what secrets lie behind beats me. finding you many years of experience and exploring passing even cultural heritage songs to. the d w world hurry to keep trying 16 you feel. this is the news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes has one of the lousy mention fads of best bound to be outright the opposition saying is there was serious irregularities so what's the scene action for you and thing. to be turning trash into treasure and helping the environment as we meet the got an a and creative who gets her inspiration from discarded wait. what's.

the old. blood. and result. i'm christine wonderwall come to africa i'm glad you're choosing didn't we begin in malawi way people there has been declared the winner of last week's general election but the release of the results had been postponed and that wasn't definitely off to the opposition flag irregularities in the vote now the tight contest it's incumbent on without a thought on the deep from the d.p.p. he's on the left in the cap against his own defeats. the newly formed u.t.m. and lazarus off the main opposition the m.p.c. now it was the n.p.c. that initially got support order barring the electoral commission from releasing the celts. that is opted or did

a recount from some polling districts to to allege voter making now among the end occasions that correctional fluid or tipping was found on some of the ballot papers that should be a red flag it should be an indication of a moment and it should be a wake up call to the my electric nation that somebody is trying to play some games so we went to court seeking the intervention because you know the court is independent in this matter to listen to us and be a good move us and therefore we have ordered the more electoral commission to do a recount or idea adrian crash was in malawi covering that vote last week he joins me now from cape town good to see adrian last week you had an exclusive president interview with presidents. from the person that you spoke to last week who is this president. rick i was very self-confident back then

when i talked to him he was convinced that he would win the elections and it seems that this is what really happened he was also quite convinced that he's been doing a very good job so far he's claimed that he has done tremendous improvements in infrastructure and then belies the country a lot but his opponents see this very very different remember malawi is still one of the poorest countries in the world one of the poorest countries in africa and youth unemployment is a big issue also education is a big issue many young people don't have a chance to get appropriate education which would then enable them to get jobs and achieve their targets i want to talk to him promise to change that he also insisted that he is the right guy for the young people that his mission is to really get the agenda of the youth forwards but the big question is can he really do that remember he's 78 years old he is already quite alton's many young people do not really see him as a representative of the young people right and i remember you challenging him on his agent but you attended opposition rallies this while we saw your reporting the

young people who are really desperate for change how do you think they will take the news off when today. well of course it depends pretty much whom they voted for remember malawi is not a country where you have a lot of wood to apathy almost everybody every pretty young person i talked to was really keen and was looking forward to go vote to express their opinions to make their votes counted of course there are a lot of people who are voting or where watching for the president for me to record clearly otherwise he wouldn't have won and they now hope that he will really follow up on his promises that he will really help them and improve their situation but a lot of those ones who rather voted for the major 2 opposition candidates they see a different they actually are not so optimistic that with the ricos the white one to really change things here. adrian in the run up to the release of this result there had been allegations of irregularities and what are we to make of those and

what are some of the issues that the opposition was raising well the key words in my view right now is to pics because in several of the results sheets to pics was found apparently the people in shops tried to remove the result will change the results although that is clearly against the rules of the electoral commission it has happened the electoral commission also condemn that but they didn't see it as well problematic as the courts who actually forced them to stop the announcing of the results for a while another opposition party also said that they felt the same handwriting on several results sheets although they were coming from different regions it is not clear up until now if that is a valid complaint or not if you ask people if this election were free or for fair it's really depends completely whom you're asking the answer really depends on whom you're asking many say yes it was a but you have to also remember the electoral commission by the all the senior people they are handpicked by the president so there's of course the obvious how

independent they really are all right. agree increase on that malawi election results thank you. our next story takes us to a place in ghana known as sodom and gomorrah the dumping ground is about the size of 20 football pitches and is filled with electronic waste now that poses a serious threat to the environment but one woman has made it her business to make art from the waist so as to reduce the harmful effects on the environment. pretty cool earrings right well they're made from the west these country chairs also just like these funky coffee table and design a painting time stretch into treasure she finds her role materials and book grow she actress dumpsite for electronic waste it's a place where old computers and keyboards wind up along with stocks of car tires

