deeply wrong. many applauded solange's fearlessness in shedding light on the murky side of the conflict he was showered with prizes and voted leaders choice the time person of the year in 2010 but for many others the leaks were nothing short of treason undersold a dangerous enemy of the state let's go right to london now do that because burke at mass is standing by for us there following the situation for us hi berkut tell us what is happening right now outside the courthouse well right now i'm hearing a lot of shias behind me and i also have just been told that the judge has decided that julian assange should not be extradited to the u.s. i haven't really been able to look into that myself but that's what what i've been hearing. around me what the producer told me so there's a lot of cheers people are gathering

a lot of people supporters of joining us haunch are here outside the court he of course is here and the central criminal court in the old bailey police have been trying to disperse them because they're saying it's due to coronavirus restrictions that no gatherings are allowed but tempers are clearly running high a lot of people are trying to make their voices had and are here to support you and your innocence who for them is a matter of for press freedom ever get this is a pretty extraordinary ruling that we've heard as you said we're now hearing that the judge has refused refused this request 1 to extradite julian assange remind us what some of the concerns were about having him extradited to the u.s. what might have led to this ruling. well the concerns of julian assange just supporters where the team might face up 275 years in a city in maximum security prison in the us now from what i've been hearing the.

the reason for the verdict was that there is a there is a danger to julian assange his health and mental health if he was really extradited to the u.s. his supporters have been talking about his declining mental health and also physical health and on that grounds the extradition wasn't granted but that's only what what i've been hearing i have been able to really to really verify that of course the supporters and many human rights groups are arguing that he is really a journalist and that what he has done has been done in the public interest but the u.s. prosecutors are accusing him of helping to breach the espionage act so you have got really 2 absolutely opposing views on what's julian assange is and for many people who are here outside the london caught he is nothing short of hero he has risk taking virgo we've been looking at some pictures there of the supporters that

you've been speaking of cheering this ruling what does happen then now to join us with this ruling. from what i understand it's not the end of the legal route there is a chance that the case kid could go on to the appeal for to the u.k. supreme court and also possibly that would have been open for julian assange to supporters for the european court of human rights in the end it is for the u.k. home office to make a decision on the extradition so it will be interesting to see how the u.k. government reacts on this ruling ok so this might not be over yet as we continue here to see these pictures outside the courthouse courthouse where you are there that can you tell us more about the mental and physical state of joy in a science as he's been awaiting this ruling because there's been a lot of concerns about his condition haven't there. yet to have been

a lot of concerns on the human you and human rights as special rapper tat had visited julian assange and he had said that the conditions that he was held under which was the maximum security prison belmarsh prison here in the u.k. that basically that amounts to some form of torture so very very critical. conditions and his father as well and his supporters have repeatedly stated that. it's dead julian assange chill have much better conditions they have asked that he could be released on bail but yesterday the u.k. government had decided to keep him to keep him in that prison but his supporters and also his partner he also has 2 young children. we his partner they have long said that he is he's under a lot of stress and and that his conditions should be should be made better for him

to remind us forget how we got here to this ruling because julian signs she was in the ecuadorian embassy seeking refuge and there for 7 years. yet. outside the embassy there have been many times also extraordinary scenes because he he was looking he was fighting his extradition case to sweden where there were allegations of sexual molestation. and he hid inside the ecuadorian embassy until. new government and ecuador then decided that they don't do not want to shelter him anymore in the embassy and this is how he then added up in the u.k. and the u.k. prison but he has been a long time resident here in london and he's wherever he was there was always been this swell of support for him and many people really are here for

cheering for him and have always been doing so since he was has been here in the u.k. it did it also put the british government and the court system there in a difficult position didn't it as the u.s. was demanding extradition. well yes. that is true and the u.k. government had its hands tied while he was in the in the ecuadorian embassy because he was always there was always. a police cordon around the embassy and they were practically waiting for the moment that they could go in and arrest him and that was obviously a big a big moment now is really the time. when there should be when there should be some a some solution to the case or at least a year we would expect the government to make some sort of statement on this verdict today all right our correspondent very good mass with the very latest

