welcome to the program they have been repeated reports of fighting extrajudicial killings and rape from ethiopia steve groene will be speaking to the country's ambassador to germany for a closer look but before that we take you to mecca the troubled regions capital where at 1st sight david life appears to have returned to normal but the conflict that began in early november has left its deep mox many residents on the number of displaced people who have such refuge in the city continued reports of the war still raging on. hundreds of civilians are being treated for their injuries in hospitals in the region's capital mckillop they come from all over to grab the conflict started over 4 months ago thousands are believed to have been killed since that capture requested in the 2 of by a bullet from the head to grant special forces and if you'll be an army started fighting when the fighting stopped the ground forces left but the rest of the soldiers started killing civilians and the majority of the people died but some of us escaped here in our area about 41 people died. and hundreds of with most of the patients here say those carrying out the attacks are ethiopian and eritrean soldiers who are fighting the former ruling party in the region the to great people's liberation front or p.l.f. the federal government has yet officially acknowledged the presence of every trained troops integrate well the region's interim president insists the t.p.s. is responsible for the current crisis why this has happened and is really important because it should be repeatedly cited because the russian and the force of the north in that it was attacked so this was for the governors of people the borders so without having this force it's not difficult to certain or to almost complete this. the problem is created by existing. and make residents have expressed anger at the situation as if you feel betrayed by the central government to gray held a regional election then september 2020 which was deemed illegal by federal authorities many gradients who are in favor of the country's federal system now want their region to become independent. of what it is all. about in the invigorating it. to be and it is a lot of give it when you need it we have. and what i write. we went on last on the can we say one. thing that their frustration is also fueled by a humanitarian crisis throughout the region tens of thousands of people have arrived in mckellar seen violence for months my lead has worked as a volunteer helping displaced communities such as in the school which has been transformed into makeshift accommodation the federal government says it has scaled up humanitarian efforts but people here still face a shortage of food drinking water and medication if the government did not say i mean we didn't do a good hit is not working his job has just hiding the truth that's why i came here it's not my job i'm here you're just doing vallance are you know i'm here for my people. she's particularly worried about the children and regularly organizes to distribution in an effort to fight. i'm really mortified but very what's going on in my country and this is a very sad i am a less going gang now i mean it's very sad to see children just be like this with fighting still reported daily and rural areas to grains continue to flock to the cities desperate to tell their story they're also showing signs of considerable collect. joining me now is ethiopia some bustled out to germany has. been one. thanks for your time now we're hearing repeated reports of fighting still go in on in t. guy yet your government says the war is over what is the actual situation. thank you for inviting me i trust situation is that the general professional truly fortunate operation is completed in quo but there are. no we i meant it was all with us yet the ones who are in bush. or so hiding in the quarter rest in the title company i'm an idiot and source who who cry by destroying their. kings and national defense forces in the. night and keep the military and or social brutally. mix themselves out and. we've. got a new person and one knows exactly the kind. of. government want to leave huge tool to we're just the sum i've got to give. to all. searching for and to just what's going on ok so talking about the war your aim was to our. leadership because we were not here into our policies have you achieved. actually as you some of them have come back and it was to destroy destabilize a country and if it was not such a way it would want was a near that in countries internet i think that the horn of africa and a horn of africa would have been the whole of one sport for a terrorist as it was going toward on time so that the countries no destabilized the country in such a way that expected that's what. we want to would such a whig ok so you see in this believe in the country now about my mom us about last week we had a woman on disprove graham who said he had been raped by you under a tree and so just how do you respond to that. there are so many allegations still right abuse in different places even if you can't be and others that you can and government has now. assigned a committee and or feel which is needed by the if you got human rights commissioner that independent and or saw invited all international. communities to come into a community and it or school for journalists and or school for a independent investigators $280.00 up and human rights commission to make this investigation created just just to be clear you admit in then that they are eritrean troops on the ground and if they are why are they there ok that is to this is one of the industry getting going on. because there are only geisha says. this in this one of the indication is. any talk why these will be investigated in the outcome will be unanswered clearly with independent investigators talking so much to the investigation that you see your government is allowing because indeed if you get invited a un human rights commission to jointly investigate all these allegations or the crimes going on why not allow an independent un investigation would fall access. have not. been done access anywhere. only even last time it was only for security reasons they put example if the humanitarian assistance will do not is this too immediate and which is not