the subject of your news last number unless the united nations prepares to release expand your human rights report it's likely to refer to what the un chief called out how long are the fierce fight for syria's eastern do to the top investigator it's already said both the government troops and the problems are guilty of human rights abuses also coming up america's main allies in the fight against the so-called islamic state say they are redeploying their forces to battle a turkish incursion in northern syria to cause more white house made up of donald

trump's top economic advisor gary congress signs over the president's address to ignore the dangers of a trade war and impose tariffs on steel and aluminum. here in germany a court is set to hand down what could be a landmark verdict against far right extremists eight people stand accused of arson attacks against refugee homes and assaults on political opponents will judges and label them terrorists who. goes on not having that will from indonesia to head back and girls in the job. i'm serious illness got a welcome to the show the war raging on in syria is again the focus of attention of the united nations today the un's annual human rights report is due out in the next couple of hours in geneva and the u.n. security council. is set to meet later in the day to discuss the failed

humanitarian cease fire in serious eastern ghouta the top of the us report looks likely to be harsh a leading un human rights investigator has slammed both syrian government forces and rebels for abuses carried out in eastern gotoh pro-government forces are using you saw a vision as a meat to doff warfare against the hundreds of thousands of views. in the p.c. to the inquiry at the same time b.c. to dominate groups continue to show civilian populated areas in damascus there can be no excuse or justification for indiscriminate attacks inducive really appropriate to areas in damascus un investigator paolo said he opinion at all they're saying the battle for eastern gotos not simply a case of a harsh regime trying to put down a pro-democracy insurgency but that both sides are using cruel tactics tactics to

sway the fight more now on the situation near the rebel held area you're asking us . what he's done guta death lurks at every corner. of the struggle for survival here is ceaseless. sustained shelling on the city has led to the u.n. calling this the deadliest week for the syrian town since a cease fire was brokered at the end of last month look at what her children have been the worst affected. this cameraman stops to rescue a severely injured infant the image to profit to show. people who are better than you when children's fund says the situation is desperate. the first two months of this here have been especially bloody for chipman we have received reports of over one thousand should one who were killed and seriously injured in

the whole syria only since the year began. monday brought some reprieve aid trucks reached the embattled town for the first time since the offensive began . despite the excitement the world food program once it's far from enough. up to four hundred thousand people trapped on the inside of these people are living under siege and by that we mean there are serious shortages of medical assistance of food food insecurity is very high the u.n. security council will on wednesday hold urgent talks on the feel of the thirty day cease fire but with no having and insights to the war the people of this town remain in a constant fight for survival. you know from on the story we can talk to khaled vice an analyst on syria syria who joins us here in the studio good morning to you thank you for being with us the u.n. human rights investigator we saw earlier said it's not just the regime to blame in

eastern but also the rebels who are the rebels fighting in this region right now they are from eastern or they are delusional and brought this third piece when he initially against the regime of bashar al assad and there were met by brute force and then took up arms to defend themselves they got back later by the artists from the fighting in minority alawite that as you said belongs to a minority alawite sect him and his family and the isle of wight clique and i want to talk to see you have been in control of syria it's over in the sources at the expense of there was a lot of use from the population for the last forty years so the other form is the . people at the started they had a bed and they became fighters who is backing them who is providing them. with their resources well obviously now with the region forty years under siege no one is backing them nobody can reach them and as obama said before he left the

dismissed them as a pharmacist doctors and craftsman who took up on. the not as significant as obama or russia think it seems the un investigator also pointed to a lot of human rights abuses taking place in eastern huta why are civilians bearing such a heavy brunt here again because this is a sectarian the gene trying to preserve and even extend during this good war is sick theory and deeds these are what that is you fools untrustworthy elements certainly soon as it was applied against as a family in the night in the eighty's and now simply because they are sunnis who resisted the domination of the alawite minority elites so this is a very complex sectarian conflict what can the international community do the security council supposed to meet again today i mean the international community so-called i don't know there is no cohesive order or order or one world view about this but the russians we have known for decades that this is

