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cry and i'm game did you know that 17 trillion land animals are killed worldwide sure so that we can intervene but it's not just the animals at all suffering it's the environment namely on a journey to find ways to meet machines if you want to know how one cliff to the crease and the interest changed doesn't need to do is listen to our podcast on the green comes. back. to me this is the news africa coming up on the program where the 2nd wave is here several african countries record new spikes in current of virus cases to study in kenya shows bomb more people have been back to them previously thought also coming out. although the gaming industry in africa is booming this restaurant throw
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challenges are making it difficult to compete with the rest of the world. but once again why an ivory coast is not giving. i i'm at the market you know welcome to the program several countries in africa are facing a 2nd wave of the covert 1000 pandemic a continent's number of confirmed cases us past 2300000 according to africa's center for disease control and the current that toll is nearing $55000.00 countries with the highest number of cost of cases or roll call egypt if you'll be on south africa actually south africa this week announced on lambing spike in infections seeing its teenagers are driving this new surge in infections authorities labeled clubbing of the school year parties spread out events we took our camera out to the
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street and asked teenagers how they behave. i want you know far. more people. party i don't party a lot of people in my age going out. there people they don't follow relations of. heart they need money so they won't just say no. just ever because you can enter into inside the. ring and you want to have fun most teenagers feel like they've been locked up for so long. and just when they got the chance they just took the chance and. is it is. it's you and miss take it seriously. it's it's it's not child's play. it's definitely not child's play
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now reports from kenya shows that the number of people in fact i would cover 19 in a country was much higher doctors realized after studying more than 3000 blood samples you such as found indications that many people have been exposed to the virus and might not have shown symptoms. the samples were taken during blood donation drives in 6 kenyan counties none of those who gave blood had shown any symptoms of covert 19 yet when their samples were examined one out of every $25.00 was found to have contracted and recovered from the corona virus. the experts suggest that increased testing of blood samples could help give a clearer picture of how the corona virus is spreading in africa rather than relying on the regular polymerase chain reaction or p.c.r. test. the p.c.r. test tells you who has an active viral infection of the time so who has
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a virus in their system that antibody test tells you. this person may have been infected in the recent past may be infected or may have been exposed to the infection that means they may have been in contact with somebody who was positive too so then they will tell you that. in the population we do have a larger proportion of individuals who have actually seen the virus on in the fund them than we thought with the p.c.r. test. the findings reveal that the virus has infected people as severely in africa and elsewhere even though it has been less deadly on the continent. now let's talk about games right the call of duty for my and these are my favorites they are also big on the continent the video gaming industry is booming across africa more people than ever before have access to gaming platforms
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and african developers are designing games meaning young africans come out explore vegetal universes but they can relate to civic. is one game enthusiastic whose passion for gaming is making him dream big. every afternoon this video in a working class district is packed with young people coming to the school. 35 year old. is the founder of this digital playground his passion for video games began when he was a child. you know i think i was around 4 or 5 years old when i started at 1st we were just watching our big brothers play so that's how i started by watching then as i grew older i played more i played a lot of university. because passion into a profession and he had his fingers firmly on the pulse of the booming sector competitive video gaming. sports. gaming is rapidly growing in popularity
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not just in ivory coast but all over africa. in less than 10 years it went from being purely a hobby to being at the center of international competitions with big prizes up for grabs. i do think you competitive video gaming is starting to become a thing here the mindset has to change because video gaming is now an international industry the important thing about east sport is that it has the capacity to attract huge audiences who come and watch a bit like other sports today some games can attract the millions of people who connect online just to be able to watch others play. well the spare average salary of pro gamers around the world can range from $1000.00 to $5000.00 per month. the best of the best make even more last year in shanghai 18 teams participating in a top east ports world championship shared a $34000000.00 prize pool. in an industry that is gradually providing more jobs
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african players are dreaming big. boys and i want to take it to the next level or to just play to have applied to be the best and to the best almost play again and again. here we can test the skills and compete with other game is around the world . globally the gaming industry has doubled in size in the past decade generated over $120000000000.00 in revenue last year alone. he dick wants to build the biggest gaming community in africa he networked with local startups to help them identify their needs and promote their ideas on the local market in the community through the. wall itself and on this yukiko most estimates to let him i think we're starting to see a number of local studios working in the gaming sector the main goal for them is to create content that reflects a constant. content that uses color and stories that come from the content because
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it gives them more visibility into the local person but to be visiting only you're going to do the all the potential is there more and more people on the continent have access to smartphones 2 thirds of africans are under $35.00 and millions of them already gamers and they would like to see more universes they can relate to there still aren't many game developers like wilfred owen one in ivory coast but the interest is certainly there. the player is a backer or minibus driver you need to pick up as many passengers as possible and be the 1st to our. platform games like pro. for some semblence which were made in south africa or the action role playing game orian from common room with huge successes for now the market is still small but thanks to game enthusiasm like siddique this could soon change its message is clear africa has entered the game.
