reporter: living all football is increasingly difficult and upon -- in gabon.layers can go months without paymenent. >> i have been playing football for three years. it is really hard. we could no longer live without a salary. as you can see, we don't even have a jersey. reporter: the country's economic problems have had a trickle-down effect. the lack of funding and poor organization have created a chaoaotic situation. >> t the real prproblem is thate statee is not putting money into the sport in the right places. it is not right -- exactly go to the right people. reporter: for most of these players, football is there only since of income. they only continued to play, even if their next paycheck is hanging by a thread. helena: meanwhile, here in germany, the bundesliga is on its winter break. but for one squad the break has been cut short. hanover is back on the training pitch. in their last match, this goalkeeping mistake saw them lose to duesseldorf. hanover's coach has told his players that anything but the wind in that match would cancel their holiday. he

dier had put the visitors 2—1 up at the break after aubamayangs early opener, but a second from the gabon and goals from alexandre lacazatte and lucas toreira giving arsenal manager unai emery a win in his very first north london derby. we are at the moment good in a scoring moment with some different players. also, we want to keep continuing improving and not consider the lot of chances, options to score. we were managing the game very well so lucky how we consider, and of course, it was tougher us in that moment. you realise, that you start, in the last few games, i think then we consider it quick. chelsea bounced back from their defeat to tottenham last week. mauricio sarri's side beat bottom club fulham 2—nil with goals from pedro and reuben loftus cheek. today was difficult. we were tense, for sure. we started very well. then we played with a good level of attention. a good level of application. i think that it was better to try to keep the match before. to spain now and barcelona have returned to the top of la liga after they beat villareal 2—nil at home on sunday. gerard pique and

reality for many players in africa is quite different from the european football stars we take a look at gabon the professional players there do not lack passion for the sport but they often play hungry and every day it can be a struggle to make ends meet. this is gavin east football club f.c. . at first glance it's hard to find anything out of place just a bunch of professional footballers training. but imagine playing on an empty stomach. these players are fighting what can i say i fight sometimes to come to train without having eaten they tell us yes coach we're hungry we didn't eat. living off football it's increasingly difficult in bonn even for professional player many teams lack the basics and payoffs go months without payment. i've been playing football for at least three years so it's really hard we can no longer live without the salary and as you can see we don't even have a jersey corseted. the country's economic problems have had a trickle down effect the lack of funding and poor organization have created a chaotic situation. real problem is that the state is putting money into the

at that battle at gabon where he liberated gabon from the forces and brought to the free french he arrested the local bishop who refused to swear allegiance to free france and not having any idea where to get 2 stars from a uniform he took them off of the local italian commander and that's what he wore on his feet for the rest of the war. he was an interesting guy. the second division served under patton's third army. patton personally put a silver star on leclerc's uniform you can see the two stars he is wearing on his field as he returned to metropolitan france on august 1, 1944. you can see him shaking patton's hand at utah beach that's patton on the far left. it was always leclerc vision, always his idea that the division would be the unit that would liberate paris. the problem was, he was entirely dependent on the americans for gasoline, ammunition, vehicles even the clothes and uniforms it's been more. so throughout the normandy campaign he was very slowly but very shortly begging, borrowing and stealing equipment from the americans, usually with their knowledge and usually with their

at the battle of gabon, where he liberated them he arrested the local bishop who refuse allegiance to free france, and not knowing where to get those costars, he took it from the , he took it stars from a local italian commander. and he wore those for the rest of the war. the second division served under patents -- patton's third army. and he personally put the third star on the uniform. returned to metropolitan france in 1944 hugh can see him .haking patton's and -- hand it was always his vision, his units blend in with those that liberate paris. but he was entirely dependent on americans for gasoline, ammunition, vehicles, and the uniforms as men wore. throughout the normandy campaign he was slowly but surely begging, borrowing, and stealing equipment from the americans. usually with their knowledge and ok. but one of his corps commanders described him as that miserable man, because he always seems to put his units a little closer to paris then it set on the map. bradley and eisenhower did not particularly get along with him but he got along well with patton. good french,oke and was

at the battle of gabon, where he liberated them he arrested the local bishop who refuse allegiance to free france, and not knowing where to get those costars, he took it from the , he took it stars from a local italian commander. and he wore those for the rest of the war. the second division served under patents -- patton's third army. and he personally put the third star on the uniform. returned to metropolitan france in 1944 hugh can see him .haking patton's and -- hand it was always his vision, his units blend in with those that liberate paris. but he was entirely dependent on americans for gasoline, ammunition, vehicles, and the uniforms as men wore. throughout the normandy campaign he was slowly but surely begging, borrowing, and stealing equipment from the americans. usually with their knowledge and ok. but one of his corps commanders described him as that miserable man, because he always seems to put his units a little closer to paris then it set on the map. bradley and eisenhower did not particularly get along with him but he got along well with patton. good french,oke and was

around more than one hundred billion dollars according to the national oil corporation oil workers in gabon who started a three day strike in protest at the sacking of six colleagues walkaround says that the french company total come on produces around two hundred thousand barrels of crude oil per day but thousands of workers have been laid off with oil prices fell workers demanding higher pay and better working conditions held another strike in july and the constant shoes chief executive rich management and an emerging markets economist he says the strike shows how opec is losing it simply once in the global oil industry. i think the important message there is a similar message little bit. back and it's essentially telling the go go days opec would shape that money it is fair. and it's dealt pronouncements are really meaningful it's telling us that opec is losing relevance you environment and i think you know if you take cattle you take that all in that context that's the takeaway the politicians very small about. the per capita. of government is quite high obviously it's not stupid it's v