A danger to democracy. But 1st we go to the keeper a district of nairobi where the Coronavirus Crisis is causing many to go hungry. Leiria tuberculosis hiv these often fatal diseases are still widespread in africa. And now theyve been joined by coded 19 the worst is yet to come on the continent that is home to 1300000000 people warns the world health organization. Africa has the Worst Health Care in the world with one doctor for 3300 people on average. By comparison o. E. C. D. Countries have one doctor per 300 people. The coronavirus is exacerbating poverty and hunger even in countries like kenya long considered east africas economic powerhouse more than. 2 thirds of kenyans work in the Informal Sector as artisans vendors cleaners most of these jobs have been wiped out by the pandemic now many people can only afford one meal a day and residents of nairobis biggest slum are desperately worried about their livelihoods and their childrens future. Its a tense evening in nairobis keep it a district and ambulance has brought a weak elderly man back to the village who are supposedly tested negative for the corona virus. But many here suspect that he still sick its not entirely clear what his status is but people over worried enough to force the ambulance to take him back to the hospital. Do you think this is a coronavirus dumping ground shout someone in the crowd. The next day 2 bystanders tell us it nearly erupted into violence. The problem with the club was how can they bring up the she and the hero we did not. Like handing because he was up of a good way because the thing that you that we are thats the beauty that people do about it aka not because the driver and the police agreed with us that theyd take him back to the hospital. Now you didnt because the crowd was shouting burn the fuel and set it on fire and you know many of you then thank you im with you. Officially there have been around 11000. 00 cases in kenya so far which is relatively low but there is widespread fear of a major outbreak the country responded quickly with lock downs and compulsory masks but the economy is suffering greatly output is expected to fall by 4 percent this year. And the number of infections has been climbing faster recently in poorer quarters like keep it as well. This district of kenyas capital nairobi is suffering especially badly many here now depend on food. Donations one woman is close to tears she doesnt have a mask with her the volunteers simply give her a warning as they hand her the food parcels. These are typical scenes and in amongst it all the children schools have been closed because of the coronavirus a potentially devastating blow to the future of the Younger Generation here mothers like sophia cant homeschool their children the family has no laptop tablet or computer and the power is often out anyway. But i cant check their answers i didnt go to school so instead they go to the neighbors who do that for me. Sophie is 14 year old daughter sheila gets up at 6 in the morning to do her homework. She waits eagerly for School Lessons to begin on the screen at her neighbors house. Some dont say just newsgroup. Because. They dont have anything. To be. No longer just heard movement. I need to see. The new development so. Theres still a. Hint to me i wont hear a negro it went to be devoted. To. Me and she was frightened of missing too many lessons so she goes round to study at her neighbors whenever theyre at home. Since the beginning of the crisis the government has been working with the United Nations Childrens Fund unicef to expand Remote Learning school programs. Its an attempt to avert the worst says unicef jean and give you. Even before probably demanding crisis to know it was very high. Children are not able to achieve their learning outcomes that they need to achieve at a particular age and you can imagine plastic corbet then this learning outcomes even becomes. The same becomes a problem. If the power fails and the signal cuts out then she will simply has to miss out on the class which is frustrating but remote schooling at least offer some sense of stability during the crisis. Presently makhijani 3 this is also the reason why Sophia Husain invites round as many as 10 kids a day to use her t. V. In the kibera district. She wants to protect them from another kind of threat during the crisis. It is important in that you know i hear. So many cases of. Domestic. So im trying my best to put together the they dont and. There are many like sophia trying to help others theyre the backbone of nairobis keep it a quarter people who wont give up no matter how long the crisis lasts. Personal the coronavirus has been downplayed by the countrys president year. Despite testing positive he has pressed local governments to end lockdown measures and social distancing the outbreak in brazil has claimed the 2nd highest number of deaths after the us yet Many Brazilians are returning to preach to many out of sheer necessity. Its a tough job working is this not found around copacabana beach. Barrow one just up and down in the sweltering heat was. He has no other choice. Month old shelling on the beach is still bad. But i just had to work again. Because the government doesnt provide enough support. Pca. Copacabana beach is of course an icon of rio de janeiro. Its also a place where rich meets poor. Son travels for 4 hours every day just to work here if things go well he barely takes 100 euros home with him. I believe i know this disease is killing a lot of people but if we all stay at home well die anyway only without work and food. Strict social distancing measures all theoretically in place but the police have long given up trying to enforce them almost no one has follows the rules its an open goal for the virus as more and more people take ill and die and while the state is failing to control the situation pressure mounts to open back up as if everythings returned to normal. Thats plain to see as we leave the beach. The usual hustle and bustle of his return to the alleyways of the old city. Almost half of brazilians work in the Informal Sector and live day to day so they have no choice but to be out. Only a few shops were supposed to open off to quarantine but hardly anyone stuck to that. Will brazilians we dont give up we will battle and we muddle through here in the City Security came around a couple of times and tried to stop us working again i just quickly tied everything inside and left the door half open. Carol and her family are also back in business selling food from the trunk of fact car. The lockdown took a big financial toll on. Were taking the risk because we have to work if we could stay at home we would but we couldnt afford to anymore. Reaching into their