coincidence. where the improbable happened. was the creation of our solar system with our planet is a bit like winning the lottery results in 20. 1 stores or unique stores february 11th oh and b.t.w. . this is news africa on the program today ending child labor millions of children are being forced into working often at the expense of going to school so why are some experts pretty cool off the un's new ambitious goal to aim child labor in 4 years time. and the siege of a hotel in the somali capital mogadishu ended up during our strong gun battle does this latest attack by al shabaab have anything to do with the presidential election cher built a week from today. hello

i'm christine one to it's good to have your company the un ses the co the 19 and they make is putting more children at risk of under-age work and 3 thing decades of progress made at ending the practice of child labor now the un has goal to end child labor by 2025 bets in 4 years time but that target has received blowback for being too ambitious and out of such a group of professors and researches with expertise on the subject say removing children from book is off no help if it will drive them deeper into poverty i'll be having a conversation with an expert from the international labor organization offered this report from cameroon where many children can be seen working on gold mines. and always brings us a 1st report from an eastern cameroon. most science diggin in search of

gold and used. together with his younger brother he walks yes 7 days a week. the boys are never been to school and a new hole they are. standing on the team is again i come for money i work at the mine and maybe i can enroll at school. i also want to buy clothes and shoes. my mother works at the mine with us in cameroon schooling is a mandatory so pairs of have a legal obligation to do could that uterine to make much as was remote communities like this one often don't even have a state run school. the combination of the stream poverty and a lack of educational facilities mean many children simply end up mining gold this region is blessed with minerals but the people here live in misery get children are

always growing up without education. these schools are settled by local n.g.o.s this single classroom serves a community of so 500 children just where hundreds are attracted to. it's hard to stop those who do from skipping class according to their teacher their children are so poor they're disproved to go back to their minds. the children who do come to school often want to run away but my efforts prevent them from doing so if i weren't strict with them they would have disappeared from the classroom. one of these judges who had to do times to do smile and his team. is a member of the local and you to have to get into school. this is families coming to mislike. periods similar children to school.

education is vital because. the children who work in the mines are in great danger because they are at risk of falling down the mine works under the children cannot die if they fall into a shot like that would be a huge loss of the community needs to be aware that the school is the best place for these children. chalo boys illegal in cameroon there are laws that is too so honey we're going to continue this immobile minds but for duke it's all total so you can tell you plenty to get you to the minds. this job is very difficult at the end of the day i'm very tired because it's my mother who are asked me to come and work here i have to do it i can't disobey my mother. like more the deployed to speak towards. the boy his boy is too good to go to school. for no just looking this my insight we need to child's education.

i am joined by amanda may here and yet as she is from the international labor organization and joins us from the cameroon it capitally a one day welcome to the program amanda just firstly we've just seen 2 young boys they have they want to go to school but they can't just give us a sense of how many more children in cameroon are in that very position. actually the the picture income is quite varied the statistics to 2007 and most cases in aerial children are not actually working they're going to school while being involved in child labor so those those kids. are actually to some extent the exception the problem is that when you do 1080 things eventually you have to choose either school or child labor in this case scenario is that school is not an option right amanda we're talking about ending child labor this ambitious target best and say it's by the united nations to end child labor by 2025

in does that sound realistic here. reza recent evaluations have shown that we will it will be difficult because. but also i find that beyond whether it in 20251 thing that is absolutely fundamental to tackle this issue is to take time measures so some measures may be taken maybe not immediately like the one 7th of the sustainable development goal indicates but have to be taken quite fast and most of them in mission of that was forms of child labor and for instance forced labor and more than forms of slavery that can be done that has to be done before 2025 right amanda assam all giving the bat you know this this this this the the approach that you all are taking from organizations like the ilo the u.n.

that it's somewhat and realistic that the that the focus shouldn't be about just removing children from native but rather improving that the conditions within which they have to work just what is your position on that. the thing is when one speaks about child labor we're not talking about children that economically occupied we're talking about things we're talking about a situation that implies danger and almost to the child so it's not because the child is occupied that the ilo when they think of they've obviously maybe sometimes we because we have slogans it does not reflect accurately what the measures have. so when you talk about child labor 1st of all you need to think about poverty you need to think about education you need to be to think about heels about long life learning about the parents access to productive work to a type of work that was chosen and that that's when we talk about the british

a forced labor you need to speak about social protection you also need to tackle gender stereotypes and the effect that has on girls boys and teenagers in the country so he goes way beyond child labor is something that is great on its own i mean that a lot of that aggravates. ok that is amanda that is from the international labor organization thank you so much amanda for helping us understand the subjects in a row more. security forces in somalia have ended a deadly terrorist siege in the capital mogadishu gunmen from the hardest group stormed the popular hotel afrique. say at least 9 people were killed in the attack one of them was a retired general from the army and the general and about $100.00 civilians were evacuated government troops for the militants throughout the night.

