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a lockdown that many thought they would never see. the me i'm better spending welcome to did up the news asia glad you could join us. china has accused the united states of ignoring science and pursuing political manipulation after president joe biden authorized an investigation into the origins of cove at 19 biden has given us intelligence agencies 90 days to determine if go over 900 spread from animal to human contact or leaks accidentally from a chinese la bought a tree. this so called lab leak theory was categorized as extremely unlikely by the world health organization earlier in the chinese officials did refer to this finding. as they took aim at the united states for the newly

announced prob, may way here, and there are some in the us who are turning a blind eye to facts and science, as well as the questionable study of the origins of cobit 19 colonies. and the botched response at home. but i've kept clamoring for additional investigation in china to told me this shows that they don't care about facts or truth and have 0 interest in a serious science based study of origins are. their only aim is to use the pandemic to pursue stigmatization and political manipulation to shift the blame please. this is disrespect for science, kosher that was a responsibility for people's lives before the and the destruction of global solidarity in fighting the virus. now, at the center of this contrivance here, over the origins of covert 19, is this la bought a tree in hon in central china. the bull han institute of biology,

which has for years been conducting research around corona viruses that originate in beth the trump administration. last year alleged colbert, 1900, meet from this lab. and the us intelligence report recently said 3 scientists from this institute fell ill and we went to hospital in november 2019 before the officially acknowledged outbreak in hon. and from on this i'm joined now by dr. eric fargo ding and f d. me all interesting senior fellow at the federation of american scientists in washington dc. dr. welcome, i'd like to begin with seeking some clarity 1st, the so called lab leak. terry is taken by some to mean a deliberate leak from the one lab. other say it could have been an accidental leak . and there's also suggestions that chinese scientists were getting out lab experiments. they shouldn't have been. which, terry is the us investigating? later having a lovely theory is obviously

a very controversial topic previously thought. be a conspiracy theory. but in turn away a lively theory. this is a to our ology. it could be a complete accident. and the accidental leakage of a naturally occurring buyers. that's honestly the most plausible of lavalley theory. but the last week in itself is not the most possible. the most plausible is just natural infection to an animal from bats and other animals. humans that occur naturally, nature is probably the most likely lab leak. it's possible there is not enough evidence. it's just circumstantial evidence. lab technician got 6. 0, little satellite images showed. ready you know, high density of people around the hospital. none of those are not direct smoking gun in any way. and of course, none of them implied any intentional bioengineered. now the w threats that are later in the year after visiting this very same institute,

the one is to divide. ology, the lab. 830 was extremely unlikely. do you think that was a premature statement? well, i would say that their statement, it was unlikely is it's really not based on much data in either direction. and i, you know, i admit that there's not much data that cruise one way or the other right now. if these are all your circumstances and remember we found, actually, sorry, go to virus in italy near in, near milan, back in october and november 2019. so whatever must happen must happen weighed before in order for that virus picked up in italy, back in october, 2019. at the, at the bottom line is, what is likely is what can the data show and right now, biden said they're coming through more data. there is more data intelligent data.

they say that they need a couple more weeks and months to come through. and hopefully we'll find something until then everything back to ation. and speaking of this data, can this data at all really be to be any truth if china doesn't cooperate and provide data. yeah, you know, asking, trying to cooperate, we're trying to get it. obviously not the most reliable pathway, the data that 5 is referring to is intelligent data collected by us and other agencies. and this is why i think there probably have some additional surveillance data, probably from by aware that we don't know about. and that will take more time, but trying to provide data on, on a lab leak or bio engineering is probably not the most likely outcome. anything the most likely to prove one way or another is when we find an animal that

is the most intermediate shown between the background of virus and sorrow. calling to find that intermediate animal and the nature, then that would actually prove the natural theory way more than anything else. do you think scientifically, we can ever get to the truth behind the origins of covered by team given that has been more than a year and a half since the outbreak is difficult, but not impossible. if we find the animal reservoir that intermediate, that before the emergence, and scroll by, if we find the intermediate that the closest close to jump to the, sorry, go to solve it. in the future, you know, there could be a blood banks somewhere stored somewhere from blood donation. that's how we found that the original october, november 2019 italy sample. it was from

