vestibule that you'd walk through where you'd be scrutinized by a bouncer. and then beyond the bar, there was the, the dance area and had a, a raw, concrete floor that often had water on the floor. like when it rain, what would pour into the bar? it was really pretty dank. it was an awful place. i mean, i have no sentimentality towards the place. the good thing about it was that you could dance there. why did that more explode that night? a lot of it had to do with who was going there. the street, kids, people of color, gender queers, were accustomed to being harassed by the police, and accustomed to fighting back in the streets. these people were not going to take it. they had little to lose. a lot of them were not able to hide because of who they were. and they fought back very briefly.

the i was the executive editor of the village voice, which is a weekly newspaper, similar in some ways to liberal seal covering the left and were in politics and culture in new york city. and our office was right above the stone wall bar. so we all ran to the windows as soon as we, we heard this fuss and we knew that it was some kind of demonstration. i was thinking i was now, it's not every detail about what took place tonight. stonewall is contest and we don't really know what's pretty clear is that the police showed up sometime after 1 o'clock the standard rate. and it was a, they checked people's ideas. some people didn't have ideas. they did really

brutal of sex checks on some of the trans people there see what sex they were really work and people were pushed out of the bar and instead of dispersing they gathered. i was coming home like just before 1 o'clock in the morning and suddenly there was a sort of a, something happening of the stonewall which i went to every now and then you could dance there. they would turn on the lights. you do the cops were coming, so you had to stop dancing and that sort of thing, but they, they allowed it and i was there, it's shared and square and solely there was all this activity and, and shelving and whatever. and there was one particular lesbian, they took this lesbian and put her in a cop car, and she crawls out the other side. they, they, they,

they got her back and she crawled back out. and at that point, a lot of the drag queens started joining in and before you knew it, people were throwing a lighter fluid on the front of the wall. one of the 1st things they did was start throwing coins at the cops and then with the stone wall itself. and that symbolized the payoff that these bars normally had to made of make to the cops. and they were challenging them. and the police felt managed by the 1st time they were afraid of us. instead of our being afraid of them, there were hundreds of people gathering the square because of all the excitement. so i ran up and down the street with a number of my friends and we were calling to people to come out of their houses. come out, this is happening. this is the gay event you've got to be here. the cops inside were panic called for reinforcements which arrived. and one said, they're just on all out the street battle took shape.

the news with me. i went to the charges where and by that time the cuffs had put up what they call riot lights. there was a huge intensity of lighting and you could see the broken glass, the cars with the windows smashed. and there were, oh, hundreds of people on the street. i mean just hundreds of people on the street. so it had this very theatrical element to it was what i would have imagined the sense

of these, the, the french revolution to be like there was smoke in the air. there, there were there were, there were drag queens with fishnet stockings that were that were that were torn at blood running down their legs. there were people trying to forum chance, we didn't really have the words, but there was a sensation that nothing would ever be the same. again, we had finally stood up to the repression that we had suffered for years and years . this is not on the usual grid that you see in new york city. this is in the old village before the grid been introduced. so all these winding st small blocks and the street kids there and the patience of stone wall knew them much better than the tactical police have been brought in. so when they would come after us, we would run around and go behind them,

come up behind them and do the same thing, make fun of them to kick steps, and they turn around and we go around the other way. so that was fun. what stonewall did with it gave permission to a lot of people to discover themselves. anger and frustration and pain had just been locked up so much inside us by society. and it exploded with stonewall. i know i felt like i could let go for the 1st the i returned pretty much every day, almost a week, and people in the square, lots and lots of people kept coming. i joined a group of people when we all joined hands. and we sang song silly songs, picked up our feet and pushed the cops back. i mean,

everyone's favorite story is of the 50 clean to line up, put their hands on each other's shoulders and start kicking their heels. charging towards the leasing. we are the village girls, we were a harem girls. like what kind of riot has that happened? the with the press really didn't know what to do with them. all. several newspapers did print stories about it, but they were pretty dismissive and had headlines like queen bees are singing mad. and the new york times referred to the stone wall as a homosexual haunt, a home being a place where disreputable people would, would go. so the new york times, which is very pro gay today, was

a big problem in those days because of their refusal to give people the dignity that they merited. ah, what made stonewall this thing and unique was what happened? not there, but what happened after that this actually was a moment that became a movement. what do we do next? and the gay liberation front sprung up. you know, it seems like almost nanoseconds after stonewall. borrowing from black liberation from women's liberation, all the other liberation movements. now there was a gay group that call themselves gay liberation front. and in addition to the word

liberation, the word front signifies the left were very leftist. most of us were socialist. a few of us were called doctrinaire communist, or even maoist. there was a certain degree of libertarianism in it. maybe it should be a libertarian socialist. it was about liberation. it was about emancipation. it was about freedom was bad intersectionality. stonewall was in fact a candle in the night g l f became a menorah raise your hand giving you something you want to bring up one of the things that's interesting, we attracted me to the game liberation front. was how dysfunctional it was in some ways. i liked it because my family was like, so it said, oh, these are my people. here's my thing. i was used to this and we sat

around, we talked about what we wanted. one woman, i remember said she wanted one day to get married. and everyone laughed because it's so it was the most ridiculous thing we ever heard, nor lives because it couldn't. you couldn't kiss. you couldn't hold hands. you couldn't go anywhere with a partner and be open and we thought this, but this woman someplace safe, you know, and this was the thing that g, l, f was so good about was the realization that a huge amount of politics takes place within the imagination. you have to be able to imagine liberation before you can have it. ah, ah,

