and software will bring you back or you've never. surprise you so it was just possible to smell cool really what moves them want. to talk to people who follow the way maurice and critics like join us for michael's life stop. you're watching news asia coming up today india's gender income gap crisis has only gotten worse during the pandemic how have women coped has there been much of a government social safety net and just how much has the past year set them back. plus flash floods in eastern indonesia killed dozens volume urgency crews find roads and bridges blocked or damaged from the tropical cyclone. and we followed one environmentalist on a mission to protect his island's coast from rising ocean waters one sapling at

a time. i'm melissa chan thank you for joining us in india at new data shows that unemployment hit women the hardest during the pandemic according to the study conducted by the center for monitoring indian economy only 9 percent of women of working age are employed that's a massive gender gap that will only get worse as the country faces yet another spike in covert cases. takes a closer look. children it through has been out of work for more than a year. the 55 year old domestic worker used to cook at several homes in an upmarket neighborhood but the pandemic prestone her life upside down. the lockdown was really bad for us. so i don't rationalize that we do need to do as high as i

can. my employees told us not to come and they were worried we might bring the waitress into their homes we couldn't do much after that any. one of many women who lost their livelihoods overnight when the government imposed a lockdown last year. according to multiple study them survey of conducted recently women worker the 30 those who work in the informal or the on off and i factor have taken a much harder hit by the call than 1000 logged on that was implemented compared to men a large number of these women have either lost out on work entirely or have seen a shop fall in their infant. is a social worker who helps women working informally she says that while men can travel to find work family responsibilities mean women have to stay closer to home . in the unorganized women lost. fabric it doesn't work as domestic help getting to construction liebeler treatment of the cases of us are

still rising it does not look like they will get their work. women's participation in the workforce was already declining but the sudden shutdown caused by call that 19 was a severe blow to. india's economy shrank by nearly a quarter in the 1st few months of the pandemic. economists trust says the impact of the downturn has been distribution and who suffer if the women they are the more vulnerable in the labor force they have a burden educated comparatively they're the poorest. comparatively because i don't think the government has done enough in india you provide for drugs both those who who who have jobs they're working less hours so if they're working less 1000 fell almost inevitable that the men are going to have whatever work there is going to be and not women and this is an extra financial burden for on top of caring for the

sick husband and daughter her own health is deteriorating further limiting her options. and it's going to be difficult to get work. but i have a family to look after i have been trying to get to work. doing some. silva feels she cannot even go back to her village as there's nothing there for her now life has become a daily struggle for survival. joining us is party like a charity in delhi she's a journalist and columnist working on health and social issues the pandemic has impacted women around the world we just saw the story of one woman who worked in the informal sector and i wonder do these workers in india have a social safety net and do even white collar workers have a good social safety net their height of the. great to be here with you on your show you know that's that's the unfortunate fact vast majority of workers

in india almost 90 percent are actually part of what we call the informal economy and. of course there's degrees of precariously of vulnerability the vast majority creating that women don't really have any they don't have formal job contracts as a salary you know it's not a salary at the end of the month so that's that's where the problem comes in i've been over the last year of it actually literally walking 2 lanes and bylines of delhi visiting many of these slums and talking to women and men but a lot of women who actually do fall into the cracks who are at risk and the key reason is that even when they have a workplace no real written contract and they have very little bargaining power so you know if you're talking about social protection in practice in practice very very little now in some countries the pandemic has set one in back decades they say

to the 19 eighties and i wonder is that the case for india is that what do you think. yes i don't think we have the study as yet you know how much but i read recently a study was it if you research that forget about the poorest of the poor even the middle class that's people like me and you know a lot of people i know even though we would actually be sitting back and men. you know to be able to i mean forget about getting you jobs and bonuses and things like that a lot of us including it in class women have dipped into their savings right so you can imagine people living in slums and you know who don't have you know a regular pay what's happening there all that debt is the face of the pandemic at the moment you know even the economic recovery we are right now in the green shoots

so you know recovery. just because the places open doesn't mean everybody's getting their full wage you know i know many people like places for instance beauty parlors where they're getting just a fraction sometimes one 3rd or what they used to get before sometimes not even that it's one 3rd or a percentage of the business they generate so you know it it can be deceptive just because you see buzzy marketplaces doesn't mean everybody has you know enough money to make both ends meet yes i think we're definitely going to be set back i can't tell you exactly how much because i don't think you have a study as yet but if the middle class is having that such a tough time the super rich are not i can imagine what the us majority of indians are going to and women of course have been in many many ways not just economic could. thank you so much for joining us.

