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i'm christine one but it's good to have your company the u.s. government has urged the ethiopian prime minister made to end the fighting into and has called for a u.n. security council meeting on the conflict now more stories are emerging often age killings in the region as fighting the continues communities there accuse eritrean troops of gruesome attacks in the event but during the ethiopian government's military campaign against to grab rebel forces it's a great empty p.l.f. movement ruled ethiopia for decades during which it was a long and bitter conflict with neighboring i'm horace state and it retrained many to grains see the violence they've suffered as an act of revenge. a village in mourn. 3 months after death came the government has finally let the media in to

document these people's experiences stories of loved ones taken from them so cruelly. the incident took place back in november on the eve of a major off a duck's christian holiday the people of bengal our village see eritrean soldiers came they seized the men and boys and shot them the victims are buried at the spot . some bright colors to mark the graves we thought that way maybe a satellite could see them he says. the belts and ropes that bound the victim's hands before they were killed still here. a tragedy all too real for this home she lost her husband 2 sons and 2 nephews. why did you i would rather die than have lived to see this but i can't take my own life with. the villagers say the troops were eritrean army

uniforms and spoke with distinct accents as the attackers went on the rampage people head in this centuries old church the soldiers threaten to bomb the building if they didn't come out. here and this kind of crime is to exterminate us to humiliate us to make us fall down below them. we hear our church officials in the media they behave as if the churches and people of our not their own people went to grands are dying they say nothing that's a sign they fear for their lives. if you look here and there extra strongly deny allegations that their troops carried out abuses and extradition killings into growing another country admits the presence of a trained troops in ethiopia but that debate will do nothing to ease the grief here the pain is all to rule. and for more on this i'm joined by way of davidson he senior analyst for ethiopia at the international crisis group hi william good to

have you on the program the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken his call for the withdrawal of outside forces from to cry this includes her regional security forces as well as eritrean troops you say that there are obstacles to that occurring can you tell us more. of investing to note here is that obviously eritrean troops represent foreign country and i'm horrified orses up from a region a neighboring region and ethiopia so we did it with with 2 quite different situations there but the obstacles that i was referring to. 3 was the i'm sorry regional forces were a crucial component of the federal intervention that overthrew to great government and in november more the fighting is still ongoing. they played that role but the i'm harlem and indeed the i'm sorry regional government itself has now

essentially said that the territory that they have moved into as part of the intervention they have now reclaimed as territory that always was administered by hari and fitted and the obstacle is that they show absolutely no sign of relinquishing their hold on this territory that they have now reclaimed occupied as part of this intervention when the ethiopian government insists that this is a sovereign issue and that they don't want outside is getting involved but realistically could this be so moved could this conflict even solved internally or is there going to be a need for outside mediation. this territorial dispute let's say between our har integrate really. is an incredibly thorny one and there is no

obvious remedy for it and there is a boundary commission that is a address these sorts of issues but it really until these fundamental elements of this territorial dispute are addressed and it's going to be very hard to resolve so there does seem to be you know some form of. overarching sort of fundamental political negotiation and ultimately a political rethink here whether that comes through domestic mediation domestic no to go she or international mediation. you know it's not going to be easy for anyone to resolve these issues i think that that's what people need to be clear about this stage. there are reports of the un security council sitting down over the to cry crisis. what kind of concrete action would need to be taken at that level and could be possibly see that it looks that the u.n. security council at best is going to make

a sort of renewed call for the federal government to provide unimpeded access because monetary agencies to to great so it's important that the u.n. security council is addressing this issue but simply a call point prove that humanitarian access does not look like it's going to dramatically improve the situation on the ground unless there is a rethink a cessation of hostilities and the beginning of some form of political process to the to begin is to bring this conflict to an end right that's william daves and from the international crisis group thank you william. thank you very much. story is in cameroon where boko haram insurgency has displaced thousands in the north of the country people who lived off their land have been forced to flee to safety of the country but these cities don't offer many economic opportunities now women are vulnerable because it's much more difficult for them to find employment

as one found when he visited the city. many of them have become 6 work to earn a living. the streets. to survive. for the. village they killed many people and the rest of us run away we had no money it was a question of survival that's how i found myself in fact work. social worker my veil is around the city speaking to sex workers like i mena he agreed with a comma long with a hidden camera but this particular area is the main place where jules was supposed

to just. the other one is easiest to get in for his child protection a rescue program. the world around me the government looks at sex work globally and doesn't pay much attention to these children. i have a passion while helping out but since 2002 i work with children who have no voice they get no support from anyone it's important for me to help even with few resources and when all those focus on children is a feel good financial support to women like i'm enough just between the ages of 10 and 16 and the dominant group of sex workers in the region. as it is more than 300 girls out of sex walk i refer them to training centers where they lead so in an odd across however we don't form in his integration programme hostel for the moment. there are about a 1000 of these underage girls on the streets

