climate change a different story this is my planting way for one week. to really get it. we still have time to and i'm going. to. this is news africa coming up on the program it's now 5 actions in 4 months i'm out of school talking nigeria's northern state has left many students wondering how safe they are also coming up. kenya is battling somalia all of a piece of territory in the indian ocean so why would take. to resolve the dispute . we've booked with court with your point you were not instead of mourning but. that's what israel. should. monsanto

devastating floods its need to survive as who are still feeling the effects as c.q. read occasion so we see please before the next rings. and the grammy goes to. twice this time. african giants town the toll of those years. with big when. i. welcome to the program it's becoming a disturbing trend in nigeria gunmen attack in schools and season people for ransom the latest victims are primary school pupils in kut do not state barely a day after security forces foiled another attempt so i ducked hundreds of students

from a school in the same northern state despite assurances from the government that students are safe the talks continue. dozens of students are bussed back to safety they're fortunate to be free after security forces battled the gunmen who attacked their college and attempted to take them away. first things 1st they packed their bags and head home after a terrifying experience from which 39 people are still missing. but considering the recent spate of attacks the question was not about whether this would happen but when next. when you prepare 4040 for your position in the body. it's also possible that you would love. it here armed groups referred to locally as bandits have certainly been fully prepared lately it's unlikely that they're coordinated across northern nigeria but

poor security has allowed the criminal gangs to stage at least one mass school kidnapping a month since december now the attempts are getting even more frequent the trend has prompted the government of niger state to close all high schools for 2 weeks students in neighboring states are also at risk as nigeria's armed forces remain stretched battling a range of security threats around the country. if bits out border between kenya and somalia has led to kenya pulling out of monday's having an international court of justice the 2 countries squabbling over 816-0000 square kilometer triangle in the indian ocean thought to be rich in oil and gas somalia says the time frontin should continue in the same direction as the land border while kenya argues for its horizontal line. was granted kenya will

technically become landlocked with little access to the high seas from its ports from on the spill to dr david my son got from nairobi kenya he's a chairman of the pan african forum and is one invested in this dispute i asked him if came out pulled out of the court hearing because it is afraid it will lose the case no it does not board because these are pretty do. it doesn't border out because they were to go to beginning this would road from the word go are good it's good therefore decided that are not is used. where. the question all over or more same kind of not to say you are not to act just that you gave the verdict and yet when the course ain't going you must go and say to be a dick and good guys you get some idea. you know we're going to do take

the agrement over don't doubt the night where it was a bit korea that did but you that i agreed not to talk about the boundary now ok it was not content from the article so that is why you keep using the word flawed you see it's flawed why exactly is it flawed and if you don't trust the i.c.d. to tackle the case who do you trust. no diploma don't want to go do the presiding judge is that it causes him to defy president or of all of so might you have part of my job that was when to get stuck in the presiding to prevent over the i.c.j. abdullah yusuf i meant easy because in the door part of my jaw their pride that they've got over to god is a. pretty natural i defy any mogadishu ok that you fight this depression it is over

my god that you so do your court adoptive a pro says would you not throw out. a. well it country. problems we've had a country then you bring up if they think god from some idea ok so who do you trust to tackle this case then. so get it back on so that you go i want to kiss to be flawed do quadrille and i jumped a 7 or better united nations security council jumped at 7 o'clock or stopped at 9. you've got to go and i really don't stop to. they wouldn't kid you would have these kids we didn't bring you said judy you could guess seconds of peace and a touch of these kids on disk is that any good in the region we already i don't want we've got a shop up in the region we don't want any idea why do you give david you're an indian origin we weren't i my all going to dish on one america and france from

