action of jewish texts known as the dead sea scrolls teams abseiled down an 18 to a cliff to retrieve the fragments from a site inside the so-called cave of horror. is changing the status of his drivers across the united kingdom recognizing them as employees rather than an independent contractors the company says they'll be provided with benefits including the u.k. minimum wage paid holidays and a pension last month the u.k. supreme court ruled that drivers are entitled to benefits. for a quick check of the headlines here an al-jazeera there is growing alarm over the increasing number of corona virus cases in chile despite one of the world's leading vaccine roll outs 5000000 people have had their 1st job but cases are rising by an average of 5000 a day it's also getting worse by the day in brazil it's reported another record number of fatal it is in a single day 2841 in 24 hours the u.n.

says 149 have now been killed since last month's coup in myanmar while i presume the group puts the toll that a 183 martial law has been imposed in many areas but protesters that defying restrictions on gathering in the streets the u.s. secretary of state and defense are visiting south korea on the 2nd stop of the asia tour lloyd austin and anthony blinken are on their 1st foreign trip since taking office they started with japan where they joined forces with their counterparts to criticize what they call china's coercion and aggression in asia north korea's nuclear ambition is expected to be a key issue in seoul right has more from the south korean capital. of course one of the main reasons for this mission to this part of the world is for the new bike that ministration to formulate its strategy towards north korea which we can expect to be some kind of policy of containment what's known as strategic patience the same kind of policy adopted by previous administrations before donald trump came

came along but from the south koreans they would expect and they would want to see something far more proactive they want to try to breathe life back into the whole policy of high level dialogue between north south korea possibly leading to a resumption of talks maybe between north korea and the united states once more and libya has moved a step closer towards putting the violence and division of the past decade behind it with a united government taking office in tripoli the head of the outgoing u.n. backed government fire seraj transferred power to the new prime minister abdul hamid to baber it was a smooth transition from the 2 rival governments in the east and west of the country following painstaking negotiations. so those are the headlines the news continues your knowledge is era after the street station that's what you like about.

every week. i mean ok today on the street we're looking at a sport so competitive video game playing in africa now i have to attention it is typical or no for america asia or europe to see a game in torn immense as far as a sports i can said there's billions of dollars involved and need to pay as a game as we need to really infuse yeah state fans but could thout on the african continent and he's our big question the strain well questions do you want to ask experts you can jump into the comments section and you too can be part of this

discussion but 1st let me give you a little taste of what it's like to be any sports tournament we join the 2018 fee for a well cup global serious in the playoffs that game has already begun. for every player that you could start to have like i don't feel pressure just bring it on show me what you got i think i can beat you that's the thought you should try getting your hands on the confidence to use the days to go. pretty serious read a whole it's not easy it is a lot of phrasing like shot he's feeling it right now let's take a look at this here's the reply now to. my good friend that have to take that one out of your nets early out of the beast sad how douglas joining us today to talk about sports on the african continent who they are what happened in that game. good morning guys yeah

a gave me goose bumps once again playing against a 2 time world champion. sponsored oakley one of the biggest names in freefall you study. among the audience you know just like you saw the african flag are there for people who don't know who in sports game introduce yourself tell them what you. could even promise on africa i'm a 23 year old. monte gaming organization in south africa called. and i specialize in a game called thief itself football as some people know when i stop simulate go ok . that's what i saw you folks get sad reality douglas welcome to the stranger introduce yourself tell us all what. good morning.

everyone my name is douglas a good talk moderate article useful championship which is our focus primarily sports league we run tournaments across to look for african countries on the internet in untrusted to see how we can bring i define a sports player sport liked them and also we got them done to be professional players happy to be happy to have you had a sound into the south so my name is sam i'm from south africa and i'm in eastport shock astar which basically means i get to talk about players like jr is being way too modest he's probably one of the best b. for players in africa right now i'm going to say that because that's my job as a comment said it's a harp players like tear up so let's start with some basic sam for people who had a need to a small so actually new to the concept of a sports kind of growing on the african continent where they go play as a more is the state of all sports right now. so i think for mcconnell for talking

