climate change cost stores. this is my plus the way from just one week. how much we can really get we still have time to act. i'm doing all the me this is the news, a show coming up to date, china as we go spacing, repression times prosecution right. recalls china's actions against its weaker muster minority crimes against humanity. we look at the evidence for that claim to our own 1st person or false. and can this both toes, village and pockets? don't find a way to survive as the water around it turns toxic. the news i bet it's benedict. welcome

to the w's asia. glad you could join us. right group i missed international has accused china of court creating a dystopian health cape on a staggering scale on court, and it's northwest and change as we go autonomous region. the comments, but i missed the 2nd 2 general agnes calla mon came as the organization released a report on how china has organized must imprisonment and torture of the muslim minority. we go to community in the region. the report called for a un investigation into china actions. but what does beijing have against the weavers? we put that question earlier to, i'm the director of crisis response. joanne marina. i mean, judging from the government's repressive actions, it seems that they find islam and target muslim culture to be a threat. their goal appears to be, to forcibly assimilate muslims,

and to root out islamic religious beliefs and turkey, muslim ethnic cultural practices. it seems that they want to replace these practices with state sanctioned secular views. and really most notably, i think, most importantly with loyalty to the chinese communist party and to achieve these goals. i missed international also said that it's report that chinese authorities have created a sophisticated surveillance system alongside a network of internment camps. the government calls re education centers. the daily surveillance of we go through cameras and facial recognition technology is something correspondent, mathias building, witnessed as well on a visit to the region. to surveillance of the week. it starts at the entrance to their home. if you years ago, pe scanning devices suddenly appear to residential compounds all over the city of the rooms. they are directing to the police.

this is the compound where k been with civic use to live. she has since moved to the netherlands and can now speak freely. we are a lot more like amazon. we were certainly not allowed visitors anymore, only very close relatives. and we had to register them in advance and wait for approval in the critical day. the room she is the capital of sins young in china's northwest region is home to the week is a turkey muslim people, conflicts between weak is and the chinese government have erected in violence in the past. since 2017, the region has seen an unprecedented incarceration of muslim minorities in re education. caps could be new acidic, used to be a primary school teacher when she was suddenly assigned to this facility on the outskirts of the city to teach mandarin to an educated week. as she was told, i saw that the feet and risks of the people were in shackles,

were moving as if in slow motion. that is when i understood they had not taken me to a school for an educated adult, but to a prison come. it is unclear what is happening now with this site. we are quickly stopped from inquiring behind the incarceration. the stands of powerful network of surveillance and oppression police stations with an eyesight of each other patrols in this. treat policeman carry mobile id checking devices. it doesn't happen as much now, but in the past people would get stopped. every few 100 meters keeps your site up, kept. if an alarm went off during one of these checks heavily on policemen would arrive. they were already waiting nearby because it would put a black bag on the suspects head and take them away. i have witnessed that often even today as to start shaking when i see

a black plastic back. but that should come up also for the on the outskirts of the city, we managed to fill them a cluster of data centers. police data and surveillance footage are processed here an app on their phone alerts, policemen, one software has identified a suspect under close surveillance. and those who have recently moved to a different city travel abroad flooring and official suspect database who use an unusual amount of electricity postpone is often disconnected. again, we have stepped from me what is happening and since john is seen by observe is around the world as a crime against humanity. a system reminiscent of the doc is periods of the 20th century, powered by today's technology. that's not just electronic surveillance,

but torture as well, but china is most them are not including weekends and ethnic cars are facing engine jang. last year i spoke to one such person cycle, so you'd pay an ethnic cassock. she spent 4 months as an inmate at the so called re education camp in 20172018. she recounted that experience in this. come to me. now you go all through the book about your time in these reeducation camps. it's called the chief witness escaped from china's modern day concentration camps. what did you witness say will be paid on the trash. and after i was brought to the fascist internment camp approach, i realized that it was a bit of a nightmare. younger or more band. you got the fun for today, so you know, it's hard to believe about just google. if i had not seen it all,