flash floods and landslides have hit islands in southeast indonesia as well as east timor this weekend with rescuers struggling to reach places due to damaged bridges and roads as of monday evening in asia more than 90 people have been killed another 40 or so missing with officials warning the death toll is expected to climb. a human chain to escape the raging waters rain storms have triggered landslides and overflowing dams leaving small communities inundated. rescue workers use whatever resources are available to bring survivors to safety. of those the water has risen up to my head and it's still not stopping we need help right away. your village is cut off yes the waters reach the 2nd floor the military police and disaster agencies are helping coordinate the emergency response indonesia's president has offered his condolences for the dead and called for vigilance. but as i urge

everyone to follow the directions of local authorities regarding the danger of floods and landslides due to extreme rainfall. in neighboring east timor government offices were beset by the storm's effects. asked for the moment we are cleaning the mud because of the flood that happened in the vicinity of the presidential palace the. rescue efforts in both countries have been slowed by damage bridges and roads and a lack of heavy equipment the remoteness of some affected areas is also complicating operations to fully assess the damage. staying in indonesia here's a longer term water challenge for the country it's coastlines face erosion something conservationists have struggled with for decades they say one way to reverse course is to plant mangrove forests is particularly important for low lying

areas threatened by the climate emergency and the ocean flooding of arable soil. this area east of jakarta might be located on the world's most densely populated island job but this agricultural region is tranquil most of it is below sea level making its rice fields especially vulnerable to surging waves and rising tides local pharmacy the problem is getting worse and it straining their livelihoods. back to what they should be a dam made of stone. so it kind of take to fully develop the way because the same as a writing out a lab and. but there's a simple way to protect people's land from the rising seas day environmentalist and formative some sudanese showing the villages children what they can do to fight the effects of climate china. it looks like playing in the

mud but it has a purpose these young environmentalist supplanting mangrove separately to protect the series future. mangroves can act as a barrier to the strong winds from the ocean as it increases in size so wise will not destroy the land so they could be a lot of damage to the land which is caused by those big why. people. pseudonym its many villages think his message is crazy and he septa is a nuisance to their crops some people even remove them once he's done. so i didn't change people's minds these fairy tales to reach out to locals dressing up as an endangered javanese rhino and delivering his conservationist message to some of these fans that they. when i decided to make this traveling fairytale i hope the children i met could become heroes for their environment and here i was to save my

indignation read animals in the forests and preserving mangroves on our country. i got i think. sensitive and it meets even his family questions his devotion to the mangroves some times. that he's activism has a point oh. mangroves could be the key to maintaining village's way of life and the culture to live. that's it for today there's more in the dot com for slash. we'll leave you with pictures a female military police cadets in india they're training for 61 weeks and are due to graduate next month the 1st women in that division of the armed forces there thank you for watching to see tomorrow and get by.

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a 1st for hollywood actors of color swept the top prizes at the screen actors guild awards best female lead to want to viola davis for her role as 19 twenty's jazz singer model reigning in ma rainey's black bottom adapted from the play by august wilson. viola davis rainey's black box thank you all get bullied been a legacy act is a color that we can relish for the rest of while i think the best male lead went to the late chadwick boseman for his performance in the same film as an ambitious trumpeter exploited by white record producers. like you could i got tell oh. my dad had no doubt was going to turn out like this he would name again oh those men's final performance came out after

