that seventy seven percent. are younger thinks of. me and me and you. know what external voice is. on the seventy seven percent. this is where. the seventy seven percent this weekend on d w. this is. coming out in the next fifteen minutes. how the huge impact what decades to come and pick gold medalists. lost her fight against reducing head to still strong level to compete with women to get reactions from the man who helped bring his success. also coming out german chancellor angela merkel has begun to eat. of africa 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. in two time olympic gold medalist in the woman's eight hundred meter competition and three time world champion before had to keep competing in women's sports will have to take medication to reduce head to still strong level this is after the court of arbitration for sport this mishap deal against international federation to compete without medication the ruling could have a huge impact on on the future of the sports. caster semenya became a sensation often its less six world championships in berlin in two thousand and nine. she was only

a teenager when she won the eight hundred meters 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. is pretty good. 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 idea introduced even stricter testosterone limits. the crew value for the i don't believe the empowerment of girls and women through athletics 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 d.s.d. . 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 resolvable and proportionate means of achieving the ideal beliefs objective of preserving the integrity of female athletics so many of her self 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 toby sutcliffe cost us the money 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 even understated and. very unhappy. really for me it's

a blow for women's yesterday. i think for women sports 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 new in the courts and now this ruling what does this mean for her. well look they different will be appealed are you not just one cast to the right on your case that the defendant will be in appeal. because if you read just push the summation the short sort of three pages that were released are two pages were released is 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 is a person that did 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 the high testosterone levels. not in think you should just the same way as you shouldn't ignore anybody that says that in full and vantage of it will be of this race 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 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 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 they started it 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 it's you know the other side of sort of the science is six of having two heart of your levels on the side of it i didn't know and all the long term all the short term for there were physical nature or there are mental nature. these are things that are dug into you have to be put to the dish that they question the sydney or evolving 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 of women students saying that through some of the advantage over me i'm going to take good or knowledgeable too because she beat me all the time. well definitely many questions left unanswered but live for my coach of cost us the money on mental thank you very much for the time german chancellor i'm going to magaw will spend the next three days in the sahara region of west africa region rocked by growing jihad is balanced she will fast as a book enough so then to go in mali and finally meet jack she said to attend the g five summit of sahara leaders where security cooperation will top the agenda the visit my goals twelfth to an african country since two thousand and sixteen on the lines have efforts to strengthen diplomatic and security partnerships in the region . a year ago shots rang out on the streets of walk up to the back enough capital. as 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. and 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. hundred thousand u.n.

soldiers are based in the region to counter the terror threat among them eight hundred fifty germans 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 the region what do you or people expect. 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. senator. lee nice dinner 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 on the issues how important is it that meghan is 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 situation is worsening and country. 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. visit. 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 region and who were responsible and at collapse so for example i have heard in the region people are blaming me and one when people say need to they mean basically to us and europe so they feel like europe and in particular germany and france should take responsibility and. do those issues. there are the east was 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. for you was all those issues i kind of play into what is happening now so. it was a factor but i think they are not picture should take into consideration much more factors well no ted i. caught

a nest in the sahara region thank you very much for the time. that's it for now from d.w. news africa you can catch all our stories on our website and a facebook page many are marking live by the across africa we leave you now with pictures of south african workers back in the day of the. i'm secure in the they were not harmed and in the end this is a me you're not allowed to stay here and more we will send you back. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers were lions of the what's your story.

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artists filmmakers etc have made their way here but is the rush over this balance still a mecca for the arts but it's all subject to day. so has become too expensive and too cool for many struggling office of lost the studios all rehearsal rooms to soaring rents credit tree developers here's a clip from a documentary about two artists who left but eventually returned. the other to pitch otto is a multimedia artist from the united states her husband alexander is best known as the basis for the band. this film shows how they came to a point where they felt they couldn't breathe and brylin anymore. then we blew out how wolves by giving up our house.

these and. we left it lean back then because in twenty ten had arrived at a point in its.