has paid almost every price of the journey in a country like to keep taking on the powers that be they risk everything. gender activists, journalists, and politicians. living in exile. they live to which they live for their mission. what drives them? people need to know what is happening there are series guardians of truth watch now on youtube, d w documentary business did up the news africa coming up on the program. the danger of water pollution. we visit a community in nigeria that is soon shall blaming them for spill in poison into its rivers and drinking water. also coming out vaccines can be a baby's 1st line of defense when it comes to early childhood disease. but in

godaddy have run out even many in funds, dangerously exposed on the challenge of being black in germany, we meet a senior galleys man living in hamburg, sharing his experience of racial discrimination. ah, i am eddie micah junior and you are welcome to the program. what are is, are well, it's live blood, but it's been poisoned by pollution. that's what un secretary general antonia good cherry said at the wild conference on water across africa. one in 3 people do not have access to safe drinking water. some of the causes are manmade liking ideas niger delta. the area was once filled with flows of clean fresh water, but not anymore. thousands of people in 2 communities. a su in petroleum giant

shell for making the our water unsafe to drink. due to the oil explorations, our correspondence flows drucquer. i sent us this report from a galle blessing james b as a double burden. firstly, she has to walk all the way through the public top to fetch water. secondly, when she gets home with a heavy load, it fulfills none of her needs. and it's dangerous. this war vase, no good. i will be fed his papa lady were used for perf, before we know for you to use it for wash it. see, we know for you, we will use it for cookie. we hear the smelling pollution from oil spills has left the ground water contaminated big oil multinationals like shell have exploited the delta us our reserves. for decades, the local community used to be able to rely on fish in the river was the our source

of food, income and drinking water. we had the what i used to team with fish. now we are reach only in pollution. this is the or go near reverse in line j delta, and if you look closely, you can see oil at the surface of the water and also some fish have been washed off the shore as a result of the pollution, this water is completely useless even though people can't see what i hear the actually have nor access to clean water. the united nations environmental program ran tests on the water in or gully. it found levels of cancer causing benzine to be $900.00 times higher than the levels permitted by the ward health organization. scientists also found 8 centimeters of refined oil on the ground water which feeds the whales like people drink from. local authorities have want people to not change the contaminated water and suggest the buy bottled water. few can afford that,

forcing them to leave with a death rate to be a health. that's why you see most and was he in the levels ovarian cancer privilege is increasing where seen the age of m people coming down with cancer decreasing before you see consequences from 506070 years. when a ftp children come and are cancer, it gained $1520.00. the government provided what i see shows across the village to supply clean water from other communities. or we are told, none of the stations have worked for years. local authorities admits that not enough is been done, but say the responsibility for solving the crises lies elsewhere. what we do us for local government on her, her stay blah blah, blah. dr. supports support services, but the main issue is with the federal government. relieved while politicians

elaine jerry are past the bach and b cow, whose responsibility is to provide clean water for the people of all galley, laurie king emory godwin, oak. barbie, hast taking matters into his own hands. the traditional leader has leased stead 14000 individual cases of the damage caused by shells oil spill and is seeking compensation as caught in the u. k. we had the company is based off of people that are big people that, that receive dividend. and they sit down and enjoy the money and they are children, doubt, grandchildren is enjoying the money. i want to tell them that money is blood money . that money is broiled broad money as you're using the money to to get called ford for you, your children and your, your descent, your dependent. so i to drink off or galle i died. the

court case could take years in that time, nigeria and shell will continue to and from o'kelly's oil a blessing. james has a message for those who profits from happy. i'm not happy with the sofa that's on that you have you. so now i'm on fish. what are you was a little, have my all my, my have more and more people here appealing their hopes on the quote for seeing the shareholders of royal dutch shell to do the right thing. but to that ruling comes, the people of all gully condemned to drink poison from all those, let's bring it up. matthew renshaw, a lawyer and partner lady. he's working on the claims involving allegations of about mental harm caused by celebrations in the niger delta. hello mark. you, thanks for joining us. so what exactly do your plaintiffs wants from the court?

