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the northwest of kenya is home to a tribe named a bucket of practiced f g m for centuries by that art of pat archer. i'm here to me. don't a lot. your son was devoted her life to ending if she am in her home, county of west buckler i. she's married with 2 young children in iowa on taylor's 28. she's. she's one of the few women of her age and this county who hadn't been cut my notes at really narrow escape. what's up in isa? i witnessed a stage of the cut that her kids are not allowed to witness the younger with an 11 years old. and this community him is performing 2 stages. this. what 1st teens, which is a slate cut. yes, that is done in public with the prisoners of men and women,

and our young girls and young boys as su, yes, we see it yet. we see it by the yesterday, only like a slate cut. just immediately the 1st day the women are taken to and they got a ticket to articulate this like a bush. so we sneaked in and what i just saw on the sickles deeds was shocking. my cousin was laying down there in a pool of blood. yes. and women were pinning her down in her denito so i can't completely, you know, there's a one was like really butchering half like you know how you cut pieces of meat that was expecting. it's not to do thus just that. yeah. but she was really doing this, you know, when i yes, with a knife. yes. until was claiming. but as claims were being covered by the women, air singing in, you know, the shank tool tool to cover has claims that she was helpless. what was left there was just like red flesh. yes, i still can't believe that this is something that we are still debating about honestly.

ah, it was this dramatic expedient that made don to la refused to become a motivated how to set up her own charity to help. and after you were heading to the village of sandwich with $160.00 girls are preparing for an alternative rite of passage to ceremony. which was so neat. villas leak was in 2014 as antonio late of india. hello, the trip to sandwich from don't tell of house takes 2 and half hours through mountain passes and bumpy roads. middle school and middle school. for the welcome, when we get there, makes it worse it oh, in the pocket culture cutting traditionally involved

a celebration in which the whole community takes part o girls that housing their dances for the alternative ceremony. is really my coming in. it was beautiful. i didn't expect to see that difficult committee loved and thing and saying we want people to know that we level custom enough. let me do a little bit only, but from the cut. yes. this is with nothing for enhance the teacher left from the same community. the girls receive full day the lessons before their graduation day. good. i got one another. i will call and i never happened to day delani exactly what after i am involved and the health complications using models. i'm about to no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, linda wood. i'm not yeah, i'm not good to let them one to book. i must do. you go. i know a good number gets

a nag about them in the me a new mother from one and bottom of my call when you know, but yeah, that's winning the pie. kuda must be got out of the when you have been cut, you're put into seclusion for one month, whereby your thought out to become a good wife, how to treat your husband, how to cook. so we do the opposite. we bring the girls in here. we're teaching them lego, the children's rights, what we did them about a health implications of jam then. so it's basically sim, like same thing without the car to but a different teaching c m because the one this goes to be important people in the society. i don't pin on her colleagues, have had to work hard to change the attitudes of parents in the pocket community. a cut girl can bring significant economic advantage to a poor family. a girl is married of a man brings dowdy into in term of couse and her. i'll tell you that for this

community they played praises quite high, especially the girl is young and that most people tend to model that with us. the older men could they bring good number of calls as much as of many authentic health because of poverty situation. they're tending to cut their gulf when they're still young, then they married them when they get there is quick, quick, quick, quick, quick her. well, so much is on cut the girl worse. but i am cut girl. you cannot shall be given away at her thoroughly press. yes. for girls, they might even give you away for free because they just want to get rid of you because it about a more is where the ration go from, sing and dance to song composed by local musician la kito. you have a personal reason for wanting to and of g m sla, linux you've been doing. okay,

so the music is done. give, give me more detail as done collab nathan dolan, man and bug a style. it may you style over? no one helped her. my meeting again that i got an umbrella illegal, but i want to know he will not load well, i've got him at the got kissella johnny. he said you can visit them. dickie bermonte. ne. ligonier got you. what was the name of your sister clemente in clementine? how old was she living with regarding a camera? no more more local moran look in it and the picture. oh, good with a credit. fcl has been illegal in kenya since 2001.

but around here, well, the law has been largely and effective with this. i just $160.00 goes that goes around this village on the villages that around most of them i still being cut. i mean, we have not been able to reach out to everybody is, is a big, big, big land. you know, it's a big county. i find out from taylor that one of her youngest has run away to be cut with friends with i know don't let's use but i wonder if the older generation her mother and grandmother supported her sister's decision. what she takes me to meet them. colina lannie went in a low keegan with deb anisa and both the girl at counties. i could get little more people yell when milan lad dylan with the one on the lift. wanda,

now can good look back quite bad at that. again. what we're law lucas vocal that they needed you. i'll go back when you go in and daniel middle nowhere. and i'm with that. i've been with the bible with him at the buy a new car now calling litigate. and we'll go on and when you're moving in and we wanted other more as well, you know, the for not live and literacy will you are looking for them? i will tell em. i see it will go on last year guy now i will. yeah. yeah. it's not for me to work. so she was hoping in the form it was really about so you are against that because of the law. but in your time, if jim was good, you think that you live, we more that the will come with one lot. he had the well as yeah,

