well go to the girl next new child. good morning stuart. with exclusive. doha see concerning sharks culture in europe. to be curious minds. do it yourself networkers. subscriber and don't miss our. plates. this is news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes. been tortured a comedian is a hospital often lost when the doc said and tortured him she saves her attack as accused her off and demanding the government with his kids while they have to as she lay in search. see international continue mostly told me to do what soldiers do in training. they shoved my face in the water then they said drink the water.

as if you were goggling salt water. likely and the poison generation in sam is sick and dodges city rights groups say children in kabul we are exposed to high levels of toxins from mining waste. hello i'm christine want to welcome to news africa it's good to have you along isn't bob and comedian is in hospital off to she was abducted from a hole in the last man. some of the joins a list of opposition and rights activists who have been kidnapped by and identified assailants at different locations in the past 2 weeks that's according to write scripts the 32 year old popularly known as it has in sketches that folk fun at the authorities is a bad way and for economic and social problems facing the country she did have

a new spoke to her in a hospital bed it had. 3 were me on the mask 3 masked men entered my room. and they took me out of bed to pee and i was simply naked and was not given a chance to dress up i asked to dress up and they started slapping me. so they forced me out blinded. my assailants accused me of mocking the government and said they had been monitoring our comedy and we had no right to mock the government and us. i was asked to lay down and roll in sewage water. this is when the torture started. they took turns to beat me up with whips or words to. say they accused me of forming

a script that advocated for the eviction of state security personnel and communities so they had come to take me out of my home 1st and. you. mean much. so methodist speaking there from the hospital bit 1000 walvis information ministry says police have received a report of a kidnapping and investigations are underway but a spokesman for the government cost out on the claims made by korea nick mungana tweeted the recent activities in sim have all the hallmarks of a quote black op since need to be analyzed dispassionately who stands to gain from a damage to innocent non-drug was local and international prestige why would must people object then order a victim not to criticize him and nicely sitting things up.

human rights watch say is children living in the foreman led mining area of san diego all still exposed to high levels of it that's despite the closure of the main mines and smelting ponds in the region 25 years ago a human rights watch report focuses on the town of that's north of the capital it's a's children are exposed to high levels of lead ins in soil and dust around their homes schools and areas they pay in the group ses that despite clean up if it's around $76000.00 people still live in heavily contaminated areas it's bring in joanna naples mitchell here she's the author off that human rights watch report welcome to to africa joanna segal report puts an emphasis on children why is this made exposure particularly dangerous for children. so that exposure is dangerous for children more so than adults for some reasons 1st children's brains and bodies

are still developing 2nd children absorb $4.00 to $5.00 times as much light as adults and finally children spend much more time in the soil which is where the light is and calm where playing in the ground or putting their hands in their mouths into the mushroom margarita in just loud. right joanna the government of sam has said it doesn't have the money for decontaminating this area relocation perhaps is another option why has that not happened 1st i should say the government says that it doesn't have enough resources to address the full scope of the problem they're making some efforts now and we hope that they will expand those of birds but in terms of relocation this is something we've asked different experts because this is also a question for us and what we were told was just physically moving some 76000 people is just an incredibly onerous undertaking and would be very challenging and also extremely expensive which seems like you know you know the project is already

very expensive just cleaning out the lead but it seems like even more than that. so what are you calling for as human rights watch what proposals are you suggesting as an organization we're calling on the government to come up with a comprehensive and sustainable way to clean up the land so that they're dressed a lot in homes schools health centers and on roads and also at the mine dump that still there in convoy and also that they choose a method of cleanup that actually will last but also calling for them to provide testing and treatment all affected community members particularly tension to children under 5 who are most vulnerable. and i did spend some time in that community well in in the city of kabul and at the soldiers about what you experience interaction with with the people in the community are they a way off of the situation and perhaps what did you see 1st had as a result all of the implications as a because of this exposure to that people have been. ok so

convoy is a town that is full of contradictions it has a bustling city center and is is the capital of this province and at the same time about a 3rd of the population was not affected areas but i spoke to parents about whether their children had been tested you know some parents that their children had been tested for lead and they were very worried about that and they were told us about different symptoms their children had that may or may not be from lead poisoning they spoke of headaches and stomach pain memory and concentration issues all of which could be from what poisoning since we're not doctors you know we don't have the ability to say that and actually it's very hard to say for sure if something is from lead poisoning but regardless you know the families we spoke with their children had extremely high blood levels you know they were told that their children had these blood bubbles orally they were never given anything in writing what they were told was very worrying. joe and then naples mitchell from human rights watch thank you. thank you so much. the focus of this

