referring to have some climate impact return greater of course you know. it's really frightening. why aren't people more concerned. short's may 31st w. this is africa coming up in the next 15 minutes it's a 3 horse race that's too close to call the hour we hits to the polls in an election that pits the president against his own iraqis have been young and while most bush is all below 30 we'll hear from them and the president who spoke exclusively to. russia. on truth. also coming up on the

show up to 72 years of the cannes film festival a black african woman director is in the running for the palme d'or for the very 1st time the film atlanta just could make cinema her story of the senegalese starring. deal. black people screen like shoot like everywhere. i'm christine wonderwall come to africa. my law is president is seeking a 2nd 5 year term as the country votes in a general election on tuesday the 78 year old is up against 6 other candidates including his vice president. who is 32 years younger than him but opposition.

where a is seen as having the best chance against the incumbent in an election where the economy and corruption are the main issues with a population of about 20000000 is one of the poorest countries in the world it's also one of the youngest 70 percent of people are below the age of $33.00 and creech put together this report about the tactics candidates have fused to appeal to the youth. waiting in anticipation to see what new surprises in store is vice president and candy did so past election campaign rallies have become known for their creativity at the age of 46 he's the youngest of the 3 major candidates and he wants to use that to his advantage his push ups on stage impress many of his young supporters in the capital city of new york. a record executive showing that he's thinking of what do you. hope. will

always the 1st country and i know it is hard to find jobs. that encourage me and i think it's he says doing it he's doing it for us is it for the country i mean we love his ideas he has encouraged us and we're ready to vote for him but see we're dividing. this refugee which he must wife also helps in the fight to win the youth groups and if you. are not. working on. a few kilometers away the 2nd biggest opposition party the m.c.p. gets mobilized. loud and colorful the central theme is centered on the youth in my

life we more than half of the registered voters are under 30. they use their most energized in this election we have mobilized the youth like you can believe in no party has had the youth conferences across this country like we have they believe in us they believe in our message and they believe that they use and will prosper because we have so much in store for them. the difficult economic situation as seen on the sidelines of the major election campaign events countless goods but most customers have little money for it 24 year old sells tap water bottles and plastic bottles for the equivalent of $0.06. treasure here you know my desk cd we listen generation for young people it's not

that good. with school and every school a lot of us went to school you know we have to greece that would enable us to work or do business. and she's going to be staying at home because there are no jumps or no business opportunities for us to see the rule in malawi agriculture is still the main source of income often the harvest is just enough for one's own family the state is the largest formal employer but still dependent on development aid from abroad president peter insists that the country had improved the infrastructure so he is running for a 2nd term but more than half of the population of my lab we live in poverty and many young people haven't seen any improvements. still it seems there's no sense of political does and chance many from the young people in my life we and the country expects

a high voter turnout. and so the candidates fight for votes with creativity. ok that report from d.j. krishna spoke exclusively to malawi's president people to issues young people are concerned about going into this election if you go out and talk to young people on the streets many of them are not happy many of them i talked to told me that there is no job opportunities for them they don't really see a future any more well because everybody obviously obviously a well for to all of us are over 50 percent of the country if you do say that 52 percent that's me on it meaning you obvious not no country not to be germany or the united states or the you it is not possible to employ everybody but. you see this thing is ok on the streets that they are frustrated that no drugs but more jobs

more jobs. what you are. committed to go calling will get but it will take time it cannot be done overnight you are 78 years old the majority of the country is younger than 13 yes actually what are you responding to those who are saying it should be the time for the younger generation to provide the leadership of this country question oh. he wouldn't. wear that you're no good it was. going to be rich i do have an idea i know what i've gone through needs to move from poverty to prosperity i'm not sure what exactly i'm doing and trying to do the next 5 years the issue of corruption is still something people. it's about if you follow vice presidents and he's now one of the opposition candidate. he actually claims that you are not serious about stopping theft.

and you are wrong. wrong wrong. crowd so he has to say the but the point is we are fighting corruption many many people have been trying for a while. to get 17 people being convicted one was sentenced last week i think that you need one of the major people who will actually investigate many cases that's still going on and the anti-corruption bureau. will probably prosecutions it's going to. under police police. investigation but but you know what he's a very difficult thing to do because these are very clever people who are doing to people very sophisticated. computer. crime it's not easy and sometimes we don't have enough resources but. there's no more corruption here than you know the country and they want. to make sure that we fight this girl

during one of the campaign released so you actually said that some of the opposition parties foreign professionals from russia and india to wrigley elections do you have any evidence for that i don't. so why did you never put it on the table well what world would take our current administration time welcome morning when i wanted to but we do every day but they're going to do the all those things are good shoes that don't always made. rigging. like. shoes through democracy and i do think every election. the loss of claimed i do very should be rigged thus historical figure. if i won an election under for a transplant if i lost it was corrupt it was rigged all over the continent so it's nothing new. south africa's former president jacob zuma is back in court corruption

charges zuma is accused of taking bribes back in 1999 when the government was buying ops the 77 year old once a panel of judges to throw out the case against him the charges were dropped shortly before he became president in 2009 and been reinstated last year as a has always maintained that the trial is politically motivated he's a lawyer he's been treated unfairly over the board and my limit friends on the other side once the engine has to do more to a prison cell is driven and inspired by something all of us in this room have. to varying degrees. it's bias. meanwhile in its 72nd dia the cannes film festival is experiencing a true premia franco senegalese direct t.v. deal is the 1st black african women direct say in the running to win the pilot dole the film at the antique has been described as a ghost story set on

a city building site but the men working they haven't been paid for weeks and face the inevitable pull off the ocean. matadi hope so he said film portrays the atlantic ocean as a supernatural force which is swallowing up senegal's use. their life. as a black woman a mist a really mists of black figures in and black characters like cruelly and it's also why i made this film i needed to see black people on screen like shoot like everywhere. atlantic tells a story of a dark these poor parents of a ranch for her to marry a wealthy man but she is secretly in love with building worker suliman. when he and the other men set out in

a boat for europe inevitable happens and they all try and get me to put out a can't believe that superman is gone. mahmassani who plays or die says she's humbled by the film's success her costar nicole susi the message behind the tale of love beyond death it could be a book on old pal i'd really love for our parents to learn through this film that forced marriages don't help their children. that they do it so that their children don't hang around in the streets. but i think i'm. marriage should be based on love as does the buzzing the number. one seeks entire cast and crew were on luck was that for the premiere dio says it's sad that khan had to wait 72 years to see a black woman director at pound all may come a lot sooner. and

that's why i believe it is africa today as always you can catch all stories on our website facebook page i want to say that. you're going to an official estimates more than $1200000.00 venezuelans are in colombia need only and only. returned to. visit friends is that i don't think i'd ever go back there to live you know what i live there again i don't know so i'm not sure. bearing witness global news that

matters. made for mines. first school in the. first clinton. and then the doors grand moment arrives join the arena tango on her journey. into returns jimmy durante entering it and returns home. the a. hello and welcome to news from the world of arts and culture and in a minute i'll be talking movies with our man scott rocks at the cannes film festival also coming up in strasbourg seat of the european parliament a 5th and sets out to explore europe's social tensions on stage. and how would you survive if you were trapped in a forest behind an invisible wall favored leavitt's with another great book writing

my report makes us wonder just how little american film director terrence malick former winner of the palme d'or is back at the cannes film festival with his latest movie a hidden life it's based on the true story of an austrian conscientious objector in the 2nd world war who refuses to take the oath of allegiance to hitler as an army conscript and suffers the consequences here he is really on in the movie returning home to his family from military training.