what's it like being gay in kenya?e. kevin washiro is a writer and journalist. >>> so, how free can you be? are there other places in kenya where you can walk around holding hands with your partner? >> you can try, you know? >> are there places you can go where it's not an experiment? >> no. i think at all points it's an experiment. >> so where is the threat from? where is it most dangerous? >> i think the violence is like from homophobes. most of it is based on the desire of the penis. you see two women kiss, you think you can get in there. >> oh, there's just one penis -- >> yeah, like they need me to help them out with a dick. and the violence like against lesbians comes in the part where men realize, oh, they're not attracted to me. >> i've always had this theory that a lot of issues and discrimination that we face is based on our attitude towards women. and so, you know, straight men will then come at a comp gay man because you're not a man, you are a woman and we do not respect women and, therefore, you know, why

eliana and her husband are among one hundred cuban doctors hired by kenya's ministry of health. because we don't. wake every day for them and that the people know that you won the day here even now in the community that people are coming to think about we sizwe lives we respect the system from the. government says the controversial decision was part of a plan to improve access to primary health care especially in rural areas. within about sixty s. the government come to government as part of a seventy five health facilities this is this is talking about from a health center to a number of dispensaries which will truth of the basic level two addresses of the family level both from what if i also created so this is but of the strategy used to measure the really does the average working distance it is a thing about a hundred number thing about industry or number twenty. we visited one of the health centers in an area called on that and then you keep. this maternal when it was built by the simple county government in two thousand and sixteen it remains closed for now. the dispensary

the movie refugee breaks such a bill in kenya. despite being the first canyon film ever to premiere to come first of all it could not initially be shown in its homeland. would have been your father bought in the film was banned in kenya because homosexuality is illegal there in the making of such films and even persisting such films is punishable by law it's off by. director one of the hugh went to court to appeal the ban and she won. you will know women become victims of intolerance and violence there shunned by society and oppressed by the church when i want to know how. sick our course of our young swallow with what i don't tamper i really lifted a figure was finally shown in kenya and drew standing ovations it's a film which against only odds won a victory over one of phobia and injustices home to give. a nod to our number one the piano by writer director james campion is a testament to what happens when women tell us stories it's a haunting utterly unique tale the entire in the life of the lead character given voice without h

the movie or a few key breaks such a bill in kenya. despite being the first kenyan film ever to premiere at the come festival it could not initially be shown in its homeland. would it when your father bought the film was banned in kenya because homosexuality is illegal there in the making of such films and even persisting such films is punishable by law it's off by. director one of the hugh went to court to appeal the ban and she won. you. know women become victims of intolerance and violence there shunned by society and oppressed by the church when i want to know how you don't want to. see the current course of our young swallow with the don't hamper i really lifted a figure was finally shown in kenya and two standing ovations it's a film which against only odds won a victory over one hundred thirty year and in justice home to give. a nod to our number one the piano by writer director jane campion is a testament to what happens when women tell their stories it's a haunting utterly unique tale the entire in the life of the lead charact

in kenya the outlook is bleak for many young people but now some comic book heroes are coming to the rescue. and new technologies are making us question one of our most important senses can we still trust our lives. we all have pictures in our heads and they can be extremely powerful we process images sixty thousand times more quickly than we do written words they arouse our emotions they can move us make us laugh feel happy or sad. but images can also be deceptive and they can be manipulated now even moving images can be altered making it possible to create extremely authentic looking fake news videos. have decided to resign from the of the brands have decided to resign from the of the press. as the next generation off a news on the left trunk space but if spatial expression and words are actually being generated by an actor. animation software developers like highly are busy perfecting the technology behind such high resolution facial mapping with customized. fourteen. to create these hyper realistic. here you can see cookie screwed up face that we just photograph and you can see h

