[000:00:00;00] live . this is d.w. news live from berlin on international women's day we need a group of grannies in kenya who are literally fighting for change that says they tackled the culture of the great party the safety of women living in one of the country's worst slums. also coming up islamic states last to stand in syria u.s.

backed forces are on a mission to stop any remaining i a spider's from fleeing there to see sean claims about bruce into neighboring iran . and a cargo plane for her so welcome to very special passengers little grainy and little watch are leaving behind their license show business in a chinese aquarium they're being airlifted to the world's first open water sanctuary for beluga whales in iceland we take you inside this unique conservation effort. i'm sumi so misconducts great 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 the streets of the indian capital delhi to mark the occasion like their counterparts in other countries like indonesia where you can see a protest in the capital jakarta they're calling for

a quality and end to discrimination women face many different challenges depending on where they live from was struck on the reproductive rights to violence by men and a lack of opportunity at work. talk more about international women's day we have a christian with us she's a feminist campaigner christina thank you very much for joining us so you're one of the co-founders of something called the center for feminist foreign policy what is feminist foreign policy what does that look like someone's from policy in the first place i'm a college is the world why it's inequalities including tend inequality exist in the stuff said second step it means that all foreign security policy decisions must contribute to eradicating those inequalities so what would that actually look like in practice in practice if. for example we look at the un security council germany it is a selective member of the u.n. security council as of earlier this year germany is trying to pass

a resolution in april very likely on sex less violence so if this from policy would mean let you listen to the civil society and that is making clear suggestions towards what exactly such a solution should look like look like to actually help victims and survivors in campaigners on the ground and listen to those civil society was to make sure we know for trained on any language so you're talking about a more holistic approach it sounds like how is that different from the type of foreign policy we see practiced today and non feminist foreign policy if you will so the current foreign policy the paradigms of real politik the really on the they understand that secure states need secure people that. countries would do anything to secure their borders instead of focusing on the humans in there but if i'm his foreign policy really understands that secure states do not necessarily really. make people secure but instead focus on those humans and those individuals and

really trying to understand the dynamics within the countries including sexism racism homophobia and how these different factors people insecure christina you have traveled around the world you've worked in countries around the world how would you compare is. some of the challenges facing women in different countries compared also to what women face here in berlin let's say. so the many differences but also the many commonalities the commonalities being that all over the world we have a patriarchal system so we have a system where the the stereotypical men have kind of forever of over over the the political political minority of women and passing laws do not make those two all or even more groups equal if you look at germany we have a law and that is criminalizing women who want to have an abortion and we have the same laws all over the world only very very few countries that lead women have their rights over their own body with your work for the center for feminist foreign

policy what do you see that's actually changing and what progress is being made so we're still young here in germany we started last year but for example yesterday there was a big event at the foreign office and we held cool but i think it's was an event on the occasion of international women's day and we also hosted the panel on famous from policy and what is missing for families from policy in germany and i don't think we could have had such discussions even the year ago so things are really changing we are placing the topic there and we're trying to develop the idea with many different actors so what has to change internally because fun fact only fifteen percent of the best of us a female but also to getting the policies germany is doing with other countries all right so awareness is on the rise there christine alliance an activist a feminist a co-founder of the center for feminist foreign policy thank you so much for joining us on day two of you. well as we said it is international women's day time

to highlight the systemic problems women face every day and how they're overcoming those problems in nairobi kenya the slum of korogocho was once notorious for violence and sexual assault against women but now thanks to its oldest female residents a different story is emerging melanie corridor bomb at a group of grannies you really don't want to mess with. just a few years ago this place was known as a narrow beach most dangerous slum presidents in korogocho lived in constant fear of especially elderly women like the sixty five year old gary. you would hear screams all the time women were attacked by boys who had come to rape them. the grannies of coral gotto as they call themselves were regularly targeted to be stations attackers believed the women wait to be free and that sex with them could cure their own infection almost daily one of those numbers

older women were sexually assaulted raped on that it. one day we found dead with broken bottles inside her body when we carried her body to the police but they closed the gates and didn't let a sin to get up on his part we took her body to the mortuary. where to and on that day we decided enough is enough and we women will start helping ourselves on the plane to decide to do. in a poor suburb like korogocho as the new women have had to bear the brunt of society so neglect and crime it is in this very community that many of them have been assaulted often sexually deemed as easy targets and it is in here that they fight to take safety into their own hands. monica decides to fight back and others speak of the same. his grannies roughly twice sixty five and ninety years old meet once

