if there are you do need to keep. people over for over gretchen home the force and . most recently got into the. valleys at the last dragons. 3 years. on. yes it is d.v.d.'s africa on the program today kidnappings and insecurity in nigeria on troops terrorizing communities in the middle of the country dancing people and demanding remsen out our sponsored brings us the story of a family tragedy in the northern so postings. snag nominees from the aca been approved just stinks they've not been able to send out on since like they've done in the past but they're seeing through it anyway.

hello i'm christine one it's the to have your company the nigerian schoolgirls released by kidnappers this week have now been reunited with their families and all back home the girls have been in government k. in the northern some far a state receiving medical checks following their captivity now while news of the girls is abduction grabbed international headlines many more kidnappings happen very often in northern and central parts of nigeria on gangs take people hostage and demand money for their release date of your correspondent fred when you was in some far reporting on the kidnapping and subsequent release of the schoolgirls then in neighboring so-called a state he came across the story of a painful family tragedy. and frames joins me now to tell us more about that story

back. hi fred it's good to see you tell us about the family that you met since all portal states. christine as we are covering the story of kidnapping of schoolgirls in zamfara state we had about another story in states where. gunmen attacked a community and there we made this man whom was trying he was 1st of all mourning his death of his son and those or he told us that his brother was kidnapped unfortunately they did it after we interviewed him he was killed here is their story. an entire community is grieving more than it does and people were mad that juma son was murdered his brother too was killed nikita is also too close to jesus. they came around 230 in the east and he took my

younger brother and god to give the people in the community the us shoot them and they started shooting some radical and short 10 people and they hate us. after he spoke to juma gunmen killed him the next day he had pursued them to secure the release of his abductors brother both were killed the gunman causing mayhem in the north came the few my generalized and drift out by the government. general's shiny shoe i recently was granted a rare access to the bandits hide out they said that children are not be employed they don't go to school and never send then have access i guess educated because government of employment to graduates now i use it does the problem won't work thinking we're not educated kidnapping these higher profitable for cream you

know and he had to groups in northern nigeria the targets are poor villagers and ordinary schoolchildren it's the 2nd time in one month this people meet like this to mark their loved ones and each time it's because the bandits are thought this community and killed more than 20 people. raised them the government for its failure to protect them security expert rob you are dumb because for dialogue to lead to peace free disarming the bandits a thief that approach should fail. you the muslim course. provide. you with a muslim part of the concentration forces with whom you. equipment border equipment. that the best we could reach back in a matter of the ridge before jim i was killed he made his wish. i pray for the

government to a few shows to protect the interests of the. pope you must pray i will one day be hard unfortunate if he's community does finally have peace it will be too late for him fred obviously a very difficult story there but just how wife's for it all kidnappings in nigeria yeah it's very common and it's spread the whole country not only in the north but even in some parts of the south it's happening it's just that most of the times these stories they don't even make it to international news even though can use sometimes they don't cover but of course like this example of this man that we have just told you. this is a story these are just re-ask tories that get on the news but it's very. it's

across the country unfortunately and sometimes when you are in the north in the northern part of the controversy nigeria it's very safe and people always complain that the government has abandoned them. on that note we heard people in in your report express that sentiment that they feel that the government a failed to to secure the country when you were in the region of course you know the headlines have come out of that region as of mass kidnappings by by the extremists and the so-called bandits did you get the sense that there was that there was a little isthmus i did you fail i'm safe. yes absolutely we were my colleague my cameraman we were on seafood feels unsafe on the road from so called toward to zamfara state it was clearly unsafe we had to put on our body protection. we and even people you know people told us that

these bandits. quite often they thought them and they take money from them they could do not them and the government doesn't care it's just that when school guards are kidnapped or a bigger number of people have been kidnapped then the government takes some actions but no mary that there is a sense of insecurity in this region and it's you can feel it you can you can feel it when you go to bed and when you're travelling around all right that's. when you know west africa correspondent thank you for your reports and for it. thank you christine. let's take a look at some of the stories making news across the continent now days off and wrist in sydney have killed at least one person as oppositions forces clashed with riot and these protests broke out in the capital on wednesday and have now straight

to the towns up to the arrest of the opposition politician response on rape charges internet access in the country has suffered some disruption. the un security council has failed to agree on a response to the crisis in ethiopia's to cry regions russia china and india objected to a u.s. navy response saying it interfered with ethiopia's domestic affairs this series of media and advocacy groups as reports detailing in h.d. abuses by if you pin and eritrean forces to cry. now this year marks 10 years since the music act just 6 burst on to the local music scene in south africa in the last decade distain tommies have seen them perform for global audiences like many musicians they've been able to give life performances because of the pandemic restrictions but that hasn't stopped them singing.

