an attempt to exterminate the herero unama people in german south west africa today namibia resulted in the murder of at least eighty thousand people out of fears of costly reparations german parliament has never officially recognized the mud as genocide but the government has promised if ever assessment of the country's colonial history well i'm joined now here at the big table by a kuwaiti is the paramount chief of the over herero people it's good to have you here in the studio with this we saw the remains being returned to namibia what are your thoughts about that will. flow for it's a step in the right direction. that's one of the months. and therefore we are delighted. to be here and receive the remains and yes it's. your delighted are you are you satisfied do you feel that a sense of justice has been carried out. in a small measure indeed yes. they don't belong here they shouldn't have been here in the first listening. and therefore. it's it was a good day there are demands for a full apology from the german government. and recognition of the genocide and reparations how much p

we are of course holding reconciliation talks with namibia right now. trying to formulate what happened a hundred years ago or more so that we as europeans can apologize for the terrible things that and take responsibility. but also so that this is accepted by the african side so that our future is not because we talk about the past. but what we can do together now as we it's. but for israel talks excluding herero unama people count for nothing some activists have gone as far as filing a lawsuit in new york against the german government calling for that participation . their return however of some twenty herero unama human remains at a ceremony in balance french church is being regarded as at least a step in the right direction if you did as positive i think this is a positive from what isn't good is that it's taken place in a church why not in parliament and then recognize the genocide at the same time focus more on the. like many herrera nama activists israel wants all planned out work and human remains to be returned to their home country the german

we had to namibia where a small company has become a trailblazer and immobility. then we're in the german capital of the city has now become a host of wild animals foraging for food and finally where in south africa to meet an activist who is showing people how to deal with the dangers of climate change. in the media the outlook for effects is bright against according to a company called sun cycle and it's based in the capital of wind hook where they produce bicycles that are powered by the sun in a place where the sun shines at least three hundred days a year and appears to be a promising concept the firm tell us it spikes for different uses with the aim of promoting sustainable and affordable mobility let's take a look at how that works. to deliver medicine to pharmacies around the capital. he doesn't want one of the country's first. his deliveries need to arrive at the pharmacies early in the morning this way he gets to avoid traffic. so. this one. gave me the strength to do everything all the time. so far each bike saw the rare exception on the maybe as roads

he's an anthropologist and social literacy consultant in namibia kaylin reach into she's a journalist and editor of the website african american in africa and here in our studio there a writer and journalist focusing on race culture and politics in the united states welcome to the stream to everyone so this. it is a conversation that is very hot for their audience they love this topic and so everyone wanted to chime in with why people might want to move to the continent of africa this is just one of the tweets we got this is from adman who says it's about identity events like the slave trade in the colonial rule almost wiped away that african identity and thank goodness people are once again asking these questions about that identity so kalan i want to go to you with that idea talking about the draw of what made you want to leave the u.s. and move to namibia have a picture here on my laptop that i pulled up of you not too long ago you teach english to talk to us about that experience and what made it so enticing for you. you know basically by the time i was about twenty three twenty f

and move to namibia have a picture here on my laptop that i pulled up of you not too long ago you teach english to talk to us about that experience and what made it so enticing for you. you know basically by the time i was about twenty three twenty four years old i personally just became kind of tired and bored of america and i just really fell in love with the energy and vibrancy that came with black nations especially after visiting barbados which is where i have met lineage and so i basically decided that you know i wanted to experience life on the african continent and so i started doing research on the internet about ways to move to africa and i found out that one of the easiest ways was through volunteer teaching and so i applied to an american organization and that's how i ended up in namibia and you know the rest is history i ended up getting married twenty maybe and i'm now a mother here but really just for me it was you know i personally was was kind of unsatisfied with american life and i've always felt a connection just to the continent and to my african ancestry and just so

some cycles not only manufacture the bikes made in namibia the company also builds recharging stations powered by solar cells the bikes run on clean energy that's part of the concept so our main aim is to provide an alternative in my stable form of transport to specifically low income commuters but also private customers game gods health care workers kindergarten teachers anywhere where normal bicycle is limited in its usefulness and way a car can be substituted. more than one hundred sun cycle bikes are already in use around the country including here at the sun umballa community conservancy the reserve is situated in the north east of namibia where the job a river forms a natural border to botswana the wildlife here not only attracts tourists but also bush meat hunters and ivory poaches for a long time the rangers have to patrol the area on bikes with just one gear. thanks to donations they now have eight e-books which allow them to work far more efficiently on a normal day the ranges cover up to twenty five kilometers of a bush. you. see. life would be. the rangers wouldn't want to