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and online the continent is also linking up with the rest of the gaming community but experience is not always seamless so africa is the only country on the continent with host in local service for most games those playing elsewhere in africa have to connect to set as far away and that's the 100 in this competitive arena so tell us more about this experience here as sylvia got the money no one in the gaming world asked queen r.-o. she's one of the top professional game is in kenya and joins us from nairobi hello sylvia can you tell us more about the challenges gamers like yourself in africa. all right thanks so much for having me on some of the challenges that we get. a lot of this stuff was are based in other continents and in north america and europe are all sections. give me experience and you can be excused of course because these are a lot of meaning that. there's
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a lot of to me between continue using the time actually and then to invest in somewhere to see if the auction is a big really gives you something that someone parks you for that you just did you read something certain bail you out right now doing ok i mean we don't want you to die or you know what else to diet again but how can we get around some of these challenges. i feel that some of these 10 just before on ice these need to. connect more why do you think if you tell this in the experience. with this move. so you can become successful ask who came from some of my friends who are. of the country are going to climb to me and not to mention they feel that's the game developers need to start creating most of us not to look at the biggest this and make it easier for a lot of us to transition into professional guinea and it can also ringback. become a market to be was
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a lot of our debt so when you financing in european or american someone's giving the impression that time because who professional. here you definitely are not now you're a law student but also a game i'm giving because of the serious profession just like you know. yes if i'm giving can be considered a profession they mean i'm leaving wolf you have other game was from some of the continent and i feel that if you also get some of our most to lose if you next if you have to tee off to college crashing into the head this is giving once you're just in for example get me on a country get me synonomous into gandhi because you know or. you know. this yeah yeah that's what you tell and now 10 seconds what are your final words to all the young game as in africa. my friend and what are. if you want to
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become professional game up go ahead and guess that one so you can write me go to yahoo giving you watch notes of you tube videos there's a whole bunch of here for you ok guys i'm going to watch a lot of youtube videos and i'm going to beat you in your own again so yeah i got the money. for 1st. time. and that's how we wrap up the show from stories. on twitter up pages remember. because those cases are rising again on the continent. of some people setting a good example for us all good by. playing
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a i am. i am. i am i am the son. i am strong and secret success starts december 25th i am. up. is going to war with netflix pumping billions more dollars and streaming services. can disney catch up that's coming up here on arts and culture and. nigeria gets its 1st lesbian why the film's makers are risking jail time to tell their story.