we were split up into working cell. very similar to the communist party of the united states to split up into cells. there was the red butterfly, which was a marxist cell. there was come out which put out the newspaper. so they had a newspaper and i saw the newspaper and i was just so impressed with that jesus, this is a gay newspaper that it says come out of liberation form of the gay community. i mean liberation, gay community, you know, those ideas really are. they resonated with me. so i, i joined the come out, sell almost immediately. i was in the come out sell. i was part of the aquarius cell, which was responsible for social activities. because part of the politics of g, l, f was also

a politics in reaction to who owned our spaces, the mafia, the city, the police. so we saw having social spaces on a par with having political spaces. the dances were wonderful. there in this very, very large room with a couple of smaller rooms off to the side. and once you walked in, you were not in a bar atmosphere, not in the defense of you know, cold bar atmosphere and people talk to you and came up to you. and i was just, ah,

we made decisions as a group strictly through consensus. a we did not do regular voting, that we did not have a majority that one and a minority that last and this was sunday we're very proud of that. we were as a group part of an alienated minority. we did not want to have alienated minorities within jail f. and so if we had an issue every moment to get to speak to the issue, the meetings kind of gave new depth of meaning to the term anarchy. it was a leaderless group, but we always had a man and a woman sort of standing in the front. i'm not sure what they were doing. maybe they're waiting to dance. i don't know, but the conversations were wide ranging. how are we going to support the black panthers? how we're going to have discussions with the puerto rican liberation group. how are

we going to interface with the women's movement in the sixty's? there was so much activism, so much rebellion, so many sources of inspiration for gay people. he felt themselves to be oppressed. and the model came from the general culture, the counter culture, the black rebellion and feminism, those 3 forces, the, the hippies, the black panthers and women's movement in the 1960 s created a model in which these people found a home. the

a lot of gay people, as we started forming our political organizations and realized we have to make an effect on the straight community. a lot of people said, well then we can't have drag queens because that'll be a negative image. and i had to repeat over and over again as i did in print, many times we need to respect our fellows. these people thought these people, one our freedom for us. we wouldn't be out in the street if they hadn't done what they did. i, i know, okay, i've been down in a minute. what do you, i had the door ex revolution. they really liked the

idea that they were drag queens and that drag itself was an offense to the mainstream. drag was an offense to no regular america. so they were just a brief moment and these 1st months after some, all the gay liberation front or all these groups are working together, battling and out, but still doing important creative political work. but the tensions were very high for them because the level little the station was so high. everyone who was politicizing everyday life in such an intense way that it was very hard for men and women to work together. weiss and people of color to work together as a result of that by december 1969. the gay activists alliance had drawn away from us and they had story the separate organization. they were

tired of the result and chaos. they came from all of these different people and they wanted to be one note organization. they wanted to fight only for game ration. the news. i was one of the earliest for mothers of the radical lesbian group. the group that also emerged out of g l. s. but a sort of a break away in some ways analogous to the gay activists alliance. but i think also with the sense of intersectionality that we carried from the

we remember stonewall not because of the bar rates before stone will do. barbara is after stone wall. we remember stone will because of the commemoration, because we said we will march on the anniversary and we will not let people forget this. and that's why people remember the stonewall. it doesn't hurt that the name was something like stonewall. it would be terrible. so marched every year for something called the pink pussy cat in that wouldn't be so much fun. the 1st march, i think, was really organized to symbolize the birth of this new wave of organizing actress stone wall. it was to say something new has happened and stone wall began its oh it was this wonderful kind of

festival we put on about galen ration on. the march committee had prepared these wonderful like little flyers saying this is a march to commemorate one year after stonewall. we are serious group. please do not waste your energy. heckling us. do no good. 7 6 i did join the 1st day march with this plan. and in 1970, i marched up the avenue to central park. and every precinct along the way, the police came out on their horses and made a barrier across the street. so we just linked arms and pushed forward and just kept going. then they would part in again at the next precinct and again at the next precinct was very interesting.

i was excited full of anticipation and thinking back now though i never would have admitted to myself at that moment. i was terrified. we had no idea what would happen, but we hit the streets and all his fears disappeared. it was, in fact, one of the most life affirming moments i ever had the, you know, really didn't matter whether people were there to support or not significant thing was we were there. and as we watched from the village toward central park, it grew and grew

in. it required incredible courage for people at the 1st marks actually proclaimed they were game in town. and yet you had 6 or 7000 people do it that 1st year in new york and a few 1000 more and 2 or 3 other cities it was just oh, i would say if you guys were breathtaking and was kind of breathtaking there, i was with you know, all my brothers and sisters and we're out in the open and i was with kind of my own g l. s. family the . there was this sense of something happening, but it never happened before. you think that you're happier now that you've

realized exactly where your feelings last? indeed, i'm just sorry that it took so long. i'm sorry that i spent so many years in the closet about do august carrying on and holding hands and kids in the park. why can't we do it? right, they know that and i am not talking about testing and holding has in the park. i mean, like fighting about liberalism. i'm talking about some, some guy dropping his pan. alright. i mean, they're asking people in the park when i'm in. all right, but that doesn't mean we have to do it a good way. we can have the right to do it. if they can do it, we should be able to do if we want we got up to the yards in the park and everybody was celebrating, everybody's having the time. it really was a party up and central park after that march. and this felt very much like we had liberated a space in the heart of the city,

the hip. these may have done it 1st, but we did it there really outlaws and it was a wonderful feeling was a laboratory feeling. and i think the big turning point stonewall was looking out at that crowd and say wow, we have power we don't have to be afraid anymore. and turned out we did have to be afraid some more. cyclic way going forward. yeah, i mean, after stonewall we, we experienced a short window of sexual liberation like we we had never experience before. and then suddenly we were dying.

