can you hear me now years we can hear you and how it all stands germantown flowering well i'm going to back off and leave the tavern for surprise yourself with what is possible who is magical really what moves and want. to talk to people who follow through on the way maurice and critics might join us from apple's last stop. on this tuesday debbie news africa coming up on the program will the fees finally fall south africa's government bans to student pressure and acts on university tweet and costs but will this calm the protests also coming up. another school abduction in nigeria gunmen seize a group of students in the north of the country we ask our correspondent why do these attacks keep happening. plus the new boss for african football's governing

body will this mining billionaire be successful in turning around the beautiful games fortunes. and south africa's largest ethnic group loses its influential monarch kings when he dies after an illness. i'm told me all of it boy it's good to have you with us south africa's government has given in to pressure to increase financial aid given to university students now this follows days of protests in which one person was killed in nationwide marches students have been demanding the scrapping of fee debts complaining that university education is an affordable. was at one of these protests in cape town. more and more students in south africa throughout the country have joined the

protest trying to fight for one key thing financial inclusion of everybody and making universities accessible also for the poor part of the population 1st year students. among those who still don't know if they will be able to stop classes because their cation for financial support is still pending we do not need financial stress the students because i mean education that he dislikes is but if you're going to have to stress about getting the education then what motivation do you have to get it. right at this point i'm feeling hopeless i don't want to live at this point i don't actually see myself furthering my study this year i do not know i'm at a standstill i i. am the protesters now enter the building where the fees office is many say they can not afford to pay their fees and the national student financial aid scheme is overwhelms despite promises by the government to put more money in the scheme it is not enough to

support everyone at the university of which the dramas work about $6000.00 students about to be excluded from university because they are not supported and they're not able to pay their fees it's really bad but i hope that the government will pull through keep their promises and 1st of all just be transparent about matt stop. lying because that is basically what they do these must what's been coming on for quite some time now the government has had ample time to implement something especially during last year with kobe this it could have also been one of their priorities they say of distance learning so they have failed i wrote just a reminder of the massive fees must fall protests in 20152006. back then the former president promised free tertiary education but it was never mentioned because of

the pandemic the government now even has begun financial issues which will make finding a solution even more complicated the protesters you know ever say they will continue to fight for financial inclusion when everyone who wants to attend university. let's take a look now at some other stories making news across the continent. rwanda's president paul kagame a has become the 1st east african leader to get the covert 19 vaccine together with his wife jean at randall plans to vaccinate about a 3rd of its 12000000 citizens this year in the same number by the end of 2022. morocco's government has approved a draft law legalizing cannabis for medical and therapeutic use recreate the use will remain illegal ready the world's largest producer of unleash illicit hashish and a change with position the north african country to exploit the rapidly growing market for medical marijuana. in nigeria there's been another mass school

abduction this time in mondo in north west and kaduna state authorities say gunmen seized a group of students in a raid on a forestry college around 30 students on missing is the 4th mass kidnapping from a school in nigeria since december. and with a series of attacks on schools in nigeria or stories of promised us children asa cure yet the abductions continue u.w. oss correspondent address waissel in a buddha why this keeps happening. well it is an indication of the growing insecurity in nigeria that is number one they kick not is another indication of but governance on their elected to pull back to because those who are doing these they had men complained that they have been neglected for long but it is in reality off of so many things because this is not the 1st time

a school has been attacked right from 2014 when it happens and people will still have been even more watched more frequent soda consumption is that what is the government doing the government justice to the hide of prince conference by dimension that's good advice i see and what did i do in some to no one in need even coming out to say that there are some who are cashing in on what is happening on the kidnappings in nigeria. african football's governing body has a new boss south african billionaire patrice but sampai was the sole candidate for the presidency of the confederation of african football but separate built his fortune in gold mining with other successes in other sectors you know face of the massive task of turning around an organization riddled with dysfunction and corruption but does he stand a chance of success in african football. let's speak to sports journalist thomas

quinn i say he is in johannesburg so much it's good to have you on the program for years football has administration has been plagued with mismanagement and corruption both in africa and even on the global stage so why would they want to take on such a murky world. well you know also i asked myself that question but i think prejudice was approved by a number of people both here. it is awful that it up and. i guess. businesses across 48 countries president clinton did maybe even friday. that year and it p.d. and hence he decided to say. can he be the man to

