and coming up ahead we return to davos where the rains are more than the indian prime minister is still making his opening keynote remarks we also look at social entrepreneurs from iran the what and how they are mixing with the kill bill was economic forum what i'm looking for. all that coming up shortly. and i think one day this war will be considered cruel and unjust war where. certainly all citizens of ukraine every man woman and child the only friend their homeland is the enemy invades. no one wants russia here which is the. rebel against global news that matters. made for mines. take. us. with

a little wonderful to make it. through. the world economic forum gets underway and double was switzerland with a keynote speech by india's prime minister narendra modi three thousand participants are gathered in a snowbound to dump horse until the end of the week. but come to do business he is the first indian prime minister in more than twenty years to speak at the world economic forum in davos never would he delivered a keynote speech in the swiss out pile resorts named op ed to drumming aimed at

drumming up investment in one of the world's fastest growing economies would he highlighted the six fold growth of his country's g.d.p. since the last time an indian prime minister attended the forum in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven the international monetary fund has forecast seven point four percent growth for india and twenty nine thousand beating china with only six point eight percent each also focused heavily on how technology logically driven developments like big data pave new roads to prosperity but also reinforce economic divides. now of course when the leaders of the world's biggest economies gather a nice small outline resort security is paramount swiss soldiers have cordoned off the entire valley the security costs topping eight million euros odd all that snow that needs to be cleared well there is a lot to organize to make this high level annual event a success. these are the stars of opening night in davos singer elton john

actress cate blanchett and bollywood star shahrukh khan are the recipients of the crystal and have been recognised for their charity work but for many here the highlight is that to be us president trump for the first time in nearly two decades a sitting u.s. president will be taking part of the world economic forum some think he needs to have discussions with other foreign leaders more than anyone. because he quote support and is. whoever is a leader of a country does not have just a national perspective but an international perspective or global perspective presence of the president of the united states prompt will hopefully provide him even better recently over prospective. locals have a different view the u.s. president's attendance means even tighter security in davos and many here are not

excited about trump. decision i don't care whether he's coming or not. iran doesn't even see him and i don't want to see him either resign or say and i'm not really interested. and i don't think he'll come around until friday some seventy heads of state and government will be holding discussions about the global economy with representatives from the business world and jewels so we have three thousand participants coming together at a time where we see a lot of political talent shows at the same time you see the growth is back in the global economy but for us it's a very important there is growth it is more inclusive and creates more jobs but it's not just about the global economy other topics on the agenda include technology and its challenges the gender pay gap and wealth inequality. so many

topics there in davos switzerland and our business team is there covering all the stories as they unfold my colleague ben pursuing has already been catching up with a few participants and ben you told me earlier that davos focus on women in leadership roles how many women leaders have you met so far. i've met a few. there's about twenty one percent participation of women here at davos is also about twenty percent journalists so that number is rising it doesn't sound significant does it especially in the global push for gender equity but it's definitely progress and all day we're talking to women here on d w some of the top women from their sectors one of those sectors being technology and block chain which is a huge issue here lot of people are talking about it it's basically alleges system a decentralized ledger system that's the key word and used across all sectors not

just for things like bitcoin or in the finance industry but also in global trade even used for dating apps and there's also another aspect to it and that's the political aspect i'd like to talk to tech pioneer pm and seanie who joins us now you've taken democracy to a new level through change what have you achieved in argentina in the project that you set up there yes or no didn't you know we started with these ideas that we wanted citizens to also be part of the decision making process and so we opened up a new platform for seeking advice on participation and we took it to congress and now we're taking that exact to the next level as you say you know just come from argentina a country where ballot boxes still get burned before the votes are counted so blocking us an incredible tool to make sure that no votes get lost ever again so recording votes on drug tain it's a great project that we have how did you get the system up and running though in in

argentina considering i'm sure the political challenges well we there are reading all that from that we got up and running night and you know we had to do a political party you heard to do it because we build a platform we offered it to political parties and obviously they said like thank you no thank you right and so we said how are we going to hack the system all right we're going to play by the rules of the game we created up political party but then we put the. platform at the center of the project we said we're going to make decisions only according to what citizens decide on this on one platform how you're playing it elsewhere in the world that what we're thinking now democracy earth foundation in the united states and it's an effort to team democracy at a global scale how can we make sure that no person no no not no other city center is mediated by an undemocratic government so why don't we issue a little bit of agency to everyone in the world so having a voice in this world is no longer an accident of birth what about having a voice as a woman there are that many women in tech we know that. have you found the

experience as a woman doing what you're doing. well has mixed emotions about it to be honest i studied at silicon valley and the valley is not the best area for women to be working out to be honest bro culture in silicon valley companies is still very strong he's promoting grained in the d.n.a. of many of those companies and it's not exactly friendly or no and open working from new york now that has a much more interesting and open tech sector and while there aren't that many women in tech block change is attracting quite a few women i've heard that yes i think it has to do with the same idea that tech is centered in the valley and the valley is not very open and friendly to women but because bluffton is decentralized and you didn't grow up in silicon valley the block to me is all around the world and many of the like ten efforts are not in the united states so it makes it more much more accessible and interesting for women to get involved in human sunni thank you very much for talking to us a tech pioneer using block change technology. to drive

democracy what's also interesting is that bird lynn is turning into the crypto currency capital many startups setting up there and i'll be talking to experts about that very topic later in the week for you ok what are you doing now are you going to enjoy the sun do you have a bit of time off. i'm off to find some of that indian cuisine i would love. to know i've been to thank you so much. ok while ben enjoys indian food let's talk a little bit more about what happens in doubles it's known not just about closing high finance business deals officials they're also invite social entrepreneurs from around the world the idea of course is that they address the most pressing social and environmental challenges of our day and yes again a woman named. casper claridge met up with some of them. the trip

from japan to the slopes of davos took an eighteen hours this is social entrepreneur masacre guru his first time at the world economic forum the subjects he's come to talk about are far removed from the usual interests of big business. there are children who don't get to eat. once a day of poor soup morning she having tons of food strong away. and so this is the big gap between a part of war and another part of the war. and that's the reality happening right now this is one of the uncomfortable realities that he and a dozen other social entrepreneurs are here to discuss are not working to create profit but to bring about social change here from vietnam trying to develop cost effective devices which save the lives of children. i see my son myself see the

baby dying every day and i thought i want to do something such a gather would a group of friends so we. invented the. medical equipment. these social entrepreneurs hope to open the eyes of the big players in the business world to humanitarian ideas such as making lifesaving medicine affordable many big leaders are disconnected from everyday the everyday struggles that people face and i think we create an awareness for it i think we were good at integrating. the cause and capitalism were sort of a the juxtaposition of that and we we can show them models that can truly work and be sustainable that perhaps it may have even considered all seen a bot. and they've made the long journey to the snowy streets of davos to make sure their voices are heard. because we're not perfect but we try to.

just. bring. to the world that we've been through our business skills and experience. in the next four days at the world economic forum but he feels the long trip was worth it just for the opportunity to push his vision to those who have the means to make it a reality. coverage from the day the week.

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