many stories. make up your own. mother. w. made for minds. this is a deed of lean years africa coming up on the program women in conflict zones we visit rebel territory in the democratic republic of congo where one woman is fighting driven by a desire for justice. they killed my father the way they killed everyone in my family that's the only reason i became a fighter. and we meet the author trying to get syrian union children to appreciate their culture as they learn to read.

elo i'm told me a lot of well glad you could join us we begin in the democratic republic of congo where the east of the country has suffered from years of fighting the region is ruled by a complex web of armed groups with different interests and motivations it's difficult for outsiders to get into parts of the area but. again direct access to rebel held territory where she met one woman who's bearing the wounds of conflict but with a little glimpse of hope from now on it's what they call it no man's land because now the government and also no specific rebel group controls this area that makes it also quite dangerous the right behind me this is where no man's land begins and this is where also the fighting happens on a regular basis. we're on foot the beauty of the landscape cannot distract from the constant fear of kidnap or being caught up in

fighting. as soon as we get close the rebel militia sends an escort to take us to that base. one of them is mummify either she joined the militia almost 20 years ago after another group attacked her village the man killed her parents with machetes 6 of them raped her she was just 15 she'd already been married the same group had killed her husband. my shame is she. i felt defeated my life had defeated me i saw what they had done to me and how they killed my family i couldn't continue my life like it had been i mean really so i decided to become a fighter and drive them out of what was a. given the chance she'd shoot them on the spot she says when a former teacher began recruiting people to take revenge she joined him many in her

group survived similar trust the tase it's a militia of traumatized damaged young people. they killed my father they killed everyone in my family that's the only reason i became a fighter. offered her revenge and survival they control around 20 villages in the area security for food in a deal they say is consensual but we saw local people running in fear from them the idea of consent is complicated for everyone. it's only when we are alone that mama for either says this. i hear that other people run away from the group but i think how can i run i have no one to help me i have no land i have no one who could help me build a life. she would like to trade her gun for the life she had before as a farmer. i would have had

a good life with my husband one like other people have but that was taken away from me so i did not but. now she poor is what i hope she has in her children that they will have choices one day. if god blesses me i could at least give them an education if their blessed at least i can never get another job so i cannot help them by myself. so who is helping women who are survivors of conflict let's not speak too because. she is the nigeria director of the organization women for women international and she joins us now from the city of justice in my jury of the color it's good to have you on the program you're going to as asian works with women around the world but in my jury here how are these women affected by in security do you have any

examples. oh yes i do have a lot of example or even example of women go to bed in the night and then we go out we. situations beyond their control over night to say everything and when i say here everything and it was their homes that it was locked once they got in some cases the area one shot that. i have thought we may have to run away from the our regional homes are because displaced women in other cities so 800 towns. saw a time. where i've left out of it but. and yet we did trauma. such experiences so we have a model we manage our situation and concrete and their own fortunately i think not and now it's been done and for women international come into the. hands of

us. from your experience because when you look at the issues of insecurity in nigeria you have for example boko rahman and the kidnappings but you also have intercommunal conflicts and in those cases how can women be leaders in conflict resolution. oh well in part in that particular community where we want to kind of a 12 month food i'm stronger than the others by the way as combination of programs we had we made was that we saw that program become changes and creating. capers and teaching halt in 6 shows and that for me to be actually typing out programs piece long dream can forget about the edges and if i was in the avocado seat i didn't fall off and they were all kind of in the so how did this process i was the youngest they found i was as good as i was to look after all calling it the as

a whole as the how and why some one doesn't really show up peace in their community a game because it focuses some of those people happy for me it is for well over 5 decades in some cases like this by people at home you think that those days as. if the results are speaking for the women because the conversation is going hard and they have to and they enjoy the sea and the such. so yes i know right and very briefly how does everyday life in these communities you work with stop women from achieving their potential what are these things they have to overcome. well our 1st and foremost i would say a piece of a god job is to go. out for. the. know to take the responsibility off finally and. you know saying

what i got out. skill that is to use to generate income that's being made. for each other and i think it's very before create seeing not only our problem is. we have to leave it there for now because he she and you're a director of women for women international thank you thank you very much and still on in palm and we turn now to a woman hoping to inspire the next generation vicki remo has used her platforms as a media intrapreneur an activist to raise awareness on challenges affecting women and girls and now she wants to go further with a new book series for children vicki room who is awaken on to come in story books