reform african football leadership i think i'm really positive that you care a lot of kids who are scared or simply because if you look at. the last visited it. over. head in there was this how did 15 of us go nuts by the tree year it's minute. to our college students eat meat or fish. quite a segue to us said. that line is it was decided it didn't go and did you hear. because. of it you should try your sleep and the consideration noted that it for the last 3 years you have been i think a couple finishes you have i think. if you don't want to come out to the

chip companies whatsoever see these there are points i made like that it was serious conservation to kind of write. you kind of get it. you said to me that we need someone who will go into that. look to like his focus because he doesn't need. the silence. you need to go in there. or it is through. very quickly thomas what should. prioritize when he gets when he begins his job gomez 1st wrote. a couple of. years we saw the 1st president of kerry we see. said the point is. we're going to stay alive who isn't there for you.

oh you him you have. for me is british crown should. just try to so i think god's been. used to silence so that people who. passion. and want to strike i think are going to lighten up their organs certainly huge task ahead sports journalist thomas quinn i say thank you for your insights. it's always a pleasure the traditional leader of south africa's people has died at the age of 72 after more than a month in hospital king goodwill when he teenie did not officially hold political office but will did great influence among the south africa's largest ethnic group reports and local media say he had health problems related to diabetes. who are you

fooling goodwills very teeny was seen as safeguarding the zulu people's connection with their history his job was mainly ceremonial. but it was the leader south africa's largest ethnic group the zulus that make up about 20 percent of the population. we've lost allopathy last this last alligator this last and someone who is sulk culturally elway seminal is bringing all the pieces together and he's a great loss given the fact that historically a magnitude of a muslim he was leading a muslim through difficult times during a bout of the the king's conservative attitudes to words women's rights and l g b t people raised eyebrows but he also spoke out against him aside and on the hiv

epidemic. he reigned for more than 50 years making him the longest serving zulu monarch. south africa's president said he'd be remembered as a visionary leader who made an important contribution to cultural identity national unity and the development of south africa as a whole. all bats at a knob be sure to check out all the stories on the flash africa on facebook and twitter and tell us what you think about the stories we're covering we'll leave you with these images of the late king meeting regional and world eaters as you next time life and.

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percent. for high for the soup issues and sharing. you know we're. talking. to young people. 77. it sounds like an actor's worst nightmare going on stage to perform a play with no preparation no idea even what the play is about and yet the play white rabbit red rabbit has been performed thousands of times in dozens of languages talk to the playwright coming up.

with a little known opera that could snag a grammy this weekend those stories coming up but 1st a possible game changer for the art market just half a year ago the artist beatle had never sold a work but on thursday christie's auction off a digital collage by the artist for over $69000000.00 the 3rd highest auction price ever for a living artist it's also the highest price ever for a purely digital artwork the piece containing images the artist had been posting online daily since 2007 sold as an n f t a non fungible token a form of encrypted data that can't be replicated the artist whose real name is mike winkleman says it's a new day for digital art. there are thousands of artists and that is something that you know i sort of really hope comes from that and i'm going to be pushing or is sort of going back actually and looking at the history of digital art over the last 20 years digital artists design websites they decide apps they defy obv you

know t.v. shows how t.v. shows look they design how characters look at movies and you know. that's all digital art so they have a huge huge impact on that visual language of the moral and so i think it now be have the black look at them as you know real artists i'm super super excited about your vision song contest as told bellerose to change its tune or get out and say the song bellerose submitted breaks the contest rules against political entries it features the lyrics i'll teach you to toe the line words that feller's opposition figures say support the regime of strongman leader alexander because shank oh and mock widespread protests in the country following last year's elections. more music news and a piece that still very much in the running for this weekend's grammy awards

a recording of the dwarf by austrian composer of exxon that sam minsky is competing for best opera recording sung by the deutsche berlin it's a chance for the world to get to know an opera that has rarely performed. it's the 18th century and the spanish royal court is celebrating the birthday of the king's daughter one gift in particular is causing a sensation it's a human being a dwarf a gift from a sultan the man doesn't know he's a little person because he's never seen himself in a mirror. the one act opera was written in 1902 inspired by oscar wilde story the birthday of the infanta director to be as cuts or has brought the tale into the present day he sees it as less a drama about an individual artist and more of

