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but still very much alive. your guy to the special recognizes where exactly it was fun. i have learned a lot of our culture history. all their travel extremely worth a visit. the wealth power is russell 11 ish as result is the west african nation has less towards russia following a military coup, raising concerns in europe over uranium supplies and working one day less with pilot schemes being wrote out. several countries will discuss the merits of the 4 day week state of the business, um, of watts in but then welcome to the program. and we begin with the economic

implications of the ministry to in new jazz european nations office having to evacuate the citizens from the west african nation after ministry latest is less closely with russia's voc in a mess and recreate seized power is just new to could shift installations as away from its former colonial power of france as towards moscow is a key supply of the uranium needed by your new to house. mostly discuss what's at stake in new jersey. let's speak to alex vines, who is director of the advocate program at chatham house. thanks a lot for joining us just to understand this a little bit better. so how interested is russia in each? as natural resources? the russian federation is a mining country and so wherever there is mining assets that they will go go to and looking at them, they offer example a the company resolved as a major producer of both sides a mine and mining books. i didn't get any,

and so a country like nation that represents the 7th largest producer uranium in the well, it is some way that russia would pick the rest. it couldn't be interested in unhealthy fish brushes, involvement already back. given the wagner groups presence anisha, or actually i'm not sure the group is present in these. yeah, it's very present in the to the north in libya and it's very active in money. it's trying to get market entrance to get into booking of paso and the military jumped to leisure. and booking on fossa was very visible at the russia, africa summit. and since petersburg last week, including also being at the annual navy dining celebration in saint petersburg on sundays of the russians are worrying him. we're seeing some russian flags being floating around amongst demonstrators in the, in, in these. yeah, but,

but russia itself is robustly condemned. the cool news. yeah. they supported the un security council resolution and from administer and lever off has condemned the crew twice, saying that the constitutional role should be re tubs. having said that, the, the, the head of the private military group, mr. pre shogun, has said that the crew in new jersey is there is, is a great step forward and he's been offering his services to the jump to in the army . and how much can we separate those 2 groups, the brushing government and wagner cause if they're saying different things, it's a little confusing, isn't it? because we know that one of them does kind of rely on the other. so i'm confused on this. i was less confused on to the events of wagner moving on to moscow. and since then, so what happened in, in, in,

in june has, has been very confusing. um, it could be the actually, the kremlin doesn't welcome military coast because they may have felt preston by wagner potentially strikes of stage one. i mean, we just don't know. so it's all very confusing, including the missed the pre show going was on the fringes of the russia, africa summit in st. petersburg. we've seen folks as of a meeting people and he's still active, although he's meant to be in bella rouge. he's clearly in the russian federation of the moment, so it's confusing. it's not clear and day, but let's say we can get some clarity as time goes on how these volumes from chatham house. thank you so much for being is your insights. nevertheless. thank you very much. now it could be the next major revolution in the work place in the wake of the korean of ours. pandemic work is, are increasingly saying that they want a 4 day working week. we try was taking place in europe and countries like portugal

. the idea is gaining momentum among employers to salons, club barrels only. where is this protective all the rules 4 times a week? that's because our employer is participating in a 4 day work week of pilot projects. so lounge works less than the lab, but earns as much as she would working 5 days. because we often see the on the one hand, the pressure increases as we work with fewer people because someone is always opposite much of him. but we also know that we have an extra day off into the forest and combust to respond to the pressure. it's easy to ask, so the prospect of more leisure time appears to be motivating. that is the assumption of some 40 companies participating in the pilot project. and they are basing this on experiences from other european countries. the project is being monitored by researchers. as improvements for employees have to do with any

improvements in mental health and also work life balance. and there are many indicators at those levels. what we also see is that for companies there tends to be savings and the savings overcome the costs. the savings have to do with the reduction in intermediary costs, specifically associated with the decrease in absence is right. the 4 day work week trial mainly involves firms from the industrial and service sectors. it allows for to go socialist government to fulfill an election promise that has also prompted a public debate about the country is competitive and this you know, it is important that we create attractive working conditions at a time when we are trying to attract the skilled workers company to do that on the road this i thought so, but the change isn't just about getting rid of one day. it's also radically reorganizing procedures because the daily number of working hours is still the same . some. suppose it also slice us for noise,

we will have fewer meetings because people should be able to concentrate better on the work and not be constantly interrupted. that's how we want to save time when we've done that, all the firms now have until the end of the year to test whether the 4 day week is effective or the president of germany's effort instituted for economic affairs has spoken out against the 4 day week timmons 1st joins me now. thanks a lot for being with us. so this idea appears to be gaining support as well and you among them. i think that we already have a situation where people can work 2 days, 3 days, 4 days, 5 days a week. i think there is no need for a general regulation on top of that. we are living in times where increasing the companies and public administrations have difficulty finding people. so if we encourage people to walk even less, we will have problems. for instance, if we think about hospitals, they already have problems,

finding enough nurses and employees generally. this would be made worse by a full day week. this isn't the idea that this would actually make jobs more attractive if people can work just 4 days instead of 5 for the same amount of pay. yes, i mean, today people can't work for days. it's just not the same amount of pay. if we get paid less, we a yes, i mean if we leave the give a give a pay of a 5 day week for a holiday week. that's an increase in all the wages of 25 percent. the question is, who will pay for that? the productivity may increase a little, but certainly not by 25 percent. so the question is, who would cover the cost? it's that that's not easy. and still, even if people do find a full day week attractive, i don't think of the, the amount of people are willing to what will increase by it enough to compensate

for the loss of the one day. so i think there's no way to transfer suggested the transfer that, that happened into this. and it happens sometimes we've just been hearing about a trying in political control them and u. k. but in the us as well. and they found the dean of the companies taking part of that have really found this to be a positive thing. and i've been 90 percent of them in the case of the the case that he said that they've gotta keep up the full day week. and that they didn't see that drop in productivity. i think it's perfectly fine with individual companies do that . uh, but it's certainly not something to be generalized. if we think of, you know, services like the health service, the police, it's something necessary that people are around for some time and increasing the walk falls by enough to maintain those services. a 247 with just not be possible. so i don't think this can be generalized. the mean watching life is flexible on riley. so companies will think, yes, it's better to have people working full days

a week. that's fine, but it should be something that is regulated. generally, you've had is realize that you're moving against the fashion of the moment. this is something that is picking up, but many times why. why do you feel you need to speak out on this because we do, we don't always hear from you on the, on every issue. i i, i think it's important to explain really what the consequences of this are. i think for wage compensation is unrealistic. and it's people, what class one implication is also because we finalize the pension system, perhaps the system on the basis of labor and come mostly we a lot of people, a lot less than unless they, well, it would also pay less tax and this will undermine the finances of the welfare state entirely. so why king less at times where the few and few of people in the workforce anyway simply doesn't work for a number of reasons. i think we need to encourage people to walk more in the end.

it's an individual decision about so what we need is rather encouragement for working more. we don't need to encourage people to walk less. i think that that's something that people will find quite a bleak idea that people should be pushed to work more people who are already exhausted. and how do you go about deciding people? that's a good question. you know, i'm not saying pushing people, i think of encouraging people and giving incentives also. yes, i mean where there is scarcity of life is we need to pay them more. but encouraging them to walk. last will simply make sure what to do isn't public's services less, and that's not the way to go. ok clements 1st president of the southern states, and i'm really interested in hearing your points of view on this. thank you. now in the u. k. m l is race. it has rising even to new heights. the remote orkney islands off the coast of scotland have just received

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