children. come to. one giant problem and when you're an enormous human being here you. mean by renaming leading the very thin layer to it was new to. our world climate change of $30.00 and our children coming. here are a. dot com slash water. this is due to the news africa on the program today and raced in synagogue clashes break out in the capital dakar talk to the opposition leader also i'm seeing close embrace. now now before i do is december election when is rubber stamped by god there's supreme court judges have dismissed opposition allegations of vote rigging

. cast will meet the 2000 behind ethiopia's 1st digital magazine for teenagers they want to empower would be peers through the topics they interest. self-esteem and confidence of teenagers young positive self-esteem is very important to teenagers a loss as to trying new things. hello i'm christine one day it's good to have your company signals main opposition leader was months or has spent a night in police custody was arrested wednesday on charges of disturbing the public order it came as hundreds of his supporters is clashed with police while he was on his way to court to face rape charges so who denies the claims against him saying that they are politically motivated. now city goes national assembly strip

sokol office legal immunity last week paving the way for a police investigation. it was an unusual outbreak of chaos in dakar opposition supporters facing off against riot police the commotion brought business to a halt in the heart of the city and it all revolved around one man. that we are here to support our leader last month on call but above all to fight for democracy for freedom for equality for the rule of law forever we have been fighting for we are here to accompany us months on call but we say no to violence they're firing tear gas guns at the people they want us to react but we won't do it will always be there for those months uncle no to dictatorship. he's popular among senegalese young people whose monsoon go a former tax specialist is the biggest rival to president macky sall but last month

an employee of a beauty salon accused him of rape denies the charges and says the government is instigating a plot against him on wednesday supporters joined the opposition convoy on the way to court for the hearing before they were stopped some close lawyer says police arrested him for participating in unauthorized demonstrations. not mr sokol has not committed any act with a view to disturbing public order. he wanted to defer to the summons of justice. and you are all witnesses to that. everything under. the drama presents an additional challenge for a man who's seen as a rising political star in senegal one of west africa's more stable democracies. and i'm now joined by joined this december by g. he is editor of africa check in the called here good to see you welcome to the

program some but what are the circumstances surrounding those months song calls arrest so go was someone before the investigating judge for his 1st hearing following accusations of rape but on his rude his car was broken by security forces were asking him to change his route to avoid the crowds of is supporters were mobilized outside to follow him to the court but when some go as he said that he will not change his road. the security forces pull him out of is a reaction to inform him that he was under arrest for disturbing public order why do men so called supporters insist that the rape accusation his facing is politically motivated. because it happens that the owner

of the must watch. did different interviews when the accusation broke 2 states that she does not believe that there was a rape more of a a some cause supporters believe that there was a conspiracy because some. because some got you seen today as the men of color of the regime it came in the last presidential election in 2019 and since the candidate. came 2nd jointed markets out of camp is defacto the number one opponent and then so goes the quarters at please direct him of wanting to eliminate an important upper limit before the next election as. they did read the son of the former president of the what in the former mayor of that car.

was sent to prison a few years ago how much of a threat is so smug songkhla to president mackie sell. yeah i mean song is god serious as a big threat because. right now he's seen as the only one in the opposition because there is a lot of grievances in the country people are getting more and more angry and criticizing the way. the country is marketed by markets are poor because people are now trolling through some call because there is no order up and. apart from the so-called because of the up to the do do the last election in 2019 many of . a candidate scored some politician who was in the opposition joining. marcus outcome and now some call it east stephen by many celebrities that have many grievances against the government as the only one but. at least

a little and god can be the real or present in the country right that's a budgie speaking to us from dukkha thank you. gun a supreme court has upheld president knuckle fladell is to stand by election victory judges rejected a challenge from his rival john. alleged irregularities in the results now the election was a close contest between the 2 political heavyweights mahama change that puts at been added to present a coup for those total in some polling stations pushing him about the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid and run off but the court ruled that these allegations without errors. she was at the horse in a crisis. with this judgment that's the end of the road for former president john

