and send us your story you are trying in all ways to understand this new culture. you are not a visitor or not and yet you want to become a citizen. in 4 migrants your platform for reliable information. this is the doubly news africa coming up on the program of brutal weapon of war rape survivors and if you know peers conflict region seek help after the ordeals. i was inside in my home when they were people. out of 3 soldiers raped me. i'm told me a lot of both thank you for joining us it's been just over 4 months since the

conflict in ethiopia's teague rye region began yet details of events on the ground have been limited that's because the government restricted access to the area for humanitarian workers and the media still there have been reports of abuses by government backed forces against civilians among these are accounts of rape involving soldiers causing great physical and mental damage to their victims. she's just 20 years old and she's a rape survivor now she's found refuge in the safe house integrates capital mccully here more than 20 women are trying to deal with their trauma they were raped by soldiers so was she assaulted in her home village before she fled 9 algorithm at some odd that night came to every house and forced out the men to leave i was left inside in my home then they were. you know mother teresa walters raped me.

after they left me i think did i do because i was bleeding so much because their money to them was it's not enough for some. women come here from the cities referral hospital most of them are suffering severely from the violence that are women part of regular prolapse. women who have bleeding when have been they're still mark. who are not stable psychologically the psychological trauma doesn't actually. only happen on the victim it happens to you as well when you hear their stories. the conflict integrity began early november the 2 great people's liberation front is battling the national army and every trend forces also believed to be involved fighting alongside the government troops and the killer survivors accuse both

ethiopian and every trained soldiers of raping them in a single month the city's referral hospital has received more than $150.00 rape cases several women have come to get an abortion this woman is over 3 months pregnant she was raped while trying to walk to her family home outside of the killer when the fighting started. recently try to scare me we don't care about you know we only listen to our urges i didn't say anything after that done what they wanted they left i put my clothes back on and took all my bags and went to the hospital struggling to cope doctors have been pressured not to make the cases public but one gynecologist did speak out. it was very it is very really devastating many. getting pregnant as president that i was meant to do we supposed dramatics that i said this.

to gray's interim government has promised to investigate the cases it says is boosting the regional police force to try to bring the perpetrators to justice but many women are still trapped in their villages so there's great concern that the majority of loop remain unreported and that alone with no trama. correspondent maria get. reports from mecca and she joins me now from. maria powerful painful testimony from the survivor you met how much help is there for the women who have been subjected to 1st horrific sexual abuse you know all throughout the region to help very limited but in the hospital that i visited and i make a list so that's a referral hospital there is a small center called one stop center where women can go and make it their position and receive some medical treatment that they need but the main problem is that

there's a massive shortage of medical equipment and medicine so it's very difficult for the nurses working there to actually provide the needed help to these women and the men within the hospital women who've been raped and got pregnant able to get an abortion and receive some type of limited psychological support and the hospital also refers some of the women to that. show at the beginning of the report where they receive additional psychological support but all in all hope is very limited especially in rural areas with many health centers that are not operating and have been looted and very. serious. aspect of the final point you made in the report did you get the sense that these rape incidents were far more numerous than what you saw and do you know how many women have actually suffered this abuse. well we don't have the total number of women who have

been raped and the main reason for that is it's believed that the majority of them are still trapped in their towns or villages that's because of lack of transportation because of the insecurity and also simply because of lack of money and a few numbers that i have been able to gather so that's 150 women in the referral hospital in micheli 174 women in the hospital and the grant that's about 3 hours north of me give an indication and give an indication also of the violence of these rapes but it's widely believed that many many more women are trapped in the rural areas and many of these women reporting the rape are accusing soldiers if you'll be an soldiers as well as eritrean soldiers of rape is being used as a weapon of war is anyone investigating this. so international organizations such as the united nations have repeatedly called for an independent investigation teams to be allowed into the take very region but so far no access has been granted as

