it was hard, fair, i even got white hair is learning the german language, hit me a lot. this kids to me and critical to instruct you want to know their story, the language, verifying, reliable information for migrant you're watching dw asia coming up today. when the last us troops depart afghanistan, this the timber with a local military be ready to take on full responsibility for the country security. we take a closer look and citizens take up arms against the military rulers. does that mean the bar is heading into civil war? plus, climbing mount everest is tough enough, but how about doing it when you will have the story of the 1st blind mountaineer from china to reach the summit?

the news i melissa chant, thanks for joining us. 20 years after the u. s. military showed up in afghan as dan, it's withdrawal will likely be as disruptive as its arrival. and the taliban is still around as both a potent political and military force. many afghans worry, the country will soon spiral into a civil war, and they don't have confidence. their military will be a match against insurgence. after up to lot more home of, he lost his 2 legs in the fire fight with the tale. bon, he thought the state would at least offer him good care. but the once loyal commander has lost faith in the army, which has failed to pay his pension for nearly a year, more as

a career. and i don't regret my sacrifices, but i'm upset with the afghan government. they haven't looked after me properly. i don't receive my salary on time, which is the least they can do for me. authority said, cases of corruption are rare. but watched or groups say that's not the case. they reviewed instances of commanders who use non existence personnel to collect extra paychecks. army soldiers complain about ammunition shortages and suspended equipment from corrupt suppliers. military experts warned that these signs of demoralization might view the resurgence of the tale bon, especially after the us troops begin their final pull out ending nearly 20 years of military engagement. the person afghan authorities disagree. there will be no security vacuum or gap and kind of fun because as you know,

our poses can defend and defend up going to spend independently. but over the past few weeks, dozens of outposts and bases already surrendered to the tale bon. despite the losses, some soldiers say they will persevere a thought as real life as far as we have bullets. and as far as we often there's even able to fight then we will not stuff. but veterans like mohammed, the less optimistic gender is not over in afghanistan yet. right now the war is at its peak here. foreign soldiers leaving seeing that afghan, his time is safe now. but i don't think so long as he sees many tough fights ahead . and he knows that soldiers often risk the most. joining us a journalist alley le chafie in cobble. we just heard the spokes person for the afghan military insist there will be no security vacuum after the americans leave given

attacks. we've already seen. that seems like a lot of wishful thinking. no, he's not necessarily wrong. if you look at it in the last few months, natal bonham tried to take several provinces, right. they've tried to take his mind and have me in the style. they've tried to take a lot more and the ease and so far they've been unsuccessful. but the issue is that when you do that you send a lot of resources, right? you send thousands of troops to one area to try to concentrate on that one area. so you're trying to put out one big inferno, while they're essentially like all of these other little battles going along as going on everywhere out. and so what that does is, you know, you, you can, you can control one area. you can make sure that you keep control of one area, but then the question is, are you sacrificing the attention to other areas and then are you to constantly

going from one place to another, trying to war a concentrated attack from the taller bought. and we also saw the army veteran who hasn't received his pension in a year. i'm wondering how can soldiers fight the taliban successfully if they're not comforted, their government will take care of them. so this is been a long term problem. so we're talking not just pension, we're talking about actual payment. for instance, the last time i was in the eastern province of log out, which is about a couple of months ago, i talked to a number of soldiers and police who said that they had not been paid in month. one said that he hadn't been paid in a month, you know, it's been a month that he had come from the north was fighting and god was in the dangerous provinces in the country. and he was saying, you know, he was fortunate because he had, you know, family that could take care and provide for the rest of his family. but you know, other soldiers weren't had luck. you knew thing. look, when

