there's blood on it from the beginning to heal. what should be done with the stone arch from africa. this is being hotly debated on both continents. the human soul starts september 7th on g.w. . alone a very warm welcome indeed to focus on europe with me peter craven and we would like to take you back 5 years to 2015 when europe faced its biggest migration crisis since world war 2 now the momentous late summer of that year hundreds of thousands of people were on the move fleeing conflict and economic hardship. for

many germany was their preferred destination and initially they were welcomed with open arms with chancellor angela merkel famously proclaiming her mantra this isn't us it's happened we can manage it so 1st there was euphoria but then came harsh reality. now the largest group of refugees making their perilous journey to germany and other european countries were syrians desperate to get away from the murderous civil war in their country they included the superman family who we met up with 5 years ago as they headed for berlin and the question is now how are they fared since then. oh it's just after 6 am that the silly man's day has already begun we brush your teeth and. you know yet. most of us with a man and his wife a beer are getting their 4 children ready for school and daycare

a good thoughts on will be the case here to fight. this with a month into germany 5 years ago after fleeing the war in syria the parents came with their sons a huge and a rom and daughter a llama their youngest child sam was born in germany. they'd imagined life here would be easier after 4 years in countless moves they finally have their own flat yes my house we gradually our situation is improving and we feel more and more comfortable. but i still can't see that this is my new world. who i'm growing more accustomed to life here. and now understand the country better be a one man hijacks on the ground on the way to school in berlin's shonda district give me your hand sammi we're going to cross the street. llama likes going to school.

because i'm doing better in math and slowly it's become my favorite subject things . i'm dealing with this school and daycare is a full time job for mustafa and here they help their children day and night integrate into their new environment for the next year it was but. that requires great fortitude after all they've been through. back in 2015 mustafa saleman was in turkey preparing his children for the perilous journey across the mediterranean in a rubber dinghy weeks later the family reached germany via the balkan route their odyssey was captured in a documentary. coming. out the war and their flight from it inflicted wounds that have yet to heal most of us with a man was injured by a bomb he's lived in fear ever since and is now undergoing therapy.

you know mr silliman these come with me. have a seat. today your appointment is with me as your regular doctor is on holiday is that ok. this is ok no problem. mustafa's mother died in syria 2 weeks ago he's haunted by the fact he couldn't be there with her. she was very ill. and then she was taken to hospital. i tried to speak with her but she could no longer talk and didn't recognize me anymore and. you know my daughter for me well actually. he's very close to his family in syria is father died when mustafa was just 14 so

as the eldest child he assumed responsibility early on when his mother raised 9 children on her own. and she must have been a strong woman. a very strong woman very strong. this is her sam sifton this is from india and you have experienced a lot of terrible things and borne a lot of pain. but i think you're doing well now to sound keep looking to the future and concentrating on yourself and your children i think. you can be proud of yourself. mostafa is still having a hard time finding his place in germany many of the syrians he knows here have jobs or started their own businesses like 109 now who runs the branch of a restaurant. but it takes time to develop something called our restaurant is now very well known and has

a good reputation ask anyone and they'll tell you wow the police is great and it's going well so yes it's known for its good for cleanliness i'm good services. 500. mustafa hopes to find work soon too but he needs to improve his german 1st his children found it easier to learn the language and berlin is now their home. and he was going to leave. jude wants to become an engineer in berlin but also help to reconstruct the family's house in syria less would have fun it was hit by a missile. so i want to help repair it. but have taken on the way you want to love me. i love you i love you all.

well there's no doubt about it the summer of 2015 brought huge changes to germany and the rest of your hundreds of thousands of desperate people were heading for a prosperous northern europe about to turn problems or to grow. a number of countries to try and curb the migrant flow by building border fence what was called the southern balkan ruth also for instance passed through croatia and slovenia and slovenia joined the countries putting up those barriers and as we find out now it was a decision that has continued to poison relations between the 2 neighbors. the 1st grapes are almost ripe so the harvest can begin. it seems like it's going to be a good year for mark and page of each. he has about 5 hectares of vineyards in the whites carney all a region on the border between slovenia and collation. both a 3rd of them line in croatia this area is on the so-called balkan routes used by

