N.p.r. . Had a welcome You're listening to news day on the b.b.c. Well it's great to have your company Lawrence. With you will be reflecting on the horrible milestone figure of half a 1000000 coated related deaths in the u.s. We have scientists putting the number in context asking how it got so bad but also hearing from one sufferer who says he feels betrayed. Wife full of Mexican drug. Is Arrested in the u.s. On charges of drug trafficking we'll be hearing more about the film of beauty pageant queen he says clothing line and ended up a reality t.v. Business talks about h.s.b.c. Banks pivot to Asia what does that mean other South African finance minister Professor tough speech in the middle of a pandemic and the mission to save the world's music we speak to the man who's tracking down some of the earliest $78.00 rpm vinyl shack. Which. Have been lost to history. Stay with us. As with the b.b.c. News President Biden has made some address to the nation honors the number of Americans who've died from coronavirus. He described the figure is a truly dream home breaking milestone and urged people to resist becoming numb to the song we often hear people described as ordinary Americans there's no such thing there's nothing ordinary about them. The people we lost were extraordinary. They spanned generations. Born in America emigrated to America. But just like that so many of them took their final breath alone in America a year on from the 1st confirmed coronavirus dance in the u.s. The disease is still claiming the lives of some 2000 Americans every day. The Australian Government has resolve the dispute with Facebook about news content the 2 sides have been at loggerheads over proposed legislation which would force tech companies to pay to use news content in Australia from Sydney hears from a legal Facebook decision to restore news pages in Australia has come after the government agreed to a number of amendments to the proposed news media bargaining code a law that would force tech giants to enter into negotiations with news outlets over payment for content shared on their platform in a statement Facebook said the government has addressed the company's concerns about allowing commercial deals that recognize the value of the platform provides to publishers relative to the value it receives from them. Us with already say they've arrested the wife of 40 male Chapal goes Mon the imprisoned former leader of Mexico's synagogue of drug Auto I'm a Cornell who was detained dollars International Airport and is expected to appear in a federal court in Washington it's written reports this colonel's face became known around the world when she attended nearly every day of her husband's 3 month trial in a New York courtroom 2 years ago there were suggestions that she was deeply involved in his business and even helped plan his escape from prison and Mexico in 2015 but the u.s. Authorities that's how come and go freely now she's been arrested and charged with drug trafficking will appear in court on Cheese Day husband was convicted of drug smuggling on an industrial scale and involvement in multiple murder plots while leader of the center lower drug cartel a military inquiry in South Korea has found the troops missed a chance to. To catch and North Korean man crossing the border between the 2 countries this month the man spent over 3 hours in the heavily guarded border area without being spotted the military says it will strengthen its operating procedures as a result of its investigation world news from the b.b.c. a Special plane carrying a consignment of Ebola vaccine has landed in Guinea a dust storm and there's a holler of force the aircraft over course on Sunday when it was diverted to Senegal vaccinations are to begin and get his capital Conakry on Tuesday 3 major nature conservation organizations have warned that nearly a 3rd of freshwater fish are too risk of extinction freshwater fish provide the main source of protein for 200000000 people across Asia Africa and South America and livelihoods for 60000000 and Briggs has this report more than half the world's facia found in lakes rivers and wetlands from company to giant catfish they face a number of threats including pollution and sustainable fishing and the damming and draining of racism wetlands conservation groups say 80 species a name to have become extinct 16 in the last year alone in u.k. Waters the sturgeon and the bit have vanished salmon a disappearing and the European remains critically endangered according to the w w f much of the declines driven by the poor state of rivers mostly as a result of pollution dams and sewage the cost of scrapping Mexico City's planned new international airport will be higher than building it according to the country's public spending $1.00 stalled federal order to his office says the bill for cancelling the project is likely to reach $16000000000.00 due to legal fees and financing John has. The American space agency has released stunning videos on. Landing on Mars the movers cover the final moments of last week's dramatic descent to the red planet up to the point where the robots wheels make contact with the ground also captured the Martian wind blowing across the rovers microphone the 1st recording of sounds on the planet b.b.c. News. This is news day with Lawrence and. Now they've got Mrs Shorty as well America arrests Mrs. Munt wife of the drug kingpin Shorty will find out more about her and how she became a reality t.v. Star also we'll be hearing about South Africa's economic prospects pandemic a difficult speech for the finance minister as he announced a budget at a time of economic turndown business looks at h.s.b.c. Bank. High bank is pivoting back to Asia as its name might suggest we got the support also saving the 78 those very very old records from all over the world a lovely report on the way in about 20 minutes time. Off a 1000000 people in the u.s. Have died of a contract virus President Biden has been paying tribute to them today. Truly. Heartbreaking milestone 500071. That's more Americans who died in one years pandemic than a war. 2 in the Vietnam War combined that's more lives lost this virus than any other nation on earth. Well it is a staggering figure but despite its magnitude in terms of deaths per population behead a population the u.s. Is actually 9th behind countries like the u.k. Italy and Portugal we talk about the science throughout the program but let's begin with a personal story of somebody who's been through it Reverend Greg Lewis is from the wall keys and Gabriel's Church of God in Christ and the Reverend cool Tyvek back in March of last year welcome to News Day Reverend let's start off with that figure if somebody told you this time last year that half a 1000000 Americans would die from the onus you are suffering from what would you said. You think that's incredible. So. I hope. This. Guy. Where do you think responsibility for this lies it's a pandemic and every country has struggled to get it under control but that figure is alarmingly high but do you feel it's. Well as a stick our leadership has really is of the ball. To. A tune a misunderstanding importance of protecting yourself from of this is a virus like that almost died from the virus so I'm a little testimony that it's real. Just as a whole and that someone's word. Downplay a virus that could you know 'd stricken you for life you know I had the virus in March and I'm still suffering from the effects of the virus my respiratory system may never be the same even though I recovered from it is is just one possibility for anybody to me to not protect themselves from you know becoming the victim of the virus just like the idea that I just have a lead that the whole world 'd is not protecting themselves from having. Contact in this coverage as far as this virus and as opposed to have problems with your lungs I mean how is that impacted on you talking to people in your community giving sermons. Yes You know it's. Actually a lot since. Recovered because the times I need to be a lot more forceful with my voice and raising that is you know they can please for whatever reason. What I do love or is it. I can tell them it starts to crack and I start to cough so I know I'm not fully recovered from it as a matter of fact there's a sense one related to it now and the 3rd one more hospital here in the city called me stuff that says on people having nightmares and and having various after effects of recovery from the virus is quite prevalent that's one thing we don't talk about the after effects of you know someone who has had the virus has been in trouble 'd and may never recover or is very slow recovery that well I want to also about not I didn't because we. Just want to know if you know that possible cause we heard. To the origin President Biden that is saying that more Americans now died of kind of it that in the 1st world will the 2nd World War the Vietnam wars and Korean was combined do you think the impact of this time damage will be as lasting a seismic Home Society as the impacts of those walls had been in the past. Well certainly you know we may never be the same there's a new normality we've never stop wearing masks they never stop distancing we've never stopped being you know free. Attractive this overnight and now we're starting to mutate into other viruses that you know maybe there there was anything that you could take or so people that are disturbed one way that this virus is real if you feel you even if you live in quite the billet. Referendum we will have to leave it there thank you so much for your time Greg Lewis the referent regulars from the walkies some very real sense of God in Christ we'll hear from him inspect infectious disease experts later on he said he thinks 40 percent of the death could have been avoided had different decisions been taken in the u.s. . We've often reported on the arrest of drug cartel leaders not so often their wives but u.s. Police of announced that they've arrested the partner of the jailed gangster El Chapo Guzman the head of Mexico's similar cartel Emma Coronel ice put 0 has been more famous actually is a former beauty queen who set up our own line of clothing and also started a t.v. Reality show as well she's now under arrest in Virginia so knows the background to this well Mexican journalist your I'm a good local We often talk to on these matters were you on one thing I'm puzzled about was up until now was she coming and going freely in and out of the states. She was yes she has been I mean she does have a u.s. Citizenship I believe and her 2 twin children were born there in a hospital in Los Angeles so she was going back and forth I did meet her. At the trial of El Chapo in 2019 in early 2009 See there it was she was there try to get some more details about her family particularly because she is reportedly the niece of another famous drug lord called Nacho Coronel who was shot dead but she was she didn't want to give me too many details but she was said the kind of a big star celebrity at that trial she was wasn't she and Wasn't there a image that particularly as Guzman's other girlfriends were mentioned and came through I thought that the sentiment was that here was you know wifey standing by her man but do we think now from what the Americans are claiming that she was more active maybe in the in the drugs trade than just being a sort of a passive wife. Well that's the accusations there's a couple of interesting things about the accusations we would not know yet if these drug trafficking charges are charges that happened while Chapo was the one of the heads of the cartel so happened previous to his fine arrest which is most likely or if they happened since one of the one of the things is this investigation is a padded being done by the f.b.i. Out of Washington as opposed to the Drug Enforcement Administration who are the ones who would do it off the chap so it's got a different agency involved which is confusing things a bit and also we see a new boy didn't era appointee an acting assistant attorney general the one who announced this so maybe a new figure as well kind of make us clash here but the accusation is that she was in conspiracy to traffic crystal meth heroin cocaine and marijuana these conspiracy charges doesn't necessarily mean he touched the drugs he could have moved money or somehow been involved in this international conspiracy to go to drugs if the United States one thing I wanted to us was going back to Guzman himself at the time I remember the question after he was sent down was always well what does this mean that does he just get replaced by someone else in terms of the cartel and their practice their area of Mexico has not happened has Goodman and the operation just been taken over by someone else remove the man but the problem remains. Absolutely I mean and in some of the real powers in his area he's sons various sons he's going he's got very many children know a chapel and a group 1st songs are known as the last chap the costs you know the little shop clothes and they become really powerful players that are rose up and force the Mexican army you know very infamous incident in late 29 say so yeah absolutely drugs are still moving in massive culture says by various traffickers including his sons. Tragically carry on a high level here in Mexico I'm sure listen many thanks indeed u.n. Greil Mexican journalist on the arrest of well having to give our own name and McConnell I support Oh there's no ways want to be known as Mrs Shorty. But it's a it's a nasty battle isn't it yes and let's get a list of all these now James Gregg Sam morning good morning to collab on Premier League game last night 1st of all to report back on it was the most one sided game I've ever watched a thing but as we all know it's not how it's how many Brighton dominated Crystal Palace but ultimately ended up Lee's in 2 goals to one Congo eligible John. And Christine Benz Hecate with the goals for Palace in Italy event to speak for its own a 3 goals to nil there in 3rd Rinaldo scored twice what a surprise also as severe back up to 3rd in Spain never above Barcelona by the way as it stands to European Champions League not care much as tonight's a buy in in action so for an addictive form at the moment in the Bundesliga so be interesting to see if they can raise their game for the Champions League Pulis Chelsea again Spanish leaders Athletico Madrid and there's also 6 African Champions League matches will talk more in-depth about those next hour Chris finishes be named the Timberwolves head coach in the n.b.a. And coming up here on News they'll be hearing from the south side on women's football captain about the launch of the 1st ever women's league in the country and of course the significance of. Judge Greg with the sport Many thanks business now Underwood standing by in Hong Kong with news of Europe's largest bank that's h.s.b.c. Which stands for Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation saying that it's going back to its roots in East Asia what does that mean Andrea. Well h.s.b.c. Already actually makes most of its profits in China and in Hong Kong and around the region so and thanks to code it its profits are actually down by more than a 3rd all that's that's slightly better than people expected and of course you know Europe and North America are not really doing that well as far as banking is concerned at the moment all the action is in Asia now we're hoping for some more details later in the day but already once when the when h.s.b.c. Announced its results it did give a few hints it saying that it wants to grow with the amount of money makes from cross selling insurance asset management that's things you know like unit trusts and savings for retirements foreign exchange and structured projects products and it says that it's going to it's going to increase the amount of capital it allocates to Asia it is of course say that if it increases its footprint in Asia then that means any geopolitical risks in Asia you know if politics get in the way if there are sanctions if there are if there are even wars then that means that you know those those risks again and again to be worse but then they saying that's also Jus because of the strategic importance of the region and we don't forget it was actually about 30 years ago that h.s.b.c. The Hong Kong bank bought the middle of a bank in the u.k. My became a British bank so if it starts shifting its the weight on its feet over to Hong Kong again it will basically be reversing what it did 30 years ago or underworld with the business Many thanks this is news day from the b.b.c. World Service. Let's take you to South Africa now the finance minister there Tito. Will deliver a budget speech amidst the toughest economic environment in over a century unemployment is currently at 30 percent the economy is in recession and with a junk status credit rating said the minister has a tough balancing act on his hands adding to his concerns the public servants who are demanding wage increases the B.B.C.'s for money McKinsey brings us this report . When I've made. The 45 year old prison warden free look has been working at the horseman poolroom excellent security prison in the capital Pretoria for nearly 2 decades while freely enjoys his job he's one of schools of government employees angered by the state's failure to give them pay rises like any other worker in the private sector we have expenses. We have responsibilities that we have to look after and then we have to service them through we have to service so we are quite just going to go to displace to say the least doesn't it initially agreed to a deal wage deal in 2018 which is g 2 come into effect in April last year but as the couvade 19 pandemic crippled the economy on the deal freezing wages instead. Because. If you. Are not made. From the public servants Association says they've taken the state to court if it to force the implementation of the ways deal even if the government says it's an affordable if you still want government to pay a bankrupt the country look government. Whether you consider countries bankrupt or not it is that this country has been corrupt all the time and we know what was the cause of 'd this of this didn't. Is unfortunate. Because nobody wants to go of what the cause of. The public sector wage bill amounts to a good of all government spending and it's implemented this deal will cost the state an additional $2000000000.00 in the ratings agencies of government to rein in spending if they have any hope of moving from junk status. I don't speak finance minister any speech will be watched closely by ratings agencies and free quantum is little Krugel the agencies will be looking for a clear economic strategy and a reduction in government spending we would