own stocks for a while caros mother has gone back to cooking for other people every night into the morning. On the menu today is beef with rice and beans one portion costs a little over 2 years they used to sell 100 meals a day now its about 30. Cairo had high hopes of president. And has promised economic boom but those hopes have been dodged by his humbling of the pandemic. Barely adequate i think my god and he runs around without a mask hes careless. You know he shakes peoples hands hes no role model going to make one of them but a lot of people follow his example they dont stick to the rules either because hes not a good role model. To the death toll continues to rise unabated some regions have even had to build musgraves brazil isnt strong contention with the u. S. To become the worlds worst affected country. The poorest are getting the worst of it we travel to the for one of the biggest and. People here seem to feel abandoned. A truck has just arrived with donations today its open disinfectant volunteers from a Citizens Initiative help unload the truck. And. We have to fend for ourselves thats the way it is in the 5. Were going to. The younger ones are doing most of the heavy lifting lets hope that they have a better chance of surviving a covert 19 infection. 20 year old student is one of the organizers. To them. There are so many dead and so much sadness among family and friends. Thats what motivates us. Weve already lost a member of the team to the kimono virus and my friend whos just been helping out is infected right now. Thats not going to faint you know its especially dangerous to distribute goods in the back alleys of mar a guy. Roula streets the volunteers took this footage for us outsiders are not welcome at the moment the virus is spreading and the inhabitants have no real means of protection. Its not clear how many people embers those poor of course is a falling victim to the virus because people who dont get tested dont turn up in the statistics that is certain is that the number of deaths has multiplied dramatically feels betrayed by her own government. Made in Opening Night but the government doesnt care about the favela were really angry with the state. Because it doesnt just neglect us its also racist and we suffer at the hands of the police here on the phone so i think again the 5 alun and most of the young black people who are killed come from the favela. Apple most of the black people who die of covert 1000 come from the family and. Right now were at the epicenter of the coronavirus the core of you dish. And that the very people who are now packed on to buses and trains again. To go back to that job stirring things like cleaning high end shopping malls so that those who can afford it can safely consume. The phallus of the citys engine room cleaners laborous street silos but also teaches nurses and bus drivers live here in these crowded settlements collectively indispensable but easily replaceable as individuals for decades this is the cynical equation thats cappers old running while keeping rich and poor wells apart. Fake news and conspiracy theories like the notion that 5 g. Radiation makes you sick have flourished on social media during the pandemic much dissent from ation has spread on facebook reminding many of the platforms role in the 2016 u. S. Election campaign. Back then with the help of Data Analysis from cambridge analytical wealthy right wingers and russian operatives targeted voters on facebook possibly influencing the outcome of the election. And critics of social media say its potential for manipulation undermines democracy. The internet a seemingly invisible and intangible place but there are also invisible dangers lurking beneath the surface. To me it feels like boiling a frog you know very slow incremental changes and we end up as the fall from. Britains brecks it and the us election and donald trump were among the 1st political campaigns to use algorithms to target and manipulate who uses. Such a new form of censorship a very very strange one. Democracy is vulnerable now because we are vulnerable to manipulation that we dont even notice. We need someone in london whos played a part in that manipulation Christopher Wiley works for cambridge analytical the Company Behind the worst case of data abuse in facebooks history it was cofounded by former white house chief strategist steve bannon and ended up serving as a Propaganda Machine what he was analytic has showed is. How easy it is to infiltrate american political discourse and manipulating the harms that have come from that. To me is akin to you you know a weapon of mass destruction destruction 6 years ago while he left cambridge analytical he became a whistle blower and testified before the u. S. Senate now hes written a new book a peek inside the engine room of mental manipulation. The purpose of. The algorithms. They came in general in a creative word to identify people who were more. Prone sin neurotic traits or conspiratorial ideation the company got hold of and analyzed the data of millions of facebook users to identify that individual fear is together with psychologists cambridge analytical was then able to develop targeted political propaganda for different types of people it had the power to skew someones viewpoint even if by just a few degrees rather than talk in public i can whisper into each and every Single Person here i remember. Watching a focus group where. Africanamerican women would talk about how vulnerable they would feel going to their 2nd or 3rd job at night walking alone in the middle of a city and that you know they needed a gun to protect themselves if youre a right wing campaigner you go ok so lets ignore all the race justice stuff lets ignore equality lets focus on the feeling of being a vulnerable black woman in the middle of the night. Cambridge analytical no longer exists but the tools they developed still do journalist Peter Pomeranz earth researches propaganda at the London School of economics. In the west we did have a social contract for 60 years around certain types of discourse. That weve learned from totalitarian regimes that we dont use but the internet just took it to a different place and suddenly all the stuff that was foot was and you know we do not do demeaning the other in polite discourse you know we could hinted it the tabloids played with us you know they they kind of they were an echo of nazi or soviet propaganda but to just see nazi propaganda all the time on the internet every day is pretty bloody shocking one tactic used to destabilize. Democracy is to flood the internet with contradictory narratives this is freedom of speech but used in a way to camouflage the truth what they do is something that some