so i don't need to reinforce them because they knew this but those have been he was not putting in whose. leader whose success is beyond question. on the tragedy starts people said long t w. hello and a very warm welcome from johannesburg south africa i'm felicia n.s.p. with the latest edition of. today we're off on another journey across the continent as well as making a side trip to germany and my colleague to eggman joins us from nigeria hello there felicia indeed an exciting shows ahead of us but first of all i like to greet us

all the over the world on set big thank you for all your responses to our program now here's what we have lined up today. how to build houses with discarded plastic bottles and sand. i welcome you to care for red peoples and the ecosystem in god. and i will be bikes and i'm becoming popular i'm going to meet. today's journey starts in west africa as we head to senegal in the so help village of the i would geology a woman's cooperative has none it's a cult of it once i read lines even though what is a challenge in the sales on the secret of success was restoring on old well and installing a solar pod home to run it with mining dowdy as a village job becoming autonomous and something rarely seeming rule communities in west africa they manage that own finances.

a meeting in doro d.r.g. the women in this tiny senegalese village have joined forces to form of a loan three servings and lawn corporative once a week they get together and each one of them pays in what they can afford one stump impossible savings book represent two hundred phone approximately thirty cents. a woman which i do because it's not a sacrifice is going to stretch the money assaf. any of the members can borrow money at short notice but not more than three times what they're paid in the women have agreed on the ten percent interest rates i was a banker now we have our own bank and can decide ourselves who gets a loan and at what interest rate many of us women have already been defeated in the past this wasn't possible after being good at the moment since. the seventies

corporatists has tons traditional gender roles in the village upside down but now even the village elder approves. i'm well i would like the women are great the product means they can help support that man financially and the men in turn become more understanding and taller and here in the country it's actually not customary that women contribute to the family's livelihood that's why i always encourage all of the women here to participate in the project the good news but i don't know who did you get when you would get the u.s. n.g.o.s creates got the boring four years ago they invested almost to sell them here are getting together with the women average double from tension almost the size of two football fields with only and tomatoes but it happens they have you know manual labor is performed by younger women the older ones are. well for the end quote. you can only share the proceeds if you play hard to.

yes. i don't know how to vote on your other vegetables when we needed vegetables we used to work to other ideas and by now it's completely the other way around we have more than enough and residents from other villages come to us to buy ready to. this is what it looks like outside the plantation road as he lies in the sahara region for fresh water here you have to drill deep the biggest investment was a solar plant that provided the energy for the interrogation system and the dry season when von desert sun has to be cleaned off the planet. the heart of the facility is the deep concrete plant where from here the water is

pumped into the plantations six holding tanks. before you just have restored the seventy meter deep well so that you don't want to feeds into it again they want to table is only seven meters down and the water quality is very good of you wait three days what will you tell because the version and the tentative financial instruments the project is intended to help so the seed for this authentic will and according to development to enjoy will move on in the years time. the women of the village and all self-sufficient their plantation years enough produce to fundamentally change life indo d.g. for to grow a field the benefit every single day with the help of create she has constructed to place towards that feed talking points exactly. that saves time and

the food costs quickly and fewer trees are cut are on the village. if we need a lot less would be i used to spend hours in the woods looking for fireworks with the news told this little bit of food here lasts for several days i save an awful lot of time with the galaxy i want to. make. women now have free time. sometimes they move ahead in the past time to do things they enjoy. nabo homes like those walls are just an incentive go for the built in a traditional fashion using clay as a main material well can you imagine that this caught it plastic bottles can be used as a main construction material even make such a house less well some people here in nigeria are using that let's have a look at

a construction site near the federal capital territory. nigeria's house of bottles. this is africa's largest house built from plastic bottles to date over two hundred thousand of them have gone into the structure near the capital of. nigeria plastic regularly clogs drainage systems. yeah madge wanted to make something useful with the bottles. they're filled with sand and stabilized with nylon cord. before being stocked up and cemented in place with clay or mortar. the houses don't absorb any heat so they don't need air conditioning. i do say. because here where yes to

see what the town but i'm going to use it as a fishbowl should people. approach industries from. also wants to train more bottle layers to build more houses like this one. you know like that. if you are doing here tell us about. this at our web site or send us a tweet. ashton. do you would be hearing your story. what i mean genius idea i want to what it's like to live in a bottle house well plastic waste is certainly a curse throughout africa it's even played a big part in degrading lake victoria in kenya more than thirty million people live in victoria shores and that also has a drastic effect on the environment yes n.t.

