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In davos, discussing the freeze in relations between russia and the west with Russias Deputy Prime Minister. He accuses the u. S. Of faking images of russian aggression in ukraine. Asias only grand slam singles champion le li na and news shes pregnant. And talking about davos as well and in particular security. Absolutely. President obama says no foreign nation or hacker should be able to shut down our networks intrude our trade secrets. Can you fight cyber~ crime while at the same time keeping the trust of all of us who use the internet . Hello. Its midday in london. 1 00 in the afternoon in davos, 7 00 a. M. In washington. Where a defiant president obama has declared an end to the financial crisis. In his annual state of the union he called for a new chapter in u. S. History that ushers in a fairer economy. The widening gap between rich and poor is one of the key talking points at this years gathering of politicians and Business Leaders at davos. We will bring you there in a moment. But first this report from washington shortly after president obamas speech. The president of the United States. Reporter the capitol hill for his sixth and penultimate state of the union speaking for the first time before a Republican Congress. The president set out to extricate america from its foreign wars is now having to cope with a myriad of new challenges abroad, not least the jihadist threat to ancient allies like france. We will continue to hunt down terrorists and dismantle their network and we reserve the right to act unilaterally as we have done relentlessly since i took office to take out terrorists who pose a direct threat to us and our allies. Reporter some members of Congress Took their cue from that and made their show of solidarity for those killed in paris. On the domestic front, Michelle Obama must be pleased with her husbands Approval Ratings now edging back up after a dismal few months. The president is hoping he can improve his standing further by proposing tax change for those proposing tax riders for the very wealthy so everyone can emerge from the financial crisis. We have picked ourselves up and dusted ourselves off and begun again the reworking of america. Reporter his speech suggests a newfound confidence at the white house that americas economy is bouncing back. That and the fact that b of a barack obama doesnt have to fight for reelection means the can afford to be abit bolder in his final two years in office. The director of the u. S. Project at Chatham House and former u. S. Government advisor. He did that in a form. He did indeed. He took to it the republicans. He declared war on the republican agenda. This is my agenda this is what i want to get done. These are the two years. Im not compromising. You need to either step up or get out of the way. Why can he be that confident right now . As he said he doesnt have to run again. At some level, this is it, this is his legacy. Either he will succeed or not. He doesnt have to play that compromised game historically. Hes also found compromise doesnt work. The last six years, at least from his perspective, he feels he has tried to compromise with the republicans and the republicans essentially said not interested. This time hes very much taken it to them. He has set the narrative and the republicans are going to have to answer that narrative. So, too, will any democratic contender for president. The republicans have a difficult line to walk now. How do they do it . They really do. You saw this last year and saw it a little bit last night, typically those one republican response to the state of the union. This year it was joanie ernst, the new freshman senator. Mrk you have other contenders for the president that want their voice out there. Ted cruz tried to get his voice out there. There really is a fractured Republican Party at the moment. That will be extraordinarily hard both in the congress and senate over the next two years. The president wants to help the middle class who he was reaching out to in his speech. How does the republican heartland attempt to fight that without looking bad . Exactly. This is why obama had a couple of objectives in this state of the union. The principle one was to define the agenda for the next two years. Heres what the narrative is here is my agenda my priorities all about inequality and resolving inequality. Not just about American Growth making sure American Growth is fair. Hes set that agenda in a way that everybody, republicans and democrats alike are going to have to respond to it as you say, without sounding like theyre trying to do out the middle and lower classes of america. Anything new in Foreign Policy in this speech . I think there is. I was actually surprised how much Foreign Policy there was. The couple of areas are areas you can reach across the aisle. The first is on trade. I was surprised to see how strongly he put forward i want trade authority to allow him to renegotiate the trade with europe and asia and tpp. He made that a focus of one of his first Foreign Policy issues and the other was to say, i am battling isis. But while i dont need your authority, i want it. I want the world to see america come together against this terrorism threat. And to really ask congress to give him that authority. That again is a big step forward. In thanks for joining us. Later on gmt, we will be speaking to veterans of american politics, one from each side of the political divide to their reaction to the state of the union. President obama isnt the only one fretting about the growing gap between rich and poor. Its also big on the agenda at davos, the swiss ski resort that once a year of the most wealthiest people to come together for the worlds economic forum. Were looking at the wealth gap in our new series a richer world. Reporter the world is getting richer. Fewer people in the world live in extreme poverty, less than one dollar a day. The disparity remains. The richest 1 owns half the worlds wealth. That means 85 people have as much as the poorest 3. 