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i'm christine one but it's good to have your company the u.s. government has 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 off a ledge killings in the region as fighting back continues communities there accuse eritrean troops of gruesome attacks in november during the ethiopian government's military campaign against to grab rebel forces that's a grain t.p.m. if movement ruled ethiopia for decades during which it was a long and bitter conflict with neighboring i'm horace state and ever train many to grains see the violence they've suffered as an act of revenge. a village in mourning. 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 a village the 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 will 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 the ground deny allegations that their troops carried out abuses and actually additional 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 william 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 horan regional security forces as well as eritrean troops you say that there are obstacles to that occurring can you tell us more. i think 1st thing to note here is that obviously eritrean troops represent a foreign country and horror forces are from a region a neighboring region in ethiopia so it isn't with with 2 quite different situations there but it gets to cause and i was referring to. 3 was the am harra regional forces were a crucial component of the federal intervention that overthrew takeaways governments in in november or the fighting is still ongoing. they play that role but the i am horror elements and indeed the empire 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 horror and it is and the obstacle is that they show absolutely no sign of relinquishing their hold on this territory that they have now reclaimed or occupied as part of this intervention when the the let ethiopian government insists that this is a sovereign issue and that they don't want outsiders getting involved but realistically could this be solved could this conflict be resolved 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 us but supposed to address these sorts of issues but it really until these the 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 shay sions 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. and there are reports off 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 un security council at best is going to make a sort of renewed call for the federal government to provide unimpeded access because monetary agency is to take great so it's important that the un security

council is addressing this issue but simply a call for improved 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 begin is to bring this conflict to an end right that's what dave sent from the international crisis group thank you. 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. because it's much more difficult for them to find employment as our correspondent found when he visited the city. many of them have become 6 work to earn a living. 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 sex work. social work out 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 is just walk us prostitutes. the other one is easiest to get in for his child protection a rescue program. the water monday the government sex worker

globally and doesn't pay much attention to these children. i have a passion wilding out. since 2002 i work with children who have no voice. no support from anyone it's important for me to help even with few resources. although his focus is on children is financial support to women like i'm enough. just between the ages of 10 and 16 and a dominant group of sex workers in the region. as this is more than 300 girls out of sex walk i refer them to training centers where they lend so in an odd across however we don't for an instant admission program hostel for the moment. there are about a 1000 of these underage girls on the streets a 1000 of them in the situation is really alarming when you look at the children and night you almost want to cry it's really sad the insurgency has brought so many

problems with attacks by book or has this more than 300 entries 1000 people in this region prostitution is illegal in cameroon but this woman i'm 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 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 now neither boys nor girls made the age of 18 but the practice remains widespread in the country where the u.n.

estimates 30 percent of girls are married before reaching 18 but 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. tekken has told me. 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. like her since i was in pram a lot and most of my friends glowed in praed name such an edwardian to marry do and then when i went to high school i realised some of them now if he is in their fists improvidence this that marriage is only in the bed i planned it out and dance until he is they cannot look up to family so as these 2 deadspin seem abusive

and this is really plainly. one who dream is to make her neighborhood in the bob was capital harare early marriage free. she rallies young girls and mothers in the area to join hands and fight child marriage. attempt with young ladies and a young girl as a bench judge a damn of. the challenges they're experiencing and always so i'm going to use my sports take quando chin carriage them not to get into mary jane said and it could. by teaching the martial art merits a 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. and that is a finale is of course small. forward slash africa you can also check out our

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a retreat to listen to our podcast on the green. 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 artists tell me what use is graphic narratives to challenge conventional forms of patriarchy in india. or lens 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 show biz showed how to deal with harassment and violence 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. in some ways we are telling that story to a new generation. but we are also hopefully exploring it through point of view and

what it means for her to be kind of. so associated with some of the worst times in life. the documentary tina 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 and i'm nice those 2 filmmakers meet stefan who is in prison for having murdered a woman in order to interview him. and his responses his story are retold by 2 puppy tears. doesn't. start coming i think or next time. we want to.

