the parker power go as a matriarchal system for centuries the rare form of society to do it differently. or do they do that with their power. to influence override. starts more chances are. this instead of being is africa on the program today nigeria's security challenge a series of attacks in the east have left schools of civilian stand and many more injured the country is struggling to contain the deadly violence of the region we are going to explain why government if it's a failing. an l g b t community santé an upright has been shot down by police be opening up the center sparked outrage and got up with many calling for its closure. last the

bicycle boom in nairobi many residents of the city have taken to cycling as a means to commute in the back to. i'm christine one it's good to have you company northeastern nigeria is reeling from fresh attacks this week that have left scholes of people dead in 3 states bandits burned down houses and killed at least 18 villages in the and katsina states now these attacks came off to 9 children playing on a football field were killed when suspected islamists fired rockets at civilians in my degree in borno state on tuesday evening in all hundreds of people have been killed in all the nigeria by criminal gangs carrying out robberies and kidnappings adding to security challenges in the area field by communal violence in several

states and islamised insurgencies in the north east. it's the worst attack on the city of my degree in over a year suspected insurgents targeted a residential area using rocket propelled grenades locals say the assaults began in the evening just as many were finishing work and went on for hours. among the places reported to have been hit are a children's playground and a football pitch. when it was happening my place of work was close by i just saw something red coming and it fell hit many people and it killed many people. everybody was distressed and the only possible solution for us is to pray there were. the governor of the state to visited the injured in hospital. all of the dead and wounded

a civilians. the governor described it as a sad moment for the city. he also set a new approach was needed to try to prevent such attacks in future. the solution is to deploy technology. and detect. an informant. autumn's into the town. for now though it seems the government is unable to give people here the protection they need from attacks by militants. now the attacks come less than a month after president mohamed replaced his long standing military chiefs amid worsening violence in the country earlier i spoke to security analysts have been a double and i asked him if the changes in the military would improve the security situation. we do not think the military is this illusion to leave security

challenges in one year there are 27 ministries departments and agencies within your own security. the military just 4 out of the $27.00. groups this for the other 23 are not good then we're not see any significant improvement they are bad governance. is the root cause of insecurity. i mean the government and unfortunately it is they. will continue and it is talk about the security situation because it does appear from the reports that come out and i care whether it's an attack that is suspected to be bad or in another part of the country where when bandits attack saying people waiting school children what is your sense about what really needs to get the situation the security situation under control in nigeria talking about governance major point would be to restore

social order. you know continuously being depleted region so any measure that would hell restore that social order would be instrumental and one of the most important element is do it in the efficiency and effectiveness of the administration of criminal justice. minister you know just if it's not able to point to. you have a lot of offense is being committed an. act of the creed of i'm not being punished for a lot of reasons corruption is one of that. cup i think your institutions we didn't really know just justice system started from the law enforcement agencies should have the capacity to arrest presented itself and through the courts and then the courts themselves have a lot. correctional pretty to have this weakness it's. a

shortage misprision of criminal justice system to point which often doesn't. know but to give impunity among especially the political act of a huge but. it's the manger and i do put it out of unfortunately. this type of impunity where they do it in it's wrong and they're not going to because the right . protection and a lot of the you've got the lack of accountability to go rogue and no one cornish or that stops a computer adamle security analyst in a butcher thank you. thank you for. peace and gonna have rated and shut down the office of an l.g. rights group in the capital accra the opening of the same to last month was followed by public outcry with religious groups on the stations and anti-gay rights organizations calling on the government to close it down. and.

it is standing by in b. capital a crowd there to see isaac out what reasons did the police give for closing the facility. so there hasn't really spoken about the market except what we know is that the owner of the facility i actually called the police and informed them that the facility that has been in the news for some time now belongs to him and so he needed the support to go in and close down. that is where the police got involved so the place i was in spokane we don't know what charges or what reason really isn't it down it was on the order of the of the facility. i think this has been described as a community center and a work space what was the the the space intended for.