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and cellist yo-yo ma offers songs of comfort and hope a new album for tough times. welcome to arts and culture the battle lines been redrawn and the war over home entertainment disney announced plans to spend $16000000000.00 on streaming content about half of that on its own streaming platform disney plus where the company is set to release 10 new series from the marvel comics universe and 10 new star wars series which are sure to include disney's shootist new cash cow. now if you could take a picture i know as men go over trick or treater showing now why do you know when you stole my expert scott roxboro i am he's here to tell us what this means for the
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global entertainment industry scott so disney launched its disney plus platform just about a year ago it looks like they're going all in on streaming those should netflix be worried yeah i think so i mean netflix is still course the big you know $800.00 pound gorilla in streaming they they they have something like $200000000.00 subscribers worldwide but took them a decade to get there disney launched its disney plus service just last year they're already at 86000000 and they expect it 300000000 subscribers in the next 3 years i think they they could make it and as you're saying they're just pouring money into streaming i mean 10 new marvel t.v. series 10 new star wars t.v. series basically what disney strategy is taking minor characters from their big film franchises like loki or vision from the avengers movies and they're making them into a spinoff t.v. series basically they're hoping that. these stories these characters have global
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fan bases from the films they're hoping with the series they can basically go toe to toe with netflix internationally so does that mean that disney is giving up on cinemas on the big screen no actually not i mean disney made a very clear they said last year we made $13000000000.00 at the box office in cinemas there not to throw that business away but i think what we are going to see now is a real division that we're going to see the very very big movies the big disney movies the big marvel movies the big star wars movies those are going cinemas for the smaller stuff is probably going to go online and we might even see smaller films from studios that disney owns like like fox or searchlight pictures also go straight to straight online ok it's got stick around because it's also the european film awards they've been handing out prizes all week and we've got a look now at some of the winners. italian period drama hidden away in one european film on ice for best cinematography and best costume design. the film star ileo johnno is also up for best actor for his performance as
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self-taught italian artist and tony old like a boy i know i turn out to be the hero of my own story whether that station will be held by anybody else is a european film award for best production designer went to british comedy the personal history of david copperfield the appeal. of the you very. real dangerously she died. for a very sorry. truth. is the take on tuesday spot of. all feel. how could a show with. spanish side high dystopia the platform which netflix released worldwide won for best visual effects it's.
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going to be mostly just the. best original score went to the heartache soundtrack of berlin alexanderplatz a modern day update of the german classic novel. i'm back with our film grass got rocks for sky it looks like it was a great year for european cinema i'm a little embarrassed to say that i haven't seen any of these movies yeah but of course it barest obviously we had locked down across most of europe and that's case most the world so a lot of these films never even made it into indiscernible because cinemas were shut which is actually why the european film awards are extremely important this year because this is a chance to really shine a light on on some of these movies that maybe got maybe got overlooked and as you say is. a great great year for european cinema 2020 ok so the technical awards have already been announced but there are the really big awards best actor best actress best film those are going to be announced saturday nights germany already has one f.a. with berlin onyx on up but any chance of another i think the best chance for jimmy
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to win another day is in the best actress category 2 german actions nominee 2 by favorite german actresses i think either could win you've got nina hoss she's nominated for little sister where she plays the long suffering little sister of a famous theater actor played by famous theater actor lars i did her and she sort of cares for him as he's dying of cancer i really hope lost limbs for this but she's up against big competition because there's another german actress pola big and she stars in dino which is a love story from the director kristen petzold both these are 2 incredible performances and i would want to pick between them ok what's your pick for best film best film i mean i think we talk about this early in the week another round the danish dramedy i love it's about 4 high school teachers in midlife crisis and they side to sort of get through it by getting really into day drinking where it's at all larry it's a movie it stars mads mikkelsen. it's also not just
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a comedy though it's quite a touching drama believe life affirming film i love this movie my favorite movie of the year most of the competition particularly from a polish movie called corpus christi which is about a priest convict who a person needs a priest and so gets involved a small town a spiritual community also a great film already nominated for an oscar this year so maybe that's the big competition but i will definitely be pulling for another round to wed ok scott rock's for us thanks so much. another movie making headlines is nigeria's 1st lesbian feature film if it meaning what's the movie was released online this thursday for human rights day that's because the country's censors won't allow it to be shown in cinemas nigeria has one of the world's biggest film industries known as nollywood it also has laws that punish homosexuality with up to 14 years in prison.
