same point to social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press. we can afford to stay silent when it comes to the fans if you don't see the microphones who have decided to put their trust in us . my name is jenny paris and i work. from here. this is news africa coming up on the program it's a problem with wes and by the covert 19 pandemic resources to go right to keith's child my rage on a bus train we go to commerce where one in 3 goes this falls tomorrow. also coming up. the g 5 somehow summit and with a list from a since we asked how significant these will be in this section for peace.

welcome to the program child early on forced marriage is an abuse of human rights and a major obstacle to the fulfillment of women's and girls' potential too often it results in an end to the education and health complications and it puts them out high i risk of encountering discrimination on volunteers throughout their lives now that's steve men's from the united nations resolution adopted last november as the cold 19 pandemic where since this situation the u.n. just member states to act but as you're about to hear girls saw still often risk. my dear a daughter was just 18 years old when she was married all from a home he a model how paternal uncle said my good out to

a 26 year old man in exchange for money he had booed and could not be back. my dearest father had passed away and according to tradition in the north how mother did not have a c. about the marriage they don't read them and i returned from school one day and i was told from today you will no longer go to school we are sending you to your husband's house tonight i said no and my mother did not want me to go but my uncle insisted that i must go if it were. a child marriage is widespread in cameroon according to a trend of 14 soviet over 20 percent of girls were really muddied between the ages of 15 to 19 my dear at least we'd a husband for 5 years before she was thrown out and we talk to kids since then she has been renting a wife will flood here our walks us and me 20 kilometers a week. i suffered a lot there. he beat me up and didn't give me food. he did

a lot of horrible things to me when i was with him would he have banton me with the children and slept out frequently. sometimes he came home with a woman and would say go away i want to spend time with my woman. granted if you are. here to morrow some survivors of forced marriage i helping people to understand and damaged on one of them is i desire my love. she was also married it seems. this is now an activist fighting against each how weakly campaign targets parents and young girls today she's speaking to a group of mothers. and their sons to be awareness is very important because i have noticed that women are no longer being badly influenced and sending their children into forced or early marriages they are now strong willed these women are creating awareness just like us some of these women are counseling others who come to seek

help at our center i live if. i desire was a comp enough one and you can but in any marriage incomers not in regions says 99 to one the organization is restaurateur thousands of girls from early marriage in time a rude 49 year old i said tamara is the head. in 2019 she want to 1st one bill price for activism. with all the consequences that come with forced marriages it's important that we fight to make sure no girl goes through that practice. because let's be clear that sending a girl child to an early marriage is simply a very bad thing to do. pretty to your oh my dear as to what an early marriage to mean now she too has joined the fight to educate people about the risk. we shall start to care of our 2 children

from on this i am now joined by the qatari mumble here head of africa is men's are girls not bra it's the global partnerships and child marriage hello and welcome you bet so how serious is the issue of forced child marriage across africa thanks eddie and hello to you too it's a very serious issue we have over 650000000 women alike who are married before they turned 18 in africa the problem is a 35 percent so therefore something that we really need to address and need to address as soon as possible. so we understand that forced marriages are on the rise what impact has the coven $1000.00 pandemic had on it. un if he actually estimates that we'll have an additional $10000000.00 guns will be married before the age of 18 because of course it so you're looking at

a country like new share where we have 6776 percent. of girls who've been married before the age of 18 and then add an additional number that this is really going to be a catastrophe for girls being able to achieve their full potential in education in health and in everything that they want to do in like. see i would like us to be more solution oriented here what can actually be done to prevent forced child marriage bearing in mind the cultural perspective also read as child marriage happen at the it happens within the communities so what needs to be done is to ensure that the communities are walking with all this it was a set at nest all the government initiatives that have been put in place to ensure marriage in the 4 ways that i want to suggest one is we need to empower girls we need to make sure that they know that they actually can access their rights without free fear of getting married fear of getting harmful practices like f.d.m.

