i was fortunate to recently sit down with sasha cramer founder and executive director of scheuer soil stands for sustainable organic integrated livelihoods i caught up with saussure at the world economic forum i can't wait for you to hear this interview. our organization has been working in haiti since two thousand and six as you said transforming waste into resources but we primarily focused on is developing dignified sanitation solutions for very dense informal urban areas and finding an alternative to sores and a way to actually get those wastes out of the community and into a compost site where we transform them into compost and get it back on to the soil from whence they came so i showed the haiti has to. i think one of the highest mortality rates for kids in the world why is that i was being dealt with. so surprisingly haiti is a very small country but does have the highest rate of diarrheal incidence among children in the world and the primary reason for this is the has there really is effectively no sanitation system so there are no source system anywhere in haiti and prior to

plus sticking with the caribbean i sat down with a business a social entrepreneur from eighty sasha cramer to discuss how that nation has overcome some critical challenges with an eye towards business now let's get to the day's top. stories. as we reported yesterday the u.s. trade deficit has ballooned to nine year high of five hundred sixty billion dollars creating more trade challenges for the trumpet ministration some have hoped that a controversial trade deal between the european union known as t t f the transatlantic trade and investment partnership could move forward however france's foreign affairs minister has told the french parliament that his country will quote insist that t. tip will never be revived if trump carries through on his promise to leave the paris climate change agreement that president trump said he intends to do so the minister said no paris agreement no trade agreement the u.s. knows what to expense since each of the twenty eight member e.u. nations could veto any new to fear free trade deal the french threat alone could be enough to kill t. tip goodnight irene go