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human the hostile sense of i'm pleased to say this warming is already hungry a major impact on the great life on going the severity of storms song claims i'm turning. business on there's something up next i'll be back on top with will world news of the day. my 1st vice like moses sewing machine. that i come from women their bones by the social tools even something as simple as learning how to write a bicycle isn't. since i was a little girl i wanted to have a bicycle off my home and it took me years to convince might have. finally gave up inventions by me and i say this and returns because sewing machines sewing i
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suppose was more apt procreates cargoes than writing about. knowledge i want to meet those women back home who are bones by their duties and social rules and inform them of old dead basic rights my name is the about of the home and they were more at ease a. strict . south africa tries to tackle its legacy of domestic work abuse support groups say some employers still feel free to use and abuse live in domestic stuff. a must in all of production or all coked worries about the effects of climate change on future harvests. and electric cars could cut half germany's automotive jobs it could other tech advances bring you will put your chips. i've been fizzling let's
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do business forced to live in squalid conditions beaten and then fired at will that's still the reality for some of the 1000000 domestic workers in south africa during apartheid black south africans were banned from residing in cities to avoid the long and dangerous commute from their townships many women employed by white households the work that was 25 years ago but some things haven't changed transportation is still unreliable which keeps the live in set up going and leaving stuff a horrible the maid see unfounded to be took action against the man who hired then abused her she took her boss to court and won her case. debate worked at the couple's home and your husband for 2 years where she cleaned up and took care of the children then it all went wrong. he pushed me instead it pushing me fight me he pushed me to make for 3 times and then for 10
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plus the president coming to me so i took the punch with the with my hand and then he pushed me had and then i think from the kitchen to the to the pantry on my back . and do bay isn't the only woman in south africa it happens to domestic workers often live in their employer's home the i.z. says that they're treated like slaves the organization is a network for domestic workers the treatment harks back to the colonial era and even survive the end of apartheid. of the post 94 domestic workers were given labor rights and were written into the laws as workers and as professionals the culture of abuse and the culture of power dynamics and. power differentials has remained hasn't changed during apartheid black south africans had to live in town ships far away from white south africans today many blacks live at
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their employers house that makes abuse more likely women who come from neighboring countries to work as domestic help have the worst time of it because they often don't have a south african work permit they were afraid to tell anyone about the abuse or sleeping with the baby. and this my boss my boys came in our room and touch me i was trying to talk but no i'm not sure why. he told me. over 1000000 south africans work as domestic help most of them are women do the courage to fight back no she's a member of the group domestic security network which protects the rights of domestic workers in south africa. let's bring in as had in cape town just how widespread is the problem but one research shows that about 16
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percent of domestic progress reports of sexual or parole in south africa and apart from that what we see is that a lot of them complain about unfair pay and long working hours and that is probably the biggest issue that they complain about so yes there is definitely an issue here if you look at relationships and as well and in you know that these women are whites week in their position because often they're to brooklyn are a family often they have like 5 feet austins are often absent or don't work so they've got these big responsibility and that's also why they are not always as vocal as it is the women that you just saw on the report because they're basically afraid to lose their job and you know if you have kids to feed maybe you will then just put up would abuse and continue work so what needs to change besides getting
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men to pull they're white. well one of the things if we look at the main complaint that we hear from domestic workers which is that the low pay and then on working hours is that the pay needs to go out last year the government introduced minimum wage in south africa which is about one euro per hour for the mystic workers still a lot of unions and a lot of africa see groups say that's not enough because that's not a living wage that prices are going up as good as the lot to do about that how can you make sure that the that they get paid more and of course then it then its information is all part from that because i think a lot of these women also don't know where they can go if they do suffer from your abuse and they don't know what their rights are and that's why we're going to zation this one in a report that are very important here in south africa who what about farm workers who want to register it yeah of course they do you can have more insecure position than the south africans so if it comes down to their rights some of them have
