and also coming up on the show the border between nigeria and their share of remains shut but that's not stopping the smuggling to. build a world war. hello i'm christi paul welcome to news africa it's good to have you along ban the practice of changing now that's the demand from human rights watch to the nigerian government the organization says thousands of people with mental health conditions across nigeria are chained and locked up in various facilities where they face terrible abuse over a year human rights watch visited 28 facilities providing mental health care across nigeria it was found that people with actual or perceived mental health conditions all placed in religious and traditional rehabilitation centers without their consent and usually by relatives in other cases the families took their children or . adult relatives to the centers for drug use or deviant behavior this is skipping school smoking tobacco or marijuana or even stealing from their parents. and more than a few child with autism. and their friends are worth it which if i touch to maybe he's going to show wou

traders in the city of morality in the share a desperate for their border crossing to nigeria to open they can no longer sell rice or other food projects on the other side and trade with nigeria is their biggest source of income. and we're very angry the nigerian border closure is causing a lot of harm to the people they can't get on with the business they earn their money with so we are very angry with them causing the sporter. closure has had many effects being import and export a lot of things to a good neighbor nigeria but what he has done is not fair we want the border reopened as soon as possible. people in the share and other nigerian neighbors are extremely dependent on trade with what is africa's most populous country and even though both countries also import goods from nigeria it's still keeping its borders sealed. in stories want to clamp down on what enters the country and where. who's on the list of such as rice used to produce. they should not be exported to the country as a result of this. house or it is a little bunny is what is in a rise in and if we do not do for no

the next 15 minutes the children forced into marriage will bring you the story of a child bride in nigeria who was locked up by her family she refused to return to a husband. and zimbabwe's backstreet doctors and nurses all striking so women are turning to unqualified midwives to deliver their babies. hello i'm kristie. have you along if you're a girl born in nigeria there's a good chance you'll be married before you're 18 years old that's because nigeria as one of the highest number of child marriages in the world that's according to the u.n. we're talking about this as the world mocks the 30th anniversary off the convention off the rights of the child as we report the rise of many girls in nigeria are being violated. a muslim neighborhood in kaduna city in northern nigeria i came here to find out about a girl who was locked up in this place for 2 years without much light or food and left on her own her name is her santa she was a child bride these pictures were taken when she was released from captivity just a week ago she was held here by her family because she refused to return to her

it as well and let's do business nigeria says it will keep the borders to neighboring countries closed until at least january 31 next year and according to officials that won't be the end of it it's just the latest african nations to shut down its borders kenya closed its border with somalia in june in august but want to briefly shut some crossings with the democratic republic of congo in september sudan did the same with libya and the central african republic citing security and economic dangers geria then close its borders to benny and cameroon it says through cattail smuggling of rice and other goods the closures are a slap in the face of the confidence integration efforts the african continental free trade agreement provides for the free movement of goods and persons throughout africa $54.00 countries including i geria have signed it i jarius move is causing havoc for its neighbors who depend on africa's biggest economy for survival. traitors in the city of morality in the share a desperate for their border crossing to nigeria to open they can no longer sell rice or other food proj

there's a good chance you'll be married before you're 18 years old that's because nigeria has one of the highest number of child marriages in the world that's according to the u.n. we're talking about this as the world mocks thursday the 30th anniversary off the convention of the rights of the child as we report the rights of many girls in nigeria of being violated. a muslim neighborhood in kaduna a city in northern nigeria i came here to find out about a girl who was locked up in this place for 2 years without much light or food and left on her own her name is her sana she was a child bride these pictures were taken when she was released from captivity just a week ago she was held here by her family because she refused to return to her husband she was only 15 when she was forced to marry a mother of 4. a child bride one of millions in nigeria if you're born a girl here there's a 44 percent probability that you will be married before your 18th birthday. this neighbor knows her santa he says at the age of 15 she wasn't too young to be married he would marry his daughters off much youn

