this is the w.'s live from berlin germany's foreign minister steps down gabriele says he's leaving his post after a bit around with the party leadership and that means he will be part of a chance on the america's new coalition government or find out what exactly is behind his departure. and on this international women's day we take a look at demonstrations around the world including and istanbul where thousands are marching right this moment to demand an end to oppression and violence against women we're live in turkey and also bringing you stories of inspirational women

working for change in kenya we need an environmental activist who's risking her life to get justice for victims of lead poisoning. great to have you along everyone. we start our broadcast right here in germany where one of the country's most popular politicians foreign ministers even a gabriele has announced he will not be included in chance on america's new coalition government well that's after rumors of a better route with the leaders of his own social democratic party gabriels the replacement at the foreign ministry is likely to be high coma the outgoing justice minister the news made for a slightly uncomfortable appearance by carbury a lot earlier today at a scheduled press conference with his counterpart from bosnia-herzegovina. it was a routine appointment for

a german foreign minister but for the things are anything but routine right now i'm going to have been meeting with his bosnian counterpart igor sir not out on thursday was his last official international engagement. and governmental has been germany's foreign minister for just over a year during that time he became the country's most popular politician even beating chancellor merkel and future economics minister paid to in opinion polls he earned much respect for his work for example his handling of strained german turkish relations god will often met his turkish counterpart medlock shell was so new and invited him to his home as he worked to get german journalists and human rights activists released and he succeeded in part some of the prisoners were freed . but there is another sign to seek he is notoriously independent and volatile for example on the sidelines of the munich security conference he broke ranks and appealed for sanctions against russia to be lifted following a cease fire in eastern ukraine and. i am convinced that if we succeed in this then

we must begin to gradually lift the sanctions i know that the official position on this is different and i know it is more importantly irritated members of his own party the s.p.d. he even attacked them party leader personally which many in his party found unforgettable above all his relationship with future party leader and the analysis has viewed as dysfunctional. now media reports say his successor will be high call mosse the previous justice minister. is a. plane down the loss of his position when asked how he feels about leaving in positive words the vent their systems through that high school mass will be the new foreign minister then i have a really good feeling he'll do an excellent job i'm also fine. take care.

our political correspondent joins us now from our parliamentary stereo's ok this is a man who ruffled a lot of feathers and burned a couple of bridges on his way out. he said we did and despite gaining much respect for his work as germany's foreign minister they say it was all forgotten in recent weeks by the s.p.d. rating and this was due to the breakdown of a friendship between haiti and the former s.p.d. leader martin schultz and you might remember that when the grand coalition deal between the social democrats and locals conservatives was first agreed martin schultz said that he'd be vying for the position of foreign minister but gabriele responded saying this was a broken promise as you might remember back in september immediately after the german elections elections schultz actually said that he would never take a ministerial post and a medical led government and so gabriele responded actually even quoting his

daughter in which he said that she had told him daddy don't worry now we can spend more time together and you won't have to spend so much time with the man with the hairy face and this comment was regarded by the s.p.d. as something which disqualified gabriele from being able to continue to hold his post as foreign minister so now he will just be seven as a normal member of the german parliament what does this mean his exit mean for germany's foreign policy. well cowbell was a very straight talking foreign minister which isn't always the case with people in that post so be it very interesting to see how his successor deals particularly with turkey and it will be a big challenge and he did gain a lot of respect only in germany abroad for his work as the german foreign minister and this comes at a time when there's real pressure on germany particularly in europe to really stand

out and take a strong stance on the world stage. kate tell us about his successor the man tipped to take over the reins who is go mosse so. has actually been the justice minister of posts that he'd be the obviously leaving if it is confirmed that he is indeed going to be the new foreign minister and he's been holding that post since two thousand and thirteen and one of the one of his biggest moments here in germany was bring in in the anti hate hate speech or which has gained quite a cause quite a lot of controversy here i'm sorry doesn't have much background or experience in foreign policy so it could be quite a challenge for him over this next term in this new merkel led government. just very quickly if i may is he more diplomatic. that's very difficult to