come with my own eyes. i would not have believed it. how can something like this happen in the 21st century? from the shooting? for niggley men, your young child, there were about 2500 inmates in my complex 2 men, women, young and old. all of them were innocent to for who they were forced to make false confession. so what y'all. chem bullshit. all of them had their head shape to show call till their limbs were shackled despite injuries. jo, call out because you didn't talk to our psychological torture as well as physical torture. that was extremely brutal pulled out good from the ment you'll. there's lots of things that i will never forget or we want every time i eat, i think of the main made. so what you'll find the hope prevent township harmon, she go to j sean to them,

and i think of them before i go to bed every night though to get you to my mind keeps returning to the internment camp where i worked every single day comes trouble out that he didn't fit when you think that i can't stand the chinese, you go to showing you a very young girl. she got raped a lot. then you change it to thought she fail least struck me. it was, i can never forget it, but it stuck in my mind. that interview and other stories on china's depression of its ethnic muslims and changing available on our website, dot com forward slash issue the world to protest the next where men may pollution is threatening

a fishing communities age old tradition. the mohammed fishermen have for years and lived on boats in the famous mon charter lake, one of a shows largest fresh water lakes. it lies in southwest pocket, dance in the province. but years have been lucian from neighboring industries, has made it extremely hard for the fisherman to continue with the old way of life. for these people, the water for generations. pakistan's, mohan of people, had been living in both houses. here on lake mon charge, the people said life was good here, once was abundant catches of fish, but conditions have worse, and now the people left here are struggling to

survive digging. i got married here and i was born here. my children also grew up here and i have 8 children and then no money. my husband is deaf, so i go to catch fish with him. i the if i get a key low of fish and blah, i salute none of them and buy bread to feed my children. life on the boat's spartan, their short con, basic facilities. the single room boat houses had small stones for cooking. which shrubs from around the lake providing fuel nobility? who's now my says lake mon charged water is no longer drinkable, but she cannot afford to buy clean water. it's

a cruel dilemma. who can bear the hunger of children? no one. if we buy water, we will not save money for food for children. therefore, we let our children drink this toxic water. is there a hospital nearby? now? yes, and there is no hospital, no school, and no water filter from which we can drink water. finding a useful quantity in recent decades, fertilizers, pesticides, and industrial waste have contaminated the lake and decimated fish stocks. as a result, the more hundreds unlike men, char, just a fraction of the earlier population. well, there's is a vanishing culture and the government is doing little to say that that's what i mean. and that's it for today we're leaving now with pictures of the frenzy over

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always understand this new culture. so you are not a visitor, not against you. want to become city in to migrate your platform for reliable information. the, the, the berlin international film festival is more than just red carpets, star power and glamour. it's also one of the world's most political film festival. and one of the very topical films in this year is line up is the documentary courage about last year's crushed protests against fraudulent elections in bella roofs. ahead of the screening, bella, russian opposition leader spent on a ticket knob sky. i was in berlin, speaking out against her countries. authoritarian leader,

alexander lucas. shank. she told reporters that lucas shank, those political prisoners were no longer living, but merely existing. she also called for more international support for bella, russian civil society, and a free media tick enough guy and other opposition. figures are supporting the release of the documentary courage. and the film director, alex a poly on fall is the fate of 3 actors who joined last years protests. the scenes of peaceful protests in bella, ruth's last summer part in the documentary courage. today, they look like images from another era. it's so painful for us to see our, our, our cpr many so beautiful is how to tell the people of the streets with our wives, a red white flag and to understand that we lose submitted to, to win in over 2020. the film follows 3 actors turn protestors, dennis paval,

and marianna. last summer, there were full of hope for change. now, all 3 live in excellent me. they decided to leave battles because it was not possible to walk and to live in this fear feeding. and they decided to moved to key if right now, all of them are in exciting care after their participation in ban demonstrations against dilution. present, alexander luther shinkel both possible and dennis were arrested and detained for 15 days at a prison in minsk. the person plays a central role encourage here is where families gather to find out the fate of their love once arrested or disappeared by the regime. as soon as they were released, dennis and puzzle left the country. marianna was the last to go. but she too saw the riding on the wall after a case of rain air,

