this is the news live from women take to the streets women's day. in turkey's largest city and around the world people are protesting and striking as they call for gender equality also. dining in the dark a power outage closes down better as well of the government blames what it calls the enemies of socialism but the country's biggest and actress is the song. on the

cargo plane prepares to welcome to ferry special passengers little grain white living a life of showbiz chinese aquarium during the roles of open field to pollute the. welcome to the program international women's day is being marked around the world to us go live to istanbul where our rally for women's rights is underway. no one gave a speech at the istanbul stock exchange a spectacular stunt for female police called abseiled sixty four meters from the bosphorus bridge to raise awareness of women's roles in society. correspondent han is. close to the fire.

welcome. or right yes i'm right in the hearts of is to move the city's heart this is where the major women's march is taking place today many many women have gathered here around the square actually it's very difficult to say right now how many of them hundreds definitely maybe thousands actually there are many many more down the other streets so the women are as they traditionally did planning to march down is equal ever knew that's the main shopping boulevard here in istanbul but right at the moment it's not clear whether they can actually do so there is reportedly a police a blockade at a certain point so women are kind of stuck between different police blockades there is having a police presence over there i'm not sure whether you can see the guys and girls

there with how minutes we are seeing tanks police are heavily armed but the women are in good spirits this is a day of celebration but at the same time due to the security conditions here it's also a very tense atmosphere what sorts of changes. well i heard these are protests and this protest particular has been organized by many women's organizations in general women here in turkey are calling for gender equality for better representation in politics but many also for an end to violence against women rights groups all recording several hundred femicide each year but i earlier today talked to a few ladies about what they are demanding and i suggest we listen to what they had to say but it couldn't be shared this as women we do not exist in the eyes.

no equality. in a male dominated society. can i gravitate to the streets and make our voices heard because the turkish justice system won't listen to us. say i have been harassed many times in my life by my boyfriend by people around me psychologically and physically and that happens to so many women in turkey and. make up outfits politicians are trying to tell us what we can do and what we can't do that forces us to take to the streets. you mention the police presence there this is a country where the source of demonstrations are not normally tolerated why has today's been allowed to go. well this is during the past years

especially since the failed coup attempt in summer two thousand and sixteen there has been a massive crackdown on media on the private people on civil society organizations for voicing criticism of the government or president add on himself so these kinds of demonstrations or similar demonstrations are usually banned right after they are being announced so this is the situation right here in turkey another example i can give you the saturday mother's a really popular and well known protest group was just banned last year after they have been demanding justice publicly for twenty years so this happens here in turkey right now it seems the government does not want to see much protest out on the street especially when it comes to to certain groups. both thank you. we'll take a look at some of the international women's day here stories from around the world

when they took to the streets in the spanish capital trades to mark the day many of them skipped work to demonstrate against inequality and gender based violence right and that in a protest at the headquarters of the conservative people's party which refused to take in women's day activities. and you delhi hundreds of women demonstrated calling for an end to domestic violence sexual assault and gender discrimination with boys still prized more than girls in the country a prejudice against working women remains and will make as of yet to legislation to increase the number of women in parliament. and in the kenyan capital nairobi women protesting also against gender based violence and calling for the perpetrators to face justice especially those in power on down the street to send assault survivors need more protection in order to feel safe enough to speak out. a female genital mutilation or f.g.

remains widespread in some parts of the world even though many countries now ban it all discovered that the world health organization says more than two hundred million women have survived mainly in africa the middle east and asia the w.'s the constant went to a village in tanzania form a practitioner after you have described how she was recruited to the job. these girls are heading back from the so-called initiation ceremony you can tell the women who have been through it by their painted faces and hats people here say they are no longer the girls they were if now made the transition to womanhood. i'm going to grumble at those parents who say that since female genital mutilation is banned i should cut just a little and then there are those parents who want to go in the traditional way which means cutting the interest and the libya. superior has been carrying out the

procedure since two thousand and one the community's clan leaders gave her the job . as a comedian i had lost about seven pregnancies before my appointment and then one day i went to the market and i heard people say that i had been chosen to do the procedure that season and i came home and told my late husband and when the clan leaders came to my house to ask me to do the job my husband at the time said we should not refuse because it would bring us good luck. the sixty two year old says she would do the procedure on up to three hundred girls during the traditional initiation season charging the equivalent of six years each. fifteen thousand tanzanian shillings was the price that money was from the devil really it would slip through my hands i had to share it out with the kind leaders and then pay all those who helped me in the process but i used the money to build at least two houses in this column i want to.