attacking you did bia go under in my you would find my editor who wrote down decided that he had time to such a damaged ok got it you don't deserve to have this nobody said ok so so so obviously you want peace and calm in the region and that seems a bit far fetched now because so far both countries kenya and somalia are not on the same page so how can the issue be resolved now here do you not going to take your guns will you not but i want to. know is the general manager or the i.c. used to play you must think i'm going to come so there is no not to go for you fire all. what did you course mean so just then and i was so madea to kenya do you done on a new course you're going to double ok we have a deserved respect. in me in a limited nigeria i don't come into ok we have

a sort of to do. john no duty is not impossible i'm told not as well did you does your portable you don't get me down there oh i don't know why we've booked with court we're going to we're not going to own a bug that you wouldn't get it well indian origin and end up we've just begun then french you've got to got to do what you know good grades that you were not depressed in india i look at doc even my. doctor david. chairman of the pan african for me kenya thank you for your time. so i have as i still dealing with the aftermath of device states in slots in the 6 months after dozens of people were killed and tens of thousands were displaced somewhere relocated to a full on military comp in the competition the army correspondents fred was when

you was there to hear their stories. a woman with a heavy heart some of the brain is mourning the death of her son terry book flooding he'd have year to 6 months ago in the desert north of the river niger. he was grazing the animals that day then the river rose and the force of the water swept in a way we could not recover his body. 80 percent of new jersey land these days that rainfall is rare and drought can be did 3 but this time it was the rains which destroyed homes and lives $65.00 people from the village die in the fire including so does. our house out of both. our hearts are broken war has a huge numbers with this past some survivors fall in the mix shift shelter in the

capital e. i'm in. i just spread a couple of beat it east side here it's extremely rude halt over 2 degrees and this is the life of the people here that's how they're living approx 88 told that people have been displaced by the floods. is one of the poorest countries in the world that means 50 financial help from the government for those displaced is unlikely. so. it's a very difficult situation for the people who lost their homes and to come to this camp. they can't handle leaving and they're missing india from a community this is a it is so funny that a major producer. the best hope for soda and how fair refugees is that the government get them somewhere safe before the next rains.

that's it for now for more stories go to d.w. dot com slash africa or visit our facebook and twitter pages and finally he got it i won a grammy and it's 2 grammys that go to nigeria when a boy and we're scared of what affects the background risk it features in this video brownstone go beyond safe to call the best music video. i know i'm gonna gun show me. you. know me. and grow beautiful video. made it after losing the best world music album

grammy to and to me last year he was extatic. 4 guys in there out nowhere in the aisles i mean this is a win for my generation. and let's stick to. the way you are. so what. you can achieve. them. never look. like i used. to live alone. in the good luck of the i don't want to. visit a. place i'm good luck for a plumber play.

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stories focus on hate speech prevention and sustainable charcoal production. all of a sow's are available online and of course you can share and discuss among africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. crime fighters tune in now. it looks. female artists conquered this year's grammy awards that's coming up on arts and culture and. later on the show why the 17th century dutch master rembrandt fun ryan painted faraway places he would never see. beyond said to come for grammy awards this weekend bringing her up to a career total of $28.00 the most grammys ever won by a female artist singer claimed her awards at a socially distanced outdoor ceremony in los angeles she said her success wasn't

just about her take a listen. as an artist i believe it's my job. and all of our jobs to reflect the times and it's been such a difficult time so i want to uplift encourage celebrate all of the beautiful black queens and kings that continue to inspire me and inspire the whole world this is so overwhelming i've been working my whole life since 9 years old and i'm i can't believe this has been this such a magical night thank you so much an emotional and historic event to double your reporter adrian kennedy's got more scoop on this year's grammy awards a historic night for women who were the big winners well as we saw that beyonce was the big story of the night she actually drew level with the most grammys record early in the evening when macon stallion featuring say one of the best

rap formants category 4 savage make in the study and. best newcomer. as expected because they don't down favorite future nostalgia took best pop album. irish one year for everything i won't say she spent the speech to mention the fact that you make in the study and having one thing that i have to agree to and. the prestigious song is the gold for how black lives matter protest song i can't breathe ok and then the women artists didn't and there they didn't stop there killing their another happy female winner in the album of the your category and the award went to. folk low hard to thank you thank.