prefer the government rather say free salaries at a better safe level so I think it would sink the wrong message to the private sector Secondly it would say the wrong message to the credit rating agencies they've been watching that and that expenditure has been a bit out of line with what we see our competitors are doing the good news for those of African economy is that it's passed the worst and it's expected to grow by wrong 3 percent this year but it'll still take a little while longer to recover to prepared to make levels. Because he They're bringing us that report now we're going to talk about music recorded music not on a file not on a cd not even a cassette but on a record yes folks a flat black vinyl plaster which rotates out $3345.00 or in this case $78.00 revolutions per minute and yes you put a needle on it to get the music out that stuff we're talking about long lost recordings of Zimbabwean guitar music Persian sounds from the fifty's Vietnamese traditional singing they've all been brought together by a record label based in the u.s. And rereleased collector and producer behind it has been talking about his latest compilations of 70 eight's from around the globe. My name's Jonathan Lord I'm a record collector living in Los Angeles and I make occasional compilations with the dust and digital label based in Atlanta as a 78 r.p.m. Collector my focus is global recordings and specially lesser known ones. So this new collection excavated Chalak alternate history of the Worlds music is a distillation of and an expansion of my website excavated Chalak which I started in 2007 and on that site I featured sometimes still a free articles on global recording and discussion of music from around the world exclusively on the $78.00 rpm disc and how that industry worked so there's no blues there's no Chaz there's no country no r. And b. No classical no popular and this is the rest of the world's music which is gigantic featuring tracks that were never before reissued or discussed really. Got in. One part of the world where people may not expect that there was a thriving recording industry was in the Persian Gulf and the early 1950 s. The music was highly localized and really beautiful mostly a type of music called soaked by feature a disc on the blues a label from crane from the early fifty's got a real edge to it it's wonderfully sung and it's beautifully record. Another example that I particularly like is this song from Zimbabwe there was many incredible guitar players from southern and eastern Africa active in the fifty's the acoustic guitar really became an instrument of choice for so many local troubadours. There's a song by a man named Paul the stick itto who I know nothing about can find nothing about him and it's recorded in 1954 and the lyrics are very simple my back hurts from working in the field mother the children are beggars repeated again and again and it's just wonderful guitar piece the phone calls are gorgeous and this is just an example of a song I just felt was so powerful it really needs to be heard by everybody. Finding the records is basically through the global marketplace it's not particularly exciting but I have news for everybody there's not a lot of 78 collectors on earth why because this is a medium that most people just don't want to deal with they're breakable they're heavy and you have to have special equipment to get them sound right it's expensive you know there's many factors why people would just sort of. Mediately stop right there why I decided to go into it was simply because I wanted to hear this music that was unavailable I was the only way to hear it was to find. And thank you for sharing it with us Jonathan which. Basically explains why we're missing out not playing 70 eight's anymore although I have to say I think what a turntable I can play 33 I can play a 45 but I don't think I can play a 78 can you play. The i'm exactly in the same position 70 I think you have to go by I don't know did they make them any more because he was you have to go retro You probably wouldn't and they all used to do it didn't they yeah. Listen to wax cylinders either less of us and more of Jonathan's music this is. From the late 1950 s. Off a Shylock LP 78 recording made in Kinshasa sun solvable. Distribution of the b.b.c. World Service of the us are supported by the mind cast used by nearly 40000 organizations to help keep them safe from fishing business email compromising ransomware mime Cast dot com and providing an online evaluation and the tools to help people lead healthier lives through behavior change. And. Well I welcome you listening to news day on the b.b.c. Website it's great to have you company kind of double and Lawrence Pahlavi here at the u.n. Is he called at least government to investigate the death of the Italian ambassador to the country and to others that would also look at how to preserve local languages from disappearing with a campaign a in some bubble and have fun as a fighting back and collecting locusts that animal feed a Latin jazz right the school after the news. B.b.c. News with Neil new owners President Biden has made as somber address to the nation as the number of Americans who've died from coronavirus Paul's tall for a 1000000 he described the figure as a truly Graham heartbreaking milestone and I had to be able to resist to becoming known to the song Mr Biden the vice president Camila Haris and their spouses of served a moment of silence the Australian Government has resolved the dispute with Facebook about news content the 2 sides have been at loggerheads over proposed legislation which would force tech companies to pay to use news content in Australia a study in Nigeria suggests coronavirus infection rates are far higher than official figures was actors say as many as 4000000 people could have been infected in the city of Lagos u.s. Authorities have arrested the wife of public you know. They imprisoned former leader of Mexico's in a lower drug Kauto Amoco to nail has been charged with drug trafficking an inquiry in South Korea has found troops amazed 8 chances to catch a North Korean man crossing the 2 country's border this month the man spent over 3 hours in the heavily gold guarded border area without being spotted a special plane carrying a consignment of Ebola vaccine has landed in Guinea a dos storm and this is a horror falls to the aircraft all also on Sunday when it was diverted to. To Senegal most of the 11000 doses are to be taken to the Guinea and Dawn of the Dakota a where 5 people recently died 3 major nature conservation organizations have warned that nearly a 3rd of freshwater fish are at risk of extinction in a new report they say the fish face a number of threats including pollution on sustainable fishing and the damming and draining of rivers and wetlands b.b.c. News. Thank you very much for that update hello welcome back we are Newsday from the b.b.c. World Service Lawrence and Clare with you today thanks for joining us coming up we'll have the latest on the d.l.c. And the killing of that Italian ambassador will also talk about dying languages in Africa and how to save them how do you farm a locusts. Early I will be talking to a woman who call this incredible way of see you know basically getting rid of locusts devouring crops and using them as feed the animals instead it's an incredible tale she said joining us live and we'll play you the sound of the planets there may not be life on Mars but there is wind you'll hear it here on Tuesday. We begin with events in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the killing of Italy's envoy to the country Ambassador Luca who along with his attorney and bodyguard and their Congolese driver were killed in an ambush on a u.n. Convoy in the east of the country. Menu of the b.b.c. Is live on the line from Kinshasa and has been covering the background to this and Emery 1st off that can you sort of just explain for us was it was it safe to be where the ambassador was or not because the sort of conflicting reports about whether he needed more security less security that's obviously a big question what's being said about that. Well what we learn from Game Theory of ministry is that. They get there when it away and that the ambassador was in. Providence. Was food program telling us that they did inform feel for ages and the area was. Travelling have advisory so people could. Move around without any any escort but that did not give a province is it is known for being very insecure. Groups attack targeting particularly your money carrion. In India in that area salty we learned that the impasse there was only traveling with his body caught in a in in a coma a convoy of 2 vacancies this presumably would have been his decision to make so if we're trying to find out who's responsible presumably the decision was made that it was safe for him to be there but can you tell us is it likely that he was targeted as a foreigner as a rich target as an ambassador is this criminality is there a political element behind it what are people saying we know. Well the area is. A myriad of groups broadening it. Into dated not province So anyone traveling that specially your money charity and all tourist targeted. By these groups fall in the case of the passenger we don't have to details yes you'll see shows of a start to based a geisha face to gauge team on what really happened if there were a tag it did or. People knew that they were taking their gold but at the moment it's very very difficult to establish what really happened Ok Many thanks indeed for the latest us Emery. B.b.c. News in Kinshasa thanks to Emory. These days b.b.c. World Service now back in 1953 and Esko that's the UN's Educational Scientific and Cultural body and to school the importance of educating children and their mother tongue is almost 70 years since that statement most African countries continue to use form a colonial language globally there an estimated 6000 different language languages Africa boasts 2000 of them and their office now that the global total of weights Hoth may well be lost if something isn't on Saturday stop that slow slide into oblivion while justice. Is a political strategist based in but away as in bob way and he runs a campaign promoting language and culture I must say if you look at where I am here in the beyond Zimbabwe traditionally we have 16 official language just including English and then in most education centers all schools and universities is English is is the main language their teachers the students use. And because of the eggs indigenous languages like China which is the most dominant indigenous language in Zimbabwe and. We can hear way I mean lawyer and I'm meant to blend you discover that people are saying away from their mother tongues because the use of English is the only mode of communication or language that can make you feel like you are professional you are formal From that point of view when you when school children and looking further ahead to the university education to potential careers you can kind of understand it that they would want to make themselves understood in a language that is international so is there a balance to be struck Do you think I feel like we do have an opportunity for for young people to strike a balance but I always emphasize to people say look it's all goes back to government policy especially here where we're saying the study off indigenous languages is not as mandatory as complex in so you find that people here in Zimbabwe they study English from primary education ice to university just a bit indigenous languages where you find a presence just for example in law in my to but they don't offer Shauna the language and you go to Mission island and you want to find an indigenous language being offered in that particular province but you find all the public and private schools teaching here so it's easier for students to then migrate to other countries because they're able to communicate in interest and nights in the indigenous language is a double edged sword isn't it really because you have these languages only in Africa because of colonialism So I guess it's getting that balance between moving away from well as a negative period in Africa's history but staying progressive for the young people of today I'm reading that many young people when I asked the question when they young will reply in English or French even though they have other languages at their fingertips I mean you've got a bit of a mountain to climb Haven't you got a great show. Let me just give you probably an example of what I have experienced yet you go to public schools for you students and even the private schools Yang's about what to just cover their teachers are trying to do not embrace indigenous languages they want to embrace their foreign language that being the case when students displace from Qantas when their way back home on their way back to school in the morning they speak in a business languages at the moment they enter the trust of start speaking a foreign language in meetings that work we should have and should be meeting in a tragedy and also speaking in French and not you know indigenous languages and you find that it is depends on a particular meeting behind the participates but the moment meeting is in from an angst and people are just speak in China or even daily in the indigenous language and become bloated locks to be able to participate more effectively because people are able to express themselves better if they speak in their mother tongue that is very interesting So what you're saying is public or private school needs reflect what's actually going on in the real world oh education system was adopted from our colonisers So it's always going to be a gradual phase but eventually we need to do something when it needed to get to that point where we're saying how can we teach our indigenous languages effectively people should be proud of who they are. Just as the mind of the is speaking to me a little bit earlier he's a political strategist based in by the way is of bob way of protecting those indigenous languages 19 minutes to the hour this is news day from the b.b.c. World Service We're going to talk about farmers fighting back trying to make Well we're trying to make use of what is a plague those flippin locusts that have made such misery for people in East Africa Kenya at the moment seeing the worst local infestation in decades swarms which begin in Yemen cross the water and then comes through Ethiopia in the horn that destroying food supplies and livelihoods and if you've ever sat and wondered what was the good of a locust Well here's someone who tells you what you can do with a locust Laura Stanford is a founder of the bug picture which is the company behind this idea and he going to tell us more Laura welcome to the program so what do you do once 1st take your locust right so you've got smallness What do you suggest people do. If you had you so much for having me on the show this morning and so through our program funded by the don't need an agency fund thing we are and mobilizing communities in the northern parts of Kenya to go out and have missed the locusts to see it as a seasonal crap that is and that is plaguing them essentially and that can be sold back to the west at a set price as we can process it and absolutely it into animal feed rally so much so to you who do the processing so all you're asking people to do is to count how do you capture locust When is the best time and what do you do with it so this has been a bit of a trial and error as you can probably imagine but we we've followed the swarms via border border so far I am most a bike in the afternoon to find out where they roost and then our project team goes to those communities nearest by and. And show them how to best which is practically through the night from about 630 when the sun sets until about 7 30 in the morning after Stan rise the intake to actually just sleep so if you think about fruit picking at that sort of what we're doing seeing these guys as for centuries and people actually just taking them off the so you have to your restaurant was one when I'm thinking of the the millions of locusts that there are in a small room I mean can you not 3 and they all fall down or what all of a short cuts yeah there are a few short cuts so we can put a hole in of the tree and the tree we've tried a whole bunch of things at there have been some comical moments of trying to catch these guys but we have found that actually just getting people to try their own thing has given some of the greatest solutions that's interesting I want to know what you do with them in just a moment but 1st off I mean the swarms are so enormous that this isn't so much about stopping the swarms because that's beyond human capacity isn't it unless you unless you spray them I assume I mean you can you know people can go out they can catch the local locust but there's too many to actually stop the locals that's not what this is about is it yeah as though this is this is to complement the F.A.R.'s spray efforts which have been a mammoth task and which have been incredible and what they're doing is there is their real impact of the desert locust reduction what we're doing is trying to create a bit of call of action to the communities that are affected and tell us what it is that you do with the locals that they that they collect How do you convert them into feed so we we have a stem So 1st there's the locals will bring the local farmers will pick and them to us in the morning well paid him immediately if I'm about money and then we'll take them away to our nearest processing center which is based on remarriage tea and here we leave them for 3 days to make sure that they haven't been sprayed which is actually quite an important element because we don't want those chemicals go. Into animal feed and then we grind them and cut them out on top Poland's just and dry for 3 days so basically it within a week we've got a paddock that can be melt into animal feed Wow tasty and nutritious for. You they like you lately yeah they love it great to get back on and they talk about recipes for locusts as well but for now what a brilliant use of it Laura Stanford and bug picture is the company that is doing its best to try to get some good out of locusts because let's be honest there isn't a lot of good that comes out of locusts I would not want to be under that tree Newsday b.b.c. World Service Area headlines President Biden has spoken of a truly grim milestone as the number of people have died from covert 19 in the us passes half a 1000000 and Facebook is to restore news feeds in Australia to the government agreed to amend legislation forcing social media companies to pay for news content Let's get a real small cities now