what was grandmother knows she has a part to play here and it does my granddaughter good in the past i didn't give her much attention now i know it's important to spend more time with her. case confirms what professor lewis previous studies in poorer provinces had already shown. clear that children who participate in the program develop much better than children without support they're significantly more advanced in cognitive and motor skills as well as in speech and language of. grammar dong knows that if she continues to play with work well on a regular basis she'll be giving her a head start for the future. regular handwashing is easy right and wrong according to unicef 2200000000 people have no steady access to clean water yet hygiene is not only a human right it's also

a prerequisite for success at school and work as such it has far reaching consequences for our lives as a whole. of nigeria's $201000000.00 citizens more than half have access only to poor toilet facilities while almost a quarter have no access at all and have to relieve themselves outdoors in some areas even basic power is in short supply. after they go into riga is a poor neighborhood of lagos and informal settlement with no school or hospital. in days samuel is a widow and lives here with her 4 children before the coronavirus pandemic she was already struggling to cover energy costs for her house and to feed her family it's become even the hardest since lagos went into lockdown. when the coronavirus came everybody had to stay indoors lots of family stuff that. we only have food handouts

from private organizations and sometimes if you're unlucky the help might not reaching. here women do the cooking usually over an open wood fire and since this area is not on the grid people use diesel powered generators to get electricity. burning these fossil fuels releases greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. the authorities had no clear idea about the fuel usage here so they started to gather information before we record and here are used to ignore the pack of images. in life. i mean not activity. c 40 is a network of almost 100 cities around the world including lagos that promotes climate action this energy usage survey is being carried out under its guidance the team go door to door they've already uncovered the main reasons why solar energy is

not used more widely in such informal settlements. were not going for sooner is because one day i don't have the knowledge about it and finance is actually a problem to get in. but a local mini power grid is coming to our the way the reader the government wants 10000 solar powered mini crit set up across the country by 2023. and environmental n.g.o.s teaches neighborhood residents how to set up solar panels and how to turn daytime sunlight into nighttime street lamps to make life here safer. and when it is night everywhere will be getting dark you can see even you can see from here to that so but where we are these you can see from here far distance so the reason why we are doing this in the communities another.

i'm here is poor sanitation this is a public toilet the waste goes straight into the river and contaminates the water used for washing and cooking another n.g.o.s called justice and empowerment initiatives recently built this toilet facility which uses a kind of composting system called a buyer full digester to break down the waste. ringback artist with tallow gani taiwo is contribution to the project. some other do come around. with storms why am i making this a beautiful like this there's been this should be should be for my house. and i said well that's it we help attracted to deter it's a commune. she is interesting on the community about. the facility cost $1800.00 us dollars to use it you have to pay the equivalent of just under $1.00 send. the money goes towards maintenance and cleaning. it goes up

. and like to dispute the. system and it is to force in this community. to do more to live because we knew there was about 4 or $5.00 in this community this is one we have here now is solid humor draws on limits adoption is. people in our go away going to riga also happy about the new solar powered streetlights that are going up so kinda samuel is looking forward to having light during the long evenings she might eventually be able to do away with her diesel generator this would save her some much needed money well also reducing the area's carbon emissions. bolivia is one of many countries where violence against women continues to be widespread women's rights are often neglected him even though around half of the country's parliamentary repartee. a women but resistance is

growing against such entrenched discrimination with young women leading the way. the. state boards meet pads and skirts a group of young women in bolivia is breaking a taboo to fight for more equality in this and be a nation. for many going through this great well i have to control both my body and my mind. it's a way of channeling my feelings and finding my equilibrium. in. the training session gets underway at 10 am the skateboarders are ambitious on the schedule for today muscle strength coordination and jumps. some are left in america where the 1st all women skateboard collective in bolivia are name. mean skater girls in the indigenous i'm our language it shows how we're

identifying with our culture. and. the only man here is their instructor yet he's a sports student who's teaching the new stunts. they're getting better every season because they take it very seriously and they learn every stunt exactly they're really serious about it. like in many countries a woman's place was long considered to be the home that's changed but the skateboarders still want to retain some traditions and when my grandma always wears the skirts we want to continue to uphold our cultural identity because we're proud of the hardworking indigenous women of bolivia. in the 2nd half of their training session they change outfits donning traditional indigenous clothing. skirt blouse plated hair and often are. that too. they were the

traditional costume of the n.p. and women with pride. we're doing this because we all belong to the indigenous kitchen. the outfit is a visible part of our culture and. skateboarding in a skirt isn't easy but the clothing is important to them. they want to break clichés and show that women today can shake off the limitations of the past aiming their message especially at the more traditionally minded bolivians. this is a totally new are we in the 25th century already at least they're getting some exercise and having fun i suppose and not getting into trouble. it's been 2 years now since the women began living out their passion for the half

pipe. but they still draw inquisitive onlookers every time they take to the roads. they grew up in the city and are studying at university but they still want to maintain that connection with their forebears who worked hard lived from the land and were at one with nature. but they are dispensing with the traditional gender roles where for centuries women have been discriminated against. 2 for years and the immediate state group is part of a new generation. they're the 1st women in their families to go to university and the 1st to state board all while reaffirming their indigenous identity. to most of us when you know. is the most look at you it's our dream their drive me to do and i'm going to show that we're proud of our cultural identity. look it's almost

