make up your body. double. this is did every news africa on the program today visit bali and journalist add the government chrissake hope no one knows spent the weekend in jail after he was arrested overnight alleged fake new street will tell you more about why he says he won't apply for bail. if there is nothing he were just interested in. and will meet the mostest student to spree aided in ai translation app for indigenous african

languages tells us why his mother was a big inspiration. i'm christine one it's good to have your company a zimbabwean journalists jailed last week sais he will challenge than again this he off his wrist and has decided not to apply for bail hopewell cino was arrested again from his home in how the on friday it came off to he tweeted that police had beaten an incense to death while enforcing that 19 lock down rules and he said that information was false he has been charged with communicating false hopes but you know no excuses but the government or the state of trying to silence him this is what he told reporters outside court on friday to give to my political prisoners are employed and i'm going to. being ignored the most drunk you. know. there are

those who killed him because when i double their production removed we're going to try to get on board the police because nothing really we're just interested in. is one of the ball was most prominent critics of president edison was government this is the 3rd time in a space of 6 months that he has been arrested and put in prison for his social media posts now in a hand written list a journalist should on the explain his decision not to apply for bail by saying i totally would have sold out the journalism profession and the nation if i choose my immediate liberty over the media's rights to free speech and the nation's rights to exercise its right to speak and be protected off to speaking. news correspondent privilege we're trying it was at the courts in out out

a way mr appeared today and what was meant to be a bail hearing he sent us this report. and others will spend another night in prison after they were reminded to choose the day which they expected to come back to court for the magistrates to give a ruling on their fear placement on remand challenging the law under which he is being charged for communicating. this law was struck off zimbabwe's books in 2014 when the constitutional court ruled that it was unconstitutional in 2016 another media pressure group also challenged the same stick to it and it was up here what is happening is that the state continues to use such laws against the citizens and now the impression that citizens few that it is just a way of suppressing critical voices in the country you know what is that is part

of these charges that is also facing there are also 2 other figures prominent opposition figures including the lawyer that was. representing. when he initially appeared in court one lawyer was also arrested on monday his name. if you're a lawyer. my hair was also expected to appear in court in the next 24 to 48 hours we expect in the coming days that the state and the defense would be arguing . against the placement on remand of the 3. now imagine if a language barrier meant you couldn't communicate with some of your closest family that is exactly the challenge that one of they showed those who had so he decided

to do something about it by creating an intelligent translation service so he could understand all people his mother i'll be talking to him about his mission to preserve africa's indigenous languages off to this report. a new message from cindy from the west african country of ben mean she speaks phone her local language and tells donovan to a disservice that she misses him until recently the student couldn't understand much phone because he grew up mainly speaking french and business will help translating phone online. if you to google translate we have like only 15 of 13 languages africans but in africa we have more than 2000 and we're just. when he came to europe to study data engineering he decided he wanted to overcome the language barrier with his mother so he wrote an intelligent translation program complete with matching form keyboard he's

a professor at university describes his work as a pioneering. kind of puzzle which is no better motivation of course than wanting to understand your mother i've looked at his program and it's really exceptional work it's written very professional and. a major hurdle was the lack of documents in the phone language other than some biblical texts written by missionaries so he added them to his program and he posed a question to thousands of people in between on social media. what did 15 or 20 said for instance the are you more used to the so day should provide the front and the translation. so far his self learning program has learned some 25000 sentences. means national broadcaster has speech or dead cells work but he's also making international waves he's been invited to international conferences on the topic and his software will soon be used to

regional nigerian languages numerous other countries have expressed interest it makes him happy that his work could one day be applied to many african languages if we are free because we don't do it nobody would do for us but for one of interior the most important thing is thanks to his program he can know his mom's messages and phone. and i'm happy to welcome today's ever use africa you just saw him in that report bonaventure though. he's doing he's lost as in de se engineering at the university in bremen germany so welcome to news africa firstly congratulations but i found it interesting that you've not been really able to communicate with your mom because you const at the time just stop by explaining that for us. ok so i could wrong really. because i spent most of my childhood we have from her and she doesn't really understand french as i don't really understand much much of

right ok so. austan mckee you're now talking about how you know we can preserve a africa's addition as languages but it does give us a sense of how in danger do you think these languages ah. i think those names are those meant ways. we live favorite in danger because for instance we don't have a the darkness will come with a hot in the established documentations so it makes the word very hot for us we want some good. reasons to like that so yeah that's really great right now tell us more about what ai can do to to protect indigenous languages like fun below your mom's mother tan and how does the technology that you've created do that. ok so what once we're on the right. what we call the russian transitional we've made so how are we called it a simple call for

