So many different walks of life. Some are. On trial but all of them come straight from the heart to its former c. E. O. And when theres no more dilution the march will. Come. From the 1st of the long run to their final resting place the russians are documentary. They travel in forms of belly and devouring everything in their pocket and invasion of desert and placating country town for having the white times and large areas now theres a danger of them returning. Also coming up is there anything a smartphone con. Dude a new device maintains uganda allows users to take their temperature and the fear out of the pandemic is the case so there are functions. And while many parts of the world struggle to contain the corona virus we take a look at life on for the 1st infections came to life in january. 5th. Im Kate Ferguson thanks for joining me they are tiny but devastating over the past few months forms of Desert Locusts have invaded parts of east africa arriving as nice they feast on any vegetation in their path destroying livelihoods and threatening Food Supplies having ready been wiped out in large areas there is a danger of them returning later in the year in kenya farmers are ready dealing with a 2nd generation of the pests. Theyve swarm through the land for months eating everything in their path its a plague of locusts on the scale kenya hasnt experienced in 70 years this is already the 2nd generation of Desert Locusts to overrun the country this year and with each generation breeding there are millions more for the insects of racist hardly anything for other animals. A nightmare for farmers to harvest to feed their families. These are matters that are very very low cost. In the entire from if you grow from us grown or in order to grow on you find that almost all the directors out been destroyed in this ship so this is the last that we can come together moment. Kenya has tried pesticides to fight the highly mobile swarm and with some success but the swarms move on heading north to countries like ethiopia somalia and south sudan there is great concern that they will return later in the year the fight against the locusts is also a race against time. For more lets bring in Keith Cressman hes the senior locust forecasting officer at the u. N. Food and Agriculture Organization keith good to have you with us if the situation across africa right now well this situation is the worst situation weve seen in the last quarter of a century in kenya in which you were mentioning in your program its a worst situation in 70 years so we were very concerned of course on the upcoming forecast and predictions of what could happen this summer to make it even worse. There just give me an insight as to whats causing these forms of locusts why are they arriving right now well this is a response to whether in fact very very good weather conditions that just didnt start now but it started about 2 years ago in 2018 when there were 2 cycles in the indian ocean that brought very heavy rains and then this was exacerbated by flooding in yemen after that and then another cycle last year at the end of the year in somalia ok lets return to kenya how has it been dealing with this 2nd generation of these pests. Well theyve had now 2 generations of reading so this is required extensive efforts to control them mainly by aircraft so this is aircraft spring bio pesticides and chemical pesticides against the swarms again so when listening in the northern part of the country now these operations are coming to an end most of the swarms have been detected and treated for those of course that are missing detection or treatment they will move northward into ethiopia. Of course this is all happening right in the middle of a pandemic how much more difficult is it to handle this during a house crisis well of course its already extremely difficult to manage Desert Locusts without a Health Crisis is incredibly challenging but now of course we have the coded 19 travel restrictions we have delays in terms of shipments of very important equipment has decided the necessary experts are having a difficult time of course and getting into the eyes corrected countries so its very very complicated but you know they are managing still to undertake the very important control operation and find their way do you see this all going in the next few months well you know now were at the beginning of the summer breeding season so its another period of the year where the locus will increase they wont increase in kenya per se they will be increasing further north in somalia in sudan in ethiopia so much depends on the success of that breeding during the summer as well as those control operations and the summer rain so in the worst Case Scenarios that control our operations are not very good the rains are excellent for the locusts then there could be a reason vision of kenya by the end of the year Keith Cressman thanks so much parents ice thank you. Having a fever is a common symptom of covert 19 but not everyone has a thermometer at home and the cost of them has shot up during the pandemic a new smartphone made in uganda could help the device which costs about 100. 00 comes with an infrared sensor allowing users to take their own temperature producers say its the 1st of its kind in africa. A built in infrared sensor to measure body temperature 36 degrees celsius everything ok no fever. This smartphone is produced in uganda the 1st of its kind in africa for the Marketing Department the g 507 phone is an easy sell one of the key words you put on the. How do we help one or how do we help uganda or off we go. I will contribute should team whats the thank you. Its not exactly new similar smartphones have been produced by china as well way and see me mobile the producers of the g 5 o 7 in uganda are also chinese owned but the little ball you know it only costs 100. 00 american dollars. Thats much less than the temperature guns that use Similar Technology those are worth at least 250. 00 and uganda and you obviously cant phone with them the way you can with a g 507. Shares in apple have been soaring helping to catapult c. E. O. Tim cook into an exclusive club hes now believed to be a billionaire cook has headed aapl since 2011 under his leadership the firm became the 1st u. S. Company to be valued at one trillion dollars and its now even closing in on the 2 trillion mark his wealth comes from his salary at apple as well as its stock options. Now to follow the other business stories making news. German Ecommerce Companies alonzo has reported a big increase in Business Hours pun demick restrictions lead to more online spending so on those operating profits doubled in the 1st half of 2020 and it also added millions of new customers. Although 750000 jobs have been lost in britain since the start of the covert 19 pun demick in march efficient day several east on tuesday showed that new hires plummeted while the number of people claiming jobless benefits doubles. Car sales in china grew strongly last month the automakers Association Says almost 8 per cent more vehicles were sold than a year earlier that specially good news for german money for tourists who rely heavily on china as their most important marcus. Now back in january the attention of the world was on the chinese city of han where a mystery virus was killing 5 people and a sleeping lockdown was bringing life to a standstill 7 months later its the other way round the covert 900. 00 pandemic is causing chaos on suffering around the world while the place where it all started edges ever closer to normalcy. Hard to believe perhaps but this is. The city where the pandemic that changed the world started is dancing again and elec tronic Music Festival like this was on imaginable earlier in 2020 when the city was completely locked down to contain the Novel Coronavirus outbreak but with new infections almost unheard of life is getting back to normal queues for breakfast motorways jammed with cars and busy streets its a world away from the dystopian scenes months ago. No one can be sure how bad things really were here the states official narrative is heavily dispute it. But their version of history is written there are already covert 1000 exhibitions or hazmat suits signed by emergency workers are on display. While the city is certainly alive again business has taken a hit Street Vendors have not yet seen the same level of activity as before. Things arent where i would like them to be but they are improving when business restarted i was selling just 200 to 401 a day but now its above 1000. Other sectors such as real estate have also been slow to return to preplan demick levels. I think of off the Market Performance is still relatively conservative in the 1st half of the year we returned to some projects that we were already working on before the outbreak. In the 2nd half of the year controlling the pandemic still needs to be considered and so the business volume has been reduced. The people of this city went through a trauma together but the scenes here today suggest a better time could be coming for the rest of the world however far away that might seem right now. Authorities in singapore have begun question ivory worth an estimated 13000000. 00 to highlight the countrys fight against the illegal wildlife trade its the Biggest Initiative of its kind in recent years. In an event streamed online workers were seen as loads of tufts into a skip where they were then destroyed by an industrial rock crusher that destruction may take several days with the fragments then due to be burnt. Out so we have time for 4 more detect at our website thats new doc column slash business you can also find us on facebook and twitter to drop us a line there for me and the team its good bye and take. Houser virus spread. Why do we panic and well all. Just 3 of them. And the weekly radio show is called spectrum if you would like. Information on the phone a virus or any other side. Topic you should really check out our podcast. Your podcast you can also find. Science. Letos and truth in the. Role. Of course the subconscious always a World Without the i cant begin to imagine. With the. Start september 16th. This is the wus a show coming up in thailand called for reform. 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