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[000:00:00;00] live . live. live live. this is new news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes the gambia still reeling in shock the government says it's sending a team to mauritania to investigate the deaths of dozens of migrants who drowned at sea in one of the deadliest such disasters. and building heat proof houses in 14 lagos and local offered to explain cooling design.
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a mass grave in berlin or save the auto exhibition uncovering. of germany's history in the maybe a. day they tried to kill the whole. ethnic group the heroes as well as the nominee i made you know we're still here and we're here to tell the story. hello i'm christine one bill welcome to news africa it's good to have you along gambia as government says it's sending a delegation to mauritania to investigate the drowning off 63 people in the atlantic ocean the majority of the migrants were gambians on their way to europe these are some of the survivors the boat they were on left gambia for the canary islands at the end of november the visceral capsized off the coast of mauritania as
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you can see and i'm happy now some of these survivors managed to swim back to shore all the oars he is on not sure how many people were on board but instruments put the number as high as 180 people many of them all still unaccounted for and back in the gambia relatives of the victims are mourning their loss. news spread quickly among residents that a boat carrying migrants had sunk of mauritania relatives fear they have lost their loved ones the same vessel stopped here a few days ago looking for passengers many gambians boarded hoping to reach europe and a better life. and the smugglers were scouting for passengers my grandson and 2 others heard about this and decided to join but we thought that it succeeds because 2 other boats that left recently reached their destination are
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. these survivors managed to swim ashore they are being housed in the mauritanian city of new idea and are receiving primary care mauritanian authorities say more than 80 passengers have been rescued or studio uneasy. we are here today because we are illegally emigrating to find something to make a living and to help our parents because there's not enough work in our country. we left gambia a week ago wanting to go to spain the people who organized the trip abandoned us at sea because we were lost. we were lost and we didn't know where to go. attempts to reach spain from africa have increased in recent years as authorities have clamped down on crossings to italy from libya. but aren't equal to me on the atlantic route and the western mediterranean route to becoming increasingly
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important in 2015 there were about 5000 robberies in europe each year and 28 team the number reach 60000 of us recently for the people of bahrain gambia they are still many unanswered questions many victims were buried in mauritania without being identified. again for an update on the developments on the story misquoted all know why the who's in bundle in the gumby good to see you all must so what do we know about those who survived and who are in mauritania are they going to be brought back to the gambian and what about those have been buried in mauritania will their remains also be brought back to the country whether according to their press release issued by the government they are informed the presidency and the government us walking route. to send a delegation to mauritania to investigate and walk on how best they can how close they mean to those who left their lives those who lost their lives and those who
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survived the accident although we talked about some of the questions that are being raised in the gambia about this incident one of them is where was the navy when people took off from the coast to head off into the waters what what what what what what have you heard from the authorities about that. whether this is the same question many governments house the next this is under sustained media they said where was the gun that maybe because it's just a few kilometers from where these people are bored de bortoli of dysentery and they said how can hundreds of people have board a boat to retire the knowledge of the gun the navy who will use one or 2 or deceased so that's a question many people are asking and we are yet to get response from the authorities on that. oh mother the gambia has been producing a lot of refugees especially during the time of former president yeah you had john me looking at the statistics as they are which you have numbers for us it doesn't
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look like that is messing up it seems as though more and more people continue to risk their lives to leave the gambia and gets a europe can you tell us why this is the case well from 214228000 are going to you and over to 5000 governments lefties country and when the general good to see or so how many talked out of the general do weird things happen in this country in terms of investment on creating opportunities for young people but that did not change steve young people out who seem to have a life that can be seen on the invasion to go to europe and this is a hoax and crime and a lot of who they have into country because most of them think that they kind of make it in this country by our side they've got to get if this is in the west they're for going to fosters. it's been about 2 years since your new president came into office president adam a barrow is this a question of his incompetence all other reforms that the gabby needs does he need a lot of time and people just don't have the patience help us understand why things