a muslim neighborhood in could do in a city in northern nigeria i came here to find out about a girl who was locked up in this place for 2 years with not much light or food and left on her own her name is. she was a child bride these pictures were taken when she was released from captivity just a week ago she was held here by her family because she refused to return to her husband she was only 15 when she was forced to marry a mother of 4 a child bride one of millions in nigeria if you're born a girl here there's a 44 percent probability that you will be married before you stay. this neighbor knows for santa he says at the age of 15 she wasn't too young to be married he would marry his daughters of much younger. sons and. 6. by the marriage as much rort. this is. a fierce advocate for women's and children's rights she helped her son and to be freed robbie is muslim herself she says the koran does not justify this practice there is no pacific or any findings or any story that prove those things the administration really be forced marriages are most of this is not done based on islamic

you doubly reports from nigeria which brides are commonplace. a math and how it welcome to the program a star witness has given the most explosive testimony so far at the impeachment inquiry into u.s. president donald trump gordon's on the u.s. ambassador to europe had already given evidence behind closed doors about alleged attempts to pressure ukraine's president selenski into starting an investigation into trump's democratic rival joe biden and at today's public hearing mr lynn gave further details. u.s. ambassador good and sound and now writing for the impeachment hearings the question everyone wants him to answer did president trump hold back financial 80 ukraine in exchange for a corruption probe into his democratic rival joe biden and his links to energy fund the reason the own said he was following instructions from trump's attorney rudy giuliani thank you please as i testified previously mr giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house visit for president selenski mr giuliani demanded that ukraine make a public sta

in today's program we've been looking at the population growth in nigeria as our important key to your money take those 3 debates to conduct. more than big will be jumping on a so-called mike. and last but not least will be heading to total to make that call tell giants what i think so wish was all the wonders of the capitol and you know me. as you can tell the law to large and out once again. what takes us to west africa where the ba'ath weight is one of the highest in the world this growing young population could drag the local economy i guess that's what many people think but how many children can cause a financial bottom for 5 and a serious health problems for women having several pregnancies in a row but family planning and contraceptive methods a state of war subject in many of the conservative with the majority countries of the region however in fact a goal inflight see only be changing a growing number of young couples want to take control over how many children they will have and when every day in going side goes door to door visiting family some have the kind neighbor who she

old nigeria and the queue outside sophie's practice is always growing i don't mean that. in 2009 when i started working here we had around 400 women a month we wanted contraceptives. now we have up to $2500.00 women a month so the growth has been exponential. and massimo i did really well. i think it's because of all the awareness campaigns the media the funding's also women now realize the benefits of spacing out pregnancies for their babies their husbands and for themselves. this mother of 3 comes here regularly to get the pail she doesn't want any more children as she wants to make sure her kids get the best education possible. family planning i have peace of mind now i can do whatever i want without thinking of getting pregnant on the face is it is it worth. a go or on my auntie 5 percent of the population is muslim. society here is conservative most awful as part of a growing young generation of religious leaders who promote family planning for house train more than 2500 moms across the country he insists that a koran advocates breast feeding and space in our pregnan

said nigeria which is projected to become the most populous country in the world. africa's population is growing fast predictions say that by the year 2100 bill before point 5000000000 africans that's about a 3rd of the entire global population so we're here in kano the most populous state in the most populous country in africa to find out how exactly that future we look for africa is my and i want to begin with you should we trust these numbers are they accurate and where do they even come from for me the numbers are accurate because when you look at the investment the agencies like unicef are putting into into interest such and that i think you have no other reason than to accept this that is what. it is you know it's something i have not got about because we all know most of them manipulate this number when it's going to be you know so the numbers might not be extremely precise but we know that africans are going to increase and i want to come to sign up because you're an advocate for children and adolescents and specifically against child marriage and i want to

reports on nigeria's child brides. to. welcome to the program. honesty international says more than $100.00 people have been killed in a government crackdown on protests in iran the unrest broke out after fuel prices were increased by up to 50 percent or forces responded to the disruptions with armored vehicles a water cannon supreme leader ayatollah ali coming out he has described the protests as a security matter. very little information reaches the outside world from iran authorities have shut down the internet whether there are still protests there and where they may be taking place is difficult to verify. videos from monday evening show angry demonstrators some are demanding that the government step down the protests were sparked by a drastic increase in the price of gasoline u.s. sanctions and mismanagement are the main causes of iran's economic crisis. also president i have 3 jobs to support myself of course people are upset and now they found a reason to show their dissatisfaction everyone does it in their own way. the pictures of men who

