very very. discouraging because like we were talking out of town we have about 41.5 percent of young people who are unemployed in this country so you will realize that there is a high tendency of young people getting themselves involved in certain acts that can just give them income and when you when you come to the gambia you realize it's a low income country it's a developing country it takes a bad leader people sensitizing south and the officials also taking it upon themselves to make this family understand why is it so important to be patient if they can't go out and make something for themselves it does not guarantee going on to something that would not last because. they go and we stay here what do they live with us nothing so it comes back to all of us as a people but also i believe the government will be watching to know that young people are tired and even though we're talking about opportunities are there but we still have 41.5 percent unemployment ok let me speak to come back to you can't use musician is part of the can you feel miserable console this is of the region where

we're at and he's one of the representatives so so what are you doing to make sure that young people in this area are not falling prey to people who are trying to exploit them and offering opportunities for them training perhaps. we have turned towards him for. where we have given. improvement of the tourism sector. for the young people trying to come you know. you have to understand the importance of tourism and the place in this country. contributes to the gross domestic product of this country and it creates a lot of employment in this country. hearing now is passion and we have to accept the reality it's about time for young people to use their creative james. and most of the people. in the street these are not

gambians. these are not. small number of engage in this thing and normally when you ask them they would basically on poverty you know but the thing is that you have to use the. one like me i've been walking in the tourism industry for quite a long time and i know to industrial importance of the industry and the group things that it brings about yes i know you're insisting that it's beneficial to the country and i think it's also important for us to see tourism actually is the 2nd highest foreign income earner in this country so what you think cannot be overstated but killer is with hearing that these extras images are engaging in it and not gandhi and true or not true 1st of all i would just like to put a pinpoint on something before i forget which is really an insult towards the. sex tourism and that came from the highest authorities within the state and that was when recently a norwegian paedophile was parting from prison somebody who raped

a girl who was less than 10 years old and he was pardoned amongst many other prisoners who were pardoned and seen that coming from approval to be approved by the justice minister under the watch of the executive to spread the other his excellence he himself i think that alone is an insult towards the efforts to fight against sex tourism because if a norwegian who is just like more than 46 years old who came on holiday was put into jail and was arrested and locked up for committed sexual offenses towards a minor and that person is apartment while we have example read some of his young people who were arrested over small we'd stay locked up in the den that does not even give hope to the young people who are trying our best as young people to be on a positive channel despite the frustrated society that we live in so ok so let me go back to mr john because i think that relates directly to you the tourism offenses act which was mention. what does it say about

a kid like that and what sort of message to send i had the same feelings when i heard the guy was actually let off but this is beyond me it's beyond the minutes of a. couple not to watch of their daughter as it was something for them to address but surely how do you how do you think these young people feel when you were part of the ministry saying it was beyond you so who should be dealing with well what i can say is. when he was a reporter would have used the means that we have on that it was a lot actually to address the guard and take him for prosecution which was our limit and then. gone by the executive that is that is what i what i what i said it's beyond us. i mean. with them that this guy is just let it. be and in no way you would spend most of your life in a prison that you will come to me on you yeah i just think that it's a disgrace that our gambian government that were part of a pedophile and likely saved anything like that happen overseas gambians would be

in jail for life but what i want to do is go back to the unemployment issue yes it's 41.5 percent young people that are unemployed the issue is we need to start creating entrepreneurs if jobs are not available let's teach the young people skills where they can learn a craft or use their businesses to create some type of avenue of well for themselves and their families for generation to come 2nd of all right now the tourism industry has been privatized they're doing these what do you call that we're all inclusive situations where the communities are not going to benefit if you tell you can you explain what an all inclusive situation so in an inclusive is like maybe a 500 tourists from russia will come they'll stay at the sheraton hotel they'll eat there they'll party there they do everything that the maybe they might come out for something but that they stay there so where do the market benefits what are the taxable what is the little peanut lady benefit you know it's so when you talk about tourism and you want to do this part has to reason how does it help the people then you can start privatizing the big. isn't telling the people they can't even come to

their beaches like they do in jamaica so we have a lot to do with gambia this is a new camp let's not allow old time thinking and green now do we're supposed to do to make sure the youth of the 1st priority ok i want to do something that you said earlier which is that the people participating in these illegal activities are not gambians and i just want to clarify is this true or not you know they are gambians as a matter of fact it's only maybe between maybe the 10 or 15 years that we've had an influx of sterling in liberia and i juries what about the bunch the situation we've been having i live in the camp at our friends who got visas overseas years that maybe are so we're not doing stats but i'm telling you everybody has been liberians gambians nigerians poverty is poverty it's not about where you come from it's about trying to survive and everybody's trying to survive it doesn't matter what country you come from if you look at the minimum wage like $25.00 a month so what i'm saying and imagine an ordinary family might have minimum of 4 kids. $25.00 a month so if you come to