a regime that uses massacred and to deserve its elite is sick theory and games so this is not a new situation and really nothing nothing in this post should can be done unless force is used to stop this regime and nobody's willing to do the right kind of things that we're going to come back to you in just a moment to look into another aspect of the syrian conflict at the u.s. has suffered a blow in its battle to route the so-called islamic state from the country their key ally in the fight a multiethnic alliance known as the syrian democratic forces has pulled thousands of troops away from the front line with the extremists there being redeployed to bolster other kurdish militia battling turkish forces in the northern region of a free. they've been key in the u.s. led campaign to crush i-s. and syria. these fighters from the syrian democratic forces seized vast territory from i asked militants last year with american backing that includes record from

where the forces announced that they're moving troops to a different battleground. as. we have taken the difficult decision to redeploy our fighters stationed against islamic states in the areas east of the euphrates in their also province. and send them to a free to face the turkish aggression i'd want to see. the kurdish allied militias will relocate almost two thousand flights following hundreds that have already gone taffer in. the u.s. has warned that the turkish offensive that has led to an operational pause in the fight against i.a.s. . but tacky has rejected western demands for a cease fire on a visit to germany the turkish foreign minister said his country was fighting terrorism. these are sitting there. fighting enough in against the p.y.t.

in the y.p. ji those are terrorist organizations. and the operations there are in line with international law and the rules of the united nations is that. the voice of the. turkey launched its air and ground assault on the cut enclave in january more than a million civilians are at risk on the latest front line and syria's war. so coming back to you khalid now for more on this story you know the syrian democratic forces there saying that they're going to redeploy their troops now to ask what is really behind this move is it really defy turkish aggression as we heard in that report we won't have to be ready if then to not to see isis being used as escape crow to to justify other actions such as what we see by

the so-called syrian democratic forces which are more or less there by the p.k. k. which as he and other countries say this is a terrorist organizations this this organization has been used by the united states to fight isis and we heard that isis has been defeated so how far did this so-called operational pause is really affecting the so-called fighters against against isis we really don't know who's not states has declared more or less that the fight against isis is isis has been defeated and trump has been beating the so is this really pretty part of a pressure tactic for turkey to stop its attack on a free in what is this really a usual but racial laws against isis i think it's water for political announcement that anything else well how big is the threat still then from the so-called islamic state in syria well if it is always there because the fundamentals of the conflict

that is not are still on the ground and they could lead to isis to isis three it's again the previous and the disenfranchisement of the sunni majority of syria which was a great part in the rise of extremism groups such as isis or of are the link those for fronts and we're just turkey stand in all of this i mean what does turkey stand to lose in a gauging or with the syrian democratic forces in the north of syria and turkey is to me it seems the only real strategic player in this conflict has been turkey at divonne looked at. iraq and said look we were out of the game in iraq with the u.s. invaded because we oppose the u.s. invasion so let's go do it with russia russia is allying with president bashar assad and don't want to be outside this game so he coordinate with russia and seems to have gotten the green light from russia to act that i free in the what they're considered is interest for that which is the p.k. k.

and the different guises see the democratic forces whatever that last names you see on the on the news right thank you very much for that analysis. with us here in our studios are serious specialist. now to some other stories making news around the world the united states has announced more sanctions on north korea this after washington formally concluded that the country used chemical weapons to assassinate the half brother of leader kim jong un at kuala lumpur airport last year kim young died after a nerve agent was frayed in his face sri lanka has declared a state of emergency after anti muslim violence mobs made up of the majority buddhist population attacked muslim owned shops and homes and at least two people have been killed the government has deployed soldiers to riot areas and impose a curfew. and the us opioids are killing five people every hour and new figures show that america's opioid crisis is getting worse overdoses from drugs

