you know. it's not easy to go to another country you know nothing about the wife of the i'm going to this because we can't stay venezuela i'm not. consciously global news that matters d.w. made for martin's character but. this is. coming up in the next 15 minutes troubled water ethiopia is building what will be africa's biggest hydro electric dad bats egypt the project will threaten to supply. the congolese warlord back to has been handed the international criminal court highest of a jail sentence has justice finally been served. and they defeated criminalizing but what is l g q community say's the fight against

discrimination continues. hello i'm perceived come to africa it's good to have you along there is a breakthrough in a feud that has been intensifying between egypt ethiopia and sudan the dispute is around a giant hydro electric deb not ethiopia is building on the nile river close to the border with sudan as you well see on our map now egypt gets most of its water supply from the nile it's warning that its share of the water will be reduced when he starts to fill the massive debt now discussions between the countries broke down earlier this year and egypt's president. u.s. president donald trump to mediate delegations from egypt. in washington they also met with trump they say it's

a january 15th target for resolving the issues. but even if they come to agreement egypt still faces broader water problems that have left its farm is struggling. it's as if someone has turned off the tap water from the river nile used to feel abandoned canal irrigating the farmland here in the words in egypt now that canal has dried up forcing her to have good to abandon half of his plot but there is very little water from the nile sometimes there's a bit more in winter mainly because the land doesn't need so much water then but in summer we don't get any water egypt's government wants its farmers to irrigate more efficiently and to plant seeds that require less water it's also trying to recycle water but the measures simply aren't enough and throughout egypt the drastic rise in temperatures and the increase in the intensity of climate

events such as heat waves increases the amount of water that crops use so the amount of water that used to be enough for a certain plot of land 20 or 30 years ago is not enough today we need more water. now ethiopia is building a giant down stream on the nile many fear egypt's creeping war to crises could get worse each new. he said to become africa's largest hydroelectric power plant once there is a war starts to feel it dipshit officials worry their water levels will fall even more. it's about the same to me when more did nothing more than 90 percent of egypt's water depends on oil water outside our borders. such projects like dams which are being established in the source countries without consultation with the countries that the nile was in to represent

a problem. even small changes to the knowledge the water flows will have a big effect if the night of water drops like i said before any 2 percent drop of corporate tax $1000000.00 people to. the more impoverished categories and the farmers i think that will be the fact that most egypt is still pure or continue the negotiations over the knowledge water and hope to reach an agreement early next year. now the international criminal court has sentenced former congolese warlord gunda to 30 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity nicknamed the terminator duggan that was a rebel military commander in an ethnic conflict in the mineral rich region of congo between 20022003 crimes include murder rape and sexual slavery the i.c.c.

found in doug and the 18 counts in july the sentence is the highest of a past by the court he has a month to appeal my guest today is nick in kinshasa he is the d.r. sees country director for the open society initiative in southern africa it's a foundation working for justice peace and democratic governance welcome to africa next so a 30 year prison sentence for bus cool. has justice been served. thank you so much and thank you for having me all 1st a holistic order to say that sentence. i think is a sign of this era condition of a serious myth of crime committed nevertheless center and. fully satisfied or victim because we increment of a very high criminal. activities committed by the individual injury

but still this is a good points for a good. reason you know. in in the does the original justice nick what is the legacy. i think most fulfilling under represents. did more than a decade of highly criminal activities not all the history but also we know. so it is recognised that thousands of people lost their lives during that period in this area during 200-2012 in addition to just cases of murdering people must murdering of people there is a lot of cases of addiction or it's our money cheats in indonesia as in the army and disk is the longest is also a young girl both suffer

a former aide from both clinton and people so it's. a situation of you know high. consequence of this criminal activity too much is marrying among syrian and beyond are a victim also indirect victim families members member of communities so this you know what was going to and then you know rip present for this victim now. that he has been sentenced most of the you know all i can be there is a satisfaction section that finally the guy has been prosecuted and sentences the world the thing that we all can take back of course is the duration of this whole process. has been room for many victims normally dies during the

