point for activists around the world combat in the issues facing women like the gender wage gap sexual violence and discrimination while progress has been made recently what do we including men still need to work on i'm called assman in berlin and this is the day. ten thousand men and women aren't equal we don't get the same money for the same what and that's why symbolic day like today is important to show was still here that i'm not here. it makes me angry that we are still good to think ok think what i eat. it shouldn't be that good me asking where did they. come we want to break the salary

cap we want to have the same opportunities as a male colleague and we want to fight the stain of gender violence and you can't get it. we have to look to the stage where a woman is comfortable to come out and say i was sexually abused or i was raped when it struck just that project that woman. as women we do not exist in the eyes of feel sorry. no equality. in a male dominated society. also on the day five years after the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight m h three seventy the relatives of those on board are still searching for closure. with your when we know what happened i'll be able to go in and unpack all these things that's when i'll finally be able to say goodbye. one

hundred ten years ago in new york city activists launched the first ever women's day since then international women's day has been part of the long battle for gender equality events are taking place in many parts of the world today clothing right here in berlin thousands of people marching in the streets here in support of women's rights it's actually been declared a public holiday and germany's capital the only part of the country to do so this year's theme is balance for better and demonstrators were protesting against sexism and gender discrimination. and the fight to overcome those problems extends worldwide 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. bhalla met a group of grannies you really don't want to mess with. just a few years ago this place was known as nairobi's most dangerous presidents in

korogocho lived in constant fear especially women like the sixty five year old gary . he would hear screams all the time women were attacked by boys who had come to rank them. the grannies of coral gotto as they call themselves regularly targeted superstitions of going to leave the women were h.l.v. 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 porch we took her body to the mortuary. 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 only 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 others feel the same. while between 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 and an attacker approaches this is how i fight. and i'm proud to say that i'm a strong elderly woman. it is with this pride and dedication that they have gathered technique and raised awareness in their community for a piece to be a daily reality with these granny. now running

she only hears of a case every second. and she will keep on fighting until every woman. and her. man. ten years from now this will be a new korogocho he said. it will be known it's one of the neighborhoods that people are proud to live in. different. let's get some perspective now on the issues facing women around the world and for that i'm pleased to be joined by mona eltahawy she also howie's aren't she's an author activist she's a feminist and a columnist for the new york times as well mona thank you so much for joining us first i just want to start off by taking a look at one of the tweets that you actually wrote today and here it is we have it

for you in this tweet you write this is why i hate international women's day and say so every year fight the patriarchy each and every second of every day of each and every month and you are actually between someone who noted that the media only seems to focus on women one time per year so when i ask you what exactly did you mean by that why do you hate international women's day i first of all thank you for having me and i used a much stronger word than fight which i know that you can't say on air so i encourage you. the reason that i said that is because i believe that every day is international women's day every day is a day that we must pay attention to the abuses of patriarchy that harm women and girls and non-binary people across the world every day we should be paying attention to violence against women and girls every day we should be asking why

aren't women paid the same why don't women and girls have the same opportunities but for me the main reason that i hate international women's day is because i think it makes us just think about peter halket on this one day and it makes its think about it in this very limited way in that we end up saying we want women's equality i want something that is much bigger than women's equality i want the destruction of patriarchy now this is not the destruction of men because patriarchy is not men patriarchy is the systems and institutions around the world which every day privilege male dominance so this is something i wanted to focus on every day and i want us to say around the world we must all be free of patriarchy every day that we often talk about the actions that women need to take in the five for women's rights what about men what about me what do we need to do. well i think that men need to recognize that patriarchy hurts them too because patriarchy has given us social

constructs it socializes us in a very particular way in being men and women and this is why i said women go the non-binary people because we are recognizing more and more the ways that petri arche hurt not just women and girls and not just men who don't obey the socialization of patriarchy but it also hurts trans women trans girls trans men and non-binary people in general and i think men need to recognize that secondly i think that what men need to do is to intervene when you see now who is violent against women who subject women to sexual assault it is meant by my father not it is meant so what i want men to do instead of writing to me and saying i don't do that hashtag not all men as we say on social media i want men when they see their male friends doing that to say hey that is wrong stop it right now and i want men

