Send us your story we are trying always to understand this new culture. Another visitor another guest you want to become sitting. In for migrants your platform for reliable information. Whos afraid of a little inflation not the u. S. Federal reserve in a major policy shift Americas Central Bank says it will focus on boosting employment but tolerating higher prices along the bogeyman of monetary policy. Absa the rescue of the nation in geo has developed a Smartphone Application to combat illegal logging. Also on the show will visit the italian port of genoa where the cruise and shipping industries are running out of steam. Flowing welcome to the show im Stephen Beardsley and its good to have you with us its a decision with consequences for home loans Credit Card Debt and the labor market the u. S. Federal reserve signaling thursday that it will keep Interest Rates lower longer after an economic crisis to boost employment even if that means higher prices for inflation a fed chairman powell saying thursday at the feds annual retreat in wyoming that low inflation has been a bigger concern for the economy in recent years than high inflation which can price out low earners. Are lets break this down now with our financial correspondent yens korda in new york. Explain this in a way that we can understand is why is everyone saying that this is such a shift for the fed. Well i mean 1st of all for decades the Federal Reserve try to keep inflation under 2 percent and now theyre going to be a bit more flexible but honestly im not sure if consumers if the population really has to be concerned about price spikes in the near future how does inflation work off some higher wages for example driving prices so it drives Inflation Higher and with the labor market still being pretty painful here i do not see any wage pressure at this point having that set i mean you clearly do see higher prices in some areas of food for example has gotten much more expensive but at least for now i do not really see a huge spike in inflation and what the Federal Reserve did not say is that they let inflation run it to fall 56 percent so it will be roughly around 2 percent of little bit up for a certain period of time but most economists do not really expect a huge spike in inflation anytime soon its a good point everyones been looking for inflation in recent years are you in stay with us when we look at another story thats been this potentially moving markets walmart says its partnering with microsoft and its bid to purchase the u. S. Operations of social media hit app ticktock the american retailer said the tick tock could help it reach customers and grow its 3rd Party Marketplace and advertising businesses u. S. President donald trump has demanded the abstains owner by dance divest its u. S. Operations in the coming months walmarts announcement came hours after tick tock c. E. O. Kevin mayor told employees he was resigning after only 4 months at the helm. All right yet another puzzle why does walmart a big retailer want to social Media Company i dont understand this personally. Yeah i guess youre not the only one of there were a lot of people when they saw this report that they really had to look twice that its really warm going. To talk by the way that the c. E. O. Resigned could be assigned to sail it judy is imminent and might have been even worse than the next couple of days well while much itself is probably looking to catch the attention of the younger crowd so they would like to use it for advertising for ecommerce but also theyre in a battle with amazon dot com and that quote to give them a better position to compete was ever than amazon and clearly walmart cannot be doing this in alone they need the Cloud Infrastructure from microsoft and sold those 2 giants theyre teaming up and trying to catch the u. S. As its probably off to the us canada new zealand and australia as it actually might be worse 20. 00 to 30000000000. 00 so thats the amount that people are talking about but wall street seems to think the deal is likely walmart was up by a good 4 percent and was that the biggest winner in the Dow Jones Industrial average. Falling in the coming days yes quarter there for us in new york thank you. All right tech talk may be all about entertainment but of course other apps have much more serious uses and gonna be a National Forest and in geo is developing one that monitors illegal logging and rewards legal harvesting take a look for. The man using this up wants to remain anonymous because his life would be in danger if the wrong people cause him connecting days or here. He uses the app to report him to thieves who fell trees illegally in northwest indiana. And they. Dont surprise these illegal loggers in the act because theyre dangerous an armed. Only report their actions once theyre gone. And. This teak tree an endangered species was folded legally sworn into pieces and a large part of it was taken away they must have been between 5 and 10 men involved with heavy equipment. To track down the wood perches the n. G. O. s nature and Development Foundation sends local observers into particularly affected areas across the country. The timber trade is one of gone as most Important Industries tropical woods are sold all over the world thanks to dredd timbers that sell for high prices. Junk guitar and company is the largest