ration that ends it for good men leiria must die so millions can live. this is news coming to you live from berlin it's international women's day and this morning we're looking at the fight for equality in pakistan there the simple act of riding a bicycle is challenging norms in one of the world's most repressive countries for women and girls also on the program five years after the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight m h three seventy we meet the son of one of the passengers like

many other family members he's refusing to give up in the search for answers and one of the world's greatest deviation mystery. and islamic states last stand in syria u.s. backed forces are on a mission to stop any remaining i asked fighters from fleeing their besieged think flavor of bugaboos interest neighboring iraq. plus a cargo plane prepares to welcome to very special passengers little grey little white car leaving behind their life of chauffeur is in a chinese aquarium being airlifted to the world's first open water sanctuary for beluga whales in iceland we take you inside this unique conservation effort. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us people around the world are taking

part in protests and rallies to mark international women's day here in berlin it's an official public holiday for the for. it's time a big march is planned here in the city later today this was the scene in madrid last night where several hundred women gathered to ring in the day organizers have scheduled rallies across the country to demand equal rights and an end to sex discrimination women's rights has emerged as a divisive issue in spain ahead of a national election next month. well women fighting for greater equality can take many different forms for our next report takes us to karate in pakistan one of the most repressive countries for women and girls there the simple act of riding a bicycle is one way they're challenging norms. getting to grips with the flies bicycle every sunday morning that much joins her friends and her yoko's

cycling club for eleven am this isn't the new name and sometimes daunting expedience hold us up a little bit and this really i track this bike along with my feet then i slowly learned how to control it i love the fact i can ride now. i wish i could cycle every day with my friends as it makes me feel really good. it's quite rare to see the men on bicycles in pakistan as many think it is as they have to straddle a seat but these attitudes. don't know how society doesn't feel right about girls cycling out in the streets it doesn't usually happen here but it's common to rule. that. take it doesn't feel

right but it's ok they're only riding around locally. what can we say to those parents who allow their daughters to run by school shooting joyce well to which all . women socializing in public is still viewed as a threat to public morality it is to come to d.c. norms that a group of women said to believe the girls can feel they're also organizes bike races. how many banks are now on a no one wanted but at the start we were harassed and some boys even tried to take us off our bikes and it was tough but we won't start cycle and it's our mission to empower these girls and introduce them to sports which is also very important. the girls live here in not only a poor and conservative neighborhood of karachi but one that has been marred by avoidance for decades things are better now although the streets are still be injurious in some parts especially for women so the sight of them exercising in

public has caused quite a stir. but don't do deals are slowly changing them a spirit were reluctant to allow her to join the cycling club at first but soon changed their mind. telling my family and my in-laws both said that it's not a good thing and i should just stop her it's a problem in our society that if a girl goes out in public for anything say for work or even cycling people talk bad about her but my husband and i think differently so what if she's a girl she should go out and also progress. well moment was. when the cycling club began a year and this started we do need to go now there were thirty members. and on are determined to keep begging their v two words of fear and more equal future in pakistan. more on this topic we're joined by fares on a bar a she's a pakistani feminist and human rights activist and she joins us from islamabad for

sana thanks for talking with us this morning first of all international women's day is drawing attention to the challenges that women face around the world what are the main challenges confronting women in pakistan and in the post in for most students in pakistanis in the north. as independent human being you know we've been a seen in relation to. somebody who's wife and my sister are. indeed all right. to defend it human being and therefore i think this issue of not going to keep mission or also means that this intuition and white example in racine making corby's. that it is it. in the public sphere of private sphere and i think that it was you that in fact you started. it wanted to be recognized. rights for projects like the bike club for girls that we saw in our report their

little project and karate is such sign that something is changing in pakistan. yes something is changing in fact is that particularly younger women are trying to clean their space all the space we had back in sixty's and seventy's for example when i was growing up in this issue if i was bicycling but i think slowly there is that there was a regulation. particularly doing it and i think as you know this will now trained up thirty can isolation is on the rise and human space is shrinking to d.v.d. but i think but equally they go back many years to investment from you know looking at them and they are cleaning this piece and they are pushing the boundaries marchers are taking place today all over the world to honor women and demand that their rights be respected are people marching in pakistan to yes i think

