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00:04:58West Africa has one... The goal in Vienna is
00:05:01to establish a network that enables talented people from the African diaspora
00:05:05to exchange ideas, the goal is to contribute to a greater
00:05:08appreciation of the African community.
00:05:15There is a community here where I feel comfortable, which
00:05:19gives me a sense of belonging. For
00:05:22Odri Kodjo, that sense of belonging did not come
00:05:25overnight. After moving from Benin to Europe, she often
00:05:29encountered wrong assumptions about where
00:05:32she came from.
00:05:35I tell people I'm from the Republic of Benin. Where is the Republic
00:05:39of Benin? Do you speak African?
00:05:4334, even more countries, thousands of different
00:05:46languages, nobody speaks African, I simply
00:05:49have to show people my worth, and when they
00:05:53get to know me, they realize I'm much more than what I look like
00:05:56and where
00:05:57I come from.
00:06:02After leaving Benin, Odri and her family moved
00:06:06around Europe due to her father's job. Today, she raises her daughter
00:06:09between France and
00:06:13with her daughter here in Vienna about a bag by a designer from Benin
00:06:16gave her
00:06:17an idea.
00:06:21She asked me how much this cost. I replied,
00:06:25"Well, 60 euros," that's what it cost. And she
00:06:28said, "Well, that's really expensive for something from Africa." That hit
00:06:32me. I thought, "Is that how you
00:06:35see us?" It was one of those key moments, the one
00:06:39when I thought I had to create something or... find
00:06:43a way to highlight the positive stories, the positive image and
00:06:46contribution of the African diaspora in
00:06:48Europe.
00:06:55Odri decided to start where she built her own life
00:06:59in Vienna. In 2023,
00:07:02she founded the Diaspora Creatives collective, which opens opportunities
00:07:05for African artists. Among them is Luis Deininger
00:07:09whose works are currently exhibited in this architectural office
00:07:13thanks to art collector Izabela
00:07:15Kumpošt.
00:07:19We set ourselves the goal of presenting art where people live
00:07:22and work. We believe that an office, for example, is an ideal place, because
00:07:26people can thus see that
00:07:29the usual exhibition spaces, like a white cube or
00:07:33a gallery. Without a single word, you contribute to breaking
00:07:36stereotypes about African artists and the African
00:07:39continent. And that is beautiful.
00:07:43This also gives other artists hope that they can exhibit in such
00:07:47places.
00:07:50Odri's network doesn't just bring together artists, she has built
00:07:54relationships with companies across Vienna that now support Diaspora
00:07:57Creatives and their events. But building
00:08:00this community wasn't always
00:08:03easy.
00:08:09The hardest part was getting out of my comfort zone.
00:08:12"I remember asking myself how to approach people and ask
00:08:16for sponsorship or invite them to collaborate on an
00:08:19event.
00:08:22I'm naturally a shy, reserved person, but I knew I had to
00:08:26step out of my comfort zone sometimes.
00:08:28kad
00:08:33actually,
00:08:40tonight, months of work are coming together at an event called
00:08:44"Made in Diaspora",
00:08:47an evening dedicated to African creativity and the people
00:08:51behind it.
00:09:03One of the creators in the spotlight tonight
00:09:06is fashion designer Hana
00:09:08Akwah.
00:09:17We combine Austrian elegance and African
00:09:20royalty. So you can see Austrian cuts, and
00:09:24then of course African splendor and the vibrancy of colors of our
00:09:27materials.
00:09:30With the support and promotion she received through Odri's network,
00:09:34Hana presented her creations at Vienna Fashion
00:09:37Week.
00:09:40Can you imagine taking our women from Sablina
00:09:44to the runway of Vienna Fashion
00:09:47platform has allowed us to
00:09:51showcase our clothes, which we can then sell.
00:09:53prodavati.
00:09:55Earlier this year, Odri's work received recognition in the form of an award
00:09:59for community engagement, but for her, true
00:10:02success is seeing others thrive.
00:10:06We want everyone outside of our community to see the beauty,
00:10:09brilliance, and excellence we bring. not only in
00:10:13Austria, but outside to the whole
00:15:05What a night we've had? To start with, I hope we managed to convey
00:15:09at least a part of the atmosphere here from Washington with
00:15:12reports, analyses, and discussions. A large
00:15:15number of citizens, we saw it at this watch
00:15:19party, actually hoped for change, and that
00:15:22happened. American voters sent a very serious
00:15:26political message to the man who is sitting in the White
00:15:30House for the second time that his policies no longer have
00:15:33unquestioning support. Namely, as for the
00:15:36Democrats, they, according to projections, won the majority of both houses
00:15:39of Congress. Of course, this represents a shift in the balance of power
00:15:43in Washington. Given that these were not presidential elections,
00:15:46Trump remains in the White House, but his remaining two years will be significantly
00:15:50more politically complex. They now gain the ability
00:15:53to initiate congressional investigations, Democrats, oversight of the
00:15:57administration, blocking some of the president's legislative
00:16:00initiatives. The results in states that were traditionally
00:16:03Republican strongholds, such as Texas and Kansas, are especially
00:16:07interesting, where Democrats achieved
00:16:11important victories. And this shows us that dissatisfaction
00:16:15is not actually limited only to traditional Democratic
00:16:18centers. At the heart of the campaign were everyday
00:16:22issues: cost of living, food and fuel prices, inflation,
00:16:25housing, but also, in fact, the state of American
00:16:28democracy. For many voters, this was
00:16:31a referendum on Trump's way of governing the country.