slight reminds of the savage renown decided to take flight from him to kit. and she escaped with her husband and her son in san to kia ah ah, even before the recent crack down, the actors were banned from performing after staging plays critical of dictatorship, making art inside bell ruse seems impossible at the moment. but beyond believes his country needs its artist. now, more than ever, his speak not only about the theatre artist, but also about about pain came about a writer, filmmaker. it's to it's a to try to help people to or can, their fear overcame their trauma. really depression trauma and to say

please not lose hope you chose those with the sight, notes of resignation and despair. hope shines through. encouraged and a key seen. a young police officer fix the flower into his riot shield as a sign of solid charity, with the protested to cheer him. to hear the film shows convincingly that the vast majority and bella, ruth reject, alexander lucas shank. and that despite the violence and repression, there is real momentum for change. and when you hold that was curious to see him will show me the whole truth of

these pitiful fights for bella wilson. society, again this those sources monster and will cry aloud about this topic. and i'm really sure this movie will changed. is it political situation? ah, censorship is also growing stronger in hong kong. the government, they're announced new measures banning any films. it considers subversive. earlier this year, hong kong authorities stopped a sold out premier of a protest documentary and pulled the opening film from hong kong international film festival. there was also the 1st time over 50 years that hong kong television didn't broadcast the academy awards. a film about the islands protest was one of the nominee well,

after sexual harassment allegations put his career on hold oper legend, placido domingo is making a controversial come back in his home country, spain. ah, this domingo accepted an award at madrid's y or theater after singing the night before standing ovation. conservative politicians have welcomed domingo back to spain while leading feminists say it sends the wrong signal. domingo resigned as the head of the l. a. opera, amid accusations of misconduct towards female performers, the 80 year old has denied any abuse of power. domingo isn't the only one accused of abusing power here in germany. some of the countries renowned theaters are also in the spotlight for alleged incidents of racism, sexism and megalomania. stories abound a theater director is miss treating actors. and since the pandemic had more and

more actors have been speaking out, ah, germany's theatres were closed for months. but while stages were empty, behind the scenes, the debates been raging about sexism, racism, and abuse of power. what's gone wrong, the germans theaters, ah, it looked at the similar question might be what's gone well, because essentially everything's gone wrong. there will hinder the uterus going to change and i would be presumptuous if i said i knew what it will look like in the end was to do some 1st aussie. i am it. that is an actress in berlin. she says she's never experienced as much racism and sexism as she did in the theatre. detective enough from this 75 percent of theaters are run by old white men . i have no problem with white men. of course. i mean that raises the question. how are women being portrayed into theater? how are certain roles being played today?

which women get cas hadn't to toilet the? maxine gorky theater in berlin from a take him, a debt has often performed a future known for highlighting the role of migrants in german society. but it's director sherman lang half has been accused of angry outbursts and nepotism. some say the theaters dominated by a culture of fear. pansy, misty best of men, women aren't better people than men. this is about a systemic problem that it's not about peoples gender or skin color or family background of us in the whole family has, would have us been hinted onto the gorky theater is seen as giving a voice to the oppressed as a space for social criticism call for growing for it to live up to its reputation, me escaped, loiter there are people who have the capabilities, the skills, and the political know how to take over and leap certain theaters and to,

to apathy by name and to life on the other side of the country just does she feel house theater has been at the center of a debate about racism for months. critics of the theaters, leadership color toxic and racist. the allegations were brought forward by a member of the company con young says a director target at him with racist jokes. the theater did nothing until he took the story public before for the english to see when the incident let us getting outside help. who in the us, via thus thus we wanted an outside perspective on what happened for an awesome and cooking to compile and document and make the events transparent, new born or the document key and war and transport them to my humble as an agency from berlin has been called in to help this we chose once to transfer the theater