outside of that courthouse in central london where a british charge has ruled that the wiki leaks founder julian assange should not be extradited to the u.s. and of course the following the latest developments on that story for us there thank you. now to our other top story a recording has emerged of president donald trump apparently pressuring a state election official to change the outcome of the november vote the washington post has released audio of a phone call in which trump expresses his frustration at what he calls voting irregularities and then tells georgia secretary of state he needs to quote find more votes trump's democratic rival president elect joe biden won the state of georgia by a slim margin. 2 months after his election defeat donald trump is still hoping to reverse the voters' verdict the u.s. president has long refused to concede the race citing unsubstantiated claims of

voter fraud now there's evidence the trump pressure to georgia's top alexion official to alter the state's results. so low all i want to do is as i use one of. the. 11780 votes which is one more that we have because we want to say the people of yours you're angry at the people because you're angry and there's nothing wrong with saying that you know. 2 that you've reached calculation for mr president determines that you have is the day that you have. trump suggested that prophets parker a republican could face prosecution for refusing to cooperate. you know what they did and you're not reporting and that's a very you know that's a criminal that's a criminal offense and you know you can't let that happen that's that's a big risk to you and your ryan your lawyers that's

a big risk trumps comments drew swift condemnation from the incoming administration . and the record conversations. was certainly the voice of desperation. most certainly that. and it was. the old use of power by the president of the united states. comes at a crucial moment for the state of georgia and the nation on tuesday millions of georgians will cast ballots in 2 runoff elections that could decide which party controls the u.s. senate and with polls showing a close race trumps comments could have a significant impact on the eventual outcome of those contests.

did abuse william glue cross discovering the story for us hi william good to see you this recording is something of a bombshell what do you make of it. hi sue me it is a bombshell but i'm not sure at this point after 4 years of donald trump as president we can any of us to be truly surprised by anything he says or does or tries to do to put things in his favor whatever the issue is that he's trying to push i mean we've seen donald trump you know so doubt in the election through his own tweets through statements he's made at rallies for his own supporters in around washington to other congresspeople and of course his own you know most hardcore protesters on the streets outside of election centers outside of state you know state halls state city halls things like this where votes have encounter officials need to do to do their work to do their election work but nonetheless this is a this is a huge step what's come out for dollar for what tolle trump has done and it's very

reminiscent of the very thing he was impeached for earlier this year late last year or sorry 2 years now 2019 if we all can remember that time when he was impeached for a legislator pressuring the ukrainian president to do things in his favor to dig up dirt on biden and joe biden and his family you know it's only a court of law can say if what donald trump has done in this case or in past cases amounts to criminal activity what i think is very clear is that donald trump shows a pattern of simply not understanding what it means to be president not really understanding the limits of his power what he is allowed is not allowed to do and that's something that we've seen throughout this term as president well what about the timing of this because as we mentioned this is just ahead of those key runoff elections for senate in georgia also the confirmation of the electoral college vote in congress what do you think this means for the race in georgia 1st and foremost. it's going to be really interesting you know to do a post-mortem on this runoff election. if you could go one of 2 ways you know this

could really energize the core trump base and core republican voters and get them out to vote in georgia to tip the scales towards the 2 republican senators who right now the polls are completely neck and neck it's really no way to say or make any determination who might have an edge going into this runoff election is why it is a runoff election it could also depress republican voters you know by selling doubt into the election process both trump and you know his his are gore supporters have said this election is a fraud don't go out to vote you know there's no point in you know taking part in a fraudulent way they see as a fraudulent system so that might actually keep republican voters at home which of course would be to the detriment of the republican party in the control of senate while driving democratic turnout to make a point to show that this kind of behavior is not to be not to be accepted in the in the u.s. political system so it can really go either way for either party you know be very