on the he. turns and he has sexual offenses act prohibits genital mutilation of girls under the age of eighteen the lawyer ventured we caught up with supreme in two thousand and fourteen and she spent a year in jail since then no more girls have gone under subpoenas knife. no no one moved all of the job was given to me in the community seen them i would not go back and ask for it no. women in the. or the. not far from serious homing terry and me is st catherine's primary school. other schools in the area closing for the holidays but st catharines is staying open girls come from far and wide here they can hide from some of their cultural traditions at least until the initiation season ends in january.

because say that before this compound was turned into a school it used to be used to carry out female genital mutilation and superior used to lead some of the ceremonies now it's a refuge not only for girls but for boys as well. sixteen year old to zero helps out taking care of schools pigs two of his sisters were to be subjected to genital mutilation this season knowing that he brought them here now it's not safe for them to go home. for aids. because. they don't even like to see me because they know that my sister. and i also. starts. nuff but asking why isn't would that the war would mean. they thought they they told them that that's not

they don't or they priming to do one. yeah. so now the school's high walls are keeping them safe authorities at the school say they expect about three hundred girls to arrive at the refuge center before christmas. are you hard to call right as you are now a woman regional goodwill ambassador for africa welcome to day w another having undergone after yourself you have been fighting this practice are you willing. i wouldn't say this earlier wouldn't because this will have i think that the that we consider ourselves when in this act is when they are s.g.m. and we are in the world what many people outside of this culture cannot grasp is that if it is awful women who pressure that daughters into having this procedure

why do they do that when they're very much aware of the often disastrous results i am personally i think we are look at it it's like them is the violence women they like that the used in the this is ration and. the men that when that to them love them that's why it happened actually i was not the mothers and i'm grandmothers before us thought that the we're doing something that was beneficial to us because they went through it damn i just went through it and he believes that this is inherently a part of their culture that a chance to do away with cycling that's why it's one and when this other woman it's deep rooted in our culture and is hot for people to let it go. i want a woman like you and says oh stop this that this is this this must end or indeed if a girl says no i don't want this what happens then what happens to that. i mean you

get a lot of hostility and i mean to those they i still get insulted by people that are in support of this practice a lot of them that are awake you wonder west oh. somehow that these are not our own right yet and as african women we should be. can you hear me yes i can hear. that as african women we should be proud of this and we should be proud that this is happening to us but then what we have to remember is the fact that this is violence against women and girls this is child that these a lot of times when f.d.r. happens it happens to children that have no say whatsoever in what happens to their bodies and we can't continue hiding behind closed doors and say in the this is something that we should value you know so now that the tanzanian government has

banned. how do they get society to change its mind i think it's through education i mean the only reason why someone might is empowered and not to be able to say no and continue to stand in my school despite every challenge i continue to face is because of education so i think one of the only ways that we can get a lot of the want is to education good talking to you we wish you well and your husband cora u.n. women regional goodwill ambassador for africa thank you. when pushing for change. news africa i would also make big rallies popping punches in kenya tackling the culture of rape is one of the country's most dangerous slums. and the women who mean business will talk to the creators of she leads africa helping young african women achieve their professional dreams.

much of venezuela is without electricity amid the country's worst ever blackout president nicolas maduro has ordered to schools government entities and businesses to close in order to assist efforts to restore the blackout is raising tensions in a country already on edge from the ongoing political turmoil. dining in darkness at this restaurant in the capital caracas. 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 trams and subways are off buses are packed full many commute hours on felt. i was traveling to buy groceries teas and me but now all the shops are closed and the a.t.m. fees aren't working but i think the annoying. let's imagine

ourselves in a hospital right now what would any 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 mismanagement caused the blackout as politicians pass the buck venezuelans left to wonder where is the power. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world thousands of demonstrators ago gathered in central algiers after friday prayers in the latest protest against president abdul aziz beautifully his bid for a fifth. report say our forces deployed security forces and stopped public transport services into the capital. britain's prime minister trees rain has called on the european union to make what she called one more push to get

