but everyone has the right. everyone has the right to see. this is big news live from berlin spain is gripped by a 2nd night of bomb wrist and anger of a popular rapper who was sent to prison clashes have erupted in barcelona and madrid between police and protesters demanding the release of the public herself he's charged with glorifying terrorism and insulting the royal family get a live update from possible also coming up study nato considers its future in

afghanistan since ministers have forgotten but today a virtual summit to decide whether to continue the fight or to withdraw their troops. and a legal milestone in india's main 2 movement until the court clears a female journalist she was charged with defamation after she turned my old boss of sexual harassment. a method he held welcome to the program we begin in spain where police have clashed with thousands of protesters demanding the release of a rap artist who was jailed for his lyrics this is the 2nd night of violence in madrid and barcelona police in the cities attempted to break up the protest by deploying gas and firing rubber bullets some demonstrators set up burning barricades and there were dozens of arrests and injuries public was convicted on

charges of glorifying terrorism and insulting royalty in his songs and tweets. for more on this we're joined by stephen bergen in barcelona stephen was saying that the step and says spreading across spain how serious is this outbreak of violence well it is it is certainly spread much further than yesterday when it was mostly confined to other parts of catalonia. it was quite big disturbances in the trade also. our country all over the country. i think we might be seeing something slightly different here in that we're used to saying this is services here in particular. but all basically related to the question of council and independence and this is this is going nothing to do with this this is to do with free speech is

a do particularly i think young people feeling that they're not represented. and that there's an underlying. my amount of hypocrisy in my woman i'd say about who is allowed to say whoa so the you know this rapper. problem is you know being sent to sent to prison while other people who say very incendiary things only happen in the last week or and with some very right wing people and you know they appear to have impunity and i think i think there's a lot of anger about this because well you know the political question. that we've seen recently get over is the question stephen why did author he's go off to sell in the 1st place isn't what he said covered by freedom of expression. well i

think the you know this is partly why the government is now discussing having a. sort of a i thing about nor. about freedom of speech which we don't really have here you know i'm not saying we don't have freedom of speech but legally it's very it's very very you can say things and for example in newspapers here that would be considered libelous you know it's kinda going to other countries. so i think you know there's there's an empty they're going to narrow down what is what is acceptable to treat a speech. it's not yet clear walk alone is going to is going to say in the meantime i think there's always quite clearly a groundswell of opinion among particularly among young people that there are

there are there's a double standard there's hypocrisy stephen bergen in basilan a thanks so much for talking to us neither defense ministers have begun a 2 day virtual summit to consider the alliances feature in afghanistan it's the 1st such gathering since the us election many the deadline for troop withdrawal set by the trump white house is now in doubt ministers will discuss whether to continue the fight against the taliban or withdraw their troops even as the taliban increases its attacks against afghan police and civilians laughter the 1st day of meetings nato secretary general in stoltenberg laid out a lot of plans for the mission in afghanistan. we will only leave when the time is right and the focus now is home come we support the peace efforts the peace talks and the joyous. new strength and new momentum in the peace talks because

that's the only pol through peace. as you know we went into afghanistan to go then nato allies partners 'd under not to states often on 11 we have made decisions on the just you know presence together and we will also make the decision when the time is right to leave together or for more let's bring in the w. washington correspondent of a salad that certainly sounds like the u.s. withdrawal that former president trump announced last year is now off the table all of the well officially there by the administration is reviewing its of ghana's time policy but yes you just heard secretary general yet installed speaking he said nato will leave afghanistan when the time is right and it does not really look like the time is right because the conditions were also set in the in that agreement with the taliban and they were that the taliban at here to these conditions

had to stop putting the security of the united states and their allies at risk to distance themselves from other terror groups like al qaeda and also to participate in peace talks while there is growing consensus that this is not the case the taliban continued to carry out attacks in afghanistan so it looks like there was drawl plans are off the table at least in the short term with that as the backdrop how is joe biden going to sell that shift away from trump's afghanistan policy to his supporters. well joe biden certainly knows that americans are tired of their endless war so it will be a tough sell to explain this to the american voters that he believes that american troops have to stay put in afghanistan. but he will also certainly make clear that this was even a part of the trunk plan and the trump agreement with the taliban that it would withdrawal only takes place if the conditions are met now the pentagon

a couple weeks ago said that the taliban do not stick to their commitments in the pentagon does not see a future for the deal and for a withdraw now there's also an afghanistan expert group in afghanistan in washington d.c. it really issuing a stark warning addressing the white house saying that a troop withdrawal would lead to a collapse of the afghan state to a return of civil war in afghanistan and that resulting in a terror threat here on american soil and joe biden certainly will not want to be held accountable for this he will then have to make clear that the trumpet plan was premature in his opinion and that leaving now would put the security of the united states at risk of a seller in washington thanks so much looking at some of the world news now johnson i'm glad merkel has spoken by telephone with the iranian president hassan rouhani to voice her concern that iran is failing to meet its

