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i made my kids you know welcome to the program child early on forced marriage is an abuse of human rights and a major obstacle to the fulfillment of women's and girls' potential too often it results in an end to the education on health complications and it puts them out high i risk of encountering discrimination on volunteers throughout their lives now that's the steve men's for me united nations resolution adopted last november. 19th pandemic where since this is we shouldn't the un just member states to act but as you're about to hear girls still often risk. my dear a daughter was just 18 years old when she was married off from a home he a model how paternal uncle said my good out to a 26 year old money in exchange for money he had brood and could not be back. my dearest father had passed away and according to tradition in the north how mother

did know how to see about the marriage they don't then when i returned from school one day and i was told from today you will no longer go to school we are sending you to your husband's house tonight i said no and my mother did not want me to go but my uncle insisted that i must go if it were. a child marriage is widespread in cameroon according to a trend of 14 soviet over 20 percent of girls will really muddied between the ages of 15 to 19 my dear lived we'd a husband for 5 years before she was drawn out and we have to keep since then she has been renting a wild room flood here our walks us and me 20 kilometers a week. i suffered a lot there. he beat me up and didn't give me food. he did a lot of horrible things to me when i was with him and. he had bantered me with the children and slept out frequently. sometimes he came home of the woman who would

say go away i want to spend time with my woman i. would run to if you were. up here in ma some survivors of forced marriage i helping people to understand and damaged on one of them is i desire my love. she was also married it seemed. a desire is now an activist fighting against each other how weakly campaign targets parents and young girls today she's speaking to a group of mothers. and their sons to be awareness is very important because i have noticed the women are no longer being badly influenced and sending their children into forced or early marriages they are now strong willed these women are creating . where not just like us some of these women are counseling others who come to seek help at our center i live if. i miss our walks as a company enough one and only marriage incomers not in regions says 99 to one the

organization has rescued thousands of girls from early marriage income a rude 49 yo i said tamara is the head in 2019 she wondered 1st one bill price for activism. 2 nickles with all the consequences that come with forced marriages it's important that we fight to make sure no girl goes through that practice. let's be clear sending a girl child to an early marriage is simply a very bad thing to do. to your oh my dear i too well what an early marriage to mean now she too has joined the fight to educate people about the risk and guess melissa. which house the take care of our 2 children from on this i am now joined by. head of africa engagement of girls not bra it's the global partnerships and child marriage hello and welcome you

bet so how serious is the issue of forced child might reach across africa. thanks eddie and hello to you too it's a very serious issue we have over 650000000 women alike who are married before they turned 18 in africa the problem is that you face a cent so therefore something that we really need to address and need to address. so we understand that forced marriage is on the rise what impact has the coven $1000.00 pandemic had on it. u.n. f.b.i. actually estimates that we'll have an additional $13000000.00 guns will be married before the age of 18 because of course it so you're looking at a country like new sheth where we have 6776 percent. of girls who've been married before the age of 18 and then add an additional number that this is really going to

be a catastrophe for girls being able to achieve their full potential in education in health and everything that they want to do it like see i would like us to be more solution oriented here what can actually be done to prevent forced child marriage bearing in mind the cultural perspective also. reddest child marriage happen at the it happens within the communities so what needs to be done is to ensure that the communities are walking with all this it was so sad to all the government initiatives that have been put in place to ensure marriage in the 4 ways that i want to suggest one is we need to empower girls we need to make sure that they know that they actually can access their rights without free fear of getting married fear of getting housefull practices like f g m and of us then we need to employ those who are on the guards like their families their parents that teach us so that that able to support these guards to be able to leave names that don't leave me to

them because of my age when they're not crazy to get married the sad thing we have to do is to implement the laws and policies and test to close in on this is that we have an africa that protect the god chat we need to have those implemented we need to harmonize the laws that prevent girls from accessing their rights and the last thing that we need to do is ensure that they get services so for example if an adolescent girls went to access services she needs to get access to that sadness and i think the 4 things done together with the support of the community would help us and child marriage is in africa and beyond because i have to emphasize it's a global problem child marriages do not only happen in africa. that as well noted your vet cattery amount more here head of africa engagement are girls not rights the global partnership to and forced early child marriage many thanks for your time

