crime fighter back. radio drama series continues. this season the stories focus on hate speech prevention and sustainable production . are available online and of course you can share and discuss on africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. insiders to me. ok. this is. coming up today. from those away from. india. to the country. with the devastating 2nd wave to report on a group of indians in the netherlands couldn't stand by and do nothing. and. despite. the public's. safety.

i'm british welcome to. join us india's devastating 2nd wave of koran of virus infections has prompted a flood of international relief at least 40 countries have pledged help and aid deliveries from major world powers including the united states germany the european union have already arrived but the crisis has also spied its overseas citizens into action with some 18000000 citizens such as myself living beyond its borders india has some of the largest export organisations of the world he has a glimpse at how some of them in the netherlands are sending help back home. becoming a mother during a pandemic thousands of miles to. home was

a tough challenge for a conscious stuff. but watching a covert crisis unfold in our home country india from where she now lives in the netherlands has proved unbearable for the business analyst i started getting news from my friends my relatives relative that people are dying and you know my friends and their families are suffering they're not getting oxygen you're just dying every night because you just hear such news and you're like where do we do a conch shell is among 45000 people born in india you know live in the netherlands desperate to do something she looked towards others in her community. in nearby amsterdam software developer and cricket lover wrote it was raring to go he knew others with high paying jobs who wanted to play their part through local organizations indian ex-pats sprung into action. we all came together we donated money so that when there was an india or $1.00 is supplying most of them

concentrated so we sent about $600.00 form of the lines to india and also we gave funding for food to these families were affected but i can just imagine what they're going through just trying to help in whatever way we can they've raised tens of thousands of euros no more cricket talk after training no it's all about sourcing and sending more vital materials. here in the hague say we're down temple dutch people of indian origin like hindu priest to be cash to already are also stepping up. the seal the impact whatever is happening in india has a direct impact on our community here as well to value wants to send positive energy to do those who are suffering. or. do feel in different ways so whether it's whether it's material support whether

it's fundraising. with the pay or the different ways of reaching those people they're. taking a break from the headlines instead filling her screen with faces of faraway loved ones who are yet to meet her baby funny person she knows the funds and resources she's helped collect are just a drop in the ocean india's staggering covert crisis but for 9 hopes of saving even one life back home. a petition to cancel the torture and embrace has been submitted to games organizers on friday 350000 people signed the petition in just 9 days it comes as the country faces a 4th wave of corner virus infections the capital tokyo osaka and other prefectures

are already under state of emergency but the government appears committed to opening the olympics on the 23rd of july a series of test events have been helped to track safety protocols and organizers say a spectator free olympics is also a possibility none of that has however the growing public opposition to the games. almost nothing has gone as planned ahead of what is still called the tokyo 2020 olympics at a wednesday news conference even by your question please a man posing as a journalist staged a cancel the olympics protest for the olympic committee's spokesman that there's anywhere no olympics anywhere. we don't want the olympics and use turning off some of. that great no i'm sorry to disappoint you that it was me not the president today obviously would have probably made that stunt

a little bit more interesting was 7 the stunt though voiced the same disapproval the japanese themselves are voicing in small protest groups and in big polling data that shows 59 to 65 percent favor a canceling the games in light of the pandemic. oh no no i was surprised that the number of people who are against the olympics have increased this much but i guess that reflects how bad the situation of the coronavirus this point we want to. put a lympics organizers are moving forward and one thing that did go according to plan for them dress rehearsal of what the track and field competition could look like. a mostly empty stadium save for athletes and officials who've been placed into a virtual bubble. for time olympic medalist justin gatlin won the test 100 meters and was a few sivan his praise despite living in a locked down room to sleep to watch netflix to dine and then he was let out to

train and compete. this competition here was a precursor to see exactly how you know the olympics can go off. maintaining a bubble for the athletes to be able to stay healthy and also the citizens of japan to be able to stay healthy which for now at least for now after these coming into the country i think it was a success. definitely different this can be hard to adapt but the caution is definitely needed. should the games go off as imagined or imagined this could well be the look world class competitors inside the venues and the athletes olympic village. protests on the outside. microcredit isn't. the news you can see there are now from tokyo marco repair and being able to cope with the rising cases of. well i think

