this is due to the news line from berlin under arrest in iran the government tries to turn the tide and change the narrative tens of thousands hit the streets in a show of force for the government says the general who heads the revolutionary guards declares this edition just feed it will get the latest from tehran also coming up a step towards dialogue on the korean peninsula north korea reopens

a hot line to the south ahead of next month's winter olympic games in south korea. and a seismic shift in ethiopia a prime minister there says you'll release political prisoners and close a notorious prison camp the announcement comes after months of antigovernment demonstrations. plus u.s. president donald trump hits twitter and takes on america's adversaries we'll look ahead to what could be a nother turbulent year for the white house at home and beyond and the drug crazes that's wreaking havoc in communities around the u.s. we meet some of the young people paying a heavy price for their parents' addiction but are determined to make a change the. way the hauraki it's a pleasure to be with you so we begin. broadcast it with the unrest in iran in

a new development the general who has the revolutionary guards has announced what he calls the end of sedition referring to putting down a week of mass anti-government protests the general says a large number of so-called troublemakers have been arrested and he claims they received training from counter revolutionaries and says firm action would be taken against them the general's remarks come as the government tries to change the narrative with state media showing footage of pro government rallies. now iran's leadership has also mobilize support thousands of demonstrators in abo's in southwestern iran took to the streets to show their support for the government protesters yelled death to the usa and death to israel state television show demonstrations like these taking place across the country posters of the ayatollah ali home and they are on display everywhere on tuesday the country's supreme leader blamed foreign powers for the unrest now his supporters are claiming they're ready

to give their lives for him and some are calling for those who demonstrated against the government to be executed still anti-government protests continue some of them violently this footage shows a building going up in flames it allegedly belongs to the paramilitary revolutionary guard and is for one province meanwhile more than a thousand anti-government demonstrators have supposedly being jailed a government spokesperson has emphasized the more liberal message of president hassan rouhani saying legal protests are allowed but that those who break the law will be punished washington's u.n. ambassador has called for emergency security council talks we must not be fallon's the people of iran are crying out for freedom all freedom loving people must stand with their current state run media in iran has now focused its attention on pro-government rallies in the country rather than on the anti-government demonstrators. and iran is still reeling from those protests a.f.p.

correspondent erica randolph is in tehran erica what are the new developments talk to us about that. today about the. regaining control of the narrative through fairly quiet nights with minimal protests reported this morning we have pro regime rallies tons of thousands of people marching through several cities. forcing no support for the regime opposing the five suspects in recent weeks and this is the revolutionary guards to. this sedition sorry this edition is rose but it's ended already about fifteen thousand people took part. in the younger us the last few days all right what does that tell us i mean i mean you have the protests been effectively a crackdown or is he just trying to reassure the political establishment. it

doesn't look like the protests run out of steam these much smaller prioritize us than the ones we saw back in two thousand and nine when hundreds of thousands perhaps even millions of people were out on the streets this time we were talking about thousands and hundreds the difference was that it was dispersed all over the country being discussed and lacking a clear leadership. protest and i was a very violent become difficult for ordinary people to join and i think they were put off by some of the violence is what we. speak to that even if people were very much sympathize with the economic problems on the line that they don't want to get caught up in not violent. but nonetheless there are still a lot of grievances out there could you outline some of them. sure began over the high cost of the flesh has been a problem in this country and that is and the other big one is on employment as

high as forty percent. of people in this talks of the rest of the country everybody has a story about someone being highly educated but being unable to find a job over there to fight a decent job that matches their education. something that spread across the country in rural areas where droughts just push people out of the villages and so the bigger cities it's even more acute those problems are not going to go away overnight the government has its job cut out for it if it wants to address the grievances the root of these protests eric randolph a few correspondent in tehran thank you. all right i want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world. in berlin the party leaders of germany's conservatives and center left social democrats have agreed to start exploratory talks on forming a new governing coalition well those talks are slated to start on sunday and the

