you. know what secrets lie behind. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites to e.w. world heritage $360.00 getting out now. this is v.w. news 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. system they killed my father they killed everyone in their family that's the only reason i became a fighter and we meet all for trying to get syria near me and 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 not the government and also no specific rebel group controls this area that makes it also quite dangerous the red i mean this is no man's land begins and this is well also how financing happens on a regular basis. we're on foot the beauty of the landscape cannot distract. the constant fear of kidnap of 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 that killed her husband. 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. 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. for terry venge and survival they control around 20 villages in the area security for food in a deal they say is consensual but we saw our local people running in fear from them the idea of consent is complicated for everyone. it's only when we are alone that number 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. the myself i would have had

a good life with my husband one like other people have that dad 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 of women for women international law she joins us now from the city of justice in my jury it's good to have you on the program you're going to zation 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 examples give me examples of women that go to bed in the night and then we go out we. junkies on their control over nice things to say everything and when i say have a thing to say at home to lose loved ones they lose children in some cases the i am shot that. i have been examples of we made the path of running away from the our regional homes and become displaced women in other places though in other towns so that they can so i find to be a family go way way less out of a family but. and then they are met with trauma oh such experiences so we have a lot of we manage our situation and that's concrete and fortunately i think that not enough is being done that for women is a national quit coming to the feet of the so called. beauty i like. 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 conflict and in those cases how can women be the leaders in the conflict resolution . well in particular going to where we walked. 12 months who are stronger and stronger we're stronger nation we had we made it work there it's over become changed and treating. those and helps. me to actually be our program piece they're a long green game to get those under funded in their book and fussin they're all compared and so how that this process on yonks the founders and their desire to kind of all community as

a whole and see how and why it's important to ensure peace in their community a game because in some cases some of us. are mean it is for well over 5 decades in some cases. this particular community will say that it's. also asking for the weekend because the conversation is going on and they had and enjoyed it very serious and so. so years ago 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 occasional girl child is to go. out for. the. no to the responsibility of family and. in the same.

income activity or skill that she is able to use to learn to read as being made. for girl child and i think it's very hard before. seeing not only our problem is. to think all right 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 syria leone's next generation vicki remote has used her platforms as a media intrapreneur an activist to raise awareness on the challenges affecting women and girls and now she wants to go further with a new book series for children vicki removal is awaken on to come in story books

for children in serially on the part of a series that she hopes will help children celebrity african culture. to reach these remote published a face 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 the local games and food. this book is the 1st officer trained in the post-war serial yawn she wants kids like his son to relate to local characters in story books. 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 stealing and child at home or in the diaspora when you pick this up the names of the characters he will see yourself in them. this local printing press has been busy producing more core piece of the book due today huge demand among parents whom are brought. has already sort of core pieces 2 half story books that african children to learn how to read but at the same time identify with african characters and illustrations excites 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. it's not all about story books she's also passionate about the world being countries go. serially on 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 and we high in serially 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 like be like vicky but have the same amount of opportunities so they can also believe that they can and they can bear to. see the government has declared reap in violence against girls in 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 it for 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 survival of war on this international women's day here's some of the received we'll see you next time i find out. the full.

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journey back into the history of slavery. i think you will truly be making progress when we all accept the history of slavery as all of our history. our documentary series slavery route starts march 10th on d w. hello and a very warm welcome to the special edition of arts and culture special because we are concentrating on one subject indeed one man none other than leonardo da vinci who painted the most famous picture in the world the mona lisa this year is the 500th anniversary of his death he's still considered the greatest painter of all time and yet perhaps only around 15 or so paintings of his have survived to this

day this is extraordinary when you think of the influence he has had on the artistic world since that this important anniversary is being marked in many different ways throughout the world. leonardo di said pietro da vinci borne an illegitimate child on april 15th 1452 in italy the tuscan polymath was a man ahead of his time and his discoveries in art and science changed the course of history and 500 years on the world is celebrating. digital onto a with the giants of the renaissance. was always a vision. he and dissipated things that were only invented years after his death. i believe that if you were alive today he would have developed many of his

inventions using digital techniques. and maybe he would have projected a new holographic flying machine into this space but there are more said about it like here at the fabric of dover poor a museum in milan leonardo da vinci 3 d. even let's visit his meet the man himself the immersive exhibit links the past with the present and gives views the opportunity to experience many of da vinci's creations all under one roof. the exhibition at the queen's gallery in london draws together the threads of the renascence man's feverish curiosity these drawings gave davinci room to explore the universal laws he believed underpinned all of creation. the drawings show that leonardo was a serious practitioner of sculpture architecture engineering scientist of many different feels he saw himself as a fully rounded figure drawing is the activity that pulls it all together. the

collection has been together since the artist's death and provides an insight into the masters in workings. weaving davinci this tapestry woven purely of silk with gold and silver thread is inspired by davinci is the last supper to mark the anniversary the vatican museum hosted a study day to coincide with the conclusion of a year and a half of restoration work on the 500 year old cloth between there were it's probably one of the earliest interpretations of the great last supper of leonardo in milan time and it up to me. one of the earliest but it certainly wasn't the last the last supper is the most reproduced painting of all time. clowery intervention italian artist daddy organ bought and took 8 hours ploughing lines and curves to complete the portrait the work measured 27 square kilometers but it