he died last year of cancer his widow taylor simone led word accepted the award on his behalf a month after she accepted his golden globe. world unbalanced crusader that. might. that's a quote by charles. thank you. thank you thank you now the sag awards are seen as a predictor for the oscars and if bozeman and davis repeat their victories there it will be the 1st time in almost 20 years that 2 black performers take the best actor and best actress oscars the 1st and last time that happened by the way was with denzel washington and halle berry back in 2002 well award season is all about recognizing the final products when the performance is over and the reviews are in but what about the moments before a performance british photographer simon nun's portrays actors before they go on

stage in london are they nervous terrified or something else entirely his new book time to act features candid shots of anon has been taking backstage for decades. and. the last half hour before the curtain goes down it's a magical shimmering time and in between phase one every actor engages in their own personal rituals to shake off the outside world and draw the energy they need to go on stage. 30 minutes they have to be in the building and they have this dramatic tension between the 2 images of themselves and the fictional character and this the closer they get going on the stage the more they have to absolve themselves of by the fictional character simon anand has been taking photographs in london staters for 40 years both in front of and behind the stage

he's gained access to everyone's dressing room joseph finds jude law glenn close he captures moments in which the actors appear to almost duplicate themselves it's hard to say whether that's still cate blanchett gazing out at you but the character she's. i personally think that kate is one of the best examples of allowing the camera to see. vulnerability in that she allows the camera to see her emotions but at the end it isn't interested in glimpsing his subject souls or in capturing some sort of truth he wants to make an iconic image whether incidentally or created by the connection between camera and actor. i would never i never put myself into a position where it's i'm not trying to be

a fly on the wall. this is not what this book is about there's no attempt they know i'm in the room they want to be seen through my eyes fine. and says the important thing is to be open with no set expectations but he does prepare carefully reading up ahead of time on his subjects. when ethan hawke came to the london stage the word was that he was a surprisingly good shakespearean actor. it reaffirmed my sense that the american actors a very different from english actors well they bring to the stage the stage you know this sense of energy this certain heart pumped up energy yeah. i hesitate to use this word visceral because i'm not sure that really means but i think that's what it what i'm trying to see you know it's sort of. just before taking a stage an actor's transformation is complete and the play can begin the photo book

time to act is an impressively sensitive declaration of love for the theatre and its actors a portion of the sales will go to those unable to work during the pandemic shut down still simon and isn't worried about the future of theatre. there are more theaters in london than anywhere in the world even creating new york where those buildings are not going you know that they will be there. for people to make fear to in his book is a reminder of just what is waiting in the wings. to music now and the work of german sente guitarist reinhardt as a child he was inspired by another scented guitarist with the same last name the legendary django reinhardt who's possibly also a distant cousin right hard combines django so-called gypsy jazz with styles including flamenco latin and brazilian popular music for his latest album it teamed

up with bret belorussian classical guitarist. it's called gypsy it meets classic piece of soul. reinhardt is a virtual osso on the guitar born in the western german city of copeland's he's from a well known german family of musicians in non pandemic times he spends about half the year on the road performing and searching for new musical collaborators in influences like here in morocco. he's also visited india tracing the roots of his sinti and roma cultural heritage reinhardt is a kind of musical nomad. involved with

a group i go everywhere and try to get to know different cultures and music i watch how they play and try to imitate it so what i do is pretty nomadic. his latest cd is. collaboration with yulia and her classical concert guitar musician from belive roots has guest appearances worldwide and the 2 nomads create breathtaking music together. here's a question for you what would the world look like if it were entirely drawn by children and the answer is somewhere between hilarious and terrifying we know this because of the work of one british father tom curtis who takes little kids drawings

and uses them as a guide to improve on real photos the results of become an internet sensation we met up with curtis and his sons. these animals are one of a kind. of horse with no neck a cat with human teeth. and a cow with claws. and. these are what children's drawings would look like if they came to life. british designer tom curtis came up with the idea of a world in which children's imaginative images become reality. the 1st drawing we actually brought to life was a portrait that my son had done of me and i kind of knew it was going to be pretty grotesque and of course the process is actually quite long so i could see it developing into this hideous picture so his the his the drawing and then the actual real version looks like that and i think becky sort my wife she probably

thought she'd married the wrong person tom curtis began his project things i have drawn in 2015 when his children were younger their drawings of animals my. people inspired him. with the help of digital technology he transformed them into surprising pictures. what i think. special about the project is that it encourage kids to be creative and i think the. computer age for example but what does it get them draw. on a piece of paper the ideas for his children's drawings often came from excursions his family took around their home village of chatting to northwest of london. and his wife encourage their children to express themselves creatively.