ileana and her husband are among one hundred cuban doctors hired by kenya's ministry of health. because sweden. a the wake every day for a man that said that people know that he won the day here even now in the community that people are coming to. the but we sizwe lives we respect the system from the. government says the controversial decision was part of a plan to improve access to primary health care especially in rural areas. within about sixty s. the government come to government as part of what was seventy five health facilities this is this is it took me about from a health center to a number of dispensaries which able to rest of the basic level two addresses at the family level promotive i also creative so this is but of this truck that used to measure the then we did this the average working distance it is a good thing about a hundred another thing about indifferent or maybe twenty. we visited one of the health centers in an area called on that and then you keep. this maternal when it was built by the simple county government in two thousand and sixteen it remains closed

and say they are here to learn and hopefully make a difference in kenya some poor county. some chest news now and the world championship is in throwing fans around the world defending champion magnus carlsen and his challenger fabiano caruana remain in a deadlock after ten batches with just two games remaining have a look this final is guaranteed to go down in the history books magnus carlsen and fabiano caruana have drawn all ten of their matches so far a world record. carlson the undisputed king of the chess world has been world champion since twenty thirty nine boss this year he's facing his toughest challenge in quite some time is known for his aggressive openings and experts have noted his meticulous preparation if when it doesn't emerge after twelve matches that's just sort of the top hold that would hand the advantage to carlsen who hasn't lost a top rank in thirteen years i call not the world champion will be decided within the next week with the window receiving one million dollars in prize money. it was fifteen years ago today on nov twenty second one nine hundre

ileana and her husband are among one hundred cuban doctors hired by kenya's ministry of health. because we don't. miss the work every day for among the dual citizen the people know that you are in the evening now in the community that people coming to do prefer to. but we will if we respect the system from the hospital. the government says the controversial decision was part of the plan to improve access to primary health care especially in rural areas. within about sixty s. of the government the congressman has put there was seventy five health facilities this is this is the health center to a number of the spencers which are able to reach the basic level two addresses of the family level. i also created so this is but of this truck that used to measure the. working distance it is a good thing about the hundred number thing about industry when. we visited one of the health centers in an area called on that and then you keep. this maternal and it was built by the simple county government in two thousand and sixteen it remains closed for now. the dispensary right beside it is run

deal also on the program a group of gunmen of ducks an italian aid worker from her guest house in kenya injuring several children in the attack no group has claimed responsibility but fears are growing that islamic militants are to blame also except from are small in conspicuous memorial there's not much left to mark the sights of the ochre mark can one of the last survivors has been talking to d.w. about life in the concentration camp in northern germany that the world forgot. plus say it's been more than a years as the iraqi city of mosul was liberated from an islamic state but the danger is still present our reporter travels to the former extremist stronghold where u.n. experts are risking their lives trying to clear thousands of suicide belts bombs and booby traps lying hidden beneath the rooms. and where for years to go until the qatar world cup we'll take a look at the controversy surrounding the next edition of the biggest football event in the world. great to have you along everyone britain's prime minister is in brussels to try and finalize an agreement on the u.k.'s exit from

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the land that kenya was a metaphor country if you come back to a school or an area. which as it is green then i didn't environment is us is a stress buster that's what i call it so we are just in case you today. we had a system get out today because always we don't our environment is so polluted it is so deforested we have got nothing to be proud of but that can't be said of these people here. who have taken responsibility for the environment into their own hands and created a video on the banks of the nairobi river to see. hope for young people and hope for the environment this report from kenya closes our show today we hope you liked it and i inspired by the join us next week for and you have his it of eco africa that's all for me in lagos nigeria. and also here in johannesburg it's time to go but we can definitely stay in touch so follow us on social media and check out our website and twitter accounts thank you so much for watching and we'll see you next train. moved. me to move and its impact on me arts. w.'s noble media forum for culturally influential figures