i feel that this event that you know preparation or into those communities mark is much more i could be there i think is going to do this in the biggest emitter all soul i mean to get there and i meant it as at the boche why example initiated by women in the front what it is going to be it has been ok nice inclusion. in the next looks like n.g.o.s and you know but. i think it is being and i mean eyes on most in cities in pakistan steve yes i think this year i see the descent evolution i think my mission agreements international date is going to be a much bigger scheme that might be going to have an oiler of the country has on a bar a pakistani feminist and human rights activist thank you very much. now

to some other stories making headlines around the world today the crew dragon capsule built by the american rocket company space x. left the international space station a short time ago. off the coast of florida is expected in about five hours so if this unmanned test flight ends successfully crew dragon it could carry its first astronauts later this year. the former chairman of donald trump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign paul metaphor has been sentenced to nearly four years in jail for tax and bankrupt for all he was also ordered to pay fines of more than twenty four million dollars an f.b.i. investigation revealed metaphors had hidden foreign income from working for ukrainian politicians aligned with russia. canadian prime minister justin trudeau has admitted making mistakes in the handling of a growing political crisis but he insists nothing illegal took place he blamed the

scandal on a breakdown of trust and communication with former justice minister jody wilson. she's accused him of pressuring her to help a major construction firm avoid a criminal trial. and in venezuela numerous cities have been hit by a major power outages blackouts are becoming more frequent in the country where critics of the government say under-investment has left the power grid unable to function earlier in the capital caracas there were chaotic scenes as commuters fought to get on buses after the city's metro system shut down. you're watching the news still to come these two blue kids are about to trade a life in the spotlight for the peace and quiet of a whale sanctuary but first a complex journey awaits them we're going to detail this. well it remains one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries the disappearance of

the malaysia airlines flight m h three seventy exactly five years ago the plane was on its way from kuala lumpur in malaysia to beijing and china when it suddenly disappeared from air traffic controllers radar screens above the gulf of thailand twenty two hundred thirty nine people were on board efforts to find the wreckage of the plane came to an end last year but many friends and relatives of the passengers continue to demand answers john cleary has entered his mother's beijing apartment just once since her disappearance that was when he brought his photos and everything that reminded him of her to walk away inside he couldn't bear to look at them what's wrong when we know what happened i'll be able to go in and unpack all these things and that's when i'll finally be able to say goodbye to his mother was on a holiday in malaysia and scheduled to fly back on h three seven zero

a flight that disappeared without trace his own life has been a mess since then he suffers severe depression and spends hours and hours trying to find an explanation of what happened. after the plane left malaysian airspace it diverted from the planned flight route in the shop to in west radar data shows that it continued westwards until contact was lost new opinion in the andaman sea investigators believe that it continued its flight southward before crashing in the indian ocean somewhere west of australia after dropping off the raiders the plane continued its flight for seven hours whether the passengers were still alive during that time and what happened to them remains unknown. there was what it was like trying not to think about that particular question and i can't bear it so as soon as i think about it my head starts aching or so i try to avoid it but with

. the wreckage has never been found in the search has been called off john has travelled to malaysia several times to demand and says. now he's on his way to kuala lumpur again when you take part in fifty membranes and then he wants the malaysian government to take up the search again. going to go on very nervous every time i board a plane or i'm nervous especially when i'm on my way to malaysia we're going to come. every year in march friends and relatives of the disappeared me to remember them and to demand answers. all the search technology is ten times faster today than five years ago with this progress and

without determination to m h three seventy it doesn't have to remain a mystery forever. young has spotted the minister of transferred in malaysia's new government he hopes it will be more open to the demands of the victims' relatives and the ministers seems to listen to them he says he's open to new proposals from maritime search operators. if they can police just getting on. the education itself so that i want to be stuck for what you know is innocent your hydrant i feel a lot better than when i arrived i was afraid it would be like the other times that i'd leave without any result but this time there is some progress i'm happy. wife ok. we hope seems no closer to the day when he will be able to prove inside his mother's. v.w.

