control his policy crises donald trump the only fucking conflict. in 60 minutes. what secrets lie behind. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. p.w. world heritage 316 get the map now. thanks. this is the news africa coming up on the program if you feel 5 is the us. government insists did not need a babysitter in managing the humanitarian crisis in the region also coming out. defiance in the freeze of a crackdown on planning demonstrations on their state to demand better living

conditions on the un says what it will be for my protest the. time since skills i'm calm cannot get these women somali outbreak in 5 years in this fitness center founded by one of their own it woman. i met in my junior and you are welcome to the program fresh in his growing between ethiopia's government and the un access to the troubled region on sunday so just shot and detained a team of u.n. staff for trying to reach restricted areas the guy has been in conflict since november with governments troops fighting regional militia and the u.n. house repeated the demand that safe passage to deliver relief to civilians that.

as ethiopian troops battle to ground forces the government repeatedly rejects intervention from outside whether in resolving the conflict investigating violence or in trying to get aid to civilians it says it doesn't need a babysitter. on sunday soldiers shot at a team of u.n. employees trying to access she melba camp in te grey which houses eritrean refugees if the o.p.'s says the vehicle failed to stop at 2 checkpoints the un staff were detained and later released unharmed going to the government insists the area is restricted and that everyone has to comply with the rules limited nonstop for work or not it becomes what they want background and it has to respect the government's order and their government believes that it's not going anywhere it's not safe anymore and people should stop it not on snarks from 4 un now going into. was in

a belief that un would collaborate with us and we the government would conditions so we cordon it we lead but we need as you stands in partner the u.n. maintains that it needs unhindered access to deliver essential services or humanitarian colleagues are reporting to us at the dire shortage of food water fuel cash in tikrit region is seriously affecting people including humanitarian workers in many areas people have been living for more than a month now with no electricity running water banking or communications the impact of the fighting has been heavy forcing thousands to flee but also wounding and killing an untold number as the world looks on. government has come under scrutiny by rights groups for brutally cracking down on a recent protest against tough living conditions in october dozens of activists and

journalists were detained and just last month a 26 year old in a sense your mottos died in a demonstration blast not to tear the protesters they plan to return to the streets on thursday. a show of force from the police in response to the november 11th demonstrations in rwanda in a sense your martyrs died during protests witnesses say the 26 year old was shot by life rounds fired by police want to see results establishing the course of matters death were never published his grandmother says she's been robbed of her grandson i feel. he was in the he didn't steal he did nothing he was just the studio out of my life as a grandmother is to work to feed my grandson and now i don't feel like they can. we want justice they shouts i i i i think in

a sense your martyrs funeral turned into an outpouring of anger. i. knew and he died instantly it was the police who killed the government's police who died innocent and they say authorities in london have since prohibited demonstrations citing corona regulations as everything but they haven't been able to silence calls for better living conditions more jobs and elections golez 1st local elections were meant to be health this year before the government is buying them indefinitely. but protesters plan to make their voices heard once more thursday they say they'll be back on the streets. joining me now is an item a shadow senior research africa vision with human rights watch helo's a night out thanks for your time now why are people protesting more and more against the government. you can look at it from 2 perspectives

what i mean is the fact that this government is in any that a country full of problems and those problems are beginning to emerge there is a bad economy in place nor jobs. with the stations brought about by a known teen everything is the. difficult in young people at their most time getting by difficulties and they want to go to the streets and protest the other point is that we have to admit that compared to the previous president it was president it was a go at the center but i didn't notice it was more color and allowing more people to go to the streets so all that's why you see more people on the streets you see more protests happening putting dissenters no protest was allowed whatsoever now last month president lawrence met with representatives of angola and used to hear the our grievances as their chance to youth will get what they want it really

depends on how president will listen takes meeting which was a in fact an unprecedented meeting of several hours this way you heard from the present. exult do you think looking doors that are going to the street whether it even has people presented their problems that look at elections wanting it to be postponed now it's up to him to take those grievances and provide solutions for them but we also have to they mind the fact that we approaching general elections and that means that politicians are messed up that and to listen and to take measures and that might also be in this good self because as put this just wanting to take place we might see a government sending more force to the to the ground and facing protesters with my own in force and that might mean more human rights violation in an all or exactly talking about more human rights violations they are conflicting reports on how the students in a sense who died during the protests last month or why is there so much doubt about

the cost of a step. it was a fabulous. witness continue to insist on diversion that he died of a gunshot fired by a police officer but it is usually included in building the state prosecutors version is that. would cause seismic diversion the initial version of the police officers is that he died of caused by is for when you fall in the ground what these issues oh look at the polls is that a lot of the. people and still have much in a situation where they don't trust as they did you do sions and they believe that's if you do instead of providing and no answer to conflicts they are dead to. the bed but this is our police officers ok now you protest as expected on thursday about the our restrictions and please do 2 measures to contain the pandemic so what

can we expect let me just briefly nod to the fact that the factor that is called 19 should not be a reason for the angolan government to stop people from exercising their rights to protest what we should do is to create conditions on the ground for people toward the door to door to door to have their one meter then of. each other sure that people wear masks that in the protests and other measures that. call the 1000 forces as to adopt but he should by no means use call the 900 it's an excuse to stay in police officers to the ground and use live bullets against a peaceful protesters was a simple world in that market that says we want jobs ok well said and i doubt my subtle senior research on africa division with human rights watch thank you for your time.

