would be the 1st half of the season. to 16 d.w. . in the country of climate change. africa. what's in store. for the future. come for to make your series the multi-media insight could enter. the business d.w. news africa coming up on the program questionable democracy. with ugandan opposition leader bobby wind facing another weekend confined to his home rights groups call for an end to repression in the country. giving back despite the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on football needs worldwide the nigerian stock inspires goals to follow in her footsteps and achieve their goals.

i'm told me a lot of ball glad you could join us there are growing calls for ugandan of 40 east and the defacto house arrest of the country's opposition leader robert shadowline e popularly known as bob uy and has been unable to leave his home since january 14th after soldiers raided his property the military is now standing guard outside his compound where we one will have to wait until at least monday to learn whether his petition to remove them will be granted his lawyers say the confinement is a political ploy to stop him from appealing the results of last week's disputed elections which saw a long running president you were in was of any elected to a 6th. meant his them is a bit. he is

a competitor. physically like any other person who is denied food. spiritually he is really strong and determined to rid uganda of the tyranny. bobbie one supporters to defy and the many feel intimidated to some have said they are ready to demonstrate on the streets if called upon. their own if they have. not accepted even. this good something. now we have to wait and see what what he does. get something from these people they are those which is in him and this group is. to get more on this i'm joined by r.e.m. nichole of human rights watch r.e.m. is in camp our r m thank you for joining us the government cites issues of national security

relating to body wines confinement is that justified. i don't think it's justified any reason that the government has to confine but we why not any other. presidential candidate. after the elections. i think they have any reason to detain him he should be. due cause they should be followed and he should be arrested and charged. and. instead of what the government is doing which is it's a restriction on his rights the elections appear to be a done deal the internet which was off during the elections is partly restored what's the mood like currently in the country. i think the mood now is. also rest there's a sense of resignation people are moving on to their daily lives. we just counting

that. not the government elections a couple days after the general elections and there was not what the turnout i think mostly because people just want to continue with their lives for the people are very aware of what's going on with you and it's been the news almost on a daily basis but i think you go into a very accustomed to this kind of situation and you describe the situation human rights watch has been documented for example of the run up to the election and around the election those related violence the abuses and of course we've talked about the situation of bobby wine what do these events mean for democracy and human rights in uganda. well have been. the main message is that. the election season and process really wasn't free and fair into providing an equal claim for things the vote for

the opposition not just by the wind but all of the other presidential candidates faced a number of hurdles just campaigning just accessing the vision to to get down to 2 here comes a mute and bat. that is obviously very problematic and shouldn't be the case and should be. ashamed to place that in a space where there's a loss for elections. all rights of human rights watch in uganda in kampala the capital city thank you very much for your insight. football has suffered under the covert 19 pandemic with leagues disrupted worldwide and clubs cutting costs this is left many professional players who are free agents now in a state of limbo one of those is nigerian defend. a women's football star in the

country she became the 1st african to play in 5 cops and now teaming up with the organization a common goal maybe is helping educate and encourage young girls. to know maybe is in a class over oh. i started playing football for my mom's whom it's safe to call a no me the queen of african football in 2019 she entered the record books as the 1st african footballer to play in 5 people world cups and no major play professionally from sweden to turkey a bona fide icon in the sport might go off. she was supposed to be play football in china but covert 19 changed that at the moment she's back in her hometown using her spare time instead is to give back. i can't help i think gills i don't have a hope. because i would have. no

maize new goal is to help girls like miriam a student from lagos nigeria every morning it's the same routine. in off to school miriam like many nigerians lives below the poverty line. something. and my dad used to walk and i give him some sad. well it needs good things plus. today's a special day for miriam she gets to spend time with a local legend thanks to a common goal in organization where football players and other people involved in football donate some of their earnings to good causes. always i don't deny this on that helped people so at. the goal in helping the. other big stars have signed up to common goals since it started in 2017 it helps

organizations like yeti and outreach program based in l.a. goes to tackle local issues and solve real problems i know maise achievements mean she can make a real impact on these kids including marion thing and rules about. being a own man. and i like to. know me and common goal together are tackling social issues and now i know may is that helping hand in source of encourage meant for a younger version of herself. we can hear more from on a maybe she joins us now from lagos nigeria and i mean it's great to have you on the program tell us more about your experience working with those girls in lagos. hour yeah to fast when i got there i'm like because of this or so all in all small

i'm like what i was going to do yeah because there's a source not i was thinking i went to sound like google but i enjoyed myself there because they were mainly of my childhood you know i see. intelligent young girls that are willing to lend and. actually go with so i enjoyed myself with them and you you inspire girls from your so giving back including a portion of your earnings with this common goal initiative they are part of why did you get involved with that yeah like actually if one of my interests is injured it's needs to come and go and here's the intermediate how it goes and i say yes i will i will join them because you know trying to help my you know foundation that i can use to help young girls so i'd see their goals in becoming

