ghana's president, nana akufo-addo, has been focused on reshaping ghana's economy. president akufo-addo is a champion of human rights and entrepreneurial ideas. in just his first year as president, he has opened the doors for increased state engagement in ghana. our two countries have been bound by shared values of democracy and human rights for decades. but there is an opportunity for the united states, and to growarly, the states this relationship further. this whole meeting is highlighting how the united states -- how governors in their states are leaders and innovation. president akufo-addo's focus on developing ghana's infrastructure, agriculture and energy industry, states can play a role and leverage innovations we have made in those sectors. i know i speak for all of my fellow governors when i say we are excited to hear how we can work together to grow our economies. before introducing the president, first we will see a short video on ghana. [video clip] >> west africa's second-largest economy, ghana. ♪ a place of immeasurable beauty, vast resources, and a w

when i think about ghana, i think about the potential. >> ghana is a gateway of west africa.ecause, anything ghana does, other countries start following. >> if you are new to the continent, it would be a great place to start. ghana is not difficult. >> ghana is always one of the top three priority countries and africa. it is hard for anybody not in a seriously refuse an opportunity to be within the country. >> the economy is expanding , driven by good cocoa harvests, construction, and transport, and increases in oil production. and gold reduction. >> it is a new oil-producing country. there is a lot of opportunity for new development. [indiscernible] >> the finished cocoa products are going to be used by the most well-known chocolatier in the world. the quality is recognized worldwide as being the best. >> the business climate is attractive, continuously improving. the private sector is growing and investors are safe. >> ghana is safe. >> people are very warm, wealthy and very well educated. they have been trained properly. >> there are opportunities for ownerships in infrast

hundreds of guests celebrated their wedding in ghana but a.z. was shouldering a burden after fathering three daughters martin had had of a sect to me several years before. i think and i was in ghana a wife with no children is inferior it in feeling envious also depicted as a failure in african culture yeah it's. darkest in many villages field when a woman who has died childless is being buried by the body is still turned over in the coffin and i want to show that she's had a barren life and escape to city. life without children would have been difficult for is in ghana so she accompanied martin to germany into the unknown. in lieu of borg twenty nine year old a wayne has finished work for the day a year ago he started training to become a policeman it had been his dream but as of and that's a fantastic profession that enables me to help people i really enjoy the work i love my country i love germany and for me personally that was also a reason to join the police business of the mission positions it's a change of career because he when used to be

today is a panel of young african journalists with questions and comments for us with us from accra ghana b.s.c. though is a contributing writer at towards africa and lagos nigeria we're joined by festus i are up and in boston massachusetts erica e.c. is a get me an american journalist welcome to the stream everyone i want to start with a tweet we got from a member of our community when they heard that he would be on the show and us a lesson on twitter says he is our wiki leaks we love you and us now this is a good reference point for those who may not be familiar with your work but tell us how did you get started in the world of investigative journalism. journalism as a print journalist and as i kept on moving up i realized that there was the need to define what exactly i do to be more impactful to society. strong to undercover journalism there that's what i've done ever since i did so because i felt that it had a more lasting impact on society and it helped that was the development of society so people watching right now they just switched on al-jazeera you're watching a really well kno

let me go to uncle mike tsunami duce statement and today he's a special prosecutor for ghana and when he was being vetted you would hear what he said about me the good thing i would add to all of us is that we all fight. against corruption and we all we basically do the same thing and we have sat down and looked at the books and i should warn people in ghana they're corrupt officials if you haven't called martin sitting on the seat and i'm collaborating with him then there's really going to be heat on those corals the fish us we have. spoken we have looked at differences we have looked at the books and i can only assure all those skeptics. people that if it's about the two of us we would definitely get together to ensure that the bad guys go to jail now let me come to my critics. i think first of all it's fair to criticize the kind of journalism i practice i have tried and tested it and it works and look i am not going to sit down for anybody in an ivy league school to predict or to tell me how to do my journalism i'm a product of my society and i do what suits my society i have chose