tell at the moment of course we've never seen him in dealing with foreign policy so we'll just have to wait and see while have to wait and see time will tell kate brady thank you so much. our want to talk now about some of the other stories making news around the world and british police are racing to find out who poisoned a former russian double agent and his daughter with a nerve agent last weekend investigators are treating the case as attempted murder lawmakers and the media have speculated that moscow is behind the attacks marking around between the u.k. and russia. police's sierra leone have quassia clashes in the capital freetown following wednesday's election tensions mounted after an opposition spokesman said authorities had come to search the party's offices without a warrant at least one person was stabbed in the skirmishes vote counting is ongoing with initial results expected by friday night. the trial has opened and

then mark of the man accused of killing swedish journalist ken wall danish inventor peter mattson has denied murdering a journalist on a submarine but he has admitted to dismembering and disposing of her body afterward he says was an accidental death. all right to sierra now where an aid convoy bound for the besieged rebel held on klaver eastern huta has been postponed as fighting in the area intensified while syrian government forces have seize half of the territory held by rebels in the damascus suburbs the last opposition stronghold close to the capital around four hundred thousand people are believed to be trapped in the area the un has urged all parties to abide by a cease fire in order to live aid and evacuate the wounded. well short while ago i spoke to morrow i wed from the world food program in damascus and i asked what exactly led to the aid convoy being respond given that it's so desperately

needed for the residents of eastern huzzah. well it was mainly the escalation in fighting and insecurity on the ground it had paralyzed the un's ability to move into areas that are besieging hard to reach a case in point is our inability to go ahead with a convoy today into duma. to deliver the remaining. assistance that we were unable to continue offloading on our first entry on the fifth of march is there any other way to get around and ensure that your supplies reach the people of isaan who taught. well for a humanitarian operation to work successfully we require unhindered safe passage and access to people who are desperately in need and in order to do so all parties to the conflict need to abide by humanitarian principles and also give us that window of opportunity to go in safely deliver and get out safely as well and time

for distribution or away from the world food program in damascus thank you very much. you're watching you that we news restall have a lot more to tell you about including this year is the one hundredth anniversary of women getting the vote in both britain and germany mccarran home sent from to use culture desk joins me to discuss a century of change. but first some more on those is a controversial import tariffs and money a lot of criticism there for us president trump the president of the european central bank has become the latest to criticize hidden u.s. president all the trouble over his plans to impose import tariffs on steel and aluminum now madill dillagi called it a quote dangerous move he sat such disputes should be booked out on partners and not decided by one inside now barely two hours ahead of trump signing off on the

measures there's still no real clarity on who will be actually affected by just how much trouble is talking to the media a short while ago and this is all he would say on this matter. where you were ten or twenty five initially zero have a right to go up or down depending on the country and i have a right to drop out countries or countries who just want fairness. fairness now trump is due to sign off on those tariffs in a little over to us and there's been talk coming from the administration that canada and mexico might be accepted but not the e.u. the jim an economic minister has warned two u.s. counterpart that other countries could easily follow the u.s. example in citing national security to justify tariffs and brussels it spoils to strike back in what has all the makings of a trade war. donald trump's tariffs could soon drive up the price of imported steel

and aluminum in the u.s. but with talks underway to renegotiate the north american free trade agreement the white house now says its neighbors might not be included. and there are potential carve outs for mexico and canada based on national security and possibly other countries as well and if that's a sign the nafta talks may be going trumps way other u.s. allies have so far been restrained in their response the european union has threatened to retaliate by slapping tariffs on a number of iconic american products like motorbikes and whiskey that don't account for a huge share of transatlantic trade meanwhile trump's democratic rivals have warned against the danger of a trade war saying he should focus his energies on where the trade deficit is biggest the president's instincts to go after china are correct but the policy proposes doesn't fit the bill it's not well targeted it's not precise and as

