Hello im told me all a lot of well its good to have your company the World Health Organization calls it an extreme form of discrimination and a way of controlling women were talking about female genital mutilation or f. G. M. More than 200000000 women and girls alive today have had parts of their genitalia removed for nonmedical reasons of the 30 countries where women are subjected to f g. M. 27 are in africa the dark red areas on this map show the countries where more than 50 percent of women have had their genitals neuter lated such as somalia sudan and mali in the orange areas the figure is 26 to 50 percent and the yellow areas it is between 11 and 25 percent. One member of the muscle using her fame as a former missed tons and to try to end what she describes as a barbaric practice. Diana edward lucas is a 22 year old messiah woman shes trying to break the silence the silence surrounding female genital mutilation or f. G. M. She set up the cut Alert Foundation it is working to stop
Now the chancellor and leaders of the countrys largest cities agree new measures for places where case numbers are on the increase and this is the 1st of all a lot of big speeches looking up the believe the head of the World Food Program expresses his joy as the agency is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Welcome to the program. Germany has marked the 1st anniversary of a deadly antisemitic attack on a synagogue in the eastern city of holland it happened on the jewish holiday of young kid for the neo nazi attacker couldnt get through the synagogues front door and so went on to shoot 2 people outside the commemoration ceremony president frank expressed shame and anger over the resurgence of antisemitism in the country. It was an occasion to mourn and reflect for survivors for the been briefed and for germany the ceremony in. Church marked the anniversary of an anti semitic attack that evokes germanys history. A year has passed already a year just a year. Or do i ever go to day and nightmar
This banished government has declared a state of emergency in madrid because of a rapid increase in corona virus cases the government overruled regional authorities in forcing a partial lockdown in the capital and the surrounding region the countrys Health Minister says the measures are necessary to prevent madrids high infection rate affecting the rest of spain. The United Nations World Food Program has one dis years Nobel Peace Prize for its effort to combat hunger and improve conditions for peace. He provided assistance to almost 100000000 people and 88 countries last year the committee described the award as a call to the International Community not to underfund the program. This is deja vu news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at news or its at our website w dot com. Are european museums ready to give up on art looted from their former colonies some big developments there coming up on arts and culture and. Australian musician nick cave displays decades of creativity
Its all relative, right . We have seen some subtle changes. I know its not down to the good category yet but signs of things beginning to improve. For much of the weekend everyone was in that very unhealthy category, that purple color. Now were down into the unhealthy from the north bay to the south bay. Yes, its still bad. We have the haze out here, but were seeing signs of changes. Let me get to that and to give you this reference point. I have to give you a wider look at the satellite and the three large fires producing the most smoke, you can see the plumes on the satellite view showing the smoke now lifting to the north and east so thats moving away from the bay area. And were starting to see these changes from the system that is developing right on track just offshore. Thats going to help to change our air quality. Well have more details on that in our developing la nina and what that could mean coming up in 18 minutes. 20 Straight Days of poor air quality and it will stick aroun
Visibility below a mile right now and thats what were seeing elsewhere right along the pretty foggy morning right out the coast, you may have noticed some coastal drizzles a lot of do on the streets this morning right along the pacific. So we make our way into the afternoon fog continues to burn off and lots of sunshine makes its return that will make for a really pleasant monday afternoon around the corner right now were still in the 50s 60s pretty mild start to the day but pretty familiar territory similar to where we have been starting our mornings and we are going to be much the same into the afternoon to a lot like we were this weekend with just a few 90s for inland cities, 70s, 80s and 60s elsewhere in the bay area. Daria. Thanks a lot john 71 and lets get to the top story, the fall semester for oakland is here the kids are starting school today virtually online yeah weve got the spending this last week distributing computers and wifi hot spots to students who need them. There ar