a place like. i don't want people in the richest boat is one of the main reasons why people come here but you have to mind you when you look at me as an artist when you look at the creative space in the gambia for entertainment this is the only place outside of tourism this is our one of our only places that we have if i want to go to a regular party is around this area if i want to go to a club around this area this is not business and decentralized this is the only place you have so if you come here once twice 3 times 4 different times you meet different people who are trying to meet people like you do automatically influence but maybe if i had like. that were meant for tourism more places for people to entertain themselves. example as a young person i don't like coming here. i get harassed i've got to show my id maybe. i thought i can't can someone explain when sinigang can search we've been talking about this for a while this is true and it's very famous with tourists and as we've had locals as well but one of the interesting things is at the top of the road there's a checkpoint at the bottom as well why why why is it i think the last time i came

here with my friend i was i almost got mad because i felt like why is this happening but i understand that they're trying to put some regulator measures just so that because this place is dominated by tourists and so they want to put a lot of protection on it but also because of that some of the gambian also are also deprived deprived from accessing their place if you look at especially when it's tourism season so what i just want to say when to say and rob of my own part when is that we have a lot of potential like the one time we had this discussion about culture in the country i think the government has to be able to invest a lot in young people's potential just so that we can be able to prevent all these viruses that comes with being unemployment this is the main reason why you'll find grown up grown enough to be walking in certain places you find them sitting incentive and also goes to other young people so if we start investing in young people and believe in. i'm sure we have a lot more that we can guard and being victims of sex tourism well that's far too

little of the judgment she actually has to rush to the airport if you don't see her again that's why number where you understand that to work at the craft market which is just behind here i can you tell me how tourism has changed your life a look. at. least. in the country like the coffee market here. lots of scenes. but what happens in the low season like now low season being when it's summertime in the north and hemisphere what happens to your businesses and does the government coming to cushioning. it is one of the biggest business. killer is i want to come back to you because we're talking about the benefits no one can see how this whole strip is lined with restaurants bars but who owns them actually let me start with you you're a waitress you've been working in the industry for about 3 years have the owners

been gambian or have they been foreign most of them are foreigners. and because i don't do many gambians want to invest in their country but due to lack of finance. so most of the people on this business are foreigners ok yeah so again means truly benefiting the real owners of foreigners the gentrification happening here well to be honest some partially but then remember we used to live in a dictatorship and a lot of investors who could have really invested a lot of wealthy gamblers who could actually buy this whole place up you know but a lot of people fear to invest because of the investment environment here and again you could come and create something major and the president would just take it from you know saying i think that also led to one of the main reasons why you know. like a lot of gamblers don't own on the other side though as far as participating in the tourism you have to understand we've got a list of the benefits only seasonal and you look at it from the top of the food chain to the bottom of the food chain who benefits the most it's. the hotels that

benefit the most you know and the top operators they charge at high rates they come with the all inclusive packages the benefits that the gambian rates are her the trips that she would get you know from one not inclusive package she would get a form inclusive package and then 2 even the work conditions of these. i went to a lot of shops where i seen gambians who work as the waitresses and waiters but they have low salaries you know they have poor conditions they get treated like nothing they can't protest working conditions but let's ask the people who are actually in its factory you think sure every time this is can you give me an example through things. we walk in ask beatrice and at the same patterns will be inside it she can see that when you wake in the kitchen there will be a place it should be at least have been to listen but they are just like you know even having a place would be hard he'll be doing. with the money and it's always less just

to give you an idea of the gambia is truly hot and humid you can see how much i'm sweating so to work in the kitchen with that ventilation must be too difficult this is also sound familiar to you is of course true because. during the season we have whole ourselves. money years of the owner of the christmas. lights and everything to help us because we are waiting to go one of. the managers of the owners of the. salaries we currently have ourselves here which you know. at least. it was not in. ok so let me go to supporting here because we're hearing that yes the industry is hiring a lot of gambians but the conditions are not great the money is not enough is there any regulation from the ministry. of answer to the minister the with the minimum wage call for 4 people working in the industry is something that we find here is

the law. if you ask people to pay 1500 to a waiter they will go for it is not in town 1500. something like that i'm not very good at math so if you actually are tell people to pay 1500 as a basic salary then you. can employ people who are not skilled and this is the problem with our service in the industry so i said to the minister and i proposed. if i actually was the minister for tourism and everybody laughed this is what i'm going to do i'm going to put a minimum wage for tourism employees i went up for $7000.00. that would have. done so that would actually. we're being accused of complaining yeah so yeah yeah yeah i mean it's that would keep me from my position if you hear about it ok i was ok i was in that forum and i can attest to that but like really disappointed with my rap. you know you just what i would start to tell my brother do rap or here

