so today will be me, kings bateman, thomas africa, earrings and that's he will be cutting. and then eddy here will be hammering, which is texture rising. i'll be needing the metal mbm soldering and then to say hold the punishing and assembling bit earrings. sure. she's actually finishing everything off. i studied jewelry design with the appraisal junior project, what they do as they concentrate more on the practical side of jewelry design. they saw that i was a j. m. so they decided to make sure that i studied feather. so i did a shot course and cared which is computer aided design. it was quite intensive bad . it was with a roofing after a few years in business, i applied for a scholarship to go study in italy and i was chosen as one of the 25 students was my 1st time been been outside san africa. i had to study jewelry design in italian, and i didn't know that until i could be, but now i can proudly say i can speak a bit of italian. everything that i went in, i brought it home and i'm sharing with it. we went around me. i lent for business management to graphic design to

thomas, how's an attorney and the marriage? mercy professor of law in south africa. let's move on for now. america will not save your opinions from freezing this winter is the heads of us shall companies say, there are no hurry to increase exports, contributor rachel marston has the details. the e, you appears to be keen on fighting russia down to the last ukranian and also down to the last hero of its own citizens. europeans who may have thought that they could count on their government to soften the blow of the clammy energy prices and inflation are starting to realize that the elite are more interested in solidarity with ukraine than with them. the most recent hint came this week from french economy minister between the math, who suggested that not all local authorities in france could end up with the help from the french government to keep services running amid the energy crunch. you have well managed communities and others, the to less well managed when i see communities that have hired massively and then come to appeal to the state because they can't pay the en

andrea thomas house in america, is professor of lauren, south africa. a state does not wrong, has committed a wrong in terms of international law. it does not entitle any other states or any other group of sex. to engage in a belligerent man of france was to conduct a blockade or in they cannot make war or 2 stocks. calling for the destruction, in this case, the destruction of russia, even even from the highest level, from the commission of the european union recruit things like russia must be, must be thrown back into the pre industrial era. so this is a conduct which is era consulted with a fundamental duties of international law. we see vast propaganda, aggressive war mongering across the western world. and this has led to this situation where actually nature is conducting a proxy war against russia. so the top us officials have strongly condemned a wrong for quote human rights violations. it comes off for a 22 year old woman, died in police custody after being arrested, as we understand for wearing a head job that was deemed unsuitable. marcia armin

sanction rates were these right now let's go live to dr. andre thomas. housing is a german attorney and a meritus, a professor of law in south africa. so thanks so much for joining us in an odd c. now the president made his statement this morning, 9 a m local time. what are your thoughts over the statement? but he made well, i have been my whole life or professor of international law. so i immediately thought again of united nations charter to go to section 3 and for section 3 is very important. because in it all states commit themselves to conduct all of their policies in peaceful way in a peaceful manner. and they accept that the use of force is reserved to the united nation. and this means, as i used to tell my students in their 1st year, it means that even if a state doesn't wrong as committed a wrong in terms of international law, it does not entitle any other states or any other group of things. to engage in a belligerent manner, for instance, to conduct a blockade or in they cannot make war or 2 stocks at calling for the fraction. in this case, for destruction of russia, even, even from the highest level, from the commission

minister, when he was in africa, talked about security council reform and mentioned russia might the supportive. we will engage on this and see how far gets it. >> ambassador linda thomasenfield. thank you for joining us. good luck with the diplomatic whirlwind ahead. tomorrow, president biden will address the u.n. general assembly. much of order rico remains without power after hurricane fiona battered the region, leaving 80% of homes and businesses in the dark. fiona hit puerto rico sunday, causing an islandwide outage for its 1.5 million customers as power lines were damaged. generators have been powered up with the full restoration could take several days. speaking with a journalist in san juan, puerto rico. thank you for joining us. tell us about the scale of the damage in puerto rico. >> thank you for having me. the damage at this time is still being assessed. some parts of the island were hit harder than others. the southern and west part had great flooding. it has caused massive landslides, people to lose homes. rescue efforts are still ongoing. we do have a clearer image than we did have in the last two days while the hurricane was going on. but at the time, i

