this is d.w. news live from berlin today chanst one flag a step towards deescalation is north and south korea agreed to march under one banner at next month's winter olympics there will also be sending a joint women's ice hockey team if the international olympic committee approves also on the program. a meeting of chancellor spoke whilst they were meeting of minds austria suboxone courts and germany's angela merkel have been trying to find common ground on the divisive issue of migration did they succeed. and the irish

prime minister praises the european union as the peacemaker europe still maintained with briggs that looming he calls on the e.u. to ensure britain almost its pledge is on north not them. and as part of our coverage of the first year of the all terms presidency washington correspondent will be telling us what it's like to be on the front line of his war against what he calls the fake news media. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring a good to have you with us north and south korea have agreed to march under one flag at the opening ceremony of next month's winter olympics the two countries have also agreed to send a joint women's ice hockey team to the tournament if the international olympic committee approved that idea it's all a small step towards less tension in the region but it won't be the first time the two koreas have marched together. the two thousand and three world university games

they into the stadium under the so-called korean unification flag since two thousand they. marched together at three olympic games. we're going to get some analysis on all this now from his most live from berlin for university korea expert at the university and from a sports correspondent they are talking and as i want to start with you why is north korea's leader kim jong un using the winter olympics as a way to deescalate tensions with south korea well i think it's pretty easy to answer that was a very good opportunity for north korea to get into a dialect direct dialogue again with the outer world we know that south to north korea was increasingly isolated also due to the sanctions and all the brutal cations from north korea from the united states so they were looking for an opportunity to reopen the communication channel and this was the perfect

opportunity because there was an open invitation by the liberal president of south korea to join the olympics or get into that in more depth in a second i want to ask lima first you know this isn't the first time that the two koreas have used sports in a sense to bridge their divisions give us a little bit more about the history of that is what makes this so unique is that this is the first time that we see a unified korea an olympic team and the emphasis really should be on olympics because in the past they have sent joint korean teams to major international sporting events we saw it in one thousand nine hundred one in japan at the world table tennis championships and the women's side actually went on to win the championships and that same year they also sent a joint soccer team to the future a youth championship in portugal if you guys want to take a guess but they made it as far as the quarterfinals so they can be quite the sporting threat if they unite force this that's right there's a saying about unity of producing strength. has this all got anything to do with

the fact that kim jong un the north korean leader is such a big sports fan. well it could be but i don't think in this case we know that he's a big fan of basketball but of course we could speculate whether it was his idea to have a joint ice hockey team and then we could think about whether this was a really good idea from the side of south korea to agree on having a joint team because this is very not practicals such short nor does notice to have a joint team playing at the olympics ok. talking about the ice hockey team lima do you think the i.o.c. should approve that well if they follow the olympic spirit they own charter they own values and ideas then you would think that they would approve it because if you read the olympic ideas and values it's all about peace it's all about bringing people together it's about forgetting your differences and uniting people they really big on bringing people together but that speaks on one thing that the

distinction needs to be made that this by this is the first time that we see a joint korean olympic team this will not be the first time that we see two koreas joining forces and marching together at an opening ceremony we saw that in two thousand in sydney's four years later in athens as well as in the turin at the winter games so the really revolutionary thing is this joint women's eyes ok tim thomas. still don't quite understand what is going on in kim jong un's mind is this about isolating or separating if you want washington from seoul in other words driving a wedge in relations between south korea and the united states or rather would say it's south korea functions as a kind of proxy by going through by opening now a new dialogue simple a good opportunity through south korea they will they think they will be able alternately. being talking to the u.s.

