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tv   Business  Deutsche Welle  April 10, 2019 7:15pm-7:31pm CEST

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a city in ruins moreover a. symbol of a long conflict in the philippines between the muslims and the christian population last. us treasuries fuck you put the city center into nelson seventeen president to
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church's response was. oh my favorite will never again football game of. the reconquest turned into tragedy is not the kind of freedom that we want. how did malawi become a gateway to islamist terror. an exclusive report from a destroyed city. women in the sights of bias starts april eleventh on d w. a call to modernize nigeria is sub-saharan africa's biggest tomato producer but so much of the produce goes to waste instead of the country imports county made those farmers say the system needs to change. also on the show albanian kasha growers discovered. new and lucrative use for that leftover shells that usually go
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to waste. and adding vaults to vintage cars one british startup finds a way of keeping prosecutes on a roll. on thanks for joining us nigeria's climate is just perfect for growing tomatoes but house of it goes to waste even before getting to market producers claim poor infrastructure and corruption and consumers turn to imported canned tomatoes instead our reporter a family fish are met a young farmer who's trying to beat the system. one of millions of farmers in nigeria his life has always been circling around this tomato harvesting do not. come here so when there's a new week why i mean it's my passion so yes i was a boy the twenty five year old makes about kind of pounds in a month roughly twenty dollars not enough to afford children he says not even
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enough to buy a fridge about half of his produce. we need. it was. stored to me through does why we. are. lou is in the to me business because of the. story impossibilities one refrigerator would cost around one hundred fifty u.s. dollars too much for small farmers. nationwide nigeria loses about forty percent of its tomato production and there's competition with cheap products from. the supermarket shelves full of tomato ketchup and tomato paste so this tomato ketchup is from the netherlands. is from egypt. this supermarket. in the same situation with the tomato cans here as well this is from the united kingdom. this one for
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example is from italy. nigeria the second biggest tomato produce in africa is highly dependent on tomato imports to me and the local market is full of domestic tomatoes but cannot be kept fresh these baskets right here of course used to store tomatoes but at the bottom this is where they get crushed and of course there's the issue of price price for one so major can vary anywhere from twenty nine year old one day to one hundred ninety one it's about twenty five u.s. cents the next day. the major food component for nigerians quickly becomes out of reach so much that it would have to throw half of this away. vendors cannot compete with imported products and prices already there you go all the time. we call on the government to ban tomato imports when we tell people to come and buy zero tomatoes
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they say the turned ones are cheaper. agriculture ministry says it wants to make tomato farm attractive to private investors and put policies in place to put nigerian tomato growers but local and you'll see those policies are empty promises they say corruption and logistical challenges prevent that new tomato seeds or pesticides rachel could farmers like me if things do not change soon he will give up his tomato business and turn to mungo and sugarcane harvesting instead. the need is turning cash to waste into gold or oil that is the country is one of africa's mean cashew producers with one hundred thousand tonnes harvested over the last two seasons but the edible seed makes up only twenty two percent of the fur the rest usually gets thrown away but that's starting to change. trucks have been
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delivering the popular kidney shaped nothing heavy sack since march the start of the cash to season. here at the food or factory in southern benning hundreds are at work shelling sourcing and removing the film around the colonel's. they used to throw the shells away but not anymore and the company learned that people in the north of pennine turned the fleshy yellowish red touch to apple just above the nuts into fruit juice so i began to ask what else they could do with the waste they noticed that the oil made by crushing the show can be used in industrial products. we were put off by the idea of producing something that will then have to release into the atmosphere or into the ground so we looked for the technology and we found is. that. there's only stuff. other companies throw the cash shells
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into wilderness areas which is very polluting. we recover the shells we produce and also others and we extract an oil and liquids that's important for certain nice markets such as aeronautics or paints. to. paint and black are made with cashew oil is seen as a more natural alternative to paints made with chemicals right now that they need or as exported to china india and japan the company hopes to make its oil known all over the world that way all cash to shelves could be used as a cleaner alternative for many products the supreme court of the united kingdom has granted nearly two thousand the right to have their case against mining company vidanta heard in england the plaintiffs allege that their land and livelihood had been destroyed by water pollution caused by the. copper mine in the
