after a viewer after our reviewer described that music as doest punky thrush. up next is out of it 19 special that's up next remember this more on the d w news out on g w dot com and on instagram and twitter too but they don't need thanks for. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update 19. on t w. dr klein meal and i'm game did you know that 17 trillion land animals are killed worldwide sure so that we can eat but it's not

just the animals at all suffering it's the environment we mine on a journey to find ways out of the machine if you want to know how old weightlifter a priest i would hope trust changed as we think this listen to our podcast on the green limbs. and estimated 152000000 children are being put to work around the world. manual labor in mines in fields on family farms. in africa one in 5 kids are involved in child labor and. girls are especially vulnerable because the number of children of work is said to dramatically worse and because of the pandemic. as it wreaks havoc on family incomes many parents could

put their kids to work. more than a 1000000000 children in 130 countries have been affected by school closures and child labor has risen in line as school gates bank shot. you're going to zation for economic cooperation and development is told the w. the children are paying the largest price in this pandemic director for education and skills on various praises the countries that have managed to keep schools open we need to be aware of the high social costs that school closures have for us for children and that's why you know countries you know like france and italy and to some extent it was pain that you know despite very difficult pandemic contexts have given education absolute priority india allowed schools to reopen in october but some children will only head back now due to a staggered resumption of classes many children in india's villages may not return whole we travel to.

us and started apprenticing 6 weeks ago at this one in a village. the shy 12 year old has been half heartedly listening to instructions. he's clearly not enjoying it. i want to go back to school. meet my friends i don't want to work here. but he doesn't really have an option nor does his younger brother who joined him here a few days ago. both of following their father's instructions up to him on is out of work himself. with schools closed for nearly a year now and due to the corner of iris he has given up hope that education will secure them both them on says he's only looking out for their future is going to work schools are being closed they were studying but they aren't doing anything now

we've asked them to work out of desperation so that they can learn something hopefully a livelihood schools reopened and they leave work to lose out if they stay and help to survive there's no advantage in going to school now. the state government has just announced the junior classes are 30 but a sudden i'll just need to stay at work to support their family. high school classes resume back in october but children younger than 15 years have hardly studied for the better part of the year. at best the vital way that i'm playing with their friends at worst they are forced into labor or about it off. to the inch or that he has weathered endlessly about this especially about the 400 children who attended his school his class is much smaller now he just helps his own daughters with their studies private schools like jordan he's educated close to

half of india's children often feel very little money. now his own school survival is at stake. told to leave his hundreds of been approximately bundle monthly fee jawed in the lockdown he still feels that many gone before to continue sending their children out of that about your will mob of most of the children our company their parents to work. i fear 70 percent of them will drop out we try to appeal to the parents to keep educating their kids but they just say if we don't have money how are we supposed to send our children to school. or we're going on with the lack of resources also the without online education toddy says. if parents already kaunda for the nominal fee how can that be for multiple smart schools for all the children that home education has not been a priority in his village he says and the tag been an uphill battle even before the

lockdown hit charges he is excited to see the children again soon but he's also realistic he knows that even if just a quarter of them show up. he can count it as a victory. if at each his is an expert on child labor in south asia and joins us from the university of birmingham in the u.k. what's causing this huge jump in child labor during the pandemic. well thank you for having me i think it's all the effects of the pandemic are also drivers of child labor said the pandemic is causing an economic shock across the world but it's particularly felt in developing countries it's causing a rise in poverty it's closing schools are traditionally protect children from child labor it's causing even less enforcement and child labor laws and regulation and it's meant that c.s. is simple society and if you can't protect children monitor them so for all those

reasons a pandemic is needing to rice in china what about the checks and balances you mentioned schools there are regulations but have other checks and balances simply gone out the window in this pandemic well checks and balances in developing countries tend to be weak anyway because it limited government capacity so as i says employers now have more of a free reign to use children in to exploit them because the government's pay attention is focused on on dealing with a pandemic in its own society organizations are not able to carry out the protective role that they normally would but schools i think schools of the real significant sort of protection of children and back has been removed when you take kids out to schools in developing countries you greatly increase their risk of exposure of being forced into into work just briefly of course sending these kids into work rather than through school limits their prospects what does it do what's

