they could be ghana's red gold. soil is ideal, and they've been cultivated in the country for decades. yet ghana's tomato factories now stand empty, and farmers are opting to leave the country. there are many reasons -- an unstable power grid, unsuitable tomato varieties, and global trade policy. italy, china, and other countries are dumping canned and processed tomatoes on ghana. [engine whirs] reporter: benenedicta afrifa i is a tomamato farmer inin tuobodomn the e middle of onone of ghans main tomomato productition reg. the many d laborerers looking to be hireded during e haharvest season attesest to widesprpread unememployment. evenent the busiest time of yearsosome won finind wo. ♪ reportrter: nearly h half of ghs populalation lives f from agririlture. a robust t tomato-growing g indy would boost t growth in rurural areas.s. nowhere e is this indudustry e likely to flourish than here i the untrtry's rtile e mile bebe. but now that factories are n o longnger buying lolocally grownn produce,e, farmers arere becog

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the raid by ghana's security services did not stop him.of necra, we have found that he has organized a secret group of employees on a university campus. he tells them to create more accounts and promises them to be paid soon. as the meeting is finishing, we approach him with the camera and greet him in russian. >> reporter: seth. hi. my name is clarissa ward and i work for cnn. how are you? >> i am fine. >> reporter: i have a couple of questions for you about ebla and why you posted this job in the u.s. in charleston, south carolina. >> oh, that is so strange for someone to come asking about ebla right now. so i don't know how much i can be of help to you. >> reporter: you are aware that there is a presidential e lek sn shun in november. >> no. >> reporter: you are not? >> i know that there is one in ghana. >> reporter: how long have you been working for the troll factory in st. petersburg, russia. >> i don't consider myself working for them. >> reporter: why to you call yourself mr. amata. >> anyone can trust anyone they want. i am protec

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and ghana i was everybody is a fine of one of the mothers. and you were counting the day and he was crying so i feel for him and any time i see him we've got about this issue. the bamiyan it was for me. something that for again how i got i don't know how to make. a stop saying i was a buy a mean go. mr dunton lot of stunt a chink we're going to be done and the whole police and political system that have been held up the same day the bad lot of them. said it had some of us all get hurt . and i. have my they feel if they proceeded to spin this out it's night for the president assad annoyed i think bowler in 2002. because all the guys were saying you know there are fans of premier league teams and that sort of thing and i was the only guy that said i was a fan of a german to. buy. cib want to ask. it's about a mission in calls for $50000.00 only stand in costs a block defense. and a. medical home by and i think some of them are. individual thinking on the window if. you want that am i at. home on the i should i play safe. as a result. you want t

parts and raw materials as supply chains are breaking down due to the virus outbreak countries like ghana i think to feel the pinch. welcomes the v.w. business in berlin asian markets on wednesday didn't make any huge losses like they did on monday but they made no significant gains either investors are now looking to the u.s. as the corona virus spreads throughout the world's largest economy president trump suggestion to cut payroll taxes as a stimulus to help fight the outbreak met with bipartisan resistance on capitol hill lawmakers want more targeted measures tokyo ended 0.8 percent lower while cigna slipped 1.9 percent and seoul shed 1.3 percent and while singapore each edged up 0 point one. let's bring in our financial correspondent shelter delaney in frankfurt morning chelsea what's the market's reaction to president trump's stimulus measures. i think there's a bit of disappointment and best reason to really been lauching on to this idea that there was going to be a big fiscal stimulus coming from the white house and i think what we're seeing is a much more divided response and thi