in the processing in North Western gonna it says its committed to Forest Management says the cation to label guarantees that good products come from sustainably managed. The nature and deforestation foundation not only works to prevent illegal deforestation it also mediates between local people and industry resistance to the timber monopoly has east and instead there is more cooperation in the village of big d. In the south of the country its residents are using taxes from the Timber Industry to build their own hospitals. Every day hundreds of timber transports from the region head from markets throughout the country to places like a month a suburb of a crop. In this big Timber Market the origin of the word is not too closely but the head of the Market Association insists that the proportion of wood with a certificate of origin is on the rise in the north i want my home we have to give it to mars our business does not demand the forest were not our business so we dont this is protected there we gobert that. Things may be changing in ghanas forestry sector but there is still plenty to do for the local monitors who make fresh discoveries of illegally fell trees almost every day. Right now to some of the other Global Business stories making headlines. Delta airlines has put 240 people on a no fly list for failing to wear masks on board in the absence of federal regulations airlines have to enforce their own rules they can deny boarding to anyone not compliant on the plane there is little staff can do to ensure compliance except threaten to ban passengers from future flights. Germanys delivery hero is hungry for more than just online takeaway meals the company has agreed to buy the middle east Online Grocery marketplace insta shop for an initial 270000000. 00 deliver us hero has been one of the winners of the code 1000 pandemic as more people order in an earlier this week accountable. Into germanys blue chip dax index just 3 years after its i. P. O. The global cruise ship sector is a high profile casualty of the krona virus pandemic but officials in tokyo are hoping to refloat the industries that prepare to open a new cruise terminal the 370000000. 00 facility officially opens next month. Of genoa italy is another major port for the cruise industry and as in japan its been hard hit by the pen demick ships now stand like ghosts in the harbor but theres a glimmer of hope on the horizon. It can make you pause for thought the view across gender was harbor for decades there was constant traffic here now the calm is almost ghostly vast cruise ships like deserted during the pandemic no one wants to travel in them. Italys most important port is clearly suffering right now. Going to be spent on italys economy his contract to buy an unbelievable 12 percent and were seeing that reflected here in the amount of goods were handling. The number of containers being shifted in general has dropped dramatically by around a quarter over the same period last year experts say its a symptom of italys wider Economic Situation many goods being handled here come from the countrys key economic regions milan cheer in and. Genoa has been in the wider public eye in recent years almost 2 years ago exactly the citys marandi bridge collapsed killing 43 people. The bridge represented one of the citys main traffic arteries and its last made access to the port difficult trade started to suffer finally a few weeks ago a new bridge was opened symbolizing a new start for genoa and italy as a whole. New bridge gives people here hope our city suffered a huge blow but has stood up again. Our children and our grandchildren will be able to stay in genoa find work here build a future where a generous woman. Yet the citys joy and pride over its new landmark have nonetheless been dampened the euro zones 3rd largest economy has been hit the hardest by the coronavirus g. D. P. Has fallen to the level of the 1990 s. 600000 jobs have been lost all of which is very. Me visible here in its cities gateway to the wells. Right now thats it for me and the d. Business team here in berlin as always you can find out more about these and other business stories online dot com slash business on facebook and twitter im Stephen Beardsley from all of us here thanks for watching. Enter the conflict zone confronting the powerful 4 months to go to the president ial elections in america so no trump is sinking in the polls and numbers form a National Security adviser says he isnt fit to be frozen the day when both of my guests this week from washington how much damage. Done to america and the rest of the. Conflict so far the 5060 minutes. Is for me. Is for. Us for help. Just for her. Is for the. Beethoven is for costs. To be toughened is for the beethoven 202250th anniversary here on. Please. Carefully. Dont. You need to begin to. Discover who. Subscribe to the documentary. This is d. That mean yes africa on the program today dolphins washing up on the shoals more. More caucuses have been found on a beach on the indian ocean i meant is the oil spill caused by a japanese vessel to playing with adults and dads. At the low ball still green books to the people and i do. Hello im kristie one to welcome to the in his africa its good to have your company as always environmentalist and more wish assault calling for an investigation into why dead dolphins have