picture editing helps motivate them. we didn't know. very surprised. began as a family project went global within a couple of years at 1st it was just friends who sent their children's drawings he would create. then he started posting before and after pictures on instagram today curtis receives around. from children all over the world. their creations. it takes him around 15 hours to transform a drawing. and creative director of

a media agency he edits the pictures in his free time. is now before. so for example i've got this here from the original photograph and i'm going to bring it to the picture here put it into place zoom in so we can see the detail and make sure it fits nicely and then we can even move it around a little bit so a photo of a rabbit becomes a fantastical creature from a child's imagination. the designers sons are now reaching the age where they're too old to contribute drawings themselves but bank city artworks he receives from around the world tom curtis will continue to bring children's fantasies to life.

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this is the year's line from the head of the german chancellor c.d.u. party calls for a harder coronavirus lock down. tougher restrictions and needed until the vaccination campaign reaches critical mass and that they're needed quickly to slow a 3rd wave of the pandemic also on the program as people on the streets of hungry begin taking off their face masks d.w. hears about the government's attempts to stop the free press from reporting the pandemic situation inside hospitals. i'm just reading probabilistic value may

netanyahu faces mounting pressure as the 1st witnesses are called in his corruption trial at the same time the country's president and his coalition could see mr netanyahu sidelined. i'm phil gallo welcome to the program. more german leaders are calling for a return to a harder kuroda virus lock down easter weekend seen a slowdown in 1000 vaccinations in german states vaccination centers have been closed and apartments restricted as local health officials blame a lack of vaccine supplies federal health minister has promised that the program will pick up pace in april supplies increase and local doctors take i mean nationalise his head of germany's most populous state north rhine-westphalia and lead conservative party. we disrupt. and that's why i

think we need a bridge lockdown we have to build the bridge to the point in time where a lot of people are vaccinated you know. 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 and may or june to enter a new phase. that you want me in and i large majority of citizens are willing to take this step so that we have a better outlook and more planning security. reason street here in the book at so the bridge to a breakthrough success in testing means we need to double down on noise and a lot of areas feed into and move towards a locked. down. chief international editor richard welcome richard what do you make of that score.

this is definitely increasing fill the likelihood of a tough a lot down coming at this you say it's just silly he's not the only voice calling for this but he is a very important voice so he is the leader of that important states in north rhine-westphalia and the the main thing is he's also the leader of uncle medical's own party so you really what he seems to be reacting here is the reality of the situation germany is in but wave 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 because many deaths there and is growing very rapidly around europe. and the number of infections is reason rising very rapidly slight blip downwards around easter holiday is the health authorities a close if 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 a 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 skin the 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 less shit talking about what he calls a bridge lock down a bridge to a time when more people of x. they see it but at the pace of vaccinations right now it's probably going to have to be pretty 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. and 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 policy 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 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 at the head 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 angela merkel's 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 lytle emerging into the limelight marco suitor 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 is this relentless the way it is moving up maybe it's it's no wonder that germany is in such a muddle elliptically 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 the public seems to support this is partly that the politics has to catch up with that. richard walker chief international editor thank you.

counter through some of our some more of the latest developments in this pandemic venu cases in india have passed 100000 in a single day for the 1st time in the country now has the world's highest recorded infection rate britain's confirmed it will take further steps out of lockdown next week as its vaccination program continues apace nonessential shops will be allowed to reopen and outdoor dining will be allowed the jerusalem post is reporting that pfizer has halted shipments of its vaccine to israel after the country reportedly failed to pay for the last batch. overs government is clamping down on independent reporting on the country's vaccination campaign and the situation in hospitals hungry has one of the highest per capita death rates from coffee at 19 in the e.u. although it also has the highest vaccination rate the w correspondent for the 1st shot heard from one doctor on a reality of the odds with the picture being put forward by the government