his James Gregg always talk about South Sudan and we speak suggests a regular here on News Day way about many different topics topic from the country that we've never visited will be able to report back on properly before other than hearing from people who say they should happen I'm talking about their Women's National Football League well for a country that of course as many of you know these Coloe are in its way back from the devastating effects of conflicts and when nearly half of girls are married by 18 it would be fairly easy to assume actually that football let alone women's football would be non-existent so after the 1st weekend of the official league I spoke to the captain of the women's national side in South Sudan Amy Lassie and I asked her how it was. Something I. Wished for her. And for him and he really couldn't be more hug because it's a big regret. For a long time you know what was not being considered for it but now you know things are changing and. Putting more efforts on the guns and it's certainly a good thing with everything that's going on in the world at the moment it must be given South Sudan and the population and particularly the young girls in South the dog something to actually look forward to something to strive towards and something to enjoy I mean that's not going to be right at the forefront of your mind doesn't it is the women's your. Definitely look I mean plays from the nations I mean obviously you grew up yourself in Kenya do you reckon that will be that plays like you who perhaps were playing outside of South Sudan who are now tempted to come back and play not leak hopefully do you wish for that you know it's really hard to find a. Well meaning out of yes folks because not a lot of maybe a few in Kenya but other countries. But it would be really nice you know. About the country because you know we have a need that's running it would be really nice because we'll have more numbers in the national team and I think it will help of a lot stronger if you there's lots of players obviously exciting stuff coming through in the men's game is this hopefully what you want to see I mean look your the national team captain must be very exciting fee will this really boost the national team's ambition is that I mean what are your ambitions for the National say you know so far we have but it did in one tournament which is a sucker for but we. Would want to see also you know what we're doing other bigger tournaments I think that would be really group well us of go in and go and maybe you know some day while the World Cup not be fantastic I mean obviously you know you're obviously really heavily involved in it and the running of it I mean what's the message to the south down Football Association because they've actually worked really hard and there's been a lot of women who've really full this league so what's the message then and what's what's the ambitions because it's going to get bigger isn't it they say Me My message to them is that they should just you know try to encourage more guns around the company. To come out in one. It doesn't or any gender rule in the program know if you know anyone. Everyone has a right to pollute so just one of the keyboard you did in the. Room coaching want to know if you noticed I mean if you notice more girls in parks and Sorvino just on the street playing football since this is being announced and since it's become something that's been talked about in South Sudan Yes just. Going to last year. Because there's progress we have some progress. I know it's. A nice way to go and you know. Long as there would be you know. When do we need to give so obviously the bridges huge role in this country but I think what we're going to be able to rule and hopefully everyone will consider men to be equal to women Amy thanks so much for talking to us on news day it's really appreciated in good luck with the Women's League as well I really hope it flourishes and hopefully helpful national team out as well thank you so much the same lassie there speaking to me from just outside Juba in South Sudan will be able to read more about that story on the b.b.c. Sport Africa website in the coming days and a full sports round up from a next hour here on News Day It's absolutely fascinating and women get involved it's full everywhere especially in places like South Sudan changes their lies you know that they've documented it it gets them out of poverty it gets them out of all kinds of dangerous situations so it's fantastic nice James thank you so much indeed 9 minutes to the other is news to you now in Angola being in a same sex relationship is no longer a crime thanks to a new law that came into force earlier this month now white social prejudices mean that life. Community won't change overnight of course but the Africans have. Struggle to come together have their voices heard as a collective but social media of course has made a huge difference providing a platform for exchange of ideas and so on in the 1st of 2 special episodes of our podcast the Africa daily podcast. Has been investigating this question Is Africa ready to talk rights. They really need to get into the challenges. People face across the continent and to do that I reached out to a former colleague and a good friend of mine his name is given what you read he's a journalist. You know. What is it like being gay in Kenya. I'm a 48 openly queer man mate I have a. Name for myself I have a career I have a home I have networks that can support me but for someone who is 21 is still finding them it is the hardest paying me. You know there are theories in Titian online social media and the Internet which is great in the sense that it's showing people that it is possible to be queer. Last year I got a phone call from someone who asked me he's like this thing is too hard how do I give up being gay because the more I'm gay the more my family is giving me pressure and they're going to stop my education they're going to kick me out I need to stop this just so that I can finish school. And Brown his experience is so different from mine. It's not easy made it's not easy but it is possible and fortunately there are people who still feel they are low and not just in Kenya but across the continent where is it easier for gay people to leave where is it more complicated more difficult I'm cautious about when we look at what we frame questions that we haven't because in some cases it's not just marriage people aren't just after marriage people want people don't want to be killed people want to be able to go to the shop easily people want to be able to access education people wanted to be able to access health or or government services just by identifying themselves ask where it would be brilliant if there are more countries on the continent where we could say yeah we want to get married but Alan the key thing for many of us is this we want to live we want to thrive if we want to be seen without having to worry about the risks involved it's brilliant to see what's happening in Angola and I'd say most of Lucifer in Africa they have decriminalized same sex relations and I think that and with that with the criminalization let's not forget there will be backlash you know it will be individuals who will be targeted because they have chosen to be seen they have chosen to be a parent you know and if you look at South Africa we're still seeing cases of corrective rape and violence against transfer women so it is one thing to deal. With legislation but it's another thing to to normalize I exist and it's another thing to deal with our families and to deal with the social cultural and religious stigma that is a lot more prevalent in our communities even though there are laws that have been done away with and there's nothing you can barely run away from right where people come to you and say grandchildren while now here you are 48 years old you've managed to remove all that but I'm sure that does the story that you've heard of our governor again this is not right still breaks my heart to be honest. A friend of mine got married in Ghana last year and used to hang out you know and it still gets to be and it still gets to be because I there's so many facets to it I'd like I have no problem with if people choose to get married but I want I ask them does your partner know that your future wife and what is your future husband know because we're hurting them and I don't think they deserve to be hacked and if we do that you know it is not fair to going into a marriage with a lie I know people who just live a double life and I live the double life and I feel for them I pity them but it's the fear it is the shame it is the societal and from a little pressure that forces people into into a bad situation and I say we are harming announced because a gay man we are harming the women we do that to we are seriously harming them because we're denying them love we're denying them intimacy in the way that we know and the way that they deserve because you know we are under deep cover we are on the down low if we are not careful we're going to lose our children we're going to lose a generation of Africans who want to be themselves and that striving to be themselves as Africans My dream is to see you know to be able to go to a pride festival in Lagos Doc You know Vin Paul could you know Cairo. And celebrate our queerness and African is in a way that is comfortable to all of us and that celebrates our African. I look forward to that day. The one who found. Desperately want to be gay. What did you say to him and how different would it have been if you're speaking. I just told him to hold on it does get easier and he he held on he held on and it's and he's a he's almost now financially independent and that is a big thing especially in the continent where you can stand on your own feet you don't have to rely on your parents or your guardians to provide for you. To my younger 21 year old self I would tell myself you're Ok You're beautifully and wonderfully made and you are not an anomaly. I love the way you love and be brave to love the way you love I was in brave I was scared because I felt alone so I told myself into anyone who's 21 you're not alone you're not alone. In this continent. Where you'll be able to find yourself. Well I was part of today's episode of the Africa daily podcast asking the question is Africa ready to talk l g b t rights Kevin my chiro certainly was in conversation the very moving conversation with. B.b.c. Africa daily now we ended the 1st half hour here on this morning talking about 70 eight's the beginning of recording at the turn of the century so let's get right up to date now and the most cutting it's recording NASA has recorded the 1st sound of Mas its perseverance right on the planet and its microphone caught the wind blowing so here it is. The sound is very quiet we've had to be used as much as we can. Yeah I've. Already. Got Mike Russell over that got to go back and do it again sorry that's not a. Terrible microphone technique but to him and all. Over they think of next. This is Steve Inskeep with Morning Edition from n.p.r. News the thing you most need from a news organization is an organization that both tell you the truth every single day we're learning a little bit more there's a new administration new proposals new laws new ideas new events around the world and day after day after day morning edition comes to you again to help you make sense of it all listen every weekday. Mornings from 5. This is. N.p.r. N.p.r. . 90.5. 89 point. 91.3. 2 0 is news today from the b.b.c. World Service. And. The United States records. Related deaths President Biden describes it as heart breaking. Well here from an infectious disease expert he tells us the scale of the death toll is a political failure. Government and Facebook of reaching agreement on the social media paying for news content in what is seen as possibly a test case for the world South Korea became a role model for mass testing and aggressive contact tracing measures in the prime minister claims they had immunity by the British prime minister. But it's a slow crawl back for the hospitality sector and teachers will get their view match fixing. The pandemic what can be done to stop it. As with the b.b.c. News there was strain in government has resolve the dispute with Facebook over proposed legislation that would force companies to pay to use news content in Australia Facebook some of the government had agreed to changes that addressed its concerns Sharma can lead reports now from Sydney in a statement Facebook said the government has addressed the company's concerns about allowing commercial deals that recognize the value of the platform provides to publishers relative to the value it receives from them that they were now able to restore news pages for Australians in the coming days the Australian Government and the social media giant have been locked in a standoff as camera pushed ahead with the proposed legislation amid a white backlash against Facebook's blocking of news content in the country. President Biden has made a somber address to the nation as the number of Americans who have died from coronavirus pounds tall for a 1000000 he described the figure as a truly grim heartbreaking monster own people to resist becoming numb to the song there's our North America Correspondent David Willis in the nation's capital Washington d.c. That cathedral bell has rung with growing frequency of late mocking each new coverage no virus milestone in this country has lost more lives to the coronavirus than any other nation on earth more than in the 1st 2nd and Vietnam wars combined and at the White House where candles were lit in memory of the dead the president and vice president emerged to observe a moment of silence flags will remain at half staff here and in public buildings across the country until the end of the week a u.n. Report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan says there's been a surge and the numbers of killed or injured since the start of peace talks with the Taliban last September please do set as more this latest report underscores how Afghanistan is still one of the deadliest places in the world for civilians but it notes there were fewer civilian casualties overall last year that's mainly due to the halt in large scale suicide bombings under the Us Taliban deal signed early last year there was also an 85 percent drop in the deaths in injuries caused by u.s. Led NATO forces but the Taliban in the Islamic state group are still responsible for the majority of civilian casualties in 2020 Georgia's police have arrested Nneka Melia the leader of the biggest opposition party the United National Movement the police used tear gas to disperse his supporters at the party's headquarters where Mr Manley had barricaded himself after a court ordered his arrest last week for refusing to pay an increased balefully at the top of the service charges against him were part of ongoing repressions against the opposition this is the world news from the b.b.c. . The United States has imposed sanctions on 2 more members of Myanmar's military Joan Jett following the coup this month the u.s. Treasury said the by means military must urgently restore the democratically elected government the Us secretary of state Anthony Blinken said the administration would don't hesitate to take further action against those suppressing the will of the people rights groups in Malaysia have followed a last minute legal bid to stop the government's plans deportation of 1200 Bernese asylum seekers and all the detainee he's There are calling for the courts to ground to the un High Commissioner for Refugees access to those held saying they are fleeing conflict and persecution in Myanmar many of the bad knees are from vulnerable minorities a special plane carrying a consignment of Ebola over actually has landed in Guinea a dust storm in the Zahara force the aircraft of course on Sunday when it was dark to design a goal vaccinations ought to be guaranteed to get his capital Conakry later today 3 major nature conservation organizations are warned that nearly a 3rd of freshwater fish are too risk of extinction they are the main source of protein for 200000000 people across Asia Africa and South America here's how and Briggs more than half the world's facia found in the lakes rivers and wetlands from company to giant catfish they face a number of threats including pollution and sustainable fishing and the damming and draining is racism wetlands conservation groups say 80 species a name to have become extinct 16 in the last year alone in u.k. Waters the sturgeon and the bit have vanished salmon a disappearing and the European remains critically endangered according to the w w f much of the declines driven by the poor state of rivers mostly as a result of pollution dams and sewage b.b.c. News. This is news day from the b.b.c. World Service in a moment is going to be talking about that settlement between the Australian Government and Facebook over the playing for news content and it's set a model for the rest of the world of course we're going to be reflecting on that very somber milestone half a 1000000 deaths from coded in the u.s. We talk about financial meeting between the u.s. And Canada a new reset for Trudeau and Laura because joins us to talk about the virus of experience in South Korea as well coming up plus the support of the business that. Government has resolved a dispute with Facebook over forcing the social media giant to pay news publishes for content the new rules are being seen as a test case for the world with many other countries keen to ensure not just Facebook but Google and others pay for the news they publish from other sources that talk to a Sydney correspondent. Do we know sorry to have it come to this agreement. Well Josh Frydenberg a very different tone and a smiley and the Treasurer has said these were very intense negotiations and discussions with Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook over the past few days since that that shocking blocking of news on Facebook on on Thursday both Josh Frydenberg and Facebook came out with statesman's a little earlier saying that they have both agreed to that Facebook will reinstate news for Australians on their platform but there were amendments and clarifications to the news media bargaining code which is the proposed law in front of the Senate as we speak forcing tech giants like Facebook like Google to pay for news content the main thing I would say Claire in those whole amendments and there there's a bunch is the final offer arbitration which is when the government gets involved in this negotiations Oh potential negotiations between news outlets and the tech giants Facebook for example to set a price