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al-jazeera a day after some sharp words from pyongyang the u.s. secretaries of states and defense are in south korea on the 2nd stop of the asia tour and stapling come a lot austin a bolstering alliances in the region of the 1st foreign trip since taking office in japan on tuesday they criticized what they called china's coercion aggression in asia right mcbride reports now from seoul. this is all seen as part of the u.s. returning to traditional values to say look we're back in the region again and so they will sign this new agreement it doesn't actually mean that the south koreans will be contributing quite a lot more to u.s. forces being based here some nearly 14 percent increase which is seen almost as a quid pro quo or a sort of a goodwill gesture by south korea in the hope at least of that they will get some concession from the u.s. when it comes to dealing with north korea there's growing alarm over the increasing number of covert 19 cases in chile despite a successful vaccine rollout that 5000000 people have 1st job but new cases are

rising by an average of 5000 a day and some quarantine measures will be reimposed next week the government of nigeria's could do no state says that it won't give in to ransom demands after 3 teachers were kidnapped from a primary school on monday it's the latest in a string of abductions from schools in the north of the country the un says that 149 people have been killed in the past 6 weeks in myanmar a political prisoner group insists the toll is higher a 183 martial law has been imposed in many areas. polls are open in the netherlands national election it's europe's 1st major vote since the start of the pandemic will be a test of the government's policies prime minister mark ruta voted a few moments ago where opinion polls suggest he's on track to win by a large margin those are the headlines next up the stream. there's a wave of sentiment around the world people actually want accountability from the

people who are running their countries and i think often people's voices are not heard because they're not part of the mainstream news narrative. obviously we cover big stories in reporting the big events going on but we also tell stories of people who generally don't have a voice a member of the child but that's never be afraid to have a last question and i think that's what our she really does we ask the question to people who should be accountable and we get people to give their view of what's going on. ok today on the street we're looking at a sports or competitive video game playing in africa now i have to attention it is typical i know for america asia or europe to see big game in tournament as far as a sports i can said there's billions of dollars involved and need to pay as a league game as we need to really enthusiastic fans could thout on the african

continent and is our big question the strain well questions do you want to ask experts you can jump into the comment section and 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 the game has already begun. for every player that you could sort of have like. i don't feel pressure just bring it on show me what you've got i think i can beat you that's the side you should try and getting your head in the confidence to give. it a really serious read of all it's. a lot of crazy. he's feeling it right now let's take a look at this here's the reply now to. my good friend you'd have to dig that one out of your notes early i was. sad to take power and god bless

joining us today to talk about sports on the african continent who they are what happened in that game. good evening guys yeah a gave me goose bumps once again playing against a 2 time world champion. sponsored oakley one of the biggest names in free for you spirit. among the glorious you know just like you saw the african flag are there for people who don't know who and in sports introduce yourself tell them what you. could even promise on africa i'm a 23 year old. monte gaming organization in south africa. and i specialize in a game called thief itself football as some people know when i start 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 of get your mother to championship which is africa's primary sports league we run tournaments across central african countries on the internet in untrusted to see how we can bring identifying sports players sports like them and also we got them done to be professional players happy to be happy to have you had a sound introduce yourself so my name is sam i'm from south africa am i'm an east board shop koster which basically means i get to talk about players like to the art is being way too modest he's probably one of the best b. for players in africa right now so i'm going to say that because that's my job as a comment said it's a harp players like syria. so let's start with some basic sam for people who had a near to a small so actually new to the concept of

a sports kind of growing on the african continent where the good 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 haidar or just because the continent so big i know a lot of the incredible south african players i know are at 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 now in africa we know it's yeah it's starting to get bigger we're starting to see players like judy erica hill 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 intel saying 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 world but what is it that is coming from kenya nigeria south africa egypt what are you playing. our mother say africa have a 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 but the dynamic theme that 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 simulation 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. of the tree but also in not all this. or display are also growing professionally within the specific law or title that is our. area what i loved in that little clip that we played there was just before hand and south last as the commentators are there is this guy has won south africa wasn't even expecting to be bitten 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 the kind of creep up on. yeah 100 percent 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 whole globes or the whole continent support obviously not just out of make up on all my fellow africans supporting me and i felt no place 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 it's 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 grew up. at 1st and you know and just being able to to get ourselves to do a platform or 2 a level to do to get to the international states and i'm under essential we have