so we're, we're representing 2 communities, be a golly community and the billing community who are claiming because of serious oil ration from shells, operations in the noise and out. and they started their claims here in the, in the english wine course in 2015. they are seeking compensation for the loss of livelihood, the loss of income, the other losses. dave's office and crucially that also claiming to clean all they want shell to clean up the oil that is continuing to believe that communities to this day it sounds fair enough. cell is planning to leave the niger delta a t as of exploit in the reserve stair, but they are not taking responsibility for the pollution. what argument are they making? so they're, they're pretty good loss of all humans. in this case, for example, they say that the communities were representing have no right to go to court and

get shelter clean up. they say that's a matter purely for the nigerian regulator today. they also say that in any spills, but of course, by bunkering, that of course, bye oil theft shell is not liable to pay compensation for those in any circumstances. and shelton spills around that time if they happened more than 5 years ago. she also has no responsibility and all of these points the shell are putting forward have significant implications. as you say, with the background that shell potentially is looking to divest and leave the $90.00. and the question will be, will legacy will a leave? are they going to leave communities like these with chronic oil pollution? or are they going to clean up before they access the noise? it sounds like cell is not literally taken 0 responsibility. so let me, let me ask this again. is shell offering to do anything at all about

a mess it has caused not at this stage? no. and, and these claim started in 2015. and as i said to the, the claimant, to living with, with chronic coalition. the un when to one of the communities in 2011 and said it was an immediate danger to public health because of the all the nation that the claims were started in 2015 at the outset shell was challenging them saying the claims should be heard in the area, not in the u. k, making jurisdictional legal arguments to try to stop these claimants coming to court in the u. k. and making that case. so, so there have been 7 years since these claim started. and still there's no indications that she's looking to, to clean up in the community to compensate people for their losses or anything like that. at the end of the day, justice must be sat, right. so when my members of the community see that justice and finally be able to

drink clean water. and we think that may be a trial in the latter part of next year, potentially. and obviously if, if the claimant's are successful in that trial, then we hope soon after that they would be receiving, compensation and show would start to do a proper cleanup to international standards of these 2 communities. it may be the claimant's have settled along that that door is always open. if a shell is willing to talk to them, if she's willing to take proper steps to clean up, then as soon as that happens, the better for the claims. let me ask you this briefly on this as the worst case scenario. that shell actually gets to walk away free. well, it's sharla correct with the legal arguments that putting forward in this case they would have very little obligation, very responsibility for cleaning out oil pollution and, and i to doubt it not just in these 2 communities but more broadly. so the,

the arguments that have been tested here all very significant we, we are optimistic and obviously extremely hopeful that shelley is not correct. and that it does have legal obligations to clean up to these communities in other communities like these. but the, the significance of this case has been those sorts of arguments or a potentially going to be tested in the course here in england. ok, matthew renshaw, lawyer and partner late a. thank you very much for your time. thank you very much. ah, it was indeed of the news africa still to come dealing with everyday racism in germany, a young blackman chassis experience of racial discrimination my 1st, the cobra pandemic showed us one thing that vaccines our life save us, you know, kill ation, is especially important for babies who have no immunity of the own. so what happens

if there is no access to the japs? that's the situation in ghana where some hospitals are forced to turn. oh, for mothers away. my for soup tells us more in this report from tamale in the north of the country. it might look like in no my children's ward, but nothing is normal. he added tamale west hospital. these children all have ms of the abilene care for any special needs, a we from what a children. an outbreak of the infectious disease has led to a sage. in cases we suspected dave's residence bloomed watson shortages for the outbreak. my, it is my child who had been vaccinated against me so she wouldn't have become infected, but the children are not vaccinated. and that's the problem over how to shut the shower. for 6 months, the situation has been to total written health facilities have now run out of critical vaccines for young children, re form babe who 14,

we don't have it. like there will you, which is giving us a fully a 0 little house for you right now. we do have the router via a, the roots of us, since you don't have it, we don't have missiles. these mothers have spent the last month visit in the hospital. the air force in been back. why the, when i have been coming here for the past 4 weeks, each time i come, the vaccine is not there and i have to go back home to day to i came and there is no vaccine for my child work. i'm gonna log on to recently gone as economy was doing well, which led to world bank to list it as a middle income country. it therefore no longer qualifies for do not support him more sick. this included in health, the government also have been keen to break away from each dependency. but with the