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this is the path. if a tells the story of 2 women who fall in love in nigeria a country where same sex relationships are illegal in the past nollywood has often depicted queer characters as mentally ill or deeply troubled but the filmmakers say their film portrays normal life for a sizable percentage of the nigerian population i feel like for a very long time we've been told one 3rd of the story and the story is not complete if it does not represent all the groups in the society so what i wanted to through until the full story by representing allegedly 3 people in 1000. production had to take place in secret the film's director the actors all face prosecution if censors decide their work promotes homosexuality and indeed thora these have threatened legal action in nigeria it's not accepted and so doing something like
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that puts you where you feel like it's not it's not the norm but but but i don't feel that it's bald i feel that it's ordinary i feel that it's my life just being shown on screen but it's been beautiful so the filmmakers have opted to have released on a streaming platform to ensure it can be seen by people within nigeria as well as. more arts and culture headlines now and hold onto your mask the elusive street artist banksy confirmed on instagram that he is the creator of this rather graph. public health warning the painting appeared a few days on vale street england's steepest road in bristol reminding us that coded safety measures are nothing to sneeze at. rod taylor swift drop terse 2nd surprise album of 2020 the new work is called evermore swift says it's the sister album to her chart topping record folklore which came out just 5 months ago the 1st video from the new album had millions of you tube hits within hours. lucky her
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while the world's most famous cellist yo-yo ma has also been keeping busy during the pandemic he's got a new album together with pianist catherine stott it's called songs of comfort and something a lot of us can use here's a preview of the album starting with somewhere over the rainbow. this is. tough times and you know who lost people who are who are pushing through and leading their
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strenuous life and and. and for the longest time not knowing whether there's light at the end of the tunnel. all of these songs have i think specific meaning for people in different places and since this is you know a worldwide epidemic and and it's one of the few things that actually. all at once are joining us together you know i mean in a horrible way but we're all kind of faced with the same issues right and and so we
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think music kind of could do that at various times also and we're hoping that this is sort of like you know a way reaching into people's hearts and memories. we. are only a. i think when i think of the words. over the rainbow it's like it kills me you know it's like it's a complete bird you know you can like it i don't see. it's just it just kills me and 2nd every time we play it you know we're sort of. missed you know either.
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that's all for this edition for me and the whole arts and culture team here in berlin thanks for joining us we hope you have a very peaceful we've got. to .
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go for the. villagers in kenya were being poisoned by a lead smelting plant a factory that recycling batteries caused illness and dad. pushed phyllis all mito far far to have the facility closed and whining but. i'm hopeful for a blood day when everyone you know a little who are be able to receive future. cold comfort go. in the minutes. they're going to an official estimates more than 1200000 venezuelans live in colombia legally and illegally. already why they're trying to pass away in a. to visit friends is that i don't think i'd ever go back there to live you know
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what i live there again i don't know so i'm not sure. bearing witness global news that matters. made for mines. in the far north. beyond the inhabitable world. it's lonely. barren. and breathtakingly beautiful. the arctic. powerful expanse of bitter cold. and the sound of global warming. take a journey around the north pole meet profiteers and talk with people experiencing a changing environment. for the ice disappears earlier and it keeps retreating. our future depends on what happens here in one of the most fragile ecosystems.