they have now agreed that this would be a very last resort so a digital platform will be given one month's notice to start paying or enter negotiations 3 months negotiations with the news outlets and then a further 2 months mediation before the government gets involved which I think is what Facebook has always had trouble with they wanted this not to be on the government's terms they wanted it to be on their terms. And it's interesting isn't it the Australian Government's point of view is the new source is the responsibly and independently run should be paid for the work that they do is there a feeling that that point of view is supported it's in Australia. Oh absolutely I think it's really interesting I don't think you ever get the government the opposition and the public on the same side on anything and I think when Facebook blocked News on Thursday you got the 3 sides all saying the same thing and of course you know news media outlets but I think in its essence really this standoff Clare is about power and precedent right this is about a government saying look you want to do business in also in Australia this is a law that we're proposing it's a law to protect news outlets to bridge that power gap between the tech giants and the news outlets and that you need to abide by it and then Facebook saying well you want to talk power watches do this and then they turn off the news but I don't think they factored in the backlash not just in Australia but around the world and of course the president and the fact that as you say the world is watching and Josh Frydenberg the Treasurer this morning said you know this is a proxy battle for the world Facebook is quite aware that many many other countries are watching this and if this turns out to be a workable plan between the Australian Government and the tech giants you can bet your bottom dollar that many will be knocking on their door and saying well you know what about us. It is interesting isn't it also people saying could this set a precedent how will this model work everybody looking about Australia is doing now with very very in a very interested in our eyes did you think of the 5 the phrase books which show if you use content in the way that it did really you know a backlash against them quite a you know that the fact that they had the power to do that it kind of crystallized the problem didn't it. Absolutely and I think it's really interesting going to that was one of the main points that came out when they did that you know many people that we heard from just general users saying you know this just shows what the problem is the problem is they're just too powerful the problem is they have a monopoly on the market and when they decide to turn off the news literally they they turn off the news because nobody was given any notice the government was in. Given any notice literally we woke up and our feeds were just news free this is what they're able to do and I think you know again this was like an assertion of power of influence you know they know how reliable users and publishers are on their platform but I think it also you know for for a 4th a platform that sells itself as a supporter for democracy is a way to communicate for people to communicate to share information for it to shut down reliable information in the midst of a pandemic I think to them did them a lot of harm and this is why it definitely featured in those discussions Saima thank you so much for the updates on a Sydney correspondent. Told 12 minutes past the on I would describing it as a milestone but of course in most ways it's just a number what matters is what the number means half a 1000000 it means half a 1000000 dead in the u.s. From a coke at 19 why so many Here's a brief thought from the White House's chief medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci who explained to reporters why he thought the u.s. Had such a high number of deaths relative to many other countries I try to analyze what the most compelling reason why we've done worse than we should have done and I don't know if this is true but it feels this way to me as a public health person that if you did not really want to have an outbreak of any sort in a certain condition it would be in a condition where there was intense divisiveness in society which is what we have now we're going to talk about it with our own expert in just a moment in terms it must be said of deaths per head of the population the u.s. Is far from the top actually it's behind countries like the u.k. Czech Republic it's a leap. Which have done even worse that we sort out the thoughts of Professor John spots but he is an infectious disease expert professor at the University College Buckley but Lee in California wanted to talk to him about this number how does huff a 1000000 make him feel it certainly meant in means just tremendous sorrow it's so hard to put your mind around 500000 lives in one year it also means feelings of being dumbfounded how could this have happened in our world where we thought or at least we had the illusion of such control in the other emotion that I've had a lot today is some very deep anger because a lot of these 500000 people who died it was unnecessary here in the United States so I've been grappling with those 3 emotions throughout most of the day today a difficult day indeed and he's off to roll just a statistic coming if we try to look on things positively Antony found she is saying that you know the number of infections is in steep decline and yet that number does sit there rather like a tombstone you say it was avoidable are we on a better path now we're on a much better path there and I think we're on a path to getting yourself out of this morass right now the reason why I wrote a better parent is primarily because we have a new government and it's not a political statement it's just an observation we have a government now that is telling the American people exactly what's going on have been hardest hit for government now that's not politicizing here agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and the f.d.a. We have a government now who doesn't try to undermine public health or tries to work with it and we have a government now who respects and follow science is supposed to belittle is that it makes an enormous difference now let's talk about I that with the life of historical experience from the sort of the flu outbreak post as well. But in the next few months bearing in mind historical evidence and so on what are the mistakes to avoid what we have to be careful of now well I think that clearly on a scientific basis we have to be very careful about what these various will mean in this country we've seen what's happened in the United Kingdom with the 117 that period so I think keeping an eye on all the various doing a much better job than we have been doing looking at those I think is a key thing in helping us understand what to do I think a 2nd thing is to really smooth out this vaccine problem the distribution has been spotty at best it's been getting better over the last 3 weights appreciably better unfortunately the pipeline for vaccines has been relatively unreliable to date but that's going to be getting better I think we'll see the logistics of getting vaccines in people's arms and the supply of that seems really being much better by the end of March once we can get to that point then we can bring in some of the tools we have been able to use for a long time and that is testing with contact tracing really robust context racing You're too many cases right now to use those tools but once we can drive these numbers way down those tools become very valuable so I can see all of this spiraling in a very positive direction keeping the cases down more and more people getting vaccinated it will drive the cases down further our diagnostics are improving very rapidly not only here but certainly in the United Kingdom and so those diagnostics are going to be available to everybody on a regular basis I would suspect sometime by this summer so we could be testing ourselves on a regular basis all of these things will come together I think so I do feel optimistic we're going to get out of this qualified optimism from Professor John Vause but of University College but Lee in California and I was trying to. After we'd done the interview move talking about the sums and the sort of the adjustment towards head proportions and it's very interesting just on the back of a back of an envelope he was saying well you know if you're saying half a 1000000 in the u.s. With America's experience the equivalent of that would be $600000.00 if it had gone like the u.k. $280000.00 if it had gone like Germany and if you'd gone much upin 20000 rather than half a 1000000 sport now it's 17 minutes past the hour and it's James Greg James thanks Laurance Yeah plenty going on one Premier League I know last night to report back on Congo eligible John Foley and also Christie invents a case called the goals for Crystal Palace but quote I say it was the most one sided game I've ever laid my eyes on but as we all know what it says on the scoreboard it into the game that matters so bright and dominate is Crystal Palace Bolton at least ended up losing the game 2 goals to one in Italy eventis be crooks only 3 goals to nail there in 3rd place Cristiana Rinaldo with 2 of the goals and severe back up to 3rd in Spain above Barcelona to a for Champions League knockout much as tonight to buy in in action after a dip in form in the Bundesliga and Chelsea take on Spanish leaders Atletico Madrid there are also 6 African Champions League knockout much is taking place later and 2 of Germany's beach volleyball players will refuse to play the will tour event in kids next month that's because they can't wed bikini's World Championship silver medalist call a border and play a partner Julie assumed I told German media that they'll be boycotting the event saying it's the only country where players call my bikini's on coal is called inquiry this is you can imagine and I'm back in half an hour with a full sports roundup is James Gregg with the sport and we're going to be hearing from an amazing spokeswoman coming up in the next hour here on News Day just been Harrison 21 year old something teacher from New York share just set a new world record as the youngest woman to row so no across the Atlantic Lawrence has been. Catching up with them will bring you that interview let's all business news now and you would joins us from a business desk in Hong Kong and it's a big day for us Canada relations President Biden have padding a conversation with Mr Trudeau isn't a. Yeah the prime minister of Canada Mr Trudeau it's not in person it's going to be virtual but it's the 1st time they've officially spoken Joining us now on the line is the former u.s. Ambassador President Obama's ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman Good morning to you Mr Heyman if you were advising Mr Biden on this what would be you keep point to talk about all your key bullet points. The key bullet points quickly and thank you for having me the key bullet points quickly would be reestablished that bond of trust which I think Donald Trump had abrogated with so many allies around the world and immediately sit down and start rolling up your sleeves they've had the nice initial conversations the 1st call to the Prime Minister Trudeau was right after he was elected the 1st call was right after he was officially sworn in and the 1st call for the vice president but 1st call for the secretary of state Canada knows where it stands now now it's time to get to work roll up our sleeves let's figure out coat it trade let's figure out the climate change priorities now with the Biden administration and let's work together our on our geopolitical interests like NATO and the u.n. And the debt and more. Now I think if he is gay when you were ambassador you said that something like the Canadian u.s. Trade relationship is worth $735000000000.00 a year imagine what we could do if we could just improve that by one or 2 percentage points has it gone backwards is it going to go forwards now do you think so I think it will go forwards but remember there are about 400000 people that crossed the u.s. Curative border every day pretend damning but that border is been essentially closed to non-essential travel so all the hotels restaurants all the areas in which Americans socialize in Canada and Canada and u.s. Have virtually been shut down so we need to get that border back open and we need inherence the goods and services trade but don't underestimate tourism is a component of that as well. Bruce Aymond for ambassador to the United States to Canada thanks for joining us on news day and your world with the business. Now it is these day from of sorry I beg your pardon Lawrence over to you know my motto sorry it was me totally my fault they are they were nice note my fault not theirs but they're apologies apologies are 22 minutes past the hour now we were talking not long ago about the progress of the pandemic in the u.s. And of course if we look at the horrible blunt statistics half a 1000000 deaths and so on. Inevitably leads to comparisons and league tables and so on but let's compare not numbers but experiences and policies we're going to talk South Korea it was the prime minister in South Korea despite a later start to the vaccination program the u.s. Is actually talking about this idea of herd immunity sat down he's been speaking to the b.b.c. South Korea of course was one of the 1st to be hit by the pandemic it's had a very aggressive mass testing and contact tracing as well but a slower vaccination rollout whoever the statistics are quite encouraging one year on since he became the country's coronavirus figurehead prime minister secure in has been defending that vaccination policy his Laura because. Thank you. So it's Korea was quick to act on the pandemic threat the 1st outbreak was brought under control with mass testing and aggressive contact tracing In contrast the vaccine Moonlight has been slow it will start this week but only in small numbers the general population will have to wait until at least July to get the job for the prime minister is confident this country can achieve herd immunity by the autumn we hunger. You know that Koreans are the master of speed yes it's not an easy call to achieve to complete the 1st vaccination of 70 percent of our population by the end of start quarter and September. Who I believe is possible Sure some may resist getting vaccinated but this government will encourage more people to get the jab. Just over 1500 people have died from 19 in South Korea and infection numbers have remained relatively low there has been genuine surprise here that others feel to follow this country's lead. 100. Young South Korea has learned about democracy and gain technology from advanced countries like Europe and the u.k. I never would have thought that there was suffer so much from cover 19 South Korea was focused on the 3 principles of testing tracking and tracing the virus and the 3 of values of democracy transparency and openness we didn't realize how well we were doing a good job because. It was only later that we learned you were managing better than others around the world. Says Korea's northern neighbor is struggling with the economic fallout from closing its borders to prevent the spread of covert 19 so hopes to offer humanitarian aid but it also harbors hopes for more talks. Coup. For North Korea must also be contemplating a variety of options what has to be done to keep the regime stable but North Korea also has to Thetis people in order. Whether the Olympics will take place this year Japan depends on the pandemic but the start of enter Korea talks or rose from the last Winter Olympics the frozen state of talks can be thawed through these kind of opportunities. He said now is not the tying to answer whether or not you're going to run for president when will it really. Oh I do know so. Laura because sitting down and talking to other things with prime minister of South Korea trying to secure and just to remind that's 1562 deaths from Coby in a population of 51000000 just to put that in perspective dates not state dates are not dates rather the key to the you know it's meant that the British prime minister made in Parliament yesterday on how they look down in the u.k. Will be eased following the high death toll and infections the country has experienced there have been ever 120000 deaths of 819 so for the hospitality sector the opening could begin in mid April outdoors that is so the data on infection rates allow it that's got a reaction I have Katie Nicholl chief executive if you chaos metallics which represents businesses like bars and hotels and visitor attractions a much much more than a case but I gives us that an overview what do you think about the timeline then well pleased that we connected to the almost for an exit strategy that clearly states they. Take and recruit the best that we please. Oh please remember this final and date for the legal restrictions that restrict our businesses from operating profit to be a breakthrough which is the 21st of June however it is a very very long way all over. Already I think reform of the closure with no revenue we've now got the volume again to get through before we can look forward to reopening the me I would most people think oh I can Haven't you may. Think that very difficult current get through before that where with our national court from the chairman and then the budget from March we say that we had many of our people. Run our prayers and I don't think it went clear there were the why didn't go and. The longer. They were. We need to say that what does the chancellor need to say I'm a budget then for the bars and cafes and the like what we need to see. Her next ensures that the business support this you can run on from sex 1st launch will facing a cliff edge Such as much or grant support runs out the a c. Business great holidays run out and then on the 30th of April. That's well before all businesses are able to open on the 17th of May and trade profitably concurrent says this June so we need to see an extension of all of those things is the lower rate to be a point to $700.07. 