migrants the slovenian authorities are planning to build a further border fence here. i hope that it would happen to be english lots as it would go straight through my vineyards in japan all they've talked about it again is since the borders zigzags here. it would be really quite difficult to build these it's. just a few kilometers away a fence has already been built along the river called. slovenia has already closed off over 200 kilometers a 3rd of the border with croatia is sealed. police patrol the fence several times daily as a deterrent. and i meant by he is also to warn people coming into our country illegally market at the areas where they are trying to do it are dangerous but it will be in their voting as a need. however refugees continue to arrive but not as many as 5 years ago at the

height of the refugee crisis this year there have been about 1000 illegal crossings in this area. the police use surveillance drones day and night to track down illegal activity. the police say but the majority of refugees are helped by human smugglers you know ghost of the illegal migrants are from afghanistan morocco tunisia algeria bangladesh and pakistan their pockets on. the mets leka a small town on the border locals are divided about the border fence. that it's all here and there aren't so many it's a kind of protection. is it doesn't keep refugees and i could. go to syria they are it's good that it's there in one way but it's also not because of tourism it is the view that they go by the by the mothers martin linda church who

runs a company site a few kilometers up river says tourism is suffering. he and his wife and drea organize canoe trips on the river culpa. but now the view along much of the route is spoiled by the fence. he says they sometimes have to wait for hours before the police open a gate for them we thought we need to which given of course it's not like it was it's a problem this shouldn't be a fence here in this landscape to square deal or to it's hard if we're talking about tourism squared to have barbed wire like in a concentration camp. everyone who calls asks about the fence and the migrants. brush where the sheets or cries me get on. the cult of valley used to be unspoiled area very popular with holiday makers.

they came to go hiking cycling and canoeing a place where you could relax these days it's not quite the same. don't you know a man who it's not normal to build a fence like this in such a natural environment it's mad there's something wrong and you can orbit you more of the elements in this untouched landscape on on that it on that is if that will rescue europe you know dolly adopted it was dollar double duty if she were to open . another border in europe the 1st of its kind in this region the government says that the fence is only temporary but that is something nobody in kulpa valley really believes. now since the beginning of the war in eastern ukraine between government forces and russian backed separatists in 2014 detainees have been subjected to systematic torture some of the abuses allegedly taken place in

a secret prison in the eastern city of donetsk cold. and the ukrainian journalist stanislav assaf is among those who've suffered terribly in that building so just let me warn you that many details of his story are profoundly disturbing. street of the illuminated way number 3 this is the address of your let's see a burning bush isolation. once insulation material was produced here since the beginning of the war in 2014 pro russian separatists allegedly detain and torture people here. neither the red cross nor any other international aid organizations have regular access only testimonies from former prisoners remain. and then there's a lot that will be heard if there is a let's see it was drug and the issue of you went through all the cells of both male and female cells. you peter bradley won and he beat me up to ships in the

chicago muslim like for 2 years journalist and have reported undercover from separatist territory for the ukrainian media until 2017 when his cover was blown and he ended up in the as a let's see if this theme of i'm going to see the procedure is the same for everyone a seller from metal table in that they remove people's clothes then tie them tightly to the table with it he said tape which and then the electrodes are applied usually one wires attached to the genitals a 2nd electrode can be inserted into the anus because this is the cruelest part we all heard the screams but what they could even tell from the scream was where the wires were placed over the air there's no convinced that his fame and a campaign by his supporters saved him from an even worse fate but he was well aware of what was happening in the prison the suffering of his fellow inmates left its mark. the guards didn't hear that he would be able to tell the world about it later one testimony shocked even experienced witnesses of the conflict. and of the

doctors always present during torture and also takes part in it either he had ministers in objection of circulation stops my supplies smelling salts if the president has lost consciousness or doctor is not only present he also. to suppose it's the torture other than that says stanislav as the doctor was never seen it was only the cell me who to care for the sick and exhausted torture victims as i have remembers his fellow prisoner a lady much you sink who in particular. well you know what i should be valerie was beaten up before our eyes with him because they dragged him out into the corridor like a concrete sheet we heard him scream that's how you scream after electric shocks issue if you don't confuse them easily then they brought him back to the cellar but when you fail broken his ribs and you think you could neither sits for stand with the morphine so i was an exception they let him lie in the bunk bed during the day

. just like. it was transferred from these were last year to an official remand prison in autumn 2019 after more than 2 years shortly afterwards he was found guilty of extremism and espionage for ukraine he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. then a few weeks later just before new year's eve he was freed as part of a prisoner exchange between the ukrainian government and the separatists. allegations are supported by those of other prisoners the un has also reported the systematic use of beatings electric shocks sexual violence and said that there was a continuum of torture and abuse in the detention facility. the so called human rights officer of the pro russian separatists in donetsk refused to comment on the allegations he did not answer our questions. the fact that the. n.g.c. a won't provide regular access to prisons to the i.c.r.c.

