this is eat every news live from berlin the end of an era it shows on america's last day as the chair of her party she's letting someone else take over after eighteen years as party leader but will the candidates vying to head up germany's governing christian democrats allow her to serve out her term as chancellor also coming up shocker arrest a top google executive of chinese telecoms giant bought

a is detained in canada she now faces extradition to the u.s. for allegedly violating sanctions on iran also yemen's peace talks begin in sweden and government and rebel sides agreed to an exchange of prisoners but the u.n. is warning not to expect too much from the negotiations we'll talk to britain's ambassador to yemen also in the next sixty minutes the children of branded as witches and cast out of society two years ago this little nigerian boy named hope became a global face of the growing problem you know we news finds out how he's getting on today. and after a video of a big soccer crazy outcome boy went viral his dream came true when he met his idol you know massey but two years on these the face of afghans who've lost everything to the top of on.

our way of iraq it's a pleasure to be with you all. and the arrow is drawing to a close here in germany on friday chancellor on the america will relinquish the chair of her conservative c.d.u. party she'll continue as chancellor for the time being but delegates at the party conference in hamburg will elect america's replacement as party chair whoever wins could well follow marco into the chancellor with a profound impact on germany and europe as a whole. before it kicks off the boss takes a look to make sure everything is set. this tour has become a tradition at the seaview party congress it will be until america's last one. i am quite grateful i was the party leader for over eighteen years that is a long time. macca will be treading

a fine line at the party congress for goal is to unite the party and yet share the power she is wielded as party leader and his chancellor achieving party unity will be both the linchpin and the litmus test for her successor. but the chancellor has yet to make an endorsement of two thousand and three to get this is an important duty for the thousand and one delegates to set the tone for the future team that will lead the party with one tough which is why i am looking forward to tomorrow and of course i am just as anxious as everyone else that it is democracy in its purest form but there is a range of candidates to choose from everything else will be decided by the delegates and. it will be a tight race tomorrow but for now machall can relax. because today sent nicholas day a chocolate farewell present for the c.d.u. party leader but for the candidates vying for her position the sack of presents won't be opened until tomorrow. our well for more let's go to the city

of congress venue in hamburg where he will use chief political editor mikhail a professor is standing by mikaela today the last day of tenure as city you chief isn't it the end of an era. absolutely it is the end of an era and we just heard to say that this is the purest form of democracy well that has now been rediscovered here in the c.d.u. which appears very much energized after all she never had a candidate that stood against her party leader over those eighteen years this was a magical policy that where party in the end always followed and now it's a completely different ball game here the big question is in which direction will the party develop after what certainly was the year a mouthful all right well the race to replace miracle is on the tell us take

a close look now at the three candidates vying for america mantel c.d.u. chief we'll talk afterwards. lisa other three candidates want to replace uncle america less c.d.u. party leader they've been crisscrossing the country making their pitch for the leading role migration into the european union have been big issues where do the candidates stand first up the comeback kid. twenty years ago he was the rising star of the party until markel snatched away a key post for self he ended up leaving politics now he's back and as tough words for germany's asylum laws he's been shown what. it's long been my opinion that we should be ready to discuss openly the right to silence where they can really stay this way if we are serious about a european refugees and migration policy. politike. he

softened his stance in the face of intense criticism but matts remains a migration hardliner party members wanting a younger face for conservative values may go for the new kid on the block inspan the thirty eight year old has given me a healthy dose of grief blaming the party's bad poll numbers on the refugee policy . the party is for rule of law and domestic security we are for public safety in the parks on the street and also on the borders we are the party for europe and europe that protects and protects itself protects its citizens that defends its values a europe that helps us because germany alone is too small. but not everyone is out to bury the past those looking for continuity could lean towards the favorite daughter and the great come come power one position she shares with merkel relying less on the us for germany's defense. steep sides can open there are now two of you can see days when we would sing to nato for us so we have

a sense of the materials of the people and we as germany look on from outside or do little things those days are over. another day we have to take more responsibility for security and that also means spending more money for it to do it over. in the eye in the hunt. and agreed to come combo they staked out where they stand and now the party gets to choose a conference on friday where every places are now as party chair may replace the chancellor counted in future elections until then the two will have to work together. aright mikaela who is the clear front runner. is a tricky one it really depends on who you ask certainly the latest polling we've seen do put on a good come. lead but by no means across that finishing line that would be an

