what secrets lie behind these moments. find out in an immersive experience and explore fascinating world cultural heritage site. you world heritage three hundred sixty getting. this news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes is drowning in plastic waste we speak to the woman who's trying to make a country's government plastics completely and half its five thousand years also coming out. when vitalizing nairobi's colonial era live or. reaping life into the building its books and its reputation.

thanks for joining us we start today with a story of one woman's to ban plastic in guyana rubbish much of it plastic is often dumped in the streets due to insufficient bins and rubbish collection plastics bloke dreams that eventually end up in the ocean and now. korea has launched a petition to get plastics banned in her country was victorian a bit but best yes more are gonna. be effects of plastic waste this is a common sight on beaches across ghana plastic waste which wasn't properly disposed of washes ashore blocking drains and increasing the risk of water borne diseases. make. for. to.

waste collection trucks coming like this of the exception rather than the rule more often than not rubbish is simply left in piles on the streets it ends up in the drainage system and then eventually the ocean while the perpetrators go unpunished public awareness of recycling is also a challenge. unfortunately we we bundle everything together. the kitchen wastes. waste plastic wastes solids liquid everything goes into the garbage bin we don't do any separation or segregation whatsoever. began in government wants more investment in the recycling industry leaving waste can generate more than three hundred million dollars a year but some experts say it's too late. to exploit the value of plastics that we've been defaced option but given the level of

about it appears we've lost on the score. is two but. campaign is a pushing the government to do just that this petition posted on the website changed or cools for a ban on plastics and the clean ghana needs not just in ghana but across the world is urgent if nothing changes the world economic forum says that by twenty fifty the world's oceans will contain more plastic than fish. i'm joined now by. the organizer of the ghana plastics attention. thanks for joining us now your petition has already received twelve thousand signatures and counting did you expect this. i wasn't expecting it i was hoping for it because i can see that there was indeed you know people were calling out for somebody to start something i could hear when somebody says that something somebody said something now i thought who is

that somebody so i took this one myself to start the companies i was misled see those who have been for this is now you've said our country is filthy and smelly plastic everywhere these are your words how critical is the situation is dire i don't know the last anyone done that but every waste plastic it way to love the residential area i wake up in the morning people slam plastic wasn't my gates it goes that beach and it's fast you know what's up every ways did it got this actually the plastic and that's why i come very very to the city wow fortunate out stuff and another good side to to see many people who are very lies have signed up to your petition but what kind of support have you received are you a one man so job or was a support you have also myself a one man army because i really i don't have much support initially set up being

done at twelve thousand signatures is twelve thousand people supporting me so i'm very thankful that apart from that and five no other social support but i think once i was the next level people will rally behind me because i was not of leadership people want someone to need them another myself i think people who support initiative definitely i you just mentioned move on to the next level what do you mean by next level. the next level when i would answer that i know a person who doesn't say shouldn't send shouldn't say listen this amount of people outside was a lot less and so what do we do we don't we don't want people to know what was that companies producing plastics so let's get on the list as a minister we need to ban plastics but people still need to work so you call the companies with good weapons in plastics and find out how can government empower those people it's not scott insight piece of policing last so look currently producing plastics how can we help you to tell you it's actually sent to his

satisfaction so has to be recycled plastic so they have to make brown paper bags that's and it's little i mean it sounds like it sounds like there's going to be a lot of work involved as in the because it's not easy as the government just banning plastic bags and all of that so what do you envision they know what kind of timing or duration are you looking out for this to be feasible and how feasible is it also helps me feasible i think is feasible because we want as bank plastics done that you don't last as kenya has been plastic i was there one day it was amazing i thought in europe look just anyway so it's feasible in terms of time it will take time does this need to done and of built a resistance from people who are producing plastics they may not understand it but the good news is they just so if it's all time how much time i don't know i don't expect miracles and nights well all the best with this going on so i have thanks so much for the time thank you very much. now europe has been trumpeting

