i'm the only monarch in south africa that you know opens polar men's in this province and in south africa the president opens this is our parliament i bow painting the provincial to parliament so all political parties they know they said to me as i am one. even and comes to violence i take action inviting all political different political parties to gather. to bring our heads together and then i want talking about violence you raise this issue of lack of security in this country in your speech during your purse they certainly. how how do you see this problem the serious problem and what do you think the reasons why for such lack of security is it because of lack of human resources material resources or is it because of lack of political will to this point of time you know or just girl for local election look look ali election we had. elections and now the not so many political parties that are fighting against each other you know in the past they used to fight against each other but they this friend of time it's only one political party that is the governing body political party governmen

i'm the only monarch in south africa bed you know opens polar men's in this province and in south africa the president opens this is our parliament i bow painting the provincial department so all political parties they know their except for me as them or not. even and comes to violence i take action inviting all political different political parties took at. to bring our heads together and then i want talking about violence you raise this issue of lack of security in this country and your speech during your purse they certainly. how how do you see this problem this serious problem and what do you think the reasons why for such lack of security is it because of lack of human resources material resources or is it because of lack of political will to this point of time you know we're just going for local election look look at election. elections. and now the not so many political parties that are fighting against each other you know in the past they used to fight against each other but it is friend of time it's only one political party that is the governing body political party government t

man: there is, of course, a big coal-mining industry in south africa. it is multi-faceted, from mining to transportation of coal tall kinds of services in communities that have built up around the coal-mining towns of south africa. the coal-mining sector has been an extremely successful example of black economic empowerment, and now suddenly they've been told, "no, no, the future is green, the future is not coal." for them, this is a disaster because of their new investments into the coal sector that they see as possibly becoming stranded assets. [crowd chanting indistinctly] man: oh, the challenges that we find ourself into would be the low salaries to our members, and as the union, our role and responsibility is to fight for job security. the mines, some of them are closing because they are saying the export price has dropped and so on, so forth, the coal price has dropped, and so on, so forth. we are of the view that the price has been manipulated. week ago, the president was addressing a watered-back region, that we had mines in that area that can s

man: there is, of course, a big coal-mining industry in south africa. it is multi-faceted, from mining to transportation of coal tall kinds of services in communities that have built up around the coal-mining towns of south africa. the coal-mining sector has been an extremely successful example of black economic empowerment, and now suddenly they've been told, "no, no, the future is green, the future is not coal." for them, this is a disaster because of their new investments into the coal sector that they see as possibly becoming stranded assets. [crowd chanting indistinctly] man: oh, the challenges that we find ourself into would be the low salaries to our members, and as the union, our role and responsibility is to fight for job security. the mines, some of them are closing because they are saying the export price has dropped and so on, so forth, the coal price has dropped, and so on, so forth. we are of the view that the price has been manipulate a week ago, the president was addressing a watered-back region, that we had mines in that area that can s

africa i did wasn't even expecting to be bitten by south africa is just this thing that is your secret weapon that the secret sauce is that player is international i'm not expecting them to be brilliant players from south africa kenya or nigeria and you kind of creep up on. yeah on the bus and i can agree with you on that i've watched that clip over and over and i listen to the commentary just like you mention and i'm not just going into that game i knew i had no page on me or know i had the whole globes or the whole continent support obviously not just product to come but all my fellow africans supporting the i felt no place you know coming up against the biggest name seen in the world and obviously there was no audio expectation from my side but more from this side and i just went into it with ease and now they're like 2 minutes and i didn't expect me to do to be that they miss world champion and i think there's so many incredibly talented players in freefall especially is wrong that i can speak. out of the experience from you know like it's like egypt i they go senegal south africa

are is this guy has won south africa wasn't even expecting to be bitten by south africa is this thing that is your secret weapon that the secret sauce is that players internationally i'm not expecting them to build their players from south africa and there are nigeria and you kind of creep up on. yeah on the bus and i can agree with you on that i've watched that clip over and over and i listen to a commentary just like you mention and i'm not just going to that game i knew i had no page on me or know i had the whole globes or the whole continent support obviously not just product to come but all my fellow africans supporting me and i felt no place you know coming up against the biggest name scene in the world and obviously there was no audio expectation from my side but more from this side and i just went into it with ease and now they're like 2 minutes and i didn't expect me to do to be that they miss world champion and i think there's so many incredibly talented players in freefall especially is wrong that i can speak. out of the experience from you know like it's like egypt i they