been found washed up on the Indian Ocean Island shoals 7 more caucuses were discovered on a beach and grand sable on thursday its a day off to 17 of those were found near and oil spill like that spill was caused by a japanese ship that strong. A coral reef last month the mauritian says fisheries minister has said that at 1st but on the dolphin dates and dont appear to be related to the spill. Environmentalists say they must be and urgent inquiry to determine the course of the day its. My guest today is stefan goal of Resistance Initiative thats a political posse focusing on ecological and social issues in more rishis as defined is also an environmental activist and he joins me from where he says i welcome to day diving is Africa Stefan so you visited the site with a dull finns was stranded what did you witness. And work we saw. We saw. So we dont construct a more precise cement on how to where and this is where theres a confusion because its also called the drop down and so there were there were 2 bodies on this show in a place. Which is on the south eastern part of the only island and what resort really is a book for her. Mouth. There were wounded one of them has been probably about by your values shock and then when we were. In the sea archery we saw. On those instances there was in the scene but they were a lot of blood on the on the on their back. So this is what i personally. Witnessed yeah thank you for carry find that i for one had made the assumption that you had dolphins and whales thank you for their care for patients but has this stranding off these these dolphins have anything to do with the oil spill in the rishis last month. Right so what we need to know is so yes i want one month back we had the right under reef and that didnt keep this from now we had already spilled and free days from now we had bought the bow out of the bark were sure but was sucked into the into the sea so i think its premature to establish it as a leak or not because its on the yesterday on the 26th of august that we saw the 1st specimen of the dolphins that were wrecking under a shock. But i think that theres a lot of question. In mine its from from what weve seen from what is happening and we dont we want easily by what is be said by the operatives saying that there might not be a link between work and shoot and and so because it would eat might not be if you go to the lagoon now it might not be visible the oil spill might not be visible but if you look at the surface of the sea you can see that there are still i drink of you that are still servicing the sea so that the level of. The law hood is not clearly known so we cannot conclude that it does not have a leak but we cannot jump to that conclusion saying that there is a link arcelor and serry mass. Hysteria has been i guess we call the basic conclusion if theres been no investigation and that know that a number of environmentalists in morriss are calling on the authorities to investigate how do you look one such an investigation to be done stefan very quickly we have to wrap up soon. So thats not the point because theres a breach of trust between her accusing the people now based on what has not been done since the wreck of the of the washer so now were seeing that the analysis is still being conducted under nice only about her gaze and people are environmentalist ecologists theyre calling for independent. Inquiry to be done independent and out of this based on simple principle of science that you need to come to verify and now were going to rely on one street especially when that stream has fear us so far so we are asking for the possibility to access one a piece one specimen of the government is to carry on an independent investigation im not one right that is stephanopoulos speaking to us from russias thank you stefan its. A brief look now at some other stories making news across the continent koolaid as in mali have released ousted president ybor him from detention a spokesman from the ministry gintas say dont think the state has but he says one of the International Mediation teams to months its been made by representatives from the west African Group of countries ecowas 4 are currently in the country meanwhile the European Union ses it will temporarily freeze its operation and. The important thing is to stress that our missions in mali civilian and military reasons ive been put temporary who hold. Because their circumstances didnt allow them to continue their normal activity. And they will start working again as soon as possible we cannot pretend to have used to be in a team and country dealing mentally with an out having me to the capacity from the government and thats what were doing. In the film that whatever the government will be. Quoting we may leave people we will have to continue to do in the. Residence in sudans capital khartoum have been reinforcing their homes using homemade sex says makeshift barry is flooding and torrential rains have been affecting sudan for nearly a month now over 30000. 