up next reporter where we meet a man keeping a remote village in russia connected with the outside world i try and stay tuned for that i'll be back with more news at the top of the hour until then there's always our web site today w dot com you can follow us on social media as well as the news i'm rebecca racist thanks for joining us to. cut. why are people forced to hide in trucks. there are many recent slave and there are many cancers place. and there are many stories.

playing make up your own. place. job you made for mines the 1st. picture of it has arrived to pick up the locals. the train driver brings life to the thai guy through united food they do it for the old grannies their villages are dying enters. his route takes him to the village of sika now on hunger else in northern russia.

overall i used to be affiliated. with. basketball but i do love driving these grannies arrived he always bring me gifts and hug me saying patrol bitch you're still alive and i see that you're not getting rid of me that easily. and when you come back next year. i'll be here for you it's a good question that we're going to need all. the old days a locomotive pulls a wooden train cars along 31 kilometers off nowadays track through the expanse is out there russian type. this is the wilds of bars for travis the men who everyone here affectionately calls petrov it. he tries to solder him back on mondays and fridays and in the winter he lives

a fire in the stove before the passengers climb aboard. the trip takes $1.00 to $3.00 alice depending on how much snow is on the tracks that got together when i drive a little over a 1000 passengers a year and it in summer time is mostly visitors. but in the wintertime a lot less people take the train your $30.00 to $48.00 most per month the shortest visit to that ulick short of the greek city. i'm starting with stu. i should use birch bark but jesselyn works to get the fire going faster. well to use the door soon as a warm up. it would keep warm. today petrovich is coming right on time at 8 am. the village is looking forward to his arrival. here and i guess all our hopes have

been on the slow train and if it breaks down why be stuck here forever we are attracted to strain is all we have without it would have to walk 40 kilometers and there's nothing but old people here. this is just over here 35 this area dotted with a few to lap a day 2 cabins used to be teeming with life. in the soviet era so it was an important part for the lumber industry when millions of cubic meters of timber what cut down and shipped off. the last lumber mills closed their doors in the year 2000 . what remained was a heap of derelict equipments that patrol bitch used to organize a work in passenger service it's punctual and reliable like the tropics himself and the locals love him for it. because wherever i go i'm

a guest of honor at. the grammys you had to farhood that i magine live in the forest with. no one looked after the yours because they have just as the just because you meet them there well come on i don't know. but it's not for free. play ladies and i get those $100.00 that great. man or money bags where you comfortable virtue of your you'll hear it in my state good looking. about. to head into after the closest not just settlement on the only one far on wide with a school and a few shops. still to be young people here but now they're all you know it's just their villages are dying out cheers and i feel like the joke that's why i have one more job but i don't make any money from that is what you do you are right

cause sometimes a little steep one you're 20 you're dead but they don't work he knew but. where else would they go. to get back to the days when that plane ride that i'm back sometimes to go to the hospital to see that he gets it we have everything else he brings us bread and groceries and you. find that i used to be enough to try to give something with all the cars the trains but what danger to his sleazy he says all that's left now is us and i would need to talk to him and he. was very mantic as described for the type that might seem as a set to missed for the past and just despite petrovic his technical skills. sometimes the train just tips over pretty rare now the family structure there's a few years ago which it was almost every day looking for different getting to once

the train went belly up the great here to show 1st the car to 2 over and then look at motive with that bit of what he said about that but just wondering what do you fly out of the car. did you go to the next thing i knew. you were lying on her back it's pretty it's the tracks are worn down after tearing soo many millions of cubic metres of lose they're totally ruined it's not just the trucks that are broken but the order and the social structures that once existed here. in this village most of the male residents have tend to alcohol. do you. go. out in the fear because we're also most supposed to live i'm retired. u.k.