5 billion. More people own cars. In botswana you are three times more likely to own a car than a decade ago. Many of us have mobile phones. Some of the quickest takeup is in developing countries. More than threequarters of households own a fridge. There are down sides to a richer world. It can be bad for your health. More than a third of americans are obese. This is a growing problem in many countries. The richer world can put more pressure on Natural Resources like water. An extra 2 billion people have safe water compared to 25 years ago but water table levels have fallen. By 2030 almost half of the worlds population may live in areas of extreme water stress. More children are finishing Primary School and more people have access to the internet and better access to health care. Will some of the poorest people in the world also get richer . Lets take you to davos now. Joining us is Phillip Jennings who is the general secretary of the uni global union. Thank you for being with us phillip, on gmt. In thanks for the invite. Youve got quite a task there convincing the super rich that the widening gap between the rich and the poor is bad for them. Them. We take on the task with relish. When i first started talking about inequality of wealth and Income Distribution just a few years ago i was laughed out of court. What weve seen in this meantime is the body of evidence swelling everywhere we have massive inequality in Wealth Distribution and at the same time massive inequalities in the distribution of income. We are living in the new globalized area of economic futilism. Are you feeling a commitment from what youve been saying for months to the super rich at davos . As we look at the changing conversation taking place. Imf agrees with us. The International Labor office agrees with us United Nations on the same track with us. We begin to see Business Leaders say hang on a minute. Its bad for our economies and Business Management and bad for our communities. Whats interesting the World Economic forum itself is also pivoting away from their competition report they produced and now produce a report on inclusive development, what are the policies we need to pull to tilt the balance back in favor of the majority of the population. At the end of the day, the top 1 owns what the 99 of the rest of us own. Whats also happened in this United States of america is all the benefits of Economic Growth have gone to the top 98 . Its not sustainable. Its bad for growth bad for businesses and bad for our community. Community. Are you still trying to sell the message as well about the benefits of collective bargaining. Thats what youre doing. Its an old struggle and old message. Does it need to be reshaped or is that still the message youre putting across . Our message is about including you. What are the policies that can be put in place to tilt the balance. It needs a trade Union Movement independent and democratic which has the right to organize. The Worlds Largest sector private employer is warmest. I cant even get across the door to organize them in the United States of america. A strong trade Union Movement with collective bargaining a message for all of the leaders on the left the collective bargaining a way of giving workers a voice, a way of sitting around the table and trying to determine a better distribution of the wealth that is created. Minimum wage is important, living wage is important. If its going to be real authentic and credible we need collective bargaining where the social partners look at how the wealth is distributed. I think collective bargaining is well due a comeback. Nothing retro about it. It fits the problems of the times. Phil jennings thanks for joining us from davos. We will be exploring more from the richer world. You can follow on our mobile tablet or computer. Theres more you may not expect. On the website, africas best nightclub and how the music scene reflects the economy. On bbc. Com richerworld. In yemen, Houthi Rebels reported to replace security guards outside the residence of president and rabou man sur hadi. And repeating demands for a power sharing deal. Officials in israel say a palestinian man has stabbed passengers on a bus in tel aviv wounding at least 10 people before being shot by a passing prison officer. Police are treating it as a terrorist attack the first attack in tel aviv since a young israeli soldier was shot by a palestinian last november. Looking into a speech by a prominent Buddhist Monk in which he used insulting terms to insult an envoy and likening her to a prostitute. She was highlighting the minority during a visit to the country last week. Do stay with us on bbc world news still to come. The latest on the security measures announced by the Prime Minister following recent shootings in paris. When i feel a cold coming on. achoo i hit it hard. New zicam cold remedy nasal spray shortens colds. And it reduces symptom severity by 45 . So when a cold hits, shorten it with zicam. Come on gang. Work those thighs. Now, now do this. Whats my name . [ women ] Johnny Jamboogie hey man, eat a snickers. Why . cause youre johnny football. Better . Better. [ male announcer ] youre not you when youre hungry snickers satisfies. You want an advanced degree, but sometimes work can get in the way. Now Capella University offers flexpath, a revolutionary new program that allows you to earn a degree at your pace and graduate at the speed of you. Flexpath from Capella University. Salafis. The french Prime Minister has announced new security measures in the wake of the terrorist attacks two years ago. He said 21 2 thousand new security people would be recruited over the next several years. Translator the number of individualized individuals who might launch terrorist attacks has been relentlessly increasing and