soldiers money for people checking into his hospital treating patients when we start to film the building go there and do you know to me thing over there they ask us to film the parking lot according to staff inside the hospital is that capacity . one doctor has to take care of 10 patients and all is in short supply these are just some of the claims for hearing from inside the hospital from a doctor but we cannot verify these claims as. independent media from entering that doctor is. we need him after his shift 120 hour working weeks the average now he says but the government says everything is under control. from the prime minister for those who get sick you shouldn't worry they will be cured that we have medical staff. every day we are left wondering why did we

not have time for today. that most of his colleagues don't want to talk in public because they are worried about repercussions we need to reach to people and tell them about this illness not to create panic but you see this is what this is about and this is why. i wrote in an open letter to the government a large number of journalists requested access to hospitals. prime minister viktor orban responded in a televised interview. this is not the time to go inside hospitals and produce bogus videos and fake news. is a photojournalist he too would like to show what's happening in hungary right now stop filming the hospital this is a public space or it's a very common situation says martin. as this affects the people who want to know the real situation inside hospitals we know that more than 300

people died today it's our job to tell the story behind those numbers. again but. meanwhile many young people in hungary are starting to shed their masks without knowing what's really going on in hungary hospitals to them it might seem as if the pandemic is already over. it looks more stories making headlines around the world russian president vladimir putin has signed legislation that would allow him to stay in office for 2 more terms and so until 2036 the judges part of constitutional reforms approved in a referendum last year it's opposing has already been in power for more than 20 years. emergency crews in florida are trying to prevent a reservoir for bursting and spilling millions of gallons of toxic water officials have warned of a catastrophic flood if a leak at the reservoir near tampa bay is not dealt with when 300 nearby homes have

been evacuated. and the strain president mahmoud abbas is heading to germany for what officials have described as a routine health check their vibes are also heavy smokers though there's been no indication that he's ill at the moment he received his 1st dose mccrone a virus vaccine last month. now to israel where the 1st witnesses have been called in the corruption trial of prime minister benjamin netanyahu is the netanyahu was in the jerusalem court to face charges including bribery and fraud he could be jailed or found guilty the case is in for unfolding the country mild in the political crisis and struggling to form a government. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu didn't want to appear in court but he had no choice the judges insisted on his presence while the prosecution read out the charges against him but netanyahu was accused of trying to orchestrate positive coverage in israeli media

a massive abuse of power netanyahu denies all charges which is why witnesses were called in. but before they could testify netanyahu left the district court in jerusalem to the cries of opponents. and supporters. wanted to know i came here to support and strengthen my great leader only as the great he's unique he saved the jewish people and the people of israel i can't beat him they can't put up with i just demonstrate for the rule of law and for democracy in israel we've been demonstrating for 4 years nobody who has been accused of crimes should be prime minister of israel. and this is the man who would decide for the netanyahu will remain prime minister israel's president wife and rivlin no political camp received a clear mandate after the elections 2 weeks ago forcing rivlin to choose a candidate to form

a new government to help him decide he's been consulting with the various parties elected to parliament. i think and i can say that now after talking to you and the likud party that the people of israel should be very concerned that the situation could worsen enough to drag us into a 5th elections. riven hopes the decide by wednesday ethical concerns may play a role he says hinting at how netanyahu is corruption trial could influence his decision. or better when netanyahu is israel's longest serving and seems to me to stay in power even ask tried. from former speaker of israel's knesset and the country's interim president we asked him what this tells us about the state of israel and democracy. people both in time and again and is a very very persuasive conservative leader that there is

a 4th generation who was born rule way and you can get it into the situation of anybody else but netanyahu so the fact that he is such a strong leader like i don't want to call it was at a time in germany like other leaders around the world were for so many for so many years is in a way very good point to his side to the downside of it is it looks as if the opposition. which feels it is corrupt it is struggling he cannot believe her anymore he actually prioritize his personal agenda over the state's agenda took over at the foreseen actions just happened and we can do weeks ago so now the jury's out is it possible that netanyahu will have is again once again cabinet with an alternative arise and today the negotiations started and we do not yet know the jury's out. staunch reminder for our top story this hour the head of

germany's governing c.d.u. party has called for a tough town to contain the country's covered 19 such a law should says the tougher restrictions are needed until more people in jumping up in fact sneeze. so they'll do well on show business of days here just to my lips i've read golf cars will have more world news at the top of it i did. what secrets lie behind the small. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore the major world heritage sites. w world heritage 360 get them now. to go. to this. as we take on the world.

