Who are hoping the triumph loops will meet some of them sharing the tolls on the us president and his administration. At the michael jr is the name youre welcome to the program. Now this far treats i dont know if wearing a traditional your fate hangs in restaurants and make it clear show of support for the u. S. President right but just like in the states chums bid for reelection divides views on the continent so will it be trump or hears them across joe biden weve taken our comrades to the streets across Africa Uganda to south africa i would love to see the democrats the most like. And inspiring to with lots of minorities is policy all over the place and the knowledge you have easy is really really not. A good president when it comes to. How you handle people and how we treat. People even the you need a counterweight to the not from us next week theres no doubt about that. I think that joe biden was too soft for him 202 down to earth i mean he goes down to people he puts himself up with you should try to. You know solve. Calculator or not done all of those but you should be having it in 1000 as a change the game plan for my thinking is. Joe biden is going to win that device to me and now they making it go back because in africa you want to do we should be an example. And. Im expecting donald trump to donald trump as this in the back. Some interesting mixed reactions that now africas largest economy and most populous country nigeria overall a Good Relationship for the u. S. Very few african heads of state to be invited i was back in 2018 gesture did not stop the us from placing a travel ban on nigeria. For failing to meet us security information sharing. That was. Meet. She also gives money to. A degree in business administration. But here in nigeria jobs for young people even those with a good education. Thats why she. Work in the United States in february. This is. A bit more these. Different. People we see that is not. Rejected of the u. S. So splendid immigration from nigeria. Thats. Been voted out. Shes praying the visa for. The next. One i believe that this will be not to be in doubt we. Dreamed of. Nigeria and. The us my wife who is a person has a green. And hes from me decided to come. He says racial tensions have surged and that trump he might not want to be in the u. S. That doesnt stop writing critiquer about the visa fees for nigerians who are the most indicated immigrant group in the u. S. Nigeria has given you know the United States a number of ph d. Holders we contribute a lot to the economy would pay taxes for Social Security. To pay to this Social Security dont even spend it because when they grow they come back and live in nigeria so when you get the excuse from government that you know. From people who are contributing to the u. S. Society then you begin to wonder what exactly is it has been said. Hopes that if trump is voted out the u. S. Will open its doors to fill nigerians again and become more welcoming for those like if you make it to us she was. Joining me now is that. I was winning political cartoonist satirist and a political commentator based in nairobi hello patrick its great to have you youve written a lot about the u. S. Elections in relation to africa one of them is titled the black election looms what are you driving at. Well. Thanks for having me on the point im trying to drive there has been. Hard to talk what an african of action is and theres been lots of comparisons almost happening in the u. S. With. Perceive elections in africa. And those violent. Point was done i actually offered a lections in many african countries not all of them pretty good elections if you look at this is. Really. Pretty lections. Much better than the us does it so the us elector enough gun won i think its a cricketer when african one which is where the black face comes. Ok so so in doing so what are some of the major issues happening in the us youre trying to address them. I think in the us for us from where i sit the u. S. House of a long time being one of the loud has proponents all 3. Of them democracy in general and have been preaching to africa for very long time about how we should improve our system and actually helping in many cases for the countries to improve but it seems as it was preaching what it was drinking wine. The us belittle reform on its own system and it moved to all. Other terrorism was donald trump how did it can exist and what we see. In. Within its elections you know when you look at it you wonder you know why is it that you were teaching us about democracy but not practicing it at home you know why why did you doesnt know how to hold a free critical election but not practicing this at home so in a sense this is the us coming up big. Of its own hubris it needs to go back home and start looking at its own systems you know whether it is about being a uniform way of people registering to vote some of the things thats been insisting should be happening you know having one Electoral Commission to oversee the whole exercise and they are in the us you do not have this you know so they really need to sit back and look at their own systems and walk around how they need them. Now you mentioned earlier. President trump in this case abbott autocratic while being president and you expect africans to maybe stay away theres still some support on the continent for trump though they want him to win and why is that the case you think. I think within the continent theres lots of us aboard in countries like kenya and nigeria where you go it really powerful religious group specially the right wing. Eventually coal in china really active there and i think that again their cue from the u. S. You know. Is one of the biggest 14 blocks supporting what can the u. S. Lead from democratic countries in africa. All these laws to learn how to run elections Credible Elections none want to do when it comes to preserving the peace and how to carry out an election time when you have a crisis i think african countries over the last 50 years