about africa as a continent to say we have the good players i think that's probably good play is in a lots of places i dartmoor just because the continents are big i know a lot of the incredible south african players i nor the most phenomenal fighting games plays in kenya as well so where all this play is all over the consonants i just think we're at the point where the richest of the world hasn't noticed it so when you mention ways e-sports right about in africa we know it's yeah it's starting to get bigger we're starting to see players like judy. in the world but i feel like the race the world doesn't even know that we're here they should be scared because when i praise cam we're going to take all the prize money douglas into our play he's laughing his head off douglas what is the flavor that comes from the continent that we're not seeing in europe asian players a phenomenon because they are way ahead of the rest of the wild but what is it that is coming from kenya nigeria south africa egypt what are you playing. armada

say africa how the mix of just a family by brand mix of cultures across the continent i think that is what we bring to the table in is what the dynamic dream the competitiveness and you know just a love of the sport of the world in a limited spot we love the sport or the traditional and what you see in from running our tournament 29000 is you know the people who are lucky for the people outside in games and also now or you know also reefing simitian racing is something that is growing strongly for example in the past year started with 3 for our tech and street fighter and last year even with a pandemic you know we were able to expand into far taken again. and league of legends so we are a mix we are a mother to but also in not all this. or display or also growing professionally

within the specific love or title that is our. or what i loved in that little clip that we played there was just before hand and south last as the commentators are is this guy has won south africa i didn't even expecting to be by south africa is this thing that is your secret weapon that the secret sauce is that player is international i'm not expecting them to be brought here less from south africa and there are nigeria and they're kind of creep up on. yeah on the bus and i can agree with you on that i've watched that clip over and over and i listen to a commentary just like you mention and i'm not just going to that game i knew i had no bridge on or no at the old globes or the whole continent support obviously not just become but all my fellow africans supporting me and i've got no place or you

know coming up against the biggest name scene in the world and obviously there was no audio expectation from my side but more from this side and i just went into it with ease and now they're like 2 minutes and i didn't expect me to do to be that they miss world champion and i think there's so many incredibly talented players in freefall especially is wrong that i can speak. out of the experience from you know like egypt i they go senegal south africa as well and kenya as well so i yeah it's all about getting the opportunity having that quick infrastructure that you were. at 1st and you know and just being able to to get ourselves to do a platform or to a level to do to get to the international states and i'm under essential we have ability rapid talent combination and education to compete like we've shown on and on previous occasions in multiple games you know like counter-strike as well and

and it can and study. exit so it's all about getting on in rowing ourselves or in wind up you know. so i'm saying this put your head on and it's incredible that you know during this professional and that this is grown into a job and this is only of the last 4 or 5 yes for instance 1st of all set the scene what are you doing what would you say of rounding a tight as into this tournament. so right there i'm actually just having the best time because my job is kind of cool i have no pressure i mean i do i'm on live i'm alive during the brokaw so this particular picture was taken in berlin in germany in 2019 i got to work on the pipe the europe which was the biggest league in europe with the biggest pub suppose you pay pepsi and i chose talking to team a quit which is a very famous organization around the world they have some of the base east coast players they just won the competition as i was interviewing them and having

a lot with one of the players because i like to make a couple of jaxtr acts everyone and i've actually got to travel the world doing this job commentating on games talking to play is and i but insert it wasn't something that i'd play and it wasn't something that i saw as a korea i just lived telling the players stories because especially where i'm from in south africa we have the most incredible e-sports players not are any at how good they are in the game but they just have these amazing back stories and they're really fascinating people to talk to i mean you've got to yeah yeah i love talking to him because he's got so many insights and he's played around the world telling those stories is what i get to do and it means i get to talk about my love of video games as well so it's really something that means even if you're not get it video games e-sports of last year so many opportunities korea lies to get to enjoy your passion and turn your hobby into your job we are getting a lot of enthusiasm guests from al online audience and stand behind coming to in just a moment but also we have

a lot of enthusiasm from people who are involved in sports around the african continent that have an ethernet and a look. i can tell you that there has been a lot of interest in these boys in gaming on the continent and there's been little markable rising in south africa over the past 2 or 3 years we've got a professional team they stay in one house all they do is and it is at dewey sports and gaming all the professional league and they compete in offices try to mend out these schools see how difficult it is unclear who need the guys this fall for it's been so difficult to get i don't see really considered a group industry group to go against the guys in comedy i move more toward out on to the jumper to probably end on goods before you get to the awards is one of these thoughts that goes through all of this will come good enough to go let's be practical hey what are the biggest challenges for you as a professional sport athlete being based in south africa.