the one i visited a. few days ago the leaders of the center hot say that they needed a plays where members of the community can come and food free and discuss issues that affect them and seek counseling and 6 supports that's. really what's meant to be a place where these people within the community come through and 6 support from the organization where they need to see all the discrimination that claiming that facing the community how the congo about them and overcome them it was really a place for them to really fool see and feel wanted because they really didn't have that in their country for many many years now. i think what did the at the organize itself essential plan to do now. so we are really not available to speak on record except to have said that the remaining resolute members of the community to remain

calm. indicate that members of the community sure remain calm really disappointed in the action of their police and their facility to remain resolute and to continue to push for the rights to be respected. of them to also speak on the ip how to get the rights respected that is a case now it also may it also must be put on record that many of the. community because they don't want to be fearful for their lives and threats from people in the community and that's isaac reporting in accra thank you. cycling has taken off in the kenyan capital nairobi cheering the coronavirus pandemic as residents seek safer ways to travel to work keep fish and cut transport costs out despite the lack of bike lanes on most roads many have taken up pedalling

and dutch the city's notorious traffic jams. the daily commute to work is never uneventful for stephen odhiambo weaving his way through nairobi's of a troublesome gridlocks since the pandemic hit kenya in march last year the 30 year old has avoided public transport he'd rather take his chances on 2 wheels on the capital's chaotic roads the fields they're. trying to. follow as the day was careless can push off the road. his commute is 15 kilometers long on roads with no cycle lanes so he has to contend with the unpredictable driving of trucks buses and motorcycles. if i don't show you the benefit of why i'm cycling and why it's much safer and healthier for you if you want to see the benefit of it like for me pos on my vipassana story when i started

in april until. december last year. i had lost 20 cages. in that spot on the cycling more g.m. north. more diet and many more nairobi residents have also taken up cycling since the pandemic started bicycle sellers report boom in business jim karumba said he's still went up by more than half in 2020. 2020. 2292 new terms of sins because you find that people wanted to save more just to keep food from walk from point to me. mostly since cycling is a sport and they wanted to keep fit because you know while cycling is often a more affordable means of travel you can be a dangerous activity in a city like nairobi kenya has national transport authority estimates $69.00

cyclists died in road accidents in the city last year that's prompting calls for more action to protect those on 2 wheels. we hear. that has been good for cycling showed policymakers that people who walk people watch to cycle and they have to whether they like it or not they have to find a way of ensuring people can get to their destinations safe and sound it's no longer forcing ourselves to share roads with. motorists we do need space dedicate is this if telephone cyclists and for instance there are some changes to note back in 2015 or 30 is committed 20 percent of the road budget to non-motorized transport and today bike lanes are being set up in the city center a sign of hope for smoother ride in the future. and that's it for now we feel there's more on. africa also on facebook and twitter today will leave you with

pictures of more people and bicycles across the continent to see if it's. why not go out and they will not succeed in dividing us out i'll not succeed in taking the people off the streets because we're tired of this dictator ship. taking the stand global news that matters. made from minds. that try calling neal and i'm game to you know those that 70000000 of them down and killed worldwide so that we can. but it's not just the animals that are suffering

it's the environment we went on a journey to find ways out of the question if you want to know how awake lifted the priest and the focus changed as he thinks is listen to our podcast on the green. influences as the name suggests influential but they've got serious competition now and it's not human also coming up today on arts and culture. a moving photographic documentation of the time us after health workers since the pandemic. and everything in miniature in chanting women die rama's of hamburg. the most. mobile influence for many

a dream job of course you've got to look good and have a flash of trends but there's lots of competition and it isn't human any mole. for the last 2 years there have been virtual influences the models conceived by humans and created on a computer pose with perfect fall composed music and sometimes even represent political and social views and they are attracting the major brands and fashion houses because they can work 24 hours a day. great and they can be booked to do several jobs at once but they're not real digital models like graham from the u.k. . from germany are shaking up the fashion and. the possibilities are endless so i can put them underwater i can happen dance on

a volcano i can put them on another planet this is what's so fascinating about it. is the creator of artificial start new nori the music based graphic designer launched the manga style avatar in 28 scene for him it's more than just a digital model new nori has a real biography she's 21 years old and studies in paris she goes shopping meets friends and gets involved in social issues. like time was clearly right for your creation you know he is currently the most successful virtual character in europe on instagram fashion houses such as for such a move and tommy hilfiger books a fictional character for campaigns. campbell and heidi klum like to hang out with her new norreys otherworldly look is intentional.

i think also working with a digital character is something very different and very different experience than what you know from the very high. cofield. artificial digital figures and brand ambassadors cameron james wilson also thinks this is where it's at the british fashion photographer and free. exclusively broca's avatars with his agent see the digital 1st creation shooter graham was a worldwide sensation. and every. shooter who we shoot. just grew from there a lots and lots of people. lots of. image. shoot who doesn't have a fictional rich but she is very successful on the internet together with other

digital models and she appears here in our social media campaign for the french luxury label. from the coronavirus pandemic is increasing demand in the fashion world for turn it into human beings 2020 over the designers at home think the fashion week used to animate models to show off their creations will digital avatars push out the real models and influences most fashion industry analysts don't think so. i think that's an evolution that will continue to exist but i think that after the past year people are also excited to go somewhere and interact with people and see clothes on real people. and. digital friends.

