my choice is this card if i was given. to transfer to. mom and i. did. it's fascinating how different people. but research doesn't always reflect on diversity. today we look at how we can all benefit from factoring in things like to end. this coming up. welcome to tomorrow today the science show on t.w. . for every $100.00 researchers in the natural sciences

world wind on average only $28.00 of them are women. the ratio of men to women is almost 5050 in many latin american countries russia and in eastern europe. but western europe and the united states lag far behind. yet as the examples in our reports show women's perspectives are essential to research. this is a female turtle and this one probably to the overwhelming majority of newborn sea turtles in the great barrier reef a female posing a threat to the future of the colonies that. a development only discovered when research is specifically tracked to male and female populations. so gender disparity also extends underwater sure and not just that. doing research

wrong can cost lives and money. has spent 4 decades exploring and enhanced saying the fundamental bases of research. dependable study reveals those that take in fact his relating to sex gender and intersectionality from the outside. but what does that mean an individual's biological sex is determined by physical characteristics except chromosomes hormones and reproductive organs do not always conform to conventional binary categories which is why biologists now talk of a male female spectrum. the cultural sex or gender refers to socially constructed roles patterns of behavior and identities and they don't necessarily correlate with the biological sex intersectionality refers to the often blurred boundaries between various elements that play a role in our lives everything from disability to ethnicity sexuality class and age

so why is it important for research to include factors like sex and gender. if we don't consider the gender aspect we're going to miss the opportunity for discovery for making something more exciting and also the companies won't be able to sell their products very well because they won't work for many many people and that can have dangerous consequences. in medicine recently the u.s. withdrew 10 drugs from the market because of life threatening. and 8 of these had worse effects for women not only does developing these drugs cost billions of dollars but when they fail they cause human death and suffering we really can't afford to get the research wrong and there are a further examples it's been known for some time that women have an almost 50 percent higher risk of sufferings. serious injuries in

a car crash than men. the primary reason is that crash test dummies a modeled on standard sized men people with different physical dimensions pregnant women the overweight 10 fragile older people are not represented in standard tests . but inclusive research also has benefits for men osteoporosis was traditionally seen as a woman's disease i delay in diagnosis and treatment can compromise a patient's quality of life but men make up a 3rd of those patients who subsequently suffer a broken hip and their mortality rate is higher. unconscious bias is also embedded in so-called cutting edge technology. we found out that facial recognition doesn't work for women and it doesn't work for people with darker skin so this researcher in facial recognition is a black woman and she had to put on

a white mask. for the camera to see her so it means that we're not making technology that works for everyone. but making research more inclusive does not simply maine including an equal number of men and women the european commission has recognised this and has introduced conditions for receiving funding from its 85000000000 euros research and innovation budgets. to qualify for horizon europe funding research is now have to incorporate sex and intersectionality into each phase of their work from research designed to data collection and analysis. much of our science and technology is funded by taxpayer money and if we as a society are investing in science and technology we want the results of that science to be inclusive and to work for everyone across society not just

a privileged few. together with the european commission has published 15 case studies serving as the best practice with a suitably diverse range of examples. fishing used to be a male demand in bangladesh but that's no longer the case specially designed nets now enable women to harvest fish from inland waters without getting the best saris wet and so independently feed their families. another example focuses on recommendations for urban areas to make them more family friendly and less cost and trick. and one case study looks at the role of new technologies in consolidating gender stereotypes in the future. but all the areas where

an inclusive approach is surplus. to requirements we're still discovering we're it makes a lot of sense it's possible that it's not relevant for mathematics pure mathematics and theoretical physics but we may just not have the research yet to know. and in case you were wondering a sea turtle sex is determined by the temperature of the sand its egg is incubated in global warming means 99 percent of those now born in the northern great barrier reef a female as in most areas it's only through understanding such deep connections that we can better protect our planet's complex ecosystems in future. listen carefully who know what is making this noise.