you thank you but mostly we just want to thank the fans you guys met us in this imaginary world that we created and we can't tell you how honored we are forever. by this thank you so much and thank you to the recording academy we'll never forget that you did this for us thank you. adrian it all it's pretty harmonious but i thought there was a little bit more controversy brewing on the background barrett on the night was very harmonious of course ahead of the event there was a discount for about blinding lights will hit for the weekend being nominated the canadian musician behind the weekend did upstaged the grammy slightly by announcing last week that he would be boycotting the grammys for ever for ever and obviously he wasn't performing there but we can maybe take a little look at the performances the did take place why don't we start with meghan the stallion and car to be with wop people have said maybe this was the song of the year but it wasn't nominated aging why is that it wasn't

a for some reason decided not to submit song but this song that has been on many a song with the year lists didn't make it into the grammys in the form of a romantic. performance on the night. i mean yeah but on that. baby on the show along with everything you won't see it. on another highlight time we're nominated as best willfulness but they lost out to fiona apple they rocked out with the steps ok well we managed to get through that without mentioning any of the male winners i do believe that there were some but ok let's let's leave it there for now with the grammys adrian stick around there because we do have some other news coming out of los angeles and that is the academy award nominations for this year at their out leading the pack with

a whopping 10 nominations as the netflix movie made the tale of legendary hollywood scriptwriter herman mayne kuwait's is in the running for best picture and for best director david fincher. it's also what. pushed it. and of course no matter lands the gritty migrant worker drama starring frances mcdormand one of a few films that got 6 nominations including best director for closure which is the 1st ever nomination in the category for a woman of color 2 of this year's most nominated films adrian who else is in the running well there was i pushed. for chadwick boseman as best for his epic performance rainey's black book some. postman played trumpet player

and. was already fighting. in filming he died in august 2020 at the age of just 43 and viola davis also you know nation as best actress for that fellow now i understand there's another nomination to that's already making history that's why this is steven ewing who's been nominated as best actor for his performance in the not very this is the story of a korean american family moving to an old farm in search of the american dream film has a 5 nominations no one including full best picture well another big award ceremony coming up adrian kennedy thanks very much thank you and sticking with oscars news for now the new oscars museum and los angeles is finally complete and ready to receive visitors as soon as it's considered safe with the pandemic the museum says that until then it will be hosting virtual events like this one the academy of

motion picture arts and sciences promises the museum will highlight not just the glamour of film but also histories of racism and massaging me within the oscars themselves right now the museum is set to open its doors for rio in september. world renowned cellist yo-yo ma celebrated his 2nd dose of the coronavirus vaccine by giving a surprise concert at a vaccination center in the u.s. state of massachusetts after more received his shots and nurses asked him to stay for a 15 minute observation period and he spent that time by plane pieces by schubert and. said he wanted to get something back. speaking of surprises the owners of a tapas bar in spain got a big one there renovation project turned out to be an archaeological discovery it

turns out there bar in the city of seville was originally a 12th century bathhouse archaeologists are stunned at the find with dozens of star shaped skylights and exceptionally well preserved paintings dating back to the period of muslim rule 800 years ago. well the 17th century painter rembrandt fun ryan never traveled far from home but that didn't stop him from painting faraway places he knew very little about a new exhibition called rembrandt's orient has opened here in germany now germany's museums are finally emerging from 4 months of coronavirus lockdown but no one knows for how long the government says they can stay open if infection rates don't rise. museums in germany can open once again but they have to implement safety measures here at potsdam as museum barber greening art lovers must buy their tickets online