instant finishing line of fifty plus something percent because that's what she would need for this election to go through just one round and it did come how about of course without medical saying so being her favorite offering the most continuity but when you ask do you member about. instant response to finish mats that's certainly the conservative heartbeat that many have been hoping for to reenergize the party and they certainly want to see that play a larger role i think it's pretty much safe to say though that young spawn doesn't stand much of a chance but he can go back to being what he is right now which is the health minister all right now after this vote to make a law you have this awkward situation where america will still be leading germany that's not changing but she's no longer ahead of her own party how is that going to work. that is of course the big question and she

basically said that this was an exception that was acceptable because she'd always argue that you can't separate the two offices because she also declared that it would be her last term as german chancellor but there's no doubt that a lot really hinges on who becomes the new party leader if a k.k. and a great come calm voice as she is known goes through. is that's a sign that the american government could last twenty twenty one although i would still doubt that what it would last that long if relation matts were to become the new party leader well that is built in tension and that would certainly make governing a lot more difficult and it would be somebody who in the end also has a score to settle although he does protest almost a bit too much that that simply is not on the cards that he could see himself working with angela merkel but then again this fresh face is sixty three years old

it's not like he has that terribly much time if you was to want to become tonsil right to didn't use chief political editor. in hamburg thank you for your continued coverage. all right next hour we're going to shift our attention to yemen there is a catastrophe unfolding in yemen and we have to stop it well those were the words of sweden's foreign minister she opened talks aimed at ending the war in amman the u.n. brokered talks and bring together yemen saudi backed government and her three rebels aligned with iran it is the first time that the two sides have come together in more than two years before the talks began the two sides agreed to swap prisoners while the conflict has triggered a massive humanitarian crisis with millions of people suffering from severe hunger . newborns fighting for their lives. their mothers are too weak to help them every day up to one hundred twenty babies are brought to this clinic and son are paramount nourished weak sick many are so far gone that doctors can no longer

help them. and it's not their fault these children shouldn't have to suffer like this we all suffer prices have skyrocketed diseases are rampant children are now nourished even children at school. according to the u.n. three million women and children are in danger of starvation eight million people are dependent on aid rural districts including those who are fighting has stopped or difficult for the aid organizations to reach the war has already cost thousands of lives. today at the start of the yemen peace talks the world health organization says this loss of life must stop it's a manmade conflict it's making many people millions of people hungry and the only thing that we need is peace because it's not sustainable i mean to to continue assisting and having half of the population of

a country relying on external support millions of people are waiting for their hunger need and sorrow to come to an end but more than anyone else the youngest are running out of time. aren't would like to welcome now britain's ambassador to yemen mr michael aaron he is at the talks at currently taking place the north of stockholm sweden sir thank you for taking out the time to talk to us so we just aired a report that is very very difficult to watch children just struggling to survive. is pretty complicit in causing this type of suffering with your government's military support of the saudi coalition. no i don't think so i think that we are trying to bring about an end to the conflict we care deeply about the suffering of the yemeni people and we support the efforts of the u.n. special envoy moussa griffiths to. bring the sides together and to get. to

work out a solution to this terrible terrible humanitarian problem has there been a concrete change in the u.k.'s relationship with saudi arabia efforts underway to get it to pull back. that hasn't been a complete change in our relationship with saudi arabia no we are allies of saudi arabia we support. we completely justify and support the desire for security in that region and such we agree with that that the needs to be stability in yemen what is the way to balance those i mean is this the way to go to go about it i mean in france barely able to breathe with a little energy that they have left is this the way to go about it clearly we think the war should come to an end we think the fighting has gone on too long but the responsibility for that is for the things themselves started this conflict by occupying large areas of the country overturning the legitimate government and