a blood samples. and us also had some blood sample. if we find it in blood samples somewhere that could also offer a clue, but right now that is not normal testing and we might have to just cross our fingers to find something like that. and hopefully something does come out through that dr. eric final thing. thank you so much for joining us. die one's health minister has revealed that 2 words scuppered a dean for millions of go over 1900 vaccines with germany's by on tech. jen. she's june said the company request a taiwan to drop the words all country from a joint press release set for january the 8th. he said his government agreed to change the wording to just taiwan the same day. but a week later, by on tech put the agreement on hold, due to a court reevaluation of global vaccine supply and adjusted timelines of this explanation comes a day after president sign. when directly accuse china of blocking taiwan deal with

biotech in response to her statement by on tech told did other news asia we do not provide information on any potential a possible distribution of our vaccine. our goal at biotech is to make the vaccine available to as many people worldwide as possible. meanwhile, only about one percent of taiwan population has received a vaccination and there's a growing sense of alarm. as the island faces its biggest over $900.00 outbreak, yet after month of keeping the pandemic well under control, the government has ordered a lockdown to cobb infections. it's something that many on the island thought they would never see. as the w joyce lee reports stuck at home for the 1st time, the yap siblings are still was that change your online learning as schools in taiwan shut down for the 1st time since the thought of the pandemic i can't take has

been stuck at home since last monday, it's been a week. i'm so bored, online learning is doing all the things i did it at home. i feel lazy because there's no one to push me. i don't have that. so again, i missed my classmates now and spend time with my family. the mother is also struggling, navigating what it means to be a parent, a teacher, and working from home at the same time. she says it has never crossed her mind that this day would come. things like that. in the past year, we watched international news and saw people working from home because of a lockdown. i thought it was funny and unrelated to my life, but now it's happening to us. after more than a year off, relative safety, taiwan is battling as fast. major domestic outbreak reporting hundreds of local cases daily its beliefs that airline pilot brought the u. k. period to the island

last month after quarantine was short and to just 3 days for crew members. the threat was then accelerated threat network of tea houses in tie pace. red light district. the authorities have declared a nation wide level 3 alert meaning a soft lockdown. public events are code of many shops are close to and restaurants can only do check out the shopping district. anti pay is spiritually a dose tone while dozens of people. q of for covert test sites hosted with hosts in grades at high pay are running out of patients will now be sent to other parts of taiwan for treatment. the authorities have also taken up several hotels to accommodate those with light or no symptoms. so phone, taiwan has only fascinated around one percent off. it's 24000000 people. most taiwanese have the infection hesitant before the local outbreak. and how about no,

ma'am, i was always afraid of the side effects, but now that there is a community outbreak, i want to get a shot. i want to get vaccinated because vaccines are the most fundamental solution to control the pan demik that we're having a big scene shortage. because i don't want to get an area for the time being because the virus mutates too quickly may not be effective after tomorrow require. 10000000 doses of 5 scenes were rushed by august. but until then, the island is likely to remain on the south lock down. the yan family has stopped step bridge. they say they're ready for a long battle. a battle that was affordable in the message in one had a whole year to prepare for this and seeing what happened in other countries. we should have been alert, but we didn't bother. so the government didn't take it seriously when all the countries were fighting to get vaccines. i want didn't do much, just sat there and waited for our own vaccines. and so now the vaccines are coming

soon enough that we can only fight the battle in a passive way by staying home. do not be complacent in the face off and i make it's a lesson learned for taiwanese that's bought by the, the correspondent joyce lee. that's it for today, and this week is of course most of it is on our website, the dot com, forward slash asia. and you can follow us on social media as well. we're back at next week at the same time, have a good weekend. everyone will see you soon. the, the these places in your records stepped into a ball venture of the treasure map for modern globetrotters. discover some of you to record breaking sites on your next to. and now also in book form.