get their temperature taken and leave their contact details. the number of visitors has been drastically limited to only a 3rd of what it was in pretend demick times but those who are here welcomed the reopening. as finished their leave is it in a museum is normal and ordinary and i go quite often and it was pretty difficult for me to stay at home and look at exhibitions online so yeah i'm really happy. but i've been good on the centrals if everyone's a bit careful keeps their distance and looks out for each other then i think it can work off and get us. this new normal also meant that organizing the new rembrandt exhibition came with a few challenges for a museum director or 2 press tied up. as valuable as this. village just acts were extremely difficult pictures of this quality and value are usually accompanied by conservators but that couldn't be the case here so we installed the

sex a bishop along with 26 virtual couriers and off the bat each time a picture was unpacked and evaluated it was done during a video conference with a representative of the lenders. in law that by. the results are breathtaking works by 17th century master rembrandt and his contemporaries are an invitation to dive into the dutch golden age of painting and to understand how artists reacted to what was new to them turbans carpets and lush fabrics through their art rembrandt and his fellow dutch painters illustrated the beginnings of globalization and showed the influence of foreign cultures during the early modern period the west east and can. hunter but one that was never an equal footing so i thought so because it's owning one of these objects was a real treasure it was a sign of education luxury and affluence so it started

a whole trend where the dutch themselves started to be protected wearing turbans even if it times they didn't know exactly which culture it came from what they have little knowledge of distant countries and. like most of his contemporaries rembrandt never left the netherlands he and his fellow artists represented the foreign as reflected through their own set of values and their understanding of the world. that extended to their many depictions of biblical scenes which they often enrich with exotic elements taking great liberties with the stories. even if their representation were sometimes fanciful the paintings show how artists helped shape a view of the foreign at a time when very few people could go see these places for themselves. alone and this exhibition really takes the visitor to a long ago century and distant countries so the yarning that was associated with

these places during rembrandt's time still resonates today. in these days of drastically limited travel and social contact the museum barberini offers visitors a chance to explore far away cultures a welcome interlude in these uncertain times. and we'll take you one more place before we go to the snowy climes of siberia some sounds there of the star wars spin off series the mandal lori and i have built their own replica of a spaceship from the show thanks for watching arts and culture.

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and this is you know we news live from growing more in you country slam the brakes on astra zeneca school in a virus vaccine germany italy and france join a growing worst of nations to temporarily shelves the shots over concerns it causes but clots but medical regulators and the. w.h.o. insists the vaccine is safe also coming up a punishing defeat for germany's ruling conservatives chance america's c.d.u. supper's big losses in 2 key regional elections party leaders are calling the drubbing a wake up call and had

a federal elections in september plus me and maher activists press on with protests despite a weekend of deadly violence there's been international condemnation following sunday's army violence in young god meanwhile the military impose martial law in parts of the city. on light of heart thank you very much for your company nearly a dozen countries including germany france italy and spain have suspended the rule out of the astra zeneca corona virus vaccine over safety concerns the move follows reports that people who received the job in denmark and norway to develop blood clots however the european medicines agency and the world health organization say the available data does not suggest that the vaccine caused the clocks the b.h.o.

experts are meeting on tuesday to discuss its safety meanwhile here in germany the health minister yes spahn explained what the next steps will be regarding the vaccine. at the 3rd background to this are the recently reported cases of thrombosis in cerebral veins that have occurred not long after getting the astra zeneca vaccine organ failure and the light of this new cases apollo era institute today reevaluated the situation with that and recommended a suspension of vaccinations pending further investigations cites the european medicines agency the a.m.a. will now decide whether and how the new findings will affect the licensing of the vaccine stuff is. the health minister speaking there moments ago well for more i'd like to turn our to do political correspondent simon a young simon put this into perspective for us how significant is this decision.

