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a billionaire bill gates and his wife melinda to divorce after 27 years of marriage in a joint statement the couple say they will carry on working together at their foundation bill gates who founded microsoft has in recent years focused mainly on health and environmental causes. germany's october 5th has been cancelled for the 2nd year in a row varian premier marcus soda says the financial risks are too high as no one knows how long the pandemic will last the annual festival in new nick celebrating the very end culture normally drools 6000000 visitors. this is news from berlin there's much more on our website to d.w. dot com. on this world press freedom day a troubling trend more than ever before the safety of our female colleagues is at

risk it often begins with women targeted with online abuse it often becomes offline violence too often lethal and she knows that better than anyone. is an investigative journalist who went undercover in the underworld of nigeria's sex traffickers she exposed the mafia but not before she was raped and made a witness to murder for her courage and her commitment she is the 2021 recipient of the d.w. freedom of speech of war. this is the day. i think. it's very. social. psychological. i think most important for us. to highlight

these kind of toughness wasn't the games voice for the voiceless with apollo everything was very belongs to the kind of people who bring the light into darkness where some people don't want to have any like that. then. i thought that is recognition of my walk time with the racial gallows in our world then some day more. also coming up the people of myanmar have had their fledgling democracy hijacked by the military should their olympic athletes stand with them by sacrificing a once in a lifetime chance there should be an international boycott of the committee and of . that to global sporting events because both use that propaganda by the military regime to. their rule and their life. our

viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of your around the world welcome we begin the day with the women risking their lives so that the truth doesn't die to mark this world press freedom day the international center for journalists and unesco have released a new report on violence against women journalists intitled the chilling 75 percent of female report say they have experienced online violence online but definitely not virtual abuse that begins on social media often morphs into threats of rape and murder in the last decade the number of attacks has increased exponentially fueled by viral just information campaigns in societies where the politics of the extreme are more and more mainstream women journalists are often left with no choice but to day are the danger and that definitely describes this year's recipient of the d.w. freedom of speech award her name is to. she is an investigative journalist from

nigeria in a moment show joining me but 1st a look at her life and career and the price she had to pay for shining light into the darkness. a few things excite to pony of 40 more than finding a good story. of fame is hiring. the red. line to. draw a line in a good trade in a mail thank you out. of worry has been speaking out against injustice and she was a little girl encouraged by have found that she decided to become an investigative journalist. i watched we. had i watched drained. unjustly. i was there in the famed ban on the east and all the way not even if they were mocking him free. that we have about made that comment from so that really laid the foundation for what might be now wanting

to give voice to the voice live with the power to rethink the world. of worries work sometimes involves changing her identity all his stories affect her personally but none of them impacted her life as much as her 2013 investigation into nigeria's human trafficking mafia the story unfolded on this street alan avenue a popular hot spot for prostitution for 7 months of war he was an undercover sex worker here it was the toughest most frightening and most challenging investigation one she wasn't prepared for she was raped abused and so to people beheaded in front of her. that i slid into the pressure. that was the trauma that post-traumatic stress disorder. are the panic attacks at some points it's quite brought it up a kid inside out. of war he is still recovering from that experience

her story served as the inspiration for the netflix film although to your atheist child or not she's made several other award winning investigations and is adamant she's not stopping anytime soon. well hers is a poignant story of perseverance and she is with me tonight from los nigeria i'm delighted to welcome to the program to boree of boards congratulations on the freedom of speech award and let me say thank you for staying up to talk with us tonight it's good to see. thank you very much you are you're living proof of the sacrifices that are made every day by women who simply want to report and tell the truth you even considered taking your own life because of what you've experienced tell me what has kept you what has grounded you through all of that. i would say

that was has. what's hard now that needs to try to move on. i would say says god almighty. hope i'm a very what fool. because. that's in the county at some point yes i did because society. read the actual nazi period and says that i still have difficulty about. when and cuts the we know and the children around in the. story and it's becomes very difficult for me to tell it myself. is i decide i now yes the other classes will be good for the children and women but how do i continue contributing my. scenes we did the site says so and i simply

had to. have some courage myself to keep moving that many women and many children out a young persons who are looking up to me so that keeps me going to bore you say that it was your father he would encourage to to become a journalist tell me about that. yes my legs had a mistake japanese because last year in july. while grain of. here woods gets me a newspaper. gets me books to read. i long side market them books and he's said my rights in white's early life and he got some of my rights probably in the guardian's impact as jimi on the idea and so he kept encouraging by and 9 he quietly no one says that i was always kind enough to give anything just is

i will speak out and he can't encourage me letting me know that my voice was never bad i live i'm not sorry cause of the fire was before i became. he would tell me that he is preparing me for the future when he's not wayne's of the day so on no i collins should i loud my voice silenced it when if i'm doing a plus in standing alone i should continue for i get on so yes my dad was largely responsible for what i did he and i'm sure your father never expected you to come face to face with the human horrors of sex trafficking as you did when you went undercover for that big investigation when you started going undercover did you did you prepare yourself mentally i mean did you know what could await you.

