the storm started. on. this tuesday. night south africa mourning the loss of an. icon and winnie mandela at the age of eighty one and activists and wife of nelson mandela for many she was the mother of the nation she leaves a mixed legacy. issues and. they were joined

by south africa's president cyril ramaphosa. she was not only ration but she also touched the lives of many many. good in the dog days. also coming up. the candidate of the governing party storms to victory in the country's presidential elections valin to legalize same sex marriage and the escalating trade spat between china and the us beijing imposes duties on a range of u.s. food boards in response to u.s. tariffs stoking fears of a trade war. it's good to have you with us many across south africa are in mourning tonight's. the

deaths of winnie mandela the ex-wife of former president nelson mandela she was a towering figure in the fight against apartheid and she was also in broiled a number of controversies in her later years she died peacefully at a hospital in johannesburg at the age of eighty one winnie mandela was first known as the wife of one of the nation's biggest dissidents nelson mandela but in one thousand nine hundred sixty four after just six years of marriage her husband was given a life sentence on charges of sabotage and plotting to overthrow the government he spent the next twenty seven years behind bars before being released in one thousand nine when he supported him and the anti-apartheid cause eventually also serving time in prison my husband has been fighting for the liberation of the african people for the witching someone you feel. in this country in the one nine hundred ninety s. when his reputation also began to suffer she was implicated in the kidnapping and

killing of a teenager accused of being an informer. she was also convicted of fraud. when her husband was released from prison she was there to greet him although she later described the marriage as a sham that mandela's divorced shortly after he became president. nelson mandela died in two thousand and thirteen. today his ex-wife winnie mandela is mainly remembered for her unwavering commitment to the end of apartheid. for many years she bore the brunt of this senseless perk. of the apartheid stay with story since him and fortitude despite the hardships you faced she never doubted that the struggle for freedom and democracy which time and succeed after a lengthy illness winnie mandela died in hospital surrounded by her family. however

for many images a fighter lives on. earth was. well i'm joined here in the studio by on the surface he she is a south african journalist a familiar face year of the w. she's an author and a documentary filmmaker and she has reported extensively on her country only it's good to see you again i dare ask the question because i know the answer is is a huge one who was winnie mandela when i think she's known as the ex-wife of nelson mandela but she was a very strong lead in the right she was a social worker in the fifty's who could have gone to study in america that mary nelson mandela and in the time that he was imprisoned she kept his legacy alive and often think without her he would have not become the i can for the un to help it struggle the teenager became would you see she is the one person who made a nelson mandela possible while he was imprisoned certainly i mean nelson mandela

in his and right this a very strong leader but he was locked away the a.n.c. with an exile and there was no opposition and when he was fearless she was not good of the apartheid government she was very outspoken they kept on banning has said that she couldn't be outspent and they kept on trying to break and i think in the end that maybe didn't break you know we've got a clip here that shows her speaking about this a piston he that she had concerning the white man's hate towards the black man in south africa take a look. when i was in the confinement. for those eighteen months. our god that is really my ten points in my political outlook. i must confess up to that state i was not aware the extent to

which the africana who takes their name in this country. and that stayed with her to the differ life to this but i mean she was making that statement to white men to my father's advisor afrikaners. but she was treated very badly when she was in solitary confinement eighteen months at the time she had children who were eleven ten eleven very young children who didn't know where they thought if the father was in prison a mother in solitary confinement and she was treated very badly i mean she had so many struggles. personal struggles and then nelson mandela was released their marriage ended and you and i were talking earlier there was some point where people say that she lost the plot. what happened in her letter years i think she actually lost it's a bit when she was in she was then banished the brunt force in the in the late

seventy's and stayed there for nine years in the area where she didn't speak the language and very isolated and i think in that time she just started to lose the profit and she surrounded to set as self just before mandela was released with people who was very dodgy characters and probably worked for the security police and got into a lot of trouble and she was a bad. judge of character often and she is she was very controversial people either love her or hate her there's no sort of in between with winnie. we're going to pick up on that a little bit later on on the day and tonight to talk a little bit more extensively about women though only certainty as always good have you on the show. because during his presidential election has resulted in a resulting victory for the governing party the win is also being seen as a victory for gay rights carlos' the ruling citizen action party has vowed to