very interesting to see who actually wins the day tomorrow. will include covering this story for us thank you so much for analysis. now the u.k. is scaling up mass vaccinations against kovac 19 with a newly approved and locally developed shot the 1st immunizations with the newly approved astra zeneca vaccine are under way the shot was developed in cooperation with oxford university and british pharmaceutical company astra zeneca it could prove to have an edge for some countries struggling to deploy mass musicians the shot is less expensive and it's also easier to store many experts believe these qualities could make the latest vaccine more accessible for developing countries in particular. and let's get some perspective on the story now we have mohammed when you're with us he's a just at lancaster university in england good to have you back with us how significant is the role lot of this vaccine in particular well it.

really onto the number of cases those are surging very significantly in the u.k. particularly because of the festive season unfolds with a new variant out we are heading toward the winter so all in all situation is pretty grim and i think the only way we can really get this holds them slowly is to have the most vaccination and that is not the priority in the u.k. to have as many people as possible to human eyes and government is planning to have at least 30000000 people above 55 years old including frontline help workers care homes to be vaccinated until easter part ok so this vaccine is cheaper it is easier to store but what about its safety and efficacy i mean was it the right decision by the government there in the u.k. to rush to start this as the 1st country in the world. well that is something is pretty debatable the reason is that we have the data that was published and the video footage will journal the lancet journal but that doctor isn't really the one that made the basis for the approval of this vaccine the death of that committee of

rules for this vaccine is only belonging to the goodman that is not publicly available and according to the government is like this that if the 1st bill is given it's the person to do it is our own 70 percent of the k.c. and then if it is the 2nd those given that it would be around 80 percent efficacy the didn't terrible at 3 months but that is something that we haven't seen the debt as so therefore all is in error and we don't really know how as the case years would it be particularly after the festivals ok that is important to know and there's another question mohamed reports now that the british government is worried that this will not be subject of against the south african variant of the virus tell us about that. yes old african variant emerged before they u.k. you got into merged and both of these variant of merging independently there isn't any link except of their own few mutations those are common and we have noticed that so traffic has been diversity of country in the whole africa with the highest number of deaths and the infection but capita so therefore this is certainly very

ng and the never when we come to new larry and of course we at the moment we don't have a debt at that level to escape the immunity established by the vaccine but we can't simply ignore that all these variant could jeopardize not only the vaccine campaign but also the destruction will have been put in place because of their trust miss abilities and certainly these are the things that need to be looking very carefully at it i mean that is mohamed money or viral is just that from lancaster university in england as always good to talk to you thank you very much for having me jim germany 16 regional leaders will meet with chancellor angela merkel tomorrow to plot the next steps in the country's coronavirus response weeks of tougher restrictions on public life have so far failed to effectively bring down infection rates and the country's vaccination program has gotten off to a sluggish start. appeals to stay home seem to have little effect in this western german winter resort town

a ban on entering the ski runs failed to deter large numbers of people from hitting the slopes at the weekend so many that police intervened not stopping when to enthusiasts in their tracks. germany's government together with the heads of its regional states must decide on how to proceed with anti coronavirus measures there's consensus that a lockdown will have to remain in place beyond january 10th the very it wants it extended by at least 3 more weeks so on so the numbers are still too high and we're not yet able to assess how the situation has developed over christmas new year and especially through the large numbers of travelers returning home that's why it would be irresponsible to relax the lockdown now it should be extended until the end of january looked on the honor of filling up. on choose day state heads will discuss how long the lockdown should be extended for and whether the current measures should be adjusted states with low infection numbers want to shorten lock time while those harder hit want to measure is tough and.