muhammad. to presidential election results and that's exactly it i mean to him and his supporters for his opening the. president this is an affirmation of his reelection that bring some joy and that of his supporters and of cause outcome has been accepted and was mixed feeling among across the country about there are no reports of violence or clashes as a result of the declaration of the results this is another chapter in a country's them across. what i tells you is that as a country gonna kind of have risen to election disputes in the courts and sort of on the streets is to look down some of the stories making news across the continent the united nations is human rights he sees reported abuses and killings in ethiopia's to cry region could amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. ethiopia to allow money into the region to investigate the incidents that alleged have taken place in late 2020. 1 to has become the 1st african country to

receive the size of buy and take her on a virus vaccine up to a batch of 100000 doses arrived in kigali earlier the country received a separate delivery of 200000 jabs both consigns have come through the u.s. made kovacs machines and police are searching for several crocodiles like these that escaped from a commercial breeding farm some 150 kilometers east of cape town the reptiles each measuring some 45 feet long sneaked out through a hole in the fence so far at least $27.00 have been recovered. the next story is in ethiopia way an online magazine for teenagers is gaining traction teen launched last year and it already has some $10000.00 subscribers as you would expect from a magazine for teenagers the content features celebrity news fashion beauty sports education and lifestyle but as you're about to see the founders and editors of the

magazine themselves teenagers are also tackling some hard and sensitive topics everybody started getting fatter and i'm one of the founders of ethiopians 1st magazine for teenagers the cousins started teen most with them pairing young people through awareness and discussion. we want to talk about sexual violence. self-esteem and confidence of teenagers positive self-esteem is very important to teenagers as it allows us to try new things. take hope years and so probably talking about these issues is not the norm the girls' families are proud of the part they're playing in changing society so far as you know i am proud to and very happy i grew up in they might consider writing society psychology kind of topic specially for teenage girls it was considered the subject for

a team of writers contribution to the monthly magazine and one of those articles she wrote about gratitude she is aware of the challenges she faces as a young woman but of knowledge is that progress is being made is a definite. difference in how men and women are treated here. women are more likely to be concert i do believe that. this generation of women in this generation of girls are more privileged than the previous ones and i think that is really trying to empower women. to do good. recession is always an important moment the cousins hope to engage with their readers through a live video on instagram having had a bad experience herself but i wanted to break the silence surrounding the subject i think a lot of people get hurt because like i don't i feel bad when they did that to me.

that wasn't anything like trashy they just they just said said something like being stuck with a person and i would pray hard so cruelly that people who feel like that. you know. i've been with a few cars with hundreds of new downloads every month the magazine is gaining momentum and the girls have high hopes they dream of one day becoming perhaps africa's answer to vote. and power to them that's it for now there is of course more on. africa and facebook and offices today will be viewed with images from kenya of young men taking part in the final rite of passage to transition from being war is to elders will see you next time. i know. but i am.

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different on the islands of. fear women are in charge. archipelago as a trio system for centuries. forms of society. differently . what do they do with their power. over rango starts marching on t.w. . welcome to arts and culture 5050 by 2020 was a bold ambition of the film industry to rectify a chronic lack of gender parity kicked off by the swedish. film institute in cannes back in 2016 or berlin film festival signed onto the pledge in 2019 and we'll see how things look for gender equality at this year's edition also coming up. women

get all the air time on today's program as we continue with our series on female artists who championed women's causes this time in kenya with right her 2 kids rather than a. well since 2019 the belly knowledge has been on course to showcase more films by female directors and to achieve more diversity in general all this year with a vastly reduced program due to covert to the tally comes in at just over a 3rd for films held by women and here are 2 examples from iran and from germany. you can talk. about. he's extremely polite but a bit stiff and somehow uncanny but that's no wonder since tom is

a robot he's meant to be a partner for alma as finish and i have a say in the abstract think this idea is very much of the moment in a world that doesn't fact have humanoid robots. but at the same time it presents questions for which we maybe don't yet have any answers for life and for. passing mention of ashton what i had thought of. is meant to write a report for an ethics commission about whether tom the robot is suitable as a companion or not. and tom does everything he can to make life for almah a heaven on earth but i'm a is a really interested in romantic gestures like strawberries and champagne in a candlelit bath it soon becomes clear that from a human perspective tom is simply too perfect. thank you this is in fishing and i