causing huge humanitarian suffering in the areas under their control so we would see the coalition the saudi led coalition as trying to put right right or wrong that was done through more than three years ago we now think it is time to move from a military campaign to a political process and we believe that the efforts of the we should all be supporting the efforts of the u.n. special envoy and in that regard what i wonder so is there a way that countries like yourself like the u.a.e. and the u.k. can do like use your leverage as as a type of moderating influence. when talking to all the parties the foreign secretary was in riyadh three weeks ago and had a very detailed and good discussion with the crown prince of saudi arabia mohamad been summoned he then went to riyadh where he had a similar conversation with the crown prince of the united arab emirates mohammad saeed he talked to the yemeni government to the vice president ali mohsen so he is

in detail conversations and we. british officials are in detail conversations with all these participants we are very clear that we think we should all be and they confirm that themselves that we should all be supporting the efforts of mohsin griffis and here in stockholm we have the two parties for the first time in over two years together ready to talk between them and with mockingbirds as to find a way out of this crisis which we all accept is unacceptable in the impact it's having on the yemeni people how hopeful are you then that these talks will yield a tangible result i mean it's great that they're talking but back concretely do you think things are moving towards a tangible settlement a way out of this war. i think they are moving in the right direction i think that we have to have realistic expectations but his boss in britain said this morning we should have high ambitions we all have high ambitions in these talks and we hope

the progress will be made first of all on his framework for the process a kind of gateway to the negotiations which sets out how he sees the negotiations unfolding over the months to come he has also set out a number of confidence building measures because one of the results of the fighting and the absence of direct contact over the last two years has been a lack of confidence between the parties and he's identified some confidence building measures as you say agreement was reached on one of those exchange prisoners already and well look we're hopeful that there will be progress on others he's looking at deescalation reducing the violence bringing the conflict to an end so i think in all those three areas he wants to see progress during the week the week is going to the week and the maybe longer to come is not going to solve the problems but it is a beginning and it's fundamental you can't get anywhere without

a beginning and that the parties need confidence in each other and in the international community and in their friends to move forwards towards peace michael aaron britain's ambassador to yemen sir thank you very much for spending time with us thank you very much. ariana's bring up history now with some of the other stories making news around the world. former u.s. president george h.w. bush is being laid to rest today in texas over a thousand mourners gathered in the city of houston to pay their final respects to bush who died last week at the age of ninety four will be buried later today in a private ceremony at the time to share in france a teenage protesters have blocked access to hundreds of schools across the country and clash with police in several cities as part of ongoing demonstrations against a host of education overhauls it comes as anti government yellow vests protesters plants around the again this saturday in the capital paris officials will close the

eiffel tower as a precaution. beijing is demanding that canada release one of china's top global executives is the daughter of the founder of chinese telecom giant and was detained last week in vancouver she now faces extradition to the u.s. for allegedly violating american sanctions against iran. she's the chief financial officer of one of the biggest telecommunications equipment companies in the world now it's emerged that man wang ju has been in custody in canada for days u.s. authorities are seeking her extradition on charges of helping huawei violate the u.s. trade embargo on iran allegations that have prompted an angry response from beijing . going to go with china has expressed its serious position on this case to both canada and the united states. we are demanding the

reason for her arrest to be clarified immediately. demanding men's release and for her rights she is drizzles don't to be safeguarded. three. things detention comes as while away faces increasing scrutiny from abroad in the past u.s. lawmakers have described the company as a threat to national security saying its technology could be used for spying other countries like australia and new zealand share those concerns and to stand trial ways equipment from being used in their high speed five g. mobile networks the latest allegations from the united states have emerged as an especially sensitive time in the chinese u.s. relationship last weekend the country's leaders agreed to a ninety day truce in their months long trade dispute the u.s. decision to target one of china's most important tech giants is only likely to

reignite tensions. hard and chris stops here because this arrest of a high profile tech executive is rattling investors. in markets around the world are tumbling after. ways chief financial officer the case is stoking fresh fears that the economic truce between beijing and washington will only be short lived he sells it all major markets starting in asia spreading to europe and across the atlantic to wall street. is to. new york stock exchange. quickly shared around three points on news that the united states was seeking the extradition of a high profile executive. the u.s. reportedly accuses the company of violating the iran sanctions the drop extend the deep losses from earlier this week a recent all gains made so far this year. investors feared the move could reignite