and that's what they actually want they want to talk to the u.s. they want to have the guarnteed that they won't be attacked by the u.s. and maybe even a peace treaty and that's the first step to go into that direction so it's just the first step on a very long ladder it is ok dennis muslim from berlin for university and a limo tucker from g.w. sports many thanks to both of you. we're going to catch up now at some of the other stories making news around the world in chile a pope francis has denounced the use of violence in the country's struggle over the rights of its indigenous people his comments made during an open mass referred to recent violence including the burning of churches in the country's south that's where indigenous groups have been pushing for the return of their land. in ethiopia thousands gathered outside the capital that is about to cheer opposition leader mir a good do you know as he was released from jail is one of several hundred prisoners to walk free as part of the government's pledge to quote widen the democratic space

the move comes after months of antigovernment protests. and palestinian president mahmoud abbas has lashed out at the united states in an emotional speech in cairo he described donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel as quote sinful and he also said washington have disqualified itself from the role of peace broker. turning to germany now where a chance to go battle has been holding talks today with australia's new chancellor sebastian colt's the meeting was under close scrutiny for any signs of discord between the two leaders corpse heads out a controversial coalition with australia's far right is also himself been a vocal critic of michael's migration policies the two leaders were hoping to find common ground on improving the protection of europe's borders. the youngest government leader in europe meets the longest serving one and it's not just age that divides these two it's austrian foreign minister sebastien cortes sharply

criticized on the limb ackles refugee policy now however even the german chancellor favors setting a limit on migration could says that he sees other e.u. countries moving in austria's direction adopting positions he was criticized for two years ago. as in austria we made. a disproportionate contribution we have the second highest number of asylum seekers relative to our population after sweden so i believe no one can accuse us of not showing solidarity on the contrary but if we want to solve the migration issue that it won't succeed via distribution but instead with aid on location and that still inadequately functioning e.u. external border protection that we urgently need. merkel stressed that it's not human traffickers who should decide who comes to europe. it's totally clear that we want to reduce illegal migration and strengthen europe's external borders.

but also strengthen the partnership with the countries of origin that in turn means that we must find new ways of working together with those countries' settlements when it comes to questions of resettlement on board all phases of cooperation. but then the. differences remain vienna feels there's been excessive focus on the use of quotas for purposes of distributing refugees entitled to remain in the e.u. austria in the past and sympathized with eastern european countries that refused to abide by such quotas. merkel feels that's wrong. you know evil john ch the new austrian government on its actions and that's what i've told the chancellor i believe that's what counts c h the tone of the two leaders debate may have been less harsh than in the past but relations between the two neighbors remain complicated. our chief political

correspondent linda crane has been taking a close look at that press conference belinda what sort of atmosphere did we see between macklin calls has this first meeting between the two helped to smooth things over. both were certainly and pains to downplay their differences but the words that you just heard from the chancellor certainly were measured and implied a kind of they held warning that germany would be watching austrians actions on the other hand both did say that they see a good basis for working together before he traveled to germany the chancellor of austria said that germany is a very valued partner for austria that he views americal as a very experienced politician and he said you know neighbors will always have differences and the fact is we see other e.u. move countries moving in austria's direction and the chancellor for her part said

that she saw very few divisions between the two but there were a couple that were evident in relation to both policy toward the european union their courts would definitely like to see a lot more frugality while the chancellor said that she can imagine a need to invest more in indebted southern members of the eurozone and certainly there were a few disparity the discrepancies on asylum and immigration. melinda or immigration on refugee policy all the divisions chamberlain in vienna as strong as they have been in the post. both leaders were trying to indicate that they're not for example both stressed to their agreement on the need for stronger protection of e.u. borders on the need for clear measures in the area of development policy to try to encourage people to stay in their own countries and not travel to europe and also on the need for resettlement of those who come to europe and perhaps don't have

a right to stay to stay but where there was a clear disagreement was again on the issue of quotas that european union member countries should fulfill in terms of how many refugees they do take in of those. who are intitled to stay there mr court said that he still thinks the issue is very much over emphasized whereas the chancellor said that she expects e.u. member countries to abide by their obligations so i think that is one point where germany will be watching austria's actions as she said. but again there were. clear indications that the chancellor of austria is right when he says that other european countries are moving in austria's direction as you know germany's two biggest parties signed up last week to a paper that could provide the basis for negotiations on forming a grand coalition between them and there they agreed to an aspirational upper limit

