Defeated criminalising but what is L G B T Q Community say is the fight against discrimination continues. Hello im perceived come to africa its good to have you along there is a breakthrough in a feud that has been intensifying between egypt ethiopia and sudan the dispute is around a giant hydroelectric dam not ethiopia is building on the now river close to the border with sudan as you well see on our map now egypt gets most off its water supply from the nile its warning that its share of the water will be reduced we need few of his starts to fill the massive debt now discussions between the countries broke down earlier this year and egypts president. Us President Donald Trump to mediate delegations from egypt ethiopia add in washington they also met with trump they say it a january 15th target for resolving the issues. But even if they come to agreement egypt still faces broader water problems that have left its farm is struggling. Its as if someone husks turned off the tap water from the river nile used to feel abandoned canal irrigating the farmland here in the words in egypt now at that canal has dried up forcing the had to abandon half of its plot but there is very little water from the nihil sometimes has a bit more in winter mainly because the land doesnt need so much water then but in summer we dont get any water. Egypts government wants its farmers to irrigate more efficiently and to plan seeds that require less water its also trying to recycle water but the measures simply arent enough and throughout egypt the drastic rise in temperatures and the increase in the intensity of climate events such as heat waves increases the amount of water that crops use so the amount of water that used to be enough for a certain part of land 20 or 30 years ago is not enough today we need more water. Now ethiopia is building a giant done up stream on the nile many fear egypts creeping war to crises could get worse each new britain is in stem he said to become africas largest hydroelectric power plant once there is a war starts to feel it dipshit an officials worry their water levels will fall even more. Its about things that may have been murdered much more than 90 percent of egypts water depends on oil water outside our borders. Such projects like dams which are being established in the source countries without consultation with the countries that the nile was in to represent a problem. Even small changes to the knowledge the water flows will have a big effect if the non water drops like i said before any 2 percent drop of water thats 1000000 people so. The more impoverished it got the goodies the farmers i think that will be the fact that most egypt is still pure or continue the negotiations over the water and hope to reach an agreement early next year. Now the International Criminal court has sentenced for mcconkie is warlord. To 30 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity nicknamed the terminator done there was a rebel military commander in an ethnic conflict in the mineral rich region of congo between 20022003 these crimes include murder rape and sexual slavery the i. C. C. Found doug and counts in july the sentence is the highest in the past by the court he has a month to appeal my guest today is in kinshasa he is the d. R. Sees country director for the open Society Initiative in Southern Africa its a foundation working for justice peace and democratic governments welcome to the african makes so a 30 Year Prison Sentence for god has justice been served. Thank you so much and thank you for having me all 1st a holistic order to say that sentence. I think is a sign of this era condition of various myths of crime committed never lists you know no sentence. For to satisfy or victim because we are in front of a very high criminal you know activity is committed by the individual injury but still this is a good points for a good. Reason you know more. Deliberative in the direction of justice nic what is the legacy. I think the 1st thing under represents. To be more than indicated of highly criminal activity is not only history but also we know people so it is recognized that thousands of people lost their lives during that period in this area during 2002012 in addition to just cases of murdering people must murdering of people there is a lot of cases of addiction or its our money cheats in indonesia as in the army and hes among these kids also a young girl both suffer a form of rip from both clinton and us people so its. A situation of you know high. Consequence of this criminal activity the trauma to his marrying him along and beyond are expecting also indirect victim families members member of communities so this you know what was going to and you know rip present for this victim now. That he has been sentenced most of the you know all i copy the resistor to section section that finally the guy has been prosecuted and sentences the world the thing that we all can take. Is the duration of this whole process. Has been wrong for many of each instrument and dies during the time of you know the prosecution some have seen the situation being war than it was before but deal. There is a sense of satisfaction in longer you know the boat that finally. Sent and come out ok nicky the country director for the open Society Initiative in 7 africa thank you thank you so much. Now some african countries some of the walls strictest laws governing homosexuality same sex relationships are considered taboo and gay sex is a