via social media channels. for to not only t.v. it sounds like a frog before the rain starts. initially wonders if it comes from dolphins. rodriguez believes it's the sound of bubbling. it makes other puzzling do what they think of the bird going crazy in space well now at least we can in closer in terms of location. places david flint is again a road that the noise is from neutron star. and stevenson one of us is it sounds like outer space and yes the sound is from space from a comment to be exact thanks for your answers. and now a question from dale from the u.k. . you want to man. can you hear someone scream in space we're certainly used to hearing spaceships hum through the void or

seeing stars die in cataclysmic explosions but only in the movies space is a vacuum so there's no atmosphere to conduct sound waves. just keep. our ears wouldn't register i think that it's like the sounds gone dead. 0 a supernova with musical accompaniment is far more impressive. but space probes carry devices that register oscillations and celestial bodies such as the sun. and the sun's internal nuclear convulsions generate tremendous shock waves nasa scientists have ways to translate them into sounds we can hear. the van allen space probes explore the radiation belt surrounding the earth daz owns of electrically charged particles held around the planet by its magnetic

fields they too can be translated into sounds. the children of gerasim enco comic can even sing at least when the magnetic field in it's with the nitty starts to oscillate. the data behind this cosmic melody come courtesy of the result of space probe. into the solar system's largest planet jupiter where nasa probe juno recorded this as it transited the gas giants magnetic field. voyager 2 has even sent us recordings that made an interstellar space the. what we hear reflects activity in billowing clouds of electrically charged gas.

in a supernova a star blasts out so much mass and energy but it bends the very fabric of space generating gravity waves. the us based lego detector listened in to such a cosmic quake for the 1st time as it was produced by the merging of 2 black holes left behind by supernovas. if outlet is right why average family 5 years later. do you have a science mystery you'd like us to answer. it in as a video text over a smell if we featured on the show you get a little surprise from us as a thank you. come on just dance. stories from the world of science are available online at e.w. dot com slash science or on twitter. such

as this video. these images give us an intimate look into the inner workings of the beehive. german researchers have recorded the social lives of the insects ever several months. among other things they were able to closely follow the rearing of the offspring. from the name of the ex by the queen. to the feeding of the nothing. all the way up to patient.

man the hatching of the young bean. by the clip show how the bees groom each other. and how they clean out deceased larvae by well you sing them. the researchers hope that the videos will help to better protect these fascinating insects in the future. without camera traps many exciting insights into animal behavior would be impossible. such as watching tapirs for example. video recordings also plenty essential role in our next story but the 2 research has an eastern germany also

rely on their own and if this. is a war just spending our life out and poll libby are investigating animal tracks in the mountains southwest of dresden. and. like it was rooting without snow storm and his opponents would claim some of the hard these are hairs from a small mammal and small bones and teeth could be a martin or a small fox plentiful what they're looking for is evidence that wolves are living around here for a long time there were none in germany but now they're back not everybody is pleased about that. but when i started researching wolves i just. given how polarizing an era it's odd that people can get so agitated about just a regular wild animal. and one reason for the upset is that wolves sometimes kill

livestock so it's important to establish where they live and live it have been monitoring wolves since 2019 and has yet to encounter any face to face but he certainly heard that. he recorded howling on his phone and in the winter they do find plenty of tracks. and a voice for full for me one fascinating aspect of researching wolves is that it's detective work and you hardly ever see any. one current you can infer an awful lot from the evidence you gather. it's a kind of scientific quest. and over. the 2 have set up camera traps and check them every fortnight or so they catch a lot but rarely what they crave to see. follow

deer we rarely see them here. fox by daylight. wolf this time. but a few months ago one of their other camera traps did catch a glimpse of a wolf a rare sighting no pack is known to actually live in this particular area. we only know of wolves living in the flatlands in saxony really flat terrain and not in the mountains. so your good books larky it's a poem that bitch works for the 2nd bag museum of natural history in gurlitz and is involved in a german czech research project into wolves called ovide. in the project we've managed to truth there is a pack of wolves living up here on the mountain ridge but on the czech side of the border we call

a division ipac because they live near these loony that was in january 28th seen on what's with us. because the pack had offspring on check territory it's considered check but the wolves do come calling on the german side of the border as well. zoologists can only declare a pack resident in a given area if certain criteria are fulfilled. when it. is a scientific activity science requires rules. to prove a wolf is living somewhere it must have been there for at least 6 months. the evidence has to involve genetic material that is samples but we're not finding any at the moment. he's going to day is not there day the 4th camera trap also fails to deliver and for that fine and not even aware of