like heroin the fed know and prescription painkillers rose thirty percent in only one year health experts say it's a fast moving epidemic with no easy solutions. a former russian spy and his daughter are fighting for their lives in the u.k. after an apparent poisoning attempt britain has said it will respond appropriately and robustly to any russian involvement circus cripple an ex russian intelligence officer who also spied for britain was taken critically ill on sunday along with his daughter counterterrorism police are racing to identify the unknown substance that left the pair on conscious in the southern british city of salzburg. this is the salzburg park where st paul and his daughter yulia were found critically ill on sunday. investigators are now busy trying to determine the nature of the unknown substance the two victims were exposed to. as you are aware

we declared a major incident yesterday after a man and woman were taken seriously arrow in salzburg on sunday. they both remain in a critical condition and all fools and best wishes remain with that families during this difficult time. it was after eating a meal at this local restaurant that a resident found st paul violently ill on a nearby bench. and then the man starts throwing up it was weird it wasn't like normally when some freeze up. but you can see that he was just different when he start wasn't even it was just the phone was just coming to pronounce his mouth there's been an angry reaction from policymakers with the british foreign minister linking this latest incident to the death of another former russian spy shells. into gaza. while it would be wrong to. i can

reassure them that. that implies. that the. government will respond appropriately. russia strongly rejected those comments calling them wild the kremlin has denied any knowledge of the affair and called british allegations groundless it said london should investigate the incident before blaming moscow screwball was a colonel in russia's military intelligence service he was arrested in russia in two thousand and four and convicted of spying for britain two years later. in twenty ten he was freed as part of a high level spy exchange. british counterterrorism specialists have now taken charge of the investigation but a spokesman said they're keeping an open mind about the nature of the incident.

now in the u.s. the rift over trump's tariffs has seen it's the first big casualty helena trade or no trade war seem a stale one white hall white house staffer has handed in his resignation gary cohen who is donald trump's needing economic advisor has become the latest high ranking white house employee to quite his post now cohen is to step down as the director of the national economic council he has been the leading internal imposed and opponent to trump's plans to impose import tariffs on steel and many of his decision to step down on tuesday kay after he spent days trying and failing to persuade president trump to change his mind the current imminent departure comes amid a credibly tumultuous period for the trumpeter ministration has always washington correspondent on xandra phenomena a small. gary constitution to step down is

a significant moment for the trump administration while white house officials say there is no single factor behind it president strums recent announcement to slap tariffs on steel and aluminum imports was apparently the most important catalyst for cohn's decision as a long time proponent of free trade he believes such tariffs could jeopardize economic growth in the united states his departure is likely to him bald on the economic nationalist wing of the trump administration which has successfully moved the president to take aggressive steps on trade in recent weeks according to the white house gary cohn is expected to leave in the coming weeks here's just the latest in the serious of high profile resignations in the recent weeks once again reinforcing the impression of care in the white house. was

our washington correspondent alexandra phenomenas speaking earlier this year is geneva motor show gets underway with industry shaping up for its biggest transition since ford began mass production one hundred ten years ago now with diesel bans getting the green light across europe many call makers i promised to show off their electric offerings but it is a revolution in slow motion some observers say the industry still proving resistant to inevitable change. this is what britain's jack you are is offering up in the race to electro mobility the high pace is a battery operated s.u.v. which the company hopes could push in the same category as u.s. electric drive pioneer tesla. but not every car maker in geneva is ready to go fully electric the new eighty six rolled out by german car maker as the features

a mild hybrid power system its main focus though is on attracting buyers who can afford to pay for luxury. expensive glossy cars with a nod to increasing environmental awareness and regulation but when it comes to real innovation this year's geneva motor show has left some experts disappointed rhodri current to see all the i so-called you know it's all we are so it's your reason for that ever before some electric cars but no really new concepts around mobility services that will be our missing again at the geneva motor show there was one notable exception though dutch company policy unveiled the world's first ever commercially available flying car and with the first deliveries expected later this year the contraption certainly appears ready for takeoff. well here's the most so who is the richest person in the world you might ask but according to the american

