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there is hope you can do decent struck the elections why they matter to asia in forty five minutes on the w. what secrets lie behind these memos to. find out you know first of experience and explore fascinating broad cultural heritage sites. d w world heritage three sixty goofy on. the phone. this is state of the news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes to sudan one week off to omar al bashir has al stuck protesters all stood on the streets and they have vowed to keep demonstrating and to transfer of power from the military is complete. some people want to be full of of fresh air and it will be felt that gathered down for those who want to control of the regime well the regime are still
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here with up and as zimbabweans mark thank you nine years of independence we ask just how free is the country i'll be joined by a human rights campaign against activism has made him an enemy of the state. i'm christine window while come to news africa i'm gadgets. it is one week since the sudanese military ended the thirty year role of president obama al bashir following four months of street perseus the army now say as it has detained the ousted president in a prison but share once used to hold political prisoners but if the army generals who threw out the shia believe that would end the open opposition to the ruling it needs they've been proven wrong. amos traces are demanding the military hand over
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rule to a civilian administration and have maintained a picket at the army headquarters. the army complex in khartoum reverberates with the sound of protesters demanding the dissolution of the military council that replaced omar al bashir. medical professionals from across the capital marched to join the blockade of the headquarters many women among the much as. my mother i knew them and because the women are asking for their rights because they're always oppressed in everything they are pressed by society oppressed an education oppressed and that they cannot live their lives normally like the men currently our demands are that women have representation in the transitional civilian council god willing my. mother was healed because some people wanted the fall of year well he felt that i. didn't know enough sas for those who wanted the fall of the regime well the regime is still here and our demands have
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not yet been met and we will stay here until there are the will of. the international community is closely watching developments in sudan after the african union issued an ultimatum to the sudanese army to hand power to a civilian administration the united nations has now appointed an envoy to work with the a you to mediate an end to the crisis. the minute procedure comes around or four indicated that it would carry out reforms of some of the governments is the truth including the national intelligence and security services indeed the m.p.c. is a reprise in high repute government or the shares are said to be unpopular with their ministry has perhaps in an attempt to gain trust and court t.v. demonstrates is remain skeptical of reports that the military has arrested former president of russia and some of his closest associates including two of his
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brothers to the crowds outside the defense ministry return to civilian rule is a minimum demand. as the done slowly gets used to the idea of a life without. the people of zimbabwe are still getting used to life without rabbits the former president and revolutionary leader was forced out of office by the army in twenty seventeen he was replaced by innocent non-government today as a bobby and small thirty nine since the end of colonial rule based growing anger over the failure to end the economic disaster and if by mugabe and the tough line taken by the government against greece and protests of a fuel hikes was no less brutal and the excesses of the mugabe era. so is the human rights situation any of base and now all that it was and that mugabe my guest today may headlines in two thousand and sixteen when he sent the former president robert mugabe every other provocative birthday present was
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a prison uniform mocked crimes against humanity he was suggesting will have a should be jailed for human rights violations so the activists nicholson at him or joins me now welcome to his africa we're talking about zimbabwe instead of raising independence they say nine years of independence which is say symbol ways a free country today thank you for having me here christine. this did. that in the very very important day in zimbabwe this is the day we are supposed to go to commemorate or to celebrate our independence day does a very important day where we also salute and their contribution in the sector fries made by those who fought in the labor erosions struggle but it is also the day which makes main office of zimbabweans a day i said looking at the zimbabwe that we have today because there's very much lead to lefty to to celebrate we can we it's called an independence day but there's no liberty and that is not independence at all so that's makes this
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a day you say there's no lives and you've brought it with you at your latest book it's titled dismantling the system of mugabe ism in chapter nine and you talk about this in bobby needing to be liberated from zanu p.f. elaborate on that. in this book dismantling mugabe's him i painted this book soon after the military coup which of a through president robert mugabe november of twenty seven thousand and we we were so excited and the euphoria was so high yet but later on we realized that we changed the feste of the person that can even did a bit could do the colonial you know the one. of the or precise need was an oprah so we got mugabe no president so i realized that. we are getting it wrong because we are changing the faces of the oppressed of not the entire system so by dismantling mugabe isn't in the in this book ugly doing that yes mugabe is gone but
