this is the only news line from berlin an emotional homecoming dozens of kidnapped schoolgirls from northern nigeria are back home the same vocal wrong extremist that abducted them dropped them off but with the stark warning for parents don't try educating your daughters again or we'll be back really goss also ahead international scrutiny on this matter alexandra nix the disgraced c.e.o. of shadow we consultancy cambridge analytical bragged about fixing elections well now opposition lawmakers in kenya are exploring legal action over his remarks plus

said in a combative and confident speech chance on the america lays out her new goals wednesday vision to german lawmakers immigration industry and criticism of the war in syria featured prominently and the worldwide fight against racism we join activists in the brussel in pairs excuse me then on the un's world anti discrimination day they say france is structurally racist and they're going to change it. thanks very much for a company everyone while we start our broadcast with a surprising and somewhat happy turn of events in nigeria boko haram have freed many. of the one hundred ten schoolgirls they snatched from the town of that sheep

a month ago but their act of clemency came with a warning to parents don't try sending your daughters to school again boko haram is nine year insurgency is a plague on north east nigeria but today at least many could put it from their minds. that this new happy in place today than depp she in northern nigeria the unexpected release of the town's kidnapped schoolgirls transforming this square into a place of unbridled joy. earlier in the day boko haram militants had driven the girls back into town chee and set them free to the delight of dozens of frantic parents. you know i got need to do and i saw with my own eyes eleven boko haram vehicles they were with the children when they got to the road they stopped and blocked the road he didn't talk to anybody he didn't greet anybody they were just shouting allahu akhbar they dropped the children at one corner everyone

came and i got my child and i was. there and the girls are back in their community but some are clearly marked by their months of captivity. aged between eleven and nineteen this still coming to terms with today's unexpected freedom and mourning the friends who didn't make it. was the mood there were five of us that died those that died were not killed by poking around they died because they were trampled upon it was stress and trauma that made them tired and weak. while their relatives reflect on a month of uncertainty the nigerian government has denied paying a ransom for the gold saying what they call back channel efforts brought the breakthrough it was agreed that it will be a real force for the jewish school that's what was possible the first is part of that movement. who is against what you said if the core goal is rooted in tradition

which most of the kidnapped girls are now recovering from their ordeal at a local hospital the old thirty's will be keen to question them over the coming days and then finally they'll return home to their families. are understandably a very emotional homecoming you have yours correspondent in the ranger it increase joins me now from lagos he's been on this story since it broke i can't i really can't even imagine the sense of relief that the girl's parents must be shielding right now but also a lot of anxiety. absolutely i mean it was a big surprise for almost everybody living in the town of topsy there was no indications whatsoever that those girls were going to be released today but then suddenly in the morning we learned some pickups arrived and sound shortly before the military was withdrawn from the town and then pick ups with boko haram fighters came in first people thought it might be another attack some try to run away but

it's so when turned out that they just went to the school to release the girls and of course that's triggered a lot of happiness and telling of a lot of celebrations now adriana tell us a little bit about how the girls are doing have all of them been released. well the girls reporters managed to talk to quite a good status right now they said they were well taken care of there where fit they were not views or anything like this so relatedly they're doing well but of course they've spent one month in captivity so that will have an impact on on their lives that is quite certain but also one of the girl said at least one of them is still in captivity according to her she was a christian who refused to denounce a religion so they kept her and also this conflicting reports about some students who had died in the course of the. some numbers say five of them were killed the government still says it needs time to bury for these reports very harrowing

experience indeed and this is such a surprising turn of events adrian a book around dropping off the girls in person has this ever happened before. well we had the big book abductions about four years ago when almost three hundred girls where one hundred of them are still in captivity or still with boko haram but a huge of model them amount of them was released last year for example dozens of them were released and in the beginning the government claimed they were unconditionally released late on sources within the government confirmed that there was money paid for their release and also some senior fighters and members of the terrorist group where released in exchange with the current dep she of doctrines the government again claims that the release was unconditional but this is not very likely why would let them go off to keeping them for one month without receiving anything in return and a lot of people are fearing the consequences if money was paid indeed for those

