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welcome to the program child forced marriage is an abuse of human rights and a major obstacle to the fulfillment a woman's and girl's potential too often results in an end to the education and health complications and it puts them out high i risk of encountering discrimination and violence throughout their lives now that's steve men's from the united nations resolution adopted last november. 19th endemic where since this is where the un member states to act but as you're about to hear girls still often risk. my dear adair was just 18 years old when she was married off from a home he a model how paternal uncle said make you go out to

a 26 year old man in exchange for money he had boots and could not be back. my dearest father had passed away and according to tradition in the north how what i did know how to see about them are each their own they mean 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. child marriage is widespread in cameroon according to a trend of 14 soviet over 20 percent of girls will really muddy between the ages of 15 to 19 my dear least we to husband for 5 years before she was drawn out we have to keep since then she has been renting a wife will 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 abandoned me with the children and slept out frequently. sometimes he came home with a woman who would say go away i want to spend time with my woman. here in ma some survive us a 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 we can become pain targets parents and young girls today she's speaking to a group of mothers. let's talk about where this is very important because i've noticed the women are no longer being badly influenced and sending their children into forest or early marriages they are now strong willed these women are. eating awareness just like us some of these women are counseling others who come to seek

help at our center i live if. i desire walks as a company no one and juke much in each income or is not in regions says $99.00 to $1.00 day organization has rescued thousands of girls from early marriage in time a rude 49 yo i said tamara is the head in 2019 she want to 1st bill price for activism. 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 you oh my dear as to what an early marriage to mean now she too has joined the fight to educate people about the risk and gets more listen. we take care of our 2 children.

i am now joined by. head of africa girls brights the global partnerships and child marriage hello and welcome you vets so how serious is the issue of forced child across africa thanks eddie and. 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 scent so therefore something that we really need to address and need to address. so we understand. just on the rise what impact has the covert 19 pandemic had on it. un f.b.i. actually estimates that we'll have an additional $10000000.00 guns will be married before the age of 18 because of course that so you're looking at

a country like malaysia where we have 6 to 776 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. read as 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 guls 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 others then we need to empower

those who are on the guards like their families their parents that teach us so that the able to support these girls to be able to leave mags 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 policy tasks to close and obvious is that we have an africa that protect the god chat we need to have those implemented we need to have modernize 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 wants to access services she needs to get access to that and i think the 4 things done together with the support of the community would help us end child mikey's in africa and beyond because i have to emphasize it's a global problem child marriages do not only happen in africa. that is well noted

here at qatari amount more here head of africa engagement our girls not rights the global partnership to and forced early child marriage to many thanks for your time . let's now take a look at some other stories making headlines across the continent gun a man has stormed a school and kidnapped dozens of students and teachers in central and i geria the incident happened in the town of car dara in ny just 8 late on tuesday the identity of the attackers is not yet known. if. the picture does the hero in the film will tell one has appeared in the courts in kigali. faces terrorism charges related to establish in the national liberation forces rebel group this is a 6 year old united supporting in. south africa has begun vaccinating its health workers using the johnson and johnson over 19 shots

a country switch to visit scene after concerns that the stress and i do says initially purchased would not be effective enough. now fran's 5 west african nations have agreed to step up the military presence in the region due in a 2 day summit chad announced it would send $1200.00 troops on the fronts promised to maintain its deployment in the flashpoint zone with support from the glow in the european force that's in addition to an existing force in the region 5 so how will this bring about the much needed peace neat. 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 and. in improving security. this critical area there has been particular focus put also on the on the need to accompany military 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 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 to what extend these statements turn into actual changes on the ground exactly or as the saying goes action speaks louder than words now the main challenge seems to be that countries open to negotiate with a jihadist molly for instance already reached out but france is told 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 challenges of course the need to strengthen chords a nation between these actors and this caused a 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 participation 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 forms of our political challenges so there will be a need for more discussions and and more coordination and agreement among international partners but essentially at the end of the day our countries remains i mean remain in the lead to determine what their own strategy will be a newly moderate on that other side help program others to do for security studies

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we'll tell you why. but 1st it was the memoir that shocked the world the true story of christiane f. a german teenager who financed her heroin addiction through prostitution the no 40 year old book and subsequent movie have now been turned into a series we children from bonhoeffer saw the amazon coproduction takes us inside the lives of desperate youths who once gathered at west programs zoo train station . it was it was. the reviews of the eighty's classic cristiana at is a coming of age story with a twist to the series doesn't just focus on the original films protagonist cristiana but tells the story of a group of teenage addicts and their desire to rebel against conformity set in seventy's and eighty's west by. the original book and the

1981 cult film both focused on the cycle of substance abuse prostitution and drug related crime christiane that gets caught up and. running into. people. this series tells the story of cristiana i have friends over a number of years. she grew up in a housing estate on the outskirts of her 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 of 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 the. life and those around her and that's the path she follows. in. the indy in. which they go and we children from bond so there'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 treads 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 and 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 a 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 descendants 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 file 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 on how the whole time was the new one we children from bahnhof so folks as 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 and it looks very expensive very slick some of the club scenes. you know apart and they built the whole club and prague just to film it looks very different from the original dinged 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 had 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 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 showed the drug sequences with the club but it also kind of lacked some of the gritty realism to me. particularly the music stood out i 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 than 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 additional funds 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 ok james jackson thanks very much. this year germany is celebrating its 17th century along 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 in decades. on october 9th 2019 on the jewish holiday yom kapoor heavily armed neo nazi tried to storm the synagogue the strength of the 2 saved the worship is inside but failing to gain entry the attack and then shot 2 others did today in the moral stance to commemorate the victims. diana not to lives in holland and grew up in a jewish household at the time of the attack she was in 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 specimen body at. many years the east german city paid little attention to its almost 1000 years of jewish history in former communist east germany times the subject was to. play in a march which finds this all the more reason to keep jewish heritage alive. in the aim of the protestant community center she discovered a grave stone from the middle ages. the heaters are made at the 3 tall for the jewish medieval cemetery was dissolved back in the 16th century so it's possible that this stone was found in the rubble somewhere. dug out by workman and then

placed here i know i did this is in here we see a name engraved the name as referenda these and behind it we see but box. as a teenager diana marked with jewish classics on her parents' picture else she studied western need each the original language of jews in germany and research as west and east songs. may help him out of unforseen i was always fascinated by the fact that these are not the texts in the music of the synagogue of the liturgy in hebrew. but that these are the songs that everyone knew and everyone sang and and you dogs all had. yeah. there was. 1000000000

songs of the early modern period. culture brought back to life. through her music and research has become something of an expert in judaism when it comes to her. showing us around the historic jewish cemetery she describes it's eventful past that. this is the oldest gravestone in the cemetery. here you can see very clearly that it's been engraved with a big number one that this brings us to the end of the 17th century right to the time when jewish people were being allowed to return and resettle in holland. and here you go and it is. it was not a sign of tolerance to reach a 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 advance the jewish population boring to these victims didn't fit into the heroes of the communist resistance image of the g.d.r. still 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 rule where produced for the emperor's court for a brief period just about 20 years now a museum in dresden germany has confirmed a once over a week looked 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 they're 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. 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 hasn'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 me nervous seeing someone touch something so valuable 40000000 euro anyway that's it for this arts and culture she said.

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