in the heart of london train. for. what's in store. for the future. for the major cities to go to insight. into. this is v.w. news africa on the program today the young girls being forced into marriage the u.n. born smily an under-age girls will be forced to get married because of hardships brought on by the cold and 19 pandemic live reporting from sierra leone where the practice is rife. and uganda's opposition b.w.v. why calls for the i.c.c. to probe rights abuses by the government it comes as the country braces for a tense election that's been marred by violence.

hello i'm christie one day it's good to have your company activists in sierra leone say child marriage is on the rise because the coronavirus pandemic is making it harder for families to feed their children and pay school fees now west africa has the highest number of child brides in the world and a decades long campaign pushing to stop the practice had shown some success in sierra leone rates of child marriage dropped in the country from 56 percent in 2006 girls to 39 percent of girls in 2017 now back progress is being threatened. the remote village of canal in eastern syria yarn it was here that a man soma reka marah as she walked to primary school then he proposed.

he went to talk to my parents expansively what i thought and i told them you have no money to send me to school so let me get married. as an award i don't like that. she only accepted she says because a family needed the dowry money now the 16 year old regret the decision she doesn't want to sisters to make the same mistake as. i tell them don't follow in my footsteps this isn't to me don't get married so young go to school. we've family struggling in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic child marriage is on the rise again many parents view the practice as normal but they do not fear. their children for them it's probably like this is possibly one of the better investments and better things that i could do for my child and to ensure that i. do

something that will ensure that she has security. sirrah leone's 1st lady that i'm amanda deal is working to change this mindset with her campaign hands off our girls child doesn't give consent to sex so if you know if you force a child to be at a very. child and that has been. another child bride is now your. cash strapped family married her off when she was just 15. i talked to my parents to convince them not to marry me off but i said with poor and have nothing unless you get married her husband often left her alone with no money for food she ran away and he's now at a school for taylor's. just suffering i was going through it was too much especially with the marriage i never imagined that i thought my family would help me to become a base of person but that didn't happen you know. schools

or even to get in october activists worry that those who marry young don't usually make it back to the classroom that leaves them vulnerable to poverty domestic abuse and the risks of early pregnancy. for more and as we've invited her juggle from save the children onto the program she's joining us from freetown in syria and welcome to the program. why are so many children married off in sierra leone is a cultural practice or is it being forced by poverty. as one girl in an ad that i really like says the situation is complicated we have a series of different things affecting all leading to child marriage we live in a patriarchal society. citee where it is believed that the girl child is

a 2nd class to the boy child in a society where the girl child is seen as less intelligent is more of a helper and according to the culture and tradition and so as far as the family is concerned she's there basically as an investment to the family rather than as an investment to the community as a whole as a result of you have situations where the girl child is seen no seen as a risk of possibly falling pregnant before she ends up in the in a marital situation so it's seen as a shame or a disgrace to the family and that's also one of the reasons that married off to tell us about the increase that we've seen. pandemic. well i think for us we've got anecdotal evidence of got one case study coming from one of the ladies in the southern district where we work and basically some of the children that we spoke to at that time was saying to us they had concerns that they

will be likely to be married off because they fell pregnant within the. period the 5 months that we the schools were closed we had one of these that we work with basically told us that she had an incident where she went she was invited to a wedding basically went. only to find that the person getting married is a child so she basically intervened talks to the to the parents about the risks they had in terms of if she reported to the authorities and as a result they called off the waiting list of the scenarios are likely to face why does this need to end. i think in many for many reasons really fussily out say economically now we've got a government that's got very ambitious plans for syria and they're looking at economic national development for that to happen we need to have a population which is over 50 percent to be on board and these are women and girls

need to be part of that process they need their education the health system which really we can say that 40 percent of maternal deaths and as a result of girls pregnant girls that needs to change protection systems they're at risk of rape at home in the communities at school if they don't address some of these challenges that girls face on a daily basis then all of their plans in terms of development is sorted all right that's from save the children talking to us. thank you. thank you very much. now in uganda the pop star turned on make a rabbit lady who goes by the name bobby winds say shell call on the international criminal court to investigate alleged murder torture and other abuses in uganda the move comes less than a week before the country's presidential election in which he is challenging

a longtime leader was 70 tensions are high in the country and may take a aashiq and violent campaigning period 'd. by. campaigning and a flak jacket and helmet speaking to reporters on line from his car surrounded by police even what happens next has become the norm for a ugandan opposition candidate bobby wine. a grandmother a problem. but . minutes earlier wine had announced he'd called on the international criminal court to investigate alleged murder torture and other abuses at the hands of the country's leaders. it is my. weaknesses and.