girls again to the terrorists this might be yet again an incentive for them to invade other communities and abduct another set of people in the future and it's a double edged sword indeed remind us again you doing if you will how it was possible in the first place that this group of schoolgirls were able to be kidnapped in such a brazen way. well it came as a big surprise because the reason why it happened is in the northeast of the country but it is in the pot where there were no further where there were no attacks before so most residents did not believe that it could happen there but they also heavily complains about the lack of response by the security forces in fact a few weeks before the attack on the school happened soldiers were withdrawn there was no protection anymore and it took the security forces hours to respond on the attack and once they responded the terrorists were long gone and this is still something that clearly needs to be investigated why has the response taken so long

why was the school unprotected how could that happen in the first place and up till now the government hasn't really come up with a clear answer to those questions already here increased reporting from lagos nigeria on the release of those schoolgirls thank you for your continued coverage. next to our other top story a british academic who created the app that harvested data on millions of facebook users says he's being used as a scapegoat by both the social network and the political consultant firm behind the data grapple facebook says alexander colgan violated its policies by passing the data on to cambridge analytic up the u.k. based firm is now in hot water after its c.e.o. was filmed by undercover reporters boasting about the dirty tricks he uses to swing election results the center of london home to cambridge analytics. the firm c.e.o. had a reputation for enjoying media attention but in the past few days alexander nick

seemed less happy in the media spotlight. on tuesday cambridge analytical suspended nick's following an undercover investigation by british broadcaster channel four he was secretly filmed by repulsion posing as a client seeking to get candidates elected alexander next outline some duty tricks to help things such as blackmail. the effect to be just to. speak to be. a fiction. or entrapping politicians by filming them in compromising situations that. shortly before being suspended next told b.b.c. he was exaggerating the company's work. we.

undertook this meeting and spoke with a certain amount of hyperbole about some of the things that we do but these latest accusations aren't the only problems dogging can be channelised account the company had previously bragged how to use facebook profiles to help get u.s. president donald trump elected now the u.k.'s data protection agency has social warrant to search cambridge analytic is headquarters and it's investigating whether the company illegally collected the facebook data this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics he says people were asked to download a facebook app which secretly stole private data about the user and their facebook friends i only need to engage fifty thousand seventy thousand one hundred thousand people a really big data set really quickly and it scaled really quickly we were able to get upwards of fifty million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months and that's how one of the biggest ash breaches in facebook's

history came about. facebook's mark zuckerberg has been dodging the media for days british lawmakers have summoned him to appear before a committee and accuse facebook of misleading them at a previous hearing the hashtags delayed facebook and where is like a bigger trending on social media amid calls for the internet giant to take responsibility for the breach. we realize how important these companies are for example to elections right across europe and i think this is the year when politicians have woken up we as the public of woke up and it's time for the tech companies to wake up because they don't get their act together they are going to face serious repercussions social networks will once celebrated as the saviors of democracy now critics are starting to ask where the social media should be more closely regulated. all right there's no end in sight for facebook's troubles and to expand on some of the issues that they face i'm joined now by stan happened who is

head of international cyber security policy at a german think tank a very good evening sir let's not beat around the bush has the time arrived for social media networks to be regulated more closely i think we should certainly take a look at that because after all it was reported there was a breach but it was not a data breach it was clearly a technical interface that facebook provided for all the a kompany said want to draw on an app on facebook where they could harvest those information so we have to ask ourselves is the data protection that facebook really good and i don't think we know of the answer which is not really not really ok i'll talk to us about what governments should do and what they can do because that's an important distinction . now i think one point that came out of you is that what has been done like micro-targeting targeting specific groups of people with custom tailored political campaigns is something we have seen in commercial advertising all along for decades so there's nothing new there but what should be done is when we look at the

american context where the state of might have been used to influence the elections is that those advertisements that are displayed clearly have to be marked as being paid by a political entity war kompany so that it's clear that they are have a political backing have transparency being the operative word there now facebook has been mum on all this do you expect them to comply with any new rules regulations that may be in the making as we speak because what's their incentive to cooperate with law makers i think right now they don't really have another choice if we look at the scale of the scandal right now facebook will be very happy to comply if something is offered which doesn't damage them too much because if you just look at the share of the share value it has promised a number of perth earned in the last few days since the scandal arose and right now facebook has to do everything to repair its reputation right so it's hurting their bottom line so they have to step up meanwhile what are the lessons that we can draw

