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firms compete to find people through the. future. i'm full gal welcome to the program millions of children around the world are facing a surge in violence of forced labor and early marriage during the crisis that's the warning of the leading children's aid organization world vision in a new report estimates. put in place to protect people are actually putting vulnerable children at greater risk. schools out in ivory coast this was march since then hundreds of millions of boys and girls around the world have been lost. no classrooms no playgrounds and nowhere to run. charities are warning

that the very measures meant to protect them could see them fall victim to violence . like 12 year old kid beater in bangladesh whose father is out of work. that hits us if we ask for more food he is frustrated and angry. it's hard to concentrate because i'm hungry. i have headaches and sometimes feel dizzy. everything around me seems blaring. across bangladesh world vision has been helping children whose family lives have been turned upside down by this virus but these are unprecedented times. this crisis. is like. for.

all of. us all. of us or. out world vision estimates that $85000000.00 more children may be exposed to violence during quarantine in bangladesh beatings by parents increased by 40 percent an additional $4000000.00 girls a risk of being forced into marriages in the next 2 years. the u.n. says that spike is the result of families looking to recover financial losses frontline workers are concerned that few year to act snow will lead to more trauma in the future. oh. well. all of the. suffering are.

for months the coronavirus crisis has been one of the lenses and intensive care ward now experts say without extra funding and protection it may give way to a crisis that is longer lasting and harder to heal. we go through this with james alva who's a reasonable communications chief with u.n. children's fund unicef in east and southern africa and he joins us from nairobi welcome to the w with schools and well fast centers closed and welfare budgets squeezed how sure how do child protection agencies go about detecting this increased abuse well the 2 main ways are a door to door there is a great community facility that's already set up and as much as there are a lot downs and curfews a lot of places have that ability and then there are phone lines their phone lines

are put on for tonight literally be really off the hook so there is still means but it's about detecting and then what we're seeing is those big spikes addressing it is only going to come when you reduce the stresses when mums and dads can go back to work because they don't have a reservoir savings and when kids can go back to school if you will as you were listening there previously those are the things otherwise we are looking at a much longer problem than toted not a much bigger effect on kids than be infected by this pandemic and you're seeing this across the world. absolutely i mean this is the region of course on responsible eastern and southern africa and we've seen big spikes the spikes in anxiety the spikes in ballance you know those things that we know about children with spouses being trapped with their abuses but it's certainly not unique to this part of the world at all i've seen you know we've seen reports in rich countries where we've got similar things obviously those people in the poorest communities

where families are trap 6 or 7 people in the size of what you have us may consider they keep gen in those stresses and anxieties get worse and worse doesn't mean is ever an excuse for child abuse it's just that these are some of the causes that we say particularly with hundreds of millions of kids out of school and so where do you see this child protection being done while in these lockdown times well a few places where i'm kenyan is doing well south africa is not bad one of the big things that you need as a response you know you of course you have the help lines and you have people that can can detect it but as we've seen in rich countries getting money to the poorest people getting money in the hand has proven over the last decade or more to be hugely successful people will take that money and will amplify it they will you know keep they will ensure that there's more food on the table they'll find more resources to employ someone else will keep that business elegant so getting money

to the poorest people but countries like south africa and kenya have been able to do it they're a little bit wealthier relative to other it's other countries can't and that's why when you've got things like the g 20 is looking at a 5 trillion dollars package for its countries as little as 5 percent of that would be probably one of the most impactful positive things that could be done in the african continent well certainly in my life taught good talking to thank you for joining us and james alba from unicef. it's been touted by u.s. president donald trump and brazil jr balsa not always a cure for comment 19 but evidence has been mounting that the anti-malarial drug hydroxy chloroquine is not effective and may even be dangerous now the world health organization has poor states trial of the drug and cited a major study published in the last week which found that high proxy chloroquine could cause abnormal heartbeat and worsen patients chances of surviving company 90

w.h.o. to already expressed skepticism about about the drug and now it says it will hold its trial while it reviews the safety were just acting on a abundance of caution based on the recent results will still these 2 to ensure that we can continue safely with that arm trial. so where does w.h.o. decision leave the search for a covered 19 killer we put that question to dr mohammad moneer a very religious to the university of lung castor in england i think if we are going to leave the iraq security that is not the end of it or we have other drugs both are being tested one of them is severe which is having very positive outcome in the beginning like 31 percent people who are recovered me to go and staying at the hospital can be reduced by 4 days going to significant so therefore my suggestion from the beginning has been that we have to focus all our attention and