a result it could cause a mess of collateral damage that hurts america more than it helps. a more subtle approach levying the tariffs provide some hope to european steel producers they're worried about a major upheaval in the pricing structure of their most important market and a potential flood of cheap steel from china that is no longer going to the u.s. . all right from the u.s. that to china for what they are and to europe for the first style a chinese company has a flat full pay to see in europe than any other company tech company who way filed almost four thousand applications and the rivals are among the top tennis of all he is more. whoa aids a new notebook hides its camera in the keyboard the feature is intended to protect users from malware that activates webcams without users' knowledge the chinese company is hoping innovations like these will help raise its profile its upcoming smartphone due for release later this month is expected to feature artificial

intelligence. no surprise then that the company tops the list of up locations received by the european paper and office last year. german technology company siemens came in second rising from sixth place the year before. south korea's l.g. samsung came in third and fourth respectively. the only other german company on the list was automotive supplier bosch though it only made it into ninth place so asian companies have got the pressure on their european counterparts when it comes to patient applications as well as an every day business. and that's your business update for now more coverage now on international women's day with thank you so much thousands of women have taken to the streets of istanbul for protest marking international women's day and women's rights group istanbul

feminist collective called on women to march near taksim square they're protesting against gender inequality and violence against women and protests are rarely allowed in turkey under the current state of emergency imposed after the failed coup attempt twenty sixteen. all right and you're watching actually live pictures there i believe our correspondent yulia han is that one of those demonstrations in istanbul you can see the crowd gathered there are right behind her you have police at the scene for us who can see all the people gathered there what's the atmosphere like. well and i yes we are at one of the major demonstrations here in istanbul today the atmosphere is full of excitement it's it she'll fool atmosphere the women are trying to make some noise many of them broadened with those or even drums and of course it's

a day of celebrations but here in turkey it's also a day of protest and women are shouting slogans like freedom for all of us we are stronger together we are against male dominance. so it's of course a show of self-respect here they are celebrating theirselves but they're also they have a lot of criticism for the conservative parts reality male dominated society here in turkey. you have received people hugging and they're behind you so it's all in very good spirits what are some of the key issues for women in turkey right now that they're grappling with. well the these issues are actually very serious on the one hand you have to know that about sixty percent. the women in turkey are not working they don't have access to the workforce so they would also not get payment they are kind of forced to live lives that housewives because oftentimes

their husbands wouldn't allow them to work and the other really big issue is why humans against women domestic ones which is really widespread i don't want to bore you with the statistics but one figure just more than four hundred women got killed in twenty seventeen alone by the father the fathers brothers the husbands that shows you how dramatic the situation actually is there are continuous reports about sexual assaults against women sometimes. men would tell women what to wear so this year is really one of the rare protests you would see women are protesting against all of this against the government as well because they blame this government the islamic conservative government so much of the conservative values the male domination here so they are trying to make their words as heard as loud as they can as you hear and very impressive if you can how unusual is it to have a demo the scale of the one that we're seeing right now behind you.

i guess it's a really rare occasion for people to take to the streets show their anger their protests because turkey is governed by emergency laws since a failed coup attempt in summer twenty sixteen so any kind of demonstration would be banned or needs to be allowed in the first place here the authorities haven't stopped this protest although there is a lot of security around we've seen times we've seen security personnel checking of course people's backs. very closely what's going on here but the fact that this demonstration is taking place is really seen as a huge success by many women here especially are you we are reporting live from istanbul thank you. now the theme of this year's international women's day is hash tag press for progress or here at news we've been setting our own women's day agenda including a little quiz about women's rights here in germany but sebastian john by the

