to commemorate the victims 25 years after the massacre. in 60 minutes w. . i'm not nothing out of the well i guess sometimes i am placed on nothing with the german people and i think deep into the german culture of. nudity we take that as ground 0 to be it's all about who had enough time rachel join me i mean if you haven't been to the post. hello i'm christine wonder it's good to have your company one month from today versus in uganda will pick their next president the election campaign has been one of the most violent in the country's history rights groups accuse the old forty's

off human rights abuses amnesty international say with even action day fost approaching it is imperative that the ugandan authorities reverse the persistent use of excessive force by the security forces all betrayed. and detention as well as attacks on journalists now president he was saving his government has denied violating human rights most 70 is seeking to extend his 35 year rule his main challenger is the pop star to politician bobby wine both men need to win over young voices. as president surely must say when you come pains in the countryside this group in kampala is mobilizing young voters to rally behind. the you're going to back the 2 he's a former ally of the opposition candidate robot popularly known as the one. they recently fill out and qatar is now accusing one you know be inciting the youth to violently destabilize the country you know if i'm for violence this is the method i

want to bridge. because if we don't just as these you were there when they misled. you is misleading. here's what friends are behind him in this reception in many countries. blame the violence on the police last month at least $54.00 people including a 15 year old died in protests that followed but the winds are raised during a campaign rally. the police accused of not adhering to causing 1000 restrictions. but one who know campaigns wearing a bulletproof vest has told supporters that he's being targeted for assassination some of his friends now fear for their lives too i always tell my people i made today. because i have any kind of sickness i have committed any kind of

a mistake but considering the fact that i chose. my life is always there always threatening us. out of 10 registered voters in uganda are under the age of 40 many were born during the 70s presidency and he often schools that his grandchildren he promises to secure their future if they vote him in to serve his 6th consecutive time. will directly get funding urged them to remain disciplined spiritual ideological and productive but message to the youth is a promise that things will change the musician turned politician tells them that the time to take over leadership is now. the future of uganda has its young people they must be listened to and their cries must be made priority and the new uganda the youth will be priority the politicians once because they use mostly once the

job is to lead a better life while it may not be clear which candidate quite bitter delivered. what is much more clear at this time more than in the past is that the younger electorate numbers to influence his election. many again dems do not scrutinize the candidate's abilities to make the best decisions that includes young voters many of whom will be voting for the 1st time in july. may you will be used by the politicians to serve their interests are you. know no i well i was raised by their by their opposition to when i went and talked to a president who said it is just talk to me what's right why is not using us to you with. the youth i don't ones taking advantage of the people power play. before you had no one to fight for us as the youth had very many. who suffered

sailing. we had no one to risk us. and i but tom came with a reported 50. may be seen by the generation of contest between the. new one he did not main challenger as the youngest one whose age. both from trying to have. it. is how do you feel. the power. to get more into the story off you can designation we've invited crispy to handle onto the program he is an election democracy activist and a come come to africa mr. is the election outcome going to come down to how the youth vote. definitely if you're looking at

a country that is one of the youngest countries in the wild and definitely the result of the election has to be reflective of that youth right now we have 77 percent of the population being under 25 yes and that's really peculiar to uganda not many countries have such a young population so what does that mean that essentially means that even through the leaders elected come january 14th it is very likely that the young population better is the one who will take the fall right this has been one of the most poses. but 1st of all i think the aspect of violent elections is not very surprising is specially if you're talking about. you know do you ways of contributing to society or generating

a livelihood you have a desperate block island election campaigns in recent memory we've seen police and security forces cracked down on bobby rallies and campaign events is that reflective of the threats that he a very young population. which is also i'm employed which is also not. of young people so i think the incidents of violence that you see are. with that category of young people looking for jobs who are looking for talent training who are looking for skills training who are looking to keep themselves busy who are desperate to get something ready to mystically here a reflection of that mr here but i will point out that we have seen police going off to opposition supporters cracking down. on what are peaceful demonstrators so

in effect that violence much of it does come from from the states and my question to you then is we've also heard from opposition supporters who feel that their lives are endangered just by virtue of the fact that they support the opposition is there anything that could be done about this. there's no doubt i think much of the violence that we have seen in the during the campaign in period has been provoked provoked by elements within the security agencies but occasionally also provoked by some members of the public some members of the political and the political campaign but the thing is i think something that can be done 1st and foremost i think the security agencies need to be more professional in the where they execute public order management but i think it is important that. in uganda perceive their role as one of keeping law and order and not getting engaged

