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people in a room for the 9th and. it was hard i was fair. i even got white hair. the german language head nodding off this keeps me and they go but you need to look into the flight you want to know their story the migrants are fighting and reliable information for margaret. news africa coming up the death penalty in south africa receives growing calls to be reinstated would fall into crime claiming merely 60 lies a day in rising out punishment but this stuff a recipe for justice also coming up. young on the block not to call uncool fogginess fact over the top. germany. too it was just that she joined in

the studio. on the fights to see the green lungs of the planet reforestation sustainability in the rain forest. your 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 1995 but cost to reinstate that sentence. in recent months. on average 58 people are killed in south africa every day. waiti 1000 that every year. reporting from cape town has more.

every month clude visits his son's grave room was just $27.00 when he was shot in front of 3 years ago. he was. killed by a warring gang members in his neighborhood. when they was much younger i used. my nickname for you and i used to for you it is used. and told him yeah you my love you. some. day. one. of the cemetary was still empty but since then day goes by without deadly shootings in. the violence has been escalating for years security

forces us to keep the area under control. i didn't bring the loot jones shows us his neighborhood young man was shot here just a few hours he had been waiting for. the death penalty is needed in this moment of time because they've been trying everything they were getting everything and nothing is really happening it's getting worse and worse and worse i feel sick and tired of looking like only they did. can save us from this horrible murders that they're putting. calls for the death penalty are 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 peter forces 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 going to ever be caught and prosecuted the kind of sentence you get given 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. at all but jones

disagree. 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 it doesn't fit at least to mr of german politicians to remember germany's environmentalists and seize the vice president of parliament in the streets of st she was born in germany with her parents came here from mali into the wind and she joins us in the studio i'm not you thanks for the time are you 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 effort german people in germany in general i think but what makes it a special you'd be an awful german there isn't so many germans in politics so that

means that we're not very well represented in the political system in germany and that's the reason why it doesn't part and the people like need people like us are represented in the political system yeah now as you rightly said it's basically one in 4 germans have the migrant background 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 of how politics work is very important and 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 what you make of the current us and police i think we have still

a lot of problems. concerning. politics because there are still a lot of things you cannot 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 had to flee from your home and start a new life somewhere else what challenges are you going to seize in trying to change this i think that our society is conservative and i'm trying to do a progressive politic and this is extremely hard especially for example a. situation where i'm a member of parliament we are a collision together with the liberals on 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 you know talk about 21st century when it still seems that something to do sort of thing definitely. i think that 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 black germans will grow up with with this picture of everything is possible because someone like me is 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. when you are going on as a national plan against racism why is this so important because structural racism exists in germany. the united states everywhere and it makes that we cannot achieve whatever 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 be who we are in this 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 us 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 grant of said it better i may not have to read many thanks for your time thank you. for environmental come penis' 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 forest for the a livelihood the country has not adopted in the un back scheme to prevent deforestation and develop sustainable 1st. these trees are part of the green lungs of the world rain forest cover around 88 percent of got

done stary treat and this is one of the protected zones. to come on the. wall once a place is classified and you don't explore the world. when you don't clear the forest to plant you don't hunt. you don't cut wood anywhere you want to you don't sell land you do the opposite it's nothing to compare the bone as a long tradition of protecting the forests the outcome the 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 d.m.'s that when button's yells skirts of the park villages can't end this 10 why the government gets money for not developing these jungle areas. so. 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. who are a little disappointed because they say that it's the parks it's the forests that must be protected. but we're villagers where we're going to grow our food the forest is the reason we have food to eat. for luggers 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 adopt better practices to help the country meets its emission reduction targets. that's it for now from africa you can catch all our stories on our website facebook page. with beautiful images of africa forced

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