a 1000 of them is that the situation is really alarming when you look at the children and night you almost want to cry it's really sad that the insurgency has brought so many problems with attacks by boko haram has this more than 321000 people in this region prostitution is illegal in cameroon but these women are not afraid of arrest like all the girls i mean and between 2 to 60 all aspect lines. i wish things were different i really don't want to be on the road selling my body i know it's wrong but i have to be there to provide for myself i have to do it for my 4 children who need to be fed. on the streets. so she can research walk and do something else. in zimbabwe a girl as young as 10 years old can be forced into marriage because of poverty or

traditional practice none of the boys nor girls marry until the age of 18 but the practice remains widespread in the country where the u.n. estimates at 30 percent of girls are married before reaching 18 the here is the story of one teenage activist who's using the sports taekwondo to build confidence in the married and single girls. kicking and throwing punches. has told. not to hold back but to fight but she wants to stand her ground. this is a lesson the 17 year old wants to share with other girls. i thought since i was in primary on most of my girlfriends kludging praed mentioned that got into marriages and then when i went to high school i realized some of them i know if he is in there fits in providence this kind of marriage isn't it you get the benefit plan it

out in 15 he is they cannot look up to family so they have been featured in their experience in abusive and this is really paying the. fine her dream is to make her neighborhood and it's a bob was capital harare early marriage free. she rallies young girls and mothers in the area to join hands and fight child marriage. from young ladies and a young girl is going to judge a damn of. the challenges they're experiencing and always so i'm going to use my sports take quando she encouraged them not to get into mary jane said and it could . by teaching the martial art merits and hopes to boost the girls' confidence in a country where an estimated 30 percent of girls cannot fend off a marriage before reaching 18 this may well prove useful.

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no. girl who could ever know. what's . the real. hello and a warm welcome to arts and culture documentaries are having a heyday partly fueled by streaming services like netflix but also because directors are looking for new ways of storytelling and we'll look at this year's crop of documentary films after the berlin film festival and also coming up. in our series on activist women artists we meet illustrator and comics artist. uses graphic narratives to challenge conventional forms of patriarchy in india.

or berlin's international film festival typically gives a lot of scope to documentaries which thanks largely to streaming services have moved from more a more niche offering right into the mainstream and this year is no exception and it's particularly interesting to see the vastly different narrative devices that directors are using to examples ranging from the experimental to the conventional back and equally powerful punch. long before me to a woman in showbiz showed how to deal with harassment and find. from men in 1978 tina turner divorced her husband ike and started a solo career bigger and even more successful than before. describing her marriage to ike turner she said i was living a life of death but the divorce brought her liberation and she triumphantly rose to the heights of pop music fame. and.

in some ways we are telling that story to a new generation. but we are also hopefully exploring it through tina's point of view and what it means for her to be kind of. so associated with some of the worst times like. the documentary tino gives a chronological overview of all the ups and downs in the life of the woman who was born as anna made public while it offers few new insights it is thrilling to watch . this next film could not be more different in anime says 2 filmmakers meet stefan who is in prison for having murdered a woman in order to interview him. clearly what was. his

response of his story are retold by to puppet tears me to t.n. doesn't. come and i thought the next time i talk to stand we want to. look sometimes looks really threatening sometimes also really child blog what you nor will it time the person is a performance you know it's always an interpretation of the way that we see on the way to be profiteers react to performing a moment. the directors try to avoid a supposedly objective point of view because their film gradually reveals that there are at least 2 truths but the justice system requires an unambiguous account of events because only then can it declare the accused guilty or innocent this is an exceptionally intelligent film but also an uncomfortable one raising more questions than it can or wants to answer.

multiple questions indeed and to answer them joining me from bonn is our film expert scott roxboro a scot's 2 very different documentaries we've seen there obviously with different subjects but also very different approaches is the documentary as a form being taken apart or deconstructed in a way. yeah definitely with one of these films i mean it tina is a fairly conventional music documentary albeit about a very unconventional music star but the crime doc am a nice this is really doing something different i mean typically in a true crime documentary you expect the filmmakers to find out the truth and tell it to you but the way the filmmakers here in am nice is where the way they construct the movie by using these puppets by putting themselves into the film and showing you exactly how they are building the film they really undermine that and they sort of question. whether or not they can ever find the truth and that this is really just their interpretation of events and by doing so they also question the