a small dream trade conflict between the u.s. and china just as it seemed that the free trade camp had begun to make some headway . on saturdays rest of the very day that donald trump and. paying agreed to their truce. along with the brags that worries are playing out right now and. probably heightened over the weekend and so it was a similar scene in england as the london stock exchange dropped some three points in germany frankfurt's dax exchange dropped below the psychologically important eleven thousand point mark bringing it to its lowest point in over two years. all in all a bitter day for investors around the globe. let's take a look at commodities now as saudi arabia says it is quote not confident that an agreement on oil output cuts can be reached the country's oil minister said ahead

of the latest bi annual meeting of the open to see nations cartel opec member nations have not yet been able to decide on possible production cuts opec countries will on friday meet with russia to negotiate its position u.s. president has urged saudi arabia to refrain from lowering output in order to keep oil prices low. the decisions made by these people will be felt by anyone with a car the petrol pumps the opec oil ministers and representatives meeting in vienna focused on one subject of put cuts for crude oil the idea is to drive the price for oil back up after three months slide during a time the price of a barrel of crude has fallen from eighty six dollars at the beginning of october down to around sixty dollars now that's hurting countries that need oil revenues to finance their economies we hope to come up with or. as would be. equal drop across the board. so far from our

consultations for weeks we have reached the. reports from inside the meeting say there is general agreement on the necessity of a production quota cut for the time being it's just not clear how large it will be opec wants to coordinate that with nonmember russia russian representatives are expected to attend the meeting on friday for talks. i'll have more business for you a little later in the show including a look at how to contain rising debt levels on the african continent for now back to late already. it is almost unimaginably cruel children being tortured exiled from their homes or even killed by their own family after being labeled a witch it's a growing issue and the niger delta there are tens of thousands of such cases cases according to the united nations but two years ago one toddler became the face of

so-called which children this two year old boy was cast onto the streets by his family the boy named hope how bring global attention to the issue and jared is now out here with me did we visit hope story for our facebook series what happened next and shared his hero with machetes it's so difficult to to watch that footage so how what happens i mean to talk talk us through the process that the moment that parents start thinking of their own kids as which is well it's down to superstition and they superstitions of taken hold over the last decade in areas that have been affected by poverty and a lack of education and so people in these areas are more likely to believe for example in the supernatural and when unexpected or tragic events happen communities are trying to find answers as to why it's happened and quite often very sadly children become the scapegoats heah you spoke with the woman that we just saw in

that video she's a danish i can name and you love and she rescued hype off the streets and this is what she had to say about this issue they think that the child has been by a demon so the child they feel the child is dangerous because. that evil spirit the child has inside the child can give that to other people just if you share food with that child if you touch that child the parents sometimes. don't know what to do because they they cannot have the child stay in their house because oil's the parents and the rest of the family will also maybe be victims of this superstition. so this is the growing problem in nigeria but not exclusive to nigeria and neighboring countries as well countries in the region like cameroon and the democratic republic of congo we've got a video from congo here showing exorcisms of children that have been labelled which

is another factor at play here is that families sometimes have more children in their arrival to care for and in nigeria more than forty percent of the population is fourteen and younger it's just the source it's really hard to watch what all this religion play in all it was this is a really interesting factor it's a major player in the niger delta has more churches per square kilometer than anywhere else in the world and this region is filled with billboards by still styled pastas food blame things like unemployment on child reaches and one of these ministers name is helen. she runs dozens of churches in nigeria she claims to be a former child which itself and this is taken from her website she off is to diagnose and q. a child which is not something that ministers like could charge a lot of money for all they still styled pos is a very influential and

a michael lot of profit from these superstitions and i just want to press the government and all this i mean anybody right or veining protecting these vulnerable people at all or yeah well basically there was a loren acted in two thousand and ten in nigeria basically making they sorts of accusations illegal but the enforcement of it is pretty sporadic patchy to say the least we saw it was heartbreaking images of hope from a couple years ago how is he doing do we know well he's doing really well he's made a really wonderful recovery we can we can see some pictures of hope he's pretty. recognizable now he believes that this youth center founded by and you know who we heard from earlier and her husband. in southeast and nigeria. is more about hope and the issue of child which is in this region more generally in this edition of what happens next which of us can watch on day w.