technology to monitor behavior online now in africa the culprit saw and go into uganda kenya and nigeria now in addition to surveillance there is also the restriction of online activity now here's a snapshot of internet freedom on the continent according to freedom house of the 11 sub-saharan african countries that were surveyed ethiopia and so done ranked the worst with $100.00 points being the perfect school now some bob way was also singled out in the report it's a country that has lost rules making it legal to monitor people's online. if he where government critics have been charged and a fake news and hate speech laws and where the internet has been shut down by people they say a major threats to intonate freedom is that data costs are so high the price of data is his father featured evidence about when it's now in legs you know we've got bread and bust but the issues some. buying now seems just like you could you can you can do without it prices rise daily but people sellers don't go up in tandem so there's a lot of restriction in terms of the internet access that people have this

uganda and angola and to give a sense of the kind of scale of programs that we're talking about nigeria for example in their $20000.00 budget included an allocation for a social media mining suite of $2000000000.00 iraq. right and so i'm guessing that this is this is it's a far reaching sort of a let's try to small target at specific individuals but but generally the average joe can be average show expect that there being so say an online that's exactly right and one of our main concerns but governments aren't just targeting individual people but because they're using ai and automation it means that they can reach everybody who's online xhosa media it's all about the little as yet do we have any little is regulating such practices. there are in some places and one of our concerns is that often the rights that we expect to be protected offline and are protected offline and legal measures for protection for free expression for example are not necessarily apply the same way online so we're looking to see when countries are implementing new laws to enshrine these rights for users online as

detailed reports from nigeria where child brides are commonplace. plus a planned auction of nazi memorabilia including items belonging to. resist outrage among jewish groups. hello and welcome. at the scene international says more than $100.00 people have been killed in a government crackdown on protests in iran the unrest erupted after hikes in fuel prices authorities responded by shutting down the internet supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei i has described the protests as a security. very little information reaches the outside world from iran authorities have shut down the internet whether there are still protests there and where they may be taking place is difficult to verify. videos from monday evening show angry demonstrators some are demanding that the government step down the protests were sparked by a drastic increase in the price of gasoline u.s. sanctions and mismanagement are the main causes of iran's economic crisis. also by the i have 3 jobs to support myself of course people are upset and now they found a reason to show their dissat

reports from nigeria where child brides are commonplace. i'm helena humphrey glad you could join me a key witness has given potentially damaging testimony at the impeachment hearings in the united states gordon summoned the u.s. ambassador to europe told lawmakers he followed donald trump's wishes in c. he a deal few crane's president to investigate democrat joe biden and in exchange for a white house visit a military 8. he was the most highly anticipated witness that president on all trumps impeachment hearings and ambassador gordon sunderland didn't disappoint in his testimony sunderland told will make his he was pressured to follow orders and ukraine by chaunce lawyer every day giuliani and that washington had pushed t.f. to investigate trump's rival joe biden and his links to ukrainian energy fembot raise money in return for white house access as i testified previously mr giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house visit for president selenski mr giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the united

reports from nigeria where child brides are all too commonplace. i brought in thomas great to have you with us a key witness has given potentially damaging testimony at the impeachment hearings in the u.s. gordon samba who's the u.s. ambassador to europe and he addressed the house committee he detailed alleged attempts by the president to pressure ukraine's leader into investigating donald trump's democratic rival joe biden. u.s. ambassador gold and sunderland now writing for the impeachment hearings the question everyone wants him to answer did president trump hold back financial aid to ukraine in exchange for a corruption probe into his democratic rival joe biden and his links to energy fund the research the own said he was following instructions from trump's attorney rudy giuliani thank you as i testified previously mr giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house visit for president selenski mr giuliani demanded that ukraine make a public statement announcing the investigations of the 2016 election d.n.c. server and very s

reports on nigeria's child brides. find out about the lessons we climb a change from penguins to the antarctic. welcome to the program we start in the united states where a key witness is appearing at the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump america's ambassador to the european union gordon song plans were central to president trump's attempts to get ukraine to investigate his political by joe biden and his links to ukrainian energy company. told lawmakers that ukraine's president was offered a white house meeting in exchange for announcing the corruption investigation he also talked about why the white house withheld military aid to ukraine. in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid i later came to believe that the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement from ukraine committing to the investigations of the 2016 elections and. as mr giuliani had demanded i shared concerns of the potential quid pro quo regarding the security aide with senator ro

