this. week from. the line to the environmental series of maybe 3 times a day double. what secrets lie behind small. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore a major world starts with the. world heritage 360 starts now. this is news africa on the program today uganda sais he won a peaceful resolution to thursday's election why an address the media after any results showed a lead for presidential way and was 70 he alleges widespread fraud. to the 3 people. in other cases

some people were ordered to vote. in the british who weren't. as ugandans awaits the final results of the election the internet remains console we'll be talking to an expert about the impact. of the 50th anniversary of the us one dad a massive feat of construction that's shaped the course of modern day egypt. hello i'm christine it's good to have your company bobbie wine has claimed victory in uganda this presidential election the final result is expected on saturday but any tallies released by the electoral commission showed a strong need for president where. now bobby wine whose real name is rob it has

rejected the election calling it a complete sham he claims ballot boxes was stuffed and that he spotted agents were beaten and chased away from some polling stations they head of the electoral commission say it all the wind should provide evidence of his claims now the largely peaceful election followed one of the most violent campaign in his with harassment interests of the opposition attacks on the media and scores of deaths. as this report from. the preliminary results house puts the incumbent you are 70 in an early lead but with less than half the votes tallied by friday afternoon his main challenger bobi wine is already challenging that he's citing fall play here in kampala where the opus's sion enjoys strong support there is a lot of anxiety the police and the military have deployed heavily and the

government has maintained the internet shuts down your enemy 7 wants to lead uganda for 40 years but bobby one thinks that's too much but now that ugandans have decided the entire country awaits their final results on saturday and as you this was just saying the internet access remains cut off in uganda the government shut it down and banned all social media platforms and messaging apps the day before the election i'll be talking to an internet policy expert author this report. it was an election campaign marked by a heavy handed police and military presence and then uganda's government shut down all social media president you where iemma 70 said it was unnecessary because facebook close several accounts belonging to ugandan government officials facebook says the accounts were trying to manipulate public debate ahead of the elections

there's no nor within a would who can come and play around with the. old country to say that was good was but this one was destroyed and we cannot accept. then a day later ugandan or thirty's shut down the entire internet making online communication almost impossible the internet upload it brings up each other and we'll be getting information from a. friend of that it would ease and it would ease the communication a bit of accounting and then updates but if end of that visit or to a fee up to maybe by the government i would say the main opposition candidate bobby wine has vowed to detail election irregularities by the ruling party once the internet is restored and even before the poll called on his supporters to help so

please use your phones your phone is a very powerful report that come later that you have on your phone believes using using most importantly recording that particular moment when the presiding of the south is declaring their views out on the polling station we need every kind of every day. with the internet still down provisional results show bobby wine trailing far behind president was 70 the opposition is rejecting the results as a complete sham. and for more on this i'm joined by on duncombe i don't he's an intern a policy researcher in nairobi hi good to see you firstly what do you make of uganda's government shutting down the internet and social media ahead of the election. i think it's a completely deplorable act and i think one of them was interesting things is how it's now the 4th quarter to go home and to do when they wish to stifle the freedom

of expression of their citizens so you know it's very much a low point for democracy in uganda and video much across the entire continent as he is saying these internet shutdowns and social media bans all common on the continent how is it possible for full governments in africa to do this so the most likely that usually happens is that the given or the telecommunications companies that exist within the. jurisdiction to shut down the internet or directed to revoke their licenses if they use data if used to do so oftentimes this has to happen in steps where they would. provide to 1st of all. switch off access to a certain number of websites mostly our own media and social media websites and then of course in the extreme case they said most of the time they be said to shut down the indict internet oh damn that how powerful have the internet and social

media become in african politics i would say very powerful is specially across because when you look at the attempts by governments to actually try and order that try and persuade their citizens by using these specific platforms of both local and before them out see that these companies have become very powerful in terms of how the sway in the local politics within regions within the within the continent so definitely or other the how will it become powerful and that body is actually only set to increase with the data as more and more often guns gain access to the internet smartphones and other devices that allow them to access and communicate with each other so how then or down that do we save god and then the internet from a policy perspective from from the othera terror and regimes on the continent who ban the internet and social media when it when it's convenient for them. i think

when it comes to protections of course number one i think we need to develop strong institutions and you know sort of legislate protections into our own constitution those africans that act least there is some protection for citizens in the case where by the end of been there in a place where the authoritarian regimes able to form such acts number one number 2 we also need a lot of interventions from from international communities to condemn such kind of flat such as internet shutdowns because one thing that we've noticed is a notorious thing is that uganda shutdown has not been the only shutdown that has happened in africa and he sent past there have been plenty and i think the funny thing is that we have rarely seen condemnation coming from you know the international community for this kind of for this kind of what i would consider to be a helios act so we definitely need to you know to pull on the allies that we have and