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in. laurie's celebrate to dual heritage, with color bringing of body 1st of positivity to objects and urban spaces. but 1st to london, where the victoria and albert museum is pulling out all the stops for a blockbuster returned to culture. the exhibition epic, iran, which opens on saturday, showcases 5 millennia of persian culture, ranging from the ancient pri islamic times right through to contemporary artists of today illuminating an artistic richness that the curator's hope will add some new own to how iran is seen in the west the with artifact spending 5000 years epic iran hopes to show the continuity of the country's culture and identity as seen in its art and design. the co curator tim stanley was tasked with showcasing the countries

millennia long narrative existed for this very long time. people generally don't have this idea that iran is one of the great civilizations of asia, which is existed for a very long period. and that's one of the essential messages of exhibition. and of course, telling that long story with only, you know, to say the 300 objects is it's, it's quite a challenge. ah, the exhibitions 10 sections cover the many facets of iran's rich artistic and cultural heritage. from historic costumes to persian rugs illustrated manuscripts, vases and even weaponry and armor. the exhibition offers of dazzling recreation of the was a percept with the ceremonial capital of the 1st persian empire. using modern

technology, epic iran reimagine historic object. the one of the interesting things about this expedition is that recent research about perception, this is shane, not the relief through which we covered. i mean, hands, they found traces kind of microscopic traces of the pigments they use and say, we've been able to recreate the colorful aspect of the release using projected color. one of the most important object in the exhibition is the cyrus cylinder. memorializing the conquest of babylon by persian king cyrus the great in 539, b. c. it also appears to document king cyrus as support for religious and cultural diversity policies that were unique in the ancient world. some scholars referred to

it as the 1st bill of human rights. iran long history has also included turbulent relations with the west. going as far back as the persian invasion of greece in the 5th century. and continuing to today. the exhibition, the organizers hope to offer a different narrative they include in us are connie's, undermine. his family owns many of the object i'm show. the exhibition also highlights modern day iran with a selection feature in contemporary iranian art. many of the works here are bold and colorful like this, i catching self portrait by closer hassan's i day, which explores how the world views iranian men by presents in contemporary art from around today. we really able to challenge prejudices in this name as about what being iranian is today. this room gives an

explosion of different artistic voices from artist living in iran, living in exile and who struggle between the 2. and when you look at it, you have photography, film, animation, sculpture, and what else do you have painting? of course, oil painting, which explore art across media at the very highest level. i think iran shedding light on the richness and diversity of one of the world's great civilizations. well, he's been called the great his dancer of his generation and long been known as the bad boy of ballet, sergey poland, in an all or nothing kind of artist. as extreme in his political views as in his approach to life and his career, which has been a roller coaster ever since he became the youngest ever principal dancer for britain's royal ballet back in 2010. but now the ukranian born phenol is focusing

some of his explosive energy on a good cause. the it was this video by photographer david lasha power that made saturday, polling in a viral internet sensation and shocked about a world in 2015 polonium bared his tattoos and his soul, as he vowed to quit classical dance. ah balloon never did quite quit. his latest project together with the farm, a giant mack asks what's it like to have multiple sclerosis, a disease that causes loss of sensation and control over one's own body matter. but as i am calling to place someone who finds out that he has m. s and experience is something that other people can't understand. why show how one's simple finger and hand movement is suddenly become difficult or even touching your own nose. i show the struggle of no longer being able to control your own body. numerous. and until

people like the dentist junk of i know 1st hand what that's like, she's one of 2000000 patients living with multiple sclerosis worldwide for symptom started when she was 18 at 1st, she had problem seeing then she found it difficult to walk up the grid blue and we need to get busted and you could, there were days when i felt like a vegetable, i just lay there. only able to move my eyelids. then i pulled myself together. i got up and kept going crazy. today and, and as does shares her experiences with other patients at a self help group in moscow. the focus here is on learning to live with the challenges the disease presents and on setting goals, even if they don't seem attainable at 1st. what would you do it again? i could dance. i said because dancing means passion not stolen. when this passion takes hold of me, i have to do it that it's the same with m. s. you can control your body again. if

