documentary from the forest starts first on w. . player playing. this is d w news live from berlin on international women's day we meet women working to change the status quo even if they have to do so in secret like this petition in tehran we'll tell you why her side business has a tattoo artist is very versatile. also coming up 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 the

search for answers in one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries. islamic states last stand in syria u.s. backed forces are on a mission to stop anyone manning i asked fighters from fleeing their sieged enclave a bus goes into neighboring iraq. and a cargo plane prepares to welcome to very special passengers little gray and little white are leaving behind their life of showbiz in a chinese aquarium they're being airlifted to the world's first open water sanctuary for the lugo whales in iceland we take you inside this unique conservation. i'm sumi so much got to thank you for joining 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 caste. well 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. i'll do what i think is the head of d.w. asia she grew up in india and i asked her to tell us more about how the day is being marked there. but so me when i was young and living in india i don't really remember celebrating this dream but now it is 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 down i think what do you think are the main challenges facing women there right now what's being done to address those challenges. the indian constitution itself actually got and every citizen the freedom of to leave their lives and the way they

want to they're also north against three 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 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 profession almost 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 of fear of their sexual offenders more recently also cousins of them and gathered in the southern state of kettler to demand entry into the suburb temple which was in excess of four women but now women 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 higher is 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 now iran has one of the world's worst records on gender equality that's according to a report by the world economic forum so it's not a surprise that a secret form of resistance among women is gaining in popularity their body art in the form of tattoos they're not a legal but they're definitely frowned upon which is why tattoo artists try to keep their services a secret. this is how absent they had to spends most of her time perfecting the contour africa steamers eyebrows her beauty salon is tucked away in the first floor of an apartment building in eastern time round. but the thirty year old artist also offers a different service to women who know what to ask for one that is not openly advertised and can be only performed behind closed doors here in iran.

tattooing is the job she's most passionate about and her preferred form of art. is much more beautiful to me than drawing or painting on paper which i used to do when i have a sketch and then i took to it on someone's body it's amazing the fact that i change someone's appearance of my art gives me a good feeling. a good feeling that's shared by the women she tattoos but none of them want to talk about it on camera or even show their faces that's because having a tattoo is widely considered taboo in iran. to too are to sell off my arrested here in the islamic republic although to choose a not in the eagle strictly forbidden by shia islam but authorities consider them a western phenomenon and harmful to iranian values but body art is still very popular among young people here and to run. in public body art mostly remains

hidden beneath the moderate dress code that's mandatory here but inside coffee shops were to around hipsters gather tattoos are openly displayed. so hail of lucky is one of the scenes most famous artists he considers tattooing to be a symbolic form of medical treatment for his generation a way for people to heal what he sees as spiritual wounds well living in a culture in crisis. getting more and more hollow. for the survey used to use and also expensive clothes as a beautiful cloak to hide what's missing inside. more so as a business tattooing is getting more and more successful. for customers or it's hard to make an educated choice. because when something is kind of illegal in a society and it's hard to find out information about it.

that's something i've seen a how do you would like to change as well instead of creating her art secretly inside a beauty salon she would like to bring it out of the shadows. i guess that. if i had enough money i would open my own tattoo studio. time that i began then i could work along with many other tattoo artists because expand the business and get better at what i share. a passion that's not without risks here in the islamic republic but for ass and they being able to pursue her art is worth it. coming up we'll be looking at women's struggle for equality in the workplace we'll talk to one of the auto industry's very few female c.e.o.'s that's a little later in the show first let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world finland center right government has resigned prime minister announced the move after failing to get

parliamentary support for a planned social and health reforms president saw the need is still has asked stupid to stay on in a caretaker role until elections scheduled for next month. donald trump's former campaign chief paul mount a ford has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for tax and 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 the metaphor to have a hidden foreign income from working for ukrainian politicians aligned with russia . the crew dragon capsule built by the american rocket coming to space x. has left the international space station splash down off the coast of florida is expected in a few hours if this unmanned test flight and successfully the new crew dragon could carry its first astronauts later this year and indeed for a job reporting everything with. now it remains one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries exactly five years ago malaysia airlines flight three seventy