the smell of burning rubber fills the air a lot of people here farm the trash to recover pieces of coal power that they can sell on but much needed a payment it's not hunting. she's on the lookout for inspiration to what's going to work with anything whether it's broken or is new or old boards that's what once was that's what we call them wasn't working when the store final for which it was for real so we pick up what ever with lincoln avenue which are also looking at. right the way back the. more on the end result of what will become almost. the 1st stage of the transformation is a good clean then the material is cut into smaller pieces. and send it down to make smooth ages finally matilda paint puts the finishing touches to how unique earrings. killed those projects require

time and teamwork what the team certainly isn't lacking is imagination they can try on all generate electric scrap into lampshades tables or clocks and matilda paint regularly exhibits have designs on conferences objects not only. they are i open into i think rather than take all this amazing stuff. and all this money has been poured into it just pollute the world with it why not turn it into art or turn it into the food that feeds people tomorrow so it makes total sense and it's good for people it's good for the world so i think the whole idea of turning trash into treasure is one that is right so cool because a lot of places across the world were having a problem with an increase in waste and like managing a ways to getting rid of it matilda pain has won several awards we could nies ing hard creative way of doing heartbeat for the environment and she has even bigger

things planned for the company. we are looking at it's really able to empower more women therefore you have to train more women to which are into what we're doing now to be able to start to do your own businesses who would also like to empower the youth expression between come into prison is like us in a way to social into print is like us for every item sold. already donates 5 percent of the money she makes to the education of underprivileged young girls she doesn't only want to bring peace candidate items back to life she also wants to give something back to society. it's to kenya's capital nairobi now where a young graffitti artist is using his skill to brighten the arts of his neighborhood and the safe spaces for the youths. it's

a graffiti jam a meet up of street artists from around town one of nairobi's low income neighborhoods. 22 year old new revenue organized the meetup and it has a theme safe spaces for the youth. of today maybe painting these walls will be bringing that back and their trucks better be doing they'll be basically talking to their community about train rumbled for the very. things that are happening so that they can give them away still speak out. crime police brutality those other problems here but a social center run by former gang members has been trying to change the neighborhoods image that's why they approached the artists. at night in its place used to be back with a sleepless night that actually. it was not functioning because people used to be there. so when they later if it was fixed they brought me to enjoy

that park so that i can make the place look great in. nairobi scruffy decent hasn't always been this writer and as mentor smokie norful was part of the 1st crew of artists in kenya today he's got a studio space at nairobi's railway museum we were young and wanted to give. us diary a really authentic stay so 151512 to 15 years we've been working towards that and now we're also mentoring our. second generation artists. at something like 200 miles and like he started getting commissioned work but it isn't easy paints can cost between $30.00 to $40.00 u.s. dollars. it's a system some things just so deep that it took them from

a member. though they shouldn't have been big it was selling food was still going to be this peepin pointed to those engines so it just shows the extra money so i had to sit in my shoes. these days matua can get up to 4 jobs a week painting shops bars or other buildings but it's spring in his neighborhood that he still likes best that's why his own safe spaces near all has a special message. to muslims using symbols so as you can see that. basically. that's the. it's new to us thank you to the community for the wall space and the support. and that's where we'll leave it for now from the news africa as always you can catch all stories on our website and facebook page now just because we've seen all that crap you see in nairobi is refugee all over the continent and other cities and

leave you with pictures effect today the next time i buy. my 1st boss a mobile sewing machine. i come from women their phones by the social doors have been something as simple as learning how to write them by psychosis and. since i was a little girl i wanted to have a bicycle off my home and it took me me as the flight. finally they gave up and mentioned by nehemiah saved us but returned because sewing machine sewing eyes. suppose was more apt procreate than writing them by as knowledge i was

a. small and back home my bones and social rules and informed and old dead basic rights my name is the about of people and i'm more into. welcome to arts and culture my guests today conductor until now is in demand of concert halls and opera houses across europe i'll be talking about his latest production i assessed a greek tragedy about the power of love. he. also on the show. food glorious food will be going on a cold unary pilgrimage to northern italy. and us photographer lauren

greenfield captures the insatiable greed of the ultra wealthy. but 1st in the world of tragic operas true love is a question of life and death this past weekend's premiere in munich was no different. 6 than the title character in the opera assessed is a queen who offers her life to the gods in exchange for their rescuing her husband belgian choreographer see the shadow we puts his contemporary spin on custom vilified cloaks 18th century opera. with antonella monaco to the conductor's podium putting his own signature on this rarely performed opera. mr mann i got that thanks for joining me here do you know what attracted you.