go to production is an important source of food in ghana but traditional catholic families cannot keep up with the country's demand. i've come to a crowd to need to man has come up with a high take way to attract investment and make phone is more efficient it's called crowdfunding here in ghana there's a deficit of thousands of tonnes of meat each year and if imports have doubled over the past ten years it's currently cheaper to import me from south america in the united kingdom and to buy local meat. and. kemal yakubu is a local innovator who believes that the answer is to take cattle farming on line i am not just me a farmer in the with old good blues i'm due farmer with technology he has created a virtual on line farm where people all over the world can browse local demand funds and invest in the livestock a small holder fun and they do it by buying all or part of a virtual cow hocks builders are going to start a new car there you would see. the farmer on whose farm you one thing. because people before they even stop the car they start by choosing the father exactly you got all the

a lot more resources will be needed to develop the sport in ghana.one of black empowerment, and armed struggle. these young, african—american men made headlines by calling for black liberation, and clashing with police. now, an exhibit in new york focuses on 20 former black panther members who remain in prison. nada tawfik reports. it‘s been half a century since the black panthers marched through the streets, with upraised fists, crying out power to the people in their black berets and jackets. many of the black nationalist movement‘s most controversial figures remain in prison today. they are the subjects of this new exhibition by sophia dawson. i think it is really powerful to have somebody whose story was supposed to be forgotten or buried under a rug, to have them on the outside larger—than—life in front of the people who may be encountering their story for the first time. sophia says this is a project of both passion and protest. for the last eight years she has written and visited former black panthers still incarcerated. those letters feature

teacher at a rural teacher in ghana. he wanted to teach students how to use microsoft word. unfortunately, they don'n't have access to computers, so he painstakingly drew out the interface of microsoft word on his blackboard, key by key, to show how to use it. and heture went viral, has since received donations of laptops to help his students learn microsoft word the real way. rochelle: lovely story. a really dedicated teacher. thanks very much for our press roundup. viewers, don't forget you can go online, france24.com, if you want to see more of our press reviews. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: this is a production of china central television america.a. may:y: the idea of giving back s nothing new, but we're seeing more and more companies embracing that concept, especially since consumers are making more ethical decisions. there's a growing demand for businesses to produce products and services that are rooted in doing good in the world. this week on "full frame," we meet some trailblazers in the fashion industry who are creating wearable items that n change t the world. i'm may lee in

expression to enter terra low cost standards of human rights across you're all slipping my guest in ghana is michael flood to director of the agency called condiment gods does he believe you up is doing oh good ten to protect human rights. the first next on t.w. the full. confidence up. roundabouts and down again. we take you to york's most famous no boundary engines and this one talks some old europe's highest peak. because the winter is at its best right here going to the mountains all series this week. zero m. sixteen s. w. major sport t.v. smarter with the d w four small. what you want when you want to move up to date extraordinary. depth the sidewalks on sunday morning jog come smart t.v. . from the treatment of migrants to freedom of expression to end to terror laws our standards of human rights across europe are slipping this week on conflict zone my guest in vienna is michael o'flaherty director of the e.u. agency for fundamental rights that's he believes europe is doing all it can to protect human rights.

the audience favorite from ghana. at stanford, katie marzullo. >>> a mountain lion cub has a new home after being badly burned. suffered burns to all four of his paws. veterinarians covered his burnt feet with sterile tilapia skin. >> we didn't feel that that was the responsible thing to do if this situation, we knew we could treat him and manage his pain. >> charlie lives in a pen next to a female. >>> a florida man says his apple air buds blew up. he says he took them out of his ears and by the time he got back, they had exploded. apple is investigating the incident. >>> facebook is investigating a down button to hide comments. not to be confused with a dislike button. you certainly don't need to hide from the weather. it has been more than pleasant. >> meteorologist sandhya patel is here. >> the one thing we really need is rain. all we saw today was record warmth. this was the ninth straight day. 80s, san jose livermore. 72 oakland. upp upper 70s san rafael. oakland 72. all new reports for today. live doppler 7 sho