we will accompany a man in kenya who's convincing former gang members to care for the environment. then we will visit an initiative in zimbabwe where young women learn how to farm. i will see how these protect the trees from being destroyed by the national park in south africa. so let's head out to uganda first of lake victoria in the eastern part of the country there have been some problems lately with man eating cocoa dels the scientists believe the attacks are borne out of over exploitation of the lake in the crooked hours don't get enough fish they behave aggressively towards the humans but the villagers started to kill the reptiles and one man decided he wants to save them by relocating them four hundred kilometers up country and his korea experience cook without cutter patel one has captured more than one hundred now crocodiles wow impressive record isn't it. the fear some site of a nile crocodiles the largest species of crocodilian in africa while tourists cruise the nile hoping to see the imposing reptiles from the safety of a board along the shores of lake victoria the ful

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carol: coming up, blockchain is taking off in kenya.na to: discover your family tree may have unforeseen consequences. carol: this is "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ jason: welcome back. carol: you can listen to us on the radio at sirius xm, and in new york, boston, washington dc -- >> in london, and on the bloomberg business app. some of the worst neighborhoods nairobienyan capital of currency,dealing with werey for goods in areas access to paper cash is rare. carol: our reporter explains. you to look at the way cryptocurrency is being used outside of wall street and silicon valley. the whole idea of blockchain is going to change everything. i wanted to see if there were real applications. inpoke to this program anya, which is turning poverty alleviation project into a cryptocurrency project. i started reading it and phrase.arol's wait, what? moving from colored paper, straight to blockchain. these are poor people who live in kenyan slums. they have things to trade, but not official shillings to do it with. we agree this paper voucher is w

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carol: coming up, blockchain is taking off in kenya.sive, how using dna to discover your family tree may have unforeseen consequences. carol: you're going to want to check out this story. this is "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ jason: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." i am jason kelly. carol: i am carol massar. you can listen to us on the radio at sirius xm, and in new york, boston, washington d.c. jason: in london, and on the bloomberg business app. for the last four years, some of the poorest neighborhoods in the kenyan capital of nairobi have been experimenting with community currency, payment vouchers that can help businesses pay for goods in areas were access to paper cash is sporadic. carol: that program is successful. with the involvement of a cryptocurrency program, it has gone digital. our reporter explains. >> i wanted to look at the way cryptocurrency is being used outside of wall street and silicon valley. the whole idea blockchain is it is revolutionary. it is going to change everything. i wanted to see if there were re

the sea the challenge is to work sustainably without neglecting economic potential and involved in kenya fishermen and women doing that by seeing that catch not just as something to eat but to weigh as well. once upon a time this large specimen would have been destined only for your dinner place but now the fisherman and women around lake turkana in northern kenya are exploiting the skin as well as the flesh of their catch it's part of an initiative that helps locals to develop new income sources without causing harm to the oceans so far cultivating fish leather is paying off fish it's considered exotic love dates it's like reptile leather and. we have a crocodile. sniggler that which is endangered but fish know that if it's a. once it's been treated the skin can be used to make a range of luxury fashion items from shoes to bags that's presented new opportunities for kenyan designers. i was inspired actually to take the challenge to create garments rooted in fuses. together with fish skin and. european materials i wanted to bring out a combination but has never been done before. totally

in kenya, the outlook is bleak for many young people.ut now some comic b book heros are coming to the rescue! and new technogies are ming us question one of our most important senses. can we still trust our e eyes? we all have pictures in our heads. and ty can be eremely powerful. we process images 60,000 times more quickly than we do text. they arouse our emotions. they can move us, make us laugh, feel happy or sad. bubut images canan also be decee ---- and they cacan be manipuld now, e even movi i images can e altered ---- making it p possibo crcreate extremely authentic-looking "fake news" videos. fake trump: i've decided t to resign from the office of the president. i've decided to resign from the office of the esident. reporter: the next generation of fake news. on the left, trump's's face, bt his facialal expression and d s are actually beingng generatedy an actor. leading animation software developers like hao li are busy perfecting the technology behind such high-resolution facial mapping. this customized photo booth utilizes 14,