current economic downturn, ganna is struggling to mit is childhood vaccine. knees, public health advocacy. the governments you swallow is pride in seek international support. so it's time for government and we look at our policy, se, yes, despite the fact that we want to go gone beyond in best buy, therefore, our middle income country, there are inequalities within our country that needs to be address and to call for the necessary support that we can gather from holiday will impact miss gannon normally has a good record of bucks, an uptick at around 95 percent, according to the health ministry. but these vaccines sure to use. i have this serious consequences. iran children and nice. and there are certain disease conditions that they will not build antibodies against. and therefore, when they come across it, they are, what did we can get a free and acquisition organism, i will fill d and just spread encore, severe disease as an agent,

a temporary solution. the government has sought help and brought in some vaccines from neighboring countries, while it hopes to somehow allocate money for vaccines. but actually see it is not enough in just a drop in the ocean. the universal declaration of human rights states that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms without distinction of any kind, such as race and color. but people with skin colors like mine, still face racial discrimination of all kinds. we'll soon talk more about racism and how to do with it. but let's 1st look at one example from right here in germany . i'll for the, comes from senegal. he now lives in hamburg, where he works as a model. he says his experienced repeated discrimination because of the color of his skin. like when he wanted to go to a club with friends. jamarkis acne passed and they always said no,

no go. that was brutal for me. i would say we didn't even have a chance. and even if we did it, it fell apart. when we had to show id cards, we had special id papers and they always said, no reason problem give isn't in mind. he's also had problems with prejudice in his modeling work. to the slate of, of the, um, laden is the quote, sorry, but unfortunately we don't have clients for you. i knew you're old. you look great, but he's trying new york and dutch lots and i say, hey, i'm here in germany. yes, i did my schooling. he owned and i want to be successful. he had to vote minus and those were such blatant moments, realizing there were limits to my career and my future because of my parents like to home feelings. i'm also, you know, then it's funny how fia sees this as racist. exclusion and he's not the only one german society may be diverse, but any one with

a different skin color or who wears a headscarf is likely to experience racism sooner or later. that goes for berlin and the whole country. one researcher says that 90 percent of the respondents see racism and germany as a problem. those who belong to a minority are usually speaking from experience. numbers being offered themselves. racism is not a marginal phenomenon, but one that affects society as a whole. chapter schools, the police, labor and housing are some of the primary areas affected by racism. but health is available. there are dozens of resource centers in berlin alone that are publicly funded. reach out is just one of them. offering psychological help, hip natalie steph. as a common in that email, it's always the case here that people are traumatized by racist attacks, which is why i'm finding and then the torment is yet on their traumatized by racial

hostility. cup alicia, and that in turn causes physical problems. the people can't sleep and they're constantly afraid that so men standing amongst hat, aid workers, politicians, and scientists all agree racism is not an individual problem. but a structural problem means to 50 for me on the issue of racism, have now joined by emily arrived cheesy renown, social justice leda, ortho, unexpressed, on into 6 knowledge, he inclusion on nondiscrimination. hello, emily. thanks a lot for your time now. we had in the reports that racism is a structural problem. is that really what it is? yes, as we racism is a systemic issue. so it have foresight to it. it has the individual perspective into, into individual dimension. the churchill, i mentioned the institutional dimension and that history dimension,

and the sum of all these dimensions make racism. so it would be wrong to say that there's only a structural side to it because there can be as well and institutional and history cool. and it's in individuals tied to it, but generally what they do is that those sides feed each other. so any individual instance of racism, for example, somebody who is attacking someone on the street because of the color of the skins. this is in printed or at least this is embedded in a wider system of the human isolation of black people. so, the late nelson mandela, one said, no one is born, hate another person because of the color of his skin or his background. so how does racism come about? so what happens is that we, we take on a lot of messages, a lot of images that we learn as children to hierarchy people. we learn to hurricane people on the basis of their gender, on the pieces of their skin, color,