and others then we need to empower those who are on the cards like their families their parents that teach us so that they're able to support these girls to be able to leave names that don't limit them because of marriage when they're not crazy to get married the sad thing we have to do is to implement the laws and policy has to close and obvious is that we have an africa that protect that god chad we need to have those implemented we need to harmonize the laws that prevent us from accessing their rights and the last thing that we need to do is ensure that they get services so for example if an adolescent girl that wants to access services she needs to get access to that service and i think the 4 things done together with the support of the community would help us and child marriages in africa and beyond because i have to emphasize it's a global problem child marriages do not only happen in africa that is well noted

your vet cattery amount more here that of africa engagements are girls not rights the global partnership to end the forced child marriage many thanks for your time. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines across the continent gun a man has stormed a school and kidnapped dozens of students and teachers in central nigeria the incident happened in the town of night just 8 late on tuesday the identity of the attackers is not yet known if. depicted as a hero in the film. and they're caught in kigali. faces terrorism charges related to establish in the national liberation forces rebel group this is the 6 year old united supporting. south africa has begun vaccinating its health workers and using the johnson and johnson over 19 shot

a country switch to visit scene after concerns that the. initially purchased would not effective enough. now france and 5 west african nations have agreed to step up the military presence in the sahara region do we need to do some it chad announced it would send $1200.00 troops france promised to maintain its deployment in the flashpoint zone with support from the grow in he would be enforce that in addition to an existing force in the region don't us a g 5 so what will this bring about the much needed peace stop this iow neat. joining me now is. she's the head of this i help program for security studies in. what effect will this have on the ground. well. this isn't step came out of this week 78 in the interim and our significance in

many aspects 1st of all the. authorities announced the deployment of of an additional $100.00. troops especially to cover a part of the. border area that has been under high insecurity pressure for the past month so there seems to be a renewed commitment from 7 states to support each other in 20 in improving security in this critical area that has been particular focus put also on them on the need to accompany military efforts with development and diplomatic efforts this is very important because the need for america to then mention all approach that also acknowledges the need to improve the. living conditions of local communities has been carrying recommendation far from all up service by us now so if this can

now turn into more practice more proactive intervention by several states as well as there are international counterparts of course this is something very important thing and significant now of course the other challenge is that a lot has been said in the past and actions sometimes what what are missing so it will be interesting to see in the next few months whether whether and to what extend these statements turn into actual changes on the ground exactly or as the saying goes action speaks louder than words now the main challenge seems to be that the civilian countries are open to negotiate with the jihadist molly for instance already reached out but france is totally against that so how can there be significant progress moving forward. that is a thing only one of the major challenges so another major challenge is of course the need to strengthen quite a nation between these actors and this cause the nation is of course military and

the fact that more and more european and western in general countries are engaging on a military on military terms in the region is significant an increase is that this needs for coordination but of course as you rightly mentioned there is also need for quite a nation in the strategy that's being adopted manin authorities have been exploring the possibility of negotiating with some of these groups which they consider as ultimately being a portion of their citizens who are protesting against some forms of our political challenges so there will be need fox for more discussions and and more coordination and agreement among international partners but essentially at the end of the day countries remains i mean remain in the lead to determine what their own strategy will be. at other site help program out institute for security studies in

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we'll tell you why. but 1st it was the memoir that shocked the world the true story of christiane a f a german teenager who financed her heroin addiction through prostitution the now 40 year old book and subsequent movie have now been turned into a series we children from bonhoeffer saw the amazon coproduction takes us inside the lives of desperate youths who once gathered at westboro winds zoo train station . it was it was. the reboot of the eighty's classic christiane that it's a coming of age story with a twist the series doesn't just focus on the original film protagonist cristiana it tells the story of a group of teenage addicts and their desire to rebel against conformity sets in seventy's and eighty's when. the original book and the

1981 cult film both focus on the cycle of substance abuse prostitution and drug related crime christiane gets caught up and. peeped through. the series tells the story of christiana i have friends over a number of years. she grew up in a housing estate on the outskirts of the parents were constantly fighting. at the sound disco she meets like minded people who become her new replacement family together they like to push each other's limits. my cristiana the way i played her likes to test her limits and to experience as much as possible she wants to feel as much as possible. and she has

a strong desire to connect with other people to connect with. life and those around her and that's the path she follows. in you saw the movie. we children from so there's an unrelenting depiction of teenage descent into addiction 6 young people 6 very different fates all trying to find themselves ringback c. the series while not shying away from the sometimes fatal consequences of drug addiction and tries to distinguish itself from most conventional films about drugs . and the parts of the story that are heightened have to do with emotional states we didn't want it to be so much the drug rush that's depicted but rather what's going on inside the character. your.

