Im christine want to welcome to news africa its good to have your Company Rising water levels in the lakes along kenyas Great Rift Valley have forced thousands of people from their homes now one of the lakes filled with unhealthy solti and Alkaline Water is sweating so much it threatens to contaminate a freshwater lake nearby lake by ringle and lake bell gloria used to be 20 kilometers apart but now theyre so close they could merge posing a further risk to wildlife or residence for local businesses and farming communities the rising water levels have been devastating once a thriving holiday destination this hotel is now submerged under water. Memories at all the time left for hotel james a war whose business has been all but destroyed event of the big this is all gone so. We dont have to lament so much but actually i have to say it is painful to see the properties go. Its not just the buildings suffering from the rising water levels thousands of people have been displaced families are being forced off their land and losing their livelihoods. There are not im going to go away when the rain started we did not expect the water to rise this much and get to our farms ive lost my grass farm which was my main source of income and ive lost my homestead too i now have to start all over again at new grounds for now i live with my son close by but even that we think the water will get to us conservationists a heavy rains have caused the lakes in the area to swell but that also filling up with soil washing into the water from the nearby hills where deforestation has caused a roshon. Lake ringgold provides Drinking Water and irrigates land for tens of thousands of people its expanded by 60 percent in the last 7 years and now it could be contaminated by the Alkaline Waters of nearby lake but korea its a particular threat for the wide variety of wildlife with birds fish and crocodiles living here. But local Charity Workers believe they could have an answer we do have a solution because to the north of us there is a low point in the geographic structure which could easily. Be a good canal cut through and relieve some of this excess water which would in fact be a very good thing for the people down. Downstream as it were because they have no water. Its not clear if theres the time money or will to make that work in the meantime the water continues to rise. Its all Suicide Prevention day today and were putting a spotlight on can you know way on average for people take their lives every day now as is the case in many countries a large number of Mental Health problems remain and diagnosed and consequently unmanaged in kenya ill be talking to my guest about if its being undertaken by the government in this regard but 1st a suicide survivor in kenya now on who has set up a studio and a safe space for young people going through that mental illness. Nearly 3 years ago jason brooke not appear to be holding the perfect life but in reality he was battling some in a dim ones i fell into a pretty serious addiction alcohol addiction posttraumatic stress disorder so the depression the anxiety that followed from that was real. And i felt like you know my ideal life and the life that i was living with were 2 completely different different things. I knew who wanted to be i knew the life that i wanted but i felt that i had no way of getting. Home and the feeling that almost made him to do the unthinkable. So i tend to take my you know there was a feeling of hopelessness of feeling alone if i did reach out to anybody that would be good and. So i really saw no way. Like jason changed his mind in the end but he has made it his lifes mission to help others he has created his very own organization in kenya that not only supports artists and creatives buckling Mental Health users but also provides this is what he spends for them. When you find your way out of a burning building. Its human nature to want to help other people out of the building as well so thats why its place to fight for as a way to show other people that its not hopeless. Doubly her choice to mits more than 800000. 00 people die from sioux city every year in kenya its roughly 4 people taking their legs each day. Dr karim is a clinical psychologist and a psychotherapist says they can be more fucked up behind sue said than traditional depression so these issues of genetics issues that are cultural fact that weve got. So short fact that youve got other risk sort of situation. Particularly now in the pandemic because you know what the thing to me does is its really been very detrimental to our mental. Steel Mental Health remains a sensitive issue enough we can Society People dont come forward the families will not come and tell it is doubled to talk about it it is something thats held within our religious spaces within our cultural spaces and now so within the law and the policy. Its a sentiment just when she has this well having lived in kenya for 2 decades. Theres nothing to be ashamed of nothing to feel guilty over its normal and the more we put out through the movie normalize the narrative of mental illness. And talk more about Mental Health. The sooner that stigma will break down. Something jason and