that's clearly not very well no they're not. you know the the situation in the young the 4th wave here has not quite hit the the record for the country but it's it's certainly threatening to do so many you know the smaller rural prefectures outside of japan are hitting some pow totals of cases which said you were seen before and the number of critical cases of people you know people who are on life support that number is higher than it's ever been to spend a mixed art and so japan's in pretty deep trouble you know compared to its previous record in terms of the pandemic which is a country with the vaccinating the general public. well as i think it's been well reported japan among advanced industrial companies countries is right at the bottom of the list i believe it's something like 3 or 4 percent of the country

so far has been vaccinated. you know at least once that's a very low number compared to most countries in this class but at the same time the numbers have been rising recently in but i mean recently i mean the last week or so and the government believes that most elderly people will be vaccinated by the end of july but this is really going to be too late for you know the olympic situation which should start. in july given all the issues and the fact of the large majority of the public appear to want the games can all forms have understood why the government insists on going ahead with the olympic. well there is a bit of a mystery there but they have been so adamant and you know not just the japanese government but the international olympic committee do as well as as essential to come out and said directly or you know we don't care what happens doesn't matter

what happens we're definitely going ahead 100 percent and you know this line has taken some people by surprise exactly why they are doing so well we can speculate you know it would seem that they put a lot of investment in their sins probably a lot of money riding on it all the facilities the stadiums never thing were built over a period of $8.00 or 9 years so they want to make some use of it but there's also the prestige factor which is of course. you know important for the government itself especially the super government they don't want to be the ones that pulled the plug on the olympics and which failed to hold them so i think that's also a very big factor. but michael if it does come down to it home gets to decide who the japanese government orders of the international olympic committee that gets to decide in the olympics go ahead a lot. while that has been in dispute in fact prime minister

earlier suga has said that the final say is with the international olympic committee but this these statements have been widely disbelieved and and even mocked by the opposition parties you know this is japan that a sovereign nation to have to follow the orders of the international olympic committee they had a question that and i think that you know the real answer obviously is the state have the final say you know if prime minister suga said ok we're not holding them there's no way that the international olympic committee can force him to do so but at the moment with all of his executive climb to make going picks. not just planes but also potentially whole. they don't know yet in fact they don't even know if fans are going to be able to attend the events this decision is still pending they're probably going to make it last minute. you know they are trying to do their best to to create a bubble around the athletes to try to you know keep them is separated from the

general public as possible and they're also talking about vaccinating most if not all of the athletes. head of many of the citizens of japan in fact so it's it's a question it's a question have been answered convincingly and in fact you have to say that the japanese public doesn't believe that they believe that to be holding lympics will be some kind of super spreader event with you know 1000 of people coming in here from all over the world with who knows what cope with variance so you know the government should have safe most japanese don't believe it look michael in the tokyo thank you so much for that update thank you. and there's of course further updates on their debates preparations on our website the dumper dot com for what's flash. and we end this week with this a huge ocean liner being built in landlocked sichuan province in china why you also

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national hero vladimir parritch he died leading a resistance movement against sorry ivo's nazi occupiers at the end of world war 2 the later one said became a household name depicted in comic books that once flew off the shelves fast forward to present day sorry ivo where one bookstore owner is intent on rekindling walter's memory and spreading his own passion for comics. evil nazis and heroic partisans every child growing up in the former yugoslavia knew the story while to defend sarajevo his whether to film it was a comic book that had millions of fans around the globe. comics were hugely popular in the former yugoslavia and alya shadrach hopes to preserve this tradition has been a comicon through z.f. since childhood he founded design publishing company this courtyard in sarajevo is

home to coffee comics as well as the shop which sells comic books and graphic novels there really is more of a refuge. with the dallas fort worth i do think anyone in bosnia today would enter the comic book trade purely as a business venture for the 3 poor you need to love comics or the children can bring in a comic they've already read and exchange it for another she had it and nothing from this but he says that's not important he's too busy trying to salvage whatever he can his collection of comics is now larger than the one held by boston his national library. in the 1960 s. seventy's and eighty's with everyone in yugoslavia read comics the break of yugoslavia also spelled the end of this comic culture since then sales have been sluggish back in the early seventy's

a comic issue could easily sell 800000 copies. today young artists like and its chief have a tough time living from their work to chief says the market has been decimated even though the internet is creating new opportunities he says what's missing are publishers like challenge and his publishing company. got to colleagues who are your audience sorta only or is doing with regard to comics. or with the publishing house on the comic book store there's a good step towards creating what bosnia lacks a gothic comics has brought out a new edition of wall to defend sarajevo the story has also been republished in german and chinese in china the tale of walter the resistance fighter who took on the nazis is well known chinese tourists visiting sarajevo flocked to his memorial there though until the end the nazis never knew who walter was you know him walter