news is there's also that we follow up on the i mean it's heartwarming to see that there is some sort of a learning that at least hope has been stated so that's really great thanks so much to it greatly appreciated all right you're watching the news we still have a lot more to tell you about including rwanda's high court has cleared one of the country's leading opposition figures of charges of insurrection and forgery and three judge panel ruled that all the charges were baseless will be live in cali for reaction to that and all are more coming up right after this i'm going to our. roads and railways and the crowded what will transportation look like a sentry from now. when it comes to driving us into the future. told me to be zipping down that path the speed of sound. today's bright

ideas and then penalty off tomorrow. in the forty five minutes. how to cover more than just one reality. where i come from we have a transatlantic way of looking at things that's because my father is from germany my mother is from the united states of america and so i realized fairly early that it makes sense to explain different realities. and now here at the heart of the european union in brussels we have twenty eight different realities and so i think people are really looking for any journalist they can trust for them to make sense of. why this is not how i work at the w. a continent is reinventing itself. as africa's tech scene discovers it's true

potential. inventors entrepreneurs and high tech professionals talk about their visions successes and day to day business to present. its. history in the in from one school of. peace is the mountain division the. digital africa starts december twelfth on t.w. . is meeting in hamburg to elect her successor as party leader although merkel is staying on as chancellor. china has called for the immediate release of highways chief financial officer of my own move was arrested in canada and faces extradition to the us for allegedly breaching sanctions against iran. were run as high court has cleared one of the

country's leading opposition figures of charges of insurrection and forgery diane. regard was jailed last year for allegedly submitting forged documents in her bid to unseat president paul kagame in a three judge panel ruled that all the charges against her were baseless. was always insists that the allegations were politically motivated and has accused president kagame a of trying to stifle dissent. art we've got lots to discuss and with us now joining us is franca have been he is the founder and leader of the democratic green party in rwanda the first opposition party incidentally to win seats in rwanda's parliament in two thousand and seventeen a warm welcome sir so good to have you with us we just reported that there were one court dropped all charges against a diane regard is this

a victory for the opposition. yes says it with a chief meant. for people in opposition in the round up but also said that it meant for that edition in one go because does a superb in that to discredit the cause so ground independent sixty can pick independent decisions so this is a very competitive meant for was the judiciary and we shouldn't give up with six graphic now what i wonder though sir and you'll be able to tell us that is there room for dissent in rwanda i understand that you yourself have been imprisoned. well you have been not to put up in the exhibit under. certain sweden for that to yes those programs those cutting might the two will would be tunes that were thames and. to present a good cause a significant without them to look at that was cynical and it was still calling for

the government to there is to do because there's two of them and so we have passed through different problems but definitely a particular treaty estate and and what was once it's an element but subindustry it was a struggle for it yet so it's not been that is it but who could see that it is hope no new one that you can see that you say proving and you see now to have been another position to the dow was one because what good term potential problem gets you twenty but i'm talking i didn't and women of the missing was the last month so when you see of what's happened to there was. the en route around her mom is another big achievement so proceeded is more hoping rhonda that before all right so things are changing in your country what i wonder though is that president park a gammy he has a very impressive track record when it comes to the economy rwanda is one of the

fastest growing has one of the fastest growth rates in africa he's also considered to be very progressive in his leadership or he's trying to improve or gender parity in government there's free access to health care so why does he need to govern with an iron fist. no i think that is just because of the history of rhonda i mean to run that as a country we've come from that fell a monogamous transit all of that imaginative but you know a state. of much of a million people who have perished in one hundred days and we had over four million people who went in to become if it is in neighboring countries and over to the notice we're so i mean when they did it or a book of meant that with them but you know i took a poll in one thousand nine hundred four the country was called to jane and they said neurons i was just that but instead so the country departed then i would become the government a government that it had to use a. lot of skills and force me to bring back stability in the country so because of

