like you do with when the 2 teams come. to go. 60 minutes on d w. down. after 6. years to us. trying to listen to their stories reporter every weekend on b.t.w. . this is dean every news africa on the program today the work being done to free africa's insane people we will be providing a safe haven to people escaping slavery initiating. and growing the nature reserves off cape town when conservation is soft cutting down trees just save the city from running out of force and.

i'm kristie it's good to have your company africa has some of the highest rates of modern day slavery in the world a 2018 index showed that as many as 9000000 africans were living in servitude without having a choice in the matter and now today countries with the highest numbers of slaves in africa include era trade in. sudan and rwanda in mauritania slavery is especially prevent because it's been an institutionalized practice state taxes they have been known to conclude with safe now in a moment i'll be talking to a researcher on slavery in africa but 1st this report from the jail where people who've escaped bondage are being set up for a new life. into me do became misread as a child. that's was because reverie status is passed on through the generations he

took care of cattle and sometimes worked on farm land all without pay. slavery is a reality we were born with units we are recognized as such doesn't us let us go a little far from the bottom we are still on the in and when. this is all my people are predominantly museums of the maliki sunni in asia they live in the ards the headlines sever it remains deeply imbedded in society it exists in rural and urban areas and these practices virgine by the tory. to it self is fighting this practice. zone gets into but i've been in a bar we saw power grandparents where in this situation and it was an unjust

situation i said that i'm going to fight against the scene just he said and today i would rather die in that fight than died next. after escaping their masters they were brought to this village which is isolated from ordinary communities which was organization is providing social i mean teas. and. he could only move but we had to support them we see chickens. each woman was given to the and most obviously when they're going to receive a capital that will allow them to be financially independent we're going to be. feeding this community in the long term might be a challenge so fighting for this minority to have access to their land and with the land they can work and feed themselves. these people are finally free from their slave busters but they're still considered as serves in their country that's

why they're saying that they will continue to fight for their rights they have right through their law hamadou admits his time is passing but the true driven around him deserve a better future. so. today in the eyes of everyone we are slaves but we will not continue to remain in this slavery we are going to fight off freedom that's why we went to sea and it was to tell him that we have had enough of . server was a boy in indonesia in 1960 and has been a punishable crime since 2003 but despite that it is a harsh reality for many. to talk more on this we've invited sophie de connick onto the program she is from the international labor organization one of her focus areas is the abolition of slavery she joins us from abidjan welcome to day to every news

africa sophie we've just seen an example from michelle to tell us more about what slavery in the modern day looks like in africa. thank you thank you very much and thank you for inviting me to speak come on this very important issue of slavery of forced labor as we call it in the international labor organization can take out to some point in africa your documentary describes traditional slavery which continues to exist in the sahara and part of africa particularly in egypt mauritania and mabie but and in d.c. in these countries some ethnic communities. exist where people are born into slavery and resulting in entire generations of them being owned and at the disposal of the han of martha but that's another form of 4th caper which is human trafficking i guess for labor or sexual exploitation which is pregnant in the continent and virtually all the countries in africa either a source of

a. human trafficking or a destination and in some instances also transit countries and it's important to note that most of the other human trafficking cures within africa but indeed there are a few quick and that also trafficking to europe went to the back to the. why does slavery continue to thrive on the continent there are a number of factors that lead to deceit to a chanel out partying with the white press poverty and the and the lack of a safety net for the population poor levels of education of skills lack of job opportunity and for playboy to be found grady in a. mainly in context of our subsistence farming and informal economic activity where they always forstmann feel still particularly challenging and some specific groups are particularly vulnerable to forth they don't take to

some population as we've seen but also migrants women. you know like going back to that. sample that we saw in asia sophie in many societies slavery is entrenched in the cultural practice as you were saying and it really dates back centuries it also forms part of the economic systems you talked about poverty have you looked into what the impact of collapsing that system would be well on one hand we need to make sure that. the form of slaves and the. descent population are empowered to start with they don't know their rights so they need to be empowered they need to be provided with literacy training because not training have access to livelihoods and i am i turn a typical monica opportunities for that the access to land is particularly important and but it's also a mental process that's all they all have known all their lives they've been under

the domination of our of a master so they need to be also empowered and perhaps receive. psychosocial support and many of them also don't have a legal identity which is very important on the other side we need to make sure that the perpetrators the masters also are actually prosecuted sophie is there a one size fits all approach to ending the practice of slavery in africa. musgrave yeah i mean the fundamentals are there needs to be a mug management from from the government and from the society you know widely but there is an issue that this is an issue when some countries are not yet there. that they don't there needs to be a strong political will it's really the government that is primarily responsible for addressing this situation. so these governments need to take the necessary actions as a matter of urgency to address these issues means the adoption of knows that for

