who stayed behind and simply my husband went to peru because of the crisis. if he hadn't gone there we would have died of hunger. let us down. just starts october 16th g.w. . this is deja vu news and these are our top stories u.s. president donald trump has not made any kone barrett to the supreme court she would replace the late ruth bader ginsburg on the country's highest court her confirmation would tilt the court in favor of conservatives the senate is expected to confirm her ahead of the u.s. presidential election. lebanon's designated prime minister has resigned amid an impasse in efforts to form a new government. was appointed to the in the wake of august's devastating blast in

the capital beirut and the subsequent resignation of the government he blamed political infighting over cabinet positions for his decision to step down. in london scuffles broke out between police and coronavirus skeptics who had gathered at trafalgar square to protest pandemic restrictions hundreds of anti mass activists appeared to flout social distancing rules police say they gave several warnings before breaking up the rally. this is due to your news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram d w news or visit our website d.w. dot com.

this week god world stories. the united states how coronavirus is driving people into poverty israel where white storks used garbage to regain their strength but 1st we'll start in germany the courts are currently dealing with a serious case of sexual violence against children again mark was dick momma's sexually abused as a child now he's raising awareness of the suffering of other victims. as a child marcus dyckman was sexually abused for almost 10 years by 3 different perpetrators in his home town of curtain. today he's returned to the scene of the 1st crime this is where a shooting gallery at a funfair lured him into a caravan and raped him shop as a cop and i have this movie playing in my head that i haven't been able to stop since the trauma have your will i'm lying here as

a little boy 5 years old all shoulder length blond hair naked on a bed with creased white sheets with. the shooting gallery owner was lying naked next to him for 4 decades mustique man repressed what had happened today he drives his motor home through germany and fights for justice for other victims most. i've always had to somehow figure out for myself what's right and what's wrong because you don't believe anyone anymore you don't trust anyone and. the under a huge victims in the back case are probably going through something similar 130 investigators are now working on the case the largest known abuse scandal in german history so far they have identified more than 80 suspects but there are 30000 leads to other potential perpetrators persons specter of exchanging child sex abuse photos and videos on chat forums. if you

read the chat in particular and you get the impression that by communicating with each other the participants reinforce in each other the believe that their child abuse is a socially accepted sexual preference for both many perpetrators have no sense of wrongdoing it's a case of appalling dimensions and goes far beyond germany according to the senior prosecutor marcus dyckman is still not free of his trauma with his group he supports other victims the group wants the statutes of limitations for sexual crimes to be eliminated as for the trial against the main suspect he has hopes that will extend beyond the baggage blood back case. a signal is now being sense that the perpetrators can no longer feel safe and that they will now be dealt with severely. man sets off again to continue his mission of drawing attention to the fate of abuse victims it's become his life's work. not one that he

chose for himself. in the u.s. the pandemic has now claimed over $200000.00 lives more than anywhere else in the world but the virus is not only a threat to the health of the people it's also a growing economic threat to more and more u.s. citizens. the use of himself as a lucky guy the 35 year old stone cutter and a resident of phoenix arizona just from new full time work after several months of unemployment. now is right around the beginning of the pandemic the hours went from $40.00 to $20.00 within 2 weeks i went from 20 down to. almost 0 at that point i did have to file the unemployment way for that stuff to come through 1st time i ever applied for. unemployment payments from washington and from the state government kept him somewhat afloat but then he fell behind on his rent and that

had consequences despite and there is only a governess executive order to postpone evictions just to rekey go thomas most addicted his new home now the del rio law motel where he now pace around $300.00 per week. now i have. going to be very hard to get a new apartment great for ken vote president if an organization called arizona tenants advocates thomas case is just one of many he's dealing with every day the pandemic puts people out of work then many can't pay rent anymore they get thrown out of their homes and onto the streets and that in return fuels the pandemic again it's a no win situation it's a lose lose. situation there's there's no. proper. solution here until we get a handle on this virus and you know especially if you've got people out on the street you know conveying the virus from person to person to social group to social

groups there's no one that's going to be safe. safe is something julie brewer hasn't felt in months she says her husband chef was furloughed early on independent make and then got sick with copd it she and her son were also hit by the virus the summer was the worst since all of us catching kobe and now we're everything that could go wrong. julie has a rare no real logic condition called stiff person syndrome she can't work and receive social security and disability payments it pays the rent but that's it and $53.00 left out of my sources garrity disability after paying her rent and. you know crying trying to figure out which bills going to be paid are we going to have enough food left over am i going to have to go to the food bank. julie is

afraid things could even get worse for her to have family in the shadows of arizona's capitol building in downtown phoenix this tent city for the homeless is growing every day. south africa is also suffering heavily on the pandemic around $3000000.00 people have lost their jobs because of the chronic virus crisis along with their income on rent and food many are now turning their backs on big cities and trying their luck in the countryside. when cynthia time bonnie needs water she can no longer open it she could like a few weeks ago she lost her office drop in the city and move back to her village she has to collect water from neighbors to. this was i'm hoping to get more on training so that i can connect my way to st because everything in the city do it inside the house so there's not sort of goes outside.