fest let's go to nigeria you've all had about rights movies from nigeria they're really challenging some of the more established film industries well like hollywood especially when it comes to numbers each week the west african film scene with these is about 50 new movies which is in lots more on the outward from the us now if that would talk honestly about next reports out there wait there would even be more coming out of nigeria but not just your regular kind of movies. oh how many example right so for a little touch anything except a scale be drawn studios and us shot animation film is the tale of us 3 tribes in lagos trying to lead the nigerian dream from the studio. and he's co-founder of want to create unique stories that reflect african reality. have. become explore and sell to the wall i think what it would do that's. the next generations of dimension nation of. people in the bloodstock some of the sites it's more than themselves. the short film has been screened at film festivals around the world the next step to turn it into a feature film but for that and his team need more mo

the nigerian government decided to expel all gummy hams from nigeria. in fact as an expression in nigeria today called god i must go. and i phone by solve. personally violated i felt that if alison i'd taken place on my behalf in my name yeah and i found it very repugnant in fact in my university my department became a kind of a refuge and i defied anyone to go and touch them or was it because i could not understand why there should be such a distinction amounting to the right of expulsion between them and me. and we've had that experience all over the continent and as soon as there's a slight problem created by ms government mismanagement of economy the immediate impulse is to look for scapegoats of course the 1st line scapegoats are those who are quote unquote foreign as well and of course see what's very happening in south africa the amounting even to the link chain the pursuit of the lynching of a foreigner as people who are mozambique or affected at one time zimbabwe nigerians of course see this leaves one in such a weak position when one now house

each nation unique in itself so like for example a country like nigeria we one of our lingo. lingua franca is pigeon english pigeon english if you speak english you know english speakers would understand the word but it sounds like english so in that sense doesn't qualify to be i mean should it be disqualified if i made an entire film in pidgin english. should it be disqualified but then that is authentic to the war that i come from you know what i'm saying so like there are nuances to these things and it's not just as black and white as people are trying to make it and all kinds of conversations around it should be welcome and encouraged i think. you're watching i say thanks for company this morning as i things are looking back again at the top the. isis the most brutally violent terror group in modern history isis now controls a broad swath of land in iraq and syria and over seas an estimated 60000000 people . the army seem to powerless to stop the advance this islamic state group has issued a decree stating that any man killed by a woman would go to hell prompting many kur

each nation unique in itself so like for example would a country like nigeria we one of our lingo. lingua franca use pidgin english pigeon english if you speak english you know english speakers would understand the word but it sounds like english so in that sense doesn't qualify to be i mean should it be disqualified if i made it an entire film in pidgin english should it be disqualified but then that is authentic to the war that i come from you know what i'm saying so like they are nuances to these things that it's not just as black and white as people are trying to make it and all kinds of conversations around it should be welcomed and encouraged i think. watching us internationally have more nice and a couple of. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have a crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. theory dramatic to follow only. exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. with the president cost. of the free money. we would have a day of reckoning. and prices would revert back to reflect supply and demand.

each nation unique in itself so like for example would a country like nigeria we one of our lingo. lingua franca is pidgin english pidgin english if you speak english you know english speakers won't understand the word but it sounds like english so in that sense doesn't qualify to be i mean should it be disqualified if i made an entire film in pidgin english. should have been disqualified but then that is authentic to the war that i come from you know what i'm saying so like there are nuances to these things and it's not just as black and white as people are trying to make it and all kinds of conversations around it should be welcomed and encouraged i think. and that brings you up to date said the one news for this sad don't forget they plenty of stories to you at our website at r.t. . you know world of big partisan groovy lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's target for critical thinking it's time to fig

also on the show we look at nigeria's so-called sandwich generation young workers find a start families while supporting their elders using little for themselves. and berlin for its new york indigo factory in long last praises the. ramin engineering the facility is fun for the region near the new airport but did anyone tell him that it hasn't gone well. this is the. one in berlin welcome a meeting between the leaders of brazil russia india china and south africa kicked off today in brasilia the so-called brics countries are trying to strengthen economic scientific and security cooperation not an easy task for a rather divergent group especially economically china is miles away from the rest of the pack its gross domestic product exceeded 13 trillion dollars last year india's population is almost as high as china is but its g.d.p. was a 5th of that the next 2 are closer to each others levels brazil at $1.00 trillion russia at $1.00 then there south africa at just under half a trillion. now gallagher is our correspondent in south africa she joins us now from cape town these countries have