the ability rapid talent combination and education to compete like we've shown on the un 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 out in proving ourselves when 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 for the biggest pub suppose you pay pepsi and i chose talking to team they 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 x. 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 good at video games e-sports of us are so many opportunities curious as to get to enjoy your

passion and turn your hobby into your job we're getting a lot of enthusiasm and i guess from al online audience stand behind continue 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 offense 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 hall they do is and is at dewey sports and gaming the all the professional league and they compete in offices try to mend our schools see how difficult it is unclear who need the guys these for free it's been so difficult to get i don't see really considered a group for those who didn't want to go get the guys and go into a little more toward out onto the jump or to grab the reins on goods before you go to the awards is quite a bit of it useful to go 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 based in south africa. and i would say firstly for me speaking from my personal experience this roddick's probably internet. connection it's a 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 there variable in me so. often that it becomes difficult competing into an immense 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 do a government city nj i misspoke with a base and now obviously i have it he shows us and it allows me to compete you know

it way but i mean awful i think for south africans it's all about. not having the proper you internet connection not having all of the necessary equipment and maybe infrastructure like when we come to european teams you know. and 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 was the last time you play how training yet. so coming i'm also a time student accounting so at all about balance writing the 1st 34 days i tend to i didn't get that through my studies and then off and on weekends you

know i did tucson now stop playing and practicing and you know copy w.c. so yeah it's all about balance you know what i noticed and 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 a little. shout master shall mistress has about the chad talk us through that i guess it. just looks cool right yes look like you be in business when you're 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. add more here because we're further away the so so shipping them here 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 has said he guided legs to is struggle with incidents and i think the fact that we can still

guard his head 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 well known a dozen of us fighting 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 confident more clearly since as an introvert i intend to present a clear to me once in the. all i consider to give me how. men don't hasn't in their own challenges because for one of the african continent in studio one book is. there's

a lot of untapped talent that skin be improved on form on top of body feel that they can be a more welcoming place for people of the world uses and didn't gender identity use and nor do i need to use ability to be more than 2 years out of the ticket in. douglas kenya it's just a great hot spot 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 other day. 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 there it's going to give it to europe at connectivity to china for example but you know with that definitely the question is how do you think this internet even to go to the most rural part of the country with the youth i think now into an addition to connectivity you know access to infrastructure you know the next the playstation or the ecb. 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 you know land what other people in other markets are doing. so we would see in their right of east but

you know now we do have communities you know like tekken communities seem to be 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 sort of all us through 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 a 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 my product i'm going up what it's going to be $500.00 in the u.s. but the shipping cost and then. you know it probably comes to about double its

supply so there's a lot of that we need to you know overcome so that we can get a fairly good look. with just look at the international markets you know mentioning cod at sears and some of our audience who are online right now are actually paying quarter of jhansi as we speak thank you for multitasking appreciate that some of the time just been picked up 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 towards vertical industry house and ecosystem to thrive in the talent

is obviously here the audience is obviously here the ability to create i.d.p. intimate games and to do all the things around the sports is here wife event 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're rich yet. there's. a look now. i've made some some good money out of you and you know for every young stud 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 ready at the end lester and revive it for my family to look over you go through my my parents lost their jobs basically so yeah i'm very i'm in

leicester and you know giving something back to them for a big thing that i'm through 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 man 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 from we can have some more ornaments that that's free to enter explore that way and hopefully ones that end 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 free in the introduction into 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. what we're looking at 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 global that africa is not included and we've seen a case of an adhesive that were in 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 that means they've actually moved to europe or more to the us so that we can actually be able to play with our competitors or. watch out we're coming and coming with skill 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 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 ward 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. rather device the means of hurting the child endures and that's why for

us to adopt a mobile game it was a major strategy started after the mobile game torments which is ours and also we're in the league of the moment and then the want to make that series will still buy the lot of these prostration we've got some of the official presenting pop out for soaps are all free to go really showed up to go the huge potential to deal evil when it comes to response and here from nigeria coming in championing them. especially in west africa check out the 1st. ever held on the continent thank you for your thoughts on thank you very much appreciate sam wright thanking douglas and thank you julio the stuff we appreciate your thoughts. on the strong take care of that.

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