not that mr rampedi and the pretoria news are letting this go. , was running for president against the current leader alexander lukashenka in the election last year. that was until he was arrested in may 2020. his arrest led to protests in belarus this card says "freedom for sergei tikhanovsky". he and five other opposition figures are accused of disorder and inciting hatred against officials. he faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted. here'sjonah fisher with more on the trial. it is under way, it is in a detention centre, and it is being held behind closed doors. there are, we understand, some diplomats and relatives outside the detention centre — but because it is, in effect, being held in secret, there is very limited information coming out as to exactly what is going on inside. here's mr tikhanovsky�*s wife, svetla na tikhanovskaya, with her view on the trial. i can't call this a real trial. it is a fake trial, of course, and fake judges, fake prosecutors. because, you know, they made this process closed not to show people how brave and s

the story begins in the south african capital and with the city paper, pretoria news.r-in-chief produced what looked like an incredible scoop, exclusive, woman gives birth to 10 children, breaks world record. underneath we saw a picture of a smiling woman who had an in norma's bump. we can't show you that picture, it is owned by the african news agency who said they are putting a moratorium on the sale of the images. in the story the editor says that they met the woman in december and first interviewed them in may. when the story came out, they quoted them saying that it's seven boys and three girls and that i'm happy, i'm emotional. from this point on, things became confusing. we were told that he wasn't allowed in the hospital himself because of covid restrictions and that he was getting updates by text message. the times also told us that the editor was getting his information on whatsapp. so far, as we could tell, the information shane was a mother passing on details to her partner, passing details to a journalist, passing it on to everyone else. on the ninth of ju

new delhi, ceo of international forum for environmental sustainability. in nairobi, the ceo of the african wildlife foundation. and joining us from rome, a professor of political economy at the university of pretoriae to you all. in a new delhi, we are coming to you first. explain to our audience why this is happening faster than it should be happening, and still is happening fast despite all our efforts. chandra: i think it is important to understand that there is a fundamental reason, and it is poverty. land is degraded because it is extensively used by poor people for food, father. if you want that land to be restored, you would have to provide alternatives. unfortunately, over the last 30 or 40 years, we have not been able to eradicate poverty, and, therefore, intensive use of land . that is a fundamental reason why degradation continues. why deforestation is still an important issue. we need to put a lot more resources if we want to reverse this. i have a difference of opinion with what the unit is saying. land is not the easiest. we have the historical experience of trying to reverse land degradation and we have not been able to do it because we always think it is the easiest thing to do. un

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i made a new surgeon cove at 19 cases where he says to hattiesburg in pretoria, and now in the 3rd wave surgeon cases also highlights south africa slow vaccine rollout. when the around one and a half percent of the country, 60000000 people have received the 1st dose. the w adrian increase in cape town, says another lockdown was inevitable. the new restrictions don't come as a surprise to most south africans, because the numbers of new infections have been increasing in the past days and weeks and almost reached 5000 new cases the day at the moment. this is still far away from the peak. we have seen during the 2nd wave in january where we had more than 20000 new cases a day, but it is still a reason to worry, especially because the vaccination campaign here has been starting very slow. south africa has ordered vaccines for 75 percent of its population, but only a fraction of that arrived in the country. and the president has been complaining about that many times before saying it is not fair that wealthy nations have stronger access to vaccines than countries like south africa and also t