controlled and if this is. hiding in corners we can kind of anybody the government is responsible to see if that is the investigators will have money to get an assistance or not is this but knowing the kind of investigation or still why it's a joint issue why. it's not a how could anyone even today for anybody. this is a lot but to hope is a lot to understand as it is a very complex situation ok excellent see. if you are somebody to germany thank you very much for your time thank you so much for your time did it really. turns on the. female president somehow salue her son was sworn in as head of state after the death of her predecessor john michael fully for the remand of a 5 year term which ends in 2025 let's hear how tanzania feel about the new president somebody who. now you want i'm proud to be has been sworn in as president because we as women are capable woman but for now we can lay back on the father who left us can't feel the less privileged and now we have a woman who understands the needs of women she will take care of our interests and follow our father's footsteps but you see i was already both about the former president michael foley who was hardworking chills as his vice president because he had seen the qualities that enabled her to be his deputy that he had to give her that we're certain that she will deliver but. she's a hard working woman who's able to handle that position you know as it were let's get some more insight on this times i mean mohamed caliph from the kiswahili service joins me now i know mohammed many thanks for your time now what can we expect from president sami also who has. actually not that much changes i mean from from from his pretty i mean from his. present. but then actually there might be some. new developments with some point comes to the mission out of consideration in which in a hospital did she mention that to us that people to to look forward not look backward to look for the more positive tanzania that means and we should we should be trusted by other that she means to conservation with the political divide that we are having in tanzania no ok but what is expected of her really in tackling issues such as press freedom and also the way the country has so far handled the cone of virus pandemic. on the press freedom a she might be is somehow so liberal that way she has been always sure wasn't always been but then comes true but as pandemic that is now something which is now which is steam showing some not very positive more for that because it was employed today when she was so in there nobody in the audience except for the former presidents who are wearing masks and even as she was leaving the fuss to cabinet meeting the same happened so we don't i don't think that i mean much to say on the shift in the protocol of how the virus may just but let's see mohammed tell f d w africa thank you my pleasure and that's how we wrap up the show for the week from austar is going to do w dot com slash africa all visit often spoke on twitter pages goodbye have a great weekend. children. one giant problem and. the one on the scene. i mean we'll be going to believe in a free economy giving. how will climate change affect us and our children my. heart d.w. dot com slash water. happiness is for everyone human penises are very different from primates you know we have a totally ridiculous sized view of nature. and this is climate change crisis sex how to beat us in books you get smarter for free books on. coming up on arts and culture feminist fighters take on superhero sizes we'll show you the latest trend in street art and later on the show. and. music video remembering the victims of last year's explosion in beirut. and there may be less than meets the eye the optical illusions of artist stefan. around the world women are still the targets of male violence and oppression that's why more and more artists are creating murals known as brave walls so liberating the contributions of brave women's rights activists like the murdered the brazilian politician mario franco painted by a berlin based illustrator catarina verona. here catarina voronin comes face to face with her fear her knees are shaky as the construction lift takes her to a position 15 meters above the streets of quite spag birdland from up there she works on her dream project. i moved to berlin like 2 years ago few months ago and it was always my dream took our big wall and go you know i was always like. one day. oh yeah this day is coming this is my. watch he has created here is an artwork with a political message a jury made up of members of amnesty international and the urban nation museum in berlin chose cattery navarro. anina us design. but i really like about my profession that you can be very playful and so there is a lot of there varsity hours of being in the illustrator because i'm not doing we're also in my daily routine life and i can draw some very small illustrations and sketches and it's also very nice to feel me so far 1. for anina worked on her mural for more than a week 1st she primed the wall then sketched the image and applied the colors. yes the result is what's being called a brave wall named in honor of a brave activist and politician here it's mariel franco she was a city councilor in rio de janeiro who fought for women's rights until she was shot dead in 20 teen that was a shock for many women in brazil who took to the streets by the thousands in protest mariel franco continues to be an important role model for many her story has had an impact on catarina voronin as well. the lord wanted to make. a scene where to focus. with possibilities of women shows inside which you can see in all of the small characters so it's mystically about 3 here one guys also 4 women you can be a scientist you can be a musician and you can be i mean there is just about free choice. the brave while in berlin is one of many around the world they draw attention to courageous human rights activists artists in mexico lebanon and portugal have also sprayed or painted these murals in recent years. so. the fact that her mural serves as a daily reminder for the rights of women fills catarina verrone. you know with joy especially since the situation of women in her native russia is often difficult in russia we do not have. a law against