think there are moments in this film that hold up a mirror to the viewer lets you see yourself as a human being through tom's eyes and simply have to admit that humanity is sometimes very strange indeed that food is. offered a body behind and hunger and a machine so it's perhaps inevitable that the human android pair end up in couples therapy i'm your man is cleverly funny and it avoids the overly broad humor that usually characterizes german romantic comedies but like it's humanoid lead tom the film is a bit too predictable the basically inventive story could have used some unusual twists. before like tom i'm talking. from a german romantic comedy to an iranian drama in ballad of a white cow menas husband has been convicted of murder and executed now it's emerged that he was in fact innocent and there's been

a miscarriage of justice. tell us just. now mina is on her own caring for her hearing impaired daughter with very little money the film by director and lead actress mari a model is a cry for help it was traits poignantly how hard women have to struggle against injustice and inequality and not just in iran. putting a spotlight on films by female directors at this year's barely nala and let's go over to my colleague scott roxboro in bonn to talk about a few more high scots incredible range of really interesting female voices this year and there's one that's been hotly awaited of course because celine samar who impressed us all with portrait of a lady on fire she's back with

a new film tell us about it. yeah this this film is called but the moment and it's premiered here in berlin online this week it's very interesting for. people who know her work because this is a time travel movie it's about 8 year old girl who's visiting her mother's old childhood home and she's outside in the back in the woods and then she meets another little girl who's the same age as her but has the same name as her mother and she sure realizes this is her mother it's her mother from the past and they became become friends and the girl has an opportunity to get to know her mother in a different way and maybe develop a new relationship with her ok so this is fascinating because this is a i mean it's such a different take on a time travel movie than a male director would technically do want to thank you. definitely i mean this isn't back to the future or this isn't a christian olden time travel movie i mean you know flux capacitor is or time machine gizmos here none of the sort of mechanics of time try to see

a lot of these male directed movies you know here it's all about emotion it's all about the connection between this daughter and her mother and and about their relationship and i was talking to the directors and she earlier and she said that for her the real time travel machine is within us it's in our memories it's in our imagination and and that's what you want to bring out with this film really fascinating perspective now there's another film that's kind of similar in a way because it's also about a mother daughter connection tell us about the film entitled memory box. yeah this is also interesting it's a it's a french lebanese production and in some ways it's very similar in theme to. though a very different story it's a young girl in in montreal your old hometown a lebanese a daughter of a lebanese immigrant and she discovers a memory box a box of old letters and photos from her mother that she wrote during the when she

was her age during the lebanese civil war the 1980 s. and as the daughter is going through these images and these these letters she started to try to imagine what her mother must have been like when she was a teenager and she was her age the film also uses a really interesting visual trick because the daughter scans the photos with her her cell phone and animates them so that in a way she's literally communicating back and forth with with her mother in the past i talked to the directors of this movie and they said it was based on a real story because they had that kind of memory box from the mother and their daughter discovered it and she started going through it and started reading what her mother was like when she was her age and started questioning what the stories of you've been telling me it was very much is fired by real life what a brilliant technique now thought one more question we're still a long way from 5050 but would you say these efforts to achieve gender balance at festivals are generally having an impact on what you can see. i think there are definitely having an impact i mean. a lot more films are being made by women and

more importantly law films being made by women are getting seen and recognized i mean we saw just this past weekend that. became only the 2nd woman to win best director at the golden globes a lot of the front runners for this year's oscars are women as you said we're still a long way from parity and just 38 percent of the films in the delano are directed by women but progress is being made and it's so good to see and certainly amazing to get these new perspectives thanks so much scott we'll speak to you tomorrow after we hear who's won the golden bear. looking forward to well revel in girls and women in the world certainly needs more of them that's why in honor of international women's day we asked our correspondents around the globe to profile some women artists that they feel are making a difference and this time we're in africa where 2 kids well vanna a winner of the good to madonna last year in 2020 does just that. i'm edith kimani