or to the un or its other you know authoritative institutions means that the onus is on them the burden is on them to prove that these allegations are false when they don't provide access means that they have something to hide. before the coronavirus pandemic tens of thousands of people used to cross between the government and separatist controlled areas at the your check point. today this is a close as valerie met you. can get to him. then and you saw it last i live in hope. that this conflict will soon be over and everything will be like before we have the before we move that i'll get my husband back and my son will be able to hug his father. but it will never be like before so consciously avoided. rematches shinku was kidnapped in the separatist controlled area in july 2017 his wife says that he had never made any bones about his pru you korean stands

it to her mum's to find out what has happened to him. on top of all was that i was immediately taken to the easel last year but he was in such a bad state that the other prisoners thought that he would die but then the abuse started well i've been told that the prisoners were forced to sing with separatist him at gunpoint or beat each other out if i dropped all the. news that her husband is no longer in the it's a lot see a detention facility is reportedly still in bad health but the separatists refused to release or exchange them for another prisoner she thinks only foreign pressure would help but this has not been forthcoming. as you know this is the 21st century in europe is just watching on silently but there is no reaction european international organizations aren't doing anything to close these torture chambers or schools or communities. how is that possible it's terrible because we still talk

. and it's important to point out that rights groups say there have been similarly shocking abuses on both sides to this better conflict. now on a very different note london has long had one of the most profit hungry real estate markets in the world but the corona pandemic has changed all that persuading many londoners to skip the commute avoid downtown and work from home so can you believe it swathes of prime office space a standing empty. many people can only dream of working in an office building like this. james brincat is one of the lucky ones. this company trains bank employees in this line of work having an office in a prestigious building is seen as an important start a simple. but since the coronavirus pandemic that's not so important to him anymore

. as time went by everybody started to really enjoy themselves productivity was just as good and we continue to flourish so everybody was very comfortable with system for us to to move out of london permanently. that saves them a lot of money some which but at the end of the month you can register 15 percent more profit working without an office is a totally new business model. and one that's here to stay provided his 50 employees can cope take on your o'carroll who is no sitting at her dining table like most of the staff she lives outside of london now bring cats only sees her during the video conferences. on yoko mills save some $550.00 euros a month on train tickets she no longer needs to travel into london to work. i definitely like the lack of commute. she still sees her colleagues every day just

not in person so that's one disadvantage. the best approach is to have the majority of the time working from home but then have. i have the option to go into the office maybe once a week maybe twice a week pending if people need need to go in or not it's also important to keep the kind of social interactions to boost morale some are heralding a real estate revolution one that's being especially felt by people who are earning money with real estate at the shard london's tallest building. agency is trying to rent office space this modern office costs $15000.00 euros a month. i don't think it's a crisis so i think there's a correction in the market a slight reduction in the amount of space required but the key point is what but space is useful it's no longer going to be about rosa or upon row of best people

processing email because we know we know we can do that in effect of way so actually it's about using the office space to bring people together to collaborate to educate them whether that's formally or informally but a radical change in people's working lives is evident 9 percent of businesses in london have now given up their offices entirely change is exciting and it gives people more opportunity to have a better work life balance we've been talking about that long enough that we still have people coming in an hour on the tube into the center of law by not o'clock in the evening leaving at 5 o'clock with the other half 1000000 people who come in and out of the square while that's not work life balance this is giving us an opportunity of really addressing i think it's tremendous the elliott is trying to book this trend stressing the benefits of having an office he says it offers something working from home country place. spaces that really invigorating staff support their staff in their well being and in their creativity so spaces

like this at the very highest end of quality still many businesses are taking a different tack and calling the very valuable offices into question. changes definitely in the air in london's working well. hold. now strange things happen at high altitudes heads get dizzy in the shadow of the legendary matter a whole mountain that lies between switzerland and italy in the alps one country gets bigger another recedes they take away your past and offer you something called rusty instead what is going on well it's a border dispute with a common every dimension and the only thing that certain is that this man lucho cracow is close to despair. it's all about rocks rubble and ice and a mountain rescue. the true true cool runs the refugio good to chill of you know