with the help of workshops and the code of conduct me nice talk to and then i can look at what, what i structure is. do we need in place in order to successfully portray interesting societal changes come through to be in the office and to speak to an audience that's increasingly diverse? look, those types of the reason it seems like theaters are having a big racism problem. now that this is the 1st time people are working there, who could even experience racism. most of the themes and the stage in berlin, features theater from a black feminist perspective, one of the creators, simone did it. i. e v, she considers anti racism workshops, a sign of helplessness. she says the real goal, it's better working conditions. i tend to die. it's people really shifting their thinking. you can introduce anti racism policies. but

in the enter so many different ways to beat someone down. what if it's something not racially motivated? abusive behavior, she says, has long been mistaken for genius stage direction. is what i really wish would happen the next time some picture director starts yelling and throwing the script around. for all the actors in the room to just look at him with astonishment and giggling and go take their lunch, break, holmes and institute. i'm cooking and from the kitchen, which is low, but us been against out of operate. only think we have to reach a clear agreement to you. yes, there is. are freedom. but freedom shouldn't mean infringing on somebody else's dignity pallets and actors have to learn that there aren't empty shells to be filled with some directors, ideas, lands on the there are people who have to voice their needs in order to do their work well. so no mentions in your deafness at all question. listening to others.

ah, germany's theaters have a lot of work ahead of them. the big discussion has only just gotten, ah, news from the art world. now before we go, if you look here closely, you might just make out a face wearing a medical mask. well, this handful of pixels sold for more than $11000000.00 at sotheby's auction of digital art. the buyer will receive the face not as a physical or work, but as a heavily encrypted and f t, a non fungible token. the work titled crypto punk 75 to 3 is part of a series of 10000 faces generated by canadian software developers. and in case you ever wondered how the rolling stones lived before they were famous, here is the answer. an exhibition in france. reconstruct the london apartment,

the ban shared in the early 1900. 60, apparently, even the beatles thought it was disgusting when they came to visit the so called unzip. it also features the stones costumes instruments and all kinds of memorabilia. that's it for this edition of arts and culture. i'm a great weekend. the the news. the news ah,

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a year later can euro 2020 be held safely during the pandemic? ah, i'm 2nd rate is welcome. late is from the world 7 wealthiest countries may think for the g 7 summit posted by british prime minister boris johnson. the summit is being held in cornwall, england, and marks the g 7 laid is 1st in person talks in nearly 2 years. they are expected to cover a range of topics where the focus on the current of ours pandemic and the climate crisis. these global leaders are taking center stage this weekend. it's the 1st time they're all together. since the start of the pandemic, and introductions are marked by elbow bumps and social distancing this year's host bars, johnson initiated the g 7 talks with

a welcome speech that focused on recovery. they wanted to be sure that we're beating the pandemic together and discussing how we'll never have a repeat of what we seen. but it will say that we're building back better together and, and building that greener and building that sarah and building that more equal and more in any more gender neutral and more feminine way. how about that? in order to age global recovery from the pandemic, the leaders are expected to pledge 1000000000 vaccine doses to the world's poorest countries. they say a joint approach is the best way to both rebuild and tackle the climate crisis because of the, the blow we need, everyone across the world to want to work together, especially on the issue of climate protection and biodiversity,

where we will never find solutions without china but when it comes to the environment, climate activists are concerned, but it's all talk. hundreds of protesters gather, doing cornwell, calling on leaders to take action. so we've got a situation post code it with developing countries drowning in debt as a result of cause it failing to get vaccines and failing to get the climate finance . they need to help them mitigate their emissions and adapt to the climate crisis. so it's a situation of staggering inequity and we feel that this needs to be brought to the attention of the g 7 leaders. they want to make sure that the g 7, don't forget the climate crisis is well grappling with the panoramic recovery because the weekends talk will focus on how countries you can join forces to confront such challenges. do you have any correspond big masses in compass

