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Issued on: 08/03/2024 – 14:21 As countries around the world mark International Women’s Day, we speak to two Afghan women who fled Kabul as soon as the Taliban came to power in August 2021. Mursal Sayas, a writer and activist, has recently published “Qui entendra nos cris” or “Who will hear our screams”, a collection of accounts which bear witness to the violence and oppression that Afghan women face daily.We also hear from photographer Fatimah Hossaini, whose portraits defy the victim status Afghan women are so often burdened with. And we discuss the human rights situation in Afghanistan and Europe,…

Issued on: 08/03/2024 – 20:11Modified: 08/03/2024 – 21:41 01:10 An international effort gathered pace on Friday to get desperately needed humanitarian relief into Gaza by sea, in the latest bid to counter overland access restrictions blamed on Israel as it battles Hamas militants. Read more on related topics: Source link

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose NATO-member country has sought to balance its close relations with both Ukraine and Russia, offered during a visit Friday from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to host a peace summit between the two countries. Issued on: 08/03/2024 – 22:18 4 min Erdogan, who has repeatedly discussed brokering a peace deal, said at a news conference in Istanbul following his meeting with Zelenskyy that he hoped Russia would be on board with Turkey’s offer.“Since the beginning, we have contributed as much as we could toward ending the war through negotiations,” Erdogan said. “We are also ready…

Back to homepage / Shows / People & Profit Issued on: 08/03/2024 – 19:42 12:43 People & Profit © France24 What do Austria, Sweden, Switzerland and Taiwan all have in common? For economist Neil Lee, it’s their ability to share the benefits of innovation equally across society. Charles Pellegrin discusses Lee’s latest book “Innovation for the masses”. Also in the programme: Port Talbot steelworks to close down “blast furnaces”: 2000 jobs at riskWe check in with the inhabitants of Port Talbot in Wales, home to one of the world’s largest steelworks, where 2,000 jobs are expected to be slashed. Fast…

Back to homepage / Shows / Fashion Issued on: 08/03/2024 – 16:15 06:00 Ibrahim Maalouf © mediatv By: Pascal MOURIER | Media TV What exactly goes on in designers’ heads? Wim Wenders claims that Yohji Yamamoto has the power to heal people without the need for a therapist’s chair. Meanwhile Jeanne Friot delves into her own lesbian love story. Stéphane Rolland invites students from two Paris fashions schools on stage, as his collection questions the relationship between East and West. And Julien Fournié embraces the Hitchcock heroine aesthetic to bring down the patriarchy.  Read more on related topics: Source link

At least 20 people have died from malnutrition and dehydration in Gaza, the enclave’s Hamas-run health ministry said on Wednesday. It reported that most of those dead are children. With limited access to food and healthcare, aid officials have warned for months that Palestinians in the enclave are at risk of famine. Issued on: 08/03/2024 – 17:38 5 min Famine is becoming a real threat for Gazans, exhausted by five months of war. At least 20 people have died from malnutrition and dehydration, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza reported Wednesday.Representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO) in recent days…

Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday sent troops to rescue more than 250 pupils kidnapped by gunmen from a school in the country’s northwest in one of the largest mass abductions in three years. Issued on: 08/03/2024 – 18:36 3 min The Kaduna state attack was the second mass kidnapping in a week in Africa’s most populous state, where heavily armed criminal gangs on motorbikes target victims in villages and schools and along highways in the hunt for ransom payments.Local government officials in Kaduna State confirmed the kidnapping attack on Kuriga school on Thursday, but they have still not…

The creator of Japan’s hugely popular and influential “Dragon Ball” comics and anime cartoons, Akira Toriyama, has died aged 68, his production team said Friday. Issued on: 08/03/2024 – 05:45Modified: 08/03/2024 – 05:43 2 min First serialised in 1984, “Dragon Ball” is one of the best-selling manga franchises of all time and has spawned countless anime series, films and video games.Toriyama died on March 1 because of an “acute subdural haematoma” – a blood clot on the brain – a statement posted to the official “Dragon Ball” account on X, formerly Twitter, said.”It’s our deep regret that he still had…

Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent.The health ministry does not report how Palestinians were killed, whether from Israeli airstrikes and artillery barrages or errant Palestinian rocket fire. It describes all casualties as victims of “Israeli aggression”.The ministry also does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Throughout four wars and numerous skirmishes between Israel and Hamas, UN agencies have cited the Hamas-run health ministry’s death tolls in regular reports. The International Committee of the Red Cross and Palestinian Red Crescent also use the numbers.In the aftermath of war, the UN humanitarian office has published…

On this year’s International Women’s Day, Ireland votes on whether to remove the decades-old ‘women in the home’ clause from its constitution, alongside a second referendum on revising the definition of family. Despite a desire to remove the gendered and outdated language of the ‘women in the home’ clause, concern has arisen from both the YES and NO camps over the wording of the proposed new article and what impact – if any – it will have on women’s rights in Ireland.  Following the historic same-sex marriage and abortion referendums in 2015 and 2018 respectively, the people of Ireland vote on…