not only be influencers that are fake but followers to a show in a new h.b.o. . documentary called fake famous you think it shows how so many young people want to become influences how fast they faked that online profile inventing a fabulous lifestyle to look cool being photographed in fabricated exotic places for instance then to raise their profile they buy out thousands of make believe followers to reach internet bonce of course you and me. but now something very genuine this weekend billie i wish fans around the world can watch the world's a little blurry a wonderful documentary about irish showing real insights into how she makes music with her brother finn and also the importance of her parents and her family in general a real family right. as soon as the pandemic started photographer patrick decided

to document it concentrating on all the extraordinary work being done by health workers his project is called there is glory in prevention the photos are not spectacular but in their own way very moving and show how all health workers go about their daily business with no thoughts for their own safety their only goal is to save lives. on the road with stuttgart photographer patrick your car when the coronavirus pandemic 1st hit he like many others felt powerless and paralyzed. after i would see missionary that i quickly realized that something in me was driving me to somehow capture this historical moment i soon became quite dissatisfied with how it was being reported i just couldn't make heads or tails of all the numbers and the endless discussions with experts and i wanted to get to know the people working on the frontline in the fight against the virus to get to

know their fears and concerns but also their day to day work procedures. patrick i wanted to make tangible what nurses and doctors do and what cope with patients suffer. on the on line photograph for a total of 60 days there were very many situations that stayed with me but i was also able to get snow one man in particular they might still be a 67 year old who had a severe case of covert 19 beginning in early march i photographed him in hospital and then the doctors contacted his relatives they also thought the project was great so i experience this whole journey felt the fears together with the family and that made a big impression on me. and worked. his images document the effect of the

pandemic on our everyday lives. thanks to support from that site from the spiegel online reporter community and a state grant the coronavirus report he initially made for stern magazine blossomed into a cross media project and even included an open air exhibition 40 i didn't just want to show corona images in a gallery or in an arts context in a narrow framework but i really wanted to go into the city centers like this but i wanted to reach a broad audience and i think this location here which brings in a diverse audience is absolutely the best place for it. with his often medical topics patrick wants to reach and move people he makes close connections with the subjects of his photographs what do they think about his work. and tennant you don't usually learn much about the patients and the people in the

background but they're all real people who live their lives and who come into contact with the situation he presents this in a very sensitive a very delicate way. patrick young because portraits confront us with the people who are fighting the pandemic people who deserve more than just the occasional public round of applause. a dire omma can be a miniature scenic painting viewed through a keyhole all a model showcase with 3 dimensional figures a minute just seen through glass you know artists. that deals with this latter type trying to create the perfect illusion of reality in miniature we visited in a studio in hamburg to find out more about these special illusions. whimsical surreal and magical scenes make up the diagrams of hamburg artist sander

however my style her art and her profession involve creating miniature 3 dimensional worlds in a display case. its enemies i think i remember when i was little i actually wanted to become a space traveler primatologist told deep sea dive into those were my chremes tumble now i'm lucky enough to have come to die ron and saying look i can make anything i want to reality it may be a very restricted space a little cocks but i can put anything into it i can conjure up any wells i like. while bondage murtha. before she has some balls a diagram some to have a mr works out her ideas in mood boards and sketches she makes many of the smallest objects herself like these tiny books for instance. she buys some of the figures in shops and customize and such as these camels.

and she uses an electric jigsaw to fashion tiny furniture in all colors and sizes from scraps of who would. hope my principal scale is one to 87 that's the size here but i can also use things of different scales they may be much bigger heroes. smaller but it all comes together that makes these worlds a little crazier and more surreal. however my sister studied art in the northern german city of a job as a model builder eventually brought her to the dire hours she works on her phantasmagorical display cases for up to 6 months she calls them boxes of illusions . my moment that always comes a moment when i realized ok now everything's right now it's done that's when the

colors are balanced and all the seams are in place and that little twinkle of humor has to be there the funny little scenes of course the magical moment comes when the light goes on. hamburg's miniature of 1000 museum commissioned her to create a book a different kind of travel guide for the northern german port city with its many well known sites like the hamburg harbor. the old philharmonie. and the spice cashed out warehouse district for photos in effect 3 of the tiny figures from the display cases and give them the run of the city. it's going to get some time i'd like to create a dire almost much more debt half a meter or a meter with lots of space. and i'd like to build one that has real water in it. something like an aquarium. with or without real water some to have in my stores diane is back in the viewers to take the plunge and immerse themselves in tiny