the impact on the world on the global economy. well it's it's kind of like i think than it is if you sort of throw a stone in water and you see ripple effects so in this child labor has the same kind of ripple effect which which is which you know spreads out when so the child themselves they're affected because they can't study a bit exposed to physical labor often physical abuse their ability to use even sexual abuse but in the long term that child then grows up to be in located to be unemployed to be doing hazardous work and critically child labor is grow into adults who then send their own children out to work and so you get this intergenerational cycle to child labor party child labor and that impacts collectively as a society as a country that greatly hampers economic growth and development and that then poverty under development those are both major contributing factors to all kinds of

other problems like violence conflicts radicalization extremism. illegal traffic illegal migration and human trafficking and those are consequences for everyone but i think you know that the point i really want to stress is that you know we need to address people in developed world need to address this problem not just because down the road it will come back to hit us here because we have a moral responsibility to do so these are children children have the right to you know a future to be secure and safe and have opportunities and we all need to support them in doing that and as you pointed out that the longer term effects are even longer than one would expect if it tastes thank you very much for joining us today thank you for having me now is that part of the show with eric williams fields your questions on the coronavirus. so what do we currently know about when the pandemic actually started. more than we did at this time last year but not

a whole lot more a recent w.h.o. mission that spent weeks in china investigating the origins of the pandemic came to a few unsurprising conclusions the 1st was that its members agreed that sars kovi too had originated in back it's which other experts have more or less been saying the whole time the 2nd was that it believed the virus had jumped to humans via an identified 2nd species which is more information that's pretty old hat although they did say that they suspected it might be a small mammal which was a specification that was sort of new i guess the mission also said it considered it extremely unlikely that sars could be 2 had somehow escaped from. that specializes in bat viruses although that assessment remains pretty

controversial really for me the most interesting takeaway was this weekend. agreed that we have. a function of events on food why this you condition of the virus in in december it was not just only a cluster breaking in the one market but the virus was also see it created. outside of the markets that's new up until now the working hypothesis was that cove at 19 1st struck at a wet market in around the beginning of december of 2019 but if it was already in wider circulation in the city at that point that means a couple of things 1st that the. but mark it wasn't ground 0 and then of course that we have to push back the timeline of the original zoonotic jump

a while although a few studies looking at how the virus has evolved say the earliest pay their models predict for a possible job is october of 2019 so we learned something from the w.h.o. experts maybe not all that earth shaking but interesting and and to be fair no one expected the mission to figure out everything about the pandemics origins in a couple of weeks the wheels of this kind of scientific detective work turn very slowly. and as we heard earlier the pandemic has put the welfare of children around the world in peril. the smiles behind the must speak volumes and education is a powerful weapon to secure their futures germany's daycares that is an elementary schools are open again after 2 months. of whales youngest pupils are

returning in the 1st step towards reopening schools. and in israel where vaccination rates are high elementary school and the last 2 years of high school classes have received in towns with kids aged breaks under control. and watching stay safe and c.e.o. gets a. new spirit of mine you know this is the one time for thousands of residents. in 2000 to 18 we followed 3 people through their daily lives with this hardship. now the bridge is in danger of being demolished in a desperate situation. comes up. next long t.w. . go to india. on this cow farm milk not

the main product. gets down. to be joined farm in noida is the next level organic farm here local greens are treated like stars as are the mounds they leave behind it's valuable material from a new earth and souvenirs eco being. 16 d. w. . they were forced into a nameless. yes. their bodies are dear to me. the history of the slave trade is of africa's history. describes how the greed for

power and for profit plummeted and entire contests into chaos and violence. this is the journey back into the history of slavery. our documentary series slavery routes starts march 10th on d w. a huge construction project is underway in kenya's capital nairobi there widening one of the main freeways in this bridge is due to be torn down it's located in the impoverished district of containing. robey correspondence amenable and calls that the bridge of mine in the recalls in 2015 poland reported on the thriving commerce