it's located in italy up until now anyway because climate change has shifted the national border in favor of the swiss and as a result swiss italian relations have turned frosty up here in the mountains. so convoluted according to the swiss you know the border runs right through here a bit but a part of this would be the very small italian particularly on this side would be the swiss part with our guests the cash register on the left are so bar. the border has moved to cool cannot believe. in a d.c. for the mountain refuge was clearly built on italian soil. it was common sense tells you that it has not ruled out the romans neither has the mater horn meant and it's a passion why our way of life i pity those who want to her nervous i learned this from the swiss office of typography carried out the new survey the

borders have shifted because the glass years have melted. he shows exactly where the new border runs from here it runs to the next point over there from here it goes on to the next point over there. the old border ran right in front of trickles doorstep for generations it has always run along the glass here but now not much remains of the glass here. the borders are constantly changing not only here. the border between switzerland and its li runs for several 100 kilometers across snow and ice. is little switzerland getting bigger and bigger them fall outs in this case switzerland clearly won 150 meters but this was done all along the border which means that switzerland sometimes won and sometimes lost and that balances things out health.

and if not landis was. the swiss one rocks boulders and ice in exchange for part of the marriage a lot. of completely normal procedure between italy and switzerland. when it comes to troop was meant to refuge italians insist the old border remains this isn't a discussion about bare rocks. who is also fighting for his little piece of italy in the mountains yet it works because we have traditional italian cuisine we still talons like but which is also very in which appreciated by foreigners there is an expression of the swiss 30 there are an awfully are more we serve past our carbon aura and italian express a. little bit fairy good old want. to chew true cool also has a suggestion to keep everyone happy the swiss said italians could share the refugee quickly and he would serve italian pastor and swiss wristy. well that's a tough choice to chew over past old rusty i personally like both if you have like

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the state of you knew zz live from berlin germany toughening its rules to fight an alarming increase in front of arms cases machall announcing that travelers returning from high risk areas will have to quarantine for 14 days and that big public gatherings will remain banned until the end of the year. an armored

vehicles move in to deal with the young rest in your state of wisconsin president trump says he'll deploy more national guard troops to the police shooting of a black man has led to rest in the city of kenosha was caused. and the new zealand mosque churches schools spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole outside the courthouse victims' relatives celebrating justice being served. by brian thomas could have you with us today germany state from years have agreed on tougher measures to combat a worrying rise in crowbars cases in the country travelers returning from high risk areas will have to quarantine for 2 weeks big events will remain banned at least until the end of the year and people failing to wear a face mask in public will be fined the chancellor announcing the new measures

after hosting virtual talks with the leaders of these 16 federal states here's what she had to say. i. think we want to ensure that face masks are required in public areas and we have agreed with the exception of saxony on hiatt but 15 states have agreed to a minimum fine for infringements against requirements to wear a mosque a 50 euros. we have said that we want to put these fines in place for public transport long distance train travel and we also asked the ministers for transport as to how we can put this in place. let's get more now or do that he is chief political editor michelle acosta who is at that press conference was the chancellor wrapped up just a few moments ago michel on the issues that were on hand here today a lot of them we've seen before but there are some new items what's new as of today

. well there clearly is an intention to look less at the individual responsibility but to put more of the onus of policy on actually controlling what people are doing for instance those people returning from areas deemed to be risk areas and those quarantines already in place people are required to stay at home until they have a negative test but that that is something that's the government wants to monitor a lot closer than they have done in the past also the bottom line really is that under the macro is once again trying to get something like national control over the next step of measures taken rather than leaving it to the individual states which she has done and which also legally is the case in germany over the last couple of weeks she says she takes it seriously that the numbers are rising and that's where the need for more coordination comes from. at this press conference

did you get a sense that the gels or was winning this push for national guidelines and leaving behind what we've had all now subsidiarity having the individual states decide what's the best thing to do in their individual areas regions. yes and no she wasn't able to get an exact figure on the family gatherings for instance that should be allowed also a common agreement on how schools handle the question of mosques and those individual regulations that all firmly also beleaguered stays within the hands of the federal states but what she did manage to secure is agreement to those bottom line measures like those minimum fines are not wearing a mask to create awareness once again that the corona virus is still in german society that the new normal cannot be relaxing because the numbers are rising once again i did ask what that meant for borders potentially being closed or

