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fill the bowels of the malawian boy to save these village from famine launches on the streaming giant hear from the stars and the real star. i'm chris stevens well 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 obama 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 all public gatherings in the country have all. so have been bad we'll

be talking to a leader off one of the opposition parties but first this report on the situation in. burma protesters in the streets of omdurman defying the new ban on public gatherings i think calling for president omar al bashir to step down saying that the state of emergency won't deter them by we will overthrow this regime they shot five across the country they have been anti-government marches for weeks that 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 wrist 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 for the us pronto. we praise allah 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 all may you say it is secretary general off the sudanese congress party he's speaking to us from the united kingdom as he's fearful of arrest in her tour now forty of these qualities have already been detained mr yousef 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 saddam. knew the before the protests started. jim has a border state of emergency in there and states out all it means there is one after the protests started they extended the state of emergency for another three states they wanted to certain the people down there are going to use more extreme measures of violence against their peaceful demands for freedom of change so are you saying to us that the people are carrying on with the process all those protests still ongoing in sudan as we speak. yeah actually after the coalition of

the state of emergency hot on the coverdell witnessed the more large wave of protests since the start of that evolution it's a done all the you know localities off when i was thirty yesterday. in a numbers that had not been with this before so. yesterday did you have been. here you know way that they did in seoul during. a period of an 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 of that should he or she does 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 the war in the army 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 impose a kind of formula to the ruling in sudan that could be appealing for many countries in the region all right now but they don't believe i need all my usaf secretary general of the 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 talk it's not 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 lagos are. 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 a 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 that i'm cured teenagers young students who are on a mission to protect the bridge for 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. change in my lifestyle far in fancy i do you think will use plastic and i have my wife. take to work and recycle a blue. bag to the 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 that come from

the ocean to the shows. i come here to and drink 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 of. waste every day the 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 access she westsail it's awful the rains came late this year and now the trees are gone.

now it is actually very. easy. to live in a good example of your community but. i am not going to harness the wind is the true story of a young william newsman won't sit idly by and watch his village start to see if did with an inventive mind and a thirst for knowledge william takes his family's fate into his own hands he's. continued. to commute. to retell it geo forest directorial debut is based on a bestselling memoir of the same title it's the true story of william come pundit who at age thirteen don't win friends to irrigate fields and save his village from famine. others williams 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 to be. 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 parts to leave the past that was a very like difficult a very challenging shot entirely in malawi the boy who harnessed the wind is a positive story out of africa that doesn't ignore challenges but tackle something head on they. receive the job. as an actress from african descent i can see how absent the african stories are in western countries do not see that. this type of positive stories can make a change in terms of the of the perception we have of other people especially from

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