we need to act in those areas that are most affected in this case that saxony and. so we'll be toughening measures for our schools and childcare facilities in tow january 31st just as we'll be doing with public life will be increasing restrictions even more chilling. a key topic on the agenda is where the nurseries and primary schools should be closed some argue that young children struggle with online learning. but germany central government remains skeptical about whether physical teaching in schools is a good idea. our political correspondent holmes fronto is the latest on the story he joins us for more hi hans what can we expect from germany's covert strategy going forward. well at the moment today the education ministers from these 16 federal states are meeting to decide what's going to happen at schools many in many regions schools should have reopened today and there's discussion about

whether the youngest pupils the younger students those that nursery school level in the 1st couple of years of proper school should go back to schooling in their schools because they cannot really profit from remote learning in any sense so. older students may well have some sort of mixed schooling some of them being in the classroom others participating in the lessons in a remote manner all of this is being decided in preparation for that meeting tomorrow between i'm going to america all of the central government the chancellor and the regional leaders or federal 16 federal states and there it's very very likely that the locked on is not only going to be extended to the end of january it's going to be tough and at least in some regions because there infections are continuing to rise. and meanwhile there has been some criticism of chance i'm going to call government on its back seems strategy or lack thereof as some opponents

have said tell us more about that. well until today about 240000 people in germany have been vaccinated so we're talking about something like 30000 a day that sounds like a large figure but obviously it's a drop in and in the ocean for a population of 18000000 the main problem has been the supply of vaccine only one vaccine has so far been approved by the european authorities that is the one from a buy on turkey that is being used at the moment and there is a shortage of those that seen across the world so also here in europe and in germany not as much of this vaccine as arriving on the ground as should be possible and that's the major criticism of the government that it has not done enough to ensure supplies ensure sufficient supplies for these vaccinations because obviously there's a run for this for this vaccine all over the world so how is the government responding

to this criticism. the german government has emphasized that it has been following a strategy of coordinating his policy with the european union it's not been doing anything alone as germany as some opposition parties here in germany have been asking for have been pushing for it saying that there should not be a competition within the european union between various countries germany should not be in the. in the position of being accused of using strong arm tactics because it's the strongest country in the region also the german government is saying a 2nd vaccine is likely to be approved this month this week and a further one maybe in another couple of weeks by by the end of january in other words there will be no question about the supply of vaccine then it will really come down to a logistics of applying this accident of getting the population vaccinated as a whole our political correspondent hans reporting there thank you. well we've

recorded that interview a little bit earlier in the day and germany's build newspaper is now reporting that germany's state and national leaders indeed have agreed to extend the lockdown until january 31st the final decision will be made on tuesday. to sports now and in the bundesliga on sunday byron munich avoided embarrassment against the 17th place team in the leak after trailing at half time the varians rallied against knights to regain the top spot. on paper it should have been a routine victory for the reigning champions who faced a minute side that had won just one so far this season but for the 8th time in a row by them conceded 1st time book cobbs netting in the 32nd minute by jerome poet tang felt he had been filed in the build up but the goal stood by and just before half time mind doubled the lead as alex on the huck was

left on mocked and noted into send by and into the break to nail down but the record champions bounced back a us were kimmage header got by him back in the game and then leroy sunday leveled the schools off to drifting inside from the wing with the mind's defenders allowing him time to set up his shot. 3 more by on goals followed the pick of which was robert live in dusty's effort to seal the 5 to 10 percent. by and reclaim top spot while minds still 2nd from bottom were left to rue their wasted lead. let's get a reminder now of our top story at this hour there were scenes of celebration outside a london courthouse after an judge rejected the united states for class to extradite julian assange to the u.s. to face espionage charges the judge said extradition would be oppressive to the wiki leaks founder as mental health a songe would have faced up to 175 years in prison if convicted.