also to develop our own internal protections in the east and institutions as africans in order to protect ourselves from these kind of things all right that is i don't he is an internet policy recession talking to us from nairobi kenya thank you dan. it took his like these guys you see behind me more than 10 years to build egypt's us one high dam was inaugurated 50 years of the today the river nile had always been egypt's lifeblood bringing water and food to lety to the country as it flowed northwards the dam tamed the nile which used to flood regularly and for months at a time now the aswan dam controls the voices but they could soon be at risk further upstream the grand ethiopian renee's on stem all get is an extension threat ses cairo if you have began filling the dam last year and it is expected to take years

to fill egypt is worried that water kicked in the blue nile could mean the nile running dry at just about augie is that good is crucial to supply electrical power to its people exactly the reasoning egypt used for the us one. half a century ago president anwar sadat you know grated egypt's biggest ever infrastructure project it's 117 times as much sun and stone as a great pyramid he say and it brought a revolution for farmers like us inside eat badly. after the dam was built stopped reaching this area and the land into that used to be covered with water it's all farms now and everyone took a piece of land to cultivate. the os one high dam made the devastating yearly floods a thing of the past. it boosted tourism on the river nile it also supplied almost

the entire nation with electricity and water for irrigation massively expanding egyptian i recalled bad in charity after the inauguration of the high dam the egyptian farmlands increased by around 1500000 acres in the following year. also regarding the generation of electricity the high dam covered around 80 to 90 percent after its inauguration. but the barrels upset the rivers delicate ecosystems which relied on the annual floods. and rising waters meant forced relocations for people living in newby in villages along the shores behind the river dwellers for generations they were sent to the desert nubian activists say that their right of return is guaranteed and they don't want compensation. well did the store why was the constitution is clear and the article is clear it does not provide for compensation but rather stipulates the resettlement of the nubians in

that region areas around the banks of the lake. but for most egyptians the benefits of the dam far outweigh the disadvantages. said hi donna changed the lives of egyptians and it is in fact the greatest egyptian project ever since the age of the pharaohs to this day. and that has a fall program this week be sure to check out our the stories on dot com for its nash africa also on facebook and on twitter that today will leave you with pictures all the construction off the ass one high down which took more than a decade to build and so was rewarded by its soviet back is as that 8th wonder of the world will see you next time about.

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a chance that will probably never come. starts january 18th on t.w. . in the heart of climate change. conference most of. what's in store. for the future. african major cities. jewish life in germany can be traced back 1700 years reason enough for a special anniversary celebration in 2021 that highlights the contributions of jews and jewish culture to society over about time or we'll learn more about it and also coming up. french artist executor master has endeavored to free his instrument

from clichés and to broaden its once limited concert repertoire. welcome to the show unofficial addict's from the year 321 issued by the roman emperor constantine the great gave permission for a jew to be appointed to the city council in cologne the 1st written evidence of jewish life in the area that we now call germany and important evidence of the coexistence of different religions at that time 700 years later an anniversary year ends to let jewish culture in all its diversity shine. come to some.

installation of the jewish museum in berlin let's start. the big anniversaries being celebrated with events throughout the year here there's a new permanent exhibition focusing on 700 years of jewish life in germany. you might say the central theme is the relationship between jews and the non jewish society and the dynamic between belonging and exclusion. in the 18th century radical change prompted by the enlightenment stimulated a life of the exchange of ideas between rights and philosophers jews and known jews in science and culture max and physicist albert einstein just 2 examples of jews who had a major impact on german society. and then. kook if you look at world war one lots

of jews fought as soldiers and at the time that was a sign that they had become part of society because they really felt german. food. but from the beginning of the nazi dictatorship jews were systematically excluded from society disenfranchised persecuted forced into exile and murdered before 933 around half a 1000000 jews lived in germany after 945 there were only a few 1000 it remains a blight on german society. the holocaust is still a very important point in jewish history in germany and you know all of europe but what's new in the current exhibition is that it's no longer presented as the of that history. and. that's because of

a resurgence of jewish life in germany since 1900. 5 run and even in israel today there are more than 200000 jews living in germany. and joining me now from cologne is underway she's a pianist and entrepreneur and currently managing director of the association 700 years of jewish life in germany and co organizer of this anniversary year welcome mr corvet. we just heard over 200000 jews in germany but sadly they are facing increasing levels of anti semitism with that synagogue shooting and then 2900 glaring example how significant or crucial even is a celebration like this in this context. yes this is very crucial specially after these events i mean if you look at it and he said his i'm. older than 1000.