of extermination in the media from nine hundred forty nine where i was a war crimes and genocide namibia has received hundreds of thousands of euros from germany perhaps a sort of entire right way of compensation but that's not enough for the tribes last year america and now my representatives father lawsuit in new york saying they want to be part of the official talks between germany and the maybe i'm saying it was the only way to ensure justice what happened in south africa was a genocide not while ation a violation of the law and germany is not. really. completely held accountable it is unique in the sense that you can find a region extermination order there just issued by germany. to extend its them as they were not the historians to say just look at the mix they will make a difference of this case history will delete even the old if they win it might encourage other indigenous groups to take action against format european colonial overlords which could see the likes of britain france on the netherlands pay a high price to posturings finishes at the r.t. bell and either does or for m

off to adult knew that it has stopped the very first colony german southwest africa also known as namibia in the early one nine hundred stemmons that's less violent bases learned from local citizens leading to one of the centrist west genocides. the heroin the nation must now leave the country if it refuses to show compelled to do so with a long view and a hero found inside the german frontier with or without the gun or cattle will be executed i shall spare me the women not children. today as hereright unama communities still mourn the deaths of the eighty thousand people were slaughtered is that data length of the german government to pay for the crimes committed you know what people are to commit holocaust. and then you simply claim to be sixty eight on the jews. in europe in the new the british. and because we didn't contribute a different skin color of. the german government you see for us. it's only. in apology. in the to. even the apology came a century lace with german economic cooperation and development minister close to tears when she spoke about it in two thousand and four. we

one of them was releasing the namibia data. two years ago we found a very large pandemic in northern namibia. and that was at a time when we were shifting resources and the country was taking on more and more responsibility and then we found this huge epidemic with 35% prevalence in women in the north. and it shows why they were successful because in that moment, the government, the president, the minister of health, our u.s. ambassador, ambassador dalton, and the program and the community came together and said what do we do? and, yes, it took resources, but magic secret sauce was the community and government working together in a new way, where the government drove policy changes based on the communities in play. i just want to repeat that. government made a policy changes based on the communities input to make these programs work. because of that, they went from 40% coverage and suppression to over 70%. as a country, they have 77% viral load suppression across communities. you can't do that in two years without those groups,

including here at the sun umballa community conservancy the reserve is situated in the north east of namibia where the job a river forms a natural border to botswana the wildlife here not only attracts tourists but also bush meat hunters and ivory poaches for a long time the rangers have to patrol the area on bikes with just one gear. thanks to donations they now have eight e-books which allow them to work more efficiently on a normal day the ranges cover up to twenty five kilometers of the bush. sea . life. the rangers wouldn't want to trade their bikes for a car the bikes may not be as strong as a four by four but they're much more agile they need to be recharged after every sixty kilometers. during the daytime we charge the car battery and in the evening we can take the cable and charge the battery of the bicycle with the car battery to do so with this so we can still charge the bicycle battery when it's dark. you know. the robust and simple design of the eba this is well suited to working in the bush and allows the rangers to do most repairs themselves the team at sun cycles are already

but as well meaning as those thoughts are they clearly aren't enough for the government of namibia for many of the congregation in the church and indeed for the protesters here outside who believe that the only real restitution would be full reparations and recognition of the devastating effect wrought on the herero and number of people today where i am making the last minority group one of the smallest ethnic group in memory in this because of the guinness right. for the last twenty eight years germany has been the largest international investor in the libyan economy in part perhaps an expression of the lingering guilt many in modern germany feel dominic can. barely. a rainforest the size of france is at risk in the democratic republic of congo it's the world's second largest rain forest but the government is not planning to end the ban on industrial logging concessions all from malcolm webb. it takes about eighty years for a tree like this to grow in just a few minutes to cut it down. and hardly any jobs here in the east of the democratic republic of congo when he was a teenager to s

