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thanks for joining us we start today with a story of one woman's. plastic. rubbish plastic. in the streets due to insufficient bins and rubbish collection of 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. more ghana's plastic menace. the effect 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. receiving. waste collection trucks coming like this are 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 liquids 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 believing waste can generate more than three hundred million dollars a year but some experts say it's too late if there's to exploit the value of plastics in the face option but given the level of

investment about it we've lost on that score. option is too but campaign is a pushing the government to do just that this petition posted on the website changed or cool for a ban on plastics and the clean ghana the needs not just in ghana but across the world is. 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 was in a state since 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 i

took this myself to start the company i was misled see those who think 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 one morning people some plastic are sent maggots in ghost and beans and it's plastic you know what's up every ways they got it's actually the plastic and that's coming very very the city well fortunate out stephanie not a good side to 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 woman so job or was a support you have also myself a one woman army because i really i don't have much supports initial set up being

done at twelve thousand signatures is twelve thousand people supporting me so i'm very thankful for that platform that's in fact no other social support but i think once i'm the next level people will rally behind me was not leadership people want someone to lead them another myself and 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 one i would answer that i know a person who sells and it's a shouldn't send and say listen this amount of people outside was a lot less band so what do we do we don't we don't want people to use what was it companies producing plastics so let's you know the minister is a minister who needs about plastics but people still need to work so when you call the companies with good weapons in plastics and find out how can government empower those people it's not psychic disability so producing best so currently producing plastics how can we help you to tell you it's not just to recycle factory so how to

recycle plastic so they have to make brown paper bags that's the next level 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 are 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 how smooth feasible i think is feasible because we want as bank plastics done that you guys buy don't last as kenya has been plastic i was there one day and 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 little resistance from people who are producing plastics they may not understand it to get losing their jobs so you want to give this up time how much time to say 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 has been 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. first there are just specks on the horizon these people are migrants trudging through hostile terrain. this stretch of desert is the border between algeria uneasy. 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're making the perilous journey and to 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 like this one are busting at the seams . 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 through. 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 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 former glory and breathe life back into its faded walls. traffic jams and. life is what most people associate with nairobi but nestled in the city center lies the macmillan library a space of peace and quiet but also a building transported visitors back into a different era yeah this is my favorite room something about the growth in this room that maybe. one juror and one to restore the colonial era library as well as two smaller libraries and 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 there than an entire

collection of roosevelt writing in there a lot of these newspapers are 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's 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. lawyers said that a lot of people want space to be functional longer spaces to have things like life . it wants things like toilet seat want. lighting books books is the belief we want to recognize ourselves and our 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 one nine hundred eighty and before that when when slavery was built and that hasn't changed in our despite its shortcomings a 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 renovation efforts and yet he seems to have been crypt with the new enthusiasm at one zero and bring with them a lot of change for one there is hope. to see. how hard a lot of interest from would be nice and what we need to see in these. i have been teaching over and over to the library since the publicity through the library tours and social media has even drawn in first time visitors i needed like

the city do you think there's anything interesting but i'm pretty impressed i think it's an extraordinary structure one. but two it just 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 feel that my robin's need these spaces especially if they can serve as cultural hops. while the two dream of new books by african and other modern day authors art exhibitions and cafes the first task 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 it's an installation by the british nigerian artists you should know about it has been spy the prestigious tate malted museum in london we leave you now with some pictures of his installation and about where.

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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 set up a brand called 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 cough continue to work against all odds. rendition of vanities classic which premie i did this past march it was directed by karylle setterberg he called from a distance using human speech states to exchange information a slave course laments their lost time.