this is deja vu news live from berlin on international women's day we meet a group of grandmothers in kenya who are literally fighting for change they're tackling the culture of rape that threatens the safety of women living in one of the country's most dangerous lot it's also coming up islamic states last stand in syria u.s. backed forces are on a mission to stop anywhere many fighters from fleeing their besieged enclave about goes into neighboring iraq. and a cargo plane prepares to welcome to very special passengers little grey and little

white are leaving a life of show business chinese aquarium they're being airlifted to the world's first open water sanctuary for beluga whales in iceland. i'm sumi someone's got to thank you for joining us events are taking place in many parts of the world today to mark international women's day. hundreds of women took to the streets of the indian capital delhi like their counterparts in other countries like in indonesia here you can see a protest in the capital jakarta they're calling for equality and an end to discrimination women face different challenges depending on where they live from restrictions to their reproductive rights to violence by men and a lack of opportunity at work. while commemorations also taking place. in germany today melinda crane is covering

a rally here in berlin for us hi melinda what's expected from this rally how many people have turned out. well so far the police are estimating the crowd at about two thousand five hundred but the square is definitely filling up and there were registrations in advance of ten thousand people so we're actually likely to see quite a crowd and i've just tried to push my way through it to get to our camera position and have to say it's there's a very intense atmosphere lots of young women out here lots of banners as you can probably hear we're currently hearing speeches from union representatives so so a lot of enthusiasm on this first official international women's day as a holiday here for the city of berlin well now let's talk about the situation in germany where does germany stand in terms of gender equality. well

a recent report by the world economic forum on gender parity in general put germany in fourteenth place worldwide but the fact is the picture is very uneven when you look at specific aspects of gender inequality starting with the pay gap there germany definitely lags behind it's actually in third to last place in europe behind stone. sorry just in front of is stony and austria and the current page pay gap is twenty one percent so that's still quite quite a big gap that has to be closed then in terms of women breaking through the glass ceiling also the picture is not what many had hoped it would be by now three years ago a quota went into place thirty percent of women on supervisory boards that quota is now nearly filled for germany's top corporations and yet it's had little effect for

example on operational management where only eight per cent of managers are women and a whole host of other measures as well show that there's still a lot of room for improvement here in germany why is that melinda why is there so much room for improvement still today. for a long time it was said that germany has an inherently conservative culture growing out of the long division of germany during the cold war and the fact that in the west people were very eager to preserve traditions including the tradition of women staying at home to take care of kids and the kitchen as it was referred to back then now of course that's thirty years ago that the wall fell and the situation has changed but on crucial issues for women like the availability of all day schooling like the availability of kindergarten places for. are children there's

still a lot of work to be done many women find that they wind up having to come home even if they do have a paying job to make lunch for their children or to pick them up after a fairly short school day so lots of things for women here to protest and in fact at five o'clock this afternoon this crowd is going to give a global scream to indicate that they want to see change all right our correspondent linda crane covering this rally for us in the heart of berlin thank you so much. the international women's day is a time to highlight the systemic problems that women face every day and how they're overcoming those problems in the kenyan capital nairobi 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 some marching melanie cord to bomb at a clip of grannies you really don't want to mess with. just

a few years ago this place was known as nairobi's most. presidents in korogocho lived in constant fear especially elderly women like the sixty five year old jerry . he would hear screams all the time women were attacked by boys who had come to rape them. romney says the grannies of coral gotto as they call themselves were regularly targeted superstitions attackers going to leave the women with hiv free and that sex with them to cuba only a fraction 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 we carried her body to the police but they closed the gates and didn't let a sin the kid 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 force like korogocho as a few women have had to bear the brunt of society neglect and crime it is in this very community that many of them have been assaulted often sexually deemed as easy targets it is in here that they fight to take safety into their own hands. running decides to fight back and the same time grand robbery twice yes. five and ninety. and. down the street and an attacker approaches this is how i fight. i'm proud to say that i'm a strong elderly woman. it is with this pride and dedication that they have takis and raised awareness in their

community for a piece to be a daily reality through the. work but. now running says she only hears of a case every second day and she will keep on fighting until every woman young or old male and honey come to. america. ten years from now this will be a new korogocho he said why even it will be known as one of the neighborhoods that people are proud to live in queens. who are different. while women are still under represented at the top of big companies and corporations a situation that hasn't changed much in the last thirty years those are the findings of a new report by the un's international labor organization published on international women's day the report says that a future where women will be equally represented is within reach but it will take

