leads to the. discovery who. subscribe to documentaries on you tube. this is. coming up on the program if you. need. in mind the humanitarian crisis in the region also coming up. in the face of a crackdown. planning demonstrations on their state to demand conditions on un

says the death of a formal protest that. these women in somalia are breaking barriers in this fitness center founded by one of. the woman. and you are welcome to the program fresh between government on the u.n. well to the troubled region on sunday so just short detained a team of u.n. staff for trying to reach restricted areas has been in conflict since november with governments troops fighting regional militia and the u.n. has 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 sheer melba camp in tikrit which houses eritrean refugees if the o.p.'s says the vehicle failed to stop at 2 checkpoints the u.n. 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 we work on it becomes whatever background it does it has to respect the government's order when they don't believe that is happening is not safe anymore and people should stop them not on snarks for 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 must use stands in partner the u.n. maintains that it needs unhindered access to deliver essential services or humanitarian colleagues are reporting to us said 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 'd 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 but asked not to tear the protest as 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 or to see results establishing the course of matters death were never published his grandmother says she's been robbed of her grandson i don't know why. he was in the he didn't steal he didn't i think he was just the student my life as a grandmother is to work to feed my grandson you know and now i feel like they can . we want justice they shouts i i i i think in

a sense for matters funeral turned into an outpouring of anger. i. knew a man who died innocent. it was the police who killed the government's police the most who died in this incident they say authorities in rwanda have since prohibited demonstrations citing corona regulations as a reason but they haven't been able to silence calls for better news or conditions more jobs and elections and polos 1st local elections were meant to have 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 eyeshadow senior research africa division with human rights watch helo's and i doubt thanks for your time now why are people protesting more and more against the government. you can look at it from 2

perspectives one is the fact that this government is in many that a country full of problems and those problems of you need to emerge it is a bad economy in place nor jobs. then with the stations brought about by the 19 everything is the. difficult in young people at their most popular but the difficulties and they want to go to the streets and protest the other point is that we have to admit that compared to previous presidents which was president it was a go at the center but as the law is more tolerant is 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 during dissenters no protest was allowed whatsoever now last month president lawrence mass where the representatives of angolan used to hear the our grievances as their chance to youth will get what they want it really depends

on how the president will listen takes his meeting which was a in fact an unprecedented meeting of civil law as this way you heard from the present. key exult do you think looting dollars that went 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 in mind the fact that we approach in general elections and that means that politicians are less than that and too nice and then to take measures and that might also be a risk itself was has put this just wanting to take place we might see a government sending more force 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 course of a step. it was a fabulous play ends in witness continued the c. standard version that he died of a gunshot fired by a police officer but it is usually in the inclosure including the state prosecutor's version is that. would cause side with the version the initial version of the police officers is that he died of caused by is for when he found in the ground what these issues were oh look at the polls is that a lot of their. people and still have much in a situation where they don't trust because they didn't you do sions and they believe that's good you should do instead of providing and then said to consulates they are there to take the bet that this is our police officers ok now you protest as expected on thursday about there are restrictions and please do 2 measures to contain the pandemic so what can we expect

a let me just briefly not to death but the fact of the it is called the 1000 should not be a reason for the angolan government to stop people from exercising their rights to protest what they should do is to create conditions on the ground for people toward the door to door to door to have their one meter then now of. each other sure that people where my student protests and other measures that. i 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 simple walding that market that says we want jobs ok well said so and i doubt my shadow seen our research our african 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 shall is doing to break down barriers she's keeping women fit both in self confidence while maintaining a thriving business. it's work out time in somalia's capital mogadishu. this is the city's 1st fitness center for women. putting the women through their paces is the gyms co-founder and instructor dean. i'm very happy to be an instructor and i hope to participate in international sports events and coach for somalia in the future.