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new full english on control measure because. of the spin off. all right it didn't escape your attention but today is international women's day and we've been hearing about events to mark the day including widespread protests that you saw you know hard reporting and stumble there demanding for progress well with me in the studio as current house set for our culture does get to see it happen. it seems like this year is special seems to resonate a lot more than previous years most definitely i agree with last year actually there are some people still hanging out roses not all seems anachronistic now it's very strange and there's definitely a new momentum after the events of late last fall that led to the two movement and sold lots and lots of things happen people marking the event in really new and different ways we heard about the feminist strike obviously in spain that was happening today there was a pioneering women's football history conference kicked off today in manchester can

you believe it the french left leaning newspaper you know actually sold its paper at discount prices for women so this is interesting that we're coming into a kind of a new normal in terms of the amount of attention the gender equity is getting but twenty eight thousand is also very special here in germany also because it marks one hundred years since women got the vote so here we are you know a century later and we've got a female chancellor we've got a female defense minister britain is on its second female prime minister and so we're going to have a quick look just now at the journey that the women's movement has made over the past hundred years. women rise up around one hundred years ago british suffragettes took to the streets the story was retold in a recent film starring meryl streep. and. they got the vote but traditional ideas of a women's role persisted. after the second world war women who had worked while the

men fought demanded more in france the most broaden the debate to gender norms and became an icon of second wave feminism. the up people of the. nineteen sixty eight brought the german feminists to the fore. there was a radical proponent of a woman's right to choose hundreds of women declared i have had an abortion. today a new brand of feminist continues to provoke the feminine group bare all to confront the continuing oppression of women. russian collective pussy riot protested against putin with a punk prayer in a church feminism has turned the volume up and knows how to grab media attention hollywood too has taken up the cause now actress jennifer lawrence has declared herself a feminist. british actress emma watson is a un women goodwill ambassador rebellious and committed it's not bad for the image

either. scarlett johanson called for an uprising against sexism at the women's march on washington having a u.s. president who's been accused of sexual misconduct has galvanized activists. and that's interesting you know we go from missing on the. hanson spectrum of women mary i think it's why you except you know women's rights people support it but when you use the f. word feminists. really riled up you know they still do it's incredible that was a dirty word for so long and it is really amazing to actually see that it's now being embraced again but it's it's helpful to get a bit of perspective obviously because we're looking at such a diverse. level of acceptance across the world i mean we have to remember the first european country that gave women the vote for instance finland when it was still part of the russian empire that was back in one thousand seven and new zealand if you can believe it gave women the vote in eight hundred ninety three

these are facts that very few people know you know that was really very early on for a commonwealth country the other extreme of course of saudi arabia that didn't give the women the vote until twenty fifteen so you've got this incredibly wide. spectrum of what we now call feminist but also feminist progress. and there are a lot of really strong voices who are actually reclaiming the term thinking for instance of the nigerian author and novelist. she wrote that famous essay called we should all be feminists and she depends the term released on slavery calls out our collective cultures for teaching girls to keep themselves in africa and in the western world so she refuses to be apologetic for her femininity and insists that a feminist can be either a man or woman but there are people who realise that there is a problem with gender as we have it and it needs to be fixed and that's the thing of course it's not just women as a man you can also be a feminist right now social media of course has taken the discussion to war level

it really has and discussion is rife as you know so many incredible bloggers very intelligent bloggers out there who've been working for a very very long time but who are now of course using this new momentum and i think reaching a much wider audience even so there's another nigerian finnish swedish woman and writer called me who's behind the blog is for politan we can have a look at it here she's been referred to as one of the feminist voices of our time and she says for instance here let's make feminist the leading etiology of the future not because it became mainstream but because the mainstream became feminist so that picks up on your idea and picking up on the idea of mainstream feminist current count as leading feminist website that was founded by the vancouver based journalist megan murphy she's always looking to kind of really go against the grain give a perspective on the quality issues that is ignored by other media so here's a quote of hers after the grammys the great irony of the music industry is that

women's bodies are used for profit to sell women and men's music alike but the actual females who inhabit these bodies are still incredibly marginalized in the industry so she's. another voice out there who is not afraid to pull a punch and pick a fight and runs into a lot of criticism but it's sort of also really really interesting her take on unpopular feminism and that brings us back full circle to the need to movement of time industry in the film industry absolutely it does and you know a lot of leading feminists are saying that those two movements need to times out that those are transformative moment for women and for all these gender issues that we're talking about and that there's no going back after that so interestingly we're going to be picking up on that from the perspective of the special edition of art's twenty one this coming saturday where we're going to be meeting with a bunch of young female filmmakers and talking about their difficulties and trials and tribulations. very very very exciting time to be a woman you are an exciting it's always an exciting time for your. and to be