other fishing has left more than three quarters of the fish species unique to africa's largest inland body of water and the threat of extinction but new kinds of fish farms could help turn the situation around. this fish took is arriving in nairobi with the fish delicacy that was never so freshly available here . it's brought a load of four hundred kilometers from lake victoria and. the new type of cooling box in the cargo hold makes it possible. for what we had. used the back kind of basket you would carry sometimes i would get british. the fresh to lafayette comes from these fish cages in lake victoria. five years ago just off the island of fun gano brother and sister team gilbert and

michelle in bayeux began to farm fish. they were the first to implement cage aquaculture here now they're harvesting some two hundred tons of fish annually to support directly on ice. we want to make sure that less species we used it as i think that right now almost sixty percent forty sixty percent of all fish that is caught is lost because if so what we're doing is we're really creating new coaching for fish and unbroken cold chain stretching all the way from boat to consumer all right so that. this way it's easy it's good it's good. lakeview fisheries uses the latest technology. like this transportable cooler made by a finnish startup. it has a cooling mechanism which is patented we're using our technology partners. that keeps the box cool. so. this sense is that able to

detect when the box is open and when it's closed and send messages to the tenth time so at any time we're very aware of the freshness of the fish. the to lobby our hatched and grown. in ponds on functional island before being transferred to their floating cages. most of the people on m. funk are no rely on fishing for their livelihood. during the one nine hundred eighty s. in lake victoria perch exports were booming. sustainability wasn't a widely known concept back then and the lake was fished clean. michelle and gilbert mbaye oh turn a profit with their farms and want to expand their operation. with support from

germany's g.r.i.z. development agency they're building a new sustainably operating refrigerated warehouse to freeze their fish and. design is very abundant over here so what really makes sense is to be able to power them using using the sun and so we need start to have not be affected by the politicians the embryos want to turn their fish farm into africa's biggest and they're hoping to win the people of them from going over to fish farming. will stay for a moment at the water's edge but this time in west africa a century around the black hole to river and northwest and gonna is the only natural habitat for pygmy hippos in that country a couple of years ago there were only two left but conservation efforts by the local community have helped them bounce back today activists count almost forty hippos. those hoping to catch sight of the red

reclusive animals have a good chance here in northeastern goanna near the border with ivory coast bikini. you'll often see the head spalding in the waters of the black belt a river. pygmy hippos are viewed as totems by people in the area they're especially important as cultural symbols for the wallet and low b. tripes. have to lie the high school is one of the chief ranges of the web community here. he recalls how local village chiefs founded the conservation program twenty years ago. the reason for protecting the people and meant institute the poor life and with turn it into a site so that children in the next generation. he pool and the. poor also use the. opportunity for the while.

the tourist season has started up again but the roads leading to the area are bad and the journey is difficult. so a guide to be anyhow leader says that prevents many tourists from making the trip thanks to the conservation initiative the number of pygmy hippos here is increased from two to almost forty the project has also been boosted by the number of visitors who come. really interesting because. people all over the world and we receive visitors randian in eight hundred nine hundred every year so the numbers increase and because of that where. i work for my community and we get benefits from the credit and my community people are put. visitors pay around six year age for

a tool that's a week's wages for many people in ghana a large part of this income is divided among the villagers in the protected area. as a result these women and girls know. i have to walk all the way to the river to fetch water all the residential areas now have their own wells co financed by the century . the center also runs an alternative livelihood project in beekeeping the beehives attended by local people sales of the honey will provide additional income for five communities here. so what is going to happen as a big harvest and they have a deal they can sell and then use the proceeds to put more hives into the fence and also get profit out of it they use their money to send the children to school to buy clothes for the children

one of the local people who has benefited from the hippo protection an initiative is some ability. his teacher training paid for by donations. for the twenty four year old has been back here for several years and now teaches children in one of the villages in the protected area. i disagree level armor subject to chop article english language teaching them because most of them are very fluent when it comes to spoken and there was a pretty much attention to whatever residence would be ordered be adopted what we call good or quality listeners girls. right now and july is the haiku it's busy assigning his people to the new safari routes the century success over the last decades has motivated neighboring communities to several villages further up

the river now want to join the initiative to benefit from protecting pygmy opposed . caring for the environment can lead to success as we've just seen in ghana take action and do it now that student griffith earned by its message to world leaders the sixteen year old has been on school strike on fridays for months to fight for effective climate protection thousands of schoolkids and students from all over the world have joined her demonstrating outside parliament under their motto fridays for future instead of going to school germany students have joined them take a look. oh. it's friday afternoon these teenagers should actually be at school the weather is cold and miserable but they're still gathering here in the century to prepare

