one welcome i am standard you know bill coming to you from come here in uganda and from now on i'll be taking up with n.c. to bring you interesting environmental programs here's what we have for you this week. we visit women. to make stoves the koofi dot com for chuckle we also show you why blushes and it runs on treatment away. and we. often think that the sunday picnic leaves close to nature. uganda has those 2 thirds of its forest cover in the last 20 years much over 4 is husband cleared to provide a chuckle for bonding seen everywhere looking at income more than 80 percent of ugandans rely on checker for their daily cooking needs according to government figures roll stream is innovation hova uses. energy for cleanup cooking and lighting solutions for families while providing employment to the women she has built a clinical can stall to replace the environmentally positive. good . only for life. but it's both bad for her help and bad for the environment he's also expensive no she has a special news top of it costs a lot but it can still save hum money. i used to use a lot of. using.

wild come i am standard you know veal coming to you from compiling here in uganda and from now on i'll be taking up with n.c. to bring you interesting environmental programs here's one we have for you this week. we visit women who can do it when you visit a book on the go to make stoves the coop you don't wonderful chuckle we also show you why blushes and it turns on treatment away. and we visit my psychologist and south america but suddenly it's me close to nature. uganda has those 2 thirds of its forest cover in the last 20 years much over forest has been cleared to provide chuckle for bunning seen everywhere look it encompass more than 80 percent of ugandans rely on chucker for their daily cooking needs according to government figures roll stream is innovation however used woken equips us energy for cleaner cooking and lighting solutions for families while providing employment to the women she has built a clinical can stall to replace the environmentally cause a dust storm. the. only life has coped with charcoal but it's both bad for her health and bad for the environment he's

correpsondent ashley john—ba ptsite reports now from uganda, which has one of the biggest refugee populations on earth. this is naomi. she's a refugee who fled civil war in south sudan in 2016. translation: when i look back home, i know i am now free because there's no sound of guns. naomi now lives in bidi bidi, in uganda, one of the most unusual refugee camps in the world. spanning 250 square kilometres, it's home to around 230,000 south sudanese refugees. and it wants to become its very own city. this is your land? yeah. like all refugees in rural parts of uganda, naomi has been given a plot of land to build and farm on. it offers some stability after a troubling past. translation: in the night, people would come and knock on your door. and when you opened the door, they'd cut you with a knife, slaughter you and go. naomi's brother was killed in front of her. she managed to escape with her husband and children. uganda is renowned for its refugee—friendly policies. as well as getting land, refugees are allowed to work, set up businesses and move freely around the country. in t

. here. an early july morning in southern uganda this mountainous area lies between a 101500 metres above sea level conditions are ideal for coffee cultivation. after many kilometers on dirt roads you reach marion with singles ease house it's from much and not easy to find because the house is a scattered throughout the mountains. the 39 year old coffee farmer is married and has 4 children. right now it's high season harvest time when marion spends all day on have plantation during this period everything revolves around the coffee beans growing between the banana plants and coconut palms they have to be as ready as possible redness means they're ripe. marion has around 600 coffee plants because she can't harvest all that alone i don't feel women come to help. for about 10 years this farm has belonged to a village co-operative which in turn belongs to a large regional co-operative with more than 1500 members. today marian's husband sam has come to the plantation to help his own plantation is at the far end of the village. when he helps out here his wife is the boss but they always pl

russia and france are preaching away. and. south africa sun leave it to me close to nature. uganda has those 2 thirds of its forest cover in the last 20 years much over for its husband cleared to provide a chuckle for bonding seen everywhere the kitchen couple up more than 80 percent of ugandans rely on chocolate for their daily cooking needs according to government figures roll stream is innovation hova uses clinic walks as energy for cleanup cooking and lighting solutions for families while providing employment to the women she has built a clinical can stall to replace the environmentally positive bonding still. going. on for life. but it's both bad for her health and bad for the environment he's also expensive no she has a special news top of it's cost a lot but it can still save hum money. i used to use a lot of. using. one proves you're doing shootings in this home. but no the best use doesn't even behind. one can it is the key to this new ecosystem of wines. they remain hold for i was with the help of a solar powered fund. that blows that continuous flow of air over them. was