from this well what is the misnomer data breach. when your data is altered will be used so you should be more aware of what they do you put out there because the data that was. harvested by the company and then later on used or not used in a political pain was data that was willingly given to the company by facebook users and their friends would put it out there all right send her head of international cyber security policy at a german think tank thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us thank you good evening. all right well the firm has also had its hand in elections in africa cameron analytical has worked to keep kenyan president uhuru kenyatta in power in elections in twenty thirteen and the recent one twenty seventeen while the london based consultants devised emotive video advertisements like this one that played to fears opposition leader rial undoing got would devastate the country and ground the constitution. all right well correspondent catherine wando is in the kenyan capital

nairobi catherine put this into context for us if you will how widespread is the use of facebook in kenya and how many people would have unwittingly been exposed to this to these propaganda videos well it's quite widespread of according to reports about ninety percent of the kenyan population has access to internet one way or another and out of this ninety percent seventy percent prefer a facebook as the main form of communication it comes to social media so it stays at around ten percent so if you look at the fact that you know twenty million voters would register or took part or registered to vote out of voters were exposed to these this material now by all accounts and you've been reporting on it extensively these were very contentious elections so how much importance can be

attributed to these videos in having a hand at swaying the election. great importance because this is a country that is basically divided along tribal lines and given our politics right loading the opposition leader is seen as an enigma so he's hated as well as love almost an equal measure so if you have such you know hate speech will smear campaigns going on especially the videos exposed to people who are trying to avoid a conflict because you know kenyans are still healing from the two thousand and eight two thousand and seven two thousand and eight post-election violence and in two thousand and thirteen were accused of trying to censor ourselves the media sense of themselves the people kept themselves hidden old kept themselves from anything that would you know cause violence and this is almost it's very important it almost feels like it was manipulated the vote with their vote with their choice was manipulated absolutely and it's great that you point out that you post-election

violence i mean it's a very precarious situation to be having these propaganda videos spread widely are kenyan authorities weighing legal action against the cambridgeshire analytic of all the kenyan government and especially the ruling party has dismissed how important to the impact of this particular issue but then you have the opposition leaders who are saying that they're looking to you know hold cambridge analysts accountable for how they accessed information how the excess the service during the elections and also just manipulating the voters and whether that's actually a viable argument and how this election was can conducted catherine want a reporting from nairobi kenya thank you might want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world. an explosion in the afghan capital kabul has left at least twenty six people dead and about twenty others wounded

afghan interior ministry says a suicide bomber on foot detonated his explosives on a road leading to a shia shrine. a teenage palestinian girl will be sentenced to eight months in prison for slapping an israeli soldier i had to mimi reportedly accepted a plea bargain for the incident which was caught on camera and made her hero to many palestinians. a day after the persian new year kurds around the world have been celebrating their numbers which marks the beginning of spring and the kurdish new year every speck of us went ahead here in southeastern turkey as well as iraq and other kurdish areas the first of all is also a show of support for kurdish independence. one of the conflict between turkey and the kurds playing out in syria is threatening to spread to communities right here in germany police have logged an increase in attacks by post to come.

every day john see bosko three new images of the horrors in a free syria still this is a kurd who is committed to the fight for kurdish independence he tries to control his rage. i would you feel when you see people with these kinds of injuries when you see that it never stops most of all when you see that it's happening with weapons from this country and it's utterly disappointing. that's why the cuts have been getting ready to protest and not only in the berlin office of the kurdish association enough to him. not them is affiliated with the kurdish workers party the p.k. k. which is banned in germany. german authorities suspect radical kurds to be behind a series of attacks on turkish buildings and businesses. just a few hundred metres away from the office is a burnt out mosque destroyed in an off night attack in early march the mosque is