a description of the state of society where. you can read it as a very individual story regardless of age or size that's what i found to be the crucial issue of all the characters in the piece not just the dwarf have that great discrepancy between their self image and their public image how they want to be perceived and how they think they are perceived and how the others really see them . the dwarf's attempt to win the heart of the princess with a love song only appears to succeed. was i a tragic story takes its course as the dwarf ends up seeing himself through the unloving eyes of his beloved. how do we see ourselves how do others see us and how do we deal with being different director cuts or does without makeup and elaborate costumes simply

casting 2 people in the main role. comes out and she wasn't quite that i decided to bring the conflict of interior images the conflict between the self image and the external image of the character onto the stage through 2 characters and a cast the title role with a tenor and with an actor who corresponds to the image one already has when reading the libretto mainly of an actor of small stature for me that was the way to really make the inner conflict theatrical. and this approach to casting works thanks to the excellent performance by mick morris may not an actor with dwarfism and the extraordinary singing by american tenor david but philip. was was. the state production has already been celebrated by audiences in berlin if the video production wins

a grammy award this weekend that would certainly help bring it to the attention of an international audience. was. also this weekend actors and over 120 places from tokyo to new york el salvador to mumbai are performing the same play and none of them knows what it's about with no or her souls and no director the work white rabbit red rabbit by iranian playwright nasim so in one poor is perhaps the perfect choice for a day of action calling attention to the plight of theaters one year and the coronavirus pandemic this unusual play always begins the same way ok. i have just been the envelope i've begun to read and i

have no idea what's going to happen. there are no were her souls no real script and no director the actors get their instructions once they're on stage where they slip into the role of a 29 year old theater director from iran there is a bit of a plot but that's a secret it's all part of the concept and it's meant to allow the actors to be more spontaneous in their improvisation that's also why each actor is only allowed to perform the piece once in the meantime thousands of actors have done that including rahman carrying miley preparation is to not prepare you know not google not think about it too much i just want to be vulnerable as possible with it because. i think the whole point of broadway producers tom kurta he and devlin elliott came across the piece at the edinburgh fringe festival noticed that there was a play written by an iranian playwright and thought that would be interesting to check out and within minutes we realized we were seeing something we'd never seen

before for their 2016 production and new york's west theater they were able to recruit a number of acting stars that helped bring the play with a secret plot to the world's attention. and i'm joined now by theater creator nasim soleimani poor who lives in berlin but wrote the play white rabbit red rabbit in 2010 when he was still in iran so now see him you've said that this device of keeping the play a secret even to the actor was born out of necessity what do you mean by that. well hello to you and everyone thank you just like in 2001 you might know i was a still in iran and in war and i was really keen to to do a show globally so i thought maybe i can shift some paradigm. in that in the future as i was like a structure came up we did. something with you supposed to be performed fight and

theme quite a 1st time with an actor in front of a live audience and the actor basically is reading your voice now i've got a question about the story so if there are any actors out there who might perform this play some day stop watching right here. i understand that the end of the play there's that the actor who's playing here is basically instructed to do something terrible to him or herself it's a kind of test whether the audience will intervene why did you include that. well i think it's a choice you're ryan. david i strongly believe that we live in a very beautiful but yes very very troubled world we have black lives matter the climate change is real and you and i are speaking something that is often a catastrophe in myanmar so question is do we basically react to those things

was or the borders of our of the media and how much do we push in which direction what are that red line i think that's what that's what the play is is trying to to to to explore with the help of the performer and the audience and he told me that when the performance is done alive as is usually the case there is actually a lot of audience interaction. it is the idea happens at all didn't even they try you know the audience members to go on stage and stuff to show friends environment like you were going to do a show where we're going in may and mexico tomorrow inside a prison so different context as i was bringing it brings and brings in different you know moments and with this plan well speaking of the white rabbit red rabbit is being performed in over 120 places this saturday's some virtually and you can't possibly be there to see all of the 120 performances in one day is there

a show that you're particularly excited to see are you going to be participating in any way. i mean i look at the list today i was doing good we had like what mama mama you know we have to stumble i want china new york london and some of those plays i've been there personally can perform i want to talk about you know the mexican company or he showed across the netherlands i hear only 5 and one theater in crete different venues in the land there are 7 painted peter doing shows and they all go without a choice on whom to basically pick which show room part of the show it went to from actors i would try to do sneak in how they differed but the difference show if they are on you know most definitely i will do that well it's not some silly month for thanks so much for coming on arts and culture congratulations on this work of art which is now 11 years old and still as relevant as ever and as popular as ever

