time you're on just such the no. and find for the truth. time to over come down dreams and connection. it's time for. coming up ahead. minds. this is the news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes it's a landmark ruling that could have a huge impact but the decades to come along pick gold medalists cost us amanda was lost her fight against reducing head to still strong level to compete with women we get reactions from the man who helped bring has success. also coming out german chancellor angela merkel has begun a three d. toll of africa region we speak to a security experts on the growing militants problem india.

julia you're welcome to the program she is known as the golden girl of south africa it two time limpid gold medalist in the woman's eight hundred meter competition and three time world champion boxer had to keep competing in women's sports cost us in may now will have to take medication to reduce head to still strong level this is after the court of arbitration for sports this mishap deal against international law that is federation to compete without medication the ruling could have a huge impact on hair on the future of the sports. caster semenya became a sensation off today it's less six world championships in berlin in two thousand and nine she was only a teenager when she won the eight hundred meter is the new world champion had been a virtual unknown. she was hailed as our golden girl back in south africa

even meeting then president jacob zuma. and the north. korean. but a storm was brewing in the sporting world the i w f the athletics governing body ordered her to take a gender test. servers worldwide speculated about whether the shyster manuf was into sex she was initially suspended but was eventually allowed to keep her gold medal and returned to women's races. but the debate about her agenda rumbled on. in twenty eleven the idea introduced a testosterone limit it wanted athletes like so many are to take drugs to lower their natural level of the hormones to be able to compete with women but in twenty fifteen the court of arbitration for sport ordered it to suspend the practice and

less it could prove higher levels created an unfair advantage in twenty eighteen citing a study it had commissioned the i w f introduced even stricter testosterone limits . the crew value for the empowerment of girls and women through athletics the regulations that we are introducing to protect the sanctity. of fair and open competition so many appealed to cas arguing that a sports federation should not have the right to force athletes to control their hormone levels. in announcing the verdict today casts expressed concerns about the effect of the rules and suggested delaying the implementation of the rules to allow time to gather more evidence. the. regulations discriminatory but the majority of the panel found that on the basis of the evidence submitted by the parties in the procedure such discrimination is

a necessary result and proportionate means of achieving the i do believe objective of preserving the integrity of female athletics so many of herself has responded on twitter saying simply sometimes it's better to react with no reaction. the outcome of the case will have major repercussions on the future of sports and on society's understanding and interpretation of what defines gender. i'm joined now from south africa by. time mr sutcliffe now tell us how did you feel when you heard the ruling. when it came through of being devastated maybe you didn't understand and. very unhappy. really for me it's a blow for women's as it exists i think for women sports around the world and

sporting in general what does this ruling do mean for custom here very close to where no we saw house was fighting this appeal in the courts and now this ruling what does this mean for her. well look the defeat will be appealed or you know i just won cost of the honor because that big diff he will be in appeal. because if you read just push the summation the short sort of three pages that were released were two pages were released there's a lot of ambiguity there's a lot of questions are lost by the court of arbitration of the audible a for how it's going to be monitored and what happens if a person this person that so there's a lot of soul searching still to be done with the other one a five done thing that i have applied they monsey it but said it was not i think we're going to do what i would i would imagine one comes to she will want to appeal the decision should we ignore totally do that see that she really does

have some advantage because of a higher testosterone levels. not in think you should just the same way as you shouldn't ignore anybody that says that you had thought it and gone to java while the other side was because he had a size thirteen foot. and the others had a size not just the same as that some of the bosco players applies to seven foot knowledge compared to those of the six foot six. if you're born that way you have certain genes and genetics is something new that the world is going to be reading about the locks in the next few years the way you're born is the way you move and the way you grow up is the way you grow happened and do not you can change that and we proved in two thousand and nine that she was a woman that she basically is born a woman was born a woman and is the woman how much of an impact really could this have on the sports

oh how and how many of those athletes they tasted and the size of the taste of forty six how many of those forty six that they tasted have the levels above five if there is twenty of them that means world of the world you lose twenty talk athletes female athletes you know the other side or the science effects of having two heart of your lives on the side of it i don't know and no other long term of a short term for their physical nature or they have a mental nature. these are things that are now going to have to be put to the dish that they question the sippy or evolving around in my head and i'm thinking well. is this good for the sport is a good for sports around the world is it good for women's sport around the world because now you could find it women still missing the true some of the up advantage over me i'm going to take her on now is will too because she's beating me all the

time. well definitely many questions left unanswered but live for my coach of custom i now on mental thank you very much for your time. german chancellor angela merkel will spend the next three days in the region of west africa it region rocked by growing jihad as she said book enough or so then to go in mali finally she is set to attend the g. five summit of sahara leaders where security cooperation will top the agenda a visit. to an african country since two thousand and sixteen underlines efforts to strengthen diplomatic and security partnerships in the region. a year ago shots rang out on the streets of walk in the back enough capital. is the most militant the french embassy and the country's military headquarters eight soldiers were killed. three years on barely a week goes by in

a country without another attack. rampant poverty makes it easy for militant groups to attract new recruits. young unemployed people on the edges of society are easily recruited by the terrorists. and the north of the country it's particularly dangerous one hundred thirty thousand people have fled war raids are kidnapping the un refugee camp in the region is unable to take care of them due to millions in underfunding. in neighboring mali and some two thousand schools have been closed due to the terrorism threat but they remain shut long term it would be catastrophic for the region education the most important factor for a better future. thirteen thousand u.n. soldiers are based in the region to counter the terror threat among them eight hundred fifty. but they are stationed in mali and can't guarantee security for the

entire region and so far an african division hasn't been able to either with me now is dr. who is a political analyst in the region thanks for joining us. so troubling the region what do you or people expect from. well i think first of all. a lot of conversations around what is going on right now in the region in terms of security east who's governing but also in terms of thanks nic they should i think americans has made it clear that she wants to support the region so i would say to those countries. send a guy and he needs center and. probably also money to any and chad or maybe to take her and this would be

a good opportunity for them to discuss wish wish miracle under us issues. how important is it that mechanised going again because this is not the first time she's going to that region yeah actually less than three years ago she was in the region which i think. the reason why she's going back i believe is because the security situation is worsening and untreated. kena. mali are still struggling to deal with security issues and actually security issues are a stake in it and of other forms which i think he's seemed to visit. who are local civilians blaming for the western security situation. i think cannot softly be would be one of the first things people would nation in that median and who were responsible that collapse so for example i have heard in the

region people blaming the two and one when people say nature they mean basically the us and europe so they feel like. europe and in particular germany and france should take responsibility and. issues. there are that he sure is going on in the region so for example people do not talk about what is going on in terms of social transformations in terms of for issues related to data and demographic terms so for us to ration for you was as well does he should i kind of play into what is happening now so he. was a factor but i think they are picture should take into consideration much more factors well no tad. so naive but it's got a list in the sahara region thank you very much for the time. that's it for now

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