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. above my. was. this is do we do is live from berlin feeling the easy leaders under pressure from restriction for teeth citizens or virtual talks on improving their handling of the pandemic could vaccine passports pave the way to recovery also on the program thousands of armenians take to the streets after their prime minister accuses the military of attempting some rallying in his defense but many others calling for his resignation will tell you why tensions there are coming to a head. on

why a large thank you very much for your company everyone we begin in the european union where leaders are meeting today to look at ways they can improve their pandemic response the e.u. has been slow off the mark in its vaccination drive a new infection numbers are still stubbornly high in many countries while this map behind me gives an overview of the infections for 100000 inhabitants over 7 days in yellow are countries that have fewer than 50 like finland and the darker the orange the higher the infection rate germany currently has an incidence rate of $61.00 but those dark orange ones sweden and the czech republic more than $200.00 while ahead of the meeting let's take a look now at the challenges that the block faces us brussels correspondent max center. vaccine's variance and freedom of movement about

a year into the pen demick the block is struggling to keep up with recent developments as e.u. council president michel made clear in his invitation letter to this 2 day leaders' conference that remains challenging due to the emergence of new variants and the need to strike the right balance between restrictions and the smooth flow of goods and services in the single market. the block has failed to coordinate its anti coronavirus measures with traffic piling up at some of its internal borders like here between germany and the czech republic joins us now to these guns and chided us with for us it is essential to make sure keeping the safety of her citizens in mind that the variance of the virus do not make it to germany. not. with member states acting on their own brussels has reacted with a slap on the wrist. the commission sent specific letters raising our concerns to

6 member states which are. denmark finland germany hungary and sweden who are currently applying stricter measures than what is provided for in the recommendation in particular bans on entering or leaving the country while targeted restrictive measures on non-essential travel are necessary in the eyes of the e.u. commission blanket bans like those applied here in belgium do not serve this purpose the virus taught us that at closing borders does not stop it but we see that disruptions with spring on its way another fight among european leaders is waiting to break out greece in an attempt to save its holiday season had suggested an e.u. wide vaccination certificate other member states like denmark and sweden have already begun developing their own passports with a bloc as a whole risking fragmentation on the matter. but the biggest challenge of all is the rather slow rollout of the e.u.

wide vaccination program production shortfalls and other stumbling blocks have left the e.u. trailing behind countries like the united kingdom and lead to growing impatience among its leaders. couple of enough because the european commission should exploit the economic power of the e.u. to put pressure on the much huge corporations to point out here from ramping up vaccine production to closer coordination a lot is on the table. and we're joined now by dint of the a correspondent in brussels geyer good to see you are you leaders in damage control mode where you are because a lot of people have lost their cool about the sluggish vaccination well out. without a doubt later that is the case and you have to understand that the crisis is still very much here and the e.u. member states have come with a lot of questions to this virtual summit here in brussels there's a number of questions about border closures that have been bilaterally as we just

heard in the report being taken by some member states so there is a lot of work that. the council president john michel and the commission president was about someone will have to do to bring everybody on the same page particularly also there's those questions on how much pressure can the commission can the council put on to companies to fulfill their promises you have to understand that for a population of 450000000 the e.u. has ordered some 2000000000 vaccination doses but they have to be delivered of course and so a number of leaders have in advance of the summit said increase the pressure we just con talk only about export controls we have to talk about it more about export bans even to to make the pharmaceutical companies which are being grilled as we speak by the european parliament to fulfill their promises another contentious issue gay or is the e.u. behind the curve when you big when it comes to vaccine passports well again some

member states say yes they are and these are particularly the member states who want to profit from the tourism industry particularly greece for instance but also austria has come forward and said look we need a common approach all 27 needs a digital at for instance to speak to show who has been vaccinated and to give privileges and whatnot privileges necessarily but to give civil rights back to those people so that they can travel again however some member states particularly in the north among them germany are more hesitant about this approach and say look we're very early on in the vaccination process if we split the population into 2 groups that will just be unfair to the continued reporting from brussels thank you . i want to turn our attention now to armenia where months of political tensions have reached a boiling point today there were mass rallies in our meeting this capital year van with opponents and supporters of embattled prime minister he called crushing on taking to the streets prime minister has himself thousands of his supporters