thank you very much i also want to thank you all removal for initiating it's an old heave great preview fairs and the actors are going to take a look thanks so much. of our more culture news now england's royal shakespeare company is harnessing 3 d. video games technology and live stream performances of a midsummer night's dream the technology transforms real life actors into virtual avatars actors in the trip say they believe the once radical 16th and 17th century playwright shakespeare would approve the performances are free of charge but viewers can pay $10.00 pounds to interact with the cast as virtual fireflies. and to leave you now with some new works by french artist sipe who uses sand and grass as his canvas and the last 2 years he's taken his biodegradable paints to 3 continents painting giant linked hands he says the project is all about friendship

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up. president joe biden announces in a vicious new virus. nation timeline for the united states he says there will be enough doses to cover all of the holes by the end of may present the hope of moving past the pandemic which. i'm god as welcome to the program protesters have once again taken to the streets in myanmar to call for a return to democracy despite the threat of violence from security forces in a moment we'll hear from the un's top expert on myanmar who says the military's response amounts to crimes against humanity but 1st the violence is driving some police officers to flee the country rather than continue to be part of the crackdown on their own people.

the demonstrations like these have become routine throughout the country every day protesters repeat the hard work of rebuilding protective barriers. they have no option but to flee when they are yet again broken down by security forces. yet there are those within the security forces who disagree with the junta as brutality the british broadcasting corporation has interviewed police officers who fled across the border into india after refusing to carry out military orders. they are among the 1st defectors to share eyewitness accounts of what is happening in myanmar. as protests were taking place my boss ordered us to fire at the crowd and i refused to shoot them. i said i'd rather side with the people later i told him i was

going to visit my family that's when i run away the military is becoming more and more brutal. so far the protesters have refused to be silenced. they are still taking to the streets demanding the return of democracy to their country. are now joined from geneva by tom andrews is the un's special report on rights in myanmar talk you have told the. human rights council that the military in myanmar is likely committing crimes against humanity what are you basing that on. well 1st of all a court has to rule one way or the other and this is not a rule for state but i urged the members of the human rights council to take a look at the definition. of crimes against humanity and then look at the way in which the people who are being or are being true. crimes against humanity are

widespread they're systematic they're done against the civilian population they're done knowingly and if you look at. me to challenge that we're seeing every single day they were there indeed widespread 70 people have been killed in 20 different 28 different communities around and around the country you see a command and control clearly being evidence by the fact that the brutality is very systematic very much along the same lines no matter where they're occurring in the country people are being mowed down there over 2000 arbitrary detentions and counting in these if you throw me in more and again these are not being committed against combatants they're being committed against peaceful protesters their own their only offense is to work peacefully toward the restoration of a democracy and a future that is not approved this military junta so for all of those reasons there

is very there's a lot of evidence i think striking evidence that crimes against humanity are being committed as we speak well despite all this evidence must if international attention and condemnation not deterring the hometown so what actions need to be taken that could have a real impact by the u.n. for example. well number one speaking out rejecting what's going on in the strongest possible terms that's the 1st step but it's only the 3 step and we're hearing that by the way from nations and i see it in neighboring countries a meeting that's very very poor but action is required what i'm encouraging be that the members of the human rights council and in fact all u.n. member states is to form a coalition an emergency coalition for the protection of the people of the of the security council can't impose focused tough clear sanctions on the military that a coalition of nations can do so when i say enforce them on individuals in the

junta their families and associates but also on economic institutions that are fueling this regime so for example $1000000000.00 u.s. dollars flowing into the pockets of the junta in the me and more or the gas enterprise alone so if we can focus sanctions on those institutions which are fueling putting the revenue in their pockets we can make a step i think a significant step in the right direction ate an arms embargo was another step not recognizing them diplomatically is another step focusing resources outside of the hotel those resources going to humanitarian aid or development aid and send them directly to n.g.o.s how much of how much of meaningful measure has. the depend on russia and china to stop blocking any vote on sanctions and the u.n. security council. well that's a big challenge needless to say and china has said made some i think encouraging