many. resent that. because. 'd the people of uganda. president yoweri must 70 has held power for more than 3 decades and says he's certain a victory in next week's election to economic growth and subsidies have earned him a strong support base especially in rural areas. but singer turned politician bobby wine has galvanized the opposition demanding an end to what he calls a dictatorship. and other opposition candidates saying the president has made a fair campaign impossible. wine was arrested when he announced his candidacy back in november sparking protests in which security forces shot dead more than 50

people authorities insist further restrictions on campaigning are in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus but critics like wine as well as human rights groups say those rules are being weaponized to stifle the opposition even further. now once abandoned african penguins are now testified as endangered their population is declining rapidly now south african researchers are planning to start a new breeding colony of the sea birds by releasing schools of african penguin chicks at the western cape's de hook nature reserve curious and charismatic this is the only species of penguin that breeds on this continent the african penguin was once south africa's most abundant sea bird in the 1920 s. there were 1000000 peds but when humans started taking the eggs the food the penguin population had plunged. research as

a working to reverse that. key to their strategy at these dummy penguins they emit penguin calls to attract real ones on shore so far success has been limited but research is a hopeful. it's been done for other sea bird species around the world. possibly the most successful and famous example is the atlantic puffin off the east coast of the u.s. they used they also use decoys and releasing chicks at the at the site and they eventually got a very big thriving colony the aim is to develop a new penguin colony where the birds would be safe from predators penguin subtlety a briefly in the mid 2000 but praying leopards meant they were soon forced to leave researches plan to introduce dozens of 100 african penguin chicks here starting early this year do you want to try and release as many. chicks at the site

as possible and over a long period of time so we would ideally want to try and release. at least 50. a juvenile's a year over a period of 3 to 5 years the endangered penguins are found only in south africa and namibia the decline in the populations has been attributed mainly to the production of fish stocks they feed on and worsened by climate change. the african penguin and seabed sanctuary prepares these young birds for life in the wild the area has good fishing waters vital for a new colony and boosting penguin numbers will help other species too. it is an indicator species it's an apex predator in its own right it's essential to the end to the ecosystem and it's really it will be very very said if we are to use a species on our watch and if the effort works the african penguin would be safe enough to stay the star attraction on south africa's beaches. that is that

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but going back is enough an option. and. stuck in the spanish border area they're there waiting for a chance that will probably never come shattered dreams starts january 18th on t.w. . the 5th for. me to. sit down and submits its 1st ever entry to the academy awards you will die at 20 is a movie about superstition destiny and liberation that mirrors sudan's own emergence from decades of oppression more on that groundbreaking film coming up here on arts and culture and later on the show bringing art to the people when the

people can't visit art museums in munich find a work arounds to be coded 19 locked down and. an american voice of peace through to most of us times activist singer joan baez turns 80 many. who are. well only a handful of feature films have ever been made in sudan the latest one bears the chilling title you will die at 20 the movie is already won awards at the berlin and venice film festivals and it could bring sudan its very 1st oscar in just a moment i'll talk to director a la la about what it was like filming during sudan's revolution 1st here's a look at the movie. the league and let me

underline i. mean. maybe muslim man is born into a world ruled by superstition. soon after his birth an unexpected event cost the shadow of death of his young life. you to partly because of them and by the sunni today in my eyes showing. a lot. he was sure. cemented limited id's even then to be so bold well while he was in the house was out on his tour of the foot of the palm a lot of the much that. come out was that russia. is usually too needy madly if it would be a wee mama to get. him off the top. of the offer was.

the cardinal law for one plus american city going to war but he got a new board with. the. you know what they don't. know. i didn't even want one commissioner. move the mills mother sakina played by islam mubarak grieves for a child who is not yet did not apply. for eventual yelling about. the house that. was a mill is caught by the prophecy and wades through a life he comes probably live. half in with a fishing net i. played