for children in serially on the upper part of a series that she hopes will hope children celebrity african culture. to reach these remote published defense in this series i got my life's a car out with these and last traditions she tells the story of a serial union father who teaches his daughter about 2 local games and food. this book is the 1st kind in the post-war serial yawn she wants kids like his son to relate to local characters in story books. so when i wrote the book i was thinking specifically about doing an early reader book i would teach you know a sounds a vowel sound to children like my son. and i thought yes i really want to center it

on a cereal union family on a cereal leonean girl that whether you're serving in child at home or in the diaspora when you pick this up the names of the characters you will see yourself in them. this local printing press has been busy producing more copies of the book due today huge demand among sierra leonean perience arts whom are brought remore has already sold frozen soft core pieces to half story books that african children to learn how to read but at the same time identify with african characters and illustrations excite some parents. someone who's been teaching her child how to read since a very young age this is perfect to add to the collection and i think it's also perfect for i would say the modern parents bringing up children. learn about their culture and that they're happy about their culture and that enthused about

their culture room or it's not all about story books she's also passionate about the world being countries go. serially only young girls today given the state of education given the state of health care given the lack of social protection with regard to gender based violence things like. female genital mutilation and child rape which is really. just scary we high in syria and given all these things i know that if they continue like this these girls will not be like me and i don't mean be like me as in like be like but have the same amount of opportunities so they can also believe that they can and they can dare to. see the government has declared reap in violence against girls and national emergency hoops her books can contribute to positive change in the country in the

long run she dreams of an even greater reach promoting values while teaching via world. that's at the now we leave you with the hash tag message to my sister campaign a project from women for women international inviting you to send a message of hope friendship and sisterhood to a woman survivor of war on this international women's day here's some of the receive you will see you next time i found out.

i'm scared that the you more. than in the end is a me your not a lot of the year anymore we will send you that. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers were lions and. what's your story. 'd on world numbers and women especially in victims of violence. take part and send us

your story train all with understand this new culture. you are not a visitor. you want to become. sitting. in for margaret's your client for the win for. welcome to our international women's day edition of arts and culture it's a march 8th and all over the world women have been taking to the streets in their thousands from southeast asia like here in manila in the philippines. and in bangkok in thailand. where a large area. has been to paris france. and the actual clear over to

a lot in america here at theater group in santiago. all of them are choosing to challenge rampant violence against women and an oppressive patriarchy and also right here in europe. polish artist and i can choose to use her voice her art and her creative energy to protest one of europe's most restrictive abortion. but 1st social media was literally a light on monday morning as europe woke up to the news of the revelations made by harry and meghan the duke and duchess of sussex in a landmark interview on c.b.s. with the legendary oprah winfrey well it was their 1st major interview since stepping back from the royal family a year ago and the allegations were explosive in those months when i was pregnant all around the same time so we have in tandem the conversation we won't be given security it's not going to be given

a title and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born what and. who who is having that conversation with you what. allegations of racist behavior there on the part of the royal family and joining me to talk about this is my colleague mike a cougar and mike obviously not much wonder the cybersphere is going crazy because this really is a bombshell it is absolutely and maybe the worst possible nightmare scenario for the royal family at buckingham palace and this came up just a day after the celebrations of the commonwealth's day the royal family showed themselves. right in the middle of the multicultural society celebrating diversity

of the commonwealth ironically but to be precise maggie was mainly talking about the firm and the institution and not really about family members precisely so we would see what else comes up to light after that that's right so now how have people in the u.k. actually reacted to this and well there were tons of a very emotional reactions of course it has shaken britain with shock and anger some were furious about that. talking about meghan and harry were trying to destroy the royal family former press secretary and denied that there is racism at the royal family at all so they simply don't believe her and on the other side there were many praising magen for her courage and so many discussions on social media certainly certainly very serious on the toll that this has taken on megan was very clear in the following statement let's have a look. like i was really ashamed to say it at the time and ashamed to