business magazine forbes it's now amazon founder jeff bezos his wealth has a worst doubled in the past year a one hundred twelve billion dollars thanks to the stellar rise of stocks in second place is the previous front runner microsoft founder bill gates he has estimated assets of ninety billion dollars now according to forbes there are now over two thousand two hundred billionaires in the world and that is a new record. the champions league return last night with the first two teams of the quarterfinals decided we have again expect from you sports with us to take us through the action yet and we start to have you weights playing last night real madrid traveling to paris central montréal had a three one lead going into this from the first leg how did this pan out yeah i mean it was pretty smooth sailing for madrid in this match despite the peers jay fans really putting on a show in a very hostile atmosphere in their home stadium you see

a few of the peaks here it was a wall of bread in the south in the ultras i don't know how many flares and for which set off you could hear the sounds from the t.v. screen but christiane a run put around madrid ahead in the second half is his twelfth champions a goal in just knowing games this season quite a record and then marco variety was sent off after two yellow cards which really ended the game as a contest for paris she. did get one back her person but moment didn't luck getting another go they won two one on average five two and. you know they did it without two their best players twenty crossed and were on the bench so i mean i think this really is around the drip competition and christiane arnaldo is an absolute based in this competition as well as hundred seventy eight goal in the comp and they really are favorites for the total i think what does this leave p.s.g. as they spun to spend a lot of money building this club indeed they spent almost more than four hundred

million euros in the off season quite a figure there two hundred twenty two million euros of that neymar was injured so he wasn't there but still this squad should have enough quality to at least put on a better showing i limped out of the champions league as for madrid no doubt should have done a lot better and they are owners won't be happy it's a lot of investment for very little return since the new owners came on board they haven't made a pass for the final so it's not good enough and i think coach and mary will be probably gone at the end of the season all right we should also mention that liverpool was another two. b. go through last night how far can they get this competition yeah it's an interesting one i think of going under the radar a bit one of only three teams to be on base and in this competition and on the coach you're going club i mean anything can happen they have got a frightening attack but they can also be professionally inconsistent they went through in this leg from the first like they won five mill last night they weren't very impressive but you know there are dark holes for sure can they win a marquee bit of stretch right young expect from the spurs bring us up to date on

the champions league action thank you very much well yesterday russia marked one hundred days before the start of football's world cup which is hosting this as britain indirectly cast doubt over its own participation in the event over the collapse and critical illness of the former russian double agent circuses script in the u.k. britain's foreign secretary says if evidence emerges that implies russian state involvement it would be difficult to see how u.k. representation in the world cup could go ahead moscow is still gearing up to host the tournament with celebrations including an open air concert in moscow to last. i. was. the countdown is on what exactly one hundred days to go until the first ball is kicked russia puts on a party for six thousand world cup volunteers. a moscow ice skating rink may have been

an unlikely choice of venue sliding tackles probably a bit dangerous here but those involved are already looking forward to the summer. years and it's really exciting and a huge responsibility being a volunteer and helping the whole world but i'm ready and eager to get started i think we want to show the world how beautiful the country is. and how friendly the people are. the tournament will take place in twelve stadiums across eleven cities like here in preparations are largely running to plan with the fans inspection team happy with what they've seen so far we're very pleased to see the continued enthusiasm and passion from the city from the stadium to really put on the best show possible here because and we're very pleased and impressed with the progress and the state of preparations. but there are still concerns over security and found

violence ahead of the tournament russia insists they won't be any problems having crackdown on local hooligan groups for now the optics of good the russian and fee for presidents try to sort of keep in a carefully choreographed promotional video allowed to meet putin knows russia's image is under the spotlight. now to new controversy here in germany surrounding the national anthem the tune praises among other things the fatherland but for how long following a transect i canada some people here want to change the words to be more gender neutral. germany's national soccer team players know the words of the national anthem by heart passed to the members of the german bund as talk. but in the future will they be singing another tune. this is the ministry

