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coming up. islamic states. in syria. mission to stop remaining fighters from fleeing the besieged. iraq. prepares to welcome to very special passengers the little white. of chinese aquarium. the world's for open source. in. time for the program events taking place many parts of the world international women's day. thousands have been marching in support of women's rights. a public holiday in the capital of germany to do so the monsters in prague. sexism and

gender discrimination around the world. linda crane is covering one of those robberies in. georgia and find out how things are going. tell us about the turnout to tell us what's expected to happen today. turnout's good the police are just on the count and say they're at seven thousand five hundred but the crowd's been expanding rapidly over the past hour the march is just now gotten underway and it will be going on for about another hour hour and a half and winding up not too far from here where at five o'clock our time there will be a global shout from this crowd a shout of rage in protest and in demand that that gender equality move faster and the crowd is very enthusiastic i just made my way through it on the way to our camera position lot of young women but not only all

ages represented families a lot of men and a lot of enthusiasm i went to germany and the campaign for gender equality. there's a lot of room for improvement various studies give different numbers but for example the world bank says germany is somewhere around thirty first place in the world rankings but behind a number of other countries that are less wealthy than this one and if you look at specific aspects of gender inequality the picture is quite uneven for example there's a wage gap here of twelve or twenty one percent in other words men earning on our fridge twenty one percent more than women for comparable work and that puts germany quite low in europe only a stone and austria are behind it so it's quite doing quite poorly on

that score or if we look at the degree to which women have broken through the so-called glass ceiling when it comes to top positions in the private sector there is now a quota in germany for supervisory boards of large come. it is still that they are slowly getting to the thirty percent quota that is required of women on supervised reports but it's had very little effect so far on operational management their women are still less than ten percent of the actual operational management so lots of room for improvement there is well and other theories as to why germany is so far behind given its generally progressive reputation. well for a long time and given the fact that the most powerful woman in the world is the head of the german government

a supreme irony if you will but there the theories going back to the period of the cold war were that west germany was very eager to maintain conservative social traditions putting women essentially in the kitchen and in the nursery part partly in contrast to eastern germany where women's rights were very very strong but of course that was thirty years ago that the berlin wall fell so there has been change since then but it has been slow for example throughout many parts of germany it's hard for families to find a kindergarten place even to this day many schools are go only until lunch time and then release the children sending them home with the expectation that there will be a mother at home to provide a warm watch all of that is changing but it's changing very slowly this government has made some of those issues priorities but as i say there is still

a lot of work to be done when the cry. for nothing q. let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world women took to the bikes in the spanish capital madrid to mark international women's day and many of them skipped work to protest against equality and gender. the parade ended a process to the headquarters of the conservative people's party which refused to take in women's day activities. emanuel macro has awarded frogs as a first to quote surprise to activists that dumas serves the french president described the town sue as an example of courage for work helping victims of rape and forced marriage to cover any well received the equivalent of one hundred thousand dollars as part of the prize. their international women's day is our opportunity to highlight the systemic problems facing women every day and how they

have been overcome by the kenyan capital nairobi korogocho slum was once the tourist for violence and sexual assaults against women but thanks to its oldest female residents things are changing the w.c. melanie corridor balam as a group of grannies you really don't want to mess with. just a few years ago this place was known as nairobi small dangerous slum presidents in korogocho lived in constant fear especially women like the sixty five year old jerry. white a cool american he would hear screams all the time women were attacked by boys who had come to rank them. the grannies of carl gotto as they call themselves regularly targeted superstitions the texans believed the women were a chevy free and that sex with them could kill the only section almost daily one of those numbers older women were sexually assaulted raped on that it. gave it

a few months one day we found mom unknown good 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 a place but we took her body to the mortuary has just moved in a moved with it and on that day we decided enough is enough and we women will start helping ourselves. planning to decide to do it. in the fullest like korogocho as the new women have had to bear the brunt of society liked 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 was. monica decided to fight back and the same time granny was robbed between sixty five and ninety years old meet once a week. and defend themselves. and when i'm walking down the street and an attacker

approaches this is how i fight. crowd in the compound to say that i'm a strong elderly woman. it is with this pride and dedication that guards get up to tackle and raised awareness in that community for a piece to be a daily reality with the. now running concerts she only hears of a case every second day and she will keep on fighting until every woman. and the. man. ten years from now this will be a new korogocho to his that why even though it will be known it's one of the neighborhoods that people are proud to live in coons. wanted to from.

syria where scores of suspected islamic state the fighters have escaped from the last pocket of territory held by the group hundreds have been leaving a small area of land controlled by i asked close to iraq where the army is on alert to stop and. just two kilometers away is the last town still controlled but i guess 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. i know they have no will left to fight. have no chance against the kurdish units of this are under siege a saudi according to the information we have they have hardly any food left and are now starting and i don't want to know. 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 cell. proclaimed holy warriors none of them will be allowed to break away into iraq those who try risk their lives. to be have been 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. 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 i never would have achieved victory. but willis be a final victory iraqis now remain vigilant after years of war and terror abraham hopes iraq has learned its lesson. and watching the news live from berlin still to come the ancient that is undergoing any brand is by being front.