a professional football player so you know given banks a common goal and convoys like an organization that helps me out going to myself right now. to achieve my goal given back to the young girls you know that wants to play football so that's why i joined. and what would you say is the is the attitude right now do you think major in. families and i just societies are are more supportive of girls getting into form of professionally. yeah i think china is but i don't then when i was young now you know parents are beginning to all see. the greatness and women's football on like when we were young that up and it was done allow us to live because they want us to go to school and you know become doctors i know that but now all their life what might start their like so far well 1st of all with us and n.g.o.s is that the show

a lot. more those professional well are so women parents how willing to allow actually owns a plate because those in the success of our kind and the there's now see that for milk and while it's not what they used to think it's dion that you know that you notice it girls can't play football in order to defend their skin their improvement on how was going away in our sort i think it's more better now than it used to be right and you've made huge strides in the game you know the 1st african to play in 5 while cops are going to make it a sex worker yeah i'm working towards that. and overall what what what are your major future plans. yeah i'm still i'm still into the whole ball i under percents because it was my up with question ankle was all i do and if you're talking about after football or. look at i'm

still in i would still be into cold war maybe a full glass administration or be the course or something i know i was still be into football i mean that i don't believe in it too cause i'm bored so ok hours to . fill up so we come in here that's where you actually are and i wish all the best with that on a maybe thank you for joining us in june so much thank you so much. and that's it for now there's more on forward slash africa check off facebook and twitter pages we'll leave you with these pictures of a whale sharks off the coast of tanzania during their annual migration see you next time i find out.

where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a new telling the fainter she protests one to the shadow and a few in his face 1st one official information as a journalist i have worked on the streets of many cantors and their problems are

all the same 14 social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption we can afford to stay silent when it comes to the fans of the human scene the microphones who have decided to put their trust in us. is jenny harrison and weren't. 10 years after egypt failed revolution an author in exile speaks out more still close friends of the police. a lot of us wanted his novel the republic of false truths tells the story of a revolution he says isn't over yet that's coming up on arts and culture.

but 1st music fans were shocked last month when folk legend bob dylan sold his entire song catalog but dylan isn't the only star looking to cash out investors in this coronavirus economy are spending unheard of figures on old tunes there's more . bob dylan's deal was the biggest they felt star and nobel laureate clerking 50000000 euros from universal music for an entire catalog of 600 songs maybe a rocker neil young signed off a half share in his music rights to british company hypnosis which also bought out the song catalog of colombian pop superstar secure. behind this investment gold rush is the boom in the online stream. something that really stuck you know like 6 used to be to take all sort of the new format our music the suit and it's been very strong growing since then and even

more people who invest into music on the right now it's also expected to continue to. hold music is making money again fleetwood mac's seventy's hit dreams have a streaming with us on so on tick tock but young artists who don't have a back catalogue of hits are being left with digital pennies one of my friends who is an extremely successful young songwriter and wrote a track. the biggest selling all the fastest selling number one album in the u.k. has made 100 pounds from the number one record which is ready. to pay your rent. so that when singer songwriter billy bragg however is optimistic young artists will find new ways to make money online without selling off everything. somebody will become huge already so we'll know the names of but many of them will find a way to make a living and be able to. enact the most

important step in any of his career which is where you give up your right now diary job and start to earn a living doing the thing you always loved doing that that's a meet the definition of success. and hanging on to your right you have a better chance of doing that than you do if you give all your money away to a corporation just because they're going to pay you a huge amount of money one. eventually this online music called russia could mean more money for music makers big and small. my colleague adrian kennedy has more on this ok dream we just heard that this big sale of music rights could benefit all musicians but how exactly without work whether these music set off so if you die motivated by increasing streaming revenues and the speculation on the part of the bias is that if they amass big

catalogs they can the for which that to get even more money from the streaming services and if that works that would benefit all musician was ok i see it let's talk a little bit about the timing of this i'm wondering if it has anything to do with the coronavirus with mr revenues from tours that can't happen is that a factor well we asked about less it doesn't seem to be the case this trend began before the pandemic and analysts say that actually tax issues are a bigger factor especially in the u.s. where higher taxes are feared under the new administration ok so a tax avoidance strategy for the already rich let's talk about musicians who are getting started what's their best bet well saying that billy bragg who we spoke to in that report was quite positive he pointed to new ways that musicians have of getting their music out there to just social media his big example was see shanty tick-tock sensation nathan evans he started posting his covers of centuries old