we children so that's the difficult line between fascination and repulsion. this 40 year old story has been given a timeless update. and the new series is out this week here in germany with global release dates you have to follow my colleague james jackson got a sneak peek and he's here to tell us more ok james though but let's go back to the original movie for people who haven't seen it what made the original cristiana have so special so christiane that really broke the mold in german cinema because a lot of german films that are popular internationally they have to deal with really big moments in history like the nazi dictatorship or the cold war the christiane f tells a very possible story which is as you mentioned based on a true story. of christiane a young girl and her sort of dissents now it's become a cult classic and i think part of that is the realism the gritty realism part of

it of course is the soundtrack for david bowie that also makes a cameo performing in the file right. of course that's part of what made it so big internationally. how is the t.v. series different other than the fact that david bowie's not in it well i would say you can tell from the titles actually because christiane f. the old film is just based on christiane it's very possible the camera just focuses and the whole time was the new one we children from bahnhof so folks is a whole range of characters christiane as friends who were real people and this they wanted to tell the real story i think it's very modern looks very expensive very slick some of the club scenes. you know apart and they built a whole club and prague just to film it looks very different from the original dingy rather dingy low budget film. this time it's all actors it's not it's not real life drug users and sex workers like in the original movie i understand what

you write what did you make of the series you've read you've seen it i've seen a and to be honest i've got mixed feelings because there was some elements i really liked how how good it looked a lot of people said that the main actor looked a lot like cristiana the real cristiana i appreciate they took some risks with how they showed the drug sequences with the club but it also kind of lacked some of the gritty realism from a. particularly the music stood out i kind of lost my focus because they had music not just from the seventy's or just modern but from all over the shop and it didn't feel very consistent i think they could have done something a bit cooler than some the costing decisions also i would say confused me a bit because the christiane who plays it she's 22 years old and she's meant to be playing you know 1415 year old her parents really don't look much older than i thought maybe when i 1st saw them i thought of is that the brother and sister so i mean that was a bit of a problem but otherwise i'd say it's worth watching for original founds of the film

but it takes a little while to get going and i'm worried that people are going to lose focus by then ok james jackson thanks very much. this year germany is celebrating its 17th century long jewish history dating back to the 1st evidence of jewish life here in the year 321 and this week we're taking you to jewish cultural sites across germany today the city of holland were jewish community members survived what nearly became the country's worst anti-semitic town attack and decades. on october 9th 2019 on the jewish holiday yom kapoor heavily armed neo nazi tried to storm the synagogue the strength of the to save the worship is inside but failing to gain entry to the attack and then shot 2 others dead today in the oriel stands to commemorate the victims. diana matteucci lives in hama and grew up in a jewish household at the time of the attack she was in oxford england researching

music she was deeply shaken by the events and i was always one of those people who said that it's really important for the jewish community to be open and welcoming and to be as transparent as possible. as. well time has proven me wrong. and special and body at. work for many years the east german city paid little attention to its almost 1000 years of jewish history in former communist east german times the subject was to be dynamite who finds this all the more reason to keep jewish heritage alive. in the womb of the protestant community centers she discovered a grave stone from the middle ages. to he or she might like the 3 to flip jewish medieval cemetery was dissolved back in the 16th century so it's possible that this stone was found in the rubble somewhere. dug out by workman and then placed

here i am glad i did this is in here we see a name engraved the name as referenda the event behind it we see but. as a teenager diana marked with jewish classics on her parents' picture else she studied western need each new original language of jews in germany and research is western huge songs. mishap in light of unforseen i was always fascinated by the fact that these are not the texts in the music of the synagogue of the liturgy in the hebrew . but that these are the songs that everyone knew and everyone sang and would you dogs all had. there was a very. popular songs of the early modern period last

culture back to life. through her music and research which has become something of an expert in judaism when it comes to her. showing us around the historic jewish symmetry she describes its eventful past that's just this is the oldest gravestone in the cemetery. here you can see very clearly that it's been engraved with a big number one this brings us to the end of the 17th century right to the time when jewish people were being allowed to return and resettle in holland we don't. want to hear that and it is. it was not a sign of tolerance reaching needed people like wealthy jews to come in and help rebuild the area following times of war. the importance of the jewish population in the city didn't protect them from the rise of national socialism it wasn't until