their religion, their social class. and all of these messages convey an idea of superiority for certain societal groups. and so for example, for the case of racism, black people have been portrayed as inferior as some human, they have been portrayed us particularly criminal as particularly unintelligent. and all of those images are to be found in all the, the narrative, the stories, the, the images that we take on every day in literature on tv, in advertisement. and so that's how we learn from a very young age to internalize, or at least to yet to view blackness as something deficient as something negative. let's bring it out to a very personal level. how that's a black person like me, deal with racism when i'm faced with it. so i think what happens is that from a very young age there is a cognitive dissonance happening. so i can give you an example of when i was

a child, a white child said to me, media, you're black and the teacher came and said, no, no, i don't want to hear this. this is not kind and you know, the child like you. and so what we both internal life at the time was that blackness was interior that blackness in and of itself could be installed. and so the could be the difference that happens in black people, is that we learn to reject one part of our identity or to consider that part of our identity as negative. and healing means that we need to be whole again, that we need to see that part of our identity is not something negative, but as something that belongs to us, and that is that, that has been constructed as inferior. so it means that the work that needs to be done is individual and collective healing. and that's not an easy task, but i think we, a society need to go through that in order to heal from a racist society. okay, i mean, i guess, i guess you're looking at the very broad picture of how you know,

structurally i need to to lee and do society that it can be addressed. but everyday basis, black people face it from time to time. if one is phased with it right now, what is based on your experience the right way to deal with it? so there is no right or wrong re to do with it. there is something, is that a tree, it's rage, it creates frustration and it creates anger. and a wet supremacy society tells black people that they are not allowed to feel the feelings that they are not allowed to be angry, that they are not allowed to be frustrated. and so that's what i'm not going to say . oh, you should be calm and you should not responding. you should ignore what's going on . i think it's important to keep space as well, could be negative feelings and to also respond to what is happening. but this is not in and of itself the right way to do it. i think each individual should know that their point of view, their perspective dare dare did the hurt that he's done to them is important. and

that in fact, black like matter. so if a black person is being physically attacked on the street or verbal he attract, attacked on the street or at work or wherever that might be. i think there's a right to read that issue and to stand up for oneself. but this is not without consequences. you might be with a police there and you know, in the end you will pay for that. yeah. well that, that, that just gives me different images. i hope to never be in that situation. but before i left this round about by finding out that many people that have gone to that trauma of racism, what is the best way to help such people dealing with this? i think the best way to heal this is to find a community to find a community of people who make similar experiences. people with whom you can exchange those experiences and collectively as well healed from it's healing and that matter cannot be done individually because i feel like it's going to certainly

reinforce the isolation that comes out of racism. so noticing that what had happened to us is not because of us as individuals, but because of a wider system. and it's a collective issue that affects many different people that are get may also happen to be back. but it could be a black woman, a black man, a black, disabled person. he could be a black, rich person, a black, poor person. but knowing that this, this commonality is something that can be tremendously helpful in the healing process. and we are i normally it would take hours to talk about the issue like this, but to due to time will ended. yeah, i mean, right, social justice leda author an expert on in tests, externality inclusion and non discrimination. thanks a lot for your insights. thank you. so much ah man, how about we end with that smile after all alley, others week. we mocked wild happiness day. so what makes you happy is that the sun

love is and money may be. we asked people across the continent. what makes me happy? why is the piece that we did me and my family spot of my happiness and knowing that he had up, we are in a country which is peaceful, coming out to hell. even if it's not someone you know, helping them out in they are point of made that makes me satisfied, happy and have i sit down to my friends and my family members watching my just a rated gym. i'm always happy. what makes me happy is my best friend made that and my mommy and my sister who makes me happy, think people happy makes me happy. my friend, what makes me happy actually is money because like i can use it to buy my stuffs, send to travel, the people they love are my friends, my classmates,

my plans and my family may my me may bless her. yeah, that's what makes me happy. though music makes me happy. and when i just he had the millo deese when i just he had the lyrics and i just he had the drama as an african . i'm already happy. and on that happy note the and the program by fernald. ah ah ah

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