to recognize that i as a woman and others women gaza non-binary people deserve to be free of patriarchy but of the abuses of peter aki regardless of who i am related to because often we will we will see people plead to men by saying hey what if this is your mother what imagine this was your sister or your wife or your daughter you know this is a human being who deserves to be free of violence so i want men to recognize the how patriarchy to them and i want men to intervene and stop the harms of patriarchy against us or let's zoom in a bit now on women's rights if we can as of course you know in extreme differences when it comes to women's rights in different countries around the world you were born in egypt can you talk about women's rights in egypt and in that region how far have we come bear and what something to be done. absolutely patriarchy exists around the world it is the one thing that the entire world has in common with as you said the abuses of patriarchy in the forms of misjudging and other forms of

violence against women in gaza non-binary people occur on a spectrum of severity now in my country of origin egypt we had a revolution you remember in two thousand and eleven this revolution was against a dictator in the presidential palace we are still waiting for a revolution against a dictator on the street corner and that is the dictator that is is responsible for making public space especially harmful to women and girls and we are waiting for revolution against the dictator in the home and that is the dictator that is behind a mistake violence sexual assault in the home marital rape female genital mutilation all of those things and as an egyptian i am calling for the revolution against what i call the trifecta of misogyny which is against the data of the state the street and the home because we can take that resolution around the world so that revolution connects my country of birth egypt where women are still waiting to fight sexual violence or they still fighting sexual violence and in the home and

outside and women in the united states which is my country naturalization share those similar struggles and also in that part of the world where i'm from saudi arabia where i grew up women also faced a struggle because as we speak now there are seventeen women's rights activists in prison who were sent there by crown prince mohammed bin salman the de facto leader of that country who claims to be an emancipator of women and has imprisoned women who are truly emancipating women has all of them tortured and has charms them so i think it's imperative that we connect all of those countries and recognize that when the united states is fighting against women's reproductive rights as the trumpet ministration is doing this is connected to what mohammed bin salmen is doing in saudi arabia and to what that different diocese. regime is doing in egypt want to quickly the me too movement it's been seen as one of the recent successes

in terms of women's rights women's movement you actually helped launch hashtag called mosque me too can you tell me a little bit about what that was and what challenges you faced yes i was very inspired by black families activist around about who in two thousand and six launched this hash tag me to this hash tag went global last year when white actresses in hollywood made it very famous against harvey weinstein and other producers and famous people in the entertainment industry i took the kind of like the challenge that need to present to patriarchy by telling patriarchy that you are abusing male dominance and you are abusing that power to harm women and girls and as a woman of muslim descent i launched hash tag most need to i heard that a pakistani woman called to be khan was sexually assaulted during pilgrimage to mecca the holiest site for muslims and i connected it to my own sexual assault which happened in one thousand easy to do in pilgrimage in mecca and i launched

hashtag most need to to ask fellow muslim women to share their only their own stories to expose sexual assault in muslim sacred space so that we could say we as muslim women will expose sexual violence against us and we will not allow any religion or any society or any culture to silence women because the abuses of patriarchy must be fought everywhere mona in your opinion briefly if you can what are the biggest challenges still standing in the way in terms of women's rights. i think the biggest challenge right now is the rise of all thora terry and around the world when you look at europe i'm thinking of all bad in hungary i'm thinking of erdogan in turkey when i expand the lens i'm thinking of sisi in egypt mohammed bin sell man in saudi arabia donald trump in the united states also naro in brazil see in china i am seen to territory in the philippines i am seeing the so-called strong

men or for terry in men and fascist leaders around the world who seriously and dangerously. are a danger to everyone fright but seriously in the interest specifically women's rights and the one thing connecting all of these also are terry and is that they are terrified of feminists because feminists say at the heart of authoritarianism is patriarchy and the way it privileges male dominance so i think the biggest challenge to for women's rights across the world are these are for a tear in the around the world and we must fight them the sypher asli and vehemently globally. l to how we are feminist activist thank you very much for joining us thank you for having me. now if you're not one of the people counting down the hours it's exactly three weeks until united kingdom is supposed to leave the european union prime minister

to resign may has called on the e.u. to make what she called one more push to get a revised deal on bracks it the british parliament is supposed to vote on the deal for a second time next week but may still has not secured the concessions that she says she would need to secure lawmakers support. and with that deadline fast approaching let's get some perspective now from quentin peel he's the former foreign editor of the financial times and an associate fellow with the european program at chatham house a question there's as you mentioned three weeks to go it's coming up until the u.k. is scheduled leave the e.u. there's still no deal in place do you get the sense that there just isn't enough urgency out there maybe those facts just just aren't really sinking in yet i think there is urgency i think that everybody realizes how close to the cliff edge we are . but i do think that they haven't got a deal on the table that is capable of the set by

