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and though i'm told me a lot of ball welcome to news africa we're glad you could join us nigeria has suffered the effects of a decade logged insurgency by the boko haram jihadist group part of the government's response apart from a military operation has been to offer an amnesty to repentant militants these fighters of then rehabilitated and steered back into society except they sometimes end up living alongside the very victims of their attacks as the correspondent find if a child has been finding out in the city of maiduguri in northeast nigeria. what come to my degree this sign existed long before the city gate negative notoriety for being the birthplace of boko haram in the past my degree was known as a major training camp a decade into the jihadi insurgency more than 2000000 people have been displaced some of them find refuge in this. at 1st sight not much has changed since we

visited last year but this time we need to form a book or on militants who have also been assigned to this camp like. he learns how to repair shoes during the 2 years he was with. he learned something else. they wanted us to be part of their insurgency and become people who are willing to attack and kill. we went through our training to be able to kill and kill. the 45 year old claims. considered him to all to be a mood around. the camp he still stigmatised he says he was forced to join the group. when we came to the camp a lot of people accused us of so many things but that doesn't bother us. we just want to live in peace that if we did the. war with we here refers to

a dozen others to now live in the camp he's becoming a hairdresser and claims he repents his actions. those people live killed whenever i think about it i have sleepless nights may allah forgive me i want to get married go to school i want to be a very good person. i will do and i are both a government funded training program to help reintegrate militants that sounds like mockery to the victims here who fled their homes lost their relatives and face an uncertain future. she wanted to 9 you know to 90 i don't know how my life and that of my children will look. what i design it's better to train our children than them so many people here agree on this if they trained our children it would have more impact and we're angry with the. victims and former militants

living side by side preparing to gather free entrance into society wants to respond that's the goal but outside of the camp life is anything but stable. the capital city of borno state was considered a relatively safe haven but just a few weeks ago several rocket propelled explosives landed here in this city allegedly fired by militants many here in my degree as the violence is far from being contained. in the wake of new attacks it is difficult to convince people here to reintegrate form. so how we should that's very safe around them so just how fair is it to rehabilitate these people without doing the same for their victims for. the answer seems simple. it is absolutely unfair.

and it also encourages dog who have never joined the insurgency 'd also i tempted because they are even more. victims he says rehabilitation why violence is still ongoing it's counterproductive but as other observers put it amnesty to acts militants though a bitter pill to swallow may be the only way to achieve peace once the war on terror is over. joining me now from ca tonight in northern nigeria is pastor dr james and. from the interfaith mediations. and nongovernmental organization involved in the radicalization programs for form of boko haram members dr we thank you for joining us why is the reintegration of these sex militants so urgent when some people would argue that they should be paying for their actions in prison. where it's always been because the more you are there where are.

more in detention and the more you get more people who are former us going to join there we are being deprogrammed men if you didn't marry cheerio fuse strongly dark draws former us. how much even more privileges than the young people who did not participate in the violence and so if you want to reintegrate we feel that the government should take time and the people involved like ourselves that morally just leaders should be recruited to go and deprogram the people in the fields reprogram them to was integrated there now coming back to decide how art is the nice. empowerment that you give this right because. i want that life so nice

that you balance this i want so that we come back all to receiving them when i will receive them with a more open minded and also did not. mean to go and fight what if you know what i want to say i support so we we have reached out to the nigerian government for comment so far but they haven't granted this as as you are saying should a more attention be paid to the communities themselves which include the victims of these former militants actions. very well that is it otherwise you will. attract young people joining in that really turns nasty conduits and then . come back and people are still so that is the need for the really just leaders to come together. to host the community and. to give them

an awful ration but i didn't don't who was deliberate to detect treatment for those who are not white and that got me and most. this will. do what you know it will cost and deal with it right because then you can have this community. and very briefly surely there needs to be more effort also to explain to the communities why these acts militants and need to be real need to be ushered back into society. very well spoken that is that neat although i will leave public surely in exciting . time to keep people. so you know that get them that they need to preach forgiveness and. don't use important but it just be done in. the community and not only the government think you might you want know that ok apostle dr james moore. nigeria thank you for your time thank you for

having me. with over 600000 infections south africa has been the country worst hit by the coronavirus on the continent yet it appears its response has been plagued with corruption after public servants members of the ruling party a.n.c. and private companies were accused of looting from the country's relief fund president cyril ramaphosa called for an investigation now the auditor general has published his findings uncovering major flaws and corruption. an opportunity. when there are fewer. money. transactions. this. is correspondent in south africa average increase has been