of family affairs equal opportunities officer kristina pulls a mailing of the s.p.d. she wants to read write the anthem slur it's to make them gender neutral. and then it would no longer be for the german fatherland but instead for the german homeland and instead of brotherly with heart in hand courageously with heart and hand. ok but how would it sound. i heard a good flight out. they haven't. no i don't know why should we change the anthem or the lyrics i wonder and i would not agree with that. and for standing them it i like it the way it is it's traditional it's so this is twenty eighteen it's ok to question these things and start these kinds of debates and i'm totally for it but if you and what about the

chancellor of german government spokesman says fundamental is very happy with the anthem as it is. all right you're watching news still to come it could be the harshest verdict against right wing extremists in germany since the end of the second world war a court in dresden will decide whether the so-called. as a terror organization. and the parents left iraq and say don't forget to pray about this all female band is causing alarm among conservative muslims in indonesia who don't think is long and heavy metal should mix. doesn't get you can always get you to be news on the go with our get access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications on your phone for any breaking news you can also use the data you have to send us your photos and your videos just download the app from good flight or from the app store. thanks

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a landmark verdict against right wing extremists in germany a court in dresden will decide today whether to classify the so-called fight how group as a terrorist organization eight people are accused of planning and carrying out bomb attacks on refugee shelters a left wing housing project and political opponents the state prosecutor is calling for up to eleven years in prison for the perpetrators the members of the group met each other at demonstrations against housing for asylum seekers they are not the only such group in germany authorities here have several far right groups and parties under surveillance and they say the number of dangerous far right extremists is increasing. mid february in the german town of heilbronn a seventy year old man suddenly attacks three refugees with a knife. for german investigators yet another example of right wing extremist crowd

. has become the federal criminal police has issued explicit warnings about the lone wolf anatomy but also about organized neo nazi structures for example by as we have seen with the final group of a thai cuisine take a clef now has been researching right wing radicalism for years she documents new developments in a sort of almanac of right wing violence she's noticed an increase willingness on the part of german extremists to commit acts of violence. we're seeing that the extreme right wing scene is to a large extent armed i'm nearly every raid on a home ends up with the discovery of weapons or explosives in the. spring stuff of authorities believe there are around twenty three thousand right wing extremists in germany about half are potentially violent some are organized within right wing extremist parties such as the n.p.t.

but there is also some overlap with the a.f.p. or alternative for germany. after the politico if the politicians and representatives have no problem whatsoever going along with matches where militant neo nazis. often zif to the grave and actively promote them in some cases neo nazis. often often that the f.d.a. is now the main opposition party in the german parliament it's embrace members with more extremist views germany's right wing scene is growing and with it concerns about hate crimes. we have our chief political editor michel of qusayr with us here in our studios this morning coming back to this today's verdict on the group we're talking about a home look grown terrorist group we looked in that reported earlier at what exactly they're being charged with their supporters in fright of say that the

government is taking this too far to classify them as a terrorist group why is this so significant well because really this group they don't when you see themselves as a terrorist group and they're basically a bus driver a pizza delivery guy and they say they're just ordinary people who were against this migration policy and they will admit that they went too far but there's no sense of really understanding that if you. guys a group and you then launch attacks on a group of people which is obviously racially motivated against migrants coming to this small village and that that actually constitutes being a target terrorist group and that legally will be very interesting because it to meet that legal hurdle you have to show a kind of a common intent of a group whether this group actually was organized enough to be labeled terrorists but this was after all in the state of saxony the state where we saw in the postelection the right wing ulta for germany group come ahead of the conservative posse among the map of the c.d.u.