a soldier abandoned their posts, now they don't just abandon the post. they take the weapons, they take the artillery, they take the ammunition with them because that's all money, right? that's all making up for what you're not being given while you're putting your life in an immense danger for months, if not years at a time. wow. and it all seems to come down to corruption when it comes to the military, any chance of reform on that front. so you know, various governments where various ministers have tried to implement, you know, reform programs within the police and within the military. but it's very difficult because what you have is, you know, you have corruption from the very top. you have many ministers, you have deputies, you have general, you have high level police official. and then you have, you know, like the lower ranks all involved, to some degree in some form of corruption or you have for instance, if you have the counter narcotics police who they look were being threatened by

mafia and the taller body at the same time. so if we don't, you know, somehow work with them, we're putting our lives in danger at a time when we're not equipped properly when we're not getting the money we were promised. so it's really a difficult situation because you're talking about an issue from the top all the way to the bottom. you know, if the tree is rotted at the top, and the roots will have the same problem. ali la chafee always a pleasure to talk to you. thank you. man mars. underground government has released video footage of a new defense force. it has formed to challenge the leaders of the military coup. they say the 1st group of around 100 recruits have now finished training. the resistance made up of many supporters of the popular national league for democracy and fancy cheese party. say they will build in army to overthrow military rule. to this end, they've been working to bring together anti dissidents with me and mars many ethnic

rebel groups to try to form a federal army. to explain this further, we have him in tons editor at frontier myanmar, a explained to the viewers the difference between this new so called people's defense force and long standing rebel armies that represent the interests of the car in for example. so people submitted forces really come in 2 forms, what viewers just saw. the video now are formal organizations that are under to regret command of the civilian shadow government. and they also cover the sort of informal groups are created by local leaders that are really focused on self defense, but have declared themselves loyal to disability and government. and so the main difference that we're seeing is that these defense forces are local organizations that are not based on a necessity or other political goals, like independence or autonomy for specific ethnic groups or religious religious groups. but they are sort of carry local grassroots organization. and you know,

there isn't a huge division right now between these groups. and we are actually seeing that many, in many cases, people are sharing things like weapons, as well as training between the, the army and the civilian groups. right now, how much of this is a military extension of ants on suit? she's national league for democracy party. so in the video we just saw and, and the formalization that we're seeing of these groups, we're really seeing the ministry of defense under the new national unity government, the shadow government trying to create a former military, you know, in the view of the civilian government with all the military, as it is right now, are traitors who are not accountable to the people with me and more. and therefore, i have been declared to terrorist organization. the military has declared civilian government and there are forces to be treated as well. so you have to sort of political back and forth. but the new unity government is a much more multiethnic,

multi religious organization. but we do see that the entity is a dominating force in that that sounds a little bit like the beginnings of a civil war is that what we're seeing? so you know, in many ways new has been in civil war for the last 70 or so years. the group you mentioned earlier like the korean have been fighting for greater freedoms within the m. r. and some other groups have declared independence at various times. i think what we're really seeing now is the beginning of an all out war in which even the city centers are affected and no one's really safe. whereas before, you know, people were say for safe, for especially if they were urban areas em and time to thank you so much for joining us as always. thank you for having me. align was a bit shaky there, but glad we got to speak with a you can also find more of our coverage on me and mar on our website. d,

w dot com, forward slash asia. aah! reaching the summit of mount everest is a challenge for any climber. for a climber who is disabled, you might think the difficulties would be insurmountable. but one chinese man has managed to overcome his disability to reach the peek dispute teachers, images of a thief, few would have thought possible. 46 year old chinese climber, young home reaching the summit at mount everett. what is remarkable is that he is blind or listening to hip hop. i will get come because i couldn't see where i was walking, and i couldn't find my central gravity. sometimes i would full, but i kept thinking i had to face those difficulties. why jung hong is a 1st blind person in asia and only the 3rd anywhere to scale the world's highest

