we live in a competitive world this cold it's cold it's been cold water used to be free but the world is changing to the most important commodity and it is. the freezing. cold some water in city or commodity starts march 22nd on d w. this is the news africa coming up on the program young innocent lives cut short in gruesome killings a new report on muslim beeks kabul delgado province has found that children are deemed brutally matches in the ongoing conflict also coming out. cameron says it will not be inoculated its people with astra zeneca vaccine as the means continual how about the possible side effects.

i imagine michael welcome to the program it reports just out by the global energy you save the children sas children as young as 11 are being killed in was a province of kabul delgado as a conflict that continues to displace thousands families report horrifying scenes of marriage on the off ones disappearing it's been very difficult to get any information out of the area due to the government's restrictive information policy bought after months of waiting. at the end chris was a credit and has now sent us some wreck insights into the situation. we're traveling to ireland where the united nations world food program is planning a food distribution program. but our boates journey ends at the halfway point the tide is going out so we have to continue on foot the area

is dangerous on the close by mainland there are still regular attacks by islamist insurgents. it's because. we've been on the road for 3 hours through the sea and the mangroves then we meet the 1st locals and finally we reach the remote island which was attacked by terrorists last year. they looted the village and murdered 2 people and we reached the food distribution venue the local had a ministration tells us the terrorists also kidnapped 30 children. a 16 year old daughter one of our boys one of the missing children she disappeared without a trace. these people are just evil they come from far away take away our children and don't even tell us why you know what they want i am sad i'm angry i just don't

understand. he was there when when i was kidnapped he almost ended up in the same situation themself. they said we are taking you with us to our camp we will train you in to teach you to shoot and make you a soldier but 5 boys 2 girls and myself managed to escape on the way there. after they said they wanted to make the boys into soldiers what did they say to the girls. make them our wives. so far there has been no international outcry because the news do hasn't got out of the island without electricity or a telephone network almost one year on many residents live in fear of another attack not a single soldier has been stationed here to protect them up to now. joining me

now is chance brits country director and was on be quick to save the children international welcome to the program so you just released very disturbing reports from mozambique particularly bother killing of children in such gruesome mana what are your major findings yes well thank you micah we're finding that children in their families are being chased from their compounds chased from their villages and in many cases it's quite violent and in some cases even children are being killed and there are even reports headings of children as young as 1112 years old is really disturbing it sickens us to our core because of course children have no role in a conflict their innocence these stories just bring us to tears. almost brought me to tears when i was not the report but why do you think children are being targeted in such of mana. well mozambique is

a very very poor country it's the poorest country in the world and couple delgado the northernmost province is the poorest province in the country and yet there are tremendous resources there and it's been perhaps underdeveloped for years and so there is a sense that some drivers of the conflict are about development but why target children we're just not sure certainly in other conflicts we've seen that children are trained of all children can be obedient children are easier to control and so in some cases maybe children are being targeted to join the forces and we know the stories of when they refuse they are killed we know stories of 10 children being killed altogether because they refuse to join the insurgents. so well you see that all parties to this conflict must ensure that children not have a target that's not fortunately the case because this is an insurgency and jadakiss don't play by the rules how else can children be protected well we're never

going to abandon our commitment to international humanitarian law and what's happening here is a tragedy and it's just inconceivable so we are calling on all parties just stop the war on children whether it's mozambique or yemen or nigeria we must stop the war on children across the world having said that we do believe that peace is possible and peace is what will protect the children the mozambique in government as demonstrated in the past a willingness and ability to negotiate with enemies and with opponents sign peace deals and treaties and we believe that that should be possible in this conflict as well you also talk about how there's hardly enough resources available to support that is faced children how is that we are on that. well donor governments such as the german government can and should provide more resources to help address the needs of 670000 people who've been displaced and that's one 3rd of the province the population of the problems there's tremendous