have to admit it to harry especially. because i know how much loss he suffered. but i knew that if i didn't say it that i would do it and i i just didn't. i just didn't want to be alive anymore. suicidal thoughts and self harm obviously there are very poignant echoes here of harry's mother princess diana apparently they didn't get any money for this interview so why do you think they chose to do this now. so if you really believe her and her would see what she's really saying you know she was forced to be silenced in her time in the palace but she was fighting on of a life full for women's rights women's rights and so maybe she feels like this is her duty now to came up with this and to speak it out and. speaking of princess diana this is maybe the reason why harry did this interview because she was always

afraid that history might repeat itself yes he did make that comment let's see what else he had to say we have another clip of the interview right here so when i asked the question why did you leave the simplest answer is lack of support i'm like obama stammered so i want clarity was the movie about getting away from the u.k. press because the press as you know is everywhere or was a move because you weren't getting enough support from the firm. both you know did you blindside the queen or were never born sort of my grandmother taught her spark for. so interesting that turn or obviously deeply deeply ingrained respect and it's seems so that there is a little door just still open for them that they want to draw a everything in their relationship to the royal family so maybe this is this is the

little hint you are really different on both sides of the ocean aren't there aren't they i mean the royal family has weathered so many storms before obviously mike i'm do you think we can expect a reaction from buckingham palace i mean just imagine that there is no statement no reaction at all of this you know usually they don't give the comments. this is what happened in the past but you know in this case when it comes to racism they have to give a statement and they will be something because if this would be a real official firm. there would be immediate investigations absolutely so we would see what else will happen there but the latest news we heard from the palace out of the palace was that the queen will not watch the interview maybe she has already changed her mind in the meantime maybe ship maybe she'd rather watch netflix. this is better than every netflix series and. it's almost better than

netflix will keep tabs on it thanks very much micah kruger and happy we've been. speaking of which leading up to march 8th we've featured female artists who championed women's rights through their work but inspiring as they all are the level of violence that so many women still face every day is truly sobering sometimes that violence is political and to wrap up our series i met with our kinds of polish artists here in berlin who fights tirelessly for women in her home country because after poland's recent near total ban on abortion she feels their voices need to be amplified abroad. oh i. polish women around the barricades. many feel their bodies have become a political battleground a global scream expresses their collective outrage it's an initiative of honor kinds a tireless leader in the fight for women's reproductive rights and the stakes just

got higher things have changed as well because it's war now since last year in poland it's a war of women against the government. last october poland's constitutional court voted to clamp down even further on one of europe's most restrictive abortion laws the ruling from to tens of thousands to take to the streets in protest here in the capital warsaw. in late january 2021 the ruling was abruptly published into law abortion is now illegal even in the case of severe fetal defects amounting to a de facto ban in the predominantly catholic country. yes done. in berlin and a krentz turned up the volume on behalf of her countrywomen how did yeah. it's just an imperative you have to do something you cannot really sit on your sofa but that's why that's why we stand on the streets we think it's important we want to

show their solidarity with polish women we are polish women as well and we are angry at the same besides what happens in poland it also it has. influence on sings in other countries. and i came to berlin in 2002 in 2016 growing outrage over the proposed abortion bill in poland prompted her to found. an inclusive feminist collective that also advocates for l.g.b. t.q. rights. with fellow member or belting she staking out a protest action for international women's day. symbols are a vital part of her work whether graphic or performance. lace in general is a very feminine material it's very it can cover but it can also reveal things and if you talk about abortion exactly abortion this bill or the regulation

of abortion is one of the very few maybe the only one which regulates your very private life your body deep in your body your heart soul whatever but it's very very private like the dress or with a curtain that covers you from the outside world but you can also look through it and you see the world differently. one of the. goals of our actions is that we can be the voice of polish women abroad. trance hails from poznan where she trained as an architect she later studied environmental design and now works mainly as a freelance graphic artist but currently activist causes are nearly all consuming. we cannot stop fighting we really have to keep fighting because it's not only about abortion. well this happening in poland it happens on many other levels abortion is

one of them and it's very serious but we cannot stop because every day we see something else is really falling apart i think this country disappeared so we really have to still stand on the streets and never give up never give up. drawing and the urge to comment on the world through art remain a constant need. both my parents were artists they are now gone but both of them they did art and art was always present in our house it was like the most important thing the reality and daily things are not important. for the time being her private art has had to take a back seat she's currently working on an activist diary a document the women of poland may 1 day look back on with gratitude.

but for now the battle continues. to stand together in this fight let's keep fighting perseverance stay strong stay safe. and gratitude our gratitude goes out to all the women who took part in this series with us for international women's day much more on our website and i will and now with a salute to ana and all her fellow activists who are raising their voices on this day for women as is the award winning london rapper c. kane in her choose to challenge call for gender equality for girls everywhere so we'll leave you with thoughts and all the best from berlin take care and stay safe . my own little teacher you tell you. the latest challenge. tell you.