100 percent is a $20.00 a or for an expense the flex for 13 but then setting up as it does no grand for scrappy this is this through the next 3 to 4 months whether it will have no revenue and all the costs that they need to bear it costing at the average pub 10000 pounds a month to remain closed at the moment and they go through 2000 pounds a month from the government so we need an increase in that current forward and that's not hard to have 6 briefly Kate Presumably you've been lobbying hard behind the same hard line 3 g. Think this wishlist is going to be we have been lobbying odd but we were lobbying hard for sort of early a possible we're hoping for hospitality to give us that lifeline the best way that we can get these businesses is to get them I'd been so we cautiously optimistic that support will be available the key question is will it be enough to save the 10s of thousands of hospitality businesses and millions of jobs that are currently on the line Kate thanks for joining technical chief executive of u.k. Hospitality You're listening to News Stream b.b.c. World Service. Distribution of the b.b.c. World Service in the u.s. Is supported by Fidelity Investments introducing fidelity income planning build a plan for income that lasts brokerage services l.l.c. Remember n.y.s.e. S.i.p.c. And indeed committed to helping businesses hire people with the skills they need find out more and indeed dot com slash credit. And I welcome you were listening to you say on the b.b.c. World Service thanks for joining us Campbell Donal and Lawrence with you could South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma be about to spend 2 years in jail. I will also have a report on the severe medical condition fibroids which affects millions of women especially in Africa and I'm speak to the young woman who is the youngest was rowed across the Atlantic to stop herself feeling lonely she made friends with the fish. Maybe senior was with Neil Nunez Facebook is to restore news feeds in Australia after the government agreed to amend legislation forcing social media companies to pay for news gone to and Facebook took action because of concern that Australia's proposed measures could set a precedent President Biden has made a somber address to the nation as the number of Americans who've died from coronavirus bombs Toth a 1000000 people to resist becoming numb to the sorrow Georgia's police have arrested the opposition leader Nico Mandia the police used tear gas to disperse supporters of Mr Malley at the party's headquarters a court ordered his arrested last week for refusing to pay an increase to bail free a court in Malaysia has allowed 1200 of maize asylum seekers and all the detainee's who are about to be deported to remain in the country for now rights groups had called for the coach to stop the deportation saying those detained were fleeing persecution Europe's largest land the British based bank h.s.b.c. Has announced its profits for last year fell by a thread the shop fold highlights tough market conditions a u.n. Report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan says there's been a sad Jim the numbers of killed or injured since peace talks with the Taliban began in September it says a wave of targeted killings is responsible for much of the spike the wife of torque you know Chapal goes Mon the imprisoned former leader of Mexico's didn't know a drug cartel has been detained in the United States Emma Coronel has been charged with drug trafficking and nature conservation organizations are of warned that nearly a 3rd of freshwater fish are at risk of extinction they say the fish face and number of threats including pollution and on sustainable fishing b.b.c. World news. Thanks for the latest Welcome back this is news David Lawrence. In the next half hour versus the courts. The insurance brokers versus history and trade versus ice the news of how easy it is to sail through what was once the frozen north of Arctic Russia savings through ice growing across the Atlantic is as difficult as you imagine it would be but we talked to the youngest woman ever to do it she's just done it's taken 70 days we spoke to her by phone in between snatching snoozes every now and again back to normal since arriving in the Caribbean What was it like making friends with fish and also we want to know which bit of her hurts the most she talks to us about pain and terror is just a fascinating topic about 20 minutes time that's the state. South Africa the judicial inquiry into government corruption in South Africa known as the state capture commission has asked the Constitutional Court to sentence former President Jacob Zuma to 2 years in prison for contempt this fellow Jacob Zuma failed to appear at the commission last week despite a summons and an order from the highest court to do so so what is the likely outcome journalist the founder of explained dot co dot that day. Joins us now from Johannes bag. Tell us how we got to this point and why on earth was he refusing to appear when he was summoned by a court. Indeed it is typical of our former president he is known for what people here call his Don God tactics when it comes to all matters legal he put it off as long as possible he does appeal after appeal eeriest that's a Geisha and. And just delays it as long as possible to avoid ever having to on it's been his tactic to do when it comes to all manner of court cases that he's faced including the one related to on a tourist on the deal and the corruption case he still facing with that now when it came to see appearing before the state capture commission the judge who is in charge of that when Zuma was refusing to appear Owen had actually walked out testimony you know which was in complete contempt off the rules of the commission. Back to fake where he went to the highest court in the labs to obtain an order to say that Zuma have to appear because he knew that if he went to a normal court the lower courts it would just take for ever with lots of appeals and so the concourse ruled that he had to appear and so it was backed himself up into a legal corner and now he's just chosen plain defiance to avoid having to on. What happens now then I mean he's saying he's going to fight these they are not going to turn out was the next step. So the next step has been for the judge who is judge signed off that particular commission to approach the constitutional court a tax court to find him in contempt because he essentially has defied orders off that court to appear so Next put the next step would be for the court to make a decision because a member could be it could be imprisonment or it could be a fine now it's a cause at least chance to situation because he's a former president but at the same time there's many calls crossed land saying that no citizen is above the law we're all equal above the law and there's been a bit of upset people as high as the Police Minister have gone to Peter with Zuma to obey the law and order he says that would not be such treatment Absolutely and I guess that they are concerned about the ramifications this could have if you have a former president saying I'm not I'm not considering that summons so he could get a fine he could get a sentence but I guess the crucial thing is the court wants to hear his testimony about the allegations of corruption so will that if either of those 2 things happen will the court have it stay and have him in court. Yes it's important to note it is a commission so it's not done it's not a court process but you have to answer your question he did appear twice and the 1st time he appeared rules sort of waiting for him to do all that being that all he did that's just complain about how he's been tolerated such he has a complete to fix mentality in many ways he is analogous to a leader like Donald But you know very much in baldness and the in a kind of victimhood and and even claim that Sentai opposed as has been done just to target him which of course ridiculous. So he needs to pivot when he does it's not clear that will give us anything interesting or anything worthwhile noting but the fact is that 40 witnesses I mean this commission's been going on for years honestly 40 witnesses have implicated him directly in their testimony so he. He is bound to answer them that is why he's been asked to come but I think most Americans know that he's not going to say Mass when he eventually does come so that's kind of irony. Thank you for the update fascinating tale that is running and running there joining us from Explain dot co dot their day in South Africa. I've used b.b.c. World Service Lawrence and Clare now Lloyd's of London is the world's leading insurance market crucial to world trade and as part of this historical reckoning that we've seen from many institutions recently Lloyd's says it wants to investigate more thoroughly its colonial and slavery history its seeking an archivist to investigate what it has already described as its shameful role in the Atlantic slave trade but how critical was insurance to the trade in African people that speak to Christina Mobley who's a historian of the Atlantic slave trade with Newcastle University So Christina That's my 1st question what was in short if we're thinking of the slave trade the triangular slave trade but from West Africa to the Caribbean particularly what was in short was it was it the was it the slaves themselves Was it the boats how did it work. Hi good morning that's a great question and the answer is essentially everything was insured so slave traders would take out maritime insurance which boys of London had a virtual monopoly on outside of the transatlantic slave trade and that would cover what was called Cross risks or risks that will particular to the slave trade and that included the slaves themselves who were classified as perishable goods just as forces or cattle would be characterized which was extremely objectionable probably shit but was not at all objectionable for either underwriters or even the British court system in the Tory way there's the Slave Ship Song slave ship captain calling with rows over 132 Africans and then just just just expelling them because that becomes a major sort of stepping stone in mobilizing people to fight against the slave trade but this was this is because in a sense ensuring the people produce this pov of us incentives that they may as well kill them from off the side because they got money for them anyway yes absolutely and insurance underwriters called that moral hazard which is a wonderful euphemism they at the Slave Ship Song in 1789 s. a Slave ship of poor 100 African men women and children something like 17 crew I asked the captain allegedly didn't have enough water although we don't think that's true threw overboard we think one $132.00 African men women and children and then claimed the insurance now to be very clear if there had been what insurers consider to be a legitimate reason including illnesses or running out of water delayed trip that would have been a it's called justice then it would have been a perfectly legitimate practice that was one that was very calm. But it was found that the slaves on board the men women and children the captain didn't think he would get enough money for them if they live and so he calculated that the average cost that he would have been reimbursed for was greater than the cost of selling that he would have made and so he simply threw them overboard any Christmas why the court decided that the insurance underwriters didn't have to 'd pay out on that trip but it was perfectly legal and they were not brought up some gushers and that shows how totally involved the insurance market and Lloyds was in slavery so but the thing is when we 1st nod I just to make the loosely clear historians argue that the ability to insure slave ships absolutely made it possible for the British to inflate nearly 3000000 men women and children that slave traders without access to insurance would not have a note on that site so. We know this already what will come out of the archives of Lloyd's I mean we know the broad principle what do we do do we just fill in more details hold would we find all the stuff what is the archive of Moyes Oh and this is why this is such an important development because while we know that 2.7 almost 2800000 people were transported were in slaves by the British ensuring the years of London was operational that's all we know that's been known for quite some time but how these the details that must be in those archives will be absolutely remarkable for historians and so we have to hope that Lloyd's of London has done the risk analysis and realise that the risk to reputational damage is very small We've always known that weight has has a huge role but the the value. You are probably access to these records and be able to reconstruct more of the history of the in place and give them back that knowledge and that history is really invaluable this is a very welcome development slicing thank you so much for taking us through that Christina Mobley historian of the Atlantic slave trade with Newcastle University talking about the opening up of the archives of Lloyd's insurance market. These days b.b.c. World Service says get the sports headlines now James Gregg is back. Well he's back but we can't take. It as he claims his music isn't it it's just that he changed his music so we we wonder what's happened there but we will we will return to James in just a moment for more sports more from him in just bear with us bear with us. Ok Well we will try and reconnect as that's as we were hearing with the line there a bit of a problem but we'll try to get back in touch with James and bring it as was headlines shortly but let's take you to Africa now and an issue a health issue that many women are suffering from are you trying to fight Broida it's a medical condition that affects black women more than any other race there is little research on what causes fibroids or how to prevent them. Unavoidable health condition for a large percentage of black women so what can be done the b.b.c. News is women affairs journalist as ease at al away i Reports. John Doc started experiencing some of the challenges faced by many women in this crucial stage in life constant painful and heavy Mistral flows forced her into solitude due to fear and shame of stigma to do John knew this would affect her reproductive health as she would later be diagnosed with the Tehran fibroids. As a young girl in. The pink during class. Not understanding what was going on made schooling quite difficult this whole thing was always. Part of the. Puzzle as we call periods Dr b. a Gynecologist based in Lagos Nigeria was also once treated for fibroids she describes heavy bleeding like that experienced as one of the symptoms of the condition. And. Each. Question. And then. They have. According to the National Center for biotechnology information an estimated 80 percent of black women will. Develop uterine fibroids. They are also expected to experience fibroids at a younger age and often more severely than that could lead an advocacy group that creates awareness about fibroids she too has had health challenges with fibroids suffer and its coverage in the process. Almost betrayed by my body. And someone who is very. Very healthy. So I want. You to run fibroids non-cancerous growths that's developed around the uterus this spike to be endemic in sub-Saharan Africa there's the to information about the problem. Who also is sufferer experienced this with her doctor says gynecologist. Told me on the at the 1st meeting that I would need to have a surgery I was not happy with that experience because I felt like he didn't take what my options were he didn't give me enough information not lack of funds and the government's commitments for the lack of information about fibroids in Africa fibroids can be treated and the Us Center says that the most used treatment option is surgery the surgery can include a hysterectomy which involves removal of the. Surgery to remove fibroids from the wall of the spot treatment options being available in many parts in Africa Dr the high cost of surgery continue to deter many women making them seek alternative cures from local healers who. Underwent surgery to remove fibroids as she has never regretted making the decision to gets treated she's living a dream of becoming a mother. A happy mother as well after also having her fibroids removed and hard part John had to me and she's doing fine. B.b.c. Women's news affairs journalist. With reports. Sport. There was light drama in the. Middle but to be honest. Chris. Christie in. Crystal Palace at Brighton the result. Of the relegation dragged little scrap now ahead of that Champions League meeting with. The Chelsea manager. Has praised midfielder. Reaction to being substituted on Saturday he was taken off just minutes after coming on as a substitute reaction that we wanted. Training on the next very very good training today. After the game. From today for him. Champions League. Is the perfect way to recover from. A good match as matches taking place in the calf Champions League group stages to. Have released a statement saying the. Downs will now be played in Tanzania look $28.00 to February. The 28th of February. You've got to bear in mind that the South African f.a. Clubs. Mightily. Watching. A struggle having been ruled out after he tested positive for. At the South of France open in Mom Pelley a this week is his 1st a.t.p. Tour event for 4 months to watch Ernie because I wanted to be there myself it was a struggle to be on and stop following all the tennis players and stuff of social media and stuff because I just didn't really want to see are 2 of Germany's beach volleyball players will refuse to play the World Tour event in Qatar next month that's because they can't wear bikinis will World Championships over medalists border and her play upon a Julia Sue day told German media they'll be boycotting the event saying it's the only country where players call my bikini the wrong call and next hour I'll be talking about the thing that sports fans have to match fixing it was on the rise like never before Jordan 2021 sport restarted after the beginning of the initial lockdown at the start of the pandemic I'll be talking to somebody who's trying to prevent it from me next hour and online at b.b.c. Dot com. James you got there in the end thank you very much indeed Newsday b.b.c. World Service Russia has celebrated a fast a liquid natural gas tanker has across the northern sea route in February for the very 1st time now it started the journey in Shanxi in China and later joined underscores it by a new clear ice breaker it docks in some better on the a mile Peninsula in the Russian Arctic and environmental activists are worried as it could mean exceptionally low and weak sea ice cover at this time of year sign that the Arctic is slipping into an unstable state star is the publisher of the Barents observer and he's kept an eye on the Russian time to strip and he joins us now from northern Norway welcome to News Day I mean this is a 1st isn't it so what does it tell us about the state of the Arctic. Well it says so it tells you that the Arctic ice changes changing tremendously quickly this voyage would not have been possible until