it was pointed out by the interior minister. Either foreigners need to be monitored linked to the Jihadist Networks linked to syria or iraq and increased in one single year. In paris, 1300 people he mentioned, how else will france bolser their terrorism capabilities. Its 1300 involved in the networks, in other words, people who have gone out or are there or coming back. Overall that needs to be monitored, much bigger than that at 3,000, including people in older preexisting islamic networks. And onewhat is havent from the coulibaly attacks, others need to be followed. The brothers were monitored much earlier and too much emphasis on the Syrian Networks that are new and not enough on the older one. 3,000 that he said was a step change a change of scale in the amount of work required of the securities services. So there is above all, this big boost in the means that the Security Services will have over the next two or three years. As you say, 2. 5,000 more officers will be recruited. Partly raw boots on the ground to follow people to monitor people but more importantly, perhaps, people who can make sense of the mass of information that will make sense of what comes in with electric monitoring and budget 400 Million Euros being made available, half a billion dollars over the next three to maybe buy legal equipment. And the legal will change. Important to note that the law govern governing phone taps dates back before the internet. That will be changed to in theory make it easier to get authorities authorized from a judge the tapping of individuals. One of the big criticisms in this operation and runup of the coulibaly attacks and there wasnt a runup of the touch touchtouch kouachi brothers and coulibaly. Saying they had no right to monitor the wives and girlfriends telephones and quite likely the contact was done via the girlfriends and women in the case. Thats the kind of loophole they want to stop now. Thanks for that. To tell everyone at the same time as the Prime Minister was speak, four men were charged in france with terror related offense, the first in connection with those attacks two weeks ago. Taking you back to davos now. The ukrainian president left early and returned home because of heavy fighting in the east of the country. These pictures at the airport shows just how bad the situation has become there. Ukraine and the west accusing russia of sending their own troops into ukraine to fight government force. Russia denies that. Michelle hussein is in davos for us speaking to the russian Prime Minister and asked him to explain russias role in the ukrainian conflict. Ukraine is russias neighbor. Historic ly historically, close to us. Were a close nation and Many Russians live in ukraine. Ukraines live in russia. The two regions in the east of ukraine want greater autonomy independence, some people believe is needed. Theyre trying to protect the rights and environment comfortable for them to speak in russian, to be in Close Relationships with russia and not to have russian men in there. Reporter what you are accused of russia is accused of is fueling the conflict on the side of the rebels. Russia is saying were controlling internal affairs. Were not controlling ukrainian affairs. Were trying to make sure those people are protected and have the rights to speak on and to preserve their rights. A peaceful ukraine. Real peace of our borders. We dont need any conflict at our border. Reporter what the u. S. State department has accused you of is completely opposite of peace and last week showed photographic evidence that Russian Force went across the border into ukraine. It produced evidence you are fighting on the side of the rebels. Showing photographs and providing clear evidence are different things. One example our u. S. Partners were fake photographs. Reporter you believe they wear . You believe hopes tothose photographs, satellite imagery was fake . . Many of those. Some russians who fight on the side of those regions in ukraine. Some people coming from russia on their own and fight. Reporter you call them volunteers . Exactly. Penal from people from baltic countries and france and africa fight on both sides. Some people hired by ukrainian force and some people in the region where they believe theyre fighting for independence and many people fighting on both sides. The kinds of weapons, missile launchers, where would they get it from if it wasnt taken from the russian army . Most of the weapons were from the Ukrainian Army and left by the Ukrainian Army. The ukrainians say very clearly they could have come from anywhere but the russian army. Thats not correct. The first asian to win a grand slam title but forced to retire last year because of injury. She has plans ahead. Li na congratulations, first of all. If you are pregnant and want to tell any, having 15,000 people listen to you at the rod laver arena is a good place to do. Yes. Melbourne for me is a very special area. A special area for miy fans and friends, good news. You made a lot of jokes about your husband in the past. Do you think he will be a good father . Snoo yes. Im pretty confident he will be a good father. That was always one of your ambitions, wasnt it . Be have a family and be a housewife housewife. You talked about a tennis ranch. Is that still the plans . Yes. Im ready for the choice. What do you think of tennis in china at the moment. Give us and idea what it was like when you started. I had a look two players in the top 100 in the world and now there are 11. How have things changed . Its unbelievable. 10 years ago keeping up with the schedule, i think its pretty good face to face to see the top star, top player. You think that is very much down to you, you may be too modest to say so you need to have somebody of your standing as a grand slam champion to really spread the score in a country . For sure there will be another one for the chinese grand slam champion. No regrets about retiring when you come back here and hear all the happy memories from months ago . Always righthappy memories. But you retired at the right time. Good luck with the birth and congratulations on your news. 