we have the 4 militants one who detonated a car and 3 others who broke into the hotel and fought their way here. but we killed them. ok and at the table with me is steve told me. who's covered security on the continent quite extensively told me to have us always so what more do we know about what happened. on sunday the gunmen carried out typical kind of attack where they go for a place high profile place like a hotel in this case afaik hotel using a car bomb using rocket propelled grenades and guns and and stormed the building pretty much where they tried to take over the building for a bit before security forces came in before 4 hours what do we know about who the target of this attack was well like many of the hotels that have been attacked that

al-shabaab has attacked in mogadishu these are places that a few granted by v.i.p.'s by politicians and we know that al-shabaab is is trying to bring down the government so these are the kinds of targets in places where it knows you can get these high profile targets like this general who was killed in this in this. timing now because we do know that a week from today somalia's going to be holding a presidential election does this have anything to do with that not specifically but on the broader scale yes you know. the want to instill fear among people would want to bring down the system so it would make sense that they would try to attack like this but monday's elections coming up. tend to be voted by the m.p.'s the people vote the these and the m.p.'s vote the president so it's going to be difficult to destabilize that process where the m.p.'s are in a secure location able to vote a president say look like that will go ahead ok tell me. right they're not really

going away are they. no i mean they're able to carry out this attack like they've done many times with the same kind of style they even made the announcement on that on one of their radio stations and one of their websites still engage in propaganda carrying out attacks in fact over the past year we've seen from the africa center of strategic studies that al-shabaab attacks have gone up 30 percent over the past year even though the number of deaths have declined but the somali government needs all the help it can get at this time to bring down this threat. because al-shabaab doesn't look like it's going anywhere remains right across many parts of the country we've seen for example the u.s. withdrawing its $700.00 troops and there's been criticism saying somalia still needs support from wherever on its own the somali government looks like it will struggle it does need all the outside help it can get to be able to fight off this threat that's tell me a lot people there that the issue on the developments in somalia with that siege on the hotel has ended and silver. and that is that

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the case that there's no difference between classical and pop music gets into twang . the novel payback point gap in the harrowing lee and captured lakes one hour in a world war 2 under fire. now normally at this time of the year park city utah is teaming with the great and the good of the film industry for the annual sundance film festival well as you can imagine that is not the case this time as for obvious reasons the festival is happening but mostly online sundance is the biggest film festival in america for independent movies and also there's a strong emphasis on documentaries to. film expert scott ross has seen a number of important movies shown so far and joins me now from. scott let's start

with the movie the open the festival in the same breath a topical choice to start the festival and i guess not an easy watch. no. definitely not i mean this is a documentary and it's about last year it's essential about the coronavirus pandemic the director none fooling is chinese but she lives in america and she takes a look at the i guess government and media mismanagement of the cone of bias pandemic both in washington and and in china she looks for example at chinese state propaganda and how it initially downplayed the seriousness of the coronavirus and she provides some pretty compelling evidence that the official death toll in china from kobe is much higher maybe 10 times as high as the official numbers but what i think is very interesting about this film is a wang also looks at america and looks at very sort of scary parallels that that

how in america. fake news spread that led to and locked down demonstrations that really worsened the facts of the coronavirus pandemic in america so this obviously is a credibly topical documentary and i thought it also very very emotional and very moving but it definitely is a comfort watch ok another film created quite a stir is judas in the butler so we showed a clip top of the show tell us more about this film. yeah this is probably the biggest film showing in sundance this year judas and the black messiah it looks at a story from 50 years ago about the f.b.i. infiltration of the black power of the black panther party and also the eventual murder by the f.b.i. of black panther party leader fred hampton and fred hampton is played by yahoo you might know from the film get out here he gets