on the number of refugees that germany might be willing to accept that is exactly what austria did last year so in that respect the chancellor of austria is right when he said there is an evolution in german policy toward perhaps a more stricter look at immigration ok melinda always good to talk to you linda crane there our chief political correspondent. still to come on this program the irish prime minister called on the european union to ensure that britain pledges on northern ireland when it leaves the bloc we any closer to finding out how that border will work to bring support. and with us president donald trump still waging war on what he calls fake news watch is life like working on the journalistic frontline a special report on that coming up from washington correspondent. for business news for you rather funny business news happy news the biggest source of risk this year so i think the question is what could. even.

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highlights the problems of the world's increasing interconnectedness it also warns about the risks of isolation and protectionism the risk experts want to convince this year's gathering in davos that withdrawing from free trade agreements is a bad idea the analysts say that global corporation is the key to a world that is stable and livable. food security is also named as one of the name global risks according to the world economic forum frugal food supplies and not only threatened by climate change but also by the outbreak of any planned past can endangered the harvest in entire countries even continents so how do you prepare for that risk. inside the yellow color fruit other beans that sweeten the lives of millions around the world for now but what if a simple virus attacks the plantations where the fruit are grown local harvests are threatened the entire species of

a disease spreads across borders but no cold virus could travel as far as reading in the english countryside. reason why we have a quarantine facility here in the u.k. is we don't grow procope cocoa here and so there's no danger of and make person to see this is of cocoa and and trying the facility most of the world has grown in west africa i every coast guard cameroon and nigeria produce just over eighty percent of the global supply another ten percent comes from the south american countries of brazil and quite door and yet another nine percent are grown in southeast asia specifically indonesia and papa new guinea. growers they are constantly worried about pests the largest cocoa producer is. followed by. those two countries both for a similar sort of person to seize problem so particularly cocoa virus. from good

to see is called black pods. third biggest producer is. into me and for a different from good to see is called classical street tied back to the plants inside there well heated quarantine center are guaranteed to be healthy once received from plantations around the world they are regularly checked by scientists grafted and sent all over the world again to ensure strong interest system cultures there. and i've got one here that we grafted in june this year so that's just over six months old and it's been really successful really happy plant and it's really obvious that the graft has taken it will soon be on its way back to a quad or hardened on the english countryside and really to grow some sweet but healthy beans. and much more business news late in the show now back to.

that's right now we're bringing europe closer to the euro. peons is a key priority too for the european parliament of the moment and that's why of staging a series of debates on the blocks future with national leaders first up to present his ideas with irish prime minister leo arabica this message was one of european unity against the backdrop of global power shifts towards the east and myself and with briggs it looming veronica also calls on the e.u. to ensure britain honors its pledge to prevent the reintroduction of a physical border between his country and you know much membership. border issue has been one of the biggest stumbling blocks in briggs negotiations so far so let's bring in our london correspondent get mass bogut are we any closer to finding out how the northern island border is going to function after brags that you know there is deep on saturday whenever i've been speaking to anybody in

northern ireland or indeed the republic of ireland people are wondering how is this going to work out it seems like the reason may has promised all things to all people she's promised that there will be a hard border within between the republic of father the northern ireland and neither will there be a huge border between the whole island of ireland and also the united kingdom which is something that people from the more protestant side of the community who feel very aligned to the u.k. what they would be fearing so this is not something that has been resolved and that is a big fear that this could come up later and this could actually haunt trees or may when it comes to to finishing these negotiations because a solution is objectively very very hard to find here and look at the british parliament is due to vote on briggs very soon to help us understand what's at stake . well at a moment what's being discussed is the so-called withdrawal bill and this bill

