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a nuisance and they cost money people 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 the blackouts but will that be enough to improve the situation at this point making factory productivity is largely dependent an electricity. when supply falls short this is what happens loss' a pipe is made round because of the vacuum when the pipe when the power goes off the vacuum collapses so you get to this in this regard pipe like this one year and this is wasted power. human will seize power outages are common at his factory he has done by john ritter but it can till march he says that making pipes is sensitive that even a slight power does to be lazy can be economical up sitting we need to hit 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 the 2 hours. or 4 hours of energy bill i thought that i wasted so you have to restart the process again and no one is responsible for this if you had what you call it's obvious level agreement with a pos up liar who play a very important role in sorting out some of our issues and maybe to become more serious the government is now responding the electricity originator a authority has drafted tough measures to impose sanctions on point supply as. the state run originator wants to make electricity supply is accountable for outages and penalize them for losses caused. we have said before mr emmett us issue in the way that it is evoked if you feel remember the question is paying for the other state they are meeting their obligations and then you are denying them the our

rights to enjoy this happens so we have to present the question was fed was our role as it is to balance the interests of what a stick or does but women limited which supplies more than 90 percent of the country's electricity blends fun doe's the company sees that it loses over $300000.00 the yeah to vandalism of its distribution infrastructure which causes outages maybe now once the government to also toughen on culprits there's a lot of wonders in marbella you know you know people under guard on the underground take power but because of the many mean some stations taking taking to the decision lines for us but it doesn't biggest problem the grab by the local government we're looking for a. deterrent. bunch and for 4 people living

in london is it possible. you're going to generate a total of about a $1100.00 megawatts of electricity of its $42000000.00 population 4 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 and for more i'm joined now by julia a journalist who joins us in kampala good to have you with us now of course we're seeing quite a number of power outages recently not just in uganda also in south africa for 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 motive going as humans with the utilities and also with their uses both domestically of all and the commercial level the original atory authority says that

this is the only way that to wick up the utilities in areas where they have not really performed better but the utility has a different way of looking at things because we spoke to the major utility and told us that actually the problem is the vendors they are set up a very good infrastructure but many times it is affected by vandalism or they call in police to protect the infrastructure because they claim they are ready to serve the people but the vendors are as breakdown 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 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 it was some people have lost their jobs because the companies cannot stay profitable when their production changes or is compromised by poa and they are very bitter with the utility but the utility says 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 to service their wages. from sanctioning utilities what else do you think could solve the problem with electricity supply. according to their lectures to rigid littery or 3200 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 we're bloodless in the major utility introducing prepaid meters that in their boy uses to pay before they can use the point to sell some or reduce power shift which they say has also been a very very big impact in power distribution and then we see a couple some money for charities for instance sugarman for carers they produce their own electricity so when they produce their own electricity they are not affected by the utility but this is a privilege hotelier commercial uses can produce their own electricity but government says it's investing ok that's the way to go julia there in reporting for us thank you so much. and offer some other business stories from around the world. the u.s. says it will postpone a decision on whether to raise import tariffs on foreign cars a 6 month 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 official figures show the economy expanding by a point 4 percent in the 1st quarter driving factors for domestic consumption and a boom in the construction sector that's despite a trade war and breaks it which have weight on growth. and boeing is under renewed scrutiny over the $737.00 max aircraft a report says american airlines pilots raised safety concerns with a u.s. plane maker following the crash off indonesia last year 77 x. jets are grounded worldwide after a 2nd crash in theo peony 350 people were killed in the 2 accidents. now this may come as a surprise but to take savvy san francisco of all places is banning facial recognition technology one 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 give 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 facial 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 it's 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 rundown 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 $25.00 what about facial recognition well the ws is at a cost loss at that summit in australia gets about this new technology and its security aspects both have to go hand in hand like as you work on improving the correct 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 is 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 is taken into account most of this is sims gets backed up by other systems outside africa. nobody has control. for using the data and how it's going to be used and it is the sense that people are losing ownership of their doctor 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 to be put citizen to be protected it's a good move. by microsoft says it's spending over $100000000.00 in nigeria and kenyatta opened 2 technology development centers the company says employees there will focus on developing a fish 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 at a young population. and that was business africa here on t.w. from the team thanks for watching.

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