could even promise on africa i'm a 23 year old. monte gaming organization in south africa. and i specialize in a game called thief itself football as some people know when i start simulate go ok . that's what i saw you folks get sad reality douglas welcome to the stranger introduce yourself tell us all what. good morning. everyone my name is douglas of get your mother to championship which is africa's primary sports league we run tournaments across central african countries on the internet in untrusted to see how we can bring identifying sports players sports like them and also we got them done to be professional players happy to be happy to have you had a sound introduce yourself so my name is sam i'm from south africa am i'm an east board shop koster which basically means i get to talk about players like to the art is being way too modest he's probably one of the best b. for players in africa right now so i'm going to say that because that's my job as a comment said it's a harp players like syria. so let's start with some basic sam for people who had a near to a small so

man: there is, of course, a big coal-mining industry in south africa. it is multi-faceted, from mining to transportation of coal tall kinds of services in communities that have built up around the coal-mining towns of south africa. the coal-mining sector has been an extremely successful example of black economic empowerment, and now suddenly they've been told, "no, no, the future is green, the future is not coal." for them, this is a disaster because of their new investments into the coal sector that they see as possibly becoming stranded assets. [crowd chanting indistinctly] man: oh, the challenges that we find ourself into would be the low salaries to our members, and as the union, our role and responsibility is to fight for job security. the mines, some of them are closing because they are saying the export price has dropped and so on, so forth, the coal price has dropped, and so on, so forth. we are of the view that the price has been manipulate a week ago, the president was addressing a watered-back region, that we had mines in that area that can r

man: there is, of course, a big coal-mining industry in south africa. it is multi-faceted, from mining to transportation of coal tall kinds of services in communities that have built up around the coal-mining towns of south africa. the coal-mining sector has been an extremely successful example of black economic empowerment, and now suddenly they've been told, "no, no, the future is green, the future is not coal." for them, this is a disaster because of their new investments into the coal sector that they see as possibly becoming stranded assets. [crowd chanting indistinctly] man: oh, the challenges that we find ourself into would be the low salaries to our members, and as the union, our role and responsibility is to fight for job security. the mines, some of them are closing because they are saying the export price has dropped and so on, so forth, the coal price has dropped, and so on, so forth. we are of the view that the price has been manipulated. week ago, the president was addressing a watered-back region, that we had mines in that area that can r

something that's easier than it sounds south africa is famous for its wild life for a vast areas of almost untouched land now an ngo there is working to turn much of that into nature reserves we met up with 2 of its teams in the can do in the east of the country and chemist grown in the west. no plantations no crops no combine harvesters 88 percent of land in south africa is not suitable for agriculture it's too rugged too dry and too one even. but everywhere you look you see life in abundance the country boasts rich biodiversity but how best to preserve it in south africa environmental protection is chronically under financed. that's where candace stevens comes in she's a tech specialist at the n.-g. o. wilderness foundation africa she wants to encourage landowners to turn their holdings into nature reserves the government offers a tax incentive to do so. what you're doing here is looking after south africa's natural wealth in the public good yes and so there's this unique tax incentive to benefit that biodiversity. so even as you plow money time if an energy into looking after the

i'm the only monarch in south africa bed you know opens polar men's in this province and in south africa the president opens this is our parliament i bow painting the provincial department so all political parties they know their except for me as their monarch. even and comes to violence i take action inviting all political different political parties to gather. to bring our heads together and then i want talking about violence you raise this issue of lack of security in this country and your speech during your birthday ceremony. how do you see this problem this serious problem and what do you think the reasons why for such lack of security is it because of lack of human resources material resources or is it because of lack of political will to this point of time you know or is just going for local election look look at election. elections and now the not so many political parties that are fighting against each other you know in the past they used to fight against each other but it is friend of time it's only one political party that is the governing body political party government that