helps to transfer european law into u.k. law now there has been a lot of debate about this bill there have been fears mostly amongst labor m.p.'s for example when it comes to workers' rights will the u.k. have the same workers' rights that were guaranteed by the e.u. for example when it comes to working time and not working too much and the british government has ensured m.p.'s that it will be the same and it won't go beyond or we're in for a fall back on these rights but m.p.'s are not sure whether this is really going to be true because of each new british government can make a new decision on that so there are worries on the other hand there are also people who feel that finally they're breaking free from the e.u. this is what they have fought for they wanted bracks and they wanted to be able to make completely their own decisions and not be bound by anything that has been decided in brussels by basically other parliamentarians and not by them and we have

met up with one of those parliamentarians with swell of on under is a conservative m.p. and she's now just joined the british government in the bracks of ministry and we'll watch this report. the e.u. is worried about the strength of britain's position and as a result they are probably more defensive then they need to be. great. my name is sue elephant and i am a conservative member of the u.k. parliament. wrote to me. means opportunity freedom. and restoring democracy to the british. right in the middle of the e.u. withdrawal bill that's a piece of legislation which is essential for britain's position on the day that we

leave the european union. i feel very encouraged by the progress that's being made so we're still very much at the beginning but time is running out and we don't have that much time really. i don't think negotiations are supposed to be friendly. i was a lawyer for ten years and yes you might very much like the person you're negotiating with but you know at the end of the day you're going to be serving the interests of your client and the client here is the british people so you don't you know you're not necessarily going to. agree on everything and be nice to each other thank you i am grateful to him for giving way to the prime minister has said very clearly we want you to stay and we value your commitment what part of it doesn't. i have a constituency which is on the coast and i meet with fishermen there. and

they have been almost ruined actually by inappropriate policies from juta the common fisheries policy which is a european union creation and i think there's a great. opportunity to a re and vigor eight hour fishing and agriculture in britain. yes i think a free trade agreement with the e.u. is eminently possible and i think that that would be a great great benefit to british workers and companies and european workers and companies but if they were a bit more collaborative and supportive we might have made a bit more progress by now. ok still with us our london

correspondent. a very confident backer of bragg's bogut but the government is also facing a lot of opposition from people who supported the remaining camp just lost a vote on briggs it a month ago for instance two opponents believe they can do that again. well that you'd withdraw but it's going to go to the next stage is going to go to the house of lords it's not expected that the rebels within the conservative party will vote against the government this time as they've had once before it's now going to the house of lords and then it's going to be interesting because the house of lords is mainly remain us now many of them are quite old and not sort of rebels by heart but they do feel very strongly for the european cause and it's quite interesting there is a lot of fear or some fear at least within those parliamentarians who back breck's it for example jacob was more one of the prominent so-called brics it is he said if

the lords do anything against this bill against you withdraw a bill that would be illegitimate they don't really have the right to do that and so it does show that they don't think that everything the whole battle is won yet they do think that there might be something that's it could be some sort of protest and battle for britain when it comes to bret's it is not yet over. math and london many thanks for that. now catalonia is new parliament has been holding its opening session well mike is from pro independence parties using that slim majority to elect a left wing separatist roger torent speaker that's a signal that the chamber's life into continue its push for. yellow ribbon. to see if they might have to kind of. separate figures. remains in self-imposed exile in belgium at the moment three others are in jail

facing charges of rebellion and sedition. still to come on this program in syria fighting has escalated in the northwestern province of idlib even though the region was declared any deescalation zone last year we'll have a report from the battle zone for you. and you'll face as a classic work of all to google's arts and culture is making the past possible and going viral with it we'll take a look at what the hype is all about. also want all three world's largest interior design trade fences taking place in western german city of cologne at the moment our culture editor robin merrill will be here to fill the screen of all the just trends. and don't forget you can always get to the news when you're on the go just download on google play all from the apple store that'll give you access to all my latest news from around the world and also