00:16:35The results show that presidential popularity
00:16:38and political mobilization do not necessarily
00:16:41mean support for
00:16:45elections. Trump,
00:16:48of course, lest there be any confusion, retains executive powers, the ability
00:16:52to shape American domestic and foreign
00:16:55crucial is that to implement his agenda, he will have to
00:16:59reckon with Congress, which it is very
00:17:02likely controlled by his
00:17:06political opponents.
00:17:08Nina Kljenak.
00:17:13yesterday I had the opportunity to visit
00:17:17Crawfordville Georgia, the town
00:17:20where my family traces its roots at least five
00:17:23generations.
00:17:26It was the town that was home to the former governor of
00:17:29Georgia and the Vice President of the Confederate States
00:17:33of America, Alexander Stevens.
00:17:37I visited the grave of Betsy Peak, my
00:17:40great-great-grandmother, who was born in
00:17:431845, 20 years before
00:17:48a cemetery filled with unmarked
00:17:51graves, I found hers. I don't
00:17:55know what dreams Betsy Peak had for her children or for
00:17:58her grandchildren or the generations that she would never
00:18:02meet, but I know I am standing on shoulders
00:18:06made of steel.
00:18:11So yes, Crawfordville produced the
00:18:14Confederacy's Vice President, but
00:18:17tonight, it also produced
00:18:20your next
00:18:21governor.
00:18:25Georgia, we sent a message loud and
00:18:28clear
00:18:30that we want a leader who will put Georgia
00:18:34first and who will stand up to...
00:18:37all the chaos coming out of Washington
00:18:40DC,
00:18:43but even more importantly, you sent the message that in these
00:18:47times of division and acrimony, you believe in
00:18:51something foundational, and that is
00:18:54hope.
00:18:59America is
00:19:01back.
00:19:13a working class neighborhood in
00:19:15Brooklyn, Union household raised
00:19:19in the Cornerstone Baptist Church, I
00:19:22learned very early on that
00:19:25setback was nothing more than
00:19:29setup for a
00:19:31comeback.
00:19:34Today begins the great American. come
00:19:38back,
00:19:42the American people have
00:19:44spoken
00:19:47all across the
00:19:50land, in the north, in the south, in the
00:19:53east, in the west, in the midwest,
00:19:57from sea to shining sea, the American
00:20:00people have spoken and made
00:20:03clear, they've had enough of the extremism.
00:20:08enough of the corruption, they
00:20:11want a congress that's going to deliver for the
00:20:14American people, and that is exactly
00:20:18what House Democrats will do as soon
00:20:21as we get in to office in
00:20:24January. This is a change
00:20:27election, and we understand as House
00:20:31Democrats that we need to deliver
00:20:34dramatic change, things. are
00:20:37broken, we need a congress
00:20:41that puts the American people first, the
00:20:45wealthy, the well off and the well connected,
00:20:48tried. to buy this
00:20:51election, the American people
00:20:55have responded in a resounding way and made
00:20:59clear that America is not for
00:21:02sale,
00:21:04but House Democrats will put the American people first. We
00:21:08understand that this election, dramatic change
00:21:11election, means that the American people are
00:21:14crying out for
00:21:18hear you, we see you. We feel you, and House
00:21:22Democrats are committed to making life
00:21:25better for
00:21:26you.
00:21:29Beginning on day
00:21:31one,
00:21:36this is not a partisan moment,
00:21:40this is a patriotic one. This is not
00:21:44a blue moment or red
00:21:47moment, it's a red, white and blue. moment, because
00:21:51America has won
00:21:52tonight.
00:21:58Donald, look, I know you, you struggled with
00:22:02my name, so after JD swears me in
00:22:05January, you could just go on and call me
00:22:07senator,
00:22:13to the super packs and special interests who tried to beat us, we are coming for
00:22:17your system of politics.
00:22:21the apho spent $42 million against us, thank you for giving me the
00:22:25opportunity to beat you
00:22:26twice,
00:22:30and i want to say something here, see, they try
00:22:34to call you hateful if you believe that palestinian
00:22:37kids should get to grow up in the land of their
00:22:40forefathers without being murdered by our tax
00:22:44dollars.
00:22:46if you believe equal rights to peace, dignity and...
00:22:50determination, that's not hate, it's
00:22:51love.
00:22:55michiganders, we want our taxes spent here for schools
00:22:58here, and healthcare here, and infrastructure here. we
00:23:02don't want our money sent to do a partide or genocide or
00:23:05war.