family business flourishes in uganda growing flowers there for a budding global market. and this is all and let's do business saudi arabia's crown prince says oil prices could spike to unimaginably high levels if the world doesn't come together to deter iran they've been attacks on the saudi oil sector the world's largest crude export a shop the reducing production still mohamed bin sultan says he prefers a political solution to a military that's helping ease oil prices today but not the saudis worries fitch has downgraded their credit rating citing the rising tensions. saudi arabia's message is clear an armed conflict with iran would have catastrophic implications for the global economy and send markets reeling it's a stark warning and one riyadh hopes will prevent military action by its long time rival a spate of attacks on saudi oil facilities allegedly orchestrated by iran earlier this month led to a huge spike in crude oil prices as saudi output sputtered in a rare interview with u.s. broadcaster c.b.s. the saudi crown prince issued a stern call to action. that if the world doe

gabby is truism sector under serious pressure. at a german family business flourishes. in uganda growing flowers in east africa for a budding global market. and then physical and let's do business. is in court in germany's very 1st class action lawsuit the civil compensation claims relate to the diesel scandal the court will have to consider if vehicle owners suffer damage from the emissions trading software itself or from subsequent beds imposing on driving older diesel. they could be a watershed moment for germany's legal system for years after the emissions scandal broke hundreds of thousands of diesel drivers now have the chance to hope a carmaker to account. it's the 1st ever class action lawsuit to take place in the country similar auctions in the united states have seen consumers come away with billions of dollars in compensation. for the good of analysis football and we're confident about winning them and the arguments speak for themselves. the leaders knew about them from the star sides on you haven't put anything for that you can't contradict us. and. put suddens lawyer

corruption to infrastructure but one should be an family owned business has found success in uganda cultivating flowers on the shores of lake victoria the company has built a thriving business which is now exploding all over the world. it may be a sea of green now but after a few. months just in time for christmas these stems will be topped with rich red flowers jovian and sukkot works at this farm in uganda preparing cuttings for the long journey to europe she's happy the job is providing her with a steady income. i want to pay school fees. and then behrendt. this is the work of a guy flower farm a huge area sitting directly on lake victoria here german companies select one is producing plants for export and they're not the only international player here east africa is valued by many as a location for flower production salaries are lower here in the climate is ideal but flower production in africa does have its problems there are accusations that too much pesticide is often used for production manager wilson kater says that's not the case we are the production managers in the field

magazine africa i am sunders you know you're coming to from kampala here in uganda on a big hello to my fellow placenta auntie in nigeria hello everyone and hello sandra you are so right about our waters in fact you could go so far as to say that the future of our planet may depend on the conditions of our oceans lakes and rivers we'll have more on that in the coming reports but 1st a brief look at what's lined up today in our program. sessions has a rescue plan for its course so they were as will take a look at how that works. they intergovernmental panel on climate change has just presented its report on the condition of our oceans will see what it said and in germany and other parts of europe you can go kayaking for free as long as you collect trash along the way. first to the seychelles where environmentalists are working to protect coral reefs these frogs are ecosystems on lungs the most especially rich bio tubes on earth and the island nation relies on them for its very survival i mean we should have launched in 2014 inch to support a healthy ocean i mean prevent climate change st