is tell me his name at once. be sure to interact i will show him to you. you see the city. this is voters. in sarajevo walter is once again a symbol of resistance now against the political corruption that's paralyzed bosnia for decades. with and then with the more people are sick of having to just survive on their own. and waters message to fight for others to fight for others' lives in all of us work with they are the cause of those to make something of our lives here in sarajevo and in bosnia i mean she held each is optimism in the face of all odds is reminiscent of walter's message never give up even in times of great resistance. as someone else who is staying strong in the face of adversity is

french d.j. tate who when the phones stopped ringing during knocked down the electronic music maestro picked up his decks and carried them up a mountain he's now released this video filmed in the middle of the swiss alps at 3000 meters up it could be the world's highest. now this building looks like a nuclear power station that's according to britain's prince charles in fact it's london's national theatre it's a classic example of gluten ism a no frills architectural style popular in the 1960 s. and seventy's often called bleak and institutional many such buildings are at risk of demolition including this form of the butchery in berlin now thousands of people have signed a petition to rescue it from the bulldozer as the part of

a growing movement to preserve the city's architectural history. architecture style known as brutal as a can be described as monumental colorless and inhuman. edifices turn to polarize to some their eyesores while others a growing number of architecture aficionados the world over are rediscovering burleson. i find burchill isn't so fascinating because it's so antagonistic and controversial on the one hand the buildings are written off as ugly and many of them do take some getting used to. but once you look behind the scenes and begin to understand why these structures look the way they do it's a whole architectural cosmos opens up if. you take a course most. this is a 17 story apartment block in berlin was designed in 1057. by french swiss

architect. the man who coined the term brutal is an architect or historian and photographer felix talker sees it as one of the city's principal examples of the style. the building with its 530 apartments has been called a machine for a living. museum was unable to carry out his plans for the interior but this one apartment was later remodeled to reproduce the architect original idea was based on his color theories the call breezy a grand to color the same importance as the floor plan and layout hendrix pedler and bought the apartment and most of its furnishings. we were not going to change the colors of his apartment never it's like a house of cards sticking everything can just fall down if you if searching too much. also left unchanged since the late 1970 s. the czech embassy building in downtown berlin and the architect even designed the

lamps tables and armchairs. recently a british publisher put out a series of city guides focusing on brutal as a felix toy car curated the berlin edition increasing support for brutal is among social media put a hold on some demolition plans including at this former animal testing lab nicknamed the mouse bunker in the 1960 s. when these buildings were planned a great number of stretches from the mid to late 19th century were torn down buildings that we think of fabulous today and a horrified at how much beautiful old architecture has been lost at the time many of them were only around 60 years old exactly the same ages these buildings are today so we have to think about whether or not we want to repeat the same mistakes . all the while new concrete buildings are going up in the neo brutalist style this berlin apartment building called the. llobet block has already won several awards.

it's unfinished look was not only to be stylish but to reduce construction costs and to keep a record down. more than 6 decades after it hit the scene you're not brutalist architecture still polarizes and fascinates people today. they say just 15 minutes spent petting a dog can lower your blood pressure pets can also keep you company and she you up as many people have found out during the pandemic down sent the demand for animal companions soaring when human commissions dried up for 1000000000 based photographer he found himself any projects. as the saying goes dogs

are man's best friend and these dog owners regardless of gender love their canine and the feeling seems to be linked to all of them but the talk of her thomas doesn't have a dog and never has with. one of the glee i've got to admit that i'm a little bit scared of dogs the bigger and more boisterous they are the more they scare me so it's errands for me now but it's always good to learn something new in life and the right. timing and an art that will you have to market for the price after. not all dogs love to be photographed. bribery is the main priority to get the perfect picture. in comparison human beings are the easiest subject. either i do this type of a talking dog and owner i love or it's really exciting sometimes the similarity between dogs and their owners is quite amazing when you see them next to each other . the similarity in the clue that only resembled

a dog was always heard. but i haven't really seen that. with the corona pandemic above his latest personal dog project a big. i think i wasn't getting many of the targeted jobs i mean what sometimes i go in for a walk that's when i have a closer look at the dogs and owners i remember holding. he's already photographed 40 perry. has already applied to his most successful projects so far. for 100 years you focus on the things in a person during the course of their life coming through centenarian and another project called born portraits of people wearing. his work. looking into the eyes of a person or an animal creates