a week to learn martial arts and defend themselves. and when i'm walking down the street in an attacker approaches this is how i fight. with the proud and i'm proud to say that i'm a strong elderly woman. he costs and. it is with this pride and dedication that they have protected and raised awareness in that community brave used to be a daily reality with these granny. easyway was. now running says she only hears of a case every second day and she will keep on fighting until every woman young or old feel safe and her neighborhood coming. and feel. ten years from now that this will be a new korogocho again is that the will even let me it will be known as one of the neighborhoods that people are proud to live in this new machine. a pool at

a distance. a little bit later on the program will be looking at women struggle for equality in the workplace we'll be talking to one of the auto industry's very few female c.e.o.'s that's coming up a little bit later in the program but first let's catch up on some other stories making news around the world thousands of demonstrators supported into central algiers after friday noon prayers in the latest of a series of protests against president abdullah as he's beautifully because bid for a fifth term in office reports a authorities have deployed security forces and stopped public transit services into the capital. donald trump's former campaign chief paul metaphor has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for tax and bank fraud who 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 metaphor that 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 a 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 everything just reporting everything finland center right government has resigned prime minister you are stupid announce the move after failing to get parliamentary support for planned social and health reforms president sounding new still has asked to stay on in a caretaker role until the elections scheduled for next month. hungary's the 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 had threatened to expel a fetus over the and anti e.u. media campaign or britain has hinted she may look to strengthen ties with poland's ruling law and justice party if a fetus does end up leaving the. hungary's ruling fetus party is skilled in the art

of provoking its christian. 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 e.p.t. called the post is 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 of a bird 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 pulling down their 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 ban 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 to syria now where scores of suspected islamic state fighters have escaped from the last pocket of territory held by the group hundreds have been leaving a small swath 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 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 units 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 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 these 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. but assured many of my friends and comrades lost their lives in the fight against i.a.s. i pray they are now in heaven they are heroes. without their blood and their lives i never would have achieved it to read. it all fell to. him to start but will this be a final victory iraqis now remain vigilant after years of war and terror abraham hopes iraq has learned its lesson. now to iran where an art form is gaining in popularity tattoos they're not 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 steamer's eyebrows her beauty salon is tucked away in the first floor of an apartment building in eastern tehran 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. for absenting a tech to ing is the job she's most passionate about and her preferred form of art i think or learn to it's 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 add to sell off my arrested here in the islamic republic although to choose a not illegal 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 rub. in public body art mostly remains hidden beneath the moderate dress code that's mandatory here but inside coffee shops were terrans hipsters gather tattoos are openly displayed. so hayloft 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 this survey used to use and also expensive clothes as a beautiful cloak the heart was missing inside. the business tattooing is getting more and more successful. for customers so 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. 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 i don't want to call expand the business and get better at what i share. a passion that's not without risks here in the islamic republic but for ason a being able to pursue her art is worth it. you're watching d.w. news still to come. here about to leave

a life in the spotlight and peace and quiet will sanctuary first a complex journey awaits. now women are still under represented at the top of big companies and corporations that hasn't changed much in 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 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 a 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 settlement is one of the few women who made it to the very top in a male dominated auto industry did obvious genoud i'm allowing caught up with her of 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 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 you make your impression so yes it did happen but not anyone. 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 or few people remember you so if you make a good impression that all goes well because if you make a mistake that starts not seekers 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 in sight 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 there everybody. 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 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 in telling about my experience but the problem with coaches 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 quotas 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 projects it's about the whole experience of the customers why shouldn't women have a part to play and. that was the c.e.o. of sitar linda jackson speaking to do. now go whales are among the most

intelligent and social marine mammals so for conservationists it is a travesty that many of them are kept in captivity to perform tricks in aquariums around the world now a project has been launched that aims to change that with the help of a jumbo jet for the jungle mammals meet little white and little gray. two females believed in wales. 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 read 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 vets and 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 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 i can leave contact details behind and make their way to iceland joining little gray and little white. this weekend's bundesliga matches get underway later today and one big story is shock a coach to many called to desk oh he's taking his club to bremen and the friday night kickoff last weekend to dusk on chalk a last four nil to disappear off in their own stadium the club has kept their faith in their coach even if many fans have not a loss of berman however could leave just one point clear of the relegation zone by the end of the weekend. you're watching d w still to come on due to the

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