have done a lot of work on the. Electoral system the democratic systems they have learnt how to contain executive you know. Big of a gun. Is pretty much lost on you know you know you still have a view here and there in the main its not as bad as it was 20 years ago so there is not set off not doing the focus that the u. S. Can learn from ok patrick i was when in political cartoonist satirist for lets go commentator in nairobi thank you for your time. Now lets get a quick round up of some election related stories happening on the continent on monday we extensively covered the contested Election Results in tanzania theres been an update police in tanzania have released the main opposition candidate to least who arrested for allegedly plotting illegal demonstrations several position politicians remain in custody accused as the ruling party of raiding last months general election president. Or 10. Ugandan police have arrested opposition president ial hopeful just hours after he registered the date of the night he was the politician of planning rallies disrupt public something he did not. Bring to unseat the ugandan longtime president during his leave you in next years election. Has been reelected. In office. By the opposition. Have him winning 94 percent of the vote but it was a see it was illegal to contest because it broke rules on term limits. And we leave it for todays stories go to do w. Dot com slash africa or facebook and twitter pages you can also get in touch with me directly on twitter as we watch how the u. S. Elections play out take a look at the. Gone viral on social media its how some children from nigeria acting out how they see trump on to late its by for now. A new National Pride is swelling our hearts and staring ourselves so true the strength of our nation is found in the heart of our people so true when anyone hurts we all heard together and thats so true ive always wanted to see a sumo tournament so true in moments of despair we with this is the true character of the American People so our farmers are our future so true farm country is gods country he. Wrote the. First girl. In support of. The civil. Over. To be a book. Every day counts for us and for our planet. Ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. How do we make 2nd screen. How can we protect our tests. We can make a difference to. The ideas the environmental series of little 3000 on g. W. And on the. Sound of silence is filling concert halls here in germany well tell you why top musicians are staging silent protests amid the governments new walk down thats coming up here on arts and culture and later on the show leading architects have a go at designing for dogs. The dogs think about it. First though a new documentary on one of the most ambitious climate projects to date a campaign to plant a wall of trees right across africa the trees are meant to stop the spread of the Sahara Desert creating more stability for People Living on its edges american director Jared Pease Scott documents the project in the great green wall a film thats also a musical journey across africa. Africa a continent of diversity with the youngest population on the planet. But its. The scene of conflict and crises brought on by Climate Change. 60000000 people are expected. By 25th. What else can you do. Then try to find a better life. 2 madeon news ition an activist. Takes the viewer on an epic journey through africa. My region thats been heavily affected by Climate Change through music more just to promote the great green room project. Tree planting campaign that aims to. Kilometer long green forest and greenery across the continent of africa. The goal to stop. The film is a musical road movie with more just singing about the subject closest to hots for lima china she was pretty. And i thought oh no i have to beat out my. Cynical. Where the great green light the most progress across 150 kilometers 12000000 trees have been planted creating. Another stop or more just journey is nigeria here for him it changes made the countries conflicts and more acute. Like chant a source of livelihood for millions has shrunk by almost 90 percent of the Terror Organization and. Its rise in part to social unrest brought about by Climate Change. People ask themselves what do i have left should i join a group go to the city try to reach europe. The great green wall project is about creating a viable future for over 1000000000. 00 Young Africans if it doesnt succeed there will be more migration so far only 15 percent of the green wall is completed consonance fate hangs in the balance. 2 my colleague Melissa Holroyd is here to tell us more this is such a humongous project isnt it yeah its epic and if its completed it would be the largest living structure on the planet it would be 3 times the size of the Great Barrier reef he said. Yeah well they hope to be completed by 2030 they started in 2007 with the halfway there and. Now lets talk a little bit about you know my job. In person in this film with her shes really a powerhouse shes not just a singer as she knows shes done a whole lot of things shes also a model shes been on the catwalks of paris and around the world shes been on fire shes got 3 best selling albums and what she does the documentary is broken up into chapters and in each chapter she meets with local musicians and they collaborate and they put together they put together songs to create an album to raise money for the great great movie so theres a chapter about each of these countries along what will be the great green wall this is also just. Film project and you know marja is one of the big names involved there are some other big names i believe to have format from and on the red list is oscar nominated brazilian director he did city of gold and also as you mentioned jared piece scott hes done a number of documentaries in the past hes with one chomsky and he says that he was motivated to put together the documentary because he felt that the people that are suffering the most in the world from