statements calling for the release of political prisoners for example. but we know that this is a challenge we know that china provides the military for years with protection of the sick in the security council they provide them with weapons with trade so that is always going to be a challenge that we need to do is build a collective response outside of the security council. and focus that responds in a coordinated way to where it will hurt the most and i think it is not as is strong or is a deal about you that we could get through the security council for example this if you're the council could refer the hooter to the international criminal court but at the center and we use all the resources that we can that we have at our disposal and use them as well as we can whether or not we have the support of russia which is tom andrews un special rapporteur on myanmar thank you very much for the time it's my pleasure thank you authorities in nigeria say gunmen have kidnapped 30

students from a school in northwestern kaduna states security forces were able to rescue 180 people from the gunman but 30 students are still to be accounted for rape happens out of forestry college and on the outskirts of the state capital it's the 4th mass kidnapping from a school in nigeria since december. we will be bringing you more coverage of this latest kidnapping in news africa in just over 20 minutes time . to the u.s. now joe biden says the country could make serious progress in moving beyond the pandemic by the u.s. national holiday on july 4th the us president presented his updates of covert strategy in a televised address and set the goal is to allow people to celebrate the independence day holiday with their loved ones he hopes to achieve this by rolling our vaccines much faster than previously anticipated biden's appearance was eagerly awaited his

speech emotional the message optimistic social the u.s. next a nation program has well suppose the president's own hopes i said i intended to get 100000000 shots in people's arms and my 1st 100 days in office tonight i can say we're not going to meet that goal we're going to beat that goal. more than $81000000.00 shots have been administered in the u.s. since biden's integration just under 13 percent of adults and now fully vaccinated biden this plan is for everyone and over 18 to be offered the jap by early my country and that's the reason for confidence he said. if we do all this if we do our part we do this together by july the 4th there's a good chance you your families and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout or

a barbecue and celebrate independence day shortly before his speech the president signed off a huge stimulus package for the country $1.00 trillion dollars to get the economy moving again. well for more this let's bring in washington correspondent. how have they been able to move up the agenda so quickly. yeah i get how a lot faster than expected perfectly right when joe biden took office he promised 100000000 doses in his 1st 100 days now we're talking about the same time frame more or less and 330000000 americans will be eligible for the vaccine by that may 1st and that is for a variety of reasons really and part of it in all fairness has to do with donald trump who of course was very much criticized for his poor handling of the pun demming but he bought many vaccine doses at the time when he was still in office

and biden added to this by facilitating and brokering otherwise tells me go shared with johnson and johnson merck sold to competitors but they're actually now working together on producing another 100000000 vaccine doses some point the military was deployed the vaccine is now handed out in stadiums the drive through and supermarkets there are standby lists so that no don't get thrown away in the end of the day but let's not forget also that the u.s. is really hit hard by the pen demi with 500000 casualties so there's also a lot of pressure on the government to roll out the vaccines as fast as possible. in washington thank you. as a look now at some of the other developments in the coronavirus pandemic the italian government has approved plans to put half the country under a total lockdown amid a surge and cases plans would cease schools shops and restaurants closed from monday kenya's president has extended the country's overnight curfew for another 60 days the east african nation is currently dealing with

a 3rd wave of infections and chile is on track to vaccinate 80 percent of its population by the end of june the company can boast one of the fosters vaccination campaigns in the world. meanwhile germany will continue to use the astra zeneca corona virus vaccine despite other european countries putting a temporary pause on the shelves it follows with also severe cases of blood clots in people who have received the vaccine us was in a cause insist that the shot is so. international olympic committee has confirmed a bull by corona virus vaccines from china folke a pet it has at this year's games but the host country japan says it's out the estimates won't be taking any vaccinations the government hasn't approved with the summer games approaching china's elliptic committee extended a helping hand by offering additional covert $1000.00 vaccine doses for

participating athletes but japan's olympic minister has rejected china's assistance so when he said i think that will be a decision for countries where tiny spec scenes have been approved i'm not aware if any time these companies have applied for approval of tiny spec scenes in our country. the minister added that there had been no prior consultations from the international olympic committee about the proposal to offer chinese vaccinations the tokyo 2020 president has since said being vaccinated will not be a requirement for athletes to compete. he was she. the i.o.c. things that it seems i'm not a top priority. they recommend people get vaccinated for everyone's safety. if we can get to the same thing we can get athletes an opportunity to get vaccinated. you know. there's another question for