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northern lights the arctic circle starts december 21st g.w. . this is the news live from berlin the e.u. agrees on a more ambitious goal in the fight against climate change member states agreed to talk greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 percent in the next decade. also coming up. germany sees a 2nd greg. infections with nearly 30000 new cases the pressure is growing for
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a new nationwide lockdown to begin before christmas. frito protests on the international stage the united states olympic and paralympic committee says it won't sanction its athletes to peaceful demonstrations in support of racial and social justice. as welcome to the program e.u. leaders have set an ambitious target of reducing carbon emissions by 55 percent by the end of this decade compared to emission levels in 1990 it followed a night of intense talks in brussels with eastern european nations who are more dependent on fossil fuels seeking clarity on how to fund the transition to clean energy germany is the current holder of the e.u. presidency and chancellor angela merkel welcomed the new commitment. judging by
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their faces there was no doubt it had been a long night here in brussels. after hungary and poland had finally agreed to drop their veto on the entire budget leaders could get on with tackling what was the commission's most pressing issue before the pandemic struck the climate crisis. stuff you had to see you can achieve in this was worth a sleepless night i can't imagine what would have happened if we weren't able to reach this result. she's talking about the e.u. says new more ambitious climate goals compared to $990.00 the plan now for sea slashing greenhouse emissions by 55 percent in the next 10 years by investing in green energy and technology the e.u. has pledged to become climate neutral by 2050 the previous target of 40 percent had been criticized as being far too low but some eastern countries with cold. and that economies feared serious consequences they demanded more clarity on funding to ease
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the transition according to the outcome of the meeting each member states individual situation will be addressed level to this year and will is to take into account that different countries had different starting points to take up the issue with the spirit of equality and solidarity with. the polish prime minister's office tweeted we have an agreement which creates the conditions for a just transformation of the polish energy an economy. with another major obstacle out of the way it was time for uncle americal to wrap up germany's e.u. council presidency the stuffings are going to us i can tell you the german presidency was a lot of fun although we weren't able to achieve a lot of things that we planned this is all for me last time and as a. comb 2021 portugal will be taking over. now let's bring in the executive director of greenpeace international jennifer morgan jennifer some pain colds popping their greenpeace all these measures too little too
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late oh i wish we could have pop some champagne corks but they are way too little and they are too late it's never too late i guess i would say but i think if you look at the desire of the e.u. to lead and to actually forge of way forward that would address the climate emergency we needed a 65 percent target not a 55 percent target which is not up to snuff for what the findings are calling for but that doesn't sound that much of a difference i mean how much of a difference does this make anyway if you look at global emissions and what the e.u. has just decided to cut the levels. it makes a big difference i mean i think if you look at where the e.u. submissions are currently looking to go it's a 46 percent reduction with existing measures so although 55 percent sounds quite big it's actually just a small incremental shift of what they were already planning to do and the e.u. is important globally it's a major player and markets it's still one of the you know large greenhouse gas
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emitting countries but clearly we need the united states to come in we need china to come in but for that we wanted to see a real transformation and a recognition of how little time we have to have global emissions nuclear still plays an important role in the old is how does that go down with green peas we don't think that's a good idea i think nuclear has so many risks and it's so expensive and i think in a year when we know from the international renewable energy agency that 90 percent of new energy generation capacity installed around the world has been renewables and that it is cheaper than coal it is cheaper than other sources that's the way to go not as reliable though is it oh it's reliable you you need to get a balance right you can get currently up to about a 70 percent mix of renewables and some days you have 100 percent renewables on the
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grid there's more work that needs to be done but if you were to take the money that's going to billions going into fossil fuel subsidies and put those into the questions of renewables and storage you'd have a breakthrough pretty quickly i think do you think this will do it for a moment dummett. i think the economic damage of what's happening are the costs of the impacts of climate change so just think about the fires that occurred in california or in australia or in siberia think about the drought and the impacts to the agricultural system the transformation for green and just world has so many benefits there needs to be support for those workers who need to transition into new fields that's the just transition that needs to occur but the economics do not add up if you don't you have to keep these impacts in mind and the deaths and damages that are occurring around the world and the most and executive director of
