ilo ilo" is about capturing a period and i wanted to present a very accurate and authentic portrait of it. it's not about, you know how life should be how beautiful clothes should be. for me it's about an honest portrait of how people live and work and grow up through that times. when i made "ilot in 1997 during the asian financial crisis. i chose that period because it was a period that i remembered very well. i remember that a lot of companies closed down. a lot of people were laid off, and as a child you watch and you hear all this bad news and there's a sense of depression. it's not about just quick, you know, economic benefits. it's not just about oh, we're going to get the gdp growth up and all that. we could pursue gdp forever, we could pursue economic progression forever. >> some people tend to look at singapore as a country of economic power but whether or not it can be a great breeding ground for culture is another question. have you felt it that way? >> definitely. i think as an artist as a practitioner, as a film maker, you really do feel -- because we're such a small country, you know it's been tough in the early days. we really started with not having enough food not having enough water, so -- so it was years and years of trying to you know stand on our two feet

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this according to the report from the ilo, the international labor organization. the ilo says 212 million people will be out of work. that's up from the current 201 million. how about this number? more than 61 million jobs have been lost since the start of the global crisis in 2008. more on that coming up in gmt. let me link it with this employers spend, on average, less than nine seconds scanning a candidate cv. could be your cv before they move on to the next one. lack of attention is due to huge volume. one compares it to the dating app, kinder that uses scroll through profiles before they find one or one they like. how do you stand out if you have less than nine seconds to make your mark? we are going to have more coming up on gmt in over an hour's time. there you go. nine seconds. you better make your mark. follow me on twitter. this is not mine. no. follow me on twitter. i'll tweet you back. you can get me at bbc erin. >> you can tweet me. you can tweet me. tweet aaron, tweet me. thank you very much. we'll see aaron very very soon. let's look at the other stories. t

ilo headquarters in geneva. the following year, the convention was adopted and has currently been modified by 172 countries. no ilo convention has been ratified more quickly. iloventions, 138 and 182 and the u.n. convention on the rights of the child now form the basis of the worldwide struggle against child labor and for education. but nevertheless much remains to be done. there are roughly at least 60 million child laborers in india alone. most of them in farming. so if the countries ratified the two ilo conventions, that would be a big step in the right direction. there are currently more than 68 million child laborers worldwide. in the year 2000, the figure was 78 million. in this as in so many other areas, things are thus moving in the right direction. and often much faster than we think. satyarthi indeed believes that child labor can be more or less eliminated in his own lifetime. everyone here shares this hope. your majesties, royal highnesses, and ladies and gentlemen, malala yousafsai is the youngest peace prize laureate of all time. her story has become known all over the world. when she was 11 or 12, she began to write a blog for the bbc about what