run by the turkish controlled group which is connected to religious authorities in ankara. friday prayers have to take place in the freezing cold in the street outside the mosque indeed liberal mosques worshippers have also prayed for victory for the turkish forces in the north of syria ruling party m.p. most of a in a row no thanks there's nothing wrong with that if the men in kill shouldn't if it's ok to pray in churches for fallen soldiers in afghanistan and that's a religious community when muslim communities can also pray for the lives of the victims and soldiers in turkey and affray in guys who went over in africa bit that that's exactly where these pressure take place because these places are places of peace and hope that that's what they're pray for every day often we did given that but given the. many people of turkish descent fear that the conflict with the kurds

could spill over into germany despite calls for peace many young turks have been rallying for retaliation. for its one the officer catch them in the act why not the could be trouble. of course there could be trouble. the police were also out in force in a demonstration to mark the kurdish new year in have a. chance even took part. he doesn't agree with calls from the p.k. k. affiliated website for attacks on turkish establishments and german government party offices but he does see germany as an ally of the turkish enemy. we get a lot of sympathy but the states and the government are making the wrong decisions and we're fighting against that just like we're fighting the turkish government but not the turkish people themselves. john sivits his anger is growing and he's not

the only one a potential sign of more trouble to come here in germany. and i have here over to have here now with a much anticipated decision by the federal reserve in the us that's right level one that didn't surprise us at least not this time policymakers at the federal reserve have once again raised short term interest rates the quarter point uptick is the fourth such rise in the span of a year an indication that the reason to konami growth in the u.s. is expected to continue this meeting affect governors is the first under new chairman jerome powell was nominated by donald trump last year said members projected they would raise rates twice more this year in an effort to control growth and as usual wall street investors were listening very closely and so was our financial correspondent on wall street hence cause it was right there good to see you yes well we know it now and you're a tiger in the u.s. and no surprises there. at least the headline number did not surprise us that said

it's been the six rate increases since december of twenty fifteen but at least a verbal e. the federal reserve becomes a bit more aggressive stay on hiring the outlook for us to grow as they're lowering the outlook for the unemployment rate to about three point six percent sometime next year and they're also seeing the u.s. economy is strengthening so that's also a bit more aggressive than they sounded at the last fed meeting however yes i'm seeing a fairly positive reaction we are seeing today and i don't know why exactly back there but i remember the days where rate hikes would actually scare investors why the enthusiasm now. yes see the mood is good here on wall street and we are gaining quite a bit to him initially after this decision and the wording from the federal reserve well i remember very well when alan greenspan was at the helm of the federal reserve and then nobody really knew what was coming we tried to get clues from the

size of office briefcase if rate increases in the cards or not and this has certainly changed and everybody knew what was coming and then we got the confirmation and still no that surprises and just specially financial stocks on the right thank you and briefly if you can what about the outlook for next year was that positive as well. it is positive for this year we are expecting right now a rate increases and total but the fed got a bit more aggressive when it comes to the outlook for twenty and nineteen and also twenty twenty but we shouldn't forget nobody really knows what's going to happen with the u.s. economy further down the line so even the federal reserve is just guessing at this point all right against carter on wall street maybe you want to join the party now thank you very much for the analysis. for a topic that might not be a cause for celebration european authorities continue to crack down on tax evasion

and have now announced concrete measures against tech giants like apple or google they will now have to pay more and stop declaring taxes in the country with the lowest taxation the measure could benefit public finances in several countries but could also scare away international investments. ireland is popular with tech giants who want to lower their tax bill the firms concentrate their business activities in places where tax rates are especially advantageous that's why apple google and facebook have their european headquarters on the emerald aisle but the e.u. commission wants to change that they plan to impose a special three percent tax on certain divisions within the tech giants today's proposal are simply about fair for all companies they're about creating the right environment for modern businesses and they're about future proofing single market so that collectively we can rise to the challenges of our globalized