a man this is the american for our we wanted and our daughter absolutely not include men especially in this conversation and maybe make you a role and important role thank you karen thank you so very much we're going to take a very short break we'll have lots more coming up in just a few. of . their the boss. sri women three top managers in europe speak out about the state of society with regard to women in their careers. the beauty of networking. quotas for talent what does it take to get more females into boardrooms i want it women in top management.

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germany's plan. to decline to find my way. east germany would still be here. mr. bush you know. starting march thirteenth t.w. . it's wonderful to have you back with us from layla rock wall to mark international women's day to day we knew this profiling women from around the world were working to bring about change now these five women that you should be seeing behind me any moment now live thousands of miles apart but they are united by their drive to combat injustice to see them right here behind me in this show we want to meet an environmental activist and kenya ameda lives in the eastern coastal town of mombasa she has successfully taken

on the powerful leader lead smelting companies that were polluting the environment to a toxic waste all now she is fighting a court case to get compensation for the victims of lead poisoning her activism has often meant risking her very life. felicity mido a single mother of one lives a cautious life. she has been hounded several times for the work she does here in kenya's coastal city of mumbai. cross in two thousand and twelve where gunmen or sense of i do and they threaten me likely i skipped before they shot me i mean. before that two thousand and twelve is when we had. demonstrations to push for the closure. at a refinery. this is

a we know who. in right next door the lead smelting plant. phyllis started working for the smelting company in two thousand and nine but quit her job as soon as she realized the company was not following environmental regulations. in addition to the dangerous fumes that would be out of the factory. the owner disposed of untreated waste water in open drains running through the settlement into water sources nearby. records show that at least twenty factory workers have died as a result of lead poisoning but worse still at least one hundred children have died of the same. the smelting company was finally shut down in two thousand and fourteen. we started pushing the port to impound containers that were exploiting it and in that way would raise the cost of big business for

a refinery and that's how we've managed to shut down not only later federally. and throughout the country i think seventeen were shut down. still four years later . the dust the walls and even the i'm sheets of the homes here still have high levels of lead. phillis is now using the courts to push for compensation for victims of lead poisoning the case begins on march nineteenth two thousand and eighteen. we have such. a wild allegation. but it's not just pollution phyllis's fighting she's also pushing for social justice she's currently helping local residents of kenya's salt belt. where people are being evicted from their land unfairly assault companies cut

down trees to expand operations. so we are starting from a very basic level with this community but you want to take it up to a very practical level where they're actually able to practice what we are teaching them to be. we know that already a lot of damage has been done that you need. the. phyllis's teaching us how to defend our rights and speak up to the government and these companies. even though they have been more threats to her life this is determined to defend the environment no matter what. now the focus on women's rights doesn't and today the whole of march is women's history month the time of the year when women's achievements both past and present are celebrated and commemorated in public institutions including schools and the arts and also on social media for our social media editor and sophia bradley and

joins me in the studio good to see you sophie so how was this being marked well basically women's history month of celebrated every year and every year has a different theme this just themis nevertheless she persisted and it's meant to honor inspiring women whose achievements actually haven't been quite as recognised compared to the male peers and so social media users are trying to change bad they're heading on nine their posting images and stories of these women using the hash tag women's history month so let's take a look at a few examples this is lawyer surely. she was the only woman to graduate in law from jail back in one thousand nine hundred one and the first female lawyer ever at her firm tweets her old university barnard college in the us and this picture to be had by nasa here shows female astronauts don't have to be a rarity it shows for astronauts who broke the record and twenty ten for the most women in space at one time. and i'm sure you've all heard of any but have you heard of dorothy hotchkin a british chemist who won the nobel prize in one thousand nine hundred four and who