far as i know i met with the interim president. name is more than a guy who was appointed by the ahmed and he promised that his and his administration is going to investigate the rapes and he said that the rapes are not perpetrated by only one group of people but he also stressed that the security of parents in that region has been significantly weakened and he's there for trying to kind of strengthen the local police force but as far as independent investigation goes there's been no progress so far and i guess one of the issues that the investigation would probably be looking at is when these incidents happened we have an idea of was it early on in the conflict always there's something that's still going on. well i only talked to individual witnesses so it's very difficult to pin kind of a global picture but from what i've seen women have been raped as early as november

that's when the conflict started to break and i also met a woman who'd been raped at the end of february and with that continuing a fighting in many areas of degree there is still much that we don't know and so the problem is far from over. and just a quick one regarding your visit this was a rare visit to graze the region now more accessible to the media. well allowing journalists in the region was definitely a big step forward but 1st of all it was only a limited list of journalists who were allowed into the region and there was no restriction per se no one was telling me you're allowed to go there or there while i was working but the problem that we faced is that several translators local translators who were working with international journalists were arrested and intimidated and so that kind of sent a message to other people they were working with journalists and to journalists as a whole so this was the main problem that we faced and that you know people that

were working with us faced while we were and to gray. correspondent nicholas school it had disappeared but thank you for bringing us up to speed. thank you let's take a look at some other stories making news across the continent now. the government of gagne has declared 3 days of mourning for the victims of sunday's military camp blasts it also declared the coastal city of data a disaster area and is appealing for international aid to help those affected the explosions killed at least 105 people and injured more than 600 others. sudan has started rolling out vaccinations against covert 19 health staff in the capital khartoum received the 1st shots last week sudan was the 1st country in north africa and middle east region to receive a batch of the astra zeneca jab through the world health organizations vaccine

sharing program kovacs. wealth already in trying to prevent yet another ecological disaster on sunday chinese flagged trawler run aground leaking some of the $130.00 tons of oil and bored is the 2nd ship wreck in less than a year of the indian ocean occupied ago in july a tanker struck a reef and lost 1000 tons of fuel. now to uganda and a boy there who's reaching for the stars 70 year old graham shama has become a sensation for his wealth of aircraft knowledge he's even flown 3 times as a copilot but as you'll find out not even the sky is his limit. call him captain. the 7 year old boy whose love of flying has captured uganda's imagination graham is learning his way around the flight deck. this is

you. can't yet see over the cockpit controls he's already got his eyes on outer space. and to me. and nash. was interested in last summer because i. was. at home graham's mother has tried to nurture her son's obsession with technological turn of terms to the real thing his precautious curiosity for flying all jack's began when a helicopter tore the roof of his grandmother's house. he spotted everything what paint so be it my friend but much interested in. the story of the little boy with the big green to sparked national interest with v.i.p.'s keen to meet him but graham is holding out for

a phone call from iran mosque i like it. because. we've. to learn ways. to lower. down shook them to that this may have just been a lesson but it doesn't seem like it will be long until captain she is flying for real. hope the young man can achieve his dreams that's it for now but check out other stories on. africa also on facebook and twitter and we leave you with these pictures of senegalese jockeys like followed young. one of his country's most promising talents but plenty of newcomers want to knock him off the top spot see you next time by phone now.

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bring you i'm going to mount royal and you never have a surprise himself with what is supposed to is magical really what moves and want. to talk to people. on the way maurice and critics alike join us from apple's last stop. a new craze is sweeping the art world highly encrypted digital works being sold for millions of euros why are collectors racing to buy art they can't even hang on a wall that's coming up on arts and culture and. hoping for democracy in sudan film director had huge kuka talks about his country's struggle for peace. but 1st a decade after the earthquake and tsunami that caused nuclear meltdowns of japan's

fukushima power plant artists in the country are still coming to grips with the catastrophe a new exhibition in the city of mito in the prefecture next difficult is giving artists space to reflect on the nation's trauma and on how to explain what happens to the next generation. where. this is the fukushima exclusion zone a japanese artists collective has used this no man's land for an art project exploring the restricted area around the ruined nuclear plant and placing artworks the public will only be able to access them once the restrictions have been lifted until then the website for the project remains a blank page that's displayed as part of an art exhibition in me to a city about 150 kilometers from the exclusion zone. the contemporary art center and me tell is now featuring these and other artworks