one of the cycles that i saw was a crisis purse when that came along. we were blamed for it were scapegoat it for it . i think it, in many cases it was an excuse to bring back the homophobia. oh, you see, this is who these people really are. it's dangerous to be gay. it's also had a profound impact on the gay movement because it led to a new wave of militant see where it truly was a matter of life and death. and the radical movements, especially act up included many people, but their core members were people who knew they were going to die. if they didn't get drugs into their bodies, if they didn't change the medical system, if they didn't change the way the government and the community treated people. yeah. 6 all of that got remedy pretty much in the ninety's and paternity century. i think people started accepting us

morgan as i say, i was really jazzed up during the obama and ministration because we were even able to marry. we are able to serve on forces. everything seem to be turning up roses. we went from 10000 people in june of 1970 to 6000000 people in new york alone. 50 years later, i mean what razor more her, of our success in organizing the more was it. and there are celebrations in many countries around the world. this incredible change that i would not have believed would happen in my life. the the

but is 70 countries around the world. homosexuality is illegal, still gay men and lesbians have being stones. we cannot think that the way of life in some western countries in europe and the united states, canada, that this is the way that it is in the world. the, i think we need to be more vigilant than ever. all the progress we've made is very fragile. it can be taken away, it can be taken away in a heartbeat. i also think that it's different now because we will fight back the

the news. you have to fight for basic rights. once you've got that, you can't just pull it back as much as they might want to roll time back. they're not going to be able to. we're going to put up a huge funds. the news news, news, news,

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should have got longer. 22 and a half years is not enough. we will serve the life. we can get the doors back. the former officer finally offers floyd's family. he's condolence and sidney back in lockdown, australia's biggest city struggles to contain the highly contagious delta corona virus variant. ah, welcome to our viewers around the world. i'm michael ok. hopes are fading that any more survivors will be found in the rubble of the collapse department building in florida. leading us newspaper is reporting that an engineer warned of major structural damage to building and a report. 3 years ago. officials have confirmed at least 4 deaths and nearly

a 160 people are still missing. emergency workers or using rescue dogs and special listening equipment to search for signs of life. anguish is growing as people wait for news of their loved ones. firefighters are working in hazardous conditions to find some bible. if i could personally go out and dig, i would dig, but that is not safe for me or for the 1st responders or for the people that may still be alive. so this is the safe way to do it. and people of course are desperate and they're willing to go out and dig themselves. but that is simply not possible. stacy fang was the 1st victim to be identified. she was taken to a hospital, but she died. her young son is among the few pulled out from under the debris and twisted metal. the building crumpled when jonah handler, a high school student, was in bed. he managed to stick a handout and

a pastor by walking his dog spotted him. people are angry and confused at how a residential building could collapse without any warning. i have read the building and the whole land around it has been sinking for over 10 years. so that could have been a contributory factor. the local police are leading the investigation. experts say the building was 40 years old. and under miami low was undergoing inspection. if the structure of other buildings in this area is similar, they to might be at risk. staying in the united states for a moment, former police officer derek show. ben has been jailed for 22 and a half years for the murder of george floyd. the victim family believe the sentence is not enough. the judge says he based the term on children's abuse of his position and the cruelty he showed to his victim. wow,

wow my the world's gaze was fixed on a minneapolis courthouse outside emotions were high on the sentencing day. in a case that had triggered traumatic memories, of many other cases of police violence in the u. s. george floyd's family called on the court to send a message. every day, i have big justice to be served really in the execution of george mason that please plan is suitable for us to show them the maximum as soon as possible. shelving remained silent during his trial, but now he addressed his victim's family. was in my office, the port family there's going to be some other information in the future that would be of interest. and i hope things will give you some

some peace of mind. there was silence on the streets outside and as the judge read out his ruling. and i want to acknowledge the deep and tremendous pain that all the families are feeling, especially the floyd family, the court committee to the cause of the commission of corrections for a period of 270 months as to 70. also, the judge added that he was facing the sentence on the law and not public opinion, but the question everyone was asking is 22 years enough for showings crime. for some the sentence represented accountability, but now they will focus on the other officers involved influence murder. but his family is outraged. 22 and a half years is not enough. we. we serve the life since we can't get george back. the murder of george floyd created anger and gave rise to one of the u. s. as largest ever civil rights movements. one man has now been convicted for that crime,