two sides remain far apart on issues to do with refugees military spending education and health care. the prime ministers of poland and hungary have criticized e.u. migration policies and called for a bigger say in the blocks future the two leaders said austria's new conservative government showed that anti immigration positions were gaining support in europe they were checked you quotas for redistributing refugees and say the bloc should focus on preventing migration. a seventeen year old palestinian has been killed in clashes with israeli soldiers in the west bank israel says soldiers opened fire on a protester who appeared to be carrying a gun and is reviewing the incident there's been a surge in palestinian protest since the u.s. recognized jerusalem as israel's capital city. north korea has reopened a suspended communications line with south korea in what may be a sign of thawing tensions well north korean leader kim ordered that the hotline at

the country's border be reconnected the two koreas have been making overtures to improve ties since the new year as well that's when kim signaled that he wants to see north korean athletes cross the border and join next month's winter olympics in the south. and with the world's eyes on the korean peninsula in a month's time when the winter olympics take place a lot is at stake on a small star is a professor from the school of east asian studies at berlin's free university very good day thank you for spending time with us as with everything of course timing is key what's behind the surprise announcement first of all it's not a surprise at all that korea comes to north korea comes out at this point in time because also the foreign policy of north korea needs a direct contact a direct dialogue with its outer world in order to implement to realize

goals now interesting if you if you look from the north korean perspective their approach seems to be two pronged on the one hand they're dialing up tensions with the u.s. and there seems to be a slight warming up of relations between john yang and seoul. what's the tactic behind that are they trying to drive a wedge between those two allies. here is the board understand that it was always it has always been the strategy of north korea to have this wedge between the u.s. and south korea. because there are conflicting interests here so that's nothing new but it's of course a very important good positive stuff that north korea came out and proposed these dial the style look with with south korea and i think it's a very good opportunity for deescalating the construction situation right now all right well on the opposite spectrum of course is that they're rushing it up of tensions because this brings us to that provoke of nuclear button comment by u.s.

president donald trump in a tweet aimed at the north korean leader he disparaged the size of that country's nuclear arsenal it was in response to a speech from kim in which he warned the u.s. that the nuclear launch button was always within easy reach this is what he said mr trump said i too have a nuclear button but it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his and my button works. i mean i don't know how helpful it is to start pushing each other the buttons it's a tweet war for now on a serious note how how dangerous is it that this might actually get out of hand and somebody might actually push a button at some point well i think first of all the common by donald trump was to be expected and that is his way of reacting to that kind of situation but after i would say it's still it's quite a positive or at least neutral reaction to to north korea and i hope it's stays on

that level but of course it is a very very dangerous situation but if we look carefully at the new year's statement of the north korean leader he tries between the lines he tries to to make clear that everything is under control so there would wouldn't be a ok i would accept your nation where somebody by accident would push the button because he has it under his control and i think he was very clear on that point so you think he's a much more rational leader than we give him credit for yes absolutely he has to be very rational because he has to deal he has to to work with very limited resources to to survive on the international. diplomatic world honest so muslim professor from the school of asian studies at berlin's for university thanks. and we are sift our attention now to the mideast where in israel protests have been growing against prime minister benjamin netanyahu he's in amounting pressure after police open an investigation into possible bribery fraud and breach of trust

a prime minister denies the allegations and calls them politically motivated our correspondent tanya kramer went to one of the protests calling for netanyahu is resignation. bibi go home bibi go for for the past five weeks every saturday thousands have been demonstrating in tel aviv against corruption what started as a small reeky protest organized by a former employee of the netanyahu president has now gained pace people here would like to see the corruption investigations into israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu move forward please stealing my money my taxes my future. that's why i'm here simple as that i'm walking here because the government is corrupt b b a prime minister should go home immediately and it works out that i want to change the government because i think it is corrupt that it's what's written here you go home the time has arrived they have been in power for too long a walk which will exactly fall down for months the police have been investigating