a cause that means that we need to look for sentences the decisions that mean that we need these sorts of critical. and you know i don't know if you can realize but it doesn't mean he's worse is it not than weight support so why is he there so we go we look for it it's our look for us at their season and we on going theys them such a way that people can efficiently use it so not only ersten but also people that were transferred through the learning of our more there are works to their languages so do indeed reading those papers actually to create the committee shuffle cavalry and to make sure that those the record you see and use for the benefit of many others. so whatever tell us a little bit more about fun your native language i know that it's spoken in the need of it but just tell us a little bit about it and then the process that you and the wind speaking to other fun speak has in terms of kind of build the vocabulary for the app. ok so the

process he's basically going to people. who can friends to do away with friends i go to there i've missed some some good some berries and i asked for as far as that's a very. morse 22 off 20 far. more use daily soon and which one burns on the give me another person sort of i gather wheat and then right there on my oh i'm sorry we do that there was a scene and then your sweetie will wait for them or they are not from there ok very quickly just say hello to your mom in fun for us we all want to listen to this beautiful language. more more you know where you know the 2 are. going to leave and you want to leave. oh that's music to me jay it's a hard. time this is your song and i just wanted to tell you some words thank you

for being right it's true isn't bad is the sweetest and fun songs like a range of beautiful language good to have you on the program bonaventure all the best with the recipes. and now to ethiopia with a great ethiopian run finally got underway and just about on sunday the any 10 kilometer mass raised has been held without interruption since 2002 but it was postponed last year because of the pandemic in only attracts tens of thousands of athletes but with current kovac 1000 restrictions in place only 9000 runners took pot remains race was won by adding kushal and say thank you to the spot for women. now if you hear is home of course to some of the world's greatest run is including a limb taken world champion haile gebrselassie he also happens to be the founder of the great ethiopian run. who was not. blunt.

we expect in a 50. because of course. we could. have only one more dog. and it's the 2nd time that the 22 year old a big national has won the men's racey also took on his and 2016 on sunday a finish in a time of 28 minutes and 1900. i'm not. a different topic and fishing out of. things that you can't fish. and that's a proper ogram save short of check out all of the stories on dot com forward slash africa we're also on facebook and on face it today will leave you with small sights and sounds from the great ethiopian run in at just about on sunday i'll see you next time i had. the luck. to.

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a lot of money at its disposal accountable and that's how it's expanding the serving its status and position in the world to look. china's gateway to europe. starts feb 19th d.w. . greetings from berlin and welcome to arts and culture where we'll look at how inclusive casting is challenging the long traditional white washing of period cinema adaptations and sparking some debate also coming up. german photographer your documents what he sees as germany's greatest feat of structural engineering its iconic network of motorways the autobahn. and our series 100 german must reads features a winner of the german book prize the blind side of the heart i barely an author

tongue. well everyone's talking about bridget and streaming as it did over a lock down christmas it was the definitive coup for netflix based on the romance novel series by american author julia quinn the 8 part series billed as a glitzy period piece with a difference which means it's a regency romance infused with 21st century sensibilities and we'll look into its colorblind casting right after this. this star. blush costume spirit says pomp and circumstance projection isn't much different from the historical dramas that came before it follows daphne britain high society last thrust onto the marriage market of 19th century britain where money and reputation matter more than true love you've always amused me miss britain ever since i was a schoolboy and you were. what the show apart is it's

costing me. bridget sorry your own fresh as this is my sister. bridget jones a love interest is a brecht jews england is ruled by a black queen and people of color are often a re-used from historical fiction front and center in bridget writes however is not the focus of the series nor is historical accuracy and so with this annotation of best selling novels t.v. pioneer shonda rhimes uses colorblind casting to let all of us see themselves in this story. and get lost in the soapy romance scandals intrigue and yes costumes that are at the heart of any good period drama.