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greenpeace international thank you very much for joining us here into the. thank you. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world germany is lifting a ban on deportations to syria for the 1st time in 8 years despite the ongoing conflict in the country the decision means that syrian nationals convicted of a crime or deemed a security risk face deportation from germany on january 1st. a police officer in albania who shot dead a man on tuesday for violating a coronavirus curfew has been remanded in custody the shooting of the 25 year old man has triggered violent protests in the capital to russia and led to the resignation of the interior minister. argentina's lower house of congress passed a bill to legalize abortion thousands of pro and anti abortion activists rallied throughout the night in buenos aires as lawmakers debated it has been pushed by president of that often on this if the bill clears the senate it would make
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argentina the 1st major latin american nation to decriminalize abortion. germany has set a new record for corona virus infections with nearly 30000 cases in the past 24 hours 598 people have died that's the highest daily total yet weeks of partial lockdown have been slow the spread of infection enough much tougher restrictions in almost inevitable now with political momentum building for stricter lockdown over the holidays several german states already taking action. new coronavirus infections have surged in bonn burton state primary discussed the issue with his government during a special session. if i had an opt in from december 12th on we are imposing a general lockdown for all of boston gotten back. guns. from saturday people may only leave their homes for good reason such as to go to
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work or school or get some exercise like kuch month several state premiers throughout germany are calling for tighter restrictions in the fight against coronavirus yet look dahlan the lockdown must happen as soon as possible. the situation is dangerous the government seems to agree on that never before have there been as many new corona virus infections or coronavirus deaths as there are now in the run up to christmas these images show a berlin shopping district on thursday night given similar scenes the state of saxony will also go into lockdown from monday. is. this is a matter of life and death to put it clearly it's a matter of ethical responsibility that we and the governments have we cannot stand by and watch when in spite of all the appeals to act sensibly we're not doing enough to truly stop this wave. to question
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the chancellery has long supported stricter measures on sunday germany's federal and state leaders will meet once more to discuss the crisis. as simon young joins me now simon in a new high of nearly 30000 cases 500 people have died one day all that despite the was directions already imposed why still rising. well guess there are a number of different explanations that are being offered for the rising infection numbers one of the things is to look at where the disease has been spreading earlier in the year it was really concentrated in several hot spots and of course that made it somewhat easier to deal with now. really kovan 1000 is spread across germany and that's putting a strain on health services to deal with also as you mentioned in the report
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the the disease seems to be affecting older people more back in the spring and the initial spike of course older people in care homes and old people's homes were affected but then during the summer it seemed to spread more to younger groups now it's back in the older population of germany's 20000 dead 13000 over 80 so it's a very worrying picture and it makes it difficult for storage is to work out their strategy but germany's interior minister hawesville for made his position very clear today saying germany has wasted the advantage it managed to gain during the spring the only chance we have to get in control of the situation is a lock down but it needs to be immediate if we waited till christmas will have to continue fighting these numbers for months. of a statement how much agreement is there in berlin with this call for an immediate lockdown. well what we're seeing is
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a growing number of states announcing measures and pushing for tougher lockdowns barden burton bag has announced that there will be curfews that's to say restrictions on people leaving their homes. from from as early as tomorrow north rhine-westphalia another logged state in the west saying that schools will tell their people to stay at home from monday and possibly even all non-essential retail shops will close so obviously these are very tough measures more and more states are thinking about it and there is a push for unity among the states because people say that that the public will accept such rules much more if states move together but they're not going to wait i think in some cases for for a meeting with the chancellor a lot of the state premiers are saying we have to push ahead now and impose tough
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lockdowns you know his political correspondent simon thank you. and some source who's now in the american athletes we're now have a bit more freedom when the competing on the international stage the united states olympic and paralympic committee says it will not sanction athletes for peacefully and respectfully demonstrating support of racial and social justice at the olympic and paralympic games in the past us were banned from competition for protesting in mexico 68 olympics the so-called black power salute by tommy smith and john carlos resulted in both being expelled from the u.s. track team the gesture was rebuked as a patriotic. today that same protest would be permitted by the u.s. under the new policy handed down by the country's olympic committee team usa athletes are encouraged to advocate for racial and social justice and be a positive force for change some u.s.