crime in more than 30 countries on the continent now one of those is see this as a beacon of hope by the lesbian gay bisexual Trans Community in june the high court they struck down laws making homosexuality illegal. Activists might have won the fight against criminalize station now theyre fighting to end discrimination. L. G. B. T. Q. Activists gather for a meeting in the middle of a Shopping Center in. Many countries theres been nothing unusual about this but in boards one a members of this community had to fight long and hard to make this possible. On such things as we are present and the only reality is that people need to accept it so we have to build the case in changing the hearts and minds of people we have to build the case of ensuring that this is his ability and that these voices in the places. She is broke out in a courtroom 5 months ago when the Court Announced a ruling that decriminalize the same sex relationships the old law was a relic of the colonial era and the great britain. But the countrys attorney general soon filed an appeal and many wondered of this came as an order from the president. But members of the ruling party does agree. I deserved i respect that it is right some right it would is the professor of the mind you have you also might not but i respect everybodys preferences so i didnt see any challenge coming from government as far as my ira the meetings concerned but its longstanding social attitudes and not the laws but it was a greater challenge for whats one s l g b t q because its more phobia is why the spreads i havent. Everyone here has experienced discrimination and thats one of the things the activists have come to talk about maybe this is not to patronize them and. They dont know and have always liked the idea of something. Where the get to these words and giving them so thats the problem i think the press isnt realizing that some of the injustices that ocurred actually wrong and shouldnt be happening and that we should have voice about it and i think whats really unfortunate is that we have normalized injustices we have normalised getting fired from work we have normalised getting raped by those people who actually trust us and i think for me that is an injustice. Thats something the activists are determined to tackle along with every day discrimination. A lot of religious institutions are at the forefront in speaking out against the l g b t community here in botswana they say it is an african and it does not comply with their religious beliefs but they are also some Church Leaders who are taking a different steps. Reverends tabel my partner has often publicly defended ports one. Community despite criticism from within his own church objects to the way Church Leaders incites hatred of minorities he recently led a Funeral Service for deceased gay men after another pastor refused to get involved we had to the spittal was one another in the lives of their resilience of the sense of increasing little of anything less thing we have to fight and have to make a noise to be here than here lovely because people have to say and do you know the community they all talk about in the theory but when it comes to same sex marriage. Thats when people start to say what does the bible say you do the adults in charge will go to see it does will not do they does not commit adultery they dont talk about it only when is it comes to the Gay Community or the Lesbian Community that. When you hear people seeing what is going see what good is taking to was the number one lone got shot and the other activists carrying on their struggle for equality they refused to be intimidated got shot is walking on an Online Platform called awakening where theyll be teach you community can share stories from their daily lives and try to diminish prejudice and whats one us society. And that is if an album devaneys africa as always you catch all our stories on how we face today will leave you with pictures of south africas rugby ball kaplan is kicking off a nationwide break talk on except i have. Come to. Your concept discomfort with the. After 100 years of the ideals of the body more relevant today than they were. Years ago visionary. People understood design as a way of shifting society. The powerhouse of man does cross over her. With. Her future sounds how a part of. Me part documentary starts no 14 w. Love bomb. Downturn. In the months leading up to the collapse of the communist east bloc german rock band scorpions were some of the 1st western musicians to play in the soviet union it was autumn 989. 00 and the wind of political change that was blowing in moscow thanks to Mikhail Gorbachevs policy of glasnost inspired the song of change that became an anthem for the end of the cold war. And when fabs welcome to arts and culture celebrating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall in november 1989 mchale got brush off the last leader of the soviet union is one of the heroes of germanys peaceful revolution at least from a western perspective 3 decades later the man who rocked the world with his vision of social democracy met with the rockers who wrote that soundtrack of hope that we just heard they are of course in the meantime good friends and scorpions pain the 88 year old got better off a visit in moscow. Dont go. To them with. Scorpion singer klaus minor serenading me. With his famous ballad about the fall of communism and the end of the cold war. With the former polish president left for once a