Hello everybody and welcome to the latest edition of eco africa. The show dates god in Lagos Nigeria its nice to have you with us we have a lot of new reports from europe and africa on brings people are doing to tackle the Environmental Issues facing the m word for me of course is michael present from uganda i will sandra. Hello n. C. Good to see you once again my name is sandra to know youre coming to from kampala here in uganda many thanks to you all for tuning in todays program will take us all around a beautiful continent as we should some light on the environmental threats we face here in ivory coast we will hear about it not look its arguable nonfuel communities on take the pressure of forests we will take a look at what the tom get a wardrobe means here in uganda and find out how he says your boy lives are helping to rehabilitate land in south africa. Alfonse report comes from the ivory coast like many places in africa the country is losing more and more trees to illegal logging
Of peaceful protest same as pivotal in toppling the dictatorship in the form a stalemate on this day in 1989 some 70000 people turned out for marches in the city of lifes ish it was a decisive moment in a chain of events that led to the collapse of east german communism and the fall of the bone and more people held candles and pace fully demanded more freedom and democracy despite the threat of a heavy government crackdown the demonstrations my motto was the people. Well lymans from now german president frank volta on my is due to give a speech commemorating those events lets cross now to leipzig where ceremonies are already underway kate brady is standing by there for us i believe can we hear you kate. Ok 2. I have been listening to good stuff manas symphony number one that to mark the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the protests that really began the end of east germanys political regime and to tell us a bit more ive got simon young data correspondent with me in the studio s
G. W. Is known as the father of india but throughout his life while hundreds could im shotgunned evoked mixed feelings it was futile to the to the as a fanatic or an eccentric a reactionary revolutionary saint almost. Or as a man who must be killed. He championed a philosophy of nonviolence only to die at the hand of an assassin. He led a peaceful Resistance Movement to free india from british rule yet independent india was born as an ally of crucial carnage. Emit sectarian killings on an unprecedented scale gandhi risked his life to preach nonviolence until his dying day. On january 30th 90. He was killed by a hindu nationalist with 3 shots to the chest. In 1981 gandhi was interviewed by an american journalist in. York and. Her. And. If you could pick. The late brother of gandhis assassin was jailed for almost 2 decades at the time of the interview he was 85 years old and recalled every detail of the plot. But. Now to say. They won. As i said there dared gandhigiri then mark. The here
Books that we usually organize events around here at cato. But i can assure you the authors that we are featuring today are serious accomplished economist with decades of scholarly work in forming this publication. The subtitle of the book two economists drink their way through the unfree world gives us the flavor of their unconventional approach for a couple of academics. That subtitle didnt surprise me though. I attempt to run into ben powell and bob lawson at academic conferences around the country and around the world and inevitably they have drinks in their hands probably because we chat at event perceptions and the like but the conversation is always interesting, informative and fun. That is also true of this new book. This is a light book about a heavy topic. So its fortunate for two it is rather that we are featuring today the first day of the late lovell Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman one of the great economists of the 20th century and a champion of economic and overall human
A breakthrough victory in one or 2. Im assuming some us going to thank you for joining us for a special coverage here on d w polls are about to close in Regional Elections in 2 states in eastern germany with possible significant consequences for chancellor Angela Merkels government in berlin as well the voters in the states of funding both in saxony have been casting their ballots until now both states have been governed by traditional establishment parties of the social democrats were s. P. D. And chancellor merkels christian democrats the c. D. U. Base but this time both parties are facing a stiff challenge from the far right alternative for germany the a. F. P. The latest opinion polls show that the party is running neck and neck with the s. P. D. M. One bug and just a few points behind michaels c. D. U. In saxony. Well we have complete coverage of these potentially pivotal elections on we have a Political Correspondent with us here in our studio and we have our chief Political Edit