songs on tic-tac and sparked a. viral craze tick-tock now hosts 1600000000 see shanty videos and lo and behold breaking news evans has just signed to put it all records and has done just what bragg talked about he's given up his day job as a post man should he be working to sell the rights or should he be keeping them adrian. history is littered with examples of people who sold the rights for lump sums but died destitute one counter example is dolly parton who didn't sell half the rights on her song i will always love you elvis presley's manager wanted elvis to sing it only if elvis got co-composer credit on it dolly parton said no way and payoff came 20 years on when the song was a massive hit for whitney houston and featured in the movie the bodyguard curse

that held for dolly parton a very rich woman but we keep hearing about streaming and how artists really just don't make much on streaming where they don't the individual small but you can reach bigger audiences global audience is much more easily the most labels have strategies for expanding reach now we have an example of this in the news today billy irish singing in spanish for the very 1st time a collaboration with spanish. law vidar we can take a quick listen i think. both. within by expanding their audiences streaming revenues might be. a song for example bad guy has 1600000000 place today on one streaming service

alone that can add up to a tidy sum. you know i can't really do the math a.j. and i know you're better at it thanks so much for bringing on this us the story on selling of song rights and the big bucks yes thank you well if i have a 1000000 i know where to invest it now and speaking of billie eilish it's been almost a year since her new song for the james bond film came out and now hollywood executives say it will be another 8 months before you can see the movie now if this sounds like old news to you that's because it's now the 3rd time that m.g.m. has pushed back the film's debut due to the coronavirus no time to die it was the 1st major movie delayed by the pandemic it was originally said to be released last april. and england one of europe's most famous gothic cathedrals has been turned into a coded 1000 vaccination center hundreds of elderly people have already received

the pfizer vaccine in the cathedral's 800 year old maids where there's plenty of room for social distancing they're also getting free concerts from organists who have been playing soothing music to help calm the patients nerves. and a very different tune and china young people there are out and back on the dance floor revelers in the former coronavirus epicenter have to get their temperature and their tracking app checked at the club door then it's masks off and party this saturday marks one year since we were on wednesday and the hard to walk down to try to stop the corona virus from spreading. on january 25th 2011 tens of thousands of egyptians took to the cairo's tahrir square demanding the ouster of dictator hosni mubarak soon mubarak was out but egypt's turmoil didn't end there now with another us the word tarion president in power egyptian writer.

one is remembering his country's failed revolution nearly 10 years ago and what could have been as novel the republic of false truths as drought this year in english. teacher friends took to the streets of cairo in january 20th levin hoping to bring about a new egypt they wanted democracy and an end to the mubarak regime. their protest was part of a movement across the region that became known as the arab spring. soon the thousands turned into millions farmers finding common cause with young people found intellectuals such as noted writer are asked one in the d.w. interview he explained below for you know prevalence of the old ruling party are still in power as are the old security forces the people are still being arrested and tortured but now we have a voice with the public. 10 years on alice wanny now lives in exile in new york

his latest novel the republic of france truths which tells the tale of an unfinished revolution is said to be published in english this april for him the story is far from over i believe that egyptians or leave. egypt just by. its. egyptians will leave. egypt should. forgive me i will shoot a lot. forget the 6 year. old age 40. sure that you are real important and those young people will be given you should and they will all go to. the novel 1st published in 2018 is about the 2011 protests it recounts the story of those yearning for egypt to transition peacefully the young in the dissolution who see an opportunity for

something new but it's also the tale of those who fight. against the protesters and stand alongside those in power. there was great hope when president hosni mubarak stepped down under the pressure but the people's disappointment was then all the greater once his old comrades in arms took over power palace wanny knows the subject of his tale all too well because he was one of the initiators of the demonstrations his novel doesn't tell how events transpired but we know the story mubarak was brought to justice and sentenced to life in prison for corruption and abuse of office in 2012 the fundamentalist mohamed morsi of the muslim brotherhood then became president in 2013 the military completed a successful coup against morsi who was arrested since then i've done fattah el-sisi has been president of egypt in the country's darkest hour yet with a new war. everything.

has to be approved by. many people i have fuel for egypt a good leg duals lot of multigrade. still flood threads on the bridge under r.c.c. oil as ronnie was immediately banned from publishing his work even though he's considered one of the leading writers of his home his novels and essays have been translated into nearly 60 languages and millions of copies have been sold but the arabic edition of his latest novel could no longer be published in egypt only in lebanon still as one in knows that despite the bam his book is selling as illegally pirated copies. are us wanting never wanted to leave egypt his homeland but when a military tribunal threatened to try him in court for insulting the authorities he went into exile in 2017. now living in new york he teaches

a university's hold on line writing workshops and publishes political analyses on you tube and he continues to write. well that's all for this edition of arts and culture but stay turns to d.w. in the coming days for more coverage of the 10th anniversary of the arab spring and egypt for now for me and all the crew here in berlin and thanks for watching have a safe weekend.

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