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athletes were proactive in already using their platform in november the u.s. men's soccer team don jackets with socially conscious messages ranging from brutality to unity before a match the u.s. olympic committee has called on the international olympic committee to recognize that protests focused on human rights and social justice should be welcomed the i.o.c. confirmed that athletes are still banned from any form of protest enough against following a tidal wave of protests in u.s. sports and athletes who breach that rule are subject to discipline the tokyo games are next summer while the next winter games are in beijing in 2022. and i something to make you smile the ukrainian capital kiev is experiencing icy conditions by now it's not unusual for the time of year but a challenge for anyone out and about one especially to term pedestrian though was
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caught on c.c.t.v. camera just trying to make headway at 1st you don't succeed try try again. a good woman looks like try as he might she was forced to give up in the end. there's a lot about you germans pole shaaban floyd about how if you don't that's it from me and the news stream from the business with us. every day just for us and for our pleasure. lou the ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make cities scream or how can we protect animals and their habitats what to do with
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the waste. we can make a difference by choosing reforestation over a detour station recycling or disposable smart new solutions oberstein said you know one of these is truly unique and we know that the uniqueness is what allows us to live and survive good why do those be a more mental soup stew global 3000 on g.w. and almost. fresh off the back of its nobel peace prize when the world health the world food programme warns that the coronavirus pandemic could be followed by a hunger pandemic it wants the world's true wealthiest people to help out speak to one of the program's directors also coming up. uganda's police force is installing
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a new surveillance system using fall way technology a human rights campaign is raising the alarm. this is day to be business. then welcome to the program. the corona virus pandemic has hit the world hard with 40000000 infections to date one and a half 1000000 dead and economies shredded but every crisis has winners to some of the world's richest people have become even richer 1st amazon's jeff bezos with lockdowns in many countries and stores closed customers have moved online business has grown 40 percent its share price has also doubled and at times it has has at times double but it's currently up 63 percent for the year netting bezos an extra $90000000000.00 of the cover 19 whenas you could call them include tesla's elon musk as well as tech leaders mark zuckerberg larry ellison and google
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founders larry page and sergey brin all because working from home and other lock down restrictions have been a boon to online services meanwhile a record number of people are literally starving with hunger a deadly risk for 270000000 people worldwide according to the u.n. the world food program recipient of this is nobel peace prize wants to directly ask billionaires to pitch in and share their gains from recent months i am joined by tim hunter a director at the world food program thank you very much going on d.w. business i suppose we should stop and congratulations on the nobel prize winning significant achievement and also it comes a time when the world food program really needs this publicity. well absolutely adam thank you very much we're incredibly proud. to be awarded in
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2000 the trans trans you know a peace prize but also extremely humble. and really the recognition prize lawyers do they need $20000.00 to have people around the world operate in some of the most difficult circumstances and it also is a really important call to action as you say in terms of the really appalling situation that is happening in me in had to cope with it on top of the crises. being caused by climate change. and conflict that have driven 270000000 people into really a kind of crisis situation so as to run of our striving people into poverty who would otherwise have not been in poverty absolutely the. number of people hungry around the world has unfortunately been increasing over the
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last few years as i said climate change and conflict have been driving that kind of it has really excel or so from an estimated 130000000 people who are in a kind of crisis situation that is now going out to over 270000000 and that's really she's a people who've been driven into poverty don't know whether that means coming from because of the economic imperative code yeah and you're asking billionaires people who may have benefited financially from the coronavirus pandemic to pitch in to try and help with that do you actually expect any of them to take you up on that. well we very much notice that we're asking we're asking everybody around the world to do whatever they can really and you know we have supporters we have enormous support from governments around the world and they are the traditional. backbone
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of w.s.p. in that have really stepped up in this crisis as well as over incredibly grateful to the governments around the world but it seems only right that in this time of extreme me and suffering from people that we ask everybody to teaching and those who compete in the months as you said people who have benefited as a result of. lockdown the way our economies are shifted. those who benefit the most we really hope that they will kind of step and make a difference because you know looking at it how do you how do you actually go about persuading those people to do that part with the cash that they have they would save hard and have a state well everybody who can are you know mr nations 2 causes of. the they support you know that that money and you know they've made a decision to make
