this is d.w. news africa coming up on the program he's a black muslim immigrant from somalia majid magid was justified when he came to the u.k. now he's a member of the european parliament who says bred fiji's deserve better. need to treat people with compassion and we need to treat people with dignity nobody choosing to leave their family their home the community plus he's been discriminated against all being that i'll be you know in my lousy but now he's using his newfound celebrity status as a musician to fight the stigma. i'm

eddie michael jr you're welcome to the show he's a 28 year old somali refugee who fled his homeland at the age of 5 and moved to the northern bridge the city of sheffield he watched his mother be universally abused as a child and his teenage years were troubled but then he became politically active at $28.00 my jeered was elected sheffield's youngest and it's fast muslim a he's been hailed as a breath of fresh air by some while others described their mosques and insults to the people of sheffield in me my dad was elected as a whoopie and member of parliament for the green party but on his very 1st the idea of going parliament in strasbourg he says he was asked to leave because of the way he looked his response i know i'm different i'm black and my name is majid i don't

intend to try to fit in get used to it. and magic magic joins us now from our studio in brussels majid welcome to the show now tell us how are you dealing with the challenges of being a black muslim immigrant from somalia and a member of the european parliament you know it but i'm just still of if i and i'm just being me just doing me and you know this is this is nothing new it's not very exclusive sirup a part of an a lot of the same challenges i've been dealing with when i was lord mayor of sheffield or before that so yeah i'm familiar with it but to be honest with that i'm just going to live and yeah it's fine to be honest of course is a bit tricky at times but it's cool when you say you're dealing with it by just being yourself how do you mean by lynch kind of thing one of the hardest things especially being in the european parliament in such an establishment like that when

everyone dresses the same all wherever you just kind of about the way they interact and behave for me the biggest challenge was being myself and been unapologetically myself and saying you know what i'm not going to try my car if i am going to say who i am because this is what got me elected so when i was standing as he counted it when i was basically people wanted authenticity people need to see themselves in their politicians and their representing their representatives so for me it was a right this is how i stood this hour on my election and i'm just busy going to be me and of course i'm respectful is what i mean lots of people who are supportive and one and for me it's the issues that mother most of us love that the climate change whether that be the immigration refugio crisis at the moment this is the issues i want to face and i actually want to tackle head on let me take you back a bit walk where the most difficult and memorable aspects of you growing up immigrant in the u.k. . so i guess whether that be from just going off is so there's

a lot of challenges and because clearly growing up in a city multicultural says i'll be quite honest with you i would put a really diverse community where people spoke at many different languages one of the be do have people from the yemen people from west africa and the caribbean and it was really quite excited about course it comes look without me when i was out where the fruit even just for the media and i honestly like the way they demonize immigrants every day that of course will have its toll not just myself on my family the way they demonize muslims and whatnot so that was a constant pressure because then people reflect when we go outside and i found i have a city like especially when there is a lot more difficult for women because women visually look different so when my mother says the wearing that scarf and they're out and about there is an easy target for them so women always have it saudi the other a lot more tougher than men now however all these experiences are that any value to

you as the politician right now. yeah definitely grounded me it's a form of my politics all my struggles all my everything has made me who i am today and of course i reflect on now a lot of times and it's the morals and values of coming from a minority background and what my ethics and literally led me to basically becoming an m.e.p. and i'd be lying if i said you know what it's all through hard work you know hardware kind of doesn't get you far enough it's taken sacrifice learning a lot of fights across my mother if i should bring him into the u.k. other fiji don't that be my friends who grant me the people of sheffield i like to meet people yorkshire and home so it's a collective thing you know and of course when i'm in the parliament and brussels all without being stranded bank i go when we have the way under supports and the responsibility and the love of all those people who supported me and all those