why are these women carrying loons through nigeria's capital abouta. still use them to recycle the plastic trash that clutters the city on contaminates the soil. the way your organization supposed both environmental protection and female empowerment. they wanted to empower women to be independent how to take care of themselves without you without depending on the old ones. cleaned and disinfected plastic bags are cut into strips which are then woven into durable fabric to produce a range of attractive vitamins. they fuss but what. fits in on with things they felt they needed a little bats buses so. the idea was well with kyrie this think that this is our life it's. a piece of old denim is used to embellish this box. the products sell for between one and a half and 4 euros. the money earned by the woman enables them to support their family while also doing their bit for the environment. and how about you. if you are also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet hash tag doing your bit. we share your stories. and what's wonder

this shift phone being given a lively launch in nigeria samuel rather and business partner costin says the country has enough people who can afford to ship the phone which costs 400 euros. and unlike most other smartphones this one is made without colton the vast majority of this metallic or is mined in the democratic republic of congo by people working under appalling conditions the bosses of shift wanted their product to be both sustainable and ethically sourced. conflict. is a conflict mineral used for capacity is tiny components that store current. we use ceramics instead. they're a bit more expensive but just as good if not better in many respects. it means we don't have to use conflict materials like. this. this is the bone is assembled in china but there are no toxic fumes in this factory because the parts are slaughtered and screwed together not welded to $400.00 euros a month wage paid to the workforce is considerably higher than the industry standard in china. the valid deck brothers would ideally base production in their native germany which would also enable them to persona

our economic growth is often dependent on the exploitation of resources like here in nigeria without really i would have to learn the hard way that this can do huge damage should be embark that's right and it's not or it but. even a mind to in spain people finding out what it means when i open my lips provides jobs for many people boys and others. who. cannot let us go to graze anymore. in the flood plains of sun look at my york it's been prohibited for over 20 years. back then one of spain's biggest environmental catastrophes happened in a copper mine just a few kilometers upstream. from. they're all gone favorite or negative i came here and everything was back then a little of them a little black mud that i love you so much pain from up there you know where the mine is. all of this was not in the river and then type plane to it was real you thought ok well john went through. april 25th 1980 and i started going out into the sea of the dam for the collecting basin breaks highly toxic much a by product of comfort production floods the valley for up to 60 kilometers threatening to dest

live in this nigeria are so they are. so. so why do people want to give much. that's why we're called to germany. when there is a risk of after german authorities check whether the person can move elsewhere in their country to escape it in the case of this family they suggest the wife and children hide out in lagos. yes it's kind of 1st of all there was no interpreter for their language and secondly they're demanding of this family that their hideout somewhere in lagos. this is that if they're like it'll work out somehow you'll have to risk it should be. that makes me so angry african culture isn't so simple that i can leave the countryside and just hide out somewhere in the city and . where am i supposed to hide out the thought what does that mean hide out at most i can camp somewhere on the street with my children to kingdom come to you after 2 weeks they'll start of us there deliberately risking that these children will be home. leaves me speechless in the shadow. the banff the federal office for migration and refugees. does not comment on individual cases b

each nation unique in itself so like for example would a country like nigeria we want one of our lingo. pigeon english pigeon english if you speak english you know english speakers would understand the word but it sounds like english so in that sense doesn't qualify to be i mean should it be disqualified if i made it an entire film in pidgin english. should it be disqualified but then that is authentic to the war that i come from you know what i'm saying so like they are nuances to these things and it's not just as black and white as people are trying to make it and all kinds of conversations around it should be welcomed and encouraged i think it is just coming up to half past 1 in the afternoon here in moscow. company but back again at the top. i'm going to talk. to the people. you want to. no. they. are coming. up. with the ever present constant dread. of the. free money. we would have a day of reckoning. and prices would revert back to supply and demand. and there would be. a catastrophic trap door opening underneath the u.s. economy because the u.s. won't do it for itself china wil