quite recently so these are among the most harsh harsher waters on the planet with very low temperatures big volume so sea ice and and generally very tough so the Arctic is changing and the Russians are are taking advantage of this so they say that this voyage was a so-called experimental voyage wishes to probe to do to show the world that they can extend shipment on this route all also in wintertime aiming for markets in Asia. Yeah I mean it's big news of the for Russia's gas and oil companies but potentially concerning is the people in the region and some fear this is a this trip is a red flag for what the future could hold in the region with many countries racing headlong into the Arctic to plant their flag over the vast resources that it holds is that a genuine fan out. Well for a for last fall for the Kremlin this northern Syria has become a very top priority and the Arctic in general is a top priority chore for the country as sole sole this this shipping is is a part of that picture and and it is the Asian markets which are are all the biggest priority for for for for this route solar Russians are are positioning themselves in the region there are planning or already building a number of the super powerful new nuclear powered icebreakers which will enable them to get even stronger in this in this area. And very briefly if you could the environmental impact then should this whole area be open up. In this way what are the current potential consequences. Well the risks risks are very big and the consequences could be a Democratic year both at sea and also on land because the Russians intend to well already are building several new major industrial projects in along its Arctic coast most all projects and natural gas projects so this includes big infrastructure development and plant building which is affecting the nature and indigenous peoples etc. That's already going on listen I'd like to thank you for the update status on publisher of the Barents observer talking to us from northern Norway that might be easier to sail through the Arctic ice but rowing across the Atlantic Ocean is as hard as it's ever going to be just in Harrison has just become the youngest woman to row it solo 3000 miles 70 days what makes periods where do you start I want you to know about the terror of being alone on the ocean at night my producer was interested in what rowing for 2 months actually does to your body so Jasmyn which be hurts the most. I don't lose. Only walking. Winslet and since I don't hunt was a long time and one on one and I'm now how goal. I think. Constructs was oh. The last. Thing I want to know about is I'm sure I've had a bad dream about waking up in a boat in the middle of the ocean with nothing visible and it seems to me surely there must have been moments of terror particularly when the boat is hit when your capsized in the dark you don't know what's happening no one can help you and you're on your own so how do you deal with the terror. All of it was just amazing and it would make you think immediately there isn't much of a problem it's the norm she was was a problem so I called it like important it was oh my God And it kind of like a dream when I go in and then you just go about 6 or away you must have had amazing confidence. Your ability because you don't know what's out there do you know I mean the ocean is deep and mysterious You don't want under there you don't know what's ahead of you but you must have had an amazing confidence that you could get through it you'd be all right I find that quite incredible Well 1st I know the paintings and anybody that takes part in the challenge they make sure that they will not let you start if you are not you don't need what they deem it necessary to be safe the entire way. And I have my bow. Is now out on 3 crossings that's my safe space in my cabin was once a space and it feels like nothing can really possibly happen and I know it will be Ok And you just have to put our trust in you. Like your best friend and a very. Small team we're doing well and even if the half afloat you know you have your life raft on board in a way and that even early you think you know what you call it. And you to have personal location beacon as well there's all sorts and you have you Charlie. Yeah definitely not on you but. When I was reading some accounts of the journey I was surprised and amazed that you met wildlife on the way that fish would follow you think that's a beautiful idea that they're interested in you just like you're interested in them was there anything that surprised you that just sort of took you out of yourself or made you gasp everything is funny yeah I've seen dolphins before I was the Dolphins pretty much every single time I went out still there's never going to be a time I'm not going to drop my old stand up point say go wow that's amazing every single time and so they all was a surprise because that and anything I was expecting. And he can almost be disappointed if it didn't happen he didn't expect anything but it was the most wonderful feeling every single time she just sounded like she was high on what she thought it was just incredible Jasmine Harrison 21 she just wrote 3000 miles in 70 days would you like to do that are you know Also my cards could. I get transfer moderate exercise not the ocean life for me. This is Steve Inskeep with Morning Edition from n.p.r. News the thing you most need from a news organization is an organization that both tell you the truth every single day we're learning a little bit more there's a new administration new proposals new laws new ideas new events around the world and day after day after day morning edition comes to you again to help you make sense of it all and every weekday. Mornings from 5. This is Connecticut Public Radio. N.p.r. One merit in. Stamford. E.c.s. Willimantic. N.p.r. . 2 2 Hello welcome You're listening to news day on the b.b.c. World Service great to have your company clam Adonal and Lawrence College with you Facebook says it's going to list its news pages in Australia after a deal was reached with the government created shock waves last week when people just discovered their news feed and disappeared. United States records related to President Biden describes it as a heartbreaking milestone we'll hear from an infectious disease expert who says the scale of the death toll is a political failure some kind of a road. By the British prime minister we speak to a teacher about getting ready for the classroom next month. And what happens when you are forced to leave your home because of war and then returning find it's been taken away from you that is what is happening to many Iraqi Christians. In the next half hour. At business without coming up with back straight to the latest while you stay with us. As with the b.b.c. News the Australian Government has resolve the dispute with Facebook over proposed legislation which would force type companies to pay to use news content in Australia Facebook said the Australian government had agreed to changes that addressed its concerns Schama collegial is inserted in a statement Facebook said the government has addressed the company's concerns about allowing commercial deals that recognize the value of the platform provides to publishers relative to the value it receives from them adding that they were now able to restore news pages for Australians in the coming days the Australian Government and the social media giant have been locked in a standoff as camera pushed ahead with the proposed legislation and a wide backlash against Facebook's blocking of news content in the country President Biden has made his somber address to the nation as the number of Americans who've died from coronavirus passed a health a 1000000 he described the figure as a heartbreaking milestone and adds people to resist becoming numb to the sorrow the virus is still killing some 2000 Americans every day Georges police have arrested a man Leah the leader of the biggest opposition party the United National Movement the police used tear gas to disperse supporters of Mr Malley at the party's headquarters where he had barricaded himself after a court ordered his arrest last week Ray handed me a tree in Tbilisi has more Georgian city stations broadcast the raid life which included beaches police offices climbing the multi-story building using a fire brigade Lada last week Georgia's governing body straight sneak a 1000000 of his bottom entry immunity and a wrist warrant was then issued over his refusal to pose the bail for criminal charges stemming from Mr Malley as role in government protests in june 21000 prime minister Heidi resigned last Thursday. Citing his opposition to detaining Mr Mayor but Georgia's new prime minister who was appointed on Monday has moved quickly to carry out their arrest a un report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan says there's been a recent surge in the numbers of killed or injured since the start of peace talks with the top of him last September please do satires this report now from Kabul this latest report underscores how Afghanistan is still one of the deadliest places in the world for civilians but it notes there were fewer civilian casualties overall last year that's mainly due to the halt in large scale suicide bombings under the Us Taliban deal signed early last year there was also an 85 percent drop in the deaths in injuries caused by u.s. Led NATO forces but the Taleban in the Islamic state group are still responsible for the majority of civilian casualties in 2020 World News from the b.b.c. . A court in Malaysia has allowed to 1200 but I mean these asylum seekers and all the detainee's who are about to be deported to remain in the country for now rights groups had called for the courts to stop the deportation saying those detained fleeing conflict into persecution in Myanmar the court will hear their petition on Wednesday. Europe's largest lender the British based bank h.s.b.c. Has announced its profits for last year fell by a 3rd the shop for highlights tough market conditions that made the pandemic a just b.c. Has a line plans to invest 6 $1000000000.00 in Asia as part of a revised tragedy for growth in the region his merry go on pages bases headquartered in London but it's heavily dependent on Hong Kong and China for its profits under the new strategy the bank will show up operations across Asia particularly in wealth management as tensions between the us and China groom recent years the bank is also increasingly being caught in a geopolitical storm of endorsing home gone's national security will his b.c. Was also criticised by you cable makers 3 major nature conservation organizations have warned that nearly a 3rd of freshwater fish at risk of extinction they say the fish face threats including pollution on sustainable fishing and the damming entraining of rivers and wetlands freshwater fish provide the main source of protein for 200000000 people the former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Ahmed a Zacky Yamani has died in London at the age of 90 shake him on he was best known for his role as head of the oil cartel OPEC in the 1970 s. He was the face of the oil embargo and by 973 when oil prices quadrupled he also survived being taken hostage and mocked for assassination by Carlos the Jackal b.b.c. News. Many thanks indeed for the latest hello welcome to News date with Clare and Lawrence on the way we talk about that milestone Kovar deaths of half a 1000000 in the u.s. Also 400000 is the number of sailors stranded on ships because of cope in quite a sticky situation and March the 8th is the date for back to school how will the u.k. Reopen schools and not see a spike in cases of the sport as well and the expropriation of Christians in Iraq. Let's start in Australia Facebook has really friended Australia that's what history as finance minister said in the past few hours as Facebook said it would unblocked people if the country from seeing or sharing news stories on his platform Facebook and camera have been at loggerheads for weeks now over proposed Australian laws to make big technology giants like Facebook and Google pay for news stories proceedings are being watched closely by many governments around the world and are being seen as something of a test case under what is our business desk in Hong Kong covering this story and Andrew that is this a final deal and if so what is the deal. It's not a final deal yet the Treasurer the finance minister Josh Frydenberg said that Mark Zuckerberg the head of Facebook had told him that the ban would end in the coming days after they've had talks now Facebook has said that he feels that the Australian government has acknowledged some of the issues that Facebook has one of the the complaints of the news providers is that companies like Facebook use their news feeds and don't give anything back and the idea was that the Australian rules will make sure that they have to do that at the same time Facebook and other social media giants of always said well actually if we shift people share news stories on our platform that actually drives traffic to your websites as well so it's not a one way thing any way Facebook is now says. That it's going to unblock the news feeds but not yet it is going to be in coming days and they're going to be more talks between the Australian Government and Facebook so yes it does seem to been a big development but at the moment you know things could still could quite badly wrong I sing it's so interesting isn't it because it's a real David and Goliath battle between small news outlets news magazines online and something like a Facebook and and they would always say up to this point but we can't win that we're losing this battle and now we have a government that has stepped in to say well we are on your side and that seems to have got results so I mean we were saying this earlier it's the rest of the world really watching with interest to see how maybe on their territory they could help out local news outlets a little bit more smaller news outlets in the face of these massive tech companies . Where we need to see the details of this I mean don't forget the laws that Australia's proposed are going through Parliament at the moment the I think the Lower House has already okayed them and the Senate is still discussing them now I think that is the thing that Facebook really wants to avoid is that Australia's sense of precedent and it does come up with laws that really do force Facebook and its competitors like Google to pay for this if Australia manages to do that then other countries might say Well Australia has done it we can do it's too I think Facebook was prepared to abandon or is trying to make people think that it was prepared to abandon Australia altogether if necessary Australia's only 25000000 people that means it's smaller than a state like California or in the United States a bit bigger than Florida Facebook could live without Australia but I do think that Facebook made a bit of a blunder by banning you know by blocking news on Facebook speech because it just really showed how much power Facebook has and taking on a national government and I don't think that did really Facebook any favors there Andrea thank you for the update and it was at our business desk you know go. To talk about that horrible milestone figure of half a 1000000 people who have died in the u.s. After contracting coated the official statistic appears to be 500002 144 How did it happen well we're going to hear in a moment from a professor of infectious diseases but 1st listen briefly to and he found the voice so often of course out of the White House chief medical advisor now he was asked at a press conference why he thought America had so high a number of deaths relative to many other countries I try to analyze what the most compelling reason why we've done worse than we should have done and I don't know if this is true but it feels this way to me as a public health person then if you did not want to have an outbreak of any sort in a certain condition it would be in a condition where there was intense divisiveness in society which is what we have now we should say half a 1000000 a dreadful number of course America is a very large country in terms of deaths per head of the population it actually ranks depending which table you look at it ranks 9th or 10th countries like the u.k. Czech Republic Italy Portugal have done even worse than America however one of the lessons from the u.s. Experience Professor John fatberg is an infectious disease expert from University College Berkeley in California and after the news broke of the hof a 1000000 miles being passed around up and asked him for his thoughts it is just a number but what does it mean it certainly meant in means just tremendous sorrow is so heard to put your mind around 500000 wives in one year it also. It means feelings of being dumbfounded how could this have happened in our world where we thought or at least we have the illusion of such control and the other emotion that I've had a lot today is some very deep anger because a lot of these 500000 people who died it was unnecessary here in the United States so I've been grappling with those 3 emotions throughout most of the day today a difficult day indeed and he's off to roll just a statistic coming if we try to look on things positively Antony found she is saying that you know the number of infections is in steep decline and yet that number does sit there like a tombstone you say it was avoidable are we on a better path now we're on a much better past there and I think we're on a path to getting ourselves out of this morass right now the reason Marner out of better parents is primarily because we have a new government and it's not a political statement it's just an observation we have a government now that is telling the American people exactly what's going on have been hardest hit for government now that's not politicizing key agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and the f.d.a. We have a government now who doesn't try to undermine public health but tries to work with it and we have a government now who respects and follow science is supposed to belittle is that it makes an enormous difference now let's talk about either with a life of historical experience from the sort of the flu outbreak post 1st world war but in the next few months bearing in mind historical evidence and so on what are the mistakes to avoid what we have to be careful of now well I think that clearly on a scientific basis we have to be very careful about what these various will mean in this country we've seen what's happened in the United Kingdom with the 117 that period so I think keeping an eye on all the various doing a much better job than we have