except going maybe jogging oakum to wake. her daughter's remains in the village while their mother spent 80 years in the city working to support them trips home where it wasn't making sense in a way because i had to pay rent home and at the same time i took some money to my kids' home and also with the percent of us looking after my kids so it wasn't balancing at all so i thought i might as well just come back home and be with my kids and do something here. for me and my family now the 38 year old is turning a pastime into a profession and her small house she bakes spreads and this gets. she receives up to 7 orders a week and has already made enough to invest in an oven a daughter's cell powered they are happy to have their mom back home. where did you miss most of your interview and the most places. when her good

friend to talk to. and after living in the city cynthia is keen to offer advice. many of us it's on the boat 'd being mary having kids didn't state it's not so many young men that are uplifted or independent but getting to be getting to see women that they're in their lives it encourages me it helps me go on and help you move and it helps me if engine people. cultivating fruit for export is just one of the business opportunities she could explore here in the village. so i went to a certain critical place this small place like oh i'll be sending. make us so that people do not have to go to town to get peterson because so they can only get it here locally the worst of belittlement it ever getting from breaking it

is one thing that i've been trying to save so that i can be able to do that so if you have time bonnie is happy to let her daughters move to the city to continue their education but she is certain her own future lies here in the country so. our last stop israel twice a year the country is a stop over from white storks on the migration route between europe and africa one of the best vantage points for birdwatchers to see this natural wonder garbage dump . time for break for flocks of white storks in the jordan valley and the occupied west bank at dawn on you thought of just ya see leshem is up early to observe the birds at this huge garbage dump twice a year distorts navigate their way thousands of kilometers from europe to southern africa and back israel and the palestinian territories are like a bottleneck there one of the main micro tare routes for millions of birds.

because they avoid to fly over their mediterranean so we are like a highway because circulation between 3 called didn't so we are lucky to have in fact 600000 stalks were flying twice a year over year all there were almost all the world population of whites talks about how that 50000 stuff like that i think said that 1000. so we are lucky to be in the best highway of the job with stalks. rather than taking a shorter route over the many terrain in like smaller bats stalks fly over land to catch up ort streams of warm and pockets to write a thermos to conserve energy. the landfill is like a pit stop for the storks to just stay for the night to rest to feed and gather strength before setting off on the next leg. for you the last 10 years they

know to look for. places where your culture fits but for garbage that of course they have plastic bags and stuff like that which is of course dangerous but they go where they have these before although bird migration happens twice every year it still amazes us who studies to birds for decades unlike most humans to storks don't need g.p.s. to right at their destination. we had one stalk that was amazing for 15 years she was going every you for the same in your book little 1000000000 to this same tree near kept a year after year. if they have strong winds she can compensate and she knows how to go up and say exactly where she wants to go because they're doing it for billions of years. it's time for this truck to take off every day they fly

between 302500 kilo meant to this next stop the egyptian sinai before they continue their exhausting journey towards their winter home in southern africa. 5 years of conflict 5 years of hard hitting. and the loss of life. because that's where the free press if you need. to call them. or you concerns for not concern. taking part in the matter. why not. as to the 1st.

things you somebody here in some small prison comes from things a telephone. i think is everything challenging 1st i'm fine became a muslim. so much different culture between here and there challenging for everything. traditional business i think it was worth it for me to come to germany and. got my license to work as a swimming instructor here i'm sure now our 2 children $100.00 just one last time just to. watch your story take part cherish on info like greenstock.

we have this thing about covering women's faces because it's either too beautiful and you don't want to get that attention or because. families want to not show their women's faces and that's also comes from ownership of female body and picture arkell society is meant i took that kind of to the next level and just removed my face so it's became something of like let's say like a modern but our. first target is to be a strong woman sweet target to be successful and we try so hard but there's a lot of people who would try to bury us. because baseball has things that we are

not good enough they don't want us to be in control they don't want us to be successful and. i'm going to bury myself but when i'm in there by the way it beats my chest but every time i preach i can see the tracks of the clouds the choice to make create me. scary. this is how i feel guilty about life. and i'm out in our city of sanaa. in a modern city of santa. suited to shine. some sun. i chose this 1st because it means with every hardship come good things and i feel like. it relates to women struggling with just being women.