and many other cases remain unresolved. these activists believe that in the us, justice has not yet been served. law. a 2 week lockdown is enforced in sidney to contain the highly contagious delta variant of the krona virus. new restrictions apply to more than 5000000 people in australia's biggest metro area. at least 80 cases have been reported most are linked to a limousine driver infected well taking airline crew to a quarantine hotel. the state premier says, locking down was essential. a few days ago, i said this is the scariest time that i felt. since the pandemic started, and that's proven to be the case, we should price our bills more cases with bonding that all household context. unfortunately, getting the bars trying to miss ability is at least double what pre previous very, and have vain that we do need to price ourselves for potentially larger number of cases in the following days. and that's why it's so important we take action. now,

sidney journalists, roger maynard says health authorities are especially worried about the delta various because australia remains largely unvaccinated. the vaccination roller is still pretty slow. it has to be said. the latest figures are about only 5 percent of the population about any one jet. and that's partly because of the shortage of supplies the, the government didn't order enough to begin with. and then there's backseat hesitancy. a lot of the vaccinations at the moment was going to get people worried about blood clots that associated with the answer that bars up. a lot of people deciding that like they won't take the jet. now the way to surprise to arrive in english quantity and have the jazz band. so there's a lot of basically hesitancy. and that's one reason why the vaccination roll of hasn't happened as quickly as it might hurt me more. but you could on the cost of this to lockdown,

it's expected to be at least $2000000000.00. and if the outbreak continues, then the, the lockdown could be extended. it will be all that journalist, roger maynard reporting from sydney. let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines at this hour. some other developments in the panoramic new zealand is pausing, is quarantine free travel bubble with australia for 3 days because of the sidney lockdown. health authorities in finland have traced spice in cases to fans. returning from euro 2020 soccer matters in saint petersburg. russia has reported its highest daily death toll so far this year. and the delta vary and appears to be the dominant strain of a 3rd wave of infection sweeping south africa time now from some other stories around the world. 3 members of doctors without borders have been killed in ethiopia as war torn to dr. region, at least

a dozen aid workers have died since fighting broke out last november. the 8th agency says its staff were brutally murdered. colombian president, even duke a says his helicopters attack near the border with venezuela. the defense interior ministers were also on board. no group has so far claimed responsibility, both left us rebels and drug smugglers are active in the region. president joe biden has promised economic and political support to afghanistan after us troops leave meeting with africa and president ashcroft on the at the white house fight in said the u. s. intended to sustain partnership with afghanistan. american forces are due to withdraw by september 11th. what day? one of the rarest and most valuable stamps in the world has sold at auction for more than 8000000 euros. the only so called red maricia is remaining in private hands when under the hammer at look good and spurred in southern germany with

a starting price of $4000000.00 euros. here in germany, police are investigating a possible is lamas tara motor for mass. static 3 women were killed at least 5 other people, seriously wounded in votes berg in the southern state of the varia, the german government says it was a horrific act directed at all humanity and all religion. the stabbing attack happened in the very center of the bed. the morning after the residence were understandably in shock. all of those killed in the attack were women, police say the man went into a department store asking for knives before using them in the attack. for the 2nd shop is just over there and we saw how people runaway panicking guns and then stopped again to see what was happening in what was said. we were almost right in

the middle of it. we were walking down the stairs and then heard the gunshot. i told my husband, this was a gunshot hole. when we came out of the house, we still have the police arrest of the attacker. miss, i'm just sorry for the relatives and the victims. you can no longer find words for something like that. authority say, the suspect is a 24 year old somali man with a history of mental illness. he was undergoing compulsory psychiatric treatment, but they said they were also examining a possible islamic motivation for his act. spoke to us, i can have heard from witnesses that the perpetrators shouted. hello, acta. mark will may have shouted, i don't know exactly office and so we should. we also know that he was under psychological treatment and had behavioral problems. when does that need to be clarified? in the next few weeks and gone for various state premier, thank the passes by who tried to stop the attack. and on this b i took to,

i was particularly impressed by the courageous acts of many citizens who tried to confront the perpetrator. and also tried to keep him at bay. i'm in charge. so that was a particularly impressive commitment to the improvements i got. small memorial service is to be held at the local cathedral pollution in the world's biggest and most bustling cities. is nothing new. many metropolitan areas are trying to achieve cleaner air. but what's the best way to go about it? one solution could be banning cars entirely. that's what they're doing in parts. of course, a loaner you need peace and quiet to play chess. and that's no problem. the missile ways this in the middle of barcelona children also play nearby the streets used to be choked with cars, fumes and noise. but barcelona has brought in radical reforms to get rid of traffic

jams and pollution located the way we're putting people 1st, vanishing cars means healthier living gun, replacing concrete with green space improves the quality of life is not the way to that means creating spaces where the car is not came for not on the grounds, the door was noisy, 3, the mumble traffic is being diverted away from several residential areas to create pedestrian zones known as super blocks. only residence cars and delivery vehicles are allowed in, and they must stick to walking speed. local say, it's a real transformation. so everything has changed for the better though i can take my daughter out without having to worry about cars all the time. and i have been the problem. they've put in plans and benches. it's great that people can sit and pass the time. you see

somebody in parts alone as planners have created for super blocks and there will be more. the long term aim is to man cars from the city and improved public transport . one concern is that rent could suddenly increase if you can stop property, speculation, we want the national government to bring in rent control and believe it was one of europe's noisiest and most traffic jam cities. but barcelona is reinventing itself as an environmental pioneer. a few plans and a desire for change or helping give the streets back to the people to sport now in max for stop in is in a perfect position to deliver forth consecutive grand prix, victory for his red bolting. the dutchman was fastened qualifying for the syrian grand prix and austria finishing ahead of the mercedes of world champion louis hamilton and val 3 burgess staffing currently leads the driver's championship. after 7 races,