what the yeah, go ahead and i can with you again when he come, jo mo, data one, i want you to know the meaning of the william on level to quote good not or either will dinner. and i want to do what i'm gonna do. yeah. okay. well, we'll uni you. an hourly does a bit. that's all may that are that are good m dot ronald. i look good to got. i got metal, a dog mine on that meeting. don't deliver, grandmother makes me appreciate why the key to ending if she amen with pocket is keeping girls in school. i thought about it that way. pamela, don't have to rely on a diary to help support them on their elders. educated girls can pay for their own cows. oh,

to date attend to right of passage is being held in the market scram. sammy hundreds of people from many different villages have come to witness. so cation oh i i a i . 7 find out that some of the girls family tree has some sacrifice to be here today . oh, yeah. of many of your frontier dot com is you today,

or no money in your developer is just you here. no one else from the village. for that, it me, there would be cub politico the going with it. are you phones here today? they're not alone. dental to me, then use them as of the new here just along with that go and join them. mm hm. that another girl who catches my eye and my medicine, and he will leave a lasting impression on me ah, the presence of dignity here is a testament to them. to le success. it means to attend to fact of passage have the stamp of approval of important eldest into community in regard to trying to be back

of blood said live that his gusts, the vast majority of pocket people, a christian. and the graduation ceremony ends with a blessing about patents and elders stand behind the girls that belong to their villages. oh yes, no more ma'am. yes, i'm not. yeah. i mean good. you know, number one on a buddy you ah, it was wonderful and fetching to see all the community leader and the parent, especially the father, standing behind the young girls symbolically. it was like saying, we have your back. we have your back with support you. and we support a decision not to because there was a wonderful to see you know, just wonderful. wonderful. ah.

i want you to meet early as i leave early elysa girl, i noticed dancing at the ceremony. she ran away from home after her father began beating her mother, believing she was responsible for ali, the refusal to be cut as why wouldn't odessa? you know, this get to way, i guess susan, i don't junk non gallo up any. would you glue either? al quickly, which giggling hm. glow, maddening. to me, i'm to call it the one lane all good, only liver curry actually. oh, kira neil though, look, every adult and when i get your anger de la mil, what mila was a bubble motor about is going to get out. and when you get a job going on an exit got,

i'm one of them going along with only when we let and then will complete. so your family have shunned you the fristoe way bottling only meet the bat money. what do you say to young girls who are about to attend the alternative rite of passage? what do you say to them any more did have i done eloquently one, alec at the dominant, lemony dealer. look at the uni again. i did a deal with daniel done on the you know, when we did the account was cute lindsay a little less also with the denny eli. and yet i ran again one limon know, plenty of room with them all over again. we're going to do as i did. excellent. i don't like you that want me to be like a 1000000. so what are you hopes and dreams for the future? but you know, i'm glowing on and like you don't, you double, but the end of the, not the 1 am and one you genetic another picking them glue,

then this is la. would your does your at the not juggle groovy any school or what is that if you're gonna i mean, cost an annual car? am i milan? i look why your, your, some of the visa, i look one a morning which isn't a lonely little getting money or locker. fatima non 1000000 de la n and a juliet, you know, denila guardian. i, megan was a little dog on monday now. and anyway, i was able to log on and off. there's a tough question and i think you're very brave because i can't imagine given up, you know, you leave your whole family behind you. siblings, your father and your mother. i don't know what i would have done glen yuki and then looking at alan. if he gets sick when neither rudy was you deal?

mama milligram. dear man. you know what i see when i look at you, i see someone i can see a lot of sadness in your eye, but i can also see strength and determination. so i believe that one day you'll have your own family. one day you have your degree. i believe that you will achieve all your dreams. so spending time was dumpty law has been an inspiration to me throughout resilience and example . she's inspired so many others like ellie. i'm sure in turn, that element do the same? yes. i they leave kenya. my thoughts turned to my family in sweden. it's time to face my own taboos. ah. yeah. it's it you're back in stockholm. i

meet up with my old childhood friend and fellow at a trans sweet latina. i'm guessing child. that was fe. miller agreed with axiate them against that neither of us know enough about why the cut is performed in our own culture. i'm gonna use it to some lady. yeah. like our parents generation, you know? yeah, yeah. the reason that doesn't talk, and i think is gonna be interesting because they work with the subject. okay. now let's go to mac hewitt. my had it than i shot our air trans. they support woman in the dashboard and sweden. yet for us already, you nest on our la from inpatient beth israel, your mon latifah, front and ink to lustre, till then in free, above horned on devon, muncie, who,

who's oss say it is so they, they in passage we fear in their bar and that is lute or do hold up probably. trina, the little protein to all my life. clooney buffer your monday, december control the 100 on a control later green known as i say, it must insulate it livid to handle your if you are the yen at our horns. protestant, he worth a car to leak or under our aimlessly mad men, the alley hopa, it dropped but over there. so the hot in 19, you're really brought alex on under sticker to had in hunting, may drill you and at your the 30 say at a chance dampening facing the body africa. and that he had 3 other friends version of it for folks, it rule out, the harder to actually, i'm illiterate africans are probably m a r last me get a chance to them on the, on us to order and mom for via the mirror. amira, indian pakistan, coldest on iraq,