well i think it could be really good could really slow down germany's vaccine rollout which is obviously already been criticized as too slow but on the other hand the government says that further checks on this particular vaccine could boost public confidence in aids it certainly seems to have come as a surprise because the health ministry spokesman was saying publicly just this morning that they would continue with the rollout of astra zeneca vaccine but they've changed their mind and now it seems that the come as one more example of germany's cautious approach shown vaccination what they're worried about is you say these reports of blood clots there's been 1600000 doses of astra zeneca administered in germany with only 7 reported cases of problems but as saying praising numbers of european countries so they just want to check it that's the approach that germany is following to hide they want to just check it but you know

this is a major setback. well it is in germany the states are responsible for the rollout the regional state so they suspended this and they say they're hoping that the european medicines agency can decide whether it's safe to go ahead with astra zeneca or not perhaps as early as this week if they don't it really will slow things down one problem will be all the people who've already received a 1st dose of ath astra zeneca will they get a different vaccine and that could be a problem because the other vaccines are in short supply and you have to say after a story like this maybe public confidence in this vaccine will have been dented so much few people perhaps will want to have it to simon young i did have a political correspondent thank you so much for that update. and earlier i spoke to dr peter crams nurse he's an infectious diseases expert and leads the care of vaccine study that is currently working on developing

a coronavirus vaccine i asked him if anyone who has already had the astra zeneca vaccine should be concerned no i do look think so most of the christ as well to receive the news that you know in so many european countries including germany the nation was stopped so all woe probably is something which i do look see and there's data on yet that this is. so carefully at the moment and didn't look totally ages in but nobody should be violent now if this is a precautionary measure as we think it might be is it reckless to pass the use of the vaccine when common infections as you know are on the rise again not just in germany across europe and here in germany and particularly the vaccine supplies are scarce to begin with. absolutely and this is true for nearly

the whole of the european union so in one boat in that sense so this needs to be checked very carefully and also very tightly and immediately so i hope very much that the european medicines agency trying to a good solution to that within the next day or 2 and either give the green signal to go on or say that there is something really wrong and then world and we have to reconsider the whole oxidation started in the european union and or twice but at the moment i am still confident that vaccinations even also and with the after seneca rocks in go on how dangerous a side effect is it having a blood clots a potentially after taking astra zeneca vaccine. blood clots are very dangerous depending on where they are curt but if they are curb busy. wrong part of the body

it can be deadly within the whole time so this is not a joke. however these things are unfortunately not so rare they ocurred because of many reasons usually sort of failure and circulation events happening and even an issue kate called deceptive is a woman it could happen any increases the chance to have such blood clots and even the most recent contraceptives. as well in 1000 young women do have blood clots obviously a lot life threatening wallace but these things we know from many drugs and interventions usually lot rollbacks is very surprised it is very

difficult to explain but we have to be very careful now and look into that. dr peter comes now director of tipping at university hospital sir thank you for taking the time to talk to us. i think you. have to speak now with some of the other developments on the pandemic the developers of russia's sputnik the vaccine say companies and germany france italy and spain have agreed to help reduce the jab it has officially been approved in the e.u. yet i see you doctors here in germany meanwhile are urging an immediate return to a partial lockdown because of covert 19 mutations germany has seen a rise in infection says gradually easing measures late last month and half of italy's regions have gone into a strict lockdown and because of a new spike in corona virus infections there authorities say hospital admissions are beyond what they can manage as a bit you now on the other stories making news around the world. the e.u.

has launched legal action against the u.k. over an alleged breach of the northern ireland protocol or the protocol is a major part of the briggs a deal which is intended to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland. the vatican has ruled that the catholic church cannot bless same sex unions explaining that god quote cannot blessin the vatican's orthodoxy office was responding to a question about whether catholic clergy the authority to bless k. unions of france's approved the response. to. the nigerian authorities have confirmed that no school children are missing in the north western region of kaduna following fears they had been kidnapped however 3 of their teachers are still yet not located armed men also attempted to have ducked college