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the the the bigger than the competition. i want to be part of it. you have to be in top shape. then you can beat any one slow it's not clear whether any events will actually take place. it's tough. well, could you say the way? i think sandra and dolah was 21 years old when she puts on her fencing gear for the 1st time. ever since then, the sport has become her life 9 to 5 job, so it's not like a 9 to 5 job. i think there are days when practically all you have on your mind from waking up to going to bed is fencing. you have to be on your toes and keep on

developing and not just be content with their past victory of fun. i think even often comes. she used to compete in the 10 task loan. now she trains around 20 hours per week, always following the same routine and movement. as soon as the must comes off, she's a different person again. it's been seems excellent here and then i'm going in my private life and leisure time on call me on time on the piece and have my mask on. i close down a lot while i'm still totally alerts. it's something you can only see through my physical movements on my cell, but obviously not in my face which might not happen in the midst of the things on my move in 2019, she went bronze the european championships, making it to the tokyo olympics would allow her to fulfill

a childhood dream except the thin young man was the 1st time i watched the olympics on tv. and i've been fascinated, ever since. it's such a huge sport festival with so many disciplines and top athletes at the same place. it's the biggest event, there is water, move sports for the month, and i want to be part of my boss on planning. alexandra and dolo, the daughter of a polish mother and kenyan father is why she is also working on a project that is close to her heart. the foundation of a fencing federation in kenya, where young people can train and learn the sport. the response time. i'm incredibly proud of it. it's just what i wanted, you know, making fencing accessible to children and young people with. the main thing is getting the structures in place and you don't need everything running ultra professional. plus we work in the poorer parts of nairobi and kenya and have been

able to get some kids off a street to see the dominant. and that makes me really happy news in thomas villa is among the best javelin throes in the world. it's a discipline that has a long history of the limpid gains. the student has told us and javelin is the historical part of the game. as sure things have evolved over time like spirits are once launched with the sling and the technique has moved on it. but i like the history of ledgers. you spears to hunton to defend themselves. there's a bit of ancient instinct that can really help your motivation even what you've got to do and really talk much,

much ahead from thomasville. it doesn't usually need any extra motivation. not even when the corona virus pandemic hit overnight training options were limited. in competition. we'll put some whole lot because if they were already signed in january 2020 of something happening usually that would one day affect. we soon started making their plans more flexible, something we'd had to do in 26 team to with the virus and resulting political instability. it was a month. so this year we were already prepared for that. in our expectation. they always knew what i was doing for thomas lula knows how to prepare for the big competitions. he's the olympic champion, having one goals at the rio gang in 2016. emily has ego gotten this. want to keep one elliptic old, any time for it to think in stay and you have

a lot to digest back home and not just in rio you, i'm interested in, you appreciate what the movement encompasses us more than an important competition . it's the theater of sport. it's the pretty wild dash, hopeless, the sport damage breaking cost to get there requires a lot of time and dedication doesn't just work with javelle. and he also uses other training methods. he knows how important the olympic games are through an athlete. this can be realistic stadium. we're also train our empty and endorse. we don't have spectators in high. and so of course, the big occasion is missing often. but i can't 100 something that isn't fair speech dies can help issue. when the news

hand demick has changed the face of sport. it has interfered with training scheduled and made planning impossible. hi. jump on the really wrong view. slice can tell you a thing or 2 about that what i can tell and bearable i'm training for competitions that may or may not take place like assessment and for southern and that's not nice on the thing was young and in now it's clear that the olympics will indeed take place. the 30 year old lives trains and work hedge took us, born in paris, right in germany, a childhood wasn't always easy. she was often a target of every day racism. here we go, we went a whole lot. i used to get bullied due to the color of my skin and i had to switch schools. that's really hard for a young child. and for adults, in general,

a very unpleasant thing. i mind as this mission. she wants to become a teacher to pass on her knowledge to children in addition to her sports career and she's also working on her professional future is then i wish you a nice day and everyone is nice today. and then when something happens that you don't like shows the read site and say why mine out loud. now let's run like a wild goose chases. going on. i like working with kids. you can, they, can you see how quickly they develop and learn, depend on the city of vital paving the way food for them is the most routing job to own pop lead her to have 1st eliminate games in 2016 in rio. she didn't make it to the middle podium,

but she returned to germany all the more motivated to try again in tokyo. lessons because this is the main thing for me since 2019 has been to stay healthy. sounds silly, but it really is true. it's not. i'm not fit and i'm in pain, i can't perform my best. and of course, that's where i want to be because i want to reach the final and maybe even jump a personal best calm or anything over to me would be cooling fun with the session with the other lena, fall men in her element. hi, quando is her life. and between all her training sessions, there's hardly time for much else.

what the budget i this is for it is my life. i sacrificed so much for it every day . i always try to set myself small short term goal and i and i keep my motivation out with the big goal of one day making b olympics. so hoping that there was still actually modeling a feldman started like one doze. a child training during the pandemic wasn't always easy, but at least training is now possible again to her. the postponement of the games also had a positive side. she initially failed to qualify directly, but the qualifications were late to cancel. now she has a 2nd chance. when that's always been best and earn that success to our own hard work last year didn't go some great for us. we have to say, madeline is way up in the world in elliptic rankings as a product, and we're using the time now to make that chance for me. now, all madeline a phone man can do is continue to train at the moment. competitions on possible.

