her first day of school in the jungle. first. doris green the moment arrives. join the ring on her journey back to freedom. you know we're interactive documentary. to bring into returns home on the w dot com. this is speed up the news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes is sudan returning to military rule president obama she has declared a year long state of emergency octet anti-government protests that began last year a still going on. opposition figure fighting the regime. and that jerry is private warning as we meet the gangsters just taking the fight against pollution

to the beaches up to lagos. been deployed to harness to the wind to fill the balance the malawian boy who saved his village from famine launches on the streaming giant hear from the stars and the real star. i'm christine woodville welcome to news africa i'm glad you achieved in we begin in sudan way a bit off it is the country may be returning to military rule that's because president omar al bashir may have stepped down today as head of the ruling party but he has already declared a state of emergency across the country for the next year he's also extended the power was off the security forces and has set up emergency calls all around the country now. public gatherings in the country have also been bad we'll be talking

to a leader off one of the opposition parties but first this report on the situation in . libya the protesters in the streets of omdurman defying the new ban on public gatherings. they're calling for president omar al bashir to step down saying that the state of emergency won't deter them we will overthrow this regime they shot five across the country they have been anti-government lunches for weeks . the people first took to the streets in december when authorities decided to triple the price of bread inflation is running at more than seventy percent rendering normal life virtually impossible for many sudanese. the president's response to the un rist extending the powers of security forces this week he appointed army officers to top government posts justifying the move by

saying quote they can address issues of salaries and services and create decent work opportunities for youth. the work i did to her the us pronto. we praise a large enough that he has given us this opportunity and. if you go on today a new chapter begins in sudan's history. protesters are determined to see this chapter and quickly western powers including the u.s. britain and canada rebuked sudan for its return to military rule according to human rights watch at least fifty one people have died in the demonstrations it was let's turn to a leader of one of sudan's major opposition party is highly it'll make you say it is secretary general of the sudanese congress party he's speaking to us from the united kingdom as he's fearful of arrest in khartoum now forty of these qualities

have already been detained mr usaf welcome to news africa i want us to start about talking about this state of emergency that's been declared it's been about a week now that it's been effect what is your reaction to it and how are people in sudan living under the conditions off it actually is to the race is not a new thing for sudan. knew the before the protests started. jim has a border state of emergency in then states out all it means that this is done after the protests started they extended the state of emergency for another three states they wanted to threaten the people down there are going to use more extreme measures of violence against their peaceful demands for freedom and change so are you saying to us that the people are carrying on with the process are those protests still ongoing in sudan as we speak. yeah actually after the coalition of

the state that many of the hard all the comical witnessed the more large wave of protests since the start of that evolution it's a dump all the you know localities off when our city yesterday. in a numbers that had not been with this before so. yesterday did you have been. there you know way that they did in saw during. that evolution in sudan. we've seen omar al bashir get rid of governors in certain states and replace them with military offices what is your reading off that i shouldn't rush it is that he. you know is trying to do two things first of all he tries trying to you know have

a kind of confrontation between the army and the people because people. in that they want me to be in the side of the people not the side of of the give and then second thing bashir try to sell a notion for the you know forces that he's going to cut the ties with a terrorist. to inboards a kind of a military ruling in sudan that could be appealing for many countries in the region right now but they don't believe i need all my usaf secretary general of a sudanese congress party thank you. ok the call for action against climate change has a fresh face and that's it over there that is who she is greatest to in big the swedish teenager who has called out the world's leaders for inaction and her

activism has caught on since august tens of thousands of peoples and cities across europe and as far as australia and even in uganda have walked out of their friday crosses to push for more ambitious carbon cutting targets young people in nigeria have also been taking action to secure the future of their environment here's a report now from a correspondent on the fish are. they call themselves the climate warriors of. gloves and they are determined to take back the beach and turn it into what it once was the place for sea shells. yet this beach in lagos you can find pretty much everything you can imagine like the flip flop or just before i fall the tooth brush and of course for you all plastic now all of this of course belongs to us humans but it's them cured teenagers young students who are on a mission to protect a bridge a generation for their future. every week they collect about fifty bags of trash

and the more they clean the beach the more changes that. a change in my lifestyle fairings fans i don't you single use plastic and i have my what are you going to take to work and then my recycling. bag to market plastic waste is one of the biggest problems worldwide especially in places like lagos where single use plastic for example plastic bags is not prohibited. or in kenya. the thirty year old activist has been busy battling pollution since she was a student an overwhelming task she quit her job as a lawyer it takes everything from you physically mentally you know you have to be one hundred percent in this if not you just unfortunately children are the ones

that are most affected it's really bad that we have so many plastics come from the shows. i come here. and. trying to miss cleaning up the beaches just one of today's staff planting palm trees is a way to finish the state has a population of more than twenty million people it generates about forty metric tons so. waste every day of work seems endless but for them not hopeless. oh. ok from the beach to the cinema and to another young person we can all draw inspiration from the boy who harnessed the wind is a film about an innovator from malawi william. that just launched on netflix is small on the feature film directed by oscar winning acts and she westsail awful the rains came late this year and now the trees are gone.

now you see banks leave. this is. to live in it could be a committee but. i am the boy who harnessed the wind is the true story of a young william usually won't sit idly by and watch his village start stiff did with an inventive mind and a thirst for knowledge as william takes his family's fate into his own hands he's. going to need. to do it. to retell it geo force directorial debut is based on a best selling memoir of the same title it's the true story of william come on the good aged thirteen built windmills to irrigate fields and save his village from famine. i was william's parents hope that sending their son to school will provide him a better future but natural disasters crop failure hunger and scarce funds make that

dream impossible to some that seems. yes it's hard for the real william to look back on that time i have like mixed feelings the only reason why i have mixed feelings because it's likely in some part to leave the past that was a very like difficult a very challenging shot entirely in malawi the boy who harnessed we do. not choose from african descent i can see how absent the african stories are in western countries for. this type of positive stories can make a change in terms of the of the perception we have of other people especially from africa. right. k.

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the exclusive. the must see concerning parts culture to. do it yourself networkers. subscribe don't miss. it. hello and a warm welcome to the latest news from arts and culture i'm karen helms then we've got a wild ride for the senses in store with the following stories. a new exhibition in hamburg takes us on a journey into arts and music to see what happens when the two disciplines play off each other. the grand canyon in northwestern arizona has just celebrated one hundred years since its designation as a national park an early example of environmental protection and we'll talk about

its powerful hold on. and street artist four dollars a gallon those big trash animals caustic statement on his own generation that he says is killing animals if the garbage is produced. so what happens when news issues are inspired by a piece of art and what kind of picture results when a painter is influenced by music well that's what a new exhibition in hamburg aims to find out with the help of more than sixty artists and musicians who make a point of working between those two disciplines and the result is a hyper sensory feast that resonates long afterward. this may look like a record store but it's not it's an art exhibit for the ears. a feature.