didn't last long it was dug under a few days later. and are joined by the author of that report melissa holroyd 500 years after 500 years waters davinci most remember. his most remembered as an artist and also as an inventor as a scientist his work in anatomy was hundreds of years ahead of its time also what he has told us in terms of flights yeah that was only really explored at the start of the last century he also asked very very important questions he asked why is the sky blue how does the hot work how does the valves in the heart work what is a sneeze what is in your own why do we shiver when we're cold there seem to be no stopping them i'm ready also because he was such an insatiable polymath he also

told us a lot about the integration of these different disciplines and to think that this was all 500 years ago yeah ok but here we are 500 years ahead and there has been. discussion that he was such a genius that he maybe had a t.h.d. this attention deficit hyperactivity disorder what you think. i think he's the sure he frustrated a lot of people who commissioned him to do work he sometimes he took years to finish things sometimes he never finished things he even got you know got slack from the pope the pope got on his case he was employed for 3 years by the vatican and then after 3 years they said that's enough and the pope said of him alas this man will never do and never do anything for he begins by thinking of the end of the work before the beginning so he was in that he was in the torrijos extensive plan a starting and not finishing he was also left handed and there's also evidence to

suggest that he was dyslexic and both of these things are associated with 80 h.d. ok but despite all his frustration from people things don't get finished he did get loads of commissions though didn't he because he was so good when he wasn't a rich man but he was constantly working and he was working on a huge of a ray of things from designing pageants to designing people's bathrooms as far as his inventions go some of that is disputed a fair amount of that is still disputed while his artistic work is well documented his some of his scientific stuff is not so well documented a german author mathias called he doubts whether he was responsible for all the inventions that are tributed to him and he also says that they didn't all work there is a tank for example which functions by a crank and and echo says that the crank actually means that the wheels turn in the

wrong direction ok so let's find out about this side more about this side of leonardo. as something that was thought to our tension in the 1920s i am rather infamous. it was in the early 20th century that the image of later nardo as inventor which he himself never claimed to be 1st emerged driven by benito mussolini to support his fascist ideology the dictator recast davinci as a universal genius and a leading figure of a talian creative strength was done and was initiated an exhibition not just initiated he ordered it to be and it was done and for that exhibition models were created from the vinci sketches for the 1st time. models that simply ignored the errors in the original sketches the exhibition travelled from milan to the us and then to japan where it was destroyed in an air raid. amazingly the exhibition is

gone you need is gone fascism is gone leonardo coach the coach of leonardo the inventor has remained would this if in nothing nada. and that mythology continues to this day ringback. now melissa we don't know how many paintings is as i said 15 or so you think it could be 20 there's lots of discussion about that but he did have these books notebooks 7000 pages of drawings and inventions and all that stuff in his novels but really still loved as a painter yeah and still there is some doubt about some of those his famous paintings so bottle monday has had a long history and for a long time it was lost and then it was found again and some experts doubt whether it's a real division they sought the position of the of the city and they also saw the lack of landscape in the background some say it's probably from the division she

workshop and the davinci might have had his hand in that he might have said he might have painted the herald something but a real davinci no it's still sold at a whopping. $450000000.00 at auction made in the i mean yet the name davinci just adds no stood so the price of anything doesn't yeah it sure doesn't some expert said that that is partly because of the timing with davinci and things being able to be copied at the time that sort of has also contributed to how well we know him and his fame ok now let's have a look then at his most famous work of course we're talking about the priceless wrong the mona lisa. léonard 0 davinci spent more than 3 years painting portraits of the young woman art historians still don't know exactly who she wants. her contours are soft and

undefined eventually called this technique. which means in the manner of smoke. her eyes seem to fall of the viewer her smile is but the slightest suggestion. her hands rest patiently one on top of the other they're not taking the. division she's brilliant technique and his ability to contrast light and dark when the piece of life you mona lisa sits upright. you get the sense she is about to smile. or the opposite that she's closing her mouth we don't know her but one senses that she might want to say something again communicates. the original is on show in paris france it's been on permanent display at the luther museum for more than 200 years. and she's housed on the 1st floor in room 6 of the dead protected by pink pane of bulletproof glass. i don't know who i also have not the mona lisa as the

one painting in the louvre that everyone wants to see. every day between 203-0000 sometimes 50000 people would come to see her or at least try to see her. with 50000 visitors you have to be pretty patients try and get a close look up or ship to ship. her secrets smile is timeless and mona lisa has become a modern icon of western art her face never goes out of style. and she's got to be the most famous woman in the world have yet and people still don't know who she is exactly and why she was painted she has this mystical. secret aura and i think that's part of the reason why she's so compelling the people who use her images image advertisers and what have you i think they don't want us to find

out the secret behind the mona lisa it's also a great image because there's an element of promise there it's like she's coming for she's not sort of coming forward and she's not really going back there is something in between that we're looking at the great to. be environmentalist who she is as mona lisa. i think they chose her because they probably think that his slot is a little bit like mine. but i think grace is flawless much sweeter than. ok melissa holroyd has been very interesting thank you very much for joining us and thank you for charity and precious edition of arts and culture on a man who despite all the mess and questions about him is undoubtedly one of the greatest minds who ever grace is and i hope you'll be able to see an event or exhibition about him big or small wherever you are in this special anniversary yeah we leave you with mona lisa once again but with twists to the original.

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