you are the past the present and the future. the cameras like. you balance the mass of the world. i still do them ration when i see women stand up they will not conform to remarks about. the way that they dress women are not just a bag of flesh you know. that so for years and centuries we've been science our bodies where became the battleground of patricks of racists now we are saying we have enough now we are mobilizing organizing across the countries including in europe you know added to reclaim our voices in your new order to reclaim our authority. to protest in morocco's capital rabat under the law

here having sex before or outside marriage can lead to a one year jail term the north african country also has harsh penalties for abortion 28 year old journalist hoshyar isone stands accused of both offenses the case has driven many to protest and to demand self-determination for women. they're standing up for their rights young muslim women worldwide expect more from life than their mothers and they put up with less they want legal equality for women with all without head scarves and at last the freedom to go out without a husband brother or father as guardian all across the muslim world women are fighting for social change. the story of mohammed's 1st wife the teacher continues to inspire muslim women today.

how the child was a special because she was a very successful business woman she knew how to choose the right people to work for our prophet muhammad. she turned off a lot of marriages as being a respectable ritual but a lot of men proposed and at that time almost 1500 years she knew how to say no to man she's the one who asked the prophet muhammad to get married so she has the guts of note to say this is the man i can see the cause i think is good for me i will see if i detail was empowered she was an empowered woman. sorrow marceau is a political scientist she works for the women's n.-g. . in paris the group fights for equality and justice in muslim families her own family originally came from morocco as a teenager in france she encountered prejudice against her faith time and again.

i was a well spoken child i was very loud i was very proud to be able to memorize so many separate from the what i and and if any being the elder daughter of an in mom is not easy because the community looks up to you but when i was young i didn't feel this pressure i was actually looking up to my father i liked reading the outloud in the mosque i wanted to become like him i wanted to be able to preach to lead to prayer and at that time and while growing up i didn't really see the manifestations of within my own religion because i was too busy fighting against islamophobia and racism in society in school in looking for a job related activities and just in the streets. in france where gender equality is enshrined in the constitution and religion is strictly separated from the state many people are critical of conservative islam. since the islamist terrorist attacks of 2015 the number of islamophobia attacks in the country has

increased many other directed against muslim women. for all that and muslim feminist. zaineb rar the problem isn't religion or the koran but patriarchy. elmer's rar was born in hanover the daughter of moroccan immigrants she argues for an open and critical interpretation of islam and she puts muslim gender cliches under the microscope. they say this traditionally islam is a patry arkell religion it has to be sit tight that doesn't mean and i've explored this in my own emancipation in islam is that the situation so when has it improved islam. i did it was of congress and the role of the woman in islam whether she can be emancipated within islam is one of the big questions of our time because we talk

a lot about islam around the world not just in germany or europe is emancipation possible in islam i'd say yes but it's incredibly dependent on who interprets the religion and what mindset she has. guys. tunisia since the 2011 revolution the country on the mediterranean coast has been in a state of upheaval. the islamic scholar she charged field was a member of the commission for individual liberties and equal rights its goal was to find solutions to achieve more rights for women. to. islam cannot stand in the way of the emancipation of women in need of. nor can christianity or judaism is. can't in principle but

because the position of women was always explicitly inferior in the monotheistic religious traditions. explains all 3 religions. so we have to make a distinction for between the religion itself. and the tradition that stems from the religion of. the city. in paris the simone via prizes being awarded it's named after the health minister who fought for abortion rights in france in 1975. 1 of the nominees zain of larry's suing the french moroccan worked for many years with the satirical magazine shelby is due. in 201512 people were killed in an attack on the magazine's office. since then and larry so we has been one of france's fiercest critics of this. list.

i. don't consume their farm. the woman is worth less than a man and is subject to him net. the women are dependent on their guardianship their money their will their sexual desires which the woman is not allowed to resist no matter if she has a wife or a lover. as soon as the woman rejects the model prescribed by society she is denigrated as a whore for she is a woman without morals in the eyes of society. lebanon has a long christian tradition but muslims make up the majority of the population. 30 years after the civil war their country is divided along demographic lines.

