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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 side 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 the 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 beren varian culture normally drools 6000000 visitors. this is news from berlin there's much more on our website a 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. it was psychologically. i think it's important for us. to

highlight also these kinds of topics wasn't the boys with the boys slaves with the power everything was to grow very belongs to the kind of people who bring light into darkness where some people don't want to have any like that. in the me. that i heard that is recognition of my work comes with their racial and. i will mix and a 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 name of the committee and of and. to global sporting events because. it's as propaganda by the military regime to. their rule and their.

viewers on p.b.s. in the united states into 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 reporters 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 dissin from ancient 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 joint view 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 portray a 41 more than finding a good story. out of thin eve conquering 8 the red. wine through through our law in a good trade in a mail thank you out. of warre has been speaking out against injustice and she was a little girl and courage to have found her she decided to become an investigative journalist. i watched we. had i watched drain banks are attacked unjustly. i was there in the famed been pawnees 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 i. was into 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 sold to people beheaded in front of her. and i see that it's a depression. that was the trauma. that post-traumatic stress disorder are panic attacks at some points it's quite worth it up look inside out. of worry is still recovering from that

experience her story served as the inspiration for the netflix film ot your atheist child or not she's made several other award winning investigations and is adamant she's not stopping any time 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 glory of war 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 jew 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 white fool. because. that's recounted at some point yes i did because society used to do read that actual nazi perience is that i still have difficulty talking about. cuts that we know and the children around in the story and it becomes very difficult for me to tell it myself. and decides now yes there are other places will be d.n.a. for the children and women rights how do i cleanse in your country you would seem

my. scenes we did a society so i simply had to. have some courage myself to keep moving that many women 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 courage to to become a journalist tell me about that. yes my legs had a mistake japanese because last year in july. while grain of. their woods gets near newspaper. get the ropes to re i long side market them books and he's said my rights in white's early life and he guards my rights of published in the guardian's impact as jimmy on the idea so he kept encouraging me by and 9 he quietly no one says that

i was always kind enough to give anything just. feet out and he cans and courage in me lets in you know that my voice was never that i live i not have a cause of if i was before i became. he would tell me that he is comparing me for the future when he's not swaying to the day so on no icons should i loud my voice silenced it when he was given a plus in standing alone i should continue for i get on so yes my dad was largely responsible for what i did the 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 the 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 then i never expected once happens germany because of the investigation i mean the killing. of the graves i wasn't expecting that i. thought i was going to be traveling with some more rise so. the traumatic experiences the whites kill and shocks me to be honest it came as a shock so i would say i was naive that's me 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 honest i had some mornings. i was caught in between

800 of the job has that and the same time alan tell myself. i remember it gets hit 4 days to the objective to be treated. as such a horrendous mind. when it's freshly have gone and i wasn't. but mallard that i've gone on the terror happy i'm doing well in terror now i can. jump 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 it's an.

antonym injury and i never knew. where what. well i do still. yes it's less. than very exciting. yeah yeah a lot think a lot of people are excited for you was well nigerian investigative journalists and 2021 d w freedom of speech award winner to boree of henri 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 saw daily she has been following this story for us to use 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 had 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 do we know how police were able to 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 europol which is the european union's police task force police a law enforcement agency together with law enforcement 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 rewards the ringleaders if you will but what about the $400000.00 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

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 and how big of a problem is it julian to discover these underground that we're seeing right now well it is a problem it was a problem before and now you're old paul 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 more 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 scenes 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 of them are 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 lives. competed for me i'm moderately 2019 southeast asian games with the unrest continuing in his country he's calling on the international olympic committee you see to intervene. at the very least i expect the i.o.c. to send an investigative team to myanmar if they can because i do have fears that the many member afaik 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 an 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 proposals 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 biotech and modernity both used new m.r.

and 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 vaccines do not use a live virus that makes them easier to manufacture. is the one jerry inboard scientists 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 the effect these boys are related to my work what i did or of my input was so important i thought i can say that the you know i play a part 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.

specially at bio pic at pfizer and all of the thought the companies they had important very important 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 would inject it to animals and we could have biological effects through insisting that you know this is the great thing was. 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 to grant the 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 then you have to have a grant to investigate something but if i can call me somebody who has a grant for something guess what they're realizing that this is the is a has a great potential 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 biotech it did use also conventional r.n.a. crap because they botany and learning that you know the new clothes i modified already which i worked on that was the best result and that this was pushed forward even in the new clinical trials and learning about the november 8th it was a sunday when we were called me and the next day was announced that you know with

the sin of 95 more than 95 percent to a fish and c and it works it was you know the 44 souls and the people trial i kind of based on the earlier days i already learned how high antibody was and also the work i did between the mean time we did all based on and colleagues. in order harvey and we are using good to look outside mortify autonomy same formulation be the uk with us l m p already in the car and the influenza age i.v. different and i'm on what has it worked for apathy and so i expected that if we were for this as well so i was not surprised as much but maybe because i was naïve 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 always last this year here in germany one of the country's most popular tourist destinations the north sea island observed is reopening this month he handled that hello and welcome at least register with the app thing so now you're booked. how do you have your test results and to think you know now 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 can provide negative carona 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 he does of course there are many requirements that we have to fulfill it's

taken a lot of work as a special here i am all of us to get the moment i understand. this thursday i don't think we're more likely to get infected here than at home steak because we're being cautious and following all the hygiene rules. even gunson and the tests give us a sense of security and that money and again this is the doctor to test them. visitors to still need a negative test 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 hot and south really 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 get daddy got on t.v.

death stop the protests of. a normal temperature in a vaccination record the requirements to stay at a hotel guests with 2 jobs 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 the news or you can follow me a british golf t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then everybody.

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