. a quiet film. on the last you will die a 20 shows move then it tells the film has been praised for its fable like quality and sensitive foreboding visual aesthetic. might be sugary for how if you suppose you will die at 20 i'm moving tell about the importance of questioning face and living life to the fullest. you will die at 20 was directed by a la la cruz joins me now from khartoum. of just a higher. thanks for coming on so 1st of all i want to say congratulations to you on this historic movie and sudan's very 1st entry to the oscars in the

foreign language category that must be quite an honor it's also maybe a sign that times are changing and sudan after decades of dictatorship. thank you that's a lot. much of a lot of very happy by me for. a lot of you by you know i haven't. thought about a war of the fuel shut up and more like 9 feet or to really a war so that. the fold to be the 1st ever. to be made from so that a lot because it just happened to do it we showed the fall do it we had in the fall and we lost the fall i started to leave success and i have a new show and we have like a new government that we are so that we could change it to be more

modern and open mind and to have that. you saw this movie as the revolution against former dictator omar bashir was taking place that must have been quite a challenge can you tell us a little bit what that was like. so i mean doesn't a read in the fall from the far side of the the stuff man is doing with the government you know with permission visas for the national school to join this the new school that was was was crazy and we decided to hold the phone and 7 this. just happened to be. stop and go about it with having to do that. so it was like i just had a child i was in but the thing was short lived short of the whole like the hour away for a couple and my dad and i met in a village and so we do you know we kind of. you know in the village. by default of

the film distribution i'd have to do that because the folks in egypt thought it was a collective the folks outside of that as an evolution happened you know the fan and played so i felt that if they're going to get back to that and i think those families are full of adults because they want to be a part of that and so that the film and. the news and. a lot of people a lot of people are seeing parallels between the story of a young man in your movie the story of destiny and liberation and the liberation of the sudanese people from dictatorship you will know in march if you will die and 20 gets the oscar nomination. best of luck to you thank you thank you it was just like thank you. well it's a tough time for art lovers here in europe high coronavirus instruction rates are

keeping museums in several countries shuts at least for now but in munich germany one artists collective has figured out a way to bring museum collections outside into the fresh air. of munich in lights the city's max pushed at district home to 18 museums an art collections is now an outdoor nighttime gallery. video installations and project does provide some much needed cheer at the darkest time of the year. goes to washington it's a surprise but for me it's much more than that i'm used to visiting museums a lot and now i can't so this is a wonderful alternative. works like this famous self-portrait by they were nice once master our british dura from the year 1500. things are going even if it is a little chilly out you still stop to watch it's wonderful seeing all these

different things as a recruit i like it a lot and i fess unaided by how they did it for me or to take nick di there are looking to shock. the idea came from the artist collective v a video a year ago before the coronavirus pandemic spread to europe. point sealants called right now our projection art is one of the few ways we have to bring art to the outside and the project's not over yet right now the artists of finalizing another installation about our eyes in the human gaze. here's a vaca to show these works are looking out from inside the out of museum watching people as they walk by maybe people want to find out who it is what famous work of art is what she did following them that i don't follow. and so art

fans will have something to look forward to for their next visit. one of the highlights of the visitors is the forest of lights when many taking photos that some day will remind them what it was like when it could only take place outdoors. after the images of violence that came out of washington this week an enduring voice for peace american singer songwriter joan baez was just 22 years old when she helped make the song we shall overcome the anthem of america's civil rights movement singing it at the emptier racism march on washington where martin luther king gave his famous i have a dream speech back in 1963 well john baez is still speaking out for freedom and occasionally singing she turns 80 this weekend.

shown by his remained someone who raises her voice since the start of the coronavirus pandemic she's posted several videos of her playing songs from her kitchen and i'd like to sing a song to the heroes of our time. to the health care providers i'd like to hear the song in support of an honor of the american indians of this country a message of hope and comfort for many. my ears continues to highlight the plight of those who are marginalized downtrodden and disadvantaged. to get her. back in the 1960 s. the legendary singer songwriter and activist was dubbed the saint of the peace movement for her songs of protest and social justice she's credited with launching the korea fellow singer songwriter bob dylan

a frequent collaborator although their romantic liaison lasted only a few years they had a strong musical influence on each other. joan baez retired from recording and touring in 2019 following what she called her fairly well to us but at 80 years old she's still raising her voice to draw attention to the causes she believes in. and this weekend is also a moment of remembrance for another singing legend david bowie who died 5 years ago this sunday bowie was a one of a current to say the least the artist's death in 2016 came just 2 days after his 69th birthday curios with one of his classic hits life on mars thanks for watching .

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