Climate Change have contributed the least to Climate Change so hes got the justice yeah real sense of justice and also he says that its a real story of hope and result and of course he wants to get more of the wall actually built so the documentary uses the great green wall more as sort of a metaphor rather than sort of a literal story i mean its all its also really being built but as a metaphor as to how these Different Countries a dealing with Climate Change and each of these chapter is deals with a different problem thats being addressed there are some very positive stories one of them is ethiopia is the chapter on ethiopia and only if you remember the 1980s youre probably too young to remember but there was there were terrible terrible famines in ethiopia that saw hundreds of thousands of people die so then very greening of of the place has really had some very very positive effects you know with the whole right thanks so much for coming on the show. Culture makers here in germany say the government is silencing the arts with its new coronavirus rules musicians around the country posted silent protest videos against germanys new partial lockdown on monday night that included the hamburg philharmonic and conductor cant youre not going to well this week germany is shut down concert halls theaters museums and cinemas till at least the end of the month while allowing Retail Stores and other businesses to stay up and running. In the jungles of southern mexico the luck and dawn people are one of the countrys most isolated indigenous groups without contact to the outside world they preserve their an ancient mayan culture for centuries and recent years thats starting to change and one of the outsiders theyve let in is austrian photographer. Mine hes been visiting them for over a decade now documenting their traditions before they disappear. Tempos of the maya a lost civilization that practiced astronomy and mathematics phone time was sacred and made human sacrifices tribute to their gods. Martin engelman travel to Central America for the 1st time in 2008 in a small village in the rain forest of southern mexico he encountered the left hand on descendants of the mayans whose ancestors fled to the forests from spanish conquered anthropologist alice powers and nearly often travels with england. She lives with the lack on gone 6 months a year and speaks their language the entrance of the cave the court seat back. From dawns believe this is where the souls of the deceased are purified on the way back from the underworld. About 700 mine condones have survived to this day. The culture can still be found will cease to exist in a very few years and one for me as a photographer this is a painful realisation but i cant stop it and i had to accept that offer to. Turn it has arrived in the village of know how there is now electricity telephones streets there are only a few old people left the last guardians of the groups cultural heritage. And women also met the last shaman mouthpiece of the gods don antonio. Born and in the face of the mayan and dawns and everything in life has a meaning of the everything lives everything is animated no matter whether a small plate of grass or tree everything. Has a soul has a spirit and you can also communicate with everything that is what the maya believe i believe that if we go through nature with this attitude there is no more good and bad but you can see everywhere how valuable creation is be valued for the ship. In the rainforest everything sayings the my ass say everything has a voice. Galleries in england are going back into lockdown this thursday but before that happens we managed to get a tour of the architecture for dogs show in london weve got a 4 Legged Friend to go sniff it out. In london sure shes a female shiba inu inspects the architecture for docks exhibition of creative furnishings for mans best friend. The pieces are the creations of internationally renowned designers and architects. Massive current is a london based architect who has gone to the dogs. Each of us did been given the brief to create architecture for dogs instead of humans and its not about making houses the request pacific in the prefer it was about trying to express yourself about the scale of the dog and so whats really interesting about it the creative tools how to get sharpen the bit where to start to see things from a different perspective and see how the dog sees the world. The concept for the exhibition came from japanese designer kenya howrah from 2012 it went on shore around the world only now arriving in europe. Type of this design i see you its intended for dogs with black coats. The idea is it is the dog is able to camouflage itself amongst a kind of black background is made from sheeps wool the whole thing has a smell of delicious smell to the dog which attracts it initially and the shape you can see starts on the ground and lifts upwards in this curved arc the idea is that kind of resembles the way the dog discovers the world around it maybe the way it sees is by smelling the ground and slowly looks up to discover whats surface in front of it for sure theres plenty good discover. But its about more than seeing and sniffing is more than an exhibition its really a. Global project whereby people can interact by downloading versions of the pieces which are exhibited and make them themselves we upload done and they are then shared via social media. Architecture for dogs sounds barking but schorsch seems to approve. Cox diggity dog. 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This is g w news from berlin tonight austria is in shock 4 People Killed in a shooting attack a suspect was a supporter of socalled Islamic State police shot the gunman dead in arrested dozens of others austrian chancellor Sebastian Cordes calling it a repulsive terror attack he says it will not divide his country also coming up you know im not thinking about a concession speech or acceptance speech it. Hopefully will be doing one of those 2 and you know