00 homes have been destroyed and more than 80 people have died according to sudans of course in the capital khartoum and the blue nile and river nile states hardest hit more heavy rainfall is expected in the coming weeks. Many sacks them all along here with them who would stand up and try to block the water from the root so that it doesnt enter the houses. Thats for the street we have given up and the people are welcome it but the houses we can protect them. Forever on them and going 269461948 has never been flawless like this year and the problem has grown and bigger every year but we dont know why we are affected by extensive damage by the water but also by the environmental effects that follows. That more. Police in south africa have fired rubber bullets at demonstrators near johannesburg after they were attacked with rocks and bottles the process is accused of shooting at this able to an age boy in the area of El Dorado Paul Wilson and as. The 16 year old died of his wounds in hospital on wednesday night. We go to ethiopia next where theres a growing number of bookstores in the capital. But the price of literature is going up with the dumond making it a tough sell for them. They have become a common sight on the streets of addis ababa lenders are making the habit of reading more commonplace in ethiopias fast growing capital they describe it as one of several 100000 or in cellars he developed an interest in books doing his childhood outside of the capital. Most are finding out i see and theyre going to help develop yourself 1st person and then introduce me to the many people there are really interesting my friends are also working similar jobs and back up and some very happy to join the profession but this thing on it but the business has become competitive in recent years when he does the work behind his book stand biggest who spends several hours a day walking along sidewalks and into cafes and strenuous work but it widens his reach so i scorn and addressing this is my job my daily bread so i just keep moving and carry the books if im lucky i might sell 5 to 6 books a day but on some days i dont sell anything. This utopian journalist is one of the uses regular customers reading is his main hobby hes particularly keen on history his last purchase was a book on the 896 battle of adam between italy and utopia. The main water was between egypt and its a great victory. On italy and we are so proud off on that. Although their client base has grown over the past years vendors are grappling with rising book prices this young man just bought 2 books but says prices are too high for avid readers like himself you must remember when i started reading as a child a book was 0. 20. This time its almost full euro i read this one when it cost 0. 20 in the library thats when i started reading and still not. Get out of the normal. The price increase is partly due to rising production costs in this Printing Press for instance paper printing machines and ink are important and the company has to pay very high taxes but rising prices dont appear to be spoiling the appetite for books in the bigger cities in a country with a Literacy Rate of less than 50 percent and where men still make up the majority of readers mobile vendors are playing a key part in boosting the availability of books for all. And that does it for our program today but be sure to check out all of the stories thats on our website then forget to say forward slash africa were also on facebook and were on twitter and thats top of the i want twitter to my handle is at 1. 07 its always interesting for me to know what you think about the stories we cover here on news africa now after the sad news from orishas that more than a dozen day of dolphins have been washed ashore following an oil spill we want to leave you with with this a reminder of their beauty as well as the vital importance off for sex in our wildlife and on a ship enjoy these wild african dolphins along africas closed well see you next time before out of i. Want to secrets lie behind more. Discover new adventures in 360 to. Explore this amazing World Heritage site. To double your World Heritage 360 to get. A meal. Or complete 2nd season only. About the environment about society its still about planets on the brink the spread circle leading some but. She still only. A Nobel Prize Winner is called in for questioning in belarus as the authoritarian regime continues its crackdown on protests challenging the reelection of alexandre crush the countrys long serving ruler will talk about literary voices as a moral authority and also coming up. 5 years after germanys welcome of over 1000000 refugees the syrian pianist is making a life for himself and his family. And ahead of the virtual ceremony for the 2020 good to medal awards we profiled the 2nd of 3 laureates british novelist indian mckeown. Oh back in 2015 Svetlana Alexei of it won the nobel prize for literature for work that as the jury remarked was a monument to suffering and courage in our time the writer is famous for chronicling her countrys troubled history through carefully constructed 1st hand accounts today shes one of the most outspoken voices of the Coordination Council thats a group that seeks new elections and talks with europes last dictator. A Nobel Laureate in literature on her way to question the famous author took the opportunity to warn against a split in the nation pitting the lucan shank of system against peaceful demonstrators. But. This year if we are separated in this way become divided in this way we will surely slide into a civil war that is very dangerous our goal is to unite society and help overcome a political crisis not to initiate any