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they are fleeing poverty only to end up in german brothel women from eastern europe forced into sexual slavery. for them. help is hard to come by but in the southern german city of mannheim there was thieving support from a committed women's rights activist exploiting the form closer. to spawn t.w. . shannon the 1st african woman to win the gluten that all wants to give people. i'm essentially trying for a pen and i'm very pro women maybe we need more voices that are more visible we're still growing. more freedom more some to tunisia and more rights movement. today on arts and culture on d w. the

world population is increasing the climate is changing it's getting warmer and there are going to be more and more places where you cannot grow traditional problems we have to fix it so the whites to do that is to use the modern genetic modification methods to make that across it is a lot safer than anything we've done by traditional genetic modification you take one to need to know exactly what it is you put it into another plant to come out exactly where it's gone i think we will be able to provide enough food for people by 2050 if we can make crops to who grow under 70 arid conditions this will achieve a much greater stability in the food supply that we have at the moment.

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the program the world is marking international women's day at a time when the pandemic is placing extra burdens on the ukrainian capital. shown here is one of the around the world. the united nations commission says the world wide health. housework. and caring. in domestic violence which again mainly affects women. well women generally do most of the caregiving in families looking after the young the old the sick in germany most. women and they often earn significantly less than men.

here in the hospital there is a strict protocol when it comes to putting on your protective clothing but it cuts been back a it has become a routine she is one of the many female nurses who have been pushing their limits day and night for year now taking care of corona fires patients. there's a secret knowledge about the physical strain is an enormous working in this kind of gear is exhausting but the psychological component plays a big role too we always have to take care of critically ill patients that's part of our job but now we have seriously ill patients can also endanger us and it's really stressful and. stressful is also how hammond would describe her last year she it works as a nurse in an old people's home in perth in a pandemic made her job even harder and again the burden of carrying for society's elderly was mainly on women. luckily men

i increasingly interested in being in my husband does also but otherwise it's mainly women probably because of the pay if it were a male domain then women would also a very different set of aries on guns and ask for. more than 90 percent of the people fighting the daily battles on the nursing front are women and they are up to 10 percent less than their male counterparts according to the chairman federation of trade unions the chances of promotion a slim and they often white nights hammon says she appreciated the gesture when people around germany stood at their windows at the beginning of the pandemic and applaud at the nation's nasa's and carers but it was no more than a gesture now she says women also need to play a role in changing how society treats them it would mean for the for. my wish for women in this profession is that they stop putting themselves down and that people

are aware of their contribution people need to understand that we're not just not as clean as the kitchen wife is that the world only goes around when we all work together as a team and for that one of us can't get by without the other doesn't i now for one and in an amish. bagga knows that too after work she likes to go for a walk in the woods to switch off the 2 that is important to support people who work in care for and i would. come on and on top of light as i am corona may be here to stay and we need to develop strategies we need enough staff enough equipment and whatever else it takes to help us do our jobs and. officers on us fields and wolf i told. both nurses i agreed these improvements have to come and they have to come soon. as un under-secretary general i think zach is director of un women she joins us from

new york welcome to d.w. the u.n. says the pandemic is a race decades of progress towards gender equality so how do we build back better as we emerge from this mess. thank you so much for having me let me just 1st state that this is the most discriminating pandemic in crisis indeed it disproportionately affects women who are people people of color. in job losses for instance booth so if the jobs have been lost a woman. if a letter gives a ring is you have just said 6 women gayle's children who have not gone back to school the majority of them i guess. this is because there has always been these underlying problems so building back better is building there but is building big