. let's now take a look at some other stories making headlines across the continent than a man has stormed a school and kidnapped dozens of students and teachers in central nigeria the incident happened in the town of car daraa in ny just 8 late on tuesday the identity of the attackers is not yet known. if money depicted as the hero in the film. has appeared in the courts into god. faces terrorism charges related to establish and the national liberation forces rebel group this is the 6 year old denies supporting in violence. south africa has begun vaccinating its health workers and using the johnson and johnson over 19 shot countries switch to visit scene after concerns that the. initially purchased would not be effective enough. now

franz 5 west african nations have agreed to step up the military presence in this the whole region do we need to do something it chad announced it would send $1200.00 troops on the fronts promised to maintain its deployment in the flashpoint zone with support from the go in he would be enforce that in addition to an existing force from the region g 5 so how will this bring about the much needed peace that this ione. joining me now is. she's the head of this i hope program institute for security studies in by michael molly hello and what effect will this have on the ground. well. this is one step came out of this week 78 in india men are significant in many aspects 1st of all the. authorities announced the deployment of an additional $200.00. troops

especially to car across. the border area that has been under high insecurity pressure for the past month so there seems to be a renewed commitment from sectarian states to support each other in trying to gauge in improving security. this critical area there has been particular focus put also on the on the need to accompany him into efforts with development and diplomatic efforts this is very important because the need for a multidimensional approach that also acknowledges the need to improve the. living conditions of local communities has been a recurring recommendation far from all up service by us now so if this can now turn into more practice more proactive intervention by several states as well as there are international counterparts of course this is something very important

thing and significant now of course the other challenge is that a lot has been said in the past and actions sometimes what what are missing so it will be interesting to see in the next few months whether whether and to what extend these statements turn into actual changes on the ground exactly as the saying goes action speaks louder than words now the main challenge seems to be that the civilian countries to negotiate with the jihadist money for instance already reached out but france is still to be against that so how can there be significant progress moving forward. that is a thing only one of the major challenges so another major challenge is of course the need to strengthen core to nation between these actors in this cause the nation is of course military and the fact that more and more european and western in general countries are engaging on a military on military terms in the region is significant an increase is that this

needs for coordination but of course as you rightly mentioned there is also need for party nation in the strategy that's being adopted manin authorities have been exploring the possibility of negotiating with some of these groups which they consider as ultimately being a portion of their citizens who are protesting against some form south are political challenges so there will be need for more discussions and and more coordination and agreement among international partners but essentially at the end of the day countries remains i mean remain in the lead to determine what their own strategy will be a nearly a month around that other side help program others to for security studies in michael mali thanks for your insights thank you.

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of christiane a f a german teenager who financed her heroin addiction through prostitution the now 40 year old book and subsequent movie have now been turned into a series we children from bahnhof saw the amazon coproduction takes us inside the lives of desperate youths who once gathered at westboro ends zoo train station. it was it was. the reboot of the eighty's classic cristiana after it's a coming of age story with a twist the series doesn't just focus on the original films protagonist cristiana it tells the story of a group of teenage addicts and their desire to rebel against conformity set in seventy's and eighty's west but. the original book and the 1901 cult film both focus on the cycle of substance abuse prostitution and drug

related crime christiane gets caught up and calls. this series tells the story of christiane i have friends over a number of years. she grew up in a housing estate on the outskirts of the parents were constantly fighting. the sound disco she meets like minded people who become her new replacement family together they like to push each other's limits. my cristiana the way i played her likes to test her limits and to experience as much as possible she wants to feel as much as possible. and she has a strong desire to connect with other people to connect with you. life and those around her and that's the path she follows. the indie.

we children from so it's an unrelenting depiction of teenage descent into addiction 6 young people 6 very different fates all trying to find themselves ringback. the series while not shying away from the sometimes fatal consequences of drug addiction tries to distinguish itself from most conventional films about drugs. and the parts of the story that are heightened have to do with emotional states we didn't want it to be so much the drug rush that's depicted but rather what's going on inside the character. one past year. we children from so that's the difficult line between fascination and repulsion. this

40 year old story has been given a timeless update. and the new series is out this week here in germany with global release dates you have to follow my colleague james jackson got a sneak peek and he's here to tell us more ok james though but let's go back to the original movie for people who haven't seen it what made the original christiane i have so special so christiane that really broke the mold in german cinema because a lot of german films that are popular internationally they have to deal with really big moments in history like the nazi dictatorship or the cold war the christiane f tells a very personal story which is as you mentioned based on a true story. of cristiana a young girl and her sort of dissents now it's become a cult classic and i think part of that is the realism the gritty realism part of it of course is the soundtrack from back david bowie who also makes a cameo performing in the fell right. of course that's part of what made it so big

internationally how is the t.v. series different other than the fact that david brody is not in it well i would say you can tell from the titles actually because christiane f. the old film is just based on christiane it's very possible the camera just focuses and the whole time was the new one we children from bahnhof so folks is a whole range of characters christiane as friends who were real people and this they wanted to tell the real story i think it's very modern looks very expensive very slick some of the club scenes you know they built a whole club and prague just to film it looks very different from the original rather dingy low budget film. this time it's all actors it's not it's not real life drug users and sex workers like in the original movie i understand what did you make of the series you've read you've seen it i've seen a and to be honest i've got mixed feelings because there was some elements i really