a sort of astounding early career high performance but i want to cancel a mess amazing about this movie is as i said it's a story from 50 years ago but it could be ripped from the headlines from from from last year i mean it really touches on the hot button topics of american political life right now particularly the black lives matter movement and the debate over the origins of systemic racism this film is premiering in sundance but it's already a front runner for the oscars particularly for daniel and his amazing performance. and the actress robin wright great actress directing her 1st movie starring it as well it looks a bit like a tour de force she seems to be in every frame. yet you know pretty much this is quite amazing the film is called land and as you say it's robin wright's directorial debut the the story she plays the lead and it's a woman who is suffering from trauma who decides to go off the grid and tries to

live basically an isolated life in the wilderness of wyoming and what's interesting about this movie is it's a very unique take on this type of story this isn't i guess the typical male version of the story which is the isolated individual against the wilderness and this is more about our common humanity and this character rob writes character survives because she's helped by others because really of the kindness of strangers and is really a life affirming film robin wright gives an amazing directorial debut. i hear but also as an actress i mean she is literally in every frame of this movie and i think it's a career high performance it's astounding i think again oscar voters will will take note. very briefly all these films are very interesting so the festival is virtual this year does it mean we could all watch these films. yes sadly not if you're in america yes in america in the states you can watch these films online you can buy tickets online and stream them if you're outside the united states you're

unfortunately out of luck you don't have to wait until they either come on to a streaming service near you or eventually hopefully theaters will reopen and some of these great movies will be seen as they should be seen in the cinema score as always a mine of information thanks very much for being with us today. the book paid back by gap bleeding is not only a disturbing reboot when it was originally published in the 1950s it wasn't successful in germany is novels about the 2nd world war one thing exactly popular at that time the book paints on unflinching picture of the savagery of just over one a of the war in a bunker as bombs rained down around. this climbing wall behind me is actually part of a world war 2 bunker where the allied forces were dropping bombs on nazi germany as many as 15000 berliners took refuge here fortunately for most of us today it's impossible to imagine what the air raids were like for most civilians who didn't

have a bunker to run to. pay back by get delayed age is a relentless and excruciating account of a world war 2 air raid on an unnamed german city it's a shock to the system from the very 1st page when the 1st bomb fell the blast hurled the dead children against the wall they had suffocated in a cellar the day before had been laid in the graveyard because their fathers were fighting at the front and their mothers were still missing only one was found but she was crushed under the rubble that was what payback looked like. and then just a few lines later. 100000 people felt their hearts pounding the city had been burning for 3 days since which time the sirens regularly began to wail too late it was as though they were being set off like that deliberately on the grounds that

people needed time to live in between being bombed to pieces that was the beginning . the 70 minutes of warfare described in this novel tear through civilians and soldiers good guys bad guys germans americans russians all tied together by their catastrophic absurd fate author get laid and experienced world war 2 both as a soldier in combat and as a civilian under airstrike he published payback in 1956 but back then most german readers just wanted to forget the war the book wasn't published again for more than 40 years today it's an important tale for anyone who hasn't experienced war and if you have any illusions. about the glories of battle payback were brought up to pieces. the russian german pinnace to his renowned interpretations of and ethics

a team and it was the music of ivan god is he that fostered her interest in the connection between different styles of music meanwhile she's even done our own classical version of the hardcore techno music of scooter which created quite an uproar indeed the more she investigates the more she feels the association between different genres we met up with her recently to find out more. this melody. was originally controls and 1929 and from what we did with this melody. like with.

'd all john a lot of us all pianists know the piano concerto number one but it's your cross keys certain movements which is the famous beginning. and this is a very famous ukraine and folk song which is in russian called we do we divide into that means iran come out lead them together and then the war dancing all together and you see the most famous piano concerto which is performed today on all the stages and so on is basically 2 fold song variation that you can say this is 50

percent folk music i realize how wrong we use the word classical music. a perk office piano sonata which. this is not classical music this is modern music or if we talk about here. this is romantic music this is not classical music and. this. this is classical music and i do play 'd.

i i do play classical music but i play also romantic and contemporary music and also sambar congress last piece is. different melodies are going from different centuries from different countries and how they meet tony inspired different artists to do something new but in the end all of this. doesn't really matter because what music is about is the motion you will never forget the small one that made you cry.