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the mugabe's him it's a culture it's a system with tentacles like an octopus so we need to dismantle the entire system so that we can we're going to be able to establish a new political structures which rent and it was about to release to meaningful change that we anticipate right you have been going around india bend and you have been bringing the plight of the human rights situation in zimbabwe to people here in europe what don't we know about the human rights violations that are taking place in zimbabwe right now the situation in zimbabwe is moving from actually bad to west out one day international community out one the word to know that there are many untold stories untold gross human rights violations special of each other and in need generally of twenty nine thousand the beatings the torture the rape and the terrorists and killings of two or so or civilians with the army using eleven i
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mean it's not civilian that lot of gross you know as violations which happened which are not told the internet was bled out so i feel this is a story which needs to be told these are violations which needs to be investigated up to this day they're not told because people are afraid some are just getting out of prison on bail and and things like that so many of these violations remains and untold because of the intimidation because of the repression which is underway rice and human rights activists causing massive oil thank you. all right on next story isn't mozambique which continues to struggle with the devastation caused by cycling much of the attention has focused on the situation in the port city of beira that city suffered damage to ninety percent of the buildings many people have been displaced but the story is similar along the coast off mozambique nearly two million people are still in need of help hundreds of thousands of houses
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have been damaged all destroyed our correspondent. she the community off and same tests this report. these fields way jackie's only source of income they were in fact her entire life she has always lived in farm to you with her family but this year everything changed. immediately when it was corny used to look much better then the sign clone hit and everything died a day later the floods came and wiped down everything we lost everything we grew rice over there it's all gone now too we've already used up all the rice from last year we were waiting for this year's harvest all the corn and all the rice everything's gone. a month ago cyclon he died swept through destroying homes in the region many people are still sleeping out in the open or in tents.
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most people here rely on foods just tribulations just their wife that is also the case for jackie and her family. this is the first international food aid to reach the local people here one month after the cyclon hit aid organizations have delivered badly needed rice beans and all the jackie is really. because of it we have way too much we suffered for so long and had nothing to each day after day we just got by and the remains of whatever vegetables we could find. just today more than two thousand families came for rations most of the people here are farmers and they wait impatiently as the food is distributed. under water for quite some time so they are in some location even in the cities of
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. almost west so you can imagine. kind of the crops and scrapes to expect this community to be fair for quite some time. finding in this area. that jackie has arrived back home or at least what is left of it her previous home was completely destroyed in the cycle with the help of her neighbors the sixty one year old managed to build a small hats everything that jackie could save is in here it is also where she and three family members sleep. nevertheless at least they finally have rise to cook the family has not eaten a proper meal for weeks now. of course i'm happy right now but then again not really because when the food here is
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gone i don't know where i'll get more i don't know what will happen i don't have any money nothing to. rebuild my house with and thing in the ditch. there's a glimmer of hope in jackie's field at least a neighbor gave her a few seeds and they're just now starting to sprout if everything goes to plan and she could be eating her own crops again in the bud six months time. that's all i drink three supporting there that's it from news africa you can catch all story is on the news and on is on our website and facebook page we need you now with images of the african personalities who made it onto the time one hundred most influential people i think yeah you can probably recognize some of them i certainly can't that's it i've now see an extract from.
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europe because of the reaction of the grass. began around six hundred years ago. in the renaissance the revolution unfortunately made the smell that people became aware of their abilities and strengths and
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a new way there was an outpouring of. architect. designed. to catapult the darkness to jews into a. renaissance. starts. w. . welcome to arts and culture and today a lot of contrasts a look at how not a thief will can rise again and another house of worship where music is shaking the foundations. in finland who's not letting any of his congregation snooze metal mass the decibel count is high.
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and also in contrast the quiet realism of. display here and. after monday's terrible blaze in paris there's talk of a temporary wooden church being wrecked today on the square in front of not traditional cathedral to accommodate the faithful that is one of the latest measures proposed while first the clear up and then the restoration on the way now this is not the first time that the historic gem has fallen victim to flame so let's see how it is possible for architectural masterpieces to rise again like a phoenix from the ashes. almost lost to monday's fire down cathedral still stands proudly over the river sen and with billionaires such as the owners of. the outpouring and money to rebuild the cathedral is now
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guaranteed to survive but will the new notes look just like the old one and how quickly can it be rebuilt france no.

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