but what is the sound of a tree not for the sound of biodiversity tourism community development food and water. the united nations development program is listening and working with communities to protect forests for the future we want if you're hearing what we're hearing find. africa coming up the death penalty in south africa receives growing calls to be reinstated with violent crime claiming nearly 60 lives a day. but is that the recipe for justice also coming out. young black. top state politicians in germany. is just that she joined us in the studio. on the fights this eva green lungs of the planet reforestation sustainability in

the rain forest. you're welcome to the program october 10th is a well day against the death penalty for years more and more countries have abolished capital punishment including south africa in 1905 but cost states that sentences have grown in recent months authorities there struggle to contain escalating violence on average 58 people are killed in south africa every day. weighty 1000 that every year our correspondent reporting from cape town has more. every month claude visits his son's grave. jerome

was just 27 when he was shot in the front office when 3 years ago. he was june 2nd son killed by warring gang members in his neighborhood was this a good son eve when they was much younger i used to call him love that was my legal name for you and i used to that says for years over these years used to you and told him yeah you my love you you mark my able to think. some abuse on my heart is still missing because up to today. this is not the one person they threw into the where the. when joe was buried here his father says this part of the cemetery was still empty but since then oddly a day goes by without deadly shootings in escape flats neighborhoods the violence has been escalating for years security forces us traveling to keep the area under control. we do this brilliantly in blue jones shows us his neighborhood

a young man was shot here just a few hours earlier you had been waiting for a bus the death penalty is needed in south africa at this weird moment of time because they've been trying everything everything everything right and nothing is really happening it's getting worse and worse and worse i feel sick and tired of living legacy and only the death penalty you can save us from those auto bill murders that happens other. calls for the death penalty i'm getting louder here in south africa after a recent of a full violence against women 600000 people have signed a petition asking to bring back the death penalty but the government so far has shown little interest in changing the laws and currently the death penalty is inconsistent with the constitution. most researchers say evidence that the death penalty actually. deters crime is inconclusive constitutional law professor pierre

de force is instead calling for a larger and better trained police force and sweeping social change the death penalty is not a magic bullet the problem in south africa is that most cases of murder are never successfully prosecuted only about one in 10 people who commit a murder are actually sent to jail so the court said. if people don't believe they're going to be caught and prosecuted the kind of sentence you get give is going to make no difference so for a practical reason they shouldn't be a death penalty because it doesn't make a difference of course also for the ethical moral reasons i think the state should not be in the business of killing its own citizens for any reason. but joins disagrees he wants justice for the murders of his 2 sons and he wants to live with his family without fear in his own neighborhood. she's young and she's black and

that means i'm going out to do a dozen for the types of german politicians to remember germany's environmentalists and she's the vice president of the mint in the streets of boston she was born in germany her parents came here from mali 91 and she joins us in the studio i mean i am i doing thank you i'm fine thank you for inviting me thanks for coming because you have a very busy set the above firstly i want to find out is how's it like being the 1st german and the vice president of german parliament it is absolutely incredible for me but especially for the community of africa german people in germany in general i think but what makes it a special you be an awful german there isn't so many germans in politics so that means that they're not very well represented in the political system in germany and that's the reason why it doesn't pardon people like need people like us are rip. in

the political system yeah now as you rightly said is this the one or germans of the migrant bar ground but it doesn't seem like the representation is that stock when it comes to politics why is that i actually do ask myself the same question why is it like that and i think this is something which needs to be changed because i think the perceptions of how society works how politics work is very important the meaning of where am i from and i think that we need to be represented in the same number as we are in the society in politics you've been very outspoken about many things talking about equality women's rights. one of the other things is you live in germany born and bred here which is the current asylum i think we have a lot of problems concerning asylum politics because there are still a lot of things you can do as an asylum seeker in germany it's harder for you to get a job it's harder for you to you know let your. to work and live here basically so

