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is africa it's good to have your company sales off tobacco and the whole products have resumed in south africa as the government eases the country's restrictions cigarette sales in particular have been bad. africa's in march the bad was controversial from the beginning supported by public health groups and criticized by the industry and members of the public but now that the bad has been lifted what did the government achieve. in a moment i'll be asking that to my guest but 1st or day to day there were queues outside liquor stores in south africa drinkers and smokers were keen to stock up a reporter sent us this report. a bit of the sale of cigarettes have devastating impacts on businesses in the industry. like the one of her family has been selling

tobacco products in cape town for 35 years now she had to close one of her shops and only remains with this one here locked down was horrific and it is her think you can move even if the recoup your losses these no seems what say that because anything that you prohibit people will work around it as as they head as a smoke. i'm happy i'm here because there was a lot of it was not going there was a lot of you know 'd you go. to get it's going brands or you're going to go before the sale of cigarettes has been booming on the black markets many brands were widely available and studies suggest that only very few people in fact really quit smoking. there's no doubt that smoking is bad for your health and the government argues that it's more likely for you to end up in an intensive care unit as

a smoker if you get sick of it 19 the government also claims that there's a common practice of people passing on their cigarettes to each other which could possibly spread the virus but many smokers are angry have the government's decision . on i feel like everybody's going to die anyway so why do they keep in the smokes so i'm always gonna die sometime we don't eat joyce. you have was able to one little one is spread all over the world was this just. some government will also be relieved that the restrictions for smokers are lifted because it had a major impact on the finances of the government if there's only illegal trades there are no texas and the south african revenue service already predicted a shortfall of 15000000000 euros this year because of business closures and job losses so to the question we. asking on this was the ban on the sale of cigarettes

effective it's what i'm going to put to dr katherine f.a. she is a specialist scientist for tobacco and other products welcome to day demi's africa . yes maybe straddle for that with an outline of what what was the government trying to achieve in the banning of the sale of cigarettes was it to stop people smoking. thanks christine i don't think the government was trying to protect the citizens because i don't because we know if he has a book listen i'm. not one of the citizens because look. or. serious substance use as well as. some of these things are already known rescript that's what we've seen sort of this is the country of the very disadvantageous position which we got right in to this so. we're going to rest once we go into something to do some extra leo protection you know for us not to see what

we see in you know other countries and so our right i mean doug said brit everything that you've mentioned you know the diabetes and the age hiv and tuberculosis if they are that's not going away the band's now been lifted cigarettes and alcohol are now being sold so what are we to make of that has the ban been effective is has the government been forced to lift the ban because it's ineffective. no the government does not refer to the ground because the senate we know that. will go to a lot of people asked lots more clued into the reached. its wonder. during the primary don't get locked down so i believe has never been seen. or. also. struck you know. i get that you're sort of you're you're you're

you're pro at this this this this bad at how effective it's been and the message from the university of cape town for example they conducted a study they came to the conclusion that the ban was ineffective that people smokers in this city reduced the amount they smoked in fact that they pointed out that people perhaps even smoked more and smoked things that were not regulated which which in itself poses some kind of a health risk what do you have to say to that then. if you think i'd like to say that it depends on how you look at you don't you know that you know that i am on the ban was not to stop this. behavior also market with the sale of smoking so if you have spoke you will be allowed to smoke a cigarette you should not use smoking at the same rate as you were smoking so the lockdown even though reaps like you just love it when you see it says that those who are still smoke you are smoking less so you should not go smoke of this month

in less. lot of them you can also if you look at it from that perspective of trying to take as many people as possible trying to get as many people as possible of cigarettes you will see that one has been effective even with the evidence provided by the u.c. system right i know that you know beyond a pandemic as a year you're obviously advocating for more regulation and within south africa's to tobacco industry but i actually wanted to put this to you and i saw that in a in a in a report in may the w h o's say that over 80 percent of tobacco uses live in low and middle income countries that's pretty much at africa as the whole continent what can we make off that the fact that people from from from our part of the world i'm more likely to smoke then in wealthier countries. due to east africa we have one of the west's smoking privileges as a continent and because of that he took what he does she just looks at what stage of market would replace. the dying markets of europe latin america so we