exploring artists' reflections on the triple disaster 10 years on. the art center was damaged by the 2011 earthquake but it wasn't affected by the nuclear accident that allowed curator utaka he said to address the catastrophe early on by documenting artists activities. like this recording made in the aftermath of the disaster. really going to the. affected area and then they started to do some volunteer work but afterwards they actually used the. techniques to sort of. unease and heal. inside the people. he karo fuji was one of them immediately after march 11th he went to forests with extremely high levels of radiation and film there he felt

driven to create a memory of that time. that it's very difficult to create a work of art when such a catastrophe has occurred to me as a question but when i started shooting with my camera it wasn't with the intention of creating art but rather to record. it. my comment. has been most. 10 years later he addresses the issue of discrimination against the people of fukushima who are regarded as being contaminated traumatizing them yet again in his documentary a teacher conducts an exercise with her students labeling them as inferior or superior depending on where they live so they can experience the strawman and reflect on that. family that go on less than we. saw in life but that's not the maggio he karo fuji's goal is to pass on the memory of the catastrophe almost no traces of the destruction remain visible in mito today

people seem to have moved on. but the artists in this exhibition don't want to forget especially in a country where natural disasters are a constant reality. only here it. comes and i think it is a reality that there will be a catastrophe at some point in the future in japan or elsewhere in the world as it is preparing for it is a very important issue. that's why we worked with the children of those topics and says a question asked. in the last remove the exhibition there are no artworks just a space for visitors to reflect and express their feelings it's an attempt to make art a platform for building a collective memory in order to move forward. people have their on memory too that is if you have experienced it but we just didn't have on our dating

life that talk about talking about it something different so organising an exhibit will sort of a given opportunity for people to. have to the disaster and also to talk about it. more art news now for the 1st time ever christie's auction house is selling off a work of purely digital art the collage by artist b. people does not exist anywhere as a physical artwork only as highly encrypted data here are just a few of the thousands of images contained in it christie's on why an auction ends thursday morning in new york time and potential buyers are already bidding millions to try to get it. this is the latest in a movement called crypto art and stake in the art world by storm 2 w. reporter michael kruger is following this trend micro 1st of all who is this people

guy and why do people want to spend millions of dollars on his artwork be people is mike winkle man and he's a graphic designer from the united states and he's one of the most prolific artists of all time maybe. for more than 12 years he produced every single day an artwork which he puts together in the end and the whole picture this is what we just saw and of of course he was also busy with other stuff and he's not only very productive some say he's really it genius when it comes to this graphic artist here we see him he's just maybe a new type of a not just looks like a typical nerd for me since by the game community and developed together with so many other artists maybe now even a new drama ok so very soon somewhere someone will own this piece of work that took years to make but what does that even mean to own

a piece of crypto art how does that work it's all about and t. this is the basis of everything which makes everything possible and f. and f. t. that means fungible token and that means that it guarantees you ownership so. so it can be copied it's no it's not possible to copy it's written in the doc a base that this is the reach in all its venue much of maybe the mona lisa in the louvre. he is able to make pictures of the mona lisa but she stays in the louvre hopefully has a rich you know and with and of t. and cook to artists it's just the same nearly but they only exist in the ditches to full term krypto are this is the whole explosion around it. i don't think many of us had heard of crypto art not long ago and now it is the big thing in the world what's going on when it's new it's fresh it's was and because of these auction at

christie's it's now a topic not only for this fringe group of digital ochsner. now it's available for us for everybody. musician growing but here is a few 1000000 absolutely and a lot of people are trying to experiment now with n f t sambal. she created the series with new bone flying fighters and sold this odd collection for $6000000.00 maybe you'll remember also this iconic cat's an internet name from 11 the artist behind 10 it was just creating and if t. out of her and sold this as well full 1000000 so you can create nearly everything which is digital as an f t as an original a very exciting project was another one a very exciting into the it's a group of fans. bought this print from bang c.