people call censorship through noise they. Flood the Information Space where so much this information information chaos and what steve baron calls flood the zone with. The people cant tell whats true or false anymore so this is censorship not through constricting but through opening up the gates of information. Its like a place has been created where freedom of speech starts to attack itself its easy to believe that politics will never catch up with the Digital World but that may not be the case. Imagine entering into a building that was built by an architect that didnt have to follow any Safety Standards because we put certain terms and conditions at the front of the door and what we have in Software Engineering and Data Architecture is no rules we need to have a legislative framework for Digital Technology that recognizes that is a product of engineering theyre not services the books by wiley. As a warning no one from cambridge analytical suffered any consequences for their actions there are calls for a regulatory body to approve algorithms move fast and break things was once a facebook its obviously worked. In our global ideas series we focus on Climate Change projects that inspire and offer solutions this week we go to zimbabwe where a devastating cycle struck in 2019 we meet people in the region around she money Money National park who are involved in rebuilding and Environmental Protection in the wake of the storm. 18 year old. Remains devastated. She was here when cyclon eat i told through this in march 2019 several of her friends were killed in the disaster over 200 houses were destroyed even now can barely come to terms with the power of the storm. This policy i think you ask a wonderful place there were lots of things. But its. In a moment if it was for. It i also caused a series of landslides in the nearby to money Money National park. To my money is home to 200 different species of plant. So there are a cypher chorale he has been working for Nature Conservation organization bird life zimbabwe here since 2013 now reconstruction is also on his list of tasks. Restoration is something key now we have seen what is happening around with will be able set up which must be monumentally which is this is the ideal city area. Its an area that also needs restoration as well. So that she. Could be there to be degraded. The environmentalist and his organization are active in 6 villages. In one of the tree nurseries villages like john janji have joined together with others to grow new trees we sit down theres a community to really. Hate. Our area by. Branding. Different in the species so we started by choosing. Some. Weather but its so bad we nest there while i miss that. Zachariah is worried that invasive plants species might take root and spread in the areas destroyed by either by. Native plants would be of much more use to the environment and the people here they can grow in a changing climate. Models an inch too in your species of trees was there used to already be local conditions they served and also the rain for when that will be used to save the these trees have to be replanted to increase there when the bricks. Twice a month suck araya gets together with representatives of the surrounding villages the environmental scientist gives advice on how to use the Natural Resources and he tries to instill an awareness of nature the animals and especially the birds in the area as they come from the different villages the knowledge of that we reported to this group of people we are sure that it was a spirit to do all i can gather 6 villages into one minute. John jangi has prepared lives like flies into practice in his own garden. Alongside his millis and maize crops he now also keeps a fruit or shed. There never was any other woman or to realize that an orchard is one of the many sources of income generation for me that. They were before i started this i used to only grow maize and vegetables but it was that i later grew to appreciate the orchard. Different trees norrish the soil and im spoilt for choice. Because a some fruit trees are growing others are already bearing fruit. But if theyre somewhere that i gotta. Job he sells his friesen they bring villages and that ensures him an income even during the Coronavirus Crisis. So there aside soccer riot is happy with the orchards abandoned because its also important for the whole area. Theres a devastating burrs in the many many mountains and it is when they share the border we did national parks. That also visits. Communities in the forests in also they also come into or shouldnt where they could actually get some food since all feed on fools so by having different or chose they also supply food to many organisms which is where its safe. Insect populations will also ravaged by cycle die most of the 50 beehives here were destroyed. Traditionally families here hollowed out tree trunks to service hinds. Now bird lives and bob way is helping them to make the hives out of timber wood as a way of protecting the remaining tree stocks move not only here we have fruit trees in the village to go in and spread the pollen and this is good for our harvests because eventually well have more fruit and when people realize that there. Of bees in this area they wont chop the trees down because that frightened of them so the bees also provide some form of security you think if you did you mean. 600. 00 hives up planned the environmentalists believe that if people have a sufficient source of income they will be more likely to protect the environment. Thats all from global 3000 this time do write in and then tell us what you thought of the show and look us up on facebook d w women see you soon. Its no place for young women who want to break with tradition the Faroe Islands where men are men and women are meant to behave accordingly. Some are truly islands and lonely hearts. Slowly things are starting to change. Coming up w. Might that have once been life on mas the new rover is about to head to look for traces. Its an incredibly complex machine packed with Amazing Research equipment. We talked to 2 scientists from germany working on the project. To shoot it. In 30 minutes on t w. Ws crime fighters are back africas most successful radio drama series continues this season the stories focus on hate speech color of prevention and sustainable charcoal production. All of a sows are Available Online and of course you can share and discuss on africas Facebook Page and other social media platforms. Crime fighters tune in now. Ok. This is some dope story a stubborn rice farmer from thailand. His problem tests. His credo no chemicals. His wife thought he was crazy. And i bought ducks. 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