expression to end to terror aloha standards of human rights across you're all slipping my guest in ghana is michael flood the director of the e.u. agency focus on the mental gods does he believe you up is doing oh good ten to protect human rights float in forty five minutes long t.w. the first. can be one might of the mayor as nearly as i could still use towards the tube channel. i'm fully support beams and stories. new slaves tournaments and then took so long coups with the few channels about things you should better check it out yourself. barely feel. the scars. the pain still tangible. suffering for god. for cities. they have survived but do they also have a future. i really understand people who say they don't want to stay here. but i also admire people who want to stay here and who decided to create something . new beginning in peace time more the people making it possible what needs to happen if tolerance and reconciliation are to stand a chance of. darkness city's after war. starting march tenth on t w. this is news live from. top stories at this hour the turkish german journalist

the residents of ghana. and gave me step in to solve a political standoff i'm told though i sense decision to possibly ban male circumcision is labelled an attack on religious freedom. kelvin is still about calvin is that cycling that made landfall over a two mile beach and coles this sort of trouble for the highway goes north side through western australia that is supposed to be a road and yes once again it's the second time in about a month ellipse more like an ocean obviously supposed to be closed tell him that anyway that's the condition and i went on a small rain light to fall because the circulation is still there still visible it's one effect in a massacre that goes down towards the the blight all of which is potentially bringing rain right through the gibson desert and beyond some of it very helpful rain much of it too much at once the same time got big shout blooming on the eastern side queens and down to new south wales and they have been quite poky i think they'll stay quite poky tempers of risen

expression to anti terror laws staff standards of human rights across you're all slipping my guest in ghana is michael o. flirty director of the e.u. agency for fundamental rights does he believe you up is doing almost it can to protect human rights. next on t.w. . be in good shape i you see me like this or are you seeing me like that. cataracts and macular degeneration could be the reason they're common problems among older people we'll talk to an expert about the symptoms and treatment options go to the asian as quality of life good shooting sixty minutes d.w. . happy birthday in good shape returning ten this year and you can read this amazing fitness backpack if you want to know what's inside it isn't on when. you have to turn in the most favorite holmgren's into. coughing or maybe though a bit. yes to do so. good. to see that really has come to life somebody but no right to our correspondent he is in central istanbul i'm joined by the helicopter you know whose political correspondents are on those stories in just a minute but first this news just gets a little perspective closer. to. us

much is riding on the transit ghana's than pipeline natural gas from turkmenistan is supposed to help alleviate afghanistan's chronic energy shortage and provide a measure of economic stability for the conflict ridden country at the groundbreaking ceremony afghan president struck a hopeful tone. deaf in my get mad at them and this program will result in the creation of hundreds of millions of dollars such the bush this program will bring us electricity. gas bring us jobs this program will bring us life by a net cost that met at carter. for its part turkmenistan is hoping new customers for its gas would help it reduce its dependency on its meaning buyer china state company turkmen gas will operate the one thousand eight hundred kilometer pipeline it's meant to run from gallatin as the world's second biggest gas field to puzzle caught near the border with pakistan and northern india carrying thirty three billion cubic meters of natural gas a year but the pipeline is also meant to run within taliban controlled areas so far they promise not to disrupt the project if all does go according

the audience favorite from ghana.tanford, katie >>> a mountain lion cub has a new home after being badly burned. suffered burns to all four of his paws. veterinarians covered his burnt feet with sterile tilapia >> we didn't feel that that was the responsible thing to do if this situation, we knew we could treat him and manage his pain. >> charlie lives in a pen next to a female. >>> a florida man says his air buds blew up. he says he took them out of his ears and by the time he got back, they had exploded. apple is investigating the incident. >>> facebook is investigating a down button to hide comments. not to be confused with a dislike button. you certainly don't need to hide from the weather. it has been more than pleasant. >> meteorologist sandhya patel is here. >> the one thing we really need is rain. all we saw today was record warmth. this was the ninth straight day. 80s, san jose livermore. 72 oakland. upp upper 70 oakland 72. all new reports for today. live doppler 7 showing you the absence of rain. what we ar