we reached out to all the 16 ebla employees in ghana.y all told us the same thing, anderson, which was that they had no idea they were working for a russian troll factory. and just today and in the past few days twitter, instagram, facebook have taken all those accounts, 274 of them reaching a quarter of a million people, most of them americans. but remarkably, anderson, this they sis was really a successful story, this was still in the early stages of becoming what could have been a very pernicious campaign to meddle with the u.s. election. >>> coming up next more signs how different life is becoming as coronavirus spreads. ♪ calf-shredding shoes with special rubber platforms designed to increase vertical jump sure, they look ridiculous but nothing looks more ridiculous than going up for a dunk and coming up two inches short. invest in innovative companies with invesco qqq ♪ do you recall, not long ago ♪ we would walk on the sidewalk ♪ ♪ all around the wind blows ♪ we would only hold on to let go ♪ ♪ blow a kiss into the sun ♪ we need s

and colin extorted ghana for a photo op so he continued to earn those millions. but colin wasn't the first. he isn't the only. and he certainly won't be the last. so to al sharpton, jesse jackson, coats, to cnn, "the new york times, " to msnbc, and their anchors, to every single one of you race hustlers, led extorted black pain to line your own pocket and blindfolded the black youth of seeing the opportunities that lay beneath their feet in america, in the land of the free, and the home of the brave, i say this to you. there will be a black-xit, a black exit. [applause] >> you have seen, you have seen how a man was made a slave. that sentence is the first half of a frederick douglass book. i like it because it rings true now. i have seen how a man was made a slave. i have seen how black americans have been enslaved with the bait of race, how liberals, how leftists, how democrats, continue to enchain us to this inconsequentialle debate while robbing us blindly of our family, our faith, and our future through policy. you have seen how a man was made a slave. then h

doesn't matter whether they come from zimbabwe orghana or matter whether they come from zimbabwe or ghanawhatever. this is home. there were anti- south african demonstrations gci’oss south african demonstrations across the continent. the south african authorities tried to dampen down on tensions and said the violence was perpetrated by criminals. but some believe there is resentment at foreigners doing well in a country is still beset by mass unemployment, grinding poverty and rising crime 26 years after the end of apartheid. signs of separation are everywhere... africans have to stand and wait for their bossesin to stand and wait for their bosses in the sun. an empty seat may be a few yards away. they cannot sit on it. the violence last october in johannesburg was one of many periodic flareups in the last decade or so. in 2008, 62 people died when mobs beat foreigners and set buildings alight. afrophobic attacks sparked outrage in africa, but the country which had been supported by fellow black africans during the apartheid era could now be home to such sentiment. so, is south africa afr

telling them to michael like so many others got stranded in libya because of the war returning to ghana through the sahara was unthinkable so the only option left was to try to make it across the mediterranean sea. he's now using. software and from libya it's what we do you know it's more due to us sometimes you. put money on you until you plan money to clear them you are not near you. with almost $300.00 refugees aboard the ocean viking is that over capacity. with next approval the volunteers improvise creating extra space for the rescued. so i. think it's going to raise people 270 people up and say everybody got a little bit shell saying yeah i think it's ok that we have to get it done today that we've got 3 years you didn't have time but. i would go a little bit quiet. there warren meals every morning and midday and as much drinking water as anyone wants most of those rescued hadn't brought any with them little. bit odd. at the back of the ship everyone can wash their clothes. captains told me our water level is a bit load so i'm going to have to be a bit careful with how much water

telling them to michael like so many others got stranded in libya because of the war returning to ghana through the sahara was unthinkable so the only option left was to try to make it across the mediterranean sea. it's not easy. for him from libya and we did you know it's more to do it us sometime do a card you. put money on you until you find money to clear them you're not leaving you. with almost $300.00 refugees aboard the ocean viking is that over capacity. with nick's approval the volunteers improvise creating extra space for the rescued what. do you. think is going to raise the $270.00 people pulled off so you got a little bit shell say at least say that we have to get it done that we got 3 of us a few times right. now it will be quiet. there are warm meals every morning and midday and as much drinking water as anyone wants most of those rescued hadn't brought any with them really. hot. like. at the back of the ship everyone can wash their clothes. while the captains told me our water level is a bit low so i'm going to have to be a bit careful with how much words we use ok so if