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a handle on it and proving there's potential in waist. climate change affects everyone regardless of gender yet women are the main loses when it comes to its effects. 'd 7. percent of all people living below the poverty line on women and the poor are hardest hit by droughts extreme weather and bad harvests. when drinking water supplies run dry it's typically women and girls who have to walk long distances to fetch water and that means missing work or school. when harvests have bad men are usually the ones to leave home to look for work elsewhere leaving their families behind in some places when there's not enough food to go around it's not uncommon to exchange a daughter for some livestock but does all this mean that women are powerless no in the gambia we met a woman helping both the environment and the many women around.

walking with woman is so enjoyable because to be one is woman when ever they are committed they are committed and in any development in the war when they really under the thumb of the arab world in anything and they live a setback. you know for stability. these are 2 cs i has been called the gammy as queen of plastic recycling before you get firewood to be our communities you have to walk maybe one and a half to 2 kilometers before you get to the forest the half maybe 10 stick that you can use for one meal you know it's to close off your time the real for people

to get access to the chapel what do with this one is that says wherever you are in the country. get on the boat ok these are true is the founder of the engine go women's initiative the gambia it's found a way to produce fuel brick hurts. from the shells of peanuts or ground nuts. ok. to grow nuts or the gambia is main cash crop and export product left to decay the shells produced c o 2 and methane so 1st there crushed them slowly burned. who knows it them well. we're here for our families we come every morning to this place to earn as much as we can for them it was a good allows us to pay the school fees and school materials like when i get up in the morning at 6 to come here and there are up to 500 other women here. their families wouldn't survive without this job. he was in was able to look at me with

that. one of africa's smallest countries the gambia is drowning and garbage if you stop them reason plastic or use it was very difficult because to be yeah you know you know kind of a development walk everybody go to the supermarket and buy packaging things and we believe that it's a resource that we can use and then point it into something and for that one people act of course on why do you come with these and how do you do it is just about trying when people thinking about problems when you think you've got brains behind you think about. that a landfill near c sized village these women are collecting discarded glass plastic and leftover fabric dumped by local seamstresses if you know what to look for there are rich pickings to be had. around says i as one of you said to his 1st partners she remembers that there was something initial skepticism about the project and the idea of women gaining financial independence. when i

started in 1907 my family thought i was crazy. as a young married woman i was expected to get up in the morning and cook food for my husband in the kitchen but my family and my husband had to watch me heading off to the dumping ground they told me i wasn't a good wife they expected me to be home with my husband. they had no idea what i was up to better the good. at this time of year there's not much growing and the central river region gets over 40 degrees celsius and the rains won't come for another 6 months but people still need to earn a living and. it was a good trek to demand of the community and i never blamed him for that because that's the issue and that's the question that we're leaving in what i always said culture is also the odd one who. is about as to the reason that we are leaving and

what feels a man leading is not a problem when women today they have rights too late because they are contributing . none of the recycling center in the village of and you know where is that we see zajac comes from was the 1st in the gambia she employed just 5 women to begin with they would collect and clean up old plastic bags and then leave them and to new ones today up to 20000 people across the country work with or for her and geo. they produce briquettes soap bags jewelry and toys some of the best selling items are purses made from reclaimed plastic. and. i'm going to the ball before he said to came along all we knew how to do was cook. now we have skills that allow us to earn our own money. village banks look after

the money earned by the women's groups around the country so it does not disappear into their household spending. we want to empower them and we want to clean them on economic how big an economy little that they have so when they visit them one is from the fields of deposit if you just $100.00 you have to sit back and tell us how much you want to do want to do whatever happens you have to put some money into here because we are planning for the model. when you said to seaside i was growing up this area was covered with mahogany and acacia trees deforestation and climate change have transformed the landscape into an errant step. we have to make firewood the women there would you please for cooking and there is not a placement for decided problem that. that is why we.

like grandma and it really. that women can use at that one at a time. funded by donations the women's initiative also started a project called reforest the future. of water from a well irrigates the newly planted seedlings. along with indigenous trees like mahogany the women are growing mango and coconut trees the saplings are still in the tree nursery but will eventually be distributed across the country you want to make a change. be 100 percent sure that it will never be overnight and then you have to have an expectation that if it is 100 people living within your area $75.00. at the beginning. what that could be fun for you let everybody tried to make sure that whatever you are if. i needed help.