coming to you from kenya's capital nairobi and despite the fact that the person we're about to meet was not actually born here she does thrive in creative institutes such as the one that we're standing next to but it's actually had a literature that she hopes will be able to cut across boundaries reaching young girls across the continent and challenging young women such as myself. but i'm hoping that. gets my goat. when i get referred to as black african moment right that i'm like how. why must i have business or what you call it was what i did i want to be a good writer. so it is where vanna is unafraid to speak her mind born in zambia and now based in kenya the south african is a novelist children's book writer journalist and publisher she also founded in

curated a pan african online literature festival in response to the covert 1000 lockdown she's prolific and multi-talented and her energy seems inexhaustible how does she juggle her many interests with very little sleep. i think if you love something you always make time for it's her writing almost always has a political subtext her debut novel the madams was published in 2006 it's the story of 3 well off middle class women in post apartheid south africa torn between career and family traditional and modern female roles in today's world i'm essentially prof. you very proper pen i'm very pro women and i think generally comes out in my books what the 3 all have in common it's about identity. i'm writing for readers but more importantly i'm writing for

people with or reading is boring enough air i've got a book for you finish once i finish one page and tell me about boiling. writing it's opinionated and she's not afraid to take a stance supporting young readers and writers is something especially close to her heart. i don't want my generation to be the last generation of writers you know i always to myself to be able to hold on and bring younger generation of writers and give them voice and give them the platform. in 2020 cities where vanno became the 1st african woman to win the go to medal making her a role model for aspiring writers. or when you're an artist you want to be on just speaking to one people it means a lot where it can resonate with a with somebody in berlin or with somebody in munich with somebody in brazil

and as a publisher one of her top priorities is amplifying african voices but maybe we need more voices that are more visible a lot of african countries are only going to 60 years from colonialism we're still growing we are story. for more than a year now kenya has been struggling with the pandemic here to women in particular who bear the brunt of it so it is what the owner has a special message for them from international women's day. this is a message we all have of the sky. may we get the recognition we deserve for all then suddenly now we do and may we and our allies and learn the percha habits that allow us to celebrate mediocre contributions by men or excellent contributions by women i wish you all

a reflective and empowering 365 days this women city. words to resonate on international women's day coming up on march the 8th that's next monday and on that empowering note it is time for me to sign off to visit our website in the meantime we have more on from about suitcase of honor there and we hope to see you next time until then and do go well and just from us here in berlin with a feed of it. to

the point showing opinions clear position on some international perspectives. francis is visiting a war torn iraq a country seen as the cradle of christianity just brings with him a message of peace and reconciliation but who will be listening in iraq with the christian population has been decimated to find out also the point to come to the point. as the communists d.w. . the street from one country to a region of the fight for communities have to keep fighting because it's not only about abortion. these graphic artist on the crew is demanding for more freedom nor is something terminations norm right. women are.

today. on arts and culture on d w. they want to know what makes the jet blue just get the job. done banning them away from. i love another bush my own car and everyone with me to hold on every step getting you ready to meet the germans then join me right just do it under a w. why are people forced to hide in trucks. there are many reasons. there are many answers. and there are many stories. make up your own

mind. double need for mind. this is the w.h.y. from germany's lock down extend this point 3 weeks so chances are macro did times to move towards a gradual reopening and the return to a version of normality also on the program. turnout in myanmar for the funerals of protesters killed by security forces on the bloodiest day since i'm not a chicken despite this it demonstrates his return to the streets as

a general step up the crackdown on. at least 5 bullets and tear gas in nigeria has hundreds of kidnapped schoolgirls a real life with their families cultic scenes as parents rushed to take their children. i'm still going to welcome to the program germany is extending its coronavirus lockdown by 3 weeks to the 28th of march though some restrictions will be eased to a lot more shops and other businesses to reopen where infection rates are relatively low the chance that i'm going to makeover is facing growing pressure because of the slow roll out of vaccines i am going to america has just resourceful to strategy on corona trying a new daunting balance in the face of