is g. 7 summit in france inequality and according to the world bank south africa is the world's most unequal society the richest 10 percent of the population earn 70 percent of the country's wealth 25 years off to the end of apostate poverty is widespread among south africa's black majority in the contrasts off particularly stop responding to adrian krishna of course. when elizabeth needs water to cook with she has to go outside to get it the geriatric nurse has been living in this block of flats for 3 years together was more than 400 other squatters they have neither electricity no water but elizabeth says she likes living here specially because of its location inside this city close to my workplace and a very good environment close to a pretty close to the hospital the shopping mall in the local government has put

this for michael wood ation for nurses working in the neighborhood hospital for sale but before investors could buy it up the squatters moved in. it's in the center of one of cape town's most expensive and popular districts the waterfront. most residents here are wealthy and white. and that needs to change says she wants domestic workers gardeners and geriatric nurses to also have a right to live. for me to 62 percent in the especially after we voted $94.00 we thought. it crossed. this line because. we feel that we don't see the light at the end of the town and village she's getting richer the poor poor in recent years

property prices in cape town central districts have risen dramatically they're out of most people's free choice instead hundreds of thousands of people live in townships on the other side of table mountain cape town is still effectively divided into black and white areas. apartheid and the 25 years ago. the times of racial segregation still have a strong impact on the society here today back then the regime spent much more money on the education of white children compared to black children also only white people were allowed to live in fancy areas all others were forcibly relocated to places like this one here which are nowadays hotspots of crime and poverty in cape town south africa's leaders who has made fighting inequality a central focus of his presidency but unemployment is rising along with discontent and crime dispossession and reallocation are ever recurring themes and that's why

a bit into organization reclaim the city aim to take over more empty buildings they want to give low income earners a home and a voice it's about time we need to bring their transformation into our country for people from different places he respects the feel crass respect. you get turnt but i feel that we need to bring the rainbow nation into debt and people should left again she would love to continue living here at the waterfront but it's not clear whether that will be possible so far the city may be tolerating the squatters but the ultimate decision will be made by the courts religious leaders from around the world have been meeting in germany at a conference called religions for peace. or have met up with the wealthy off uganda she began by asking him what was behind the relative interreligious harmony in uganda. we have united. as

a minority and then we turn to our counterparts the entirely just who formed the intelligence council because i'm about to because the circle we felt that what brings us together is more than what divides us a what's the process there are some minor incidents of violence in uganda that have happened who's behind them they're mostly a political note not religious there's a little that was there before now it has been a minute because well was it a commute to a working together until just council going under an extra mile to engage the government to support their local instead of music of violence no this situation is changing apart from sort of. a lawless missing from a few individuals that is common in a society but generally as religious leaders work if it could happen between the 3

just doesn't the government living in one of the government is also listening to us and also advising the government undertaking that for us that's why we are living like this in uganda as muslims i think just because of uganda faith that he does and i think of working. that was the most that's what happened to debbie news africa you can catch one story a website and facebook the next i think. they will not succeed in dividing us out not succeed in taking the people off the streets because we're tired of this dictatorship. taking the stand global news that matters. made for mines. life from the g.

7 meeting. up of the agenda global inequality the crisis with iran and international trade. donald trump spent with his host french president much of the trade war with china can derail everything. the british prime minister might use the occasion for is great press and show. reporting from the g. 7 meeting in p.r. its life for d w news. crystalline surety of the voice of soprano can rise she will be my guest in just a few minutes. and welcome to news from the world of arts and culture also

coming up on the show. in our occasional series on european visit red square in moscow. bus we begin in paris and a brand new museum that will open to the public next week the music live across the island of policy the museum of the liberation of paris is dedicated to the 2nd world war more specifically to the resistance of the french people to the nazis it opens this weekend in conjunction with the 75th anniversary of the liberation of paris and 944 which is that noblest that just cut a great parish is now free and that a free pass. 25th of august 944 a day the french will never forget after 4 years of planning and 20000000 euro a new museum in the heart of paris is finally ready to open its doors to the public . private 7000 odd.