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the perfect mix for a bright idea that could see this south african startup expand nationwide amazed as created a cut price security system for poor people living in townships you know views nicholas boa and hit a fountain fed report. in south africa one of the most on equal societies on earth crime is right especially in informal settlements like that northwest of johannesburg. thinking i am ill and it was a minute and salient aluko saves. and i've said i'm going to micro mad money. there a piece. there is that saves actually i think she did it because they tell it it's outside. with over twenty seven percent unemployment and rampant poverty options to protect your family and home are limited but mom is a six year old tech startup aims to change that it started because i was
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a life long for to move crime but the turning point was wait and when my younger sisters thing in the township was fried in the tart and not quintic to anyone as gently and. it was at that moment that i realized that needed something that is functional or something but can i let the neighbors and everyone at bound and the police and the patrollers meza develops and manufactures cut price of curity solutions for the bottom end of the sub african market selling this alarm system complete with motion detector a siren and dispatch technology for as little as one hundred and twenty euros this is the heart of it all this is the sirens that are less of the neighbors and the whole community this is that console that lets the police and also monetize the movement around when i am being attacked i press the panic and
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this saturn will make a noise as loud as a jet engine. without the necessity for a further monthly subscription like most private security systems in south africa and amazes units are proving popular at home with businesses and even schools no crime at all because a lot. so it's very very special to us because the cops can respond very quick and it is affordable this chip among the vulnerable communities with over three thousand units have been distributed as much as an eight percent drop in murder rates and then eleven percent drop in total sexual offenses have been recorded technology plays an important role in filling the gap left by the inability of the police to properly police poor communities all we need for the police is to improve the reaction to this kind of communication maze of plans to expand footprint
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to informal settlements across the country within the next five years. sierra leone is one of the poorest countries on the planet civil war and a bowl of crippled economic development the government is searching for as to help spur growth and has found a friend in china it's plowing funds into infrastructure the european union is also getting on board. a huge oil palm plantation in the southern part of sierra leone for the people who live here it offers the only chance to earn some cash agriculture is the biggest economic sector in the small west african nation it accounts for about fifty percent of the country's revenues coffee and cocoa are also big exports others include role mineral resources such as iron ore and diamonds. around
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a third of all exports go to sierra leone's largest partner in trade china it's trailed by countries in the e.u. and the us. the country is slowly recovering from a civil war that ended over fifteen years ago last year economic growth hit around four percent but that's still not enough to give the many young people here work or perspectives one reason why sierra leone is no pushing to find foreign investors for infrastructure projects the e.u. has promised over one hundred million euros for new programs aimed at creating jobs and accelerating growth. over to isaac let's see how correspondent in accra host of today's donors conference for sierra leone so why exactly who's prying open their wallets. well many of these investors yeah people who who are from china and possibly some from america european parts
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of the world as european union and also african businesses the reason why really is happening in ghana is because there is a case study of kenyan business that i've invested in sierra leone and saw the idea is that once these stories are told they invest this year will be able to express an interest in investing and of calls the officials of this government has been doing is to sell the potential in this country to. an area of mining in the area of communication transports education among asking these investors to come in and help build that economy indicating that after the civil war ended in two thousand and two and all of your silly. country a lot of successes are being choked in governance process to ensure that investors really get my value for the money what about china it's been investing a lot of money and as we pointed out it's the biggest trade. is in the skepticism
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of the chinese just last year sierra leone became the first african government to cancel a major deal with china that had already been announced what the officials have said that the council by the president president was really an issue of priority is not that. interested in doing business with china so there's no discrimination when it comes to investing maint in syria from various countries across the world and so desperate to see him is in there for this particular reason and that's sierra leone next investments and they needed from anywhere across the world but what about the e.u. why is it trying to get its foot in the door there. well the european union has such a living help in many african countries including basically what it has been doing is trying to strengthen the democratic credentials of these countries the governance processes in. this foundation is lead there could be improvement in
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terms of dealing with poverty among this and obviously businesses in the repair union also believe that there are real potentials in syria and it is a time to get in there and talking to these potential ok great to talk to you again sir. a two billion dollars blow to exports china has suspended the license of another canadian canola exporter it's widely seen as retaliation for canada's abreast of the daughter of ways founder the tech giant is embroiled in a crisis the us wants the chinese company banned because of its links to the state the european union is ignoring those calls. knowing you is the way we love you in the current context it sounds ominous huawei promises a super fast chip and artificial intelligence that can record and evaluate us and everything we do only. the product we're bringing to the market is a product of the future and what does the future bring we believe artificial
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intelligence. thanks to our way the future has already begun for the state security in china's western province beijing has installed a system of total control to monitor the muslim minority human rights groups suspect around one million we are being held in so-called reeducation camps she enjoying is a testing ground for the latest surveillance technology we've documented the chinese authorities often you know in close cooperation with big chinese companies like i fly attackers. using everything from the compulsory collection of bio data taking d.n.a. samples in from children without permission. to the use of you know facial and voice recognition in may twenty eighth teen ways form of germany last seen here on the left signed off on a cooperation agreement with china's state security while way was commissioned to
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develop an innovation laboratory for future surveillance technologies if it's happening in the context in which you're having hundreds of thousands of people being sent to internment facilities without a trial without lawyers that is a very worrying worrying development while away maintains it's independent of the state but their website leaves no doubt about the closeness of their relationship the goal is to gather all personal data via the most intensive surveillance there's ever been. the technology that's being developed in scene down is not going to stay there it's going to go through the rest of china and eventually it will be brought into the belt and road project and throughout the world that is the vision that they explicitly said in their own press release beijing is exerting enormous political pressure beijing's foreign minister lectured europe that to keep way out of the five g. market is simply immoral. but. you know we resist all attempts to exclude
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and attack companies with baseless allegations for political reasons. click. but while away is finding it increasingly difficult to present itself as a tech company just like any other. asia is one of the world's largest markets for wine at home kong holds the record for the highest price paid by a forked out one and a half million dollars last year for seven bottles a vintage read the auction house subtleties wants to break its own record. that this is the cheap wine just a warm up the pricey stuff will go under the hammer. the re advantages could fetch hundreds of thousands of euros. we're confident with the quality of the winds in the providence this could set the world record in this particular collector is a shining example of the new why all collectors in the world somebody that was
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lucky are lucky enough to have the wealth to really focus to stop buying once they were very young. young young age to really focus on the very very best so the bees is set to auction more than sixteen thousand bottles of wine over a four day period raising millions for a collector. questionable right now i finish work of i.
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