figured out the structure of insulin well if you. haven't heard about her before now you have and today what if one posted a video on social media and which girls ask why women are less visible in society and have fewer professional chances let's take a look. at that being so many american presidents so few women. get so difficult once they get back to what. it's done to me. to love it. right amount of fear also understand there are some toymaker seized on the moment as well it sure did yeah do you talk a company mattel actually released a special edition barbie dolls just in time for international women's day and there was supposed to also honor women of the past and present who have achieved great

things let's take a look at for a few examples are seen in your video one is modeled on american pilot amelia earhart the first woman to fly solo across the atlantic here's mexican feminist i can see that carlo and yet another one is nasa mathematician catherine johnson who was featured in the hit movie hidden sigur is the saddest three examples while some social media users are really excited by this and they're saying this is a great step this is a move in the right direction of us aren't so sure to saying really is a little hypocritical as a low ironic given that barbie's aren't per se like the most feminist two out there because they're you know very skinny big boobs small with wrists and hips and so yeah they're kind of criticizing it a little but we have an example for you here. so one critic tweeted to feed a colleague bobby doesn't have a unique and a shocking turn of events bobby wants to add tenderness them to its brand while still aggressively its hearing to western beauty standards a journalist remarked i suspect if i caught

a would have frowned upon the talc producing if we'd a bob dole or maybe not so much frown upon it as much as burned with boundless rage and. very very this a tough crowd a tough crowd on social media but doesn't mean you can think about what you want at least of strong attention to the topic and the hashtag is raising a lot of discussion and that's what we need. is always right and sophie thank you so much for that greatly appreciate it now women have been breaking into male dominated professions for a very long time in the fields of science medicine plumbing architecture politics journalism it's goes on and on and on you name it and chances are women made a market often the women breaking new ground tend to go unnoticed or are completely overlooked but companies like microsoft are trying to change that take a look my parents that kicked in school it found because you can kind of pull think this ain't no limit when you can share. one inventor benjamin

franklin the n.r.a. convention town hall status and how they i'm standing on the top line than their. tough one. in school it was always a male and. i just realized that time. i don't so much anyone on the radio that's at all surprised because tyrion talk about

earnings earnings. ratio and growing percentage. know the deal with me and me i just feel like one of these night. makes me feel like a change in the milky way. all right well some emotional reactions there in that video was made by computer software giant microsoft as part of its public relations attempt to reach out to more women and i'd like to use the premise of that video that role models matter to kick off my discussion with johan a small from discover football a nonprofit organization promoting soccer for girls to boost their confidence and of course enjoy the beautiful game and joining us from new york is jody were during the associate editor of the new york times where she oversees the publications gender and mission of happy international women's day ladies

a job you want to throw to you first if i may i mean here we are on international women's day twenty eighty why aren't some of these women household names that we saw in that video why are they being overlooked i mean is it just a question of educators not looking hard enough. you know i'll tell you my i don't know the answer to that obviously it's a big societal question and probably somewhat different in germany then in the united states but i do know my fifth grader came home you know they're doing a lot of women women's history month focused activities you know this month they're each doing a report on it and woman has been overlooked by history and you know one of the things that we're doing at the new york times to contribute to that conversation is we published this morning a massive package overlooked called overlooked and it provides a picture very stiff to women who never got them and will be doing a curriculum there are going that work is doing a curriculum for schools to teach kids about these women and about the you know the

whole question of how women and other minorities get overlooked in history so why is representation important and recognition important and what spurred the times to you know do some soul searching and come up with these a belated a bitch whereis. it's a great question and i think there's two two parts of the answer for me i mean one is just a pure sort of truth. you know mission journalistic mission of telling the whole story so representations important when when women are in history and not seen then we need to elevate what their roles are we just different ways in which we can. focus our lens in a different way to understand women's contributions to politics government technology whatever and then i think there is there's another reason which has to do with one of our missions right now is to engage women readers around the world