about here spelling and who filed that report joins us now from beijing material you've spoken to the relatives of people who were onboard flight m h three seventy how big is their hope that they will ultimately find out what happened to their loved ones. while they are not ready to give up that hope they argue that technology has advanced a lot in the last five years there are now companies that use underwater drones to do these searches and they can search a lot bigger. areas in a shorter time so they think that they can find the wreckage although the area where the wreckage might be is really big and it might take some years that's what they also reckon but the search for the missing plane materials what was called off last may what are the chances that the search mission will resume at some point.

yet there have been some signals recently very recently last sunday there was this remembrance event and it was there that the minister of transport said that if these proposals by these companies that their relatives are talking about makes sense they would be willing to take up the search malaysia has a new government and the new government is is willing to be more open more transparent more. oriented towards its citizens than the old one it wants to show it cares and this is probably one of the signals they are sending that they are willing to take the concerns of the relatives more seriously it's a signal until now it's not action yet but there is hope. a lot of effort has been put into finding the wreckage and there are many theories about the fate of m h three seventy what we know for sure about what happened

very little we know the route the supposed route we know that very well the first two hours what happened there is rated data about that and then there's satellite data that shows that it's been in the air for another seven hours we have no idea what happened on board there are three sea theories kidnapping could be one possibility or an extended suicide by the pilot or one of the pilots like we've seen with the german wings flight in france some time ago or there might be a technical damage what kind of technical damage which one of these scenarios is the most probable is very hard to say and that is probably what the relatives what were the biggest fear of the relatives that they might never know what happened to their beloved ones and this is this this is a huge psychological pressure and this is why they are pressuring pressuring to continue this search but here's thank you so much to my t.l. spelling out there in beijing. now to syria where scores of suspected islamic state

fighters have escaped from the last pocket of territory held by the group hundreds have been a leaving a tiny stretch of land controlled by i ask los to iraq where the army is on alert to stop them from crossing. just two kilometers away is the last town still controlled by us ebrahim sabri watches the siege of bugaboos from this checkpoint the iraqi major hears the constant drone of u.s. fighter jets it's easy to see the signs of destruction about a thousand jihadi as are believed to be holding out on the syrian side in caves and tunnels beneath the destroyed houses and buildings and. i know they have no will left to fight. they have no chance against the kurdish use of us are under siege according to the information we have they have hardly any food left and are now starting. to move. their mission is to

seal off the border to google's three hundred soldiers and special forces patrolling a kilometer long stretch. barricades and razor wire against the self-proclaimed holy warriors none of whom will be allowed to break away into iraq those who try risk their lives. when we recently observed a group of twenty five i.a.s. fighters getting close to the border we called for u.s. fighter jets. to killed all of. them. but experts believe hundreds of other jihadi s. are thought to have fled to iraq and are now hiding out somewhere in the no man's land of the western desert where they can hardly be detected. they are believed to have two hundred million dollars with them reserves from when i still controlled a third of iraq in syria devastation hatred and mistrust remain even. this the end

of fighting grows near. thanks also to the american air strikes but it should only be a few more days. the terror militias last fighters are trapped encircled and under constant watch but it's a bittersweet victory. many of my friends and comrades lost their lives in the fight against i guess i pray they are now in heaven they are heroes. without their blood and their lives and will never would have achieved victory. but will list be a final victory iraqis now remain vigilant after years of war and terror abraham hopes iraq has learned its lesson. hungary's prime minister viktor orban says his populist fifth is party may quit the center right group it belongs to in the european parliament after the european people's party had threatened to expel

