a focus on cameroon today because the government's heavy handed response to a wave of protests has provoked international condemnation and calls for restraint demonstrations to in the streets at the weekend in cities across the country to protest against the government's police put down the watches with rubber bullets forcing a number of injuries the protests come amid growing discontent with the country's eighty five year old president paul bia he's been in power for more than thirty is yet you heard right he's even secured a seven time in office that was last october with a contested landslide victory. now among those arrested this week is the leader off the opposition cameroon renascence movement maurice come to he won just fourteen percent of the version last october's presidential elections but alleges that the vote was raked now with several other opposition leaders also taken into custody the united nations has called on the authorities in cameroon to step back we call on cameroon authorities to respect the freedom of assembly association and expression and stressed the need for restraint by all political actors the secretary general reiterates the need for all cameroonian stakeholders to engage in an inclusive and genuine political dialogue. now the human rights advocacy group amnesty international has gone a step further amnesties west and central africa direct to some mirror deludes issued this statement that the crackdown on peaceful protests across several cities undermines the rights to freedom and expression and peaceful assembly in cameroon the authorities must and repression of protests that uphold the country's constitutional and international human rights occasions and samir de woods joins me now from the mira it's good to see you so you you accuse the cameroonian government off disproportionate response to the opposition protests what are you hearing about these incidents. that. piece of. country and. there was an existing. demonstration. and. even the several. demonstrations. to. change all right some are stay on the line because i want to listen to the cameroonian government spokesperson he has since issued a statement on this and the government strongly condemns these an acceptable maneuvers to discuss. on the fourth takes over the lead. and. not. ok so there we have it the government spokesperson basically saying that the opposition opera vote came this crisis that they're trying to subvert the results of last year's elections what do you make of that snare. i was either going to come to or he saw the seven people that were demonstrating and have been arrested there were just peaceful peaceful protest. and it would just give the sides in their. right to freedom of expression and peacefully p.c. provided by the law this is not something that is good they didn't the problem is that in hand. have systematically denied any kind of activities don't see this saying to act cool open and these ranks. all right if you brought up maurice can tell they i want to talk about his of race do you see this as a wider attack on on the civil opposition by the president gets arrested signals in the crackdown on the one generally on human rights defended in activity. the fact that he's been arrested just because he holds have millions and some comedians he says one of his key. demonstrate peacefully. in general is of course there is no. because. these people even when should be anything. if it's done of course there is a big tail of the whole anything demonstrate he. exists and writes all right some we are told from the an amnesty international office for west and central africa thank you. thank you. an extra is about a miracle or at least that's what people in the democratic republic of congo calling it an outbreak of ebola is still ravaging the eastern regions of the country but a newly born baby is a surprise bright spot the healthy baby girl was born to a woman infected with the disease it's the first known case where both mother and daughter have survived. it's a miracle that she's alive and kicking her mother twenty eight year old josephine e-coli was infected with the ebola virus during the last outbreak and the democratic republic of congo and fell ill while pregnant. doctors at the w.h.o. ebola treatment center still can't believe it. i knew that they were following women who appear to be survivors of who are still carrying healthy pregnancy this was something that were. close to unheard of in the last epidemic and so that was really something exciting to see a woman gives birth to a child. after it appears that she survived the fall. according to the world health organization pregnant women infected with ebola and babies born with the virus have always died that is up until now they say sylvana is the first baby to be born a bowl of free to a mother who was previously infected. to . july had a good birth and i thank god for it me and the baby are both healthy i'm very grateful for the work that the team is doing. well. the doctors in beneath conducted a variety of tests and were surprised at the results. of we took a blood sample from the newborn and from the mother and we also took an amniotic fluid sample because we feared the virus had spread to the baby. but the lab test result came back negative. that's why we think that this result is surprising and intriguing from a scientific point of view. josephine e-coli and her newborn sylvana will soon go home to start their new life together. keyboardist composer and perform a shake to john is sick is a man with many talents and even many more years in the music business the molly and sensation has worked with legends like didi bridgewater jimmy cliff and philip wood to seek has made a name for himself blending traditional west african sounds with just about anything this musician is now possible on his knowledge to young autists and promoting an unusual formula don't rehearse improvise. take to the uncertain loves being on stage he loves his music with more than four decades rocketed out he shared the stage with world famous talents like carlos santana but his true love is jazz here he's jamming at the jazz festival in bomb a co that he himself created. it's easy for westerners to say africans don't play jazz we because they expect everyone to play the same way the same voice in the same chords no way could do more you but i remember seeing them that. deep in the bustle of mali's capital bamako is the africa studio of to take a famous player of the west african luth today he is finishing a new song for the final cut he says he must have the magic touch of shake to dnssec who he warmly refers to as elder brother. and the music. you listen to his music and the music he's made father as you can hear greeted is not a theory on the one hand he's attached to our traditions and our culture but at the same time he's incredibly open minded and very modern. is a master of improvisation for him that is the essential definition of jazz. we don't need rehearsal this. says jess we improvise and create music together. those ensemble or. other stars from molly's music scene agree long time friend salif keita is known as the golden voice of mali he launched his musical career together with shake dnssec at their height they played to sold out venues across west africa. he's a very very talented musician you have to know that ship to be on sec is somebody who has contributed enormously today mancipation mali music and also to african music worldwide us again none of. the desire to pass on his knowledge to the younger generation and help them build a career is part of the generous nature of shake a prolific mentor of many dozens of musicians from different origins and horizons. linacre came from cameroon to paris as a very young artist and was integrated by shaykh into his band groove killers in the ninety's with his help and training she then launched her international career . i didn't see his very keen on transgenerational exchanged putting down all this important for him but as a beginner i was very lucky to be part of his spend the it was so young but still he trusted me he's helped many young mrs. shelfer whenever i train somebody and i see them reach a new level i'm so touched it really moves me. i have no money you can give you this viewing. and this is exactly why despite the many challenges in his country shaikh is still out there pushing to keep the music alive in mali. that's it for his africa for now you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page i don't know about you but she accidentally got me thinking of all the other jazz nations we have in africa so here's a picture compilation we put together some of them for you see you next time. entered the conflict zone confronting the powerful cost of two years of two vision and deadlock britain is now bracing to go to bed live in march to leave the european union in a conflict so special and real magical some of the key arguments live shaped districts it debates who is telling the truth to boston. college so philo for. a child be a positive in many parts of russia it's a terrible stigma but an orphanage in chelyabinsk takes a different approach. here h.i.v. positive youngsters grow up with kids who don't have the fire risk. what's the daily routine like for the stand and how do the children themselves fare. sixty minutes on w. stop. the music so long as it's in update. an extravagant venue. to hosts who really know their stuff. grooves. with feel good blaming and definition for. the party in chat with situations from around the world. group starts feb second on t.w. . after two years of division and deadlock britain is now racing towards its deadline in march to leave the european union in a conflict so special this week we'll look back at some of the key arguments for that shaped this often angry debate who was telling the truth and who wasn't.

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