a 3rd wave. it's good that we are taking steps to open up but they must not set us back in our fight against the pandemic a drastic departure from her strategy so far which so locked down after lock down when infections rose the term slowed her health minister against ban under pressure businesses are struggling and public opinion is shifting over the past year angela merkel has used lockdowns as her prime tool to keep covert at bay now growing frustration at the slow rollout of the vaccination program here in germany is mixing with lockdown fatigue and many are beginning to ask whether angela merkel still has the right approach when the chancellor 1st directly addressed the nation on coded right at the beginning of the crisis she vowed that her government would think on its feet. these are standard this is a dynamic situation and we will continue to learn as we go along so we can change

course and react with other instruments adam and any time. biotech pfizer came up with that instrument everyone wanted the 1st market ready vaccine but germany and the you had vaccinated just over 5 percent of their people by the time israel celebrated vaccinating almost its entire population taking the european way may have prevented an e.u. meltdown but it was painfully slow and the too late course the vaccination effort was slow to get going. it's only now that germany is adding rapid test centers and home testing to its pandemic strategy months after austria merkel's new approach of opening up as mutations gather pace is the wrong move says the opposition. i don't think that the measures which are taken between regional leaders and chancellor merkel yes that they will fit you a situation and i think we are right into 3rd way overall

support for the government's coronas strategy is still solid at around 50 percent but it used to be more than 70 within 12 months i'm going to machall went from being europe's coronal leadership champion who managed to flatten the curve to a chancellor increasingly on the defensive over these coming weeks and months her legacy may be written of a corona. let's hear more from political correspondent simon you're welcome simon how much will yesterday's decision is public criticism of the government's coronavirus strategy. well phil the government is selling its strategy as a transition to a new phase of the pandemic and of course talk about easing and opening up is designed to offer people some hope because there's no doubt that people law tired

of corona tired of lockdowns been in since last november and that have been getting steadily tighter in some places but at the same time some people say you know we will never see easing and opening up or only for a very short time because infections will quickly go back up again they warn and also the strategy is relatively complicated difficult to digest with opening up and or closing down depending on local infection rates and you know roll out of changes of of measures to weak intervals and so on it's not really been designed. to help people to understand it easily that may reduce its impact and we can listen to some of the responses that we gathered from the public just today. i don't want to be in this medical shoes i couldn't do it any better that's why i'm cautious with criticism. it's got to me step by step isn't that it's the only way to do it it's almost as if people aren't supposed to understand what's meant to happen. if. i

don't know what the alternative is opening everything up again i think you have to do it partially simply because the people want to see some restrictions easy. to simon young well some good news today after some apparent reluctance german regulators have approved last was that because corona virus vaccine for the over 60 five's so how much is this going to speed up the country's painfully slow fascination program. yeah it should help a bit it should mean that the higher priority people older people will get their vaccinations more quickly the government's also decided to increase the interval between the 1st and 2nd doses of astra zeneca to 12 weeks so that should mean that more people get any vaccine a bit seen a bit that been problems probably skepticism with the astra zeneca bank seen there been reports of strong side effects so we'll have to see if this change in

attitudes of this bank scene increases confidence in it but at the same time overall the vaccine program the real problem with it is there's just not enough supply and it's not clear when supply will increase at the moment things are moving as you say painfully slowly. simon thank you so much. some other developments in the pandemic be a use medicines regulators begun a rolling review russia's sputnik v vaccine paving the way for its potential approval for use across the block sputniks proven to be more than 90 percent effective in clinical trials for health organizations warning europe to increase its vigilance for new highly contagious strains of the corona virus of in 1000 infections and you have rose by a 1000000 last week and in 6 weeks of decline and millions of vaccine shots from the free kovacs program due to arrive in nigeria and goa and the democratic republic of congo last week ghana and the ivory coast received the un programs 1st

batches. to other stories making news around the world israel australia and denmark have agreed to establish a joint fund to support the research and development of covert $1000.00 vaccines is ready prime minister binyamin netanyahu announced the vaccine alliance as he hosted the leaders of austria and denmark in jerusalem and also opened the door to other nations to join the effort. a powerful earthquake has struck off the coast of new zealand prompting authours to issue a tsunami warning the magnitude 7.2 trauma center off the northeastern coast officials are warning that ways of up to a meter could hit the eastern coast of the north island of ours is of increased security at u.s. capital after police and revealed evidence of a potential plot to breach the building the house of representatives has canceled a planned session in response of the threat approach from mob stormed the capitol in january and ignore me as it hiding for hours.