obligations under a 2015 nuclear deal it's on world powers because it is been in jeopardy since former president donald trump unilaterally withdrew from it in 2000 and icing. gunmen have stormed a school in central nigeria and kidnapped dozens of students and some teaches stuff say one student was shot dead in the attack large numbers of men in military uniforms holdaway students from the government science college in ca got a in nigeria state if you've managed to escape. us conservative talk radio host rush limbaugh has died of lung cancer aged $75.00 grand broadcaster was known for promoting republican causes and politicians during his shows and taunting democrats last year he was awarded the medal of freedom by the former u.s. president donald trump. well demonstrators in myanmar have gathered in the

largest numbers so far to demand an end to military rule opponents of the february 1 to doubt the military will keep its promise to hold elections and hand the power the post later she remains in jail facing trivial criminal charges hundreds of thousands joined rallies in cities across the country despite fears of a violent crackdown. a battle cry for democracy tents of thousands of protesters flooding the streets of young going stepping up their open revolt against the military takeover karsh uses roadblocks to keep security forces from moving around the commercial capital. in this cat and mouse game it appears to for now it's the mice who have the upper hand. internet shutdowns another attempts to disrupt the demonstrations have largely proved futile even the judges assurances of free and fair elections have been met with deep skepticism exacerbated by fresh criminal charges against on sons who cheat.

i know but the young people of this generation don't have to believe in the military's promises they lie before and they hold an election back in 1988 so we've already learned our lesson from that piece of history. there's growing concern that myanmar's bloody history could be about to repeat itself the un says it's received reports of soldiers being ready for crackdown in young gone sparking fears that scenes like this are merely a taste of what's to come. but i do know but is this activist told the news they're not backing down no i'm not afraid i'm not afraid we've seen that we have been and you need to really control for years so this is that we have to finish them this guy we this we when i watch we're given a crazy we no longer want every anyone. else.

past the world watches with bated breath for many here me and maher there's only one way out of this. forward with their fists high even if no one knows where the world will lead them. to india where i form a government and then minister lost a defamation suit against a female journalist that accused him of sexual harassment the good it is being held as a victory for india's made to move. happiness and relief after a landmark ruling that priya rommany believes will empower more indian women with the right to speak the truth and obviously there was a pushback to that and i think today's sure is that women can withstand that push back you know that it's not that easy to shut us down romany accused author turned politician of sexual harassment she said it happened in

a hotel room where he's got a job interview with her in 1903 denies having met her in a hotel but stepped down from his junior minister position one moment named him as her abuser in 2018 bar then sued rommany for defamation saying her accusations impacted his reputation but the court ruled against him. in the court today said that the reputation cannot be protected at the cost of a right to dignity this is significant for me to movement as a dissension he says that women making allegations cannot be accused of defaming alleged abuses. or money and several witnesses accuse ackbar who was in his forty's at the time of using his power to prey on young women who were desperate for work apart denies all of the claims against him calling the allegations politically motivated his legal team also questioned why it took so long for rommany to come forward the court ruled the timing wasn't relevant rommany has been battling in

court just to have the opportunity to speak out something that many women are afraid to do 14 others have made similar accusations against akbar you know when she spoke and the stories that started coming after her she really really empowered women so. i didn't enjoy them to silence her and others truly backfired on them. romany says the verdict is an indication for all women who have spoken up. in sexual harassment at work. the sport and champions league football and the bundesliga side dortmund have been eaten sivia 32 in the round of 16. open the scoring for severe up a drop and soon equalized thanks to mom. and then in holland have been it twice looked young scored late for survey to keep things interesting also on wednesday put it down due ventus to one maybe thought amy made it one nil for porto after

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sake. the michael jr 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 girl's potential too often it results in an end to the education and health complications and it puts them out high i risk of encountering discrimination on volunteers throughout their lives now that's steve men's from united nations resolution adopted last november. 19th pandemic where since the situation the u.n. just member states to act but as you're about to hear girls are 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 my guitar 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 what i did know how to see about the marriage they don't 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 but it's getting. a child marriage is widespread income rule. according to a train to 14 so view 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 had to keep since then she has been renting a wild room flat here i wanted 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 the woman who would

say go away i want to spend time with my woman. here in ma some survivors of forced marriage i helping people to understand and damaged on one of them is i desire my lamb. she was also married. this is now an activist fighting against each 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 that 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 awareness just like us some of these women are counseling others who come to seek help at our center i live if. this all works as a company enough one and you can but in any marriage incomer is not in regions says 99 to one the organization has rescued thousands of girls from early marriage in