women are fighting to be treated as equals to man woman. and the country let alone a woman leading it and that's exactly what i shot is doing to break down barriers she's keeping women fit confidence while maintaining a thriving business. it's work out time and somalia's capital mogadishu. this is the city's 1st fitness center for women. putting the women through their paces is the jeans co-founder and instructor. i'm very happy to be an instructor and i hope to participate in international sports events as

a coach for somalia in the future. jim spoil any other places for women to exercise a rare in somalia's conservative society. even here women retain their full body coverings and train in separate rooms for men. but even the mere existence of such spaces still irks some somali men. it's been difficult some people told us they think it is shameful to see a woman going to. that. disagrees she comes here 3 times a week and feels she is making great progress on her fitness retain. the. paula i started 7 months ago. i was 110 kilograms then

but now i'm 78 kilograms thanks to god and my instructor now how i riyadh would say to women do not stay at home come out and go to the gym it improves your health and makes your body beautiful that it will but when i grow up all. the classes are gaining momentum about 50 women attending sessions regularly burning calories and breaking a sweat against the odds. that's it for now be sure to check out other stories on d.w. dot com slash africa or you can visit our facebook and twitter pages now we were just talking about getting fed hit some more pages of some who put even more time and efforts to shape the our bodies they were showing off body building contest in nairobi a few days ago good bye but. i

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i. see because it starts to seem to. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language but the 1st word published in the. eco is in germany to learn german why not come with him simple online on your mobile and free stuff from d w z e learning course nikos fake german made. every character i write this is essentially about me it's a little pompous meryl streep plays a famous author who's burned her bridges and the improvised comedy let them all talk. close more on bad experimental projects coming up here on arts and culture also be talking with our film expert about the trend in this year's christmas

movies it's beginning to look a lot like same sex romance. there's straight talk and later on the author jonny pitts his book afro pm about the search for black european identity wins a major european prize ringback. welcome to arts and culture just when you think meryl streep has done it all well think again the queen of hollywood's latest street to streaming movie is new territory even for her street film let them all talk and just 2 weeks on a real atlantica crossing and with no script that takes a lot of trust and a director who loves to experiment steven soderbergh. start work on my labs meryl streep plays a famous author trying to finish her latest novel while on a cruise with her nephew into artist friends the film was shot in sequence and

dialogue was improvised and the actors including lucas hedges diane least in candice bergen had no idea where the story was going to go have a 3 plater no i can't. it's not anything any of us has ever seen before. as it came out of the perfervid imagination of everybody you know in it and it was a really long scene of the parents kind of production. director steven soderbergh a 3 time pastor winter street only have rough another line before lunch days shoot he entire film was shot over 2 weeks as the cast across the atlantic on the queen mary 2 back when you could still take cruises. and it was like a fever dream. i am not sure that. any of us you think we made a movie it was so fast and that was all stephen and he shot the

entire movie himself with a little teeny weeny camera that needed no lights and we just worked all the time on the ship we didn't get to go to the scraw our gym or we just did this movie but let them all talk premiers on line on h.b.o. max on december 10th pompous is the real. joining me now to talk about let them all talk as you know his movie guy scott roxboro scott this actually works like beside this amazing cast it looks like kind of a small movie for a director like steven soderbergh yeah yeah of course i sort of makes as making a big movie the ocean 11 series you know magic mike you know but in between those huge movies he likes to make really small experimental films he's a lot of these type of bookies which. he basically with no budget where he shoots everything himself i mean this film is a was shot 2 weeks on this cruise across the atlantic he shot all by himself like rolling in a wheelchair with with with with with his camera improvise

a script and essentially he does it for almost no budget he gets these great actors to work with them you know meryl streep diana west you know. candice bergen they essentially work for nothing just so they can be on the project the b.p.t. part of it and and this film is getting great reviews i mean it shows you maybe you don't need a 100000000 dollars to make a great movie you just need a great director great actors and you know the energy to power through so it's got to stick around because i want to look at some different movies let's check out this year's crop of christmas flicks. there's a more diverse crop of christmas movies this holiday season kicking michael keaton and forest whitaker play rival toy makers and netflix is jingle jangle it's a fresh take on the holiday musical genre with the only african-american lead. to pull. our troops out there are foods full of school food food food food

you are seeing people of color being represented in a way you have seldom seen 1st and the christmas romantic comedy gets a new twist with happiest season starring kristen stewart and mackenzie davis as lesbian 'd couple at the end harper their holiday trip home gets apocalypse and harper admits she hasn't come out to her family to talk so to the camp it's hard to comprehend the harm to cause a very. brave. need to cue lots of cringe comedy and some on the nose gags all who they are. what are you doing in love it sounds like there's no reason to wait i love you more traditional is dolly parton's christmas on the square also from netflix one for me it's an update on a christmas carol christine baranski has screwed. themselves dolly parton of course does this signal. to. christmas is