and digital i's age and in the future tech companies would also be taxed where they sell their products and not just where they're registered that would mean a nice windfall for public coffers at the same time as drawing out european tax oases now maybe it's a coincidence maybe not that this hits almost exclusively or at least mainly u.s. companies earlier we talked to our correspondent max holzman in brussels and asked him whether those taxes would add more fuel to the fire of the unfolding trade war . well the commissioner in charge of this pierre most v.c. insisted that this is not against a certain country not against the usa and that of roughly one hundred twenty to one hundred fifty companies would be concerned by this but of course if you look at it the biggest the biggest companies in the whole field of course are american if there weren't the big tech giants like amazon and google from the united states we

wouldn't have this discussion at the moment i think that's for certain the question really is is it worth to risk a trade war because the united states might the trumpet ministration might take this as another slight as another probation but if you look at the actual numbers how much money could be made for example in germany just by taxing google that would be roughly in some colleagues calculated this sixty million in taxes annually and that's nothing compared overall to the business tax that's levied in germany because that's one hundred fifty billion euros. that was fox hole fun in brussels i'll be back with more business news later on but that's not all we have coming up thank you so very much indeed you're watching over you news we still have a lot more to tell you about including america lays out her vision for germany as she enters her fourth term as chancellor can she bring together a country polarized by the migration crisis. i'll have that story for you and

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a child i am filled with anger at the cost. to. the free force of future starting a pulling on g.w. . great to have you back with us here watching you don't use up they are on these army families right now. scores of hostages freed by boko haram have rejoined their family islamised militants snatched the schoolgirls from the sheikh in nigeria most of the one hundred ten students are free although some are believed to still be held captive and opposition lawmakers in kenya are scrutinizing claims by the suspended c.e.o. of cambridge analytical alexander nix that's after he was caught on camera claiming to have swung kenya's presidential election cambridge analytic up there's a the hearts of the facebook data abuse scandal. damage as an american

has laid out plans for her fourth term in power in a speech to the country's parliament merkel conceded that the migration crisis had split the nation and vowed to return unity to german society she also just foreign policy challenges from syria to donald trump still tears as she sought to reassure voters that her reluctance coalition was ready for business. germany had to wait a little for this it took six months to form a coalition government six months in which she addressed parliament only once now that she's officially back in office merkel sets the goal for fourth term as german chancellor. i just don't fit when this term is over i want people to say this government has learned its lesson from the september twenty seven thousand election results i want them to say the government understood and really has achieved something. here it is which is. one of the lessons learned the

refugee crisis has deeply divided germany merkel defended her decision to take in nearly a million people but also told parliament the situation like this mustn't happen again nevertheless she also put a new interior minister in his place after he said that islam doesn't belong to germany it's to tell you that there's no question that the story called character of our country is christian and jewish but it's also true that with four point five million muslims living here their religion islam has also become a part of germany. in about one hour americal touched nearly every policy area she spoke of migration free by fire for everyone and foreign policy calling for transparency from russia or the nerve agent attack on a former russian spy in britain the far right populace dave de party was the first to answer to the chancellor statement daily don't chose to concentrate on the one

issue that brought them into parliament attacking the government's refugee policy. neither in the election campaign the coalition agreement nor the statement today do assessments knife murders or rapes play a role not even the fact that the migrants crime rate is higher than that of native germans. the tone for anglo americans for therm with chancellor is set and also will can be expected. from the leading opposition party. of your is back with us with some more of business and that made me a good deal has come a green light that's right the green light from the european union german chemical giant buyer can finally take over u.s. company monsanto that you approve the merger that will create the largest seed and pesticides company there is as a buyer acquires one of the most controversial companies in the world brussels has set some conditions after months of uncertainty giants byron monsanto will

be heaving a sigh of relief today last august brussels launched an investigation into the fifty six billion euro merger which would create the world's largest integrated pesticides and seed company our in-depth investigation it raised concerns that the transaction as it was mature fight would have significantly reduced competition in a number of markets in europe and globally. it would also significantly have reduced innovation which is very important to develop seats with a higher yield or pests that that are less toxic and less damaging to the environment as such. at the time the european commission which serves as the mt trust regulator for the twenty eight nation e.u. cited concerns the merger could reduce competition in key products for farmers brussels imposed several conditions on buyer they included selling parts of its

business to german rival be a s.f. that deal announced in october would see buy or sell the bulk of its crop seeds units and its glide for say herbicide business to be. in response to these concerns the parties have submitted a remedy package worth well over six billion euros. this remedy package removes all problematic overlaps between the parties activities. and it ensures that the number of global players active competing and innovating in seeds and pesticides remains the same before and after the merger brussels gave the go ahead despite opposition by environmentalists who fear the deal gives too much power to the world's leading manufacturers of genetically modified organisms g.m.o. foods and the controversial weed killer glyphosate u.s.