silvie on this i never expected once happens during because of the investigation i mean the killing. of the graves i wasn't expecting that i. never expected that i was going to be traveling with some more rise so. the traumatic experiences the whites came and shocks me to be honest it came as a shock so i would say i was naive that's been that's did you did you ever think you know you've been raped you sold people being beheaded did you ever think that this is just too much journalism is demanding simply more than i can give. to be on this i had some points i was caught in between

800 of the job has that and the same time alan tell myself. i then i would get 4 days to the objective. street. side show her and gil was my. when it's freshly have gone and i was. but mallard that i've gone on the terror of i'm doing well in terror now i can die as a job i thought. well let's talk about something positive what did you think when you learned that d.w. had strews in you for the freedom of speech award that's. when i. even me. i was. speechless because i wasn't expecting the.

evidence in the mainstream and i never knew. where what scene well and once i do still. yes it's less. than very. yeah yeah a lot think a lot of people are excited for you as well nigerian investigative journalists and 2021 d w freedom of speech award winner to boree of war congratulations again much success moving forward and thank you for sharing your story and thanks for staying up with us tonight thank you. l.l. thanks for the recognition. police here in germany say they have shut down one of the world's biggest child sex abuse online platforms the platform was known as boys town and had more than 400000 members police say the online network was part of the darkness and had been

operating since at least 2019 an international operation coordinated by europol over several months led to a series of raids in mid april for men in germany one man in paraguayan have been arrested are for more now we want to bring in our political correspondent julia sold delhi she has been following this story for us good evening to you this this is difficult to get our heads around there were almost half a 1000000 people involved is that right. yes it is an astounding number and investigators think that this is one of the biggest online platform where people were sharing sexual abuse on on children and to put this into context if we look at 2017 the german authours and investigators shut down another platform of this kind and this had around 100000 members and the platform that we saw being

shut down now have 4 times that number so it is really a large amount of people and the platform was internationally oriented it had members from all over the world who are conversing in chats in different languages so it was a really big operation. policemen were able to find out what was going on the police and investigators know that illegal things are happening in the dark net we know about child sexual abuse we know of drug markets so they were scouring the web looking for such platforms and the german task force working together with your own poll which is the european union police task force police a law enforcement agency together with 4 spent from other countries such as the united states canada and sweden and in mid april german police raided some properties all around germany and that's when they came to the arrest

of several people of the suspects what do we know about these suspects. so we don't know the suspects names that is because of privacy laws here in germany we know that the 3 main suspects who are thought to be the administrators of the platform are 3 middle aged german men 2 of them living in germany one of them residing in south america for a long time he is expected to be extradited to germany pending the german request to authorities there and one man who was thought to be the most active user of the site also a man living in germany who was thought to have posted up to 3500 posts to the platforms so these suspects these are like the ringleaders if you will but what about the 400000 people who were consuming this material are they going to be prosecuted well it is very difficult to identify people and users in the dark net

it was difficult to identify the administrators it's even harder to identify the members and the users of these platforms because it's really easy to remain anonymous in the dark net and also members of this platform were exchanging tips to leave as little traces as possible so the investigation is going to continue to try to find out who these people were but it's going to be difficult how big of a problem is it julian to discover these underground networks that we're seeing right now well it is a problem it was a problem before and now your opel has said that during the coronavirus pandemic in the lockdown the situation has gotten even worse there has been growing a demand for content portraying sexual abuse against children both on the dark knight but also on the on the surface web the one that is accessible to everybody and they they fear that this tendency will also continue after the lock downs and

the restrictions for the pandemic will be over. julie's all girly with the latest tonight julia thank you. the people of myanmar have suffered great loss since the military coup toppled their democratically elected government back in february but their losses and sacrifices may not in the anytime soon just asked the country's olympic hopefuls a swimmer from me and maher wants his country banned from taking part in this year's tokyo olympics when ted is a vocal critic of the country's military rulers and says that olympic participation could lend legitimacy to a regime that he says is guilty of genocide. we always won of me and months top swimmers based in australia he's met the standard to qualify for this year's tokyo olympics but despite all the training he's put since with

cheating that he says he won't now take collins even if selected because of the military coup in his country. there should be an international boycott of the never let the committee and any name our teams being set to the global sporting events because that those teams will be use as propaganda by the military regime to legitimize their rule and their life. when ted competed for me m.r. of the 2019 southeast asian games with the unrest continuing in his country he's calling on the international olympic committee d r u c to intervene. at the very least i expect the i.o.c. to send an investigative team to myanmar if they can it's i do have fears that the net many in their athletes are being intimidated or threatened to either participate in the olympic games or an international sporting events. we. dream may