the people around the israeli prime minister netanyahu in surface question six times his former chief of stuff is now a key witness there three investigations case three thousand has to do with possible problems paid during the purchase of german submarines netanyahu has not been accused himself but some of his trusted advisers have in another case netanyahu allege he tried to influence to publish a daily newspaper to make his coverage more positive and in the most prominent case to date authorities suspect him of preceding gifts from business people and close friends champagne cigars together with tens of thousands of check outs we have this cloud hanging over the government's head of three different criminal investigations involving the prime minister and. any given point any of them could lead to a police recommendation to indict natin you know binyamin netanyahu him surface repeatedly denied all charges calling their quds ations against his family an obsessive returned by the left wing. media.

cramer reporting there are germany's largest lender is in hot water again helena how come we're talking about in the bad books but this time not with authorities with its own investing suing the bank for seven hundred forty million euros they say the bank under paid them for shares in its subsidiary post bank to it to shareholders allege the lender already controls pos bank two years prior to fully taking over its business investors want to be paid the value of the shares where the stock of postbank stood at that time now the suit involves just over thirty german international investors and our financial correspondent and advice back says that as the case is still ongoing it's not yet clear where the dacha will have to pay out. well there were different rulings on that case already one back in the middle of last year was actually saying yes those shareholders are

right and that's why we have now a growing number of shareholders issuing those claims because what you have to know is that the deadline boys and off lost here you could hang on in these kind of planes because that's like the legal battle to deal with that matter and that's why we see all these reports now coming out so this time it might be different because there was a hearing already at the court the regional court in cologne where this matter will be discussed and also decided and the leading judge was already pointing towards a more favorable hearing result for the bank actually at that hearing early november so this time bank may actually get away without paying all that money. and that's a vice fact that in frankfurt now it was a great year for renewable energy in germany last year to watch in wind power plants generated more electricity than as up before up

a massive twenty percent on the previous year to around one hundred fifty four billion kilowatt hours of electricity and one of the reasons for that sort of performance was down to plain old good luck with the weather. power utility eon says the stormy weather germany experience last autumn meant wind turbines were running at full capacity better half of the south of the country enjoyed plenty of sunshine in the spring and summer the favorable weather conditions meant more green electricity was being produced than ever before. as a result we're newell's share of overall german power generation increased last year to a third of the overall power mix but coal is still king in germany at thirty seven percent far more than other sources such as gas and nuclear. for nearly two decades the german government has pushed ahead with where new all energy it puts up twenty five billion euros annually to subsidize wind water and solar power this

transition to green energy costs each household three hundred euros per year making germany's electricity the most expensive in europe consumer groups criticized the high costs they also say were nobles do little to boost energy security because output fluctuates so much depending on the sunshine and the wind. china is right hanging platform didi chu xing has made a can't quiz ition in south america the chinese company has purchased ninety nine tax of the largest ride sharing off ration in brazil the shoe shopping which competes with reportedly paid over two hundred ninety million dollars for ninety nine taxi the brazilian startup is just a few years old it already has some one hundred forty thousand drive is registered and hundreds of towns and cities including south paulo and rio de janeiro.

last falsify is facing a new legal challenge and american music publisher claims that the swedish services illegally has illegally stream druther thousands of its songs without the rights the company wants one point six billion dollars in damages in the copyright case among the osce concerned probably a few names you might recognize. tom petty is one of the most well known names in the dispute neil young and missy elliott are also there the music publisher wixon music says spotify only secured copyrights to paid music labels for each track and ignored royalties to songwriters and music publishers like weeks and weeks and says spotify owes it for more than ten thousand songs it wants one hundred fifty thousand dollars a pop spotify has over sixty million subscribers in dozens of countries and billions in annual revenue the companies expected to go public this year the firm has faced persistent problems with royalties it settled with

