far as the maybe but very damaging i'm boring situation thank you so much for joining us. director. in gaza thank you thank you for your interest the state of new news live from baghdad coming up next in business africa how to keep the lights on in uganda the government is not a bright idea it wants to charge utilities for black ops. story is big business after in just a moment i'll be back at the top of the hour. don't miss our highlights. program. w dot com highlights. carefully. to do.

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a security. business africa. good to have you with us our outages are a nuisance and they cost money. in uganda know this all too well the country's electricity supply is not reliable to improve services the government wants to sanction utilities for the economic losses caused by blackouts but will that be enough to improve the situation at this pipe making factory productivity is largely dependent an electricity. when supply falls short this is what happens. a pipe is made round because of the vacuum when the pipe when the power goes off the vacuum collapses or you get this disfigured pipe like this one year i do says westwood power. human will be minus sees power outages are common at his factory he has done by generator but it can till march he

says that making pipes is sensitive that even a slight poetess to be lazy can be economical up sitting we need to heat the machine for over $2.00 to $3.00 hours and you can imagine if at all you have a power fluctuation or if the power goes off in those 2 hours that means it was over an idea bill for as a when i did bill i thought that i wasted so you have to restart the process again and no one is responsible for this if we are going to call it obvious level agreement with a possible this will play a very important role in sorting out some of our issues and maybe they would become more serious. the government is now responding the electricity originator a authority has drafted tough measures to impose sanctions on ports appliance. the state run regulator wants to make electricity supply as accountable for outages and penalize them for losses caused we have been so safe before mr emmett us issue of

the united evoked if you feel awful remember the question what is playing on the other side they are meeting they'll begin and then you are denying them the our rights to enjoy this happens so we have to present the question was fed because our role as it is to balance the interests of what is to core does what women limited which supplies more than 90 percent of the country's electricity lim's fund. the company sais that it loses over $300000.00 a year to vandalism of its distribution infrastructure which causes outages may now once the government to also toughen on culprits there's a lot of wonders in my opinion you know you know people under guard on the underground. but because of the means i mean some stations taking to get into the distribution lines for the us ok present biggest problem the crowd but what was the

government were looking for a. deterrent. bunch and for. religion in funders are. you going to generates a total of about a $1100.00 megawatts of electricity of its $42000000.00 population out of 10 ugandans can access it the government ones that improved but as new hydroelectric dams are commissioned the government wants existing supply to meet standards as the mission expands both for home consumption and export. for more i'm joined now by julius a journalist who joins us in kampala good to have you with us now course we've seen quite a number of power outages recently not just in uganda also in south africa in symbol before various reasons but uganda now wants to sanction utilities is this going to help the government says that this is going to to really help

because we understand that they've had motor point as humans with their utilities and also with their uses both domestically of o m the commercial level the their letters to rigidly tory authority says that this is the only way they're to wake up the utilities in areas where they have not really performed better but their utility how does a different way of looking at things because we spoke to the major utility and told us that actually the problem is the bundles there of set up a very good infrastructure but many times it is affected by vandalism or they call and police to protect the infrastructure because they claim they are ready to serve the people but developers are as break down the infrastructure so that should be pardoned but government sees this is not the time to pardon them now of course whatever causes the outage it's surely will have an impact on the consumers and on business in particular how does it hurt the economy.

i've spoken to quite a number of commercial users especially the manufacturers and the really confess to making very many losses not to mention in the domestic uses commercial uses or is that when it is some of them have very sensitive production chains and even a very slight power change really impacts the product under a just a many losses they say that they cannot pay the taxes they cannot employ as many people want to was some people have lost their jobs because the companies cannot stay profitable when their production changes or is compromised by power and they are very bitter with the utility but the utility ses they should always work together and see the 100 is so the government is stepping in to see that even if a client pays he gets the service the way to ease it out from sanctioning utilities what else do you think could solve the problem with electricity supply according to their lectures to originally. had

a very candid conversation with the executive director who told me that there's a lot in their lives there's a lot of investment into the sector and government is committed to really improve the supply of electricity in the major utility introducing prepaid meters that enable users to pay before they can use the point is that some or reduce power 50 which they say has also been a very very big impact in power distribution and then we see a couple some manufacturers for instance sugarman for jurors they produce their own electricity so when they produce their own electricity the are not affected by the utility but this is a privilege. users can produce their own electricity but government says it's investing ok that's the way to go julia their income pala reporting for us thank you so much. and alpha some other business stories from around the welts. the u.s. says it will postpone a decision on whether to raise import tariffs on foreign cars but 6 months delay is

a relief for automakers in europe and japan in particular who fear a 25 percent duty wall street also reacted positively with stocks rallying on the news germany has managed to dodge recession officially figures show the economy expanding by 0.4 percent in the 1st quarter driving factors with the mystic consumption and a boom in the construction sector that's despite a trade war and the brics it which have weighed on growth. and boeing is under renewed scrutiny over the $737.00 max aircraft a report says american airlines pilots raised safety concerns with u.s. plate make a following the crash off indonesia last year 77 max jets are grounded worldwide after a 2nd crash in theo p.r. nearly 350 people were killed in the 2 accidents. and this may come as a surprise but to take savvy san francisco of all places is banning a facial recognition technology once signed into law it will be the 1st american city to make it illegal for local government agencies to obtain rain access or use

the surveillance. send francisco home to many of the world's tech pioneers is blazing a new path. it's restricting the use of facial recognition technology by the local government. it's psychologically unhealthy when people know they're being watching every aspect of the public realm on the streets in parks that's not the kind of city our lives of this as the difference whether the technology can still be used by the u.s. federal government and private businesses in san francisco rapidly evolving special recognition technology is already in use the world over at airports on social media at sporting events and even in smartphones. big players like amazon facebook and i.b.m. make billions helping both private companies and governments utilize their software the $4000000000.00 industry is expected to quadruple in size over the next decade.

here in berlin the german government has started experimenting with the technology of public train stations after a terror attack at a christmas market in 2016. and companies maintain facial recognition software can improve consumers' lives. like at this market in china where cameras automatically identify consumers and charge purchases to their account. for exactly how as the critics of the technology say china's extensive use of facial identification software should serve as a cautionary tale the country's camera surveillance systems tracked millions of its citizens automatically. the government has even outfitted taxis with cameras that automatically identify passengers and log their trips in a central register officially to improve consumer safety however critics warn such uses are an invitation to government abuse. the high tech surveillance is most

likely also a topic that's discussed at the transform africa summit currently underway in the one capital kigali the conference aims to boost africa's digital economy the african union's goal is to digitally connect every individual government and business in africa by 25 what about facial recognition well it obvious is that a call's was at that summit and asked delegates about this new technology and its security aspects. have to go hand in hand like as you work on improving mic technology you have to make sure that it's secure i think that everyone in africa on the continent deserves the same level of security that's afforded to do those in the west so as you know we are advancing to make things more open and more inclusive we also may have to make sure that people's privacy is just taken into account most of this is sims gets backed up by other systems africa. and nobody has control or. use the data and hearts are going to be used

and there is this sense that people are losing ownership of their data and can be used and misused about anybody else i think if the government can make some efforts to protect them or to make sure the guidelines of it to be put citizen to be protected it's a good move. a microsoft says it's spending over $100000000.00 in nigeria and kenyatta open to technology development centers the company says employees there will focus on developing artificial intelligence up occasions microsoft is among several global tech companies that have been investing in africa and the hope of taking advantage of strong growth and a young population. and that was business africa here on the w. for minute thanks for watching.

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