many others hope will help save lives not only. Im now joined by sylvia because i guess she is a senator in kenya overseeing a proposed bill on Mental Health welcome to news africa status of tell us about what you are doing to tackle the Mental Health challenge in kenya. Thank you so much and thank you for having me is really really an on and a pleasure to be able to show the world what kenya is doing and what we are doing championing the Mental Health campaign here in kenya and Mental Health reforms we are walking on a bill as vitamin bridge islands and the Mental Health amendment they dont that is supposed to see an awful into the Mental Health. Space here in kenya right what does the bill do in terms of actual action what is it what will it translate to if it is pasta. First is aligning all Mental Health interventions into the primary health care that is the biggest intervention possible because it all bill and vision as stagnant or an economy is in of tackling Mental Health which really creases the stigma so you can find only a Mental Health institution standard ones where people dont even have fear going to seek for medical help there so what we want in the 1st instance is to integrate Mental Health in all all levels of hospitals all primary health care so that we can have practitioners are in you know level one level 2 or 3 and how their fire a system not actually working for Mental Health the way it works for 4 primary health care it also envisions as attrition where access access to health care for Mental Health is possible so integrated into it into insurance systems so that you know you can actually get treatment treatment for Mental Health especially the severe ones is very expensive and access to drugs is almost impossible one of the canyons so the 1000000000 visions where you know its part of all insurance schemes especially the universal Health Care System that the government case in it is currently ripping out. So it is a youve said before that that Mental Health issues have never been given a priority in the country and partly due to the lack of legislation do you think that things are going to change Going Forward now. Yes im happy that a lot of vocus in what i was shouting about Mental Health has been you know go to that you know the president to the point where the you know e he does it at a task force on Mental Health where around the country now receiving you know comments and details from canyons and you know unfortunately because of course were seeing escalated cases going up now to ensure from where i sit and the ministry of health actually has you know they have a committee that is dealing specific i looking into the issue is the Mental Health it how the hell can especially now with the corbett and all the other stresses that are related to it yes the senator said today the emphasis is on suicide and as i understand it attempting suicide is considered a crime in kenya. You could be jailed for up to 2 years off and do you think that coordinates to be reviewed. Absolutely i invite in the Mental Health Amendment Bill we try to do it but were told that is not the place to do it and were happy that the task force that was doing the Mental Health report actually gave a very strong recommendation that that section needs to be repealed and removed because the criminalizing suicide is not to tackling the problem if anything now you have you have been more cases because you know the if youre going to prison pushes you know pushes the victims not to actually do it so we have agreed this is a society that is one of the key things that must be done in the short term in the shortest time possible is to repeal that section remove it altogether such that exists in such cases what they do is seek help as opposed to being taken to jail ok that scene is a self. Joining us from nairobi thank you say this and all the best to you on that bill thank you so much. Before we end the show a tribute to one of south africas anti apartheid icons george bizos who died on wednesday night at the age of 92. 00 was a renowned human rights roy who famously represented alstom in delhi during the rivonia trial women and 7 of the a. N. C. Activists were charged with treason and later sentenced to life in prison that was in 1064. 00 of africas prison sort of up was announced his death on national t. V. George bizos this name was a family name well known name and he had an incisive legal mind and was also one of the architects. Who contributed immensely and he was sorely missed and we dip our heads in. The contribution that george bizos as made to our democracy we will ever remember his contribution. Thats a far program today dont forget to check out our stories on our website and Facebook Page were also on twitter today we want to leave you with more easy shots from bateson kenyas Great Rift Valley tell makes time and i. Probably will not succeed in dividing us about not succeed in taking the people off the streets because were tired of this dictatorship. Taking a stand global news that matters. Minds. And jim lives. At any time any place using names. I dont like a. Song to sing along to see this to come from soup. To for. Interactive