need for food for shelter for schooling and even for just basic needs like female menstrual i jean and soap and toothpaste so there's a real need for funding and we believe that even with all the pressures of 19 that the world can and should do more ok now right before i let you go is that any thing positive out of all that's been happening so far. thank you well many families are escaping to safety and we have other n.g.o.s are able to provide them with services where engaged in cycle such social care because they've gone through tremendous trauma where helping build classrooms to make sure children can go back to school or providing food and other resources but also sometimes when children are fleeing their villages is it night and they get off track and they get lost and so we have many instances of children being separated from their families for days in days on end and coming to 2 towns and not knowing how to find their parents and

we have a process for finding the separated children and for reuniting them with their families that i'd like to tell you we recently helped you avoid him serious you know 11 years old he was separated from the entire family but he could describe his mother and we managed to find his mother's neighbor's phone number and through that we found the mother just 3 months of being apart were able to you know this sound hopefully more families can be reunited sounds brix concert there a tie in was a meet with save the children international thanks for your insights. thanks so much. stories making news across the continent police in tanzania have arrested at least 3 people be accused of spreading false rumors that president john michael fully is seriously ill the president has not been seen in public for more than 2 weeks fueling speculation about his health. so

the international community to mediate in its lingering disputes alongside egypt with ethiopia and massive down projects on the river. on egypt. water supply will be compromised. the africa. that is reviewing its guidelines on the. scene after several countries suspended its use of a blood clot consents to join intend to africa c.d.c. you will convene on imagine the meeting of experts to assess the data. while african country to has been raising concerns about the ashes and i got a job is coming in last week health minister. she addressed this on twitter saying the side effects of the astra zeneca seem continue to be debated i would like to make it clear that i have submitted them to to scientific console for advice the

expectation is that we will not use this vaccine while still doubts about its effects. plays a young boy and. bring us up to speed well coming. up seems due to arrive in the country this week. i thought it's a parent's health minister the school during that we can also count really nice not all come out of being not used absolutely seeing because of concerns in other countries regarding the effects that the vaccines have for people who were sick in the back seeing before how long before another temper was very happy to get this vaccine in fact help me decide in chorus people to take this vaccine. that was in one of their worry but we're going to recycle the same expression with the band and all the pundits in europe they miss out on seeing that even then i want to say

let's be clear that we haven't we are in a sense that if we continue to have news of same facts of all of this is ok but will cameroon be conduct and fresh research to confirm whether or not to deceive to deploy the vaccine yet speaking on state media to help when you said counterinsurgency it will help the poor that exactly this vaccine before can only unspent say i don't know you know they are going to college good in terms of developing a massive before that i'm not sure but i think what i mean it's actually sex will be doing well be absolute i'm actually don't see if parity ends. up move or i'm going to discuss it ok briefly blaze our communions reacting to all this. rant before since we developed county and some of them did not believe. 90 nexis we've done a lot of stories and you got you waco indians are very skeptical about the virus

and now with the vaccine some people feel like sumo similar creek so the bats not been using pemberley the next weeks or months is not a big deal out comments because before how many of them were not obvious what the. ok lazy young encounter and thank you. that's where we draw the captains from all of our stories go to d.w. dot com slash africa or you can visit our facebook and twitter pages we leave you with pictures from the city of weed out in ben in webby out there is the only group house free have been said giant interleaved times dedicated to friendship and togetherness is doing this in different parts of the world is to create a human chain of hands around the globe by for now but see you so.