into parties and politics because i think what we're seeing increasingly is a sense of them trying to play in favor of a ruling party ok understood and what about the electoral commission hearing that should be overseeing this election and making it free and fair is uganda electoral commission independent should the public has confidence in it. the electoral commission needs to site itself more. the electoral commission the laws of uganda actually give the electoral commission powers section 12 of the electoral commission act gives the electoral commission powers to control all the aspects that relate to an election environment we haven't seen the electoral commission leveraging this law as it should and i think ugandans are crying out that the electoral commission must assert itself must be independent must be

professional and must be in charge of every aspect of the electoral process that's chris. thank you. now these little scary animals are the most trafficked mammals on earth golan sell for tens of thousands of dollars it's their scales that are wanted for traditional medicines in asia or africa and go in working group once that. i'm nearing extinction. a sting operation stops these men in their tracks poachers about to meet a potential buyer in a parking lot and brawl south africa in the back seat of their car plastic bag which police find a pangolin for sale. was animals that. rescues quickly take it to a vet you see penguins in a variety of different physical states some are very messy to their

skin little. injury but. it's pitiful very very difficult to emotionally deal with that kind of suffering and abuse. the african pangolin working group in south africa a team of vets and wildlife experts have been rehabilitating penguins rescued from poachers for nearly a decade. these shy and elusive mammals continue to fess innate the experts. you know these are. secretive nocturnal animals that quietly go around their business eating ants that's all they do they have you know that they don't do anything any harm ever and suddenly they picked up and they keep timmy's awful conditions and it's incredibly traumatic for them. one of these cats size can fetch up to $20000.00 u.s. dollars last year alone $97.00 tons of penguin scales were seized from smugglers

trying to take them out of africa this equals about 150000 poached animals and estimates are that that is only about 20 percent. the. it's an endangered species so i think you everybody needs to do as much as they can to save even if it's just one of the every single crime is a difference if your species is considered endangered and if there's any possible extinction threat i think you have to do everything you can. once well rehydrated well fed and back to good health the rescued penguins are released back into the wild and hopefully out of the reach of pictures. and that is it for now be sure to check out our other stories on d.w. dot com forward slash africa we're also on facebook and on twitter and we're always talking here on the program to know what you think about the stories that we cover and the stories that we should be covering it's connect i'm on twitter at 1.7 next

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'd of what i was and women especially are victims of violence. take part and send us your story we are trying in all with to understand this new culture. saw you are not a visitor not the guests you want to become a citizen. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. germany is headed for a 2nd hard lockdown as of this wednesday with no opening in sight until at least january 10th making the already difficult situation for artists even more dire well look at how big name classical artists like anna sophia mortar are trying to soften the blow also coming up. tributes pour in after the death on saturday

of british author john le carre elevated the english spy novel to a high art and we look back on his remarkable career. and in our see our series 100 german must reads takes us back to weimar ever ever living with austrian author vicki biomes most famous novel grand hotel. ever. well when pope francis met with artists at the weekend and extolled their lofty and demanding calling to transmit truth and beauty and guard us from despair his words were widely appreciated in cultural circles crippled by the pandemic but they were alas only words of 2 giants of classical music german violinist anas a few more times and mexican conductor along the route decided actions speak louder . to go out to state orchestra rehearsal stravinsky for the artist

emergency benefits. many classical musicians are struggling through to the coronavirus pandemic but some big names like mexican conductor a laundry done a para are stepping up to the plate raising funds for those hardest hit. you know you always see it as close as you can with the other musicians especially the strings violinist cellos viola. for the instruments who play in the same voice it's important to sic close to each other when you have to stand this which is or twice what it usually is if one is so far away from each other which it's almost impossible to perform the standard use to confuse you of.

the corona crisis has forced many to rethink how to make live classical music possible. violinist and a sophie mozart has been performing in churches. distance teams. services include requiems for the many families who have lost loved ones perhaps it's also an opportunity to remind ourselves of the healing quality of music and how important it is for society we can't just be put in the same pot as nails studios and outdoor swimming pools the money raised goes into an emergency fund to help musicians whose concerts have been canceled the performances also highlight the importance of music according to life is short but life without it is

unthinkable. because in music is energy and music is memories music is what unites us music. music is all that and much more and the one thing that music is no is. simple. yes indeed indispensable it is in fact in joining me to talk more about this is my colleague melissa holroyd welcome melissa now tell us exactly what it is that the atmosphere has been doing ok so we've just come out of one lockdown i'm about to go into another one either way the concerts the cinemas and all of that the theatres are all closed but what is allowed is church services and what. has been doing is she has been playing during the church service with the priest and you know with the whole thing going on and she's been raising money for people who have lost income because they've had their concerts cancelled she's also been a little bit critical of this choice of religion over art she says that they both