this is the news africa coming up on the program will the fees finally fall south africa's government bans to student pressure and acts on university to asian costs but will this come the protests also coming up. another school of duction in nigeria gunmen seize a group of students in the north of the country we also correspondent why do these attacks keep happening. plus the new boss for african football's governing body will this mining billionaire be successful intending around the beautiful games fortunes. and south africa's largest ethnic group loses its influential monarch kings when he dies after until next. i'm told me all laddie boy it's good to have you with us south africa's government has given in to pressure to increase financial aid given to university students now this follows days of protests in which one person was killed in nationwide marches students have been demanding the scrapping of fee debts complaining that university education is an affordable. was at one of these protests in cape town. and. more and more students in south africa throughout the country have j

this is the news africa coming up on the program will the fees finally fall south africa's government bans to student pressure and knocks on university to asian costs but will this come the protests also coming up. another school abduction in nigeria gunmen seize a group of students in the north of the country we also correspondent why do these attacks keep happening. plus the new boss for african football's governing body will this mining believe that he's successful in turning around the beautiful games fortunes. as south africa's largest ethnic group loses its influential monarch kings when he dies after an illness. i'm told me all about it boy it's good to have you with us south africa's government has given in to pressure to increase financial aid given to university students now this follows days of protests in which one person was killed in nationwide marches students have been demanding the scrapping of fee debts complaining that university education is an affordable. was at one of these protests in cape town. more and more students in south africa throughout the country have

history so he's excited to talk about it when he finally does sign it into law south africa and india are leading a push for the world trade organization to temporarily drop paid restrictions on covert $900.00 banks scenes they say it would allow more countries and manufacturers to mass produce the jobs for brazilian president luis enough to silver has sharply criticized john bolton or his response to the krona virus was speaking at his 1st news conference since a corruption charge against him was overturned he told his supporters that he always knew he'd be vindicated. libya's parliament has approved a new interim unity government as part of a un backed plan it'll be responsible for leading the country to elections in december another war torn nation has been divided between 2 rival of ministrations supported by armed groups and foreign governments settles opposition politician or swan song co has accused the president of being responsible for last week's violence sancho's arrest for taking part in an unauthorized rally triggered days of demonstrations 2 people were killed in the con

south africa and india are leading the movement to suspend the world trade organizations agreement on intellectual property rights for covert 1000 vaccines but many high income countries including the united states and those in the european union have rejected the idea they say waiving the peyton's would put off private investors and slow down scientific innovation and existing regulations allow drug manufacturers to make their own deals with generic manufacturers while some developing nations like garner ivory coast in the suit to have begun receiving their 1st doses to the u.n. back to vaccine sharing scheme known as kovacs many others in africa are being left behind. there is a capacity for mr companies to produce and i stayed in medical school. it is essential that the wealthy states stop blocking or putting in legal barriers and delaying essential kozel ahead. of the world trade organization according to the united nations 3 quarters of all covert 1000 vaccines have been secured by just 10 countries all of them wealthy 130 countries that's about 2500000000 people have not receive

we take you to south africa where the government has an ambitious multibillion dollar plan to modernize the earth realm that work polluters because their 1st. place is due to be business in berlin welcome to the program or it could be a major step towards crypto currencies gauging gaining wider acceptance pay pal is now allowing its customers in the u.s. to use them millions of merchants around the world the online payment platform will allow those with the likes of coin a theory and light coin in their digital wallets to convert them to regular currency and spend them is $1.00 of the largest mainstream companies to welcome kryptos these are also this week announced its intention to accept them on its payment network. let's cross to new york and get more on this from our correspondent sabrina kast lesser prieta this is a pretty big moment for cryptocurrency. yeah absolutely it is it can clearly be some kind of a breakthrough for a script through currency as it's the 1st time that's going now you see as and kind of in the same way as you would use a credit card if you buy something onlin

are is this guy has won south africa i didn't even expecting to be by south africa is this thing that is your secret weapon that the secret sauce is that player is international i'm not expecting them to be brought here less from south africa and there are nigeria and they're kind of creep up on. yeah on the bus and i can agree with you on that i've watched that clip over and over and i listen to a commentary just like you mention and i'm not just going to that game i knew i had no bridge on or no at the old globes or the whole continent support obviously not just become but all my fellow africans supporting me and i've got no place or you know coming up against the biggest name scene in the world and obviously there was no audio expectation from my side but more from this side and i just went into it with ease and now they're like 2 minutes and i didn't expect me to do to be that they miss world champion and i think there's so many incredibly talented players in freefall especially is wrong that i can speak. out of the experience from you know like egypt i they go senegal south afric

