paints of capitalism but they're growing pains the i.m.f. is focusing a girl three to eight point five percent. above the global over for now it seems if you still an african economy close to the economy. so joining us now from london is charles robertson global chief economist with rene sands capital good to speak with you again so let's talk about the year the growth picture first is ethiopia going to be able to sustain these growth levels we've done a lot of work on in europe and it's very odd model they've got for development but a very of model has produced very very high growth. on our last big report we focused on the fact that they were running out of foreign exchange to sustain that model and they were going to have to start to raise dollars one way or another they've done a euro bond but it wasn't enough and is creating big distortions in the economy so it's a matter of how can they get the cash they've been borrowing from china and the recent

declarations from the government suggest that they might start to raise the money by selling some of their kind of the golden goose if you like or the selling stakes in their golden days of their major companies like if your be telecom or or the airlines and that way they can bring in the dollars that they need to be able to buy the investment goods that they need to be able to drive growth what's your assessment as well of the of the digital economy in ethiopia and how that factors into its economic growth this is there's an awful lot of p.r. a very successful p.r. campaign that's making out if you appear to be kind of the next china and i think that that is a valid comparison is wrong as you have the next china meeting with a fifty year lag. not a ten or twenty year lag if you want to ten year lag behind china go to vietnam but if e.o.p. is much much further behind and part of this we look at things like i don't

literacy less than half of the adults in ethiopia can read or write in any language that's not what you need if you're going to be a part of a digital economy you've got at least be able to read what's on your mobile phone they can't and the consequence of low adult literacy is about forty nine percent in twenty fifteen is that you also cannot have an industrializing story either and again despite the p.r. ethiopia's manufacturing sector is around four percent of g.d.p. there's only eight countries in the world with smaller manufacturing sectors than the theory it's not what people think of when they think of ethiopia they think of textile mills and shoe factories and it being a competitor bangladesh about the education numbers the electricity numbers are just not there for either a digital economy or a big manufacturing sector it's still a very rural very poor agricultural economy. and one of the big stories this

week on ethiopia is that they're mending fences finally now with eritrea how much of a peace dividend is that going to potentially bring free theo with the peace deal with eritrea they can really build those links to eritrea create a second export routes and perhaps then get a better price when it comes to exporting make goods through the ports so there's a benefit for for longer term trade from that side of the story in terms of say the defense budget or so on i think i think the major issue has been domestic security not so much the problems are there a trailer where you've just had stalemate for the best part of a generation so it's an end this without the promise is also seen as a new hope someone who can perhaps ease the domestic tensions in ethiopia and therefore perhaps the government will be able to invest a little less in defense internal security a little more in infrastructure charles robinson in london thanks very much for

being with us as it is talk to you now the makers of a controversial weed killer on trial in the united states a california groundskeeper who's dying of cancer is accusing monsanto of ignoring the health risks of its product roundup if he wins it could open the door to hundreds more cases against the chemical giant from new york is kristen salumi. monsanto is the global giant in biotechnology and chemical production it makes much of its money in agriculture but its products are also used in local parks in people's gardens it's weed killer called roundup is made with those consumers in mind this to wayne lee johnson is suing monsanto blaming round up for giving him a form of cancer called non hodgkins lymphoma the forty six year old father developed the skin lesions and the disease which is now slowly killing him after spraying gallons of roundup weed killer as a school grounds keeper for two years in california he accuses monsanto of

suppressing evidence of the risks of glyphosate particularly when combined with other ingredients which are present in the weed killer at the chemical companies sells a product and they know or suspect that that product can cause cancer they have to warn they have to give us a choice just hook it up to your hose and monsanto maintains its product is safe to use as directed in the place the state is applied to be it's once absorbed it travels to the roots blocks a specific enzyme found in plants not animals or humans but the name it's made in advertising campaigns like this one as well as that court it points to findings by the environmental protection agency and other regulatory agencies billions of dollars could be at stake for the st louis based company which was recently sold to bear not only in worldwide sales of round up but also in seeds which the company has genetically engineered to be resistant to the pesticide for duwayne lee johnson