tama road. for tonight you know 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. and let's be clear that sending a girl child to an early marriage is simply a very bad thing to do. too well what an early marriage to mean now she too has joined the fight to educate people about the risk. to care of our 2 children from on this i am now joined by. head of africa engagement of girls brights the

global partnerships and child marriage hello and welcome you bet so how serious is the issue of forced child marriage 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 a 35 percent 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. 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 it 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 and 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 girls we need to make sure that they know that they actually can access their rights without free fear of getting married getting housefull practices like f g m and others then we need to end those who are around it does make their families their parents that teach us so that the able to support these girls to be able to leave that doesn't lead me to them because of

marriage when they're not crazy to get married it's that thing we have to do is to implement the laws and policy test to close in on this is that we have an africa that protect that 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 went 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 and child marriages 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 your bad country amount more here head of africa engagements are girls not rights the global partnership to end a forced early child marriage many thanks for your time.

let's take a look at some other stories making headlines across the continent gunmen have 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 money depicted as the hero in the film. has appeared in the courts in forgotten. faces terrorism charges related to establish in the national liberation forces rebel group this is the 6 year old unites of supporting. south africa has begun vaccinating its health workers and using the johnson and johnson call the 19 shots a country switch to this vaccine after concerns that the. initially purchased would not be effective in the us. now from 5 west

african nations have agreed to step up the military presence in the region do we need to do some it chad announced it would send $1200.00 troops on the front 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 doing us g 5 so what will this bring about the much needed peace that the psycho neat. joining me now is. she's the head of this i help program that is jude 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 call for a product. or area that has been under high insecurity pressure for the past month so there seems to be a renewed commitment from saharan states to support each other in 20 pages in improving security. this critical area. 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 lives in the living conditions of local communities has been carrying 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 to what extend these statements turn into actual changes on the ground exactly as the scene goes action speaks louder than words now the main challenge seems to be that the civilian countries are open to negotiate with the jihadist money for instance already reached out but francis totally 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 core to nation region 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 and interesting is that

this needs for coordination but of course as you rightly mentioned there is also need for quite a nation in the strategy that's being adopted man in authorities have been exploring 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 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 an area that other side help for grandmothers to for security studies in michael molly thanks for your insights thank you.

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one k. ferguson welcome to the program severe winter weather in the southern u.s. state of texas is threatening to intensify and a ready serious global shortage of semiconductor chips historic snowstorms have left millions of texans without power as the state's grid went out of service the extent of the disruption prompted energy providers to ask factories to suspend operations among those who are on to that coal is some sunk electronics one of the world's largest semiconductor producers the allston chance of closure comes at a time when the supply of chips is a ready under strain off for a long time to have been surge in demand for gaming consuls and other tech. for more let's bring in financial correspondent jose luis to haro how the jose tell me how important is this alston plan for the global supply of semiconductor chips. it

is important and there are several reasons and one of them if it does apply cheney to self the u.s. semiconductor manufacturing is specifically that one coming from austin it's that relatively small when compared to the ones have from china south korea or even to taiwan but right now we need to to be aware that global supply chain it's disrupted by several factors we can mention depth in deming we can mention delays in transportation or even tolerance but that's when what we say local manufacturing will be crucial or essential and what's happening right now it's that when you shut parts of that local manufacturing as it's happening in osteen you don't only and lose a millions of dollars but you also make a situation that it's already bad even worse now either the car sector has been affected especially by the shortage of chips why if the us well could be

because people like myself bought a lot of electronics are over dampen demi-god but let me let me explain in the early days of dipping demick that car demand collapsed and the demand for electronics skyrocketed by dan out to maker so what they did it's shut down production and they also decrease extremely dire demand for semiconductors and for the money and now as a car demand it starts picking up so does the demand from the $2.00 makers for those semiconductors but the problem is that right now they are in the into of the line of semiconductor manufacturers and does these it could create a problem that could cause out to makers around $60000000000.00 as huge impact the whole thing if the how thank you very much. media mogul rupert murdoch has reached a deal with google over compensation for content produced by his news corp empire

under the agreement the 2 companies will create a subscription service and share ad revenue in a relationship development facebook and i thought it would block a stray ends from viewing and sharing news over government plans to make digital giants pay for content murdoch's deal comes after a strain that's channel 7 and 9 struck licensing deals with google to pay for original turn alysa. it's the 1st in the world of content and it will resonate all over the globe major australian news outlets will get paid a fair price by google for featuring i'm linking to their stories on google's news platform heels trillian government has welcomed the deal struck between the large local broadcasters channel 7 and channel mine and google. this is a he story moment a world 1st. the digital giants entering into negotiations and agreements with this strike in news media businesses to pay for