of the mist. in a stupor the wells are about to leave a life in the spotlight the peace and quiet of a while centuries but first they have to undertake a complicated job. so much of venezuela is without electricity amid the country's worst blackout president nicolas maduro the closure of schools and all government bodies and told businesses to close or to aid efforts to restore power blackout is raising tensions in a nation already on edge because of the ongoing political turmoil. dining in darkness at this restaurant in the capital caracas it usual but outside shops a shuttered unable to do business venezuelans are quite familiar with power outages but this time the question is how long it will last trans and subways are off buses are packed full many commute hours on felt. i was traveling to buy

groceries cheese and mace but now all the shops are closed and the a.t.m. fees aren't working. let's imagine ourselves in a hospital right now what would an emergency be like right now in a hospital. maginot i just pray to god for those people that are in the operating room right now and at the moment. the government says the problem is here at the guru blaming the enemies of socialism for damaging the country's largest power station the opposition says government corruption and economic. management caused the blackout as politicians passed the buck venezuelans left to wonder where is the power. of. some more of the day's other stories thousands of demonstrators gathered in central algiers after friday prayers in the latest

protest against present abdelaziz bouteflika speed for a fifth report say all forces deployed to secure security forces and stop the public transport services into the capital. french prime minister tourism has called on the european union to make what she called one more push to get a revised the deal army brat said the country's parliament is due to hold a second vote on the deal next week prime minister so far failed to gain the concessions she says would see lawmakers support. the capsule bill by the american company space x. a splashdown off the coast of florida ending its test flight to the international space station if nasa dame's the unmanned mission successful the capsule could carry its first astronauts into orbit later this year. the hungers prime minister viktor orban says his populist if it s. party may quit the center right group it belongs to in the european parliament european peoples party had threatened to expel vedettes m c a u media campaign mr

obama's hinted that he may look to strengthen ties with programmes ruling the law and justice party if his party does end up leaving the p.p. . hungary's ruling fetus party is skilled in the art of provoking its critics this time even prime minister victor all bands own allies were offended thousands of taxpayer funded billboards across the country depict the e.u. commission president drunk lord young 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 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 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 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 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 my gang members that called on prime minister orbán to leave the conservative blog and form a new populist coalition with italy and austria in an interview on public radio on friday obama said he would still prefer to reform the p.p. swinging it towards an anti immigration platform but he also raised the prospect of fetus quitting the p.p. which will meet on march twentieth to discuss the matter. of a step sister of the direst frank who is jewish family hid from the nazis in

amsterdam before d. being deported to a concentration camp has visited an american high school part of it caused outrage last week and the school in southern california is facing criticism after pictures emerged on social media showing students giving loops around a swastika made from cups. the reporter alaska hospital looking into the story well tell us more about what happened so this all took place in the town of newport harbor in california students there from high school were having a party at some point someone constructivists last account of plastic cups photos were taken it was posted to snap it was quickly picked up by other people on twitter and other platforms now this is caused a bit of an embarrassment for the city for the you know the school and but also the city earlier this week a meeting that took place where hundreds of people showed up in the town to show their outrage over this and now it's gone and international attention because of

the visit of eva schloss who is the stepsister and frank you know who famously wrote her diary while hiding from the northeast in an attic and amsterdam during the second world war now every schloss wanted to come to the school to have a meeting with with these children. what has come out of the meeting. so she said it well it was a private it was a private meeting which she described as a very emotional meeting she she had an opportunity to tell the students about her experiences from auschwitz these kids are the students are sixteen years old which was the same age that she was when she was finally freed from auschwitz by that time most of the family had been noted it was only her and her mother who. who survived and i would have a clip of. her initial reaction to these photos but then. she didn't hear. it said to say. you know.

how you know. it. should still have been very keyed to really speak and here was a kid. able to do it said. so she said she she didn't believe that the students knew what they were doing for them it was a bit of a joke and she did also say that they did profusely apologized and so has there been much fallout from this i mean this has been an embarrassment for the disk or you know for the children for their parents but. there might be a silver lining to the story if you can have a have another listen to. it i think she said. i think it is actually perhaps it was a good signal if have but because it has caught nigel but and it is generally now especially because you're putting it over the whole county it might change at get

your everywhere. thanks for bringing us that story that iran is seeing the resurgence of an ancient art for tattoos that they're not illegal but they are definitely frowned upon so tattoo artists try to keep their services secret. this is how ass and they had to spends most of her time perfecting the contour africa's tumors 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 after seventy two ng is the job she's most passionate about and her preferred form of art i think we learned today 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 tootle 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 artists so often i rested here in the islamic republic although to choose and 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 into iran. in public body art mostly remains hidden beneath the moderate dress code that's mandatory here but inside coffee shops where 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 to hide what's missing inside. so as a business the tuning 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. 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 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 absent a being able to pursue her art is worth it. weekend actually gets underway on friday nights and one big story is shall be co-chaired to many go to desk who's taking his club on the road to face bremen last weekend to the asco and shelter were beaten for no by dusseldorf in their own stadium the club's kept faith with the coach so even if lots of fans haven't lost that bradman though would leave childhood just a point clear of the relegation zone by the end of the weekend. blue whales are some of the most intelligent and social marine mammals so for

conservationists it's a travesty that many of them are kept in captivity to perform tricks in aquariums around the world now a project has been the horse that aims to change that with the help of a jumbo jet. meet little white and little grey. two female blue whales they've been in captivity for a decade now and this is their daily routine. performing tricks to shanghai aquarium. but now their lives are about to change. this jumbo jet is being readed to take them to the other side of the world whales on a plane suspended in mats in a container in the hold with a team of feds 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'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 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 two 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 i believe concrete is behind and make their way to iceland joining little grey and little white. otter properly coming up next on the dublin where eco india the environment a magazine out the back at the top of the out of the.

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