he may have had his day in court but he may not see justice served his lawyers say he's expected to die in the next few months. the name monsanto regularly appears in polls of the most hated companies in the u.s. so not surprisingly perhaps the people who now run the company have changed the name german drug maker and agricultural giant bear concluded a sixty two point five billion dollar takeover in june to create the world's largest maker of seeds and pesticides and bear is dropping the name monsanto the acquired products are still there but they all become part of the bear portfolio from the invention of the wheel to space exploration artificial intelligence and the creation of social media innovation is not a new phenomenon and a good place to start looking at where the next set of inventions that can potentially change the world's economy is the global innovation index now the twenty eight hundred report has just been published by cornell university in

seattle and the world the intellectual property organisation its aim is to provide insight into the state of innovation around the world and this year's index has switzerland in the top spot followed by the netherlands sweden and united kingdom the u.s. has slid two places to number six on the list after singapore innovation was measured by eighty factors in total including mobile application creation and education spending countries of the bottom of this year's rankings include bikini fassel togo and yemen and one key takeaway is that china join the world's top twenty most innovative economies for the first time. well to get more on the twenty eight hundred global innovation index i'm joined by francis gurry director general of the world intellectual property organization w.i.p.o. is a un agency which promotes the protection of intellectual property throughout the world thanks so much for being with us so how would

a high ranking affect the overall quality of life in a country and is it possible for example to to innovate yourself out of poverty yes and what it's not so much the ranking that affects the quality of life but the fact that the ranking reflects that the country is a good producer of innovation that means in turn that economy will be in its enterprises will be extremely competitive because so much competition now is based on technology and innovation and that competitiveness of the economy of course is reflected in terms of average high income associated with the country and quality of life because innovation of pics of course the quality of life material life you know in a large variety of manners i want to ask you as well about the lack of. digital connectivity in in some countries and what effect that can have one on innovation

because we were reported on on a previous program about mexico's economy and how there are large room areas mostly rural areas that have no or very little internet connectivity at all what implications does that have for the ability to innovate look i think the innovation the. lack of conic to vittie. is a major major obstacle and something that we all need to pay attention to it's a bit like saying you have no industrial capacity in the industrial age in the digital digital age the lack of connectivity means that you are not a player in the game. and so on. it's a very serious phenomenon a lot of work is going on in the public international public sector and private sector to improve conic to vittie but we need to speed that up to make sure that we don't have those who miss out badly on all of the benefits of the digital

revolution which are social and economic so if there is there a danger then of the world splitting into into a kind of digital has and have nots i think it's a great danger and and i think you could go a little bit more broadly than digital and say take technology in general because is a lot of technology in the hill theory of for example which is not available or widespread basis throughout the world and this is a big danger that with the speed of technological development in the sort of resources that are required for new technologies and the development of new technologies it's a big danger that we may have as you say an exacerbation a worsening of the gaps the very considerable gaps that exist in economic and technological capacity throughout the world and thus for the social benefits that are derived from having rather high performing economies and technological capacity

. good to speak with you francis gary pre-show your time thank you thank you very much and finally a new tax on social media apps in uganda has sent people out on the streets to oppose the move for young ugandans especially social media has become a platform for expression and protest malcolm webb reports. many people here in uganda's capital kampala on happy about having to pay to use the internet's most popular services i hope the wine a pop star and then people that a demonstration against the new social media tax crowd quickly gathered we have a picture there for somebody at that because it is their personal i doubt they are people of uganda i said make out if it was filmed for us it's really i think they don't think that if you had not accepted the credits for say little that to the judge the the president was still angry because they think i don't suffer to be telling stake to my face in such a media users have to pay about six cents