either it happens in south africa, most likely behind closed doors, or not at all. both the lions and south africa rugby union are hopeful that they'll be able to get this tour on in some shape or form in south africa, but with doubts over the vaccination programme and any kind of future covid waves, there must be an element of caution. in the original tour schedule, i cannot see that going ahead as planned. they won't be travelling all over the country, there might be all over the country, there might be a shortage of matches and fewer venues to try and keep it as covid safe as possible. so is bill sweeney said, the challenge starts now. you mention to — said, the challenge starts now. you mention to bill _ said, the challenge starts now. you mention to bill sweeney, the chief executive — he spoke about a lot of things today, obviously coming off the back of england's six nations tournament, another really poor one with increased scrutiny on eddie jones's position as head coach. this debrief will go on for a number of weeks, and bill sweeney says it will be bru

china is south africa's biggest trading partner. that relationship was on show in december 2015 the presidents of both countries met for a forum on cooperation which ended with a gonna. it's a visit which has produced the biggest revelation of our undercover operation. by the law and on. the last of the alternate. plan the last one. who is the restaurant manager we met in pretoria introduced us to a dealer selling born in ivory either cheap he says he acted as a tour guide for the visiting chinese delegation. my dear myron rolle. but. i don't. have some of those although i'm not a young boy as soon as you got married what was. the. logic there to. latch on to. marry or there's never. any more you. go up and down. the bar a little bit you little a lot of a lot of. people that i'm. anti claim some of the president's people wanted illegal souvenirs and that's what it's all about with. my last on the ballot i'm not on the trunk of my they're. not wrong i'm a lot of what the law. if you don't get a group of work to do lists the woods are

in south africa. the wildlife justice commission is making one final effort to force the vietnamese government to take action on their evidence we have sent it to numerous ministries and individuals within the vietnamese authorities and the reaction has been almost unanimous like silence. we've given them every opportunity now is to. say they've organized a panel of legal experts to meet in the famous peace palace a public hearing to assess the dossier. is not putting them on trial we're not a court but what we are is presenting to the world all the evidence that we collected to show what's out there but you are trying to embarrass spin to action i would say embarrass them but we're trying to stimulate the international community to get the government to enforce its laws. but people are buying ron a warning vietnam are some of its top see some of its most senior politicians people who are government ministers but this is the ultimate status something you can display it's something you give as gifts to

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in south africa. the wildlife justice commission is making one final effort to force the vietnamese government to take action on their evidence we have sent it to numerous ministries and individuals within the vietnamese authorities and the reaction has been almost unanimous like silence. we've given them every opportunity now is to. say they've organized a panel of legal experts to meet in the famous peace palace a public hearing to assess the dossier. is not putting them on trial we're not a court but what we are is presenting to the world all the evidence that we collected to show what's out there when you are trying to embarrass spin to action i would say embarrassed but we're trying to stimulate the international community to get the government to enforce its laws. but people are buying ron a warning vietnam are some of its top see some of its most senior politicians people who are government ministers but. the ultimate status symbol something you can display it's something you give as gifts to b

it was the it's been a year since the 1st 1000 in fiction was identified in south africa since then more than 50000 people have died and 1500000 have been infected while richard nations rolled out vaccines the program in south africa's been much slower. another important step. that account. for the duration. it's. south africa and india are leading a movement to suspend the world trade organizations agreement on intellectual property rights for covert 1000 vaccines but many high income countries including the united states and those in the european union have rejected the idea they say waiving the peyton's would put off private investors and slow down scientific innovation and existing regulations allow drug manufacturers to make their own deals with generic manufacturers while some developing nations like garner ivory coast in the suit to have begun receiving their 1st doses to the u.n. back to vaccine sharing scheme known as kovacs many others in africa are being left behind. there is a capacity for mr companies to produce and i stayed in medical school. it is essential that the wealth

i'm the only monarch in south africa that you know opens piler men's in this province and in south africa the president opens this is our parliament i bow painting the provincial parliament so all political parties they know their except for me as i am one. even and comes to violence i take action inviting all political different political parties took at. to bring our heads together and then i want talking about violence you raise this issue of lack of security in this country and your speech during your purse they certainly. how how do you see this problem this serious problem and what do you think the reasons why for such lack of security is it because of lack of human resources material resources or is it because of lack of political will to this point of time you know we're just going for local election look look at election. elections. and now the not so many political parties that are fighting against each other you know in the past they used to fight against each other but it is friend of time it's only one political party that is the governing body political party government that

