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home. michael jr welcome to did all the news africa great to have you with us gold medal winning south african run our cost us the man is in court this week trying to face down. the. rules that would force athletes like some may not to reduce the out to still strong levels that south african governments are still in its weight behind the athlete sponsoring a case and launching a social media campaign on the hostile naturally superior the landmark case has divided opinion. caster semenya name and athletics have polarized the world of sports in the not. kate she is hyper androgenic that means

her body naturally produces high levels of testosterone but the i.w.a. have wants athletes like her to take drugs to lower their testosterone levels in order to compete in middle distance track events testosterone they argue give so many an unfair advantage the core value for the other is the empowerment of girls and women throughout the regulations that we are introducing to protect the sanctity. of fair and open competition not really what we're here to defend symon your first game global prominence in two thousand and nine at the world championships in berlin she won gold in the eight hundred meter as some in his legal team says the signs the i.w. has put forward to support its root changes is flawed and discriminatory that higher testosterone levels do not necessarily prove a competitive advantage some

a cadet makes have also criticized the research and they question why don't you apply to middle distance track events. that home in south africa so many it is known as the golden girls need a report say that the government is investing around two million dollars into a court case to many supporters say there's more at stake than just the right to participate in a sport. women's bodies there when the ability to and i view it they have their identity they have privacy yes a sense of safety and the yearning in the wind at being questioned my simming his legal team says unless reasonable scientific evidence is presented to ruby nothing more than an arbitrary decision the idea of an e.f. claims it's simply pushing in that hope painfully know i am god to delve more into this we're joined by someone some may now consider as a close friend toby sutcliffe director of talk sports university of pretoria told

me for joining us first thing stressed how is custody doing cast as a very confident person and i think that she's approaching this in a mature manner. she's very confident. because with all due respect she's done nothing wrong she's even being that is trying to blow trite and what are the strengths that she does have these are the self-confidence that has been born about what has happened to her in the past. now she is seeking to about ten regulations or restricting testosterone levels in a woman before they come participates in the sports now how do you think she's going to argue this case. well i think if you go back to the previous case in two thousand and nine when she was originally tested and didn't participate in two july

two thousand and ten we put together a group of specialists a live one of them in fact that actually proved to audible a if the levels of testosterone were on the tane was the level of risk that was sent and there we proved it to them in turkey and that was the accepted norm in in twenty tains wow all of a sudden do you go and talk it over the three veins in four hundred eight hundred and fifteen hundred when in two thousand and ten the level was of approved with our medical team x. ten and now they've evolved to five so you know for me this up in rottweiler only three events. an interesting one that i see you smile are out well i think you know i just think that people ought are talking custom and i think it's totally unfair. you know what is amazing for me is no one has actually

actually come out and said that custer has yet to break the eight hundred metre world record budget they targeting and say she's unfair advantage so what's unfair advantage of she hasn't broken the record yet. i mean the fact though is that because it's claimed that she has high levels of testosterone that gives they have bits of an advantage over women that do not have that don't you agree with that point not necessarily i don't believe i mean if you have a look at in other sports as well and you look at shaquille o'neal you know michael jordan are you saying that they had advantage should have been something that stopped him from playing basketball is that fair. interesting question i guess the other one. yeah that's a different question altogether but i mean i just believe that if you if you already proven something it's been accepted that that is the norm wow all of

a sudden go back and now say we have to of it we're only going to have it for these particular events. for me sorry i just don't buy it ok and what what is they are it's ok so what does this all mean for. indeed the future of the sports whatever the outcome of the court cases or i think it is a serious implication you know this is the first of two cases one is ordered up triesman and the other one is direct with audible a if. the scary thing for me is that if this thing should go against you if you can just take people away from participating in sports. you know you taking away the rocks to live almost in the rock to earn a living and for me that is totally unfair ok toby sutcliffe director of tuck sports university of pretoria i thank you very much for your time. now kenyan

fisherman on lake victoria have been struggling with an enemy of a peculiar kind this weed invasion that has kept them from reaching the deep waters of the lake as a result they are struggling to meet demand the fish shortage has forced the kenyan government to revise the ban on fish imports from china. next piled into that wooden by these fisherman are ready to set sail for a night. but once again cassini bay is cloaked with a thick cream cop it's of water hyacinth blocking the fishermen from reaching the deep waters to fish. we're suffering because we're not able to get food or. if we don't go fishing ground we lose a lot. to not cause and me we will. work to hyacinth is a floating across it plants native to south america it's spread abroad and it's

believed to have first reached lake victoria and the one nine hundred ninety s. floating down the lakes western tributary the. since then it has caused serious difficulties for fishing boats and other vessels unlike toria. what we're doing you know not too many of our colleagues have had problems while fishing on the lake they sometimes get stuck so recently some fishermen got stuck on the lake and the kenyan government had to send a helicopter to rescue them. end up what. lake victoria is shared with tanzania and uganda which on the kenyan side alone hyacinth covers roughly five percent of the water's surface the plans affect fish reproduction and the fishermen a struggling to fill their nets live through the fifty's. with the more you put out some weed see. they thought. it was from people who bring it home and some people did you see you go through the model t.

shirt it was right at the stop light. at the market in the city of kisumu the gap between local demand and the lake supply is filled by frozen tilapia fillets imported from china after kenya's president bans the imports last year a shortage of fish has now forced the government to lift the restrictions it's clear kenya's appetite for fish is not going away. now and care about our look stones we male grooming is a growing industry and in ghana a new business venture is making the most of the bats trend they've set up a mobile barber service looking after clients in the conflicts of their own home. this customer has it's good system. he gets his head treatment leaving him free to make listen to jazz we even enjoy it be to dream it's all part of

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special edition of arts and culture paying tribute to the late great col lagerfeld one of the most admired and influential designers of modern times with me in studio is d.w. cultures melissa holroyd. colorado photo once said of himself i'm very much down to earth just not this earth that pretty much sums it up he was larger than life hard to even imagine that he was just a mere mortal yeah he was he has been synonymous with fashion for decades now and he did turn himself into somewhat of a mythologized figure he was more of the popular i call in or a carrot to a real person to those who didn't know him so it's certainly his is uniform eighteenth century inspired dandy appearance he's ponytail he's.