a wolf disappointed. when i set out to spot a wolf i never do lines in and when i'm not expecting to see one and there it is right in front of me and i don't have my camera with me nonetheless the 2 are pretty certain that waltz will be settling in the german part of the bigger mountains it could be any day now. this is a so-called hybrid x. which is between operating on gasoline and battery power. milos are a cross between a horse and it don't they also hybrids the e.u. is considered a hybrid political system and reinforced concrete a hybrid building material. you come across things that are crossed combines all mixed like this in many fields and. sitting on the football field. all ice here on the ball and the goal scorer. but not on the pitch

itself it often looks like a strip of wasteland especially the goal mouth where it's objected to the worst wear and tear. one potential solution is using synthetic fibers to reinforce natural grass that's already being done by some professional football teams in germany and a recreation complex just outside munich. the natural grass pitches here are top quality but there was room for improvement and one particular area. is amy it's in the hall but this is the 6 yard box which gets the worst kind of ending shouldn't want to turn here you can see the line separating the area with hybrid mussing underneath and from the people another tool to the. hybrid turf contains around 20 percent synthetic fibers which have more of a mat surface 80 percent is lush green and bright or natural grass the end product feels like the real thing for footballers as opposed to purely artificial or

astroturf. hybrid turf has at least double the lifespan of its 100 percent natural counterpart but when it needs renewing what's left over is not compost as seen here at byron munich's ground but tons of plastic waste which eventually degrade into micro plastic the artificial mat underneath the natural grass should ideally be biodegradable. and that's where the scientists come in. faith echo is a post graduate student at munich's technical university. he wants to develop eco friendly synthetic turf for football pitches last year he buried a range of samples here in order to study how they degrade. but where on earth is his test patch again. with a mesh fence and bright orange drugs they were there to mark the location of my samples

and prevent animals from digging them up. the must have been somewhere around here . meanwhile sports scientists at the technical university face problems of a very different nature this great flooring covers a number of measuring plates they will later be placed underneath the new hybrid turf the researchers want to record the forces exerted between players boots and the ground and hands on the players joints to rule out any mishaps they 1st conduct preliminary tests. we attach markers to the legs for example they take precise measurements of movement between the bones they often fall off rendering those measurements invalid so we don't have to start again. the real test comes when an athlete runs across the measuring plates. hopes and we have an early exit one not so scientific insight here is that the leg

in question needs to be clean shaven prior to the tests. researchers from 2 different faculties at the same university conducting 2 different experiments with much common ground both part of a project looking into hybrid turf. the sports scientists want to know how different surfaces impact on players' joints muscles and ligaments the chemists meanwhile are tasked with ensuring that the bio plastic fibers degrade at just the right pace. félix eckel has now found the spot where he buried his treasured samples he chose an outdoor location to ensure the same kind of exposure to the wind and rain as a football pitch. spotting the exciting thing now is what the samples look like after they've been buried for over a year of a kind i still find them all have some biodegraded perhaps they're now discolored.

here's number 100 percent and still transparent there's no real change. he buried 14 byo synthetic samples in all 7 of them transparent and made of pure poly lactic acid used to make bioplastics. the other 7 had algae mixed into the. here we see a big difference it's bent in 2 places it feels like cardboard on its colors change significantly if not originally it was dark brown now it's yellowish green so in terms of degradation we can see far more change than with pure p l a p. it remains to be seen though what this will mean for bioplastics in turf that will need years of further testing. we go back to see if the sports scientists

are on the ball they're using a special physical tracking device to look at how the number of studs affects football boot performance. why is that issue here when the research as such is about the new hybrid pitch surface. football is used different boots depending on the pitch our research will actually enable us to say which is the most suitable for the respective stuff that involves looking at performance related criteria for the footballer because they have to be able to play well that 2nd league safety and injury prevention. locks. postgraduate student félix echo cleans and weighs the samples he's retrieved. they're then left to dry out for 2 more weeks before further analysis subsequent tensile strength tests will indicate how brittle they have become. for comparison

he 1st tries out some brand new test rod. as his dissertation advisor says this is no luxury project to benefit a few footballers the results could help to stop the planet from choking on plastic waste. your. bigger problem is that we have 50 percent of all plastic ever produced lying around on landfills and it's gradually spreading into the world as micro plastic and other fragments leading to a growing mass of trash. that's why it's vital for us to make and use synthetic materials that are at least made from sustainable resources and definitely have to be bio degradable. which is why felix eckel and his colleagues from munich technical university will continue with their experiments. and this progress continues with the new bio degradable fibers synthetic pitches are going green on