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this is detail the news life from lend me and miles ministry seizes power and declares a year long state of emergency civilian members of government including de facto leader. have been detained as international leaders of the military to restore democracy also on the program germany's leaders meet with vaccine manufacturers amid growing frustration at the slow pace of the country's current 19 vaccination program.

i'm still going to welcome to the program. when wells military has seized power and imposed a year long state of emergency military leaders have also announced a purge about san suu cheez democratically elected government removing and replacing came ministers united nations security council will meet on tuesday to discuss the situation i mean to go widespread international concern and condemnation. after the arrests the power grab military vehicles lined up in me and months capital named pete our soldiers now patrolling the streets a clear sign of who's in control. this was the moment a member of parliament was whisked away in a creek don't raise one of many from aung san suu cheez ruling national league for democracy or any party the door of her home is once more locks she previously spent

nearly 15 years under house arrest in opposition to an earlier period of military rule in a statement suit she denounced the coup was an attempt to quote put the country back under it to taste a ship she urged people not to accept it and to go out and protest. not easy in myanmar but here in thailand beyond modest ex-pats made their allegiances clear honoring suchi hands burning photos of the country's most senior army chief 7. i'm terribly upset i've been crying all day be crying all day he's the bad guy how could he do something like this is that we have to have you. know these are the man now in power they insist the l.d.s. landslide election victory was fraught with a regularities baseless claims according to the electoral commission the coup has

drawn strong international condemnation. it's nothing short of a. deeply disturbing this is unacceptable the international community rejects what is after. their leaders of the world or united. and there were also. legal action. while prairie military supporters free flags and celebration on the streets of myanmar the coup was a setback for many of those little more than a decade after the country began its transition to democracy the army is back in charge. didn't you know you know that you're going to i feel the army assaulted all the people when it states this deal when the civilian government not a government elected by people. i'm not then you i can treat just a bird learning to fly now the army program wings genuine medical.

residents have been queuing at cash machines and rushing to stock up on essential as myanmar is catapulted into an uncertain future. journalist a dave grusin about them is a long time and not observer he joins us from kuala lumpur malaysia well what do the generals want. or what they want is to stay in power and you know they really have had power through it throughout all of this if you look at it through they drafted the current constitution of this country which gave them 20 of the military 25 percent of the seats in parliament guaranteed in addition to whatever their proxy party could win at the ballot box the military was guaranteed 3 ministries ministry of defense home affairs and border affairs so they've really had the power and the civilian government kid could never have no oversight of the military so they have the power so i guess getting more to your question why why this coup well

1st off if you look at the timing why did it happen now this week the 1st session of parliament since the election was due to start which would finalize the election results with the approval of the next governments and they're going to move they really need to make this maneuver by today they try to legitimize it by saying that the election happened in november had widespread election fraud something that has been rejected by the elections commission is rejected by the national unity is and rejected by most of them are people who who believe that it was a free and fair election but the senior gentleman on long he wants to stay in power he was scheduled to retire in july when he gets the mandatory retirement age of 65 but he adds no it's no secret that he has an interest in staying in power whether it's in the military right or it's somehow at some point trying to become the president and what is known of. whereabouts and indeed her condition.

right so there's reports that she's been under house arrest at her home in naypyidaw with with security forces outside of the home but it's not clear exactly what is her condition and what sort of access she has to communication is the talk to other people right now that have been protests from sensor chief supporters in thailand will have an l.d. part of be able to mobilize public support in me and moderate cells well that's that's a really key question here because clearly aung san suu kyi and the enemy has the hearts and minds of the majority of the population m.e.m. are but will these people be willing to demonstrate will they be willing to go outside and peacefully protest the obvious is they don't want violence so would these people at some point would you see it some point mass demonstrations on the streets of yangon the biggest city in the country and elsewhere in the country keep

in mind during the days of the military junta they would put down sometimes demonstrations not only violently but sometimes with deadly force what risks are the people willing to take also on top of that keep in mind a lot of the political activists who you would who would ordinarily organize these sorts of demonstrations many of them have been detained as well so it's not clear who would really help try to leave these types of demonstrations if they were to happen good talking to thank you for that they've grown about a little bit. of the european union vaccine rollout has faced criticism for its slow start but there have been some promising developments drug manufacturers pfizer and its german. announced that planning to increase production by 75000000 doses and german leaders are meeting with vaccine producers to try to speed up the pace of vaccination. and hear more from political correspondent tom aspira welcome told us so what has gone wrong with germany's vaccination program. well the 1st