that grew up in a conservative catholic family the experience made her an atheist the lebanese journalist breaks to boost with her weekly t.v. program the topic today violence against women it happens in my society and other arab societies women are rigid. as to what's between their legs this is how men conceive honor the honor of the family of their own honor is tied to a what a woman does with her body she is denied the basic right of sexual freedom and even if she is suspected to have done maybe something that is not right by the standards of. social and religious norms she is killed the main problem is that this killer this assassin. gets away with it because it is called a crime of honor and. it's a crime of this honor it's

a crime point this son this song from birth to death a woman constantly here is the words how schumacher and. how. it's shame don't be disgraceful that's what they used to say to us girls shush and mean sin how done so those are the 2 words that accompany a woman all her life between shame and sin sex some of us want to snatch a bit of freedom it's not merely says who had a clue but there was sick buff as soon.

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a room. and sell me. now they'll be aware of many me. color in their managers who. will. this is what i thought ma'am mary in what and i've chosen this because it's us what i'd that celebrates women who would and creation and we find occurrences of the divine feminine in this verses through the ward arab men the merciful which comes from the root word the womb. islamic feminist discourse operates at 2 levels on the one hand it's a scholarship that critically every visit and pack dominant religious

interpretations that are discriminatory against woman on the 2nd hand it also aims to produce new knowledge that makes a case for gender equality but within an islamic but it died the objective of them from his movement in his purity is to challenge this battery or to reading and to bring in woman lances to bring in feminist tenses in the way we understand and we approach islamic textual sources. sarah's role at most is knowledge building coordinator. in 2009 the n.g.'s began working in kuala lumpur more than 250 activists islamic scholars and lawyers from 47 countries to part in a call for equality and justice in muslim families. and religious values was central to the appeal of those who believe that islamic feminism is an exam run or that islam and feminism are contradictory in fact they need to check their own

assumptions when you believe in feminism you can't exclude other woman and other struggles from this collective struggle weather wise you're not true to your feminist ethics. 3 islamic feminist especially one to empower a practicing muslim women to help them in cause their rights as mothers wives and set aside. according to islamic tradition men hold sway over women as guardians they decide on education independence work choice of husband. tunisian fauzi as sheriff he has been a muslim feminist ever since she was young. she studied physics in paris in the

1950 s. . for a long time she taught at the university of tunis one of the few women to do so. she's concerned that women internees in cities are increasingly wearing headscarves again. something cool i like to think back to that time of birth. i met my father and mother often. back then the women were all dressed like europeans in general to my comment i love to show my grandmother off because she didn't always wear headscarves it would definitely when she was at home she was just herself. instead of just slightly egyptian women 2 new syrian woman who'd been struggling since the start of the 20th century the defense team say. in 1956 tunisia gained its independence the 1st president had beepers saw him self as an advocate for

women he should inconsiderable improvements like the prohibition of polygamy divorce laws and the introduction of a minimum age for marriage. girls and women gained access to schools universities and the labor market. and. when. he was. elected with independence in 1986 president paul gilbert took the hill on i rationalize that we'll have all the he was convinced that women should be emancipated thank goodness i've not and women were supported by their fathers and grandfathers very early on if that's how it was with me my father thought that academic success was very important. for you always made sure that my educational development was taken as seriously as my brothers or meant it because the more. the

battle hickman academy of sciences is located on the gulf of tunis 5 thick volumes of books originated here titled the quranic text and its variants up them as she char field work for years on the contextualization of the qur'an jewish and christian sources were analyzed including aramaic and syrian literature the latest edition sheds new light on the familiar text. book around it sounds as revelation wasn't taxed so. it was not a fixed written text. so the document we have today this revelation says you know is merely the work of american. it isn't the revelation itself and. leave the work we do helps muslims and also non muslims to do away with the literal reading of the text

. you can at least the text see it's an approach that usually leads to greater interest in the spirit of the text. rather than in the literal meaning to castle that. nearly all of the qur'an 114 suras contain a lot of ambiguity. so we ask question how do we know what we know how do we know if this interpretation is actually an interpretation of what god had in mind how do we know if this is the source of authority why this male scholars through dissenter use had more authority than a woman today living in one context were understand the stakes for her on experience from a woman's perspective tunisia is the most liberal muslim country in the region even

so reforms are needed islamic scholar of yusef has written extensively on issues like inheritance law polygamy and homosexuality as they relate to the qur'an use of compares the interpretations of male scholars from the middle ages to those of today and critiques their positions because of past she's been threatened by islamists who left her. a love. you well out of but they. didn't say to that in less than what a lot of the. people who are you. yeah. so the a lot a lot. so. but 24 the light verse 35 this 1st goes very much to my heart because it addresses god as light. evoke good