and burned it in a live stream so that the physical out of work now is destroyed but this still the digital ones and whoever owns it maybe will project that on a wall or maybe it's just going to be in a computer somewhere my could just wait to the bed you 2 guys absolutely think so but. at the berlin international film festival talented young filmmakers from around the world come together each year at bally not a talents or program where they can network and exchange ideas who over the years we've met quite a few talents including director cook up from sudan we checked in with them again to see how he's doing since his country's transition to democracy. wants to make films for his people we caught up with the filmmaker in berlin where he was taking a break from his troubled home country of sudan a land long beset by conflict of mismanagement the conversation about filmmaking

soon shifted in august of last year together with 10 other artists kuko was arrested on what he says were trumped up charges as a long time supporter of peaceful change in sudan. on the steps of getting into peace but we're struggling with new things new things we're struggling with a technocrat government that can't really deal with running the government alongside this military and national security and the remainder of the old regime with the old mentality with the old mind shift so now we're we're set we're like we could do it it's this is the time in history where we could do it if we fail it's us failing but it still needs a lot of energy to go forward with we 1st met back in 2016 he was living in the nuba mountains at the time the middle of a war zone he took part in the belly knowledge talents program after making the

award winning documentary beats of the antenna. and it's a film about music identity and it warns you about the war using music so within that i concentrate on music and daily life and concentrate on people who. moved from new york to the nuba mountains to support his people in 2012 the film shows how locals cope with the civil war that surrounds them. you scared like you naturally scared everybody around you scared everybody's running into foxholes there's a moment when you come out that you. you want to make sure everybody's ok there's that moment of fear but as soon as you know is everybody ok then there's that moment of extreme happiness. bits of the antonov one the best documentary audience

award at the 2014 toronto film festival. in 2018 he made his 1st fiction film akasha an antiwar comedy it premiered at venice. i wanted to make sure that we don't just keep having this heroic idea of war and war as this amazing thing and to become a man and to become. a hero and to go to war so it's i wanted to destroy that. despite the difficulties surrounding him continues to make films for his people he is now planning a film about the odyssey africans undertake in an effort to reach europe a kind of pan african road trip. that's it for this edition of arts and culture are leaving now though with a little glamour from paris fashion week the house of bad unveiled its new collection and a video shot at paris is shot of the airport just a little reminder of what it was like to travel once upon a time. pretty close.

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this is the end of the news line from british prime minister bars johnson denies in your claims his government is blocking the export of vaccines european council president to shell michelle says otherwise we'll look at how this latest draft is affecting relations between the e.u. and its former member states also on the program the shots fired at protesters in me because the military crackdown continues the un security council says it strongly condemns the jumpers use of force and so far calls for restraint have gone unheeded.

i'm so gail welcome to the program we begin with another diplomatic route between the european union and a former member state great britain this time over covert 1000 vaccines british prime minister bars johnson has announced that his government has not blocked the sale of covert 19 vaccines to the e.u. and this was after london summoned the e.u.'s envoy to explain accusations made by the european council president shall michel mr michel had accused the u.k. of imposing a ban on exports of vaccines produced in its territory or is johnson says he opposes all forms of vaccine nationalism this latest spat comes as the e.u. faces increasing criticism over its slow batting rollout. let's get more on this from d.w. correspondents charlottes charles impel in london and gold matters in brussels

welcome both let's start with you we've heard a lot of this over recent times brussels saying one thing a london saying the opposite it did show michelle bring up any proof to back up his accusations i'd say the council president clearly acknowledged that it is somewhat inaccurate straight talk about an outright export ban and that is why he went then on to say that of course there are different ways of imposing bans and restrictions on vaccines and i think what he means by that is simply that that the e.u. is not getting any astra zeneca vaccines out of the u.k. and the reason for that is that apparently there is a u.k. 1st clause in the contract with astra zeneca which then leads the president to conclude that effectively this is like an export ban and show itself until in london is this a de facto ban. i think the government here in the u.k.