a connection. whether thomas himself will at some point establish a connection with the dog. more likely his human hound photos will appear in the volume of his latest photograph and more to the delight. and. you may have heard of tom cruise's pylons to take hollywood to outer space cruise is due to start shooting a film at the international space station well now he's got home protection russia's space agency has announced plans to sheet a russian feature film on the i s s also. the film crew will undergo astronaut training before taking off i'll just base let's see who gets there 1st. and tom cruise is back on screen next year with the 7th film in the mission impossible franchise the 1st one came out in 1996 meaning cruise's alter ego

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10 years after the arab spring. starts june 7th oh and b.t.w. . this is deja vu news live from berlin israel masses troops along the border with gaza the army calls up thousands of reservists readying for possible ground in the latest airstrikes against the palestinian territories target of bank linked to hamas and israel's prime minister warns that the conflict is not yet over the conflict. israel demonstrations in cities worldwide vandalism here in germany

prompts an official warning that anti semitic protests will not be tolerated. i'm michael oku welcome we begin in israel where the nation is massing troops on the border with gaza and calling up thousands of reservists for a possible invasion of the hamas ruled territory airstrikes against palestinian territories have continued at least 8 israelis and more than $100.00 palestinians have been killed so far palestinian president mahmoud abbas is condemning what he calls brutal and programmed killings israel's prime minister is warning that the conflict is not over. a family of 6 like dead in gaza

distraught mourners gathered to say goodbye to their relatives say they died late at night at their home bombed by israeli planes with them inside. brother rafah was at home may god have mercy on him with his wife and 4 children without any warning 5 rockets destroyed their building his wife was pregnant. israeli forces have been pounding the palestinian territory with artillery they have deployed thousands of soldiers to the border who could enter gaza for the 1st time since 2014. as the conflict intensifies hour by hour gazans are fleeing their homes with whatever they can carry some have come to the school run by the un in search of a safe place. that we were planning to leave during the night but drones and jets kept bombing us at dawn we started moving and ran to the schools and our

children were screaming they wanted to get away when we woke up we found everything behind us destroyed there's nothing left you know the end of the new album lot of. and many israelis 2 are living in fear just north of gaza the city of ashkelon has been hit pretty tightly by hamas rockets. and it has been very stressful but we are following the government's instructions we have faith in the army and our creator clover said. casualties mount on both sides here in gaza hospitals are under severe strain from covert 19 and the fighting doctors are worried it will only get worse from here. in several israeli cities the conflict is fueling mob violence in neighborhoods where arab and

jewish residents normally live peacefully side by side earlier we asked. correspondent tanya kramer for her assessment of the mood there i think police and security israeli police and security they're bracing for more violence and riots you can can say tonight as you've seen in previous nights you have to look at. doing such so you know we're talking here about some. jewish israeli individuals that are taking part in such riots and you know in israel and all that comes through out all the communities and people i talk to people are very shocked by this violence what is happening there prime minister binyamin netanyahu has said you know is guys fighting a war on 2 fronts and i think a lot of people for them this takes release and to stage at least for those who are not under constant rocket barrage because this is really shocking what's happening

and there are groups now and organizations that are calling for gatherings on saturday night to show that there is togetherness in this country and calling on people to for peaceful protests and demonstrations. there's also growing tension on israel's northern border with lebanon state media is reporting a protester died while trying to cross the frontier it was one of a small group of protesters from gathered near the border in support of the palestinian cause the israeli army says it fired warning shots when police tried to cross a security fence separating the 2 nations the border region has been on edge with palestinian militants firing rockets into israel on thursday. the a vigil against anti semitism has been held in gelsen kitchen in western germany earlier this week demonstrators shouted anti jewish slogans and burnt israeli flags

outside the city synagogue but today supporters rallied in solidarity with the jewish community police estimate that around 300 people took part a spokesman for chancellor angela merkel says germany will not tolerate anti semitic protests after recent anti israel demonstrations in a number of city. so what measures are being taken to ensure the safety of jewish communities in germany a question i put earlier to felix kline the german government commissioner on anti semitism. well it's appalling to see that this kind of hatred is expressed towards german jew was and the synagogues here in germany to make them responsible for acts of the israeli government this is not acceptable at all and of course the police and security or authorities or very well the situations