the 1980 s. 2 was the end of the g.d.r. the memorials for the trustees of the nazis against the jewish population were rented these victims didn't fit into the heroes of the communist resistance image of the g.d.r. still judaism in holland is not just history diana mottled is pleased that the jewish community is becoming more open despite the attack she's convinced that diversity is essential for a vibrant jewish life. one last story before we go it's considered the pinnacle of chinese ceramics incredibly rare and mythologized for centuries a legendary wine of porcelain known as rule where produced for the emperor's court for a brief period just about 20 years now dresden germany has confirmed a once over a week looked piece of its collection is in fact. this simple jade green bowl is an international art sensation the rare roo where ball

from china is almost 1000 years old and worth an estimated 40000000 europe's. because i know it's a sensation for dress down for germany for europe but i think also for china there are really so few examples left from these kilns and it's just wonderful that we now have a ball like this in a german collection. only 88 complete pieces have survived to this day the ball was acquired for the dresden porcelain collection in 1927 but initially believed to have been from korea its true origin was discovered recently by chance . on that site often heard from since 2014 we've been researching the historical inventory of augustus the strong with the help of 30 international specialists and so we were in contact with many experts who visited us frequently to examine pieces and they also looked around in our storage to see what else we have tried as early as 2018 colleagues from the palace museum in beijing thought this could be

a genuine rue ceramic find current of its authenticity has now been established such pieces were made exclusively for the emperors of the song dynasty in the 11th century the simple pottery has become an icon of chinese culture. makes you nervous seeing someone touch something so valuable 40000000 euros anyway that's it for this arts and culture scenes and. the front.

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held hostage by her family calls for international intervention. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program. niger defense ministers have begun a 2 day virtual summit to consider the alliance's future in afghanistan it's the 1st such meeting since the us election meeting the may deadline for troop withdrawal set by the trump white house is now end doubt the ministers will discuss whether to continue the fight against the taliban or withdraw their troops even as the taliban increases its attacks against afghan police and civilians after the 1st day of meetings nato secretary general mentioned altenburg laid out the alliance his plans for their mission in afghanistan. we will only leave and the time is right and the focus now is how can we support the peace efforts the peace talks and

the re and the joists. relaunch the new strength and new momentum in the peace talks because that's the only part of the piece. as you know we went into afghanistan together. nato allies partners and united states after $911.00 we have made decisions on adjusting our presence together and we will also make the decision when the time is right to leave together let's go over dinner was brussels bureau chief alexandra from naaman welcome alexandrian stoltenberg that doesn't sound like a man getting ready to pack his bags. not at all indeed and he robert stressed that before we can think about a withdrawal the taliban had to have to stop the violence stop their attacks and that they have to stop supporting international terrorist groups so he is in favor

or he stressed during his press conference that it is important that the potential withdrawal will be based on conditions on the ground and that is something that we also heard from some defense ministers today from the german defense minister for example who said that she didn't see enough progress in the peace talks between the government in kabul and the taliban and it's also very telling that the fence minister are not going to make a formal decision on the date and that is also very telling because it shows us that there are probably going to set aside them a deadline right. ministrations 1st meeting so what did we learn of the new defense secretary. well before the meeting even start to already make clear that he was bringing a message of for

a new partnership to this nato conference he said that the u.s. was going to lead to again that they were good teammates and that they wanted to consult to give or to decide together and to act together and this was a message that. very happy to hear however we also have to stress that differences will remain for example over the issue of burden sharing. burden sharing a quick word on donald trump who very publicly chastised other nato countries particularly germany about spending insufficient amounts on defense is the administration might be to maintain pressure. yes that is certainly what we can expect that will be keeping that pressure pressing european allies to spend more. for example germany are far from reaching the 2 percent goal and sold fronts

totenberg addressed this issue as well in his press conference saying that las have to spend more not to please the united states but because it's important for they own security thank you that's our example from norman brussels take a look at some other stories making news around the world will start in me a moment demonstrators have gathered in the largest number so far to demand an end to military rule thousands of people returned to the streets of miramar cities to oppose the february 1st 2 and the removal and detention of elected leader on some suchi. government has stormed a school in central nigeria and kidnapped dozens of students and some teachers stuff say one student was shot dead in the attack large numbers of men in militia uniforms a horde took students from the government signs college in kagawa in ny just days a few managed to escape russia has rejected the european court of human rights his