preached. and scott ross was here to talk to us a bit more about bridget in hi scott and obviously this phenomenon that we're calling colorblind casting president just came out on netflix tell us 1st of all what's the response. response been amazing that the netflix user doesn't really stop unless they do really really well they did this time so they did really well they said more than 63000000 people already watched series which makes it on the most successful shows ever on f.x. but obviously there's perhaps expectedly also been a bit of a backlash from. quarters about the decision the did in this series to have this colorblind casting to be such sort of person or cal case of their all these terms that we're throwing around inclusive or color conscious casting but then colorblind casting to tell us what's the difference yeah it's a bit complicated but basically inclusive casting is very simple it's basically saying the world is diverse when you cast a film or series try to make as diverse as possible so reflects the world very very

simple colorblind casting is a little bit goes a little bit further that's saying. if a character on the page is written with a certain ethnicity you take an actor from wherever doesn't matter and in you cast them so you could have a white queen on the page but if you have a great black actress you cast her for the role that's colorblind casting so obviously some people are disagreeing with this because they say that it isn't historically accurate what do you say to that argument yeah i think that's wrong on a couple points but i would just look at britain you have queen charlotte who's who's played by a black actress there is some historical debate that the actual queen charlotte in fact could have bringing mixed race but even no matter what that argument is made there's no or. no question that there were a lot of and there have been a lot of nonwhite people in england throughout the centuries and you see that sometimes in a few films there's a recent film belle from

a few years ago which was about a true story of a mixed race woman in 18th century england who was raised by aristocratic family the director of the film he said she was tired of seeing black people written out white washed out of british films and so she want to put them back in i think that's interesting and significant but i think this whole argument about historical accuracy when it comes to the period dramas it misses the point because we're not talking about history we're talking about movie conventions i mean nobody argues nobody gets upset about dr shove aagot. one of the great period movies of all time starring an egyptian man or sharif an english woman julie christie playing 2 russians in a moscow where everyone speaks english it's so interesting because obviously this has been done in theatre for years but it seems particularly sensitive with cinema do you think obviously that there's this is making movies more relevant for a modern audience yeah i think it can i mean there was a recent film adaptation of david copperfield that just came out last year starring

a dev patel british indian actor in the lead role i think it's actually a very truthful and boyle adaptation of dickens' but it makes a very it creates a very diverse cast in front of a camera make it reflect more closely the diverse britain that exists today and i think doing that allows a maybe a broader audience to sort of see themselves in the story being told i really love this type of colorblind casting because i think we should fall into the trap of thinking we can never have a black english queen or i don't know a black james bond just because we haven't seen them before school i'm sure is not far off in the future the black james bond with and he was very much for coming in and giving us those insights. well there are a few other landmarks that represent the essence of modern germany more than its system of motorways 413000 kilometers it crisscrosses the nation and over the decades. has morphed from a piece of national infrastructure into

a cultural icon and with our concept of personal mobility poised to change drastically with the advent of electric and autonomy cars an exhibition in money time captures its heyday. starting so innocently people who wanted mobility and travel to far places the through of driving their own car down the autobahn. type of moment for me this is the most monumental german construction egypt has its pyramids we have the autobahn it's an integral part of our identity and culture. and there's plenty to see to the left and right of german autobahns. for the man has delved deep into the german soul as witnessed along the motorist speedways and made some wondrous discoveries court could be nicer than sunbathing with a view of the bay for. parts official likes are great places

to unwind to the accompaniment of a traffic concerto. dr can i have strong childhood memories of the. we would go on holiday to austria and the landscapes would drive by behind the crush barriers strong images and actually positive images and also i'm interested in showing these places with ambivalence to them or in front of me for a length of time. your book a man has been around the world taking photographs but there are plenty of stories . this is more or less a childhood memory i grew up close to the a 40 free and we really did play on the wasteland behind the noise barriers dispute . from the a warning to the

a $111.00 in the tail wind of the poetic still lifes can be found. after appreciating a certain beauty in the shapes and colors here you are maybe left with a lump in the throat because you draw your own conclusions about what happened here how are these colors and shapes created from. the brain of every motorist like the traffic jam 2019 jam stretched for 1400000 kilometers along german roads. i hope very much that we go to stick petrol consuming motors which are produced largely in germany. of the past and that new mobility concepts that are more socially and environmentally friendly are developed and implemented it's a good question how much longer. and that's the name of this exhibition how much longer. the photographic evidence suggests the nation of germany new to