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this is the year's line from the head of the german chancellor see if he calls for a harder coronavirus lockdown. tougher restrictions than needed until the vaccination campaign reaches critical mass. needed quickly so slow 3rd wave of pat downs also on the program cycling serota bass's indonesia and east timor doesn't see killed in flash flooding and landslides. heavy rains will probably linger for days. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu faces mounting pressure as the 1st witnesses of cold in his corruption trial at the same time the country's president launches coalition talks that could seems to netanyahu sideline.

i'm for a welcome to the program. more german leaders are calling for a return to a hard a coronavirus lockdown easter weekend to seen a slowdown in code 19 fascinations in several german states fascinations centers have been closed down departments restrictive us local health officials blame a lack of vaccine supplies federal health minister has promised that the program will pick up pace in april our supplies increase and local doctors take part in lashes his head of germany's most populous state north rhine-westphalia and leeds angela merkel's conservative party. would disrupt openly and invites why i think we need a bridge locked on you mustn't we have to build the bridge to the point in time where

a lot of people are vaccinated. i know that a lot of people are tired of the pandemic. but also that a lot are ready to go a step further and then i may or june to enter a new phase. in and a large majority of citizens are willing to take this step so that we have a better outlook and more planning security. and he's in st. the book at the bridge to a breakthrough success and testing means we need to double down on noise in a lot of areas and move towards a lockdown on lockdown let's get more from database chief international editor richard walker welcome richard what do you make of aman last night's call. he definitely increasing the likelihood of

a lockdown coming at this you say it's just he's not the only voice clearly he is a very important voice so he is the leader of the important state of north rhine-westphalia and the main thing is he's also the leader calls only. do you really were. what he seems to be reacting here is the reality of the situation in germany is in the way of the coded 19 crisis that is being driven by the british variant that emerged in the u.k. at the end of last year cause many deaths and is growing very rapidly around europe and the number of infections is reason rising very rapidly slight blip downwards around the easter holiday as the health authorities are close not registering everything but the trajectory is very serious and one key number was just announced today of the number of 4000 people in intensive care with coded 1000 significant number of those people will die and that number is also increasing rapidly and then

there's the brutal truth of the matter that germany has only vaccinated its good enough 1st dose of vaccination to about 12 percent of its population that is nothing like enough to slow down this 3rd wave so i mean last it talking about what he calls a bridge lock down a bridge to a time where more people objects and they sit but at the pace of vaccinations right now it's probably going to have to be pretty the bridge. when you much of what you've just told us 3 weeks ago when the german chancellor angela merkel announced this strict ace to lock down a decision she then reversed and then apologize for so what changed. yeah i felt well how much time if you got i mean the reality here in germany is not just about the pandemic it's about the politics and of what we have what we've been witnessing of these last couple of weeks is really a power struggle happening on 2 separate levels in the very heart of the police 6

on the one hand you have a kind of power struggle between the federal government led by angela merkel and the individual states which all have their own leaders like common lash it in north rhine-westphalia angela merkel has generally been pushing for a tougher national line to deal with this 3rd wave the individual states who have different views but what unites many of them is that they want to defend their own turf it's up to us to decide what goes on here last it is it that is at the center of that power struggle and has even been openly bickering with his party colleagues angela merkel so that's the one power struggle the other one is about who leads uncle americans parent party into the national elections coming up this september angela merkel has said that after 16 years in power she's not going to stand again last it is the new leader of a party with this cd you have been plunging in the polls amid the you know the slow

pace of the vaccination campaign corruption scandals and many other things and he has a more popular rival emerging into the limelight marco souter who is the leader in the state of the various so all of these politics all of these power struggles going on at the same time as this relentless wave is moving up maybe it's it's no wonder that germany is in such a muddle politically over what to do but what's interesting is that the public don't seem to be in such a muddle so and this was referred to as well that a majority of the public do seem open to taking a tougher line they see those numbers they see those people in intensive care so that the public seems to support this is partly that the politics has to catch up with that. richard walker chief international editor thank you. but take a look at some more stories making headlines around the world now starting with the palestinian president mahmoud are batteries having to germany for officials have

