but today, rwanda is regarded as an economic success story in africa.nt, paul kagame, has invited tech companies to the country to test their ideas. first drones, and now artificial intelligence. we visited the offices of babylon, called babyl in rwanda, with the health minister. he is here to see a demonstration of how the ai triage works. the company already has 2 million registered users and has done thousands of consultations. babyl is using the same chat bot as its uk customers would use, but there are several differences here. most people use feature phones, not smart phones. so the service is provided by a nurse, who reads the text over the phone. this is the symptom checker, which would refer the patient to a human doctor. with long waiting times and long walks between homes and health centres, patients using the app can save a lot of time. after speaking to the nurse via a chat bot, pacifique was able to pick up a prescription in about ten minutes. translation: you see? the service is easy. you can use it at home and come to the hospital and th

president xi jinping is traveling through africa has become the first chinese president to visit rwanda we'll hear from the country about how he's been missing. into supreme court to decide whether to decriminalize homosexuality look at the awful secrecy of life of gay people suffering under i colonial era lol that is routinely used to persecute them. on the term the pleasure gardens in the danish capital copenhagen celebrate their one hundred seventy fifth anniversary this year and first opened to christmas and described a simple we'll hear black ops just talked about a family and danish far. more basic world views on the basics made up of. europe is under pressure here is facing many challenges from the outside we can also cause and wish the refugees a good journey to europe and from being inside somalia italians first that's materializing a slogan is european disunity threatening the european union. europe's flashpoints. close up in forty five minutes long d.w. . the trouble of technology. the result of the markets. the momentum of the board. in germany. your business magazine d w. p

concept there in cooperation with startups rwanda is attractive because of its well trained workers the nationally only the components for three models were transported to kigali and assembled there the german car maker has invested sixteen million euros in this project. more and more companies in great britain are warning of the consequences of a hard break that negotiations have so far been slow and there is disagreement within the british government on important issues now the british automobile federation has warned the government against leaving the european customs union. breck's it with customs controls at the borders would only be a logistical nightmare. for the car sector. following determination of the nuclear agreement with iran the usa is now demanding that all countries stop imports of a rainy in oil it's a return to the state before the treaty a representative of the u.s. state department threatened to impose sanctions on countries that do not comply however the iranian government announced that it would not let the u.s. bring it to its knees harley davidson wants to s

well a flurry of new trade agreements of mark sheeting pings trip to rwanda as the first ever visit by chinese president to the country and she stopped in rwanda on his way to the break summit of the logical and south africa rwandan president paul kagame they praised china for its treatment of the continent as an equal china has become africa's biggest trading partner and a major fina infrastructure projects the critics have assailed some projects on human rights and environmental. or one of the infrastructure projects china is pursuing elsewhere in africa is the kenyan railing which will run across the country between its indian ocean port of mombasa through to neighboring the ganda it also cuts through national park territory and has come in some severe criticism. these animals roam freely barely seven kilometers outside kenya's capital nairobi but their unrestricted lifestyle is endangered kenya has contracted the china roads and bridges corp to extend and modernize its main railway line the first leg connecting the bus in nairobi was completed in twenty seventeen the second leg wil

but today rwanda is regarded as an economic success story, in africa.of babylon, called babyl, in rwanda, with the health minister. he is here to see a demonstration of how the ai triage works. the company already has 2 million registered users and has the thousands of consultations. babyl is using the same chat bot as its uk customers would use, but there are several differences here. most people use feature phones, not smart phones. so the service is provided by a nurse, who reads the text of the ai over the phone. this is the symptom checker which would refer the patient to a human doctor. with long waiting times and long walks between homes and health centres, patients using the app can save a lot of time. after speaking to the nurse via a chat bot, pacifique was able to pick up a prescription in about ten minutes. translation: you see? the service is easy. you can use it at home and come to the hospital and they will see you immediately. babyl have employed several methods to get the message out to the general population here. they hold rallies aro

going on tonight in the small african nation of rwanda. >> 20,000 are believed dead after five daysy of violence, three women can be seen pleading for their lives. they are first savagely beaten then hacked to death by village soldiers. >> extremists killed their hutu neighbors. >> because of the horror of somalia, there was no will whatsoever to intervene in rwanda, even though there were many early warning signals that an intervention could have stopped that genocide. >> the savagery in rwanda is turning out to be far worse than anyone could imagine. >> 7 to 800,000 people were being killed one at a time. they weren't killed by bombs. they were killed by machetes. and then the thought that we could have done something about it. as clinton began to realize that, it tortured him and changed him. he said it's the biggest regret of his presidency. >> in eastern bosnia it's one of the darkest days in the history of the united nations. the bosnian serbs captured the town. >> there had been made safe zones. one of them was srebrenica. >> they were force today flee their home in terror wh

