says gives her an unfair competitive advantage. this is africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes. but decades to come gold medalist. lost her fight against reducing head to still strong level to compete with women we get reactions from the man who helped bring his success. also coming up german chancellor angela merkel has begun to all of africa region we speak to a security expert on the growing 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 but had to keep competing in women's sports. take medication to reduce head testosterone level this. sports this mishap to you again. ration 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 championships in berlin in two thousand and nine i she was only a teenager when she won the eight hundred meter is the name well champion had been a virtual unknown. she was hailed as odd golden girl back in south africa even meeting then president jacob zuma. this. is pretty. green. 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. 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 commissioned the i.w. introduced even stricter testosterone limits. the crew value for 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 effect 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 submitted by the parties in the procedure such discrimination is a necessary result of proportionate means of achieving the ideal beliefs 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 intemperate taishan of what defines gender. i'm joined now from south africa by toby cost us the money as 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 sports around the world and sport in general what does this ruling do mean for custom here very close to her i know we saw house was fighting this. 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 one comes to the right on the course at the end if he will be an appeal. because if you read just push the summation a short sort of three pages were released or two pages were released there's a lot of ambiguity there's a lot of questions lost by the court of arbitration over the adelaide if 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 audio on a phone don't think i have a blood they monsey it but said it was not i think we 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 the high testosterone levels. not and think you should just the same way as you shouldn't ignore anybody that says that info peddler and vantage of all the other stuff is

because he has a thirteen foot. and the others have a size not just the same as that some of the bosco players applies to seven foot an often because i was of the six foot six that if you're born that way you're 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 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 many how many of those athletes that tasted and the size of that taste of forty six how many of those forty six that 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 lives on the side of it i didn't know and all the long term all the short term for there are physical nature or there are mental nature. these are things that are dug in to have to be put to the dish that they question the sydney 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 a woman soon as saying that through some of the advantage over me i'm going to take who 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 as she said book enough or so then to go in mali finally she said to attend the g. five summit of sahara leaders where security cooperation or top the agenda of medicals twelfth 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 to 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. thirteen 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 this

region what do you or people expect from. well i think there are some whole. 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. the nice dinner and. probably most of the morning tony and chad or maybe to take that and use it 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

so which i think. the reason why she's going back i believe is because the security situation is worsening and countries that. are still struggling to deal with security issues and actually security issues and security and the 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 that would be one of the first things people would mention in that region and who were responsible that collapse so for example i have heard in the region people blaming the tool and when and when people say nature they mean basically the u.s. and europe so they feel like europe and in particular germany and france should

take responsibility and. result was issues. 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. demographic terms so for us to ration for you as well does he should i kind of play into what is happening now so he. was a factor but i think they are that picture should take into consideration much more factors well no tad lives some lie perhaps catalyst in the sahara region thank you very much for the time. that's the fun now from d.w. news africa you can catch all our stories on our web sites on the facebook page many. cross africa many of you now with pictures of south africa where just back in the day.

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