described as a routine health check the 85 year old's a heavy smoker though there's been no indication that he was ill at the moment he received his 1st dose of a coronavirus vaccine last month. under his government is clamping down on independent reporting of the corona virus pandemic according to an internal memo only one state run media company is now allowed to film take photos in hospitals and doctors surgeries prime minister viktor orban is facing international criticism for restricting the media. as protesters in mere marcantonio to the fire their military rulers malaysia and brutalize say the leaders of the countries in the assy and region will meet to discuss developments activists say 6 more protesters were killed at the weekend the military has been trying to stop the uprising with lethal force after launching a coup in february. emergency crews in florida are trying to prevent a reservoir for bursting and spilling millions of gallons of toxic water officials

of warned of a catastrophic flood if a leak at the reservoir near tampa but tampa bay is not dealt with more than 300 nearby homes have been evacuated. overseas in indonesia and east timor say dozens of people have been killed in flash flooding and landslides triggered by tropical cyclone serota heavy winds and torrential rain pounded a cluster of eastern indonesian islands as well as neighboring east timor emergency teams are struggling to reach some of the affected areas. in this village alone hundreds of houses the way by a flash flood triggered by rain storms. this man is looking for his relatives who he believes have been buried under their house. must you be there i must use. by any. age and i do susi to compete. dozens are reported dead and the death toll is certain to

rise with many still unaccounted for. on the early morning of april 4th and we received reports that some areas have been heavily effected due to the storm drenching rain and extreme weather which also cost very high off shore waves. here in the tank our province rescue workers are also trying hard to bring survivors to safety and evacuees have to hold on tight. but damaged bridges and roads ahead for in their efforts about 30000 people have been impacted by the floods indonesia's president has offered his condolences for the dead and called for vigilance. i urge everyone to follow the directions of local authorities regarding the danger of floods and landslides due to extreme rainfall that i did it . more downpours are expected over the coming days with offshore

waves as high as 6 meters possible but there is hope the 2nd one is reportedly moving away from indonesia. cotton israel is calling its 1st witnesses today the resumption of the corruption trial of prime minister benjamin netanyahu it's a netanyahu has appeared in court way face. charges including bribery and fraud it could be jailed they found guilty but the trial is expected to last years israeli politics is in chaos following a inconclusive general election last month present wife and rivlin is holding talks with political parties to work out who is to form a new government. straight to data because by the time you're crammed in jerusalem welcome tanya how will those efforts to form a coalition government be affected by the fact that mr netanyahu is also in court on trial. well it all hangs still in the balance

and you know these 2 major events today are basically a coincidence they show how many problems this country is facing some the one hand as he said the evidence phase of this trial that started last year has now started that's considered to be very important prime minister binyamin netanyahu was in court today he listened to the opening remarks by the state prosecutor and then he left on the other hand the consultation process has started president rivlin is since the morning he's meeting with party delegations those party who have made it into the knesset the israeli parliament and they will recommend who they would like him to task is forming the next coalition government so you know on the one hand you have to political stalemate because none of the 2 blocs has really a direct or clear past to form this coalition and on the other hand you have

a sitting prime minister who is now standing trial again in a busy court phase and how serious are the charges against him. whether 3 cases and in israel the known according to the name so it's case 100-200-4000 mr netanyahu has been indicted for for fraud to preach of trust and in one case private this pertains to case 4000 that let's just said mr netanyahu also in his position as communication minister has provided regulatory benefits in return for favorable media coverage and we heard one of the key witnesses today speaking about how the owner of one of the major websites in israel was also defended and has pushed for a favor of the coverage the state prosecutor had said in her opening remarks that she sings that mr netanyahu and mr netanyahu has. this has abused his power by

a strong words from her but netanyahu benyamin netanyahu has always said he denies all the charges and he has called it a return to against him and his family from his political opponents so he certainly got his hands for the court case and hoping to form the next government how does he how does this long serving prime minister manage these 2 critical events in his life. well he's certainly about to clear his name but at the same time he wants to be the one to 4 in the next government but i'm not sure if that is really in his hands now because the trial the pace will pick up now the church is scheduled 3 hearings per week it will take a long time at the same time now the consultation process is in the hands of the israeli president. he will have to decide by wednesday who he thinks has the