would reject that it suddenly hits how very hard at any claims of an outright ban it was something that the prime minister boris johnson addressed in the house of commons today he said he wished to correct the suggestion that the u.k. have blocked any vaccine exports he said he opposes any form of vaccine nationalism in all of its forms and we know as you said at the top of the show that the u.k. has summoned a senior diplomat over this such as the the anger the allegations of an outright export ban but the fact is it is unclear at this stage what the exports from the astra zeneca produced here are out of the e.u. out of the u.k. but i'm sure the u.k. would point to the fact that it is a major contributor to kovacs scheme designed to supply a poor countries with vaccines it would point to the hundreds of millions of pounds that it is donated to that scheme coming out very strong against the you allegations go about in some brussels or britain has had

a very successful vaccination drive and polls across the europe show people are deeply dissatisfied with a you efforts this has the look of a destruction tactic from brussels. look for the brussels as ministration here and for the institution still deeply frustrating the e.u. as in many cases is blamed for all the decisions sometimes wrong decisions that member states have taken like administering the 2nd dose in exactly the time recommended and not prolonging that time for instance while they at the same time have to take down and swallowed all the strategic criticism that comes their way while at the same time they see the u.k. basically other government there from the perspective of brussels exploiting this scenario to say look we voted for breakfast and that was the right way to go a national way we're very successful with our scheme here and having said that another thing that comes in for for brussels of course is the fact that not since

as the numbers have shown out of this transparency mechanism you know 9000000 vaccine doses have left the e.u. as off february 1st towards the u.k. . and charlotte as the u.k. government exploited this vaccination success using it to justify breck's it or is just doing a better job. well that this narrative senate could be seen to play into the hands of the prime minister barak's jonson this suggestion that because the u.k. is now going it alone that it is ahead there are certainly been a lot of reports in newspapers describing the vaccine's rollout as is failed and upholding the way it's been done in the u.k. but there are a number of differing factors in the roll out between the u.k. and the e.u. the u.k. deciding for example to move up to 12 weeks between doses that's been a factor in the speed of it's a rollout also the fact that it approved by the fines and the oaks with vaccines

but there is little doubt that the u.k. vaccine rollout has been just a cold feet i mean over one in 3 adults now is receive the best dose of the banks and it is something that is is being celebrated here in the u.k. particularly given the heavy toll that the current a virus has. has taken here in the u.k. and the extremely high and death toll that people have suffered here ok thank you for that because one shot shells and pill in london masses in brussels. and i'm in my where security forces have raided a neighborhood in young gum houses railway workers who've been striking in protest of last month's ministry could the new government has been cracking down with increasing force using tear gas water cannons and live rounds against protesters united nations security council has strongly condemned the military's use of violence but at least 60 people have been killed so far and more than 2000 to rest in. the moment any member of the overthrown political party dreads

c.c.t.v. catches security forces as they pull up and rush into the house of john maher of the national league for democracy party he's a former volunteer guard for ousted leader aung sang suu kyi. john meagher in his white t. shirt is pulled from the home and pushed into a waiting vehicle as more assault weapon wielding forces move in to get in on the moments. such arrests have not slowed activism in me and mar this in da way in the southeast where a protest turned into a sit down with makeshift barricades at either end. another sit down protest in the northern city of mandalay so engineering students figure a way to keep police at bay using bricks turned vertically in the roadway the strategy is for quick hit gatherings and then a retreat to avoid security forces. and in mandalay police again arrived with

a vengeance slowed perhaps by the bricks. but the sound of armaments can be heard as yet again protesters make a run for it avoiding arrest for much worse at the hands of security forces. security forces like those who took john maher but now detained a member of the overthrown and l.d. party armed personnel snapped pictures and got such a drive off with their detainee who is no doubt aware that 2 fellow party members have died in police custody in recent days the troops also found the keys to john maher's vehicle and decided to take it into custody as well. well to the yeah he is a pro-democracy activist and yet he told you about protest as a bit about the support they're looking for from the international community but