you didn't even you want. nearly all the skaters grew up in impoverished conditions like many bolivians from indigenous communities. today they've come to visit one of the girls' mothers in the countryside. but also lopez is also proud of her indigenous identity but she regrets not having the same rights in her youth that her daughters now enjoy. and then when i was a child the indigenous girls were shut out of education we were treated like stupid she only had 4 years of schooling. and fortunately that has changed completing that today you see many women often in traditional costume and sitting in the lecture halls and studying engineering accounting or no. job. it's a transformation that's ongoing and the state are girls move easily between the old

world and the new. that's all from us that global 3000 this week thanks for joining us we hope you enjoyed the show let us know act global 3000 d w dot com. and check us out on facebook to d.w. global ideas so you say take care.

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this is d.w. news live from the day and pulls throws for an end to the conflict between israel and the palestinians but israel's prime minister praises his military's assets benjamin netanyahu says he has no doubt the latest asteroids have set hamas militants back is also coming up spain's prime minister flies out to the country's north african on played saying it's out to get to grips with the growing crisis

after thousands of my friends across the border with more of. defectors from me and mazar me tell d.w. al the country's military regime controls nearly every aspect of soldiers' lives from that finances to that. plus as a person eases coronavirus restrictions they're all growing concerns about the spread of a new variant 1st detected in india one export has stepped up a vaccination drive to stop a surge in a new case against. i'm and if you can and thanks so much for joining us. calls are intensifying for an end to slicing between israel and hamas militants in gaza france has filed a draft resolution at the u.n.

security council with egypt and jordan calling for a ceasefire but despite international efforts to find a solution israel is keeping up its strikes on gaza and hamas continues to launch rockets into israel. more rockets flew through the skies over gaza light on tuesday but missiles fired from there were intercepted by israel's defense system israel says it responded with targeted strikes prime minister binyamin netanyahu says they will continue as long as it takes to restore security and they're having success. about this i've received your views about many attacks against thomas and islamic jihad they received blows they did not expect i have no doubt that we set them back many years. israel says it's targeting leaders of the militant hamas movement that governs gaza and a system of tunnels used to move weapons. but continued israeli airstrikes on gaza

a fueling a humanitarian crisis most of the dead in gaza civilians and thousands of people were cut off from clean water and have no access to medicines hospitals are already struggling with the cove a daunting pandemic a stretched to the limits efforts and now an overdrive of the united nations to try and find a diplomatic solution to the crisis france's drafted a security council resolution calling for a ceasefire but there is disagreement among council nations on the best way forward the palestinian ambassador to the u.n. is demanding action. this is what we are talking about the security council is shameful act. not even expressing a unified position calling for the end of this. but as long as rockets are still

being fired from both sides into the conflict is nowhere in sight. and small let's cross straight to d.w. correspondent tanya kramer in jerusalem hi tania thanks for joining us now israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is saying that the as strikes on gaza have quote taken hamas back many years and yet he's pressing on with the offensive why and for how much longer. well this is a question also that's being asked in israel but i mean this is for his domestic audience there are some there is some criticism of the military complain but all i enlarge there's a political consensus that this death this complaint military operation against hamas and gaza should continue and that there should be some serious achievement before. it's bombardments the discussion is also moving

elph course towards you know what kind of achievements. would like to see and what kind of arrangement that will be and how of course this military complain will be stopped everybody is aware that hamas and also gaza will not go away so they have to come to some kind of arrangement and also there's the question after the firing stops how this will be implemented now with the days we have been talking about international ethics to end the fighting a we any closer to a cease fire agreement. well we understand that there are a lot of efforts within the international community but also here egypt kut-o. the united nations are trying to engage. the parties so we know medication efforts are underway and we understand that egypt has proposed some kind of talk to you that's a concept of a humanitarian quietening down for now we don't know when possibly for thursday

but again last night have also reports in the media here that some kind of seize should have started on thursday possibly so as to morning it was almost immediately denial by both sides but that's also not a surprise scene that also in previous rounds of conflict so we have to wait and see whether at some point both sides will stop the fighting now all of this talking is going on of course the human suffering continues what can you tell us about me the situation in gaza so according to the u.n. almost 60000 pilots palestinians have been displaced in the territory. yeah and this number is expected to rise because bartman continues and people have been seeking shelter in un schools because this think it's a safe of them to be there some had to house a statement and also

a couple of thousands had their houses destroyed in a strike so on raw the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees in gaza is accommodating those people trying to tend to their needs but of course it will kind of concerns now also for example coronavirus pandemic gaza had seen very high rates of infection before this ground of hostilities broke out so there's concern about has among house comes a few shows because people are now in very close proximity but for many people in gaza they have to make a choice between being rather safe and there's no real safe place in gaza or having concerns about coronavirus. and ukraina in jerusalem thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other news making headlines around the world the u.s. has condemned what it calls anti semitic mystic remarks made by turkey's president