also gender responsive but addressing these underlying. area if i'm home and for example women here lost so many jobs because they tend to be tops that have unprotected they cannot enforce contracts do not have savings to look to look if put them. into context then how do you know when we have interventions like this current stimulus they're not take it it's enough to them so we have to give we men decent jobs we cannot expect we mean when we measure all jobs in. all be able to go to go back to coop and they meet economic student right. if they prove us the test court is not good enough so who needs to do what but in fact before you are you've you've outlined a few of those do you see anywhere around the world where where we're going to have

less badly in this pandemic. basically what we see is that the pattern. in all countries is obviously sometimes. worse off but we we're not seeing countries that have done better. but let me just say we can choose this have court underlying strong systems and post the usual suspect they're not dicks. the social systems are much stronger. the sharing of. paid care work. the difference between men and women is not as. we look at the next generation of women if you like and what sort of lasting effects is this pandemic likely to have on the lives and prospects of young

women unless your points are addressed. certainly education is in trouble is you know in developing countries one of the areas of progress in the last 2 decades especially has been gayle's education and really to be devastating for us to lose all those years because they're very hard. enough of course women outside the labor markets in the era with even their lives health jobs changing in the new skills that have acquired for the for the economies of the future and the jobs of the future this skills that women do not get it means that we are getting into that. woman's place was at home something that we need to say out there all policy intentions the training of men and the patterns of hiring of women right now thank you for joining us

undersecretary undersecretary general. for you and women. thank you. i will take a look at some other stories making news around the world now the trial of former u.s. police officer derek chauvin of the killing of george floyd has been delayed until tuesday but hundreds of protesters government outside the courthouse the judge received a last minute order to consider adding a an additional murder charge last may the former police officer knelt on mr floyd's neck as he pleaded that he could be free. syrian president bashar al assad and his wife asma have tested positive for cope with 19 experiencing mild symptoms and will continue their work from home syria has officially courted over 16000 coronavirus cases in just over a 1000 deaths but the actual number is estimated to be much higher. the death toll after a series of powerful explosions in equitorial guinea has risen to $31.00 hundreds

more were injured the blast flattened a military camp and nearby neighborhoods in the largest city battle the president has blamed negligence by soldiers responsible for storing explosives that's. britain's prince harry and his wife have spoken on t.v. about their exit from royal life speaking with oprah winfrey maggot who has a white father and mother privilege while she was pregnant a member of the royal family voiced concerns over their son skin color and that the intense pressure of life as a royal drove her to suicidal thoughts prince harry said the royal family has cut them off financially and that he feels let down by his father prince charles straight to london then we joined the w correspondent shallots chelsea to welcome charlotte so i'm guessing the reaction there has been significant let's put it that way. so yes every you can pick any cliche out of a hand to describe this interview

a bomb show explosive people hey shell shocked by some of those revelations i mean just to give you a sense just the fact that they disclosed the gender that child the fact go the fact that they said that they actually married 3 days ahead of the wedding that we all saw on television studies revelations alone and would have got a huge amount of attention here in the you can around the world but no instead we just had revelation after revelation that to our what in debt no holds barred interview and it's just so different to what we're used to hearing from the royal family then mantra so don't have been complaining don't don't explain well the suffixes harriet meghan did post there and of course as you might expect it's gripped people were gone this is whether or not that for or against the the institution of the monarchy now that detractors have been out in force they say that this interview the timing was very insensitive given harry's grandfather prince that is in hospital at the moment they will say of the queues for

a long time carrying negative essentially trading on their oil names and saying that they want to step back to avoid publicity but here they are in one of the most publicized interviews in decades that the poll says and we've seen a lot of that to see coming out of the united states where this interview's been ed there's been a lot of sympathy for the couple and make an impact take you special the revelations about her mental health and sees that history could be repeating itself we all remember what happened with with how we saw the princess mother of the princess diana. huge reaction here in the u.k. all right so you mentioned a mental health comment that let's start with that what did she say about the state of a mental health. yes she felt that at times she wasn't getting any support she said she felt very lonely she described being extremely isolated and she said at times

that she did consider taking her own life now of course that is extremely upsetting for meghan herself but it really does paint a picture of the pants and now coming from the royal family in the way that women who marry into the royal family are treated and of course they're very damaging allegations for. the royal family given that harry when he was active as part of the world family and will they felt their brand on tackling mental health issues this now is essentially said even the world family the world household has not is not able to support one of its own even when she clearly as she says was suffering and the allegation of racist behavior directed doesn't named member of the royal family. correct so neither harry or meghan disclosed who they were talking about but in the interview meghan said that concerns were raised conversations one had about how dark the color of her unborn child archie's skin would be clearly