been doing. I'm looking at those I think is a key thing in helping us understand what to do I think a 2nd thing is to really smooth out this vaccine problem the distribution has been spotty at best it's been getting better over the last 3 weeks appreciably better unfortunately the pipeline for vaccines has been relatively unreliable to date but that's going to be getting better I think we'll see the logistics of getting vaccines in people's arms and the supply of their exceeds really being much better by the end of March once we can get to that point then we can bring in some of the tools we have been able to use for a long time and that is testing with contact tracing really robust context or a senior To many cases right now to use those tools but once we can drive these numbers way down those tools become very valuable so I can see all these spiraling in a very positive direction keeping the cases down more and more people getting vaccinated will drive the cases don't further our diagnostics you're improving very rapidly not only here but certainly in the United Kingdom and so those diagnostics are going to be available to everybody on a regular basis I would suspect some turn by this summer so we could be testing ourselves on a regular basis all of these things will come together I think so I do feel optimistic we're going to get out of this cautious optimism from. University College but please Professor John sponsor but I asked him how he going to teach it in the future and he said well I want to work out whether it's true that 40 percent of those deaths were avoidable that's what he suspects to be the case thank you to jump. Out at British Prime Minister Peres Johnson says the lockdown in the u.k. Could end on the 20 festivities and that's open to fans if some bots but it has given a lift to many people along the way school children are back to school intimidates time with testing being carried out at. Goals and potentially have a home as well let's get the views on this announcement from a schoolteacher Lim based in Birmingham morning. How does it feel to be going back in little under 2 weeks now I can't wait. It's just a relief to see that the children were back because of. How challenging is being to teach them. So that and some children I guess have been going into school children of key workers you know doctors nurses school teachers as well they've been going in but it must've been a pretty kind of peculiar experience to teach online and just a handful of children in the classroom Yes So I've been. Going in twice a week so we had to because there are 8 children in the class usually. Twice a week. And then having to teach them online for the rest of that. It's being quite challenging Yeah yeah so you've got 2 hats on mad at you and I think it's been very challenging for children as well I've been doing a lot of the homeschooling myself so I think there's an absolute desire for children to get back in the classroom and socialize and engage again the teaching unions are still expressing concern because we're talking about England just England with all school children going back in 2 weeks' time in Scotland in Wales and Northern Ireland the other 3 nations of the United Kingdom and taking a more started approach what do you think to the plan to literally some people are saying open the floodgates in England. You know I do understand the risks but I think the children's. Wellbeing and their education. Is. It's more important Scott more important Yeah I want to damage seem. To think that it's more important I know those concerns are being put to the government but they seem to be standing firm on it what do you have planned feel 1st lesson that. But it be business as usual straight into. We start off with must. Listen back oh goodness how what do you most looking forward to that. About all of the children kind back just to have them all back and see their faces so. It was like that in September when they all came back and then unfortunately. They came back for a day and then off again in January so it will be. Communicating with online but no face to face lessons. So these are all messages and things so just nice to see them. Or listen good luck with it all it'll be a different world but not familiar one but pretty familiar no doubt just after the 1st day back to normal great to talk to. His a teacher here in the u.k. Based in patting him 1000 minutes past the hour this c.s. News day it's the sport James Craig won Premier League game last night's report back home from Monday night most one sided game of ever watched it but as we all know it's not how it's how many Brighton dominated Crystal Palace but they ended up losing that game to goals to one in Italy event to speak for tourney 3 goals to nil there in 3rd as all severe in Spain as well by the way they're above Barcelona now the European Champions League not care much as tonight too there's also 6 African Champions League matches so today is a very busy day Chris Finch has been named the Timberwolves head coach in the n.b.a. The wins for the heat the Suns the Mavericks the jazz and the Wizards last night in the n.b.a. And coming up I'll be looking at the massive massive problem of match fixing can the problem be solved or can find out in half an hour's time here on New Day Thanks James. Now the number of seafarers stranded at sea 2 to the covert pandemic has reached more than 400000 that's double the number joining the 1st wave of the virus last year some have now been unable to leave their ships for almost 2 years if you can believe that I don't know longer being paid the International Maritime Organization says there's also been a sharp rise in companies abandoning vessels often leaving crews with no food or funds even to get home and with a recent survey showing that one in 5 seafarers have thought of self harm concern is growing for the mental health of those now at Sea Our Correspondent Mike Thompson has this report. Well down they have come to feel like kid to some form of house arrest for many of us spare a thought for those marooned all ships often thousands of kilometers from the. Ukrainian seafarer Yuri bad. Boy during the 1st wave of the pandemic Yuri was stranded appalled his ship for several months now it's happened again off the Indian coast and he's struggling to cope. Emotionally and. One to. 400000 seafarers are now stranded across the globe for more than last year according to Fred Kenney of the International Maritime Organization the time we last spoke we were estimating that it was 200000 so since the 1st wave the number of stranded seafarers has doubled That's correct Mr Kenny says some seafarers have now been stuck at sea for more than 21 months due to quarantines closed borders and other travel restrictions they can't get off they ships and relief crews can't get home and that's not even the worst of it in the 1st quarter of 2021 we've seen a dramatic rise in the number of ships being abandoned where the ship owner walks away from the ship and leaves the seafarers completely stuck. 11 a day when he bit. Ship it is normal and it leads to normal food and place more thorough No I don't. Know. The owners they be Congress cargo ship Keenan Mehta abandoned the vessel 5 months ago after making it to shore in India Turkish Moss to see me there he is still waiting to be repatriated I want more to help but I don't know how many day how many weeks how many months I am waiting if I threw a shit when did you last get paid I am 10 months to shoot and no money. To signify. Least very well come on shore break now to take over it controls many seafarers face weeks in port can find today's ships Ok on board in the 1st place can be a very lengthy business. Craven from Yorkshire in northern England skipper some 40 crew superyacht now docked in Singapore but figure out that weekly by early but I would go over there because the British train of. The day 8. To 14 days I played a part in it you're so well plugged in the. Good work. Especially. Around the water and. We are ready for their crew increases Cameron Mitchell director of the Isle of Man ship registry believes religion is also important to many seafarers especially during the pandemic so his company has managed to send. Mass to be beamed to crews across the world the services from other religions to form seem. More. Local not what I think and I'm going to be running that every Sunday one of the right. Remove elements of ate the way can we get the cabin and come together book Think Like a Man. Who. Was a little. Incredible to think 400000 people still at sea stranded tea to the pandemic our correspondent Mike Thompson with a report 25 minutes past the on others talk about Iraq and the Christian families who fled war threats of persecution and trying to get the property back that they left behind particularly the omes most of those are attempting to return now find them occupied by militias or secretly sold they have great problems with bureaucracy as well and they've been speaking to France Press the news agency get Bailey is the Iraq deputy bureau chief of a.f.p. Joins us now on the line from Baghdad and my 1st off give us an idea what kind of properties are we talking about here. Thanks so much for having me on or talking about these beautiful old historic villas that are dotted across different parts of Baghdad in the north in the center and in the south where you had thriving Christian communities for centuries and these are homes that are seen as architectural treasures and unfortunately now they are no longer occupied by their by their original residence and they're actually occupied by individuals who have either managed to squat in them more get a kind of fake property deed that would guarantee that they would be able to stay to stay in those homes and then they're bearing in mind how how lawless The situation has been it's kind of ironic that they use bureaucracy to take over the house I mean what what what what sort of recourse to the law do returning families have. Officially there is something there is a commission that was created for Baghdad specifically in 2008 to help all families are there Christian Shiite so need to help these houses can't go back to their original owners the problem is that this commission requires you to go around to all these different government bodies to get different kinds of paperwork to get proof that originally your family owned this house you know decades ago and going through that is an extremely arduous laborious process for many families and especially for Christians who are not in Iraq for whom it would be extremely difficult to actually acquire this paperwork and to be able to have access to these offices but you also need to go in person and wait for hours on this office to try to get this one out of 40 different pieces of paper that you may need to get actually get your home back what sort of a state of these historic houses in it's interesting you mention there is not just Christians of it but other sort of groups as well that are returning to these houses as well but if these are some of the historic treasures of Baghdad what kind of a state of I am one would have expected that many of them have been damaged or destroyed . They have they have indeed and actually it's not just damage from what you would traditionally think of when you think of Baghdad which would be explosions fighting it cetera it's also just wear and tear mean a lot of these homes are built in a traditional Iraqi way which includes a lot of money and not a lot of not once concrete or not a lot of kind of long durable materials and so these homes have just because they've just been ignored for so long because they haven't been maintained or actually falling apart due to you know even weather conditions and the current occupants or the newer achievements that has that has command often decide to to renovate them in very haphazard ways and so the other unfortunate thing that we're seeing is that some of these homes are also losing some of the architectural distinction or so they're kind of historic that their own story teachers because they're being you know it's a wall is being propped up by and metal structure a concrete structure that actually costs that the home the special architectural features that have so so just another assault on history in Iraq many thanks indeed fascinating story brought to you by the deputy bureau chief for a.f.p. The press in Iraq that was my good baby this is Newsnight from the b.b.c. World Service news up next. Distribution of b.b.c. World Service in the u.s. Is made possible by American Public Media with support from hint fruit and she is water and over 25 flavors like peach Clementine and honey crest Apple no sweeteners no calories in stores or delivered from drink dot com and from Numa personalized weight loss program designed to give people knowledge to set new goals and the tools to stick to them for good learn more at noon and dot com. Hello welcome you listening to news day on the b.b.c. World Service thanks for joining us Laurence Pollard and Clare McDonald with us this morning we're talking about lockdown and the impact on the lives particularly of Japanese women suffering appalling drub losses and isolation now electricity cables have become a threat to African wildlife especially troughs and curating some of the world's last music amazing sounds on 78 which have been heard for decades. B.b.c. News where Gerry Smit Facebook is to restore news feeds in Australia after the government agreed to amend legislation forcing social media companies to pay for news content Facebook took action last week because of concern the destroyer's propose measures that could censor president. President Biden has made a somber address to the nation as the number of Americans who've died from coronavirus past half a 1000000 people to resist becoming numb to the sorrow George's Police have arrested the opposition leader. In a raid on the party's headquarters a court order to his arrest last week for fusing to pay an increased bail fee. A quarter Malaysia has allowed 1200 Bermudez asylum seekers and other detainees who are about to be deported to remain in the country until Wednesday rights groups had called for the court to stop the deportation saying those detained were fleeing persecution. Europe's largest lender the British based bank h.s.b.c. Has announced its profits for last year fell by a 3rd the sharp fall highlights tough market conditions a u.n. Report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan says there's been a surge in the numbers of killed or injured since peace talks with the Taliban they Gann in September. The for Saudi oil minister Ahmed Zaki a money has died in London at the age of $90.00 he was the face of the oil embargo in 1973 that saw prices quadruple wreaking havoc on the world economy you also survived being taken hostage and mount for assassination by Carlos the Jackal. And nature conservation organizations have warned that nearly a 3rd of freshwater fish are at risk of extinction they say the fish face a number of threats including pollution and unstained on sustainable fishing b.b.c. News. Thanks for the latest news update hello welcome your listening to news day on the b.b.c. World Service player and Laurence with you thank you so much for your company coming up we'll speak to the man whose mission it is to save the world's last music will also be hearing sounds that haven't been heads in decades not only from him but sounds never heard before the 1st genuine extraterrestrial sound the sound of wind on Mars David Bowie need to rewrite all coming up here on the stage. There let's talk about some statistics and code it in the news of course we've been talking about death rates in the u.s. We're going to be talking about excess death rates in Africa but we're going to talk about the suicide rate in Japan trust for a few minutes now because it rose for the 1st time in more than a decade also alarmingly in that data appears to be the information the number of cases involving women and young people showed a particular increase of suicides among women in general rose 15 percent this is according to data collected by the police now specialists who study this problem say that this is an underreported and overlooked result of the coded pandemic from Tokyo report Wingfield aids reports. I'm standing now in front of should be a station one of the busiest stations in Tokyo and in front of me here is the famous scramble crossing one of Tokyo's most popular tourist attractions and the scene here is bustling there are crowds of people lining up to cross the road to the shops and the cafes and restaurants are open everybody is wearing a mosque but apart from that there is little sawing that we are in the middle of a state of emergency but the feeling of normality around me here is something of a facade because behind it a lot of people are suffering and for some guy for me the pandemic here is becoming unbearable put. The guy. In the port city of York a Hama a 19 year old woman is undergoing intensive counseling at a suicide prevention center called the bond project so. When she was just 15 years old the young woman's older brother began abusing her Finally she decided to run away from home but the pain and loneliness only got worse. From about this time last year I have been in and out of the hospital many times every month or so. I tried to kill myself many times but I couldn't succeed so now I guess I have given up trying to tie the bond Project founder and chief counsel is June touchup on or since the middle of last year she says her staff has seen a dramatic increase in similar cases they say give us a line item we hear a lot of I want to die in I have no place to go they say it is so painful I'm so lonely I want to disappear for those suffering physical or sexual abuse Cove it has made the situation much worse still going to the gar a guru I talk. The other day she's getting sexually harassed by her father that because of Corbett the father is not want you so much and he's at home a lot so there's no escape from him you. Know walked a little distance away from She'd be a station into a back alley and here you can start to see the effects of coated much more clearly a lot of the late night bars around me are shuttered and they have signs on the doors and windows saying Closed due to code more and more of these places have been closing down in the last few months and of course that's having an effect on employment and it appears is having more effect on women's employment than men's So I was very very surprised by the extent to which the number profession which is one of Japan's leading experts on suicide this part of female. I have never seen this much so that must be something. Going