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a close eye on australia's actions. turning to the us now where president obama. trump is close to completing his first year in office the major feature of his presidency so far has been his poor relations with the media he's tired of a tireless lee attack the media for publishing what he calls fake news he said he was going to hand out fake news awards today but the white house has so far not confirmed whether the event is actually going to take place as part of our week marking trump's first anniversary in office our washington bureau chief alexander phenomenon has been looking at the changing life all of the white house correspondent. you are fake do the fake media is trying to silence us they are the enemy of the be. only against the fake news media or press fake fake. for the last year i have been reporting from the white house on the president who says he's at war with the media

who craves positive coverage and yet who calls us fake nice. i think that's the most just honest disgusting despicable thing the president has ever said. after new mistress accusations heated exchanges doing white house briefings relations with the media are tense you can only say that it's an honest mistake when you're purposely putting out information that you know to be false. but not everyone is concerned unexpired for works for the daily caller a conservative website he says he doesn't take trump's attacks on the media seriously. he's an insecure guy you know he's the supermodel why this be so unhappy so the fake news flash gosh he's just angry at a show i don't he's not like there's a want to people i think unfairly comparable to an autocrat but he wants the room

press freedoms or the president is calling up reporters on the phone. the president's campaign to discredit the press goes down well with his base men and women who feel that they've been ignored by america's youth connecting with like you know the. i read the insane shots we saw we as a journalist i don't want to be attacked this way are switched out to tell the story like this you have to worry about yeah yeah well i'm telling this story and then you know i see it and i think maybe sammy was going to throw up. trump speak news attacks help him to draw the. attention away from the chaos in his administration will from the investigation into question made link in the last election so you now the world is watching look at all the fake news back there. they're all why. no one enjoys being boot but we should not back down says brian

carr him he's made a name for himself by asking tough questions at the press briefings and i look at her face but he says that after that confrontation she received death threats. i'm not worried about me and worry about some twenty four year old reporter first time doing his job working in montana or south dakota right now and another twenty four year old who sees the president goes gail let's go get him they're going to go and get a reporter and they're going to beat them or string him up or something or kill him that's the guy you worry about. some media however seem to be profiting from the conflict the new york times says that subscriptions have risen recently and it's high its new reporters. despite all these attacks the press seems to me right now in my world stronger than ever i do think that there is a challenge overseas and you see it and the fact that a lot of foreign leaders particularly authoritarian ones have begun seizing on the

phrase fake news to basically suppress information in the wrong side. in the u.s. however journalists hope they'll come out of this experience with a new sense of mission. and longer have to donald trump has left the white house correspondents will still be here reporting on the president's sexy team. ok let's get some analysis on this aspect of the trump presidency from olin a professor of law cornell university in the state of new york professor thanks for joining us trump has promised to award the fight usual odds today what you're trying to achieve exactly. i think he's trying to construct an alternate reality he's really trying to sort of convince the public that what the mainstream

media is telling them doesn't really matter and i think one of the ways he can accomplish this is by giving out these awards and consistently calling you know sort of major news outlets fake news he calls c.n.n. fake news all the time a new york times or sometimes he calls them the failing new york times or washington post the other thing that i think that makes this possible is the splintering of the media landscape i don't i'm not sure someone could have accomplished this fifty years ago when there were just a few broadcast networks and a few major national newspapers but in today's world where you know our consumers get their media from you know tens of thousands of different websites and different internet outlets there are alternate sources that he can push people to and he does that at the same time that he denigrates the mainstream outlets as fake news and you know how is this all affecting american political culture you know trump some

would say his blood lines between what's true and what's not hello how is that affecting the quality of political debate. well usually political debate proceeds from a baseline of common facts common assumptions and common knowledge and then from there you can have a political debate about what the country should do where to go from from here but usually that requires this kind of common baseline of of you know sort of received wisdom of information that everyone shares in this case though you know that there's just there isn't that shared base of knowledge because it's not just trump but a large percentage of his supporters the so-called base in the republican party who support trump are looking at alternative sources and they are basically discounting everything that they see on c.n.n. or read in the new york times or in the washington post and it's kind of impossible