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a contribution and you know we're hoping we're calling on as i said everybody around the world but particularly those who committed the biggest contribution to really kind of you know. you know dig deep this time as we go into 20 well 202021 because the needs next year probably going to be even greater and the gap between the funds we can expect from those traditional government donors and the needs that exist is going to be very very near the u.n. wants the world to be hunger free by 2030 is is there any chance of that happening given that actually they don't but the amount of people hungry is increasing. well you're right we're not on track at the moment and the world will was already going in the wrong direction before. but also i think you know one of the things the words of code shows to us is when the world comes together and really kind of
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focuses on a massive challenge. the response so the hope of the news that we've all seen recently around kind of advancing at least demonstrates actually what the world can do if it's really to turn it. into go to sorry to interrupt you where we are out of time but we can see that things are with a vaccine arriving starting to at least look up director of the world food program tim hunter and such running us actually now christmas lockdown was a one point considered the worst case scenario by many in germany but now it's all but inevitable on friday the country posted a record number of daily cases almost 30000 and the number of deaths continues to reach all time highs. it's a shock for many germans the record new cases suggesting tougher lock downs are on their way stores could face much stricter measures including closing entirely
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nationwide this christmas season the time when retailers had expected over 100000000000 years of revenues experts fear devastating economic consequences. we expect significant increase of bankruptcies in 2021 obviously the longer and the stricter any law lasts and will become the higher the likelihood of even more bankruptcies next year and also. of an increase of unemployment opinion is split as has become so common during this pandemic between the joule priorities the health of the public and the health of the economy. which i think it's good but i don't think is good is that shops are supposed to close because it'll fecht all the small retailers while the large supermarkets and drug stores where the situation is much more dangerous are allowed to stay open. he
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has a slim even though it's bad for the economy and everyone else i think a lockdown would be better it would definitely be better off either that's not but it wouldn't be better for business data agency credit reform predicts up to $24000.00 insolvency proceedings next year that'd be the biggest jump since the end of the 2nd world war with tourism catering and the cultural events industries being hit the hardest germany had expected christmas to be tough on everyone this year but for retailers across the country it could be and accept only dreary holiday season. now civil liberties activists have raised concerns about huawei as involvement in a new surveillance system for police in uganda the chinese company is facing a security camera network that uses facial recognition technology campaigners fear it could be used to violate fundamental rights. this is one of the street
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commas. more than 2000 have been in storage in and around the capito compiler. the police say that the technology has improved to the. public. this is to become a came in handy recently when riots broke out leaving at least 54 people or date. we were able to find out that there's a right way out not spontaneous as some people claim these roads way up planned before. we saw a particular group or people be praying and giving the perimeters clarkson's. mind as to how things are is that. by the day that even muslims who are we have identified are there and it was caught us of this kind of the technology is supplied by the chinese tech giant who are we in the u.s. who are faces allegations of spying it's controversial technology has also been
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rejected by other countries like germany. some ugandans concerned that their police may use the technology to target c.e.o. position they should have safeguards that the. fundamental rights and freedoms we all know that china is not concerned about protection of people's rights and freedoms comes in when you pick on individuals trade their movements yet do they have nothing to do with right but to the police of course those allegations unfounded they say that's due diligence was done before trusting the chinese with a contract has meant of thinking that way in studying this for purposes of spying is just trying to be what us because the laws we have already written. they did their benefits over this installation so that is their version of it and
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we know the kind of people who are pushing for that theory which you don't want to believe according to reported figure as the deal cost uganda more than $120000000.00 the police say that given more funds they would want to expand their coverage to every corner of the country. and that's all from me and the business team here in berlin if you do want to for example re watch our interview with the director of the world food program you can do that at data we dot com slash business not serve other stuff from us that are also on facebook and twitter as a business for me. and take. for
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. villagers in kenya were being poisoned by a lead smelting plant a factory that recycling batteries cost down to. felicity hard to have the facility closed and why. i'm looking forward to our day when everyone in the
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world who would be able to receive. cold comfort go. in 60 minutes. in the light of climate change. africa's mix of. what's in store. for the future in the. context. for the megacity to get insight could enter. thanks. to this news africa coming up in the program where the 2nd wave has hit several african countries record new spikes in growing our biased cases study in kenya shows far more people have been infected from fear just the thought. also coming out. although the gaming industry in africa is cool.

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