ambassador to the united nations, thomas-greenfield, another choice that putin has made. it's -- in the hope that by starving people in africalve? >> it has become a major consequence of this unprovoked war on ukraine. what we learned as this war started is that both russia and ukraine are major, major exporters of wheat. and some countries in africa and the middle east close to 50 or 60% of their wheat comes from russia and ukraine and because of russia's attack on ukraine ukraine has not been able to export it sweeps until just recently, after the secretary general was able to strike an agreement between russia and ukraine with the help of turkey to get some of that wheat out. russia can also export its own wheat they've argued to the international community that sanctions have contributed to the food insecurity when in fact there are no sanctions on russia's agricultural products they can explore their wheat, they can export fertilizer which we learned that so many countries depend on from russia and we need to end this war so that we can start to rebuild the economies of these countries who are so dependent on exports, t

pakistan and in parts of africa, it's the worst food and security crisis that i've experienced in my close to 40 years working as a diplomat. next is global health ambassador thomas us will challenge countries to meet the call to replenish the 18 billion dollar global health fun to tackle issues like hiv/aids malaria and tuberculosis we have agreed that we will contribute one dollar for every two dollars of a country's contributes. so that puts our our contribution at about six billion dollars. finally. she says the us will discuss ways to improve the un system to better deal with modern-day crises that includes efforts to reform the security council the security council should also better reflect. current global realities and incorporate more geographically diverse perspectives the ambassador's visit to the bay area includes a meeting with representative barbara lee to discuss climate change with california's record-breaking heat wave as a backdrop. this is not an issue for the next generation the critics of the united nations point to its inability to enforce rulings ideological bias and bureaucracy and corruption, but thomas greenfield says despite its flaws t

africa has lost over a 3rd of its fans, largely due to water scarcity. as the droughts become more severe, and the bo holes try out, farmers like thomas a going to need a radical solution. professor joe ferris to the university of cape town is hoping to provide to spat, tilts. research focuses on a kind of planned in some extraordinary properties. and she's ideally situated because one type grows wild in the hills just behind the university campus. this is, it looks, it, doesn't, it, it does, but it's not, it's actually, it's dried, it's lost, all it's water and it's cold. it's, it's fund into very protective kind of way. how long can it survive like this? ah months to use depending on the species. and the moment of rain, the thing will re hydrate within 2 hours. within 2 hours, you will see yes, it of to use. wow. a good one species. we kept them dry for 10 years. 12 hours later, there were a lot. i'm trying to unlock the secrets of how these plants can actually lose all that amount of water and not die. so once you understand these plans better and unlock the secrets, what do you do with those humans? i make crops do the same thing that's mind to do. jill ta

africa. >> it is the worst food insecurity crisis i've experienced in my close to 40 years working as a diplomat. >> the next is global health. ambassador thomashe u.s. will challenge countries to meet the call to replenish the $18 billion global health fund to tackle issues like malaria, hiv aids and tuberculosis. >> we have agreed we will contribute one dollar for every two dollars of a country's contribution. that puts our contribution at about $6 billion. >> she says the u.s. will discuss ways to improve the u.n. system to better deal with modern crises, including efforts to reform the security council. >> the security council should better reflect the current global realities and incorporate more geographically diverse perspectives. >> the ambassador positive visit includes a visit with representative barbara lee to discuss climate change. >> this is not an issue for the next generation. >>>> critics of the united nations .2 corruption, but ambassador thomas greenfield said it is still important because countries cannot tackle issues on their own. >> we can't address climate change by ourselves. we cannot address peace and security issues

american ambassador to the un linda thomas green, the us secretary of state has been holding meetings with representatives of such countries all week, how south africadan each of them calls to condemn the russian aggression the task of the americans is to mobilize the whole world to carry out what they call un reform in other words to throw russia out of the security council of this organization, that is, the next one. to use developing countries for the sake of his own hegemonic interest barrel has already said that putin should not win, you can’t let him wait for general frost, this is a direct quote , the head of the ukrainian foreign ministry flew to new york, who began his visit by telling the countries of latin america that they were with the ukrainians, it turns out also in the same boat so far in the collective west with this letov justice. for the sake of it turns out not very lavrov will be at the general assembly. and he painted in the truest sense of the word. every hour numerous non-stop meeting french lemon. writes the shadow of putin hovering in the halls. even if he himself is not in the hall, the world is split like never before and