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a state. you're welcome to the program east africa is in the thick of the brutally unusual rainy season and it's set to get worse to tropical storms are expected to hit the region in the coming days 4 weeks pause have triggered landslides and flash flooding but that toll stands at 250 with some 3000000 affected their growing fear of starvation disease outbreak that is due to warmer temperatures in the indian ocean in a moment we'll get the latest on the response from nairobi but 1st this report from the sub kenyan village of. these floods may have killed scores deprived thousands of their homes you know they

threaten to wash away the dead. not if these villagers have anything to do with it . anything that's moaned. a bomb goes late wife. we're putting big rocks on top of the grave to prevent the coffin from coming out due to these floods. the dying pours have only compounded the grief joseph married his wife just last week oh you mean at least the person varied here is my mother in law when we woke up we found that the water was almost removing the coffin from the grave. with the agreed fixed or no attention shift the evacuations. is on the we and like many here david a group who is desperate to get his family and their things to higher ground. but

no one here can escape the devastation the 16 weather has unleashed. we don't have farms to cultivate and even our cows were taken away by the flood waters so we have a big problem. the our jewish rebuilding process will have to wait for now survival is paramount. for more on this our correspondent joins us from nairobi kenya hello edith so clearly people still need help how much support are they getting from the government. at the moment it's truly very difficult to gauge because this is a situation that is and falding as we're speaking so government is sort of trying to do preventative work as well as search and rescue but there has been quite a little bit of money that's been pumped into this the government of kenya has put in the equivalent of about 2000000000 u.s. dollars and i do know that the u.n.

emergency fund has also contributed 3 $1000000.00 so quite a lot of fundraising being done in and around this issue as they said as it's unfolding so what is the mean charley image of people right now. right now for the ones who have survived obviously it is just that initial trauma some of these people have lost not just their homes but family members life stalk their entire livelihood because we're talking about entire farmlands being swept away this is their main source of income and beyond that it's where to sleep where to get food these are all institutions which have been sucked away so we're seeing seeing a situation where people are conversing rather converging desperately of schools and hospitals but these simply not enough to go around so we're seeing quite a bit of respiratory diseases and fording and there's still a big question as to what will happen to the number that's still being added let's

talk about long term effects here what long term effects called all of those have on the region. well we do know that there will need to be a serious pump on infrastructural redevelopment roads and hospitals which have been swept away as they said but the immediate threat is diseases malaria which is already on the rise in some of these regions is now threatening to take back rather to take up more lives and more of a bigger concern in the region is food security this is a region the horn of africa which has just come out of a drought and now there are floods the food that was supposed to be harvested will no longer be there so there is a huge huge concern on food security not just in kenya but in neighboring somalia and south sudan as well ok now more rains are expected throughout the month of december how prepared is the region to handle it as you do.

not very in fact the government of kenya together with the governments of the countries that i've spoken spoken about asking for international assistance and this is not something that was expected it's not unusual to have rains at this time of the year we call them the short trains but to have them be so rather the water levels to be so high is what is unexpected and we're being told it's because of the heating of the indian ocean so there's a huge conversation or a bigger conversation to be had about climate change and how to mitigate any of these future disasters ok that come on the video you correspondents in kenya thank you. now national museums are supposed to reflect the nation right but what happens when last fall it's about history housed in collections around the world many artifacts where take you know we do in the colonial era it's a question being asked in the democratic republic of congo where your new museum

has just opened its doors. it is vestiges of the congo's past on display in kinshasa the 12000 pieces trace its history this is d.r. congo's new national museum. the building was completed in june bankrolled by south korea it replaces the old national museum which has long suffered from poor conditions and neglect when president felix you see katie inaugurated the new museum he expressed the wish that artifacts removed from the country under belgium colonial rule be returned. though many former colonial powers are reluctant to repatriate african art. it's one thing to demand that return and another to preserve them the idea is there but it needs to be done gradually. we need to recognise that the belgians helped us

to safeguard the art so we can't just take it all back it must happen in an organized manner. much of the art in question is housed here at the africa museum on the outskirts of the belgian capital brussels king leopold the 2nd is colonial rule over the congolese was notorious for its brutality based on racism and extracting resources the belgian museum recognizes that many artifacts were gathered during military campaigns and it says it's open to the return of some items if they're found to have been acquired illegally. but for kinshasa it's about doing what's right not arguing over legalities. you should do it's legitimate for belgium to accept the restitution of the artworks because the artifacts do not have the same significance that significance here. but it's not just about geography it's about culture it's about returning the works back into

the culture of the people. who work. in the museum opening ceremony it's korean builders say they hope the museum will forge a sense of national unity but critics of the project have said it's been less about what's inside and more about the building itself d.r. congo's government has yet to officially ask belgium to return any artifacts but if they do arrive the congolese have a new home for their cultural heritage. now that is the mountain gorilla they were on the brink of a stink ship but after a concerted campaign the number of mountain gorillas in rwanda has begun to increase the total number has risen from 680 a decade ago to more than 1000 today there are states as last seen from critically endangered to just endangered so how did that happen here's a closer look. at

a very rare sight this mountain gorilla is one of just over a 1000 left in the mountain forests spreading across congo uganda and rwanda their numbers have increased significantly in only one decade thanks to close trekking and constant monitoring health births wound every movement of every single guerrillas recorded. to there's a big. but at least to be named. sure . every baby gorilla is named in an annual ceremony in one of the villages bordering the forests these ceremonies have become hugely popular. under invited celebrities to spotlight conservation work and help people in the villages to learn about gorillas. and.

we don't want to solve the protect the park with the guns. protected of course of this park with people who understand and the. fact that it's a possibility that's where and the that is on a really. really. sustainable course of action strictly regulated guerrilla tourism has created a sustainable income with tourists paying a $1500.00 u.s. dollars per visit government steers 10 percent of tourism revenue from volcanoes national park to build infrastructure and surrounding villages including health clinics and schools today about $2000000.00 u.s. dollars have gone into funding village projects 21 year old. loves the gorillas in his free time he works as

a porter accompanying tourist to the guerrillas were once i'm done with my study i want to become a god i want to make money so i can look after my family. consideration ists praised for its concerted efforts to save mountain gorillas from becoming extinct but they also warned that after all gorillas are still considered endangered it. now talking about rwanda on toryism the government signed a 3 year deal on wednesday with friends he sends a man to show visits rwanda no go on the up on this and shits on that a deal p.s.u. will promote rwandan products he saw exclusive the french club says they do this with around $10000000.00 euros critics say the deal is an attempt by the government to cover up he want to rights abuses in a country where dissent is suppressed. that's it for now from data news africa you

can catch all our stories on our website on face book page we even you know would maul pictures of lots of artist on the d r c kept in belgium. 6 months ago and now currently affectionately but as affectionately as you can. be near putin in the middle of his election campaign in the year 2000 the documentary was filmed for russian television. did you turn the camera back on of course the film secretly chronicled a power grab that actually everything was precisely planned instruction. featuring a top supporting role. to the freedom of russia. and

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an exclusive interview with one of the great german film directors bama household will receive a lifetime achievement award at the european film awards this week a. box we begin with beethoven 2020 which was launched in the western german city bomb on wednesday in advance of a spectacular year of concerts exhibitions on the vents all about one of the greatest classical composers of all time. was beethoven's birthplace and why he spent the 1st 20 years of his life that v.w. is heavily involved in the celebrations i'll be talking about that after the launch of a special d.w. classical music you tube channel with my colleague aging kennedy after this. it's not true.