being this practice is but there in force and i know it's particularly challenging law enforcement official need to be trained and the victims of forced labor need also to receive legal assistance to effectively access to justice and the worm is raising as a who are targeting the communities where ok so curious but also the policy makers and the general public and for that data are you be necessary or at that sophie to copy from the i thank you it's been 3 years since people in cape town faced the real prospect of running out of water at the time officials were warning off a days erupt when the taps would run dry because it was no more municipal water crisis was triggered by a severe drought since then they've been a number of measures put in place to try to avoid a similar crisis one of those initiatives is a conservation project that involves cutting down trees from the city's scenic

landscapes. the dramatic sandstone peaks soaring over cape town this is the city's main natural catchment area for water it's home to one of the planet's rarest and most vulnerable ecosystems known as fane boss. 2 thirds of its 9000 plant species are found nowhere else among them south africa's national flower the king prettier. but this sensitive ecosystem faces tough competition from non-native species. it's these that employees of the n.-g. o. the nature conservancy are after. their especially looking out for acacia eucalyptus and pine trees as they were imported in colonial times. there is enough cutting this tristan is because there's truth in wealth that there

was there. from cape town and laid not. trees there the wind there drinks out of water and then you end up not having enough went to. in 2018 taps and cape town almost ran dry. water for 4000000 residents was rationed capetonians cute to buy bottled water and fill jerry cans at public springs. the highly specialized team of the nature conservancy is now going the distance to save cape town's water. they have to conquer rough rugged and remote territory to take out thursday non-native species. most of the invasive plants outcompete indigenous plants and they take up a lot more water. we can save up to $55.00 new

desire for that every year if week price of $3.00. catchwords of the great the region and the put that in conflict it's 2 months water supply for craig than that we can so by removing the in price trees from the watershed. and recent study has shown those tree cutter gains come at a 10th of the cost of other solutions the city is pursuing such as desalination and waste water recycling. and that's it for our program today as always be sure to check out our other stories that's on d.w. dot com forward slash africa we're also on facebook and on twitter we're always interested to know what you think about the stories that we cover here on the program and the stories that we should be covering today many of you with some more pictures from south africa but this time of the effects of drought on animals in

the northern cape problems we'll see you next time. they want to do. it makes the job you. just love. being a problem. i'm not even allowed to wash my own car and everyone with lead overalls an air greek. are you ready to meet the germans and join me right just do it under

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a music career. so now one day we'll all be able to go on holiday again and when that happens where will you go 1st perhaps you want something different from the usual museums markets mass sightseeing to as what about something more extreme well look no further the book 111 extreme places in europe that you shouldn't miss has just been published is based on an award winning multimedia series produced by d w your remarks program. it was amazing it was really weirdest thing i've ever gotten. it may suggest just watching it does that well the star of that series was the year my support to hendrick developing and he's with me in the studio welcome to arts and culture and great now that now it's by patrice she conceived the c

o u's 2 s d w a point in its pages you can find she says quite high tech and you can scan those with your smartphone and they bring you 2 episodes of the series one that i particularly enjoy drinking tea was one where you take us to a place that's very very cold tell us a bit about that yeah in one episode for europe to the next we went to iceland and there's the largest glacier in your of the vote now you're cute and that's a really really amazing thing because it's hard to approach you need you need a guide there and a proper car for it and then when you approach the glacier then you can get into ice caves that are really blue and really shiny and that was just an amazing thing to see how nature turns out this kind of beauty wonderful that when we were talking earlier you told me that was a time actually in that episode when you felt

a little out of your depth. it was when we were approaching the glacier from another glacier tonk we went up there also with a guide and with the proper equipment of course and then when we were up there and were surrounded by like. walt's walls of concrete ice we were hit by a snowstorm an ice storm by surprise and that was the moment i thought oh my god is this still safe or is this a kind of dangerous situation and i just thought ok just trust this guy trust the guy he will lead us down and he did we will save of course but there was some horror really extreme and the best thing is you can find all these kind of stories in the book and in the episodes of the good idea to trust the guy denied. situation we guide you survived that let's move very cold places to almost the opposite tell us about your jaunt on a volcano this lately been erupting this very month yes there was we went to italy to sicily and there is the mt etna which is the highest active volcano in europe