a group of songwriters for forty three million dollars last year other cases are ongoing all signs that the music industry isn't ready to back down. more business news coming up here a little later first back over to layla thank you so much helen and we're going to talk about those upcoming coalition talks to form a new german government or quest for refugees to reunite with their families will be one issue topping the agenda it's a politically charged complicated and expensive process and even when german authorities approved family reunification the red tape in places like greece can prolong the wait well our next report looks at what this means for the people caught up in the middle who say they are the victims of broken promises. more yod and his younger brother abdul rahman like living in cologne their new home but they say they can only be truly content when the rest of their family joins them the two

brothers traveled along the balkan route from syria and arrived in germany two summers ago they've been waiting for their parents to join them legally ever since . people here told us it would only take about a month or two but two years have gone by in the meantime has been raising his little brother on his own he speaks with his parents every day on skype he says his mother has the same question each time. what did you do in school today. the rest of the alissa family is stuck in the northern greek city of festal and despite permission from german authorities they haven't been able to travel to cologne their case seems to be stalled in greek bureaucracy. it's so hard that's so far away and i wish i could give them a hug. for the family going back to syria is

unthinkable even once the war ends one of five sons was shot dead in aleppo he was twenty two years old. i mean i still dream about him all the time. in the last one he laid his head on my lap and i stroked his legs i told him in the dream that i missed him. the other children try to keep their parents spirits up eighteen year old amar goes to school instead. but she's taught herself to speak german in hopes of joining her brothers in cologne and studying further she's tired of living in limbo and wouldn't even. try it's been two years since i've seen my brothers and all of us my siblings it's such a long time that i don't miss this so. in cologne the two brothers have to be patient along with their parents some forty five hundred other

refugees are waiting to join their families in germany we asked the german federal office for refugees and migration with some of the family reunification seem to be taking one of the arguments was that everything needs to be organized with the greek authorities and that's not always. has this message for his parents until he sees them again from a sort of i miss you. and i'm waiting for you is for. he adds that he's ready to wait as long as he has to until his whole family can be together in germany. and staying in germany people here like to think they're animal lovers but in recent years the country has fallen behind its real opinion neighbors when it comes to reassuring shoppers about the welfare of farm animals instead of having one system to show buyers what kind of animal park they're purchasing there are winches competing labels that just cause confusion. no pig wants to live this way

squished together and pens with floor grates so the man you are can run off more easily even though that causes them more injuries no straw no distractions also they fatten up more quickly or take emily one of millions of high output dairy cows in order to ensure she makes enough milk she is kept pregnant at all times many consumers want farm animals to be treated humanely they want a label showing which products come from animals that have been kept in accordance with high ethical standards then i know the animal had a good life while being raised and it was treated humanely which would limit battery farming. if you're really interested in animal welfare then i think it's important to introduce a label like this. unlike with eggs in germany there is no uniform symbol for meat instead there are several labels that all use different standards for farm animals . and detmar is board spokesman of noirmont

a private label that has high animal welfare standards but labels like these only apply to one percent of meat that's produced. obviously very slow going and difficult when labels are voluntary this is also the experience we have had for more than twenty five years that's why we demand a compulsory animal welfare label from the state which would provide orientation and promote responsibility a year ago the german agriculture minister promised a government animal welfare label to be used on a voluntary basis animal welfare organizations protested a new report says most germans want a compulsory label but the agricultural ministry seems to be dragging its feet. i can imagine looking into how we can go forward with this label across europe so that it would be compulsory. denmark the

netherlands and switzerland have already introduced mandatory animal welfare labels with great success the treatment of farm animals has improved considerably in those countries so there's no reason to blame europe for not taking action on animal welfare. i am betting that many of your mediately recognize that score is sort of that started playing you probably don't even need us to play the entire video read vote footage to know what it is his name is bond james bond a part of the bond legacy is that james bond fame composed more than fifty five years ago is one of the most famous pieces of music written for a movie and it's one of several legendary film scores featured in a new documentary score which opens this week in german cinemas take a look. whistling melodies twenty guitars and fatalistic trumpets never before had