extremely damning revelations for the world family oprah winfrey who conducted the interview since said that that's the person in question was neither the queen nor her husband prince philip but now as the remainder of the world households will be tarnished by this allegation no one knows a lot of speculation as to who this comment in particular was referring to. and what is buckingham palace saying. well it was expected that this interview would be explosive few people expected it to be quite this explosive ahead of the interview the world family had suggested in newspaper articles that they one going to get drawn into making any comments we think these allegations now that have emerged it does appear that they are likely to have to have to say something whether or not telling gage in a in a real. they're now in the public sphere remains unclear

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information on the coronavirus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast if you get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at w dot com slash science. choose to challenge that's the theme of this year's international women's day today we're looking at women challenging the status quo and accelerating the march 20th quality especially in leadership. only one in 3 businesses in sub-saharan africa is owned by a woman we met one trailblazer in cameroon. this is the w. business i'm joined now the law and so glad you can join us. it's international

women's day so here's a related fact teams of diverse genders are generally more successful they also innovate more but that's failed to register and many boardrooms around the world especially in germany the boardrooms of germany's listed companies are overwhelmingly male men hold $614.00 seats while women just have $86.00 compare that to the u.s. where women occupy almost a 3rd of the boardroom seat of the largest corporations in the u.k. they hold almost a quarter of seats germany lives are way behind with only 16 percent of boardroom seats held by women. so it's clearly not the same for women everywhere but it's safe to assume there's work to be done in most places joining me now is lucy quist she's a managing director at morgan stanley also the 1st gun and woman to be c.e.o. of a multinational telecoms company welcome lucy do we have you yes i'm right thank

you for having me. i can hear you but i cannot see you but i am told you are there so you've held leadership positions around the world see the challenge of gender diversity from many perspectives why aren't we as a society doing better on this. why aren't we doing better good question i think fundamentally we have made certain assumptions that we need to challenge also us and gnomes that we've assumed to be the case that we need to challenge and that's why they see us the intense national women's day is so appropriate because it's not just about thinking about change but i believe that used to challenges about acting on change we've assumed that positions of power positions of strength on the forteo of men and you need gender them is that strength and power belongs to 2 men and so what's happened is that over time over many years we've assumed that these positions of leadership should go to men and now we're trying to level the playing

field and be more equitable and inclusive but we have that fundamental mindset that we need to address to make to accelerate our progress to make more progress and it's the gendering of rules that hold women back more than anything else. now taking it to today the pandemic has also damaged the professional prospects of especially women what do you think it will take to get women back on track. it's going to take a lot i think it's unfortunate ringback that we have lost a lot of ground in the last year our losses that lisa pointed to the fact that women are increasingly choosing to rethink their curious some have dropped onto the work place altogether so much choosing to work fewer hours and that's mainly because. in my experience and also you know mobility in terms of all the literature women have borne a lot of the emotional and physical responsibility for the church and for the pandemic especially at the community and family levels right so anything anytime

there's a physical and emotional challenge that we talk about women having to give more care whether it's the older people or to children but i think more broadly when you think about the emotional trauma of of the pandemic women have borne a lot of that and that his cause then to have to rethink their priorities i think balance in trying to ensure that they can stay afloat not taking it to you what's been your biggest personal challenge in building your career well. i guess. maturing to the point where i understand that how people engage me isn't always entirely about me it's about this and she lies ation in their actions and in the challenge around us is especially when i was much younger . i kind of passed the lies and intel allies as reaction or an engagement that wasn't what i wanted and as you get older you realize that the some of those things

are really not about you they're more about social constructs so how am i going to be part of the solution rather than taking you may take it personally so i think it's important that it is right myself to increasingly not is move the conversation and not identify gaps in the we operate in how we do things to ensure that we create more space for women in the workplace and that they don't have to ask themselves some of the questions i ask myself is it just me is it something i said is it something i did and she knows more than me and or need to level that playing field for women especially women coming up in their careers thank you very much lucy quest there forrest managing director at morgan stanley speaking to us on international women's day and staying with our theme of women in leadership this next story takes us to cameroon where feel women own major businesses but that hasn't stopped one woman from building up a company in