and there is the sense in this village is nobody except this one politician who and this will group around him who also became the subject of an one of these attacks really stood up and said we are completely against this this at the very least was can condoned by this small community so really there's no real tangible sense that something was going wrong when my clients were coming and then found themselves at least being seen as a kind of someone they don't want to have in this village and then becoming the target of such attacks so it really highlights a much wider problem that there is specifically i have to say also and said this actually which feels feels very unfairly treated but just looking at the statistics that are. a lot of such attacks that happen the sickly in that state they feel unfairly treated by the authorities because it is in that community such a mainstream feeling against migration the government says this is a dangerous trend you know how deep seated is the problem of right wing extremism

in germany well that is something that clearly authorities are still trying to come to terms with there are groups like fools for instance as well who are openly that they reject the states completely they actually issue their own possible words they kind of live in. this far as that's concerned many of them also own guns so that kind of extremists who are visibly violent but there's also an estimation that there are about twenty five thousand serious right wing extremists a lot of them also willing to conduct a violent act i just want to mention one other trial that i've been following rather closely which is the and this you trial here and that's still ongoing it's been going for several years now it was a right wing terrorist cell that you know that's of right wing terror a terrorist cell which actually killed ten people and it took all sorts of than a decade to actually work out at this group existed there was a report on this the authorities are still trying to catch up with the recommendations to create more awareness even amongst the police and also.

security services here in germany that there actually is an issue with highly organized groups who are willing not just to be violent to but to actually conduct murders so they're coming to terms with this what are the counter measures that the government's taking well certainly there has been better coordination with the federal state and have sixteen states working and sixteen different police operations intelligence services they have connected more closely the big question is will it be enough for the future at the same time we're also seeing a parallel development we just saw the far right alternative for germany basically raise a vision from within its own regulations. which now allows for people to say yes they are part of this piggy to movement which actually which needs to interested in saxony which was just not just the migration but a kind of state of the status medical official. and that says that you have

a kind of the blurring of the scene here which stretches into the political sphere is in german the really interesting question will now be is being rightwing kind of being fed this is writing conservative now going mainstream here in germany or will the authorities manage to isolate kind of a hardcore rightwing extremists. tendency or loud scape and then be able to read the truck such a terrorist groups before they emerge and before they become violent all right well we are expecting a verdict on of the group today our chief political editor michelle thank you very much for turning now to indonesia and a heavy metal band fighting for the right to play their head banging riffs hardly music to the ears of many in their muslim majority home country and there's another twist of the story because the band's members are all female hate mail and death

threats haven't stopped these teenagers from hitting the stage turn after speakers now for v o b. this is not your typical heavy metal band these are job wearing girls call themselves v.o.b. short for voice of base or just noisy voice. that may be on the bill but. they're recording their first album in jakarta you must hear this song is called school revolution. and it means a lot to lead singer feared the cornea you must live. when i record the song i sing it with all life it's the lyrics are about how picked on at school because i'm different i'm not afraid to speak my mind many people think i'm weird and i exciter and this song. cites. the band members are sixteen and seventeen years old in indonesia many girls this

age are already married but these three are obsessed with making music. i used to be really shy while i still am but i'm a lot more confident now i can pay bass guitar and they aren't many people my age who can do that and need to. fear the city and we are excited they're about to get on a plane for the first time they're going with their assistant manager to a music festival in bali. but this year it will list i think. this will be a great experience for us. their rights to famous like something from a hollywood film three years ago they founded the band at school in a rural town now they're making t.v. appearances recording an album jetting to bali for three days it's

a completely new world for the three girls from humble beginnings and it's both scary and exciting. because they're going to be. i. think. at first their parents didn't allow them to make music heavy metal is not exactly what conservative muslim parents want their daughters to do but the girls didn't give up. but my parents are still worried but by now they realize that we're successful that's why they have me to come on this trip although they did tell me to be careful. my parents said be good and don't forget to pray. after landing in bali the girls rush to the sound check. they say they need to let off steam just like all