>> we're looking at a rwanda paper, his triple take him to rwanda, then south africa.here is a lot of anticipation , with theis trip countries expected to sign deals health, mining, trade, these exemptions, and law enforcement. they say that farmers and manufacturers should make the most of the chinese market. here in france, there is focus on the interior minister. he is undergoing a hearing at the national assembly. >> he is facing a grilling over that video of -- video that surfaced of alexandre benalla beating a protester during a rally last may. he is being grilled. , a statepage, you see in shock while another daily warns of a high risk week ahead for macron and his government. >> it has some scathing words. >> it is critical after the scandal on the front page. it is a scandal that has revealed the downward spiral of a hyper presidency or a super controlled presidency. the paper reveling in the scandal. arroganceto light the of a government that locks up democracy and protects its own. the king has been left naked. it has warranted an editorial from a lebanese e

lasers are still considerably cheaper than those made from a good cultural waste now let's head to rwanda a small country is topic that's already harnessing renewable energy in a big way as well as a part of the sun there are also valuable resources to top everywhere let's look at an example here in rwanda here and if your firm is already extracting naturally or calling me from its water this potentially lethal gas is now being used in a positive way in the area lake of the northwest as playgrounds. the trouble is that the leak contains dangerously high levels of methane which is deadly for most fish species the lake is becoming toxic according to scientists if the gas isn't extracted that could be a major eruption here in about a hundred years and the destruction plant has been in operation since early twenty six team i'm not sure about siphons the methane gas to the selfies and then the gases used to supply electricity to the national grid let's acknowledge he has never before used to extract a thing from a leak the construction of the plants took several gas us company can toll global

this so we can get the truth out there and there have been great victories with forensic evidence in rwanda and yugoslavia. so the dedication to my this work and others who are more steeped in it than i am comes from that pursuit. >> do you feel any sense of sort of, i don't know, desperation, disappointment at the current u.s. administration? you are a u.s.-based organization. you are in the united states where we're talking to you. do you think that this administration is minded to help pursue these kinds of moral and judicial cases and accountability and let's not forget it was the united states under the obama administration which moved mountains to norm normalize relations with myanmar and support democracy there. >> we have grave concerns about the withdrawal from the human rights community by the united states, that includes withdrawing from the human rights commission. these cornerstones or accountability, the icc, the rome statute, the international criminal court, those represent international rules that we have worked toward to establish accountability for perpetrators. so to the

rwanda is appalling here when it comes to the environment. plastic bags were banned here some time ago and replaced with paper bags in many shops but that still means quite a lot of trash doesn't show yes but there are lots of bright spots coming up we have ideas on how to talk about that problem one young entrepreneur is collecting the paper with creating new and lovely products for made up cycling project if this makes doing your bit for the environment an echo of africa. from paper to pearls how to turn waste paper into jewelry. in the eastern one city of warmer gonna pay for waste is a huge problem tons of paper are thrown away they're not recycled you see is a marquee garment esther wanted to tackle the problem. she got used paper at the local high school where anything from old calendars to used writing paper can be found. burning paper harms the environment. so she decided to create something useful. there then turned into bracelets necklaces and earrings. it takes around five kilos of paper to make one hundred bracelets. for fashion d

