africa equality is enshrined in the last surely. i think we also have to take into context into consideration that violence is embedded in south africa's history right violence comes from we have a long history of violence in this country and to talk about african culture as if that doesn't happen within a context where this country with. the country was while

most black people in this country where exposed to white violence and how that into things with masculinity particularly hyper masculinity with poverty and all those things so i don't know how to talk about african culture as if african culture exists on its own it exists within a thirty minute that's within patriarchy and even though we do have all the laws that a supposed to ensure equality this is not happening on the streets people need to be taught that you're not allowed to grab a woman while she's walking on the street you're not allowed to force a woman to have six which is called rape because you feel entitled to have fighting . you were not in there as well tennis center in new york a recent u.n. report talked about how this issue is is generated in a cocktail of it being systemic institutional and structural those are big heavy

issues to address which is the easiest issue for your organization to unpack and deal with. i think it would be a little. not terribly helpful for us to pick out a simple issue because there isn't one the very set of issues that your previous speakers have mentioned you know from economic arrangements to political arrangements to failure to implement laws they're all interwoven they support each other through the structural arrangement that obtains everywhere and has particular manifestations depending on history now speaks of talked about colonialism in south africa and of course the laws that most countries of inherited article in unison our laws of those those countries that work on your rulers and there are over one hundred fifty countries in the world which still have discriminatory laws on the books many of those and heritage laws it's up to those states now to get rid of them but we also need to have women able to have a role in making decisions that impact upon their lives whether that's in politics

whether that's an economic life or whether that's in simple straightforward things at home what should be straightforward what they eat when they eat whether they go out when they go out whether and who they have children with the exception and these are all interwoven is absolutely important that those laws are there you mentioned the wonderful south african constitution it's imperative that those laws are there because that gives a signal from the state as to what's acceptable and what's not but the task goes beyond that in terms of implementing and it goes beyond laws and implementation because you can pass a law for example that men should take but can take paternity leave from work but if the social acceptance for men being active and engaged fathers isn't there then men are going to take that leave so you have to embed those those legal and political and economic measures in the bigger agenda of cultural change in your early speakers mentioning masculinity and how that shapes and is allowed to run

pretty much riots on on the bodies of women is is a much bigger more complicated project and if we don't understand the linkages between those different areas. we're not actually going to deliver the quality we've all been promised and women have a right to expect she thought what's the reaction you get when n.g.o.s such as yours goes to employers politicians prime ministers big business when you say look we have a massive issue here south africa was known at one point as the rape capital of the world so when n.g.o.s goes to the relevant government or the employment ministry and you say we've got a problem here what's the kind of reaction you get to that. i mean it was a moment because understanding that you come into these spaces as a female as myself and then you coming to this space talking about power because peter king is about power and it is about power that has been restored to one gender. the other gender so you can imagine if i walk in which i always do walk into these spaces i'm talking about these issues and say hey we need to discuss how

the power dynamic that is leading to let's find the milk genda above the female gender is really in so many problems develop it comes to predict when it comes to resources when it comes to equalization because now there's a myth around it occasionally being a little lazy but it is not feminism is the only two peach yaquis because peachy actually humanizes both men and women and it's just that we don't allow men to talk to it and they're not allowed to talk about it and they feel like if they talk about them being beneficiaries of the petri our court system then it kind of makes them this enemy yes it is the east because when you talk about happy jackie distribute the resources and how even opens up opportunities and locks out women just because you're a woman i'm a qualified woman and up what in political space and social space in educating people about consciousness democratic rights institutionalizing feminism but then you will find that people are always against that kind of conversation because

instills the power and it gives the park back to the people who are always had it all who deserve it more because of the what they've been doing and the been said lie. because now you realize that more women are being behind the scenes so it doesn't matter how qualified you are when you get to dissolutions way of discussing issues with governments with n.g.o.s with dorner there's a question of where does the power at that and that is very problematic because it ends up being the projectile competition that we see under the carpet and the conversation that with my life because when i talk about these things i have automatically the enemy because i am the one trying to bring back the power yet we can all exist enough food for all of us to be powerful and for all of us to grow and all of us to feel safe but it doesn't happen and being in political base as well it has exposed me to a lot of attack a lot of misfortune is the complement a lot of bubble you know a lot of bubbles which will online and offline as well where people just feel like you're taking too much yet there was enough for all of that so it's