a day to be able to access whatsapp facebook and other services. president during the seventies had the title helped to reduce gossip the activists here say it's an indiscriminate tax that hurts the poor most left of the people right here in that i am going to leave the internet users access to states is kind of the map if they have a bit of money twenty cents fifty cents they buy some credit i would have done that they'd be all right again maybe for a couple of days i think i. just i. would have to just minutes of marching peace came to stop the protest they said it's not a lawful demonstrations have been heavily restricted in uganda since anti-government protests seven years ago this time things were no different. meanwhile kiosks for mobile phone payments that is usually busy time quiet. they

are also subject to a new tax the recent years service is to transfer payments directly from one phone user to another become a key part of the economy but the government says it needs the revenue. but it. will. buy the one hundred. bill about. the group something more we. will also yes but it's not to be. with those who think it is a burden weren't given long to express it police arrested protest leaders. the wind supporters managed to drag him away the prime minister told parliament that we don't review the controversial taxes. but it's clear that this kind of opposition to them won't be tolerated and that's our show for this week remember get in touch with us by tweeting me at present and here's the hash

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hit a target so close to the densely populated gaza city israel says this building was a hamas urban warfare training facility with a tunnel underneath there were also civilians nearby israel says they were warned in advance of the strike i mean just smaller rocket was fired first at the roof a knock it's called but the people there said they didn't understand this warning instead some rushed to help thinking someone have been injured these two teenagers were among that group they were killed when israel second a much more powerful strike came in since friday evening israel's military has hit more than forty targets across gaza the total to move some of it in consultations with the defense minister the military chief of staff and top security forces we decided on a powerful action against hamas terrorism the israeli army delivered its most painful strike against a mass since the twenty fourteen war. it also released

a video of what it says was the destruction of a tunnel near the border with egypt israel has been frustrated for weeks now by century burning balloons and burning kites that drift over the border during friday protests and set fire to israeli crops prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been under enormous domestic pressure particularly from border communities to do something to stop them and israel has threatened hamas and said to hamas if you do not stop these kites we will get back in this seems to be that retaliation. dozens of rockets have been fired by armed groups from garza towards israel a few have been intercepted by israel's iron dome system unusually hamas has claimed sole responsibility for some of the rockets fired by her israel's air strikes follow friday's protests which are now in their fourth month a fifteen year old palestinian was shot dead when israel says he tried to climb the fence the mainly peaceful protests began as an attempt to persuade israel to lift

its twelve year long blockade of gaza but israel has not made any concessions and that's led to enormous frustration amongst garza's almost two million people burn it's made out of syria gaza thousands of people have been rallying against donald trump across the u.k. but he's made it clear he wants to stay on as president for a whole lot longer in an interview with the daily mail newspaper today he says he plans to stand for the presidency again in twenty twenty he told the newspaper it seems like everybody wants me to he went on to talk about a lack of competition from the democrats saying i know them all and i don't see anybody all this is big crowds turned out in scotland to protest against trump's presence at the golf resort he owns some demonstrators stood at the edge of the course in turn brought to heckle mr trump as he played a round of golf thousands also marched against his visit in edinburgh mr trump has no more official engagements within the u.k. . the. there were scuffles at

a small pro trump rally in london far right groups showing their support for the u.s. president many wearing red hats bearing the slogan make britain great again they called on the u.k. to adopt trump's anti immigration policies and praise what they called his strong and decisive leadership mr trump flies on to finland later on sunday for talks with the russian president vladimir putin mr trump insists he'll meet putin alone but that is worrying diplomats here's i definitely get a sense james bays looking at. helsinki a city that joining the cold war was used as one of the few places where western allies and the soviet union could talk some believe relations are almost at a cold war level again yet one leader keeps talking up the positive and i said putin may be the easiest of them all you never know the biggest blow to relations was russia's seizure of crimea from ukraine the first time

a part of one country had been stolen by another in europe since world war two at the time it was condemned by the us nato and the you. however in recent days at two news conferences in belgium and the u.k. president trump was asked if russia should give back crimea and each time he dodged the question what will happen with crimea from this point on that i can't tell you well we'll have to see what happens far from here the syrian war seems to be entering its final phases the assad regime would support from its allies iran and russia has the upper hand the u.s. and israel want to reduce iranian presence in the country and its influence in the region could there be a grand bargain in the works. only days ago israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was in moscow putin could perhaps persuade a sad to ask you ron to leave his country trump could lift objections to russia's

