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that's often not in protected areas and under threat from the fishing industry. you're watching b.w. news up next a business where that band facility out the back of the top of it in the meantime of course there's always the web site s t w dot com. sex making. raring to marry. if there is any of your product read between them you have to find it between the lines. literature 100 german streets. what makes us see.
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a global spillover from the u.s. chinatown just give material. banks. and shipping shipping in the summer heat from. africa complain about the price of. africa's becoming more self-sufficient another has joined the race to industrialized parts of the continent. his 1st attempt at producing vehicles. have to take on the global auto giants 1st slice of the huge african market. this is one of uganda's biggest innovations since independence over 55 years ago. the 5 seater has been made by young ugandans. there were days when we're just in
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the loving you know there was nothing yet on there and but the day that come of it i think fighting for us to know that we didn't just have. one now confident enough that we can inspire and that it's possible to make things in uganda. it is uganda's 1st come on foot starting project and funded by the government the young people behind it are the face of a generation that the government hopes will drive uganda's economy 20 industrialized part we believe that uganda actually has a lot of you know innovation potential if you look at the statistics we have the top into premier ship 20 percent so with all of that innovation and the excitement and with all the education that is going in it's only it only makes sense for us to sit to have more technology called buses that are really showing what people are capable of as
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a nation. industries contribute less than one out of 10 to goodness g.d.p. but the government wants that figure to double. exports advised that for that to happen jobs must shift from peace and she had. 2 factories. 78 percent of all people involved in agriculture and that is informing the debate as to where money should go and i think that is wrong. or should be happening is we should have less people involved in agriculture which in turn means commercializing mechanizing all these the operation of this then you leave those days to come and the world industries and so forth across sub-saharan africa industries face challenges such as limited skewed workforce and the high cost of borrowing. the influx of cheap goods from foreign countries and the end of developed public
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infrastructure horris a problem despite what appears a bumpy road to africa's in this year transformation. innovators like uganda's key reporters are resilient and optimistic that africa can catch up with the developed world. experts say female leaders boost the bottom line a company could add to global growth and it's so much easier to set up your own business in this digital age so why is founding still a man's game here in germany in particular if you take a look at the numbers they were getting better if not very slowly around the turn of the century women had found it just over a 3rd of companies registered in germany and since then that number is credit up to around 40 percent of germany's tech startup scene is a lot of only around 15 percent of innovative firms founded by women in france it's
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a bit better 20 percent in poland the best in the e.u. 24 percent difficulties catching the eye of venture capitalists is one of the main complaints with their folks martin is on the executive board at the business software maker s.h.p. and can tell me a lot about breaking through the glass ceiling but 1st of all tell me what's wrong with brothers tech startups e well look you know i think that when we look at the opportunity here it the opportunity is really to bring diversity which essentially brings innovation into that startup community and i think women in particular encounter some challenges and sometimes it's an unconscious bias in the narrative women tell us that they don't have role models in the tech startup area they tell us that they aren't able to find mentors and the narrative is with men how are you going to win and with women how are you going to prevent your south losing and then as you said earlier you can see that reflected and have enter capital is allocated you know what is the problem is it is it still
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a boys' club amongst these venture capitalists i think it's a multifaceted issue and i think it stems all of the way back to education and the uptake of. subjects' specifically when relating to high tech startups for young women so it's a multifaceted problem all the way through starting with education how are you trying to change siri question thank you but i still we're trying to change things using our startup accelerator called a safe. and we have a program in that called beyond boundaries we announced it in january $2900.00 and the idea if for us is that 52023200 off our startups will be startups that represent inclusive entrepreneurship so entrepreneurs that represent underrepresented minorities today and we've already off to a tremendous start we launched in january we've $21.00 startups right now and 18 percent of our addressable funds are already going to those startups compared to 10