domestic violence and we're still fighting for this and you cannot imagine how how bad it is. it's like it's time i'm reading all of the stories it's not possible to to abstain different or not talk to and cry about the. brave world and quite reminds us to live courageously and have big dreams. i like to think that illustration is the usual text and you can use it as a to write you can try to bring some message to your list station so i was trying to be very clear with the idea of women's rights because it's only your life and you're only one person who are into do whatever you want with your life and this one thing to be about. more culture news now police in los angeles are investigating sexual abuse allegations against film star army hammer on thursday a 24 year old woman identified only as effie told a press conference that hammer had raped her and 2017 do your own words here peter letter to mayor to go through all of the made me. earlier this year armie hammer was dropped from 2 films after leaked conversations appeared to show him planning violent sexual acts hammer's lawyer says his client has only ever engaged in acts that were consensual. every once in a while d.w.i. culture team likes to check in with the up and coming filmmakers we meet at the berlin international film festival the festival is barely knowledge talents program is where young creatives come together from around the globe and that's where we met german director and editor constantine book is now focusing his energies on telling stories from lebanon. director and editor constantine buck spends his time living and working in both berlin and be root he witnessed the massive explosion that took place in the lebanese capital back in august and this. washroom appeared out of nowhere and it took a few seconds before the shock wave hit out but. you know i think the scariest thing was not knowing what what's going on is good with the what does this mean for the war or someone talking more about what's happening just so poor thing didn't realize what was going on months later it's still unclear who is to blame for the catastrophe many point the finger at politicians and have lost faith in the state. edited this video for a friend. case that i mean it's a little. young people in particular don't see a future in beirut or lebanon anymore think of the structure really goes beyond the physical destruction of really destroyed something and people. are friends or family in. their hearts and souls and that the structure is much much harder to fix we 1st met constantine back at the $2900000000000.00 on the talents program he'd worked as an editor along with cinematographer christopher on the critically acclaimed film capernaum. capernaum explores the plight of children living in the slums of beirut the nonprofessional actors were plucked from the streets and much of the film is shot from their perspective. the film won it khan and was nominated for an oscar capernaum is an important story about children being denied their most fundamental rights. today constantine back wants to process his own experiences in beirut he's currently developing the script for botox bale holt a dark satire that takes aim at widespread corruption in lebanon it's a film about the fashion scene tries to highlight the nepotism and mismanagement behind the glass even near. if we want to help in any way it's by telling stories from here and it's also by making a film here and employing our friends in the in the film industry and like have you know bringing there's so much talent here so the best thing we can do is make something. the screenplay already has financial backing constantine hopes to start filming by 2023. in the art world it's called that's french for for a technique that makes 2 dimensional pictures look 3 dimensional and its artist stefan pop spends a specialty the results sometimes look frighteningly real. watch out a dangerous scorpion but look closer and you'll see it's only an artwork created by. the artists from northwestern germany is a master of 3 d. optical illusions. stefan's eerily realistic looking scorpion took 4 hours to create he chose the motif because most people keep well away from such creatures . my most successful kind of paintings and there are those with a spider sitting on a sheet of paper for example people are scared of them. stefan pap's artworks aren't hits and he regularly publishes them on. this video of stefan creating a 3 d. tarantula garnered over 12000000 views. creating these amazing artworks requires a good eye and special techniques. after all optical illusions only work when you look at them from a certain angle. point using. the main effect with these lego bricks is that i stretched thin. so that when you put the painting down it looks as if the proportions are correct. getting the details exactly right is important that means adding the scorpion's shadow and tiny hairs on its sting. finally stefan cuts off a bit of paper perfecting the optical illusions. that's really important for the 3 d. a factual it must look as if the object extends over the edge of the sheet of paper one it will force us into thinking the object isn't actually painted on the paper. and here's a 3 dimensional scorpion viewed from one side at a 45 degree angle change your perspective and the 3 d. effect instantly vanish. stefan pops ambitious plans for creating vast outdoor 3 d. artworks. like creating a 3 d. pattern in a cornfield and then filming it from above with a drone to capture this effect. so. as motif just yes whatever it is it will probably look amazingly realistic. illustrator and children's fantasy author cornelia focus says she's leaving california because of climate change the german writer known for titles like in cart trade trading in her farm and avocado grove in malibu she says the drought and wildfires in california are a major factor in her decision now she's planning a new life in italy's tuscany region where she wants to keep inviting young authors and artists to stay with her. and just one more story before we go it's been 50 years since the british band queen got together with the late freddie mercury as their front man the group's surviving members are now celebrating by posting their greatest 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