a male dominated industry the w.'s blasé all report from the port city of the walla audrey saeco is doing her daily inspection at her company in douala the cameroonian entrepreneurs set up this factory which fabricates industrial metal pots. she's the only woman in such a role in this sector in the country and unpleasant experience at an engineering firm in cameron led her to start up her own company. you know what if i asked why there were no women there and i was told that women had no place in the company i insisted but they said it wasn't suitable for women i said in that case i'll prove that a woman's able to do the work because i don't see why women shouldn't be there that was my motivation only one in 3 businesses in sub-saharan africa is owned by a woman in cameroon there are around 200000 businesses and women head up fewer than

5000 of them audrey is central to planning and executing tasks in her factory she 1st had the idea of starting a company and contributing to society when she finished her studies in france too long i came back to africa because i realized that industrialization is key to making us truly independent independence is not political it's industrial and economical you can gain political independence as we've had for many years and still have nothing concrete to show for it. adri founded her company in 2000 since then it serves some of cameron's biggest firms and brings in around $1000000.00 euros a year their clients range from oil companies to shipping lines and local manufacturing companies. sherrilyn who are also works here she studied petroleum engineering but couldn't get a job after graduating audrey offered her an internship. that thought.

that the way he does that there were enough to make him in finance make that move. to the place to focus and give them a mission women in cameroon still face huge challenges in setting up businesses but a few of them like audrey are breaking the barriers and helping others. now to some of the other global business stories making news. this has launched cleanup operations after a chinese trawler ran aground off the coast of the island on sunday the trawler was carrying around $130.00 tons of oil at the time of the accident and it's now currently leaking south africa's high court has ordered the country's telecoms regulator to temporarily stop auctioning off a radio frequencies used by cell phone providers the ruling is a setback for top mobile operators which want to expand their 4 g.

capacity and launch their 5 g. networks to china now where exports all record growth in january and february they were up 60 percent over last year when the world's 2nd largest economy was battered by the pandemic but now it's reaping the benefits of its quick recovery from the crisis. what's the difference a year makes 12 months after shattering its iron factories china's plants and now supplying a well beyond its borders but still struggling to break free of the corona virus pandemic. cheap chinese made masks are flooding into europe and north america where they're still very much needed and housebound westerners are buying in chinese electronics like never before. china's ruling communist party is expecting the economy to keep moving forward during 2021 the 1st year of its latest

5 year economic plan but it's broken with tradition by not setting a specific target for the expects between now and 2025000. given that there will still be great uncertainties her internal and external environments in the 5 years which will not setting a specific quantified growth rate goal will help us deal with various kinds of risks and challenges and improve the flexibility of development in a more positive proactive and calm way so that you not so easily put to the sheet again. beijing clearly sees tough challenges not far down the road but china's swift recovery from the latest one has without doubt given it the upper hand on its global competitors and the recovery of manufacturing worldwide which increasingly relies on chinese products will only increase china's strength.

let's take a look at cannot of these markets now and crude prices have jumped during monday trading following a missile and drone attack on saudi arabia's oil industry to grabble say they carried out the assault it came after saudi led forces bombed the yemeni capital of sana'a the rango facilities targeted in ruston europe include one of the world's biggest oil ports so far there have been no reports of injuries or disruption to supplies. our financial correspondent chelsea delaney is following the story for us from frankfurt she sent us this assessment the initial spike in oil prices did moderate during monday's trading session in part because saudi arabia said no production was impacted but this does add a geo political element to this market that's already under strain this year we've seen oil prices surge more than 30 percent and that's as economies around the world are starting to reopen and this requires we'll so demand is recovering but oil

suppliers are continuing to keep production at a lower level so that's really the primary driver of the oil price right now this will be a big concern for economies around the world that we already have many developed countries very concerned about rising prices about rising inflation higher oil prices will only fuel to that fire. chelsea delaney there the german democratic republic hasn't been around for a while but new registration figures show that the iconic g.d. archibong cars are still going strong in germany tried these have become a cult favorite in recent years even though the manufacturer zax and bring has not produced them in decades today 38000 of the 2 strokes are still on german wrote compare that to 34000 tonnes slots in the g.d.r. people could wait 2 years to get a truck after german reunification the travie was sidelined until it was

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