to be sources to test drugs like reading that city which has some votes. dr mohammad minea now let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world the government in afghanistan has freed 900. 300 taliban prisoners on the last day of a 3 day ceasefire with the insurgent group released as part of a pledge by the government to free up to 2000 prisoners in response to the cease fire taliban officials say they are open to extending the truce. french presidency . than a 1000000000 euro plan to save the countries are caught in the street from the losses caused by the virus lockdowns car sales in france are fell by about 90 percent in april compared with a year before. the trading floor of the new york stock exchange has reopened for a limited number of traders it's been closed since late march because of a pandemic new york governor andrew cuomo rang the opening bell stocks surged on

optimism of vaccines are for the virus. as we all look for ways to deal with the effects of this pandemic in tech hubs in kenya have tamed with the government down with tech firms to launch a nationwide contests look for ways to help people through the pandemic and into the future i d w has been to meet some of them in nairobi. from urban gardening to tech solutions the corona crisis has made people inventive for brian in the army working from home is nothing new with this small i.t. startup brain verse it will have absence software for clients and when corona came their experience came in handy our company has about 15 people walking together from different parts of the country we have been working remotely for the past 4 years so we've developed experience however we had a problem where we could not effectively manage our projects saw this was actually our internal solution before of but then when convene 1800 realized this is again

not going to be just a problem it's going to be a problem for so many people. their solution startup suite an all in one platform for small firms to manage the employees run customer relations and monitor ongoing projects and they've also added local features like making payments through the milan money system and pessah and offering the service in suai to expand the new product brands us together with 300 startups took part in a countrywide contest everything took place online from pitching to getting one on one mentoring from industry professionals. david ok guy who himself runs the innovation that organized the hackathon together with the government run tech lab concept technically yes. this is the 1st time we had i mean virtually sort of like an owl and a couple but we can see that the teams that highly motivated and they're walking right from their morning hours to late at 2 o'clock in the night so it's

day and night no rest no sleep strong coffee. at the end of that all the best projects are selected for 4 months accelerated program where they receive technical support and access to services from both the government and private partners like microsoft and oracle is up to the brain versus one of the winning teams but solutions around the corona crisis come in all shapes and forms clima another can in startup wants to make residents more self-reliant they build vertical gardens for balconies and backyards spinach. and this is these are kids who are old and here we had 7 indigenous they did to go back to also harvested i think 3 or 4 times then every plant to. include my installs the pipes provides the coca pete based growing mixture and once

everything is planted they also have an app so that customers can contact them for gardening advise. the fact that we have acquired this number of customers around 20 then 50 customers are believing in us initially just to be kind they really grew brigitta was in my balcony but now we are seeing that there is a growing need to be book people are becoming health quiz shows they want to have their own video boards with their win in the competition clima hope to step up their urban gardening project and create an entire vertical farm to supply city dwellers with fresh and vegetables well i'm sure many innovators would want to tackle the corona crisis head on and perhaps make the next best new ventilators it is small projects like beans that can actually go a long way and help people in the daily lives if they're properly rolled out. finally we'll bring you the story of a mountain. boy is a video showing 12 year old alexandra who was out hiking with his family tried tino

in northern italy we noticed the bear behind them and the bush. hello it goes i gave him quiet instructions. keeps calm and keeps walking slowly down the mountain and he later told italian media that he was a bad love. and couldn't wait to see what. i could invent. as a reminder of our top story a new report by the end your world vision has predicts insurgent violence against children because of a culture of 19 out. restrictions the report says lockdown measures put in place to protect people actually putting the lives of children outdoors. the world health organization for suspended its trial of high drama queens of treating covered 19

citing concerns over the drug safety press president donald trump and other things just a touch of the drug as a shield for the vice. situ of today it will have felt more at the top of the hour more around the clock of course on the website. of good. combating the pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and. our corona update. 19 special next on d w. how does a virus spread. why do we panic and when we're. just 3 of the top.