also that's to curity measure it's for the synagogues and jewish institutions in in germany have been enforced and i hope that any perpetrator who commits anti-semitic crimes will be. will be charged and will be held responsible for what's being done to india now where the number of covert 1000 infections has topped 24000000 more than 4000 deaths have been recorded for the 3rd consecutive day the government is facing harsh criticism of its handling of the crisis there are widespread shortages of oxygen and medical supplies hospitals crematoriums and mortuaries are all over well in many areas social media has become a lifeline to and for people who feel they've been abandoned. still a couple of months ago i received daily routine looked a lot different. being

a digital content creator how do you mostly involved planning what to post on a instagram handle. known for humorous style she has amassed a big following on social media and has a reputation as an infinite set. but this acquired a different meaning as a 2nd leave of course in 1000 hit india suddenly she and other influences like her became a virtual lifeline for those in need of urgent medical 8 week i know found ourselves in this situation where unwittingly people did not know where to go within our have helpline number fair or you know when they're not even if they were they weren't efficient enough to handle so many. people are in 4th quarters but i got a clue and we had the quest started with the what we're being and went on boot when bear day and i had one point it was a 100 or 200 today she says the requests began with appeals for help in finding

oxygen or hospital beds and soon went on to desperate pleas for plows ma crucial medicines and eventually primitive orients and bottle grounds which could accommodate more covert victims' bodies she kept amplifying these messages connecting those who needed help with those who could provide help. she adds that the reason people started reaching out to them was due to the absence of support from government authorities who seem to have bungled their response to the corona virus outbreak. over the past few years social media has emerged as a powerful communication tool in a country with hundreds of millions of users but the 2nd we have brought forth its immense potential to provide urgent time sensitive assistance during moments of crisis and it's not just content creators let stepped in to assist the 2nd wave of kuwait has seen other public figures using social media platforms especially

twitter to connect with and help those in need. cian of us b.b. who heads the youth wing of the biggest opposition political party has gained recognition for his school with relief work in the country he says for him and his team of volunteers social media has proved invaluable in the fight against the virus because of the reach it could provide the. people needed a medium which could respond quickly and immediately coordinate their request. on social media you can add all the location contact information medical report in one go which makes it easier for our being here to coordinate their why she may not have the same resources as stream of us approach to providing help is similar to the influencer along with a group of content creators a one to a group which works on providing verified leads and oxygen and other necessary to do all sending in distress to quests at this point in time there is really no back

the way we could have moved our influence. platforms then this. she says this experience has made her realise just how much different social media can mean. to her work she has been filling a white till gap in india's overburdened health care system turning her from a media influence to a real life saver. well before the penn demick the italian city of venice was overrun with tourists so much so it was looking for ways to restrict their numbers now though it's facing the opposite problem empty streets and waterways in a city that very much depends on tourism revenue. zander reports on how venice is looking to strike the right balance as it reopens for business. a gondola ride is probably the most romantic experience you can have here in venice even for veteran motivates you laurie move up or so when we take someone with

a story we try to make them live the dream. he is one of the city's roughly $600.00 s. usually carlotta would do 3 tours a day but the penn demick has practically run him out of business. from october to now i've only done one ride in this city just came out of a lockdown but said marks we are still eerily quiet the world famous coffee remains closed during the week over the years venice became almost entirely dependent on tourism and the pandemic with its travel restrictions and lock downs for the laid bare the issue these cafe is here once popular tourist destinations are not closed due to a lack of customers but now there seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel though nobody really knows how exactly and when tourism will restart. some have hopes that a new start will bring changes that it was otto is an activist with finesse yet dot

com the group installed this counter in the window of a pharmacy to help publicize the declining number of residents 50965 the actual number of people citizens living today here in venice that's 30 people less than a week before over tourism has been driving people out of the city but the problem is more complicated than that it's a very strong. situation we don't want too much because it would suffocate the place but at the same time we can't live without him in the place where everyone lives off tourism one way or another it is difficult to find a balance this city's tourism counsellor says that the situation is not unique to venice but rather venice is in need of a unique solution. venice has not been sold out in a derogatory sense all tourist cities have experienced the last few years in the