took off from kuala lumpur with two hundred thirty nine people bound for beijing or short time later the airliner vanished it's never been found in beijing today relatives of some of the passengers gathered at the chinese foreign ministry to ask about starting a new search for the last plane after the meeting they said they were disappointed with the response that they received efforts to find the wreckage of the plane were abandoned last year but many friends and relatives of the passengers say they will never find closure until m h three seventy is located. joe 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 and 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 in stan 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 westwards 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. what we're trying not to think about that particular question and i can't bear it as soon as i think about it my head starts taking over so i try to avoid it with. the wreckage has never been found and 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 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 need to remember their loved ones and to demand answers there's 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 convince us that getting close to. the ship itself. can be uplifting the stuff that's it for what you know is innocent your heart and i feel a lot better i want to arrived but 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 happy and it's 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 even 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 than this cost data so the exact location can be pinned down however we have seen we've heard way saying that a search technology has advanced 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 plight plane might be found we're talking about a few years however of searching possibly much as 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 the search if the technical details convince them if they were really convinced that it would be faster and cheaper than their 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 flight 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 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. building a reporting for us thank you very much. the syrian our scores of suspected islamic state fighters have escaped from the lot last pocket of territory held by the hundreds have been leaving a tiny stretch of land controlled by ass close 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 bug goods 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 didn't die. i know they have no will left to fight. they have no chance against the kurdish uses of us are under siege. according to the information we have they have hardly any food left and are now starting. their mission is to seal off the border to about google's three hundred soldiers and special forces patrol kilometer long stretch. barricades and razor wire against the self-proclaimed holy warriors none of them will be allowed to break away into iraq

those who try risked their lives. when we recently observed a group of twenty five i asked fighters getting close to the border we called for u.s. fighter jets. they killed all of. them. but experts believe hundreds of other jihadi 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 and syria devastation hatred and mistrust remain. even as the end of fighting grows near. thanks also to the american airstrikes 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 will never would have achieved victory. but will this be a final victory iraqis now remain vigilant after years of war and terror abraham hopes iraq has learned its lesson. you're watching news still to come these two belugas are about to trade a life in the spotlight for the peace and quiet of only offstage for the first complex journey awaits. and women are still under represented at the top of big companies and corporations that hasn't changed much of the last thirty years those were the findings of

a new report by the un's international labor organization 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 their. 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 than their male colleagues improvement is unlikely without stricter legislation against workplace discrimination and for more equality. it's. linda jackson the c.e.o. of citoyen is one of the few women who made it to the very top and the male dominated auto industry is gentle donilon caught up with her at the geneva motor show to learn a thing or two about female leadership qualities. this 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 oh only for you to have to tell them that you are the boss is that 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 career but now it doesn't happen anymore i think people probably know me but it 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 your 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 they're all goes well because if you make a mistake that starts not sickness but i think it's i think you could say it's a positive one in that there are many women but personally i would actually prefer that the world more women because you know this business is you know fifty percent of my customers are women and there was a survey done about couple of years back which said that behind the decision to buy

a car 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 and 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 do want to make female cars but we want to make cars. everybody and i think women have a really important part to play. and how do we go women are playing more of those parts do you believe in quotas for management right don't really believe in quotas i believe in encouraging more women and i do my utmost to talk at summits and encourage people and tell them about my experience but the problem with quotes is is that if you are that you must 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 products it's about the whole experience of the customers and why shouldn't women have a part to play in the. now beluga whales are one of the most intelligent and social marine mammals so far conservationists it is a travesty that many of them are kept in captivity performing tricks in aquariums around the world now a project 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 dreaded 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 feds 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're 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 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 knee and 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 panels behind and make their way to iceland

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