regulators still have to approve the merger. let's turn to the african continent now because in strong contrast to the tariff conflict currently unfolding between the u.s. and its trade partners african leaders just signed the creation of the african continental free trade area and envisions the largest free trade agreement since the world trade organization was created in one thousand nine hundred ninety five the aim is to include all fifty five member state of the current african union one day but starting with up to forty four states until the end of this year now if the free trade zone actually gets implemented it would create a single market with significant data up to one point two billion people and a combined gross domestic product of two point five trillion u.s. dollars now experts assume the countries will enjoy significant gains to their economies despite losing the money they collect with tariffs the deal could generate long term welfare gains of up to sixteen billion dollars but as usual the

deal will still need to be approved in all national parliaments which is easier said than done we stay in the african continent because only a few things are more frustrating to produce farmers than seeing their harvest rot away because they can't sell it fast enough and it can take a big bite out of profits to farmers in developing countries regularly lose a quarter of their annual income because they can't we frige rate their products a small company in nigeria is now using the hot sun to keep fruits and vegetables fresh this project looks fresh and juicy but once it triples or rots it won't sell and the vendors won't make any money. in countries across africa it's almost impossible to keep perishable produce in good condition because of the heat in developing countries a major cause of food spoilage is the lack of cold storage gnomic. has come up with an ingenious and affordable solution to the problem his company cold hubs is based

in a weary in the south of nigeria. kodos is a mean social enterprise that actually designed. installs solar powered walking called rooms. used to school dreams to extend a chef life of food from two days to twenty one days these are completely solar powered so they are very well designed and robust for installation in the farm and in the markets because cold call rooms are solar powered they can operate off grid that is where there's no electricity available out of a socket and for the same reason they were environmentally friendly. in the daytime we are running off the descent time story and edgy and in the night we switch to the batteries so just a twenty four refrigeration system completely of the great the cold room so well insulated the temperature inside is kept at manas five degrees celsius farmers and

retailers can store their fruit vegetables and of a parish bills and that's lengthen their shelf life allowing them to sell a greater share of their wares make more money and reduce waste a cold hub is up and running at a market in a weary stallholders are pleased they say it's made a welcome difference it's evidently worth their while to pay the storage fee. to a newton zirin runs the cold store the fruit and vege that aren't sold one day spend the night here end of them taken out and put on display again the following morning. the cold have to company has only female staff to run it's called rooms to help boost employment for women the hub is a success she when who is busy. must feel like. it's really working well cult of sees a huge potential to grow its business across the vast african market the company

estimates it could build and sell up to twenty thousand units over the next ten years. it's all from the business desk back to alan alan an important day for equality absolutely because every day all over the world people suffer discrimination because of the color of their skin their nationality or ethnicity racism seen a phobia and intolerance affect millions around the world while to draw attention to this global problem the un has declared today international day for the elimination of racial discrimination while they commemorate the massacre in the township of sharp phil in south africa on the twenty first of march one thousand nine. thousands gathered to protest against the country's racist apartheid laws police opened fire into the crowd sixty nine black people were killed that day and one hundred eighty wounded many were shot in the back as they tried to flee at least sixty years later much has changed in south africa and the rest of the world

but racism still persists all right well as racism plagues nearly every nation not just south africa in the world to talk more about this issue joining me from new york is going to brown marshall she is associate professor of constitutional law at the john jay college of criminal justice and author of several books on race and law and she's also a former civil rights attorney we're so happy to have you here with us professor thank you for spending time with us your experience of course is rooted in the u.s. context so give us a broad overview of broad strokes in terms of where we race relations are right now in trump's america because here in europe we're also seeing a rise in a liberal populace well thank you for having me one of the major issues we're dealing with here in the united states is the fact that the constitution of the united states that's out that there is equal protection of the laws but we've