joining me now is jason strother our correspondent he's in ghana in south korea just in to what extent is the presence of a kim or your jong adama. ating events that. right well we're seeing pictures of she and president mungy and shaking hands ahead of the opening ceremony there are more images of. president moon kid kim jong as well as kim young the second in command in the north korean regime as long as as well as vice president mike pence all sitting in the same room watching the ceremony together so it's certainly a big deal this is the first time that a family member of the ruling kim clan has ever come to south korea and read this and leave the delegation from the u.s. headed by vice president mike pence was there any diplomatic will clinton if. well local media is reporting that at a dinner reception that was held prior to the opening ceremony vice president pence made a very brief appearance he more or less avoided it mr kim young who's. basically the second man in charge in north korea. tenses office says that there was a scheduling conflict but it's being read here is more o

of them may undergo surgery all of them all of the injured on the shot people are black people from ghana and nigeria mahdi shia and much rather there are many people from. africa a country and. it's been a terrible. morning a terrible day here in much iraq a terrible atmosphere because as you reported. this was. prevented event and so the c.t.'s dr lee shocked and and those you've spoken to naturally all very shocked but have they been able to tell you any more about how this drive by shooting took place. there are. there are people who would ask that the man who was driving around to see and study to shoot. have a place who's driving we need a car and from a car he started to shoot one of the injured was walking and was shot and these mammoth was the man shot was driving around the. car and such as go have you been able to find out any more information about the suspect. i didn't suspect given the tiling the amen tiny and he was the candidate and the last locally lection. small villages. much out of that small villages corey dawna he was a candidate for noisily the town and party. right

expression to enter terra low cost stand outs of human rights across you're all slipping my guest in ghana is michael kludgy director of the u.n. agency book on demand for the rights does he believe you up. doing it to protect human rights live in sixty minutes from t.w. . three one might even make. you challenge the alice fourteen. days tournaments that. colleagues would challenge about think you should check it out yourself when you see it live. we make up oh but we want to go out to the end of the to. the center of the surface of. the continents for. part of it and join the youngsters as they share their story their dreams and their challenges the seven percent platform for africa charge to. live. live. live. live. hello and welcome to focus on europe i'm michelle henery all of europe is watching pyong chang as athens gathered from all over the world to compete in the twenty eighteen olympic games all perhaps except for many.

ghana stressed that it takes a sweets though not salty sour or -- perceive is noticeably weaker. in other words stress make sugar taste sweet. this means we need more sweetness to get the bang for a buck we are looking for when we are stressed out which may cause us to go for extra sweet treats when we are frazzled and tense. tasting a little sugar can make a swig of that would need to be careful not to over indulge when we are not feeling so nice. now i'm going to move on to a section on the psychological aspects of the things that influence how we consume food and the consequence of eating and we do a section called the milkshake placebo from a chapter mind over munchies. the placebo effect and which will we thank alters how we feel can be a foundation in an emergency situation. aganay wind pain medicine is in short supply has convinced the soldier that a pill is more than one something the sugar amazingly applied. a wide range of other placebo effects rarely occur. if employees are told their jobs have exercise benefits they will lose more weight than they are co-workers who a

we're going to cross over to correspondent jason was close to the end of the guys hockey stadium in ghana and then in south korea jason wanted his condolences plan behind this he has just showed his nuclear potential and now we hear about his invitation how does this fit together while he's clearly driving a wedge between south korea and the united states he's essentially making president moon pick between him and president trump. right now we're in this week we're in a free from all the rhetoric and tension that really characterized last year but that doesn't mean that it's going to last and once the olympics are over. north korea has demanded for many years that south korea move away from the u.s. alliance that it ends joint military drills but those exercises are scheduled to happen right after the olympics finish and that's going to be a real test to see if any of the goodwill generated during these games is sustainable. how likely is it then that the south korean president and when that that wedge be driven between him and the u.s. president and he will accept this invitation he's re

says more children than ever are living in conflict areas and risk of death and violence syria of ghana stand in somalia are the worst countries for young people the job a child she says more than three hundred fifty million children or one in six want wide on living in conflict zones. in the u.s. state of florida a gunman has killed seventeen people in the latest school shooting to shake the country the suspect is a nineteen year old former student was expelled last year from the high school north of miami u.s. defense secretary jim matheson has urged turkey to remain focused on fighting the so-called islamic state in syria mad to spoke with his turkish counterpart at the nato summit in belgium last month turkey launched a military offensive against kurdish fighters who have been at the frontline of the battle against the support i guess. people have been marking valentine's day in different ways and the some it was an opportunity to draw attention to the problem of violence against girls and women flash mobs from the one billion rising movement when don sing in the streets of major ci