can you hear me now in the years between you and how long stands gemstones now will bring you back off and you never have been surprised himself with what is possible congressman kolbe really what moves them all some who talk to people along the way maurice and critics alike joining us from echols lasagnes. the man told me push the homeless i'll turn out in the morning and climb

a tree to fend off the stores this is my placing blame for just one week. how much worse can it really get. we still have time to an ongoing. process. coming up on arts and culture a chat with nobel prize winning author caswell ishiguro and later on the show between fantasy and nightmare the dark giant works of artists your last forgot. and a little later on the show shifting shapes by the 2nd a stunning natural phenomenon turned into art. when kazuo ishiguro won the 2017 nobel prize in literature he was already known to readers for

titles like the remains of the day and never let me go now and his 1st novel since the award is a group takes a new turn as novel clora and the son takes us into the life of an ai machine girl to provide selfless friendship to humans. clara is the perfect companion it's friendly and helpful and she's always there when you need. connor his so has no need to tone because clara is an opposite official friend an android. clone is the narrator in consumer and she can lose latest novel clara and the son he's 8 she is fascinated by the idea of artificial intelligence he tells us what makes you sleep 3 harrowing klara is somebody who comes into the world almost empty at the beginning and just learns a huge rates and one of the advantages advantages of for me what was exciting about

cora was that she could at the same time. i become very sophisticated about some things about the human world and be very childlike about other things this could co-exist in the same person very easily to protectionist in ishiguro is best known novel the remains of the day is stephen's an english butler who realizes too late that he's been serving the wrong master and aristocrat who in $1000.00 self but the nazis the film adaptation of the booker prize winning novel was also a huge success both stevens and the artificial friend clara us aboard needs to the systems in which they live why don't you she goes here writing ever rebel. the truth of it is that is that we are very good at rebelling. what we are what we often tend to do and and there is a kind of a heroism about this too is that we try and find some. some

way. of retaining our dignity. and our sense of ourselves water except thing that we are powerless and that we have to just get on with it. and it's tragic and you know i don't necessarily say that's a good way to be but that's what i often observe human life to be like in 2017 she could do was awarded the nobel prize in literature they can be described as a writer of great integrity who tackles complex in engineering scenes of memory time and self-delusion. as well as his novels and plays he she grew is also a passionate songwriter writing lyrics who just sing and stacey can't. be a nobel prize with it but i mean you could be a poem i can tell you what it's about i mean often the title is my main clue that i realize it's about a funeral or something otherwise i mean i just don't understand it whereas some of the ricks i have felt that's something i've always felt to shoot for being with.

reality. it's just is. the. thing. to watch our whole interview with nobel prize winning author and songwriter kazuo ishiguro visit our you tube channel d.w. books it's on now to some art news france has promised to return a painting looted by the nazis to its rightful heirs rosebushes under the trees by gustav clipped once belongs to a jewish austrian woman named nor us to me but in 1038 the nazis forced studios need to sell it for

a pittance before she was later deported and murdered france's culture minister. institutions across europe still have a lot of work to do in returning good art. while artist your boss is used to thinking big huge in fact but how do imagine his giant canvases in a space he can't even visit right now is planning a solo show of his works at the long museum in shanghai and to decide which painting should go where he's built a model of the galleries at his studio in berlin. at home with. the painter takes a break from working on his exhibition for some play time with his young son getting familiar with the tools of his father's. preparations are underway for a long journey your last book gets large scale artworks full of fantastical scenes

and absurd dreamlike images are being packed up for transport to shanghai once there they'll be put on display in the private long museum. there was the long museum is one of those museums where the progressive discourse of contemporary asian art is taking place that's why it's important and the long family who are initiating the whole thing are very important collectors in asia. and they're very open and view this for many different perspectives. on the. under normal circumstances eunice borger would have checked out the exhibition space himself but did a cover travel restrictions this time he has to rely on a model. nearly 20 of his pictures will be shown in shanghai their placement demands great attention to detail some of his artworks are currently being shown in

a different museum in china is unusual style is making waves in the chinese art world cup it's got to you are not what i currently have an exhibition running in beijing want the gallery since there have told me that visitors are fascinated but also confused because they don't recognize this type of visual language and that's fascinating for me of course figuring out how to communicate on a level that's not verbal but visual that's what really intrigues me and the reason i started in the 1st place it's a hope in the 4th album what's the more. you know go to created this painting especially for the exhibition in shanghai which marks the peak of his career so far . when he started out book at figurative painting stood in stark contrast to the dominant trend of abstract art. but he persevered and managed to break through with his art. is successful on an international scale