basis of the criminal justice system which claims to be able to find out a motive that is to say why a killer murdered someone they say in this film that's ultimately unknowable. interesting now another film from germany as they have done and his class why did you like this one so much. yeah this is also a different style of documentary it's the fly on the wall dog and this follows mr buck as a teacher of elementary school and with his class but this is in a small village in germany with around 70 percent migrant or market children or children of immigrants and it's very simple documentary basically we just spent time in the classroom watching the kids watching the teacher very very simple story but i found it incredibly moving and very very emotional so what did we learn from the film actually that's so seem so interesting. yeah i mean like i found so interesting is we hear a lot about these kids kids like this i should say we hear

a lot about them in the german news there is author often talked about in very hysterical manner that these are kids not learning german that they're not integrating that they might be dangerous political extremists but we almost never get to hear the kids themselves to hear them talk about their own lives their dreams and their hopes and i know anyone who or who thinks they have an opinion about children like this i would recommend they watch this movie because i think it could really change your mind. ok so that's that's certainly an interesting viewpoint documentaries are moving right now scott what do you suppose this year's crop at the ballot tells us about where nonfiction film is actually going in the future. i mean berlin i mean this year the the the documentaries in berlin i mean they span the entire spectrum from very conventional to completely experimental but what i think they all show is that documentary filmmakers right now despite the success or maybe because of the success of documentary films are struggling and they're struggling not only with what stories they want to tell but also how they

want to tell them and and even what role documentary film should play i think with chris wright the one of the directors and he said it best he said a lot of people only watch a documentary they think they're watching reality but we should remind them that documentaries are a film form and that this is made by subjective filmmakers with a subjective view of the world and they should even try to be depicting the truth ok that's very interesting and we have a tiny little bit more time scott so i'm going to sneak in another question what would be from what you've seen so far your favorite thus far as as a tip for our audience. well back when i thought was great as a documentary that would be my pick if you want something on the fiction side memory box which is a lebanese film but sort of mixes based on a real story sort of mixes documentary and fiction that's my favorite pick of the things i've seen so far thanks very much for those couple of tips insightful as

always documentary films taking taking the cake in many instances at the banal and thanks very much scott ross perot for that analysis we'll see you again tomorrow. all this week in the lead up to international women's day on monday march 8th we're meeting artists who speak out for women's rights through their work and today we'll meet illustrator and comic artist each time a hot tub and my colleague met up with her in delhi. i'm a. correspondent in demi using comics and graphic knowledge to empowerment that's what dogs challenging convention forms of patriarchy let's meet this remarkable visual artist who's breaking barriers in india. i think think we if we mean us is often stop us this show all the seeming peak and feel inferior you see the imagining what we can be i think this is your due for conversations

that need to be had in an r.v. in this country this still in the picture the expectations o'grady to make good social structure. to keep you calm and cool all over the city for a big big deal or if you're going to be subject to the previous century without continuously having to tap into haiti repairs for starting. to see is working with the 2 best expresses ideas and have perspective on life. she's inspired by feminist leaders and people's movements this is reflected in her drawings and the issues on which she's chosen to focus. it has had to challenge gender stereotypes and attempts to stifle her voice even at

art school and the courts should really rework these local professors who came to feel that you really you shout you down in this talk down be you and forgave being without his mind on camera saying all these issues that are happening but you know everybody knows this today was alice yesterday but you're going to have to sit in creeping being afraid of flour court is just seen. not him early twenty's either was captivated but something entirely new what she called the magic of bringing text and images together to create powerful narratives like this book on an eco feminist who led a movement against the forestation in india that engages with women from marginalized communities. she's traveled to remote regions to work with so-called luke asked dunnit girls. day she saw the crohn's formative potential of ott. before sanity said no no as theory has

a room. in speedy sing for all faculty off the ministers in their communities to see that they can create life to be the one. over there to see you know you need to you can experience for your and your dreams are just to do that is a full stage or is g.-d. really important i feel to be able to have that chance to go on and think this through e.c. that we can together look at what it means to tink of assets is as is obscene markets as people who define i did this last eat i was drawn to a mass movement led by women in delhi. the shaheen bank sit in protest at a major public highway was against the government citizenship amendment to act critics said the legislation was discriminatory against muslims. it was absolutely

unbelievable to be on a public high read blocking tax pieces by having really speaks so strong be honesty yes and so clearly about who are democratic they are and what citizenship meat. eaters post is and drawings on this peaceful protests have now been compiled into a book. a powerful graphic narrative of women at the forefront of a mass movement. within these 2 quantic superwomen being at the forefront of people's movement activist steve dead state of catching it one she expecting anything to be saying it is a moment i would think we can she leave me or be this what we want. and will close the show with some thoughts for reggae pioneer bunny wailer the last surviving original member of the whalers who died on tuesday at 73 and so here is

a classic of jamaican music cool runnings a bunny wailer and. oh. come. on. john i'm. going.

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