a time for sharing and. christmas eve is a time for angel pagan things although. you have to love dolly parton working 9 to 5 as an angel sky actually let's talk more about how to be a season lesbian christmas rom com in a way this just looks like a lot of other christmas movies we've seen that is it yeah it's very much so it follows the exact same sort of formula of these christmas movies you can really read the beats throughout the front the film i mean they even have scenes in there that are in every single sort. christmas rom com the sort of skating scene where everyone gathers together there's sort of conflict for a lot of romance and so on they have all those traditional scenes you see in every christmas movie but it kind of works i mean particularly the chemistry between chris and stood and mackenzie davis is amazing even though i think david is far too tall for the workers that sort of work but it's a matter of personal taste ok so maybe not the most radical film for the 1st big

wise beyond their christmas it's actually also not the only game christmas comedy this year is never no no exactly i mean there seems to be a bilal bit of a mini trend this year of lifetime you know lifetime it's a t.v. channel the us actually quite conservative traditional channel and they do almost a day program like a dozen christmas movies every year this year for the very 1st time they've done one where a same sex romantic relationship is at the center of the story the film is called the christmas set up and it's about a matchmaker mom played by fran drescher of nandy fame who sets up her gay son when he's home for christmas by setting up with his old high school crush is exactly what you'd expect from a lifetime movie incredibly cheesy you know exactly where this is going and a happy end of course is guaranteed and a little bit of an unexpected turn for fran drescher notably one of the funniest jewish comedians now and their christmas comedy scott thanks so much for for coming

on and radio through all these wonderful movies. some more arts and culture news now tenet director christopher nolan has slammed the warner brothers over its new streaming strategy the studio announced it will put all its new films next year online the very same day that cinema the director says warner brothers should have told filmmakers 1st before deciding to premiere their long run in project on h.b.o.'s the streaming platform wonder woman director patti jenkins agrees with no one but she says she's glad her film will be released online instead of being held back. she won't do well here longest running soap opera in the world britain's coronation street is turning 60 with more than 10000 episodes broadcast the show has served as a model for daily television around the globe pairing white humor with plenty of intrigue and drama. lots of drama there

and former u.s. president and best selling author barack obama accepted the voice of influence award given by literary and human rights organization pen america singer and writer patti smith was also honored at the virtual edition of pam's annual gala she accepted the literary service or ward for authors who write about the human condition have the power well african american culture is known around the globe but the experiences of black europeans have only recently gained visibility within the white mainstream british author photographer johnny pitts has done his part to help as a 21000 book afro p.n. notes from black europe has just been named the winner of the leipzig book award for european understanding we met up with pets a few months ago in his hometown. sheffield a city in the north of england is where journalist television presenter and

photographer johnny pitts grew up his mother was from a white working class family and his father was an african-american so musician it's his book after a peon has just won the lights a book award for european understanding in it he traces his journey through black europe to uncover black european identities that go beyond cliches. you either get images of black people in tower blocks and hoodies looking like they're violent or you get images of black people or sports stars and smiley and all festivals or carnivals and how in foreign parts but there is this you don't often see the in between the things the banality the everyday in this. work commute i want to people on the metro going going to pick their kids up from school so you get a kind of every day black experience that kind of tries to normalise of an exact society's blackness and you're from sheffield pitts travel to paris and brussels on

to amsterdam berlin stark rome and my saying he wanted to meet black europeans from the most diverse backgrounds the result is a look at a black piastre in europe whose realities often go unnoticed. i did start to notice a rise in racism and it troubled me and i started to know it's a kind of insularity that is taking place in this country that scares me a smooth brown skin living on an island. that is leaning towards the right so i want to look beyond britain i discovered an old continent that was creaking. black community is very often living on the periphery of europe. the notion of blackness that never really fit together properly you know the more. solidly on to something the more it fell upon what is afro peer is it something that actually exists or is it a construct. stefania construct i think that's something that the black community

in europe haven't had historically in the same way that the african american community of you know a kind of solidarity in the face of racism after a peon interweave stories of the people mad on his journey with the history of european colonialism he shed light on atrocities white europeans committed on africans that are still often shrouded in silence today genocide perpetrated by german imperial troops against the herero unama people in present day now maybe are for the cruelty of belgian colonial forces in the congo it says it's high time europe faced up to its past i think there needs to be a level of honesty and i think it will start with teaching colonialism in schools when i'm criticizing europe when i'm criticizing this country i want europe to be a better place i want to take part in europe. i want britain to be a better place i'm fighting for this country but maybe not in the way that people

traditionally fought for it which is you know to keep. prejudices in place. europe that confronts its colonial past head on and stops marginalizing black people that's johnny now ward winning. and we've got more on line about johnny pets and others making waves in the world of arts and culture peirce a visit any time at d.f.w. dot com for culture stay safe.

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