1700 years it's like a pandemic virus it existed before it existed after the terrible attack on holland . and the jewish people here in germany we felt that. his and all the time i mean i personally grew up here was always there and obviously now we saw how this. thinking that anti-semitism in the minds can turn it actually can turn it on physical violence so now it's very important. to work on that 1700 years of jewish life here in germany and yet many jewish customs are still not very well known here how do you hope with this anniversary year to make jewish life and for and jewish intellectual history really more tangible to german. this is a very complex issue it is just 76 years out of the shah and germany still has a kind of a theatrical culture of remember owns and memorial. and

people here naturally i'm all aware of dead and alive jews. and this is not so surprising because many people never talked to a jew here in germany in person and it's also very out they meet one on the street . and for many the only way to learn about this is in schools and what you mostly learn in schools lackey is about the jewish religion is about how to use well of course murdered in the shi'a which is very very important to learn and also about the growing and scientists i might as and then the society but it is very important but you cannot reduce reuse jewish life to that shines and i go. and this is why we have a new approach actually. which we are trying to roll out this year and what is that new approach you spoke to me earlier about empathy. yes that's very important because if i mean we have now it will set 200000 some estimated 150000 jews

actually living here in germany around 100000 are registers to the jewish to the jewish community this is like the empirical data that we have and we are all different we have it we have doubts and we want to be part of the society now. most people as i said don't know us and if you want to get to know your neighbor it's one way to go and to say you read the c.v. and to learn about him but i don't think this is enough to develop this and the embassies are very important because otherwise you will never get rid of the serial types in your head is our approach actually yes very sensitive issues there but obviously a lot of joy to in part give us a quickly an idea of the international context for this anniversary year are you hoping it will resonate with jews outside of germany and how they perceive jewish life here yes i think the show i mean. brutally said

germany is the inventor of the shying away of the systematic killing of jews we have to face that and a lot of jews like you know of my surroundings personal things all look at them how jews and non jews live together in june i think it is an international importance and most of the jewish people here in germany a family outside of the country so i think for us it's very important but also for the jones society itself and i think anti semitism is not a job problem and so european problem is a worldwide problem. as i said append i mean so i think it's very important to see what it doesn't say thank you very much for joining us celebrating 1700 years of jewish life in germany under a call that in cologne. thank you. well the harp is an instrument that comes with some strong associations not only is it difficult to lug around but its delicate music has long been synonymous with angelic nymphs or young girls with long flowing hair and in the romantic period it even became

a salon instrument but remained strongly gendered which is why french harpist exempted a master is credited with revolutionising its repertoire. so weird to me stuart wants to change the popular image of the heart. with the heart has always been seen as a sign on instrument that's not so up to date it was supposed to be a women was the main domain but the instrument does have a clearly defined gender for him ready. it's definitely feminine. does his instrument have a name. and he's been i. know i'm pragmatic and i'm often unfaithful because i can't take my own instrument with me. demonstrate has been captivating his fans for years with classical pieces melodies

and even improvised film soundtracks. it all began with a crush on his music teacher. as if very exacting but i liked her and really wanted her to like me so i was very happy to practice. and practice he did a lot. of the harley strong for g.q. instruments demands a lot of passion and dedication. to mr almost shows a very different path in competitive sports. than

with it and since i had to choose between an international competition for the heart and growing competition i chose the rowing initially and was then disappointed because i had to trade a high. this is. just music soon to jobs in munich and then. there is only a limited amount of music. composed by a musician known as the paganini of the home. seems to have a future creasing really popular choice of instrument among children. because i'm finding it difficult to keep up with demand it's much easier to rent one now so

it's becoming more democratic the more. other culture news that was making headlines at the end of the week includes the most expensive batman comic ever the comic dating from 1940 a world record for batman comics when it sold at auction in the us for more than $2200000.00. the comic originally sold for just 10. the most expensive comic ever however remains an original copy of the action comics number one raked in an incredible $3200000.00 apiece back in 2014. and a rather bizarre anniversary coming up this weekend the 100th anniversary of the sawing a person in half illusion performed here to great effect by the world famous

american magician david copperfield 100 years ago on january 17th the illusionist p.t. celibate put a woman in a box in london and sold right through the board creating a classic magic trick but just from around the world we'll get together online they some day to celebrate the centenary of that landmark performance. and on that note let's keep ourselves all together this weekend and beyond and until we meet again stay safe and all of us the money should. come.

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don't move his soon. to be a good. match. discover who. subscribe to. documentary. tells you view of the world. where i come from not all is that good to cisco just like with chinese food doesn't matter where i was always reminds me of cold after decades of living in germany chinese food is one of the things i miss the most but by taking a step back and seeing the need to differentiate not. many of the words 1st as an articulation that extends to other part of the world haven't been implemented in

china that's what you've done to chinese people wondering if there were a lot of people have a right to learn reading is this is that job a job that or tomorrow i see it and why my job because i tried to do it exactly the day. my name is the uninsured and i work at g.w. . 2 this is doable you news of these are our top stories 2000000 people have now died from cope with 19 in the years since the outbreak began governments around the world are racing to vaccinate their populations but have so far failed to stem rising numbers of infections and deaths new variants of corona virus that scientists believe are more transmissible have been blamed for the surgeon

infections. he was vaccine makers fines or has informed the european commission that it will not be able to fulfill.