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are not getting better for people why they feel like they don't have hope in the country it depends on who you talk to too many president who is focused and he cannot deliver anymore sort of the young people in this country toward the problem was with the former president and the way they think when this new government debt problem and the sort of war that did not happen 3 years into his leadership young people are still continue to leave this country employed in pregnancy on the increase so what then they won't even get even calling on the president to step down at the end of 3 days into the end of his 5 year term because many people say he kind of do and again you cannot change anything for the people of this country. all right. and bundjalung thank you. thank you so much. on next story takes us to nigeria where temperatures rose up to 5 degrees higher than
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normal during the 1st quarter of this year it's a massive jump even for a country already accustomed to heat waves climate change scientists warn this is unprecedented heat wave is a sign of what lies ahead for the country now the city of lagos is home to about 22000000 people and the houses people are building on not designed to save god from the heat but as you're about to see one architects has a plan. in the nigerian mega city lagos the poor feel the heat hardass rising temperatures hurt people's health and make daily chores more taxing children and the elderly are most atrocious in the city's sprawling slums construction and overcrowding make heatwaves was there is no ventilation when the sun beats down on community blogger moses on jolo he built this home himself from wooden planks top hole in nylon and cardboard after authorities demolished his old house in
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a massive fiction. economy to new developments well you don't get a. yeah over. just. scorched by rising temperatures and wary of both dorothy's some residents are building their way out of heat ways architect tell you has designed a training center for homeless children that uses passive cooling to keep temperatures like inspired by traditional nigerian architecture imitate uses compressed earth bricks that heat up during the day and really senate yet not a wing shaped roof disperses heat by diverting affleck. he says cities are not doing enough to guard against temperature increases. heat is rising it keeps rising as the city develops as we're not dealing with pollution as we build tighter and
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tighter spaces so i think it's really critical that people think about heat when thinking about design. with the city swelling by more than 1000 people a day cool buildings will become increasingly crucial police. now here in the german capital berlin a namibian artist is helping to shine a light on another dock chapter of german history when namibia and communities rose up against german colonial rule in $1000.00 over fall imperial forces responded they were quick to crush the end wrist and the result was the nehemiah nation of the head a little and nama peoples in 2004 the german government formally recognised the atrocities and issued an apology but to date no reparations have been paid now there may be an artist isabelle touch of evil is addressing this national trauma with an installation in berlin. isabel cut t.v.'s
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ancestors are one of them being tried as the german colonial power tried to obliterate over a century. with her exhibit here in berlin much of the gives a voice to those who were silenced they tried to various you know they they they tried to kill the whole. ethnic group the heroes as well as the now was and they didn't succeed you know we're still here and we're here to tell the story . from 10141908 the german army brutally suppressed the herero unama rebellion killing up 210-0000 people or more. the 1st genocide of the 20th century shank's modern maybe descendants of victims were displaced today 70 percent of profit land remains in white hands germany has returned remains of victims to be buried but for land has so far refused calls for reparations. the.
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fragile masks of the artists own fake fly half buried in sand the work feels like an untended mass grave people touch of v.v. hopes to start a discussion about the crimes of the past before they are forgotten our biggest thing is acknowledgment to acknowledge its history to acknowledge that it happened because for so many years it's just been denied. germany has finally stopped denying what happened in the may be but the path to healing more than a century of trauma has barely begun. and that is it for now from news africa as always you can catch all stories on our website and facebook page. now we're leaving you with pictures off the table and on the people in the media have
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a version. many believe it or not from kabul. bots we began with a look at the annual european film awards which take place this weekend here belin joining me is all film expert adrian kennedy who has all the details adrian some big european directors up for the big award yes roman polanski pedro almodovar and yoko said that for most of the heavyweights in the running polanski's film is historical talking about the dreyfus affair. send me an autobiographical and the most of course has this incredible restoration which has already won his link actress in a coma and. let's have a look at those 3 top favorites for the top of.

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