correpsondent ashleyjohn—baptsite reports now from uganda — which has one of the biggest refugee populations on earth. this is naomi, she's a refugee who fled civil war in south sudan in 2016. translation: when i look back home, i know i am now free because there's no sound of guns. naomi now lives in bidi bidi, in uganda, one of the most unusual refugee camps in the world. spanning 250 square kilometres, its home to around 230,000 south sudanese refugees. and it wants to become its very own city. this is your land? yeah. like all refugees in rural parts of uganda, naomi has been given a plot of land to build and farm on. it offers some stability after a troubled past. after a troubling past. translation: in the night, people would come and knock on your door. and when you opened the door, they'd cut you with a knife, slaughter you and go. naomi's brother was killed in front of her. she managed to escape with her husband and children. uganda is renowned for its refugee—friendly policies. as well as getting land, refugees are allowed to work, set up businesses and move freely around the countr

parts of africa but a cheap solution developed by uganda stop a set out change that pulls all the young doctor came up with the idea. this is business africa d.w. welcome to rwanda is reporting double digit growth for the 2nd quarter of the year heavy government spending especially in civil construction projects drove g.d.p. growth 12.2 percent in the quarter considerably higher and he. has become an economic darling of sub-saharan africa spending heavily to improve infrastructure and a truck outside investment but the kigali government has been accused of manipulating statistics to paint a pretty picture of the economy. now let's look into that from toronto i'm not joined by david him barack he's an economist and former advisor to run us presidents david can we trust these figures are they too good to be true. they're too good to be true ok right why do you say that. i say should i say 3 reasons. ok 1st of all. the flu question. did one neighborhood and the international. international prices have down that's you know one. number 2 changing with a neighbor who neighboring countri

in uganda came up with such an idea. says single use plastic items are just terrible small things of the modern world the trouble is they do so useful functions and people don't want to do without them when it comes to drinking straws for example very fortunately an alternative it is natural renewable traditional and made by hand in uganda. by returning to his roots an entrepreneur from and begin found a way to make money free natural resource and protect the environment across a simpler revived a practice common to his forefathers. these straws are long ago artists as used in them are for drinking the local booze. in uganda and the stores we used to they used to get them from they are guidance and other places so we saw it that it would be a great opportunity for us to buy single use plastic straws we plant best when. the production process is simple to cotton to surge grasses trained to the right length before being washed and sterilized in boiling water. the straws made by mother nature are then dried in the sun. once they're ready they can be used and cleaned any number of times

uganda in february is history 2019. so that is that what the closure and then the 3rd reason is that there was a well rainfall. in the in the in the past year in the 1st half of the year. so this is these things are affected. one in explorer and of course this one explodes and must be very culture based up why would the government david excuse me to interrupt you why would the government put out false fake is. when you see this is a happy. this is how big it takes this happens all the time it seems to me that this strategy in rwanda has been. to say to to to project itself as a success story. as a smokescreen of repression somebody says look you know we're developing wind power puppet is declining so you know who cares about. the human rights issues but if i may have something before it's ok in terms of the questions you asked me on here let me also highlight the fact that. in this case one has contradicted south. had it has got itself. the. national. export vote as well as the nationals that this board has assured me that in the 1st and 2nd quarter. exports dropped by 40 percent. an

, detailing how her huawei has been providing technicians to the uganda police to intelligence services, this company was helping zambian but also ugandan security services to tap into e—mails, all types of social media, of people like us, i am one of this campaign is for socialjustice. china is building infrastructure, helping us to advance, but at the same time it doesn't mind if the people it is dealing with, governments like uganda, are killing us, torturing us... uganda, are killing us, torturing us... but who am i to ask a country that has no democracy, that violates human rights every day, china, to ask it to respect human rights when dealing with uganda or africa? my parents were communist, so when i was a child there was a lot of talk about soviet union and china, and i rememberarguments about soviet union and china, and i remember arguments going on in the kitchen when the soviets and the chinese split about who was right about that. in one of the funny things about the 70th anniversary is what are you actually celebrating on the 70th anniversary of the communist takeover? why tha