i grew up in london but my mother's family is originally from ghana i was born in nigeria but came to the u.k. as a baby and grew up in birmingham i've read any memoir about her passion for football since she was a young girl. she was at the top of her career as a successful striker when she was dropped from the england national team after speaking out against racism. into a male player we don't 102 comes from their country after 11 years of playing i don't think you know it takes a lot of courage and determination to do that i know that africa has struggled with her through an identity because she's of mixed heritage i spent my whole life wondering if this is really my country she's even moved to africa twice to connect with her culture she's also written amazing book about it so i'm curious to compare our personal experiences and also. belonging to. africa is a part of both and me but we also british and black women so we have more than a few things in common but we're actually quite different. any other there were so many things in your book which are very personally related oh i'm

chinese 7th largest trading partner in africa guineans depend on chinese products and experts say ghana and other african countries don't have an easy way out of the crisis. everybody looks at and even if you decided to go to euro cost of inputs could be much higher in europe and not yourself how many businesspeople would be competitive the west sourcing your input from you for now all that obeying can do is hope for the virus to be contained in the coming weeks to keep his business healthy. almost 5 years ago paris was hit hard by a terror attack 1000 concert goers were killed in the battle one theater cut clean bethnal survived the massacre and has found an unconventional way to deal with the trauma. returning to the battle is an act of for existence for cutting the toll it was inside that she survived one of france's worst terror attacks the massacre at the batek on was part of a series of assaults across paris in which 131 people died. 63 a. little girl for the body but i still get knots in my stomach when i come here but i didn't want to develop a phobia so quite soon. afterwards i

dollars sent between them ghana is one of africa's leading gold export. presidents none of us pledged to continue his fight against illegal mining his government regulates the industry or community mines. that is meant a lot more. in the community center to get people in a community who want to get important money to be able to do so broken that will serve more up large and small scale money but critics and environmental activists blame the lack of political will and corruption to government promises falling short who moved over these findings sources be from foreigners and have been from the top of the car and in this society i need a reason why. in the government it has also been difficult one environmental groups call for tighter regulations minus say they have no choice but to continue digging for their survival for him a comment on just even. though again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera out of restaurants and bars in major cities across the united states are being closed as a country steps up its efforts to curb corona virus t

now in ghana illegal gold mining is threatening farmlands destroying the landscape and poisoning water supplies leaving some communities struggling to find drinking water it's reached such proportions that treatment plants are being shut down and there's warnings the country might be forced to import water ring that mohammad reports. the river probably in southern ghana is contaminated with mercury and cyanide and vegetation is drying off and gone as heartland of cocoa the main ingredient of chocolate. the river is also vital for fishing farming and. the pollution is blamed on thousands of small scale gold mines working round the clock at this one boys as young as 15 and dozens of men what they're doing is illegal many mines have been here for years despite a government crackdown to close them. they operate deep in the forest hidden from the police and the military task force attracted by the precious metal minus come from different parts of ghana and neighboring countries as well as china they say is their only source of income per godless of the risks and injuries. and i was able to

no incidents, no cases, nothing in ghana.in to terminal three thinking there other people and what would happen when we arrive. no signs, no directions, nothing. maybe there was at terminal two or five, but nothing at terminal three. i was a bit concerned. in terms of sticking with the budget reaction, whether the right targets are going to be given the support they need. taxi drivers, or they can be helped? i don't know how they will be helped. it was very clear who he's targeting this money at. smes, those businesses that are already eligible for rate relief, their markets are very tight. within three months if they are not getting the business, they will go out of business. look at flybe. we saw some of the kata crop —— catastrophic drops in business. there are other people i think who might be missed in this. look at people in universal credit or social care. all of these big—ticket items would expect to hearin big—ticket items would expect to hear ina big—ticket items would expect to hear in a budget. he did address univ

