The students of the past. Training successful. Such as. Starts october 16th. East african stock markets are joining hands they want to learn more capital and big businesses but kenya has pulled out of the planets taking a lot of financial firepower with it. As a hot spot france is seeing record numbers. Infections are rising across europe so are new fears for the economy. And thailand wants to cash in on the growing medical marijuana market that is so weve got the details. Globe welcome to the show im stephen busy in berlin its good to have you with us and we begin today in east africa where 3 countries uganda tanzania and rwanda are preparing to merge their stock markets and the project is funded by the world bank and the aim is to make cross border trading easier tanzanias Stock Exchange features 27. 00 companies with a combined market cap of 6500000000. 00 uganda has 17 together with more than 5000000001. 00 has 10 publicly listed companies have a combined value of 3 and a half 1000
A dark past efforts in been in to tell the story of slavery using what it left behind. Hello im told me a lot of boy its good to have your company the World Health Organization calls it an extreme form of discrimination and a way of controlling women were talking about female genital mutilation or f g m more than 200000000 women and girls alive today have had parts of their genitalia removed for nonmedical reasons of the 30 countries where women are subjected to f g m 27 are in africa the dark red areas on this map show the countries where more than 50 percent of women have had their genitals mutilated such as somalia sudan and mali in the orange areas the figure is 26 to 50 percent and the yellow areas is between 11 and 25 percent. One member of the muscle using her fame as a form a mist tanzania to try to end what she describes as a barbaric practice. Diana edward lucas is a 22 year old messiah woman shes trying to break the silence the silence surrounding female genital mutilation o
Now in the days and weeks that will decide how germany will fare in this pandemic in winter. We see that we obviously have very special infection dynamics in germanys largest cities. Patients on ventilators for. My top priority is possible not to have to bring economic and public life back down to the level that was necessary in the spring. We have to appeal to our population we dont want to have a situation like the resume prousts for a situation like there is in spain. We dont want to 2nd lockdown. Germany marks a year since an anti semitic attack that left 2 people dead. Ladies and gentlemen it is not enough to condemn an attack like the one in hundreds of targets and then to return to business as usual. Welcome to the day chancellor Angela Merkel the mass of 11 major cities in germany have agreed a package of new measures to stop the spread of coronavirus germany fear is a growing 2nd wave of the virus after infection rates in cities like berlin and frankfurt reached a key threshol
Now the chancellor and leaders of the countrys largest cities agree new measures for places where case numbers are on the increase and this is the 1st of all a lot of big speeches looking up the believe the head of the World Food Program expresses his joy as the agency is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Welcome to the program. Germany has marked the 1st anniversary of a deadly antisemitic attack on a synagogue in the eastern city of holland it happened on the jewish holiday of young kid for the neo nazi attacker couldnt get through the synagogues front door and so went on to shoot 2 people outside the commemoration ceremony president frank expressed shame and anger over the resurgence of antisemitism in the country. It was an occasion to mourn and reflect for survivors for the been briefed and for germany the ceremony in. Church marked the anniversary of an anti semitic attack that evokes germanys history. A year has passed already a year just a year. Or do i ever go to day and nightmar
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