control of crimea far fetched perhaps but just listen to the way the ukrainian ambassador to the u.n. is clinging to previous statements by members of the u.s. administration on crimea i think that. that will come from several times by boat by many many other u.s. official thrum and mr bolton to the the the the spokesman for the white house and and many other. officials who confirmed that the principle ball is who yes wolf they've assumed that the illegally fish no crimea but actual should never be recognized remarkably for part of this summit in finland's presidential palace trump is likely to meet putin alone just as he did in singapore with kim jong un in june the u.s. is closest allies are worried what this most unpredictable president might agree to behind these walls james bays al-jazeera helsinki the space coast guard has rescued

three hundred forty refugees and migrants adrift in the straits of gibraltar they were found on board twelve dinghies among them one hundred children since the start of this year around one thousand nine thousand people have arrived in spain from north africa that's more than arrived in the country in the whole of twenty seventeen funerals have been held in pakistan for some of the one hundred twenty eight victims of a suicide bomb attack during an election rally among those laid to rest was a candidate for the provincial office more than three hundred people were injured in the blast on friday the caretaker prime minister. has announced a nationwide day of mourning on sunday. two hundred students have been freed after a siege of the church in the caracas that saw two shot dead taken refuge there after nearly three months of barricading themselves into a university campus sanchez reports now from the capital when arguing. after more than fifteen hours and were sued students at new get i was national antonymous

university were freed. the cardinal and the mass summertime negotiated their release with gunmen. who pleaded for her life during the siege came out alive. we fought back with stones and mortars but they shot at us with high caliber weapons a k forty seven and i don't know what else the priest has come out with a white flag to ask the ceasefire. this student says they all thought they would be killed. at some point we didn't have any more mortars or molotov cocktails to respond with i didn't think we'd come out alive. for hours families sang and prayed the access near the church was blocked by police while heavily armed gunmen shot at the students. it was a desperate wait to see their children florida says she's also afraid because her

home has been under attack these past days. and he looked down the last hours have been tragic we haven't slept or eaten but we were at on a grateful to god our children only wanted which forms. the government calls protesters terrorists and coup plotters it blames them for the deaths of policemen and three months of bloody confrontations around the country but rights groups say the majority of attacks are perpetrated by government forces the siege has left many got one families devastated but the question is whether the government will continue with the use of force or will sit at the big oshie it in table this week. cardinal brain is said this by the clergy has also been targeted they want to resume peace talks between protesters and the government on tuesday however they are worried about the safety of the students and their families. we will also continue to conduct negotiations with the government so the lives of the

students and that of their families are respected. but the lives of these students and their families may continue to be at risk for protesters say they will continue to fight to topple president than a lot bigger. and well government forces do nothing to arrest the government in plain clothes and heavily armed shoot in plain daylight with impunity. again a sanchez i just see them and now when he got out. days of violent protests in haiti have now given way to political uncertainty the prime minister. surprised many when he stood right in the middle of the parliamentary session across the turned against him even after he abandoned a plan to raise the cost of fuel from port au prince his gable is on them. he arrived to parliament is a prime minister facing his political fate and calls to resign jacques de la phone tones unpopular fuel price hike which he abruptly suspended after riots

a week ago that his government in deep crisis the chamber of deputies had planned to force the prime minister out with a no confidence vote on saturday but abruptly resigned instead of. before even coming here i sent my letter of resignation to the president. the resignation it a week of political tension in haiti most people from the middle class to the poor say the prime minister who had only been in office seventeen months needed to go and the calls for him to do so grew louder by the day that the gas price hike and reversal were just seen as another sign of an ineffective government his eventual downfall came on a day of tension in the capital. the streets there were protests not nearly as large as the ones last week that turned violent but still anger at the government and calls for more resignations to lay oh you know you have. this is also

a message to the lawmakers a warning to everyone telling them to be very care.