a revised deal brett said pollard's is due to hold a second vote on the deal next week if the prime minister has so far failed to gain the concessions she says would secure lawmaker support. a former us army intelligence analyst to chelsea manning has been jailed after refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating the website wiki leaks manning said she objects to the secrecy of the proceedings and that she's already told authorities everything is universe and she served a jail term after leaking documents to the site in twenty ten. a casual built by the american company space x. a splash down off the coast of florida and the good test flight to the international space station if nasa deems the unmanned mission successful we capture could carry its first astronauts into orbit later this year. another step sister of anne frank the jewish direst whose family hid from the nazis has visited a california high school after

a party there caused outrage last weekend the school's facing criticism after pictures emerged on social media showing students giving nazi salutes around a swastika made from beer cups. the reporter. has been looking into this story welcome to tell us what happened so these nazi salute photos were initially posted. by people at the party they were quickly picked up by the social media and on twitter for example caused a bit of an embarrassment to the school lost last week earlier this week hundreds of people showed up at a meeting there to express their outrage and now it's gone international attention because last has decided to visit the school she is the step sister anne frank who famously wrote her diary washee was hiding in an attic and that i'm during the second world war from the nazis and you know as you know she ended up being caught

by the nazis and died in a concentration camp so what came out of the research. describe it as a very emotional meeting she had a chance to educate the students and tell them about her experiences of being in. these students are the same age that she was at sixteen when she was finally freed from the concentration camp at that time father was dead her brother was the only she and her mother had survived now we have a clip of us on her initiate initial reaction to seeing these photos. here. he said. he didn't really speak and here. she.

said so what has been the fallout now she doesn't believe that these students knew what they were doing it was a bit of a joke they didn't understand the complexity now she said that they did apologize profusely to her but she also says there might be a silver lining to this whole incident if we can have another listen to what she had to say. she has said. that she did it actually perhaps. but because it has opened and it is generally now especially putting it. at get your everywhere so she talks about changing attitudes you also says that in light of these incidents it's clear that more needs to be done to educate young people about the holocaust and you know this is not just happening in a vacuum and this there's an order to in the us of a ninety four percent

rise in anti-semitic incidents in public schools in our country couple of years ago and we see the same trend in europe in germany there was a ten percent. increase in and isn't a semantic offenses that was recorded by the police in france the same seventy four percent increase in anti semitic incidents in that country so this goes to show more than seven decades on from the second world war and it's just shows that the importance of course education. thank you. beluga whales are some of the most intelligent and social marine mammals so for conservationists it's a tragedy so many are kept in captivity to perform tricks in aquariums around the world now a project has been launched that aims to change that with help but jumbo jet meet little white and little grey. to female 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. they've traveled 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 wells 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 near 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 blucas live in captivity organizers hope some of them might leave concrete details behind and make their way to iceland

joining little grey and little white. so those in capital sarajevo next to me to a group of artists are transforming the streets with graffiti but it's not just about making the city more colorful they want to show off as a place with a diverse and multi-ethnic history and they say that message is more important now than ever with recent elections are revealing a divided population and the growing nationalist movement. binyamin change it sees the grey walls of sarajevo as his canvas he loves transforming them into colorful works of street art. a few years ago he and some friends set up the association. for colored gang their first project was a massive tree. there. we wanted to create a large format light and colors. so that everyone walking past would get some

comfort in this grey and quantity environment. but it's not only about making sarajevo brighter. also has political messages to spread on a massive wall not far from the city center they've spray pictures of monuments from former yugoslavia to remind people of the shared history between bosnian serbs and croats. they are the moral of the devil brought to this mural when fighting against what people are constantly being dished up or against hate speech against hatred and against division. and so what will you not clap does its best to spread its vision of a brighter better world. and to do this they also work with other artists sometimes from other parts of former yugoslavia. they need to

talk about new projects in their small office space they keep receiving more commissions from the city as well as organizations and private individuals right now they're working with the school and at the former olympic stadium. the artists ethnic origins are not an issue. because a korean issue an old machines humanity look at our name. our group is multi-ethnic and colorful in every way. they have of us an option that. the artists of over you know hope that more art on the streets of sarajevo will help make the world a better place with fewer divides between different ethnic groups and religions more arts for less hate. this is d.w. news coming up next a day did d.w. news i think that will make the crappiest touching a punch in kenya as i tackle the culture of fright but one of the country's most

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