that takes place on the bridge now she's come back. how has life changed. during that time and you know the mantra jacking the sounds vegetables bad when you're in the neighborhood. for saving you wanted to become a journalist or young or young or you know interested ex an apprentice carpenter how. to meet people in the boondocks. runs a small food stand on the bridge his speciality is meat super. big business has fallen off sharply do because of the corona virus pandemic. he still concerned about the

virus than he is about the bridge being torn down. it's really dangerous because no one knows where it comes from make you hear all sorts of rumors but you can catch it at any time whatever whether you put your hand on something and then if your touch your nose or mouth you get infected with a. new korea. the 1st cases were reported in kenya last march and the government imposed a series of strict preventative measures people are required to wash their hands often that that can be difficult when running musha isn't short supply. we 1st met god and his family 5 years ago because food stand on the bridge was a popular attraction back and we visited him several times to leave here.

best to do but people around here don't earn much money and it's tough for them to make ends meet. on a given up visit some of them tell me that they only eat once a day. even to another you know in the soup at my place costs just 10 shillings it is one of the most people can afford that. but the same soup with meat costs 20 shillings. but it's a meal that will make you feel good. like him and i mean. today still charges 10 shillings for a bowl of soup that's about $0.08 but inflation has hit can you. heart recently. 5 years ago clearly has told us that he dreamed of by his own house we asked him how he was getting along now. what's changed in my life

well i'm older as you can see. what are the new 100 other things are pretty much still the same. though it's getting tougher for my family. the kids are growing older and. my dad you know born in england and there's more stress. for now but the thursday night life isn't as comfortable as it used to be. a little bit in the. can elian and his wife now have one more mouth to feed their 5th daughter was born 3 years ago. she and in an older sister often stopped by their father's food stand . they have lots of time on the hand since the schools in the robie were closed last march because of the pandemic.

the bridge is located on the northern outskirts of the city over a 3 way that is often seriously congested. that's why the officials decided to widen it to make room the bridge will have to be tuned down. almost all of the trees that used to provide shade here have been cut down. nairobi residents are required to wear a mask whenever they leave the house. including districts like and gave me it's tough to meet social distancing guidelines. at one

end of the bridge a disinfection tunnel has been set up it was donated by a local businessman. not so people use it especially because it's free of charge services like this are rare in kenya these days. but after that i think is what it was a bubble. get a bit about it this time it was a big help in the middle east because you go through it and it doesn't fix your entire body but only in the saudi not just your hands. at that and that makes it harder for you to catch the virus and i want to go there and it was something that's i was about one up on out of. him. but shortly after our visit the tunnel was turned down and the city officials decided that the disinfectant that was used there was dangerous. nearby we meet another

friend from 2015. jeconiah boca is still selling vegetables here at the same places 5 years ago. in 2015 there was still shade trees here. jackie started selling vegetables because she had to. fit in a new class i used to be a housewife south that to me it was and my husband worked as a nightwatchman right but. it was a tough job and it was ruining his and. i think of the day so he quit we gotta go at it yet but i had to i ask myself how are we going to give by this isn't gonna we couldn't afford to send the kids to school the sick and sometimes we didn't have enough to eat out as it was up and so i decided to go into business for myself and

i've been here ever since she was like. these days jackie smiles less often than she used to and she looks tired after all she's on her feet from morning till night she and only about $300.00 shillings a day that's less than 3 euros. each other in the pandemic has really changed everything before we could sell a bag of vegetables and one or 2 days night but now it often takes us 3 days to sell everything and some of the produce spoils and we have to throw it out it was a bit up on a as up but it is sometimes we don't earn enough to cover our living expenses of them as with that but again in a typical not before. 2015 was a special year in kenya u.s. president barack obama came to visit.