call to release jailed opposition figure alexei in the valley europe's top human rights court said keeping mr novelli in prison is a breach of the european human rights convention of the united nations and great britain according for evidence that a missing dubai princess is alive concern for shaken the teeth of the daughter of the leader of the united arab emirates is growing after her friends she had secret video recordings in which she claims she's being held hostage in a barricaded villa. a troubling new video has emerged from dubai this land of oil wealth. and i'm a hostage and this village has been converted into a jail by the windows are barred shut it can't open any window open by myself solitary confinement. no access to medical help every day i am worried about my safety man. don't you know something similar situation. princess

a teacher is one of the daughters of dubai's billionaire ruler shaikh mohammed bin rashid al maktoum it's believed he has dozens of children from several wives princess letty for has already made 2 unsuccessful attempts to flee her father's family last year the high court in london heard testimony from princess higher their role as former wife the judge concluded that the billionaire ruler of dubai was responsible for the abduction and forced return of 2 of his daughters. these videos were recorded on a phone metaphor was secretly given about a year after her capture and return to dubai now she's disappeared a u.n. investigation is underway so what needs to happen is that the u.n. needs to have a very serious meeting directly with those. holding princes their children at the highest level and make sure that an agreement is

reached so that she can be released and the rights to be restored lucky. has wanted to be free all her life and i'm not satisfied until let's face it out 6 travelled to a country where choice and. and and get the freedom that she's always wanted. some are calling for world leaders and dignitaries to reconsider their relationship with the u.a.e. and its ruling family. this is a country that is the world and the training people will be on those beaches in the by a few 100 meters away from where the paper is essentially in solitary confinement a hostage. it can only be hoped that international pressure will not come too late for the missing princess let's look at this closely with dr matthew had just from the school of governments and international affairs and done university in the u.k. he was imprisoned in the usa for 6 months after being accused of spying for the

british government welcome to day w m you've said that princess latif is cases brought back the trauma of your experience there and back in 2018 what do you see as the parallels between your experience and has. firstly and fundamentally it's the abuse of justice and any form of accountability in this case towards 'd not one but russia there's no legal case against princess pretty for she was you know obvious charity detained in international waters much like a sister who was you know kidnapped from the u.k. . with tacit support of you know members and people within the u.k. . and it's just a serial abuse of power. and can we speculate about why prince mohamed might be acting in this way. shaikh mohammad bin ziad the rule of tobias is he seems to be losing

a serious not of power and control both domestically within his own family but also within the federation of the u.a.e. is power has has subsided. at the abu dhabi ruling family has increasingly take control and chairman rush it seems he doesn't seem to be able to lead properly and effectively he's. he's in acting he's ruling at his own women this is a very dangerous path to go down because people's human rights are being seriously abused and it's only because these these videos and evidence is coming forward that anyone knows that this is happening and i'm struggling to make that connection between the sort of a power play within the region and kidnapping his own daughter not for the 1st time what again what why do you think they're why does he act like this

he feels as though he can get away with it he feels as though that no one is pushing back against him domestically internationally you know countries like like my only u.k. continues to do business with them there is no form of accountability and justice in my own case you know the u.k. government didn't appropriately intervene they didn't try to support me i didn't have any form of interaction with my embassy for 2 months whilst i was being psychologically tortured and held against my will in a similar way to which process the tif is being held against her own will but she has no protection she has no martie national they could be doing anything to and we just we simply don't know the ukraine's positioned in this it is interesting isn't it because we have the united nations and great britain calling for princess latif was released why is why is britain taking such a leading role in this are like to ask is the u.k.

actually standing forward and demanding any form of accountability for princess that. did the foreign secretary actually come out and and demond a form of. of knowledge and understanding about his situation or was he merely stating that there should be or that there could be some form of sign of life you know is that proof that she's even alive i know it's quite a dramatic statement to make but at this point no one knows her safety and whereabouts so do you think the british government is just play acting at this. absolutely they unless there is enough pressure placed upon them they will not do it they they have far too many interests you know with with the ruler of dubai and and the u.a.e. to do anything of to to make any form of intervention. you know there are deep deep

ties between the u.k. and the u.a.e. . the foreign minister of state for the middle east at the foreign office is now the chairman of the emirates society through the u.a.e. embassy in london you know that this is just a just one minor example of those connections between the 2 countries it's unlikely the u.k. will do anything to jeopardize that relationship but now this is gone as far as the united nations that the spotlight is very much on dubai it's clearly not going to go away. it won't go away. you know somehow in russia he is his actions have become public you know last year not in the london high court again to share with the evidence of the abuse against prince of the teeth. but it's all well and good os highlighting these events what's happening but unless there's any accountability in any justice any form of sanctions or punishment or some form