fit is over and brussels media campaign has hinted that he may look to strengthen ties with poland's ruling law and justice party if it is does end up leaving the. hungary's ruling feeder's party is skilled in the art of provoking its critics this time even prime minister victor all bands own allies were offended thousands of taxpayer funded billboards across the country depict e.u. commission president drunk lord younker and liberal billionaire george soros as conspirators in a plot to bring migrants into hungry. hungry as partners in the european parliament the european people's party p.-p. called the posters fake news saying there is no conspiracy hungary's government now says the posters will come down next week according to the original plan they say but manfully leader of the p.p. welcome to the move as a signal that hungary is willing to play ball. it is

a good signal that they are falling down there are posters there that was one of the requests made this week. the post is just the latest flashpoint in a long running quarrel several e.p. p member states one hungry expelled from the party they've cited all bans anti brussels rhetoric as well as its effective dissolution of the central european university on political grounds for hungary and nationalist hardliners this wouldn't be a bad move leading pro-government newspaper might get names that called on prime minister or band to leave the conservative blog and form a new populist coalition with italy and austria in an interview on public radio on friday obama said he would still prefer to reform the p.p. swinging it towards an anti immigration platform but he also raised the prospect of fetus quitting the e.p. which will meet on march twentieth to discuss the matter. but lugo whales are

one of the most intelligent and social marine mammals so for conservationists it's a travesty that many of them are kept in captivity performing tricks and aquariums around the world now a project has been launched that aims to change that with the help of a jumbo jet for the jumbo animals meat little white and little gray. two female beluga whales. they've been in captivity for a decade now and this is their daily routine. performing tricks to shanghai aquarium. but now their lives are about to change. this jumbo jet is being readed to take them to the other side of the world whales on a plane suspended in mats in a container in the hold with a team of fence specialists. they'll travel some ten thousand kilometers.

the goal is a brighter future for a little white in the fifth grade but that the larger prize if you like is we going to provide a blueprint a template for other species and other locations all around the world to offer whales and dolphins a brighter future. that's future is here the island of jaime just off the south coast of iceland a secluded cove he's being turned into the world's first sanctuary for belugas with just a net shutting them off from the open ocean they'll have near natural conditions. the project is the brainchild of a conservation group working with the entertainment for which now of the shanghai aquarium. there's a body of evidence now that shows that we can't really care for these incredibly complex social intelligent animals in an aquarium environment and merlin

entertainment believes they shouldn't be on the show for public entertainment as well so it's much better to provide these two or these two amazing animals with a much more natural how to live in a world wide between three and four hundred bloopers live in captivity organizers hope some of them might leave concrete news behind and make their way to iceland joining little grey and little lights off. to sports now and premier league powerhouse manchester city is being investigated by europe's governing body for football you a for possible by a lay sions of financial fair play rules possible violations relate to allegations that man city officials deceived the way by just guys saying the source of revenue from sponsorship deals if the allegations are proven to be true manchester city could be banned from the big money champions league tournaments. and just reminder

the top stories we're following for you here on d w news people around the world are taking part in rallies like here in india to mark international women's day indian women's groups have launched an eleven point plan to improve safety education health care women's representation in politics. five years after the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight m h three seventy relatives of the missing passengers are pushing for search efforts to resume try this foreign ministry heard demands from around thirty family members a two year long search for the plane was called all in january of two thousand and seventeen. coming up next it's a business with monaco what do you look at up on you look at the stock markets again in asia terry you've covered that as well those stocks there are tumbling and that as investors are in a stealth mode selling is healed by shockingly weak chinese exports data exports

fell more than twenty percent last month and that is related to the u.s. china trade drought which is still not a result there are you cations actually that the two sides may not be as close to a deal as previously hoped so we look into that's the together without the stock market correspondent. from shocking numbers that are going other china has said that we're creations for the rest of it so to prove that we're watching. the book.

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fascinated by their culture that he stayed close. only a promise to. the jungle and return to the concrete and glass jungle but. the result reverse culture shock. the prize winning documentary from the forest starts first on t.w. . asian markets tumbled on trade deal while race and weak chinese exports data and that's just us on concerns about the health of the global economy. also on the show its twenty nine thousand women are still prostate underrepresented in company boardrooms well why don't we get some advice from one of the for.