public. the pioneering probation officerjohn harding. now, we stay in the 1970s over in uganda, in east africa, the dictator idi amin was in power an in august 1972, was in power and in august 1972, he announced plans to expel the country's asian population. about 60,000 people were given 90 days to leave the country. gita watts tells witness history about her family's traumatic experience. we had 90 days to sort everything out and get out of the country and he made an impression that if we didn't get out on time we'll be sitting on fire. it is estimated that there are more than 12,000 towns and villages like this in uganda and in every one of them, the government is pressing its campaign against the asian traders. the asian community was really close—knit. so all the asian shops were sort of enrolled together and we all knew each other. each family and all the kids knew each other. we were not well off but we were comfortable. people started rushing to the embassies and my dad had to sign everything over. that means his assets and his business over to the ugandan bank. we were g

uganda's climate is inspiring a continent. and star another stole the show for you've been just peter will have much more of that actually coming up in sport. one day after leading the biggest climate protest in history young activists have taken their calls for action to the united nations the youth climate summit was open by teenager or teenage campaigner gratitude berg who inspired friday's demonstrations our diplomatic editor james bass reports from the united nations headquarters. the day of the people around the world led by the youth took to the streets here young people to hear one of the global halls of power this is the u.n. youth summit but the most powerful person was not here to speak u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorist who's billed as the keynote this snow and these are among the speeches you heard these negotiations and climate change policy started in 1902 even before most of my generation was done for over 25 years and the emissions have only reason. we appreciate that you there are no other table where the discussions are being held but our voices and our i

of the world, our correpsondent ashley john—ba ptsite reports now from uganda, which has one of the biggest refugee populations on earth. this is naomi. she‘s a refugee who fled civil war in south sudan in 2016. translation: when i look back home, i know i am now free because there‘s no sound of guns. naomi now lives in bidi bidi, in uganda, one of the most unusual refugee camps in the world. spanning 250 square kilometres, it‘s home to around 230,000 south sudanese refugees.

shortly but now rapper reacher away from uganda also has some thoughts on this issue this this has song criminals recorded exclusivity. and the like. why. didn't i just write some. huge problem. in the. book. that was the 1st of many more raw props to come i hope you enjoyed it but let's take to the topic 3 trial detainees i want you to imagine you've been sent to prison for many is and you're not even sure why unfortunately this is a common problem across africa. more than 1000000 people in african prisons. 40 percent of the crowd exams in prison they face for hygiene and violence on the in lack of legal and. according to the university of london at 90 percent libya has the highest number of the teams in africa nigeria africa's most populous country it's 68 percent and in zambia 28 percent. overcrowding is also a big issue the west offenders are uganda and zambia. prison occupancy levels that are 3 times higher than your official capacity. you had the situation and it seems as a challenge across many african countries why's that. i think it has a lot to do with a great lot of inve

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kampala in uganda, young people have established an initiative to establish new solutions to the challenge problems they face. they call it a ghetto research lab. the lab is trying to find solutions to some of the problems that are associated with ghetto communities around uganda and africa. we are trying to fight poverty and enhancing and promoting sustainability among the ghetto community. the slum area was once a rubbish dump but is now home to over 10,000 people. part of the idea behind the ghetto research lab is to get young people involved in the projects and clean up their local environment. starting the ghetto research lab came to me as i was witnessing a number of problems in the ghetto communities especially here where we are living. we are trying to empower people and remain united, that's our mission. most of the youths we are with in the ghetto research lab are youths that have a long history. when they sit you down and tell you their story, you feel like crying. i see an organisation based on saving the environment, and it's all about empowering the youth. they come together