you want to was not, i think will usually have the pony and the youth centered around controlling his body. every muscle, every sinew had 19 he was the youngest principal dancer in the history of britain's royal ballet documentary dancer charts. his rise from a boy in ukraine to a star in london, and his public unraveling amid drug use and psychological struggles. and he continued to so controversy with this tattoo of vladimir putin and with a homophobic ranch that caused the paris opera ballet to cancel his guest appearance in 2019 still, the farmer company merrick saw him as the man to help raise awareness of multiple sclerosis. for an additional chunk

of our polar needs piece hits close to home. if you didn't, you may have been when he was moving slowly, i could see that his muscles were tense. i'm doing that usually helps ease muscle spasms. if you, when people with m. s jump around a little, you hardly see their leg sake. when you, you know, because i'm a healing, i want to show that people can be strong and can triumph when they gather their strength. in perhaps a new turn for his reputation. pauline is honoring the strength of m. s. patients fighting a disease that still has no cure and that with a view to world m. s day that's coming up on sunday. well, from another generation, italy's leading prima ballerina cadillac for she has died at $84.00, considered one of the celebrated ballerina of the 20th century. she dazzled audiences around the world, dancing with the top male stars of her day,

and was best known for her interpretation of the great romantic ballad. most notably in awe . over anyone still suffering from about the pandemic, blues, or blonde, the vibrant world of income. loyalty is a welcome way to kick start. your sense of the british, nigerian designer can spit up just about anything from a friend skater park to store windows. at selfridge is in london, and he even has a signature line of home and kitchenware that reflects the joyful spin that he brings to many public spaces. this colorful installation is called implants. we trust the work of british, nigerian designer, laurie can be found in london, mayfair. districts, it's a veritable urban away, so i want to try and chris, thanks face please let reflection, meditation using plots and green greenery to come here. sit down from

a conversation, reflect, read whatever you want to do, but just being around, you know, a green space. the 34 year old london loves working with bright, vibrant colors. not too long ago, getting to redesigned a gloomy london underpass. happy street as his work is titled, a sight to behold. the he wants to bring more positivity to urban spaces. when i create an installation in a studio, is it, it's my work, but when it goes into space as belong, standing, what belongs to the people i was really kind of gives people a sense if you know belonging and respectful proud of their environment. you know, he produced countless installations for art galleries and events like this playground for adults. at the 2019 can film festival. you can always bursting with

new ideas. the inca launched his design career 10 years ago when he reimagined 2nd hand chairs, giving them a multicolored make over much of his work as inspires by stories from his childhood as well as west african fabrics. the storytelling is kind of, it's based around of who i am lifting as a kid of always full. i was living with you live into coaches in precision last year and, and i love both got both coaches, but how do i celebrate? and i think the best way will thing was to do it through furniture. so take those narratives. i was kind of, you know, told while i was young and i love trying to, you know, retail them in my own way. the drums up these crockery designs during the 1st corona virus lockdown. my obsession with colors is definitely sometimes been inherited to my mom and dad. always one as well. my mom when she get her,

it's 1st of california. it was obviously from her mom because it's been past one to my mother and it's possible me hello. just see this is something that's just yeah, it makes me for positive good. because lively creations bring some much needed color and positivity to urban environments. illuminating the darkness well, positivity is good. that's all for this time and this week and it's been a blast. so until we meet again. go, well, stay safe and all the best from us to so the fetus in the me was the news. the news

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a european union. alexander, thank you stamps since the 4th landing of an aircraft aimed at the stabilizing his country in new south wales and australia. paste. an unprecedented plague of nice state governments proposes and radical solutions. ah, me, i'm so game. welcome to the program. germany has acknowledged for the 1st time that it committed genocide during his colonial rule. and what is now to namibia and southern africa. german troops massacre tens of thousands of herana and nama people at the start of the 20th century, and is to apologize and fund projects in namibia was more than a 1000000000 euros. this small clock in berlin's nikon district remains the only