a protest. fourteen year old francisca vessel has been involved from the start she likely other peoples here wants to see the government takes swift action to combat climate change. it isn't actually our job to protest for a better future it's the politicians job and they're the ones who should have been changing things long ago that's what they're getting paid for so it doesn't really make sense for us to go out on the street but i think it's important or nothing will happen to. me. in recent months tens of thousands of children of taken to the streets to protest in a range of countries including australia sweden belgium switzerland and now in germany the government here has committed to phase out coal by twenty thirty eight but these young people want to see that happen by twenty thirty the action is no globally as school strikes

a climate here it's called friday the future just an excuse to skip school. it's not i don't see it like that if i wanted to skip school i'd have better things to do than stand out here in the cold. for us to go on strike to show politicians that it's pointless to go to class if we have no future what it would be to collaborate we want to show that we need change and that's why we're striking on friday is. that the digital generation is protesting on the streets rather than just using online means like petitions has come as a surprise to klaus her he's a prominent german research on youth and schooling. it's an x. and there are x. a stench all threats connected to the environmental issue. plays such a big role. anyone who's fourteen fifteen or sixteen years old today knows that in seventy years if things continue as they are existence on this planet will be

difficult and that worries young people a lot just after fifty two zero. it's not a temporary phase taking action to protect the environment has become a lifestyle choice for the family. they try to buy local have stopped flying and have even given up the car. they hope to reduce their carbon footprint. that might not be so we were all areas but cycling infrastructure and public transport make it simple here and. i think everyone should start fighting for their future now because it's also my future and the future of humanity on this planet this planet that will either be destroyed or that we try to hold on to. i'm incredibly proud of my daughter. that she doesn't spend her afternoons in shopping

malls. but does something to make the world better something to preserve it so that it remains beautiful for my grandchildren and i'm really proud of you for. buying clothes a new one second time and getting the latest mobile phone those will be the daily tasks they encounter outside of friday's for future. reducing your carbon footprint is a one way to help fight climate change using electric bikes instead of cars can be a first step that's what namibian company sun cycles promotes it's based in the capsule vent hook and as the name suggests the firm produces bicycles powered by the sun indeed felicia it's a very promising concept in a country where the sun shines three hundred days out of three hundred sixty five days a year some cycles tale of its bikes with different uses with the aim of promoting

sustainable and affordable mobility. denzil mandates job is to deliver medicine to pharmacies around the namibian capitals in talk he does say when one of the country's first bikes. his deliveries need to arrive at the pharmacies early in the morning this way he gets to avoid the traffic. so. this one. gave me this three way. all the time. so for each bikes are the rare exception on the maybe as roads rittenband hardwell to introduce them in twenty forty their social enterprise some cycles is based on a converted shipping container in a back yard close to the city. some cycles not only manufacture the bikes made in the media but company also builds recharging stations powered by

solar cells the bikes run on clean energy that's part of the concept so our main aim is to provide an alternative in the form of transport to specifically low income commuters but also private customer game god health care workers kindergarten teachers anywhere where normal bicycle is limited in its usefulness and way a car can be substituted. more than one hundred sun cycle bikes are already in use around the country including here at the sun umbrella community conservancy the reserve is situated in the north east of namibia where the job a river forms a natural border to botswana. the wildlife here not only attracts tourists but also bush meat hunters and ivory poaches for a long time the rangers have to patrol the area on bikes with just one gear. thanks to donations they now have eight e-books which allow them to work far more

efficiently. on a normal day the ranges cover up to twenty five kilometers of the bush. see. i thought. by putting the rangers wouldn't want to trade their bikes for a car the bikes may not be as strong as a four by four but they're much more agile they need to be recharged after every sixty kilometers. during the daytime we charge the car battery and in the evening we can take the cable and charge the battery of the bicycle with the car battery to do so with this so we can still charge the battery when it's dark. you know. the

robust and simple design of the bikes is well suited to working in the bush and allows the rangers to do most repairs themselves. the vision is that high sales will allow the company to lower the bike price from about six hundred euros to three hundred fifty. the team are hoping that a crowd funding campaign will bring in the necessary capital to get the project off the ground while it may take some convincing to make commuters switch from car to bike the ranges of the conservancy have already been well and truly want to. and that's it for today our journey across the african continent is over for this week for now it's good bye for me in johannesburg south africa and i'll see you next time thank you for leisure i'm signing off as well but please check out our content on our website on all social media and i'll be happy to have you tune in

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d.w. is live from algeria president faces fresh step down at this time from the head of the army and the key coalition ally they won't be anything president declared unfit to rule after weeks of street protests will this bring an end to the country's political crisis also on the program turkish president president typewriter ones are building a case party prepares to be tested in local elections this contempt is widespread with many turks hit by the country's economic recession.