overthrow. But it coulda ties precisely what the members of the newly founded Coordination Council are accused of the council insists it only wants to facilitate a peaceful transfer of power in belarus. That. What we saw in the 1st 3 days of the confrontation when people were treated like dead meat was like something from the last century we have to talk to each other argue with each other my ideal is the red green flag in one hand the white red white in the other. But. The goal is to unite the demonstrators in white red white and the look of faithful in red in green. But look at shank oh is still determined to put the demonstrations down using brutal force. Many here welcome interventions from artists like alex a it. This besides you dont know what writers can Say Something in a way that goes straight to the heart can be very rational so that one forgets humanism and so on she reminds us of these general human values. My needs an idea and then the poem get them. Started on our look see if it says if she were younger and not you know she might consider a role as a mediator but look at has no interest in mediation the arrests in minsk and other cities continue. That line i like save it speaks people do listen and joining me to speak about the voice of artists and intellectuals in dollars is my colleague Adrian Kennedy welcome adrian now we saw alex david on her way there to her appointment with this Investigative Committee do you know what happened there was she didnt spend much time at the Investigative Committees headquarters she left quite quickly saying that she had invoked her rights not to testify against herself not to answer questions and reiterating that the councils only goal was to unite society now other members of this Coordination Council thats really seeking dialogue have also been targeted have they not thats right former culture minister pavel left trish co was questioned by investigators on choose state he was forced out of his job as director of the state young polar fears after calling for new elections and complaining about the brutal suppression of the demonstrations hes one of the highest profile Civil Servants to come out publicly against the regime and many actors at the theatre he ran have resigned in solidarity that its striking and perhaps also encouraging that literary voices are actually being heard in this debacle d. W. Has also spoken to the young novelist victim Martine Martino that who is a critic of the regime yes a colleague. Sabina keyes about spoke to him via video link hes one of the few people who are still in belarus in minsk who will speak to International Media and we asked him about the role of intellectuals and about the dangers of speaking out for a look at that we have almost everybody silenced right now or dissidents who used to be in a position and who used to be imprisoned for many years there are silenced because theyre very much afraid of course i am afraid and of course i realize what. Are they can put me in prison and so on but at the same time what what use of me if not say untrue for what showing what what is the meaning of my life being if i am silent in the moment when Everybody Needs the truth isnt much in the which i was saying that he feared that many in the west see belarus as part of russia but its been an independent state for around 30 years largely invisible to us he says there are problems there now and its time for the world to Pay Attention to them ok well attention is what we are attempting certainly a courageous voice from martine of its there in minsk and just for our viewers you can find the whole of that interview with victim a teen of its on our you tube channel d w books and will certainly continue to follow that story thanks very much for bringing us up to date on that Adrian Kennedy thank you. Well the end of this month will mark 5 years since chancellor Angela Merkel made her famous assertion. We can do this a statement that made was made at the height of the migration crisis that saw germany take an unprecedented 1100000 immigrants in 2015 while many of those refugees had fled the civil war in syria and the air how much was one of them. Because songs tell of pain and a lost homeland but also of hope 5 years ago pianist fled syria specifically the yarmouk refugee camp for palestinians. Back there he played music to counter the nightmare scene of bomb craters and ruined buildings and created beauty to fight despair. It was hungry or so and i dont can feed my family but i was keeping playing piano we die anyway we will die from hunger in 56 days when i dont die play piano at least its held me i dont think music its feed people or help people really its help the mentality to see at least some of the whites like the place in the in all this got us through off in the. Neighborhood of damascus it was under constant sea trim i asked troops for years people there had no electricity no food or medicine and a ham played music. These images of him playing with fire when they have fled to germany in 2015 he was already a minor celebrity and was quickly offered a public stage but he felt uncomfortable with the attention. I am here famous playing. But we are a group of people i thought i to give in connection with him its not easy you know when somebody is still dying from hunger and you tell him look we speak about you