visible memorial in germany of the violence committed in the media. now the german government says it is looking for real reconciliation. 1.1000000000 euros will be given to support development in namibia focusing on projects for the ethnic groups once targeted by german colonizers. and then we will now also in an official capacity called these events, what they were from today perspective, a genocide program. we've also acknowledge how he's tory coll, responsibility, the militia, and in the light of this historical in morrow responsibility of germany, we will ask maybe a and the descendants of the victims for forgiveness between 19041908 german imperial forces in what was then known as german south west africa, violently suppressed uprisings by the nama and herrera ethnic groups, and forced them into the, does it tens of thousands of herrera and nama was shot,

starved, and tortured to death by german troops. it is estimated that 3 quarters of the herrera and half of the nama people were wiped out. it took an entire century for a german politician to even recognize it happened. i asked you to forgive us our trespass. precipices and our guilt. but the german government of the time back to peddled, saying the minister had spoken as a private pass and herero nama groups, have consistently demanded an official apology and financial reparations from the german government. for what historians consider the 20th centuries 1st, genocide, germany has insisted on negotiating a reconciliation deal with the namibian government, not the victims, descendants. germany is just beginning to reckon with its colonial pass. this reconciliation deal is one step in that direction. let's pick this up with joshua

quite the akin. so it's a political scientist at the university of a castle. welcome to the w. germany. foreign minister says this is a 1st step in the right direction. herero, a nom, a representative, say they've been excluded from the process. what do you think should they have had a greater voice? yes, i definitely think they should have a greater voice given the fact that the borders with what is being nivia have basically been drafted. right here in berlin, in the famous africa conference of 188485. so to now limit, you know, these negotiations wouldn't be in government. and a few select individuals is really not good enough. it actually continues a colonial hierarchy and the colonial construction, right thought the people who were affected should of course, have been at the center of these negotiations. the german government would say,

well, as, as a government, we have to deal with a government. we can't just deal with individuals who say they were this battle or the other. so surely it is legitimate for the german government to deal with the government of namibia, of course is legitimate to deal with the government of namibia. however, not at the cost of excluding the descendants of those who have been wronged and they are historical. precedent for this, germany has been able to negotiate, for example, much as with the state of israel, but also with the various groups of the jewish. they asked for, right, we also would like to remind everybody that there is a declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, which also at the u. n. double, right. which also offers a framework that enables governments to directly be in touch with and include indigenous peoples in such negotiations. precisely because of the recognition that many borders are colonial. and therefore, many governments do not fully represent the interest of everybody who find themselves in the territory today. ben and he's talking about funding projects

worth more than a 1000000000 euros in namibia. but it is clear that this money is not reparations or compensation. why is that distinction important? well, i think the german government is still afraid of the legal ramifications of a full recognition of the genocide. and this is where we heard for master mosse, you know, using this language of saying that, you know, it would today be considered the genocide. here again, we have you unprecedented as a dub and declaration that germany sign saying that a mos atrocities and crimes against humanity committed during colonialism should have counted as such at all times. so jeremy is actually renew it. i mean, you know, falling behind its own standards here precisely because, you know, of the fear that legal action could be taken, which could lead to further reparations. now, of course,

it's clear that so called development assistance can not be classified as reparation to any shape or form, simply because there are conditions that come with this money. and of course, if you say, you know, the wrong has been committed and he has recompense conditions can never be attached to such money. and so therefore, it's of course, correct to say that such money is not reparations, but it's also disingenuous to connect us money in any shape or form to some kind of recognition of the genocide which again is incomplete as we speak. we thank you for your time, joshua quasi akins political scientist of the university of castle i. turning now to the news going on in the world of france and germany seeking to help south africa boost vaccine production to tackle the current of ours pandemic. as the macro issue and south african president number poses a funding for vaccine production facilities. german health minister fund is also in the country for talks on the building that vaccine capacity under the thousands of