offer similar things in a way they both offer people hope and they both offer people a context to something greater than themselves i have to agree with her on that but you know relatively speaking we should also mention german artists have actually been received quite a lot of support since the beginning of the pandemic have they not yet compared to other countries absolutely they have received a lot of report support and they're going to continue receiving support to the. 50000000000 euros that's for small businesses but it's also for freelance artists and it's also for people in the cultural sector and so this i mean people don't get the money straight away there's a course of vetting process these things do take time and you know there have been people that have been tried that have tried to cheat the system so it won't come straight away but people are receiving support that's right and there have been some some issues about how that is coming that's for sure but it is amazing really how creative people have been in terms of finding ways to get their music out there and possibly even earn

a little bit of money with it on as well and give us an example well along who we just saw in the report she has put together her impossible orchestra she got some of her friends who also happened to be some of the best musicians in the world together to work on some pieces and put those together she says the good thing about a global pandemic is that when you call up these people who are usually busy for the next 10 or 15 years you know they think that they don't have anything to do this city on the couch so they're like yeah ok i'll take part in it i'll take part in this performance and i should say i mean a lot of people have tried to make money through live streaming that's had mixed results especially in the world of classical music where people really value this contact between the composer and the performance and the audience you know and they do feel as though they have a direct link there to the composer however long ago that was and that's very very important so those people i think are you know if they want to listen to recording

the recording but they're less likely to pay for a live stream right i think that's definitely left or poured beethoven a bit out in the cold and his anniversary year has in it let's hope that we get things under control with this pandemic so 2021 looks a little bit better all round for the cultural sector thanks very much melissa holroyd. oh he was born david john cornwell but it's john le carre whole they remembered as a master of the spy thriller and with titles like the spy who came in from the cold or the constant gardener he dominated the bestseller lists as an ex agent himself the car i wrote what he knew but his novels were also a forensic analysis of human nature and his passing on saturday at 89 marks the end of any era. for better or 3rd gonna carry the world of espionage never lost its fascination the spy turned over list how the writing career that spanned 6 decades with 25 novels to his name. was the main backdrop carry himself

worked for british intelligence and hamburg in 1964 he quit to dedicate himself full charge him to writing. i started watching just for fun a few years back. i was already writing about spies before i joined the service so i was born when the war went up in august 968 and that drew me to berlin. many of his best sellers were made into movies the spine who came in from the cold starring richard burton came out in 1965. kerry didn't stop writing when the cold war ended with the fall of the berlin wall

in 1989 for kerry the world of espionage was always a metaphor for the human condition. the writer was disappointed with the geo political developments in the ninety's. tailor of panama. was my 1st novel. with no ideological conflict it spoke to the new materialism to the new postwar era it spoke also to my own disappointment that there was no energy for the reconstruction of the world when the cold war ended. the reuters stories were often sacked in germany. that's incorrect because in some mysterious way my dense to me always to write about germany in one way or another the writer often made cameo appearances in the film versions of his books your brother will show a lot of speaking parts in the b.b.c. series the time. but sometimes it was blink and you'll miss him.

the master of spine fiction john macquarie has passed away at the age of 89. on topic we could all do with a bit more escapist literature these days so our series on german language novels in english is timely if you need to complete your christmas reading list austrian author vicky balm was born in vienna and after stints as a musician and boxer became one of the 1st modern bestselling authors best known for her revolving door of a masterpiece a grand hotel. the hotel lobby is great so many people passing through who knows what they're really like what filthy secrets they're hiding what they'll be doing when they're in their rooms so many stories to tell you could fill whole books with them. and.

when vicky baum is novel grand hotel came out in 1929 it was such a sensation that it sparked a whole new genre the hotel novel grand hotel is about the lonely battered lives of hotel guests whose paths cross in 1920 s. berlin and unhappily aging prima ballerina a con man a wounded world war one veteran a businessman about to go broke people on the way up or people on the way down the ladder of wife prosperity and disaster maybe separated by no more than the thickness of a wall where valving door turns and much that looks like chance and after all really the law of cause and effect. greens hotel was austrian author vicki bounds international break through the action packed story was quickly turned into a broadway play and 2 hollywood movies the 1st one with credit garbo won the oscar

for best picture but all moved to california to help with the film and after hitler took power the jewish author stayed in the united states all in all vicki baum's fate in california turned out a lot better than some of her characters theft adultery and murder are all part of grand hotel and bob's book the hotel stands for the drama of life itself. well no end of sad news in 2020 and the death of charlie pride over the weekend. due to complications of covert 19 struck a chord around the world pride was the very 1st black superstar in the largely white song of country music and so we'll leave you with one of his hit songs is anybody going to san antonio stay safe and all the best from us of i.

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such a. good subscriber like. this is g.w. news live from berlin tonight a new report implicates russian spies in the forging of russian opposition leader alexey not only an investigation claims a hit squad linked to washington teligent trail of only 4 years including the day this summer when he was poisoned with the nerve agent. also coming up to 19 germany's president urges people to forego chris.