thing that we have to say is that not everything has gone wrong the vaccination program is under way the government defends the vaccination program the government defends the way in which it has been managed so far obviously there have been issues but in general people still see this with hope as the way out of the pandemic but within this way out of the fund demick there have been very important issues very big problem when it has to do for example with the procurement of the vaccine something that is not entirely in the hands of the german governments i mean there has been done i don't european level and we already saw some people there criticizing in part the way in which that was done whether it should have happened foster whether some of the nation states should have had more power at least more leeway so that's one big area feel the other big area that explains why germany has faced problems when it comes to the vaccination program has to do with the way in which it was organized in the countries where they has been confusion

there has been organized organizational issues that have clearly slowed down the process and that have created tensions between the regional governments and the federal government and that explains in part why they are meeting today regional and federal leaders to try and precisely discuss this discuss and decide on the next few moves i hate so regional national leaders meeting with representatives from the schools industry what's likely to come out of today's so-called vaccination summit. well you mentioned one key element it's not only about this meeting between regional and federal leaders we've had many of those before to talk about the pandemic but in this particular case the exclusive focus is to talk about what has gone wrong and what will happen in the next few months some opposition politicians for example have been asking for a national plan in which the government explains how they will get the vaccine

doses how many they will get in the next few weeks what they can expect until the summer because the government has said that everyone who wants to have a scene will be offered one until the end of the summer so health minister here in the country and spawn has lowered those expectations a bit saying that we'll probably won't have every issue resolved after just one summit but in general the idea is to have better communication and better cooperation between federal and regional leaders but also with the pharmaceutical industry as well and with european commission officials that will also be in attendance and be on the issue of vaccines and how is germany's locked down working . it is working on some of the trends very good so the 7 day incidence rates for example of the daily caseload they are showing the right direction but at the same time there's a lot of concern about these new variants and more and more cases are being reported and that's why this is so important all these meetings are so important

because they will also show the way forward whether germany will be able to leave its lockdown soon whether more restrictions will be necessary and whole how all this goes hand in hand with this very important but very controversial vaccination program thank you for do to respond to tom's. britain has started to accept applications from hong kong others for visas offering a fast track to citizenship the move was introduced in response to china's controversial national security law and it's in suing the crackdown on freedoms on congress with british national overseas status and close family members are eligible for the visa but as d.w. charlotte she also impelled reports for some the path to a new future in the u.k. still presents many difficulties. up until last summer looms wife and his 2 young children have never set foot in england now they've left their jobs their home and their loved ones back in hong kong to start a new life here in the u.k.

. my parents they support communist. they will live if. that means i have to live my mother but i have no choice i have no choice because of my children i have to raise the i have to wear them low the truth they do have the right to live by the law says he's long been concerned about democratic freedoms in hong kong but it was beijing's decision last year to impose a sweeping national security law which proved the final straw. we don't have freedom to speak we are just asking for something we already we should have we we are having before we start to think there is no future in hong kong hundreds of thousands of hong kong as are expected to follow you and his family of the next few years is a leap of faith made possible by new u.k. visa scheme it's open to those born before the british mandate or of hong kong to

china in 1997 as well as their dependence you know if it's some 5000000 hong kong as a pathway to citizenship. so long it's a lifeline but the true test is still to come activists say there isn't enough infrastructure in place to support the arrivals and questions remain if the integration officials admit this is a work in progress clearly there are going to be some challenges there's a lot of work going on to make sure all of the essential things are in place around housing around how to settle and integrate and you know if children go get children in schools that some things are everything you would expect in terms of and now you bring people to settle china has slammed the vizir offer accusing the british government of meddling in internal affairs while others in the u.k. say the scheme doesn't go far enough i welcome the government in providing a safe lifeboat to many hong kong ors but i do feel that those who are not eligible

like me are a bit left out of the scheme douglas is active in the pro-democracy movement he fled hong kong after the security bill was introduced like many activists he was born often 1997 and isn't eligible for the visa without his parents here or his savings are running out and now so too this is tourist visa he'll soon have to leave the u.k. but with kofi travel restrictions in place around the world he and others like him a finding that doors of firmly closed. as we always say during protests no matter we go up or down we go together i hope that those who are eligible for be a know will think about those who are not and bear in mind that some are still struggling to find a safe place to settle. me that douglas nor little know when they'll go back to hong kong. he owns hopeful that his children's futures and now secure.