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north down to the listed from london last year but maintains a legal base in britain the case could pave the way for more legal action against multinational companies with offices in the u k. japanese carmaker nissan will spend more than two hundred million dollars equipping its south african factory to build a new pick up truck capacity at the plant outside pretoria will increase by thirty thousand cars each year four hundred new jobs will be added production is aimed at the local and continental markets and opened the plant in one nine hundred sixty three its only production operation in sub-saharan africa although many global carmakers only have plants in south africa and many rivals now the plan to open factories and nigeria gonna and kenya. strict new emissions rules are changing the streets of europe for the better as the small clears and
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electric vehicles start to replace diesels but also for the worse as some of the arguably most beautiful cars fall out of favor do we really want to give up on vintage cars a british startup has found a way to keep them on the road. out for a drive on the streets of london matthew quitter enjoys riding his nine hundred fifty three morris minor but the only classic car here but his is special it lacks the distinct diesel noise. just go a little bit so i know it's the sound of it like it's a fifty three car. just the sound of tires after quick to replace the original engine with a modern electric version it's business model at london electric cars in the u.k. we've got i think thirty seven million calls on the road over a billion calls in the world on the road and i don't think anyone's have any doubt now that we are moving to
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a team called society. which begs the question what is going to happen to all those calls that we need treating this crowd thirty seven million calls. to me that it's just untenable. where they were going to be. to. and more importantly why why why scrap them when there isn't actually anything wrong with them except for the power train. turns out it's not so hard to replacing the poetry in even on an old traveller or any of the other beauties here so lovers of old cars don't have to be worried about stricter rules to come and they are coming. we know the transport is the main offended when it comes to the ship and we need to make sure that we're getting to its diesel vehicles and most polluting vehicles off them so we welcome the mission zone which as it is a really good first step but we need to see now is the mayor extend the actual mission zone to the whole of greater london covering all vehicles so that all
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bluntness can feel its benefits it's a win win situation with fewer cars on the road and lower emissions taking a classic car for a spin is even more fun. chinese premier league jaggs european tour is being touted as a success brussels and beijing were able to agree on some key trade issues leaders want to create common policies for dealing with trade overtures from china but concerns remain that beijing is also trying to make any lateral deals with some e.u. members such as croatia. it's the first visit by chinese premier to go away show a tiny market when compared to china but one of many european countries beijing is hoping to deepen trade ties with. the no higher. we need to speed up negotiations on the china europe investment agreement with a view to making decisive progress by the end of the current year yet. then we can
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conclude a high quality china europe agreement before the end of next year it should be fair for institutional investors from both sides and ensure mutual openness. and things seem to be moving in that direction that's the european union council presidents take after this year's e.u. china summit. they go see shows have been difficult about it fruitful. we managed to agree a joint statement which said that the rich. there should be based on the reciprocity with a q that means compromises china says international companies will no longer be pressured to disclose technological know how to be a chinese partner ranging will also cut back on state subsidies and in the future trade relations will be developed in accordance with the united nations principles and the world trade organization regulations the e.u. is also giving a lot of ground. the chinese telecoms giant while way is unlikely to see its
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technology banned from use in europe's ultra high speed five g. mobile data network that decision was controversial because of while we've government ties and fears of digital espionage so beijing's charm offensive in europe must carry on. and authorities in singapore have seized a thirteen ton of pangolin scales valued at around thirty eight million dollars they were discovered in a shipping container on route from nigeria to vietnam it's the latest in a string of such seizures in southeast asia or pangolin smuggling has become a major problem amount most who scales are used in traditional medicine are at risk of dying out experts estimate that twenty one thousand pangolins were killed to harvest such a quantity of scales. thank you for watching. the
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