striving for equality inspiring others on our facebook channel d.w. women you'll find stories about women who are helping others lead self-determined lives. d.w. women gives a voice to the women of our world. i was ashamed. i was told i was dirty. i thought i might bleed to death. for a lot of young women the 1st menstruation is a frightening experience and in many societies prejudice and alienation make matters worse in some countries around harf of all girls school when they're having their period and expensive sanitary products and poor hygiene conditions mean it's

common for women not to work when menstruating either which has a financial impact on earnings sometimes menstruation even threatens livelihoods and women turn to drastic measures to stop it. is a sugarcane harvester she's only $34.00 but already she's physically barely able to perform the work. 8 years ago she had a hysterectomy to stop or periods she couldn't afford to miss a day or 2 of work whenever she was menstruating but the surgery left her with serious health problems. how would that i'm in constant pain i have to take medication every day my whole body hurts my back my head my legs everything hurts. fieldworkers in india earn very little and none as little as the king cutters in harvest season they work every day for 6 months running and make the equivalent of just $700.00 euro's in total they have to work hard because

the land owners bank on 3 harvests per filled percy's and thought if women stay home when their menstruating the contractors who hired them make them pay a penalty. 3 of these cane cutters have had hysterectomies to make sure that they could work as much as possible. but i love when i still got my period there'd be 4 days a month when i couldn't work 10 euros would be taken off my wage every day in the long term that was more than i could afford right no. ship in qur'an lives in a village in rural central india where few women are educated over 10 percent of the women here have had their uterus removed in neighboring villages the figure is closer to 50 percent hygiene is bad a doctor advised her to have the hysterectomy to reduce the risk of infection but he didn't mention the potential side effects which range from hormonal fluctuations

to osteoporosis. he told me i would suffer less i had my uterus removed because i thought it would make everything better but in the last 7 or 8 years i've been in constant pain. never went to school she was married at 14 and had her 1st child at 16. is her 2nd son he began working when he was 13 and he's 16 now well she went into debt to pay for her surgery basically the doctor who performed the operation and her boss have both benefited from her decision but it's brought her nothing but suffering with them and the operation cost $700.00 euros i didn't have that kind of money my boss gave me an advance to pay for it and i had to pay it off he made me pay interest. 3 percent a month i was paying it off for 3 years you don't get. a few kilometers away in the

nearest town where meeting the head of the cane cutter contractors he also runs a small office for financial services. he tells us that he has around 300000 came cutters under contract across the state he also says he advises women not to undergo the surgery. but that some contractors may have a different view. we will go with that it's possible that some of them forced the women into it i can't comment on that but even so i'm sure is only a few. and i thought i might add that the layout of. the sugar industry is a bedrock of the maharashtra economy employing nearly $25000000.00 people producers pay some $250000000.00 euros in tax every year that's why the authorities have little interest in looking into the high rate of hysterectomies among sugar cane

cutters and investigative committee was set up but was soon disbanded. so. that statement angers women's rights activist money should talk lee who is part of the investigative committee last year the public health department revealed that $84000.00 hysterectomies were performed in one district alone but the report was simply filed away. when get by. local authorities have the information they were taken aback by the shocked response and now they want to cover it up. suddenly the number fell

213000 cases and now supposedly it's just 1300. doesn't expect the state to do anything about her plight she hopes that when her son marries he'll tell his wife not to have a hysterectomy and she says that if she knew then what she knows now she'd never of had the operation. they break the gender barrier in sports give unsung heroine a voice. and help others become more independent. in our impact series we meet entrepreneurs human rights activists and bloggers fighting injustice and to abuse in their societies. people making an impact people making a difference.