tokyo 2020 that doesn't have a clear answer will overseas fans be permitted to attend the games set to start 1 july 23rd. a collage of digital images that you see behind me is sold for almost $70000000.00 in a world 1st for a major auction. the work by a contemporary artist before exists only as a digital file. 13 years in the making people said the prize stock which makes him one of the most expensive living artists in the world was found the mobile winning bidder is no the owner of the digital asset known as an n.f.c. or nonfunctional token the sales of n f t's have recently. you're watching the news here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you protesters are once again also on the streets op to call for a return to democracy after last month's military coup the human rights council

accuses the security forces of machine for now business news is coming up next and still get it will be with you for more world news. video and for you. any time. w. media sector. soccer's biggest tournament faces major allegation more than 6000 migrant workers have reportedly died building stadiums for the 2022 world cup in qatar prompting at least one supplier to forgo involvement in the games. also on the show we take you to mozambique the country is on the verge of a natural gas food fight an ongoing insurgency has made food scarcity

a grim reality for many. and living little are tiny holes of the future of housing. this is the business. on in berlin have the you can join us for a sense for the world cup and 2022 are in full swing in qatar but allegations of human rights abuses have dogged organizers with media reports claiming over $6500.00 migrant workers died in construction projects that's prompted one company which traditionally has supplied the pitch for big tournaments to boycott the event . grass grown in the netherlands is used in football stadiums around the world and organizers of the 2022 world cup hope to play on sod from hendrix could have sold him but the company has pulled out of negotiations pointing to the staggering number of fatalities among workers in the run up to the tournament. the reason a report in the guardian newspaper shows more than 6500 migrant workers have died

in qatar over the last 10 years most of them from south asia but the death toll could be higher reports from the philippines in kenya included in the guardian's report. officials claim there were only a handful of deaths are world cup construction sites which include 8 stadiums in airport roads and public transportation projects there are around $2000000.00 foreign workers in qatar most of them come from south asian countries but some hail from african nations like kenya human rights organizations have repeatedly criticized the working conditions and despite new laws and they say that the conditions are still poor. now this next story takes us to mozambique the country has become an el dorado of sorts for oil companies after enough natural gas was discovered offshore to reshape the industry billions of foreign investment is flowing into the country but it's been of little benefit for mozambique citizens

nearly 670000 people have been displaced by an extremist insurgency there's widespread hunger and illness the potential for prosperity is hard to feel for many lives defined by precarity. waiting for hours on end but people here have little choice or flay want to eat delgado is the northernmost province of mozambique and one of the poorest food shortages have caused prices to explode. staples like flour barely affordable that i wouldn't think we use today it was $250.00 today it's $300.00 he says normally the price is $70.00 medically keel over. he's one of 400000 internally displaced people in this region since 2015 islamist insurgents have been waging a war here often attacking civilians the conflict is exacerbating shortages and driving speculation. as products become scarce opportunistic people

start to show up and create this price inflation that is what we're working to regulate this and to stop dealers who are inflating the prices up in their going to the. food shipments reach the region through the port of palma insurgent attacks have made road transport too dangerous this ship charted by a local vendor is bringing in 40 tons of basic foodstuffs flour rice oil a consortium led by total is investing billions in a huge gas field just off the coast but the people here won't benefit from the lucrative venture instead they'll continue to be caught between hunger and terror forgotten by the government in maputo. now our correspondent joy is following the story from us in nairobi so we heard in the report there that food scarcity has been made worse by the conflict what more can you tell us about. the conflict.

2019 june of 2019 and that is the cause they are islamic militants there who are advocating or trying to form an islamic state the government security forces are all of this been an exchange between the government security forces and those islamist militants but in addition to that 2019 as well as much of 2019 most of the experience one of its worst floods caused by the cyclons in di and kenya and that any solve in addition to the poverty $1000.00 and then make that ledge to slow down in food production has meant much as it wasn't in the more dire when it comes to city so we're looking at a combination of that trial disaster as a conflict and the pandemic of course do you think the current interventions are providing enough economic relief to those affected. not exactly because we've seen