in $28000.00 alone trade volumes between ghana and china it's $7300000000.00 imports from china alone accounted for $4800000000.00 that makes gun a chinese 7th largest trading partner in africa guinea and stupendous on chinese products and experts say gonna and other african countries don't have an easy way out of the crisis. and even if you decided to go to europe. in europe and how many businesspeople would be competitive. so i don't think that is an issue that we can get. ok we don't really mind. with. because. for now all that open can do is hope for the virus to be contained in the coming weeks to keep his business healthy. well it can all be traced back to a city of 11000000 in central china and the epicenter of the new strain of corona virus disrupting global commerce. starting to go back to work after a lengthy lockdown if this ghost town is transformed it will be a positive signal for the rest of the world but there's reason to believe things won't immediately go back to normal. carmakers are already signaling a return japanese firm honda saying it will restart work in its fa

the river problem in southern ghana is contaminated with mercury and cyanide and vegetation is drying off and gone as heartland of cocoa the main ingredient of chocolate. the river is also vital for fishing farming and. the pollution is blamed on thousands of small scale gold mines working round the clock at this one boys as young as 15 and dozens of men what they're doing is illegal many mines have been here for years despite a government crackdown to close them. they operate deep in the forest hidden from the police and the military task force attracted by the precious metal mine is come from different parts of ghana and neighboring countries as well as china they say is their only source of income per godless of the risks and injuries. and i was able to provide money and help my family in the volta region until the government decided to ban small scale and illegal mining now police harass us all the time some of us try to run away and others fall into the money hits those who can't swim get injured or die. there joe had his hand cut off 2 years ago while mining he received no compe

they are the ones always pushing these festivals coming into ghana. bring tourism. when people feel like they can come and do something in your country y that's rereally power. >> for many generations, you are an icon. towns --nated many many times at the grammys.s. would you say the young little boy you were from cynic out too much sohas accomplished far. i have. i believe i have. everything that happens to me at this poioint,, i wouould not thi had reached this far. collaborations -- michael jackson? yeah, that was at the top of my goals. i did not think i would be able to achieve it. music c became a hobby at thth point. i knew my goal has been met, so what do i do now? that's what i decided. go to africa and help the infrastructure and at the same time utilize that to unite the people around the woworld to music. >>>> if i can have one last question, last, but not least, are you runnining for the presidential election in the united states of america in 2020? know, i seriously considered. i registered, i put t togeththey campaign team. i thought, i

ports of entry, i came in from ghana on monday and i didn't see anything, there wanted posters, nobody gun to my to check my temperature. in the us, president trump says it is going to go away. to be fair, coming from ghana or other parts of the continent, africa, where there are very few infections... very few. so you wouldn't necessarily be on their radar. but if you are coming from austria... into the uk... into heathrow airport, you might have been... well, my twitter timeline is full of people who say, where was the concern? where was the security? nobody asked me anything. people are just wandering into heathrow terminals one, two, three, four, five, nothing. that is what people are saying. so when there is an inquest into this when it is all over and done, they may be some harsh words in they may be some harsh words in the direction of the government for not taking this seriously enough and robustly enough, early. let's move on to what the government is going to do. the financial times is giving its assessment of what it thinks might be in the budget, which is delivered at lunch

dollars sent between them ghana is one of africa's leading gold export. presidents none of our job has pledged to continue his fight against illegal mining his government regulates the industry or community. what is meant a lot more. in the community center to get people in a community who want to get more money to be able to do so badly broken that will serve more up large and small scale money but critics and environmental activists blame the lack of political will and corruption to government promises falling short of the funding sources be from foreigners and there have been from the top quality car and in this society i mean the reason why. in the government it has also been difficult one environmental groups call for tighter regulations minus say they have no choice but to continue digging for their survival for him a comment on jazeera. headlines on al-jazeera the us federal reserve has announced its pumping hundreds of billions into the economy and cutting interest rates to me is 0 to counter the impact of the coronavirus pandemic that says the ma

