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the world. to use that term to use to great insurance and force to. turn to content teaching next generation. church. music channels available to people trying to get out. and were determined to do something here for the next generation. the environment series of global 3000 on d w. this is africa coming up in the next 15 minutes the president off to the prince's africans richest woman is fighting allegations that she exploited the country's wealth to enrich herself we talked to angola's president about the scandal that's been dubbed little wonder leaps. exam come out how hundreds of millions of dollars of public funds whatever it took into private businesses off is up. to the daughter
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of the former president now for the 1st time the current president talks about the one that leaks in an exclusive interview with g w. an academy that's teaching people to build and fly drones it's the continent's 1st we'll tell you why it's in malawi. welcome to news africa have you have. the president often. has told his country is facing and preset into the opportunity for change in the wake of corruption allegations against the form of president's daughter the billionaire isabel dos santos is accused of stealing hundreds of millions in public funds while head off the state run oil company in angola. the allegations were published by
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a investigative journalist the centrals insists she's the top it off a smear campaign. to increase set down with angola's president for what is the 1st interview on the want to leak scandal and began by asking about rumors that the centrals is negotiating a deal to pay back part of the allegedly stolen money. this is in from a source saying from the. most information is unfounded. the crew. non-standard we would like to make clear that there are no negotiations. and did think through all of. them and there will be no negotiations and there was an opportunity to do so. the very people who are involved in lots of corruption us have benefited from a 6 month period of gregg's who to return are since they took illegally out of the
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country that. those who haven't used that chance would not be responsible for any consequences that may result and there's this this when. you know the documents that were leaked were quite clear do you want to see her behind bars improve mood from would prefer not to answer is it's a judicial matter and i'm not a judge of any of the documents indicates that some of the deals happened with the knowledge that sometimes on the orders of the former president for example presidential decrees to give undervalued lands to isabelle's companies why don't you go after the former president you must know a legislation what do you mean by that. good of the former presidents are immune for at least 5 years after they finish their term. but would you consider going after them after that time. it's the justice system not politicians it indicts people. it's the justice system that investigates possible crimes. the mission of
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politicians is to design policies ensuring that the justice system can be. within its competence is. the. president doesn't send people to cool it open i wouldn't even have time for that there are many cases in the country in. a position where representatives are basically saying the justice system is not as independent as you are saying that it is very well controlled by the government was a response to that. may have been the case in the past that it's not today. if you today they have the absolute liberty to act. that's the reason why there are so many trials but if you particularly related to corruption. of course now you served as the secretary general of the m.p.l. as a defense minister as well you knew the former president very well worked under him
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for a very long time why didn't you bring all these criticism up during that time. now . that i've worked on the president just think it was a little chontosh. we all did but if. he stayed in power for almost 40 years. no one can say he or she was not part of the system. but we were all part of the system. against those who are in a better position to correct what is wrong. and improve what is good in europe that there are those who know the system from with it they will prevent it but then you must have seen that is a very corrupt system because this is what the documents now show us and that's what even your investigations of. the bill for that as she did along with this is that it is precisely because i've seen these high levels of corruption. and because
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i think that the situation should not continue. that we are fighting what we have seen for decades but there are groups along with that of a force. that is. comfortable for us to leave things as they were before. but it would not be correct. as. we've now got a chance for change women and this is the right time to do it when we know it demands a lot of courage and we face some resistance we would rather fight that resistance and that i don't leave things as they were before the movie. that's all ages increased speaking exclusively to the president now how do you get medicines to remote places inaccessible by road how do you monitor crops how can you map outbreaks off disease now more and more people ought to any to draw the pilotless
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aircraft are becoming increasingly reliable and cheaper at the same time and as the use of drones increases the need for train operators is growing to a mixed reports takes us to malawi which has opened the 1st drone academy in africa . a smooth takeoff. a controlled hovering and a steady hand to get the spinning propellers going in the right direction here in the long 26 children's practice for 12 weeks until they mastered the art of flying drones. or war and it's not just about being able to pilot the machines to back and then it will have. been able to get this drone because this drone it did wrong which i made from my own pins through the use of provided they
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did materials we provided all these materials in the in hope about then they followed all the procedures and make destroyed africa's 1st drone academy students also learn how to collect and analyze data from the drones with the skills they might soon be able to save lives drones are becoming more reliable and affordable and so they used to reach isolated communities is on the rise throughout the continent they already serve to fight malaria deliver medical supplies and money to crops that's why he believes drones are key to development after i try to teach my people my. i also have an aerospace club so i'm trying to transfer this knowledge to the. student. payloads in my country i want to put you know always in the eye in the sky the future looks
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bright for the new generation of young african drone experienced. playing football can be problematic if you are a girl in egypt it's widely believed that badminton and tennis are the girls or it's never the list there is a growing number of young females who love kicking the ball and there is a drama a former player at the national team finds ways and means to play and help girls emancipates. their strong quick and nimble and also controversial the female footballers of the pegasus club. rama their trainer played in the national team. she says the experience was often rough. they didn't say anything nice when i played for the national team. in training we
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played against the boys it was like a war. if i out smarted one of them then they would often found me in their view girls don't outsmart boys and no boy wanted to be shown up in front of the others. say it is 14 she's been in the team for 6 months boys aren't allowed to play with the girls here the trainer has managed to get hold of a protected space but it's not just the boys who are a problem for women's football. my mother had a hard time accepting that i played football she wanted me to keep going with tennis but i only wanted to play football. save lives in a town just outside cairo a commuter area for people who can afford to get out of the capital with its cars traffic jams and exhaust fumes. her brother encouraged her to play football
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but he doesn't think she's a pro quite yet. but. she's ok but she's better at tournaments and has played it longer than she's played football. cedras mother though has since become a passionate advocate for women's football. she thinks that the sport isn't only good for the body but that it's good for the soul to. she's become more sociable and knows how to deal with people. not everyone in the team is the same and everyone's different that if you know she knows when to joke when to be serious and her way of speaking has changed. though you. egypt's national player most alarm is said to us role model she loves to watch men's football the african cup is her favorite competition even if egypt didn't
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make it to the final. again after. men play a little better than women they have more experience especially in football. but i hope that our generation will change that and that the sport will become more equal . putting themselves out there refusing to be intimidated those are things that coach teaches her players. she says there's no reason that women should be excluded from a sport. self-confidence can beat. it's work to save. it still has and that is a canal from news africa you can catch all stories on our website and facebook page so today we'll leave you with images from around africa taken by drones the next time i buy.
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called dystopian soul the music of american band algiers really the pigeon hole they've released a brand new album. the bafta as took place in london on sunday nights they are the british oscars really and very much a precursor for the academy awards which are coming up next week there has been criticism of the lack of diversity in the bafta nominations this year and this was addressed by a number of the stars who either got or presented prizes and as i said a very british film school the major awards. say mendez world war one film 1917 was the big winner at the bafta is it won 7 prizes in total including best film best british film this direct or and best cinematography.

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