students in the same region over the weekend. opposition activist and musician bobby why he was arrested on monday during a protest in the ugandan capital kampala mr weiner was leading a rally against the detention of his supporters when he was taken into custody by authorities is now reported to be under guard at his home. voters here in germany have handed chance america ruling conservatives a stinging defeat in 2 regional elections on sunday voters in the states of bonn burton burke and ryan land politan 8 turned their backs on the c.d.u. in record numbers. germany's super election year began badly for chancellor merkel's conservatives in 2 regional elections they significantly lost support among voters the c.d.u. was in crisis one day later in berlin the frustration was crystal clear among the

party leadership is again of a clip when we can clearly say that the regional election results are disappointing for the cd you shouldn't invite any election result is always a wake up call anyone who doesn't take note of the election results who simply ignores them is simply not understood the meaning of an election. the c.d.u. was probably punished by voters for the painfully slow coronavirus vaccine rollout nationwide. a facemask procurement scandal involving conservative lawmakers only made things worse but one party's loss is another party's game after winning the election in the wealthy state of botton britain burke the greens were in triumphant mode on monday in overall we see that momentum for the greens continues we're starting the super election year strongly. the trend of recent years is also being borne out in 2021. similarly the social democrats

were eager to highlight their victory in the state of ryan learned a lot tonight. the election result especially in rhineland poll out tonight is giving a goose to the social democratic party as a whole. we want to use the upswing to help ensure that we can lead a future federal government and provide the german chancellor. the 2 original votes are not necessarily a preview of what will happen in september when all germans go to the polls but they do provide clues about what voters throughout the country want what problems they see what parties they like and about what coalitions might be possible at a federal level for the c.d.u. in particular they're also a stark warning they have 6 months to recover before their biggest challenge whether they can hold on to power without on the american. me mars a security forces have again fired on pro-democracy protesters killing at least 6

people according to media and eyewitnesses on the fatalities come a day after dozens of activists were shot dead in the country's largest city of yangon all the state broadcaster says the military has now imposed martial law on 6 districts in the city the u.n. says at least 138 people have been killed in the unrest says the military seized power back on february the 1st. was deadly clashes continued into the night as fires burned in the streets and smoke mixed with tear gas. on the monitor groups report that over 40 people died from sunday into monday morning the bloodiest day of protests against the coup so far. on the outskirts of yangon and identified attackers set fire to chinese own factories reportedly wounding multiple employees many pro-democracy protesters accuse china of secretly

supporting 2 leaders. the chinese embassy in myanmar issued a statement saying china urges me and mark to take further effective measures to stop all acts of violence punish the perpetrators in accordance with the law and ensure the safety of life and property of chinese companies and personnel in myanmar. me on mars military shows no signs of easing the crackdowns the military declared martial law and several large districts of yangon and mandalay the country's 2 largest cities but protesters are not relenting in mandalay hundreds return to the streets on monday morning to call for the release of aung sun suu kyi and other civilian leaders arrested at the start of the coup. a court hearing was scheduled for sujit today but her lawyer reported it was postponed me and mars deposed leader is now expecting her next hearing on march 24th 6. and. recap now of the top story that we're tracking for you this hour germany italy and france have

joined a grueling list of countries and suspending the use of astra zeneca as corona virus vaccine over concerns that it might cost blood clogs to medical regulators and the world health organization is said ste the vaccine is sick. sick with us out next season variously with your a business set headlines atlanta iraq and for a man and look forward to seeing you. more than a 1000 years ago europe witnesses a huge construction boom. christianity firmly established itself. both religious and secular leaders eager to display their power . trip speaking. and create the tallest biggest and most beautiful structures. stone masons builders

and architects compete with each other. this is home massive churches created. a contest of the. stars. of d.w. . germany france and italy join the poles on astra zeneca is vaccine raising pressure on regulators to determine if the safety concerns surrounding the job are merited broad health officials so far stand by vaccine. also on the show industry's decarbonising and money is flowing into the rare earth metals industry critical for batteries look at that what that could mean for african economies. and as if the grown apparent coronavirus pandemic wasn't rattling supply chains enough the