and we wanted to provide set of content and approach to content that we thought would would work for women and we you know that's what the gender initiative is about it's elevating the parts of our report that are either about gender or that we think will appear to women specifically to help engage them more in our journalism what topics appeal to women because i'm quite interested in terms of how the times then decides to cover some stories if they want to include well interest more women in reading their articles would you do i mean i think all topics of appeal to women in a lot of ways there are lots of me out of the world that's why i just wonder are there like a specific female suicide watch about. someone are there it's one specific me i mean we have some research that does show. yeah i hear you i mean my approach our approach with the gender initiative is to use gender as a lens on the entire report and think about how the entire report can become sort

of more female friendly and that has to do with quoting more women and it has to do with having connecting different kinds of stories to different kinds of storytelling using more narrative using more conversational tone and first person we found i wrote one story that particularly resonated with women when i was working on the international that was an earthquake in italy and we looked at sort of why understood that it was told in an incredibly human way where people were able to connect to characters look i think that kind of journalism that kind of storytelling actually appeals to everybody but it does seem like it's compelling more compelling to women than a kind of voice of god institutional authority a kind of detached journalistic tone it happens to dovetail with a lot of the ways we're trying to move our journalism into the twenty first century and into a place where it's can be consumed mainly on the phone anyway but i do think it's particularly compelling to women and to younger women are talking about to making things more compelling for women that brings me to you you know how do you lead a very interesting and this should if you're trying to spread the love for soccer

among girls among young girls how are things for girls in this specific sport are their role models for them. i think they are certainly some incredible women out there participating in football the very valuable role models to the women in our communities but when we're looking at the bigger picture what we're seeing especially is. that we need more visibility of women in sports of athletes so for example just last month the nest co-publisher report which said off the sports media coverage that exists only four percent is actually dedicated to women so this is this. the light very minute percentage joining up how does the time get to get back to jodi how does the times are fortunate i think she's gone ok i want to ask you how the time discovers women in the athletes are right but they don't get i mean it's evident they don't get enough coverage why do you think that

is are they not as good as them then i think there's a whole range of issues why this is the case it's there is a perception about the value of women sports of how it is. in terms of being in the performance not being viewed as high but there's also issues around how content is produced in terms of who are the people him making the content that produces the presenters. so if you look at. looking at this study which has just come out. any type of percent of the people presenting about sports are female say there's a there's a huge lack of women in the field and i think we need what we need to see is more more training more decision makers in women's sports in the media but also. in the foundations and associations that can really push this drive right how will you specifically when we're talking about soccer it's a global game so many people around the world are so passionate about it what are

you trying to do to raise the profile so that more girls participate lower the trash hole so they come to one of your clubs and and you know enjoy the game so discoverable as actually and. uses football to promote women's rights and power and gender equality through some. conferences and publications as such so what we try and do is connect women from across the world to create a sense of solidarity to give them visibility to give them a voice because there's so many on heard voices out there and t. t. have this encounter regardless of race ethnicity gender identity. sexual orientation and so this is also one of the things that we really looking for going forward need to try and address is can we get more diversity in who we report on and who is in this position what i wonder is my final question is. would it be

better if boys and girls trained in soccer together just kind of lift the game as well a little bit wouldn't help girls if they played with boys as well so i think this is i'm not going to gain able to give you the one ounce of. this is controversial yes and i think i think rightly so because there are different scenarios and different situations for for this girls they often are as were girls do we need safe spaces where they have the space to express themselves in a in an environment where they can build their confidence where they are with their kids without being afraid of judgment of discrimination so we do need those safe spaces but we also think we will provide fresh of the game with the the quality of the game is increasing and we want to challenge the girls are coming up and sometimes those best challenges are in the in competition with the boys and there's some great examples of this what girls are competing. performing very very well and