head towards climate catastrophe for some time. such prospects well if our new dominated climate dominated reality is getting you down literature can serve as a reminder that things could always be worse think of our grandparents who experienced one or even 2 world wars events that shattered many a promising young life and that's part of the fabric of the blind side of the heart today's pick of german books in english translation what would drive a mother to a. child what would it take for a joyful woman. to go so that she can't feel anything and. the blind side of the heart by you is about him and the chaos that follows world

war 2 she leaves her 7 year old son painter alone at a crowded train station to fend for himself. but why does she do it as a child herself i mean a peer is to have a carefree future ahead of her she grows up in a picturesque town in a well off family but then world war one breaks out her father is drafted her jewish mother falls into a depression and the family business goes broke her lena decides to try her luck in berlin where she meets the love of her life and then loses him. while he lena does manage to survive the nazis using a fake identity she winds up married to an abusive monster by the time she has her son peter she has no feelings left for her child or for herself. perhaps her heart was a stone cold icy hard as iron she didn't cry because she had nothing to cry about

her feet hurt her back hurt she had been running around all day she knew she had only 5 hours of sleep before she got up to the ironing walked to the kitchen made breakfast for peter woke him and sent him to school before she herself went to work the blind side of the heart is the story of a woman with no chance at creating her own destiny whose spirit is crushed by the time she lives in and the people have. and will finish with the news that sex and the city will get a reboot in 2021 the successful comedy drama series ran for 6 seasons and followed their lives the romantic up. downs of new york women in the city the movie and its sequel in 2010 were panned by the critics but had commercial success in the new show will be called and just my thoughts and will feature the original stars with the exception of. a plate of course in from the.

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state of the news life from barry lynn u.s. lawmakers reveal legislation to remove the president from office democrats formally introduce an article of impeachment after republicans object to a plan that would have seen donald trump declared unfit for office the president is accused of inciting them up the rampage through the capitol last week also on the program days after donald trump is banned from twitter for allegedly inciting those capital pirates we'll look at why german chancellor angela merkel says twitter's move is problematic. and diverse search for the flight recorders from

a crashed indonesian passenger jets and find the wreckage believed to be from the plane that crashed into the java sea with 62 people on board. i'm phil gale welcome to the program democrats in the u.s. house of representatives to formally introduced an article of impeachment against donald trump and charging the president with inciting insurrection following the deadly riots at the u.s. capitol last week a brief session in the last couple of hours 1st called on the vice president mike pence to remove mr cho i invoke the 25th amendment of resolutions blocked by house republicans or democrats in the house calling back it'll make this for a full session of the house a vote on impeachment is expected as early as wednesday. let's bring in david abuse

washington bureau chief it is paul welcome back in a sort of talk us through the developments of the last hour. right phil so as expected the democrats intend to approve a resolution calling vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment was blocked by the republicans this was essentially just a formality and there was no chance really that it was going to pass so now as some creds look to wednesday where they hope to submit articles of impeachment and woe to send them to the senate where it's not clear whether that will cause or not mind you the timing of this whole procedure of this possible vote is still fluid so it's really not quite 100 percent predictable what is going to happen next ok so this will be the 2nd time but president trump has been impeached he wasn't

convicted the 1st time if he if the impeachment happens a 2nd time is he any more likely to be found guilty especially given this time line . well it really depends on the outcome of the investigations i think we see over the next days and then it's after all also a number of game if there will be enough republicans really to wellwood for the impeachment so all of this is still in the air but yes there is a possibility. ok so what reaction then from donald trump now banned from twitter it's hard to know what's going on inside the president's mind. absolutely we haven't heard anything from him his wife melania just put out some message describing how hard it was for her about it silence. which we heard from donald trump or hear nothing maybe he travels down to texas today to visit

the wall this project which he seemed sees as one of his biggest successes in his presidency but as for now he hasn't commented at all of what we have seen on this generates 6. 2021 i thank you for that or in this poll in washington will donald trump's alleged incitements of those rises lead twitter to ban him from the platform permanently german chancellor angela merkel says the move to remove the u.s. president from social media raises concerns about free speech is her chief spokesman stefan's a bit to school the basic right to freedom of speech is of fundamental importance it is possible to infringe on that right but only in accordance with the law and within the framework defined by the legislature not by the management of social media platforms other that i suspect the chancellor considers it problematic that

