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and carried some three and a half million passengers however it had flown into financial trouble in recent years and due to heightened competition and rising fuel prices and had been searching for an investor for months. you're watching to debbie new still to come. a gardner is awarded millions of dollars in damages after claiming that round up a week killer cost his cancer. that's story and all the day's business news coming over a duff family rockabilly thank you for spending this part of your day with us. the colby's in germany to learn german lodged in the. why not learn with him d w z e learning course plecos fake. an african. president the long. end of the rwandan patriotic front to include the rebel army
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and to the nine hundred ninety four genocide wasn't it when little or no troops there wasn't doing to us given you in me to reinforce it i'm going to say i knew this but does that mean he was not floating in no to. a controversial leader who successor is beyond question. time. and wanted tragedy starts people fifty g.w. . financial aid is needed and quickly mozambique reels from a cyclonic floods that have swept away entire villages and left behind devastation . millions of dollars awarded to a got to say is the weed killer roundup caused his cancer. and turning
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trash into treasure in need of winning is making jewelry and furniture out of electronic waste. let's do business farmers across parts of southern africa where just about to harvest when the cyclon hit now it's all gone no food no medicine to treat disease as the floods recede you know we had for a structure a billion dollars worth washed away according to the united nations and that's a huge problem in getting to the survivors and bringing them help the disaster has struck almost three million people most of them in mozambique. a man on his motorbike apparently there used to be a street here the water still hasn't drained away not from the heavily overgrown fields which were just about ready for harvest everything the farmers in this area have to live off comes from this land. and know one. thing only god knows how i can survive here is nothing. the reconstruction will
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take years and how will they even rebuild if there's nothing to eat the farmers have lost their entire crop i'm talking about trees are gone for all types of fruits and vegetables and corn in maize and the list goes on so one entire year's worth of food for this community for this part of the world is gone and they're going to need money and they're going to need it urgently. in the city of beara the situation the hospitals is getting worse more and more people are getting sick because of a lack of clean drinking water and poor hygiene and conditions cholera has broken out and doctors have already reported five cases relief organizations are finding it hard to keep up. the picture is which means there is a lot of hope here in some places there are other places which still remain cut off the remote communities that presumably hope not receive all of the hopes more than
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half of those who need help desperately are children many have lost their parents or been separated from them by the cycle on the children's organization unicef reckons that in mozambique alone one million children need help and needed immediately. let's talk about all of those issues with joy doreen beera joy first of all tell us how much is it going to cost to actually tackle this disaster and also to rebuild a place like mozambique. well if it we're talking about mozambique as a country i think that's really going to say quite a bit for the effect of city itself which happens to be their fourth largest city in was in the. in this boat man in. the figure. of six hundred million dollars the because the infrastructure has the effect as well as the basic axes the services like roads electricity as well as what the
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connections that are all being affected by. and closely at about two hundred sixty thousand who have been affected the most and the and i mean i think ten thousand of our in camps at the moment and there's also of course the the immediate costs of feeding those people a fighting disease yes and then now looking at is course the looming diseases that could break out malaria and squalor around which are actually very very dangerous as well at the moment so the lead authorities in laos and we can basically as a city are really trying as much as they can preparing and setting up centers of health sentence just in case the reason breck out of cholera and mary end of the disease is that the authorities there are also saying that the are trying as much as possible for your time saving lives in the city because i'm not.
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having enough sense to basic facilities the other issue of course is children so many kids are affected by this disaster how what sort of a danger some of those children in considering the reports we're hearing of human trafficking that what something horrible that's happened time and again and all the disaster zones like haiti for example. well when these catastrophes do happen usually parents and children will be separate because the maybe they will actually find themselves in different parts of the city and have babies not any different so or they reserve race all sound shocking just because you sit in their cars along with and. involved cannot seem to find your families and so on there is that risk that you are right because they are also looking out
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for these children especially during a phone free to the human traffickers in the city but we haven't yet seen any reports of any children being trafficked or women that must now lapse usually happens is this the reasons is that parents just because of the fact of the been affected by and sees us it is. doing to just because they want to get away with the expense of having to look after them and joining their reporting for us there on those floods that hit mozambique millau ends and bob thank you very much for your report. a us court decision has found us around the world of law and at american jury has awarded eighteen million dollars to a man who says the weight killer roundup cost his cancer make a monsanto was recently bought by germany's bya its share price is wilting today.
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it's a great victory for edwin hard to imagine he took on one of the most powerful agro chemical companies in the world and one the jury said round up was defective and the company deceptive today the jury sent a message loud and clear. that company should no longer put products on the market for anyone. without being truthful without testing their product and without warning if it causes cancer why the jurors said the agro chemicals giant had been negligent by not using reasonable care in warning hardiman about its products potential risks last year a court in san francisco also found in favor of a grown skipper who said life was saved had given him non hodgkins lymphoma this is the second case where the jury is shamefully held that round up causes cancer and one thing to know and they are need to take note of that and they need to change
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their business model and their business practices they are bought monsanto in mid twenty eighteen for sixty three billion dollars it continues to insist the herbicide is safe when used as directed but was share prices sliding almost forty percent since the acquisition the purchase came at a higher than expected cost beavis and we know today that because of the american securities laws about your couldn't look into the charges against monsanto nor into its books so is buying a black box and the risk in buying an unknown entity is being shown right now hundreds of studies have shown life is eight to be safe while many others have found it a health risk after two years of fierce debate the e.u. decided in twenty seventeen to renew the weed killers license for use in the block for another five years but now bayer faces more than eleven thousand lawsuits involving round up in the us alone. boeing has delivered a software upgrade for its seven thirty seven max passenger jet it's meant to
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prevent failures of the aircraft's anti stall system the planes have been grounded worldwide following the deadly ethiopian airlines crash this month and one in indonesia. and a function of the system this is it is playing a role in both accidents boeing says the timing of the upgrade is not related to the incidents. they call it hell on earth one of the world's biggest stumps for electronic leftovers so on the outskirts of the gandhian capital . you can smell the burning waste way before getting there and you can often see the smoke hanging over the city from miles away where one person sees destitution devastation another sees a small business opportunity. pretty cool earrings right well van made from the west these country chairs. just like these funky.
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design a painting turns trash into treasure she finds material. site for electronic waste it's a place where old computers and keyboards wind up along with stocks of car tires the smell of. the. people here the trash to recover pieces of bacon. painted it's not hunting. she's on the lookout for. the waves. so we don't try to find solutions. so we need to. kill those projects that require a time. bomb tech with time a chair for example to make just. one chair a team of five people has to travel to
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a hot workshop two hours north of crop and then what a whole day it can be frustrating knowing that a lot of resources is stopping the project from growing spaces are biggest challenge we don't have a bigger space so we cannot employ more and we can do more as the first on the second one is machinery as you can see around we have just simple tools that work with whereas if we're able to have bigger machines we'll be able to produce more and faster as well. matilda payne regularly exhibits have designs conferences objects not only. they are opening to i think rather than take all this amazing stuff that all this money has been poured into and just put the world with it why not turn it into art or turn it into the food feeds people tomorrow so it makes total sense and it's good for people it's good for the world and matilda pain has won several awards record nies ing
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hard creative way of doing heartbeat for the environment and she has even bigger things planned for the company. we are looking not really able to and. therefore would have to train more women too which are into what we're doing now to be able to start to do your own businesses for every item sold. already donates five percent of the money she mixed to the education of underprivileged young girls she doesn't only want to bring peace candidate items back to life she also wants to give something back to society. all of those chairs the first place are business with.
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