to have a sort of coherent political discussion about where we go from here when not everyone agrees what the what the facts are and i think it's really posing a huge problem for democracy and one of the places we saw that was earlier today in senator jeff flake speech where he talked about the necessity of truth for a functioning democracy. and just briefly professor. this is all happening against the backdrop of the mother investigation special counsel wrote looking into russia's alleged interference in twenty sixteen election what are you expecting from the testimony for instance of steve benen formally trumps closest adviser and could that threaten the presidency. it could and i think the big question to ask right now is what's bannon's attitude about revealing information either to congress or. to muller before a grand jury i think

a lot of people have been assuming that bannon is resisting efforts to be interviewed and that's why he claimed executive privilege before the congress and that's also why he had to be subpoenaed by muller because he wasn't cooperating with the miller investigations and their request for for an interview from him but you know the other possibility is that bannon really is willing to cooperate is willing to provide testimony but he doesn't want to appear to be disloyal to trump because over the last couple of weeks the one thing that bannon learned is that appearing to be disloyal to trump will really get him in trouble with the viewer the readership of breitbart news and the other members of the republican base that bannon really cares about and so he might be willing to cooperate but he's going to first go through the motions of sort of adopting a very antagonistic stance and then he can say later well i was forced to reveal

the information ok insolent many thanks for that. now on most things president trump is never far away from control of a say last week for instance he offended many when he allegedly referred to african nations in derogatory terms he w.'s catron a month or has been gathering opinions about the us president from people in the kenyan capital nairobi. donald trump's victory in late two thousand and sixteen came as a shock to many africans especially kenyans unlike barack obama's victory his was received with skepticism now trump based his presidency on making america great again that meant that africa was not on his priority list we spoke to some people and they say they have felt the effects of his presidency on issues based on migration climate change and extremism. has mainly focused on the middle east and israel and what is happening now and i don't think he even can south africa even when something happens here he doesn't say anything judy tragedy

. i believe that there's more that even came from countries like china than from the u.s. because i think for a very long time it really sucked up to the u.s. and their policies some which don't even make sense from even surprising presidents trump calling africa and i don't know what's worse what we have ever done to him to call us if you call him a human being i wonder how to call himself when our children sit here. full. person record trump talking like that they doubt themselves and we hope he would say yeah he disregarded climate change the first thing before even getting into office so i expected yeah i did expect that we. were going to go to step backwards we have a resettlement process of going there in us and we had the transport system. for

foreigners to go there so it does talk it does it does affect us so much and there is so many people who are staying here as a refugee. now so they're stressed. the report there from catherine. nairobi turning to syria now fighting has escalated in the northwestern province of . the region has been declared a deescalation certain it live is the last opposition stronghold the united nations fears the current upsurge in violence could trigger a mass exodus. it province in northern syria fighters of the islamist group find out al shaab take up their positions on the jihadists are cooperating with the syrian offshoot of al qaeda to hold a government offensive. to bush based syrian observatory for human rights says the syrian army has recaptured numerous villages and towns in the province in the past

few days the united nations the as the fighting could prompt a mass exodus we are extremely concerned that amid this escalation in fighting up to two million people may be at risk this is an area where tens of thousands of people have already been displaced and they own going fighting could provoke even further displacement of civilians. syrian government troops haven't reached the city of italy yet traders here in the city central market square can still sell leg goods theoretically in practice customers are scared away by frequent and strikes the syrian and russian air forces are dying off the islamists in this the last remaining stronghold. people here just want the airstrikes to stop so they can shop at the market traders have nothing to do because no one dares come here. seeing the city is no longer the safest choice in