teenagers music is their way of showing their different and rebelling. relief on a large scale in the event the music. i play me love in this is him in the music i am not here he is my. get with the and find it it is my dandy. that first the cover songs written by other bands but now they compose their own music. to think about one with their song speak fight the pru can school system discrimination and equality our generation cares about these subjects many of our friends the state through casual sex and drugs and we have music i mean. good idea. i mean this. on stage these three shy teenagers

transform into rock'n'roll professionals. vigorous vocals and loud guitars the job heavy metal it's the opposite of submissiveness the band wants to be role models for girls they say islam and heavy metal can go hand in hand. feared vittie and city have some time for sight seeing. for them they say religion is part of their identity but it's private heavy metal is how they express their thoughts and feelings. but at first people said be purchased trying to get attention we got

a lot of abuse on social media and in real life they claimed that we were just wearing our heads caps on stage but not the rest of the tie in that we were just trying to provoke. you to. this hostility is not surprising in a country where conservatism has been growing amongst its muslim population. in. some provinces strictly follow sharia law. but these three aren't frightened. to the detriment of those people don't represent islam they don't understand the religion islam is not that angry but those people are so light that people around the world might think oh miss them so like that but that's not she. does. you know who did. the girls clearly state they

won't be intimidated. they're full of energy and dreams. and what might that be. that maybe. maybe i'm getting caught at it because most of our favorite bands come from america yet. the girls show that he jobs and heavy metal can go hand in hand and this is only the beginning for fear. and city. now voters in sierra leone go to the polls from are to elect a new president sixteen candidates are vying for the top job with foreseen as having a realistic chance including front runners from the incumbent all people's congress and the opposition people's party whoever wins will face the tough task of turning around an economy that has been rocked by recent crisis including the devastating ebola outbreak of two thousand and fourteen it was

a true increase filed this report from the cheney home of the outgoing president ernest bai koroma. there's certainly choice in these elections a total of sixteen candidates are vying for the presidency. not that that's any comfort for desmond reese he's frustrated with his government but also says there's no real alternative. and normally when this election everybody is thinking about james three change or less and in your book. is that going you would reach so for me i don't see dean students we first met rees four years ago during the cold outbreak he was working as a volunteer having a red cross burial team. it was a high risk job and it placed great stress on his personal life. up to now where our had to comply with for my family because he said he had to

relate to them because my mother said to dead bodies i don't you can call me old school. the government promised to recognise reese and his colleagues efforts by granting them special payments once the epidemic was over so far though they've received nothing according to the country's auditor general at least fourteen million dollars in aid have simply disappeared an example of corruption corruption is a key theme in the election campaign to. there's so much we've never seen they've created a perfect place. where the league is using every ministry in every contract let me give you an example. it is only in my country that you spend five. road in the middle of the country in the middle of the main city five kilometers is expensive for all the trains here but the ruling party's presidential candidates america mara is more relaxed on the subject. any country in the world. it depends

on the money to do of corruption what. gives corrupt activities that is corrupt presidents. a lot of votes in strengthening the fight against corruption. and what winds are going to do with it up tomorrow was minister for foreign affairs until last year when he was nominated for the presidential race by the country's current leader ernest koroma koroma has ruled for ten years and now has to step down as the governing body a.b.c. is mainly trying to sell its excesses infrastructural projects idea and the home base of the party they enjoy a comfortable majority but in other parts of the country people are not so happy about the situation. including desmond reads like many others he believes the election will be won by the main opposition party or even the governing party itself and either way reece is certain he won't get adequate recognition for all his hard work during the in bhola crisis he does have some hope though that one day