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a full marks but others don't see a lot of people who are from zimbabwe from allow you from mozambique and they often get even paid less than the south africans and some families choose for a foreigner because they actually campaign them less and it also causes a lot of friction here in south africa between my friends between 4 and us and south africans because they are bracing saying that the migrants are taking down jobs because they're accepting a lower pay so it's a very insecure situation and hard to solve because of the inequality in in south african economic inequality and so they can make some progress elephant in the forest thank you about filling us in from cape town there. now to some of the other business stories making news part kidnappings off the coast of west africa rose 50 percent last year according to the international maritime bureau gangs with speed boats or attacking ships holding sailors for ransom security costs hundreds of
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millions of dollars every year. officials have suspended shares in nigerian oil oil after the company said it was scammed out of $600000.00 it was supposed to be a fee for a $184000000000.00 loan from the qatari investment authority a deal that didn't exist. consumer confidence in south africa is that a. force domestic product is low and unemployment is hovering around 29 percent residents are rather opposed his country does not have the luxury of time when it comes to turning the economy around all of production in morocco was down due to lower than expected rainfall italy 2 had a bad year in 2019 as more extreme weather hit you the poor output has fueled fears about how climate change could affect harvests of the future. olive galore
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morocco is africa's number 2 producer of the bass or tasting fruits 2nd only to the 2 museum over the past decade production has been rising thanks in no small part to excessive agriculture boosting policies known as the green morocco plan. since the start of the green morocco plan there's been huge all of development in the regions of mara cash and fluffy in 2009 the area was expanded by more than a 1000 hectors to around 2235 factors. but this season low rainfall resulted in a poorer than expected yield experts estimate that all of oil production will reach only $120000.00 tonnes this year compared 220-0000 tonnes in 2019 fluctuating weather has also affected to the all of harvest in italy another major producer last year it suffered its worst harvest in 25 years spring frosts and
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summer drive trends that mirror climate change predictions were blamed for the collapse and production as weather around the world becomes more extreme morocco is hoping that its reputation as a monster all of producer can be maintained investors are awaiting wednesday's announcement of an initial trade truce between china and the united states chinese vice premier a has arrived in the u.s. for the signing washington has dropped its basic nation of china as a currency manipulator sources of his beijing has promised to wrap up purchases of american cars and energy in return analysts applaud progress but say the phase one deal fails to address the structural issues. from the trade war as pressure coming from another front for global carmakers you mobility trains favoring sustainability and digital innovation other companies have taken the lead like one in startup which believes that it's autonomous. 3 d.
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printer is the future of mobility. efficient digital and self driving this will be the car of the future if the berlin started big rap has anything to do with it the low key prototype is the company's 1st car and that's fully 3 d. printed. for me lowkey is the expression of many contemporary trends that have been joined together in one visionary vehicle. those are driving emo billet and 3 d. printing. we're always trying to go these 3 things together to create a unified vision. daniel greening and his team spent 12 weeks designing the car it's made up of 143 d. printed parts made of nylon and other industrial grade materials the pod cars designed for short distances in an urban environment later this year the car will
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be equipped with an electric motor so that it can go out on its 1st test drives each part is equipped with a digital fingerprint chip that will allow the parts to be printed on demand on any 3 d. printer. but lowkey is still very much a car of the future the german auto industry is still largely wedded to traditional manufacturing methods and combustion engines experts say car makers overall tend to be slow to get on board with innovation. and to change that in germany will have to make friends with experimentation and failure we favor stability and conformity with safety norms that's good but if you want to go digital you have to practice. researchers and developers agree the auto industry will need to go all in on mass production 3 d. printing it's the only way they say for the industry to remain economically competitive and flexibly fulfill customer demands while meeting and mission standards and conserving natural resources part of it and. many replacement parts
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today are still manufactured using traditional series production methods for that to be economically viable many parts need to be made at once they are stored in a central warehouse and then distributed 3 d. printing can change that. it would allow us to manufacture only what we really need where we actually need it. or. offered. loki's designers hope that 5 years from now the 1st autonomous fully 3 d. printed vehicles will hit the road in germany printed with a fleet of big red printers. i have my stern business with.
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