rwanda. >> good evening.night in the small african nation of rwanda. >> 20,000 are believed dead after five days after massacres. >> in this orgy of violence, three women can be seen pleading for their lives. they're first savagely beaten and then hacked to death by soldiers. >> village after entire village wiped out by extremists. >> because of the horror of somalia, there was no will whatsoever to intervene in rwanda. even though there were many early warning signals that a modicum of intervention could have stopped that genocide. >> the savagery is turning out far worse than anyone imagined. >> 700,000 to 800,000 people would be killed at one time. they weren't killed by bombs. they were killed by machetes and then the thought that we could have done something about it. as clinton began to realize that, it tortured him and it changed him. he said it's his biggest regret of his presidency. >> in eastern bosnia, this has been one of the darkest days in the history of the united nations. the serbs have captur

china to set an example of what kind of relationship it wants in fact the smaller countries like rwanda like senegal would be a better choice for china at this point all right let's bring in andrea's to the conversation andres what do you see as china as short and long term agenda in africa. sure i think in the short term it's mostly a public relations exercise you know these grandiose projects these part projects of ping they certainly make a great headlines and it's actually an easy sell to and you know the african. population to say we'll bring infrastructure will improve into connectivity between these for example east african countries but you see the devil is in the detail and many of these development projects are actually loan based and for example for this is the african countries like you theo south sudan kenya you mentioned rwanda also buendia and tanzania they have actually borrowed close to ten billion u.s. dollars through for example develop these railways which will link up to very cities in east africa but about eighty percent of the funding comes from china and these ar

china to set an example of what kind of relationship it wants in fact the smaller countries like rwanda like senegal would be a better choice for china at this point all right let's bring in andrea's to the conversation andres what do you see as china as short and long term agenda in africa. sure i think in the short term it's mostly a public relations exercise you know these grandiose projects these part projects of they certainly make great headlines and it's actually an easy sell to when you know the african. population to say we'll bring infrastructure will improve into connectivity between these for example east african countries but you see the devil is in the detail and many of these development projects are actually loan based and for example for these east african countries like you theo south sudan kenya you mentioned rwanda also ballooned in tanzania they have actually borrowed close to ten billion u.s. dollars through for example develop these railways which will link up to very cities in east africa but about eighty percent of the funding comes from china and these are loan

chinese president xi jinping has on his way to africa he's going to make stops in senegal and rwandabefore heading on to south africa to take part in a summit china is investing heavily in africa both financially and militarily in china correspondent adrian brown is in beijing adrian what are the key things we should be looking for in this trip. well he's going to be out of the country for ten days which for a chinese leader is a very long trip indeed a very long tour indeed before he goes to africa rob he's actually going to be stopping in the united arab emirates for a day or two the u.a.e. of course is a very important trading partner of china but so is good and so china has to diplomatically tread very carefully in this area because it relies on both for energy exports but the main i guess feature of his visit to africa will be the brics summit in south africa this is going to be addressed by president xi jinping brics is a grouping of the world's leading developing nations that's to say brazil russia india china and south africa and given that china is now in a trade war with th

president xi jinping is flying to africa for the books economic summit to make stops in senegal and rwanda before heading to south africa where china is investing heavily in the continent both financially and militarily adrian brown has more from beijing. well this will be president xi jinping third visit to africa in less than six years that is a measure of just how important africa is to china right now he's going to be away for ten days the highlight of his african tour is probably going to be an address he's due to make of the brics forum in south africa brics of course comprises the world's five leading developing economies that's brazil russia india china and south africa and given that china is now in broiled in a trade war with the united states it's fair to assume the president xi will deliver a robust defense of free trade and multilateralism which is something the brics believes in so he's going to be among allies and friends at brics africa has become hugely important to china it recently opened a military base in djibouti on the horn of africa where the united states also has

president donald trump has suspended rwanda's ability to ship clothing products duty free to the united states the u.s. says the moves in response to rwanda's increased tires on american used clothing and footwear the random government says the move was implemented to protect its own garment industry as was one of the many recent tyrus imposed by the u.s. and countries around the world. time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back another round of diplomatic talks takes place a bit ending the war in syria. and australia is expected to send firefighters to help the u.s. battle wildfires in california more on that stay with us. our little change at the moment hot and dusty would be the two i should just describe the weather really from pakistan right back to the mediterranean temperature wise we are of course spread where we should be just under thirty in beirut and way into the forty's throughout iraq we're near fifty again in this area just north of kuwait southwestern society shiraz for example the breeze is consistent. is blowing it every now and again tucks in see the hum