whether the government would actually not allow people to travel she says that is not on the cards for now but you won't find a government willing to rule anything out for than if you ok what about trucking was discussed we understand there's going to be an electronic entry program can you tell us something about that. yes but the big question that is whether the technology will be up to its 18 is to have electronic tickets to make it easier to transfer data upon arrival on those people arriving from risk areas to those health authorities in charge but there's still talk of probes of checking up on these people but not on every single one so clearly there's no not even the aim to have a no gap approach to this because looking at the figures it simply doesn't seem possible right now what about public gatherings the public gatherings are going to

be banned until at least of the the end of this year what kind of gatherings are we talking about here how many people are involved in those. well we're talking about concerts and they're still individual regulations according to which states you're talking about but the big question is will people be allowed back into stadiums football is a really big issue here there will be a special commission on that to look at those risks the general rule of thumb is if you can't track and trace and keep separate the people who will attend if you're not allowed to conduct a commercial large gathering a lot that is still within the realm of recommendations but it would be very interesting to see whether football which is so high on the agenda would be able to welcome at least in some states people back fans back into the stadiums that's an open question there are millions literally of people following that question very closely michel thanks very much let's get you briefed on some the other stories

making the news at this hour given mayers putting the chinese own video out company doctor former disney executive. it was has been with the company only since june the app's been under pressure from the trumpet ministration it says take stock stars to china make it a national security threat microsoft and oracle are currently jostling to buy ticked off. you trade commissioner phil hogan is resigning in this allegation he breached lockdown restrictions in ireland we could go home going to tend to the golf dinner with some needy people sparking a national outcry irish government says his actions undermine public confidence in corona virus guidelines. emergency workers of northern afghanistan are searching for the survivors of flash floods that have killed more than 120 people and injured hundreds of others authorities fear many victims are trapped in

the rubble of collapsed houses some $1500.00 have been destroyed in the flood. and hurricane laura is barreling in london across the southern u.s. after making landfall along the louisiana coastline a storm came ashore with winds of about 240 kilometers per hour causing extensive damage in low lying areas no fatalities reported as of yet some 500000 people are without power. well staying in the u.s. republicans have mounted a robust defense of law and order on the 3rd night of their national convention this comes as the nation faces new tensions following the shooting of jacob like a black man in concert. vice president mike pence was the keynote speaker warning that only president donald trump could uphold order he said americans did not need to choose between a lawful society and standing up for african-americans the president then joined him on stage making another surprise appearance or give his acceptance speech later

today on the final night of the republican convention. let's hear more of what vice president pence had to say. the violence must stop whether in minneapolis cortland or can no show too many heroes have died defending our freedom to see american strike each other down we will have law and order on the streets of this country for every american in every race and creed and color. vice president mike pence there will wisconsin is home to n.b.a. team the walking box a boycott of their playoff game one's a night to protest the shooting of jacob like it was the 1st such boycott in half a century and could put an end to the entire season which has already been suffering from pandemic restrictions. the milwaukee bucks left officials

confused when they didn't show up for the a playoff game against the on nando magic in a statement the team later explained what had driven them to boycott the game they demanding racial justice and accountability and after the police shooting of jacob blake. we take the court records it go well with cards we're expected where the high level events that have occurred over and other ago we all are still to this day and it is only you're ready to say the only there's no of course. we're calling for justice but we do believe and today the whole thing you know to. play us across the leeks show to support the boycott prompt that the n.b.a. to postpone all playoff series games on wednesday and thursday the entire season could be called off now. the boycott had a ripple effect on us sports major league baseball and soccer also canceled some of the games. even tennis star and i only osaka announced that she would not play in

a semifinal match in the vest and southern open to protest quote the continued genocide of black people at the hands of the police. the only other time players boycotted an n.b.a. game was back in 1961. when player bill russell and some of his boston celtics teammates sat out again to protest against racial injustice. n.b.a. players are again taking a stand the latest protest in the nation summer of racial reckoning. the man who carried out the attacks on 2 new zealand mosque last year will remain in jail until he dies our court in christchurch settings bresson tyrant to life in prison without the possibility of parole the self described white supremacist admitted killing 51 muslim worshippers. just as for the victims thursday's ruling making the measure. grief their relatives carry a tiny bit lighter survivors of the 200-1000 mosques shootings gathered outside the

court with family and supporters of the loss' this is a really big group but again we are trying to move on not moving towards this this thing will make us move on. we said all the way and our language is if i'm getting thank god for everything i'm going to get on. the e-mail of one of the 2 mosques targeted that day called the country solidarity a model for the world weary of present love. compassion muslim and then muslim. people in the face and in the face that is costs new zealanders and we are very proud that we muslims in new zealand i will continue to serve this country and no punishment again is going to