at the state department did not specify which comments it was referring to as a one has criticized israel for conducting air strikes on gaza accusing it of carrying out terrorism against palestinians prosecutors in the u.s. state of new york say their probe into former president donald trump is now a criminal investigation the news widens a probe into the finances of trump's company the trump organization the former president has in the past said the investigation is politically motivated. in the us state of north carolina the officers involved in the fatal shooting of andrew brown will not face criminal charges a prosecutor said police were justified in shooting brown a black man because he stared his car towards them as they tried to arrest him the killings sparked weeks of protests demonstrators marched again after the decision police in belarus have raided the offices of the country's largest independent

online media outlet topped by and shut down its websites touched by has been a key source of information on the opposition protests that started last year the latest crackdown on free media and better us. spain's prime minister petro sanchez made an emergency trip to the north african enclave say what was sitting a bilateral relations with morocco on monday a record number of migrants crossed into saved from morocco in a single day spain's interior ministry said many had already been sent back. they had been arriving all day and night. most of them rich say you to by swimming some 2 kilometers along the coast of morocco or by using inflatable boats or on land by scaling this 10 meter high wall which spain had erected. spanish authorities quickly put

a stop to all of that busily rounding up all the migrants and sending them back to morocco definitely not a place they want to return to. the spanish authorities meant business and certainly didn't hesitate using force for some it looked like it was literally sink or swim. spain has sent in more police and military to secure the area the spanish prime minister petro sanchez has also arrived in ca before the trip he made this statement. of the will my priority as spain's prime minister at this moment is to guarantee the control of transit through the border with morocco provide the cities of seo to emelia with everything they need to resolve the humanitarian crisis as a result of the arrival of people and to proceed with the immediate return of the i repeat of immediate return of everyone who has made an irregular entrance to say

you and i stipulated in the agreements spain and morocco of scientists years ago. the in the. pacific ocean. the migrants from africa have been attempting to get into europe via this beach for years but they have never crossed in such numbers. on some reports as well as this footage suggests moroccan police allowed many of the migrants to cross over into se you to in the 1st place it because of a diplomatic spat with spain morocco is upset that a separatist leader who is seeking independence for the western sahara region ruled by morocco is true. only getting medical treatment in spain. officials in madrid say they are now reinforcing security in say you to to prevent any further arrivals . let's cross over to our correspondent nic colorists who's in madrid not nic nicol tell us how things are looking this morning. well after a very tense one and

a half days it seems that they want to is waking up too much coldness situation this morning this is not only because the spanish side has sent in special forces to deal with the situation there have also been talks in the background diplomatic talks and it now seems that the moroccan side has started to control this border again there's still a few intends to cross it of course but it seems to be manageable in the meantime spain has announced that they have at least turned for thousands of the migrants that had crossed back to morocco they can do that because there is a very old agreement between morocco and spain that actually makes it illegal for to do these express returns many thousands though are still also in in accommodations right now emergency activity this is particularly also young people under 18 which are not accompanied and also vulnerable groups there needs to be more thorough check into this situation and what will happen next to this to these

people but as you can imagine the normal reception centers that are usually or in through overwhelmed with the many people that are still there so the next step will be to look into what will happen to them and that also obviously a humanitarian aid. that's also a humanitarian aide on site to look after these people ok so so many have been returned and yet the fact remains that thousands were able to cross the border to say it's in the last couple of days how has that been possible. it's all been possible because the moroccan site basically stopped controlling the crossings they usually to get a list spain look after this for to this is a shared responsibility both sides look. but they have neglected to that and it's thought that this is due to diplomatic to crow and this order is quite strange it goes well it's not only spain's most southern border it's also an external border of the u.

so in opening it this could just just check another migration crisis and morocco seems to know that and they seem to have been outraged by the diplomatic row and they're using these migrants as bargaining chips to show what can happen when they just take their border control off and you mentioned a diplomatic 6 spots can you tell us a bit more about how this whole situation was triggered in the 1st place but it's not that they have officially admitted it but of service thing that this has to do with the western sahara region a region which had been annexed by morocco in the seventy's and since then and many of the years spain and also other countries such as germany have expressed that that would support an independence of this region's region and now of this has always been afforded by morocco site and just recently spain has taken in the need to offer a group that also fights well the independence of the western sahara region to give

them medical support he's actually recovering from the corona virus and that has sparked outrage on the moroccan side and it is thought that this is what led to this situation a display of power that shows what morocco could be capable of if they're upset about something i don't have any correspondent nic colorists in madrid thanks so much. now invested investigation by d.w. news has uncovered details of how the 1000000 man army is brainwashing its soldiers and controlling practically every aspect of their lives w. news spoke to 3 defectors 2 of whom are high ranking officers the conversations were mainly over messaging apps and through some video calls will be speaking with one of my colleagues who conducted the investigation in just a minute but here's some of what the defectors set everything is monitored they want to turn people into robots who don't think for themselves and if people post

political things they can be arrested and put in jail for 3 or 4 weeks.