especially in china. there his monumental and fantastical works of art are being welcomed with great acclaim. with large scales or great good. oddities masses and excessiveness in terms of structure are things chinese people are familiar with over there are 1200000000 people living in that country each with their own unique psychology. and if you look behind every window there's its own little world of friends in the inner world and in any case i think that's maybe one of the reason this year in fights for life is this. the exhibition is set to open in shanghai on july 23rd book that has a lot of time left before that for his paintings found for relaxing moments. moment ration is the word for when flocks of birds twists turn and swirl in mid-air

actually it's one kind of bird in particular the starling this video of starlings was taken by a photographer at cern so care soaker normally photographed famous musicians and movie stars but for his latest project he's looking up to the skies. the magic usually happens when the flock of starlings is attacked by birds of prey . as a defense mechanism they create be some very organic shapes like these black waves going through the flag and actually it happens so quickly that you don't even realize sometimes what you've seen. different sland region in the north of the netherlands photographers evans like a has travelled here from denmark for his project black sun. i've worked in 6 different countries so far so i do a lot of research to find out where the birds are. all i can do is research and

turn up and hope for the best. probably 120 days in the last 4 years and. i probably have just between 5 and 10 very good nice. start in memory since when i was a little kid my parents took me to the west coast of that mug when i was 10 that was an image that never left me really. but i did portraits for 25 years. i suddenly it came to me that i wanted to go back to see those starlings and try to photograph them. continues to make orchards as well. taking photos of celebrities like anyone out.

down. the white stripes. and. has really been my specialty and something that i've been pretty obsessed with. i've completed it's 5 different books of portraits of mainly famous people the new project. that i've been. doing now for a while is very different it's nature and. it's very humbling in a way it's. not hard to museum of contemporary art in a danish city hanging it is now selling his photos in a major exhibition. i haven't moved one single bird in photoshop in this project. its nature. and its nature at its most surreal. these

magic moments occur by themselves in the church who. has planned to spend one week with the starlings turned into a 4 year project where every picture is totally different i have not in 4 years experienced this same motive twice. so that gives me a great incentive to keep going and i'm far from done with this project i think i will keep going for a few more years. keeping going as hard these days for dancers with no live audience but some companies like theatre mag the byrds here in germany are debuting new choreographies online i'll leave you now with their latest. all.

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is it every news life for the benefits outweigh the risk that year's top medical regulator backs astra zeneca is corona virus vaccine for now the head of the european medicines agency says there is no indication so far that there jab is the cause of reported blood clots also coming up in the words of warning the powerful sister of north korea's that kim jong un has a hostile message for the white house as tension. on the peninsula rise and since

spencer is icelanders wait for the volcano to blow its top and finally put an end to leaks of troublesome tremors. and while i thank you so much for your company everyone european union regulators say they are firmly convinced that the benefits of astra zeneca as corona virus vaccine outweighed the risk of any possible side effects a more than a dozen countries have stopped using the shot after reports of some people suffering blood clots after being an ocular rated the european medicines agency is investigating possible side effects of the vaccine and will issue its findings later this week meanwhile the regulators insist that reported incidents remain very rare and they are going courage ing people to keep getting vaccinated and earlier

today the agency's director m.r. cook says there is no evidence that the astra zeneca vaccine has caused blood clots . is no indication that vaccination has caused these conditions they have not come up in the clinical trials and they're not listed as known arse or expected side effects with this vaccine in clinical trials both of oxidative people on the people who are thieves that perceive 0 have shown small some very small numbers of clot talked about months. we don't know the number of throw and balika bands overall in the vaccinated people seems not to be higher than the seen in the camera population. and that was the m. a director speaking a little earlier let's go straight to brussels correspondent garrick motus for more on this all important story the european union medicines regulator we just heard says there is no indication that astra zeneca vaccines are the cause of reported