you start you know don't wait for people to create a lot of you have it take you out don't you don't. know what i'm saying is that you can be doing gigs across the country i once told one artist playing loud and he was my point tell me what i called trying to learn he's my contemporary how you can. go to school. to school what you are seeing the negative things that you are seeing here try to visualize your community you have the. police. gumby and most of the guns are lame ducks ok so. dark you need to allow me to do my shopping so let me let me allow you to respond and i'm going to come back to you. when you say i want to go back to the discrimination and the profiling which happens to a lot of young gambian to get to you that's something that i've experienced i'm not it's not allegations but you know the automatic response would be that was

a different generation this is a new a new we're going this new generation within like like a couple of months ago the same thing happened you seem like you are judged based on your appearance whether you are somebody who's worth of being in this place you feel what i'm saying while a person like me 20 stacks in my pocket but you know i'm home i'm a good judge in this community for being a typical guy who are the majority here who follow the white people where my interest is probably to go to a spot come with a car all the time not once not twice not 3 times and then you see people who. just passed moving nothing happens and i feel like that's an insult to me saying that foreigners and teresa treated better than gay. right i'm sure about it. no argument about that now do we agree at the back then would you agree with me. coming back to me as my responsibility as an artist i use my voice in response to what the man was saying to address those situations because those are all part of and forms of

social injustice yeah but you know we heard from most of you saying that you also have a responsibility. he said that most can use a lame dogs i disagree with that it is most gambian private citizens they have done what we've done together and have gambia where it is because government has not been doing. the hotels the brand all tells a young gambians the majlis solidarity of johnny was building the hotel bill in the club me myself i have nothing thousands of thousands of dollars he bring international arms are brought about which in spite of bribe jr kelly i just did miss lamb gambia pageant just the other we're constantly using our own personal life to develop projects and programs for young people in this country who trains i have a foundation where i do you believe you should be performing arts training for young people 12 to 18 so don't tell us that young gametes and i don't want to take our money to cover damaeus over things in their minds here monthly if it wasn't for them gambian people will be thinking so the government you will have a lot more work to do because you're not doing what you. want to bring this to

a close and look for solutions because i think it's important looking forward so we are seeing there is a problem with the tourism industry and we've addressed some of those concerns but we're also seeing that these benefits clear benefits so moving forward how do we create a balance so that the gambia is not swallowed by the negative effects of tourism and i'd like to hear from you mr. basically would be gone through. because we're responsible to listen and try to become positive. people who are working in the industry and government enforced. you know. i have to catch a because all batteries are running out so i want to hear from you very quickly well i think the government 1st of all should make sure that all of the money that is generated. goes back to the people so that the people will be poor enough to always come back here and be exploited one and also for the government to work on

all year round tours and i believe that there's more opportunities and there's more ways to fix issues that we're facing with population and a movement of young people were well informed i think we can do anything not just wasn't well so the gambia is where we are a country named after a river and one that has had a very checkered history but clearly based on what we've had here it's a long way to go and young people have the solutions thank you for watching. the be.

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players . play. this is g.w. news why. lasers and light sends a message as protesters rallied against in hong kong there's still anger against the city's leader and calls for more democracy and demonstrations looks set to continue also coming up the chinese that is where the 20 levon arab spring began but democracy has not been easy for the country as tunisian voters head to the polls on sunday 1st presidential election nearly 90 percent say they're fed up with

politics. play. omarion f.n.c. and it's good to have you with us. honk kong is preparing for another weekend of mass pro-democracy demonstrations those protests are now in their 4th month in that time the movement has seen increasingly violent clashes with police but on the day of the chinese that autumn festival yesterday protesters turned out to peacefully. because. they're still singing their protest anthem glory to hong kong and they didn't stop for one of the most important celebrations in the chinese calendar the mid autumn festival. activists are forming human chains they using the event as

a way to keep their movement in the spotlight. to see some of them took to the hills of the city to shine laser pens released lanterns with protest slogans and just sing the anthem. but they also probation demonstrators trying to make their voices heard. i was their version china keep going i want to show. like emotion and my loyalty to my country my mother that country. tensions are running high between the 2 sides. so far only one of the 5 demands of the pro-democracy protesters has been met the government scrapped the controversial extradition law last week. but demonstrators are also demanding that hong kong's leader carry lamb steps down they want an inquiry into police brutality the more than $1300.00 arrests have to be released

and greater democratic freedoms. correspondent munty is building a is in hong kong and he joins us now for more hello to u.n. ts so we understand you're at a middle school student rally this morning tell us what you're seeing. yeah we are seeing middle school students gathering here and. doing some performances you can see they are you reacting a statue off of protest in full gear moscow in minutes here at this square in central hong kong the middle school students have been quite active in this movement. of some of them have been at the front lines some of them have. been more cautious but they've always been careful to be noticed as a group they want themselves being hood they just don't want to be just the kids

who are being dragged along most of them were too young in 2014 when the last protest movement happened and on many of them have told me that this is something they have regretted not being able to put his participate that time so now they are being active they are being they're showing up in groups with their own flags and they want to be noticed says some very very young protesters there many here these protests are now in their 14th week mainland china has agreed to withdraw the controversial extradition bill so why are these protests still continuing.