is a pianist and singer in the just 6 choir from south africa the pandemic killed him and his musician friends hard through the rubble in a tough season but. their push on the show is crazy music the name to. music is going to keep the city you know to. the internationally renowned singers would like to be on tour now. in corona times they only rehearse occasionally after they've had their temperatures taken today's rehearsal is the 1st one this year. see connect with one another again in that in that we means it means a lot to us it kind of encourages us and i certainly i think also just mentally can even be. the ensemble actually wanted to celebrate their 10th anniversary in

a big way with concerts at home and abroad but performing in public is impossible right now even in south africa. the hardest part for us i think artists in general with corn is that. we need to have people you know filled up in a room like this one that we have you so we haven't been able to work consistently lack of income is a problem to the government as far as i know has helped a few artists. i have. applied for some grants as well we applied as they had some but you know we haven't gotten anything yet this is affecting us very very much for nationally both as a group and as individually. in 29000 just 6 made

a grand appearance in germany at the beethoven fest in bonn together with the board this orchestre income from such performances is sorely missed today. since the beginning of the pandemic the a sample has almost exclusively been making music for digital platforms. just 6 released their 1st album a mix of popular western music and african beats around christmas last. each year in the middle of the pandemic it was well received nevertheless they can only make ends meet with part time jobs who want to cut gives piano lessons on line from his home in pretoria. see. we you know each person now is you know going to get into their savings and kind of

depleting everything that they had even saved up so it's quite a challenge it's all the more important for them to counter the pandemic with their music i'm going to i'm going to. write a new song the crew on the road a good road or i'll probably write a corona song says one day calcutta jokingly a little black humor goes a long way in a pandemic to. that's right that is all folks but it's more. africa we're also on facebook and on twitter today we'll leave you with a couple of music but just 6 we'll see you next time have a wonderful weekend. in

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anything serious including many really bad feeling. how will climate change affect us and our children. e.w. dot com slash water. merlins international film festival is always good for a few surprises and the winner of the golden bear in 2021 is just that and we'll hear more about how the chips fell at the belly na in just a moment and also coming up. they dance in the streets their faces covered to protest rising violence against women in their country the chilean dance collective my last cup which i buy me. on the on line industry portion of the

71st belly not a has come to an end after 4 intense days of screenings the jury made up of 6 former golden bear winners has spoken and the golden bear for 2021 goes to romania director rather jude's film entitled bad luck banging or loony porn and the title is your biggest hint as to why we can't show you much of it. this woman is a role model she's a teacher even she has a right to privacy but these days private lives all too often end up on social media. in this case a totally private video has gone viral it shows the teacher having sex it's no one's business but everyone has an opinion should she be allowed to stay in her profession and continue to teach children. the teacher is now suddenly in the public eye. through to feel to me

a little about their role reversal here but i got to think the politics of it but the fact that. the film is about chauvinism conspiracy theories and hypocrisy in post communist romania told us a biting satire for the jury of this year's barely knowledge it was a stroke of genius. and scott rockstro joins me once again from bond to talk about the film that none of us had bet on hi scott bad luck banging or loony porn wins the golden bear what's your take on this decision. well i mean they did pick the field with the best title i have to say that i definitely agree with that. i mean this was my favorite i'll be perfectly honest it's a social satire. the images that we just saw don't really do it justice because there's a lot of very hardcore imagery also in this film definitely not for everybody it's it's it is

a nice interesting look at political talk or see and it's quite extreme but i finally found humor quite scattershot but what is interesting about this film is how it was made i mean this movie was shot entirely under lockdown in romania and all the members of the production including the actors were all wearing masks the whole time so maybe that's why the jury picked it because it definitely is of its time and it looks like no other film before and probably since will look like it looks like a corona era film the big question is whether anybody will want to watch this movie and in a couple of years time is very interesting with this jury because it was a very different depending on the jury this year you could tell they were really focusing on craft. yeah definitely definitely and i think it's significant that 3 of the members of this jury are from central eastern europe and this is a eastern european film from a rainy on the style of humor and the way it looks at particularly sexual hypocrisy in eastern europe i think is quite significant that probably appealed to

a number of the members of the jury that could be one reason why they picked that i didn't pick my choice no i know they didn't and i don't want them would have been my choice either but where were who were perhaps the other noteworthy winners in your opinion. i greeted with some of the choices made by the jury they had their 1st gender neutral acting prize the silver bear for best performance and it went to the german actress. she was the star of screwball comedy with a side by concept called i'm your man she plays in that she plays a german scientist who's a single and really wary of relationships and she's assigned an android who's supposed to satisfy her every need to play by dan stevens of down abbey fame things of course don't go as planned and they too end up in couples therapy very funny movie a nice twist on sort of interesting concept and it was one of my favorites of the festival and another one i'd have to mention is a documentary called and his classroom which won a special jury prize this is