that's a big challenge for the young athlete. they help michelin do weekends. i've always had a lot to overcome. i never had it easy and was never in a lighter weight class. wait a moment, physical i always had a lot of tough rivals, but always managed to prevail. and to get to the olympics all do what i've always done. fight for i fuck has devised the students still lives at home. the uncertainty about the olympics weighs heavily on molina folk man. but her family and especially her mother, lend their support the media. my family gives me amazing support and are hugely important to me. the training and competitions mean i don't see them so often. but when i am home, we make the most of that time together. sides cannot gemini fest, female ty,

condo fighters, come together in nuremberg madeline, a fog man plans to give her all so that maybe she can still make it to tokyo. but a suspected corona virus case in the team cuz the training, short slash and so when you training might get canceled. so i've lost that opportunity to show all i've got in those 3 days. i know anything can happen in sports and i'm convinced i can make it now. we'll have to wait and see how the situation develops with the total bipolar good me. tricky. lympics are now scheduled to begin in july. we've been to misconduct. i'm still optimistic that the world will get the crisis under control,

and i take that optimism with me into training. so anyway, the, the shows that the issue is shaping the continents and the news africa were gone. men what's making the headlines them? what's behind the industry to give you in the reports and insight all the trends that my time to use. the next on dw, that is, that show for africa, my jersey 77 percent. this time our st debate comes from come on in germany. our focus is on everybody's talking about africa stolen ard, but when will it finally be returned? that needs to be brought back to 70 percent?

60 minutes on w literature invites us to see people in particular to seem to find the strange grown up world may only objective is to share with you books on youtube. the this is the w news, africa coming up on the program, short of vaccine, short of oxygen, short of breath, the desperate effort to save lives as a vicious covert 19 waived kits, the continent, canyon intensive care units are among the flashpoints. also coming up is, are one french soldier leaving this to help. but with

a ton of baggage. we'll examine what the end of operation ball can mean for security in molly and the rest of the region. plus an unusual movement of fish, sparks, a friend, the among anglers. in south africa. we witness the action and find out why they're pulling out all the stops. and that's a big catch. the news. hello, i'm told me or let it go. glad you could join us. africa is facing what's been called a brutal resurgence of the corona virus pandemic. the world health organization says the new wave threatens to be the worst yet. at least 14 countries are facing an exponential growth in infections. and unlike the during the last surge health care systems in several regions are struggling to cope. making matters worse is the emergence of more infectious new coven, 19 variance, and

a shortage of vaccines. less than one percent of people have been inoculated so far . africa, the top public health official, john kanga song, says it's a disaster in the making. we are running behind time. yeah. because we there is ahead of us. let me put it there. blondie. we are not really in africa. we are not in africa, this battle against virus. it really doesn't matter to me at this point, but other vaccines from go back or from an engineer we need is rapid access to our instrument busted. in a moment, we'll hear from another top african health official who says it's unconscionable that rich accomplish countries are already vaccinating a dollar since when some of the most vulnerable people in africa potentially facing death. first though, dw and my, my mother reports from one hospital in kenya trying to cope with the onslaught of the 3rd wave. screams for more oxygen,

the intensive care unit, and consumer hospital. one of the biggest in kenya. yes. nurse nicholas piano has seen a 3rd of his covert patients die. you might think of if you might think the patient is improving. they may talk to you in one second and then they just collapse and die. the i see you is for a piano and his colleagues overwhelmed, they just lost another patient. we keep hearing patients calling from oxygen here in this, in terms of kegan, that's about 15 people who are struggling for their lives. and we just had to witness how the 40 has been removed out of a room full of patients. and as it can see the same as quickly being filled again. the hospital director is worried. they need 5 times more oxygen and far more high flow oxygen machine than they have. and we in africa need those high flow devices.

they're very expensive for them. we lose lives that could be saved because these devices are not available. house officials believe the number of corona various cases is much higher than recorded, especially in villages, where people can't afford the transferred to a hospital. you come on a new true. well, jennifer, a witty bird. her youngest sister, 2 days ago, it went very fast just as a bad headache, fever, shortness of breath. you would be when it all started on a sunday. when you learned church, she felt unwell by the time saturday came. it was too much for her to bear. she was taken towards the door and the same day she died. death has come to this village residency. there's been 50 barrels here in recent weeks. the only oxygen plant in the region has reached breaking point and won't be able to

meet an increasing demand. i'm getting so many calls from the person who need to do will need to be home till i see 4 of the regular us as soon as possible. the next few minutes that's going to be going back at the su more hospital. there are some good news. a patient who has been dependent on oxygen for weeks will be released soon. somebody should not, jo, cut out, and that is not the thing is really when you want to take life, just say to remove whatever they're giving you where you are in sentiment, then you feel it's luck was on his side in the house system. so overstretched. luck is what these patients will need. let speak now to professor lim abdul karim is an epidemiologist. you recently chad, the south africa government task force on cobra,