00:23:10we were the underdogs in this race,
00:23:14we went up against nearly 40 years of doubt
00:23:17and disillusionment, we went up against... more than $300
00:23:21million, more than any senate campaign in
00:23:24American history. We went up against all the
00:23:28negative ads, smear campaigns, foreign bots and AI deep fakes that
00:23:32money can buy. Those, those
00:23:35attacks were the final howls of dying establishment.
00:23:50death rattle of a status quo that knows its days
00:23:53are numbered, they they play dirty
00:23:57because they were desperate, but we never lost
00:24:01hope, we never lost faith, and against big
00:24:05money and long odds, we took our power
00:24:08back,
00:24:14society leaders
00:24:17power.
00:24:27Some people say they no longer watch the news because it makes
00:24:30them depressed. Others say they don't trust the media at all.
00:24:33We can't promise you good and pleasant news, but we truly wish
00:24:37there were more of it.
00:24:41However, we can promise objective, fast, authentic
00:24:44information. Our task is to ask the right questions and
00:24:48search for the right answers. I believe there can only be one
00:24:51truth. I am Nikola Vučić, you are watching N1.
00:25:35The Serbian Philanthropic Forum and the editorial office
00:25:38"Good in People" on the occasion of Accessibility
00:25:41Month and the "Serbia Without
00:25:44Barriers" campaign, on the occasion of National Giving
00:25:48Day. They daily present positive
00:25:52examples of facing limitations, facing
00:25:55oneself, circumstances that
00:25:58are most often characterized by inaccessibility and
00:26:02discrimination of persons with disabilities.
00:26:16A woman who owns horses goes where
00:26:19she wants.
00:26:22Love for children, as well as love for animals,
00:26:25they say, are probably two of the noblest
00:26:28feelings. Whoever is lucky enough to combine
00:26:31them into a life's calling is a happy person.
00:26:35Jelena Ivačković from Novi Sad
00:26:38motivated by her long-standing
00:26:42the "In the Saddle" center on her farm, where beneficiaries of the "Dr. Milan Petrović"
00:26:46Novi Sad
00:26:49come for hippotherapy.
00:26:51I have two horses, I
00:26:54joke that I have one because one is a big horse and one is
00:26:57a pony. And it all started that
00:27:01way, with my father buying this
00:27:05estate that had neither electricity nor water, an old
00:27:08farm, that is, he exchanged an apartment in Novi Sad for this
00:27:11quite shocked. He, since I
00:27:15also studied animal husbandry because
00:27:17of horse breeding, explained to my mother that I
00:27:21would certainly raise horses there. This
00:27:25was perhaps an excuse for him then, or as they say,
00:27:28a vision, but it came
00:27:31true... Man finds strength without
00:27:35cruelty, beauty without vanity, and a friend
00:27:38without interest in a horse.
00:27:42Probably for that very reason, Jelena's fascination with
00:27:45horses has lasted since she first rode this,
00:27:49as it is often called, the noblest animal.
00:27:53At 11 years old, I started riding at the first equestrian club
00:27:56that opened in Novi Sad, and since then I've been
00:28:00connected to horses. There's a saying that if someone
00:28:04"swallows a horse hair, they're infected forever," something
00:28:08like that, when I was little I swallowed a horse hair.
00:28:11Jelena lives her dream, a life filled with noble
00:28:15purpose, on a beautiful Bačka farm that captivates
00:28:18with its beauty and radiates serenity.
00:28:22But dreams don't come true on their own, you have to
00:28:25fight for them. For Jelena's friends, there's no doubt, she
00:28:29can do everything. Jelena is energetic, "first
00:28:33of all, she knows what she wants,
00:28:35she's a very great friend, always there for you
00:28:39when you need her." However, although horses are calm and quiet
00:28:42životinje, prilično su plašljivi. Terapeutski
00:28:46work with a sensitive group of children
00:28:50who often don't have control over their movements,
00:28:53undergo specific training to ensure
00:28:56the safety of both the children and themselves during
00:29:00therapy. They are trained, to some
00:29:03extent, like for all other sports, that
00:29:06is, they are domesticated
00:29:09and physically trained,
00:29:12but one more thing is needed: they get used
00:29:16to various toys, to those
00:29:19didactic materials that therapists
00:29:23use, to strange sounds, to strange
00:29:25movements,
00:29:27to
00:29:30not having, to imbalance,
00:29:32to ahaha, and some
00:29:36calming effect of horses on
00:29:39the psyche and soul, is certainly beneficial to everyone, but it is
00:29:43extremely necessary for children
00:29:47a great method for people
00:29:49who have never in their lives felt movement
00:29:53is closest to it.
00:29:57Uh, through
00:30:00spine is stimulated. Of course, impulses are sent
00:30:04to the brain along the spine, and thus
00:30:08Children and animals have always
00:30:11is reflected in mutual
00:30:16attention and deep trust. That's why
00:30:19these four-legged friends are the best therapists in
00:30:23the world. I have two young children that I let into the
00:30:27enclosure never push them,
00:30:30don't step on them, not what I think. It can happen, horses are
00:30:34big, they pay attention to children and