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President obama has made sure to capitalize on a recovering economy and his rising Approval Rating in the space of the annual address. He took credit for policies he says raised the country out of recession. Tuesdays speech was upbeat despite his humiliating loss for the democrats when republicans seized control of both houses of congress 11 weeks ago. Looking forward, president obama used his address to appeal to the middle class by championing home investment and using tax funds to benefit families. Lets close loopholes so we stop Rewarding Companies who keep profits abroad and reward those who invest here in america. Lets use those savings to rebuild our infrastructure and make it more attractive for companies to bring jobs home. Lets simplify the system an let a Small Business owner filed based on her actual Bank Statement instead of the number of accountants she can afford. Lets close the loopholes that lead to inequality by allowing the top 1 pay on accumulated wealth and help to pay for childcare and send their kids to college for more families. And we need an economy that helps work ging americans get a leg on the new economy and we can achieve that together. That was president obama in last nights state of the union. With me from washington is douglas, a former Communications Director for the Republican National committee. Thank you for joining us on gmt. Do any of president obamas proposals stand a chance in congress . Some do but not many. What we saw from the president last night is the exact opposite of what he says in 2009 and 2013. After the president wins and election he tells congress that elections have consequences. After republicans have big wins like in 2010 and last year he pretends they dont have ha consequences. His tax deal is dead on arrival. Congress is not going to raise congress. There are some things like worker training Workplace Flexibility so families can take their kids to doctors appointments, and families can use more leave. Those are things a Republican Congress passed last year and may be opportunities to work together. Why would republicans not eliminate a tax loophole for the richest 1 of americans. What republicans want to do is they want to address tax reform broadly, corporate taxes and individual income taxes so we can get back to a flatter fairer system to something workable for the american people. Trading this tax cut for this tax increase isnt something republicans are interested in is just a nonstarter with a now Republican House and Republican Senate. Congress is fundamentally different than it was just last year and thats something the president should recognize and try and find ways to work with the Republican Congress opposed to going into their house of representatives and seven times threatening to veto legislation. If we can talk about ideology for a moment you look at president obama calling for high minimum wage extension of childcare, Free Community college, education of students even equal pay, these are all things in many parts of the world, particularly in europe we take for granted. How can you argue against them . Republicans support equal pay. Equal pay is the law of the land. Its illegal to pay a woman less than a man for the same job. Thats the law. Republicans support worker training. Republicans support Community Colleges support education reform. We want to go back to the preschool and kindergarten and primary education and make sure it works for the students in them. Our education policy is our Economic Policy something where congress should be able to work with the president. We need the president to be a willing partner not somebody that pretends last year ease election just didnt happen. We have already seen some republicans come out and call president obamas speech class warfare. Why is it . We see the president routinely trying to attack people who are creating jobs in this country to redistrict wealth to others. What we want to see as republicans in the house and senate where we can now present legislation to the president we werent able to do last year we want to take legislation to the president to rise everyone up to make sure those earning less are earning more. Right now, Family Income is down 2,000 from where it was when president obama took office. We see more people have left the workforce, given up on that key word of president obamas presidency, hope, we want to give them hope and rise all incomes to make sure all americans are doing well and safe and secure. One final quick question. A lot of what youre saying and the world thinks when they see this is more political deadlock in washington because it doesnt look as of much progress is going to be made on real issues. How do you get the ball rolling to change that . Thats whats making american look bad at the moment. One of the ways we can do that with a Republican House and Republican Senate we can start by going back and fixing the broken appropriations process. Last year the Republican House senate fixed 12 of the appropriations bills. Thats not enough but the house passed zero. Not only will we go to daytoday governing absent from washington so long we also can say to the country and the world were stepping back from the brinksmanship and talks of shutdown and all those other things that make the World Economy sit back on edge because they dont know what america may do next. Jim joins us now a former drink democratic aide to the u. S. Senate. Thank you for joining us so late but good to have you with us. After a terrible 2014 are we now seeing a president obama who seems to have new confidence a whiteout that white house that seems to have no confidence . We sure are. No