of pushback against this type of behavior. well we're doing is enabling it to a car and this is not just against dubai and it's one person the ruler of dubai but also what about the entire country where this justice is continued that this is not something which happens rarely if this is this is a regular occurrence and it's only through these extreme examples that it can be known thank you for joining us dr matthew hedges from durham university thank you very much and look after your teeth i'm you may get a good 70 to 80 years use out of them but no amount of brushing or flossing can guarantee they'll see survive as long as these scientists analyzing these 1000000 year old woolly mammoth bonus x. revealed by melting siberian permafrost as global temperatures rise of the extract d.n.a. from the reconstruction has given them

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and for the 1st time that google will pay news that stands for journalistic content . towns coronavirus checks on a german check order are causing havoc for commuters and businesses. this is deemed only business on paper given welcome to the program. ryanair has lost its court battle against state age granted to airlines sweep the general course of the european union rules that the measures are compatible with e.u. law rejecting bioneers claim that the funds gave competitors an illegal advantage during the pandemic many airlines have been handed a lifeline in the form of state 8 take germany's for example it's been given around 10000000000 euros to make it through the pandemic air france got almost as much and alitalia has also benefited from almost 3000000000 euros in

stage 8 the scandinavian carry has received a lot less just under 200000000 euros went to sweden's s.a.'s as well as norwegian airlines ryanair which like other privately held airlines has received nothing says it will appeal the ruling financial correspondent charles de laney sent us her assessment well airlines here in europe are likely breathing a sigh of relief today after the court's decision many european airlines are still on life support and are very much dependent on this type of state aid that was confirmed today by one of the one of europe's top courts ryan air for its part is saying that they will appeal the decision and they do still believe that these type of bail outs are distorting competition and the market right now has also filed about 14 other cases that are still yet to be ruled out and so this is

a positive sign for the airlines that state aid will be upheld but there are still many more legal cases to come. for months farmers across the horn of africa have been battling swarms of locusts authorities say the pests are partially to blame for a looming food crisis in the region in kenya the response was initially haphazard with a lack of aircraft and a shortage of pesticides a major problem but now 8 slick new operation is promising to turn things around. the locust hunt starts at dawn pirate kieran allan wants to track down the pests before they settle in the fields here in central kenya where they'll eat away all the crops when alan gets a call from the locust control center on the ground he heads to where the swarms are gathering a community in the foothills of mount kenya has reported a swarm the pilot calls in a plane which will arrive in

a few minutes to spray the bugs with pesticides everything has to happen quickly to stand a fighting chance against the plate. a year ago in february 2020 we have 2 aircraft in kenya able to spray and very very minimal crew quantity of basic sight no one can you know we have 10 aircraft operating so the time the time not between the moment we can sports there's a locusts and the moment we can treat is much faster which means that the damage or so he's very reduced on the vegetation on by you most of. the world food organization is working with a company that's developed software to track these locust swarms. it collects data via a special hotline which village heads and trained scouts around the country call to report locust sightings. you know our approach is completely being changed by by good day to avoid time of day to avoid accurate. and you know without certainly for

kenya in this way we've stopped we've stopped 80 percent getting back into the bread basket where last year we were dealing with a very different situation. but despite all the successes there are still millions of insects attacking the fields here in memory one mount kenya the farmers are fighting desperately to save their harvest to save their livelihoods. before the locusts we used to harvest 25 bags from an acre of maize but now we don't expect anything because they eat everything completely we don't expect to harvest anything this time around. the locusts can multiply 20 fold every 3 months for the insect hunters it's a race against time. time now for a look at some of the other business stories making news taiwan's health minister says he fears political pressure from china may be behind the country's failure to

secure 5000000 doses of the violent tech vaccine the deal fell through in the last stages of negotiation the german company has struck an exclusive deal with shanghai based soon pharmaceuticals to bring the vaccine to china. in the european union a sales of new cars were down almost a quarter in january compared to the year before strict lockdowns and economic upheaval cause especially big declines in new vehicle registrations in both germany and spain. at the games has filed a formal antitrust complaint against apple to the european commission the game developer has been battling with the i phone maker for months it was temporarily kicked off the app store after trying to get around apple's 30 percent by using in the payment scheme. instead. representatives of germany's retail tourism and hospitality industries have told economy minister peter i to maya they're unhappy