or any other places for women to exercise 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. but i've been thinking it's been difficult some people told us they think it is shameful to see a woman going to the gym that. disagrees she comes here 3 times a week and feels she is making great progress on her fitness retain. cora 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 react i would say to women do not stay at home come out and go to the gym that improves your health and makes your body beautiful and the that it will but when i threw up all. the classes are gaining momentum about 50 women attend the 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 him some more pages of some who will put even more time and efforts to shape the our bodies there were showing off the body building contest in nairobi a few days ago goodbye but. where

i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and a few in his famous one official information as a journalist i have worked on the streets of many can trust and there are problems

out all the same for doing the social inequality a lack of the freedom of the price. collapse we can afford to stay silent when it comes to the fans the humans on the scene the microphones inside and then trust in us. menenius jenny paris and i work. every character i write this is essentially about me it's a little pompous meryl streep plays a famous author who has burned her bridges and the improvised comedy let them all talk. close more on that experimental project 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 job and later on the author johnny pitts his book afro pm about the search for black european identity wins a major european prize. ringback welcomes arts and culture just when you think meryl streep has done it all well think again the queen of hollywood's latest straight to streaming movie is new territory even for her street films 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. i'm still working on my mom's 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 had used diane least in candice bergen had no idea where the story was going to go have a drink later no i can't. it's not anything any of us has ever seen to flora. as it came out of the perfervid imagination of everybody you know in it and it was a real seat of the pants kind of production. director steven soderbergh a 3 time pastor winter street only of roughly line before each day's shoot your entire film was shot over 2 weeks as the cast crossed 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 of that really 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 compass who is the real. joining me now to talk about let them all talk is it always 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 are. basically with no budget where he shoots everything himself i mean this film is say we 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 skype so we've 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 league's. school group. are proof that there are foods pools school food food food food

you are seeing people of color being represented in a way you have seldom seen and the christmas romantic comedy gets a new twist with happiest season starring kristen stewart and mackenzie davis as lesbian couple abby and harper their holiday trip home gets apocalypse and harper admits she hasn't come out to her family to talk to so i think this is hard for a country and the. cars are very. brave. don't need to be near the queue lots of cringe comedy and some on the nose gags all who they are. what are you doing and. there's no reason to wait among the 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 scrooge. themselves dolly parton of course this is singing. christmas is

a time for sharing even in. christmas eve is a time for angels making things all. you have to love dolly parton working 9 to 5 as an angel scott actually let's talk more about how to be a seasoned lesbian christmas rom com in a way this just looks like a lot of other christmas movies we've seen it 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 wrong 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 i can see davis is amazing even though i think dave's is far too tall for workers. it's a matter of personal taste ok so maybe not the most radical film for the 1st big

one as being there christmas it's actually also not the only gate christmas comedy this year is never no no exactly i mean there seems to be a bill little bit of a mini trend this year on 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 nanny fame who sets up her 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 scar there is 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 director says warner brothers should have told filmmakers 1st before deciding to premiere their long run in project on h.b.o.'s streaming platform one or 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. well the 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 of barack obama except of 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 pan's annual gala she accepted the literary service award 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 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 a 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 images of black people or sports stars and smiley and all festivals or carnivals and having foreign parts but there's 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 my kids up from school so you get a kind of every day black experience that kind of tries to normalize rather than exhaust society's blackness and you're from sheffield pitts travel to paris and

brussels on to amsterdam berlin stockholm rome and my saying he wanted to meet black europeans from the most diverse backgrounds the result is a look at a black day asper in europe realities often go unnoticed. it starts rising racism and it troubled me i start 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. leaning towards the right so i want to look beyond britain i discovered an old continent that was creaking. and 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 i tried to. 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. historically in the same way that the african-american community of you know a kind of solidarity in the face of racism afro paean 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 a number of people in present day now may be out for the cruelty of belgian colonial forces in the congo it says a time 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 vision. and we've got more online about johnny pitts and others making waves in the world of arts and culture peirce a visit any time at d.f.w. dot com for us culture and feedbacks.

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