do i see this light as the spark of consciousness that encompasses everything people animals and things do you know it confirms that god is everything and that there is only one. it can lead to. new not. quite that no one knows the interpretation blackguardly but the problem isn't ambiguity on the contrary i think these ambiguous readings are an asset they allow the text to open up the public school more the problem comes when someone thinks ok this is the meaning. this is the truth and i'm going to impose it on others the issue of the lump or is it that. you can't just settle for what other people say you can listen to them ask questions if you read books in fact you should and

sometimes you must but above all you have to take responsibility for your own interpretation. christianity and islam all 3 religions refer to a common patriarch abraham. i believe that there are women who are trying to reconcile their faith with. their own human dignity however they can but personally i believe feminism is either secular or it's not especially for talking about the monetary stroller gens they're very patriarchal all 3 of them i mean women is just. that islamic feminist have found arguments for the equality of man and woman in the qur'an story of creation in syria for verse one god didn't create the woman from the rib of the man

he created an original soul not saying where he'd attain which is a feminine term in arabic and took muslims from the injustices of their time to the justice of their time it gave women many important right in the party old post culture of 7th century arabia but at that time the notion of justice didn't include the idea of equality between man and woman because gender equality is a modern concept. now they'll be larry a new national poll on why the. psni lair here rush to marry or what he has. in their own zener been a lonely lies easy lyerly awfully very odd really though bishop really i'll be the. larry larry who were ill a he mostly of. i chose this year across half of

beginning but because i love to give miscible a possible god created in my sleep even before he was asked for forgiveness i'm on a puddle. doesn't spend much time in france anymore she left the country because of rising islamophobia and now lives in london. she too sees islam as a source of empowerment for women it's said that mohammed gave dignity back to disenfranchised women. in tree islamic society in arabia women had the same status as animals or possessions they didn't have the right to inherit as they were the inheritance girls were killed at birth then islam came along and said no women must also have the right to inherit that change in women status back then was revolutionary women with no rights who could be killed given away became people with the right to inherit property.

put simply sirrah for verse 11 states that a woman should inherit about half of what a man gets. the reason for the unequal treatment is that women didn't usually bear responsibility for providing for their family. so it was taken for granted that men should be allocated the larger share of an inheritance. so this is. the verse says that half the share of inheritance is the guaranteed minimum for women but there's nothing wrong with giving more than that to the priests. these days women work they participate in family life i split expenses with my husband 50 they also take more money as a source and i pay my taxes like a man simple like any citizen. is it actually

justifiable through religion that i only get half. as much as my parents' inheritance when the koran doesn't oppose equality in that situation still force but i think they get to know me oh. the qur'an and laus men to have up to 4 wives critics of islam claim this is my such an e an instrument of male domination. there are 3 verses that talk about polygamy and the question is who are to new set in this what are titled the woman and you look at the 1st verse it gives you the 1st step solution you can marry $1.00 to $4.00 wives so you can't now mary $10.15 it is restricted then you have

a 2nd verse that comes and says you have to treat all of these wives equally so you can't just it's not just a maximum you also have to keep in mind justice and equality and then you have a 3rd verse that comes and these folk verse what this verse say is it's not actually even if you want to be equal god knows that you can't be male interpose for patrick to look at this verse and say the qur'an gave me the right to marry 4 wives but they don't look at the 2 order verses do you treat them equally even if you claim that you do god says that you can't. the head scarf for women is one of his limbs most controversial requirements especially in the west but what is the qur'an actually say. and can feminists wear headscarves. when it was a context of fantasy we're here in a french context in an environment that is vehemently opposed to the headscarf i am

a rebel a militant feminist it would look i don't want anyone to tell me whether i can wear a. headscarf or not. i'm lucky enough not to be pressured by anyone in my family. my mother was against me wearing one in senegal but i told her that i hadn't asked for her opinion of you so much. i want to wear it one day and not the next i don't care what people think it's awful. so in the name of gender equality we are now denying a muslim woman to control their own bodies to appear in the public space we are punishing them by excluding them from the schools and now there are people who talk about banning the double so in university we are excluding them from workplaces who are excluding them from nature activities in the minds of right wing movements and french radical secular is big became an obsession.

most often used to prescribe the so-called islamic cancer causing the 2 separate. good is a virus that simply says to move the covering can be used by the female to put 3 in there for. that has nothing to do with the requirement to cover the hand. or do so with the let it. slide is in the. minors for him. inside them and i look at a book. so the long.