would you not allow them to be in that the students were abducted from this boarding school by an armed gang last friday government officials have been in talks with the kidnappers known locally as bandits up they say these bandits in zamfara state often kidnap for ransom money to press for the release of their members held in prison authorities are searching for the culprits you think on this one don't think you know how to. do this when this is just an example to you know you. are lying to you to. call when you see something else and the balls are in an industry that. nigeria's president also tweeted saying they're working hard to bring an end to these grim and heartbreaking incidents of kidnapping saying the military and the police will continue to go after the kidnappers. this latest kidnapping was

nigeria's 4th mass abduction in less than 3 months this time it had a happy ending but there are fears that children may become the kidnappers target once again. or they w. correspondent for me is in nigeria zamfara states and sent us this update. the news of the girls freedom we're bringing the view for their families and for many other nigerians who are following this story but that is a big issue at the pay those rates of security here and so there is no guarantee that such a could not being on top in again hundreds if not thousands of communities and schools in this part of the contrie remain vulnerable. fred move only will stay in nigeria the united nations says a terror attack in the country's northeast was directly targeted at several humanitarian aid facilities a hospital on the premises of aid agencies in the town of to quote were totally satam place or damage affecting support being given to nearly 100000 people these

limits could be slamming state militant group is suspected of being responsible for the violence. the international pressure is growing on me and my ruling the military to end its crackdown on the pro-democracy movement foreign ministers from southeast asian countries have held talks with the military justice today in an attempt to tackle the crisis despite the crackdown of thousands continue to turn out in cities across the country demanding a return to democracy after the military seized power a month ago security forces have stepped up their response to the wife of a breast fighting wars account rubber bullets and live rounds united nations says police killed at least 18 protesters on sunday will bound zani answer may have been academic and human rights activists are based in london welcome to g.w. how protesters responding to being shot at by the military of every remaining place fall in response. well they have been extremely peaceful you know we have had

waves of you know popular uprising since the military 1st staged a coup in 1982 actually today is the 59th anniversary of the 1st march 2nd 1962 and the central message coming from all communities that are involved in pushing the military back to the barracks has been we must stay peaceful we cannot behave the way our oppressor adust towards us and so yes they have been peaceful right we're also getting 1st reactions to the coup from the foreign ministers meeting is indonesia's foreign minister or no must already there's no doubt see democracy we must pursue the restoration of democracy rules indonesia underlines the will the interest and the voices of the people of myanmar

must be respected and mud how to reduce the order. to expect the generals to listen. i think they have to listen i think they're holding out because they they've believed that they have a solid support word from the 2 security council veto wielders of china and russia but i think you know the international politics and pressure come not simply from the security council will they feel they're protected from all over the world i think even you know if you listened to and we just listened to read news of foreign ministers. the emphatic statement that restoration of a democracy and the civil liberties has to underline everything and so they have to listen and most importantly they have to listen to 53000000 people what we have is a situation where the military no longer has

a functioning state and the only sector the military controls is the security sector and also the people have been terrorized by the military because the police forces have been withdrawn and you know reconfigured as instruments of the coup instead of like community policing you know protection of communities going after criminals and it is rostrums against i'd just you obviously you know you have the greater context here but how is this code different to others in as much as you have the generals in charge saying we're in charge regardless of what the wider population is is saying why do you think that this time there is more pressure on them than the last times. yeah i mean the greatest pressure that we must understand comes from the society itself because we are looking at i mean basically we don't have the the kind of society back in 1962 or even in 1908 where you know

the you know certain segments of society revolted against the military to take over and reassertion of its power or primacy if you will but this time we have entitled difference you know society where a new generation have tasted a degree of even limited freedom and democratic democratic transition. process and this is also the generation that is so interconnected unlike my generation who lived on the 1st dictatorship so i think you cannot put you know a society that have tasted the blood of freedom but under the buddha that is simply not. innocent i just had to time is against us i just want to know that where you see this going because clearly you think the that freedom will win in the end but there doesn't appear to be any room for compromise i have the protesters when all