a movie score set the mood for a series of films and the way ennio morricone is did for the renowned spaghetti westerns. you know you just took the sound of that it's our and the whole bit into that was the wind. that is the sound of you know this but that he was that still fifty sixty years after the fact what would cinema be without music composer marco beltrami analyzes the famous shower scene in alfred hitchcock's psycho music it's not that scary. no it is you know it is the process it's music the music there. is stuff in my state that i thought of. and a violin is what provided that tortured sound. german composer

hans zimmer has created music for more than one hundred fifty movies including the pirates of the caribbean series he's known for integrating electronic sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements the report excels roughly the fame where somebody comes into the room and i got this idea it will be fun to do your flattered but even considering you me when you have a moment of reflection you go i have no idea how to do or. how does film music work and who's behind it the documentary score answers some of these questions it offers a behind the scenes look for example at recordings for the james bond film casino royale score it does reveal a few tricks but it still leaves the sense of magic intact. most directors don't know how to convert emotions into musical. or into music so the composer has to

you know act almost like a therapist and go through all this mishmash of what the director saying get the essence of it. and push emotion to the next level whether for jaunts or for star wars film scores can help us feel a part of the action. now you're watching the news this a have a long way to tell you about here is what's ahead for u.s. president all time has put a turbulent first year in office behind and what will twenty eighteen when we'll take a look at what's in store. that's coming right up. you're going to listen to the other duck didn't sell it into modern day slavery because the russians are being enslaved by fellow russians that's not happening anywhere else in europe. was an ngo tracks down the victims.

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release its political prisoners and close a notorious la prison camp while the announcement to comes after months of anti-government demonstrations the protests led to a state of emergency that has since been lifted well that's the first time the government has admitted to holding political prisoners but ethiopia has has long been accused of arresting journalists that are critical of the political establishment and opposition leaders. while a joining me now from our amharic program for ethiopia is my colleague tess for. a very good evening a test for them this is a remarkable day for ethiopia freeing all political prisoners i mean it's remarkable that they're recognizing them ask political prisoners but what people even expecting this to happen. there was

a ruling parties meeting last week it was concluded last week it was it took seventeen days and people who had expected the ruling coalition will make big decisions but this is unprecedented you know the release of political and leaders opposition political leaders and opposition members were not expected and the closure of the notorious prison market always also it was not expected that into some i want to talk to you more about what this all will mean for you to your people before we do that i want to get your personal tape because you want to tend in ethiopia for more than a year because of your work as a journalist you were held at that notorious interrogation center that's also slated to be closed can you share with us your experiences there mark i know you dictations internally you know it's an integration center where most political prisoners journalists bloggers protesters are kept for

a while and i have been kept there for three months and it is a very it's a horrible place i can call it just like that and then what a lot so human right abuses where then a torture was rampant and you know inhuman treatment with then and i was kept in a very bad situation in very in humans it just situation and the decision to close the market and it turned into a museum was one of my dreams and if the prime minister has kept his word you know my this is like my dreams comes true now but that's i think those are the operator words if he follows through on this promise to close that interrogation center for all the political prisoners how did it make you feel you know especially considering all the things that you went through that this detention center will probably be closed in the near future. it is overwhelming you know it has been

there for a long time during the military region it was you know a number of thousands of people were suffered there was told chair you know the number of people who were taken from that one and were killed during that military region it's and it still continues is this region also the government today the prime minister does a mission that but i was a living witness i have seen a lot of torture and saw so many of my cellmates where i suffered torture so it is overwhelming still it is very difficult to comprehend all the news that comes out from ethiopia this time. to senator considering what you just mentioned a lot of your colleagues were tortured there you went to raise very very trying period there as well what is next for now will there be reconciliation. today's announcement by the prime minister as well as the chairperson of.