people in the democratic republic of congo need help. after fleeing and active volcano authorities avoided a partial evacuation of the 8th and city of gomez, scientist, the warning of what they call a potentially catastrophic interruption. 3 police officers have been wounded in a suburb of the french city of nuns. a female officer was stopped and 2 others shot before the attack was killed in a shootout with a nice authority said the suspect separate from severe mental health illness and was on an a radical islamist watch list. and i received president alexander louis shanker, has told brushes, vladimir putin that the west is trying to destabilize these country. leaders have been holding talks in the russian resorts of such a following last week for the landing of iran, their flight over belen roofs. this and the detention of an opposition blog. i have cause an international outcry led to sanctions as an official co said he had

brought documents, proving that the e u is trying to rock the boat in values which will go to moscow and join dw corresponding to emily sherman. welcome, emily. what do we know about the topics being discussed in this that closed door meeting? well, we don't know too much about the topics in these in this meeting today. we do know that despite the fact that the 2 leaders were trying to portray this meeting as just a normal regular meeting, it was clearly a response to the international outcry that alexander lucas sango has faced. this week, the 2 leaders were presenting a united front. i think and also there could be an economic aspect to this closed door meeting. we don't know, of course, but a fellow risk is definitely, you know, very dependent on russia financially anyway. and the country could now be facing,

along with the, the air, the air traffic restrictions that it saw this week. additional sanctions, economic sanctions, for example, against its pot, ash sector and also its oil sector. so we could find out later on, perhaps that lucas shank is asking, put in for money that happened last year as well. putin promised a $1500000000.00 loan to luca shanker to shore up his regime last year and every public display of support. so clearly president posted and appears at this stage anyway to be fully behind the president looking into yeah, today it almost seemed like they were portraying themselves as kind of close friends. they even said that they would go swimming after today's meeting. go swimming in the black sea, but actually their relationship has been rather fraught over the last few years.

it's just that the 2 leaders are increasingly isolated. both of them, i think on the international stage, but for putin because shank over the last few years have been it's been a really difficult ally in many ways. first of all, lucas shank has been playing off the e u and russia against each other and sort of acting pretending to at least act as an intermediary between the 2. which i think would have angered putin also. lucas shank is increasingly, it seems on predictable. we saw that this week with this plane landing, and i think even the kremlin knows that with the huge protests that we saw in bella bruce last year, lucas shank has lost a lot of his legitimacy at home. but the problem is that russia wants to avoid at all costs, kind of legitimizing street protests that could topple. you know, a leader a long time leader. that's just too close to home. so they've decided to really

throw all their support behind lucas shank and i think that's what we're seeing in today's meeting as well. and that's what's behind approach in backing of lucas echo boots in doesn't want people in russia to sort of look at what's going on on their doorstep and say, oh yes, we would quite like some street protest and democracy. thank you. i think that's a very important aspect actually. i think we saw during the street protests last year that people in russia were certainly watching those very closely. people in the russian opposition were discussing them. and of course, earlier this year as well, we saw big protests in support of russian opposition leader alex in viney as well across russia. not only in the capital moscow. i think that's a real fear for letting me put in as well at the moment, especially with the upcoming parliamentary elections here in russia. it's very important for putin to keep things stable in his own country. and that's part of

why he wants things to be stable in neighboring bella. ruth dw correspondence emily show within moscow. thank you so much. oh, the australian state of new south wales is launching a relief package for farmers dealing with a catastrophic plague of mice. which is that destroyed crops and crease, causing havoc for farming communities. the agriculture minister wants to use a new pass decide that couldn't be outlawed in australia, which she says is the strongest mass poison. at the farm in new south wales, mice are swarming the grain stores. it's a widespread problem. social media is full of images like this, something out of a horror movie. farmers are desperate crops inside the been gone, dan digging into the crow, nate and it doesn't laugh to come up or as it just come out and pipe the head to the soil that just been bought in the heads of bought in the tip. so from this

phone and then if there isn't a massive calling of the road and soon farmers, associations are warning the plague could go on for 2 or more years. are also a have applied to the federal government for emergency approval for a poison that is 4 times stronger than anything that's available on the market at the moment. a product that he's currently illegal in australia because it is so toxic and we're having to go down this path because we need something that is super strength. critic say the poison could have unintended consequences on other wildlife. last years. wet weather could be a reason that the most population has exploded. environmental and animal rights activists are calling on the government to invest the time and money now to research alternative methods for solving this problem. and preventing the next infestation. sportswear johns and nike says he parted ways with the football