the generals continue and there's more bloodshed is there room for compromise. there is always a room for any situation even including in wars and however i must emphasize to his son the society feels that they do not have a national armed forces you know that protects and promote the public a safety and well being and so the on the part of the generals they feel completely under siege because they provoked a new type of society into this the people's power movement and said the people and the body of elected m.p.'s yesterday officially declared that the coup group state and inspiration council ought to be designated a terrorist group and as you know you see snipers on top of and you know this isn't

simply a regular police force out and confronting the protesters we are seeing mobilization of light infantry division and sorry divisions their way used against their ruhi injured jenna's in the genocide and also other ethnic minority repression and so we are seeing a terrorist situation thank you so much for joining us and i'm lying about for some academic and human rights activists. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world are reporters without borders accused saudi arabia's crown prince of crimes against humanity is over the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi the media watchdog has filed a complaint with germany's public prosecutor seeking an inquiry under the country's international judo jurisdiction laws the group uses saudi arabia persecuting mr shrum gene dozens of other journalists. a new british study says the astra zeneca

corona virus vaccine is highly effective at reducing infections amongst people over the age of 80 some countries including france and germany had initially refused to authorize the shots for people over $65.00 are pointing to a lack of clinical data about its efficacy for the elderly. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says the country will respond in kind 20 renewing u.s. sanctions over the treatment of jailed kremlin critic annexing family and u.s. has joined the european union in imposing sanctions on several senior russian officials washington says its intelligence has concluded that moscow was behind mr nirvana's poisoning of a nerve agent you know just. indonesia's mount cinnabon has been spewing volcanic ash as high as 5000 meters into the sky activities increased over the last week but there have been no new evacuation orders it was dormant for for centuries before erupting in 2010 previous directions of killed dozens of people.

now this is the image that almost landed 3 l. g.b.t. activists in jail for 2 years it depicts the virgin mary with a rainbow halo and bt activists hung the image of polish church in 2019 today a court found him not guilty of offending religious beliefs heal the verdict would have meant up to 2 years in prison but the judge ruled that they had intended not to offend but to fight for equal rights for poland's l g b t community the case was seen as a test of freedom of speech in poland 100 deeply conservative government. is one of those activists and joins us now from warsaw welcome to day w. you must be very pleased. hello thank you for inviting us yes we are pleased it's a big relief although it is not the end of the battle of course the more that the

prosecutor already sat he did appeal to seconds instance. i think that. it's very. important that the jets today of the 1st instance. that said so many important words for now people. including this very famous that the rainbow does not offer and anybody and does not off and. religious feelings whatever they are and that was at the heart of this case of course poland a deeply religious country and the era of that you also about of your chance to cover this is revered by a lot of polish catholics so why did you do it. which is used as a sort of act of protest of the homophobic installation which took place in one of the churches in the town out of wall soap. and

it was certainly a badly exposed because the church is not a private institution. it's. it's got a very big influence i wouldn't say the polish people are very very religious but the church has got a very very important target so much they're concerned about the person who is now 30 well educated just a person on the street for football hooligan but if such words come from the mouth of the highest. dignity it's exam think which cannot finish well ok and. we'll have to leave it there but thank you so much for joining us a better possession or thank you. i mean. the west is the man who ended the cold war and with it the post-war division of europe but in his home country legacy of the last leader of the leader of the

former soviet union is more complicated as he turns 90. 3 russian politicians what mikhail gorbachev means to him. freedom fighter peter visionary this is how mikhail gorbachev his new one in the way in germany people credit the russian politicians with money to this occasion but what does the last soviet president stand for in today's russia what do 3 young politicians think of when they hear gorbachev on a hunger and fear. perestroika changes something like that. for me the key word is freedom. was elected chairman of the communist party in 1905 no one had to claim high far reaching his reforms would be. painful the transition from a command economy to the markets economy would be for millions of soviet citizens.

when i was 14 i had to earn money as a cleaner in my own school starting at 6 am then i quickly changed clothes and went to school with other children at 8 o'clock otherwise our family cannot afford to buy bread i associate that with gorbachev which. gorbachev gave the russians the opportunity to exercise political freedom us not to fear telling the truth or not to fear protesting in the streets or voting for outspoken politicians. was someone who just had to come to change the system at some point he had to loosen the political screws that his main achievement. reforms and freedom of expression. i don't mean much to me as much freedom must have limits otherwise things will get out of hand gorbachev's freedoms of the 1990

s. led to the tightening of the political screws today. was a staunch communist the communist regime collapsed as a result of his reforms the entire soviet union collapsed in 1991 almost 70 years after it was finding. that treason know someone who announces their country's ideals in exchange for popularity in the west someone who is no longer loyal to his soviet people that person is a traitor. but certainly the country we live in today is not ideal but it's still better than the totalitarian state called the soviet union that we used to live in and we owe that to gorbachev.