legalize same sex marriage his opponent and evangelical pastor campaigned against gay marriage polls had predicted the runoff would be time spent in the end it wasn't even close. the crowd went wild when car lost alvarado was announced the winner. my responsibility is to unite all the people in our country move the country forward and enable it to become a leading nation in the twenty first century. commerce alvarado the candidate of the ruling citizen action party had come in second in the first round of voting behind fabricio alvarado of the national restoration party the two men are not related fabricio alvarado ran on a platform of opposition to same sex marriage that became the main issue in the runoff which can last alvarado one easily is that one where muslims are knighted because costa rica has shown it's a country that wants to build that for all its citizens was here is that right

after this was released a lot of emotions because costa rica has shown that it's a democracy there are several reports that this is the day of the surgery public. everyone of us has now contributed together to create a new lifestyle in costa rica tomorrow the fight starts today we celebrate winning but the battle continues but i don't know check what the new up is joy one battle is getting the country's economy back on track and that could force carlos alvarado to make some compromises that of that has promised to reduce the deficit should have something that is actually affecting the economic in person or week at how he's going to do it is quite difficult because he has no majority in parliament and he might have to look for some support from more conservative parties. he certainly has experience in government having been

a former cabinet minister and now at least he has the support of the majority of voters. here are some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world the interim selection of the. he says president. has won a second term in office after taking just over ninety seven percent of the votes in last week's ballot turnout was at around forty one percent opposition groups had called for a boycott declaring the vote a sham russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov had said that russia is not responsible for any escalation in the realm of or the poisoning of a former spy in the u.k. he has accused britain and the u.s. of playing children's games russia has denied responsibility for last month's attack on x. spies sergei scribble and his daughter yulia nigeria's government says it will launch an investigation into the political consultancy cambridge analytic up over allegations of interfering in the country's elections executives from the u.k.

based firm told undercover reporters that cambridge analytic had worked to sway election outcomes in a host of countries including nigeria. or fears of a possible trade war between the u.s. and china have sent stocks tumbling in the u.s. and asia china has slapped tariffs on the whole range of u.s. imports in response to levies imposed by the trumpet ministration last month on chinese steel and aluminum analysts say it could be just the beginning with washington set to unveil more tariffs later this week for these american avocados that destined for the chinese market but they might not so so well anymore now that china has imposed tariffs on fruit and meat wine steel pipes and scores of other imports from the usa the rates of fifteen percent on one hundred twenty items and twenty five percent on eight others. the chinese government says that people

support its move though some in china regret the ensuing rise in prices. it's definitely going to have an impact many fruits that kids love only grow in foreign countries we don't have them in china that is a direct impact. it's absolutely right to impose tariffs because i've seen the news about the us crapping trade deals with us it's right to fight back in. the new town if the china's initial response to the u.s. move to slap tariffs on steel and alan minium imports the u.s. is also threatening to impose further terrace on sixty billion dollars worth of other chinese imports a year over what it is the theft of intellectual property china by contrast is raising tariffs on about three billion dollars worth of u.s. imports. beijing says it will never submit if the u.s. launches a trade war and says that tariff increases are in line with world trade organization

rules to protect its interests still the scale of china's new tariffs is modest the move looks more like a warning shot than a major counterattack the u.s. is china's largest single market a full blown trade war is the last thing china would want. or the bavarian city of pasta in these southeastern corner of germany is experiencing a first today the world's first museum devoted to the docks so better known as you see the sausage dog or it opened its doors to the public today the museum's founder says it's about time that sausage dog fans have a shrine dedicated to their beloved breit. excitement has been growing out of the museum's opening. man's best friend has already been having a sniff around the premises which is filled with some two thousand objects inspired by the sausage dog. museum founder and director is. a proud but

they can hardly believe no one came up with the idea before him. but often the world needs a sausage dog museum captured the essence of bavaria you know the dog in the world enjoys the same kind of recognition of popularity here a sausage told by. some of the pieces on display might be considered kitsch by most people but probably not for ducks and lovers. one of the more serious exhibits pays tribute to famous sausage dog lovers among them nobel physicist albert einstein and actor leonard nimoy better known as spock from star trek there's even a drawing of the sausage dog sketched by none other than pablo picasso. and of course no museum would be complete without a gift shop visitors searching for the perfect souvenir for themselves or others

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