original content. this will help sustain public interest journalism in this country for years to come. despite the deals frydenberg said parliament would go ahead with plans to introduce a law giving the government power to effectively forced google and social media giant facebook to negotiate fair payment for news outlets content or huffy said for them. google and facebook threatened to pull their services from australia if the news media bargaining code was implemented. the tech giants fear the law down under could set an international precedent google is already under pressure from authorities elsewhere in the world to pay for news. time now for a look at some of the other business stories making news the sage of new york is suing imus on over claims the online retailer failed to adequately protect its

warehouse workers joining the pandemic and punish them if they complained the move comes days after amazon filed its own suit trying to block new york's attorney general from enforcing federal work place safety regulations. u.s. car maker ford is planning to turn its entire european fleet of passenger vehicles electric by 2030 the company will invest over 800000000 euros in its factory in cologne germany the plant will produce battery powered cars with a new model expected to reach the market in made 2023. the czech republic has one of the highest coated 1000 infection rates in europe with new variants of the virus causing particular concern the government has declared a state of emergency in an attempt to curb the spread corona virus infections are now all inspections sorry are now also in place at the german czech border making life harder for commuters and businesses. there haven't been border controls near

the german city of to tow for years until last sunday truck drivers now need to have a negative coronavirus test and register electronically before they're allowed to cross into germany. this drive this truck isn't registered he has to take his 40 ton lorry back to the czech republic about a surge of trucks have been turned away. the next driver has everything he needs a negative 1000 test and the electronic registration all on his smartphone. the border controls are an imposition according to the spokes person for to tell us chamber of commerce like most people in the business world he can't keep up with all the new regulations. we follow the new regulations on a daily and hourly basis. and i have to say honestly that we're no longer in

a position to competently inform our business community about the current situation we have to reckon with changes every hour and that becomes a burden. the schengen agreement did away with border controls within the e.u. with few exceptions the czech republic signed up to it in 2007 southeastern germany is now closely into woven economically with its neighbor through businesses like the plastic concept company on the german side of the border it makes plastic parts for cars but the coronavirus restrictions mean chief executive demo is now missing 10 of his employees from the czech republic the company prides itself on prompt delivery but its production line has now ground to a halt hitting the entire delivery chain. as the business of these delivery schedules are binding and we have to deliver for our customers otherwise there are guards stoppages then there are 20000 just 30000 employees that b.m.w.

and porsche are waiting for our parts. he only has 2 days to find new employees he might be able to hire some temporary workers but he is missing check work because a skilled that means we're not working like anomaly becoming and efficient our people have been with us for years and have skill levels we can't easily replace. and he says if border checks remain in place it won't be long before his customers the car makers feel the effects for months farmers across the horn of africa have been battling swarms of locusts authorities say the pests are partially to blame for a looming a food crisis in the region now a slick new operation is promising to turn things around. the locust hunt starts at dawn pirate kieran allen wants to track down the pests before

they settle in the fields here in central kenya where they'll eat away all the crops when alan gets a call from the locust control center on the ground he heads to where the swarms are gathering a community in the foothills of mount kenya has reported a swarm the pilot calls in a plane which will arrive in a few minutes to spray the bugs with pesticides everything has to happen quickly to stand a fighting chance against the plate a year ago in february 2020 we had 2 aircraft in kenya able to spray in very very minimal group quantity of the site now in kenya we have 10 aircraft operating so the time the time that between the moment we can sports there's a locusts and the moment we can treat is much faster which means that the damage or so is very reduced on the vegetation on biomass. the world food organization is working with a company that's developed software to track these locusts swarms. it collects

data via a special hotline which village heads and trained scouts around the country call to report locust sightings. you know our approach is completely being changed by by good data by timely dates or by accurate data and you know without certainly for kenya and this this way we've stopped stop 80 percent getting back into the bread basket where last year we were dealing with a very different situation. but despite all the successes there are still millions of insects attacking the fields here in memory one mount kenya the farmers are fighting desperately to save their harvest to save their livelihoods. for the locusts we used to harvest 25 bags from an acre of maize but now we don't expect anything because they eat everything completely we don't expect to harvest

anything this time around. the locusts can multiply 20 fold every 3 months for the insect hunters it's a race against time. and that fall from a thanks so much for watching more you can check out our website you don't see a doctor all that flash business friendly in the team it's goodbye and take. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing the. measures are being taken. what does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus an update the code a special monday to friday long. term

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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 bonhoeffer saw the amazon coproduction takes us inside the lives of desperate youths who once gathered at west berlin zoo train station. it was it was. revealed to the eighty's classic christiane that it's a coming of age story with a twist to 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 sets in seventy's and eighty's west. the original book and the 1901 cult film both focus on the cycle of substance abuse.