great data from the baby a -- namibia. people met country achieved viral suppression, which is extraordinary and yielded a 50% decline in new infections. that is what we want to see. another applause line, indeed. unfortunately, not the same as some other countries. posting data presented from cameroon, where you see still throughes of mortality untreated hiv infection and low coverage of treatment. a lot of that is seen as a function of structural realities, like the insistence on cost-sharing and fees that have really limited access to the poor. that is a real challenge. were just a variety of interesting studies that looked at how we deliver these services that we now know are saving lives and preventing infections better? i'm going to run through this very quickly. data-driven prevention in kenya using facial mapping, terrific outcomes, prevention with linkages also in kenya, promising early signs from dreams. friendly clinics having more hiv tend -- testing with more condoms. genderinance, reducing violence is an extr

narrator: in an urgent effort to help, julian will travel across africa, from namibia to the dangerousorde of ethiopia and south sudan, and on into uganda to launch daring rescue mission with a determined team. kan: giraffe is very beautiful.

including here at the sun umballa community conservancy the reserve is situated in the north east of namibia where the job a river forms a natural border to botswana the wildlife here not only attracts tourists but also bush meat hunters and ivory poachers for a long time the rangers have to patrol the area on bikes with just one gear. thanks to donations they now have eight e-books which allow them to work far more efficiently on a normal day the ranges cover up to twenty five kilometers of the bush. you. see. life. the rangers wouldn't want to trade their bikes for a car the bikes may not be as strong as a four by four but they're much more agile they need to be recharged after every sixty kilometers. during the daytime we charge the car battery and in the evening we can take the cable and charge the battery of the bicycle with the car battery to do so with this so we can still charge the bicycle battery when it's dark. you know. the robust and simple design of the bikes is well suited to working in the bush and allows the rangers to do most repairs themselves the team at sun cycles are al

two tribes in namibia of south west africa are attempting to sue germany this seeking compensation and official apologies for the genocide committed by german colonialists over a hundred years ago and takes up the story. germany still shows signs of its dark imperial past this is looted it's to us or named after adults knew that it has stopped the very first colony german southwest africa also known as the maybe a in the early one nine hundred stemmons that's less thought it bases land from local citizens leading to one of the centrist west genocide. of the huron nation must now leave the country if it refuses and show composure to do so would belong to any share of found inside the german frontier with or without a gun or kero will be executed i shall spare new the women children. today as hereright unama communities still mourn the deaths of the eighty thousand people were slaughtered is that data length of the german government to pay for the crimes committed you know what people are to commit holocaust. and then you simply claim sixty on the jews. and you just in then you beat him

two tribes in namibia inside west africa are attempting to suit germany they're seeking compensation and unofficial apologies for the genocide committed by german colonialists over one hundred years ago with the story this hour and the society. germany still shows signs of its dark imperial past this is looted it's to us or names off to adult knew that it has the very first colony german southwest africa also known as the maybe a in the early one nine hundred stim insets less thought it bases land from local citizens leading to one of the centuries west genocides. the heroes in the nation must now leave the country if it refuses i shall come pallid to do so with a long tube and a hero found inside the german frontier with or without a gun or a candle will be executed i shall spare me the women not children. today's hereright unama communities still mourn the deaths of the eighty thousand people were slaughtered that data length of the german government to pay for the crimes committed you know what people. cost. and then you simply claim to be sixty eight on the juice. in the new the

but as well meaning as those thoughts are they clearly aren't enough for the government of namibia for many of the congregation in the church and indeed for the protesters here outside who believe that the only real restitution would be full reparations and recognition of the devastating effect wrought on the herero and nama peoples today we are and making the last man noted to group one of the smallest ethnic group in memory in these people something genocide. for the last twenty eight years germany has been the largest international investor in the namibian economy in part perhaps an expression of the lingering guilt many in modern germany feel don't it can. the philippines has a long history of people who disappear apparently abducted by police or government agents never to be seen again some of them missing since the one nine hundred seventy s. when martial law was imposed but has changed since then but filipinos continue to vanish from manila real alan duggan reports. this a paris yours or the disappeared is a theater play in manila that aims to remind young filipinos of the horro

but as well meaning as those thoughts are they clearly aren't enough for the government of namibia for many of the congregation in the church and indeed for the protesters here outside who believe that the only real restitution would be full reparations and recognition of the devastating effect wrought on the herero and number of people today where and making the last minority group one of the smallest ethnic group in memory of yet in this because of the genocide. for the last twenty eight years germany has been the largest international investor in the libyan economy in part perhaps an expression of the lingering guilt many in modern germany feel dominic came out. zero zero. and we shall carry these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera the collapse of part of a dam in me and maher has unleashed giant waves of water and force the mass evacuation of villages and towns more than sixty thousand people of had to flee their homes and major roads have been flooded rescue teams in the military have launched a huge operation. also in myanmar while global attention is focused on the wrong