well 38 people were killed wednesday in the bloodiest day since last month's better she could the german parliament has condemned the army takeover foreign minister is calling for the release of political prisoners and return to democracy i demand echoed by the united nations. yesterday she was a protester today perception carries her body through the streets of mandalay carlson a 19 year old university student shot in the head during a protest against the military on wednesday. at her funeral relatives surrounded her open coffin as mourners passed by paying their respects all singing revolutionary songs and chanting slogans. mourning protests gave way to new violence as security forces and protesters faced off against protesters know their defiance could cost them their lives. we don't want anything from them we just

demand that our mother. is back and the power is on the people sants we don't want the military ruling the country that's why we're protesting and i'm also ready to die instead of others when soldiers come back again. and i don't. the military to his rant up its response with a show of force scrambling fighter jets to make several low altitude passes over mandalay. violence continues the question remains who else will lose their life today for the chance of a democratic future. and all of the nearly 300 nigerian schoolgirls released by kidnappers this week of being reunited with their parents but what should have been a happy event shattered by violence as mobs threw stones at officials one person

was shot. a moment to savor for police stations and top security officers the kidnapped girls are released in front of the press they jenga beguile the stayed overnight at a government facility after spending nearly 5 days in the hands of their kidnappers it's a big relief to them and their parents. i'm really happy i came back home with time going for everything. on sunday we spoke to some cigar do a parent whose daughter was among the 279 you could not gals. i went back to me team after his daughter was set free got to could only speak to her on the phone . ioan that call. i hear. so it didn't throughout my system of political and that.

early so. that yes this is my daughter. the release of these girls is no doubt a big win for politicians but when they wake up tomorrow they will be reminded that they need to do more to protect their citizens is pressure children from diminishes state officials have told me that they are going to beef up security at schools and they will prevent such he did not pigs in the future but nigeria says that similar promises have been made in the past and yet there are people not being killed all kidnapped by the government. i asked this a few sure what his government was doing to put an end to the virus is not something that you could finish and. this is just a gradual forces so gradually pondered would be different. to normal activities

for the gals their resolve to continue their education has not faded though their kid did not give them a strong warning the bandit said to us that they will return to attack us when they finish their money. it's different screw we got that they kidnapped we have paid off though officials denied they paid a ransom to secure the freedom of the girls and the nigerians won't take pretty shuns word for e taiba. sports and football german bundesliga club been playing in the top division for nearly 30 years but this year it looks like they'll be relegated it's been a chaotic period with the club's a new coach their 5th season. dimitrios promotes his has been unveiled as the new head coach of the 42 year old's task is clear say shall go from relegation definitely a tall order. i see salt as

a great challenge i'm really looking forward to the job and will try to channel more of the energy and power this club usually exudes into the team so we can then show that on the pitch. his new man gained his coaching experience in the lower division in germany but as a player remotes is made nearly $150.00 appearances in the bundesliga he's played at various clubs shoko only managed one victory under his predecessor their 1st all season now the aim is simple win the voice and. we now want to approach it all with an open mind we want to push with the boys have fun and play like again will now do everything for that. to his 1st chance comes on a friday in a real relegation 6 pointer at home versus minds. off into space not in the latest space x. effort to send people who has ended in another explosion despite this space x.

found out a long musk says the test was a success the company's s. and 10 unmanned prototype space ship blew up just a minutes after the landing but the touchdown itself represents the 1st successful lightning of this type of rocket person to flame should have to control the stars and celebrating the touchdown rockets a big develop the kind of people to the moon and to mass. you know really business is that yes we affect us but. it's as if they don't need to keep up and they are valuable both for the over the edge and on the 4th and the whole of those missing men that they claim. is the bottom of the family that the last dragons in this world as you call it the hard truth through your. degree books on. the coal india.

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