1900 and he joins us now from durban. professors good, good to have you on the program. what your greatest concern right now relating to africa and covert 900. i know it's a vast continent, but, but what, what are you great where he is right now? well, when we look at the current situation, the number of cases in africa going up quite rapidly, these little question that africa is currently grouped in the 3rd wave. the number of cases have been rising about 20 to 25 percent weak on weak right now. we have somebody like about 14 countries in africa where they are now in rapidly upward trajectories of ways have africa itself, has a rapidly rising number of cases, parts of the country, and already experiencing quite a lot of pressure on the health care services. and of course,

all of this is occurring against the backdrop off, you know, health care services that are somewhat fragile. and in the midst of an overall low vaccination rates because of lack of access to vaccine doses. now we've seen the rise in cases of are all as you mention, but couple 19 has not been as lethal in africa as else. where do we know why that is? africa was dealing with the 1st wave. tended to have a wave that really wasn't that many people thought it might be there. all kinds of doomsday predictions of millions of people in africa dying as dollars. but we really didn't see any of that. and now we have a better understanding that due to many factors that we don't necessarily understand all of them. but among them is the general usefulness of africa.

that gives it some level of protection because the disease is most severe in the elderly. and africa has a small number of elderly individuals that we do not see the same kinds of pressures in the hospitals in many countries. however, that's balanced in that. there are parts of africa that have common have high prevalence of co morbidities like diabetes and hyper tension. and so that practice in as well. we don't fully understand why the cases and the deaths haven't been as high some of its relates to under reporting. but even in the presence of under reporting, we haven't really seen overwhelmed hospitals in many countries in africa. so i think the youth dividend is what we'll scribe it to for now until we understand it better. right. and we've talked about the shortage of vaccines, the low deployment. what risk would africa oppose to the rest of the world of

africans and not vaccinated soon? and their risk of africa being cut off from the world a be at a very fundamental level. there is a misconception and misunderstand me about covert 19 colon maintain is a pandemic. it is a disease that knows no boundaries. if one just take any one of the variance within a matter of 3 months, they've already spread to $100.00 countries. so there is no scenario in this world where can she can go on the basis that it will vaccinated population. and that all will be well, while the virus spreading rampantly in the rest of the world, that that is not a winning scenario. we have to cheat cove at 19 as a panoramic and we've got to suppress the virus and the tons mission of the via

this globally, if we are to make an impact. and so we really need to deal with it in that way. and that means equitable distribution of it. it is not a solution where one country hor vaccines and vaccinate its own population. indeed, it is unconscionable to me that some countries are really vaccinating adolescence why, you know, most countries in africa haven't even yet completed vaccinating their higher as health care workers or the professor asylum abdul karim, one of south africa leading epidemiologist, speaking to us from durban, still come on b, w, news, africa. the few people know exactly why millions of bardeen start moving along south africa coastline at about this time every year.

but the fishermen then know that they want a piece of the action. and the french military is accused of failing to reveal the true number of civilians killed and its mission in the how to nigeria now and a slum community in lagos, it's residence, mostly make a living from fishing. but the younger generation could change that. many of the children are in a quest to be educated and hopefully transformed their families, fortunes w's. fred move, one year reports from the school, trying to keep their dreams afloat. horn was may feel the market. is one of the most densely populated in very good mix house built on fields and surrounded by floating around 70 m

kids that i for school one by one they took from the bought some have, they've told me with and still makes those who are enough get breakfast here michael was fishing. community is one of the parties in the country, but the fond of the slums on a school is trying to make change happen through education in order to do so. if you believe it's a shame, what an educational i don't want in this, the nurse will fall into this category. as always, when he started the school in 2009, many parents were not interested in sending their children. fishing is the source of livelihood here in michael, most of the people here in this community have no formal education background. so convincing parents to send their kids the school was out of whack. for no,

i submit the with the arrival of the coffee, the 1900 pandemic know at school. like many others had to close. most children where st. fishing by their parents to make ends meet like in the old days. know are hard to find ways to attract kids, but to pull up on a i've been doing it as a school doing the damage on the we are smart, serious. we have incident school uses a teacher. what do we do? a lot of it, typically what it is, assume sites. what we do, we've got to do, we call them to do this group who called me morning, this call. now she now has more than $200.00 students children who have bigger rooms than their parents. unless i become very isn't in the future because

i've been with this and things big density. nothing because i've been doing can by monday should i my father was me. i'm not going to become the official moms who do only lawyer. noah seem pretty hot. the children will keep coming because i saw that dreams like he's not completely out of reach. certainly hope those dreams come true. france recently announced that it's ending its military operation against limits militant in west africa to hell region. paris launch operation balkan 7 years ago to try to upper roots to had us from several countries, including molly, but can also nisha and chad. now france says it's not abandoning the region and will retain troops on the ground as part of a wider international force. but critics say the mission was struggling to achieve its goals. on their way out,

these french soldiers had finished destined to marley, and soon the operation they've been part of will come to an end to over $5000.00 french troops stationed across the hell region for operation bar can launched in 2014, its goal was to push back islamist militants, gaining ground and influence. but the mission hasn't made the progress that was hopeful. in molly, she had is still control slaves, the country. and the situation remains volatile across the region. for some that's caused a call for france to stay is it demand multiple? i ask everyone with a little strange to let these are foreign opposed to cooperate with molly and forces to cooperate with our armed forces in order to be able to complete this task . which impatiently awaiting us,