and i would say firstly for me speaking from my personal experiences roddick's probably internet. connection is very difficult i'm sure many other players can that. will feel the same way so especially when the area where i am in south africa you know i don't have the best internet they're very useful to me so. often that it becomes difficult competing in tournaments any well cup qualifiers so that's why i signed with a girl i gained you know to give me up life form to succeed basically and to compete with the best of my ability so when i don't compete i would then head down to where the prince a team that i know spoke with a base and now obviously i have it he shows us and it allows me to come you know it way but i mean awful i think for south africans it's all about. not having the proper unit connection not having all of the necessary equipment and maybe

infrastructure like when we come to european teams you know and an american teams as well and asians all these guys are you know in one in one basically in one mile saw in one not boding they're all playing for the entire you know what all the equipment in for a start big gap to get it just internet you know well so they have that the financial backing are strong yeah so i think that is something really we kind of like how do you play when was the last time you play how you training yet. so coming i'm also a program student study accounting so i at all about balance writing the 1st $34.00 days i tend to a dedicated that to my studies. and then off and on weekends you know what i did to sunday i will stop playing and and but i sing and you know copy darrius leave so

yeah it's all about balance you know what i know it's just i know as a small chapel. that's a good way shave right i'm looking and there's always a good guy was chad show us that chad move yet what's special about that chad move oh my goodness look at that that is a chad let's see a little shout master shall mistress as about what chad took us through that i guess it. just looks cool right yes look like you'd be in business or in your i ever work comfortable but those gaming shows are red but i think talking about gaming shows and some of the things that you mentioned about some of the struggles in here in africa and i know in south africa just get like gaming chairs like that cost so much more in specifically in size and $100.00 for a chair. added more here because we're further away so it's a shipping yeah means we pay more money which means

a lot of the equipment we get is somewhat more of a price so like 2 years of his players overseas they have all the gear and everything we're paying a premium for it which means a lot of younger players can't necessarily afford the cool gaming that's something that i think a lot of people don't focus on and like jr mentioned as well when he travels overseas or any other player from africa goes overseas the the players in europe and asia and america they are paid salaries to just play games all day and i play is have to be shootings that have to have jobs that they've got to buy a lot of this stuff so it's very difficult to find full time players and i think it's hard when you have to go out to give someone who can spin 8 hours of the day just focusing on playing the games and training versus someone like judy or as society go to the lake to is struggle with incidents and i think the fact that we can still guard hits ahead with the best in the world just shows what we'd be able to do if some of those resources were available to african players i want to bring

in a loonie well known as one of us a really well known came from east africa from kenya and then as queen she's a legend in the school as well as. again about the challenges is i guess is a job the african pets are proud of that staff it's not on the list let's see what she has to say about that. giving us. more confidence more clearly since as an introvert i intend to present a clear to me once in the. all i consider to give. my engine hasn't been those challenges because one of the african continent in studio one book is. there's a lot of untapped talent that skin improve don't form on top of the to feel that they can be a more welcoming place for people of the world uses and didn't gender identity use

and nor their own to use ability to be more than 2 years out of the ticket in change for the better. douglas kenya is just a great hotspot for tech. tech it's feels like you've got all of the raw materials are right there to me not just great instances it's the start it's the entry point of a conversation but we're really talking about how this tech developed on the continent what are the barriers what are the boundaries because we've got young people who have talent now what are they doing douglas go ahead. thank you thank you for for this the setting for us in kenya early fortunately no we do have the likes of facebook the likes of google the likes of microsoft you know set up shop here and also when you look around you know just like my colleagues have mentioned about internet connectivity i think we are fortunate to have you know internet

ammunitions into kenya you know from the rest of the world which means that you know we do have access to their economy which to you wrote a connectivity to china for example but you know with that definitely the question is how do you tell this internet even to go to the most rural part of the country with the youth i think now and in addition to connectivity you know access to infrastructure you know the likes of the playstation or the ecb so you know kenya being of course not only turn country you know we do have the benefit of getting people from other countries which means that you know based on exposure you've been able to land what other people in other markets are doing. so we would see in their right of release but. now we do have communities you know like tekken communities cod community people community. and also just you know the question in our people