the east and south of the province fighting between insurgents and the syrian army has greatly intensified. let's take to the world of social media now where a google with a rather unassuming name arts and culture is taking the u.s. by storm at the moment thanks to a new feature it matches your selfies to famous paintings the results of providing plenty of fodder for online conversation and calm as one from new social media is with me to walk us through that what's what's happening exactly i'm already smiling as it is so much part of this is an app that essentially find your art. ganger you compares your selfie to a database of paintings from hundreds of museums around the world and it's funnily enough this small app this feature within it is going viral it's going crazy in the u.s. of course we had to try it out for ourselves right take a look this is how the app actually works you have to open up the app on your phone health even get this video restarted you open up the app you scroll down here we go

to the place where it says upload your selfie and you'll see i actually went ahead and snapped my own picture here chris so we'll well actually put it to the test once you take the picture it analyzes your facial features of it goes ahead and kind of compares your face to this database and it spits out some results you can see various matches from various different paintings i'm not so sure does that look like me i don't know here's my favorite one if we can go to the next slide i kind of took a little bit of a silly selfie and look what came out of the it's a self-portrait by vincent van gogh this is the top downloaded app in the entire united states a top free app feature the only available there are we tried it here with a v.p.n. that changes your online location google would not tell us though if they will roll it out to other countries and of course a lot of people posting results from the snap at the moment online what are some of your favorite yeah i mean everyone's kind of just putting up their results sharing

you know maybe horror stories even including some hollywood celebrities and this is kate hudson and you can see maybe not a bad match until you realize the name of the painting is called portrait of a boy maybe not so happy about that one regular people also posting some results this woman here tweeting out her match and she says yes thanks to google you're always there to make me feel so good about myself chris before the show we did this with you as well you haven't seen your results are you ready i'm ready all right here's the here's what it came up with for you this is your top match. some sort of ogre or goblin i don't know ed. there was another one though how did that of that have that's not a that's that's not so bad i don't have a lot of it's not always the most accurate ok and any criticism of this app so far you know there is actually a lot of people of color who are using this app or saying hey wait a minute we're not so sure about the results here it seems like it's a little bit biased towards white people a very eurocentric app and take a look at what i mean one user on instagram posting an example he and about four or

five of his friends african-americans they all got the same result they all got that painting on the right others worried about what's cool doing all this data all this facial recognition data as it being uploaded is being used google says it's just for this matching game but lots of concern overall about data security now of course with biometric data they say is just for fun i think it's fun and i should not let you take any more selfies of me i think you're less than yeah i don't know if i'm from did overly social media many thanks for that. job growth is a problem in african countries where strong economies are undercut by weak benefaction sectors and growing populations the new report asked new york can see behind job creation across the continent and it saw some hurdles are higher than previously thought african populations are among the youngest and fastest growing

in the world that means an enormous labor force in search of labor the report by the african development bank group which finances projects across the continent says countries must industrialized to create those jobs before they fall behind the demographic wave. that means significant investments in infrastructure areas like health care and utilities the needs here are massive as much as one hundred seventy billion dollars a year the bank estimates that's nearly twice the amount assessed by the world bank . finding that money isn't impossible the report says big investors like pension or sovereign wealth funds are out there but loans are often paid back in local currency which has weakened against the dollar the report recommends that countries broaden their tax bases to capture more revenue it urges developed nations to view investment in africa as an investment in the global economy they will ultimately benefit them after all more jobs means less poverty less poverty means more

stability a global win win by most calculations. now what to do if you are cut off from the national power grid in kenya the solar nonwhite project wants to provide enough power to run lights cooling and water pumps into kenyan villages being piloted now let's see how that works. william kiri is a self-taught electrician he used to just repair radios or old t.v.'s but since he's been involved in the solar nano grid or song initiative he's learned a lot about batteries. with exhibits is one of the problem of the. noise. beeping so william works at the central solar energy have the song project has set up in a career e a village electricity from rooftop solar panels is stored in large batteries and