best chances of to form a coalition now this person will have 1028 days and even an extension to do so but it will be some more weeks until we know whether there will be a government or not in the coming weeks time your crap in jerusalem thank you. to jordan where the former crown prince hums been sorry and says he'll defy government orders restricting his freedom of speech and movement the 41 year old made the comments in an audio recording released on twitter on saturday prince hamza plenty been placed under house arrest accused of plotting to destabilize the kingdom allegations that he denies the new recording suggests an increase in tensions between the prince and his half brother king abdullah the 2nd. is remind of our top story this hour the head of germany's governing c.d.u. party has called for tougher lockdown to contain the country's code 19 served them

lash it says tougher restrictions have made it have to walk people in germany have been vaccinated. as if you're up to date i'll have more at the top of the hour general business update next of the day. let's get right to the heart of the. smog. as does times are good for the. warming doesn't do very. well to the 1st well yes. the industry is controlling your thoughts the great bluffs of the 20th century. present day hoaxes.

basically. manufacturing ignorance starts may 3rd on g.w. . calls for a stricter pandemic perspectives in germany are getting louder as europe battles of a 3rd wave called tree after country is imposing tougher measures to buy time until widespread in the musician is achieved. also on the show we take you to africa's largest data center and tell you what rapidly expanding conic to video means for economic growth. and how the award winning not flake series the queen's gambit boosts business for small companies making veneers for child support. this is the w. business i'm joined now in berlin so glad you can join us on this easter monday holiday

here in germany many countries are finding little to celebrate as covert 19 cases continue to rise german leaders are calling for tougher restrictions some neighboring countries have already taken those steps in poland various businesses including furniture and home improvement stores business beauty salon cinemas hotels and restaurants are closed until at least in full nights meanwhile those in spain have to wear masks even outdoors and they cannot currently travel outside the region spanish authorities have also imposed a nighttime curfew nationwide in germany some lawmakers are calling 1st similar curfew some also say the country should follow france's example which just introduced a strict nationwide lockdown last week and here's how that looks. shops all over france have been closed since the start of the weekend like here in paris strict rules were already in place in 19 of france's 101 departing now the whole

country is heading the same way the government will strictly cattail freedom of movement for the next 4 weeks journeys combi longer than 10 kilometers a curfew is in place from 7 pm to 6 am mosques are mandatory outside of the home even if not everyone sticks to the rules many oppose the measures and worry what the lockdown will mean economically the mission put. on a photographer we're talking about significant losses at contains have stopped the event sector which is significant to us is at 0 i know some people who've declared bankruptcy for their businesses which had good earnings but now stopped working it's serious. in germany the city of cologne has called and off places where crowds would normally gather such as on the banks of the rhine restaurants and hotels are closed business associations are raging against the closures instead the federation

of german industry wants to see what it calls creative solutions like here in the small saxon town of augustus book and he one who tested negative for the virus gets a q.r. code allowing them to visit all restaurants and hotels for 3 days but the government in germany is considering the opposite further tightening just like in france. now as much of europe tightens lockdown restrictions craze has allowed shops to reopen the government responded to growing public thoughts he after months of lockdown under the rules a retail shop selling not essential goods can open their doors again but consumers must make appointments and comply with a 3 hour shopping limit the measure excludes shopping malls and department stores in the athens area shops will also remain closed in 3 regions with high infection levels including the northern city of tessa will too. staying with the pandemic the international monetary fund has approved financial aid to help kenya

cope with the crisis the fund has earmarked more than $2300000000.00 u.s. dollars for the east african country the financing is set to run for 3 and a half years and is intended to help kenya of a sovereign debt crisis the country has been hit hard by the pandemic and is now faced with the challenge of stimulating the economy and reducing poverty the i.m.f. previously granted the country $739000000000.00 in aid last may. now speaking of stimulating the economy speeding up digitalisation is key everywhere but africa is known as the home of most of the so-called last 1000000000 worldwide who still lack proper connections to the internet but that's changing quickly as the continent's internet capacity expands rapidly africa's internet is becoming faster and more local creating business opportunities in untapped markets . this campus in johannesburg is home to africa's largest data center michelle

mccann shows us the terakhir data environments facility that makes the modern internet go around until recently connectivity in africa was slow and expensive this changed in 2009 when the south african market was deregulated and private players built the necessary infrastructure for data hosting. 7 years ago the close is placed for us says africans to be able to reach our content was pretty much sitting in europe so there was very high latency $200.00 plus so we never had access to the you choose the netflix as the facebook's etc clients have only just moved into terra coast data center but the groundwork has already begun to build an even larger one. by the day africa's internet capacity is becoming faster denser and more local generating opportunities in untapped markets brian mcquire eba is the founder of liquor a startup that allows so-called spaza shops in townships to order goods online and