blood clots so is this the final word yes and no and they lie thing must be beyond know because they are launching an investigation they're looking seriously into the matter and that was one of the main messages she wanted to get across yes it is somewhat final word as well and in an effort to to calm the 10s newton the european union to stop maybe even member states from further member states one must say after several of them suspended the use of that vaccine to stop them from doing that by making clear that there is no established link between the blood clots that have been found and that particular vaccine at astra zeneca that is the message so for the moment it's safe to use and on top of that the message is it's certainly safer than contracting the virus itself how much has this latest controversy garrick's thrown into disarray

the plans to combat the pandemic. well look the european medical agency is an agency that is responsible for a for all member states and the national authorities do not necessarily have to have to follow that the advice they are giving from that particular institution but of course when you look at particularly had vaccine hesitancy that the fact that the number of member states decided in this inconclusive situation to suspend the use of the vaccine hasn't helped one can be sure of that now all this as you were a reference to is affecting also people's personal stance towards well vaccination and here's how some citizens in germany reacted to the astra zeneca controversy. just that i would say that the boxing definitely helps to contain the pandemic

that's that's why i would like it to be available. to the people kind of cipher themselves if they want to take it on not just. the run time. bomb one of these things don't want to go on. i believe the government itself but at mit that mistakes were made on you know i don't know if the decision on the astra zeneca vaccine was a good one. i think it wasn't thought through manifestly you must live with what i can say or the situation will be like in a week or month always be subordinate compazine and there's many ways to look at this in this issue i think it's right that they stop to investigate. and i've also quote if it turns out the facts and it's safe to use after all. it won't be easy to convince a population of this you know over circle in. which so not everybody is supporting the decision that this country has made to a pause vaccinations with the astra zeneca products there is in general across the

e.u. a public trust issue again at this abundance of caution by a member states like germany backfire. but that's of course a potential risk although i stress any because not the main vaccine that is being used here and you know there's a number of other key questions that need to be answered by the european method since agency today he had indicated that a decision will come on the question of what temperatures the biotech pfizer and the madonna vaccines need to be kept because you see in the united states these vaccines are kept it at a much lower refrigerator temperatures which allows the united states to vaccinate people in supermarkets pharmacies at local doctors and here in europe these these vaccinations are only done in huge centers and not handed out for general practitioners and that could of course make

a huge change to the vaccination rollout that is rather slow in europe right gary marcus reporting from brussels thank you. acyclic now and some other developments in the pandemic drugmaker pfizer says it will deliver an additional $10000000.00 doses of its coronavirus vaccine to the european union over the next 3 months and experts are warning that germany is experiencing the start of a 3rd wave of infections cases of the virus have been rising steadily in recent weeks and u.s. manufacture minturn out has started vaccine trials on children age 6 months to 12 years. as catch up now as some of the other news from around the world. britain's prince philip has been released from a hospital in london after a 9 month long stay on the husband of queen elizabeth was treated for an infection and then had to have heart surgery prince philip is 99 years old.

russia's media regulator plans to block twitter within a month if it fails to delete banned content the action is thought to be related to demonstrations supporting the jailed opposition leader likes involving the kremlin says twitter posts are inciting violence. german friends meyer has been holding talks and berlin with his israeli counterpart mr riven rivlin a worldwide vaccine distribution tensions in the mideast and relations between germany and israel topped the agenda. the u.s. and japan have been discussing security in the asia pacific region a statement warns against quote destabilizing behavior by china u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken also condemned what he called rural repression by myanmar's military and. the influential sister of north korean leader kim jong un as warrant the u.s.