following the story for us good to see you is anyone in south africa surprised about the auditor general's findings in q tell us a bit more about. well not really because there were a few indications in the past weeks actually a lot of the more and more reports coming are divides corruption in relation to those covered 19. expenditures of the governments now the south african government if you recall spend about 25000000000 euros on its fiscal covered 9000 relief package that's one of the biggest packages on the continent and about 7500000000 euros of that is the money that was allocated to a local government and also on the federal level that was basically already spent and this is the amount of money that they're ordered to general looked into with some frightening findings how he put it there's a lot of irregularities in the report mentioned and now these findings will be

passed on to investigators there's a special investigative unit that will now look into this as well ok and see south africa's governing party has been blamed for corruption for such a long time to the extent that even within the party there is conflict entering you spoke with the and see secretary of limpopo in south africa's north let's let's take a listen. if. you . experience. very briefly is president obama doing enough to fight corruption when he took over as a president there was a glimmer of hope that he would do because that was his key argument he will really fight corruption now and it was right after the term remember of jacob zuma the former president under his watch corruption was rampant at the time of state

capture how it is called when corrupt individuals took over institutions in the country a mess of problem and zuma still has supporters within the party and this is what some people say the reason why has not been that effective in his fight against corruption but this weekend the leadership of the party heads a meeting and they supported president here's what the president said in the digital press conference afterwards. i am. going to as asian. people. and decisive action needs to be. correction. and that 1st start. president. wrapping up that segment with you. in south africa. that's where we'll leave it for today be sure to check out our

other stories on. africa or on our facebook and twitter now we leave you with pictures of health workers across the continent often putting their own lives at risk but working tirelessly to fight the cold in 1000 pandemic stay safe we'll see you soon bye for now. i'm free to any other surprising news coming out. to do something for you to get the footsteps of the great. concern. around the fleet street. cars. 3 times you want. to marry much alive. good guy to.

germany. to recognize where exactly. you are no car culture history of. detail travel extremely worth a visit. greetings from berlin and welcome to arts and culture well it's a shimmer of hope perhaps as the world's oldest film festival gets underway in venice but culture is still holding its own moving forward in defiance of the kovac $900.00 pandemic and that's not the only reason it's a watershed year that and these stories coming up. sound artist. comes to terms with the sexism in portia to her native cameroon by colonial powers

through poetry and song. and in meet the germans my colleague rachel stewart gives us a quick tour of the fairy tale world of german castle. oh and the venice film festival unveiled its official selection in late july the competition roster with over 40 percent of films directed by women was heralded as progress great progress in fact considering the event had come under fire in recent years for lack of gender parity with social distancing protocols firmly in place some 90 percent of this year's festival will go ahead in person a breath of fresh air for cinema despite the masks. to city off water as it's rarely been seen with only a handful of tourists due to pandemic the usual crowds have been staying away but people have shown now for them are strapped to city's film festival which opens

today along with films comfort cautionary measures social distancing mandatory mask wearing and temperature taking. it's pretty radical be we hope everything will go well we hope that this mosque can be fruitful. even with. it for easter and might see fewer hollywood stars in attendance but one silver lining is that the festival has done better in terms of gender parity 8 out of 18 themes in competition directed by women. actress cate blanchett leads the jerry. wells to the swinton receives a lifetime achievement award the competition runs for 11 days before we find out who will take home the sears coveted golden lion. 8 out of 800 films by women directors and i'm joined by my colleague melissa horrid melissa some

pretty impressive gender parity there for venice so finally we might say is there did dare we hope that the golden lion might be taken home by a woman well yeah it could well be taken home by a woman couldn't i mean if we think about the comparison with recent years this is a massive massive jump it's a huge difference phil festival director alberto bobber us said that the films were selected though exclusively on the basis of quality and didn't have anything to do with gender protocols interesting brianna we do have we do have a i think you are going to tell me about a couple of those yes one film that is directed by a woman and is getting a lot of boss and is also in competition is bodies i.e. down where are you going i you don't it's my well established bosnian filmmaker that she has me let spawn each the film is based on real events from the bosnian war in the summer of 1995 it follows aida who works at a camp as a translator for the united nations and we do have

a clip of that one from let's just take a quick look. here i work for the brits and their. greek god to make you carry. out. the. work. for your work you are at work for yourself and you can go to war with the people back into place. very intense looking film there and it's interesting that jury president cate blanchett also said that they've included a great strides in terms of more diverse voices this year so what else can we look forward to well a film that is not in competition but one i think that is a very very exciting and interesting film is called apple its 1st feature film it's by crystal sneak through it's going to premiere in the horizon section of the festival so you know it's not in the main selection but it's very very timely apple says the story of a solitary man who falls victim to an unexplained pandemic that causes sudden amnesia he decides to take part in the experimental treatment to create new