time of you know the prosecution some have seen the situation being war than it was before but still. there is a sense of satisfaction in longer you know the boat that finally. sent and come out ok nathan as they see 10 tree director for the open society initiative in southern africa thank you thank you so much. now some african countries some of the walls strictest laws governing homosexuality same sex relationships are considered taboo and gay sex is a crime in more than 30 countries on the continent now one of those is see this as a beacon of hope by the lesbian gay bisexual trance and community in june the high court they struck down laws making homosexuality illegal. activists might have won

the fight against criminalize sation now they're fighting to end discrimination. l.g.b. t.q. activists gather for a meeting in the middle of a shopping center in. in many countries there's been nothing unusual about this but in voice one a members of this community had to fight long and hard to make this possible. on such things as we are present and the only reality is that people need to accept that we have to build the case in changing the hearts and minds of people we have to build the case and ensuring that this visibility and that these voices and places. she is broke out in the courtroom 5 months ago when the court announced a ruling that decriminalizes same sex relationships the old law was a relic of the colonial era and the great britain. but the countries attorney general soon filed an appeal and many wondered of this came as an order from the

president. but members of the ruling party does agree. i does it i respect that it is right some right it would is the professor of the line you have your similar but i respect everybody's pretenses so i don't see any challenge coming from government as far as what i hear a train is concerned about its longstanding social attitudes and not the laws but it was a greater challenge for votes one us l.g.b. t.q. good deeds. is widespread i haven't. everyone here has experienced discrimination and that's one of the things the activists have come to talk about maybe this is not to patronize them and. they don't want to have goodies like the idea is something. where the get to these words and given them so that's the problem i think the 1st isn't realizing that some of the injustices that ocurred actually wrong them shouldn't be happening and that we should have voice about it

and i think what's really unfortunate is that we have normalized injustices we have normalized getting fired from work we have normalized getting raped by those people who actually trust us and i think for me that is an injustice. that's something the activists are determined to tackle along with every day discrimination. a lot of religious institutions are at the forefront in speaking out against the l g b t community here in botswana they say it is an african and it does not comply with their religious beliefs but they are also some church leaders who are taking a different steps. reverenced how has often publicly defended botswana q. community despite criticism from within his own church objects to the way church leaders incites hatred of minorities he recently led a funeral service for deceased gay men after another pastor refused to get involved

we have to respect the sad respect one another in the loss of their resilience of the sense of inclusion little of anything less i think we have to fight and we have to make a noise to be here and hear loudly because people have to say and do you know the community they will talk about in the theater but when it comes to same sex marriage. intervals that's when people do start to say what does the bible say yes people do adultery in change well good do they doesn't commit adultery they don't talk about it only one is good comes of the gay community or the lesbian community that. when you hear people seeing what is going see what good is talking to us all of was the number one known to me so got shot and the other activists a caring on their struggle for equality they refused to be intimidated that shows walking on an online platform called queer awakening where the l.g.b. to queue community can share stories from their daily lives and try to diminish prejudice and what's one our society. and that is if an album be devaney's epic as always you catch all our stories and the face of day today will leave you with

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train all with to understand this new culture. another visitor another you want to become citizens. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. on our own. down. in the months leading up to the collapse of the communist east bloc german rock band scorpions were some of the 1st western musicians to play in the soviet union it was autumn $989.00 and the wind of political change that was blowing in moscow thanks to mikhail gorbachev's policy of glasnost inspired the song of change that became an anthem for the end

of the cold war. and with its welcome to arts and culture celebrating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall in november 1989 mikhail gorbachev the last leader of the soviet union is one of the heroes of germany's peaceful revolution at least from a western perspective 3 decades later the man who rocked the world with his vision of social democracy met with the rockers who wrote that soundtrack of hope that we just heard they are of course in the meantime good friends and scorpions pain the 88 year old got better off a visit in moscow. down to. 2 of them with. scorpion singer klaus minor serenading me.