a look at a small village classroom in germany elementary school where the majority of students are migrants or from immigrant backgrounds it's a real fly on the wall documentary but i think really really touching very very emotional and wonderful look at these kids who we often talk about in germany but we almost never get to hear what they have to say yeah very interesting view points and i'm looking forward to those films that's got everything very unusual ballina as it took place mostly. online tell us a little bit about the overall experience and did it do the festival just death. yeah i was very strange this is the 1st time i've been doing this 20 years i think 1st time i've ever had an on line. the films were quite good actually so that's definitely a plus and the experience wasn't too unpleasant but watching movies on your couch for a week isn't really the same experience berlin is world's largest public film festival and audience experience hopefully we'll have a little bit of that in the summer because the winners. this year will be presented

again at an open public festival coronal willing in june yeah well let's certainly hope that that will be allowed to happen the audience focused portion of this 2 part barely not on the ballot on a 71 the suspense is over for now and now we just need to see all of those great films thanks very much for all of your analyses this week scott ross perot and bob . all the statistics are sobering during the coronavirus pandemic of violence against women has soared in latin america where rates of domestic abuse and femicide have gone through the roof since lockdowns 1st began about a year ago international women's day is our cheer to raise awareness of this fact and in our series on artist activists like colleagues sophia barton bag has this report from santiago de chile. this is a bad news correspondent into i'm going to present to a group of women that dances where masts in the streets outside cattle graze

awareness of gender violence and the power of women to fight for their rights. reversing for the big performance the dance collective by local put a by law prepares its choreography for international women's day more than 50 women have come together dominique is one of them. my for me the collective and dancing in the collective is liberation enjoyment pleasure friendship it's a space where i feel more protected and where i can be more myself. but i love means dance masked one dance the red balaclavas offer a little protection from police tear gas but they also provide anonymity the masks have become their trademark. it.

is one of 4 women who co-founded the collective in november 29 teams during protests against social inequality and sheelagh. the fight say anything more than hiding our identities we want to protect them because there's been a lot of political persecution for a long time even before the uprising. we want to form a collective with a common face at a. protest i'm not moon i but part of the collective. this is the 1st time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic that the women have met to rehearse. where a feminist dance collective and our motivation is to make art less elitist to take downs on to the streets and to understand that our bodies are our 1st territory of struggle we dance not for others but for ourselves our choreography is are always based on urban dances such as dancehall trekking and hip hop.

on international women's day last year some 300 women in the collective danced in the streets of something go wearing red masks some 2000000 people protested across the whole country social injustice in chile led to a revolt in october 29th teen against the country's meal liberal economic and social model from the beginning that protest movement was a feminist one. that. the walls in santiago bear witness to this protest and to the struggle against the patriarchy and the culture of machismo the women of. want to use their dance performances to draw attention to violence against women. to their family to any death or if they expect that from the moment i leave my house i am exposed to street harassment we are exposed to obstetric violence violence against women is present in all forms everywhere at home at work in the health care system

within families. we live with a myriad of violence i want to believe it will be eradicated but it's a long process because we're in a paradigm shift we. actually are told this collective is about far more than dance the women support each other and give one another strength they say protesting and dancing together has changed you can come up in the end though if they. we need more learning about feminism we're learning to love ourselves and not be competitive with each other but to really find a nucleus where we can express ourselves and be ourselves with each other. dancing with the collective has helped her learn self acceptance. and i feel that for me in particular it changed the way i show myself to the world

to those close to me and to myself that many me will read masks to draw attention to inequality and uncover one's true self the group will perform this new choreography on march 8th in the heart of the chilean capitol. and more power to them well finally art lovers sense of risk and adventure will be put to the test at a very unusual exhibition in the northwestern russian region of where complete immersion into the chilly northern arc is literally a must because it's located under the ice of the white sea so see for yourself if you'd be willing to go this far. what suits and tolerance for low temperatures are indispensable for visitors wanting to witness this special exhibition held underwater. the pictures are cool i saw them before but under the sea they look different the effect this very

interesting with the torch light they started to shine and look 3 dimensional. this . photographer victor in the news displaying photographs of white sea flora and fauna to raise awareness for biled life or risk to climate change the artworks will remain underwater until mid april when the ice starts to melt rendering visits to the exhibition site impossible. ok here's the crematory yes it's well known that the climate is changing it's the facts although it is minus 30 here today the white sea is the southern most of all arctic sea ice big changes very fast it may happen that those creatures whose life is frozen into the ice will become extinct in the white sea in the near future. also one display in the underwater exhibition or sculptures by artist denise slaughter and you really shaped objects are inspired by marine creatures living under the ice of the white sea

reinterpreted to fit the artist's unique vision. some cool art to say the least of which i do stay warm over the weekend until we meet again all the best from us here in berlin just point of fetal. the from.

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