bay where the j 7 is taking place and he's standing by big it. he kept it pretty brief. but tell us what was the main takeaway from barth. johnson's opening address it was in his typical man, an optimistic and up beat performance that he gave, and he used the slogan at. also the slogan for the g 7 summit billed back better. he said that the inequality of the past must not be built into the recovery of the future. and you said that he thinks that the that the summit will be a success. but of course we know that that devil is going to be in the details. you've mentioned that really big, big topics will have to be tackled climate change the pandemic, but also foreign policy issues like russia and china. well, the need is that we're all smiles for the traditional so called family photo, but how harmonious is the conference expected to be

while the g 7 leaders are really on paul when it comes to the wish to showcase democracy. they want to show that liberal democracies are a good model of society. they want to make it attractive for the rest of the world . you as president biden in particular, wants to also make sure that the u. s. is back and back from its relative. it's relative isolation on the president trump, however, the devil is going to be in the details and we know that, for example, the us wants to be quite strong on china. whereas with in the g 7, they're all quite divergent views when it comes to standing up to china. for example, the chancellor uncle america said in her opening remarks that nothing can be achieved without, without china, for example, when it comes to climate change being all the climate change. this could well be the latest last chance to make a real difference on climate change policy. you expect any major commitment find the g 7 later the pressure is definitely on here in

cornwall all around me. they're all protested extinction. rebellion protested, and other climate change. protesters and i spoke to one of them and she said they have the feeling that the message is getting through generally that there is a shift and that leaders are listening to them when they are preparing their various statements on what needs to be done. and the g 7 leaders will definitely, you know, for example, just today the international energy agency has said that the demand for oil is for cars to rise next year to pre pandemic levels. and the g 70 does have committed to keeping the temperature rise below $1.00, sorry, 1.5 percent. but how to achieve that is going to be a big ask. and for example, one issue that climate change campaigns are quite strong on is to stop, to stop the x, the self financing,

something that could be harmful for the environment abroad. and this is an issue that lead us, we'll have to discuss at a summit. certainly some big ticket items on the agenda database. big last speaking to us from cornwall at the g 7 summit. thanks. well, let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world. now. famine is afflicting some 350000 people in northern ethiopia. according to a new report, the u. n. lead analysis describes catastrophic food shortages in t cry. a region devastated by fighting between government forces and rebels. it was an additional $2000000.00 people could quickly dive salvation without urgent action reward. german finance minister all i've shown, has reportedly paid 2000000 euros to get information on suspected tax dodges. the news magazine dash b says his ministry, so data on several 1000 germans with real estate interest in the bi information

could expose a significant significant tax crimes. members of germany's grains have opened their 3 day party conference bang to formerly endorse annalynne. a bad book as a candidate for chancellor in september is national elections is comes after. a recent poll showed a drop in popularity for the environmentalist party. the greens had made major games off the box nomination in april. several blunders by some members have set the party back in its way to provide a success. to the outgoing conservative chancellor anglo michael. as cause to d, w, the chief political editor, mckayla casner. she's at that party conference of the greens in berlin. a considerable drop in popularity for the green party. what went wrong? yeah, that's what many people asking here. what was the cut me down to love blunders,

whichever way you want to see it, which goes from undeclared christmas bonuses of the top brought the capacity to another babble that sounds like a candidate failing to have a clear language in the being pulled down there being in precise you call it died, you have to apologize to everybody. and now we've seen this dip in the opinion polls, which is rather significant because the trend was pointing towards 30 percent. now it's down towards when t and i'm going to need you coffee, which was only a couple of weeks ago when it was embroiled in its own leadership struggle is now heading upwards. again. the big question is, is this whole for the greens? will they be able to recover from this, or is this a downward trend? indeed, i mean national elections are just

a few months away scheduled in september, 1 of the party doing to try to build back that tron the. well, they have that homework set out here at this policy conference, which is most the but so this is where they finally decide both the program, but also the top chance. that candid and alina bab book and if they fail to display much needed unity at this point in time. and this would be to the detriment of the greens, who now have to prove that they have what it takes to be serious about actually being in government. because that's where the whole pointing just a few weeks ago. whether they as a large a policy might even resign themselves to being a coalition part, no potential condition. those crews needed here of unity needed to prove that they have more to take into that government. i mean interesting

team on the head, dw, that chief political editor, no reporting from the conference of the grains in berlin, soccer now and after a year long delay because of the pandemic. the postpone you wrote 2020 is finally kicking off the tournament starts tonight in rome, with italy taking on turkey kick off is less than an hour away. for the 1st time in its history, the event will be taking place across europe. and despite the pandemic, all 11 host cities have been played to have funds in the stadium for those without a ticket though, host cities has set up a band zone where people can watch the games on giant screens. alina had talked to him database for doing this. now, for every one of those fans items, hopefully she can hear me. can you hear me there?