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waste. but you can use it and change it. an area here in uganda, young people have established an initiative to establish new solutions to the challenge problems they face. they call it the ghetto research lab. it's trying to find solutions to some of the problems that are associated with ghetto communities. around uganda and africa. we are trying to fight poverty and enhancing and promoting sustainability among the ghetto community. the slum area was once a rubbish dump but now home to over 10,000 people. part of the idea behind the ghetto research lab is to get young people involved in the projects and clean up their local environment. starting the ghetto research lab came to me as i was realising a number of problems in the ghetto communities especially here where we are living. trying to empower people and remain united, that's our mission. most of the youths we are with in the ghetto research lab have a long history and when it's that you down and tell you their story you feel like crying. i see an organisation based on saving the environment, and it's all about empowering th

vanessa from camp pilar in uganda a 22 year old is in new york for the u.n. climate summit just saying that al-jazeera has visited the knesset just before she left home and here's her story. after school i wanted to build something that could cause change and impact was laid in my country through my research i worked a friend out about climate strakes better than bad. i started looking for climate to vist our own africa but i referred to get one i said to look for them in uganda but i thought to get one so it was up to me to start the play mid strakes. i'm fighting for a better future for everyone a better future for my family for the citizens of this country for africa as a quantum ist and for the citizens of this entire world i believe that through my strakes climate action can be taken by our government leaders and probably to tread me to get their situation under a virus the problem that we are facing great now i was invited by the united nations for the youth climate summit so i've been carrying got preparations i'm going to present my country and africa as a continent. climate ch

cutty has been in new york for the un's youth climate summit she is from uganda where the climate crisis is already impacting agriculture and causing increasing dry spells al-jazeera visited vanessa just before she left home his hair story. after school that was last year i wanted to do something that could cause change and impact in people's lives in my country therefore i started crying go to research on what issue is that were lists handled in our community and they phoned out that climate change was one of the things that our list spoken about by the people in nasa said so i decided to do more research about it to find out if our country is really and are going to claim it's crazy i started looking for climate activists our own africa but i failed to get one i said to look for them in uganda but i felt to get one so it was up to me to start the play amid strakes. i'm fighting for a better future for everyone a better future for my family for the citizens of this country for africa as a 20 minute and for the citizens of this entire world i believe that through my strikes climat

gratitude because influence is the climate activists vanessa mccarthy from uganda the 22 year old is among those currently in new york for the summit on al-jazeera visited venice and just before she left. after school i wanted to build something that could cause change and impact in boys lives in my country through my research i got to find out about climate strikes by better than. i started looking for climate activists our own africa but i failed to get one i said to look for them in uganda but i felt to get one so it was up to me to start the play amid strakes. i'm fighting for a better future for everyone a better future for my family for the citizens of this country for africa as a continental and for the citizens of this entire world i believe that through my strikes climate action can be taken by our government leaders and the public to train me to get their situation and revise the problem that we are facing great now i was invited by the united nations for the youth climate summit so i've been carrying got proportions i'm going to present my country and africa as a continent. clim

hold protests every friday one of those she's inspired is climate at the lesson from kampala in uganda the 22 year old is in new york for the un's youth climate summit. i'm going to take the love and passion that these kids house the climate issues in their countries and take it back home to our country to teach and let other you know that it is our responsibility to fight and be mindful what's right should be ours now al-jazeera visited for nasa just before she left home here's her story. after school i wanted to build something that could cause change and impact was lights in my country through my research i got to find out about climate strikes by greater than bug. i started looking for climate activists our own africa but i failed to get one i said to look for them in uganda but i fail to get one so it was up to me to start the play amid strikes. i'm fighting for a better future for everyone a better future for my family for the citizens of this country for africa as a quantum net and for the citizens of this entire world i believe that through my strikes climate action can be take

take action on the issues they were also proteus. and uganda now the biggest polluter on the continent is south africa which ranks 14th in the world that's mostly because of all the coal the country. funded was at the protest and. hundreds of people here in cape town are marching to the parliament of the country today but why are they you know why are they demonstrating let's see what they have to say because we are the future. yes it's important the government sees that the people of this country care and that they demand action. in this country demonstrations they were pretty well you know the people this country have a long history of. showing their voice on the street and so i 3 think it's important to do it that way and hopefully we can get the message to the governments and they can act like for me i'm not the be told i think you know this is an issue that really affects us all so i really can tomorrow so i decided to come near you know be a part of something there. to change we need to actually fix this environment because in the long run it's going to affect us negati