doubt about it it was a very strong aggressive speech. Im reasonably confident very few if any republicans sitting in that chamber accepted what the president had to say and very confident most democrats loved what he had to say with the exception of trade policy probably. This guy, the president we saw giving the speech last night was i wish he was around last year is what im trying to say. It was quite a change and tone in tenor, in my opinion for the better. Is this speech little chance of become inging legislative reality, the things proposed. What was it really about . It certainly wasnt about a legislative strategy i hate to agree with doug but very little of those policies he outlined will come into law any time soon. What was it about . Drawing a stark contrast between republicans and democrats as we head into two years republicans control both the house and senate. Either youre for tax cuts for the wealthy or youre for trying to provide help and assistance to a still struggling middle class. Doug talks a little bit about breaking the political deadlock and how important that is even for americas reputation internationally. How worried are you in general about political apathy at the moment . No doubt about it. Its very partisan hyper polarized political processed were dealing with these days. I spent 21 years in the senate. From my perspective, what i saw over the years in the Obama Administration was a Republican Party trying to undermine this president every step of the way. Unfortunately in light of the way the house continues to operate i dont see it changing any time soon. Hope springs eternal but i still dont believe the speaker of the house has control of his caucus and that doesnt bode well for legislating over the next two years. Thank you very much. Good to have you both with us here on gmt. With us now with the business, youre also looking at the state of the union. There were interesting proposals from president obama about private security. Looking at private security indeed. Let me explain. Along with the economy side the security was one of the main topics in obamas state of that state of the Union Address. The american president made it clear he had not forgotten the debate over internet privacy, certainly ignited by the recent hacking of sony pictures. In fact the president warning if we dont act well leave our nation and economy vulnerable. A professor who coauthored the global bestseller the second machine age. Hes joining us from davos. Great to have you with us. I want to ask you this. We have heard lots of stories. I want to hear your perspective. Millions of us have given obscene numbers of our own information and data on the internet. How serious in your perspective is cybercrime. To us laymen seems like a new battleground. Its very serious. I think we will hear more breaches like sony and more unreported. This is a huge vol neribility as we connect more and more people and institutions to the global internet. President obama urging congress to get the legislation to tackle this evolving threat. I guess the question for many people is can you put the legislation can you fight cybercrime while at the same time keeping the trust of all of us who use the internet . Not only can you, its a necessity. It took about 100 years for people to be connected to the network and in the next five years connecting 3 billion. Technology is racing ahead, great news. Unless we secure privacy and security it wont work. People wont be comfortable sharing transactions and information and as we get more and more breaches it will prevent us from using this amazing infrastructure. We need more information how to use privacy and security. In this age were in is it an ongoing case of government spurns corporations who put up security walls. On the other side the people will keep trying to get through those walls and an ongoing a dog chasing its tail. Absolutely. There is an arms race and us as individuals, more important barrier, we have to be more intelligent how we share information. Most breaches arent done through technical means, a super computer breaking a password. By people not making good pass cords words and giving them away too easily. Its like we learned driving cars or other new technologies. We had to learn new customs and ways of behaving and all of us have to learn new ways of behaving in the cyberworld if we make full use of it. In your book one of the key messages seem to be this digital revolution is about to crash into our job market. Can you briefly explain that . Not about to. Already has. The past 10 years has been a tremendously disruptive decade. We see technologies in the pipeline, in labs at mit and Silicon Valley and elsewhere far more disruptive informs of Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning digital infrastructure, it will be a challenge in the next decade. Im glad the president in the state of the union is focusing more and more on the stagnation of middle class wages, a lot more we can do to help lift up the people right now being challenged on these new technologies. We appreciate your time. Go and enjoy that beautiful scenery behind you. Have a great time in davos. It is beautiful. Those of you in the studio i have to say that. Spacex has raised funding from google and fidelity investments. They are trying to spread Internet Access to remote parts of the world. They now own 10 of spacex the spacex manufacturer backed by a billion air billionaire, who hopes to one day colonize mars. The deal values the firm at 10 billion and go to innovation in Space Transport and satellite manufacturing. We already know the firm has contracts with nasa and a number of private firms. In 2013 google launched 30 balloon balloons to space in an attempt to provide Internet Access to buildings below on the ground. Interesting stuff. President of the interplanetary society, welcome. You are good to join us. I want to ask you, is