african swine fever is dealing a major blow to pig farmers. plough welcome to the business i'm seen in berlin it's good have you with us france italy and germany have joined the growing list of countries putting a general pause on the distribution of astra zeneca vaccine further complicating global vaccination plans but their decisions follow reports of blood clots in some patients the dutch organization tasked with reporting adverse reactions says it's received 10 reports of incidents after vaccinations with astra zeneca the world health organization the e.u.'s medicines regulator and the maker of the job all insist it is safe and this is the latest controversy for astra zeneca which has repeatedly failed to meet its vaccines liveries target now here's our correspondent frankfurt conrad bosun. statement to the press astra zeneca has said analyses of the safety data of more than 10000000 records has shown no evidence of an increased

risk of palm unary embolism or deep vein thrombosis in any defined age group batch or any of the countries where the vaccination has happened and this is backed by the health authorities both the w.h.o. the world health organization or so the european authority him are saying that they don't see any connection between the vaccinations and the blood clots no direct connection no causal connection but of course on the other hand everyone wants to be super careful and that's why they put the application on hold off this vaccination in those countries that you told us about. in our correspondent frankfurt there well let's take a look now at some of the other global business stories making headlines. germany's id t.v. log and co will produce the single dose johnson and johnson corona virus vaccine over the next 3 months the vaccine received conditional approval for use in europe last week he will use capacity previously reserved by japan's to cater to make

during fever shots he is already producing astra zeneca is coping $1000.00 jobs as well as developing its own shot against the coronavirus french food giant and on has dismissed its chief dismiss its chairman after months of complaints about the company's poorly performing shares a man will favor took the helm of the no one in 2017 and quickly but heads with ak to the shareholders over social issues and layoffs shares were up in early morning trading at the news of favors departure. china's economic rebound has kept has continued official data shows industrial production spiking more than 35 percent on year the biggest bounce in decades for retail sales also beat expectations with almost 34 percent growth and strong numbers are distorted however because they are compared to 2020 when most of china's factories were in pandemic lockdown. volkswagen is taking aim at rival tesla plans to have its own european giga

factories the world's number 2 car maker aims to have 6 battery cell production plants operating in europe by 2030 key part of its shift toward evo billets e 2 also expand the network of electric vehicle charging stations 5 fold in the next 4 years. now as that market for electric cars grows companies are showing increasing interest in africa as a source of rare earth metals the elements are used to make electric batteries and motors and as a result many firms are seeking mining rights on the continent now namibia for example where a canadian company namibia critical metals is teaming up with a government owned company in japan to mine terabithia an angle of the british company is set to mine 40 $500.00 tonnes of rare earth elements every year and then 10 zinnia australian mining company peaks research peak resources rather is playing to mine $3000.00 tonnes of rare earth materials per year and finally south africa's steenkamp scrawl is planning a similar scale operation in its home country and for more on this i'm joined by

judith kinnear she's a professor of economic geology at the university of the voters rand and she joins me from johannesburg it is good to have you on the show i want to start by asking what are rare earth metals and why are they so in demand right now. hi carol good evening and thank you for the as the patient good evening to. you is . reverence 'd hugely and to my back in pride to about the 980 s. these were something that really we didn't talk about as we told the rarest sort of group of 15 chemical elements and they have a huge range of applications in modern technology particularly you see you say for a low carbon economy so we use things like meet in the him to marry him 1st strong magnets in wind power we use routes and mc reaming car batteries we use siri and to

tell the lastly you samarium for cancer drugs the rarer the use since it's and patients so there's a very wide range of applications and for many of these applications there's no substitute so they have become very important to modern technology and china produces more than 90 percent of the global. demand and it's going full if they want to produce small electric vehicles currently. 49 percent of the sale of electric vehicles is in china and so they might well want to produce or to use more of their own as full open uses in the future which an old disposed of the companies who wonder about whether