a clear the jar city in the british parliament so this looks like being a real crunch week to reason that is going to have one more go try to get a majority for the deal but the trouble is it's being attacked both from the side of hard line program members of parliament and from those who think that it's a dreadful deal because actually means that although it remade the quite close to the european union we were to have any influence on any of the decisions at all so both sides think it's awful. now as we heard the prime minister speaking today urging parliament to back her probe her breaks a deal i will just take a listen now to what she had to say earlier next week members of parliament in westminster face a crucial choice whether to back the bricks deal or to reject it back

it in the u.k. will leave the european union reject it and no one knows what will happen we may not leave the e.u. for many months we may leave without the protections that the deal provides we may never leave at all so three weeks to go into recent may there still with a lot of maize in that speech is saying we may not leave the e.u. for many months you're saying we may not leave at all what do you make of those remarks. well she's trying to scare the hardline brits in her own party and in their own government into voting for this compromise agreement that she has to sit with the rest of the european union but what she's concentrated on all along has been to try and keep her party together instead of reaching out across the house of commons to get a cross party agreement because i think she would be far more like you to get

a majority with a soft. close to be closer to the rules of the european union then she is to get the hardline sith that. most boasted herbage anti e.u. members of parliament really want so she's caught in that bind and what she's actually quite honestly said today is if they continue to reject the deal she's done that either they'll be a long delay or indeed what an awful lot of people do want in the united kingdom is there might be no brits it at all that would please the pro e.u. lobby it would have all the progress it has let's take a look ahead now so next week on tuesday the u.k. parliament will have its second vote on may's deal with the e.u. of course it was resoundingly rejected before what chances does her deal have of passing this time around. well i don't figure it has

a very good chance unless something dramatic happens between now and monday morning there are going to be negotiations in brussels over the weekend but i don't see them moving she lost that vote last time by two hundred thirty votes it's the biggest defeat of british government has ever faced in parliament for a major item of legislation so she's got to get half that number one hundred fifty members of parliament to completely change their minds and come back on her side she could probably guess sixty or seventy of her hard line breaks it says she can scare them into voting but she'll still need thirty or forty members of the opposition labor party to come over and support and i just think the numbers don't add up and if there isn't something really quite dramatic that happens in the negotiations in brussels then lot of people are saying she'll lose this one again

but at least one hundred votes which will look very damaging it shows that she's losing control of the whole process not just today we heard some some overtures from the e.u. and was already kind of rejected by the u.k. immediately but are we reaching the point where something like that will have to happen at the e.u. will have to step in and make some sort of concession in order to prevent a no deal by accident. well know no deal bret's it isn't inevitable because the if to reason a loses that vote on tuesday she's promised to put a vote on wednesday through the parliament saying. is part of it prepared to leave the erupt in union without any deal at all and almost certainly a clear majority in parliament will say no we have to have a deal so then she'll put a third which says ok do you want to us for an extension to all of this and i think

they will and i think she'll go back to brussels at the next summit meeting on the twenty first of march and she'll say please give us an extent and then it will be up to the twenty seven other members to agree unanimously to give an extension if they don't then we might rush out with no deal but i just don't see that the european union is in a position to make the sort of concessions that reason is asking for she wants really to be given a unilateral right to this backstop mechanism for the for the irish border that's an insurance policy to ensure that an irish border doesn't get reinstated which would undermine the peace process in holland it's all about the peace process in our land and i don't think the european union is in a position to make concessions on that point and peele associate fellow with the european program at chatham house thank you very much for that analysis.

five years ago today malaysia airlines flight m h three seventy took off from kuala lumpur bound for beijing one hour and forty minutes later it disappeared from radar screens and was never seen again and still one of the biggest mysteries in aviation investigators have no idea what happened to the plane or the two hundred thirty nine people on board but for the friends and family of those on the flight the lack of answers means they're still struggling to find closure john who 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. you know when we know what happened i'll be able to go in and unpack all these things 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 ciro which disappeared without a trace his own life has been a mess since then 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 turn 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. where they were like 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. the wreckage has never been found in 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 they're still not ready to give up hope. 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. the education itself. can be uplifting the stock exchange for what you know what you're missing the operator by feel a lot better when i arrived or 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 time happens . well that's it thanks for watching and for making us a part of your day. more

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