yeah, yeah. now, great. well, there is a lot to go now before kickoff and you're right in the heart of the city, how things are shaping up there. something very strange just happened minutes ago. let me just show you the history fact a drop. this is one of 3 public screenings that you a fi has organized and up until maybe 5 to 10 minutes ago. it was packed with around 202300 fans. they were dancing and they've now been evaporated. so we don't really know what's happening. it could just be that the organizers are getting ready to let in fans that are actually here for the game and not for the pre festivities, the concerts, and the ceremonies. but you a fall when net up to 1000 spectators here they do have to follow strict guidelines . they have to wear masks, and they have to socially this to the time you can slowly see people lining up.

exactly. but of course, there's one very interesting catch to all of this, just like cinderella. all these trends will have to be home by midnight. and that's because there's a nationwide cou, a few in the current of ours certainly has changed this tournament. headphones in rome express any concern so very good question and it really depends who you talk to. i can give you a gazillion and says it's a very mixed bag. on the one hand, of course, you do have low cost that i happy because a tournament like this and event like this does lucy economy and as well, and on $1.00 side as well. what happens is that when you have an event like this happening, it does bring back a sense of normalcy. you during the pro number i was pandemic. but then again, this is also risky business. what you have happening, of course, is you have a lot of locals that we supposed to before before these facilities even began,

who are very concerned, because a leaf was hit very, taught by colbert 19 so low because often said this could possibly lead to a church in court cases. yeah, sure. but anyway, just before you go, looking ahead to the match itself this evening, can the home country easily be confident of a when do you think look, italy are unbeaten in 27 games. they've never lost a key. they have momentum and they've had an exceptional qualification campaign. this tournament, of course, will really show how good they really are. so it's a big test for them. turkey on the other. on the other hand, i say should not be taken lightly because they need to add a very strong campaign, very strong qualification campaign, and i think they possibly could upset the home side rule. okay, very interesting. i picked a tally, so let's think it's cross the italy home. my side of lima had talkie in rome for

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more information, the corona virus, or any other science topics, you should really check out mar, podcast. you can get it wherever you get your podcasts. you can also find those at w dot com slash science. let me the leaders of the world's richest democracies gather in england. can they find solutions to help lead the world out of a deadly pandemic and into a shared economic recovery? we'll look at 2 african nations trying to get their recoveries underway. but short on the key ingredients of money and vaccines. and we'll look at a groundbreaking supply chain law pass today in germany. it aims to hold large companies accountable for abuses by their suppliers. how far doesn't really go the walk into the show,

i'm seeing basically in berlin. the leaders of the world 7 wealthiest democracies are gathering in cornwall, england for the 1st in person g 7 summit. since the beginning of the pandemic stakes are high as the rest of the world looks for leadership out of the coven, 1000 crisis, g. some numbers are expected to announce a plans and jointly donate 1000000000 vaccines. the poor countries. number that pales in comparison to total need. meanwhile, they're expected to ignore a proposal before the w t. o. to suspend patent rights on corona virus vaccines which would in theory allow poor countries to manufacture their own supplies. now, a proponent of that patent suspension plan is south africa, which is desperate to jumpstart its own recovery. an economic stimulus package has done little so far or corresponding adria increased. dennis, this report from cape town, green market square in the center of cape town, used to be a popular spot for tourists buying civilians. 200 traitors from across the