getting into is what's you know now with the cost of data becoming us or the world are still the question of how do people get access to the devices so we do our you know before internet was accessible you know we used to go to a cyber cafe else but interestingly this have now turned into gaming which means that you know of about 100 about a dollop you can get access to a play station if one hour and then you know this is where people are practicing but also just a comment on the chair you know it's nice that we're talking about a chair but how do we want to talk about the play station itself or that is divisive and we still have to challenge that on top of the so. play station keep michael example of what it's going to be $500.00 in the u.s. but by the turn me out of the shipping cost and then it. talks of you know it probably comes to about double its supply so there's a look we need to you know overcome so that we can get a fairly good look. would just be too much muskets you mentioning c.e.o.

sears and some of our audience who are online right now are actually playing call of duty as we speak thank you for multitasking appreciate that some of the top or are already being tackled this is much better than he really inspired a lot of this conversation talking about the potential on the african continent and he is absolutely bullish and positive about that have a listen have a look as we continue to make progress on the near term challenges around technology so the availability and affordability of consumer technology and a band with and closing infrastructure gaps we need to have those broader conversations about attracting investments and partnerships and sponsorships so that the east boards vertical industry house and ecosystem to thrive in the talent is obviously here the audience is obviously here the ability to create ip intimate games and to do all the things around these ports is here why for transfer

management is here so we just need a mechanism or several american isms to connect these very talented communities to the rest of the world and you know you've written yet. there's. a look now. i've made some some good money out of there you know for they have a young style good things that she's whether they're wondering where that is she said to your program i can guarantee you there are so many options like sam mentioned on this rock in east force not just getting so many avenues to explore. i'm just very happy and less stress provided for my family who took over either through my my parents who lost their jobs basically so we are very honored in leicester and you know giving something back to them very big can go on i'm going to do a speed round review all because i got some really great responses on each of jonathan

says african games of the next big thing what did he say sam i did maybe without a dance. what else do we have a sound mind given the financial barriers to entry what do you think can be done to bring more people into sports who are going to take that one. where i'm fully we can or are some more ornaments that that's free to enter it's part of that way and hopefully ones that and any kind of ease or so restrictions will ease us again hopefully we can have more access to your no physical land tournaments again and getting people into enough to compete and give them access to consulate and on top of this but i don't want us to buy things and our equipment so we are basically giving everyone 3 in a year instead of doctoring to tournament and he sports this is i would ask is this is a little bit of a push back that was a little bit of the still very playful mohammed says i don't think that africa will

become a dominating force in the future and he said what dallas. so you watch out. or look around and to but and to but my comment i mean unfortunately when you look at some of the international. competitions you know unfortunately to do so but africa is not included and we've seen a case of an adhesive that were you know an african example to qualify but then when they. go up there and they are asked you know words you come from and they see up for granted they get disqualified why just because there's a massacre and you know for some blood it means they've actually moved to europe or more to the u.s. so that they can actually be able to play with their competitors or. watch out we're coming and they're coming with skilled on how do you want to jump in there i mean i just want to quickly say because i feel like i have to defend those i have traveled around the world i've got to comment on some of the best players and i laughed when you asked you if i made the players that are driving the fancy sports

cars and have all the money and i honestly believe if we put our african players in the same position they could take their mine it's hard for the african press because like judo said he needs to help is very he still studying but i honestly think when it comes to the fire and the fighting games we do have players here that are the best in the world and they just need the opportunity to be able to compete with the best in the world were things i wanted to talk about this is what happens a lot in countries that don't have the resources but they have incredible talented young people if they find a work around some creative solutions have a listen to say we have a sports and then we have a sports mobile style have a look have a listen. there are other devices the means of the earth in the challenges and that's why for us to adopt a mobile game it was a major strike 2 g. started out of the mobile game torments reaches ours and also we're in the league

of the moment and then the world connected series i'll still buy the all the spots are great and we also have the official presenting pop out for soaps are all free go really showed up to go the huge potential to deal evil when it comes to the spots and here from nigeria coming in championing their mobile gaming scene especially in west africa check out the 1st mobile anyone tournament ever held on the continent thank you for your thoughts on the chin thank you very much appreciate your sad take del right thank you douglas and thank you julio the police staff really appreciate your thoughts i'm femi oke am signing off now so the next time when the strong take cavity.

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