this is kenya's biggest trash dump. he's just a few kilometers away from nairobi's commercial district every day hundreds of trucks around and with garbage from the city's not fluent districts and it's hotels and restaurants. salem you know and for me. the mysore the trash because i'm trying to earn a little money you say. i'm no longer alone and i have a wife and child now. and they're waiting for me to come back with milk or bread in the evening. on you must mean that they'll complain if i come home empty handed and yeah yeah. they're going to convert you or i collect food and put it aside to feed my pigs they have to eat to. drown me sometimes i might be lucky and find some packed meat and chips here. and that would be lunch for the day just like that. some might think this is not a good job if they see me looking as dirty as i am now they might look down on me but i know what i'm getting out of it. and you couldn't first was seen as something that was necessary for growth to happen was something that was necessary f

still ahead, closing the cash gap in kenya with crypto.ties are grappling with air pollution. some breathtaking numbers and what is being done to clear air. puns intended. carol: this is part of the special new economy issue. it is a preview to bloomberg's new economy forum that will be hosted in singapore next week. participants from around the globe are gathering to devise solutions to issues facing the global economy in the coming year. jason: this issue of "bloomberg businessweek" explores some of the daunting challenges these growth engines face and will continue to confront. here is our bloomberg economics editor behind this issue. >> we have an idea. we call them pillars, the important topics that are the foundation for the conference that is going to happen in singapore. this is a part of that effort. the pillars are things like governance, inclusion, trade. the challenge was we have to tell stories within those rubrics that are fresh and new and representative of the challenges these countries face. carol: let us get into his stor

as the topic of abortion is sensitive around the world marie stopes is one of the main panics and kenya which conducts legal abortions in various parts of the country but recently it was ordered to stop by the kenya medical practitioners and dentists board and this comes after a public outcry against the kind of advertising sun say that it was promoting abortion and the organization has been pushing through with radio and social media platforms messages about support it gives to pregnant women and in kenya abortion is only legal for emergency treatment or when the life or health of a mother is in danger and we have from a rape victim who shared her story with us and she says banning abortion is not the way to go for security reasons we've been asked not to reveal her identity bunning maurice. maybe one more i was in my situation is the right thing to do and one man who would like to remain anonymous says that this move will actually lead to more illegal abortions. quite a number of species. could have babies to this to. patients to carry out their push to. pass through. happening the go

this is a slum in nairobi, kenya. more than 1 —— sent. this is a slum in nairobi, kenya.re. i am 10,000 miles in what feels like an entire universe away from the lush campuses of silicon valley. how argued? hello! the people i am here to meet are every bit as vital to the next wave of cutting edge tech than anyone you could meet in california. you have your brother living here? yes, my brother and my mum. are they supported by you ? brother and my mum. are they supported by you? yes. this is brenda, a 26 robert single mother, who has lived here her entire life. how does it feel to be creating the technology that is to change the future? it feels so good. at least you get to do something unique from other is. at least with my work that iam doing, other is. at least with my work that i am doing, i work for something thatis i am doing, i work for something that is go to help me. not even me in the future, but it will help someone in the future, but it will help someone in the future. every workday, brenda travels for around two hours to a building on the other side of nairob

they come from the poor quarter of kariobanga in kenya's capital, nairobi. the slum is wracked by violence. one of emily's friends was raped. many families have no money. so the girls leave school and marry early. emily lives with her parents. they were against the boxing to begin with. emily: there was a rumor that was rurunning over that ifif u join that kind of sport if you are a woman, then it will become difficult for you to get married, because men will be fearing you will be beating your husband. reporter: emily laughs, but it's a sad fact that girls have to make good marriage candidates. parents are glad when there is someone else to look after their daughters. emily's mother has very little money. she hopes her daughter will earn enough money to help the family once she has completed her schooling. perhaps as a doctor or nurse. she would never have thought that possible before. fridah: she used to do poorly at school, but since she's been boboxing she's got a goal. she was shy, and when you spoke to her it was like s she didnt hehear you. but now sh