had that the jews from slavery that it gives from legal segregation and now we're living with the rise of he runs disparity in who is incarcerated in our jails and prisons and the lack of access to the condom eat that is moving in certain places. the outside looking in right and the professor you know as it's a very specific experience the american experience because as you outlined it was i mean racism was basically institutionalized for such a long time in that one of your books at race law and american justice you trace the history of racial discrimination as and shrines in law and now america has come a long way since what can the law today do to combat racism well the concern that i have is that race based discrimination began in europe was

imported into the united states willingly imported into the united states became a part of our judicial system and is ingrained in many people in the social fabric and that's why i. look at race law and american society what it has in its issues that involve the whole world playing trade while the global market place which all of the world is in particularly the old world of europe manifest it's. selling of human beings and the produce that they create so it's an american an ongoing issue what is in america we have to have constitution that boldly says all people are created equal and it's here where we have the highest level of discrepancy and i would say hypocrisy under this current administration there's been a huge. across the board against immigrants against people of color and particularly against african americans and we are suffering right now with what they just found

the person who is a serial bomber cindy pipe bombs homes killing blacks and latinos in. that is what's going on here in the united states where we both to be this exceptional city on the heel of democracy and at the same time we're suffering terribly under racial oppression ok professor the connection isn't too great but i still want like to ask you the last question how important is it for the u.n. to have this day i mean does it change anything it does because it makes. everyone stop and think do we have united nations represented by so many different people and you think about the african diaspora all right twenty twenty twenty four is the decade for african descent you know it's not very

important for the world but. absolutely a professor gloria brown marshall thank you so much we apologize for that not so great connection but we still got the gist of your thoughts so we greatly appreciate it thank you so much art while here in germany human rights activists say racism is often seen as a historic problem associated with the nazi era but for people of color living here racism can be an everyday experience as we hear in our next report. to germans to foreigners they all share an apartment in germany each of them has experienced racism. each of them finds in his or her own way to feel like they belong. laundry lawn co has given up being accepted in germany a few years ago he was visiting a friend on his way back to the apartment a neighbor in the stairwell brutally pushed and beat him he thought laundry was a burglar because of his skin color. i was really angry if i were

german he wouldn't have asked me why i was there it would have been completely normal laundries roommates have not experienced physical violence but they heard many a racial slur and one question over and over again. does in fact you hold they just see the color of my skin and immediately ask which country i come from they label me as a foreigner as if i didn't belong here in germany who. it's war says like this man's which sure prejudice and marginalized people andre poken bird from the right wing party alternative for germany. and there was. with the rise of right wing populists the debate over foreigners has intensified the flatmate say the question of where they come from is being asked more and more frequently not

off we only stuff i that so much that wasn't the case in the past. for example when i lived in cologne at parties or when i met new people they didn't care about my skin color or ask me where i was from and i was just like them that's how. the four emphasize their similarities they don't want other people to dictate to them who belongs in germany. i know i'm german know but i've also experienced things that maybe someone who only knows germany can't imagine and that's why i see myself more as a german plus. but laundry line coach has had enough of not being accepted after his studies he plans to leave the flat and return to his homeland in cameroon. martin in the world of sport racism is being tackled head on but recent

events in soccer suggest that racism is actually on the rise in the so-called beautiful game while the latest episode involved a striker issue but shaving who was subjected to racist chance in the terraces during his side's visit to italian. in february the belgian chose to vent his frustrations on twitter afterwards and tongue for it to florida kevin have pronounced the boy tank has become the poster boy in the fight against racism after passionately campaigning against it sport all right we're going to shift gears now of the matter where it is the most photographed mountain in the world and now it's the subject of an exhibit right here in germany right now from our culture desk has more robin this exhibit is in a disused gasometer on an industrial state and western germany that's better stage play so you know the post yeah it does this it's

