A driveway coming to you from lagos and joining me of course is my colleague sandra chain of york and hello there sandra. And hello from company and one welcome to all of us from all across africa and the rest of the globe so glad you joined us for the program once again lucia examples of how to make a wild a little bit cleaner and thereby making it a bit better heres a quick look at a few of this weeks reports. In ronda we will learn how communities can live in harmony with the mountain gorillas. In cynical we will find out how simple it can be to compose to kitchen west. And in ghana well meet a man who calls himself a florist savor. The heart of the tom hasa nomics it is a small scale Affordable Housing project in South African ownerships and its main mission is to replace informal bucket shots with durable structures and whats even more important recycled construction waste is used to build the homes made the founder and director was already want a number of awards for his innovati
A former navy 1000000. 00 leave peg is Risky Business is whats your reaction good idea. How not the biggest fan of that by the way larry so good to see you again thank you so much for having me thank you i think there are real problems with that loan program its become a bit of a sieve where that week it keeps spending more and more more money and i have a problem that a lot of the Small Businesses larry that need the money the most are necessarily getting the money we made a big mistake in turning out loan program which is something that i supported outloud for support of steve forbes supported the idea who during a time of crisis you want to give healthy businesses that were healthy and that dont have customers a bridge loan so they can get through this so that when were up and running hopefully very soon that they can they can be up and running and hiring workers what we did was we transform that into a Grant Program so that if you didnt lay off your workers the loan became a grant
Positive for the virus just weeks before this was at the start of february on tuesday the u. S. Senate approved a new 484. 00 trillion 1000000000. 00 stimulus package 1st Small Businesses this while President Donald Trump and treasury secretary Steven Chu Chen said they would ask some businesses who received relief funds to return them meanwhile the state of missouri is suing china for not doing enough to stop the spread of the outbreak Chinas Foreign Ministry spokesperson rejected the claim. It is purely malicious vexatious litigation which violates the basic legal principles oakwood into the principle of southern equality in International Law southern actions taken by a chinese governments at all levels in terms of Epidemic Prevention and control are not subject to the jurisdiction of the us courts well meanwhile the food and Drug Administration authorized the 1st in home test kit for the coding 19 sold by lab corp the. Cost 101000. 00 and it is expected to be available to consumers
And there was a lot of speculation at the time that you know the i. M. F. Was kind of greasing the skids for yet another metaphor. To cause the greek meltdown remember there was a lot of shenanigans going on Goldman Sachs cooked the books for grace that they could get into the euro under the master trading they they obliterated all the rules and regulations they got them in then greece quickly went into the garbage dump became a flaming dumpster and the i. M. F. Suddenly had a role to play it something was relevant to the yen and now here we are in 2020 and the i. M. F. Is like bailing out half the world over there i made a good job themselves of it because theyve become somebody in this world you know the i. M. F. From from being almost completely marginalized and worthless well back about 100 years ago we had this notion of communism and socialism and the workers would gain all the power and the workers would gain all the wealth but now weve discovered that nobody actually has to wor
I mean 67 years you know theyve been locked up in a cage outside you see no protection from the weather the heat you know the cold air the rain the snow the thunder nothing they have no protection yet as soon as we take the dog and you just wants to kill. Me just say you know wants the affection. To get you. Its ok. Mom and dad will probably live their entire lives on that facility in a pin whether its smaller or larger size but theyre not themselves hence they are breeding stock they they typically dont come in the house and snuggle on the couch. They have no idea what life is is about because they spent 247 in a cage when you came into one of these puppy mills. You would just see one on top of another in these Little Chicken wire crates. You know how cramped it is when youre when youre flying and i was thinking about and i thought it must be like that for the puppy mill dogs that are in these cages being able to get up and move around and i think that the 740 sevens comedy 400 people