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every journey begins with the first step and every language the first word in the cocos in germany. why not learn with him. its simple mind on your mobile and free. w z e learning course. german made easy. there's news africa coming out in the next fifteen minutes bringing investment about stalking resentments with growing numbers of chinese in zambia we look at the influence on business and politics also coming out i'm a believer that. my country. where a lot of people make it i'm going to look at it. to make.
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a young media entrepreneur who's determined to prove to his peers that building a future in your own home country is best. thanks for joining us we begin with a story of. mining town of kits with nothing unusual about that except this was a chinese owned store and the looting of the growing chinese sentiments across some via china's financial influence is growing on the african continent china as biggest foreign investor and chinese companies are buying up significant chunks of key government assets now while the beijing is rapidly increasing there's been some
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level of economic growth in zambia but china's presence is also triggering resentment. against them. joggle on the one found out this report. memories of a recent book larry still haunts. the chinese business woman based in the. capital . shortly after yan had set up this store riots broke out in key to i guess the chinese. they told me to run you see this door. this kind of door is hard to knock. the more nervous i got the harder it became to lock the door and then they broke my window and. all. the looting in the store is a reflection of growing sentiment in zambia to bring funding for any project be to roll the stadium the hospitals schools or houses they bring their money they
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develop that but i think they also smarter as they do those for the development i think they're addressing their population problem we have all works on those present and not going back accusations that china is actively redistributing its population in zambia are rife and much of feed is spread by politicians i think i would not be surprised that in the next seven years we'll have a chinese government there too many have taken away the business started local people are doing so i wouldn't be surprised if we are not very careful if we are to continue with this government. in the next three four years all of chinese ministers chinese state controlled farms are accused of winning almost every government contract funded not going to be gene one of these deals was the two hundred and seventy three million dollar digital migration project zambia's transformation from analog to digital broadcasting. the process was carried out by
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top stop a joint venture between the chinese media conglomerate start times and then be a national broadcaster that n.b.c. . a controversial part of the deal is how start times by passed local laws to make top star a competitor in the business it already controls your. point. in . appreciation i think. you should be. grouped with your. challenge. to. take you through it which should be pretentious. but became both accountants obvious provider and signal distributor and the deal was approved without the board we thought parliament shy i'm not.
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good investors neither do they mean well for africa those people to me are not invested. the chinese are benefiting way more than zambians have led to several attacks on chinese shops so far rights have broken out and the police have acquitted of brutal fight in me is just one of victims of the growing resentment against china expansion in zambia joining me now is my colleague. who was on the ground in zambia working on different reports. thanks for joining us now from the reports it seems. happy when i chinese and that country is that a reality on the ground. pretty much this is a wrestler it that's been pushed by politicians who argued that you have a huge influx of so-called chinese investors who come into the country and
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eventually into small scale jobs some of them do come on major projects a major investment project i did of this project they do stay in the country and into the private sector so you actually see chinese making shoes on this on the roadside or selling corn as one of. someone put it in their port so there is this that the chinese i think you know but i don't. but there are also people who do believe the else is i'm going to do i view the presence of the child of china india contributing investment opportunities for them so clearly it's not an all negative situation about what is really causing this growing and chinese sentiment in that country. terms of factors responsible for it a lot of it has to do with rivalry we thin small small communities especially where you have a huge presence of the chinese in the mining in
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a mining field that's in it in the copper bed area you do have. all this frack up between a chinese resident most people day is up and say they believe that these chinese own respective don't have the respectable laws and so that they blame them for a lot of things that they will work them to pay them less and they they use all sort of motherly invective languages on them and so that leads to also some issues but time the main thing is that the argument that you have huge amounts of a huge influx of chinese in the country and the venture into the private sector now we talk about this blame game here is it easy to point a finger as to who is to be blamed as the chinese or is it that governments that actually strike these deals but it's i mean. it's definitely you can put the blame on the two sides will say ok let's not put the blame on those who are coming in
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imagine. a local politician you meet someone in the hotel room and they pose in this display in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for you in the bed and say all you need to do is just signed this contract and we get this contract you get this money so people do take it so and there is this accusation that from from our investigations we understood that the chinese believe thrive on corruption and when this is when the system is corrupt and is to benefit from it and so you actually see that just in zambia across africa in most cases when did this isn't that extremely corrupt that's why you see the chinese have a higher. if it is i will what god giallo deed of you can eat thank you very much for the time. now the gambia the smallest country on mainland africa its operation is barely more than two million and yet its youth unemployment problem is pushing many of its young people to leave in the hope of finding better which it is
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a broad twenty five year old cycle by as one young guy who's chosen to stay and he's encouraging other gambians to do the same did of these reports now. it's known for its beautiful coastline and the sex tourism that it attracts but for some young man prostitution is the only opportunity they have to make any kind of living. into people who live in poverty here young people dream of a better future. i thought about leaving gambia but i don't have any money if i had the money i would go. to youth unemployment is high roughly forty percent in the past people mainly wanted to leave the gambia because of its former president rules and suppression until twenty seventy now there's a new government in place a new freedoms. and that is what keeps pushing young people
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away. is different he has no intention of leaving two years ago at the age of twenty three he launched an online newspaper called the storm circle its aim to give the youth of voice the morning. it's coming to be. a very tedious read really of some stories that we're doing morning conference a team of five for free they all juggle second jobs they want to make sure the paper can keep going they focus mainly on unemployment and irregular migration an estimated three and a half thousand migrants have returned to the gambia in. he said he yes and so i couldn't is interviewing one of them today. so there's a home for my. stuff returned last year
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the twenty six year old says he had george beatings four months in a prison in libya but missa do have full potential migraines. you know. it's not like. you know until travel. after his return most of us set up an association to advise other migrants about the benefits of staying at home sekou is all too familiar with the stories he stalled and writes about all his brothers who left the country but only to return to juan never made it back to life from libya who tells me why did you stay in gambia. i'm a believer that. is my country and where a lot of people in america are from north america and down there disagreement to make my way over my country he's proud that mood has seventy five thousand people read his website per month but when does he think it will be
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a true success when realtor reach out to every young person in the country. to give . them and produce a walking corps and really able to influence the government in their policies more sekou says he intends to keep pushing young people in his country to stay while also holding the government accountable for helping the next generation. that's some good motivation that from news africa. stories on our website. you know visuals of the american wrestler. who is the new weld wrestling champion as fast as a well championship in over a decade is the first african. history fahnestock team and i. got a. cold feet. by for now.
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made for mines what's the connection between bread. and the european union the no guild montas correspondent and alan baker can stretch this can line with the rules set by the team. nothing recipes for success strategy that. make a difference. baking bread on. hi there and welcome to news from the world of arts and culture with me karen house said in this edition one of berlin's most famous paintings by german romantic artist cost. gets a virtual reality make over and here's what else is in store. contraband the
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talking horse you are not only one of germany's best live acts they're also the subject of a new documentary film mostly to director called a complex process. and with ice cream season just around the corner this delightful novelty desserts a german invention just celebrated an anniversary. book . it was first shown in berlin in the fall of eighteen ten it seemed like the emptiness picture of the art world had ever seen the monk by the sea bicuspid of it is a masterpiece of german romantic painting with the natural landscape functioning as a mirror of the soul well now thanks to virtual reality visitors to the national gallery can immerse themselves in the painting and commune with the monk and more. a tiny figure standing on the beach in front of
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a rough sea in the sky heaped up mountains of clouds. that friedrichs the monk by the.

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