absence of very was super tech certain segments of the city as a 1st step the city has begun to closely monitor visitor numbers starting next year tourists will have to pay a fee to enter the city. but. this is what some people consider the bad old days. i would also go back to what it was like 2 hours ago with a few lisp people maybe but it wasn't a massacre like they were saying it was sustainable. even though the debate over the future of tourism in venice is far from over but for now most people here cannot wait for visitors to return. switching gears now to some sports news formula one has cancelled the turkish grand prix overcovered $1000.00 concerns the race was only included in the calendar 2 weeks ago as a replacement for the scrap canadian grand prix and now it is gone it will be

replaced by a 2nd event in austria new travel restrictions are behind the latest cancellation. coming up after the break. you will be here with the business news and don't forget you can stay up to date with all the latest headlines on our web site dot com and you of course follow us on twitter and instagram at news i'm like a local here in berlin thanks so much for watching. people have to say cursed to us. trying to loosen. reporters every weekend on t.w.

. morita of the planet. still keep on the green. and to me remains true. the solutions are out there. join me for a deep dark green transformation for me. for the. dark side strikes again the house launched a cyber attack on an important u.s. pipeline finds new targets. and can green hydrogen be the fuel for europe's future. in 50 w. business i'm joined now in berlin. russian hacker group darkseid has been busy days

after it shut down the u.s. colonial pipeline with the ransomware attack ireland's health service operator says it's become the group's latest target. forcing the health care provider to shut down its entire network and they're not the only ones in dark sides crosshairs japanese electronics maker to she bust says its european businesses have been hit to. the hackers targeted toshiba's european branch during the month of may 4th the company says it lost only a minimal amount of work data during the ransomware attack and the hackers have not leaked that data toshiba says darkseid was behind the attack the same russian hacking group that was blamed for crippling a major u.s. pipeline company earlier this week following that hack u.s. president joe biden urged russia to crack down we do not believe emphasize we do not believe the russian government was involved in this attack but we do have

strong reason to believe that the criminals who did the attack are live mean in russia run somewhere attacks have been increasing in number hackers steal data encrypted and seek payment in crypto currency from its owners to unlock it darkseid lets its confederates hack into targets then it handles the ransom negotiation and the date to release. our financial correspondent chelsea delaney is following this for us and sent us this assessment the series of cyber attacks we've seen in recent weeks has shown a light on how vulnerable our digital systems really are cyber attacks have been on the rise for here as they've been getting more and more sophisticated more and more aggressive but this really exploded during the penn demick as more people were working remotely companies and institutions had to build out all of these new systems that left a lot of vulnerabilities that criminal groups like dark side have been able to exploit one cyber security firm estimates that the number of ransomware attacks the

ones like we've seen on cloning a pipeline or a toshiba by about 485 percent last year. one way that companies are dealing with this is by taking out somewhere i'm sure and so their insurance company will pay the price of that ransom but there's also more and more pressure on a political level for countries like russia and china and north korea that have. better thought to harbor some of these groups to crack down. as countries all over the world and to make their economies more climate friendly there's been increasing talk about the role hydrogen could play in the switch to clean energy hydrogen fuel is important for the likes of steel production oil refinement and agriculture but hydrogen itself can be a clean energy source however 96 percent of the hydrogen used in the european union is manufactured using natural gas emitting up to $100000000.00 tons of c o 2 each year so what's the solution one idea is to import clean hydrogen from

africa produced using solar and wind energy and then transported to europe via ship or pipeline for more on this i'm joined by case from the center for business and technology in africa at the flensburg university of applied sciences welcome to the show can you please tell us can europe not produce its own green hydrogen. sink you for being here no unfortunately we have not enough space for producing. hydrogen energy by ourselves we have to. guess from other countries to get all golds but one chipping green hydrogen all the way from africa itself with a high carbon carbon footprint. ok the carbon footprint is something we have to keep in mind when we want to have sustainable energy but

all the way we have already l. and g. tanks and ships which can transport is for instance in germany we have a. terminal in boone spittle in our land of trees we call it star and they're also the idea of using pipelines from for example northern africa how far developed are these plants to bring green hydrogen from africa to europe ok we are at the beginning of the poses and for sure one of the goals for instance for the german government is not to get africa out of energy so we have to start on a lower level but some developed countries like south africa maybe able to produce efficient amount of hydrogen in the near future and if i talk about the new future thinking about 3 to 5 years doing all the finance poses and the development what do

you mean when you say it's important that africa isn't out of energy ari do you mean that europe could be competing with africa for its own energy. yes it is the point that we have to not to use the we knew the energy from africa just produce hydrogen to transport to you up we have to take in you know mind that africa still needs energy there's not every country who has enough resources now so. first the africans must have their own energy and if we have enough reviewable energy there by going out more solar plants more wind energy we can use this for export and consoles during the african economy.