you know the ruling coalition party members. they show some signs of improvement but it is very early to say that egypt is going on the right direction now there are lots of questions the public demanding at this time you know protesters were came out on the streets hundreds of people were killed and thousands of people are still in jail so today's announcement is positive but we should see the action in the coming future so we should wait and see what will develop in ethiopia. or aagot and herrick program thank you so much for sharing your personal experience with us as well thank you very much. all right and now we turn our attention now to the united states where president donald trump will soon begin his second year in office iran north korea and the mideast

peace process are among the many foreign policy challenges on the president's plate and at home there's no end in sight to the investigation into alleged links between trump's election campaign and russia a washington correspondent carson phenomenas sent us this report on what lies ahead in u.s. politics. there is little doubt who will dominate the headlines in the united states this year once again donald trump like him or not the president has up and it's washington's way of doing business we broke every record it's the largest i always say the most massive but it's the largest tax cut in the history of our country tax reform might be trump's only big legislative achievement so far but the president has used his many powers to change the u.s. for years to come the environment consumer rights immigration foreign relations trade and the judiciary have all been affected donald trump has even changed the

way journalism works these days this is arguably the most important tool a journalist covering the white house has a smartphone to follow the president's twitter feed and to find out what is on donald trump's mind today all the next hour or the next minutes until the next three to anyway. on average the president treats seven times a day in addition to speeches and other statements trump rants against what he calls fake news parents conspiracy theories and so its opponents celebrities and even members of its own party and praises himself for his real or imagined achievements like ending the alleged war on christmas i told you that we would be saying merry christmas again i by and donald trump certainly isn't done yet his next big project is infrastructure the united states might be the world's only remaining global superpower at least for now but back home much of its

infrastructure is crumbling like this hybrid just outside washington. i'm the president hopes that his new initiative will for a change be popular across party lines but there are still many open questions like what kind of infrastructure projects you'll bridges and airports or will equip schools and hospitals and who's going to pay for that donald trump's tax reform already blows a big coal into the federal budget and then infrastructure package for a come on top of that now some republicans want to cut welfare programs to plug that hole but that's a no go for the democratic party especially in an election year and in fact the democrats stand a good chance to win a majority in both chambers of congress in autumn. after all trump's approval ratings are at a record low for any u.s. president in modern history of to

a year in office they hover at around thirty five percent so his biggest hope for a boost in popularity is continued economic growth or perhaps the outbreak of a major international crisis. nothing makes americans rally behind their president like the threat of war and in particular when it comes to north korea and its nuclear program trump hasn't been holding back they will be met with fire fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never see before and there are quite a few people here in washington who fear that trump might follow through on his threats this year the rhetoric of trump and some of his supporters on north korea shows parallels to the bush administration just before the invasion of iraq and so would raise some eyebrows when the commandant of the u.s. marine corps recently told his troops a war is coming and they should be prepared for a big fight. the pentagon quickly

backpedaled saying the marines should always be prepared but with such an unpredictable commander in chief not everyone is reassured so two thousand and eighteen promises once again to be a turbulent year in the us and the round the world. carson phenomena reporting while another challenge for the u.s. and twenty thousand is opioid crisis every day dozens of americans die from drug overdoses the children of drug addicts are the other victims in this crisis some are removed from their parents for their own safety and cared for by foster parents and i next report you'll meet a girl who has endured great hardship but is determined to make a change. it's a moment fifteen year old athena gregory can enjoy any when she can focus just on herself behind her lies a horrific childhood as the daughter of drug addicts she bore sole responsibility

for herself her little brother and her parents you always have to stick by your parents' side and even when they are doing what they are supposed to do you have to help as much as possible in. be as brave as possible. back then there was no such thing as cooking a meal together the family moved constantly they often lack basic necessities at the end they lived in a motel athena's parents existed in a drug fueled hands first pills then heroin. you know i went my hair when i had a piano with me and i was in the basement of this these people's house and i was shooting heroin in their house and she was upstairs in their living room watching t.v. and she'd run through the house to try to get rid of everything she would find. she would flush she would break the needles. and then they hand you know we're just