don't know who she is when we go when you when you look at. markets who are manufacturers because they see us as people who don't like or tout you know markets or markets more resources being pumped into advertising and so on and that includes small people to become smokers so the enemies will get what small. creates a problem for us as a consonant as well as dr catherine a thank you so much for that analysis from pretoria and here. on its report is in kenya where the pandemic has seen people come up with innovative ways to supply clean water to people living in informal settlements our correspondent visited kibera in the capital nairobi that's a place where most residents don't have private toilets or running water but things

are improving since the pandemic again. car wash toilets shallow water all in one the women at those public bathrooms charge 5 shillings or 5 euro cents for a visit to the toilet and $0.10 for a shower. willing to bare nairobi's largest informal settlement and very few people here have their own tap water much less a private child toilet. sharing a bathroom with hundreds of people is already a problem in normal times but during the pandemic it's even more of a health risk. than since corona started business has not changed because here people don't have a bathroom they don't have space for bathrooms and toilets we were very scared when one person went to the toilet the next person didn't want to go in so you've poured a lot of water and then went into the toilet. in the nobody's informal settlements

providing clean water is big business anyone who has a connection sells that water an average resident told us they spend about 2 years 50 a week on water. to get out there sometimes we have no water here for people to wash their hands sometimes we have water so i put it out for them before corona you needed about 5 or 6 containers of water but now you need around 10 because you always have to wash your hands and when other people come by they have to wash their hands to. the price of water however is not the only thing residents have to tackle. the pipes contaminated groundwater and the disposal of waste and sewage a major problem. at this river water pipes flowing into keep there and raw sewage running side by side but since the start of the corona pandemic the government has been trying to catch up to improve the infrastructure here absent all that has been the work of local n.g.o.s and private water supply as who've been trying to fill the gaps. one local n.g.o.s can to change things

a shuffle which has become key parents biggest water supply. through a rigorous filtration system they clean ground. water and supply residence with water stored far away from the sewers and distributed through aerial pipes there would have been such a pride to be so clean it's fit for drinking that. was. previously we were receiving you know clinically more cases of diarrhea they're losers that is or may be drinking that you want to hurt so sure of course no came up with the idea of supplying what of a blend system is to reduce or to do it well we get one diseases because once worked up as it's in train just like the sense you it scraped to be contaminated. since the start of the pandemic shuffle really became a visible presence installing hand washing stations and providing its water free of charge. the government however also stepped up its game according to nairobi water

and sewerage company its build bore holes and now deploys free water trucks to informal settlements on a daily basis the question is why it took a pandemic to make these changes. to the government in 2 wars up to its informal settlements up their body structure the 2 are going to move but instead they kept on increasing so i think the government made a policy change up to how to see. all the others i was. up to now kibera hasn't seen a spike in corona cases but even if the government is serious about improving its services it still has a long way to go 1st so now before we go a little known battle scientists feared had vanished on the face of the earth has been rediscovered in africa off to 50 years it's called it so molly elephant shrew not because of its size it's actually as small as a mouse but like any different it has a trunk if you look closely now researchers found that during

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. that list wounds that have yet to heal what should be done with the stolen north from africa. stolen soul starts september 7th on d w. after a series of scandals and controversies berlin's jewish museum is undergoing a transformation how will new leadership and a new permanent exhibition of reshape the institution more on that coming up and. you've probably never heard of accordion like this but the way in virtue or so martina slivovitz goes brings the instrument new energy.

and reimagining industrial landscapes paint jobs by street artist mags show that functional can be playful to. welcome to arts and culture here in berlin the city where hitler and his men planned the murder of 6000000 jews the jewish museum stands as a symbol of transformation the building by architect daniel levy grabbed headlines around the world when it opened in 2001 but there were issues the exhibition inside came as an afterthought to the imposing architecture more recently the museum's last director got tangled up in controversy now after lockdown the museum is reopening under new leadership with a new permanent exhibition.