this a great investment . Whats google and fidelity up to here . Theyve obviously decided elon musk is the future. Its great importance they spread the internet across the world in the fastest way they can for their own company. The best way for a Satellite Company to do that inexpensively. They are chopping down the prices of launches. A couple years ago, most launches cost 8 to 100 million. The price is really coming down 30 fourth million and musks ambition is to launch a reusable k rocket with a reusable post stage on the platform and put the price of a rocket of 10 to 20 million per launch. That is a reality. I know one of the key challenges for bringing the cost down is the reusable rocket parts. Theyre not there yet, are they . Getting close. You probably saw a couple weeks ago there was a bit of a crash landing and it was destroyed on landing. It was an incredible a test and no huge loss. They put the resupply Mission Successfully and this would have been a bonus. And it ran out of fuel at the last minutes. If they can achieve it in the next launch which is a strong possibility, they will reuse that rocket again. They can actually refurbish it. That is a terrific savings. In two or three years time spacex will be very wellpositioned in terms of satellite launches low cost. Sorry to interrupt, but were running out of time. Is this the start of seeing household names, big corporations jumping on board this space race a space race now kind of out of the hands of super powers its corporations . Absolutely becoming more and more private. A profit making exercise. One interesting thought dear i say britain has skylon the government has been putting money, 60 pounds of investment. Unfortunately thats 10 15 years away. If that happens and successful as a private venture the price will come down to maybe 100,000 per pound per launch. Youre fighting times ahead. It certainly is. Exciting times ahead. Thank you. We will talk to you soon. Nick thank you. You can get me at b brksbc aaron to tweet. Youre up. I have something for you to listen to. Take a listen to this. Its bon gogo flava. After the break. Mmm, a perfect 177degrees. And thats why this road warrior rents from national. I can bypass the counter and go straight to my car. And i dont have to talk to any humans, unless i want to. And i dont. 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We think we think its going to be a very worthwhile venture. Which countries in particular are you targeting and which age brackets and wage brackets are you targeting . Were really targeting anybody in the world who currently doesnt have internet or have mobile phones. In some of the poorer countries of the world thats a lot of people. And in richer countries, people who live in rural areas. The network will be global and well talk to individual countries and, you know, find out which ones would welcome us and which ones wont. I think most will actually welcome this initiative. Indeed. Were only 10 weeks after the fatal Virgin Galactic crash. Are you still determined going ahead with that and focused on getting tourists up into space . Yes, we are. First of all, the network i just told you about will be part of Virgin Galactics program. Well be launching satellites into space from a mother ship through a rocket we built called launcher 1 and launcher 2 and put g putting people aboard the spaceship. Anonned listening to at davos, take a listen to this. Its bongo flava. I havent heard it a version of hiphop and r b. He artists werent taken seriously but all that has changed. Reporter Award Winning artist is laying down his tracks originally seen as western culture trying to find its way into a very conservative society. They are always fighting us like, you know, dont do music you know because its something from the streets, you know. Theres not any future in it. Ay started his career 14 months ago and one of the few artists who persevered believing one day his career would be big. His tenacity paid off. Hes now making a very lucrative career out of bongo flava, a career many young people are very keen to pursue. Reporter these days there are a number of centers set up privately to teach and train young people to sing and play instruments free of charge. Reporter this young lady has traveled hundreds of kilometers to get here and learn how to sing. She says one day she would like to be as big as rihanna. Reporter since im here at the house of talent, i just thought, why dont i give it a go and see if i can actually sing . Stop, stop. You need more training. Reporter looks like i cant sing. The music that hardly got any airtime is now the most played on radio and even crossing borders. Translator in nigeria if you say youre an artist from sancheznyia and want to from tanzania and want to work with them they are happy to do it. Although we dont speak the same language weve come to understand each other. They play our music and we play theirs. Reporter what started like a nightmare to many, especially parents at the time, have ended up becoming a dream not only to the pioneers but also to the new generation. Bbc news, salam. Thats all from gmt for today. Now to tell us whats coming up and youre a fan of bongo flava. I am. Thanks so much. We will have more on president obamas state of the Union Address when i talk to a prominent republican to get his reaction. Also going live to the World Economic forum in davos. You owned your car for four years. You named it brad. You loved brad. And then you totaled him. You two had been through everything together. Two boyfriends. Three jobs. Youre like nothing can replace brad then Liberty Mutual calls. And you break into your happy dance. If you sign up for better car replacement, well pay for a car thats a model year newer with 15,000 fewer miles than your old one. See Car Insurance in a whole new light. Liberty mutual insurance. 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