but many welcome to change up. i want to know what, what about sure france is to our advantage. because the french being that we have not seen any improvement, we only suffer from day to day. i'll just say the french mission was always a tall order. it covers more than 5000000 square kilometers across west africa, expert se securing such a huge area is almost impossible adding to the difficulties. there are also accusations that french troops have killed more civilians than they've admitted. for now, though, the french aren't completely going away. the plan is they'll be part of a new mission that relies more on regional and international partners. as you heard that frances operation in this a hell has experienced a number of challenges, a group of investigative journalists, alleging that pirate is also failing to be transparent about the number of civilian casualties. a recent investigation on the website, the new humanitarian says,

there are many incidences where the french troops have claimed to be targeting you had it. but in fact have ended up killing innocent civilians that speak to patricia law. a journalist who worked on that investigation patricia joins me now from johannesburg. south africa, france is accused of killing innocent civilians and it's the how operations patricia, what did you find out in your investigation? so we've been working on that investigation for almost a year or so. we spent several months in many, we interviewed a lot of witness to survivors. and then we looked at documents. and basically what we were looking at is, what is the tv and torque of friends and tga, the war in may. so that was the events center in january where there was

a trench right. and 22 people were killed. and one of the french were thing that they were all terrorist, but then other people like witnesses. and also a report from the united nation and investigation from them was saying that actually among 222 people were killed, 19 were civilians. so we, our sub spoke to people from one team, a people in cocoa, so they are headers. catherine breeders, one of the men was in the sixty's, another one in the seventy's. and like they, they story like even the details were really matching. so what they're saying is that it was the wedding that they 19 to be and have been killed. but then the french are saying no, they were or terry, and they refused to. they said we have the proof or it's like the images from the

draw and that's what i'm doing. observation that they, they refuse to share those images. so it's like, well, they take a word for a patricia on that note. you know, the in the hell johanna are often said to be sometimes embedded in local communities. so when you have the french saying what they're saying and you have your, the people you spoke to giving an alternative view to it. how is it even possible to independently verify whose account of the casualties is accurate? well, it's extremely complicated to like, since 2013, the french army has recognized that they killed 7 p. m. by mistake, we actually like in that investigation we came to the conclusion that number a probably of a key, 52 been going to have been killed. and that's my be on the tip of the iceberg. so

let me give you an example. we had sex that document a confidential document that was unique. and so there was an internal document from barker. and in that document, it was stated that he was killed in may 2020. so the guy wasn't the, wasn't the mother basically 2 other people. he came close to french shorter, they went the terrorist, they shot him, the met. and so that's up to me. and then they realized you went to be so a compensation was paid to, to, to defend me to be. and that that event was never made public to the french on the publishing press release on the regular basis. but they will talk about the good news, the successful operation, and sometimes say for example,

like they also very vague test terrorists have been neutralized toward that if you use rather than just looking at that overall. patricia, the french making the exit. we're hearing the news that the operation block on coming to an end. what impact will be exit have on the security situation in this a hell of a abandoning this region to his fate? one for no president, my call has said that he once to put an end to balkan peroration in its actual form. but of course it's not going to happen in one day. france is not going to throw the 5000 soldiers to having a head for one day to another. but yet probably some of the troops will we leave and what french would like in other european countries being more involved? but many of them i stream the reluctant to send troops in the country quotes,

you know, that it seems more and more obvious that it's not going to be sold by and by your military intervention. ok, patricia was a journalist based in johannesburg, south africa. thank you. now for a story that is making a splash in south africa, fishermen that have been on the alert for weeks now looking out for the movement of billions of sardines along the coastline. the sardine run as it's called, is a phenomenon that is not fully understood. but it happens most years and for those fishermen lucky enough to net a big catch, the rewards a great as d w. as we increase reports, this isn't an oil leak. it's a shoal of sardines, fishermen, gerald michael and his team. a waiting for this warm yeah.

yeah, no, that was within seconds. everything suddenly gets very hectic. i wouldn't want to go by what i call thought in view. everybody starts to run and shack. yeah. yes. more yeah, i have re year between june and august. the saudi and move along the east coast of south africa following the cold currents in the engine ocean, bigger hungry fish, follow them. and so do the fisherman, the clothes, other shoals of sardines gets to the coast,

the better the chances of catch a pocket of sawdust in the middle of the metal thing on the rock. it's huge disappointment when the nit gets caught and rigs most of the sardines get away with a force it off a few kilometers further on. another team has more like throw and catch us. $150.00 crates worth of sardines and then that's 2 thirds of the fish i sold for more than 2000 euros. the rest goes to the team. they took a chance to gamble and paid off. and i can see that, you know, this game is very dangerous, as you can see, having to myself, i had a cable go through molig. and that's the name of the games. we play with shocks,

rocks, nets, rough seas, everything box. if you can get the fish, you can make some money. for gerald tobacco and his team, the 1st thing to do is repair the nets and then go home, empty and bed the bed. 3. bad luck. everybody, i suppose a name gets it according to buckle saudi fever should be around for a few more weeks. senegal and louis jazz festival is back after the pandemic meant it was cancelled last year for the 1st time and its almost 3 decades history. musicians and jazz love us from across africa and around the world are enjoying live music again for the coastal city of saint louis in northern synagogue. the festival is providing much needed economic, the city of sofa, and not being haunted by coven 19. but after months of restrictions, music is bringing back to life. now that's it

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