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through. i will take you to japan where poets, the would be retirees keep working because there's no one to replace the business on robots in berlin. welcome to the program. many african countries were burdened with high debt even before the current of iris pandemic, which is now only exacerbated the situation. global recession has his poor countries, particularly hard for the 1st time in a quarter of a century, africa as a whole, has seen a drop in g. d p. the only man has warned the continent could see debt rise, tennessee $300000000000.00 by the end of 2023. that could lead to even greater divisions between the richest i'm poorest countries in the world. now, last month, french president in manuel macro called for a new deal africa. he suggested that $33000000000.00 in the systems previously announced should be increased to a $100000000000.00. instead,

that could come in the form of debt relief for the poorest countries. and i'll talk more about that. i can speak to going to norco, who is the german chancellor as personal representative for africa. thank you very much for joining us on d to we business. so president macro and clearly things that nations like france and germany on doing enough to help africa and the economies. is he right? he is right. and we speaking about economy and that is also important and not to speak about help determine the new deal is yeah, interesting to make a deal means that we have to know what is in it for by itself for them. and so i would agree we have to overcome speaking about development corporation of development. 8 at the bro checks and to have

a new narrative or a new i would say companionship all in the neighboring continent. europe and africa. for me. that's come compelling companions walking on a on a rocky street together and we have to speak about our interests, the german and every code your europeans and africans. yeah. linked to each other. this coming or i don't know. we just, if i can just interrupt the announcements today from, from germany, saying that in that for one thing that and not, not only speaking about new comprehensive strategies, new deals, how can we achieve industrialization in africa? that's the, that's the challenge for both sides. and of course you have any crowns and european

union have to support and to get together with african. yeah. and they might be like we're seeing today with germany accepting the the median. no, maybe i'm genocide, show that european states do have a high obligation towards africa and other parts of the world. do i think so, but we have in different interest to another stand what the chancellor angler mecca sent in apple's several years ago. he mentioned the well being of africa ism, europe's and germany is interest. we have to speak about interests and not only about this kind of history or what, what we have done, right. or what we, what we have. we have a big responsibility for germany, all in the media and, and daniel and the on,

but on the other him we and that's my experience with talks and meetings with african bought most. they want to know what we can do together and which kind of deals we can make for them. and for prosperity on the continent. and that means for me, better and better leave a causes or education. and also the support of the so called african free free trade in africa. so before we talking about the new deal, when will be what's in that deal, then we're going to no can afraid we're out of time, but thank you very much for joining us on the w business. thank you. now when you beauty on the horn of africa, every one from yemen, refugees through foreign soldiers do ethiopian truck drivers,

meet the millennium old cross variance between the ravia and africa. these various groups bring with them various currencies. to exchange them, they all turn to the women money changes to play their trade on the capital street cars they sit on every street corner in djibouti, their bags filled with cash. these women, a money changes who drive the economy. they carry all types of currency to boot and franks, ethiopian bear, euros, and builders. newer her son started this work 10 years ago from savings when her husband died. i was on the phone, pay it on the theater, but we are aware of the exchange rates because our bank gives us this sheet. it's free. it's through this sheet that we know the exchange rate law. the

dozens of women work in money changing in the city. it's a simple job, making it accessible for women with little schooling. only 43 percent of women have 4 more education in the country in the horn of africa. go ahead. when i show medical model, i know it's a decent job. it's better than being jobless. you worked in a living for your children. when you sit here, you have cash, so you don't need to back from anyone working on your own off some of the what is awful. i just do more than that on this day. medina has around $1000000.00 shoot and frank at the equivalent of $5600.00 in her purse. a substantial some. and yet her colleagues are a plays down the risk if someone steals money, they don't come to us get. there are a lot of us aren't, they weren't come. if i was alone, they would come then the women working groups and help each other,