president donald trump has suspended rwanda's ability to ship apparel products duty free to the united states the u.s. says the moves in response to rwanda's increased terrorists on american used clothing and footwear the rwandan government says the move was implemented to protect its own garment industry this is just one of many recent tariffs imposed by the u.s. on nations around the world. well sort of coming on al-jazeera including australia is expected to send firefighters to help the u.s. battle wildfires in california. and hundreds of hikers make their way back to safety after being trapped up a mountain invasion more and stay with us. beneath pink sky and spy the taj mahal. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. our little change at the moment hot and dusty would be the two as you just describe the weather really from pakistan right back to the mediterranean temperature wise we are of course spread where we should be just under thirty in beirut and way into the forty's throughout iraq we need fifty again in this area just north of kuwait southwest and society shiraz for exam

and paying has become the first chinese president to visit rwanda it's his second stop in africa she aims to further promote china's wrote us one of the continent's biggest investors she and his wife paying yuan were welcomed by wanda's president paul kagame and his wife visit comes ahead of an emerging economies summit china is heavily involved in building infrastructure on the continent including a new railway line in kenya but that project has many critics. these animals roam freely barely seven kilometers outside kenya's capital nairobi but their unrestricted lifestyle is endangered kenya has contracted the china roads and bridges corp to extend and modernize its main railway line. the first leg connecting mombasa in nairobi was completed in twenty seventeen the second leg will link kenya to neighboring uganda it cuts right through the national park all that tomboy. noise on top of you is going to make the park. and these are not much of a park where by animals can walk in and walk out. of them a foot at a few of the men and i'm not going to stop here conservationists have been f

that president xi jinping visited on his tour this time were not resource rich countries such as rwanda or senegal or more riches but they are playing a tremendous important tremendously important role in in you know in bringing forward africa's in the thirty's ation and china has understood to use that as china is not the only not the only country and since i've understood the importance of africa india's prime minister and remote he has also been on the road before the summit is there competition going on. it's hard to say there is a competition but we cannot avoid to see that india has not stepped up his its ambition in african countries as well also india has a century long relations with african countries especially with east african countries but chinese success i would say starting in the mid ninety's until today has caused other countries also to our just a strategy towards africa and india especially has been teaming up with countries like japan to counter a china but not initiative that has also a tremendous attractiveness to african countries so the afro asian or the african

thousand people have died in the conflict it's also created africa's largest refugee crisis since the rwanda genocide. now the twelve boys and football coach rescued from a flooded cave in thailand will be to start just judge from hospital next thursday the health minister says they are all recovering well physically and mentally after their eighteen day ordeal concerns however being raised over how they will deal with their sudden fame in a video released on saturday some of the boy spoke of a gratitude i wouldn't even want thank you for worrying about me and thank you for going into the cave to help me out don't worry about me now i'm safe hahaha. would like to thank all the navy seals who came in to help us and thank everyone for their moral support until today. well thailand's public health minister says the boy's wellbeing takes top priority and. from now on the work continues to make sure they're all healthy both physically and mentally and for them to grow up as good people in the future all sides must work together. now wildlife conservationists have declared an environmental disaste

four year deal with the italian champions reportedly wants five hundred fifty thousand euros a week rwanda lifted for champions league in a glittering and nine in style in madrid becoming the club's all time top scorer in the process the portuguese first joined ryall in the wild a record deal for manchester united. you're watching the news coming up ahead. sam's town of south koreans in the life out of spain's on the industry sales plummeting in jobs slashed pharmacy the u.s. president is trying to blow up europe piece by piece. that and more coming up with danny winter is standing by and will be shortly in the meantime can always check out our website there's did appear. to. be true for. his work goddess fortuna. the munch entries. beethoven's twenty.