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percent in the v.c. community give me some of the ideas that were going to come well look it's incredible the range of ideas we're going from education to hiring to managing the chains on product provenance to actually managing supply chains we have women who've joined us today and from egypt from malaysia who flown into this except a writer so the breath of ideas is incredible it sounds very international what what is how does europe compare them to say asia you've worked in asia as well is there a sense of change there i know some countries like japan and we're struggling to get women here well i think you know asia is of course not a homogeneous environment and every culture is very different to japan as you rightly point out has struggled to get women into the into the workforce but china on the other hand has a very strong representation of women i think heading back from the time when women were seen to hold up half the sky so what would you say to women trying to set up a company or sort of a tech start up i think to recognize that they're obsolete we are opportunities to
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be successful that there are programs like i say piece i o. program that will support to the thought our mentors about. able and if you have a great idea you must be tenacious in pursuing it what made you so to nations what made me so it's an ace oh my gosh i guess just the opportunity that i could see with the row that i have the privilege to have to make a difference there thank you very much for coming thank you so much ben fuses spreading over the world's economic outlook investor is dumping stocks and running for safe havens like bonds and gold official rate cuts from 3 central banks also show how trade tensions a shaking confidence in global growth. india the country where gold prices have soared to an all time high it was one of 3 countries to take markets by surprise on wednesday the indian central bank cut its benchmark rate by 35 basis points more than analysts expected. but india wasn't the only surprise for investors thailand
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central bank unexpectedly lowered rates for the 1st time in 4 years and the reserve bank of new zealand cut the benchmark rate by 50 basis points to one percent the lowest level ever this series of rate cut decisions could be a sign the u.s. china trade war is taking its toll and central bankers are trying their best to avert recessions cutting interest rates makes money cheaper to borrow and that generally boost spending where economic activity may be stalling. some analysts say it may be too early to cut rates despite the global economic slowdown as it leaves central banks with fewer instruments to spur expansion if economies do take a downturn. well despite that trade war us china and dozens other nations have signed a landmark mediation treaty in singapore the pact allows parties involved in international commercial disputes to carry out mediated settlements in their own courts an avenue
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that was not previously available in cross border disputes singapore's prime minister says although multi-lateralism is under pressure the solution is not is to improve it not abandon. as most of us repair for the festival of sacrifice or. there are 2 developments people of bleating about romania is shipping thousands of sheep to libya in the burning sun despite a warning from the e.u. activists vessels death ships and in some countries speculators are reportedly driving livestock prices up as the festival needs. as muslims around the world countdown to the start of. on sunday. algeria is preparing for the slaughter of 3 and a half 1000000 shape and goats prices here and across north africa are surging with demand. the sheep flock this year is thanks to all in good condition prices
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are up to 60000 diener. some blame speculators for the soaring prices others say that prices have gone up because of costs at the official slaughter houses and enforcement of animal welfare standards. this year the herd is in better condition compared to last year where sheep are all vaccinated and under strict veterinary supervision everybody has ever considered the animal safety it requires rigorous effort. but some countries in the region can't meet the demand under the burning sun in a romanian black sea port the 50 year old lady maria stands ready for thousands of sheep with a one way passage to libya despite a warning from the e.u. remaining it continues to export live animals during the height of summer 4 years ago thousands of sheep on a ship sailing from here died from heat and thirst animal rights activists say the
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trade is not strongly enough policed. and british airways says it's fixed a check in computer problem and forcing it to cancel over 100 flights across the u.k. say what caused the outage and there may be knock on effects besides cancellations 20000 passengers aboard a latest disruption hipparchus business they have ports for share ways which is why the international airlines group apologised the incident. for booking flights between august 8th and $13.27 system out of. tens of thousands of its passengers to cyber attack last year to hundreds of thousands passengers. i think business with you.
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zone. thank you. thank you thank. you. this is. coming up on the show fast he was charged with treason now he stands accused of unknowing the ugandan president. and on the titian says his house from preston was 70 is ridiculous and he's the tenant the challenges in court also coming up on the show. in zimbabwe the u.n.
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