over its joint military exercises with south korea she says the biden and ministration should quote refrain from causing a stink if it wants to sleep in peace for the coming 4 years as the 1st time john young has addressed president joe biden's team after a visit to japan senior u.s. officials are heading to south korea. all right let's get you more on this now we're joined by a journalist and reuters correspondent josh smith who joins us from seoul a very good day to you josh and i 1st of all a warning from pyongyang to washington what do you what should we make of this statement. it does definitely seem timed to coincide with the arrival of those top american officials here in seoul tomorrow these military drills actually started here in south korea a week ago so most north korea observers have noted that if north korea would be the wanted to complain about their drills they probably would have done that

a few days earlier so this timing does seem directly aimed at influencing or perhaps making sure that north korea is at the top of the agenda when secretary of state blinken and secretary of defense austin arrive here in seoul tomorrow and is that significant josh that this warning state when it's coming from the sister. of the north korean leader rather than from him directly what should we make of that. over the past year camille john has taken more vocal role especially in issuing these statements about south korea and occasionally the united states this is definitely showcased more of a public role for her rather than simply being kind of a helper to her brother she's taking on much more of a leadership role here in many ways folks see this as a way of having a very senior north korean official weigh in on this still allows

a bit of deniability you think should go wrong or something needs to be retracted it's not coming from the leader himself but still someone very senior an obviously very close to him now the u.s. defense secretary lord austin and the secretary of state at the blacken are due to arrive in seoul on wednesday what can we expect from their visit. so divided ministration has said that they're making a priority of quote unquote repairing some of the alliances that they see as having been damaged under the trumpet ministration there were certainly some public tensions between seoul and washington during the trumpet ministration at the same time it's not necessarily clear that south korea and the united states are going to see eye to eye on everything for example. lincoln has made it clear that he sees soul as an important part of potentially building an alliance to counter china

where there's some real has been more interested in not really coming down one side or the other on that basis and so those are the types of issues that are going to be here. josh smith reporting from seoul thank you. next people in iceland are hoping that this volcano erupts soon because they want to see sleepless nights caused by tremors ending on tens of thousands of minor earthquakes have rattled homes experts are calling it an unprecedented seismic event a quakes are caused by molten rock trying to force its way to the surface. experts say it could happen at any minute. here on the wrecking as peninsula icelanders wait for an imminent eruption in the area surrounding mike. but among the few residents in this small fishing town the mood is not so much one of concern as it

is exhaustion so a situation in green that it is quite uncomfortable right now everyone is sleep deprived because the earth is constantly moving all day on lights some with quakes of bigger than others randy. is a school teacher and lifelong resident here. experts say that an eruption from the brewing volcano will likely occur in an uninhabited zone and not pose a threat to the 10s residence what can be expected is a spectacular lava show with fountains which could extend up to 20 or even 100 meters in the air. i think everyone who lives in good interviews just waiting for an eruption it will be a slow and steady eruption they tell us just so we can get more peace and quiet and i know there will be a perth quakes but maybe not as big as we have. many are escaping to the capital of

reykjavik merely to get a break and escape the night tremors but god means daughter is staying behind she's confident there will be enough advance warning if the threat to residents increases as for now she only earns for a good night's sleep. so a source news now for you and the ever modest for him reach is calling his return to international football for the 1st time in 5 years the return of the got on the 39 year old striker plays club football for ac milan and has been included in sweden squad for 2 upcoming world cup qualifiers ibrahim of each scored a worker $62.00 goals in $116.00 games for sweden if he plays will become the oldest player ever for sweden's national team. all right now the top story that we're tracking for you this hour the european medicines agency has said there is no

indication that astra zeneca has coronavirus vaccine causes blood clots several european countries have suspended vaccinations with the shot the agency says the vaccines benefits outweigh the risks. that does it for me for now next up is stephen grizzly with the business news thank you so much for watching. w.'s talk show. strong honest clear positions from international perspective suffice every week we get to the point on our current topic. on britain's controversial commit is the right. to point. out on g.w. . what

