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euronews interview – ILO leader calls for urgent action on Youth unemployment

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http://www.euronews.com/ There are nearly 25 million unemployed in Europe, of whom more than 17 million are in the eurozone. One in five young people in the EU cannot find a job, that is nearly five million youngsters. In some countries the rate of youth unemployment exceeds 40 percent.

To open the interview euronews reporter Fariba Mavaddat reminded Guy Ryder, the newly elected Director of the United Nation’s International Labour Organisation, the ILO, of what he said in his inaugural speech in May: “It is a tremendous opportunity in the middle of this global crisis to make a difference to the lives of millions of people.” So, how does he intend to do that?

*Guy Ryder:* “Well, you have described the drama of the European unemployment crisis and I really believe it is dramatic. What I said in my inaugural speech was that the ILO, if it is to be a success, has to touch the lives of these people.

“We can do it in very different ways. We can do it through working with the ILO member states. It is a world organisation with 185 member governments. We can do it through them, we can do it through cooperation activities, technical cooperation in a variety of ways, we can do it by trying to influence the international policy agenda, so that we can get the growth and job creation back into the world economy that is so badly missing at the moment.

“I think the ILO has a role in all of these areas and I intend to do my best to ensure that we fulfil that role.”

*euronews:* “You called on various governments for cooperation, but to what extend do you have authority ? Do you have teeth, and how sharp are they?”

*Guy Ryder:* “Like many international organisations we have to make a case for doing what we consider to be ‘the right thing’, offering people not only the opportunity of a job but what we call a ‘decent’ job; a job which pays at a level which offers you a decent standard of living.”

*euronews:* “That’s all very well, but it is the ideal world. What is happening in Europe in particular, is that governments and businesses are spreading jobs thin. That is, jobs are now being made available, if at all, on a temporary, part-time basis , but this creates not only uncertainty and insecurity but also social unrest and eventual poverty. How are you going to address that particular problem? These are the only jobs available.”

*Guy Ryder:* “You are quite right to point out not only the number of jobs we need to create but their quality.

“You know, temporary part-time jobs can have their place in a well-functioning labour market, but they have to be taken up as a choice, not as obligation in the absence of a full time secure job.

“We have a situation — particularly in Europe but around the world – where countries are having to look at their finances. We have been through the ‘hole’ of the financial crisis. This has left very big holes in public budgets, and often it is these worlds of work, the labour market which is having to feel the effects of austerity measures.

“I think we have to review this austerity path that we are on. I think the stage we have reached today shows that there is a need for a new start.

“Secondly, we have to prepare people for the world of work, we have to look at skills development for young people. We need specifically targeted plans. I would go for a universal youth guarantee that says any young person in that situation would be offered either job experience or further training when they leave school.”

*euronews:* “That’s very logical but the fact of the matter is that we are in a recession, there are no financial resources available. It is so bad that governments are nibbling off old people’s pensions. So for all this that you are talking about, you need financial resources, and they just don’t have it.”

*Guy Ryder:* “Oh, they do. I would argue that they do. Let’s take this example of the youth guaranteed scheme. It actually is a very cheap option for governments. Our estimates are that for 0.5 percent of overall government spending, you can provide a youth guaranteed scheme for all young people of this nature.

“It is not that expensive, you put your hand in your pocket. Past experience in countries like Sweden, countries like Finland, shows that these schemes are successful. They pay for themselves very, very quickly. Look at it as an investment not a cost, and you can move in the right direction.”

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What’s the link between Spider-Man and gene therapy?

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While it’s unlikely any of us will be bitten by a radioactive spider, the gene therapy techniques used in ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ are not so far from reality…

Gene therapy is a promising medical approach to treat diseases by targeting their genetic causes. To find out more about how it works and what its limitations are, we spoke to expert Alberto Auricchio.

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UN chief Guterres pressures India to act on climate change

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While its per capita emissions are quite low, India is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Gene-edited babies: The science and ethics of altering DNA before birth | Euronews Tech Talks

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In the summer of 2026, two academic studies revived the debate on embryo gene editing, a technique that consists of manipulating the DNA of a human embryo for reasons ranging from better understanding human development to preventing disease and disabilities. How safe is this practice? Will there soon be gene-edited babies? Is it even ethically correct to modify an embryo?