peak. he lost a sight at the age of $21.00. after suffering, glaucoma. he managed to get to the top of every but with the help of 3 guides. he believes his experience of reaching the summit was different from that of most other climbers. so that's what i mean if i didn't feel exhilarated or emotional like other climbers, i didn't think too much of a thought that the environment around me was quite risky. so i told my guide, i wanted to get down quickly to the shanghai made it down to base camp safely. he said he knows why he was successful and has some advice. others in his position. the time you a whole know if you're disabled or able bodied, whether you have lost your, i don't have no legs or hands. it doesn't matter as long as you have a strong mind. you can always complete a thing that other people can. yourself release him. and his case, this is certainly turned out to be true. that's it for today. follow us

on social media on facebook and twitter. thanks for watching and see you back here tomorrow with is who's the news? it's been ongoing quest for the spring began in 2011 people stood up against corrupt, rulers and dictatorship. all these moments have left the boston

my memory. the me they had hoped for more security, more freedom, more dignity, have their hopes for many years after the arab spring. rebellion starts june 7th on d. w. i welcome to art and culture coming up, nigeria prepares to take back some of its greatest cultural treasures stolen during colonialism. and later on the show you, this is one love, the cuba lore wraps. again, homophobia in gonna do this before we call, you know,

jerry and to have campaigned for decades for western museums to return some of africa, most valuable cultural heritage. thousands of ornate sculptures and plaques, known as the benign bronzes. the artifacts once filled the royal palace in building city until they were stolen by british soldiers and sold into collections around the world. for a long time, it looks like the bidding bronze is might never return to africa than last month. germany promised to give back hundreds of them. now the pressure on other countries is mounting. the savings city is a bustling metropolis with a population of 2000000 in southwestern nigeria and a centuries old royal city. for the people here, the bending brahms is more than they are part of the history since the flood, the british raid in 897, the originals have been missing now some offset, to return the artist and no

t. paul of the ball was relieved to hear about germany's promise. he's been campaigning for this for years. it's been a slow and agonizing process. you could use an analogy of saying if the works of michelangelo, davinci beethoven most are shakespeare was removed. they were all removed from europe for the last 120 years. then the civil action in europe today will not be way t less than 0.5 percent of the present. and they just have access to these museums can travel abroad. city walks, certain parts of our story out of our heritage is lost. and so that is how we feel like memory loss. loss of cultural sculptures, monumental bus masks metroplex. the bronze is show animals,

kings princesses, and they document royal life. thousands of these works adorned to royal palace. the banana oil coach, promoted the empire was powerful, but also controversial due to its bloody rituals and use of slavery. in the course of the british invasion and massacre of $1897.00 more than $3000.00 treasures were also looted. the national museum of bennet has none of the originals. only lighter works and copies few. h. c offers bo, though, can see one upside to this catastrophe. one is obvious, i lived in europe that time, the appearance of the average was month whether we were living or trees, we lack civilization, we're british. so we're comparing our walk with those of the room and that was how

5, who's objects with picky for the believe abroad they have to do. but the british did not destroy the remnants of the kingdom and naughty apo takes us to england. street and home to the 1000 jiro killed of bronze casters, bronzes are still made according to centuries old tradition. the head of the guild kings in hopes that the new promises from germany are not mc long's for the return of the art of his ancestors. ah, which i know to give back to the past. and as i was thinking about is requiring on thing, let them bring by what belongs to us, and so that we can keep them. i'm proud of what we are, moves this is supposed to happen as soon as 2022 preparations for the homecoming of the building bronzes have already started the ado. museum of west

african, designed by stone architect david j and finance with money from europe will be created museum for the people of africa and a global public. the domain of west africa is going to be built on this site. so the narrative will be so clear, you will know who we are, you will to recognize our identity. it has been built at 11 mozilla museum. how's a reality for contemporary display of walks? areas support beneath bronze is areas for collections from all of our west africa and what effect will, the return of the bending, bronze is hands on the interior, could it help colonial wounds, heal artist and arch historian piece you lay

