correspondence sandra piteousness and who has spent time in north in iraq with the community and visited mr macwhich as hospital in eastern congo is part of her job as a filmmaker it's a pleasure to have you here sandra so the nobel peace prize committee has said this you have decided to highlight sexual violence as a weapon of war being very specific about that so how important is this prize and the attention that it gets to the plight of women around the world let's look at the work that dr mcwade does your know it let's be very blunt here he is a john searchin who operates on women in eastern congo who for instance have a kalashnikov you know chucked into their vaginas so just imagine the kind of horrific injuries these women suffer. and they are close to death they have lost their dignity he tries to give them just that back but dignity you know try story store whatever was destroyed and by doing so he's shining a light on exactly that these women are turned into weapons in a war you know that has slipped world's attention and today's price i think sheds some light on what is happening in east a