and everyone knows mt etna of course in a way but when you're actually there and approaching this mountain which is 3300 meters high and when you are getting up there with a cable car and game going up to the top and you see all the lava fields that are from the past eruptions over there and the funny thing that i was discovering over there is when you are greg you're in you're digging a hole somehow and you grab the lava it's still warm and you can still feel the active volcano underneath must be pretty amazing well we've got just about a minute left but tell us briefly about how makiya yeah we went to college you know which is an autonomous republic and part of the russian federation and this is the only buddhist region in europe and for me it was really heartwarming and

touch you know way because when we feed in there and we realize that they were like really building the buddhist temple in the mid ninety's after the fall of the soviet union and how they were somehow living their religion and you were a part of this buddhist ceremony and we're seeing all the colorful. temples and this sort of religion life over there was really really nice you know hendrik lucky you managed to fail most of our series before the lockdown began last year and you can see more of hendricks adventures on huge chave backslash t w a max the book has no more to offer 111 prices you know many of them you won't find in any of the to misguide arts that is available in english and german and it's from the mines fella thanks for joining us and greg thank you very much. some more arts news now this week saw the beast is holding its 1st major sale of the year a portrait of picasso's love dora ma is expected to fetch up to $8500000.00 pounds

embraced on the beach by edvard move could go for 12000000 and bank sees parody of the 1991 vanity fact cover showing actress demi moore pregnant is valued at 2 to 3000000. and another work by banksy has sold for a record 19400000 euros at auction at christie's the most money ever paid for a work by the elusive street artist the works titled game changer shows appreciation for nurses joining the pandemic and proceeds will go to britain's national health service and twitter c.e.o. jack dorsey has sold a digital version of his 1st tweet for almost $3000000.00 just setting up my twitter was posted back in 2006 it's sold as an n f t that's a digital certificate that confirms an item is a one of

a kind he says he'll give the money to charity. now to a young british singer as you count joni mitchell and saidee smith among her influences and whose 1st love was poetry over the past couple of years although parts has been rapidly gaining fans with her thoughtful lyrical compositions this year she finally released album. i don't like you think you walk and it's that simple when arlo park sings of hope it's like a lavish comforting caress. my generation does have this sense of of caring and of wanting to change things and of being ambitious and of being you know having that spirit of adventure when it comes to creativity especially when i look at the other artists and human beings i'm surrounded by is

a great deal of hope. our part is 20 and was born and grew up in london she's a poet whose rhymes and stories melded into perfect. literature was her starting point she spent her childhood in books singing came just a few years ago. i started rising short stories when i was 7 i my parents were always reading to me and i heard someone say something and i felt emotional you know that was that sense of being moved by it when i was a kid i would like flick through the dictionary and just find words that made me happy or that made me feel good or better represented like how i was feeling. or songs and the characters in them are as pared down as possible they're more like emotional landscapes than songs in the classic sense.

ringback album takes its title from a line by novelist c.b. smith collapsed. it starts with a poem. collapsed in. stretched out open to abuse he have a brief violent i see myself ablaze with joy sleepy eye feeding your cattle slicing artichoke hearts we're all learning to trust our bodies making peace with our own distortions you shouldn't be afraid to cry in front of me i promise.

you i was reading the book on beauty and i stumbled across this phrase collapse in some beams and to me that was really bittersweet sentiment there was this sense of you know the sun being this healing force this force of growth but then also the idea of someone being kind of completely overwhelmed collapsing in emotion and you're not sure whether it's positive or negative i mean i think that some of the best music has that quality of businessweek. cavilling. parks turns her every day observations into 4 minute drama it's. a love story.

what literature especially you know that fiction has taught me is how to kind of create characters that feel physical that feel human you know when i write a song i know that i'm talking about you know my friend of somebody that i've met but how do i portray them in a light that makes the listener feel like they can see themselves in that character but it's not just the characters the songs or the artist herself. just because somebody is black doesn't necessarily mean that that all is inherently political or should inherently only revolve around that facet of their identity and just kind of celebrating that the strength and the joy that surrounds black people

and i think about something that i want to do you know celebrating that sense of joy in and i think empowerment comes from many different ways it comes from you know getting to a place where you're comfortable in your own skin getting to a place where. you feel at peace with with your identity where you feel comfortable in yourself no matter how other people see you i think there are so many different branches to empowerment so 70 something that's important to me. much. i expect we'll hear a lot more from her when we need you with pictures from greece and the ancient sites that somewhat controversially we opened this week ahead of the summer tourist

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