Being transformed into vehicles of the future well that improve life for the smog written cities nine million residents. A basic income trial in finland is being followed with great interest around the world hows it going. But first we head to the Central African republic a land in ruins and rarely heard about reporter brings us up to date. From the late one nine hundred century until nine hundred sixty the Central African republic was a french colony and it declared independence but instead of a democratic government being installed the country was run by a series of corrupt politicians and autocrats including the notorious and probably costs of the first since then there have been a series of military put chips the last coup was in two thousand and thirteen for decades numerous warlords and rebel groups among them christians and muslims have forced over the countrys commodities for tile meadowlands gold and diamonds thousands of people have been killed while others have fled to neighboring countries like chad cameroon and the democratic republic of congo according to the Un Refugee Agency around five hundred forty five thousand five hundred people have left. And even more than six hundred thousand have been internally displaced. From the air cargo bombed a row in the northern part of the Central African republic looks pretty peaceful. But what were seeing is actually a refugee camp housing around thirty thousand people some of them from the city itself. Half of those in the camp are children. Many have been badly traumatized like lucy bless you shes twelve from a village about ninety kilometers away. I was lucy was forced to flee when her home was attacked by rebels. Who didnt have any family to live with other people from my village who was. A teacher from the village tells us that her mother was taken by the rebels why lucy hasnt heard from her since everyone else in her family is dead. Stories like lucys are not uncommon was last elected a man loved one morning they came to our village they had really big guns and started shooting at everything in sight they even killed children i ran away with my family and came to this camp last year as well like the. After school we accompany a kid back to his new home in the refugee camp. Only his grandfather is there to greet him. Sit through the ceiling its very hard to survive here theres not much aid and we no longer have fields to plant things to eat only god can help us. The camp went up a year ago practically overnight after an armed group attacked the christian district of the city seeking protection the people there fled to u. N. Troops stationed nearby cargo bondo is a divided city the small river that flows through its Geographic Center serves as the border. The center in the northern districts is in the hands of the muslim rebel militia called select cong the southern districts are occupied by their largely christian opponents known as the. Many houses are deserted here next to that of the un barracks the cagr refugee camp grew up next to its protective fence. The blue helmets took up positions on the citys only bridge in an attempt to keep the two warring sides apart but the raids continue. There are around Twelve Thousand five hundred u. N. Soldiers in the country only a few residents have dared to return to their homes Florentine Don Betty lives in a hut built amidst the wreckage of his former farm which was destroyed by the seller caught. You dont normally move the country you cant sleep here anymore yeah woman was robbed here yesterday this and someone robbed her of twenty five thousand francs so i spoke with the authorities about the security situation here its not safe in this part of the city the. Prosecutor think that you dont need to lou has worked for unicef in the Central African republic for years but congo bonder a camp is just one of many in the country she says and things are getting worse. The humanitarian needs are increasing sadly more and more people are under attack are i. D. P. s we are now we have six hundred sawzall people who are internally displaced within the country which is what it was at the peak of the crisis in twenty fourteen so theres still a lot to do among the refugees tens of thousands of children who were taken up by armed groups the un is trying to liberate as many as possible from the warlords and rebels but many struggle to reintegrate into society. Many of the girls were kept for years as sex slaves. All of these laws were moving them i was twelve and lived in bondi of them was an armed group that forced me to go with them. Since then ive lived around here you know im seventeen now it was terrible thing that they dont do you know they tell a huge i saw and did the most awful things as a single life i had all those years i knew it was no life at all. As i say yes im here for you im going. Theres no safe haven for children in this environment of violence. At least theres a playground in the camp but the legacy of war is unmistakable even here. Sometimes are killed spends time with other children in the camp in the afternoon. But nothing is like it used to be. I had a good life in my village i had lots of friends we had a lot of fun together. We had School Lessons under the big tree in the evenings we saying and danced in the moonlight but thats all gone. So you know many of my friends are dead. And the others are in refugee camps. Well lucy and akio share a similar fate and they now face a highly uncertain future. And as it stands now a peaceful solution between the warring parties seems unlikely. The Central African republic has a population of just five million but a total area almost twice the size of germany which should make it an ideal place for wild animals to thrive from doro our reporter yogen schneider traveled for the south to the. Special reserve that he met activists who are doing all they can to keep the native wildlife from being wiped out. Its relatively tranquil in the rain forest in the south of the Central African republic that hasnt always been the case but the war has shifted to