in 1960, its per capita was $158, slightly less than gha ghana's. today it is over $27,000, almost 20 times that of ghana's, but it describes the woes of south korea from the korean war. the country had no national resources, no geographic advantages, and a physical infrastructure that had been battered during the war. and it faced the menace of north korea. in addition to its economic boom, however, south korea has also undergone a political transformation. it spent its first decades under dictatorships, but by the 1980s, that system began to crack as the people demanded change. the change to democracy was roc rocky as it is everywhere, but they pulled it off. it has held accountable its elected president and the owners of its largest company. impressive actions even when compared to more established democracies in the west. people might be inclined to conclude from all this that koreans are innately talented. in fact, the case of the korean peninsula disproves this notion. just across the 30th barrel lived millions of north koreans ethnically indi

in q2018, we'll be live in ghana and conga as well.t will be in africa and we'll also go live across the continent, and we have plan for a european expansion as well in 2019. >> who are your consuls in johannesburg and who are the target consumers that you're trying to get to >> millennials average ages between 20 to 34. those are people that can really afford the high cost of rent of apartments on their own. and sharing apartments and with land and bills and also you get to expand your social network. as well as your social circle. the target is millennials between ages 20 to 34. >> and an arab for those millennials, the cost of renting or buying in nigeria, for example, is astronomically high. correct me if i'm wrong, ibrahim, but you're open to agents and won't that inevitably drive up costs for users if you effectively still have the middle man who is taking a cut >> sure. we're not necessarily open to argume agents but individuals can put up properties that they're already renting if they have two beds available, i have a room ava

. >> there's no ice in ghana.ly thing cold is the ice cold beer. >> reporter: soon her coach determined she was too fast for figure skating and made a switch. >> can you picture yourself figure skating now? >> no. >> why not? >> these thighs are not meant for figure skaters. they are for speed skaters. >> reporter: last year she moved to utah living with a host family so she could train with the best. all of it leading to the olympic trials in december where in the 500 meter race maame jumped to a quick lead and never lost it. >> crushing and she's going to the olympic games. >> i was like, holy cow. i'm going to korea. i started cheering and cheering and then i fell. th was an awesome moment. >> reporter: in stands away from his job as a maintenance worker holding ining a sign that read kick some hiney biney. >> he's the best thing since sliced bread. he sacrificed so much for me. >> reporter: he's smiling too until he starts talking about the sorenson's. >> this wouldn't be >> reporter: the them. family that's g

sue ghana, for example, if they oppose y oppose yeltsin's program they are monitor and about to take the country back to stalin icis which is not a democratic way to treat your parliament. two times which were very, very painful for the russian liberals, i remember them myself as a shock, two times yeltsin used massive force, first of all against the parliament, no matter who was in the parliament. that was the first time blood was spilled massively in moscow since 1917. okay. in 1991, there were three people who were killed during the push. the united states as a matter of fact congratulates yeltsin on skillful handling of the crisis with the kremlin. and it's public and he use sz it all the time in his own domestic struggle. and then the second time, probably even more hurtful for the emerge pg russian democracy is the war in check sin. when they are trying to engage the west to put pressure on yeltsin to stop the war or at least limp the human rights violations, the real atrocities, president clin continue comton meets. and one time it comes up in that is when he's speaking about

tara loves pasta and it's a few minutes rice across you're all slipping my guest in ghana is michaellood the director of the agency called fundamental rights does he believe you up is doing all to ten to protect human rights. in thirty minutes on g.w. . on freedom and whole. world i come from the region as rich in history skyline talent but so poor in education opportunity and freedom this makes it especially difficult for can depend the druggist's i see many of the younger promising germans who are now making a name for themselves all over the. song live along the way some might follow some with continue. their experience of freedom a sense is like that fenians. you can visit but your car coming back from. my name is a straight forward and i work you know a. good . feel. the scars on. the past still tangible. the surface forgot. to cities and. they have survived do they also have a future. i really understand people who say they don't want to stay here. but they also admire people who want to stay here and who decided to create something. of a new beginning in peace time for the peo