more funds will be invested in the country's health system instead of being siphoned off through corruption. he sent us that report from eye candy and he joins us from koidu in the north of sierra leone a drink good to see you what is the atmosphere like there are people ready for the vote. well it's a bit early to say that it's very early and checked and the polling stations haven't opened yet but it is indeed a very crucial election for sierra leone it's the fourth election after the civil war that ended in two thousand and two and it's the first election after the deadly ebola outbreak in two thousand and fourteen you might want to recall that more than four thousand people died then you and sierra leone and this brought the economy down completely before it has a double digit growth then afterwards it had a double digit decline year in the reason why i am right now for example is a very strong mining region industry collapsed completely during the break and i'm

here right now because it's also one of the swing states is one of the states where it is not clear people will go for the opposition party candidates. running to you but it is a fact that this election are going to be a milestone for the stability of the country and what are the biggest issues that voters are talking bout. well you've heard of corruption is of course the number one issue here right now especially the up with this in candidates have really criticize the government for a leg of response on issues that came up for example with the money that's got missing but there's also a number of infrastructure will protest projects by the governments that are criticized there's three hundred million u.s. dollar airport for example in the capital that the government was commissioned china to do and a lot of people say this is going to be a white elephant this is going to be approaching it is has no use for the people so the opposition candidates are obviously quite clear about corruption issues the presidential candidate of the governing party to me he looked as if he's not very

interested in fighting the issue he actually makes an impression as if it's not a big deal in the country although he told me that under his watch if he becomes the president he's trying to increase efforts in fighting corruption for example he wants to introduce special anti corruption courts how big of a problem is corruption in sierra leone compared to internationally well if you look at the numbers there's a transparency international rating where sierra leone is on position number one hundred thirty out of one hundred eighty countries so this is definitely not a good performance but it's also not the worst in the region but a lot of people you have a perception that under the current administration. but worse he did his age increase reporting from sierra leone for us thank you very much just. to ethiopia now where the film industry is known for producing mostly romantic comedies but that's not all the country's filmmakers have to offer a lucky few get

a spot at the blue nile academy where they learn how to produce films for the big screen on a shoestring budget. a film screening at the blue nile academy at the o.p.'s only film school today student ghetto to use and gallo is presenting his first film a documentary about rastafari. well. the film screening is free. but trainer abraham haley barrow is not quite satisfied with its cinematography the guy is a little bit dark so you need more light to see him and maybe you can come closer to that guy but we can concentrate. more on the interview what he say abraham haley barrow is a camera man and a filmmaker his films have won international awards because there was no film school and if your peer he studied in the netherlands now he wants to teach young

filmmakers in his home country. into even academy to critique up the quality of see my hears that young talent. because there is no cmos school here at all so for me is very important that young talent. can learn what it is and that i can support a little bit after a year of initial training the students can choose their major cinematography screen writing directing or editing abraham has already trained more than one hundred forty up and coming filmmakers at his own expense the school does not receive any state support the television academy is financed by myself so i paid r.'s zero point zero. when i compare with my school does my problem is equipment because i missed based around the percent income tax with the equipment. with no way of promoting the films and high taxes the a.t.o.

pay and government makes it difficult for filmmakers to do their work in this increasingly authoritarian state the government fears critical artists so it censors assess every film before its release. and if you making a movie there is. a disservice to the culture of the bureau you need to have a permission. loans of screening from the c.d.c. the agency. it can block you if they are not happy with the message what you have abraham says that for this reason many of his colleagues prefer to deal with less contentious topics those writing most of them running to the community because then you know it's only to laugh for people not serious to think about the issue what's going on in the country the problem what we have social issues etc etc why should.

despite these problems the film industry is booming every year one hundred films are produced here mostly romantic comedies. is. as a murder i have to work on market oriented films. that we produce right now are just romantic comedies because that's what the market wants which. the films are well received by an audience is but abraham has bigger plans for the country's film industry. and also. state censorship and poor infrastructure make life difficult for young filmmakers but they refuse to give up their passion. or mine are not the top stories that we're following here on t w a un investigators says syrian government forces and the besieged rebels in the eastern area are both guilty of human rights abuses more

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