this is the reason why i got into politics because i wanted to change some policies so that it is easier to start a new life here when you have to flee from your home and live somewhere else what challenge you see going to seize in trying to change this i think that our society is conservative i'm trying to do a progressive politic and this is extremely hard especially for example in my coalition in charge and where i'm a member of parliament we are collision together with the liberals and the conservatives and you often see that it's not that easy to implement progress of politics. does it still beat your mind when you think about that 21st century when it still seems that something to do sort of thing definitely. i think the important thing i want to focus on is that change is happening and i see it from my own story

i was born here in germany as a child of a refugee i was living an hour if she can for the 1st 5 years of my life i never thought that i would become the vice president of a parliament and this is something young germans will grow up with with this picture of everything is possible because. such a position of power and i hope that more germans are getting into such positions because it's important for our presentation in society and in politics. one of the other projects you're working on is a national plan against racism why is this so important it isn't partly because structural racism exists in germany. the united states everywhere and it makes that we cannot achieve whatever we want to achieve it's harder for us to get jobs it's harder for us to get a place to stay it's harder for us to to be who we are in the society and concerning police and other structures in our society or institutions and what i'm

working on is that in our state and. having an action plan against racism and every minister has to find a way to fight against racism and today was actually the day where the inter-ministerial group was built and this was one of the major points i was working on while we had. a. very interesting so it's something you you always talk about you being born here to mali and parents who came in 1901 how important is it for one to remember the african roots is that a big deal yeah i actually always focus on being afro and german because i do not want to forget my rules i was. i was i grew up with african influence of because my parents are african and we heard music we listen to the history of the country of mali and this is a part of me and my and who i am and why i am who i am today and i don't want i

don't want to forget that and being german is the 2nd part of me because i grew up here i live here i speak german and both identities who i love the day couldn't have said it better i mean many thanks for your time thank you. for environmental campaigners forest a weapon in the fight against climate change but the local people living on the fringes of the country's national parks rely on using the forests for the livelihoods the country has not adopted a un backed scheme to prevent the 1st season and develop sustainable 1st use these trees are part of the green lungs of the world rain forest cover around 80 its percent of got done stary treat and this is one of the protected zones to the month when the sport place is classified and you don't explore the wood there when

you don't clear the forest or plant you don't hunt. you don't cut wood anywhere you want to he don't sell land you do the opposite. that boehner has a long tradition of protecting the forests the can then national park is one of 13 in the country just these areas form part of the congo basin which is considered one of the most important forested areas in the world 2nd to the m.s.l. and buttons yells curt's of the park villages count and the 10 why the government gets money for not developing this jungle area. so well for it it's true that the forest is there but our pride is also to be able to live in a safe environment. that means having a plot of land and a house to protect your family. or

a little disappointed because they say that it's the parks it's the forest that must be protected. but we're villagers were we going to grow our food the forest is the reason we have to do eat. for loggers the forest is green gold they want to cut down and sell the rare tropical hardwoods but the logging industry produces a lion's share of companies carbon dioxide emissions the government's once the forestry companies to add a better practices to help the country meet its emission reduction targets. that's it for now from africa you can catch all austar isn't all websites on facebook page. with beautiful even african rain forest by for now but.

hello and welcome to news from the world i'm coming out today. a big day for the book with not one but 2 nobel prizes for literature awarded to polish writer all got to choke. and the austrian himes cut. lifesaver commemorates a major protest march that was a turning point which led to the fall of the berlin wall 30 years ago.

but we begin with the 2 winners of the nobel prize for literature one for 2018 and $1.00 for this year as well this is because it was an awarded last year due to a scandal within the rather secretive nobel prize committee so the committee has promised to be more open in the future and also less eurocentric however both winners this year are from europe the polish. for 2018 and this is one of the austrian author pay to handcuff. born in 1942 austrian writer pay to hunt has been a perennial favorite for the nobel prize the swedish academy with typical literary flora credit him with creating an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience among his best known novels is the.