the accounts of the us president have now been permanently blocked. well yes him and is a member of the german parliament for the s.p.d. which is in coalition with chancellor merkel's conservative is also a member of the parliament's committee on the digital agenda welcome to day w do you find the trump bounce from twitter problematic. yes 1st of all i think in the 1st place we be all of tales of a big relief of that movie but i agree it is problematic because we have to ask on which faces on which loss and what does it mean for thoughtful future actions off social media platforms why do you care what does it matter to you or to anyone what a private company does about letting people go on the office platforms. yeah i mean the thing is we have talking about the have off state of

a democratic country and obviously you don't trump boston webby populi in germany but nevertheless i mean this could happen to somebody else who was elected. and won won an election and it is problematic eve maybe one person the c.e.o. of private company stops a head of state reaching out to 80000000 people that's really a problem it's not quite true though is it because twitter is a private company and if they want to you can ban who it live if donald trump chooses to go to a different company and get 80000000 view is that followers and that's his business again why is this problematic why and why world leaders speaking up about this. because. we have talking about the role of social media i mean you as a t.v. station you have to follow very strict rules and attracts like like trigger off

facebook has a much lighter regulation and we are talking a couple of years now whether there needs to be more regulation on the social networks and this is i think now a situation where we need to rule the side which possibly want to follow and i want to really stress out the problem is not really donald trump the problem the millions of his follow us who also have very strong language on these platforms and they are not blocked because the platforms don't care about these people and i think this is a much much broader problem let me put this to you the problem is not donald trump and the problem is not twitter the problem is politicians like yourselves who have allowed to twitter to carry on in the way that it has. yeah it's i mean as the chancellor mentioned the freedom of expression is

a fundamental rights and. and the platforms also all. gif also people in opposition the possibility to reach out to many people to buy buy pos state media which isn't free so it's i think it's really a complex thing but we need to have to come up with regulation and we also need to be very careful what the what the power of these platforms is i think it's no surprise that twitter came up with that solution 12th days to go until donald trump leaves office and the same applies to facebook we're talking to you thank you for joining us a young cinema from the german language committee on the digital agenda. here's a look at some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. president elect joe biden has named veteran diplomat william burns as the cia

director mr burns is a former ambassador to russia and jordan later became deputy secretary of state retired in 24 to enter on the con nicky endowment for international peace. police in nepal have clashed with thousands of protesters demand to be a statement of the country has seen numerous protests since the prime minister filed to honor a pledge to split the his co-leader the polls molecule was abolished more than a decade country turned into a democratic. north korean leader kim jong un has been names general secretary of the ruling party the title held by his father and grandfather is being seen as a symbolic step to boost cames orthorexic as the isolated country faces growing economic problems. divers have been searching the seabed off the indonesian island of java looking for the flight recorders from that passenger jet that crashed into

the sea on saturday with ortiz open from asian contained on the recorders will clarify why the boeing 737 came down minutes after takeoff from job from jakarta with 62 people on board. it's a delicate operation for these divers dodging sharp debris to find vital clues. this underwater robot was deployed to help them search the seabed the. authorities are amping up their efforts to recover the plane and its passengers thousands of rescue personnel are taking part in the operation. here anything that we can retrieve debris the victims and whatever else we will try to access the quicker. we can find the victims the better. hospitals are now examining d.n.a.

given by family members of the victims to identify remains. this 3 week air flight left jakarta airport on saturday bound for a 90 minute journey to pontiac. contact was broken just minutes after takeoff during heavy rain the aircraft lost altitude and plunged into the java sea. it's the 3rd major plane crash in indonesia since 2014 it could take months before relatives of the victims find out why their lives were cut short. after a look at some of the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic starting in the u.k. where the british government says the country's now facing the worst weeks of the pandemic as the new highly contagious corona virus variant puts pressure on hospitals in parts of london 20 people are infected. person who sits on the government's advisory panel is urging the country to close its borders to britain

and other countries to stop the spread of the new variant and he says it plans to begin administrate vaccinations by thursday or friday the government has imposed a weekday curfew and full weekend lockdown. will stricter lockdown restrictions are coming to force across germany as the country struggles with a 2nd wave infections german coffee 1000 death toll past 40000 at the weekend with 80 percent of the country's intensive can you provide. at this crematorium signs of the high number of coronavirus deaths in germany it hasn't yet reached its limit but the number of coffins arriving here has increased. the daily death toll now far exceeds what it was during the 1st wave of the pandemic just last week germany saw a new record number of daily deaths over 1000. that the situation remains serious was confirmed on monday by the german government spokesman.