and struggling to find clean drinking water how illegal gold mining in ghana is poisoning rivers and trying farmlands and i told you sport italy calls for the european football championships to be postponed and the international olympic committee except to hold emergency talks about tokyo 2020. could have you with us welcome to the new leaders of the 7 world's largest economies are about to begin a video conference on how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic amid a rising death toll and more and more restrictions concern is now about the wider effects been another major plunge on the new york stock exchange it dropped more than 9 percent in a few seconds when it opened triggering a trading halt while in brazil paolo stock exchange for over 12 percent causing trading to be suspended for the 5th time in a week when our white house correspondent is standing by but 1st let's go to gabriel is on the who's following the markets in new york and gabe really has to be said that those circuit breakers were activated within seconds of the market opening what's going on right now. well traders

world sits up and listens just think of greater than bad and fridays for future environment 3600 in ghana that supports so cool the economies it teaches children about recycling and groove technologies and the pulse of what belongs to the funny kids can be great influences. saying. how to load not read live once a week about junior high school the kids have a class on environmental studies. where riyad our surroundings when the place is what we need to sleep do you feel sorrow decide what's going to talk us. this. fall sick. feeling. most of those who brood either in the class the young people on things like how to properly separate trash for recycling them or to harvest the west they discovered that pepper and plastic are valuable resources that this. sold for cash income from them has helped finance projects and study materials on the school run through paris came. 'd only about recalls at home. all rubbish is the simplest they realize no says the so they came back to come if teach them how to fold when to do it's. because of what's also such it's good because it generates income from t

sits up and listens just think of greater than bad and fridays for future environment at 360 all in ghana that supports so cool the economy it teaches children about recycling and technology and possible what they long to do funny kids can be great influences. saying larry lopez live once a week at kut-o. bob's junior high school the kids have a class on environmental studies. where riyad asked around this when the place is what's dead renu 23 do you feel sorry this odd lots going to talk to us. this. 8 fall sick. leave little most of those who brood ah this is the hour out in the class the young people on things like how to properly separate trash for recycling them want to harvest the west they discovered that paper and plastic of our neighbors sources that this. sold for cash income from them has helped finance projects and study materials on the school run through paris came. 'd only about recalls at home as they used to put all rubbish is the simplest they realize no says the children came back to come and fix their house assault why did brutes. because of. such it's because it gener

entomology already has 6000 paying members and now the government of ghana has also expressed interest in this health insurance scheme. health care security a social network as many as 4000000000 people worldwide have no access to such basic protection those with the lowest levels of education a most at risk in brazil casual trash because and now being given the chance to train as official waste saltus instead. this patch of land 20 kilometers outside the capital brasilia used to be the biggest landfill site in latin america last year the dump was closed and the 60 meter high mountain of garbage was covered with. construction waste are still being dumped there although that's illegal the national waste policy ends to eradicate landfills and promote recycling with residual waste either incinerated or going to sanitary landfills but protect the environment but there are still 2 and a half 1000 open landfill sites across the country. fernandes worked here as a waste picker for 20 years mainly at night she supported her 4 children by selling . anything of value she found they used to live

in ghana we take a look behind the scenes of crowds vosh fat and. exploits because he's not the fox on the most calling fictionally transmitted infection. how do you have all experienced hate speech either out on line or offline sadly many of us have given these the people insulting or threatening us a strange as it's still extremely uncomfortable and hot for. some of you in uganda shared your experiences with us let's hear what you had to say. brother he was at the school. someone. a friend. and we were going through a lot as a family could. see someone made up about my height and my skin color which is funny because he's a black person too so you'd expect that becoming from him i felt tortured and i felt. so right to take the post down and actually go to social media for about 7 months might be quite used as an example a bad example for you going until the brits get your issue and people started coming to the center abusing. it goes to show me i guess i didn't you cover because i took. that. and hate speech doesn't just lead to emotional pain it c