andrew harding, bbc news, kenya.ete tasks. the dolphin research center undertook a year—long project in collaboration with the university of western australia, and studied pairs of dolphins in the florida keys. gail maclellan tells us what they found. dolphins have long been regarded as the most intelligent of marine mammals. and this study confirms their extraordinary abilities. researchers wanted to see the dolphins could actively co—operate with each other, notjust perform the same action in the same place and time. could they understand our partners rolling again? the game was the dolphins had a swim across the lagoon in person but in and you speak specifically within a 1— second time window. to succeed, to dolphins each had depressed the button at same time, whether they had been sent across the together for the delay in time of up to 20 seconds. the buttons were wired to computer to record the actions and time difference. the dolphins didn't just succeed at this task, they were amazing at it so by the end, the

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and say they are here to learn and hopefully make a difference in kenya some blue county. chinese e-commerce sites are pulling dolce and gabbana goods from their platforms in luxury brand is under fire in china for series of ads and they were supposed to promote a fashion show in shanghai this week. on social media. he's not the player who had the pill a chinese woman struggling to eat typical italian food like pizza with chopsticks of course that is accompanied by traditional chinese music which critics claim critics call outdated and stereotypical that have been canceled and now so has the show. and the backlash in china is strong and the fallout is growing and to take us through this a little more we have a social media editor called announcement here. luxury meets one of the world's largest consumer markets here how much trouble is. yeah they're in trouble because of the way they're in trouble doting obama does these ads are not being received well in china we can start by just showing you some of the fallout on chinese social media where many are calling out the compa

dr eliana sees her first patient at maryland hospital in northern kenya. the specialist physician has been here for four months now. in some brew most people speak. the local language some making it difficult to communicate with the patients. people coming from community and speaking. english. for us. ileana and her husband are among one hundred cuban doctors hired by kenya's ministry of health. because we don't. miss the wic every day for a man that the people know that you want to hear even now in the community that people are coming to. but we sizwe lives we respect the system from the. government says the controversial decision was part of a plan to improve access to primary health care especially in rural areas. within about sixty s. of the government to come to government seventy five health facilities this is this is a talking about from a health center to a number of dispensaries which are able to receive the basic level two addresses at the family level both promotive and also curative so this is but of this truck that used to measure the really d

idea and adapted the open source code for their countries the app dodgy doctors enables users from kenya to see whether their doctors registered practitioners with no formal qualifications are common there the open source code was then used for a similar project in south africa program where brisson can train software developers all over africa and advises them to use open source. african countries open sores has a big. impact in terms of how being africans build products to solve for african challenges and problems. resource projects i've come up in the recent years in order to enable the warpers and everyone to. news that i'm to build products and solutions for us. it's the sharing spirit that motivates programmers to use open source the more people help improve the code the better it is for social projects. shift says free software for better world. and now networkers digital makers and shakers today coding feminist berets hang. her mission is training underprivileged girls in cape town to get a head start in technical professions the south african founded the charity girl hype thirte

lots of shopping centers have been built by private investors for kenya's small upper class in recent years this is a result of the country's powerful economic growth but normal kenyans aren't benefiting most don't have either state pension scheme or health insurance almost forty percent survive on less than two dollars a day the majority of nairobi's inhabitants live in slums just like arching his home is done dora a good five kilometers from nairobi center right next to the city's largest garbage dump. trucks are constantly dumping waste from hotels restaurants and the affluent neighborhoods here it stinks of burnt plastic and decay. like many others collects recyclables and sells them to middle man he works hard ten to twelve hours a day even on sundays. do not get greta if someone gets rich and there are poor people who need help why don't the rich help those who are poor and suffering. at least that begin with it's unfair for some people to be wealthy and to have a few rich families owning land and farms while others have to sleep on the streets of fallujah on a mushroom up. to a