that caused this or is fear that. if that of the past cutting back because we still have under groups. who want to attack the country against in congo. the forces with body titian's you know that titian's though ideology so because of that i think some of the actions have been that lame and that's the country has always been. they needed to have a strong government to get the country against and they have attack but i think i would have been accompanying kill forces to send a man when he's in a position to to hear that we needed to change you could not live in the same fear yes we have fears but will have his decisions place which can get the country when it more open the political space for people is divergent views different views to express their opinions and sort of the country can have because we have met but a democracy. with different views can be terrific and dissent and look at the start

seeing that you started to have that no it's starting to happen when you see that you have an opposite but isn't preemie intercept is that people in prison to get reduced and of course are functioning to get into so you could see this things are getting much better than has been encouraging signs in teams of encouraging signs indeed frank having is that from the rwandan democratic green a party thank you for joining us. all right now what does the future hold for western sahara four decades after a deadly power struggle began over the contested territory in north west africa two days of roundtable discussions have been held in geneva the talks were mediated by a un envoy and former german president horst kerner and they will be continued early next year today about sixty percent of the former spanish colony is controlled by morocco but the western sahara territory is also claimed by the polish are your friends in the pendants movement years of fighting between the two

groups ended with a cease fire in one nine hundred ninety one it has since then been monitored by the united nations but efforts to reach a final settlement have failed now two days of roundtable discussions hope to jumpstart a settlement of this decades old conflict. has been living in refugee camps for the last forty years she refuses to return to our homeland back to western sahara because morocco is still in charge there. hundreds of thousands of people are stranded here in the algerian desert they call this that are we and they live in depressing camps almost completely forgotten by the outside world. when spain with jurors from western sahara nine hundred seventy five morocco and explodes ways of the region many said how he fled across the border to neighboring algeria people like seventy year old woman a. we have nothing here just

desert but morocco continues to occupy our lands we have nothing but hope that within the saddam we liberation movement is called the policy front it's fine just take us out to the border in the middle of the desert a two thousand kilometer long wall made from sand divides western sahara. the policy area fighters tell us that this is their berlin wall american soldiers watch us suspiciously and. i have family members on the other side and brothers and sisters but we can't see each other anymore it's just not possible to go. when you're going to. be exiled leaders of the policy are your front have welcomed the resolution proposed by united nations special envoy horst koehler. nevertheless the policy areas are insisting on a referendum on the issue something the un has been promising for years that's why

they documenting all of the said are we in arabic. when it comes to sudan with your voice in the house and the future of that italy the only cause of that lie in that of all the things the roughly one hundred sixty thousand refugees here are completely dependent on international humanitarian aid life is harsh in the desert the emergency rations in the red crescent camp are beginning to run low donor countries are focusing more on the violent conflicts in syria and yemen and people here in the desert suffering. i knew after forty years the donors have grown tired. region has no priority and that's led to a dramatic cut in aid in. the fight for western sahara is one of the oldest internationally recognized conflicts in africa there is already a third generation of said are we growing up in the refugee camps there any hope is

the world doesn't completely forget them. you're watching the news we saw i want to tell you about coming up a film named after the mythical greek river of the dead wins this year's german human rights film award what can one lone sailor do when confronted with a boat that is dangerously overloaded with migraines and me. are back now with a look at the troubling debt load of many african countries. it's been a good decade since the last major debt relief for several african countries but trouble is yet again looming on the horizon for years african countries have shown a healthy appetite for foreign loans and in times when interest rates and a lot of places around the globe are lol international investors didn't hesitate to provide the money now experts say the continent could soon choke on its mounting

debt. a quarter of state spending in nigeria goes on paying off debt that's twice as much as three years ago the government solution when it comes to budget gaps is to take out more loans and the debt trap is certainly not unique to nigeria. most african nations are in financial difficulty some critically so that's according to a debt trip or two by several n.g.o.s and there were different reasons for it last decade it was relatively easy for african states to acquire money china for example pumped billions into infrastructure there a way of securing its influence and power and the aftermath of the two thousand and eight financial crisis brought private lenders to the continent that's because unlike europe or the u.s. african countries still offered interest and last but certainly not least corruption and mismanagement of course the debt piles to climb africa is now