this is d w news africa coming up on the program will the fees finally fall south africa's government bans to student pressure and acts on universe between costs but will this calm the protests also coming up. another school of duction in nigeria gunmen seize a group of students in the north of the country we also correspondent why do these attacks keep happening. plus the new boss for african football's governing body will this mining billionaire be successful in turning around the beautiful games fortunes. and south africa's largest ethnic group loses its influential monarch kings when he see me dies after until next. i'm told me all of it boy it's good to have you with us south africa's government has given in to pressure to increase financial aid given to university students now this follows days of protests in which one person was killed in nationwide marches students have been demanding the scrapping of fee debts complaining that university education is an affordable. was at one of these protests in cape town. more and more students in south africa throughout the country have jo

a push for equal access to private 19 vaccines south africa and india appeal for the suspension of patience of the w t o. their i missed on here today this is al jazeera live from dar also coming up the armenian prime minister says has ordered his orders sacking to his order saw sacking a top general has come into force but military leaders are pushing back. a new step to reconcile with its colonial past france is to declassify secret documents related to algeria's war of independence. these cherry orchard may look innocent or not but they're part of a mounting debate here in chile over chinese investment and possible control over this country's most important and strategic industries. africa and india are leading a push of the world trade organization to drop a centrist directions on carbon $1000.00 vaccines more than $100.00 countries say that would allow greater access to vaccines for developing nations now according to a campaign group called one rich countries according excess doses preventing poor nations from getting them it's estimated that that's up plus. a virus as would be enough

a push for equal access to covert 1000 vaccines south africa and india appeal for the suspension of patients at the w t o. hello there i missed on detail this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a u.s. court begins selecting jurors for the trial of a former police officer accused of killing george feeling. i would die of that solution because it was extreme to receive a senior official from myanmar tells al-jazeera about his dramatic escape after last month's military coup. these cherry orchard may look innocent or not but they're part of a mountain debate here in chile over chinese investment and possible control over this country's most important and strategic industries. now south africa and india are leading a push at the world trade organization to drop the pay to interest in $1000.00 vaccines more than $100.00 countries say that would allow greater access to vaccines for developing nations according to a campaign group called one richer countries according access story says preventing poor nations from getting them it's estimated that the supplements of doses would be sufficien

all of us grew up in south africa and. all of us. expanse the bush. love those experiences us as children and growing up we want to preserve and we've all been following block take technology for a while and to be able to put that together and merge those 2 passions was was really special for us the 3 friends live in cape town and work as software developers every transaction in the digital block chain can be carried out safely and transparently 1st importantly it is recorded so what is their idea exactly all of our different conservation partners on the wild cards platform these conservations have certain types of animals and species that they look after and for every animal that they have we represent that is a unique digital artwork on the block chain that only one person can have and if you own this wild card you essentially pay a monthly amount to actually support that organization and you can see that money essential flying directly through to that organization is from team on the wild cards digital platform can buy and sell rare animal cards us

still ahead on al-jazeera morial is held for south africa's uno king after his death last rate will be 19. busts in the rankings struggling to feed their families while politicians argue about a national budget. for the perfect. sponsored plan qatar airways hello we've got some lovely warm spring sunshine in c. parts of western year up we got a nice big area of high pressure sigh keeping things settled and sunny here's our high just off the coast of ireland hit a round area of high pressure draw in the winds in from all the direction the cold direction that cold air taking down into central and eastern parts over the next couple of days and not so great here but i would say was the west does have a look at scotland and ireland beautiful sunshine coming through more sunshine as well 15 celsius the. little cooler in london that is the side of england pushing down through standing in the southeast we'll see want to see showers as we go through the remainder of thursday those showers just drifting across northern parts of france across the low countries and look at the wintry mix that we h

know again i'm just on the attainder let's remind you about top stories here the south south africa and india are leading a push at the world trade organization to temporarily dropped peace and frustration from covert 19 vaccines they say would allow more countries and buy new factories to mass produce the japs. 3 jurors have been selected in the trial of a white police officer accused of killing george's voice from the minneapolis office of derek's organise facing charges of 2nd degree about adams months or so. the f.b.i. has released security footage of a suspect it believes planted to explosives outside the headquarters of the democratic and republican parties it happened the night before the attack on the capitol hill building. while the governor of texas has ordered hundreds of national guard troops to the southern border with mexico and response to a surge in migrants trying to cross there now among those seeking to enter the united states are thousands of central american children traveling without their parents and that's posing a challenge for the binder that ministration how d

