Jocelyn. what do you do, roland? something in agriculture by the looks of it. you then start to see the judgment that upper class has on lower class. roland is actually the mayor of our town. oh ville. i hope do you even call someone from ships? ville? okay, you know what? and now sparked a change in johnny rose. we re not going to side with our wealthy friends. you wrote a soft on not a phone call. not a nickel. roland and jocelyn here. could not have been more generous with what little they have. we re going to stick up for the town that we live in and own our circumstance and that town you pass through. it s not called ville. it s called creek. and it s where we live over time. creek ends up
They lost fishbone the boys in the hood. then they find out the hood gone, but we have the people on the ground. we gotta do the groundwork. we got help one another johnny roads. rolling. oh, you re you re the mayor. we re supposed to meet. that s right. i m the mayor. you re looking for a nasty kiss . it s mine. the premise is a wealthy family that lost everything. the only asset we have. this is town that my dad s character but as a joke for my birthday, excuse me. i don t think my sheets have been cleaned. they smell like cigarettes. no, that s just the way they smell. i think that the concepts of class are sort of simmering under the surface of every show. on our way here, we drove through a town. not a word of a lie called isabel episode where a couple from johnny and maheras past meet them for dinner. they run into roland and
Strike that we can help support our community, and we can be there, and that means being there as long as we re needed, because you re right. this isn t this isn t a quick, quick process by any means and people are still going to need in the months to come and will still be there were going to be there as long as we re needed. all right, and that how can people who are doing don t live in this area, but they re watching these images. they want to help. how can they yeah, the quickest way to help is a financial donation and you can make those easily at red cross dot org slash donate and really, the reason for that is because financial donations is what helps allow the red cross to be able to help people and that may come in the form of helping people replace important medical equipment that they lost. you know, a cpap machine or replacing prescription medications. there s so many things that financial generations can do and it and it also gives us the freedom. them to help. people the way they need to be helped. alright and that roland, thanks so much for your time and thanks on behalf
Return on the risk they re taking right. now all, right so now the other issue. she raised, don frank, she was clear that she had supported roland back some of the regulation, specifically that pertain to regional banks. by the way, lauren on the board of signature bank. one of the ones that went under this weekend. you supported rolling these back. as she said a lot of democrats did about the senate and. how she was clear about that. do you think it was a mistake as she does? no i don t. at the end of the day we had an old-fashioned bank and we have bank runs. if we didn t have banquets we wouldn t have the fdic. we have deposit interest protect deposits as lennon if we have bank. runs and, so when you have a bank run, it means that the depositors want their money back. thanks erin business to drive economic growth and went out their money. the u.s. economy is based on banks lending. we lend money to buy houses, we lend money to buy cars. we lend money for credit cards. and they landed out for other purposes. and if we don t have deposits, we don t have banks ability to land and stimulate economic growth. right, but in terms of what she s talking. about some of these ranking regulations have
Energy, food and income, but they re disappearing at an alarming rate. according to the world bank, the country s forest cover fell by more than 20% between 2005 and 2015. in one year alone, 2017, 3.3 million tons of wood were turned into charcoal. the hope is roland s eco charcoal can do something about that. translation: it has - the same shape as charcoal, but here, the process does not contribute to deforestation. we don t need to cut trees in he forest, we don t need in the forest, we don t need to destroy all the vegetation to reap the rewards. this doesn t really pollute the environment, it doesn t destroy. this is traditional charcoal. sacks of it are transported the country, mostly used as a fuel for cooking. but this is roland s eco friendly version in action. it s only a start, there s a long way to go, but perhaps it will provide a better recipe for benin s environment. tim allman, bbc news.