there's tourism. in sixty minutes. to personally. with all of the wonderful people in stories that make the game so special. for all true friends. far. more than football more on. this is news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the teenage is putting climate change on the agenda school children in uganda skip cause to demonstrate for the environment we'll be talking to one of the students at the full brunt of the friday's full featured protest in kampala. also take you to nairobi wait world leaders gather to talk about climate change will also give they achieve more

than just posing for the cameras and giving speeches. and what's it like to be mistaken for a whale. to get a firsthand account from the side african diver who had an out of this world encounter with the beast of the ocean. and christine one goal welcome to news africa i'm glad you are today in the climate change movement started by the swedish teenage ugly it's such an inbred has seen schoolchildren from all over the world walk out of calls on fridays in protest aimed at bringing attention to climate change in uganda a group of students held a demonstration in solidarity with the movement in the capital kampala now because of strict laws in uganda on public protests they will restrict. it as to how far

they could go from the school but the students made the best of the situation. i spoke. with a student championing the hash tag fridays for future in uganda i asked her why she decided to become an activist for the environment way of the say that to become when they were meant to east was because when they saw what ghetto us chained to in play in her country i was so trained to employ a chain of bend and they said it was really a bug cause. the outcomes has changed. outcomes uganda is expressed in very climate change so i was sad to say that but. yeah ok so great it was an inspiration for you but talk to us about the challenges in uganda what are the climate challenges in your country.

the challenges uganda is a threshing now is the frustration there's a lot of this deforestation there's a lot of visitors. from grain each they. say that this is really affecting them there this is really affecting my fellow student that some of them went to school. so there are lots of there lot of changes uganda is experiencing now ok vs what is you'll you'll miss people in uganda who don't think that climate change is an urgent matter what is your message to them. my message to them is that when they say that cutting down trees it's not affecting at all then them. when they cut down trees they're going to leave us. that is thinking to say if i to will they give the for that they want. i'm giving them them

i say that they may day it's because they want to make good on just because they want to want but they're affecting someone else's lay someone else's future behaving that so. that there's a creek a shown things they've met so they should know things knowing when they. thank you liane i will get with the student change his a not so fun fact for you germany a country with significantly less sun than virtually any country in africa generates more solar power and the whole continent combined so it's really no surprise that leaders gathered at the one planet summit in kenya said africa needs more money and better science to protect it from climate change now at the summit billions of dollars were committed to the cause his kenya's president kenyatta climate change continues to be

a major threat to sustainable development worldwide its impact place is disproportionately every button the poor and vulnerable we must therefore integrate climate action and sustainable development in our collective efforts to achieve the objectives and other part of the greenland of the twenty thirty agenda for sustainable development. i'll be talking to the un's assistant secretary general about that one planet summit in nairobi in a moment but first to a group of kenyan environmentalist going to great lengths to raise awareness about the harmful effects of plastic they built an entire boat out of plastic waste to highlight the importance of recycling. the good ship flip flop you set sail on a mission it's the first sailing vessel built completely out of plastic waste incorporating around thirty thousand flip flops and other garbage the team took two

years and ten tons of plastic to build this ten meter vessel on lamu island off the kenyan coast we had this dream of. recycled plastic us there was so much crying about the plastic. we feel responsibility eight million tons of plastic waste end up in the world's oceans every year and some of it makes landfall here in kenya this group of environmental activists want to change that they collected garbage and raised money to build the guard they even have the support of the united nations program to combat climate change it seems so simple to me it's so obvious the motivation is just to share something positive we wanted to have a colorful beautiful message and that's what the flip flopper is it's really clear positive message about plastic being valuable. and aside from floating a message to save the environment so far flip floppy has managed swimmingly on

a five hundred kilometer voyage from mood to zanzibar. the u.n. is one of the co-chairs off the one planet submission joining me now from nairobi is such a thing he is the un's assistant secretary general he's also the head of the new york office at you when vironment welcome to africa mr party we've been talking to youngsters taking part in the friday's. for future movement you attended one of those protests in nairobi today but i wanted you to talk to whether or not you're satisfied with the outcome of this summit you've got youngsters out on the streets you've got politicians in a room can you deliver concrete solutions for these young people well i think the young people who are. on the streets for the right reasons and they should do more of it if you ask me. primarily because it is their future we are talking about.