china is south africa's biggest trading partner. that relationship was on show in december 2015 the presidents of both countries met for a forum on cooperation which ended with a gonna. it's a visit which has produced the biggest revelation of our undercover operation. by the mom and on. the last of the alternative the man plant the last one. who is the restaurant manager we met in pretoria introduced us to a dealer selling born in ivory over cheap he says he acted as a tour guide for the visiting chinese delegation. hijab in the fall. but. i don't. have some of those although i'm not a young boy as he was you know maybe what was. the. logic there to. latch on to. maybe all that is never in the way or anything or you. would go up and down. the farm and you don't leave your little lot of a lot of. people that i'm. not and he claims some of the president's people wanted illegal souvenirs and that's when i saw them going about it. was the. last of them that i'm not on the trunk of my they're. not wrong i'm a lot of. what the law. you d

a push for equal access to credit $1000.00 vaccines south africa and india appeal for the suspension of patrons at the w t o. o that i'm astounded hey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a u.s. court begins selecting jurors for the trial of a former police officer accused of killing george floyd. the f.b.i. releases a new video of a suspect trying to balance a day before the capitol hill riots and off as a $100000.00 warning. that she should be good it was extreme situation. a senior official from me on mon tells al-jazeera about his dramatic escape after last month's military coup. now south africa and india are leading a push at the world trade organization to drop patients restrictions on the 19 vaccines more than $100.00 countries say that would allow greater access to vaccines for developing nations according to a campaign group called one richer countries are hoarding excess doses preventing poor nations from getting them it's estimated that the suppress of doses would be enough to vaccinate the entire adult population of africa johns hopkins university found. near

last week a push for equal access to covert 1000 vaccines south africa and india appealed for the suspension of peyton's at the world trade organisation and astore except for libya a rival factions agree on a unity government after years of war. we begin in brazil where former president lula is due to address his supporters for the 1st time since corruption charges against him were overturned monday's decision by a supreme court judge who has chances to make a political comeback the conviction in 2017 saw him serve 18 months in jail and barred him from running for office he could become president main left wing rival in next year's election let's speak to monica and ikea who is in rio de janeiro for as monica is due to speak any moment now what are we expecting him to say what tone and what message are we expecting to hear from him today. well he's going to address an audi a big audience there's the local press the international press its supporters from the workers party also from other leftist parties in brazil were invited to he said the met meant to learn a trade union where his politica

this defeat of the news africa on the program today south africa relaxes its cold at night drop down as it emerges from the deadly sick and wait the vaccine rollout is gaining momentum with. the country receiving the johnson and johnson jab but many friends times with just don't want to get the vaccine. and nigeria's missing girls who meet the parents hoping their daughters will soon be returned and it's been 3 days since the girls with kidnapped from their school in the north and sometimes. on the be tao why not it's produced an album with dozens of collaborators despite the pandemic. i'm christine one but it's good to have your company south africa has moved into the lowest level luck for the relaxing restrictions on movement gatherings and economic activity it comes off officials say it was a dramatic decline call that 1000 cases over a tweet africa is the worst affected country on the continent have been recorded over one and a half 1000000 infections and 50000 deaths a new variant that is more easily transmitted dominated a deadly 2nd wave in the country the international board

in south africa's cape region is one of the world's hot spots when it comes to plant biodiversity many of our planet's flowering plants are found only here in this week's global ideas we had. at the foot of the dragoons bug mountain range where over grazing is playing havoc with the area's unique. but let's hope. for you that after. the party. is happy she just sold 3 of her colleagues for the equivalent of 1000 euros she's a single mother and the mobile cattle options organized by environmental and rural solutions are a godsend the options of adequate for us and very right time for us because we don't have transport to take it take up to the site they come to us and some sometimes we do negotiated the price if one looks at this fight in the past small holders in south africa's grasslands could only buy from and sell to their neighbors. the big cattle auctions were held much too far away. for many around here the mobile auctions have been the only source of income during the pandemic i think are there now what about our people are organized brazen associations and we offer the auctions