a railroad going to come forward in the next decade and that puts all eyes on africa what does that mean for the economic potential of these money concessions. well just to put it in perspective. most of grammar come from a type of rock called cowboy on a tight end somewhere around 50 percent of the world cup on the types of curry in africa and there's good prospects in tanzania kenya malawi as you name it yeah and then gola and also in south africa and mining just when i was stabbed ish in these countries so. mining legislation is up and running there so it means that the future there is huge potential for african produces how big are the deposits across africa how long could they last in a world that's increasingly in demand of these materials and minerals. ok it's

very strong deposit to deposit so some a quite small some have huge resources but you think that if in 26 pm that will do you. 'd 126000 tons of railroad where is kuchar in the same time was 18000000 tonnes not the actual amount it is quite small the problem for africa protesting technology in the red river and not really rare in the world abundance of things like gold platinum taxman but as things stand at the moment in the world there's only 3 up and running. places where they come from their presence seeing red arrows 2 of those are in china or one is in malaysia india now the plans you ought to see and not the.

factory in teesside in the u.k. and thence the statue in the county so the problem for african producers if they've got to get that concentrates and they've got to get to a process a process and that's not a simple task if you want to save lead from an old simple process read us or a mixture of all these 15 and roll it out them and getting individual elements out for all of them the add in the magnets the wind is a huge. engine philosophy but they're just kind of with the university of that it's not us round and john thank you so much. thanks very much. or it over germany now the crown of our spending has shaken economies for more than a year another illness has vexed farmers over the past years well african swine fever it's decimated pick stocks in china and recently it hit germany hard now some

pics farmers are barely able to make ends meet. these pigs are destined for the slaughterhouse after spending 4 months fattening them up farmer peter says or next to nothing for them pork sales are down because of the coronavirus and an outbreak of african swine fever has led to a collapse in exports to asia. current market prices are not enough to sustain his farm long term. deal it's more in the last few months things got dramatically worse we were getting one euro $2110.00 for a kilogram of line weight that just about covers the cost of feed but nothing else . because it kinds of eyes. since last fall authorities have been discovering infected wild boars in the eastern german states of saxony and brandenburg the animals died from african swine flu

the virus which cannot be passed on to humans entered the country from poland the outbreak prompted authorities to install a series of electric fences on the border in order to stop wild boars from entering kilometers of additional wire mesh fencing were then added hunters are killing more wild boars too thanks to these measures the disease has not yet spread beyond saxony and brandenburg. the result has led to regional differences among pig farmers in germany. large scale operations in western states have been largely unaffected by african swine flu and have been able to sell their produce to countries like vietnam singapore and thailand. doesn't exist this is really important for germany because in asian countries they consume

the parts of the pig that we don't want to eat my ears knuckles cheek awful and fat buttons. back to paint as a ghost farm while the price of pork is rising slightly again he says he's done he's reducing the number of pink sea homes and he wants to rent out the freed up space and storage was the college english uses my colleagues tell me that you can actually earn more wrenching your study out than by keeping pigs in it that really stings. at the same time he cannot imagine giving up pig farming entirely right now he still has 2500 pigs to take care of. and finally just to show that movies can still make a splash even in the corona virus pandemic avatar has just reclaimed the title as highs of highest grossing film of all time thanks to its release in china with

worldwide total sales reaching $2800000000.00 james cameron saw 5 blockbuster as push marvel's avengers endgame back in the 2nd place. and that's it for me and the business team you can find out more about these and other business stories online dot com slash business it's always it's watching. hunting in the arctic circle who has the right to do so in the land of the recent sweden supreme court has ruled that exclusive game hunting and fishing rights will be restored to one of the. community. it was a historic moment for the sammy and a source of aggravation for swedish hunters. close up. in 60 minutes on d. w.

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