people that voted for me now before you go how how would you describe your relationship with your country of birth somalia i'd say it's a strong one because i unfortunately i still speak the language fluently even though i came to the u.k. when i was 5 my mother the very good job of instilling that culture not just from some of the clothes i wear but the food with the language that i speak our with my moment one not so yes it's still a big problem for show ok now we write before you go 30 seconds refugee crisis is still going on what do you make of there were a few g.'s are treated especially in europe quickly us is quite quite disgustingly you know honesty we need to treat people with compassion and we need to treat people with dignity nobody chooses to leave their family their homes the community if they had no choice and we really need to start treating people as people and not as numbers well said and in perfect time in magic magic the green party member of european parliament thanks

a lot for your time. thank you very much money. now most rural households in africa depend on firewood for cooking but this is dominating the health of entire families according to the world health organization indoor air pollution kills about $4000000.00 people globally each year now in rwanda a group of women is changing vats with the help of pigs. it's far from glamorous but this routine has proved beneficial to 48 year old to take care of the mcconaughey endo and her family of 5. in the the district of north and a wonder most households use fly word for cooking. has chosen to use bio gas instead she mostly uses the manure from her pigs. more than the act 1st i did not like the idea of keeping biggs now i say can get good of manure from

the i mean most prefer pig manure because it's a little different from calm and here and just a whole new city of corn field as homestead is about an 8th of an acre in size the bio digester doesn't take up much space every day she and her husband collect manure and process it. first the menu is diluted with water and stirred in a kind of mix up. then the content is released into the bio dad just where the waste decomposes to produce the gas. from and from going from going to. the pipe connected to the bio digest and then delivers the gas to her outdoor kitchen. i used to use for a wood and the kitchen would feel we smoke which was difficult for me it hurts your

eyes making them red and sore. more than 80 percent of households in africa rely on firewood for cooking who had been in stoves of the leading cause of indoor pollution according to the world health organization the risks of cooking with firewood considerably higher than smoking 2 packs of cigarettes a day putting the lives of millions of women and children at risk well i'm going. to says she decided to switch to bio gas for health reasons. and like a bad value of gas is that i can leave something on the stools if i do the right amount of heat i can leave the food and good and do something new. in winter when the one of the one. with only 11 percent of african energy there is hope that more will be convinced to make the

switch to a safer fuel source. now to the story of my lobby and i'll be no basket who's using his newfound celebrity status to fight the discrimination many albinus faced last rose $1.00 as himself being a victim of violence now with a new album after performing with his message is more powerful than ever. yes that's a roast chick one darley has used music all his life to escape the violence he's experienced because he's an albino. many believe albinism to be contagious or the result of infidelity and many of benaud's fall victim to the illegal trade of body parts it wasn't easy to make a living for lazarus busking on the streets of long way for small change and

constantly feeling threatened but then an english tourist filmed him performing and everything changed the footage caught the eye of a music producer in london now lazarus has recorded an album and he's using his music to teach people that everyone is the same. a lot of people with albinism who live in remote areas aren't safe sometimes their doors don't close or lock and it makes it easier for people to come and kidnap them and then do whatever they want with them. i hope my music will raise awareness about issues around how people with albinism are treated in malawi and hopefully change things along the way. despite his growing success lazarus still fears being targeted because of his albinism and he worries about his sons to have whom also have albinism who but a kickstarter campaign launched by the team that produced his album is raising

money to build him and his family a secure house. and through his performing lazarus is fast building up a fan base which includes the singer madonna. he produced a documentary about lazarus and has called him a powerful voice who won't be silence because of his albinism a voice that seems to be having an effect already. it's true that persons with albinism are invisible now society leisure's is work as a role model help society look at people with albinism as able people who can contribute equally in all spheres and we appreciate that he is raising awareness at different levels where the 2 of us will be on toby. lanzer is chick one dolly's album stomp on the devil will be released in september. that's beautiful love roses for

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planet. and her beats have got the electronic music capitol berlin for robbing lebanese d.j. norton job it talks about the healing power of art techno. but 1st disney's film production chief calls it a new form of filmmaking somewhere between c.g.i. and live action been new lion king comes 25 years after the original cartoon became an instant classic and that's long enough for disney to feel that it's time for an upgrade the new movie had cinemas next week it tells the exact same story with a very new look and with voices of stars including beyonce seth rogen and donald glover also.