which contributes to their success. in the working class district of p k 12, there were money changes to the carrier is popular with people from neighboring ethiopia and its currency. the beer is common every day took 2 drivers. sellers of the leafy drug cats and traders all need to exchange money. the nearest bank is far away, so the money changes of the faster solution. in 90 percent of cases, it is better to teams with than at the bank, the earning a livelihood for their families and helping us to exchange money. not getting the number. she said the duties economy runs on the informal sector in the country of under 1000000 people. women are the ones who keep the money rolling. now for look at some of the other business stories making headlines, saudi arabia has pledged a $100000000.00 to a new world bank lead initiative seeking to build sustainable tourism in developing

countries. starting took place this week at the opening of the united nations world tourism initiative in red. and germany's coalition has agreed a proposal requiring a minimum number of women on corporate boards of directors. they would affect the leadership of around 70 large companies. it could become a law later this year as already a similar, closer to some supervisory boards. and i get more not from my financial correspondence in frank that cannot be the business of business is business. this quote by milton friedman, nobel laureate, is sometimes shared among financial people in germany. most of them of course, male. it means that only business success should make a career, not political agendas, social change, or agenda politics. but this attitude is slowly changing. only recently the global head of human resources at deutsche bank said i quote, greater diversity among senior executives is a business necessity. and he said,

and i quote again, there's plenty of evidence that more diverse teams achieve better results and adjust faster to a changing environment, end of quote. so the new requirement at germany for large corporations to have at least one woman on the board in the future, might be a clever step towards more success in terms of social change. and in terms of business. now recent survey suggested around to says if people in japan would be willing to work beyond retirement age, the key motivation given was financial. but the statistic is good news for a country struggling to fill the gaps left by its retirees. japan's population is aging, so the country is putting his retirees back to work. so yucky. used to be a sushi chef. no, he prince trees. i enjoy the work and it keeps me fit. plus it's a welcome bit of money on the side. we do get a pension, but not

a big one. so i really do need to work here in koji prefecture, more than a 3rd of the population are older than 65. in the regional capital, many shops and businesses are shattered. with an aging population who's known to take over and keep them going. tell you okay, emma used to run his own restaurant for the number of diners started dwindling 10 years ago. now he's traded in his sushi knife for a chain. so wow. til east of koji and the city of conan, it's back to school in what's called the center facility. human resources, a somewhat sterile name for a job agency, dedicated to retirees. the art of tree pruning is taught here by mr. hummadi h. 81. along with training,

the center also helps with job placement and take care of tax and insurance is use and it's one of hundreds across the country, all funded by the government. the elderly recruits, emerges, bus drivers, parking lot attendance and even gardeners going well. la quinta, no, i didn't, and the older generation have to pitch in their life would otherwise come to a standstill. new to the departure of the younger population. expectations are really high with us and they can work without any pressure because you can contribute something to their region. you will do that within right outside the center is a wooded park where the budding garden, this can get some practical training. these 9 trainees are aged 61 to 78 because of all the mr. m. at the form a sushi chef also graduated from the silver generation human resources center. so that was 10 years ago. now another work day is drawing to

a close mister piano could have borrowed tools from the job agency, but insisted on having his own. just as he did as a sushi chef. no one's immune to nostalgia a yearning for the old days. more he plans to keep pruning for another 10 years when he would be 80 and setting a job with a future. japan may be aging, but the trees continue to grow from in the business name here and billet to next time. the fight against the corolla virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection in developing what goes to the latest research information and contact the corona virus? because it's 19 special next on d w i. how can we make fish

farming defective and can logical to on to printers from gun us? don't just read fish. want to plan from nature here. how you're turned into organic fertilizers and culture into a sustainable ecosystem. eco africa. in 60 minutes on d. w. ah, ah, even as many parts of the world start to open up again, frontline work as a struggling to cope with the silent, told the covert 19 pandemic bone out. and now all our research studies on help workers and other workers suggest that for now is increasing anxiety is increasing . and so we expect that the rates are gonna kind of stay high for,

for public service. for a while, i see that there are some intensive care unit staff saying they've reached a breaking point left.