with lockdown measures in a conference call they complained that state support haven't been paid out fast enough 65 percent of retailers in say she centers on a quarter of tourism operators face bankruptcy berman says it will expand government aid and create a hardship fund german sports equipment maker says it will sell its u.s. subsidiary reebok after struggling for years to lift the bronze fortunes. reebok for 2800000000 in 2006 to help it compete with arch rival nike but it's performed mostly sluggishly through acts. and news that channel 7 and channel 9 have struck licensing deals with google to pay for original at journalistic content according to industry sources google will pay each media company $30000000.00 australian dollars a year the country's treasurer josh frydenberg described the deals as a world 1st. it's

a 1st in the world of content and it will resonate all over the globe major australian news outlets will get paid a fair price by google for featuring i'm linking to their stories on google's news platform heels trillian government has welcomed the deal struck between the large local broadcasters channel 7 and channel mine on google. this is a historic moment a world 1st the digital giants entering into negotiations and agreements with this strike news media businesses to pay for original content. this will help sustain public interest journalism in this country for years to come. despite the deals frydenberg said parliament would go ahead with plans to introduce a lot. giving the government power to effectively forced google and social media giant facebook to negotiate fair payment for news outlets content or have fees set

for them. google and facebook had threatened to pull their services from australia if the news media bargaining code was implemented as. the tech giants feared the law down on could set an international precedent google is already under pressure from authorities elsewhere in the world to pay for news. the czech republic has one of the highest coded 19 infection rates in europe with new variants of the virus causing particular concern the government has declared a state of emergency in an attempt to curb the spread. in a further development since sunday coronavirus inspections have been in place at the german czech border making life harder for commuters and businesses there haven't been border controls near the german city of to tell for years until last sunday truck drivers now need to have a negative coronavirus test and register electronically before they're allowed to cross into germany. this drive this truck isn't registered he has to take his 40

ton nori back to the czech republic about a surge of trucks have been turned away. the next driver has everything he needs a negative 1000 test and the electronic registration will run his smartphone. the border controls are an imposition according to the spokes person for to tell us chamber of commerce. like most people in the business world he can't keep up with all the new regulations. we follow the new regulations on a daily and hourly basis. and i have to say honestly that we're no longer in a position to competently inform our business community about the current situation we have to reckon with changes every hour and that becomes a burden. with. the schengen agreement did away with border controls within the e.u.

with few exceptions the czech republic signed up to it in 2007 southeastern germany is now closely into woven economically with its neighbor through businesses like the plastic concept company on the german side of the border it makes plastic parts for cars but the coronavirus restrictions mean chief executive demo is now missing 10 of his employees from the czech republic the company prides itself on prompt delivery but its production line has now ground to a halt hitting the entire delivery chain. of the business of these delivery schedules are we have to deliver for our customers otherwise there are gun stoppages and there are 20230000 employees at b.m.w. and porsche waiting for our parts. he only has 2 days to find new employees he might be able to hire some temporary workers but he's missing check work because a skilled that means we're not work and economically becoming an efficient our

people have been with us for years and have skill levels we can't easily replace. and he says if border checks remain in place it won't be long before his customers the car makers feel the effects. and finally french begets are in the running for this year's unesco world heritage list they face competition from their roofs on a wine festival in our french bakers house been fighting for the traditional big get to be given you know the world heritage status for a while they figure the quality of bread is becoming poorer in fronts and mid march the french culture minister will have to decide between the 3 and knoxville bit submit her choice to present and michael. you can be sure to get a reminder of the top story this hour europe's biggest airline ryanair has lost in a new court battle over state aid for airlines the company has claimed the

government funds for competitors were discriminatory and just roit the level playing field ryanair a privately owned carrier is that it will appeal the ruling in the european court of justice. and not told for me thanks so much for watching for more you can check out our website e.w. dot com slash business or on social media as well for me on the team it's a buy time taken. during the conflict so teams of. this year didn't stop the growth of the european commission its role after the group of 9 to back seems to be wise new zealanders to go soon too late my guess is we could also use a greek commissioner mother. whom a new initiative munaf to silence the criticism of the commission on the challenges

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