very high daily death figures the very high rate of people in intensive care units 5 and a half 1000 people who currently have to be treated in intensive care. this all shows that we are in a very very difficult phase and there can be no doubt about that. to further curb the spread of the virus tougher coronavirus restrictions came into effect on monday across germany but with some regional variations schools will mostly remain closed until the end of january people can only meet with one other person from another household in hotspots with the higher incidence of coronavirus people cannot travel further than 15 kilometers from their home questions have been raised regarding the off towards ability to enforce such rules berlin police say enforcement will continue as usual. we will be on patrol within the city both with

special police units but also as part of our routine duties. we will act proportionately but if we see people disregarding the rules we will respond accordingly and take appropriate steps. in. the current restrictions are meant to stay in place until the end of january when germany's federal and state governments will meet again to evaluate the situation and decide on the way forward. the p.g.a. of america has announced that it will bring locate the 2022 p.g.a. championship away from a trump national golf club in bedminster new jersey the board of directors voted to terminate their agreement with the venue say it would be detrimental to that brand to be associated with president trump the decision comes just days after approach from mob stormed the u.s. capitol in washington d.c.

. situ up today but golf will have more world news for you at the top of the hour kate ferguson as we do business update in just a moment a good. percentage drama competition marketing atmosphere by intuition. fans friends fives fans and fans. on you tube joining us. i was here when i arrived here i slept with people in a room. it was hard i was for. i even got white hair.

this gets me and maybe 2 in truck say you want to know their story. their fighting and reliable information for migrants. the consumer electronics show in las vegas goes online. what to expect. extravaganza will the move online be a help or a hindrance. also coming up it's been targeted by some of the new gold coin and other digital assets have dropped sharply as the u.s. dollar reduced right we'll take a look at the long term prospects for cryptocurrency just. this is d w business on tape ferguson thanks for joining me the consumer electronics show in

las vegas is the event of the year when it comes to showcasing the latest tech innovations and this week for the 1st time ever it's taking place entirely on line due to the pun demick so what can we expect from a virtual c.e.o.'s deja news report. busy crowd spac talls tens of thousands in town to check out the latest this used to be the consumer electronics show on display curious creatures to pet cuddly computers and other ideas growing in the minds of developers ready to be harvested by fans with open minds and open wallets. but this is what vegas looks like this year the casinos the dark the hallways empty the c.s. has moved online and it's unclear if it will ever come back as we look forward to 2022 we're planning

a hybrid of it but nothing certain i mean obviously we're we'll do the best we can we're we have a a long runway before 2022 january and our commitments last august and we're looking forward to in a figuring out how to do the best way possible the c.s. has invested big in a new platform program by microsoft it's a showcase a meeting room and if it lacks the appeal of roaming between booths this year it doesn't matter quite as much the central topic of the show is politics. after all this is new president to be sworn in just a few days after the show a president who could assure in a new time for big tech. the issues where we expect improvement or. from where i think the truck administration deviated was on free trade i think trains are very important especially with our allies i think there is support for a tougher view of china and that's something that we've been telling our members and

you know you got it you can put all your eggs in china basket policy over products to make sure that in the long run the show will go on. so let's take a closer look at which countries are the big players on this online only event of almost 2000 exhibitors the biggest chunk this year unsurprisingly perhaps come from the united states with south korea and china the next best represent africa as a continent has a far smaller presence 6 nigerian startups will be exhibiting just one from haifa so let's hear from someone who knows a lot about the tech sector on the african continent knew up the law he is the director general of nigeria's national information technology development agency mr elder law you welcome along that there are 6 startups from nigeria participating in

c. s. this year what are they so casing thank you for having me like you said weeks from africa friday from nigeria and one from south africa. so for me for everything in there it's the 1st thing this is the 1st time naidu is going to showcase some of the very to startups to c.e.o.'s but that does not mean this is the 1st time where i have in start ups with and a very to groundbreaking initiatives we've been taking our star tours to different fora around the world we've taken them to sleep on valley before for rod sure we've been participate in jacketed and our start ups i've been doing in front tusk early well the competition in different.