exercises. Everything is. On line metafile interactive jamming to flee with d w. Greetings from berlin and a warm welcome to arts and culture Venice Film Festival at the top of the show again today and also coming up. We get a glimpse into the world of hungarian american war photographer roberts comeback at a new exhibition here in berlin. And the painstaking restoration of not told them to party is progressing with crucial work on the roof to reestablish the buildings delicate architectural balance and so far so good as the 77th Venice Film Festival keeps on moving the 1st major festival to do so in the corona era competition films are generating lots of discussion and as the viewings are drawing to a close on friday theres certainly no shortage of noteworthy titles. Almost good ties into cultural drama in haifa the film follows 18 diverse characters as their paths cross one night into trendy bar in the port city. And the last. For. You to go through. The many sets of this tell you the earth is. Rushing to fill my car under a crunch a lot skis furious dia comrades is a gripping recreate the 962 workers strike and the massacre that followed it you i mean the daily life in order. To keep. Your story and yet one night in miami by regina king the film set a box a celebration riata party and 964 imagines what can happen when for us icons put their Heads Together on mar goodness. Thats what. My song pretty are. Joining me one more time from the lido in venice is my colleague scott roxboro scotty so many interesting films out there in the suspense is mounting were there any surprises or new discoveries for you in this years lineup. Yes quite a few surprise i mean this is a very different year in venice because of the court of owls cut crisis and not so many big hollywood films here but a lot of interesting smaller films to discover and for me one of the great pleasures of coming to festivals like this is finding new talent and particularly new interesting actors this year is a bit different it was finding actors that i thought i knew doing completely different things. For example. A british actor who you might know from the Netflix Series Stranger Things where he plays sort of a russian scientist he was here at the festival with his 1st ever film where he plays a leading role and its in polish drama called never going to snow again in that. Plays a ukrainian masroor who tends to the needs of the rich and shallow in a polish gated community is a very sort of strange and beautiful but also really really funny movie and alec is just hypnotic in the role i mean this is a really mainstream actor but he shows here that he has real our house chops and it was a real revelation for me yeah it looked fantastic but i thought the clip who would be your tip to win if i can dare to ask that question. Yeah well i mean the jury never listens to be sort of putting money on it but the absolute favorite film of my at this festival was was a mexican movie its called new order from the director Michael Franco and it is a violent revolution against mexicos privileged elite now this isnt history this is set in modern day fictional but very realistic mexico and this is the sort of slow burn of a movie 1st we see sort of the the the privileged pampered one percent and the completely oblivious to whats going on outside and whats coming for them but when the revolution happens its brutal and its bloody and the film really hits you like a punch to the god i mean the combination of this credibly relevant topic and just the visceral style of Michael Francos film makes it my pick for the golden lion i have another question i want to squeeze in here scott before we get to our last one to film with picked as the festival darling its still coming up you havent even seen it weve been waiting all week tell us about. Yes no matter. How directed you know its a film that everybodys been talking about ive been talking about nobodys seen yet it stars Frances Mcdormand as a woman who loses everything in the 2008 recession and becomes a modern day nomad traveling across america in a camper van this incredibly a look huge amount of buzz around this film people are already talking about it as a potential oscar candidate i just cant wait to see that i know ok well well hear from you soon enough i guess so venice has pulled this off a Film Festival in times of a pandemic what impact do you think that this will have in terms of restarting the Film Industry. The are huge huge impact i mean you have to remember what amazing risk venice took and even having this festival but they have pulled it off i mean theyve shown the world really that you can hold a Film Festival safely that it is safe to go back into cinemas and sit next to strangers and watch movies together and thats thats thats thats thats huge basically the Film Industry will be leaving venice with the hope and i think also the expectation that the cinema business can can and will a bounce back from this Coronavirus Crisis its a huge sense of optimism that we come out after that honest Film Festival well thats very encouraging and exciting stuff as we wait to see who takes hold the golden lions this year enjoy the rest of the festival and that last key films got and thanks so much for joining us from the lido invent it. Well the name robert kapper was a fiction created to rid himself of a jewish surname and under its guys hand gary and born Andre Friedman and his 1st love and soulmate. Forge their paths as war photographers until her early death in 1937 well today robert capa singular is widely considered to be the greatest combat photographer in history having covered countless conflicts from the spanish civil war to world war 2 the end of which gives its name to this new exhibition. 