but as well meaning as those thoughts are they clearly aren't enough for the government of namibia for many of the congregation in the church and indeed for the protesters here outside who believe that the only real restitution would be full reparations and recognition of the devastating effect wrought on the herero and number of people today where i magine the last men noted to group one of the smallest ethnic group in memory in this because of the genocide . for the last twenty eight years germany has been the largest international investor in the libyan economy in part perhaps an expression of the lingering guilt many in modern germany feel don it came as a. biofuels have been touted as a green alternative to fossil fuel and global demand for biofuels containing palm oil looks set to grow but it comes at a cost south east asian forests are being cleared to make way for palm of plantations and with the demand for palm all set to increase threefold by twenty fifty the rate of deforestation could be devastating as florence louis reports. sabah in east malaysia is renowned for the beaut

namibia's on costa wants a sustainable future. of inter based business travels a bike the drama on solar energy it's a promising concept the bikes are affordable and fun to ride and even use five rangers on patrol. go into africa and thirty nine d. w. . really feel. the scars on you so move the pain is still tangible. for it not for god. to see things change when more they have survived but do they also have a future i really understand people who say they do one station but i also admire people who want to stay serious. decided to create something. out of tartness city after the war starts september second on g.w. . u.s. president donald trump has canceled his secretary of state's trip to north korea which was planned for next week when a tweet said he asked not to go because north korea was not making sufficient progress denuclearizing the peninsula. is present u.s. republican senator john.

. >> reporter: i flew 13,374 miles from los angeles to london to johannesburg to namibia before i finally down on this patch of royal soil in the middle of the atlantic ocean. and believe it or not, that was the easy way to get here. >> this island has been here in the middle of the south atlantic, six days away from anywhere, for 500 years. >> reporter: governor lisa honan is the queen's representative in st. helena, a british island over 4,500 miles south of great britain. commercial flights started arriving in october. before that, the only way in or out was on a boat. the royal male ship, the rms st. helena, sailed its final voyage earlier this year. >> there wasn't a dry eye in the island when the ship salils. people were crying, waving. >> reporter: now it's up to a controversial $400 million airport to serve as the life line for the 4,000 people who live here. >> well, the locals call ourselves saints. >> that's not a bad path to sainthood. >> i'm glad i'm a saint. >> by birth you're a saint. >> reporter: gisele was born here and is the owner of a small shop selling handmade jewelr

namibia is on course to wants a sustainable future. of inter based business fattal's the bikes that promise only solar energy it's a promising concept the bikes are affordable and fun to ride and even use five ranges patrol. eco at africa. thirty minutes on d w. six for state school in the jungle. for first climbing less of a minute door as grand a moment arrives in the joining a regular chain on her journey back to freedom. in our interactive documentary tour of generating returns home monday w don't come to tank. come in until sixteen and i'll crush echoed around the world. of young people the build against the current generation. because it was an awesome dusty from the stupidity existence to suit the big demanded nothing less than a whole new society to hide maelstrom of the split up the violence with the vietnam war play make sure the role of the modern generation watch the book work every day out of those one to remember them the most of the first time i had a feeling of being part of something. the seeds of civil rights. peace m

narrator: in an urgent effort to help, julian will travel across africa, from namibia to the dangerousorder of ethiopia and south sudan, and on into uganda to launch a daring rescue mission with a determined team. adiokan: giraffe is very beautiful.

look at very carefully because the situation on the ground is quite different in south africa or namibia compared to zimbabwe or the democratic republic of congo. corruption, questions of that matter make it hard to overgeneralize. what i'm talking about in particular is there a trophy mays in the united states operate under the endangered species act where foreign other speciesx, are brought to the united states and restart again farms for canned hunting. thoseestion is do translate back to benefits in their home countries. data -- i don't think the data show much benefit. when it comes to something like south africa it's very different than what's being permitted here. it? probably is what do you do when you have a species like elephants that are declining in parts of africa? affectsthe u.s. action global demand. it is very complicated. the courts of said that you should -- should not make over generalizations because they have to be shown demonstrably on the ground. that is lacking. , we want tolicated give species a benefit of the doubt because it they are gone, they're gone forever.