one of the 400000 people who have been affected by conflict because capital got to an island in mozambique and your houses of a 400000 people and so we've read the current conflicts ongoing it's been very difficult to reach this island and they're saying that it's one of the need or the country's brings need a $108000000.00 to feed these over $400000.00 people that coupled with the badge and being extended to you know flattening the cover of the 19 is making it a bit difficult and also the cabinet ministers in charge of security have at the moment been fired by the president which is going to be a bit difficult to bring that situation to calm and for normalcy to return there and that means there is going to take a while before you know the foods cassidy situation is sorted out. being in

financially dire straits with nobody in charge a difficult situation indeed thank you very much joy durian bureau there for us now to some of the other global business stories making news the i.m.f. and world bank have given somalia the go ahead to receive debt relief the announcement paves the way for the country to slash 4 and a half $1000000000.00 from its foreign debt it also will allow somalia to re enter the international financial system after 30 years of isolation diamond sales plummeted over the last year due to the pandemic industry revenue fell 15 percent to $64000000000.00 as consumers tighten their belts however sales in china and the u.s. are showing some signs of rebounding. a fire at tesla's factory in fremont california has been brought under control the fire was caused by hydraulic fluid coming into contact with molten aluminum aluminum in

a part of the factory that was under construction there were no injuries but it is unclear whether tesla's production was affected. india looks on course to ban telecoms companies from using equipment mean by wall way report suggests of the part of new procurement was due to come into force in juba as well as having security concerns over the chinese company india is keen to encourage its own firms to produce more equipment. meanwhile the us government has placed a further restrictions on companies supplying well way the biden administration is making it harder for american firms to provide equipment for 5 g. devices to the chinese tech giant while we have been added to a trade blacklist by the white by the trump white house. astra zeneca has further reduced the amount of coronavirus vaccines it plans to supplied to the e.u. this quarter the british swedish company expects to deliver $30000000.00 doses

a quarter less than the already reduced figure it promised last month it's a 3rd of the amount the e.u. originally signed up for and cons as another blow to the blocks vaccine rollout however it closely follows news that europe's medicines regulator has approved the single shot johnson and johnson vaccine for. our financial correspondent chelsea laney has more from frankfurt. it's been one setback after another for the eva sox nation campaign and the latest news from astra zeneca indicates that isn't going to be changing anytime soon the u.k. company is now expecting to fall well short of its pledge deliveries so the e.u. and both the 1st and the 2nd quarter so stretching into the summer as well we've seen multiple european countries actually temporarily suspend the use of the astra zeneca shot over mounting concerns about the safety of the vaccine the big hope for

europe ben johnson and johnson vaccine which was approved this week but already european officials have tried to temper some of this optimism here in germany the health minister has warned the likely won't get any distribution we won't get any shots delivered and we just made to late april. now at a time when housing prices are going through the roof downsizing is starting to look more attractive for many in our next story we meet a former movie maker who says you don't have to live large to live well. and it definitely is a product designer has built herself the hundreds of her dreams. leave in the meantime while i live in a tiny hides i used to build movie sets which is quite different from when i left the film industry i travelled through everything i needed was in my backpack a tiny house is a lot like everything you need to fit into one room there are not some places just

instantly everything is multi-functional. she works for stefan dick man he started building tiny has his 5 years ago and now he's on the biggest manufacturer is in germany he builds 48 years none of them larger than 25 square meters the starting price is 45000 euros per house like this some customers want to live in there's full time others just for holidays either way you can't cram much stuff in here. for climbing onto. them from many people have come to appreciate minimalism downsizing living we know that because we see lots of people here who think that way living in a small space is just one aspect of minimalism more generally it's about reducing

your c o 2 footprint so choosing to live in and he 20 square metres rather than 60 could be part of that. plug. so no further north to talk with her using in increasingly short supply the market for tiny houses is growing. i think people have become more flexible nowadays they're not so bad to stay in one place that's another reason for choosing a tiny has. it's for the entire house dyckman plans to open a tiny has hotel once the pandemic is over the pint sized units are ready to go each one is different. and doesn't need to be convinced she's already a fan and says her tiny house gives her everything she needs. and the reminder of the top story this hour soccer's biggest tournament faces major

allegations more than 6000 migrant workers have reportedly died building stadiums for the 2022 world cup in qatar prompting at least one supplier to forgo involvement in the games. and that's it from us thank you so much for watching. the guy. undersea. song kenya's coast guard disappearing in the morning rain. marine conservationists are trying to stay ahead of the decay and preserve what's left. they are counting on the support of local fisherman. who africa.

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