continent at their stalls here before the pandemic now and less than 50 remain colon in denver, had been selling necklaces and bracelets here for more than 20 years. he says, business has never been so bad before he was a quick business, but for now, nothing is missing and everyone is still in your place. from despite us we don't free business. you know, tories not go to any government. you know, we never get there government. never most traders, he say the same. the only official help lee good was a discount on their trading firm. it south africa announced a stimulus package of 25000000000 euros when the country went in lockdown last year . one of the biggest ones on the continents, it was meant to supplement an existing social safety net, but it quickly reached its boundaries. introduce the economist, david would says the government promised much more than it's delivered. one of the

because masons that have been placed was i get indeed fund a government getting the funds we smaller companies will borrow money from the banks. but that was a complete, complete failure. small amount of money was actually bought by the smaller company so. so actually you did the real amounts of money that was spent by the state. you didn't go down and go to other countries in the world. so that's the stimulus package was actually what time. one in 3 south africans is an approach mass view of the government's implemented a coven, 19 relief grants for unemployed people of 20 years per month. almost 10000000 south african supply. a mid rising depth. the grant was stopped in april. the government ardently needs to cap the expenditure i. economy has taken the battery and our expenses on our expenditure on a number of funds have gone up. covered 19 has not come cheap for us.

back at green market square colon in dent was picking up for the day. he's only sold to bracelet and made about 5 years. he's given up hope that the government will help. what keeps him going is the hope that the tourist will one day come back to cape town. south africa is far from alone and looking for financial help. and you gone to debt payments are threatening to eat the country alive. finance minister recently thing. the 20 percent of the state's new budget will go to debt servicing, a compiler and international money funds. monetary fund rather have now agreed on a 3 year 1000000000 dollar program under a so called extended credit facility. this is your 2nd i m f loan. since the outbreak of the coven, 1900 pandemic country borrowing $492000000.00 under the rapid credit facility, the goal is to help it regain its financial footing and pull back from a current account deficit that's been expanding quarter to quarter as you can see here a low turn numbers and shrinking remittances. have hit uganda,

especially hard. for more, i'm joined by the w. corresponded julius mcgovern. what from kampala? julius. good to see me. the dep payments are incredibly high for a country. what exactly happened in uganda? actually the did situation in the guy that was a rating notes in a very good position even before the pandemic, uganda had borrowed heavily, especially to meet the budget deficits and also to meet infrastructure development projects you've gotten, has been building roads cut. i see of chinese loans, but now these lawns come with heavy interest. they come with a lot of hardships. i know that came in covey, 900, and then you're gonna impose one of the tightest called the local towns. the economy was largely looked down with no business is going going. i know you can imagine a country that was already phoned in hardships of paying its loans. i didn't hit by coffee buying team. and the case is going up. we are seeing the economy being

locked up again. it's a very tight situation for you guys. it's going to be very hard for you got to pay back it flowing because of some of its lane does to come. so the dates, but that has not yet happened. so it's still a very hard situation for the corner. me too, as we saw there, those current account deficit from quarter to quarter. i'm guessing the prospects aren't so good for turning that around in the near term. i don't think it's going to be easy to turn around in any time, but you can say that there's a ray of hope if you're going to finally get access to the vaccines. if india eventually opens its doors, unexplored bucks into a country like uganda. that means that the chance of locking down the economy will be limited. businesses will be reopened, will be seen schools opening under ben thing on manufacturing going up. the only rail hope right now, it's tons and to climate site because you're gonna have to realize and i, because you're productivity. so for as long as there's food, that's

a sign of hope and coffee production can continue. but as we speak now, you cannot determine anything that is going to happen because if chris is go up and look down, he's threatened, then the economy is very hard situation. and i want to add it to a time. at least i want to add their jewelers. you mentioned the supply coming from india, that's part of the theorem institute, where they stop exporting to african nations. once the, the outbreak really got bad there. i want to ask you the, you know, you got to has really looked forward in the future towards oil as being an economic stage with hopes of exporting, beginning in 2025. how critical is that for you guys as future? i think petroleum resources are sometimes overrated. you can call oil and gas in uganda, an egg that has not yet hutch. it is hard to count chicken by looking at the number of eggs. it is largely a prospect. the government sees that oil and gas as the capacity of uplifting the