ghana is just one country that is welcoming thousands of african diaspora visitors looking to learn about the heritage and these are some of the drive in the conversation from african heritage go back to africa to people about that in just a moment but beyond that return year of return 2019 that malts 400 years since the 1st enslaved africans arrived in the new world one member of our like community says heritage tourism to africa helps inspire new ideas and could spur long term investment in africa and we also got a video comment about the importance of birthright tourism to the continent and have a look. birthrate journeys to africa are critical. to the continent we're here to ask for the descendants done properly the birthrate journey to see a better understanding of you and i know that there's a sense of belonging and purpose plus those in the last 3 years i believe you present day. as time to the future leaders there come to see united with the police you better than incredible. who on this we're joined from new york by a while al-shaykh she is co-founder and c.e.o. of birthright afr

show and african city based in a crowd ghana it tackles the topic of sexuality from the perspective of the mortal african woman it is inspired by the popular series sex and the city with over 4500000 view us africa is no longer one of ghana's best kept secret we managed to get a special behind the scenes look of the production get ready for some amazing fashion and lots of. stress for his all time out of fashion boutique in the center of a crowd. the series creator and head cost are searching for the latest in gandhi and fashion their web and t.v. series enough we can city is about to start production on season 3 and i spoil ways there's no shortage of bold and beautiful outfits why are beautiful things important for american city because whenever i see anything in the media about africa it's about things. it was time to fight back it was time to fight back story and fashion was one way to do that. if i'm here for you. oh. wow launched in 2014 it focuses on 5 glamorous women who have returned to a craft to live enough broad. enough to kill to world of love life and careers in spiky hee

matches have been scheduled to happen in the last week of march well joining us now from occurring ghana we have sports journalist gary al smith gary great to have you want to get dark just tell us why these qualifiers have been called often if at this early stage it's possible the next year's cup of nations could be pushed back . first of all odds of being caught 'd of i mean the entire world has witness a state of to sportsman suspensions or outright collapse in of me just put in competitions across the board and so in fact many many watchers believe that the confederation of african football delayed in making that decision to call the qualifiers of because i mean after us country after our african country was confirming cases of the current where is it seemed not quite sensible to carry on with the games especially also because a lot of african players are based in europe and in parts of the world where they are not where it is wreaking havoc and just give us an idea gary the moment incidents of domestic football in ghana was what sort of impact is the current of us having. at the mom

traveling to egypt, lebanon, saudi arabia, ghana, morocco, and algeria. but of course, what was the most critical aspect of this trip? what city, what town was most important to malcolm's development? yes. mecca, without question. right? and of course, as we've talked about in previous classes, being raise raised in nation of islam theology, he was raised to think that white people were fundamentally evil. and in many ways, his own experiences, his own life experiences with white people reinforced that. so when he was told that, while he was in prison, you know, by his brothers and sisters who had converted to the nation, it didn't spraz him. it actually clicked for him because according to him, it made sense in terms of the way his parents had been treated. of course he was the son of a father who most likely was lynched. some of his uncles were lynched in georgia. he, of course, experienced and watched his own family broken up and not supported by authorities. he saw his mother instead of being supported by other people because she had so many children

and so he talked about these classical, precolonial african kingdoms like ghana, mali. and dubois later wrote in one of his books, quote, i was too astonished to speak. he -- he talked about boaz as suddenly awaking him from the paralysis of the commonly held judgment taught to me in high school and two of the world's great universities that africa had no history. those two great universities were harvard university where he earned his bachelors and ph.d. and the university of berlin, which in the early 1900s, was the preeminent university in the western world. and so he, the -- quite possibly the greatest and most-educated african-american in the country, had no clue about africa's history. and -- and so, for him, he viewed africa like -- like african-americans generally viewed africa. as this sort of place of -- of -- of barbarism. this place of -- where civilization was never really known. and he also wrote in his reflection that i came then and afterwards to realize how the silence and neglect of science can let truth utterly disappear. so essentially, that truth ab

doesn't matter whether they come from zimbabwe orghana or matter whether they come from zimbabwe or ghanas home. there were anti- south african demonstrations across the continent. the south african authorities tried to dampen down on tensions and said the violence was perpetrated by criminals. but some believe there is resentment at foreigners doing well in a country is