people have to say. first to us. then trying to send stories reporter every weekend on t w. the benefits outweigh the risks european medical regulators say they have yet to see anything that would disqualify the coronavirus vaccine made by astra zeneca that after european countries suspend its use. also on the show 7 straight days of power outages in south african electric utility eskom continues to weigh heavily on its economy. and tile and put solar panels. at a scale not seen before take a look. welcome to the show i'm seriously in berlin it's good to have you with us

well all eyes in europe are on drug regulators as governments there have stopped administering the coronavirus vaccine made by astra zeneca following some reports of blood clots the european medicines agency says it won't have a full report until thursday but its executive director had this to say today well be investigation is ongoing we are currently we are still firmly convinced that the benefits. in preventing 19 we think the risk of health. outweigh the risk of these side effects him or cook their head of the european medicines agency now questions about astra zeneca could put african countries in particular in a difficult spot more than 14000000 doses of the vaccine have been delivered to countries on the continent by the international kovacs facility the democratic republic of congo has already suspended its use i'm joined now by correspondent

that collect she in accra is it good to have you on the show now gonna has received some 600000 doses from kovacs of the astra zeneca vaccine what are you hearing there. so. we've not had reports of people having side effects in the usual reaction of people gates we think. we had we had from people. like blood you've had from europe. and of course of how to government officials and those in charge of the health sector saying that there are no reports of major side effects especially blood clot that has become a major issue globally. we don't have any major issue with the vaccine obviously that is the advice and we're having people are hoping to hope to stop the spread of the virus across the country. take that to mean also that the government hasn't said anything about possibly suspending its use yet

a government has not spoken about suspending the use because the government as i showed the public that there are no reports of cited fakes and so it's important people continue to take the vaccine so that it will hope to stop the spread of the virus so gonna have not taken any decision is no close to even thinking of suspending the use of the vaccine in a country how has the public there in ghana view vaccines to this point. even without the major reports of a society effect black clothes people still have a free hand trying to take the vaccine and it's a challenge full of strength and courage to go in for the vaccine and that's why you see the president. politicians and the religious leaders taken it to encouraged to take it so it is mixed reaction people believe that the vaccine will hope stop this spread by a lot of people who are prehensile if they want to wait and see what i don't be

side effects we've taken it before they jump on to reach that it's really day. when it comes to. a vaccine especially because quickly we know how to africa produce the any of the vaccines this conspiracy theories are fading by people who think that it is to destroy people in africa. the economy there look like currently in ghana given the pandemic whereas on businesses we've had businesses closing some people of and even provide. the hope is that with. hopes to stop this spread and get people to go back to the will to live in the hospitality industry to tourism sector all of them being hard and manufacturing hits hard and so once the vaccine is the hope is that in the coming months if we have

a lot of vaccine into that country to be vaccinated they will have this bridge been brought down and people can go back to their lives and businesses can actually recover and then rebuild all right as a collection across always a pleasure let's go now to some of the other global business stories making headlines. protests erupted tuesday in the lebanese capital beirut as the country's currency hit a new low lebanese pound has lost 90 percent of its value against the u.s. dollar since 2019 the currency collapse means costs for basic goods like food skyrocketed fueling unrest and fears over widespread hunger. trying to swallow ways that it plans to license its 5 g. technology to smartphone makers like apple and samsung collecting royalties on its technology could become a lucrative new revenue stream for huawei it comes as many western countries led by the u.s. shunned while way over fears it's a quip meant could be used for spying. the chinese tech stocks have fallen after