its success in slashing the flow of african immigrants but that doesn't mean that africans aren't on the move it's more about migration problem is being stopped before it reaches zero and that's partly because of the controversial policy implemented by the german government african migrants are being forcibly deported thousands of been abandoned in the desert. just specks on the horizon. people are migrants trudging through hostile terrain. is the border between algeria and the. to bondage and jihad mission crossing it fraught with danger but these people have no choice they've been rounded up by police in algeria and dumped at the border. now they are making the perilous journey into new share walking for several hours before they reach the settlement the dusty border town of. their refuge

a makeshift camp run by the united nations. authorities continue to sweep africans and deport them to the border counties like this one are busting at the seams. african migrants once flock to libya but the route through northern to libya has been made harder by an e.u. funded security force migrants often choose to cross into algeria. economic migrants who are going to look for. work. but even as migrants continue north the ruthless algerian crackdown ensures that plenty of people are heading the other way. now. when i think of libraries i think of dusty old books strict librarians and force and silence but libraries are vital for any city there are spaces to learn relax and read nairobi

kenya. but it's run down in the books. but these two women have taken it upon themselves to restore the library said former glory and read life back into its faded walls. traffic jams and busy street life is what most people associate with nairobi but nestled in the city center lies the neck millon library a space of peace and quiet but also a building that transports its visitors back into a different era yeah. my favorite room is something about the growth in this remote media thing. and i. want to restore the colonial era library as well as two smaller libraries in nairobi a mammoth task seeing as many of the books and documents have simply collected dust over the years there's tons of books here that we nor are given an entire

collection of roosevelt's writing in there a lot of the. more recent have been digitized but we only save some of the old stuff and then just stop keeping these massive dusty volumes in twenty eighteen the two partnered with the county government and founded the organization the bank. as active members of nairobi is writing and publishing community they're fascinated by the possibilities of the library they've organized readings from screenings crowdfunding and guided tours to raise money and awareness for the libraries. from our conversation. it's said that look people want space to be functional on the space to have to let life. you know it was things like twenty one. like teen. books is the belief we want to recognize themselves in the collection is a big one. we recognize that the books that are in this every have been here for

decades and they reflect the reality of the nation of haiti and before that when when slavery was built and that hasn't changed in our despite its shortcomings the library remains a refuge for students of those escaping hectic city life. jacobson and i has been mcmillan's chief librarian for over twenty years has dealt with it all from budgetary constraints to failed innovation efforts and yet he seems to have been crypt with a new enthusiasm at one zero and one bring with them. a lot of change for one there is hope. to see. how hard a lot of interest from one of the most. people willing to assist in this. would have been thinking over and over it in the number of years the publicity through the library tours and social media has even drawn in first time visitors i

needed like pretty significant there's anything interesting i'm pretty impressed i think it's an extraordinary structure one. but two seems that the place that it's a place that people can come and reflect in and work and read and. even in today's digital age one zero and russia can feel that my robbins need these spaces especially if they can serve as cultural hubs. while the two dream of new books by african and other modern day authors art exhibitions and cafes the first task this year is to take stock and bring the library back into shape. that's it for now from africa you can catch all austar these on our website on face book page. on installation by the british knives are an artist you should know about it has been patches spy the prestigious tate mordred museum in london when leave you now with some pictures of his installation and about where it's office.

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not the kind of freedom that we want. how did morality become a gateway to islamist terror. an exclusive report from a destroyed city. full of in the sights of i.r.s. starts april eleventh on d. w. . cut. hello and welcome to news from arts and culture renowned russian director kid really said about any call for his release from a controversial house arrest by a moscow court on monday we'll look at how the news is being received in the theatre community also coming up. for bookworms with our series one hundred german must reads this time with a disturbing powerful novel by austrian author and.

and a feast for the taste buds for the eyes and ears a musical dinner in france is the latest in general bending performance ours. well as a leading figure of the guard in russia said it a cult has made his name directing plays and films that challenge the status quo he's critical of everything social norms the church and of course the kremlin well i made a lot of enemies and in two thousand and seventeen he was put under house arrest supporters said it was an attempt to gag a critical voice that said it but any cause continued to work against all odds. rendition of vanities classic which permeated this past march it was directed by karylle setterberg he called from a distance using human speech sticks to exchange information a slave course laments their last home.