from the center for business and technology in africa at the university of applied sciences and flensburg their forest thank you very much for your time today thank you to the u.k. now where the country's serious fraud office has launched a probe into the gulf family group alliance business empire and its financing arrangements with greensill capital the alliance owned hundreds of companies across the world it's the family business of steel tycoon sanjay gupta. steel aluminum mining financial services and real estate those are just some of the interests of the companies owned by the group the family group alliance sanjeev gupta empire employs 35000 people around the world and accounts annual revenues of $20000000000.00 now it's under investigation by britain's serious fraud office the charges include suspected fraud and money laundering in connection with invoices

sent to its major finance or the now bankrupt greensill capital brain cells implosion has rocked britain's business and political classes former prime minister david cameron was grilled by lawmakers about his lobbying for the company this week write to me we've said there's a strong argument that having a former prime minister gauge on the heart of any commercial interest no matter how laudable the motives and cause can be open to misinterpretation perhaps that's especially so when the communication systems we will use particularly in the heat of responding to a crisis text for in rather than the more formal approach of right. no group does empire is facing the heat criminal scrutiny and it still needs to secure financing to replace green still and protect its employees around the world. a look at some other business stories making headlines. in northern japan is now under a state of emergency due to the spread of covert 19 people there won't be able to

eat out and must avoid nonessential travel to other prefectures also face tighter restrictions. air b.n. b. has posted another big loss but it says bookings are on the rise again the vacation rental company lost $1200000000.00 in the 4th quarter of 2020 air b.n. b. said the high cost of repaying loans taken out during the pandemic was the main reason for the poor results. now getting hold of cash in myanmar is becoming increasingly difficult queues start forming outside banks at 4 am where the 1st 30 customers are given plastic tokens that will allow them to enter the bank when it opens at 9 30 am and withdraw cash the others have to queue for hours the central bank is now run by an appointee of the military rulers it has not returned some of the reserves it holds for private banks without giving any reason leaving the banks short of cash. an export boom in construction timber to the

u.s. is sending temper prices in germany through the roof after canada germany is the 2nd most important supplier of softwood song temper which is used for the construction industry but rising demand means that local carpenters and joiners face enormous price increases. the costs of the hearts region in central germany are bone dry the trees sick and infested with pests for years to move was cheap and in abundance now suddenly it's in short supply prices are rising rapidly in. the forest the meat is not surprised by the increased prices timber is in high demand all over the world china and especially the u.s. are hungry for construction lumber brought boards the bowl reconstruction industry there is room in the thanks to recovery programs stand for the americans market on

the doorstep canada has collapsed because of a pest infestation are millions of hacked is they just can't get any more wood from canada. to safe target the shipping containers come straight into the forest. cut to a length of 11 and a half metres the trees fit exactly into a container ready for sea transport. tuna companies in germany are left with the short end of the stick in this carpentry business the last of the wood supplies for a roof frame of being cut when the next delivery will come is unclear the company's making heavy losses because they have to buy timber at 4 times the usual price. company boss col hoffmeister is frustrated medium sized companies like his struggle to get hold of lumber a few large sawmills dominate the market is in the 3 largest why was there as of

course able to buy a large quantities from the market to. their capital strength and they are able to export accordingly in terms of the entire logistics and can therefore redirect our products at short notice and bring them to markets where it's possible to earn significantly more sordid metal fatigue. and that's the usa a handful of sawmills dominate 80 percent of the timber market in germany. they distribute the wood where they can make the most money the german sawmilling and timber industry body says that's the way the market works. global demand which is also increased in the last year and months due to regional peculiarities is causing corresponding price effects the higher the demand the higher the value of the products. back in the hearts forrest. is happy with the increased revenue but he's still worried about attacks from parasites which could threaten the trees he's planting now they would be ready for harvest for

another 70 years. and their reminder of the top story this hour. phishy of us says it's european business has been the target of a cyber attack japanese public t.v. says the attack was carried out by darkseid shops the group the u.s. claims for the ransomware attack on colonial pipeline 2 days ago. and that set the must thanks so much for watching. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update 19 specials. on t w. florida. culture.

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