did not leave the country with the help of the k.g.b. secret service but with the support of human rights activists intellectuals and people with humanistic ideals. on the other hand if you ask young people from my generation what they associate with the current system none of them will mention the terms freedom openness and honesty. at the age of 90 mikhail gorbachev is being celebrated by some sections of russian society for his profound social reforms the rest condemn him for being the architect of those very same changes. the coronavirus pandemic has driven this year's festival line but despite the lack of glitz and glamor the program still has plenty of thought provoking films so here's a look at just a few. yes

. the film who we were opens with those words how will humanity be remembered in the future. director mark bowden meet 6 thinkers with special expertise like astronaut alexander gast they each share their perspectives from the bottom of the ocean from outer space africa or a buddhist monastery. we lived too long in isolation in a deceptive of our problems we all sought orders you were caught european contacts as an african context but to understand that everything going on right now is connected to other questions out of people out of settings i think this is an important angle. can the earth be saved the film showcases potential solutions

a complete change of direction would be sensible continued over exploitation and unmitigated growth would certainly spell our and. to meet these people in the film. it was such a mind opener to see you you don't have to wait until something changes you can do it by yourself and then you meet r.s. and then you meet again others and as like an internal movement. who we were used as powerful imagery to show what's at stake for humanity especially well done is the combination of different viewpoints on one central issue but there are also moments of hopefulness with a combined effort done right now humans would be able to preserve our habitat. the science fiction movie time is less optimistic warfare pandemics and climate

change have turned the blue planet into a flooded grey swamp contact with the ground is only possible during the daily low tide space colony astronauts are searching for a new life they find it in the form of members of a previous mission. what happened to you. they crossed. we had a malfunction after entering the stratosphere. the suppose it rescue turns out to be a betrayal told in the visually striking style 2 completely different films with the same message the earth doesn't need humans but humans need the earth. so looking pretty grim that is it let's talk about this further it's got to rocks were from d.w. to culture welcome scots we have different views of the here to there from german directors but it all looks a bit pessimistic well i mean not everything could be the documentary what we

were or who we were does offer some hope for what humanity could do if we want to avert climate catastrophe but you definitely right with tides the science fiction film that predicts sort of future what could happen if we don't do anything and that's definitely not comfort viewing. some other german films in the running a look specifically at the pasta tell us about fabio but tom showing. yeah i thought then is set in the weimar republic so the period just before hitler comes to power and it follows a young man who is a would be novelist but he loses his job and his his life starts to fall apart sort of reflecting the collapse of the country around him i had a chance to just recently just right now to speak to tom schilling the star of the movie and he told me that what interested him about this story wasn't actually the history of the weimar republic but what he thinks that period can tell us about what's happening right now because just like then he says political extremism is on

the rise and political polarization could could lead to disaster carry no germination a big stocking brute of god by his back is even directing his 1st feature this time . yeah this film is called next door and daniel bruel plays a character who looks a lot like daniel blue he's a famous german actor called daniel who lives in berlin and in the movie he stops by his local and meets a neighbor he never knew he had but it soon becomes very apparent that this neighbor knows everything about daniel and very slowly he starts pick his life apart it's a film that feels more like a theater play that a real movie but it's very very funny and incredibly smart one of them. and he's really playing himself in this one do we get any insights into the real daniel. yeah it's funny i spoke to a daniel last week about this movie and he said that

a lot of the scenes of all of the dialogue in the film is taken directly from experiences he had he's had with with with fans with people in the industry but what i really love about this movie is that he makes himself the butt of the joke this is definitely not a vanity project he really coaxed out of self in this movie it's a good laugh ok oh there is that all. calls for him for thank you so much. up that's all day w is could go for the look of the latest one does make up much highlights i'll be back at the top of the hour i'm going to.

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