for example in rwanda this week the chinese president is said to have signed 15 deals worth millionsllars. some will say this is absolutely fantastic because after all who else will do it? and yet critics claim that chinese investment comes in the form of difficult to repay loans which could block african countries into beijing's sphere of influence. the united states has announced a $12 billion emergency aid package to help those hurt by the escalating trade war. farmers will receive their payments or be able to resell access produce to the government. that is because the retaliatory measures by american trading partners targeted the agricultural industry. business reporter paul blake explains why. farmers obsolete, dairy, meat, pork, various other agricultural sectors of the us. many people might be asking why those industries and those centres have been targeted. a lot have strategic value in the us and in many cases the farming community is heavily involved in these sectors have been strong supporters of donald trump, so the idea behind this is to pressure the farmers who are thi

thousand people have died in the conflict it's also created africa's largest refugee crisis since the rwanda genocide. now the twelve boys and football coach rescued from a.

from got it still to come china's president to visit south africa and india's prime minister is in rwanda good look at why these two powerful eye asian economists are so interested in the continent of africa back for office. sort of gets you can always get the w. nears on the go just down the road i'm from google play off of the apple store i will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use it to send you some photos and for years. all about i'm told on the way this is the duck. the question. is very children remain naturally move. customizing the poetry won't buy some of that modern slate that's no longer fiction it's a booming business with business and the sunni just begun to unfold its full potential only on the cost of steering our own to the ocean. in forty five minutes to deal with. climate change. waste. pollution. say. isn't it time for. a go at africa people and projects that are changing our parents for the better. good. w. . your support team the smarter the d w for smart. sunday morning. dot

will go to rwanda to meet a woman who creates jewelry from waste. and then we will show you a pretty awful solution to the problem of water hyacinth in. sea horses mysterious and magical moving on and was threatened with extinction in many parts of the world scientists in south africa trying to do something to save. i mean human creatures then developed a method to observe them in the ocean. sea horses are incredibly well camouflaged that protects them but makes it hard for researchers to find them and tell them apart. scientists in south africa have found a way of marking the animals by implanting harmless fluorescent tugs under the skin . that helps them identify on truck individuals. tagging the animal and understanding its movement and home range will be able to understand what habitat and what area it needs for its entire lives spent once we know this we can demarcate zones and areas and focus that as sea was conservation areas and hopefully that will promote population growth of the species and help the conservation going forward. the noise in

professional recycling has become big business here in rwanda. after the plastic has been liquefied it is made into k. like strads which are then chopped into pieces these would later be mixed with all the materials wants me to start and cycling company and plastics. because run the. initiative to protect the environment that's why we ban plastic bags and some of the people so it threads i say doesn't paternity. the company's recycling process produces reusable bags tops and packaging for the construction industry and for agriculture. when the ban plastic bags ten years ago plastic waste is still everywhere here who wonders environment agency recovers tons of interim landfills a lot can also be found along the borders with neighboring countries. as a country in africa where countries as to using plastics we can say we have proof of plastics one hundred percent maybe our success is at a nine to five because we are here exchanging goods. when this recycling industry is also creating jobs this alteration for instance has ninety three full time emplo

especially in africa, this message about how it can be spread with social media -- if you think back to rwanda with the gecide being broadcast on the radio, do you think what he has to say is particularly listened to in africa in that point? linda: i think it is absolutelyn li to, and the power of social media today and the impact that social media has on people cannot be ignored. w i think th the message he was delivering. he said we cannot put it back in a box. we have to figure out how to use it in a much more positive way. laura: barack obama ofeks out younger audiences. today was no exception. is that his message, that it is wn to you, the next generation, to figure this out? linda:bsolutely. i thoughhe was inspiring to young people, that their job is to move forward and to figure out new solutions for old problems. i think they heard him loudly and clearly. laura: this is the most high-profile speech that barack obama has made since he left office. do you feel we will be hearing more from him? linda: i can only hope we will hear more from him.pe thish has set a tone that is needed, and i

does rwanda have a half and half parliament? 6196 are female, the highest number in the world.he is very careful, and i think he has gone further in the last couple of days in south africa talking about creeping authoritarianism around the world. i was speaking to some people who had worked for barack obama and asked if people were pushing him to step up on europe, vladimir putin, they say that they know that if he does he becomes a punching bag for donald trump and turns it on his twitter feed, which does not help anybody. but he has spoken up on the issue of women in office. this is beyond 100 days. still to come... have you lost your sense of humour? sometimes christian des! well, if you're in need of a laugh the national gallery in washington mayjust have the answer. find out why a little later in the programme. it's been touted as an easy way to protect your heart, take omega—3 fish oil supplements we've all been told. well now, researchers say the evidence for this is flimsy at best. a new study has found the chance of getting any meaningful benefit from taking the supple