on compared to the past professor who says big social changes over the last 2 decades have made young Japanese women even more vulnerable the very fundamental change and women are not married and also they have to support their selves and Don have a very prominent job they have a pickup employment status so when something happens of course they hit very very hard Japan is now in a 3rd wave of coded infections more restaurants and bars are closing their doors more people are losing their jobs for Professor where there is one more nagging question if this is happening in Japan with no strict lockdowns and relatively few Kovi deaths then what is happening to women in other countries where the pandemic is much worse. Wingfield Hayes with that report from Tokyo. He's a b.b.c. World Service is going to talk about a trip to wild animals from an unusual source electricity cables several Rothschild general Off Switch an endangered species have been killed by seeing these cables in Kenya to National Hunt from somebody Conservancy in the villages. In Kenya Nigel good to have you company on the program and I have to warn people if you just looked up what's been happening on the conservancy and it's it's tragic isn't it it's absolutely heartbreaking to see these beautiful creatures struck down in the way that they have been and just tell us what's been going on. Well. You know sometimes you're prairie me on the program where the. Part of the conservancy is mission would be. Looking after and building up a structure are as you rightly said earlier endangered subspecies of giraffe and we started some time back with about 7 characters we have around 140 some degree it's good but the last thing we don't you know these sorts of search. We don't quite see why it's come about because the electricity line involved has been there quite a bit it's not certain it was killed yesterday. And we haven't had any recent survey but on the other hand Ok we've asked for details investigative reports as to why what was it that actually caused them to die but in the meantime we have been successful in having those supply our supply people come in raised a line of things in order to make certain for Gerakan walk without any problem yes and they aren't and to be they have been quite quick on the haven't they to be fair to them but many people saying well these what these low hanging power lines should never have been that low in the 1st place on in an area where you are trying to protect these endangered species do you think that's a fair comment. Well it's a concern that we need to address house searches I'm not quite certain I'm not trying to minimize anything because we haven't had any electrocution or giraffe in the last 2 or 3 years was that just luck because a. Particular they got electrocuted where there are a couple of poles sir stopped as if a line in between a service or wind here and that's what where luckily at the moment you know par in that you know out of service as anxious as we are to look at it and yes they've done a remedy and they're checking the whole line not check for any other city sir you know where this situation may be a really risky one or the weather here today and what they've done is raise the Poles or baby we in the way the tragic good could come out of the tragedy by having all these problems or ever there's a slight risk or more than a slight risk making it more guaranteed the weather be a problem and tell us about this this rough child giraffe the subspecies because I understand the population in Kenya started $600.00 plus in 1600 across the entire world it sounds like you've made amazing strides from starting off with 7 to to the figure out now all the Seychelles which you say is a subspecies. I think the right way of saying have to say still in danger it may be run or a book or to conservation efforts to protect our Have being Gurdon as you say where we're proud of the fact that rebuild ours up to 144 and on May there carry on you know very very common items in the average that very well we have 30000 hectares in the conservancy Treasury room from a larger are very. Good to service and it's been wonderful talking to you thank you so much for bringing us and important story and use of your incredible what Nigel Hunter from the sound it Conservancy in Kenya like this is news day it's 18 minutes to the Alabama to one of the many conversations we've been having today about the statistics of coping on top story of course is the passing of the month of Hof a 1000000 deaths in the u.s. But we've also been hearing alone bills recently about the statistics out of Africa what an article on the b.b.c. Website calls the data gap now the problem is that the data gap ends up giving a misleading picture about how countries are being hit by Cove it so that's why we're very interested in a survey that comes out of Nigeria which suggests that rates a much higher rate of infection previously reported now money Jones has the story our correspondent in Nigeria so money 1st off take us through this gently who's done the survey and one of They've been studying. Yes And a survey was carried out by the Niger Center for Disease Control in tandem with the Nigeria Institute for Medical Research and they also have a few partners that include the u.s. Center for Disease Control and team University College London and a number of other partners so they sound pooled about 10000 people spread across 4 states of Lagos and the new go into self another one can be in the north of the country and they found among the 10000 people they took blood samples of them from them and they checked them for antibodies and they found much higher rates of couvade in that sample than is officially been reported as so it could be as many as one in 5 in Lagos which is Nigeria's most populated city but also the place that's seen the highest numbers of caught it and that would mean that as opposed to $54000.00 people before had had. Called it illegal so far according to official figures they could be as many as 4000000 people who have caught it now in terms of how this rewrites the statistics what you've just mentioned there what we thought a statistic being 54000 for Lagos cases could actually be 4000000 you begin to just ask well who can trust what data it's an extraordinary difference what's the implication of this. So the implications of all interesting the. Center for Disease Control's that you know one of the reasons why the prevalence might be much higher than expected is because a lot of cases have been into Mattick and it's something that seems to be the case across Nigeria that perhaps you know scientists are positive because of the age of the population or exposure to previous pathogens and might explain why they've had mild cases of cough it but it does in they'll pinion also make the case for getting vaccines to Nigeria as soon as possible even more. Importance because they said it was an idea and of the 1st wave it was done in September and October we fought Niger had done really well it yet the 1st wave it did much worse in the 2nd wave so it's possible that that the numbers are even higher now because I mean the World Health Organization For one has raised the alarm just a couple of weeks ago saying that broadly deaths from coated in Africa have searched by 40 percent so that's the difference that you've mentioned between 1st wave and 2nd wave now we have to emphasize these are infections these are people being found with antibodies so these aren't mortality statistics but do we know what the status of actual death statistics would be if the statistics on infections are so unreliable and so hard to read Do we assume that also we're not getting the full picture of the deaths caused. I think this is a tough some should to make I mean at the moment the tally for the whole of Nigeria in terms of death is just under 2000 about a 1800 for legal. Just under 400 deaths doesn't seem that much in the. 20000000 and the country of 200000000 deaths could be much higher we haven't heard from hospitals that they'd be you know overrun with bodies that the counts keep awful mortuaries that if seen a huge spike so there's a suggestion that the spike might not be as dramatic as the infection rates but the reality is we just don't know it's not really clear at the moment if you can trust the official statistics given this latest and much higher rates of corporate profits they found fast in the samples they tested thank you very much indeed Bonnie taking us through very carefully step by step the data that's coming out of Nigeria thanks to those surveys of. Asymptomatic infection but infection in the wider population infection rates we have to emphasize not desperate infection rates much much higher than what the official statistics seem to indicate. These day b.b.c. World Service Headlines Today Facebook is to restore news feeds in Australia after the government agreed to amend legislation forcing social media companies to pay for news content conservationists are warning that a 3rd fish in rivers and lakes around the world are under threat of extinction and the message. Has landed on Mars on the way down it is something no rover has ever done before it recorded the sound as it passed through the atmosphere and it's microphone coach the wind blowing so here it is there is so much atmosphere. So the sound is very quiet you'll have to lean into your radio or your computer however you're listening we've had to be used as much as we can take a listen. Wind on Mars one of incredible sound brought to us by the NASA has the variance Rover Let's get all the sports news now here's James Craig Well we hear about match fixing every once in a while they always have big sports story usually is when a high profile syndicates or individuals are involved or when it come from eyes is really important match or big sporting event but it is obvious because the biggest crisis in sport in living memory both in terms of revenues and potential integrity problems the real truth is these lead individuals and entities who direct facilitate also pull these illicit activities in sports like Match fixing to become far more aggressive and also diverse in their activities and they would be for usually be high profile football now it's all sorts of weird and wonderful different spalls I spoke to address chronic sports writers managing director of integrity services they sports radar they use a technically advanced toll called the fraud detection system to detect match fixing across global sports completely free of charge so those who use it and he spoke to me from his home in Munich to tell me more about it we know already. 5 different sports to be related money creation and in the past metrics it's where they were involved it's organized crime groups is very much focused on sports competitions where they can. Out of money you know because from the ration from Matrix a perspective it makes sense to to look after matches spending can get their highest return look I mean this dissolve usually lots of reasons for it is it people looking trying to trying to make a quick buck you know what is it what is the I can really try and work it out because I'm obviously not into it myself but what one of the one of the reasons you have this job to come into contact with any of these people and get a real real grip of why why they are trying to fix these matches. Absolutely so it in my view my team of over hundreds of temperatures around the world betting experts but also technically operators. But so have a team of 30. Intelligence officers going from the world of counterterrorism an intra fraught military defense police investigative journalists and they to we look into the topic of metrics if we identify the net roots at the end of a day you have to understand what is betting related money couldn't say this is nothing else an insider trading on stock exchange. So much knows upfront it was out of image proud of the result would have to resign for the term. Total number of codes and solutions Yes So now someone knows this upfront anticipation bets and if you place a bet against the same mechanism like on a stock exchange it's were changed fields and we have a very capable systems attribute between developed into sold for after the 1st big mission scandal in Germany in this are from a person a bit from the confines of German but history going to Germany for participation in 2005 we had this mess if referee scandal in Germany. And so spotted it developed a system but he called it the frog detection system where we money to the entire global bookmaking street if we go to a sports pump until the metrics that must be fixed because its bottom has to do then history should start as disciplinary process against the people involved and this is then sometimes end in front of the cost of a kind of Court of Arbitration for Sport and rules and 6 cases in 6 cases this was brought in front of cars in all 6 cases because uphold the verdict and approved our system while it's not we thought Ok. If this is such an unprecedented situation and this is missed the 1st read of the cancer it was something really. Extraordinary and. The cost. Of or what we call it fraud detection system for free to all sports around the world and if I say the core you have to understand to use the not an analogy the fraud detection system is like an alerting system that you put your holes to protect your house against. Fire and if a fire breaking out or burglars breaking in their land they're really. The most important thing is it get the owner to get understanding where the problem that's And then if they take the necessary steps to flag and dress thanks so much really appreciate that Medicare and restraint that they're offering a new a system called the universal fraud detection system out there later on this year to leagues and governing bodies 5300 matches have been classified as suspicious by the f.d.a. S. In the last 15 years hurt does happen an awful lot more than probably we're aware of 30 successful criminal convictions that they've managed really is fascinating stuff elsewhere Champions League action in Europe and Africa today and I'll be back tomorrow here on the program round in it all up and there's more sports as ever online baby c dot com Ford's last sports teams thank you very much indeed now let's talk about music. Of quiet amazing this 78 you know those old records the platters black vinyl 70 eight's quite hard to find a machine that plays it now this sort of collectible but they have an amazing glimpse of the music of the past which we just didn't know about at all we're talking about dust to digital which is a record label based in the u.s. Which has been collecting Zimbabwean guitar music on 78 Congolese rumba on 78 Vietnamese traditional chants they've got a great title for their latest release excavated shellacked shellacked being that we had insect based sappy Gustaf that they used to make the vinyl it's a sort of an alternative history of the world's music an amazing collection of these old 70 eight's going up to the 1950 s. And many of them are being heard for the 1st time in decades all pulled together by this chap. My name's Jonathan Lord I'm a record collector living in Los Angeles and I make occasional compilations with the dust and digital label based in Atlanta as a 78 r.p.m. Collector my focus is global recordings and specially lesser known ones. So this new collection excavated Chalak alternate history of the Worlds music is a distillation of and an expansion of my website excavated Chalak which I started in 2007 and on that site I featured sometimes still a lengthy articles on global recording and discussion of music from around the world exclusively on the $78.00 r.p.m. Disk and how that industry worked so there's no blues there's no chance there's no country no r. And b. No classical no popular and this is the rest of the world's music which is gigantic featuring tracks that were never before reissued or discussed really. Got into. One part of the world where people may not expect that there was a thriving recording industry was in the Persian Gulf and the early 1950 s. The music was highly localized and really beautiful mostly a type of music called soaked by feature a disc on the blues a label from crane from the early fifty's got a real edge to it it's wonderfully sung and it's beautifully record. Another example that I particularly like is this song from Zimbabwe there was many incredible guitar players from southern and eastern Africa active in the fifty's the acoustic guitar really became an instrument of choice for so many local troubadours. There's a song by a man named Paul the sticky toe who I know nothing about can find nothing about him and it's recorded in 1954 and the lyrics are very simple my back hurts from working in the field mother the children are beggars repeated again and again and it's just wonderful guitar piece the focal gorgeous and this is just an example of a song I just felt was so powerful it really needs to be heard by everybody. Finding the records is basically through the global marketplace it's not particularly exciting but I have news for everybody there's not a lot of 78 collectors on earth why because this is a medium that most people just don't want to deal with their breakable their heavy you have to have special equipment to get them sound right it's expensive you know there's many factors why people would just sort of. Mediately stop right there why I decided to go into it was simply because I wanted to hear this music that was unavailable that was the only way to hear it was to find. That is Jonathan board of dust to digital How about that little bit you heard the most cutting edge recording in the world ever so the sound of Mars beamed to you by a rover that is the sound of the 19 fifties and also. We've got from the 1950 s. To end the program with 2. Of the kind of just had just such a joyful sound isn't it Sam Salvador they are they well that's probably the 1st time in a long time that anyone has said. They're on the b.b.c. World Service so take it away guys thank you from us from Lawrence back again tomorrow. Hey this is Steve Inskeep with Morning Edition from n.p.r. News the thing you most need from a news organization is an organization that will tell you the truth every single day we're learning a little bit more there's a new administration new proposals new laws new ideas new events around the world and day after day after day morning edition comes to you again to help you make sense of it all listen every week. And weekday mornings from 510. This is Connecticut Public Radio n.p.r. And n.p.r. H.d. One merit and 90.5. Katie and w p k t h t one Norwich at $89.00. F.m. Stanford 88.5 w r i f m Southampton and 91.3 n.p.r. .