w. . this is the news africa coming out in the next fifteen minutes. ruling out how the huge impact was decades to come a limpid gold medalist cost us the man you know as 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 day toll of africa's a hell region we speak to a security expert on the growing militants problem in the area.

you're welcome to the program she is known as the golden girl of south africa in 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 caster semenya will have to take medication to reduce that to start strong level this is off 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 lessees world championships in berlin in two thousand and nine she was only a teenager when she won the eight hundred meters and while champion had been a virtual unknown. she was hailed as our golden girl back in south africa

even meeting then president jacob zuma. of 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 semenya 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. introduced even stricter testosterone limits. the crew value for the r.w. the empowerment of girls and women through the regulations that we are introducing are there 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 cas expressed their own concerns about the effects of the i.w. rules and suggested delaying the implementation of the rules to allow time to gather more evidence. the panel found that the regulations discriminatory but the majority of the panel found that on the basis of the evidence and. by the

parties in the procedure such discrimination is a necessary resolvable and proportionate means of achieving the i do believe objective of preserving the integrity of female athletics so many of his selfish 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. someone as a mentor thanks for your time mr sutcliffe now tell us how did you feel when you had the ruling. when it came through i think devastated maybe is an understatement . very unhappy. really for me it's a blow for women's yesterday. i think for women's sport around the world and sport

in general what does this ruling do mean for custom here very close to her know we saw how she was fighting this appeal in the courts and now this ruling what does this mean for. well look they different will be appealed or you know i just one comes to the right on a cost at the end if he will be an appeal. because if you read just push the summation the short sort of three pages that were released are two pages were released there's a lot of ambiguity there's a lot of questions 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 audit on a five done thing that i have applied they monsey it but said it was not i think we going to 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 think you should just the same way as you shouldn't ignore anybody that says that in full and gone to job it will the other side was because he has lost thirteen ford. and the other citizens not just the same is that some of the bottle players applies to seven foot and often because i was of the six foot six that 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're born and the way you grow up is the way you grow up and and you know you can't 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 use 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 side that tasted forty six how many of those forty six that i tasted have the levels of about five if there is twenty of them that means world of the world you lose twenty top athletes female athletes you know the other side is sort of the science effects of having two heart of your levels on the side of it i don't know and no other long term or a short term for their physical nature or their mental nature these are things that are dog and to have to be put to the dish that they question the sydney or revolving around in my head didn't 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 well instrument saying that through some of the advantage over me i'm going to take her are knowledgeable too because she beat 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 the time. german chancellor angela merkel will spend the next three days in the sahara region of west africa and region rocked by a growing jihad is she said book enough or so then to go in mali finally major she said to attend the g. five summit of sahara leaders where security cooperation or top the agenda of merkel's twelve's to an african country since two thousand and sixteen underlines her efforts to strengthen diplomatic and security partnerships in the region. a year ago shots rang out on the streets of walk into the back enough capital. is the most militants attacked 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. start hundred thousand un 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 abdul lives and i who is a political analyst in the region thanks for joining us and i so troubling this 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 issues governing but also in terms such expectations i think americans has made it clear that she wants to support the region so i would say to those countries. send a guy the nice dinner and. probably also morning tony and chad or maybe to take that and this would be

a good opportunity for them to discuss wish wish miracle on the 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 when the reason why she's going back i believe is because the security she now situation is worsening and countries that. mali are still struggling to deal with security issues and actually security issues are a stake in other forms which i think he's fronting and it is it. who are local civilians blaming for the western security situation. i think cannot softly be yeah would be one of the first things people would mention in that meeting and who were responsible that collapse so for example i have heard in the

region people are blaming a two and one when people say needed a mean basically the u.s. and europe so they feel like. europe and in particular germany and france should take responsibility and. issues. there are the e.u. should 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. demographic in terms. of for you as to all those issues that kind of play into what is happening now so we have. a factor but i think they are not picture should take into consideration much more factors well you know ted. perhaps catalyst in the sahara region thank you very much for the time. that's it for now

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