and it is their generation that needs to take responsibility for what has happened and they need to learn from our generation that has not been very responsible in its behavior here we have created the planet i mean we're talking about a continent that's only responsible for four percent of global greenhouse emissions we sometimes hear some leaders on the continent talk about the fact that this is not a problem that we've created and so those that have created the problems should be the ones to commit the resources to fix it what is your message to leaders who speak like that. well i think you know the i wouldn't argue with them because these are a sovereign countries with her sovereign responsibilities and they have their views which is perhaps rooted in the facts as they see it but what i would say is that the time to change our practices our behavior and the time to become sustainable is now and i would urge those leaders to not be led by the destructive

policies of other countries and other governments that have seen large scale devastation of natural resources and that has literally brought the planet to the level of bankruptcy or not or a source bankruptcy that it faces now so there's nothing to learn there is there are lessons to draw and i urge all those leaders to step back and see the facts for what they are and chart out a very different pathway right rose right misreported very quickly if you could money has been committed here money has been pledged and it's not unusual a lot of these times this is what tends to happen but how can we can we be sure of the fact that this money is actually going to go to the places that it's it's said it's going to be going to. i think it's about creating a partnerships it's about realising the potential of new ideas and there is no dearth of money we have for too long focused on public finances that is governments

contributing or a set of governments contributing for a set of countries that are in need of it whereas i think the true promise lies in mobilizing private finance for public good and in that you know just to give an example of the pension funds of the world. together manage about eighteen trillion dollars if even five percent of those resources we're channelized into sustainable development and climate sensitive agriculture climate smart agriculture i think the world will change right i don't think there is any dearth of resources it is just the lack of imagination such a tree patty the un's assistant secretary general thank you. and now we bring you the story of the man who was almost just swallowed by a whale what you're seeing in the picture behind me is a diver by the name of rain that caught in the jaws of a bride's whale this happened along the southern coast of south africa while he was

filming sharks feeding his shrimp on how he survived and what he thinks we can learn from his experience. what happened was it suddenly got dark and i felt some pressure by him and being pushed forward and only then i realized a whale had grabbed me you can't panic there's never room for painting you always have to be calm and i think i did the right thing otherwise we would be able to. as we left on that very day from port elizabeth harbor we drove about thirty nautical miles south into the indian ocean and we found a big ball of birds feeding on fish so i started adjusting my camera and start taking pictures of sharks going through the ball of fish and then out of the sun without any further notice from my lift side something grippy and push me through the water and i realized instantly that it must be a whale it got pinched like and dark and only then i started my thinking process in

terms of it was more a reaction process because i knew he can swallow me so most likely he will die of. breath and fortunately this gentle giant realized very quickly that i was not his prey and he pushed me out again with the water and it's probing once i realized it was a whale and that i could still think i had no fear whatsoever but there was also no time for there was only time for reaction what it actually shows is the whale instantly really realized his mistake and imagine how it would have been a big piece of plastic it would have swallowed me and at the end of the day he would have died now we are able as humans to prevent plastic in the sea and this is what we must do we must help these creatures to survive and this is the message which goes out of the. i believe that they have news africa you can catch all our stories on our website and our facebook pain we need you now with more pictures

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a listen to what some called nick. but we start with the sad news that renowned curator aqui and was or has died after a long battle with cancer born in nigeria and was always instrumental in pushing the art world to embrace a more global view of contemporary art and art history he was the first african born curator to organize the venice be anonymous and he oversaw some of the most important global exhibitions of the last decade bringing artists from beyond europe and the u.s. into the spotlight. enjoyed a breathtaking career and nigerian born citizen of the world who network throughout the global business in the one nine hundred ninety s. and was a breakthrough with this and say.