ratings international women's day was such a big deal there's in fine no movement that bring creasing dangerously perhaps double many tramon. this is t w 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 in the program five years after the disappearance of malaysian airlines flight m a 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 the search friend searchers in one of the world's greatest aviation mystery. and the cargo plane prepares to welcome to larry special tax interest a little gray a little white are leaving behind their life of show business in a chinese aquarium me 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 barton 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 first time the big march is planned for later today in the german capital well this was the scene in madrid last night were several hundred women gathered to ring in the day organizers there 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. women fighting for greater equality you can take many forms in 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 floods bicycle every sunday morning. joins her friends and her. eleven year old boy this isn't the new and sometimes daunting expedience bowl that's up a little bit initially i tracked 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 that. 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 are also part of. patriarchal culture. you know society doesn't feel right about girls sorting out in the streets it doesn't usually happen here but it's common to rule. 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 ride on bus school sure the joys of algeria but you will not find them in socializing in public is still viewed as a threat to public morality it is to come to d.s. norms that a group of women said to believe the girls can feel they're also organizers by. how many are now on the no one one but at the start were harassed and some boys even tried to take us off our bikes and it was tough but we won't stop our 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 that archie but one that has been marred by avoidance for decades things are better now although the streets are still

dangerous in some parts especially for women so the sight of them exercising in public has caused quite a stir. but i did use are slowly changing them a spirits 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. all along it was a warning say up when the cycling club began a year ago this started with only. now there are over thirty members. and on are determined to keep begging they have the two words of fear and more equal future in pakistan. now to some of the other stories

making headlines around the world today finland's center right government has resigned prime minister you speedily. announced the move after failing to get parliamentary support for planned social and health reforms the country's president has. to stay on in a caretaker role until elections scheduled for next month. hungary's prime minister viktor orbán says his populist feet as party may quit the center right group it belongs to in the european parliament european people's party has threatened to expel fetus over an anti brussels media campaign or ban hinted that he may strengthen ties with poland's ruling law and justice party. the former chairman of donald trump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign paul metaphor has been sentenced to nearly six four years in jail for tax fraud he was also ordered to pay

fines of more than twenty four million dollars an f.b.i. investigation revealed amount of pork had hidden pour in income from working for ukrainian politicians aligned with russia. and the crew dragons capsule built by american rocket company space x. has left the international space station splash down off the coast of florida is expected in a few hours if this unmanned flight test flight and successfully dragon could carry on its first astronauts later this year. now remains one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries the disappearance of the malaysian airlines flight m h three seventy exactly five years ago the plane was on its way from kuala lumpur in malaysia to beijing in china when it so. they disappeared from air traffic controllers radar screens above the gulf of thailand 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 look away inside he couldn't bear to look at them. 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 an 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 or that was like trying not to think about that particular question and i can't bear it 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 fifteen members and then he wants the malaysian government to take up the search again.

and 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. to all the search technology is ten times faster today than five years ago with its 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's has he's open to new proposals from

maritime search operators. i think and i mean just getting. the education itself such that i want it to be the start of the city for what you know is innocent your heart or 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 sees no closer to the day when he will be able to grieve inside his mother's. earlier i spoke with our correspondent he has bellingen who filed that report he says there are several theories as to why as to what may have happened to flight m h three seventy 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 seat 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 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 you know he has materials burning out there in beijing well baluga 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 elements. meet little white and little gray. two female blue 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 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 is being turned into the world's first sanctuary for belugas with just a net shutting them off from the open ocean they'll have me a 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 entertainments believe they shouldn't be on the show for public entertainment as well so it's much better to provide these to these two amazing animals with a much more natural how to live in

a world wide between three and four hundred palookas live in captivity organizers hope some of them might leave concrete details behind and make their way to iceland joining a little gray and little white. just for we go a reminder of the top story we're following for you here today on the news people around the world are taking part in rallies like here in india to mark international women's day and women's fruits have launched an eleven point plan to improve safety education health care. and women's representation in politics. i'm sorry martin you've been watching d.w. news soon we will be with you at the top of the next hour with more international news and of course all the stories online it costs.

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