effectively in the hands of creditors china controls around twenty percent of africa's debts. says the ngo jubilee debt and africa is also steeped in debt to multinational institutions like the world bank and the i.m.f. but the most difficult segment is private creditors every third dollar of debt belongs to private investors like trusts while the i.m.f. and the world bank's interest rates remain low private creditors usually want to rake in the highest possible yield so although they only control a third of all debts they receive half of all the interest paid and the noose is tightening falling prices for commodities and making it more difficult for countries to service their debts instead they often end up making cuts to public cells on health. well for more on this story i was comfortable because the to the studio is the director of the african for a network on debt and development welcome to the studio federal thank you all we're

looking at another death crisis on the african continent yes we are looking at the rooming debt crisis on the african continent just to give you a snapshot of the increases in total outstanding external debt increased by fifteen percent just between going to sixteen and going to seventeen and it increased by over fifty percent between twenty ten and twenty seventeen which countries are particularly here their countries that put them in two three categories the first group is where the dead has increased by over two hundred percent between twenty ten and twenty seventeen those countries i feel p.-a uganda rwanda and come there own you have. increased by more than one hundred and forty percent liberia kenya and gonna and then you have countries that have problems with i have a debt restructuring we're missing some of their payments zombie a muslim because the child died in that group now there's a conference underway in berlin currently and the topic there is the situation the

debt situation of african countries one of the strategies to deal with this issue that are being discussed where does the list participants yes yes we're discussing a number of strategist one of them is to look at what civil society organizations have come up with european partners and offer them come up with a number of programs one of them is a responsible boring that is possibility which basically looks like what does it mean to be a responsible in terms of african governments we hold our governments accountable for the board but they do meaning only borrow money for projects that are missing that on this side of the productive and then i for the procedures and that is by displacement of the instruments of government like the civil society but on the other side will so looking at what lynn does i want to be doing linda responsibly with the been cases where some of the lending has been fraught with problems ok now fighting career. introducing good governance you know these kind of things would certainly improve the situation over there is

a long term measures are there any short term steps if the short term steps is that a couple of a couple of years ago civil society organizations and the un and. came up with a result in what is called that without mechanism and this has to be supported in the short term there was a little solution in the u.n. general assembly and a number of countries supported that but a lot of why european partners including germany did not support that so that's one area where we can restart that process because it's going to be a process that the thing that we can talk about is doing pretty the cup us it is with african governments in terms of how do they do did management how do they negotiate one truck set out for the very favorable for their people how do they sure that did money does not include getting loans that are more productive corruption is also part of with that you can deal with but also strengthening their oral argument on the african continent and also this scrutiny over. here in terms of what companies can do i want to talk about debt relief just just briefly i mean

the last time there was this major releases about a decade ago. apparently it didn't change things for the better. i would say it did change things for the bit in terms of releasing the resources that those countries used for other purposes especially the investments in social saves israel and egypt but it did not solve the problem of accumulation of it which we still have and out say that the beast is different now because that time a lot of the credit was from the truck run by law to institutions but now you have countries offering loans to countries with sober in bones which means that they are more private creditors they also new players like china in the process and brazil coming in so the niche over the beast is actually changed over time and big problem solution itself might not be exactly the same if we run into another problem front row because of the african forum network on debt and development thank you so much for the visit thank you. now it's a milestone for millions of cubans as of today they will be able to access the

internet on their mobile phones with a three g. network cuba as one of the world's least connected countries only five years ago the internet was largely only available at the island's tourist hotels that's about to change. cuba is like far behind most countries in web access whether because of a lack of cash for a long running u.s. trade embargo or government fears about the flow of information but with public wi-fi hotspots cyber cafes and slowly hooking up homes to the web have on a has made connectivity a priority. now a range of mobile phone packages has to be rolled out as well it's a c.m.s. i did the last or children december the sixth at eight am we will have a very specific set time for this the internet service will open for mobile phones this is been something that the people have long been anticipating. many cubans complain about having to brave insects on the elements at the public hot spots