a big 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 in a call. of the past and we want to future of work that is truly gender equal we will have to make major changes and we'll 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. linda jackson now the c.e.o. of citroen is one of the few women who have made it to the very top of the motor industry. to milan caught up with her at the geneva motor show to talk about female leadership. 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 were 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 your make your impression say but yes it did happen but not in evil. 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 seekers 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 is a survey done oh 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 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 it 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 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 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 standard 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 that. that was the c.e.o. of sichuan linda jackson speaking to. let's catch up now on some other stories making headlines around the world thousands of demonstrators have poured into central algiers after friday noon prayers in the latest of a series of protests against president a bill as he's put to sleep as bid for a fifth term in office reports the authorities have deployed security forces and stopped public transit services into the capital. a capsule built by the american company space x. has splash down off the coast of florida ending its test flight to the international space station if the unmanned mission is the deemed a successful the capsule could carry its first astronauts into orbit later this year. britain's prime minister theresa may has called on the european you need to

make what she called one more push to get a revised deal on bragg's it britain's parliament is supposed to vote on the deal for a second time next week may still hasn't secured the concessions she says she would need to secure lawmakers support of the u.k. the european union. rejects. and that will. now the stepsister of and frank whose jewish family hid from the nazis in amsterdam before their deportation to a concentration camp has visited a california high school after a nazi themed party their code caused an outrage last weekend the school in southern california is facing fierce criticism after pictures emerged showing students doing nazi salutes around a swastika made from beer cups human just went viral on social media eva schloss who survived the holocaust said she hopes there will be more education about the holocaust. did have

a soccer has been looking into the story for us and joins us in our studio hi let tell us more about what happened here so this all took place in the town of newport harboring telephony last weekend there was students from a high school there had a posse at some point someone built the swastika made out of plastic cups they saluted it with a nazi salute pictures were taken they were posted to snap chat this made its way on to from there on to twitter. now this is bit of bit of embarrassment for the city of newport harbor apparently last earlier this week robert there were a meeting. hundreds of people showed up at the meeting to. show their show the rockridge about about this incident now it's gone it's international attention because of the visit of eva schloss now as you said she is that punishes the stepsister of and frankly he you know during the second world war wrote a famous diary while she was hiding with the rest of the jewish family in an attic

and amsterdam before they were discovered by the nazis and you know she was taken to auschwitz and she was murdered now her stepsister. wanted to come to this school in california and talk to the students about what they'd done so what came out of that meeting the meeting it was a private meeting but says it was an emotional and emotional meeting she got a chance to tell the students about her experiences from auschwitz now these kids are only sixteen years old high school students which was the same age that she was when she was freed from from auschwitz at which point most of the family had been the only she survived and her mother. we have a clip of. her immediate reaction to these photos but. she didn't hear. hate to

tell you know betty hey if you're kate at school it's events like say should still have been and it was very keyed to really to come and speak and hear for. himself. able to do it is saying that he said. now. continues by saying that you didn't believe that these kids actually knew what they were doing for them it was a bit of a joke and she said that they did apologize profusely joins me saying what's the fallout been scuse me the fallout from all of this well you know as we've said it's obviously been an embarrassing. incident for the school for the students for the parents and apparently also for the city and but herself says that there must be a silver lining to the story we have a listen to but i think she has said quite alive i think it is actually perhaps it was a good signal that it happened because it has cut night but and it is generally now

especially because you are putting it over as a whole it might change at get your everywhere. so much as the attitude she also says that you know in light of this incident that the education around the holocaust might be a bit not acquits and as well as always with with social media that might be a lesson for for everyone to him about what can happen if you post your pictures to social media and the attention it gets indeed all right all of our reporter looking into this for us thank you so much. to syria now where scores of suspected fighters of the so-called islamic state have escaped from the last pocket of territory held by the group hundreds have been leaving a tiny stretch of land controlled by i ask a rock where the army is on alert to stop them from crossing the border. 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 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 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 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. it is going to show that many of my friends

and comrades lost their lives in the fight against i yes i pray they are now in heaven they are heroes in work on a life without their blood and their lives never would have achieved victory well. into sort but will this be a final victory iraqis now remain vigilant after years of war and terror abraham hopes iraq has learned its lesson. in iran an ancient art form is regaining popularity tattoos they're not illegal but they're definitely frowned upon so tattoo artists try to keep their service as a secret. this is how absent a heidi's 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 tattoo 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 to to it on someone's body and 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 rest of the islamic republic all due 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 in tirana. 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 hale 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 this survey used to use and also expensive clothes as a beautiful cloak to hide was missing inside. so as a business tattooing is getting more and more successful. value for customers it's hard to make an educated choice. because when something is kind of illegal in a society then it's hard to find out information about it and.

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 of him i would open my own tattoo studio. time that i began then i could work along with many other tattoo artists to quote expand the business and get better at what i share. a passion that's not without risks here in the islamic republic but for absent a being able to pursue her art is worth it. a little whales are some of the most intelligent of social marine mammals but 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. meet little white and little

. two female baluga 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 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 to living. 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 joining little grey and little white. coming up i did have news asia five years after malaysia airlines flight m h three seventy disappeared we hear why family members want the search to continue their rush banner she has that story and much more coming right up stay with us. to.

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