new jersey repeat this grammar there you go it's old out there no time rachel join me for me the jabberwocky double post. this is d w news live from berlin it's international women's day and we're looking at the fight for equality and pakistan there the simple act of writing a bicycle is challenging norms and one of the world's most repressive countries for women and girls. plus taking the fight for equality to the board for where women are still vastly under represented we get some advice from one of the few women

c.e.o.'s in the auto industry. 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 is refusing to give up to search for answers in one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries. and a cargo plane prepares to welcome to very special passengers little grey and little white are leaving behind their life for showbiz and a chinese aquarium they're being airlifted to the world's first open water sanctuary for beluga whales and i slept we take you inside this unique conservation effort. i'm serious oh my god it's good to have you with us events are taking place in many parts of the world today to celebrate international women's day hundreds of women took to the streets of the indian capital delhi to mark the occasion like their counterparts. in other countries they're calling for more equality and an end to

discrimination women face many different challenges depending on where they live from restrictions on their reproductive rights to violence by men and a lack of opportunity at work. let's speak to deborah at the she's the head of asia and she joins us for more on international women's day hi deborah the you're really from india that's where you were born and raised how was the day being marked there. are it looks like different the is unable to shuras at the moment we're going to try to get back to deborah deborah a little bit later in the program for now though let's move on women around the world fighting for equality as we said in different ways we go back to karate in pakistan where the most repressive countries for women and girls there the simple act of riding a bicycle can challenge norms one community group is defined those norms by helping

girls reclaim public spaces on bikes. reports. getting to grips with the first bicycle every sunday morning very much harm it joins her friends at her local cycling club for the eleven year old this is a totally new mom 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 right 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 are also part of a vida patriarchal culture. with the know how society doesn't feel right about

girls sorting out our streets it doesn't usually happen here but it's common abroad where. 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 boss school the joys of algeria which. none of them women socializing in public is still viewed as a threat to public morality it is to come to these norms that a group of them and said to believe he goes kathy there also organizes bike races. and we've been going around in no one on it but it was a start we 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 but one that has been marred by boylan's

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 don't do deals 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 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. this started we do need them now there will be members and all are determined to keep peddling their video words of fear and more

equal future in pakistan. reporting there well as we look at international women's day and how it's being celebrated around the world let's go back to the head of asia joining us hi deborah you're from india to tell us more about how the day is being marked there. when i was young and living in india i don't really remember celebrating this day but nowadays we see a lot of women coming out on the streets demanding equal rights and justice there are also offices where female stuff that celebrated on this day and so on but actually i think celebration should come from home where men and women can be taken as equal then i think what do you think are the main challenges facing women there right now what's being done to address those challenges. with indian constitution it says actually got into every citizen the freedom to leave their lives and they

want to they're also north against female infanticide and drollery but unfortunately the legal apparatus can do much to prevent these crimes moreover the mindset of the people have not changed in many states like indiana for example goods and women are still unwanted and therefore are considered inferior members of the society in india northern states like there are on average about eight fifty women every thousand men because people don't want to have female babies they are either killed in the form or after they are born so even today even are vulnerable to sexual violence in many regions they do not have equal access to health and education and live in societies with a strong patriarchal mindset so the challenges are still the same illiteracy has gone really in many places gone down and we see many strong women parceling different position on most from all over the country so you're saying the laws are in place they need to be implemented better what has been done in the recent past

to improve the situation. the good thing is that the women themselves are raising up to the challenge and are refusing to remain silent about unequal treatment and crimes like sexual violence also are getting noticed we saw this during the me too movement now when several women revealed the names affair of the sexual offenders more recently also thousands of women gathered in the southern state of kettler to demand entry into the suburb temple which was in excess of two for women but now the men can go there as we can also see that in social media people are more open to discuss topics like sexual assault and menstruation many challenges and changes have also been take place legally for example in two thousand and thirteen shortly after the brutal rape of this twenty one years old india changed its rape laws and the victims could get no justice without being harris the indian supreme court also declared that the triple talaq illegal so the situation is gradually improving and women are at the forefront of these changes. i think you have the head of asia

thank you for sharing your insights with us thank you. well coming up we'll be looking at women's a struggle for equality in the workplace so we'll talk to one of the auto industry's very few female c.e.o.'s that's coming up a little bit later in the show but first let's catch up on some other stories making news around the world finland's center right government has resigned prime minister you have announced a move after failing to get parliamentary support for planned social and health reforms the country already has parliamentary elections scheduled for next month. donald trump's former campaign chief paul metaphor has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for tax and a bank fraud he was also ordered to pay more than twenty four million dollars in restitution and fifty thousand dollars in fines an f.b.i. investigation revealed that metaphor had hidden foreign income from working for ukrainian politicians aligned with russia. the crew dragon capsule built by the