a guy saw that and got some he says he said in. in western germany now we're talking about the rule of the industrial sort of powerhouse of germany as it was that is not so much still being produced the anymore and call and these wonderful buildings are being put to uses for cultural events now the heritage say i mean it looks like a rather massive oil drum doesn't it it's not a pretty sight from the outside but it's one hundred meters high and that's the reason for this exhibition i won't give the game away. quite them. the massive hole for people is between the border of switzerland and italy is one of the most difficult peaks. in the world to climb i mean you can imagine and it's the most iconic thing i mean there's even chocolate we've got to run was based on the mask on and if you ask a child to draw a mountain it will come out something like that what is true also a serious manton is this is one of the ones on the to do list anyway if you want to

touch the peak of the mass of home you could maybe do this at this exhibition take a look. the matter home it's one of the highest mountains in the alps and famous around the world it's witness to great triumphs and terrible tragedies now people can marvel at the magic of the matter horn at the moment in the western german city of oberhausen it's being touted as europe's most exhibition space the matter homes inverted peak is suspended one hundred meters overhead images taken at different times of day and in different seasons are projected on to the installation. it's a wonderful impressive fascinating words fail me on. the mountain hovers overhead allowing visitors an unimpeded view of the summit from the ground.

so nothing like this has ever been done before what's hanging here looking like is in reality a massive structure tool. and one that weighs nine tons meticulously crafted it was later covered with the fabric the model which is suspended by steel cables was developed by the german aerospace center. there's also an original piece of rock from the mater horn on display but no mountain climbers had to scale the peak to fetch it the swiss alpine rescue had a helicopter fly to an elevation of four thousand four hundred seventy eight meters right to the matter hones summit. you can touch the peak of the matter hole that's another wonder of this exhibition at the swiss alpine rescue port just a swapper from the top of the matter and you can touch it like

a wholly wrong you know. few mountains in the world inspire such fascination as them. so hold on. until the end of the year people can to my right up close in the oberhausen. wow yeah really amazing very special there what else can you see. down status those lots of photos this base of legends about a mask on of course and we can see there's lots of wonderful photos and lots of stories about how people got target is one of the last peaks in the alps speak line i think hugo was the very last muscle in this i mean you can see it's really difficult. and the man who finally called could it actually in eight hundred sixty five day it was this man ed wood with. his original i speak from that climb and also there's a great mystery surrounding that time because on the way down four of the possible

climbers died after a rope snapped and they fell tragically to their deaths room to this day as to whether women cut the rope to save himself because he wanted to get down and tell everybody got to the top you say but nobody knows only the mountain and it won't reveal its secrets and it's a good thing the good thing so we have more on our website there's more on the website. it's called the cold of the mountains and the exhibition does go on for the whole of the rest this year should people quit does it she says like the promise of a really nice thank you so much robert really appreciate it all right next to virtual reality has long been at home in the world of computer games but now it's raking out of the entertainment sector and finding new applications in sectors like medicine and city planning well over five hundred to take experts are discussing these and other options this week at

a conference in the german city of rightwinger here's more. this simulation works like a computer game and as an attempt to cure vertigo. it shows how virtual reality can be useful in real life experts at the conference in the heartland are primarily interested in how virtual reality will change the way people work together my vision is that the future is not us sitting over a dust but us standing together and working with media and technology in an interactive way as early as the planning phase architects will be able to guide visitors through digital building models install water pipes and gas pipes virtually and help save energy and costs technicians could dismantle whole vehicles at their desk and learn to repair them virtual reality is no longer just a gimmick. what was seeing now wants also in the major is driven by the computer

games market that we the video researches who develop serious applications we benefit from that because it's the right kind of hardware the right i want the right image devices. the research is agree though that it's only when the gadgets start to look like goss's and tables unreal will displace that the virtual will have truly become reality. writer for a league i want to remind you of our main headlines right now. scores of hostages freed by boko haram have rejoined their families the islamic militants snatch the schoolgirls from top sheet in nigeria and most of the one hundred ten students are free although some still remain in captivity. and opposition lawmakers in kenya are scrutinizing claims by the suspended c.e.o. of cambridge analytical alexander next on this after he was caught on camera claiming to have swung to kenya as

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