it's been a huge addition i think to the game to get more mixed teams and then as well it also johan a small from discover for bottom we've got so many role models here in germany we've got a we didn't get to talk about her but thank you so very much greatly and jody also from the new york times thank you for charming in a little earlier on. and staying with the topic of girls and sport we have the story of an all girls soccer team that's given burned in their refugees a ray of hope in the largest refugee camp in the democratic republic of congo the morningstar squad has precious few resources but that hasn't dampened the suzi asms of all the players. the morning star. these young girls were forced to flee burundi in twenty fifteen but have discovered a love a football in the to march was lives now in the democratic republic of congo they have formed an all girls football team in the lists and a refugee camp oh we forget we are refugees when we are playing he could be

anywhere in the world. despite lacking football boots or even their own bar the girls are making the most of what they have. we are the best football team in this camp everyone has their own style of playing in their own nicknames. this is luis suarez this is pepe a. business either to run with this or via lack of funds the girls rely on volunteers coach and fellow refugee eric in town is their biggest fan i'd like to see the girls be encouraged to play and to have the equipment they need to play sports. refugees continued to face hardships in neighboring countries the morning stars provide a glimmer of hope and the girls have big ambitions as well. as seeing you in the here that they are very few just playing in the olympics that is our

dream. brindisi has never sent a football team to the olympics with passion and dedication these morning stars are determined to make history. they have takes courage to raise down a mountain on skis where it takes a lot more when you're almost blind like not only works out the twenty six year old will be competing in all five all pine disciplines at the paralympic winter games which starts tomorrow and i will porter join her as she carried out some final practice right here at home in germany. for the big one the paralympic winter games in. doing the risk is severely visually impaired without her guide lucianne who skis in front of her the twenty six year old wouldn't be able to tackle the slopes despite all her courage. and the sun is shining i can't see anything when it's shady during the giants i can see lucy

bright colors in front of me from time to time but i can just follow him in a focused way. that's why she just doesn't follow lucy but is also connected to him via radio with less than two percent vision amy sees the downhill run something like this. much sometimes they see a gate but it's more like a shadow passing by by. car it is the most important thing about no way me and that's what makes us fast and if she dares to do more. together. noémi has been skiing since she was three when she reached puberty she gradually lost her sight due to hereditary illness but she didn't lose her courage and it takes a lot of it to go down a ski slope in blind flight at the paralympics think she'll be competing in all

five disciplines downhill slalom giant slalom. and combination. that's just like at this season's world cup which was a big success for her. i was on the podium in every discipline so i think i've got a good chance to win a medal. this saturday noémi risto will have her first opportunity to do so in the downhill visually impaired. for funny. right thank you very much later cars are still seen as a man's game if signs of the geneva motor show are anything to go by most of the attendees are man things are changing old be it slowly into a run up to the motor show a couple of comedy curse use the hash tag no goof on social media to rally against

two women at car stance being use solely as a decoration now correspondent. said how far the car show has come on top far it still has to go. at the geneva motor show attractive women draped over shining sports cars are out modestly dressed car explainers prepared to talk features and functions or in a timely move and step with a larger discussion about women in the workplace there's even the attempt at gender balance i feel very comfortable and i like to worry here as though i had have nothing to complain about i think trying to give it the new touch because last year we were wearing suits the women were dress is so this time it's way more casual and it's maybe more familiar to be more familiar with the clients not everyone is following the same dress code and the auto industry's gender problem isn't really about clothes but representation men still vastly outnumber women there and at this

motor show too it took a while to find. she's the chief autonomy's lead from oil village a subsidiary and the only woman i've heard speak at the car salon this year but she says more coming i'm seeing a lot of talented young female people that are shaping the future of being here together in geneva and being on stage was actually a really emotional moment because michael he told me that she is seeing after a really long time of the first time a woman on the stage the geneva motor show is supposed to be a showcase of industry trends but those don't just have to be technological it could be a platform for a cultural shift in gear is as well. after hollywood politics and governance and the sports world they need to movement has come to motor shows now as well well sort of there's a markedly less objectification than in the last years even if it's not completely

gone but in terms of taking women seriously the auto industry still has miles to go there's still only one a female c.e.o. of a major automotive company and she's not even here. and that's your business update thank you so much for spending at this time with kelly. tomorrow the book. the book. the book. the bump.

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