here up what its done for me there you know this is this is not the easy here he is performing at a refugee shelter in berlin at a celebration marking 5 years since chancellor Angela Merkels we can do it statement in the meantime ahabs wife and sons have joined him and he can work play in concert people listen to him. I am not star in the liver liver feel i am a star i feel responsible to tell of this blah blah blah what i tell acknowledge its import a label its not so important for people to hear it but at least i feel responsible to tell it and i use every mike every camera to tell that 4 people a ham songs deal with what hes experienced and hes also written his autobiography which was published in germany last year in it he tells of his father who built Musical Instruments and of his own childhood in a still peaceful syria he tells of the children he watched die and of the moment when i asked fighters burned his piano but constantly retelling his story takes its toll. When i go on with this is story and remembering remembering the war its a really true heavy here and this is why i will stop the music because when i go on i just well will still the pianist and the trombone or that this image but the horrible images from us mads past wont stop so easily hopefully he wont give up music it helps him during his darkest times and it helps him now allowing him to make a living and a new life in germany. This week or celebrating the winners of the good to metal for 2023 leading lights whose were. Work in literature and the arts has built bridges for cultural understanding and our 2nd laureate is britains ian mckeown an incredible novelist whose mind works much like an anatomist this thing the 4 bills of human nature with an ever painful precision. In make human has published 20 novels and collections of short stories in 2019 he published 2 books. In machines like me he tells the story of an android and asks are robots perhaps better than humans. The cockroach is a biting satire about mckeown imagines an insect transformed into the british Prime Minister its the most of firstly political novel hes ever written in mcewen is a vocal and passionate remainer describing brecks it as the most pointless masochistic ambition ever dreamed of in the history of these islands we lost that battle we were outmaneuvered. We were divided among ourselves in many ways. We dont just have. The. We can get away with that it works out. You know were now in a paradox who position of hoping that breaks it somehow works. You know theres nothing else we can. Even make un has garnered numerous awards in the course of his career but he partly grew up in germany and has a sentimental attachment to the country so that got a medal has a special significance to be honored in the name of johan 5 gang fun quarter is an honor indeed. Sometimes we talk about what information we should send. Us an unmanned space ship that was in the boss illnesses. We sent. We had to send a representative manager and i think good too would come pretty close to the top of my this because his interests were not in the electorate in drawing. In writing in apoc in the nature of. Public administration and politics and music. And there are similarities in mcewen is also a serious thinker with a vast range of interests in the tradition of the great polymaths. Well worth picking up one of his books if you havent already had the pleasure of all that does bring us to the end of this edition so until next time stay safe and stay tuned up i. Entered the conflict zone confronting the powerful 4 months to go to the president ial elections in America Donald trump is sinking in the polls and those former National Security advisor says he isnt fit to be president anyway john bolton is my guest this week from washington how much damage trump vocal tone to america and the rest of the world. Conflicts. 13. 00. More. We know this is a scary time for the coronavirus is changing the world changing our lives so please take care of yourself keep your distance wash your hands if you can stay at how we do w. For here for you we are working tirelessly to keep you informed on all of our platforms were all in this together on together making sure. You save everybody who stays in the series so stay safe to freeze this is. Passionate drama competition drive marketing numbers at least here top 5 at a time in transition love hate money. Fans ryans plan of spam and fun only. Because we switch. To go off on you tube joining us. Im not laughing cathy the gym well i just sometimes i am but i stand up and with the cup and the german thinks deep into german culture looking at the stereotypes the question to me or think is most of the country that i now live. Via needed seem to get from this drama day out to me its all about a new im rachel join me for me the german fun d. W. Post. This is news and these are all top stories. Police in the bill are routine capital minsk have arrested dozens of antigovernment protesters and detained around 20 journalists this is russian president Vladimir Putin says the roosters Alexander Lukashenko has asked moscow to set up a Russian Reserve police force to deploy to bill a ruse if the situation caught got out of control. German chancellor Angela Merkel has announced a series of measures to stay
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