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priority. then love is in the in god but it's good valentine's day and national chelsea did we also people which of the two they prefer to sing a bridge well. i'm a fan of champions and. most of the show was out of. i'm christine one bill welcome to news africa i'm glad you're tuned in for a lot of people the term black panther may conjure up images of the film of the same name now images of the animal itself creating headlines the elusive black panther has long been the subject of campfire stories in africa sightings are rigged and it's even rarer to capture one on camera. emerging from the darkness a black panther scientists say this is the first verifiable sighting of the animal

in africa for more than one hundred years the photos have an almost mythical and they were captured by a wildlife photographer he says how motion sensitive cameras after hearing a black panther had been spotted in the area this particular panther is actually a leopard it's black fur is caused by gene mutation calls melanism the opposite of albinism on the in from ed light the leopard sports clear to see a little more than ten percent of the world's leopards a black the subspecies is actually far more common in asia so this sighting in africa respects hilly notable for the fact that we have more than one black leopard confirmed in this area is really important because it suggests the leopards in this region maybe we need special genetically we don't see black leopards anywhere further south carolina we've only seen them here in kenya and we've had reports and ethiopia so this is just that there's a lot of conservation value here and protecting what may be

a very special subspecies of water for some seeing a black cat is a sign of bad luck because for many here this creature is the stuff of legend now that legend has become a lot more real ok so we're all making a big fuss now of the fact if it was actually first spotted a year ago and it was off to a local conservationists was doing some research and village just told him that they'd seen the animal ok so that conservationist is ambrose he told a lie and he joins me now from nairobi hi amber rose welcome to d.w. news africa so you were talking to a community about living with wildlife and they told you that they'd seen the animal what else did they say. so the local communities there was just doing some community interest because the communities are under a. lot of human knowledge explicitly technicals so that people are one of the hell that's no skin tone about it and you see that you know there's a there's

a black low point living out at a place called. summer conservancy and the you know i just didn't just to approach the owner of the property to ask under. two they love but if you ask their permission and again you saw in storm a comment ups and the storm are coming after a day after a few months or you got a black look you got the back up and as far as as as i've read to this it has actually been posing trouble in the community they call it the tassel tail right. but not the actually the blood just instructed the people say that you know local community see that they're doing their deployed low but there's a living i don't. know part of the real if you have people to you know the cops and the you know maybe very you know. a calculus a lot of people are making a big fuss about this this animal it's all over social media are you surprised by

that what do you make of the reaction that people have had to seeing the black fs. so you know i can see and it does all over the world and everybody is that getting out into the boat you know. i.e.c. the people in all the world can get the attention of the conservation of the species in this in this world in this planet that we are on because. i'm surprised by this scene that they would only tell you about this black no but if you ever want to get that attention to who are expected of a conservation you can able to come and visit disconfirmation he has like some or some of us over the lake other places that he did there is well it's for purposes of conservation with a species personal or unique i came from one of the community. so i am does a minister of conservation to the hundred people here at us today and those are here. to get a lot of support from people that i'm the world of so if people can get attention and say that yeah then they are always going to be right you know doing destructive

ok ambrose it's only law in the year of the ten year holding the force of conservation if it's happening there thank you and good catch. what a fun story ok so our next one is nigeria's youngest ever presidential hopeful harry is better be ok pull with a five year old through these hats in the ring off to the infamous knots too young to run bill was signed into the all the news ses is making education his focus. on the election campaign trail in nigeria's capital she who is visiting a private school he is the youngest ever nigerian presidential candidate and education is his central theme. until we start to fix education it will be difficult to fix any other sectors in our nation ok who lived in the u.s.