. i'm all right you know we're drinking wine i do you do you know that you were right it's not really we're not we didn't work for you it would be what else is there to do here besides drinking driver and. that leisure activity can be disastrous as we will find out just a few hours later. in the meantime gets another vehicle ready to go and motorized or easy or speed. if these days a locomotive broke down this light rail car is all you would have to get from so i got to have new guys on the same track all 31 kilometers of it. but this time with no woodstove. in the summer

which average takes tourists for rides on the drays even. in russia there are numerous societies dedicated to this exotic means of transport. the town of new at the other end of the route is where patricia calls home. he lives in 1960 settlements built for the timber industry. in 2010 around a 1000 people live here but after the lumber mill closed in 2013 many more moved away. now there's not even a doctor just. a few shops and a little school. most presidents lost that way and some have turned to drink. unemployment turning people into alcoholics is did you get angry at the rest of the world and feel unhappy cheated. but there is work to be had they just don't want it

. to those guys this afternoon they were so drunk they burned her in the room real car the seething i got a call from the emergency services you want to. promote you to the people there we were on the move and then bam he fell into the ditch. will be filled. petrovich has to lend a hand. in the middle of the night he has to get the right trail car and it's intoxicated crew out of this now and drive them to have a new guy for a pez i'm just so berrabah. over. everything was burnt in the truck at the electric system was busted this was a 1st in 6 years right after midnight the rescue mission is over. the end of a very long day and now he lights up the stove once we get that birch bark burning

in the game nice and interesting. washout we're told that's. everything if it had a mishap maint. here's the jam. for the most taking you so long valentina is petrovic his wife you'll notice we also get pickles and fruit preserves by respect and valentino have been living in harmony for 40 is. kid like the. new my wife makes me the happiest man in the world i wish everyone could be just happy to just be rich but i also dream of traveling with her. i'm 65 now and i've only travelled once to my brother's funeral no where else just work work work work work work and travel it's needs is what to

live. think there's always been a best way that he she as long as i've not have to risk always for photius if you don't get some of it i always have to be doing something i need to. call it adrenaline. if i just sit around for several days i go crazy. in a month working. with people everyone needs this much energy like this in the letter it's just. me. yeah you have a day and night where you know and i'll come get the bread don't worry yes just like your plan the bread at 4 am. we'll be bringing them to the people inside at this point they can't imagine life without

petrov it or even death for that matter. if you're going to blow up just what it's going to do it one of the grannies called me and said the truth which you still need to read these please don't stop as long as i'm alive because that when i die one day i'd like you to teach and symmetry and sika my husband and family are very giving up in advance of the please don't stop it you just keep it that i said oh are you crazy but you know just stay alive yeah you're good you know well what through the snow i died a month later the left and i granted her her last wish because it's a given that you feel you must be done that not seeing. a child which doesn't want to abandon his elderly passengers so he plans to keep his tiger express running effect on long yes and then it will end.

this 77 percent i'm not saying any way out center based violence is a big problem but you know the new start that we should speak up we should all understand what you seem to shut it down to the length. of the 77th listening hour of the novelistic not sure if the bird decided the 77 percent to good upload into the next song list flooded lives mark. it's about billions in the bell tower. it's about the foundation of the world order. the silk road. china wants to use the network of trade routes to expand its global influence including euro conflicts are indefinite . i used.

to us. troy. reporter. john w. . hello and welcome to the show we have something to celebrate today this is the 50th episode of the 77 percent. we are dedicating today's show to particularly strong african women the survivors of sexual and gender based violence women who are fighting for the rights of girls and women across the continent bud's before we started to just the warning to survivors of domestic violence and rape they may find parts of today's contents disturbing here's what's coming up. in our

street debate we speak to survivors of domestic abuse and rape in south africa. i may be an artist he is with a song against gender based violence. and in kenya an 11 year old wild with her art. sexual violence is a massive problem in south africa every day the police records more than $100.00 cases of rape it's believed that's most cases are not even reported. young activists wants to get people to speak out against this violence. elizabeth at a cemetery in township on d.c. we cannae this is a grave affair friend 7 years ago cindy commander was brutally raped and made it in the dunes of the nearby beach fear is