liked how how good it looked a lot of people said that the main actor looked a lot like cristiana the real cristiana i appreciate they took some risks with how they show the drug sequences with the club but it also kind of lacked some of the gritty realism from a. particularly the music stood out kind of lost my focus because they had music not just from the seventy's or just modern but from all over the shop and it didn't feel very consistent i think they could have done something a bit cooler than some the costing decisions also i would say confused me a bit because the christiane who plays it she's 22 years old and she's meant to be playing you know 1415 year old her parents really don't look much older and i thought maybe when i 1st saw them i thought of is that the brother and sister so i mean that was a bit of a problem. otherwise i'd say it's worth watching for of the film but it takes a little while to get going and i'm worried that people are going to lose focus by then james jackson thanks very much. this year germany is

celebrating its 17th century long jewish history dating back to the 1st evidence of jewish life here in the year 321 and this week we're taking you to jewish cultural sites across germany today the city of holland were jewish community members survived what nearly became the country's worst anti-semitic terror attack and decades. on october 9th 2019 on the jewish holiday on kapoor heavily armed neo nazi tried to storm the synagogue to strengthen the door save the worship is inside the box failing to gain entry into the attack and then shot 2 others dead today in the royal stands to commemorate the victims. diana martin lives in hama and grew up in a jewish household at the time of the attack she was an oxford england researching music she was deeply shaken by the events. and i was always one of those people who said that it's really important for the jewish community to be open and welcoming

and to be as transparent as possible. as. well time has proven me wrong. and special and it. was for many years the east german city paid little attention to its almost 1000 years of jewish history in former communist east german times the subject was to be plain i'm onto finds this all the more reason to keep jewish heritage alive. and move the protestant community centers she discovered gravestone from the middle ages. to he or she might like to he to flip jewish medieval cemetery was dissolved back in the 16th century so it's possible that this stone was found in the rubble somewhere that i was bored out by workman and then placed here i am god it is in here we see

a name in. graved the name is referenda and behind it we see but. as a teenager dynamite with jewish classics on her parents' pick shelves she studied western need each the original language of jews in germany and researches western huge songs. mishap in light of unforseen i was always fascinated by the fact that these are not the texts of the music of the synagogue of the liturgy in hebrew. but that these are the songs that everyone knew and everyone sang and would you dogs all had. already there was there was. a 1000000000 songs of the early modern period last culture back to life.

through her music and research has become something of an expert in judaism when it comes to. showing us around the historic jewish symmetry she describes its eventful past that's just this is the oldest gravestone in the cemetery. here you can see very clearly that it's been engraved with a big number one this brings us to the end of the 17th century high to the time when jewish people were being allowed to return and resettle in holland. and to hear you go out and eat it. it was not a sign of tolerance reaching needed people like wealthy jews to come in and help rebuild the area following times of war. the importance of the jewish population in the city didn't protect them from the rise of national socialism it wasn't until the 1980 s. to use the end of the g.d.r. the memorials for trustees of the nazis against the jewish population burra rented these victims didn't fit into the heroes of the communist resistance image of the

g.d.r. still of judaism in holland is not just history diana martin is pleased that the jewish community is becoming more open despite the attack she's convinced that diversity is essential for a vibrant jewish life. one last story before we go it's considered the pinnacle of chinese ceramics incredibly rare and mythologized for centuries a legendary wine of porcelain known as the rue where produced for the emperor's court for a brief period just about 20 years now dresden germany has confirmed a once over a week look to piece of its collection is in fact. this simple jade green bowl is an international art sensation the rare roo where ball from china is almost 1000 years old and worth an estimated 40000000 europe's. because i know it's

a sensation for dress down for germany for europe but i think also for china there are really so few examples left from these kilns and it's just wonderful that we now have a ball like this in a german collection don't have only 88 complete pieces have survived to this day the ball was acquired for the dresden porcelain collection in 1927 but initially believed to have been from korea its true origin was discovered recently by chance . on that site haven't heard from since 2014 we've been researching the historical inventory of augustus the strong with the help of 30 international specialists and so we were in contact with many experts who visited us frequently to examine pieces and they also looked around in our storage to see what else we have 5 as early as 2018 colleagues from the palace museum in beijing thought this could be a genuine rw ceramic fine print or its authenticity has now been established such

pieces were made exclusively for the emperors of the song dynasty in the 11th century the simple pottery has become an icon of chinese culture. makes you nervous seeing someone touch something so valuable 40000000 euro anyway that's it for this arts and culture season. coming.

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