which also like privity. but when the water is great imagine being at home and already being connected i don't have to get up and go to a park and find a hot spot. however thirty dollars for a thirty day full gigabyte package the new network will be beyond the reach of many even if the government says it will boost the economy and help the country defend its revolution online. mayday mayday mayday is o'grady an o.b. and o.b. over a scene there from the film six that has won the german human rights film prize this year the ward ceremony will take place in the city of nuremberg this saturday but the winners in all the categories are already know it so let's find out more about some of the movie from our culture editor robert merrill who is here with us first of all tell us a little bit about these awards not everybody is probably familiar with them. they

was started nine hundred ninety eight in nuremberg she the human rights film awards to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the unilateral declaration of human rights which happened if you work it out with a fifty not a vote a and in fact this weekend when the awards ceremony will take place we know the winners already it will be the subject of the unilateral declaration of human rights anyway the awards are held every two years and the idea here is to two outstanding films on the subject of human rights you mentioned this this film states which got the big prize for best film it's about a subject concerning all of us of the last few is of it's about the refugee crisis the crisis that has been tried to be played out in the mediterranean in the last few years so that see some more. a woman doctor embarks on

a solo sailing journey it proves to be a fateful trip. to stick this whole dick says the river of the dead right from the beginning i like that title a lot because it really gets to the heart of the matter this separation of the living and the dead that really appealed to me like. a severe storm testes the sailor skills but both she and her vessel survive intact the next morning the doctor spots another ship in distress and dangerously overloaded with african refugees. she has details about her staying there causes people to jump in the water people who can't swim. things and i think there's that conflict where you want to help but you realize that you can't help everyone says that it's an incredibly awful

situation frankly because it works only. it's a great. great. day out there should. be that great and it's a situation that seems inescapable sticks is one of the most intelligent films yet on the refugee crisis. ok or imagine that facing that type of predicament talk to us about some of the other contenders are winners in the other candidate the short film first of all this this was won by a documentary called joe boots which is the name actually the real name all over america more veteran from the iraq war it's about him coming back to pittsburgh and he met with this director of foreign bar on who's the same age as him and farai and wanted to sort of he realized that when he went off to university job went off

dodging bullets in iraq so i want to just find out what it was like to serve in the military more it's like being a veteran and the internal struggle the job boots has within himself returning to his home in pittsburgh parts of the film are actually as you see here in slow motion which kind of illustrate the kind of disconnect the alienation veterans seals sometimes on on returning it to americans well doesn't have to be americans any solace in returning from war anyway it explains very well the trauma veterans experienced by using these sort of clever cinematic techniques. and now there is also an award for students a film as well yeah there is this one by a young filmmaker called i think the hake now he went off to the highest mountain in colombia and film the indigenous people that the costs try to find him against

you you know encroaching greedy corporations take their forests and things and destroying the having time general and at the same time they're trying to preserve their natural spiritual very spiritual way of life his little clip from that. and he's offended and question. then you can shift into swedish nonsense and. that he thought you like which allocate that the edit and that he thought he a sweat. it's incredible. don they may have think that they shouldn't be photographed.

the sort of films you need to see more for it it's very slow very beautiful right and this does which spreads take a really really beautiful now that i've got you here we've got the nominations for the golden globes just announced a couple of hours ago ok still it first of all we should mention. never look away which is job and inspired by the life of the office to. you know one nation for now white house care. however a big surprise the big surprise face film switches a biopic about dick cheney starring christian values christian no way and yeah exactly vice is referring to vice president of course and this movie has got the most nominations of all sakes and including best comedy film and comedy yeah

this is steve carell said it's ok i'm christian but i look extraordinary in my view also the remake of a star is born with bradley cooper an aggressive way to go and a great role is going to have. and that's got five nominations and that one is also up for best film as is black black klansman and but he me and raps have been a fantastic year so i can't wait they're going to water the course is a precursor of the oscars as well but volume. hasn't come out yet you know they're not a great good stuff he's very hardcore in his act and yeah he did that that was that really kristin. all right thank you so much robin and there we're going to wrap things up here now in germany where a special tribute to the king. of rock n roll has been given a green light the town over freebird where elvis presley was station as a u.s. soldier back in the one nine hundred fifty s.

has installed three street lights with the likeness of the famed singer check this out for the strains waiting to cross now have to wait for approval from the king and his famous swiveling hips all right thank you so much for rushing out states again tomorrow. and look at the.

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