bring our loved ones back. 90 survivors and family members testified during the 4 day sentencing hearing in march brenton terrine a 29 year old white supremacist from australia pleaded guilty to $51.00 counts of murder 40 counts of attempted murder and one count of terrorism terence court appointed lawyer told the judge that the defendant did not oppose the maximum sentence the judge called tyrant a terrorist who deserved a life sentence without parole you can use it best and. you slowed it in the face thank. you my wounded incredible many of those. victims included ya and they all mean woman and children. the sentence is the country's harshest since the death penalty was abolished in 1961 new zealand prime minister told reporters the punishment fits the crime this is being a crime in new zealand the likes of which has never occurred before and now we've

seen a sentence the likes of which we've never seen before as well but yes that guide may relate. to know if that person will never see the light of day the case closed new zealanders now look to heal deep wounds caused by the attack afflicting both the victims and society that sound imo you. 'd give your minor of our top stories at this hour german chancellor merkel has announced tougher measures to control the increase in the number of coronavirus cases travelers returning from high risk areas while after quarantine for 14 days people failing to face covering the public face of 50 year old find. a new zealand mosque a dark attacker brinson tyrant will spend the rest of his life in prison the 1st person there ever to be denied parole with a life sentence in the country outside the victims' relatives welcome the 1st.

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do with all that beer left over from pandemic closures in australia brewery has a unique idea. hello and welcome to the show i'm stephen beardsley in berlin as always it's good to have you with us the c.e.o. of embattled social media tic toc has announced his resignation american kevin mayer took over almost 4 months ago but now says changes facing the chinese own company will transform his role in an unwelcome way may arrive from disney expecting to manage a global company at the peak of its growth to talk now faces splintering however u.s. president donald trump has demanded the app divest of its u.s. operations in the coming weeks citing concerns over security. and we'd like to focus on what that means elsewhere including in africa so i'm joined now by most is a quote he's founder and c.e.o. of after link that's a startup hub in berlin that's focused on african companies moses it's good to have you as always to talk is growing at an incredibly rapid pace especially in the u.s.

especially in asia and in europe what does it look like in africa. thanks for having me on definitely take circus started fairly growing is joining thousands of the software and it's also growing terms of the use of itself which is the the cows out of the cases which is then shared in all this was in media so strategically it is actually growing quite. rapidly but on and they're up so all the social media platforms us well. i would imagine that unlike in the u.s. chinese ownership of tech talk probably doesn't have quite the same significance there is of course huawei which is another target of u.s. pressure it has a much bigger presence in africa does this battle between the u.s. and china over technology companies does it really register in africa. i would say it doesn't really fast there are 2 aspects of it so there is

a micro and then the micro is that of it margaret says of what policymakers need to make especially when it comes to the fact that they have to leverage on the grounds that they have received and if let's say the u.s. all the developed countries i say do not use the technologies from china definitely does that but it's also drew a new market which is. connectivity between what we call it's their machines or their crewmen that be. say bond and not allowed to be use and then the ones that are actually approved by there are say do it donor countries to be u.s. so basically what is happening is that there is now a new market of connecting the law in the high end together and that is also making it actually become more interest then we need to know one major thing for african countries most often it's all about affordability and it's reliable so if it is reliable in any sense the test which would like to use and that is on the micro

level but in a micro level because of policy they have to agree to what to do in our. countries would say they have 2 years yeah i most want to ask you briefly data localization which is at the heart of this us china debate over tech not that's also a growing issue in africa isn't it briefly if you can absolutely the one of the major things is that people are getting to realise that it's very important that it's not only of policies also elation and technology are always just about a tip flushed out and one of the things that people are realising is that the young people are now realising that they need to protect their own data still i think what we're going to put in is that we need to start looking at how to actually still in the locally and i think the fall you'll be she companies they need tools to look at that because that is something that is really going to cut up on them or it's been inside there for moses a quad he's founder and c.e.o. of after link thank you very much. thank you. all right so tech talk may be an entertainment app but other web applications have much more serious uses and gonna

be a national forest in n.g.o.s developing one the monitors illegal logging and rewards legal harvesting. the man using this up wants to remain anonymous because his life would be in danger if the wrong people cool's him collecting data here. he uses the app to report to the thieves who fell trees illegally in northwest in guyana. and. we don't surprise these illegal loggers in the act because they're dangerous an armed. can. only report their actions once they're gone. and for. this teak tree an endangered species was spelled illegally stolen into pieces and a large part of it was taken away there must have been between 5 and 10 men involved with heavy equipment. to track down the wood perches the n.t.o.