china is south africa's biggest trading partner. that relationship was on show in december 2015 the presidents of both countries met for a forum on cooperation which ended with a gonna. it's a visit which has produced the biggest revelation of our undercover operation. by. the last of the time of. the man planned the last one. who is the restaurant manager we met in pretoria introduced us to a dealer selling born in ivory i the chip he says he acted as a tour guide for the visiting chinese delegation. lifejacket the role. but. i don't. some of those i'm not a young boy as he was you know married what was. there to. marry or there's never. any more you. go up and down. the farm and you don't you'll get a little out a lot of a lot of. people that i'm. anti claim some of the president's people wanted illegal souvenirs and that's what it's all about with. the. last of them that i'm not on the trunk of my they're. not wrong i'm a lot of. what the law. you don't need a group of work to do this we were going to. do not walk right. now it w

no plantations no crops no combine harvesters 88 percent of land in south africa is not suitable for agriculture it's too rugged too dry and too one even. but everywhere you look you see life in abundance the country boasts rich biodiversity but how best to preserve it in south africa environmental protection is chronically under financed. that's where candace stevens comes in she's a tax specialist at the n.-g. o. wilderness foundation africa she wants to encourage landowners to turn their holdings into nature reserves the government offers a tax incentive to do so. what you're doing here is looking off to south africa's natural wealth in the public good and so there's this unique tax incentive to benefit that bind of a city so even as you plow money time if an energy into looking after the sun almost my think you're not getting any i don't know there is a special tax incentive just to give a little bit back this man is already converted his land into a protected area he can write off the cost of the purchase over 25 year period that extra cash in the pocket would be able to to give

no plantations no crops no combine harvesters 88 percent of land in south africa is not suitable for agriculture it's too rugged too dry and too on even. but everywhere you look you see life in abundance the country boasts rich biodiversity but how best to preserve it in south africa environmental protection is chronically under financed. that's where candace stephens comes in she's a tech specialist at the n.-g. o. wilderness foundation africa she wants to encourage landowners to turn their holdings into nature reserves the government offers a tax incentive to do so. what you're doing here is looking off to south africa's natural wealth in the public good and so there's this unique tax incentive to benefit that biodiversity so even as you plow money time if an energy into looking after the sun farm is may think you're not getting any and not only is a special tax incentive just to give a little bit back this man has already converted his land into a protected area he can write off the cost of the purchase over 25 year period that extra cash and pocket he would be able to to give a l

how the lions with nothing to worry about these big cats of the fin the game reserve in south africa are protected but conservation initiatives like these cost money and drumming up the nation's requires a lot of time and effort together with 2 friends and fellow nature lovers jason sims came up with an idea to make donating to animal conservation more attractive with the aid of modern technology all of us grew up in south africa and. all of us. expands the book. love those experiences us as children and crying up we want to preserve that and we've all been following blocked technology for a while and to be able to put that together and merge those 2 passions was was really special for us the 3 friends live in cape town and work as software developers every transaction in the digital block chain can be carried out safely and transparently 1st importantly it is recorded so what is their idea exactly all of our different conservation partners on the wild cards platform these conservations have certain types of animals and species that they look after and for every animal that they have

all of us grew up in south africa and. all of us. expands the book. love those experiences us as children and growing up we want to preserve that and we've all been following block take block and technology for a while and to be able to put that together and merge those 2 passions was was really special for us the 3 friends live in cape town and work as software developers every transaction in their digital block chain can be carried out 60 entrants parent lee most importantly it is recorded so what is their idea exactly all of our different conservation partners on the wild cards platform these conservations have certain types of animals and species that they look after and for every animal that they have we represent that is a unique digital artwork on the block chain that only one person can have and if you are in this wild card you essentially pay a monthly amount to actually support that organization and you can see that money essential flying directly through to that organization is from team on the wild cards digital clock well more people can