latin america and, and to be not e, i, miracle cousins could have on their guardian than he was brought up and normally taboo subject. you seeing in the camera, the kind of t multiple gland off her at the, on the school, not leave it there. the hadn't uplifted over to marla. we can shut the door. the honey. okay. mom the had a of the month was men. nick? i yeah, i, i have been it that the did with that a good live over the head of or one thing that went on god in that dormer did. it did door little was a name, a problem. them that, that over the entire f historic, marvin and the brought on them and month viagra, newton them on a 2nd man, demick jemirah and saw for download on $400000000.00 owner fleet caught up venus

mago t and on decimal for funding in on them. so i thought that in order to be there still, thanks a men there or see it is got of it is got on. think month or the dead for this? come stop, but so on the hey it con scorpion on day or brought on the upper classes. so viani the can just go to the other, exit the so many tails got the node or brought us of the or day dog. i'm there with 40 or she'll get osha many wrong. go to me for the there it is called didn't have what it the hot into the whatever the stood out that it's 7. but although i have always known of not being cut, i've never asked my mother why. if she is not a subject to discuss. but to day, we're going to talk about it. it took a lot of convincing to persuade my mother to take part in this phone. my father and

sister refused due to the table that's from the subject to the person. the question i need to off my mother, that makes me uncomfortable for this month. i did. so i start with the easier one after this mom lived mother had a daughter named michelle michelle. michelle is in wishing, i wish not wish. there had been i would at yan in the continental wishing doctor left and left a dean when she did a lot of like a lot of thought about muffled, fishy. like enough, danny. but bad. i would rather look into it wouldn't affect in math. i am on the 2nd. i'm ok with that. i'm ok with that with him. don't run the danny and i'm wishing owner and the i'm sure what i let what i did. i just got a 5, a

middle i thought it was an open mind texting me because i'm hungry. look for a lot of stuff. get the lunch of that. yep. who? michelle aquino. i'm who are a lot. so i thought that the focus i will. yeah. a lot harder and it hadn't been out or had 1st out what the fuck it a good one. you know me, nick? yes, we are the only yeah. mosquito. how do you come on as i love it? thank you, and i've been denied medical and we'll do new england for august. best evicted for me out of the. i mean, i'm do have the d and on down so far, and i'm not sure you what i'm talking about the i d 5th and landon mom, fish my 50 at that, but come america le salita will m and will it d, and i'll get

a matter i did la la la method handler, danny to lady will i the id. yeah. near to the wages. why the id yan and to match up to famous. are they gonna land out and mom, man, mom, mother, will she buffet i ah, she is such a relief after speaking with my mother. i know now that she did not endure the worst form of f d m. and i feel proud of my parents decision to end the practice, which meant that i did not endure it. and in turn neither when my daughter ah, this journey cement my b, f g m will end one day. change will come, but it must come from with from so. so understand that the richness and uniqueness

of culture does not depend on traditions harmful to women. ah, running is one of the most accessible sports in the world. else's era correspondent tanti richardson takes us on his personal journey of discovery. when you find yourself out in the middle of nowhere, and the run is hurting. why should not just stop exploring the growing popularity and science? he pushes the limit from kenya to the antarctic. in search of answers to why we run eligible correspondence. ah, ah, ah

ah, ah hello, here's her headlines for the america on the 1st day of 2022 happy new year. everyone will begin in california. this is actually in the past to my train to fast los angeles, broken 85 year old daily rainfall record scooping up about 60 millimeters. so flash lighting, not only outside, but inside at union station, it's energy raced across the rockies. and it's now going to spark some severe storms further toward the east. we go, we'll pick up the story there, texas arkansas, tennessee right in to kentucky. we could see some tornadoes here. one of the main ingredients we've got high temperature is here. so that could flare up storms with very little notice. this is a cold friend. it's working across submitted by an tickets. gonna drop temperatures eventually in dc. but look at this temperature divide. we've got minus 19 in

minneapolis and plus 20 degrees in d. c. few flurries hanging around for vancouver, temperatures have come up also coming up across alberta, but still that deep cold across the canadian prayers and the northern plains, off to central america, some showers coast to rica and panama, and still in that zone from brazil to rio de janeiro we've got some orange alerts, we could scoop up to a 100 millimeters of rain and then south of all of this high heat. so by jablonka has got a high 32 degrees on saturday. that's it, susan. ah, this one's feared warlord during lay barriers. decade long civil war says he's now fighting a drug epidemic. the work that the former warlord joshua boy he has done with treat children, has attracted to how black sympathy and asp protected him in effect from public crawl situation. despite the recommendations made by the truth and reconciliation

commission for this former warlord, liberia has become the frontline of a drug war. it cannot afford to lose. he says it's a battle he will fight out of responsibility and killed for his past crimes. and for his country ah, ah, ringing in 2022 with scale down celebration, spoke about the rise of code. 19 infections overshadows festivities around the world. ah. loves hello robin. this is oliver locked my headquarters here in doug. also coming up on years day. hundreds of homes destroyed in colorado as a wildfire sweeps through towns north of denver.