a huge conversation and just acquired meant to be alive so that they can also understand that that benefited from a system that is the human at them as well because richie actually allowed men to believe that their only contribution to what anything building institutions building homes during family relationships is about who can provide but then it's not happening or it's that is now being nullified then what else do they have and then you find like men like this tend to violence because now they don't know what else to do in order to quit what control the women in that lead to just terrible the whole conversation around is that i love that that i've been ignited and that is the fact that very many people need to discuss how to benefit from p.t.s.d. especially the men and how women have constantly been say we cannot do we we cannot hear ourselves we need to breathe we need a space for us to feel safe because we can't live in a world where all we have plans and doing telling women go out and be safe we've

been safe we've been doing everything to be ok but when we have numbers like sixty three women debt interactivity seriously this is so much to be done. the rights of you want the south african government to adopt a national action plan at the center of that are you also implicitly telling men in south africa how they have failed women what we're expecting what we want them to do is hold themselves accountable we want men to be accountable for their violence you want men to acknowledge that they are violent or you want men to acknowledge that they have been violent we're not just asking the government to adopt this plan you're asking men across the fight here across the continent across the country to be the kind of people want to be the kind of people that make it safe for women to breathe. we're asking individuals we're asking organizations we're asking everyone

involved in fighting through stop gender based violence. how do you make sure that some women are not left behind with this because it occurs to me if you've got a vibrant go ahead city like say johannesburg you can get to those women who are high achievers you can get to the start up tech women that are making inroads into a male dominated industry but if you go north into some of those rural areas those women literally cannot get out of the household because they are kept under the thumb and they are we're told regularly abused. yes and it ph i think that the challenge of ensuring that all women are touched and made freer and more joyous lives through the work we're all doing is a is a live challenge what we have yet to meet probably earlier this year there was a global meeting held in new york on possibilities for challenges faced by women in rural areas and it's very clear and very unambiguous messages from the women from

rural areas who are part of those conversations saying you have left us behind you have not heard our voices and you really need to change what you do so i think the onus is on us as i can to change how we operate to make sure that we don't rely on only say as social media as a form of communication that we do have on the ground community work in all areas of the country let me at this point pay tribute absolute tribute to women across the world today is the march in south africa in the month of women's rights activities coming up but women across the world who have put this issue on the agenda who have come together in amazing global solidarity to say no more to say me too to say time is up they are saying all of them that all of us are involved in the struggle all of us have been. denied our rights and dignity and our ability to have control over our lackluster lives and we have

a great deal more to do to honor the calls that they have made and i say we not just as women across the world and as activists but also we inside the u.n. have a job of work to do to ensure that this work for equality reaches inside our own organization. if i may just say the issue isn't just and as has been mentioned before of men who have been left without resources or employment that's absolutely true that men who have been alienated in that way have particular issues in front of them that they have to deal with but it's also a question of men in positions of power of authority who are wealthy. the who have all sorts of privileges who also benefit from this culture that says men are entitled they have an assumed in title meant to treat women as they please to be sexually entitle to the bodies of women however they please without consequence and without accountability and those are issues that really really must rise to the top of our agenda and yes the national action and everywhere would be absolutely

crucial because it says from a government we take this issue seriously we're making concrete activities actions to address them and what's needed in the plan that has value is a budget attached to it so that women's groups know they have predictable unnerve of funding and the government departments get the money if they are working effectively to promote the rights of women and women's organizations the key in making that assessment and there was also ensure there's ongoing political will to prioritise this issue to put into place practical actions i'm going to interrupt you there which i apologise if you want to go to show for and loretta one more time before the clock beats us schieffer do you also have to talk to as well as those middle aged high achieving men across the continent you have to talk to those ordinary young men in their twenty's because they have to realise where they've gone wrong can i suggest to you and they have to when they have a baby boy they have to bring that baby boy up in a culture in