a constant companion for bella conny and many other young women in south africa. providing nepal. and living in fear. we and safe we are not safe anyway even in our own homes at times for most of them. so it's gain and it's good for my soul. more than men for everyone for their children even well. for the child activists for prevention campaign violence initiative that is run by teenagers from wal-mart our ship the campaign is supported by the engine you must be funding impel economy into a group of 16 learners who help p.s. suffer from abuse today and bill economists with 3 child activists at the local library they want to produce short video messages for social media just plain how to report sexual abuse. and maybe giving young people of ice. and

encouraging them on ways they can use to speak out and also raise awareness around the issue of child abuse and violence in their own comfortable ways using their skills using their talents the videos are popular teenagers across south africa watch them and many comments describing their own experiences of sexual violence or asking for help so that is why i say stand up take an action and speak for yourself. today is jack understand to record his message. but we should speak up and we should all understand what abuse is and i think that we mustn't take it lightly thank you jack hopes that he can mobilize men and boys around the issue of sexual violence because it matters not only to women but to all

. i think we as men should unite. to stop woman and child abuse was i think this is something that might destroy a future as a nation. it destroyed this life she was a member of another program for violence prevention by the south african police. was a school safety complainer kept her own suffering a secrete for years she was abused by a family member. she took a life after she fell pregnant. in the child activist have a video call meeting with a muslim friends from the other youth group at death motivated both groups to work together to amplified young voices a young activist. campin against sexual violence to marley in an effort to

commemorate her life and to make sure that have passed and was not in vain. because her story doesn't isn't just her story it's the story of others as it gives us much more reason to continue and now we are able to collaborate with other people who we who are not even in the same place as us but we know that these things occur so we just keep pushing the legacy. of the symmetry in. can you find hoping that a mark list legacy will encourage a victims of abuse to speak out too often sexual abuse stays hidden because victims are too terrified to named tom into the group's message is clear we have the right to be hit. that is also what we are doing in our street debate

giving survivors of rape and domestic abuse a voice because many are afraid of even telling family members or friends what was done to them. my colleague christine well was in johannesburg there she talked to a tour women were tell the harrowing stories of being raped and beaten up. the 77 percent is in johannesburg now around the world women are fighting for equality but in this country women are also having to fight for their safety that is because south africa is one of the most unsafe places in the world to be a woman on today's street debate we're asking the question why why are women being victimized in this way i'm joined by my panel today and i would have thought of the conversation with jackie jackie tell us what your experience was.

christine my experience was a gang rape winter club with a group of friends and little did we know that we were going to be coerced into a room upstairs inside the club and a bunch of men came in and i was gang raped there that's my 1st encounter with sexual violence right we'll come back to jackie because i do want to establish you in the conversation as well tracy what has been your experience christine i grew up in a home of domestic violence and as a child i knew that i never wanted to live a life like my mother i wanted my life to be completely different and it wasn't and i found myself in an abusive relationship and being beaten up at some point in my life right because he said i want to bring you into the conversation right now because you have told us that you were a form a picture of violence against women tell us what exactly that means well in

a go 16 i went to see my girlfriend worse you will stay but the idea was quite simply to take them home. so that we could have sex with them and then we took them literally against their will we were i'm to no no no if i was but. nights so but it comes. back to the time when i was 10 when my brother molested me so i grew up with this idea that sex is something to be taken. and not negotiated right ok were you angry at one understand how how you felt how you dealt with with what you experienced at that point i felt like are we ever going to be safe in any social space and i was traumatized for life then going into adulthood where you start dating men who or not. they have no social compassion was basically if they hear that you've got