but for douglas even the next few weeks are unclear. that's it you're up today except brant gulf we'll have more world news of the top of the hour steve will be as a hazard to you don't do business update in just a moment with. a macand that. that's hard and in the end is a me you're not a lot of the year and more we will send you back. are you familiar with this. new smugglers with clients and the what's your story ready. i'm working on was a women especially in victims of violence. take part and send us your story you are

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beers in berlin it's good to have you with us of south africa welcome the 1st. eval of a corona virus vaccine on monday receiving $1000000.00 doses of astra zeneca is job with an additional 500000 expected later this month the country one of africa's largest economies is the hardest hit from the pandemic on the continent leading in both covert 900 case numbers and criticism is growing within south africa over delays in getting the vaccine with leaders blaming global demand for the slow roll out. there among the wealthy economies racing ahead of south africa to get the vaccine the e.u. but there things haven't gone so smoothly the slow delivery of jobs across europe has come in for a lot of anger recently both beyond tech and astra zeneca have now promised to do supplies of their vaccines to the e.u. in coming weeks but still germany is holding a vaccine summit to address what some are calling a scandal. germany's vaccination effort is off to

a painfully slow start at this 3 some fear it will be 2 years before a majority of germans can get the job it's a heavy blow for a country that one global praise for contain the virus and the 1st half of 2020 it wasn't supposed to be this way much larger quantities were ordered but vaccine manufacturers have fallen far behind on deliveries to both germany and the e.u. to supply bottlenecks after sharp criticism from leaders companies are now working to make up the shortfall germany's biotech agreed monday to provide the e.u. with up to 75000000 additional doses in the 2nd quarter a day earlier british swedish company astra zeneca agreed to provide an extra $9000000.00 doses even so the e.u. is expected to get just half of the $80000000.00 doses it was promised by the end of march. we have made good progress sure we now have

a difficult phase in february and march without a question and the 2nd quarter the johnson and johnson vaccine will also become available d. and the pharmaceutical companies will have by then overcome the initial difficulty is so we can then expect significantly more vaccine doses can if wealthy countries like germany are having trouble securing back scenes poor countries are at an even bigger disadvantage according to public health experts they see with seated now as mass mobilization of manufacturing capacity around the world. but this should really be a global global approach many of the large scale manufacturers are actually based in the developing countries the production capacity that exists should be exploited now should now be used and there were a connection capacity can be built we need to make investments to make that happen . building out new facilities will take time patience and money

a year into the coronavirus pandemic those are in short supply. over the markets now where the precious metal silver appears to be the latest target of the game stop crowd that is the coordinated groups of retail investors who pushed that video game chain to new heights last week or so for prices surged at the start of this week they've been driven a 6 month highs after users on reddit message boards organize an investment pile on us like last week retail investors say they want to deal blow to big banks who they accuse of keeping silver prices artificially low but many others in the forums deny a coordinated plan for silver trading. now earlier we spoke with markets analyst michael hewson he warns that metals trading is quite different from stock trading take a listen. well judging by the narrative trying to squeeze the big banks supposedly big short positions and precious metals prices but they're in danger of putting off

an awful lot more than they can chew the supermarket is a completely different animal to something say like where 120 percent of the free flow is still out on love and therefore it's much easier to drug that products now prices have gone back to where i was last seen in august last year and actually constantly about that. trying to drive silver prices at the same time for i say for example a stock is a much more risky strategy and probably more likely to. markets analyst michael hughes and there over to africa and ethiopia in particular where agriculture is the largest sector of the economy employing over 80 percent of the labor force the most farmers sell to their local markets with very few of them able to export their products despite the economic sense of incentives rather that come with export and here's a look at one social enterprise that sell trying to bridge that gap and get to

could be to used to sell matson cut on the local market in the town of. but now his lemon grass of a card was in lavender being sold as far away as europe accessing the export market has increased his income. mother used to earn $15000.00 beer per year with cuts but no thanks to god i can easily get $70.00 to $80000.00 beer per year from lemon grass an avocado now we have a bank account with the money i can educate all my children. for the past 5 years get to has been working with a social enterprise called green path the company sells seeds and seedlings to farmers then buys all yields that fit export standards. currently green beans make up to 70 percent of the exported produce. space going to put a greenpeace says the size. of. a spake is between 7 to 9000000 it could be you may face the kind of. but. these.