memories and take photos of these experiences so he has to have a one night stand and take photos of that we spoke to the director and he said it's an allegorical story that has a lot to do with technology and social media and how we are forced more and more to live that our lives have become less and less important and the documentation of our lives become more and more important so the photos become much more important than the actual experience it's also about identity and how selective our memories are very timely stuff. at a very different festival thanks to this corona pandemic let's hope it all goes as planned with no new infections in the venice film festival going on until september the 12th i think we'll keep following that story obviously and thanks very much melissa holroyd for coming in and speaking bringing us those insights. all this week we're featuring artists whose work deals with colonialism particularly with

germany's colonial past and spent her early childhood in. cameroon which was an african colony of the german empire from 884-2916 well today as an author performer and a musician it's the complex experience of living as a black woman between 2 worlds that take center stage. sound art slam poetry. is a tale of heartbreak and camera. time. she says women in africa used to have more respect before european colonisers brought their sex is. such an impact but also people mentality they were purposely raising also the

culture of the people stumbling over imaginary of a black man in the 21st century. i couldn't swallow my pride trust. in africa you know as a woman need to step back and not say so much but just be smiling and cooking and helping those whose structures i was not used so. there was 10 when she 1st left cameroon for germany one of cameron's former colonizers. mother moved with her and her brothers to pursue a ph d. at a german university. here it was a dream les's small african child white culture is on though it's everywhere it's the norm with the standard so when you know as a 10 year old that you're going to europe it's like the show look at the place. but as the only black girl experience not just racism but. how to explain african

mist to europeans she felt even her mother's generation had lost be answers. back to cameroon singing in english french and german. there is something that is. clear. that kind of music she says couldn't keep up with the energy of cameroon. she went electronic and experimental style she still creates and now as a mother and berlin. this piece of sound art includes recordings of ghana's 1st independence leader kwame nkrumah. and conversations mahler recorded in shared

taxis and camera. since moving back to germany says she's stopped taking responsibility for others' ignorance now and even now even now here in germany i have called this nation more with people like jim need to. and that. the legacy of colonialism is written into brylin african quarter and the 19th century zulu was planned here that would exhibit african animals and humans to. today by chance many africans live here comes here for cameroon and for. these days she says she's more at ease navigating her complex identity. what i discover with. that important it's ok. not knowing

uncertainty while enjoying the journey. may be calling closer. well for visitors from abroad europe is known as the land of fairy tales and many of those tales took place of course in a castle germany has its fair share of these and my colleague rachel stewart has visited a few. welcomes else costs that used to be featured on the back of the $500.00 bill and these days it's a big hit on instagram not bad for a nearly 900 year old cars and. there are an estimated 20000 cars in germany. some of them little westaway the weather amounting ruins a very detailed inspection and you'll think you'll spoil the choice to do. this even in a group called cost that stretches all the way from mannheim to buy

a foot and takes you past some $60.00 castles the glorious shots noise from shine of area is one of the most visited castles in the whole of europe and it's even set of inspired world just. ok time for a quick language check on a fairy tale sightseeing tour through germany you're probably going to see 2 different words being used book and shots in general a book is fortified protected by a wall or image a schloss is closer to the english word potus and would have been billed as a luxurious residence but some medieval books have been converted and sometimes the words he used interchangeably even doubt just take both names like transfer of installing and. there does seem to be quite an appetite for royal gossip here in germany i definitely know more about the british royal family now than i did when i lived in the u.k. perhaps that's because the germans no longer have rules of the writing at the end of the 1st world war all official royal titles and associated legal privileges were abolished however it was permitted that some titles could be merged into the family

surnames and that's why we're now able to talk to a real life count. with. dr carl graf for not so it's going to force from storm back before she informed on to this in. its own visits and as a whole foods for one to 2 apart from counts and tourists who else might you find in a castle. there are plenty of spooky legends surrounding gemini's passes a popular apparition is the vice of white lady whose appearance was often thought to signal the imminent death of someone in the family. here else castle it's agnes who said to haunt the home. the story goes that in the 15th century the count's rather rebellious doors are supposed to marry the squire khan's bag who by all accounts was a bit of a jerk she refused to kiss him at their engagement how do you think he took that not so well he disappeared for a year and then finally returned to attack the cops agnes dunn had rather somber

and joined the battle but she was killed by her would be fiance. the legend goes that agnes is close to sometimes seen in the castle court yard o'clock to midnight . gives new meaning to the term damsel in distress well that's all for this time so until we meet again stay safe and go by. the phone.

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this is g w news wire from berlin tonight a crime of attempted murder of the german chancellor says there is no del crippling critic alexina ball he was poisoned and she wants moscow to explain russia's leading opposition figure remains in intensive care in a berlin hospital the german government says it now has proof that he was poisoned with the soviet era nerve agent in berlin london in washington are now demanding answers from russia also coming up tonight the venice film festival opens with blessed lips less glamour.