getting a matter harley why you know why would you do that. it's very clear why. she was just one of those to stop. the authorities intervened when athena was eleven and she and her brother was sent to foster parents. and. the lady said you and your brother really come with me and we're walking down the stairs and i just remember seeing my dad like crying and just being like i promise we're going to get you back i promise we're going to see you for the drug addiction in the u.s. across the country the numbers of those affected have skyrocketed experts say it's an epidemic including here in florida. drug abuse dictates many people's lives especially in poorer areas one result neglected children. orphanages are

rare in the us. instead the government relies on foster families to take in children at risk n.g.o.s seek out suitable foster families for increasing numbers of children. in this region alone there are almost three times as many foster kids as there were three years ago when a child is taken in here he or she needs comfort clothing and a new home the save children coalition also has presence on hand just in case a child is removed on his or her birthday. if no relatives are willing or able to help brenda slater and her team have four hours to find a new family in accordance with regulations our entire circuit has been removing an average of eighty five children a month so we had a day last week where we had ten children removed in one night within two hours so when situations like that happen you know we're calling foster parents but there

are not enough foster families to take on this important responsibility. as a foster mother she took an eight in when he was nine months old and made sure that his contact with his birth mother never broke off kate explains how it is when drug addicted parents suddenly take a sober view of their own lives to keep that momentum going day in and day out when you're sober for maybe the first time in your life and you're confronting all sorts of restricts now what i hear about whether overcoming but when they are when you think about what they have to go through day to day if they can see that maybe every day and it's like this is what i work for this is what i'm doing that's. a court gave his mother one year to get her life in order after she had overdosed on heroin since they had a. background of drug use and my other two children are in my custody because of my drug use you know they gave me

a case plan right away and at that moment i was like ok now i'm done that's it so i wasn't going to lose you know another child into the system because i wanted to go and use drugs. katherine has made it after eight months she got her child back but she fears her past might destroy her children's future. you know i'm very scared because it's more likely for an addicts children to become addicts and i know that i've struggled with it for a while and that would actually kill me to watch my child with it. in my. maryland the gregory family are picking up their youngest from the school bus stop for years big sister athena was the only reliable parent substitute for anthony who suffers from autism and epilepsy his mother even used drugs while she was pregnant with him now she's playing with a guilty conscience. and i'll never know if my actions had anything to do with how he turned out but i can't help but think about it and always think about it you

know he's going to pay for something. that i chose to do for us and his life with. us she's not as worried about athena the teen violence to never go near drugs. i just want to prove to people that i don't have a higher risk of that and that i am myself i me and my brother are us we are not based off of our past and we're we are the family that we are now we are nothing like we were before. athena knows exactly what she wants after high school graduation she wants to go to beauty school her dream is to have her own salon. and child labor also remains a major problem this time around the world helen is here with some numbers sadly say we're talking about one hundred fifty two million children around the walls

they are all victims of child labor and while the international labor organization says that is an improvement on previous years of course it's still a huge issue many children often have to choose between going to school or going to work because going to work means a suit and wreath over their heads at least in the short term. these children are making t. shirts that will be sold across the world and some by younger than fourteen the legal age for employment in bangladesh muhammad is one of them is just thirteen his working in this factory because he has no other choice. follow on the loading our family has money problems we all a lot to market traders that's why i have to work if i ever earn a lot of money i may go back to school those are going to. muhammad works at least ten hours a day and he only gets one day off

a week. child labor is a major problem in bangladesh where one in ten children between the ages of five and fourteen work. muhammad's onerous work help support his family has paid amiga monthly wage of forty euros says most of the i'm sorry for my son is not getting educated so he has no future that makes me sad but i see no way out just so much like his mother was mohammed has been forced to choose between education and food. or. where uganda's plans to ban imports of secondhand clothing has thousands of traders in a state which the government says the business is suffocating the local textiles industry and wants to put a stop to it. the joy of making sales were not money these deals in used clothes from uganda as capital kampala. he has done this for more

than twenty oz and so what do you consider from here i've managed to save and build houses to buy several stalls i did not have any of these things when i was starting five educate my children and sent some of them to university in november to the university. but his main source of income is through it and. government wants to buy petition of used clothes saying they frustrate the local textile industry. with some guy you know because this is where you find a vendor with fifty million shillings one with one million one hundred thousand and another with as low as fifteen thousand shillings forging alliance therefore as traders we appeal to the president to look with sympathy into the number of people working at all we know market so that we're not chased out of business it out to.