where he worked as a mathematics lecturer he's calling for thirty five percent of the country's budget to go to what education. becomes of the school's principal is surprised to see a politician who understands education while the school receives no state support and is financed by fees affordable only to those earning good money. to government i don't think they have interest in doing up in education because of the quality of the dance we have. many of them don't know anything about to do creation . and they don't see education as something that would bring money to them so this was done with funding education that the political failures over the past few decades can be seen three hours drive from object a state funded school in ca northern nigeria where you work feel the need parts of it have collapsed the classrooms have made the desks nor chairs. opportunists

fourteen years old himself a student but currently responsible for his whole class. i take care of them because i. i'm older and i want to help my brothers and sisters like this the teachers aren't here again that's why i'm doing it. here there are no books joggers chalk up to it's only learning eight zero with. it is nine o'clock in the morning and only now the first teacher has shown up in total the school has eight hundred students and only for teachers. to haasan sons go to school here affect their father reduced day and the teachers are poorly paid he says no one would want to teach at such

a school no no no no homos and my children should become doctors or soldiers they should have a worthwhile job and a good future that's my dream but unless these circumstances nothing will come of it. if he had enough money of the motorbike taxi driver says he would have long ago sent his children to private school the ruling party of president he has been in power for four years and the federal state of the commissioner of education has shifted the blame for the educational situation onto previous governments seventy percent of teachers where i'm qualified more than twenty thousand teachers have been let go because they couldn't reach all right. most of. the. budget requests for it. he. take. it to the idea this state spends

a third of its budget on education but at the federal level education spending makes up only seven percent of the budget the issue plays hardly any role and president who hours election campaign. to change that but he and his small party are struggling to be taken seriously in nigeria in spite of a minimal campaign budget he wants to lay down the marker. it's the hope the passion the vision the puppet that we as young people bring to the table and started to change this narrative they were not good enough they were not ready for the fight to be i think it's very evident that we have a whole lot more to offer to our generation other generations coming after us and the people who've been there he says it's a simple equation if nigeria with its booming population no longer invests in education the next crisis will not be far away that he says is something every

politician should understand do you think it would be to work for now that entire stay is a big deal in god but the day is also about chocolate in two thousand and five the country dictated the forty three national chocolate day the idea was that it coincided with valentine's day to boost the domestic consumption of chocolate made in god so we took our cameras to the streets and people if they choose chocolate or love between love and chocolates i choose. i believe they can't be life with what's going to be. take. because. personally i'm a fan of chocolates and. i'm mostly show by love i prefer valentine's day it's

a sure thing again love is something special and of course it can be a surprise to anyone one immediate told but i believe that this is a very nice dinner shall. if there is a consequence he sets aside for it so be celebrated the name oozed grandly i think that's awesome me my baby you know. what i mean i really love chocolate and. chocolate and. like one of my country's main exports and that's good by going to because i really like but i think i prefer . they find them. so i think they set aside for us to. say i would have. a specific. thing that. they'd be to celebrate not to enjoy and how fun with friends and family talk.

to me because i'm a fun up for love and but i'm saying. ok and that's it from the news. stories on our website at page now because it's not just valentine's day and gonna leave you with images of people sharing and chocolates. that's still alive and well and take a closer look at modern culture from germany and also culture. crimes against humanity civilians become witnesses to. their recorded images travel around the globe via social media. but what can the.

country what is fact of digital investigators combed through the flood of images they combine sources to try to reconstruct what. and substantiate claims of. forensics between bits of. truth detectives starts feb fifteenth on t.w. . alone a very warm welcome to news from the world of culture merrill and here is what's coming up today. we have a round up of music documentaries screening at the berlin international film festival including one featuring the late great queen of soul aretha franklin. and

we meet american comic book artist jason lutes the author of a popular graphic novel set in the bayou era. but i'm going to begin with a quotation from the wall street journal from al jolson i'm a west of prince and share the annals of popular entertainments are filled with inimitable figures and to their ranks we had the german singer max i'm quote he and his probably. big stars here in europe i'm making waves in america and elsewhere max rob is my guest in just a minute but first his music. and good. morning. and the plaster cast a record classic tunes of the one nine hundred twenty s. and thirty's.