nature and development foundation since local observers into particularly affected areas across the country. it's in the trade is one of ghana's most important industries tropical woods all sold all over the world they include rare timbers that sell for high prices. john guitar and company is the largest in the processing in north western gonna it says it's committed to forest management says if you cation the label guarantees that good products come from sustainably managed. the nature and deforestation foundation not only works to prevent illegal deforestation it also mediates between local people and industry resistance to the timber monopoly has eased and instead there is more cooperation in the village of d.c. in the south of the country residents are using taxes from the timber industry to build their own hospitals. every day hundreds of timber

transports from the region head from markets throughout the country to cases like money. crop. in this big timber market the origin of the word is not too closely but the head of the market association insists that the proportion of wood with a certificate of origin is on the rise in the north atlantic summer we have to be this one does not demand for us we're not our business what we've got this is what that. things may be changing in ghana's forestry sector but there is still plenty to do for the local monitors who make fresh discoveries of illegally fell trees almost every day. right now to some of the other global business stories making headlines the e.u. has inked a 336000000 euro deal with astra zeneca for up to 400000000 doses of the british pharmaceutical companies potential coronavirus vaccine that vaccine is still in

trial but if license the e.u. says it will be distributed in the $27.00 member countries according to population and meet. the global cruise ship sector is a high profile casualty of the corona virus pandemic but officials in tokyo are hoping to refloat the industry as they prepare to open a new cruise terminal at the 370000000 dollar facility officially opens next month . a genuine italy is another major port for the cruise industry and as in japan it's been hard hit by the pandemic ships now stand like ghosts in the harbor but there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon. it can make you pause for thought the view across genoa is harbor for decades there was constant traffic here now the calm is almost ghostly vast cruise ships like deserted during the pandemic no one wants to travel in them. italy's most important port is clearly suffering right now.

because the economy italy's economy has contract to buy an unbelievable 12 percent and we're seeing that reflected here in the amount of goods we're handling. the number of containers being shifted in general has dropped dramatically by around a quarter over the same period last year experts say it's a symptom of italy's wanting to economic situation many goods being handled here come from the countries key economic regions milan cheer in. general has been in the wider public eye in recent years almost 2 years ago exactly the cities marandi bridge collapsed killing 43 people. the bridge represented one of the city's main traffic arteries and its last made access to the port difficult trade started to suffer finally a few weeks ago a new bridge was opened symbolizing a new start for genoa and italy as

a whole. the new bridge gives people here hope our city suffered a huge blow but has stood up again. our children and our grandchildren will be able to stay in genoa find work here build a future of origin or squirming. yet the city's joy and pride over its new landmark of nonetheless being dampened the euro zone's 3rd largest economy has been hit the hardest by the coronavirus g.d.p. has fallen to the level of the 1990 s. 600000 jobs have been lost all of which is very. even civil here in italy gateway to the world. why we're asking ourselves how long we'll be able to stick this out when will something like normality return that's what i'm about the people the banner but the general is a not giving up more than a 1000000000 euros is set to be invested in the port opening it up to no just ships

no longer trains and more lorries for better times or what to do with all that beer a question that usually solves itself unless you're brewer and you're talking about vast quantities of beer and that was exactly the case with an australian brewer that had too much supply on hand through the pandemic but came up with a clever solution take a look to be is flowing again at pirate brewery in adelaide belong down brought a drink a drought buy. anymore it was it was tough you know what 50 percent of our sales just disappeared. the brewery was left with gallons and gallons of excess brew but they found a solution they sent it here to the waste water plant where it can be used to generate green energy as anyone who's ever drank too much of it knows the is great for producing gas and that's what happens here it's mixed with sludge and the gas

that creates is used in the generators that power the entire plant. it's a great way to combat waste into energy so it does help us with our carbon footprint and just as an environmentally friendly way scott at this mess in the biz generated enough energy to power the equivalent of 1200 s. but now the taps are running again at the brewery the locals think they have a better use for it. and that's it for me and the business here as always you can find out more about these and other stories online dot com slash business i'm stephen beardsley washing.

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