us by being that to what to go about. in a second hundred close a cold one especially among the poor who cannot afford the same quality of quotes when the annual. such shows that eight out of ten africans have worn a used government. office at our country right now i can buy clothing for as little as one thousand shillings which is below half our us dollar if you say you want to ban used clothes it's disturbing because there's literally no alternative. some ugandans dealing in new cloth say imported used clothes cheap which makes local products noncompetitive. they have welcomed government's plans. so a lot of since of course. as someone who owns a fashion house who makes clothes i want my clientele to grow i want my business to

grow i want you know to get more customers and it's promoting ugandan tied in local talent for people in fashion but they should put in place. what we need just like any other country we need more factories that make fabric. every year. over one thousand five hundred tons of used clothes from the united states alone others are mainly imported from europe the global secondhand clothing trade among leading exporters is valued at about one point seven billion dollars. but as this trade remains lucrative across the world thousands of ugandan truly does make my view easy i mean. for their livelihood.

one of the cultural highlights of the year twenty will be foreign many of yours truly included the royal wedding of prince harry and make a mark on me my team and i'm now. my. turn to be last to look forward to this year but first i want to ask you about that well wedding did you get the invite and more importantly can i be your plus one ok i don't have the invite in my possession of the moment i'm sure it is on the why the german post can be somewhat sluggish at this time of the year and when it comes i will certainly consider consider the option. so this is definitely going to be a big event for many a special also for you reluctantly but there are other things going on as well yes it's not the only cultural event of the year and we've been sorting through the wheat and the chaff and we've come up with some of the highlights let's begin with a look at the beleaguered world of film. in march the academy awards

will celebrate their ninetieth anniversary actor gary oldman has a good chance of taking home an oscar for his portrayal of former british prime minister winston churchill and the political drama darkest hour. we watch. self. sally hawkins could win best lead actress for what's technically not even a speaking part in. the shape of water the british actress plays a mute cleaning lady who falls in love with an amphibian creature. is there anything you don't know. batman director christopher nolan has so far been overlooked by the academy but he could win his first oscar for the world war two ever q. ation drama dunkirk. in

two thousand and eighteen two cities will enjoy the spotlight as european capitals of culture dutch new warden on the north sea. and the mediterranean port for lead capital of mata due to its medieval architecture followed a carries the nickname open air museum of history. in the visual arts that will be plenty of focus i'm good stuff klim as vienna celebrates the seventeen really of the austrian symbolised painters death with several exhibitions klim to consider at the end venture of the art nouveau style in vienna . one of his best known works is the kids. and adrian there are some other important anniversaries coming up this year as well as revolution in the air workers of the world will no doubt you know on the fifth to mark the two hundredth birthday of the co-author of the communist manifesto that.

marx so expect reappraisal his work and his influence marks for so many of the problems kept society faces today his birthplace of trio will be honoring him with a major exhibition may will also see the fiftieth anniversary of the one thousand six hundred paris grants ninety six yeah it was a watershed year of student votes and here to the will be much debate about the true legacy of the spirits of one thousand nine hundred sixty eight across europe. and finally your own personal highlight of fear. the culture desk is looking forward to and gearing up for the international film festival i can tell you already that this year is the jury president will be filmmaker mr tong. he's been much in the news recently because of the success of his t.v. series on the. the sixty eighth but we know that will open with one of the most

anticipated movies of twins. and the sins of dogs will have to wait for that a drink anything thank you so very much thank you for spending this part of your day with us the news continues in just a moment i see them on. the .

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