also that year islamist militants killed $147.00 people at a university in northern kenya most of the victims were students. and there was a big fire on the freeway bridge in nairobi 200 people lost their businesses but they soon rebuilt everything by themselves it was one of the many mine miracles that we've seen here. at the time couldn't listener got expanded his food stand into a low budget sports bar complete with t.v. it was a new source of income for him. the world is a little 2020 because it can demick he had to shut down the sport. at the same time several new businesses opened across the street including

a fan of his shop. and. this is felix one birth. and 2015 he was still living in the countryside in moved to nairobi kenya to go to look for work and for the past 3 months he's been building beds and before that he worked as a driver and as a security guard. felix has no experience with company but he's a fine example of learning by doing. he landed this job purely by chance. foreign wire but if one were nearly nervous on the bridge is an important place for us brings us customers there to simulate it. and we can buy lots of different goods here in our model but i want to get both of you know what life would be a lot harder without this bridge whether he was a billionaire you know my view and everybody uses it and that's good for our business you know you will not ever want to give it.

another mind american you can fit the component parts of this bed on a motorcycle. but what will happen to these businesses when the bridges to down. the bulldozers are moving ever closer and when they get here the shops will disappear. last summer kenya's president kenyatta announced that some of the coronal restrictions would be used for example residents of nairobi would be allowed to travel outside the city and the start of the curve. if you will be pushed back by 2 hours to 9 pm up perhaps another mine a miracle but gawker doesn't think sir. you know we are not good have be because.

their covers are going to mourn. so you know us would have been so know the the youth of the world. saw we are not already have been but but that is that is lived. life on the bridge was never easy even before the pandemic heavy rain often shouted the roads and power outages were common. sadia abdullah student was one of the people we interviewed back in 2015 life in his neighborhood was difficult to. say he showed us the shack where he lived. and had to study by candlelight.

sainty dreamed of becoming a radio reporter. he saw this as a way to help improve living conditions in kenya. i understand that generalising is the only read between this was sad and the community saw. if you noticed weapon. was improving so said he thinks i will be ok. another minor miracle saidee was the 1st in his family which includes an 11 siblings to graduate from university. his goal was to move out of the slums. and make something of himself. so i don't see that i'm going to get out of bed much opposition getting out there if i get any means of getting out of there it would be quite good for me so that because i was doing that student but now i think

i'm glad you did and the other side of the of the of the community yeah the graduates so i chose or doing them and whatever they're doing and yeah to some more important things in a. 6. and 2020 we managed to track down safety he's now working his family small found in western kenya. says. he lived here because he couldn't find work as a journalist in nairobi. actually

when i came back. yeah they were disappointed to know there has been so much on me and they were looking forward full maybe some good fruits but here i was coming and heroes saying that i'm prepared to do farming on their their farm they were disappointed but for me. i just took it as normal because. i looked because when i was just living in a roby i spend for about close to one year without a job and you can imagine all the hassles all the events and everything so i just decided to park and come back just to do. some activities. side his mother had even sold a cow to help pay for her son's education that was a fortune for her and she had high hopes that her son would be successful god like myself was so mad he lasted

a couple of days after your son finishes his studies he's got to make an effort and find a job come phones i helped raise the money so that he could go to college and now i expect him to take care of me to buy me new clothes and so forth and then he's graduated now so if i need soap or sugar or if i get sick it's his responsibility to take care of these things about the class. this is often how can you social security system works i don't children are expected to provide for their parents. but we asked if you still plan to become a reporter. trying to use it because of the situation that has. moved. into. a new for some ways to survive even so hoping that an idea. generalistic walk

so that i can start working. under a cover up the extended family can live quite well on this farm they have enough to eat and they can sell some of the surplus projects at the local market. if say he told us that he doesn't plan to return to nairobi any time soon. this is he doesn't pick up the garbage in the slums of can game it so the people

who live then have to dispose of it themselves in the living. felix member of the apprentice carpenter still believes that he can make a go of it in the big city. cinema. felix and his girlfriend sylvia have been living together since last spring they plan to get married one day. she doesn't have a job right now so his income supports them both. as the pandemic wore on they had to sell a bed frame to pay the rent and buy food and. but the last thing they planned to

sell is the t.v. . it's their link to the outside world. so it's going to. let someone know what i think you'll. see it. if you think positive. things we just have to be patient i came here i had no house there's a time i slept also got. outside from a good bundle. and i almost kept myself thinking posed by told myself i'm not going back home. every few days jacking a book at least narrow b. and drive to a rented farm field to harvest vegetables. and she doesn't want to work like this forever. yet again that you voted that i could if i went back to my home village

i'd have to start all over again my life there is still easier than in the city we're staying in nairobi just to raise our kids and earn money for their education . but when they finished will have no reason to stay will just go back home hopefully with some money that we've saved for. bad. nothing much has changed here in the last 5 years. it would. mess up the family. jackie will not be able to return home for a few mooney's she still pushing the 3 children 3 school actually have to keep working like this and tell a finish. jackie is the family's unli source of income her husband doesn't have a job.