american rocket company space x. has left the international space station splash down off the coast of florida is expected in about five hours if this unmanned test flight and successfully crew dragon could carry its first astronauts later this year. and in venezuela much of the country has been hit by major power outages blackouts are becoming more frequent in venezuela where critics of the government say underinvestment has left the power grid on able 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. that's when 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 to beijing when it suddenly disappeared from radar over 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 friends and relatives

of the passengers continue to demand answers. john has gone to his mother's beijing apartment 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 that's when i'll finally be able to say goodbye joe his mother was on holiday in malaysia and scheduled to fly back on flight m h three seventy which disappeared without a trace his own life has been a mess since then he suffers from severe depression and spends hours and hours trying to find an explanation for what happened after the plane left malaysian airspace it diverted from the planned flight route in a shop turned west radar data shows that it continued westward until contact was lost in the opinion in the end m n c investigators believe that it continued its

flight southward before crashing in the indian ocean somewhere west of australia after dropping off the radar the plane continued its flight for seven hours but the passengers were still alive during that time and what happened to them remains unknown. where they were like trying not to think about that particular question and i can't bear it i soon as i think about it my head starts taking over so i try to avoid it with. the wreckage has never been found in the search has been called off john has traveled to malaysia several times hoping to get some answers now he's on his way to kuala lumpur again where he'll take part in a fifth remembrance event he wants the malaysian government to take up the search again. going to go i'm very nervous every time i board a plane i'm nervous especially when i'm on my way to malaysia we're going to go.

every year in march friends and relatives of the disappeared need to remember their loved ones and to demand answers they're still not ready to give up hope. for the search technology is ten times faster today than five years ago which is progress and without determination to m h three seventy doesn't have to remain a mystery forever. young has spotted the minister of transport in malaysia's new government he hopes this government will be more sympathetic to the victims' relatives and the ministers seems to be listening he says he's open to new proposals from maritime search operators. if they can't resist getting close to. the ship itself so that we are putting the stuff at the city for

what you know what services your heart i feel a lot better everyone i arrived or if 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 happen to your wife because in the. junk we hope she's no closer to the day when he'll be able to grieve properly for his not. that story from did he is my ts finnan and he joins us now from beijing with more much yes you've been speaking to relatives of people who were onboard how hopeful are they that they will find out what happened to this plane. it was only the area where the plane might be is vos the area that's been searched so far is about the size of the united kingdom but the ocean is much bigger and their scarfs data so the exact location can be pinned down however we have seen

we've heard john who is saying that a search technology has danced tremendously there are no now and there are some operators who use underwater drones and they can cover. a much bigger area in much less time so they're more efficient and that's what the their relatives hopeful that the playa plane might be found we're talking about a few years however of searching possibly much if the most recent search efforts were called off last year could we see this search resumed. i think that's the news of this week that the malaysian government malaysia has a new government and this new government is trying to be more accessible more open more transparent to its citizens and they have expressed that they would be willing to take up this search if the technical details convince them if they were really

convinced that it would be faster and cheaper than the previous one because the previous search was the most expensive search in aviation history metis it's been five years there are a lot of theories about out there about what happened ten x. three seventy what do we know for sure about what happened. still very little we have data that shows the possible fly a drug for the first two hours it's well documented by radar data although there seem to be some difficulties there as well but then when it turned supposedly south there's scarfs data from satellites that is not that cannot locate exactly where it where the plane went it's just probably went south what happened inside we do not know at all there are three to theories that investigators find realistic that might be a kidnapping it might be an extended suicide as we've seen on the german wings flight in france by the pilot or or the copilot or it might be

a technical error but there's still very very little evidence that would favor one of these theories. bellinger reporting for us thank you very much. hungary's prime minister viktor orban says his populist fidesz party may quit the center right group it belongs to in the european parliament the european people's party have threatened to expel fidesz over an anti e.u. media campaign or ban has hinted he may look to strengthen ties with poland's ruling law and justice party if it does end up leaving the p.p. . hungary's ruling feeder's party is skilled in the art of provoking its critics this time even prime minister viktor orban zone 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 east 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 veber leader of the p.p. welcome to the move as a signal that hungary is willing to play ball. it is a good signal they are putting down there are posters there that was one of the aggressor made this week. the post is just the latest flashpoint in a long running quarrel several e.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 my gang members 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 or ban said he would still prefer to reform the p.p. swinging it towards an anti immigration platform but he also raised the prospect of feeders quitting the p.p. which will meet on march twentieth to discuss the matter. now women are still under represented at the top of the companies and corporations that hasn't changed much in the last thirty years that's according to a new report by the united nations international labor organization that was published for international women's day the report says that a future where women will be equally represented is within reach but it will take a quantum leap to get there. women still have a harder time than men when it comes to finding a job a worldwide phenomenon with very few exceptions and they don't only face hardship when it comes to getting ahead in technical professions or management