wore in ghana auburn then you know for almost half moved down the hall and we had death. in february one thousand nine hundred fifteen frustrated by the stagnating war in europe the british open to an eastern front against the ottomans on the dardanelles streets they imagined the ottoman army as weak and easier to defeat as the way of taking on germany and ending the war. russia however was more concerned about its use of ottoman water which so the russians asked britain and france to find in agreement to guarantee their own share of the spoils after the war. the russians were keen to seize more as cultural capital as a sort of restoration of orthodox christianity after. five centuries of all of the rule and so with the outbreak of the first world war on the eve of the could literally invasion the russians wanted to secure their allies commitment to granting istanbul and the straits to the russian empire and this becomes an exchange of documents known as the constantinople agreement concluded between march and april one nine hundred fifteen. britain france and russia ente

. >> we are in ghana which is where all these butterflies journey to during the winter to survive thegid temperatures. >> they all end up in this same forest, here in the middle of mexico. >> phil is right there about to enter this reserve and encounter millions of butterflies. >> so are they there just to take it all in? are they doing research? >> he just wanted to experience it because this is something unlike anything else you will ever experience. he says you are surrounded by these gorgeous very fragile little beings. >> if you listen carefully, you can hear it. that's not wind, that's the sound of millions of butterflies flying around me right now. it's probably my favorite sound ever. >> the trees are made of butter it flies, it's amazing. >> the way they cluster is phenomenal. >> not just that, in this moment, he brings his own cell phone out and start walking towards his camera woman. >> what just happened? >> hi. look. >> it looworked like a charm. >> it's super cool, but you realize the precarious balance these butterflies live in. this is the one and only place on the pla

there's a stamp in ghana although they have nothing to do when we went to school but at least locally to me today is a stamp. i know it's not that long as you may know all over the world but you decided to stay here to stay at home why here and not somewhere out of the big wide world. of this it was you have i think coincidences exist sometimes they're preordained. they like obviously off but if i had been a coach i might have been working outside obese and todd. and then the hotel came along as well and i think it was the right decision to have it here. because the village over visa is closely linked with the name yet and suffice for those that wish to know and it's also good publicity for us especially for the hotel and its free publicity to my wrist. and i'm really glad i've stayed here it's my home. after all that travelling around because of my sport i was glad to find something. you know were. alive a sport because to be home staying at home and not having to go far away after all that travelling that makes sense now this building is more than twenty years old i believe it has a

in ghana a company called impaired. three have come up with a way to fight back using mobile phone. we have to have a system of truth ability which leads to accountability and this illusion you can provide enough not all bets provide you provide the tracing it provide the truck. right finals and his team and pedigree and ruling out the solution to this problem it's a quick and simple way for consumers to find out immediately if the drugs they're purchasing an illegal welcome to imperatives of thank you so much for your work of the single product there's a different number so is like is what i was serialized that is the kind of then given that it's always the serialisation technology very few people will take a second look at what they are thinking most people because they do not have money going for the cheaper alternatives. and then the next thing the happens is either the person dies or more time spent in seeking further treatment because of further complications that took place so this is coughing so on there is an upward act you can see the batch numbers reading here and expiry

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organic bananas are an increasingly important sector making up ten percent of total production for ghana growers are taking a new approach like here in el pinko agronomist gonzalo marks pinout it was exposed to farming chemicals for three years he worked for a pesticide wholesaler until he got sick. i worked for a company that sold farming products like pesticides and so forth i had to work on the fields that were being sprayed by the airplanes that's how i got sick pesticide use makes the plantation workers sick. once they've reached a certain age they lose their nails they get cancer. they lose their hair and their eyesight. it's all too much. it's hard to get official figures on health problems caused by pesticides but in this region everyone seems to know someone who's gotten sick. the organic plantations only use natural substances like manure bacterial extracts algae extract and oils that may help slow the growth of pests like the cedar took a fungus i don't know if you've got it on a conventional plantation you can go walking at night and you won't encounter anything on the ground