through the streets now somebody called an attempted military coup after a medias armed forces demanded his resignation on has faced months of protests since armenia's defeat by azerbaijan in the conflict over in a corner cut off last year. let's get an update now from our correspondent on the show and she is monitoring the situation from moscow emily what can you tell us about the situation right now in armenia. well today saw 2 power rallies in the center of the arab on in the armenian capital with opponents of nicole calling for him to resign those opponents today were joined by the military and also thousands of supporters. also gathered in the center of your of on now has now called on all sides to go home to

leave the streets and to instead hold talks the opposition however is holding fast they have said that they will only talk about. resignation and it seems that they are setting up tents in the center of the city they say they're prepared to stay all night until resigns this is part of an ongoing political crisis as you say which erupted after the war in a car a box after all armenia was forced to sign a cease fire which many see as a humiliation for the country it had to give up several territories within. which is an ethnically armenian majority on clays inside a survivor john and which has always been recognized by the international community as being part of azerbaijan but for our many armenians that ceasefire it was

certainly a defeat and one that is represented by pushing on himself emily how much popular support is there for the prime minister. well when i was there a few months ago people were already calling for a resignation after that cease fire agreement many people really see it as a humiliation they were saying to me he sold off part of armenia part of our territory. so it's really a huge national defeat however today thousands of people heeded. calls to take to the streets thousands of people gathered after he called on them on facebook and it does seem that he has more support a few months later now let's talk about the army is the army prepared to resort to more violence or violence i should say and forcibly remove the prime minister.

well it's certainly unusual in armenia for the army to call on the prime minister to resign to get involved in politics and i think it's unlikely that there will be force from the side of the army the ministry of defense has also called for calm and for the army not to meddle in politics it does seem likely however that the pressure will continue on the call. to resign in this ongoing political crisis family show in reporting on the situation in armenia thank you very much. scientists are warning that the gulf stream currents in the atlantic ocean which brings warmth to to europe and north america is under sarette it's weaker than at any time in the last 1000 years a consequence of global warming and in a new study researchers say that could bring about an increase in disasters like

hurricanes in a moment we'll speak with one of the study's authors but 1st a look at what's happening. it's long been known that the gulf stream is changing but scientists are still examining how that affects the world's climate the atlantic convection current also known as the gulf stream that says a giant teaching system water from the gulf of mexico flows north where it loses heat and sinks to the seabed flowing back south again the circular flown shows generally mild weather in north america and northern europe. but research is a concern that the gulf stream is slowing down and moving less heat northwards that's a result of manmade climate change. global warming and melting sea ice a changing the salt content and density of the oceans and interfering with these circular flows that can lead to more and more destructive extreme weather events

and rising sea levels but the lack of reliable data means the long term consequences of this are still not clear i'd like to welcome now dr lefkow caesar from the pos them institute for climate impact research he is one of the authors of that new study on the gulf stream dr a very warm welcome can you share some of the most salient findings of your study. thank you and sure so what we did is we compared a large number of different data that are all somehow linked to the gulf stream system we found that all these different data actually provide a consistent picture of the globe same system showing that over the last decade it has been weaker than ever before in the last 1600 years and we have the quite different data for example as the size or the mean size of grains in ocean sediments because this gives us an indicator of the currents but lost the teeth

because a lot of pasta current can carry a lot of grains ices all we look at cold species because different species of coats prefer different water temperatures and they go from system has such a lot to take on water temperatures and together all these different data show this consistent picture of the evolution of the aim of the ghost and system showing that it's slowed down and what could the consequences be a dr of a weakening gulf stream for all of us. that's a really good question so we know that the ghost in system carries large amounts of heat northward in the atlantico and that due to the prevailing best of the winds part of this heat is nominee transported twat europe for example this is the one of the reasons why winter temperatures in cities like doppler and austin pollen are on average about 10 degrees warmer compared to cities like montreal of could they can canada even though the 2 a letter like further to the south and if we have stuff in this mechanism we are

expecting huge changes so fuck with the models suggest that such a weakening could also change the winter storm tracks over the north atlantic and actually cause more severe winter storms in the north of the western part of europe is there anything that we can do very briefly if you can. yes we can reduce our us heat to emissions because we know that there is a direct link between increased u. 2 emissions global warming and how global warming through increased freshwater fluxes into the top with enough that then take actually inhibit the drive off the globe from system which is the sinking of water method. i dr that because these are from the pa stem institute for climate impact research thank you very much for sharing your findings with us. about. our running up the top story that we're tracking for you this hour. is have been meeting virtually to find ways to improve

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