other regions now guerrilla expert terence food was one of the few people who remained in after the area was overrun in twenty thirteen and you have this quote he had a look at the projects. There with him which as i confirmed he done and succeeded to get here went by the way for escaping and kitted out of the by the thousands unless it is all just faceless just because of. The unique wildlife and is still thriving thanks in part to generous Financial Support particularly from germany. Some two thousand gorillas still live in the park for the most part undisturbed. Is a source of income for the population. We have a staff of sixty people. I miss more fish like these and sixty people stephanie says its a stick figure i think changing to. So we think that the people. More than twelve hundred Wild Elephants also live in zion goes on. In the middle of the rain forest is a clearing the animals are attracted to the mineral salts in the soil. For the past year luis out on has been working here for the World Wildlife fund for nature hes had many years of experience dealing with Nature Conservation in crisis regions. Elephants are a favorite target for poachers. The animals in the clearing are restless. To adult i picked without the two that stopped but if they think its tough because i thought that they. Stopped. Last year twenty one elephants were killed by poachers thats not many compared to other countries in africa confiscated weapons on tusks or put an authorized storage. Shes one of the biggest users youre certain you are each. One for the fortune. Has spent thirty seven years working as a conservationist in africa and during that time hes observed help elephants are gradually disappearing from the continent. That lets say the fun duffy is here we had we out there is of the counties and their porches hafiz with all of the we know that in the if you do. I want to live on so we have to be really different from that. Even though rangers patrol the earth they dont have enough weapons and ammunitions to ward off the professional poachers the situation is similar in the rest of africa. There are. A lot of people and that is the duck people buying the things that only the elephant had. A lot of people. Did for that. During previous posts in chad and northern congo lost nearly forty employees in the battle against poachers. Destroying africa. And we are doing nothing i think we are in the war we are loosing the war and not the nobody want like all night that we are losing the war if we dont do nothing that fits next the five things yes. Everything will be things. There are still many Wild Elephants in the sun go clearing. Always the problem with the guns and then when you see everybody say north how do you want. To protect the elephant i dont want guns to protect the elephant i want guns the people that dump but they did find that these different because they come with guns if. They are going to die. Today the locals are celebrating the opening of a small center for handicrafts. The new surrounds has come to watch the dancing and share the villagers home. For the future of design doesnt go region. Where names are not on. Years old. The toes in the north of the room. I love surfing and also playing the guitar you know im like a water rat im really interested in the marine life. And i. Were three brothers i am the oldest. My father works in a Marine Biodiversity conservation and my mother is a homemaker. Sharing life with my family and my parents going to school and surfing and. So when im out riding a big wave and go under i sometimes think ill never find my way out thats really scary. You know a lot of. Terrorism hit man. All the violence robberies and and murders. Id like to become a doctor or a Primary School teacher. I want to teach children and save lives. Yes i think so because my grandparents told me that when they went to school it was very strict. Teachers could beat them. And they told me their parents didnt have enough money to take really good care of them. That eleven this is. An unconditional basic income has become a hot topic around the world its premise is simple every person regardless of their Employment Status should receive a basic and unconditional way from the state. And there are already examples citizens of alaska receive annual payouts from a fund financed by the oil industry and the government of ontario in canada is planning its own basic income pilot study in finland such a trial has been up and running for. The sound of the drum has to be adjusted a little before its completely finished you how you had to be man knows that from experience you hand cards made to order sherman drums one at a time. Right now were trying to make as many drums as possible to earn as much money as i can. But handmade goods always take more time its not mass production so as a business so it isnt very lucrative basics and i. You have is grateful that hes now allowed to keep the seven hundred euros he charges for each instrument in the past his additional earnings were deducted from his Unemployment Benefits you high as one of two thousand unemployed finns receiving a universal basic income of five hundred sixty euros without restrictions besides making drums the artist says he can now also devote more time to his children and housekeeping. Most nights the rest so i dont have to deal with all that stress anymore before when i was receiving Unemployment Benefits and i had to register regularly at the job center yet to prove that i was actively looking for work. On in. Quite a burden. I mean that in the northern finnish city of new york kolkata and also receives a basic income hes been out of work for four years after his company shut its offices here the Computer Scientist eventually realised that he was too old for young startups and too long out of the business to be offered a programming position now he wants to be selfemployed the basic income provides him with a safety net. If there are a lot but when i worked in the i. T. Sector salaries were quite good and i know being selfemployed comes with