a waller has also been fighting for restitution for years taking her course to europe whenever she could. it doesn't raise the traumatic history, but it restores many with the dignity. i think one of the important things that for us to show do is to get younger generations of journals get to see these walks. and for me, i think this from the, from the mental wrong with having to teach about your cultural from the outside page. you know, t and follow campaigners now eagerly await the return of the 1st bronze is to the homeland. more culture news now archaeologists in china city one province of unearth a trove of artifacts, dating back millennia. a 3000 year old gold mask is among the treasures from the ancient kingdom of shoe,

which ruled in southwestern china for 2000 years. remnants of the kingdoms capital were 1st discovered by a farmer in 192900 in it'll hit the summer residence of the pope is now open again to visitors. pontiff use the gardens and palace in the town of casto . gonzalez, for centuries, says their vacation spot to escape the brutal heat of rome. but a few years ago, pope francis decided to open it to the public. the palace had been closed under corona virus safety measures. a few tourists trickling back and there. well, in paris, $5000.00 people crowded together for france's 1st giant concert in over a year. the concert goers came all in masks. for the most part it was part rock concert and part science experiment. everyone had to take cover 19 tests before and after the show to see how safe it really was. for a lot of fans, though,

it was just about this thrill of live music. it was really an historic. ok. maybe it wasn't stock, but it will forever be part of the french music history. so put on hold off and i got, i was wearing a mask. i felt safe. i had enough space on this bed. the concert ended early in the evening. so everyone had time to get home before frances 9 p. m curfew and gonna being queer, mean spacing discrimination from society and from the police. the queer people do have some allies, musician, one love, the cooper law is known as the godfather of god as hip life music movement. a combination of hip hop and west african melodies. one of songs are full of colorful expletives, but they also express who support for the l g. b t q plus community. in a country where being gay is illegal,

their thoughts ends with the wild main of dreadlocks and manuel lose his bonds, who stands out on the streets of cra, best known by his stage name, one love the google or the gun, a and romanian musician is known for his distinctive style as much as his controversial songs. and the 1st time you will see me look around at each other to try and see if somebody has an explanation for what the team. but i've seen you 123 times people get used to me and me know when shoes is, because everywhere in the world i go, i remember how the ground feels like i have a memory of the ground in my race on the ground in mean jazz everywhere i've been barefoot, i remember the ground, you know, and so is i can't like close the eyes of my feet anymore by way of shoes that most

time, sometime when the one that gave the high spot, they as well as performing as a solo artist, q below is also one half of the g o. f. ok, and boys. sometimes shops, audiences with his playfully. crude leverage. bring your box. suppose you're going. how about that? while love gum, it's low bucks, flat i make whatever feels true to me and i use it to speak truth. i call it to music, but i can do what kind of music i feel because we are now in a world where we explore swim anytime. types of sounds and visuals growing up. so shutting itself, if you feel this is the kind of music i do. what one love, once above all, is to bring about a change of mind fit in the deeply conservative gotten ne in society. he speaks out

for l. g b to cross rights. but his activism has triggered some backlash, especially on social media. people have been i've been given a 1000000 euros from some organization in europe to promote homosexuality. because we are not educated we, we do not know that most of the laws we are dealing with that and keep for people and on t v t q and anti woman. all your piano is to we are trying to remove do a lot, but i've read again. you know, was him if you keep the fees it as we are trying to instill european values while we are simply trying to re instill africa we today, he's on the set of a new music video status track deals with the abuse of dollars l g b t q plus community, but one of admits he wasn't always an ally, it was only around 10 years ago. he began to change his own mindset. now,

i look at our society and i see the community as to the most important marginalized group of people, that live rates, the whole consciousness of crime in, you know, once we are able to can reprogram our psyche. she loves and qualities and compassion, marginalized group of human beings who excel as a people as a country. one of the cooper law is a divisive figure on con, as music scene. but his willingness to push boundaries is opening doors and amplifying his voice. that's almost for this arts and culture. i'll leave you now though with

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