events so looking at what is happening globally today with the current call vivid 19 pandemic arks know wheaten digitization arnalds or the kind of and a very t.v. solutions we are seeing in. we see it as an opportunity to expose our target so that they will start thinking global ok one big aim of c.s. of course for companies is to troll investors do you think the move online is a help or hindrance in this regard. for me with the globalization with the pandemic with the trend x. love waiting for it industrial revolution is not an entrance it's an opportunity so is we need to look at what are the silver lining in need and how can we benefit

from it it is easier more you can easily quickly and conveniently participate from wherever you are in the world you need you can cut cost in terms of traveling and order trends and also a technology can allow you to quit in person. look and feel for the events because event here in nigeria we are looking at one of our flagship programs to make it a hybrid how can we give people connect in remotely to a hard way look and feel of in person so for me i think it's an opportunity to expand this to have more participation allow people from all over the world to participate as well mr abdullah he will have to leave it there thank you so much for joining us frank use plays.

time now for a look at some of the other business stories making news german vaccine maker biotech is set to provide more coronavirus jobs this year than previously thought the company has increased its production forecast to 2000000000 doses of some $1300000000.00 that's on the basis that an additional dose can be extracted from each vial of the vaccine a new factory will also help capacity. j.p. morgan chase is the latest u.s. bank to suspend political donations in the wake of last week's attack on the cop will it follows similar steps taken by other businesses marriott international said they would not contribute to any republican lawmakers who voted to overturn joe biden's win. 2 out of 5 people would be willing to fly less once pandemic restrictions are lifted that's according to

a survey from the european investment bank the poll of more than $30000.00 people signed up the change in behavior was driven by concerns about climate change. is winning streak appears to have come to another temporary end at least the cryptocurrency posted a double digit drop today with other digital assets like syria also posting steep declines the drop comes after u.s. president elect joe biden promised to spend trillions on pandemic really is a move that lifted the u.s. dollar despite the well documented volatility of digital currencies the mood among institutional investors appears to be shifting. the american bank j.p. morgan is calling it the new gold but it wasn't always like that the banks see you all used to see that crypto currency which were nothing but a fraud even threatening to fire any employees who traded in bitcoin but the bank

changed as the valuation soared now j.p. morgan is watching bit koin climb to dizzying new highs i think the institutional investors are now realizing that this is a real asset class their customers are asking them about it and they had to migrate from saying no don't touch it it's it's bad to. help you buy will help you manage it bitcoin increased 400 percent in value since january 1st it's been reaching record highs since december according to g p morgan because again is gold's loss the bank maintains that many investors saw gold as well as shares in gold funds and they vetted those investments to big coin but is because i'm relieved the new gold opinions in the financial industry differ widely some see because lucent price gains as a speculative bubble that is set to be parsed others see big point as

a sensible way to invest their capital effectively. for more i'm joined by christy plots and founded of the of business christy what do you think is declining your goals. yeah i mean it's certainly a question worth asking and a lot of people are obviously talking about this right now the j.p. morgan chase report last week. basically said that they expect that a lot of investment that would normally have gone into gold will be migrating in into bitcoin in the future now we see this big fall today but that's quite typical of bitcoin and i think the conversation about the fact that we've been having this conversation is really the big win for big coin that people are talking about about this possibility. is there is such thing as a typical bit calling investor i'm assuming it's not our grandparents' right. yeah good question and it's pro pretty good guess yeah i mean of course you can imagine that it's really digital natives that are driving a lot of the popularity and interest around big coin especially over the last 12

years since that showed up on the scene you know we're talking millennia as we're talking the older parts of gen z. you know that are coming of age right now the these are this is a demographic that's really used to online payments and is comfortable with that now that being said in 2020 we saw a lot of institutional interest pick up around bitcoin and that of course is bringing in a new demographic of bitcoin buyers so then we are starting to see you know people that are have been investing in gold for example who are interested in david diversifying their portfolio to include this exciting new new asset even if they're not quite sure what it is that some of the time. space could see thoughts on from the business thank you so let's take you. and finally in the world of business on politics are rarely far apart a fact that one deodorant brand was quick to realize after last week's storming off

the u.s. capitol after this photo of a kind of axe body spray discarded by rioters was treated the company responded saying it condemns the couple's storming and believes in the peaceful transition of power a notion of reassurance for those wondering how their favorite brand of deodorant feels about the state of u.s. democracy. and a reminder of our top story the consumer electronics show in las vegas has gone online for the 1st time in its history due to the cone of virus pandemic the event showcases the latest tech innovations and got jets this year so has $1800.00 exhibitors last month the number of. props up a show from where you can visit our website i d w dot com slash business there on social media as well for me on the team is the back to get.

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