that's used to recharge small portable lithium ion batteries that have been issued to village residents most of them can't afford to be on the national grid the new system of batteries has given farmer mary one juror for example affordable lighting . he led being. the bulbs that i've received from the initiative are much brighter than the one i had before. and the batteries are easy to operate when i will need to get through another old bag. with the help of british researchers the song team is working on developing more powerful batteries first a number of technical problems need to be solved then all users will contribute about four euro's a month to the village electricity committee project manager john leary says it will take five years for the investment to pay for itself. then the central power hub will belong to the community it's already been able to acquire a grain mill for villagers to rent and an electric incubate or business services

greater income stream that income stream could then be used to pay for the costs of the. capital building the helping the fast pace of buying equipment and for the continual expansion a maintenance of the system. wm kiri services the small grain then. once the power project generates enough revenue the village will be able to afford a larger one. one of the biggest interior design fans in the world his country underway in the western german city of cologne the i am as it's called features all the latest trends with twelve hundred exhibitors from over fifty countries and here's a look at some of the trends seen so far a fair. trends in interior design come and go but one tendency that's been very popular for some time is

a yearning for comfort for making one's home an oasis of peace and calm a shelter from the world. yes the impression that people have on the one hand an anonymous digital world outside the great world and on the other hand they have a refuge which is the individualized personalized home that polarizes things a bit with the result that we see a lot of very comfortable furniture warm colors and fabrics that are very pleasing to the touch like velvet or very soft leather. also in demand are tailor made solutions for living spaces. these are move this trade fair mirrors people's need for individualization even personalization just as you can configure your smartphone or your car but you can also configure your furniture. to fit your own individual style and i can indeed range to you of course

there's no escaping digital technology and it's also increasingly being used to achieve even greater levels of individualisation there's the shower you can program to be precisely the way you want and there are solutions ended increasing personal safety. and all the lot of their systems for detecting falls in the home or for monitoring vital statistics on their end making life a simple as possible and allowing people to live independently in their own four walls for a long time before. of course lighting is perhaps the easiest and most effective way of creating an individual atmosphere in your home. some of the examples on display at imm seem more like art installations than realistic lighting solutions but pushing boundaries is often what makes good design. moral pushing some boundaries rather merrill from v.w. culture with us now what struck you about the latest trends in interior design well of course smart living is definitely

a very important thing that was going on that we should see more and more of in the future you saw a shower there where you can have a relaxing morning or an it energizes you manage but yeah i mean in my day it was hot or cold. and there are many good things about smart living for for instance for old and infirm people perhaps for people with disabilities but for younger people i worry that their lives are going to get so coon like and you've got a fridge for instance that can tell you that you have got the eggs and it all does more eggs from the supermarket and delivers it well go out and buy some eggs and look inside the people you know look inside the fridge i mean you know i do worry about that side of it i talk to them don't talk to your smart phone i mean today we heard from to reason may that she's appointed a minister of loneliness to tackle social isolation or perhaps it's a tax break sit but how sad is that well the thing is of course you'll be able to

talk to your fridge won't you yes of course. ok but obviously to old school guys here talking about technology. i can see you've got some reservations about smart living what about what about all that color i mean this is nice colors yeah lots of color of the mom and i do like that because i'm fed up with all these greys and blacks and adam for a site for instance that look look at that chair now you don't want to actually drink too much when sitting in that chair but there are lots of colors warm fabrics so that our homes will be bright and colorful in the future i mean rather like back in the nineteenth sixty's and seven. yes when i was growing up with flowers flowers in my life. but now that is a very good sign that's all of the i am am in cologne and we will be in our living rooms in a matter of. a year or so and you'll be posting on our website some of those pictures with the flowers in your hand with. those but some of those pictures are called slash cultures ok romero many thanks for that you're watching news.

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