a major hurdle for women is motherhood an international labor organization study says women with very young children have the worst chances of finding a job. if we look at the motherhood employment penalty so the difference between women with children with out children how often they're getting into employment what their employment rate is that gap is actually increasing and over the past ten years has increased by almost forty percent globally and this should really concern us so if we don't want to reproduce the inequalities of the past and we want to future of work that is truly gender equal we will have to make major changes and will have to make them now. the ilo figures show that worldwide women are only in a quarter of top management positions and that those who are are usually younger and better educated the member colleagues improvement is unlikely without stricter legislation against workplace discrimination and for more equality.

linda jackson the c.e.o. of city is one of the few women who made it to the very top in the male dominated auto industry is jenelle to malone caught up with her at the geneva motor show to learn a thing or two about female leadership qualities. miss jackson you're one of the few women c.e.o.'s in the automotive industry now i was reading an anecdote about you where you related that very often you would go to a meeting and of the delegates would not would want to wait for the boss before starting the meeting all need for you to have to tell them that you are the boss is not something that still happens to you it doesn't happen anymore i have to say but it did happen happened very sort of early on in my curia but now it doesn't happen anymore i think people probably know me empathy didn't bother me because at the end of the day when she say you're the boss and then you very credible you can make you make your impression so but yes it did happen but not any bill. now would you say there are certain advantages to being a woman executive in

a very male dominated industry but i suppose the obvious advantage is that because there aren't very many of you people remember you so if you make a good impression that are all goes well because if you make a mistake that starts not sickness but i think it's some i think you could say it's a positive one in that there are many women but personally i would actually prefer that the more women because you know this business is you know fifty percent of my customers are women and there was a survey done oh about couple of years back which said that behind the decision to buy a car that eighty percent of those decisions was made by women so they chose the interior cetera et cetera so it's very important that we get more women into the industry and i you know i want to try to encourage more people you know even within my team . you know my communications director is a female the lady that decides the design of that decides what the material in the colors are of my vehicles inside is a woman so why can't we have more women making a point about what we should have with our cars we don't want to make female cars

but we want to make cars for everybody and i think women have a really important part to play. and how do we get women to playing more of those parts do you believe in quotas for management say well i don't really believe in quotas i believe in encouraging more women and i do my utmost to talk. it summits and encourage people to tell him about my experience but the problem with quotes is is that if you are that you want as many people it's so to senior level if you're a woman if you want to be recognized that you got to that level because of your ability to do the job and if somebody said oh linda you got to that role because we wanted to fill a quota that sort of denigrates a little bit my my standing so this is why i'm against coaches but obviously i'm really really encouraging more women to be in the in the industry and to be able to have more women and to make it more obvious i think this big perception is that the automotive industry is just about engineers and of course it's very important part but there's a whole other range now because you know when you build an automotive brand it's

not just about the protests it's about the whole experience of the customers and why shouldn't women have a part to play in the. art beluga whales are one of the most intelligent and social marine mammals so for a conservationist 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 mammals meet little white and little gray. two females believe the 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. 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 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 i was 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 two 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 believe concrete news behind and make their way to iceland joining little grey and little white. our top stories that we're following here on g.w. people around the world are taking part in rallies like you're in india to mark international women's day in women's groups have launched an eleven point plan to improve safety education health care jobs and women struck a state representation in politics and 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 china's foreign ministry heard demands from around thirty eight family members are for its to find the wreckage of a plane came to an end last year. coming up on to that you are interview show quadriga we look at women and power and ask are they better politicians that's coming up in just a few minutes stay with us. one

tree guy international talk show for journalists discuss the topic of the week small international women's day we're taking a close look at women in power and asking always a better politicians and what impact is the next generation of young female politicians likely to have to join us on quadriga shortly.

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world of work here's what's coming up. on smart women. smart station. the female superhero. comics about how to deal with these women are celebrating international women's day why this is a big deal is and by no means missed out on a brain critically dangerous in a tough job and married for mine. followed a very warm welcome indeed to quadriga coming to you from the heart of bird lane and this week to mark international women's day the focus is on women in power take angle americal germany's chancellor for over thirteen years and for many the most powerful woman in the world women are also on the advance in many other countries

in the u.s. they're calling for a different kind of politics on the streets and eight congress women are also for instance making the.