profit from bulk savings. so far 200 shops make use of this service and mark why you great momentum in this market. i'm sure you've seen a lot of small companies my. over the plays that i could offer digital solutions and a lot of the movie coming into this and foremost base and i think in the next 5 years i'm seeing everyone using this type of solutions and not just in south africa that the rest of africa. shops are informal convenience stores often run from home one of the lakers customers is based in alexander township in johannesburg. much. when the owner meanie is not behind the cash register she cares for her disabled son ford let me move to online ordering means that she can spend more time with her child and her business. it's easier for me to calls

a disabled child difficulty. coming. in cause them as. complaining that sometimes it's the clothes sometimes it's ok and having people like meaning in mind industry forecasts are expecting an increase of about 200000000 users in africa by 2025 fueling a race to build the necessary digital infrastructure since the internet still relies on bricks and mortar as much as it does by send bits. now to some of the other global business stories making news. the head of the italian central bank has added his voice to the growing concern over the pace of vaccinations in this goes spoke ahead of the virtual g. 20 meeting of finance and economy ministers this week in an interview with the financial times of disco said international cooperation on vaccinations was

essential to stimulate economic recovery and. air france kalen is close to receiving more aid to prop it up during the pandemic that's according to french finance minister bruno nair without mentioning what the refinancing deal would be worth the airline has already received over 10000000000 euros in government backed loans to shore up its finances amid a massive drop in passenger numbers. for us national labor relations board has a term and that amazon dot com legally retaliated against 2 of its internal critics when it fired them last year the new york times reports the 2 have always hailed the decision as a moral victory. it's the end of an era for south korean electronics giant g. the manufacturer says it will close its loss making mobile unit by the end of july l.g. calls the move a strategic decision to exit the incredibly competitive phone sector now dominated

by apple samsung and chinese brands. now it just may go back 1500 years but the award winning that series the queen's gambit has caused a more recent surge of interest in the game worldwide the lock down friendly board game gained millions of new fans and chess sets are in huge demand one small would have in your company and spain is profiting from the new hype. a park in barcelona city center carmelo and raul meet here almost every day to play chess. the 2 have always been diehard chess fans but since the coronavirus lockdown many spaniards have rediscovered the game of kings. you know it's such a minus to kill half a day for chess as a hobby is regaining popular how you do to the pandemic i think it's unstoppable because once you've found your enthusiasm for chess it won't let you go it's the

evidence you. know all the award winning netflix series the queen's gambit has also known as a chess and trench the queen's gambit is the story of beth harman an orphan girl who becomes a champion in the men's world of chess you're an orphan back and thinking a life i can't say and the netflix series sparked a boom for the family owned a rich apollo's faire company and it's 16 employees. join fair a 3rd generation head of the company is inundated with new orders. he's currently trying to double annual production from the usual 20000 chessboards 240000. that's because the cattle and chessboards appeared in the netflix series without the manufacturers prior knowledge seek it out. in a series cause chaos in our company. but if suddenly

a whole avalanche of orders came crashing down on us it drove us a bit crazy. it was the final scene in the netflix drama that made the small company so popular the us champion beth harman plays against russian world champion vasili borg off on a chessboard produced by rich i pods fair. the board design is distinctly baroque according to the company boss. despite his newfound success he has no plans to expand it just wouldn't be practical. if. we are limited by the fact that this is a hand crafted product it doesn't work by clicking a button on a machine and producing a way. a lot of it is done by hand to board by board. and

so each one of our chess boards is unique. and. the company's not filling anymore new orders this year even though many stores have already sold out of the chessboards until next year customers will have to cultivate something needed for chairs anyway a lot of patience. and finally an initiative and france as it were in the region is making the most of soap while helping the needy uni so is taking little used hotel so to get a 2nd life outside the hotels where they are crushed melted the cat decontaminated and reconditioned while the aim is to take thousands of soaps that normally go to waste and reuse them the initiative also offers employment to the disadvantage it has now become a way of reintegrating them into the labor market. and that's it for me and

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