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in a vicious cycle ravaged by drought and fire. in 60 minutes d w. what secrets lie behind this war. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. world heritage 316 get kidnapped now. this is africa coming up in the next 15 minutes the president off to the princes africa's richest woman is fighting allegations that she exploited the country's wealth to enrich herself we talked to angola's president of the scandal that's been dubbed the one. i'm caught out how hundreds of millions of dollars of public funds were directed into private business itself is up. to the daughter of the
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former president now for the 1st time the current president talks about the one that leaks in the next group of interviews with the w. . 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. news africa it's good to have you have. the president often. has told his country is facing and preset into the opportunity for change in the wake off corruption allegations against the form of president the billionaire isabel dos santos is accused of stealing hundreds of millions in public funds while head off the state run oil company in an. the allegations were published by an investigative
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journalist the centrals insists she is the target of a smear campaign. creech set down with engel as 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 all of the allegedly stolen money. this is in from a source going from that. most of this information is unfounded to the crew. we would like to make clear that there are no negotiations. and think through all of. them there will be no negotiations and there was an opportunity to do so that the very people who are involved in lots of corruption us have benefited from a 6 month period of grace through to return
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a sense they took illegally out of the country that. those who have 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 for mood from the hard prefer not to answer these educational matter and i'm not a judge of any of the documents indicates that some of the deals happened with the knowledge or 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 what legislation what do you mean by that. because of these former presidents are immune for at least 5 years after they finish. but would you consider going after them after that time. the justice system not politicians of either indicts people. it's the justice
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system that investigates possible crimes. the mission of politicians is to design policies ensuring that the justice system can be done. within its competence is. the. president doesn't send people to cool it but i wouldn't even have time for that there are many cases in the country in. a position of representatives that basically saying the justice system is not as independent as you are saying that it is very well controlled by the government was the response to that. that may have been the case in the past that it's not today we were just a few today they have an absolute liberty to act. now is the reason why there are so many trials he was here but if you particularly related to corruption. 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. it's true that i've worked under president. bush. we all did but if you. think 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. those who are in a better position to correct what is wrong. and improve what is good in europe is that of those who know the system from with it is a source which they will prevent 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 they're. back at it from a force. comfortable for us to leave things as they were before. would not be correct. that is. 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 that i don't leave things as they were before to move the needle that's all it 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 are tuning to drop 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 a long way 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 you did wrong which i made from my own through the use of provided be
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it materials we provided all these materials in the in how to go about then i followed all the procedures and to make destroy at africa's 1st run 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 reliable and affordable and so they used to reach isolated communities is on the rise throughout the continent they already served to fight malaria deliver medical supplies and money to crops that's why he believes drones are key to development after. trying to teach my people my. i also have an aerospace club so i'm trying to find this right this noble age to the. student. payloads in my country i mean per unit i was in mali in the sky the future looks bright for
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the new generation of young african drone experts. playing football can be problematic if you are a girl in egypt it's widely believed that badminton and tennis are the girls of all it's never the list there is a growing number of young females who love kicking the ball and there is a former player at the national team who 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
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for the national team in training we 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 of the. 6 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. and with 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. sage lives in a town just outside cairo a commuter area for people who can afford to get out of the capital with it's cause 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. she's ok but she's better at tennis and has played it longer than she's played for. 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 too. she's become more sociable and knows how to deal with people. not everyone in a team is the same everyone's different that if you know you there forever 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 cedras role model she loves to watch men's football the african cup is her favorite competition even
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if egypt didn't make it to the final. again after something that's men play a little better than the 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. selfconfidence can beat. it's work to say drop. it still has and that is a canal from africa and you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page so today will leave you with images from around africa taken by drones till next time.
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i'm not thinking out of the job well i just sometimes i am but most end up in which is that the german thinks deep into the german culture of looking at the stereotypes question but in years think the future of the country but i don't. mean to change the focus drama there. it's all that. new i'm rachel join me for me the germans on the w. . post. i low and welcome the buy after those were a triumph for the british film 917 a look at the highlights in just a minute also coming up the greats renaissance innovator a young fan in the biggest exhibition of his works ever assembled. and it's being
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called dystopian soul but the music of american band algiers can't really be pigeonholed they've released brand new albums. since. the bafta took place in london on sunday nights they are the british oscars really i'm 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 that's it won 7 prizes in total including best film best british film hysterectomies and best cinema time.
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