not of course of the starting blocks. for him a restoration of democracy in myanmar would be a much bigger victory. summer vacation and the european commission has outlined plans to reopen europe's borders for non-essential travel and to boost europe's troubled tourism sector commission president 1st of underlie it says the proposals would apply to travelers who have been fully vaccinated with n e u approved vaccine travel into the european union is currently limited to visitors from just a few countries that have low infection rates the proposal still need to be approved by all $27.00 e.u. countries. well hope for a post pandemic world is made possible by the research that gave us the coronavirus vaccines pfizer beyond tech and modern abodes used new m.r.

in a technology to develop their vaccines it was a medical breakthrough decades in the making and now there are hopes that it could be used to treat a host of other diseases such as cancer unlike conventional inoculations m.r. in a bank seems do not use a live virus that makes them easier to manufacture. something is the one jerry inboard scientist whose work led to the development of the body on take size or vaccine she spoke with our reporter in budapest it is it is hard to imagine that you know all of this effect is was related to my work what i did or of my input was so important i tried to say that you know i play a part the piece maybe at the beginning you know and the sunday show and of the vaccine. i play important role but the i always emphasize that so many

scientists and. specialists at by at pfizer and all of the thought the companies they had important very important role and i was i i tried to imagine that i was one of them you were being told no by universities by other employers they just didn't believe in what you were doing what kept you going to continue researching and believing in the work that you were doing i could see that the messenger r.n.a. when we really would say you know we could have an effect as we went on we could see that and know that people worked on and it was and and then finally we could inject it with animals and we could have biological effects through insisting that you know this is the great thing was the. as i could see the progress we could make and for me it was important that every time i at least one person who had grand support i could convince that we have to do some messenger r.n.a.

research so that that is the reason why i could survive because otherwise you know that in the us that that you have to have a grant to investigate something but if i can convince somebody who has a grant for something yes but they're realizing that this is this is a has a great professional so that was important for me that i had a colleague who was cheering and he had progress which is like for you to know that the effect of your researchers had all around the world so you know the byron thank you did use also conventional and a replica of the barney and learning that you know the new clothes i modified are a bitch i worked on that was the best results and that this was pushed forward even in the clinical trials and learning about the november 8th it was a sunday when we were called me and the next day was in on. you know with

a system of $95.00 more than 95 percent. efficiency and it works it was you know the 44 shows and the people trial i kind of felt based on the earlier date i would have learned how high antibody was and i'd also does work i did with meantime he still bites on his colleagues. in order to party and we are using good to look outside mortify or any sane formulation bede talk with us l m p already in the car and the influenza a jig to friends and a mom or dad is both for her. and so i expected that if we were for this as well so i was not surprised as much but maybe because i was naive i don't know. the vaccines are saving lives but they won't be able to save october fest for the 2nd year in a row germany's world famous beer festival is being cancelled october fest is the

world's largest beer festival that takes place in the bavarian capital munich usually attracts around 6000000 visitors from all over the world but this year like last year the risks of a new viral surge proved too great. but not all is lost this year here in germany one of the country's most popular tourist destinations the north sea island of zoot is reopening this month here where hello and welcome at least register with the app thing so now you're booked. how do you have your test results i think it was when i was out on your phone. data collector and test checker this restaurant owner can only admit guests who have checked in with a contract tracing app and to provide negative corona tests this is some voided when it's a good feeling we're back and we're here for our guests that's what makes me really happy. of course there are many requirements that we have to fulfill it's taken

a lot of work as us and here are all of us to get the moment to understand. the i don't think we're more likely to get infected here than at home and schtick because we're being cautious and following all the hygiene rules. getting guns and the tests give us a sense of security and of money and again this is the doctor to test. visitors to still need a negative tests no more than a day old to go to a restaurant and 2 days to stay in a hotel room but some residents think district testing strategy alone isn't enough the 18000 full time residents share the island with 62000 beds for tourists and 14000 vacation homes. it's hotter southmead he doesn't inspire how will they keep track of 2nd home owners when they rent out their places to friends and family how do we know those people will also be tested yeah get that he got on.

the truck. a normal temperature and a vaccination record the requirements to stay at a hotel guests with 2 jabs don't need to show a negative test. we've had so many lock downs now i'm using this as a get away from the day to day stress it's important because we want to get back to normal. eager to get out of the house after more than a year of restrictions germans will be watching still to see if it's safe again to go on holiday. well the day is almost done the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either at u.w. news or you can follow me a brit gough's t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then everybody.

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