0 in the summer of 945. 00. For talk. Of the streets documenting destruction and new beginnings. These beaches can now be seen for the 1st time as the new synagogue in. This city was of course in ruins and how over 2000000 people had to start a new life you really get an impression of that when you look at these photos. Thats the compound that the mind is a fortress seat. Capper fled the german capital to escape the nazis in 1933 he became a us citizen and the most famous war photographer of his time and life magazine sent back to berlin to get the photographers impression of the end of the war. Is about him out of an distance its still a distance to view because kapil was jewish and the people he observed were not necessarily resistance fighters or anti fascists. Is it but his gaze is not one of malice nor is it one of a victor. Deceived us people who have lost everything searching for the missing for work and for food on the black market. Some also looking for a scapegoat in a bar allied soldiers celebrate with german frauleins here cap can also be sane. In you can see him here hes very dark and his cheeks are filled with cognac or whiskey hes standing at the bar or. There and there are these other types of discoveries we made when going through the 600 photos 6 unhappy their guns and. Here are a few survivors of the Jewish Community celebrating the new. Dark matter and here we see that catherine has a different relationship with these people than with those he has seen on the street that theres actually no more distance there thank you. Yeah and that makes these pictures all the sadder that it was actually the end of the burning Jewish Community of berlins jewish history and of German Jewish history in general do you hope that you. Become gay is of war photographer robert kapper imperfect fleeting and haunting. Well these images equally unforgettable as not keyed roll in paris was in gulf in flames in april of last year fire had broken out under the roof of the 850 year old monument and by the time it was extinguished its fire had collapsed and most of the roof was completely destroyed or restoration work is underway and its archaeological crypt has just reopened but the work has been tricky as the mangled scaffolding put in place the renovations prior to the fire is painstakingly removed. Restoration work on the roof of saddam at dizzying heights climb as saw through the 200. 00 tons of melted scaffolding piece by piece for months they feared the walls of the cathedral would collapse under its own weight with a huge crane the parts a carefully lifted out and lowered to the ground its precision work. When we have a wind speed of 20 to 30 Kilometers Per Hour then you can see that the containers sways 5 meters in both directions so we have to be careful not to hit the scaffolding. The fire broke out almost a year and a half ago when i pull 152019. Not only discomforting but also toxic lead dust has posed a constant threat to the cleanup crew with the entire structure in danger of collapsing and precious artifacts needing to be salvaged countless sculptures and stones were removed. And taken outside of paris to geologist john d. M. s because the stones are still contaminated with lead he needs to wear protective clothing these angel heads fell 33 meters to the ground when the vault dome collapsed only their wings are broken these stones are in Critical Condition badly damaged by the into. Since heat of the fire sun are as fragile as glass and ultrasound scan determines how porous they are and whether or not they can be used again in the restoration at the same time researchers want to know more about the cathedrals construction the research is making the best of the situation. Similar to yours we would never have been able to take these kinds of samples had the fire never happened we never could have isolated such big pieces it would have been impossible to see back at the building site the workers are forging ahead the scaffolding needs to be removed by the end of september the cathedral will be reconstructed exactly as it was before the fire and that hopefully before 2024. A big job there indeed in paris visit our website for more from arts and culture and in the meantime do stay safe all the best. Going. Through the point of strong opinions clear positions of International Perspectives of. This information is going viral demick has given a boost to conspiracy theories like those of q one not how dangerous are conspiracy feelings thats our topic on to the point of showing up. To the point cut up to 30 minutes on d w. 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