look sometimes looks really threatening sometimes also really child larg what you nor will it time is a performance you know it's always an interpretation of the way that we use the term on the way to the proper 2 years react to performing a moment. the director's 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 15 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 something tina is a fairly conventional music documentary albeit about a very unconventional music star but the crime doc amma nieces 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 is they have a man and his class why did you like this months and months. yeah this is also a different style of documentary it's the fly on the wall dog and this follows mr bachman was 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 this film actually that's seem so interesting. yeah i mean what 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 booming right now scott what do you suppose this year's crop at the bally nala tells us about where nonfiction film is actually going in the future. i mean berlin i mean this year the the the documentaries and 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 struggling not only with what stories they want to tell but also how they want to tell them and even what role documentary film should play i think 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 from what you've seen so far your favorite thus far as that as a tip for our audience. well 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 valley nala thanks very much scott roxboro 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 will meet illustrator and comic artist each time a hot tub and my colleague met up with her in delhi. i'm a rethought she muddied obvious correspondent in delhi using comics and graphic knowledge to support empowerment that's what. challenging convention forms of patriarchy let's meet this remarkable visual artist who's breaking barriers in india. i think we if we mean us is often stop us this show almost seeming peak and being fearless in imagining what we can think of i think there's a lot of conversations that need to be had and not being are going to spend gee they still can be in the woods fixing the expectations o'grady too many are actually are good social structure. if you're on who are owed to the

city you really believe or if you're looking at your idea these are going to be revealing the stage you would go to continue to be happy to check in to be required to talk to. us is working with art allows it to best expresses her ideas and her 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 does have to challenge gender stereotypes and it tends to stifle her voice even at school. after court t.v. record these laker professors who came to feel that you really you shout you down

in the stock down be you and forgave dealing with asthma and on campus and all these issues that are happening but you know everybody wants this today was alice yesterday but you're going to have to sit in creeping things afraid of our court is just insane. but in early twenty's either i was captivated that 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. 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 transformative potential of ott. before sanity says no noise theory has a man who live. in cities seeing for all faculty of the windows in their communities to see if they can see if they do read the one. over there

to see you know you need to you can experience for your abs are your dreams are just too bad this is for speech or is really really important they feel to be able to have that chance to go on and think this through e.c.v. we came together look at what it means to the team of assets is as obscene markets as people who are defying articulated these laws to eat it was drawn to a mass movement led by women in delhi. the shaheen box sit in protest at a major public highway was against the government's citizenship amendment act critics said the legislation was discriminatory against muslims. it was absolutely unbelievable to be on a new public high read blocking tax pieces by having really speaks so strong be openness to use 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 painted context to remain being at the forefront of people's movement and a state that's kind of crashing in one big sheeny taking anything you're saying it is a moment that i would think we conceive. of be this what we want. and we'll 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. good

. job guys. trafficking in brute force in the netherlands 16 drug dealers are now on trial it is the largest criminal g.'s. and involves the kind of violence that the

motherland has never seen. at the heart of the issue lies one question who truly controls the country. some gets longer. than 30 minutes spondee don't. change is possible that's why visual artist. is using her art to challenge barriers for women to be able to dream big and shame fearlessly and to imagine the life they've each one chooses to believe. more freedom more come to term an illusion of more right. women speaking. i don't today on arts and culture on d w. they

were forced into a nameless mass of their bodies and their tools with. the history of the slave trade isn't africa's history. it describes how the greed for power and profit plummeted and entire continent into chaos and violence the slave system created the greatest player and accumulation of wealth the world had ever seen up to that modern translation from its very beginnings until this very day human trafficking has shaped the more. plain this is the journey back into the history of slavery. i think we will truly be making progress when we all accept the used to be of slavery as all of our history.

our documentary series slavery routes starts march 10th on t.w. . this is news and these are our top stories the u.n. says at least a $38.00 people have been killed at pro-democracy protests in myanmar it's the latest in the military's violent crackdown since seizing power a month ago international negotiators have failed to make any diplomatic breakthrough in talks with the country's military junta. the international criminal court has opened an investigation.