rejection is. good parts of the export prices can reach up to 5 times local market rates but for you feel pain smallholder farmers there are many challenges to access in the international market green path acts as an intermediary in your. market value is your name possible for you ever smaller and then even if the do manage the relatively small volume that they're producing. that is playing us or wrong it's really critical as well and have a really good strong cold chain and that's. all those. products are grown organically and labeled according to their exact origin and incentive for consumers abroad who are paying increasing attention to traceability. there's a huge amount of demand and excitement for small birds and for public that's you know. unfriendly ways for small business or. you for many of them all they can use

kind of a sort of as a proxy for that but that's changing and more and more people want to sort of look beyond the certification and really understand where they're coming from despite the country's huge potential initiatives to link smallholder farmers to the export market are very limited need the opiate administrative and logistical challenges still represent major obstacles for the sector. right that piece sent to us by correspondent. and she joins me from addis ababa maria good to have you on the show as we saw the story of one farmer there really taking advantage of this program how many other farmers in ethiopia are able to take advantage of such a program for. well 1st pacifically green path which is the social enterprise that's featured in the video is working with more than 220 you farmers in ethiopia which is a real impact but at the scale of the country and is still quite limited and the

truth is there are still many challenges for european farmers to accessing the export market 1st the 1st one is logistics so access to a proper cooling tame that requires 1st of all constant access to electricity and a good cooling truck and then there is also the problem of you know good paved roads that are not available in many rule ethiopian areas and if you're going does not have an direct access to the sea so companies kind of have to work with that and then another aspect is the fact that many european farmers are still small holders so the quantity that they will produce it will often not be interesting enough for investors and then finally the fact that the standards for export products are much stricter than through the local market so for example a green being or an avocado will have to have a specific size color or even type so this requires a proper training but also access to the seeds which is often difficult for you and

partners so considerable hurdles just to get access to those overseas markets but there lucrative once you make it what does that mean for living standards for these communities. yes so the average joe if you can smallholder farmers part we will have a few hectors of land if you will grow tariff we are maybe even chats but the income that this thread generates is still quite moderate and so being able to sell the growth also means selling at significantly higher prices and so the fire that i interviewed in the report for example was saying that he's able to send some of his children to university this is not always necessarily the case with a lot of children having to start their education at some point to help the family on the farm and support the family and with the additional income this also means they're raising living standards so for example maybe having a bigger house access to that water or diversifying the food that they are you doing which sounds very basic wood but which really makes a difference and rule if you can get of course in addition to the export of

products and farmers can also continue to sell locally on the market and so employ more people and kind of create a virtuous cycle that that or i do to be course one of the really good glasgow in addis ababa thank you so much thank you for that there in the street 2021 was supposed to be the year that the industry began to take off again but with many vaccine campaigns lagging as we saw earlier the outlook is dimming and airlines are now changing their forecasts. the easter season is known as a time of bringing the dead back to life after a dismal 2020 for the airline industry ryanair officials had set their sights on this spring for a similar resurrection now that optimistic timeline is being extended because an investor call the c.e.o. of ryanair pointed to what he called a dramatic recovery later in the year thanks to cover $1000.00 vaccination programs

would you buy these groups there should be. that is. the sum of the use of the beach in portugal spain greece and italy and certainly there's a short. this reassessment comes after ryan air an ounce to its expecting its worst annual performance ever with a forecasted loss of nearly a 1000000000 euros that would be 5 times worse than its previous worst year on record in 2009. but ryanair maintains that it's well positioned for future recovery given its focus on shorter continental flight at a time when especially long haul business travel has collapsed. and finally are you perhaps drinking a bit more alcohol at home than before the pandemic surveys show you're not alone now in the us german breweries are struggling their 2020 sales dropping by 5.5 percent because of the lockdown mandated closures of bars restaurants and beer gardens very important for their profits last spring and again this winter events

including germany's world famous october fest were also cancelled only retail sales did well with more people having their beer at home. that's it for me and the business team here in the lead as always thanks for watching. they dreamed of more rights and more freedom freedom. than. did you choose women in the arab spring we thought in 2007 that would be going forward we are going to. cover one story of the fight for liberation as told by 3 courageous women. of rap part 2 coats of. 60 minutes. they was there what makes the devil who's

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