regulators find a dozen companies over what they called monopolistic practices tencent shed $60000000000.00 in market value. signaled it may have to sell off some assets under the crackdown. well as the 7th consecutive day of scheduled power outages for eskom customers in south africa the struggling state utility says it's aiming to get its power plant performance back up to acceptable levels by september but also warn the public interment that low shedding could still occur over the next 5 years as comes as a maintenance plan will focus on correction designs the fact that newer plants and extending the life of older ones south africa's economy has been hamstrung by years of outages. all right for more on this let's talk to correspond to ellis fund gelder ellis is making progress it's making all these repairs is cutting off power in some cases 5 more years is there progress. there is progress they're

actually also building new power plants and we see that more and more units of these power plants are are 7 being activated and the issues seem correctly disappear still for free and he is headed to power consonants not constantly but intermittently and it is a massive problem and the biggest problem is that a lot of the transmitters are 45 years old in south africa has so that needs a lover for basements a lot of maintenance and that is actually what is happening he switched power off to do work and to fix up these power plants and as you're saying that's not very good for an already ailing economy here in south africa ellis what does blackouts mean for businesses and for workers across the country but it looks a lot of big businesses have been going through it is full for a long time so they have generates as a backup i think it's may need it to small businesses that are suffering old though they do try to plan most of these outages in middle of the night or early in the

morning and it's make sure that the economy is not that much effect and also what they do they warn you right these are not outages that just happen we have an app on our phone and we are in full when the power will be switched off but it is definitely something that's not helping and i think it is so nice and it's also of course not good for investor confidence if you're in international investor do you want to go to a country where the power switched again. briefly has south africa appeared to learn any lessons from from what's going on with us com. yes commitment they are trying to kind of prevent have been a lot of natural changes they're not fighting it in defense of the patients are trying to tackle corruption so yes that they are doing not best also now and we have these blackouts because we're saying they're saying it's better for us to do maintenance now then during it's you know all through winter as so they are saying

that are trying to work proactively and also in south africa and just to be patient that's hard all right alice van gelder in johannesburg thank you so much. or to southeast asia thailand state owned power utility wants to promote renewable energy with floating sour solar plants or other currently renewables account for about 15 percent of the kingdom's electricity mix by 2036 that share is expected to more than double. floating solar parks each one the size of 10 soccer fields and that's just the beginning today another segment is being towed to its final the occasion for sui to show took it's become routine even if the conditions today are not ideal today asked on when we have to make out. the plan to get there to understand what just the guy. in the beginning speed boats

were used for towing but they were not easy to maneuver. we used just the tool driving smoothly and we had the left flank to control. the movement when the face of probably just moved and turned back to another aisle. each individual segment is 130 meters long and over 30 meters wide the most critical moment is docking because unlike the gigantic rafts themselves their connection points are rather chinee. this where the small hole to get at. it is this one small and stable. small. boat. when all the solar rafts are in place and anchored they'll cover 720000 square metres of the reservoir and provide $45.00 megawatts of energy anough 1st small

town thanks to the water's natural cooling effect the modules are up to 15 percent more efficient than on land your can bend there's an electrical engineer who advise us thailand's electricity suppliers on renewables benda explains that ovo floating solar fields already exist in some countries when it comes to size thailand is setting completely new standards. this is 10 times bigger than the one they just launched in the us. you can see the dimensions. there's nothing like it in europe either. the solar rafts don't just say valuable space on land by working with a nearby hydro power plant the hybrid system avoids unwelcome fluctuations in the power grid during times when the sun's not shining. the floating solar park is scheduled to go online at the end of june the tyreese are already

planning 16 more. and finally in case you haven't already heard a theme park in china has opened what it's calling the world's 1st polar bear hotel has 21 rooms that offer round the clock views of yes polar bears a spokeswoman said it is already fully booked at rates that can reach a whopping $350.00 u.s. dollars a night conservationists have been quick to criticize the business saying polar bears belong in the wilds and not hotels. or possibly go wrong here's a reminder the top story we're following for you. the european medicines agency says they have yet to see a reason to throw out the coronavirus vaccine they had by astra zeneca says several countries suspend use of the over blood clot concerns.

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