president kagame of rwanda said something i will never forget. this is the first time someone respected us enough to hold us accountable. . it's not about paternalism, it's not about we're going to do this pilot project, we're going support you for a national scaleup of programs that will achieve result which is they want to do, too. they want results for their people and their country. the thing about hiv which is somewhat unique is its long-term therapy. it's life long therapy. it's also life long prevention. people are at risk 20 or, 30, 40 years so two of the greatest legacies is believing in people in the country which is president bush viscerally did. he got so upset when people would say things about oh, these people can't do that. it would drive him insane, literally. and that led to the millennial challenge blg corporation. the president's malaria initiative, doubling of foreign development money, quadrupling our -- i can't remember, five fold increase in support for africa. it was a strengthening agoa for trade. it was a systemic we can

chinese president xi jinping is that rwanda part of a four nation trip to africa to establish deeper trade ties he earlier visited sun the goal which is the first west african country to be involved in china's belt and road infrastructure projects beijing has been expanding its presence in africa in recent years in twenty sixteen alone china invested thirty nine billion dollars in the continent bringing the total to more than two hundred billion but the initiative hasn't been without its critics the u.s. thinks the countries are not prepared for such huge investment and may end up deeply in debt to china however recent offensive remarks from donald trump have strained relations with the continent the president of the united states is racist he really is the devil this is an actual quote from the actual president this is the gift that he decided to give the american people they're not whole countries for one donald trump isn't there for us it. political analysts we spoke to think that countries in africa are turning to china because of u.s. government policies. the united states has a

international chinese president xi jinping has arrived in rwanda as part of his four nation trip to africa to this stablish deeper trade. he earlier visited senegal which is the first west african country to be involved in china is belt road infrastructure project beijing has been expanding its presence in africa in recent years in twenty sixteen alone china invested thirty nine billion dollars in the continent bringing the total to more than two hundred billion that's roughly twice the a month but the united states has invested enough. and earlier this year u.s. ties with several african countries were put under strain by some infamous remarks from donald trump the president of the united states is racist he really is the devil this is an actual quote from the actual president this is the gift that he decided to give the american people they're not all countries for one donald trump isn't their president. let's cross live now to journalist lawrence freeman african affairs analyst to get his take lawrence welcome to the program what do you think she jinping will be hoping to get from his t

in rwanda, which is the worst example, we focus on the massacre, the killing.ut people forget that hundreds of thousands of women were deliberately infected with hiv and died as a result -- not of the violence, the machete, but died of the hiv infection, because they couldn't get treatment. >> before we run out of time, i want to talk about your book. this other book. you have two books. >> yes. provocative art in it, and we can't show some of those problem pictures, but if you could just describe the reason you did this before we run out of time. >> so, my other book, the "lethal decisions," was written almost like elie wiesel wrote the night he accepted his nobel prize, "i had to write it. i had to tell the story." and so that book had to tell the story of we've been successful, yes, but we can't say we've been successful in ending the epidemic worldwide. and it goes into why. as i dealt with the violence against women in these poor countries, i realized i was really dealing with two epidemics -- an epidemic of hiv, certainly, but an epidemic of violence. and

twenty twenty president xi jinping of china is in africa this week he'll pass through senegal and rwandaefore heading to south africa and the brics summit in johannesburg africa plays a key role and she's belton road plan china's africa's largest trading partner of chinese made products a hit with u.s. tariffs there could be a knock on effect africa's share of global exports is low making up just two point four percent of total global exports two thirds of sub-saharan imports are finished products product shipped out to the rest of the world are dominated by broad materials africa's current internal trade is low to where my next guest is the group c. o. of echo bank which has a presence in over thirty african countries joining me now from london is i am a good to have you with us sir so first of all how would the global trade war impact the continent. i think every war is not good but from an african point of view we have very focused on how we can ensure that we continue to participate in global trade board the in bands to our continent and they're our band from our quantum and we're ve