a history of sexual violence they feel like oh well you've done this before it's not foreign so why should i be asking permission when everybody else has been taking ok i might be unfair to you for asking this question but i'm i'm just trying to understand why men would do that white white men would think that it's ok to do to a woman where i grew up we had a game called. stimulus as in the train men young men will cure outside their house to rape a woman it was never called gang rape was never called anything it was called i want to get back to jackie because you seem to have resonated when he talked about stimulate the train here yet because i when i reflected on it later on just to understand in my head i realized that for them it was a game it who has the longest stamina who had the raunchiest things to say to a young child as a matter of fact it's like we want to see more we want to see more of your tears

more of you screaming more of your blood you going in and of consciousness and i actually wish that i was really dying in this moment so what he's saying is completely right that's what they did. it and i'll come over to you now i mean if you've been listening to to to everybody speak your psychologist help us understand . what i what i hear is that society creates a noise in which this stuff becomes acceptable and i mean i want to i want to be clear that this is not just being mentally ill people as as we understand them who are doing this is everyday people who are but the culture that surrounds us is one which saves the sort of behavior is ok yeah can you talk through your experience and why you might not have reported your experience i was so traumatized so scared for my life because the person who raped me happened to be part of a big political party in south africa and for years i was harassed and you get the

backlash also from family way you tell them that i was this was done to me and they said oh well you were not a virgin anyway so why is this important not why you still crying over it so you get that feeding of same over the years and you feel like they may just height and perhaps maybe thousands of victims in the country feel the same way that you did we're still talking about making south africa a better place for women. can you maybe talk to us about what could be done in the kinds of places in the villages like you grew up in so we need to to start almost a new culture that regards women as nothing other than human beings and to know that if we speak about our own heads in our own terrible actions against women we're not letting that team down because that's

what i've been told. that i'm no longer part of the team. here because you know men talk about these things ok so i misjudged him in the jackie what is your as we close this debate why aren't other men say ok i also come forth i take full responsibility for what i've done over the years this is the way i'm going forward and this is how educate the next boy child. oh yes it's a story it's things like sexual harassment you know things like catcalling in the street all of these things contributed to the culture and that's the kind of stuff that that needs to be rooted out as well that you know the circle of locker room talk is no longer acceptable yeah yeah it never should have been never should have tracy so i think it is right we need to we need to talk about it now jackie and i 1st written books about our experience as has because he said and we write our

stories we don't do it to share our shame we write our stories to give permission to other people to tell the story so i think that that's a very important part of the healing process and i think that answers your question about how do we empower ourselves as victims and i think we need to talk about it we need to break the silence take away the shame and that is the very 1st step in the healing process. and that does it for our street debate here in johannesburg and of course this conversation doesn't end here we're interested to hear what you think what your experiences have been in the country that you find yourself and of course the conversation continues on social media but. a big thank you to christine and everyone who shared their story we really appreciate it as usual you can watch the full truth debate on our your tube channel . now we asked you on social media what needs to be done to end this violence against women i will as is is said that daniel from nigeria says the authorities

should intervene in this matter by imposing severe punishments on all those found guilty of sexual assault ketone silence of the from compile a says we have to create awareness speak up against it and remind both men and women that there is no greater joy than love abdul salam at them from a jury a says it's our collective problem parents judges of and community members together that we have to fight this evil. so many comments talk about awareness and working together to protect women and girls that's also the message of a song produced exclusively for the 77 percent by the media and quite the artist in the maybe the brutal rape and murder of a young woman have led to a tremendous outrage in the society under the hashtags had it all down young people

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you probably. wish it would mean girls or you think people think people should be afraid you might see this should be the kind of thing to be shut down with the entire country feels this moment you don't want to think no one wants to get. equality and face black. just like that.