once you know what pressure to the military that's the priority right now what a great crash at the military who is not yet complete is not tempted to say they need to realize that this if they will not get that and we'll all. resisting the idea of tense so that's what they have to realize and they have to reverse that right away at the same time to happen this way we need continuous pressure that's why we're getting out of street almost every day as well not so fast but also international communities we are seeing that you gave more fresh air intense ascension and go through so this this is what we hope right now we want the time he's got next to know that you see the house was really into you know what internet may be the military big friend of the military and now they have supporting the military is what now we all are like our young people are 60 percent of the

population in the military just a small number well it is again these are all like they are in power actually they are not in power that we as young people as what i have we are entirely in power was a time i'm used to and just and this. should meet you know one take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world who saw it in brazil a former president and the easy enough to know that the silver has criticised the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic the state of the economy and policies he made the comments during his 1st official appearance since he said corruption. since he says correct conviction for corruption was quashed by brazil's supreme court at the weekend. russia's media watchdog says it is slowing the speed at which content can be uploaded to twitter accusing the social media platform of failing to remove $3000.00 posts containing banned or illegal content the kremlin has been clamping down on social media sites over recent months

for hosting content supporting jailed opposition figures alexina valley. as there is a version saying has been declared in hawaii after heavy rain caused flooding and landslides but it came after a dab overflowed on the island of maui forcing evacuations in destroying homes officials say the dam was shattered to be removed this year because of its poor condition. term japan which is preparing to mark the 10th anniversary of its worst disaster in recent history the massive earthquake and tsunami that caused the meltdown of the 4 shima nuclear plant or the $18000.00 people were killed and there was widespread devastation here's a look back at how it unfolded. much 11th 2011. japan's east coast is rocked by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the country shortly afterwards a tsunami ripped through fukushima prefecture taking everything with it. is an army also cripples the fukushima nuclear power plant leading to explosions and meltdowns

at 3 reactors. radioactive clouds frights over tens of kilometer. mix up over. thousands of people lost their lives as a result of the disaster tens of thousands were forced to evacuate their homes. at a press conference just 9 months later japan's prime minister at the time yoshihiko noda maintained the situation was under control. but the battle wasn't over the fukushima meltdown would count as the most severe nuclear accident since the chernobyl disaster in 1906. to this day there is still only restricted access to 1600 square kilometers of land around the disabled tunable nuclear power plant at around 230 square kilometers fukushima contamination zone is much smaller but it will remain uninhabitable for decades to come. and now

we have 10 year olds. out of the accident and we have still 70000 people that. but back to their oh so well in fact it's a human tragedy. the fukushima nuclear disaster continues to contaminate the air the underground water to this day bags a radioactive contaminated soil life scattered throughout the province it's still unclear where the waste should be stored in the long term the city of turkey or was saved by a stroke of luck wind pushed the radioactive cloud away from the city and out to sea previous release of. janey reject it in the ocean and in the past but not at this level shortly after the catastrophe radiation levels in a large number of marine animals measured much higher than the limit values

considered safe in japan today those levels are down significantly. but the fishing industry in japan is only recovering slowly in order to keep you in the reactors from melting tons of water a used each day to cool them and the 1000000 tons of contaminated water from the cooling pipes is stored in hundreds of tanks not a power plant but because storage space is limited and the tanks will soon reach capacity the japanese government is considering discharging the contaminated water into the sea in 2022 we do not expect in the arm for you run off it causes them. that. you would take forever it's a problem of image that's the main point for. residents fisherman and environmental a say that plan offers no solution to an ongoing disaster. finally birth in zoos baby gorilla family has and day thousands of brothers took part in an online of

vote stuff chosen tiller for last month's new addition to the zoo's going to family 1st time baby took a break canst not tell the special fruit and vegetable face to tomorrow tell us the name day of the suggestions included hope kovi and even from merkel after the german chancellor. brett goff has more at the top of the hour jenelle duel is next with your business update. on. what people have to say matters to us. that's why we listen to their stories reporter every weekend on d w. one continent. 700000000 people. with their own personal.