president emmanuel cross is also a huge fan and. i'm christine window welcome to news africa i'm glad you're tuned in the united nations has dedicated today to raising awareness about female genital mutilation if t.m. as it's also known is the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or of the injury to the female genital organs or medical reasons if jim is known to be practice in about thirty countries in africa but it is on the decline and young women at the forefront of challenging this i mean activists. will never forget the day it happened to her. a full physical siesta when i think about the day my parents took me and gave me to those women who had tools that i have never seen before so that they could do this to. prove that. well to be honest i was mostly and with my parents because they have betrayed me they didn't really tell me where i was going in mourning even the will idea and they just told me i had to go on holiday and then i was faced with this when i got there he said pratik. i'm traumatized when an

france president emmanuel cross is also a huge fan.

in may thousands of people have rallied the cross fire ants to condemn hostility towards jews david chaytor has more from powers. the french president emmanuel macron was saying that anti semitism has now reached its worst levels since the second world war figures published for last year show the number of anti-semitic attacks and risen by seventy four percent now france has the biggest jewish community in europe of course and he was speaking to community leaders at an annual dinner he promised a new legislation to ban hate speech on the internet he also asked his interior minister to take action to ban extreme right wing groups who were promoting and fueling violence and discrimination but perhaps the most significant thing is that he said that he would now consider taking action to make and zionism part of anti semitism legislation we don't know exactly what form or shape that will take or when it will take place but of course the zionist movement was the political movement that established israel israel as the homeland for jews in palestine now this is a very controversial measure it's been proposed by some of the m.p.'s in his own party