thank you ease for this empowering song the great news is that you can join our fight against violence against women and girls you get a chance to be featured in an exclusive version of this song just send us a video of us thinking or dancing to the song to a 77 asked me to call him and the best thing is that you can win some wonderful prizes as well for more information check out our you tube channel from a powerful song now on to a strong woman in ghana was using her boys to empower others. it's not mine to look beyond the shiny and check the rap and the real. great legs so that even greater minds. after b.s. for minister activist and the media personalities don't try to put them. in

a box. of gun it is a democratic conservative. to the figure of an upwardly global independent. i was raised by a really strong woman who was very very independent for a long while in my life was the breadwinner and she and his sisters my mom and her sisters like they had powerful gone clean mothers of the family so that was the example i saw growing up the 29 year old explores female self-expression in a deeply spiritual core society subject off limits including gun topless like. it's not a choice and what a profitable. fight back against the pressure of women. this is one that follows the stories of me arguably be the 1st african queers super she rose water trying to solve our problems and then after

think of corruption patriots. who were for. yeah. activism is already having a positive even just by starting a conversation. i won't also be a part of the fabric. of our time being you know if there are sections in green everything that people keep saying. i didn't think of this this week i didn't think of that that we you can see what we intended for it's i'm being way it's a policy since that's all making things and i'm always going for. the radio and t.v. news let's pop culture and feminism she reaches out to thousands of young uns on t.v. and radio shows. sometimes not mine this is a sentence to talk so much as i know needs and what is not us is like yo this is i want to hear this now so it's a continuous dance but this is how i try to do after i to be with the peace chills

or let's have a good time here and i'll end that way when i chip in you listen to me. just work towards promoting stories of more than african women and inspire in gunnin feminist hasn't gone unnoticed she's been awarded a washington mondello fellowship which emphasizes leadership and academia but what hopes for the feminist movement in ghana this future that. be sent to. the after. with afternoon woman is allowed to be if free. so. and we all are the standing of the breasts becoming we create social systems that allow the right to watch what rush from the picture industry understood. as chipping away at the picture one story at a time. this is for those who would bring a new meaning this with the foolish

a stereotype this is for the girls who are not his girls but their own. the girl in our next report is proof that you can always make an impact regardless of how old you are she was just 11 years old but she is already an accomplished artist actually her c.v. really is so impressive that i have to admit i'm a bit jealous. she is in her element which ever she picks up her paintbrushes the young lady is regarded as a child prodigy while we the world with her passion for art. my name is sheila sheldon i am 11 years old i am an artist. a singer and a public speaker but most people long as a. foreigner and raised in the kenyan port city of mombassa sheila developed a love for drawing and painting at an early age.

plus i had discovered that i could travel and the age of 5 years old so when they had to be in school i loved drawing and painting i used to be the number one cause and so the teacher notions that i decided to tell my mom about and since then her paintings have taken her to many places from kenya state to the u.s. and india with the help of her mom she. has also uploaded works on social media catching the attention of the my kitchen i'm famous i have been able to meet 2 presidents the president of. my school fees and the president of uganda i have also won a couple of awards the past one was 2018 us when i went to teach children how to paint and draw she lives portraits and especially her lions have since become her signature works ever since she sold her 1st line painting for

1000000 kenyan shillings roughly 7500 euros she has a unique connection with life my life and. explain my emotions what i go to like the kind of food. because i'm. this. that explains how the journey sometimes i use is because i'm happy sometimes because i'm sad and you can see into the lions i was. inspired by her upbringing but also icons and artists like. she has become a palace dedicated to her works she is the talented girl's great support system even though she says that she hasn't always had it easy.

and i think remain. you know doing. this. when she grows up she wants to become an architect but then she hopes to continue to develop work and seize all the opportunities along the way. i'm totally impressed and i wish her all the best for her future well with that we've come to the end off today's show with thank you so much for watching remember you can always get in touch with me and the rest of the team just send an e-mail to 7 to 7 it's called my name is liz show i'll leave you with the song by calling on each one of us some make the right decision and stop xander based violence enjoy and see you next time. i outed.

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