a household where there are distinct lines in the sand when it comes to how you treat your mother your sister the girl in the playground because that in coal kate's the right kind of behavior for when that baby boy is getting married. yes absolutely absolutely i mean it's a collective conversation that to chris everybody and to request every everybody to be involved beyond social strata because at the end of the day you will find that bar abilities that are created in the structural and the ways and one abilities like properties of the winner ability because you find a quote women want to be by only a point to be physically or domestically abused than women who have privileges like money and access to spaces where they can actually trent take action but end at the end of the day we all need everybody on board to start having this conversation that it is conversations about how only that we're boys and how we resolve occurrence and it's a conversation about what we think is a gender or what is not

a gender role it is a conversation about the principles and the models that could be still upon women and then we don't be slow to simpkins the point men it is a conversation about how we felt were meant to be a little bit less aggressive a little bit less ambitious because there's not enough room for them to be ambitious well or that will so involved it's a conversation about even the games we are girls to play but again if we allow our boys to play because we are now boys of new we toys that are creative and innovative but then we teach girls to just play around cooking toys and painting and looking pretty it's a collective conversation and must be holistic and it must be candid and honest and last time i'm going to use welsh if accepting as the last point to liberate so much going in pretoria rates or have you come across any examples of best practice where a company a government department is totally aware of this and is pushing the country in the right direction no. not it. what i have

found is that increasingly feminist movements have been demanding based practices just not just from men on the ground but from the states as well especially with regards to how the interest gender based violence and reports of gender based violence because gender based violence is not just at the point where the violence happens but there's also an entire system that frustrates women who want to go to this data once you go to the produce station to reports rape or all that all these kinds of other gender based violence and they're frustrated by a system from the police station all with all the way to the courts half the thai women shop the cases they don't even go to the police station to reports the fact that they've been abused or the fact that they've been raped because they know that they'll get to the police station and find a man who is going to blame them for being raped or being abused in us then why what are you wearing so it's an it's highest system that is at fault it's an entire system that is supporting patriarchy it's an entire system that's making it

difficult for women to even come out and say this is what i'm going through though there hasn't been a face practice we have to work on base practices which i think should not just be at a state level but at a societal level at most understood ladies thank you ladies thank you so much for your company thanks to all our guests so much going on and shift corey and thank you to you see if your company can see the program again on the web site out to sea org or call months of the discussion facebook at facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also toast on twitter at a.j. inside story or tweet me at the top don't be one for me peace it will be and the teen here from syria thanks for watching season.

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i'm about to send in doha the top stories on our desire in zimbabwe three people have been killed in post-election violence in the capital harare soldiers have opened fire on opposition supporters protesting over the slow resilience of election results the party of president and arson along has won two thirds of the seats in parliament but the result of the presidential vote is not yet known i don't toss of reports from. opposition supporters say they vote they are demanding transparency from the electoral commission official results show the readings on the paper has won a majority in parliament these people are convinced the results already. got yet. the police moved in to disperse them but when that failed the took over those who

tried to resist what delta. the. president has warned the opposition against causing trouble. there is forthwith to remove its violence. from the streets so peace returns to work and. you know asking them to pick business that is their. government is simply reminding them of their duties as the responsible. and citizens the main opposition alliance say the army used unnecessary force three people have been killed. and this or that may be dealt with by the place. of the old. soldier the trained to kill during the war. we have three of them have

to wonder what this means are we in war are civilians the enemy of the state the e.u. election observer mission says presidential election results should be released as soon as possible to avoid more violence but the longer it lasts to count the more. lack of credibility comes up with something single before therefore it's needed that it must be a trace abilities of the road down to the police station level. but opposition supporters say if the candidates now such an isa doesn't when they want to accept it the result center is over they opposition supporters have been trying to get in but the police have been pushing them back so they've been burning tires a poet is they insist that their candidate the main opposition leader nelson chamisa has won this election there they are over there they are refusing to leave in protest. by law presidential results have to be

announced by saturday most of our brains are anxious about what could happen if the lisa doesn't accept defeat. al jazeera. turkey has condemned the us decision to impose sanctions and two of his senior ministers it's the latest effort by.