risks but ive wanted to be my own boss for a long time and now i have the opportunity. To. See the nonpolice chosen a new career path selling luxury chocolate is his business idea jaco offers his exclusive products to Specialty Shops in shopping malls he even imports some of them from germany. Online he set up an internet shop to increase sales in his small business. Your statement of. If you only want to sit at home on your sofa the basic income allows you to continue to be lazy and stop looking for a job. What if there are people like me who i want to work at its very motivating and quite happy maybe if i want to buy my yacht go has given himself a year to make his chocolate business profitable one thing is clear to him in finland you cant make ends meet with the basic income alone. The finnish government isnt ready to release an interim assessment of the Pilot Program officials want to wait until the trial wraps up at the end of twenty eighteen to say how the two thousand test recipients use the basic income that could play an Important Role in future societies if there are radical changes in the working world. So its unclear how the job market will develop in the future. Its possible that automation could mean there arent enough jobs for everyone and then well have to consider how to overhaul our Social Security system and i. Told. You how yet again and still has big plans and since he began receiving the unconditional basic income his creative drive has blossomed. Together with some friends he wants to buy this vacant Cultural Center they want to call the project are the envy. You have once artists to move in and work at the center hes passionate about his idea but he and his friends dont have the money to turn it into reality yet still he remains optimistic and a model innovations drive the whole world to develop and there should be as many of them as possible you have to have a hundred wild ideas and the end to remain that work and they move us forward and. You have yet to be in in things the basic income is a real innovation. And he believes it would be a shame to get rid of it after the two year trial. There are around one point three billion cars and trucks on our planet but any around two million of them have an electric motor that was still too few charging stations in operation plus the cost of the vehicles is too high for many. Nonetheless the number of electric vehicles is forecast to hit forty million by twenty twenty five not soon enough for some of them all green minded citizens of mexico. Its clear weather but a blanket of smog flies over mexico city five million cars travel through the vast urban center every day even though the bad air is culpable it seems no one here wants to give up driving. The i know so many cars too bad they pollute so much you pointed why dont you have an electric car. My husband really wants to buy one hopefully we can get one soon. Like but theres not enough choice. Theyre so expensive. There are too few charging stations but where theres a will theres a way hector who is has packed fourteen batteries under the hood of his converted electric w. Beetle and were taking it out for a spin in the corners quiet hum is quickly drowned out as we dive into rush hour in the mexican capital and are engulfed in exhaust fumes. I even had to go to a specialist because i developed a nasty a problem because ive been living in such a poisonous city for fifteen years. Who needs an expensive new car that will go two hundred kilometers an hour if you spend most of your time stuck in traffic ruiz had his car converted to meet his true needs. Yes so what kind of a range does your car have. Fifty kilometers. Fifty kilometers thats nothing. Its really not worth it as it. Is worth i never drive more than twenty five or thirty kilometers a day. If he had stronger batteries the electric beetle could go much further but really it doesnt care if. He paid forty five hundred euros for his electric drive to this man i dont know dilla pas the mechanic converts cars with diesel or gasoline engines into electric vehicles a mini like this one requires a lot more Battery Power than the bug deal of hers is self taught. Looks like all the others im pretty proud of it wasnt. Until a pound says converting conventional cars is quick saves resources and costs just a fraction of what a new electric car would cost us and i love that its to our advantage if we use whats already been made turned it into something that could still be used but without the negative side effects feel. If the state were to subsidize not just the price of newly cars but also conversions he says everyone could happen electric vehicle for as little as three thousand euros and they left us hasnt needed a big lab for testing grounds to make it work. I give above here we write down everything we planned and learned so we dont forget but if youre not going to be that of how to build the batteries. The mechanisms work. How we set them up and we do thought and i hope it may look aortic but its whats going on in our heads if youre going to go. The fifty eight year old has been experimenting for around a decade his dream making it possible for nearly any driver to convert a car rather than leaving electro mobility to the lucky few who can afford to buy an expensive new model. Beetle drive or head to a true as was initially a customer but now hes turned into a partner those who really want to protect the environment dont have to wait for the car industry to finally come through. And over the been talking about electric cars since the one nine hundred eighty s. Weve been waiting for decades and then car makers only come out with really expensive cars. I decided to wait and had mine converted instead. Thats all for today but dont forget to drop us a line with your comments mike to assets global three thousand d w dot com for more on face the b. W. Label society by for now take out. The book. Prosperity optimism thats the power of global try to global free. By d. H. L. The be. The be. The be. The be. The be. The be. The be the b