we're all about the story that matter to. whatever these men for the. job is to be on fire made for muslims. calls 1st stricter pandemic respect in germany are getting louder as europe battles the 3rd wave country 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 as the largest data center and tell you what rapidly expanding conic to be means for economic growth. and how the award winning netflix series. the queen's gambit

boosts business for small companies making veneers for chessboards. this is the w. business i'm joined now the in berlin so glad you can join us on this easter monday holiday here in germany many countries are finding little to celebrate as kovi 1000 cases continue to rise german leaders are calling for tougher restrictions and 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 a 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 is how that looks. shops all

over france have been closed since the start of the weekends like here in paris strict rules were already in place in 19 of france's $101.00 departing mo now the whole country is heading the same way the government will strictly cut tail freedom of movement for the next 4 weeks journeys can be 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 russia put. on a photographer we're talking about significant losses at complaints 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 its 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 asked them once of locked out under the rules retail shops 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 6 or 7 years ago the closest placed africans to be able to reach our content was pretty much sitting in europe so there was very high latency. plus so we never had access to the you choose the net flix as the face. clients have only just moved into terra coast data center but the ground work 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 mcquarrie bae is the founder of 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 percy's a 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 of the africa thing of 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. but. when the owner meanie is not behind the cash register she cares for her disabled

son ford let me move to on line ordering means that she can spend more time with her child and her business. for me calls a. difficulty. coming close this job in custom has. complained that sometimes the shop is closed sometimes it's ok and having people like me 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 bytes and 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 ignacio visit go 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. air france scale is close to receiving more aid to prop it up during the pandemic that's according to french finance minister pranab mer 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 you us national labor relations board has a term and that amazon dot com illegally retaliated against 2 of its internal critics when it fired them last year the new york times reports the 2 have lawyers hailed the decision as a moral victory. it's the end of an ear off 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 been your company in 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. in the us and can minus q.o.f.

it isn't chess as a hobby is regaining popularity 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 up as you. call the award winning netflix series the queen's gambit has also know a thing jessamy trick the queen's gambit is the story of beth harman an orphan girl who becomes a champion in the men's world of chess here in origin and thinking and i. say and then if the series sparked a boon for the family owned the rich apollo's faire company and its 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 to get rid of the cattle in the series caused chaos in our company. suddenly a whole avalanche of orders came crashing down on us it drove us a bit crazy and if that was on polka loci no 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 pod those fares. 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 the

muslim he doesn't attend 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 whale of. a lot of it is done by hand board by board. and so each one of our chess boards is unique and i neither see while it and and in most of. the companies not showing any more 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 chess anyway a lot of patience. and finally an initiative in france is growing region is making the most of soap while helping the needy you need soap is taking a little used hotel so to get a 2nd life outside the hotels where they are crushed melted decaf decontaminated and reconditioned while the aim is to take thousands of soaps that normally go to waste and reuse some of 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 the business team for more you can always go to our website at c.w. all kong slash business are also on facebook and on twitter until next time goodbye and take care. of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update. on t.w. . 26 that's like a bunch of the queen because i want to see your gemini with me the last few years have been quite override really and. are very good on the home but when it comes to

gemma bit as on of course i always look in the eyes for a chance perhaps the biggest on the new i'll be a blood i'm going to recruit i want to be an even better person than i recall but when you feed him all the giving you realize that cause of the another way of living you read to me it's ever been very reckless through it. the problem in society we have at the moment is everyone is afraid of making a mistake what may happen if we don't do. the pandemic has changed life as we know it. but what comes next. will our fast paced lives pick up again. will we continue to innovate her.