economy, but we're yet to see that talking about all is to talk about the future. not talking about the now. so looking at a short term and a medium tom, you cannot bank and oil and gus, but maybe in the long term when you start seeing oil flowing under dollars coming in, for now, you can sit up petroleum, the economy, but you cannot tell when he's going to have income, paula: thank you so much. we go back to europe where the german parliament has passed a new supply chain law. it will make large companies punishable for any human rights or environmental abuses by their suppliers. the aim is to make corporations accountable for more of their supply chains. the collapse of the run a plaza textiles factory in bangladesh. 8 years ago was the capitalist, more than 1100 people lost their lives, most of them female textile workers stitching clothes in poor conditions for

western fashioned companies. since then, the german government has been working on a law to prevented from ever happening again. development minister gap miller has been fighting for it for a long time. nevi the plaza. that's about, that's us, but i never again on a plaza. that was the promise to thousands of women who died because basic work safety conditions were not observed. the supply chain laws also intended to eradicate child labor in areas like cocoa and deep plantations, or in mines and stop environmental destruction. the law applies to all suppliers of german companies. german industry leaders were prompt to criticize the move. yeah, we sent to the wrong to respond to a global problem with the national long global a team gave me. i'm nuts and i and it doesn't change the global human rights situation boughten for end up on the group by the venture that i slack nissan of

walk through this issue that creates additional competitive disadvantages for our companies, which are global leaders in terms of standard ma, stop, you have few, vincent, but those high standards often don't apply in the countries where german companies have their production facilities. the supply chain law will make those companies take responsibility for their suppliers abroad and for decent working conditions. germany and france are leading the charge and an e u y laws not far behind. another criticism of that law is that it doesn't go far enough down the supply chain. here's the w. chelsea, delaney and frankfort. the aim of the law is to force german companies to take responsibility for every aspect of their supply chain. so for the moment metal lisa mine and africa to the moment it goes into a vehicle here in germany. in reality, this law will not actually be that stroke require larger driven companies to monitor their direct suppliers. but those below their direct suppliers,

they won't have to regularly monitor only they receive some sort of complaint about human rights abuse. this is in part because the critics say would be impossible for a company like timer that has $60000.00 suppliers to monitor every supplier to their supplier. but at the same time, many critics say this really reduces the impact of the supply chain law because many of the human rights abuses we see take place much lower down the supply chain . w financial corresponded. chelsea laney there. alright. a shot, a shining tower in the middle of the desert. it's no mirage. it's latin america's 1st thermo solar power plant and it's in the center of chillies at the comma desert . one of the sun is places on earth. it might as well have been put on mars. this futuristic site is the seal or don't mean that dollar power plant. a $1400000000.00 project that has been developed and the comma desert,

more than $10000.00 collectors, follow the sun to reflect radiation on the top of a tower. 250 meters high. the heat moves through molten salt into water, producing superheated steam, you know, to the, to last 210 megawatts enough to power 380000 homes in the country. been over my head. when at the opening ceremony chilion presidents, the bus kept nearer, spoke of the dawn of a new age. se healey by pover sheila, yes, it would be a poor country when it came to energy sources. we had little oil, a little cold, little gas, but we are men really rich when it comes to the energy of the future. we have the desert with the highest resolution in the world, as shown by those white and colors seen at the top of the tower, which are reflected in the solar radiation. i feel so life the same domain that door power plant is able to store solar energy for hours and even through the night

. unlike traditional solar plants that only generate output when the sun is shining, the plant is expected to fill the energy gap expected when she let close a sum of its coal plants. as seen as a big step towards making sheila carbon neutral a goal, the country's aiming for by 2050. and that's it for me, and it will be business team, find out more, you'll be dot com slash business. thanks for watching the site against the corolla virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing? what does the latest research say? information and contact the corona virus. the 19th special next on dw can south africa bolter, renewable energy, the initiative, green case, the force john environmental friendly startup,

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