is to south africa now where. coronavirus measures have dealt a heavy blow to the country's wine industry but in one region. have been able to avoid much demi greeted woes by going their own voice. it's known as a wine paradise the handle on ard or heaven on earth valley is located in the western part of south africa over the past year alcohol bans brought in as part of efforts to curb the coronavirus have dealt a heavy blow to the industry but why maker anthony hamilton russell managed to buck the trend now if your business relied a lot on tourism or direct sales from the property. you hit particularly hard particularly if you also run a restaurant on the property we're lucky on hamilton russell vineyards in only selling in my 30 s. on average about 7 percent of our wine directory we almost refer people to buy it to retailers and i live in a country of origin and so i rather buy their wine making has a long tradition in the region locals say the fresh atlantic air and abundance of sun give the wine a unique taste

a push that equal access to covert 19 vaccines south africa and india appeal for the suspension of peyton's not the w t o. also closer to a political comeback former brazilian president lula da silva addresses his supporters after court ruling boosts his chances of challenging. and cattle promises to make the world cup more inclusive than ever we look at how the country is growing football amongst its disabled players. welcome to the program the u.s. house of representatives has begun debating a $1.00 trillion dollar relief bill one of the largest in the country's history the bill will provide $1400.00 checks for americans as well as extended unemployment benefits and tax breaks it will still need to be signed by the president and around $10000000.00 people in the u.s. are commonly unemployment number that has risen sharply since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic our white house correspondent kelly helka joins me now from the capitol it's a slow process but the deal is slowly being done. yes that's right and the house is taking a look at this legislation for a 2nd time we expect tha

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in south africa is due to good will sway the teenie the most influential traditional road that dies at the age of 72. well we begin this with breaking news out of nigeria there are reports that gunmen have kidnapped students from a college there that abduction happened in could do not state and the northwest school attacks have become much more frequent of late with the most recent of them being a mass abduction of 279 pupils in zamfara state last month we'll be getting you more on all of this as we get says and in fact right now we can speak to fidesz he's a journalist joining us on the phone now from the nigerian capital abuja for dennis what do we know about this latest abduction they seem to be coming thick and fast. well the letters abduction happened in the early hours of friday so far the government has not made any official statement as to the number of people who were kidnapped or those who are behind the kidnapping the school authorities of also thought he should have a statement with calista waiting for the big 3 authorities to issue a statement as formal the kidnapped girls

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in south africa and what white expanses of grassland have to do with the health of local rivers. and in afghanistan the islamist taliban has its sights set on returning to power. the german military has been deployed in afghanistan for almost 20 years more than 100000 german soldiers have served there and the military says 59 of them have lost their lives. has it been worth it. the taliban now has more than home for the country under its control afghanistan's central government is seen as incompetent and corrupt peace talks have stalled germany's military has expanded its presence in the country by a year meanwhile the taliban makes regular threats of attacks it's planning to seize control of the country once again. we're heading down highway one my colleague nessa phasey has an appointment with the taliban in the province of god. it's a dangerous trip right outside kabul the main. to the south resembles a battlefield. to taliban fighters lead the way journalists can only travel here with permission and an escort from the taliban. malawi months or set up the appointment is the ta

on this tuesday debbie news africa coming up on the program will the fees finally fall south africa's government bans to student pressure and acts on university tweet and costs but will this calm the protests also coming up. another school abduction in nigeria gunmen seize a group of students in the north of the country we ask our correspondent why do these attacks keep happening. plus the new boss for african football's governing body will this mining billionaire be successful in turning around the beautiful games fortunes. and south africa's largest ethnic group loses its influential monarch kings when he dies after an illness. i'm told me all of it boy it's good to have you with us south africa's government has given in to pressure to increase financial aid given to university students now this follows days of protests in which one person was killed in nationwide marches students have been demanding the scrapping of fee debts complaining that university education is an affordable. was at one of these protests in cape town. more and more students in south africa throughout the count

health workers in south africa say the government's vaccine rollout isn't happening fast enough about $5000.00 people are being evacuated each day as part of a study with johnson and johnson but that's all short of what's needed to beat the national target of vaccinating 2 thirds of the population by the end of the year for me to miller has more from johannesburg. south africa is government began vaccinating its health workers in mid february with 80000 receiving the jab so far for some like dr faisal saleman the rollouts been slower than expected he runs a private practice in promise you outside durban he says has registered to be vaccinated but his appointments been cancelled it has been tough working it's not easy working in a closed environment being having people you know all day we do our own swapping here we've been treating patients directly and telephonically so it has been produced stressful particularly when you go home and pass this thing on to your family which i've done there more than 67000 health care workers in puzzle natal province alone of which fewer than 2000 have