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euronews futuris – Micronutrients against malnutrition

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http://www.euronews.com/ In a part of southern Kenya where malnutrition is rife, Stanley is an active three year old boy.

Along with hundreds of other Kenyan youngsters, he is part of a research project aimed at fighting child malnutrition in Africa. The findings so far have surprised researchers.

School dinners at a school in Kibwezi include an unusual experiment.

Scientists are looking at two varieties of cassava, a major source of carbohydrate in Africa.

Researchers hope that adding micronutrients to local staple foodstuffs will help fight malnutrition.

Elise Talsma is a nutritionist from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. “In Sub-Saharan Africa, 70 per cent of the intake comes from staple food like cassava, or maize, or millet, or sorghum,” she told euronews, “but those staple foods don’t contain a lot of micronutrients. So if we can increase the micronutrient content of this food, that could have a great impact.”

Yellow cassava is richer in vitamin A than the white variety, but there is less of it about.

Scientists want to know if including yellow cassava in the diet regularly would improve the health of malnourished children.

So researchers pitched in for some science-based cooking.

The cook at Thange School, Regina Mbula, told us: “We peel and boil white and yellow cassava separately for around 45 minutes. We then add vegetable oil and mash to get yellow and white cassava puree.”

Both types of cassava mash are then served to different groups of young volunteers. For some, it is their only proper meal of the day.

An assistant at the school, Ann Mueni Mutuku, explained: “Each child gets the same amount of food every day, during the study, depending on their ages. It is between 375 and 400 grams for the younger ones and 425 to 450 grams for the older children.”

Yellow cassava has higher levels of betacarotene, a pigment that the body can easily convert into vitamin A.

Researchers think that yellow cassava can provide children with around 50 percent of their daily vitamin A needs but they need to confirm that in the lab.

Elise Talsma told us: “We can quantify (cassava) intake. And then we can hopefully see how the levels of vitamin A are increasing in the volunteers’ blood. In that way, we know how much betacarotene increases those levels. So then we can calculate how good (sic) your body absorbs the betacarotene from the cassava.”

Vitamin A is just one of many micronutrients that African and European researchers are investigating in the fight against child malnutrition in Africa.

*Tracking Stanley*

In his village near Mombasa, it is Stanley’s lunch time.

His mother laces his normal maize-flour porridge with a special blend containing an iron supplement.

Scientists want to know if the mineral is improving Stanley’s cognitive development.

His mother Alice Mutala has no doubts.

“Since the study started, I feed Stanley every day with this iron-enriched meal,” she said. “He loves this porridge. And I think that thanks to this he is more active and healthier than other children of his age.”

That is exactly what researchers are trying to establish. They monitor every detail of Stanley’s daily activities.

Child development assessor at the Kikoneni Health Centre, Khassim Mashobo, told euronews: “I follow him for about an hour. I note who he communicates with, how much he speaks and how he vocalises. I also look at his mobility, if he is sitting, or standing, or running, or playing – whether he is alone or with somebody else. And I watch his emotions, like anger, happiness or sadness, and his behaviour.”

Stanley also goes to a nearby clinic where he undergoes extra examinations.

Another assessor at the health centre, Munaa Lila, explained: “We measure his responses to various stimuli, both sound and vision. We play games with him that he knows. And we track his reactions, his reactivity and his body language.”

Developmental psychologists compare data from children receiving doses of iron and those given a placebo.

They think small doses of iron or zinc can have a major impact on a child’s development.

Developmental psychologist at the International Centre for Behavioural Studies, Penny Holding said: “We are looking at their activity levels, because those are the ones that are actually the most sensitive to iron issues. So how much they are able to interact with their environment. The theoretical construct is that if you engage with your environment more, you learn more and you develop more quickly.”

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…we will have to abandon coastal cities like New York, New Orleans, Rotterdam and Hamburg.

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Professor Anders Levermann explains why rising sea levels caused by climate change pose such a risk.

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