this is one of the road is privately owned mini buses that service taxis. called metallic tubes. but the pandemic has cut the number of passengers to about half it's a ticket prices have doubled. some people who work on the bridge like felix still hope for a better life. others like jackie a simply trying to tough it out. some people experience mine americans others struggle to get by and when the bridge is torn down the lines will become even more difficult. kenya's rainy season begins in october.

where the bulldozers have already torn down some of the shops on the bridge but some people keep trying to turn back the. in 2015 crews repaired the roadway over the bridge as the city prepared to welcome a special guest. pope francis. some tried to take advantage of the pontiff to visit. i want the pope to bless this water so that as many people as possible can buy. if you drink just really want to that god will give his blessing when yeah. it.

was francis made a point to visiting the kundalini district cause was . bad. was one stop the pontiff told the crowd that he was well aware of the difficulties that the people of kenya face on a daily basis and he denounced the injustices that they suffered. well. yeah. that's on well and good but haven't frances proposed to actually make life better here. any improvements have made by the people themselves without much help from the government or the catholic church. by the way here's how that route freshly paved in 2015 looks today. in.

the nearby construction workers not affected mcguckin food stand very much. this afternoon he's preparing homemade sausage just a populist snack for people who are on their way home from work. joseph inquiry has lived in this neighborhood for yes. he was here when the bridge was built back in the 1970 s. . easy to do it development. industry to have the come down not as a little bit bored up there were no bridges saw a new thing was kicked into us now i hear it is going to be demolished well it is going to be about here i can with tail because of nursing them up. but one thing is clear these people will have to move the small businesses. because food stand. jackie and events to bills. and the family to shop with felix bikes but when

exactly will is happening. throughout the bomb in a market well if the bridge disappears i finished. i depend on this location where the bottom of it would be hard to find a new place and new customers siddha the city official should have told us a lot earlier what they plan to do it and we'd have had time to prepare but now it looks like they're just going to come in here and tara down and we'll be stuck with . her were there. we need felix again he loves football and he comes to this field every weekend to cheer his favorite team. out. of the one. then he meets up with some friends 1st of all they say

a prayer to gather. saw it all but what most of the people here have lost their jobs because of the pandemic they formed a self-help group to deal with a situation. where they pay what little money they have into a joint fund that pays for their health and unemployment insurance and pension contributions when it's all recorded in this log book. yes it was a bit. difficult it was just said that. this gathering. is all about togetherness. uplifting your brother. remembering those who have more opportunity or getting jobs or else they have jobs but it is not always being jobs it is all about assisting each other. coming together and putting each other at their at the same level. jackie belongs to a similar group made up of other women who salvageable so. they have to stick together

to survive. this certainly not going to get any financial help from the government a little early enough but right now jackie is particularly concerned about her children she's afraid that while they're away from school her son will turn to drugs or her daughter will get pregnant. to nona look at them or see what they're doing and i can't protect them when they're running around the neighborhood and other 6 and i leave the house at 6 in the morning and don't get home till 7 or 8 at night and i was. i have no idea what they do during the day and i i don't know who they meet but i try to talk to them in the evening and warn them about getting into trouble. and that's a real maricopa these people manage to overcome an enormous difficulties on a daily basis and they do it without complaining they simply get on and do the job

at hand but. there are new buildings this today to check you can keep selling your vegetables. but the double digit now my body of i say sure our livelihood depends on the bridge but if they tear it down it's not the end of the world as well just set up shop somewhere else and that and i said that. and when they rebuild it will come back just like before i get up on that i was the one that's on top and go but that they made. it so here nairobi life goes on at the bridge of mine a miracle is a place where ordinary people make the best of their lives despite overwhelming odds. to.

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